New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-24
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

NENEoD EFT Gle. Par Georges Ohnet far''' ole"'
dorf New-York J. W. Touton. =.
LES vRAS EICIEs P PAR fTan appeptieT New
IAcadrmie FRANCHISE runs 0''
York : W. BoutOn. 70. ,
M,hough NJ Ohnets new book. Nemrod et Oie'
has been ont but three or four weeks l. aifeaus III
he e,rhteth edition. The book Is as crowded WIN
crDhovs rs a tailor's fashion-pate and We are ho'
s,ored one gold band crested button OF her liver!
Every wealthy man Is nchisslme" and every VIA Is
MAGNIFICENT II TWO people take pot luck at a COT
tace Il Is invariably with table covered WI 'i'
embroidered tablecloth with glitlering SILVER hoN'
in crystal vase, and admirable fruits on plates Vi Wv
norcelaln." one Of he principal characters Is W.
ear and enormously wealthy old man VINO coin'''"'e'
life as street porter at Lisbon and VINO III ''le p
80 =, N ohnot,s blue. booded aris,Ocracy.' Is al
ternatelv Extensively noisy abjecty cringihg' MS
daughter beau ifu carl educated at IaTls' II III IVY
way a contrast him. She falls III love WI" ,
MARQUIS who IS the dispossessed proprietor "a 'i
fathers chateau-a young gentleman Who' "i''i
a child from drowning and then killing the V"'.i" :"
the story I'm a duel ultimately consents 10 "'u ."'
heroine with a parade Of naughty cOudcscensioh WHICH
would have caused any American GIL {" SPIRIT 10 Oo@
his ears II Is needless TO add that the l'l"i" ''
who plays prominent roe III every
likewise finds Il place In Nemr"d ct tle vi '""'Sc'
.y,s flash she has Il taste for aromatic cigarettes
and the malignant spirit OF evil Whh'h n'' - ~
stronr tbot the very hogs snar nsnctiveV VINES she
approaches.n These types under dlHeie"' ulSs"i9' "
already appeared I'm every one OF NJ o"ne's '' ,
ON, ho,onc "a the common sock Of all those noveiis's
ubo give 10 the public second hand romance ihs'eu vi
ao,,,a1 ut Nemrod ct Cien presents many points
Of analogy with the Maitre des FOrSes anu hhe a'
book it has not live character not one ieSh
Thought not onc stroke Of wit one CLEAN OF humor
from, beginning 10 end. Notwithstanding all ths W.
Ohnet's works apparently continue to enjoy "isef
circle OF readers than those OF any o'her ffchcn "u
OF the present day .. !.
4 striking contrast to NJ. Ohnets story Is 10 De
found I'm Les Vrais Riches" Of NJ Francois Coppee'
tho we,l.tnown Academican. The vrais riches 'or
really rchn) in VI. COppee's eyes are those WHO pos
,css that which cannot be purchased, ana thS iu
nshes the theme of his present work. IL the pages VI
which the United States are called upon 10 ne"re sew
oral times The story briefly is as follows: An o"
parsh priest the Able Moulin, is seated one winter
,.o,ing bcfore hir fire when visitor is announced
III. gives the name OF Renaudel and explains TO ue
priest that he formerly a banker ana h"u "'u ~
America with all the deposits that he coulo lay hoi"
Of in order TO avoid prosecution LOT l""u' lawn"
acquired by honest work and enterprise an enormous
fortune in the United states. ne mas eXperehced re-
morse for the INST and a wish reimburse the people
he had formerly defraudcd. Accordingly lie places
in the hands Of the priest sum OF @'ooo'o"o ihos'
together with the names of his four principal oe"olS'
requesting the Able TO restore 10 them their que io
Able having undertaken the task commences Dy Wis
fling the first named OF the four creditors This per
In France who informs him that his literary success
ONLY dates from the day when he was ruined by uRe
light OF the banker Renaudel and that nan II not pceh
for that disaster he would never have achieved tame
The loss of his money had Therefore been an 9esu-
mable boon 10 him. The second creditor tie Aboe
discovers TO be al old maid who. until reduced to re
tive POVERTY by the dishonesty OF her banker, had
made her own life, well that of her relatives ana
friends miserable by imag nary ailments. she con
fessed that the loss OF hcr money had forced Ner 10
think less about herself and more about others that
it had had the effect Of restoring her to health BON
morally and physically. ard that she mad never been
50 happy as since the day when she was rrincd The
third creditor is an architect VINO explains TO the
priest that had he not lost his money and been forced
10 work for his living he would never have learned 10
know his wife, whose parents were people In exceed
incv modes circumstances and had lie not met her his
whole life he declares. would have been void Nor
is the fourth and last creditor on the list any more
overioyed than the Others to receive back the money
o, which the banker Rcnaudel had deraudcd hin.
He Is marquis, bearing an illustIous name ana on
learning the object Of the priests visit exeaims bit
terly TOO late! too late! my fr.end.' lie then
proceeds to inform the Able that alter his ruin
through the dishonesty OF his banker he had sod fs
name his title and his seli-respect by marrying the
dishonored daughter Of q dshOnored fnancier In re
turn for large Of money paid 10 him in the form
Of dowry. The marquis asserts that he fe"!s that
he has been rredeemably disgraced by the marriage
which he contracted, and that nothing In the shape
of money could possibly remove the stain Inflicted
thereby on his name and escutceon. All this causes
the Able reflect that money after all, Is not 50 all
powerful as generally believed be the for
his Ell erience with the four creditors OF the banker
Renaude have shown him that fame. heath, Domestic
happiness and honor the four things which alone ren
der life living, be bought with gold, and
are sometimes the result not Of the presence, but Of
the absence of wealth All this IS dccltcN daintiy
and POLITICALLY tod IN that graceful style which mas
contributed much to WIN for VI. Coppee his seat In
tie Academy.