St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-15
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is bright little book, rather out of the
usual, both as to plot and incident.
Miss Kathleen Derrick is pretty young
girl, the daughter of Laurence Derrick,
an Irish gentleman, but why she should
give the name to the book, is rather
hard to understand, as her young
brother Laurence Derrick Jr. is by
far the most prominent character in the
story. Larry" is is wide-awake boy,
as full of pranks as it is possible for
boy to be, but more successful in es-
Gaping the penalty of his mischief than
most boys out of book even are. The
new High Master of Larry's school, who
is introduced in romantic way, is
big manly fellow, who supplies the hero
to the little episode, without which no
story can be complete.
''The Crime of Philip Guthrie" is a
book written in style that was much
more popular few years ago than it is
now. 1t is one of those stories in which
the heroine. wonderfully beautiful and
gifted young girl, called Phyllis Nor
daunt, in this case, who, though brill
liant and intellectual, lacks common
sense. She loved passi0nately hand
some artist, who, she discovers. has
been in love before he had the pleasure
of her acquaintance, and although he
assured her, as lovers always do under
those circumstances, that he had never
loved any other woman with the soul
consuming intensity that characterized
his feeling for her, she bids him a
ScOrnful adieu and WEEDS an old
iceberg of doctor called Philip Guthrie,
who is really maniac, but his friends
have never suspe cted the fact. attribut-
ing any eccentricity of manner to the
Guthrie blood. The discarded lover,
Dallas Mallory. HES him to Europe.
while the bride begins to write wonder
full stories. that grow queerer all the
time. till at length she writes novel on
wild. weird subject that happens to
embody theory her husband had long
maintained. This last blow OverthrowS
what little remnant of sanity the doctor
possessed, and at once he begins a
course of diabolical treatment of his
wife, from which she is rescued by her
old lover. The doctor dies i'll the nick
of time, and the lovers are at last re-
united, to live happily ever after.
Never before were occult subjects so
much written about, in the form of
novels, as at the present time. The
wilder and more improbable the sub
ject the greater its fascination. We
strive to reach some plane where we
may lift if only a tiny corner OF the
curtain that mercifully hides the future
from our gaze. or strive to reach with
feeble earthly eyes and beseeching
hands towards some power that may eX-
plain the contradiction and mystery OF
that wonderful thing called life. Such
a story is this of Gen. +. NJ. Clarke'S,
called maiden of Mars" Harold
Houghton, student, succeeds in reach
ing the planet Mars. where he finds a
wonderful civiliZ tion. Men ard women
who are far in advance OF those who
walk our own little world, andsadvance-
ment in various ways that is far more
wonderful than any that we have
ever hoped to reach. The in
habltants of that favored world.
sailed about on the backs
of huge birds called tlOpSaS, or III winged
vessels like air ships. They have per-
fected the use of electricity, and light
their cities and houses with it in such a
way that they avoid the deep shadows
that mar our efforts IN that line. Harold
Houghton was doctor and a wise man,
but the little god of love seemed to have
dominion in Mars as we'll as here, and
he found maiden fair to see, through
whose eyes he aimed his darts at the
wise mans heart. to that worthys last
ing disquietude. Taken altogether this
is most beautiful story. Who that has
thought OF life or immortality, that uni
verSal wish of humanity, but has longed
to burst as Harold did these bodily
bonds and find the land where our
dreams live, the ideals that have lighted
all our pathway as he found his ideal OF
perfect human love and It's blessed
companionship, as he found 1T Ill his
lovely maiden Of Mars?
No truer Scot lives than j. NJ. Barrie.
You feel in every line he writes the
throb of heart that beats to the music
of Scotch voices, that is glad with the
Joy OF his countrymen and sore with
their sorrow, and yet he can see, with
true Scotch keenneSS, the laughable
side OF their lives. Those who have
enjoyed Window in Thrums" and "A
Little Minister" will welcome this lit
tie book of Edinburgh character
sketches with delight. He calls these
sketches idyls, but they are not
dreamy enough to justify that name;
they are etchings, rather, so clearly
drawn and cut are they.
The ideal head of Christ by Puget,
given in Mrs. Ellen Russell EmerSon's
"Mask's, Heads and Faces" is probably
the only copy in print. The original is
one of the treasures of the Palace Iroca-
dero of Paris. The sculpture belongs
to a period of great interest in ethical
and clinical history.
Mr.. Whittier has gathered the poems
he has written since the publication OF
..St. Gregory's Guest" in 1886, aud they
will appear early in the autumn under
the appropriate but somewhat pathetic
title, "At Shutdown" Mr.. Garrett has
made several attractive Illustrations for
the volume.
Mr.. Clinton Scotland with publish
through HoughtOn. Alifflin d Co. this
season volume of poems which he
names Songs of Sunrise Lands" sug-
gestions of his travels in Egypt, Syria
and Greece.
An illustrated edition of Green's
Short History of the English people-a
work which has probably been more
widely read and enjoyed than ony other
of its kinds in preparation, and the
first volume will soon be published by
Harper q Brothers. The illustrations
have been selected with the purpose of
CARRYING out the favorite wish of the
author, to interpret and illustrate Eng
lish history by pictures which should
show now men and things appeared to
the lookers-on of their own day, and
how contemporary observers aimed at
representing them. Besides a large
number of elegant wood engravings the
work will contain several colored plates.
including reproductions from manu-
scripts, Illuminated missals, etc, exc
cuted in the highest style of chrome
photography. An exhaustive series of
portraits of eminent persons will also be
prominent feature.
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