New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-02-28
SOME NEW NOVELS.
NOT \ DULL PAGE IN BRET liARlES SlohA

4 FIRST FAMILY OF TASAJARA By Fret Hare.
leno. I'D. 3OI. IIoughton, Minlin a Co.
FANTOME DORIENT. Par Herrc LOU emo. PIP
"a Paris: Camann Levy. Ncw-Io!h; W. H.
Jenkins.
pETry ALDEN. By Jane 6. Austin. lGmo, PIP.
asa Ioughton. Minlln Co.
WOMEN MUST WEEP. By Edgar Fawcett. ismo,
I,p 3JI. Chicago: Laird Lee.
RIIJNG THE PLANETS. by Nina h. Burton.
'i limo. pp SEQ. Harper < brothers.
MRS. DINEs's JEWELS BY ". Clark Russell. II
iusiratcd. Emo, ep. 100. Harper a Ihothrs.
Bret Hartes latest story Is a decided Improvement
upon It's immediate predecessors, both rs regards plot
ard characters. # relates the rise. progress ana
catastrophe OF California town. and the fortunes Of II
small storekecper and his family. The storekeeprr
obtains the title 10 the land on which he builds
the CITY Of Tasajara almost in larcenous
way The hint which enables nm 10 MAKE
fortune ont of tie undertaking Is given
him by a passing stranger. surveyor whose
professional eye has noted with what case certain
stream may be rendered navigablc. llarhutt Is keel
enough to grasp the Importance OF the suggestion.
and builds bis future upon II. The smity means
BY which II gels possession OF r'e land plays "A
prominent part throughout TIRE story and the studies
Of Inrkuttsor Iarcourts as he styles himself when
ricl-two daughters, exhibit great skin and Insight
The author has kept the secret Of Clcmentina very
artfully almost to the dcnouement. and her relations
" IN Fletcher are handled with marked adroitncss.
The characters generally are marked by originality.
and their pecuiarities consistently maintained.
From the opening scene I'm the general store at Sidon
until the close In the City Of Tasajaras day Of doom
there is not dull page, and this is high praise even
for so excellent and veteran writer as Bret Inrtc.
whoever takes mp Pierre Lofts new book. Fan
tome D'Orient, will find himself plunged, from the
very beginning. In one OF those strange oriental
dreams In which this picturesque aud sensitive
writer's sol fakes the greatest delight. The
theme is a weird one lie has resolved TO pay a short
visit to Consaniinope to make Inquiries concerning the
fair Turkish girl who Is the heroine OF one of
his former books "Aziyade.' 1t is ten years since
he left her, forced away by professional
duties, and he has had intelligence OF her In the
interval, nor OF Achmet. his faithful follower and
friend. From the start he has gloomy presentiments
Often he has dreamed that he was back nj STEAMBOAT
searching for Aziyadc but always In these dreams Inc
has seemed TO be surrounded by implements, 10 be
held back my seriously and never mas success attended
his search And now the reality follows the line OF
the dreams. His first discovery Is that Achmet Is
has in fact been dead for seven years Then after
hard and battling inquiries, his worst forebodngs are
confirmed Aziyade Is dead and he Is taken 10 see
her tomb In the goomest and most savage Of deserts
outside the city The whole story passes H. a dark
dream. Every page is saturated with half morbid
half iancful giicf Pierre Lott has written nothing
50 melancholy this, but there Is none the less
fascination in the bizarre Imagination 50 richly dis
played and in the style, at once opnlen and tender
with which he sets forth his fantasy. IL Is indeed II
work TO haunt the render.
Mrs. Austin has made n capital novel out OF the I'D
ventures, real and imagined, Of Betty Adep, the first
born DAUGHTER OF the Pilgrims" She has taken great