St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-05-30
NEW BOOKS.

So once more love blooms where Sombre
duty leads the way. Walter rights q
StupenduOus wrong and is able to offer
a name from which every stain has been
erased TO the girl he loves.
"The Confessions of Publisher" is
in John Strange Winters usual happy
vein. 1t would not be possible for the
author Of "Bootles' Baby" to be unin-
terestiug, and in this little story he has
originated an entirely new plot. The
publisher who is confesSing is very
real, old man, with natural fatherly
love and pride in his big six-foot boy,
Jack. who is to inherit the business the
father built up, and bear the name that
he had raised from the humble one of
washerwoman to that of the head of a
flourshing publishing house. Jack was
sent to Eaton, and there imbibed ideas
of honor differing entirely from those of
the publisher. The advent of a new
novelist, who is also an heiress, marks
a new era in the life of both father and
son. Complications arise from a secret
shared by the publisher. the rich novel
ISt and an impecuni0us newspaper man
that make the situation interesting, and
incidentally makes the fortune of the
needy Scribles, who only wanted
CAoiiCC. altoaCtHOl tAiO otOlJ 10 WY
good.
'Inquirendo Island" by Thudor Gen
ane, is one of the brightest, most pecu-
liar stories that have been brought to
our notice for long time. The central
idea of the story is that humanity, even
though isolated. will cling to vague
knowledge of the Infinite, and about
the simple truth that all devOut souls
feel the fatherhood of God build COM
pleX system of theology to blind and
discourage their fellow men. In the
story the hero. John Cliff. is wrecked
on an unknown island Ill the Atlantic,
where he finds an English-speaking
people, whose sacred book is the arith-
metic. He tries to tell of the land from
and derided. for these people knew
that no one could live on the sea, and,
in fact, they knew that the simple touch
of the ocean waves meant death; so they
caught this dangerous man and shut
him up as lunatic. In prison their
ministers visited him and tried to con-
verse OH religious topics, asked il he
knew who Mathematics was, and who
Numbers. Of course, he made mis-
take in his answer and the end was that
he with other incurableS or undesirable
members of the community was sen.
fenced to be drowned in the sea, his
judges devoutly hoping that he might
yet get hold on the raft and by the will
of over ruling numbers be saved. The
book is more an allegory than story,
and in it's imagery we recognize a good
many truths that are applicable to this
country.
'The Interpreter" by Whyte Mel
vile, is rather complicated story OF
friendship that began in childhood be-
tween two boys. and ripened as the
years went by to warmth and strength
very unusual between men. The plot
is somewhat involved, and takes the
hero all over Europe, through all sorts
of trials and hardships. to safe haven
and home, with the love of beautiful
woman and all the good that should
crown the closing days of an honorable
lWar-worn soldier who has earned the
right to leisure and repose in the
sanctuary of home.
s'Sex and Life, the Physiology and
Hygiene Of the Sexual Organization"
by Eli F. Brown M. S., NJ. D., Is
simple and plain treatise on life from its
earliest inception to its maturity. The
ent phrases of the subject. The Ian
guage is clear and every word tells just
what is needful for the entire under
standing of this important subject. Only
good can come from placing such books
in the hands of young people. The
questions of life is SO beautiful. SO sa-
cred that they should not be left to the
discussion OF evil minded or ignorant
people.
ga Member of Tattersalls," by Haw-
ley, Smart. is, as its name implies,
story of the horse racing fraternity,
their hopes, winnings and losses. and
the twists and turns that these things
compel are SkllfulIy wrought into plot
that is not very much hidden from even
that meets the william is only proof of
the truth of the old adage murder will
out"
"Nada the Lilly" is story of South
Africa. as are all of Ii. Rider Haggard'S.
So long as one can read Of that barbaric
land. one can but feel a strange Interest
in the dOingS of its queer people. We
have been accustomed to consider the
African in the abstract as a bowling
black savage full of wild hoOdo wor-
ship and cruel sacrifcial rites, and to
look upon him through Haggard's eyes
in this story is entirely a new sensa-
ton. He has so thoroughly stepped his
Imagination in the barbaric splendor of
that tropical land. that his books are
graphic pictures of real living people.
Whatever he touches is idealiZed, and
one can but enjoy his graphic pro-
trayals.
What a queer world this would be if
a certain class of novels were anything
like true picture of Iife's real events.
In such story as The Mystery of the
Holly Tree" cruel suspicion falls on
one of the nobleSt of men, and one of
his fathers friends, one who had
watched him grow from childhood to a
splendid manhood, is willing to believe |
him guilty of most diShonorable act. |
Without allowing him the least chance |
to clear himself, this lifelong friend be- |
comes his bitterest enemy. Miss Bertha |
M. Clay tells very readable story, but |
one can but think what a lot of sobS and |
tears and broken hearts and groanS |
could be saved by just few words of |
cool common sense. The people one |
finds in books like this are not the peo- |
pie who walk about in the garish light |
of day, fortunately for the old worlds |
good.
After reading some of the recently t
published love stories, one could readily |
undertake to affirm that when the tender |
passion attacks the feminine heart, rea-
son takes a temporary departure. No |
one in their right mind could go through |
all the SpasmS of untold agony that a |
lovesick young woman is described as
enduring, and yet the heroineS of Miss |
Laura Jean Libby, as set forth in her
latest book, line HeiresS of Cameron |
Hail." goes through all this terrible ex-
perience, is sewing girl who mas
querades in her patronesses' silk dress,
an adventures who claims to be |
the long lost daughter of the Cameron,
destroys at will runs Off from her lover
whom she adores, on the eve of her |
marriage, is supposed to be drowned, |
becomes an actress who startles London
at her first appearance, is lured into
madhouSe, and in the end marries by |
mistake man whom she suddenly |
discovers she wildly adores. Truly there
is no mistake in the old belief that the |