St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-01
NEW BOOKS.

Women Must Weep is the title of a
cleverly written book. tinged with Faw-
cett's inimltable pessimism. The key
note of the book is struck when Mrs.
Heffernan, the wife of a wealthy liquor
DEALER and politician, says: us women,
as regards marriage. are the under
dogs in the fight. There are three
things that poster and torment us when
we get to be wives. Most of the men-
l won't say all of 'em-but most-either
don't stay true. or else they drink more
or less bad, or else they're regular devils
in their own homes. Marriage is all
such queer kind of risk. aud we women
have got to take such awful risks-ten
times worse than tht men must. Oh.
you can't propheSy about these things!
The only way is to find out after
ward. And that's the sad part of
marriage; you've got to find out
so much afterward. The three hero
ines OF the story find, each in her we'd
ded life, one OF the three fateS Mrs.
Hetfernan declares. Around their
stories Edgar Fawcett has woven
strong novel, whose characters are all
distinctive types of modern New York
life. There is evidence of carelessness
now and then, but on the whole the
style OF the book is excellent. There is
a strong argument for temperance in
the story, and revolving picture, which
bears the stamp of truth, of the cor
ruption of machine politics in New
York. The neutrality-suspicious. in which
FaWcett eXcelS all his school are scat
tered lavishly through the book and
make it faScinatingiy readable. Its
philosophy IS, however, Specious. The
author observes isolated caSeS-typeS
here and there-and from them gener
allies that all marriages are unhappy.
The truth of his types is admitted. but
that pessimism warpS the truth of his
conclusions is evident. ''Women Must
Weep" is one of the cleverest novels of
the season.
SIN Farewell Love!" appears again
the tactless woman who loves, who
plumbers through so much of romantic
fiction. III the present case her lack of
tact is complicated with unreStrained
passion and an undoubteG tendency
toward insanity, which drives her at
last to suicide. The English of the
story is picturesque and good. The
story itself is hysterical.
''The Story of an Emigrant" is of
especial local interest, but is deserving
of wider fame. As a story it is doubIy
Interesting because of its truth. The
events it deals with, the early pioneer
DAYS, the civil war, related i'll simple,
vivid style, make it readable in the eX-
IRENE. India, Europe and all the for
eign countries wherein this emigrant
set foot. are drawn on for material.
The twenty-niith chapter deals with
the causes of emigration, American
influence Cd Europe, and other matters
Oh which the honorable authors opin-
ions may be taken as sound and the re-
suit not only of thought, but of expert
ence. The book is large one, but is
none too large to contain the good
things with which it is crowded.
A pathetic interest attaches to tn vol
ume of Lyrics, by Cora Fabbri, about to
be published by Harper d Brothers.
The very spirit of youth and love and
spring breathes through these sweet
verses, which have a dainty finish and
grace worthy the music of Italy. IL is
difficult to think of their author as out
of this bright world; but, alas Cora
Fabbri died at San Reno Jan. IL. An
advance copy of her poems was sent to
her early enough, it is hoped. to have
given her passing pleasure.
Harper & Brothers will publish i'm
mediately ''The Letters of Count Hell
muth Won Moltke to His Mother and
His Brothers" an extremely interesting
selection from the family correspond
ence of the great German soldier, COW
eIing period of nearly seventy years.
The incidental illusions, in these let
tiers, to public affairs and notable his
torlcal events must have special sig
nificance to every intelligent reader,
while to politicians and soldiers of ev-
cry country they will possess a rare in
terest. But their chief attraction will
be found, perhaps, in the pictures which
they afford of the counts domestic re-
lations, and of the nobly affectionate
qualities of character which distin-
guished him in private life.