St. Paul daily globe., 1893-02-27

father, Mr.. Winterfeld. to a wealthy
planters widow. furnish material for a
most delightful story well told.
"Cosmopolis' is regarded by NJ. Fran
clsque SOrceY as Bourgeois masterpiece.
1t is certainly a marvel of literary skill.
Granting the fitness of the subject for
narrative treatment-a point which
many American readers will dispute
the deIicacy and finish of the work will
command the admiration of every critic.
Bourget has been charged with seeking
his models in depraved society. Not
all the perSonages in "C0smopoliS" are
depraved, and some of the women re-
veal the noblest qualities; but the au-
thor makes US perceive the moral un-
SoundneSS of his miniature world. nj.
Bourget has located his "CoSmop-
oils" in modern Rome. Countess
Steno is rich widow, descended
from noble Venetian family.
Clear-sighted. energetic, without
vanity or shame, an excellent woman Of
business, she knows no moderation in
her pleasures and observes no decorum
in her caprices. She discards her old
lover, Boleslas Gorko, Polish count,
for Lincoln Maitland, an American
painter. Gorko's English wife has never
SuSpcCtGu HIS lHIIlSuS WIFI
Steno, but Lydia Maitland. wife of the
painter. an EngliSh-bred quadroop,
possesses the keener sight of woman
scorned, and tries to reach the woman
who has supplanted her through others.
She recalls Gorko to Rome by anony-
nous letters, which arouse his jealousy.
and he seeks quarrel with Maitland, but
is frustrated by Florent Chapron, LydIa's
brother and Maitland's devoted friend.
LYDIA then turns to Alba Steno, the
lovely and sensitive daughter OF her ri
val, and contrives that Alba shall see
her mother in her lovers arms. Over
whelmed with shame and repul-
sion. the poor girl feels that
she must escape from the as
sociations that remind her of the hate
full secret, she oversteps all the bounds
of conventionality and offers herself to
Julian Dorsenne. French novelist,
who has been very kind and attentive to
her in the free atmosphere which Nine.
Steno allows to pervade her house. Dor
Senne cannot return her love, and feels
that marriage would be his own undo
ing, and is forced TO tell the hapless girl
that lie meant nothing by all he had
said to her. Broken-hearteda and inner
ifing tendency to suicide. Alba exposes
herself to infection and dies of malarlal
fever. Many questions that Interest
speculative thinkers are brought out IN
this story, such as the effect OF Inherited
tendencies, the old story OF the Innocent
suffering for the guilty, the force and
vitality of racial antipathv, and also
the force OF social prejudices and the
hatreds thereby engendered. Though
one may object to many things IN the
Of fhn rQ0dpr
TALLY moral.
Several attractive works of fiction
have Just been published by Harper &
Bros. The list includes "a Golden
Wedding and Other Tales" by Ruth
McEnerY Stuart; William Blacks new
novel, "Wolfenberg;;' From One Cen
Grafton to Another by Henry Seton
Merriman; Catherine" by Frances M.
Peard, and "Time's Revenges," by
David Christie Murray. They have also
nearly ready The World of Chance" !"
by W. D. Howells; "White Birches." by
Annie Eliot, and katharine North" by
Maria Louise Pool.
Macmillan & Co. have ready: 'In the
Kew of Blue" volume of essays by
John Addlngton Symonds; "a Paradise
of English Poetry" compiled by Il. G.
Beeching; new and enlarged edition
of William Winters poems, Wander
ers;' Round London" by Montagu
Williams; and new book by Charlotte
M. Yonga, entitled IAN Old Woman'S
Outlook" They also announce DRAW
ing and Engraving" an exposition of
the principles of the art, by Philip Gill
bert Hamerton; Gothic Architecture" )"
by Edward Corroyer; Pioneers of Sci
ence," by Oliver Lodge; and The Visl-
bic Universe" by j. Ellard Gone.
Prof. j. K. Hcsmer, librarian of the
public library at Minneapolis, is en-
son. governor of Massachusetts, bay and
historian of the colony, whose diary and
letters have been published by a de-
scendant, and are essential TO any
proper study Of the Revolution. Prof.
Hosmer, already known as the biog-
rapher OF Sir Harry Vane, has examined
all the Hutchinson manuscripts availa-
bic in this country, together with much
other unpublished matter pertinent to
the governor and his time.
Charles l.. Webster & Co.. New York,
will publish, early IN March, Mark
Twain's new story of the ''91. .0O0, 900
Bank-Note," together with several other
stories by the same author, which have
never before appeared in book form.
They include: ''Mental Telegraphy.2
''Piaying Courier" "a Letter to Queen
Victoria" "A Cure for the Blues"
"About Ships, " ''The German Chicago"
"a Majestic Literary Fossil" and "The
Enemy Conquered" :" They also an
nounee for the same date new dollar
edition of ''TentiDg on the Palms." by
Elizabeth B. Custer, printed from new
plates, with the original Illustrations
and bound in handsome and appropri-
ate cover. This is one Of Mrs. Clusters
best books, and can be very favorably
compared with her Boots and Sad
early in March zone Hundred DeS-
serts," by Filippini. This is the third
volume of their Handy Culinary Sc
rles," and contains 100 recipes, all of
which have been tested by MIR. Filippini
during twenty-five years experience
with Delmonico.
R. l.. Stevenson's new volume of
Polynesian tales, with Illustrations by
Messrs Hatherall and Gordon Browne,
will be published by Messrs. CaSsell, OF
london, about Easter, probably under
the general title of ''Island Nights En-
tertainment," and will consist OF threa
stories. 1.-The Beach of Falesa," The
Bottle Imp" and '',The Isle of Voices"
1.-The Adventures of David Balfour,"
now running in Atalanta will be pro-
duced by the same publishers in book
form in October. MIR. Stevenson reports
himself we'll advanced with another
Scottish novel, of which the scene is
laid near Edinburgh about the close of
the last century, and one Of the princi-
pal personageS is Lord BraXiieid.
Macmillan & Co. announce for this