St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-24
BOOK AND HAMMOCK,
Light Literature for Use in
the Enticing Summer
Web.
Summer Suggestions for the
Leisure Of Literary In
clinatiOn.
Choice Selections for Light
Hours and for Somber
Reflections.
"Our Best Friends" Assorted
and Arranged for Globe
Readers.

May blessings be upon the mead or
Cadmus, the Phenician, or whoever
it was that invented books; but a great
er blessing descend upon the head
which gave us the hammock, where we
can read in comfort during these dog
days. On the porch and cool. shady
corner of every house in town, and on
the broad veranda of the cottages over
looking ripping White Bear and Min
netonka this enticing webbing is hung.
Fill it with soft cushions of mosS-pre-
serve us, oh shade of MephiStO, from
feather-flled pillOws-don your leOsest
white outing rig and drive dull care
away with huge palmleaf fan. And.
to sweep the cObwebs off the mental
sky, what shall we read? What did
people do without light literature be-
fore the days of the Town and Country
series and other summer reading? To
be sure, they are ephemeral, and like
our light Affections, but for ii moment;
if your sole object in reading is to i'm
prove your mind, and anything else is
but vanity of vanities, let me recon-
mend Spencer's Justice" and Remains
"History of Israel" But all work and
no play makes Jack dull boy, and he
needs mental dumb bells and Indian
clubs, so that his cerebral muscle will
be better developed for the winter
study
Put first on your list "The Squirrel
1nn," by Frank r. Stockton. 1t ran in
the Century magazine year ago, and
has just been issued in book form.
IfYou Have Read 1t,
then it will seem funnier than ever read
i'll some circle of friends, and that, by
all means, is the right way to use your
summer books. Joys in reading, as in
life, are doubled if shared. The SPUR
rel Inn" is a whimsical tale, and you
can always trust Stockton enough to
know you cannot trust your own fore
casts or predictions. The characters
are sure to do what they would not do
under any other authors pen. Each is
droll or original. For downright fun
and gladnesS there is no equal to Frank
Stockton.
"A Little Norsk; or. OF Pap's Flax
en-" is a new book by Hamlin Garland,
author of MAIN Travelled Roads," and
one who has done much is using the
literary material Of the Northwest. 1t
comes fresh with the wind that sweeps
the great prairieS, and the exceptional
power with which he treats this life on
the plains makes the sketches as vivid
as Bret Harte'S stories of mining camps
or Cables creoles. We who live so
near where the breezes blow will APP
preciate "A Little Norsk"
Kate Sanborns adopting an Aban-
doned Farm" although not new this
summer, will make a good addition to
the books read in the sight of the way
ing fields of successful farms. 1t is
81 h,tn cI- tnh Of fhn
enceS one young woman had who sought
to demonstrate that woman can farm,
and TennySOn was
Wrong in His Man
for the field and woman for the hearth,
man for the pillow. and for the needle
she" But she didn't do it. New Eng
land women have powerful intellectS,
but they cannot grind to fertilizer the
rocky hills or Massachusetts. THE
brakes refuse to lay; the vegetables re
fuse to come ND, and the taxes would
not go down."
Another book which for local colon
ing is a success is "a First Family of
1asajara," and in Bert Harte's earliest,
best VEN. 1t is a story of a family
which reached great wealth through
means which are not strictly creditable
to its head, and the one son who knew
of the manner in which the wealth was
obtained is cast out for not agreeing TO
become an ornamental appcndage to
the new +. f. c. The descriptions of
the West are real and beautiful. and
can be suspected only by those who
knew Bert Harte's earlier romances.
Don't put Tess of the d'UberVilles''
in your grip. 1t is such black story,
gruesome and unhealthy. | know. like
most of Thomas Hardy's novels, 1t is
good i'll literary composition and an
artistic success. The winter brings
enough of the hardness of life, and do
try in these glorious summer days to
get some of the glory into your life in
stead of the gruesome. 1t is bad enough
for an author, conscious of his power in
making people happy, to place such a
load of sorrow OH the book shelves at
any time, but one who will deliberately
perpetrate such an outrage OH summer
outings ought to be forevermore ia
boOed.
Books of Travel
are becoming among the most delight
full for summer reading. The old atti-
tudiniZing and moraliZing before the
wonders of the old world are being re-
lieyed by lighter background of the
funny happenings. Each man sees
kodak reveals some curious phases of
life over the briny. A book which is
kodakic in the sharp keen outlines of
the sketches is "a Too Short
Vacation" written by two women,
who saw Europe not as others see it.
Sara jeanette Duncan's books are of
last summers output. "a Social De-
parture" and "An American Girl in Lon
don" are rare fun. Miss Duncan seeks
men and things with reporters scent
for the novel, and writes them in SO
merry, often satirical mood that one
feels as if he had been taking beef, iron
and wine.
Miss Agnes Pepplier's little volume
of essays, Point of View was pub
lished early in the year and are excel
lent in the light and critical vein. She
tears down literary idols with vandal-
ism that is somewhat alarming at first,
The light in which all life is bated out
rivals the glow western evening skies
for she looks through rose colored spec
tacles and believes in the gospel of JOY.
For light psychological study read
"a FelloWe and his Wife" by Blanche
Willis Howard and William Sharp. 1t
tells of an ideal husband and wife
whose confidence in her own artistic
ability is in excess of her love for her
husband. To evade sex prejudices and
perhaps as result, to idealiZe the
man writes the woman's letters and tn e
woman the mans. OF course the hero
is woman's ideal of a perfect man.
and not a weak one. He is perfect i'm
conduct but his fierce inward struggles
show how hard it is for the best of men
TO be entirely fine. The woman is many
sided, tender, self-admiring, s2.fsh,
Whimsical, but, witllal very feminine
ana lovable. and perhaps, alns:si real.
a book by Blanche Wi.&s Howard
which is old, but ever nevstnd amusing
is that merry, laughable "fslc Summer"
The Faith Doctor" tbg Eggelston
is more serious bR entertaining
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