New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-08-03
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
NEW NOVELS AND SHORT STORIES.

NEW NOVELS AND SiOkI SlORlEo.
AIRS KEATS BRADFORD. by Maria Louise Pool.
12mo. PIP. 900. Harper & Brothers
A TALE OF TWENTY FIVE HOURS. BY Brander
Matthews and George Ii. Jessop. 10mo, PIP. ls9.
ID. Appleton & co.
TIE SLAVE OF THE IA!ip. By, Henry seton Mer-
rlman. 12mo, PIP. 3@7. Lowell, Coryen & Co.
TIE MATE OF TIE NANCOUVER. Ey Marley ROD
orts. l2mO, PIP. 263. CasSell Publishing CO.
MAGIC INK AND OTHER STORIES. By william
Black Illustrated. Emo pr. 25s. Harper q
brothers.
TALES OF A TINE AND PLACE. BY Grace King
limo. PIP. 3O3. Harper d Brothers.
Miss Pool follows the fortunes Of Rowcna In MIS-
Keats Bradford" and with finer art and nfhler
hand There are indeed In the married experiences Oh
the Bradfords trying tests of the readers adhhfa
ton for Bowena. ard though Keats BRADFORD NAV De
regarded by some an Ideal husband, others Will De
apt to suspect that he did not take altogether inc
right way with a Young woman firmly persuaded
that her vocation not marriage but art But the
sldl and delicacy with which this peculiar ana ohcue
character worked deserve very high praise indeed
IL Is by the finest gentlest touches hat the tcuuehS
Of Rowena are revealed. Nothing better than TINS mas
been done for long time, and however one may 1859
patience now and then with the feminine perversiues
OF the heroine her charm does not cease TO hold NO
doubt poor Keats Bradford received scant measure
OF justice. IS very hard TO him sometimes 30
hard that may doubt for the moment whe'her 'hc
situation Is not hopeless But all things come 10 MN
who waits; and external Influences are also at Work
scene very pretty conceived and leaves everything
scouleur de rose" II does not appear likely tha'
Rowena will again be wholly engrossed by her art'
Ne should have liked TO hear more OF NahcSSa' WIN
her eternal search for something new NoDouy WIN
wholesome interests could tire of that delightful
Yorkshire Slarpedukc and Miss POoPs scenes from
New-Ensand country life too clever to leave with
n,t regret But the best novel must come TO an enc,
and we can only hope that tins one may have many
successors.
"A Tale OF TWENTY five Hours' is piece Of colao-
pratlon by Braudcr Matthews and George H. JeSSop'
and IS deftly and smoothly done. The motive Is
humorous the story Illustrating some OF the posi-
blies OF rcumsanta evidence in the line of creating
mares nests, Mr.. Paul Stuyvesant, lawyer. being
the victim Of his too shrewd suspicious The
plot is ingenious and develops very naturally from an
Endorsement on check. The whole story Is too
crisply and brightly Tie dialogue Is smart and anus
Ing and ~ sometimes IT runs little into slangneSs,
n need only be said that 1t otherwise IL would
not be good fin dc siecle' talk. For what does not
pretend to be other than slight thing, IT IS really
very neat and pretty bit of work As 10 the merits
and dement's OF the collaboration fad" II proves
nothing either way.
Mr. Merriman's slave of the lamp IS young maya
zine editor who gets himself kidnapped by the Jesults
BY writing an article in which he exposes their neari-
Gus handiwork in connection with certain Paris riots
Exactly why the Jesults should want to kldnap hin.
and what they expected to gain by having recourse TO
that medieval proceeding the author has somehow
forgotten to explain. The episode However serves to
Introduce Of those dreadful Provncals OF the type
which Eugene sue affected; deep. dark, mysterious
personages, always marching TO some sinister end,
and always reading the thoughts OF everybody while
concealing their own. The hero Of this story, how
ever. outw1tS the Provincial and escapes Another
deep dark and mysterious Jesuit is affected on
meeting the fugitive under circumstances which pre-
vent him (the dark onel from taking strOag meas
ures" that he sraghtway suffers apoplectic stroke
and des-wlich seems to have been the best thing he
could have done While the tale is well written ard
In parts exhibits remarkable power there IS curious
air of inconsequence about IT, though the writer had
not made his mind how il should end until lie came
TO the last chapter.
There Is 10 such apparent inccritude about The
Mate of the Vancouver" which Is frankly sensational
1t deals with the adventures of sailor who has drawn
upon himself the vcngeful hatred OF Malay
The latter he will pursue the mate to the end OF
the world. and kill him. This contract he undertakes
to fulfill as promptly possible. with exciting results.
1t is pleasantly written narrative not too sanguinary,
and 1t IS the villain whose luck Is bad. Briefly,
novel for the hammock the scashOre the mountains
Mr.. Black writes admirable novels, but his short
stories are somewhat thin and fiat. There three
in This volume, and the last "Nancbe: Tnle Of
stratford Avon" is the best. Ii IS story Of
pretty girls fckleness, and Of the manner In which
her Tilted swain consoled himself; and reading between
tho lines nEly fancy Mr.. Black in a sarcastic
mood when he wrote II. Tile a" Halloween WRATH
belongs to the class OF "phantoms OF the living
studied by Nesss. Quincy and Myers, and is not re-
markablc example Of the kind. "The Magic Ink"
would years since have the risk OF being de-
nominated an "Orlental Apologize" but the vein
cultivated in 1t is evidently not congcnal TO the writer
whose chariot IN this instance drives rather slowly.
Grace Kings stories Of New Orleans, It's mixture
OF races, It's strange vicssitudes Of fortune social
sores, its criminal and mi-crlminal classes. The
charm Of this authors manner is too well known 10
need mention. and in these weird tales She has fully
succeeded in catching the local color Reproducing
the local atmosphere. They not cheerful Stories
but they graphic. and deeply interesting.