The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-03

Brief Reviews OF Inportsnt and Interesting
New Publications.

gia girl. dead Confederate cavalryman
comes riding UP to q Federal battery and Ia
pitched sprawling over q cannon as his horse
swcrves. In his pocket Is q letter addressed
to Miss Sally Dows In the pocket OF another
Confederate trooper killed In the same on
Gagement, 10 mother letter, also addressed to
Miss Sally Bows. Three years later. after the
war. the handsome offlcer who commanded
the Federal battery finds Sally BOWS superin-
tending great Georgia farm and making It
pay. Al rare intervals the reader OF fiction
is enabled to feel in his bones that
heroine Is pretty. and that is the way the
reader OF this piece Of fiction will feel about
Sally Dows She is overwhelmingly pretty.
She Is. moreover. very wise. very witty, and
very proficient in the Georgia dialect Like
other women in Mr.. Harte's stories. she is a
good deal OF riddle. There Is fine character
drawing and absorbing narrative In the tale.
Sometimes. in other stories. the author has
been betrayed into extrayaganoes. There is
one rather daring venture here. but nothing
worse lie to be said OF It. after oil. than that it
is rather daring. Sally Dows" is a rarely
good story. 1t Is an absorbing tale and de-
liehtful picture. 1t has force and subtlety.
There is not much. II any. story telling which
is more skilfully done. Three other stores.
Tho Conspiracy OF Mrs. Bunker" 1.-THE
Transformation OF Buckeye Camp" and
Their Uncle from California" fill out a
volume which no novel reader should miss
jean Berry, Sailor" translated from the
French OF Pierre Lott by L p. Robins (Cassell
Company. is the story OF youth possessed OF
q fatal sort OF Incidence. Jean Berry dreams
and never acts. He brings sorrow upon his
mother and his grandfather. They 60 hungry
while he idles. He is too lazy to learn enough
to be an officer. He gives himself up to the
mere physical enjoyment OF being alive and in
health. To be rocked by the pillows and to te
aware OF the frmness and suppleness OF the
muscles under his loose sailor clothing seems
to I'll the measure OF his desires. He feebly
wishes to do something for his mother and
grandfather: but the sense OF his duty
to them is not strong enough to turn
him to the study Of photography and
navigation. He is an innocent sailor.
except in this negative way. He has. to DO
sure. three sweethearts in the course OF the
story. but they are entirely respectable and
he runs away from them all. very soon after
making their acquaintance. Just as no does
from his duty to his mother and grandfather
at home. Healthy as he ia he does not last
long. He catches a fever In China. dies,
and is buried at sea. The grandfather dies. |
too. and the m other is left in poverty to find
what solace she may in resignation and faith.
Pierre Lott likes to take the gentle readers |
hand and lead him out to hear the wind in the
willows and tho expresses. The gentle reader
will find plenty Of mournful sentim entality In
this story.
Mrs Frank Leslie. In an essay upon the |
question Are Men Gay Deceivers ?" replies
that few men have enough tact to be really
deceittuL Men try to be deceitful. but are
really transparent. while 1t is the women
themselves who are decaitful In point OF fact.
This is one OF a collection OF upward Of thirty |
essays by Mrs. Leslie. which are published in
o volume IF. Tennyson NeelyL The Ameri- !
can Man." Men Women Admire. What is a |
Lady" and ANGELS Have Blonde Hair" are
the titles Of some of the others. Mrs. Lesies |
opinion OF the men is made prett- clear in |
some Of these essays. 1t Is not rudely ex-
pressed. There is nothing here to remind one
OF the work Of the tumultuous McCoskey In |
Miss Maggie Cline's sopg. But We guess that
sensitive male readers will have no difficulty
In understanding where they are at" in the
gentle essayist's estimation.
Mr.. Walter Herries Pollock has amusing
conceits and q fairly droll way Of putting
things. The reader will find proof Of this In
a book Of short stories OF his which is pub
lished under the title OF king Zub" tTait.
Sons Co.l king Cub" is tale setting
forth the interdependence and the soul rela-
existing between a gentleman and his |
dog. Another tale is concerned with an amateur |
actor Of much social distinction. who can never
express himself properly except under the |
afforded by the presence Of a large |
audience. and who endeavors to accom- m odate |
this idlosyncrasy in making an avowal OF love |
to q lady whom he wishes to marry. Nine |
stories are contained In the book They have |
the recommendation OF brevity. as we'll as the |
merit OF being ingenious and amusing.
Mr.. Abraham G. Jennings seems to have
had no trouble at all in performing the task
which he set for himself in his pam phlet entl-
tied Tho Mosaic Record OF the Creation Ex-
planned" FLEMING H. Rsvell Company He
says the days spoken Of In the first chapter OF
6 nests were ordinary days Of twenty-four
hours EACH They were sufficiently long for
Ill the work attributed to them. and the work
was done precisely as the Mosaic record says
rhe pamphlet is not. perhaps. exactly an ex-
1t is rather o review and an OK
preston OF acquiescence 1t has the merit OF
ooking at things simply and Of saying things
n the same manner 1t will puzzle nobody. It
s perfectly clear.
"Six-Cent Sans" is place where undis-
inguished philosophers go to eat and tell
tories. Mr.. Julian Hawthorne 10 the discov-
'rer Of II. and he has gathered some OF the
tories and published them In volume |
named after the place CPrice-McGill Company.
It. PAUL. We have here the authors story.
he virtuoso's story. the electrical engineers
tory. the Captains story. the unseen mans
tory. the swarthy mans story. and number
II other stories. Tho stories have variety
md the interest which the concern with them
II so skilful and discriminating a workman as
Mr.. Hawthorne promises
A second series Of Mr.. William Winters
Shadows OF the Stage" is published by Mac
milan 4 Co. This. like the previous volume.
s made up OF the dramatic criticisms original
y written By Mr.. Winter for the Tribune and
or the periodicals. Twenty-eight essays arc
Included In the present little book. among
hem essays upon the acting Of Ada Rehan,
lara Morris. Lawrence Barrett Richard
Irving. Coqueliu. and q number of
theirs. Not all OF these essays are in the lauda-
DRY spirit Mr.. Winter has found things
which are not laudatory to say OF Coquelin and
,ernhardt. and OF Wilson Barrett's Hamlet
nd some OF those things are In the book.
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