Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-08-25
RECENT PUBLICATIONS.

sEline We're" Translated from the Dutch
of Louis Couperus by ]. T. Grein. With
an introduction by Edmund Gosse. The
first issue of the "Holland Fiction Series"
which is to include the best works of lead
ing Dutch romancers of the present day.
The idea that Dutch life is too dull and
prosaic to furnish materials for a novel has
been effectively contradicted by Msarten
Martens, whose works prove that the ele-
ments of romance, comedy and tragedy,
exist in Holland as elsewhere. Louis Cou-
perus is one of the school of young writer's
known as "the Sensitivists." This work,
which has been crowned by the Dutch
academy, is a rather lengthy but entirely
interesting story of modern life ia the
Hague. As a psychological study the
character of Eline shows great power.
Selfish. morbid, deficient in self-control,
she is yet an attractive creature, and the
failure she makes of her life, and her self
destruction, arouse the readers pity.
There are vivid pictures of family life and
much that is delightful and entertaining.
and though abounding in detail, these de-
tails are never tiresome. Very appropri-
ately, the work is bound in stout Holland
linen. D. Appleton & Co., New York.
For sale by E, P. Judd.
'sMiss Matilda Archambeau Van Dorm
is the very imposing title of very charm
ing story by ElizabethC Cumings. The impet-
uous, courageous, warm-hearted little girl
of thirty years ago will find many admirers
among the little girls of to-day, but her
character will perhaps be better understood
by older readers. Ancestral pride ,conven-
tional training, and advanced democratic
ideas, render the conditions of life rather
difficult to be adjusted by one small child.
She succeeds admirably well, however, in
being both lady and tomboy. d. 10th
rop company, Boston. For sale by E. 2.
Judd.
'Ttalian Child Life, or Msrietta's Good
Times" By Marietta Ambrosi. The wri-
ter of this entertaining little book is we'll
known in Boston art circles. She tells of
children's games and occupations, of fete
days, and religious ceremonies, in natural
and unstudied style as If talking to group
of interested young listeners. So much
that is novel and curious Ia told as the wri-
ter's personal experience that Msrietta's
.'good times" will charm by their very un-
likeness to the good times of American
children. D. Lothrop Co., Boston. For
sale by E. P. Judd.
"Hertha; A Romance" By Ernst Eek
stein, author of "Nero," "The Chaldean
Magician" etc. Translated from the Ger
man by Mrs. Edward Hamilton Bell. A
story of German life, told with much vigor
| and power, and full of dramatic interest:
1t is a romance and tragedy, with sharp
contrasts of happiness and intense sorrow.
George Gottsberger Peck, New York. For
sale by E. P. Judd.
'It Happened Yesterday" By Frederick
/ "
etc. A story of race prejudice, of expert
ments In will-infuence, aud a love affair
complicated by these conditions. The tale
is not a happy one, but will interest from
the widely varying characteristics of the
principal actors. D. Appleton & Co., New
York. For sale by L. p. Judd
"My Guardian: A story of the fen coun
try" By Ada Cambridge, author of ''Noi
All In Vain" A story told in simple and
unpretentious style. with much of psthos
and closing happily, TO the readers salts
faction. d. Appleton & Co., New York
For sale by E. p. Judd.
"The Goddess of Atvatabar, Being tn,
History of the Discovery of the Interio
World" By William r. Bradshaw. Tn
remarkable story of an American citizei
who sails from New York in an armed yes
sell in quest of the North Pole. Through
an earthquake-rent passage the ship de
scends into Polar gulf which leads to tn
great interior ocean, and the earth Is fount
to be a hollow sphere, with seas and CONT
nents, islands and cities, upon its interio
surface Most wonderful are the sdven
lures of the ships company, the writer
daring fency finding nothing to obstruc
its flight. 1t Is not, however, q story o
mere adventure: the work deals with tn
philosophy of love and marriage, art, the
osophy, ,occultism, spiritualism, and creativ
, power; describes new orders of architec
!, ture, new methods of travel and warfare
and has, moreover, been illustrated by art
: lists whose riotous imaginations seem t
have kept pace with that of the author
For grotesque humor Joined to graceful
nese, some of the designs by Paul de Long
pre- are especially noticeable, exhibiting tn
transformation of plants into animals an
human beings. Julian Hawthorne, In hi
Introduction to the work, speaks of the re
action from the depression of the realisti
school. Possibly this story marks the e1
tent of that reaction. Certainly there coul
be nothing more intense than some of MI
Bradshaw's situations, or more exuberan
and exaggerated than his descriptions. J
F. Douthitt, publisher, New York. Fo
sale by E. P. Judd.