St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-09
NEW BOOKS.

A little volume containing ten dis
courses delivered by Rev. Thomas Dix
on at Association hall. New York, on
Col. lngcrsoll and some OF his mistakes
is issued. 1t Is prefaced by a picture of
the. preacher, aud one needs only 10
look at that to know what manner of
man he Is. He has the square jaw, the
determined lips, the aggressive nose
and the defiant eye of the born fighter.
If one were MT told the contrary, the
picture might be taken for one OF those
pioneers OF theology who followed close
i'll the track of the white-cOvered prairie
scho0nerS, those ripples or the wave OF
emigration and civilization that swept
over the continent Only'a very few
years ago. He is eminently a man of
the people as they were, and would face
fire or sword with steady nerve for
what lie felt to be principle. You could
fancy him as preaching in the woods or
among the mountains OF his own OLD
North Carolina; but as city minister
he seems entirely out of place, until
you remember that he is of the
new diSpensatiOn, and believes IN
His father is still preaching down i'll
North Carolina, and we think again of
the old subject of inherited tendencies
as we lead what the compiler OF this
little book says of the man he so greatly
admIres: "Fhe power to move human
hearts is not prerogatlye OF youth.
The discipline of matured strength is
the discipline of suffering, not the affla-
tus of high health. Broad sympathies
and deep sub-tones of pathos belong to
those broad viStaS of humanity that
open to the serious man only when the
buOyancy Of blood has abated. KnOw-
ing this, was surprised to find young
mani did not then know that he was
only twenty-eight years old-laying
hold instantly and firmly on the inter
ests and Sympathies of his listeners"
He is an hereditary soldier of the Lord.
ana in his engagement with the elo-
qucnt colonel certainly comes off best.
Rev. Thomas Dixon is pastor of the
largest Protestant congregation in New
York.
In these days of realistic or scientific
and instructive novels it is pleasure to
read one that does not pretend to be
anything more than a love story pure
and simple. in which, though adverse
fate tries to keep true lovers apart by
every device of the enemy, triumphant
"love will find way" to Straighten out
all the tangleS, and 1.-THE dead know just
when to come back and be forgiven"
s. nj. Robbins pretty story, The ldes
Of March," is one of this kind. it is
bright and entertaining from the first
cnapter,in which the hero, Evelyn West
mOreland, and his friend, the squire, are
introduced at their bachelor breakfast
table in the big ball at Teveral Chase.
while clearly diScerniDle from the win
dow the clear waters OF the Bourne,
considerable tributary of the Severn,
are dimpling and smiling in the spring
sunshine, to the end.
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1.-The White Company" by Conan
Doyle. author of ''rhe Firm of Girdle
stone" and other books. is just the kind
of story that boys like. And others
bOyish love for the pOmp and glory of
chivalric days. will find the book fasci-
mating. Ceryantes, it is said. laughed
chivaIry out of Europe. 1t is not SO
certain that that wonderful caricaturist
did good thing for that country. We
laugh at the abSurdltieS of those old
knights. but we forget the stories of
wonderful heroism of loyal friends and
gallant Self-sacrlice that illumine the
history of those times. The story of
married love that runs through and
glorifieS the tale is opportune, perhaps.
in these skeptical days, when people
are asking eff marriage is failure"
And we are glad for the Lady of Twyn-
ham castle. who has grown gaunt and
grim and gray. but who still would hope
on" when the little knight came safely
to his own again.
columbus and Beatriz," novel by
dow pniC n
Tense of the beautiful Beatriz EnriqueZ,
whose name has long been linked with
that of the great discoverer. 1t is not
the reputation of Columbus that is at
stake, for he was man, and man of
his time, to whom many things might be
forgiven; but the beautiful woman,
whose life linked 10 his was undoubtedly
a hard one. should be delivered from
unmerited repr0ach. Simply because
in his will Columbus mentions Bea riZ
EnriqueZ by name, and does not add her
title of wife, his enemies sprang to the
conclusion that the tie that bound them
was an unlawful one; but facts do not
justify such SuppoSitiOn. Columbus
was middle aged man, had grown gray
over his studies aud i'll the struggle for
recognition that genius so often has to
make; and though he loved Beatriz as
made her life sorrow. and by his care
less request to his heir to take care Of
her, as he is under obligations to her,
not necessary to state here, he entalled
on her the shadow of a furnished name
through all these years. The author
has undertaken to right her wrong, and
right royalty has she carried out her
task.
German love stories are cOnStan
source of surprise to the average Ameri-
can. The absurd mixture of extreme
sentimentalism and brutal commonplace
is one thing that is ever Incompatible to
the Anglo-SaXOn mind. This little
story, "a Poor Girl" by w. Heimburg,
translated by Elise l.. Lathrop, is fair
sample of its class. The girl. born of
poor. but ariStocratic parents, is unwel
come, of course, because il she is to
marry she must have dover. and
where are poor people to find one. She
can be governeSS, of course, and her
life is so planned, but love. the rover,
who is at home in every cline. chooses
to mar this wise decision and chaos
has come again as far as the poor girl
and her handsome, sentimental, music
loving lieutenant were concerned. They
wedding, hence stern guardians, tears,
lamentation and despair. Had the lieu
tenant been an average American he
would have put away his cherished
violin and gone valiently to work to
make a home for his sweetheart, but
being a German, he waits not patiently
or bravely to be sure, but waits till the
rich uncle comes TO the rescue, and all
is smiles and flowers and wedding bells.
1t is a sweet little story, anyway. and
taken altogether, the poor girl is hero
inc worth reading about.
The struggles and successes or the
struggles and failures of our fellOWmen
are ever of interest, more or less deep
to US, according as the story touches a
cord that awakens our self conscious
ness, and reveals that 'touch of nature
that makes the world akin" After
wards" novel by Mary Harriott Norris,
author of phoebe, "''DorothyDelafeld,"
and "a Damse! of the Eighteenth Cen
tury," is a story OF the struggles of
w0man's soul towards higher life. The
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