St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-16
NEW BOOKS.

No man could be better fitted for the
work of writing the life of Joshua Il.
GiddinGs than George w. Julian. They
were fellow spirits and eo-workers in
the anti-slavery controversy, and Julian
was himself much of the warp and wool
of that indomitable Old stager who so
fearleSsly trOd the troubled ways at
Washington when it required pluck and
intensity of conviction. The large aud
handsome volume produced is mainly
confined to the public career OF Mr..
Giddings, and necessarily involves
much of the more exciting history of
the great controversy. 1t is work of
considerable value to the student of the
causes that led to the rebellont and
withal Is written i'll Il plain. UMPIRE
tentiouS style that adds to the interest
of the story Of one of the chief charac-
tiers in the controversy that threatened
the perpetuity of the republic.
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Casanova the Courier" is No. 50 of
the Sunny Side series. David Skaats
Foster has written ''Rebecca the
Witch" The Romance OF the UneX-
pected," and several other bright and
taking novels. In Casanova the COur-
Ter" he shows an excellent power of de-
lineating character, as we'll as plot. and
only confirmed novel reader would
suspect the denouement from the time
tat that fool American. Jonathan Pier
son, met. contded iii and engaged as a
courier that handsome, forelglrlooklng
man Casanova. The incidents of the
story are somewhat unusual, but not
improbable, il all the stories that are
told of the utter lack of discretion dis
played by Americans abroad is any
where near true. An ocean voyage
seems to lie able TO warp the Judgment
and soften the brain Of the hardest
headed man that is imprOvldent enough
to be horn under the shelter of the stars
and stripes, so noveliStS feel free to
make the most dignitied of our country
men cut such caperS before high life III
Europe, if not high heaven, as would
make any ordinary angels weep.
~
Love Knows no Law" by Leon De
Linseau. is not what one might suppose
it to be by the title, but is indeed Il very
mild, not to say wiShy Washy, sort OF a
story. The people who parade upon its
dim-lit stage are mostly people OF title;
the rest are Americans Of the type
found only in books. and books by
Partisan authors at that. A French
man of title who OWNS and runs sugar
beet farm somewhere out near Van
couver, who has as neighbor a Ger
man count vino has daughter, who is
seventeen and don't Know enough to
sew piece of. cloth to the top OF her
dress skirt to make it long enough to
| cover her knees, and yet who knows
everything else that is to be be known.
A nathan. titlnH Ernnn II M IA visit
ing To the beet ranch. A Scotch doctor,
various Iumbermen and rude girls who
live in the railroad town, these are the
actors. Mix them to suit Yourself and
you have the story. Translated by
Camden Curwen. This is No. OF the
Fair Library.
"AH for Jack" novel by Jules
Claretie, is a most powerful story. en-
tireiy out of the common i'll plot and
detail. The motives that underlie and
influence the actions of the various
characters have seldom been touched
upon liz the world of romance. ~ novel
without Il lover or Il lady IS certainly
surprising, and that one So planned can
be made OF absorbing interest this BOOK
proves. Noel lambert, the patriot.
work man out of work in Paris, who
OllII kCCpS HIO lQItii III -ONei RiiA SiSftS
things, but by stress of ili-fOrtlne
brought to the very bitterest of despair,
because his hoy, his little jack. the 0ae
object for which he lives, is hungry and
and cold and his father can do nothing
for him. He PUSHES out into the bitter
winter night. i'll the pitIleSS city streets,
and there meets with the misfortune
that shuts him in prison. The temptef
comes, and using the powerful love
the father bears his son as an incentive,
proposes plan. by which the father
| loses his life, 10 be sure, but little Jack
shall be rich man; no such struggle
for him as his fathers whole life has
been, but every opportunity that money
can give shall be his. The father coli
sentS, and dies a shameful death that
his boy may be ablertO be what SO new
of the children of the pour can be-sue-
ceSSful.
at Came to Pass" by Mary Farley
Sanborn, author of Sweet and twenty"
is very bright, sweet story. From be-
ginning to end there is not one word
said that one would wish unsaid, and
that is an unusual quality in book in
these days of erolic literature. Miss
Sanborn is evidently Il lover OF our na-
tional game, and the description of the
game III which the Reds were victorious
is graphic enough TO make the oldest
reader feel young again, even if he
should not be able entirely to Interpret
the jargon of the diamond that is SO
fluentiy used. Alma is a dear girl, but,
like other dear girls, does not appreciate
what she can so easily love, but must
take her little fling even at the risk of
some future discomfort; but. fortu-
nately, the gods are good to her and
Jack more leyel-headed than most low
ers. so all ends as it should. They are
all real people in this book. You feel a
firing sympathy with Lesley and her
worries, and understand just how Dill
way felt about the deferred whipping.
and read, with sigh for vanished
youth, the sweet old story Of the day