St. Paul daily globe., 1892-05-05
NEW BOOKS.

A series CT descriptive publications
have just been issued under the auspices
of the Northern Pacific railroad, from
the pen, and. perhaps. brush OF Judge
A. P. GuptiI. of Fargo. Since the de-
parture of Col. Donan the judge has
done good service in portraying the at
fractions of the points of special interest
along the lines of the great continental
road. The Judge is a clear and admira-
BILE delineator, differing from Donan in
his fidelity to the real. His work has
historicaI,as we'll as literary and artistic
value. The first of the publications at
hand from the pen of the Fargo writer
IS "A Rambie Through Wonderland"
an artisticaIly printed and handsomely
illustrated volume. narratlng in an eX-
tremely readable way what the writer
saw and learned in various and pro-
tracted travels over the road from Ash
land and ST. Paul to the Pacific coast
In comparatively small compass is
condensed about everything the Or
djnary citizen needs to know about the
entire region of which the Northern Ia
cIfic IS the commercial highway. 1he
volume is one OF the best of this class OF
publications.
lie SEcOUu vi ltlCOO PiN
pared by Judge Guptill. is the 'SpOrtS-
mans Manual.'' The title indicates its
mission. 1t affords fund of informa-
ton in reg lrd to the game and fishing
oppOrtun tiles presented by the regions
touched bv the Northern Pacific in Wis
consin, Dakota and the country West.
Some of tie finest fields for the sports
man are in these states, and the illus:
tratlops show that the game is readily
captured. A series of tables attached
indicate the names, distances, cost OF
reaching the points. cost of local ac-
commodations, with the names OF many
local spOrtsmen, and the varieties Of
game and fish to be had in each place.
1t is veritable SpOrtsman's guide.
The third in the series is folder and
map Of the Yellowstone national park,
affording an excellent description of all
its points of interest. 1t is we'll written,
and a very valuable work.
"A Question of Taste, by Maarten
Martens. author of The Sin of GoOSt
Avelingh" and other stories, is heavy
SET. slow moving little story, as becomes
its native Holland. JoriS Middelstrum,
a finical, middle-aged bachelor. who is
fond of insects in a scientific way, meets
a pretty Dutch mejutfround at. a fair,
where she is trying tC get away from an
introduction, slips on the polished floor
(all floors are polished with the scrub
bing brush in Holland, you know and
clutching at the first thing in sight.
goes down, bring with her whole set
of dishes, and is held responsible for
the damage by the exhibitor to the tune
of $50 tiorins. This is appalling TO these
thrifty Dutch people. and they are poor,
and not having followed the injunction
to put money in your purse" before
they left home, are at loss how to
satisfy the wrathful crockery man. till
Joris, who disappears into a private
room, from which he emergeS shortly
with receipt in full. then the story
runs with various curves and rlppleS,
for who would have the old, old story
told in monologue to its peaceful end.
Is it Solomon who says that ''of the
making of books there is no end? Who
ever said it must have been book re-
viewer for he alone can entirely appfer
ciate the statement, and some books are
simply useful to fill up the shelves of
those people who care only to see the
cases full. Such book is "a Modern
MARTYR" a sensational novel of intense
interest, by Sophie Koppy. 1t is a
story in which very idle man meets
and falls iD love in the good old fash
ioned way with a transcendantly beauti-
full girl, who has that bane of maiden
glrlhOod, a frantic-friendship for am
other girl, most unprincipled one at
that. Of course, there is no room for
| lover or husband in her heart. for the
| friend fills that completely, but at her
| IDOLS commands she marrieS and leads
| Mr.. Sebastian Lucas, what some people
might call "a life." Unreasonable Mr.
| Lucas tires of his fool wife and joins d
secret society to free poor bleeding Iret
| land, is caught and to escape prison
| shoots himself. Mrs. Lucas becomes a
! Carmelite nun. The friend, being good,
| is of course happily married to rich
| old American.
Since Jules Verne set the fashion of
! Journeys to remarkable places we see
| now and then accounts of some wonder
full discoveries. This liking for stories
that would make Munchauscn turn
green with envy has melted William
| X. Bradshaw, to suit book with good
long title, "The Goddess of Atvatabar,
being the discovery of the Interior
World and the Conquest of Atvatabar,' y
| and presents map of that long talked
OF country. Mr.. Lexington White, being
a man of wealth and having q strong
desire "strange countries far to see"
fits out strong ship with all the mod
ern conyenienceS, and full compile
ment of officers and men, which he calls
the Power King" He then starts out
to find the long lost North pole. While
! anchored near the impossible barrier OF