St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-04
NEW BOO KS.


that has all the characteristics OF the
stories that charmed our childish day. The
same rough men with voices tuned to
the winds wild roar. with fierce faces
and fiercer roads, ride rough shod over
their panic stricken neighbors, but be-
hind all this warlike exterior we knew
that we should find tender heart. Such
book is S. Barring Gould's last story
"ln the Roar of the Sea- The very
name recalls the days when hidden IN
some secluded spot we sat with eyes
fast on the first page, but in spirit
roamed with the fierce wrecks, through
their smugglers caves admired and
feared their dauntless leader, or cow
cred with the poor shipwrecked folks
dreading his coming. Capt. Coppinger,
the hero. is disappointing sort of per-
son, he Is OF very poor common clay,
and fails to recognize his opportunities.
judith Trevisa is better, as in her love
for her feeble minded twin brother
acters are we'll drawn and life like. and
the book will do no one harm and may
serve to while away an idle hour.
'.Courtlandt Laster, Capitalist" by
Harley Deene. is one of the 81 900 prize
stories that are to be issued quarterly
by Laird d Lee, of Chicago. Why this
particular story should have won prize
is not at all clear to an ordinary reader.
The tone is low, the story bad and weak,
and for the sake OF our common human
ity let us hope that the characters are
not drawn fiom life. They are lbels
on motherhood as we'll as manhood. A
story to be worth anything should either
instruct or entertain, either teach a
lesson or point a moral, apd this one
6OnS nathan 'Hhnra lie
for its being. Let us hope that the
newt prize that is given for the best
American novel will ta.l into worthier
hands.
What delight it is to find now and
then, among the flood of books that are
WEAKNESS and veXation to the soul,
one that leaves no unpleasant task in
the month-one that raises your opinion
Of the world and of the men that make it
of JIM. Barrie'S 'When Mans Single"
All OF BarrieS' men when they are
single are very single in deed and in
thought, and when they are married
are as very much married. All who
have been fortunate enough to enjoy
the Little Minister" or "A Window in
Thrums.' will take up this book with
that ''prlckings of the thumbs" that in
dicates the presence OF new delight.
Barrie is very Scotch, and has to an
unusual degree the subtle Scotch
humor, SO delicate, SO quaint that only
those who are of the same kin can
always see it and delight in it, Rob
Angus, the hero of this delightful sto-
ry, Is sawmiller at Thrums. tied by
duty to the mill and the hum.drum life,
but shilling the yearning of his am
bition by study that fits him
for the new life of written effort when
the new life comes. To him from the
grey eyes of Mary Abinger, the daugh-
ter OF an arlstocratic father, love called,
and like the called of Old, ''he straight
way left all and followed" through dis
couragement and ill success that like
BunyOn'S lions stood on either side to
guard the way that led to happiness.
Your heart goes out to the royal youth,
who. when the time was ripe so man
fully took his own. Dick Abinger. the
man who had 1.-The successful writer's
Instinct so fully developed that even
while overwhelmed with the rush of
regret at his own ickleHess. could see
Ill his minds eye how the situation Sug-
gested a possible article for the scalping
knife, thumorousl is SO clearly drawn
that one feels sure that his prototype
could be found in many a newspaper
office.
Memoirs of Mother-in-Law." AT
last that long unjustly maligned, long
suffering class, mothers-in-law, have |
found a champion i'll George r. Sims.
and one tits who seems to know how to |
WELD a good, stout cudgel in their de- |
Tense. It's one of the unrevealed mys-
teries why the simple act of giving a
son Or daughter to stranger, by coll
senting to a marriage, should he so
universally acknowledged TO transform |
the whilom delightful hostess and gra-
cious lady into bowling whirlwlnd of |
Observation-Disclosures. But SO it is, and has |
been for untold generations. and it's 7
high time some one, some dauntless |
Sancho PanZa should attack the wind |
mill and demolish it. This MIR. Sims
does. The mother-in-law, as he por-
trays her. is what she usually is-in |
fact. kind-hearted woman. whose love |
for the seven babies she had watched |
over and cared for with mothers I'M
fafhomable devotion extended to the |
strangers who entered, unchallenged, her
castle walls and bore her treasures away
into lands OF possible desolatiOn where
the wolves of unbappinesS might man.
gle their tender forms or the black dogs
OF care glover at the tender hearts her
love had shielded so many, or to her. so
few short years. Shall she be blamed
because, fOrSOOth, some alien who
knows not the mother tongue, misun-
derstands her best endeavor? Not so,
but long live that brave band, who
through reproach and misunderstand-
ing stand steadily for the best good of
their dear ones, smiling to hide a tear,
frowning to hide foolish pride, and
bearing all and doing all for that
mother love that is nearest the love di-
vine of anything this old earth knows.
Books Received.