St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-25

the author reads them. as he would any
otuer history. AMI IA saniag what TIE
worsts say. one comes readily TO tbs
conclusion that some other peoples
must be meant or the words are untrue.
That the AngI0-SaxeHS and the Jews
spring from the same stock will GER
tainly be a new idea To most people and
one that many will not hail with pleas
ure Oh account OF the foolish prejudice
that has loag obtained in regard 10
these peculiar people; but il we see
only tue old proud patriaTchs as
our common forefathers and re-
member that these deSpised descendants
or theirs are what conquest and gen
eratiOn5 Of persecution have made them,
and yet they have preserved some of the
best attributes OF humanity. we should
be ashamed of our narrowaess. Il will
be new, also. TO think that the firsl re-
public WAS that of the Hebrews, and
that tile final restoration OF all the
tribes means gigantic republic again;
or that we divide and number and gov
ern our army just rs Joshua did his. land
that Abr3ham's attack on ChredOrlaO-
mer WAS just such an one as Gen. Grant
would have organized. Our laws are
framed and our courts conducted on the
same plan as that used in those times.
Who would recognize the stately priest
Samuel as a circuit Judge? Yet we
read that he went every year in cir
cult TO Bethel and Gilgal and judged
Israel in those places" Would we
Americans care for prouder descent
than would be ours could we claim an
ceStors of which this could be written
"fhe yaIor OF their men was matched
10y the heroism aud devotion OF their
women? The kindness of the wei
come extended by England and Amer
lea TO the baniShed Jews of Europe is
only TO be explained by the idea OF kin
ship and our belief in the old alage:
Blood Is thicker than water"
Short Stories for May IS unusually
attractive. Sidney Tucker contributes
story OF romance, while AlphOnse
Daudet has an amusing one, aud Luxe
Sharp a quaint and pathetic study.
Maurice Kingsley, Opie Read, George
Eliot and others till up the book.
Short Stories fills u long felt want, II
one may be excused the threadbare re-
mark, by supplying a collection OF stO-
RES complete in each number. OF a cOn-
vtnient SIZE To 90 into a pocket II one
wishes to take book along 10 read Oh
the ears. or while waiting for train. or
dilatory business man. or SLOW
dressing lady. The typography is ex-
cellent. paper good and of pleasant
tint; and altogether Short Stories, in
It's monthly appearance. Is comfort 70
busy story lovers.
Two Tales Is dainty and attract
i've little pamphlet that makes its APP
pearance every week. The issue for
April contains a story by Ellen Olney
KIRK, "a SuDerilaOu5 Woman" an un-
III
OF the SeigniOry." by Duncan Camp
b III Scott, shivery kind of a tale. with
a demOnIaeal-looking yellow dog in il.
Every book teaches, or should teach.
lesson. In Felix Llngberg's Expia-
ton" written by O5sip SchubIn and
translated by Elsie l.. LathroU, the duil-
est reader will easily find the lesson
taught. that evil doing wrongs the dOer;
ana though friends may forgive, and
love outllye all the shame OF and
anguish that can wiring an honest. up-
right heart, yet the sinner cannot forget
or forgive himself. Can 1t be that this
lesson widens ont as we read, till IL
touches the story of yicariOus atone
ment itself? Who can say? Felix
Langberg. an officer i'll an EXCLUSIVES
Austrian regiment, IN moment OF mad
ness, to crafty the extravaganza OF
al woman, FORCES his fathers name,
and Is detected and sentenced to im-
pris0nment in spite of all the father
could do. After he was released from
prison his father forgiYes him. and
tries TO live as if his boy had never dis
hOnored his name. Vain kindness; the
son is 4 criminal; he mast bear his own
punishment, and finally ends his lite
with his own hand. Whether If he
had lived in some other country and
had tried molly TO live down his
shame he might have succeeded. we
cannot say, bat thus the story runs.
There are ior;ls aud ladies OF high de-
gree and goo and bad women in the
story, and feminine fool, of course, To
give things spice. bat the truth com IS
grmy out that this others can forgive
AID perhaps forget; the culprit's own
heart has tried the case and pronounced
the verdict and sentence shall not be de-
layed.
Peoples ideas of fun vary. To those
who like that kind of fun, Pecks bad
Boy and His Pa are an cXhauStleo5
fountain of laughter. One may be sur
prised at the taste of person who could
enjoy Joke whose point consisted in
piece OF impertinence from one OF those
nuiSances, G modern smart Aleck Of an
ill-bred boy; but there are such people.
and they will buy and read this book;
but it will not contribute TO the culture
of that faSt-dying vlrtne, old-fashioned
reverence for ones parents, in the
hearts Of our American boys, TO encOur-
age them in Its perusal.
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"rhe Blue Scarab" novel by David
Graham Adee, is more than ordinarily
readable detective story. The blue
scarab was breastpin. made Of iron or
some inferior metal in the shape OF
beetle, bat holding in its hollow body a
diamond OF fabulous size and beauty.
1t may be true. as the natives OF the
African diamond regions say, that when
a diamond is found crime begins, for
this one seemed to have the power to
influence every son OF man whose fin
gers simply touched it to do wrong in
some way or to be the victim OF evil
doing. The story is interesting and
wei. told.
"ROse Geranium," tragedy, by an
unknown author, Is another OF tn Ose
books that have no visible excuse for
being. IL is morbid story of wretch
ed woman. No number OF beautiful
words can make a dreadful story less
dreadful. and no amount OF arr ument
can make wrong right. If we knew
that this poor life was all, and if happi-
ness were the end and aim of LIVING,
and if happiness were always the sure
result of self-indulgence, then such
story as this might be profitable; but
we who have thought are sure that as
for Il Ad ri "
is more likely to bring happiness; aud
surely if we believe that this IS only one
of the planes of life that m0rtais tread,
we know that Self-conquest, seif-eulture,
is the work given Us To do. 1t is not
lack OF sympathy with poor tempted
Nell, to whom the perfume OF Rose
Uranium brought back the horror OF
her tragedy, but a sure knowledge
taught by more than worldly wisdom
that the text she heard whispered by
the shadows OH the stairway is true:
1.-The wages of sin is DEATH"
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