The herald., 1893-09-10

G. P. Putnam's Sons OF New York
have just issued The Wilderness Hunter.
An account of the Big Game OF the United
States, and Its Chase with Horse, Hound
and Rifle. by Theodore Roosevelt. a
spectacled and sedate little gentleman
who has for years been member OF our
national civil service commission, is the
last man stranger would suspect OF
being like Esau, "a mighty hunter be-
fore the Lord, but he is just that sort
of q fellow, and he recently made a
capital book ON the subject, the best
that has appeared since Colonel Dodge's,
now nearly 20 years old. Mr.. Roosevelt
has long owned ranch in Montana,
which compelled him to be, where once
In while he could 60 for shot at big
game, and he has improved his oppor-
tunities go we'll that he tells lot OF
big stories in the mild-mannered
style OF the gentleman who acknowledges
the firht is over when the game is
killed. Every variety of wild animal
that exists In the Rocky mountains is
described in the manner of the gentle
man sportsman who wants everyone to
be as lucky as himself. Like other OBJ
serving sportsmen, Mr.. Roosevelt makee
light OF the divisions and subdivisions
into which alleged naturalists separate
the big bears of the far west--cinnamon
hue or silver tail cannot prevent big
bear being q grizzly, pure and simple.
As the author never was q pot hunter,
his sketches are as full OF the details OF
"going for game" as OF getting it, and q
fine out-of-door spirit pervades the pages.
The illustrations deserve special men
tion, for they seem to have been made to
strengthen the text. The book is
throughout and over all hand
some specimen of typography. MIR.
Roosevelt naturally begins his book
with chapter on the American Will
derneBs, its hunters and its game.
Among the earlier hunters he mentions
the notable Houston. Among the game
the hunting Of which is described are
included the bighorn, the white goat,
the elk, the moose, the American buff
falo, the black and the grizzly bear and
the wolf. He has something to say,
also, concerning the cowboy, and the
volume closes with an entertaining
chapter on Hunting Lore.
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One OF Cassells' lateet and brightest
books is entitled The Heavenly Twins,
by Madam Sarah Grand, who is said to
be an Englishwoman whose hook is
likely to be talked about by few men
and great many women. The purpose
of the work is the elucidation OF certain
existing social problems which deal with
heredity and the transgreesion of the
seventh commandment. purpose not
greatly forwarded by the auGhor's treat
ment, which is not construction but de-
struction, and ministers to revolt rather
than to reform. Briefly told, the story
is this: Evadne is young English
girl Of unusual mind and entirely con-
ventional training, except for the read
ing she has done in private. At 10 she
marries man OF the world, much older
than herself, whom she invented with
all the charm OF romantic young girl,s
first love. As she returnso from the
church on her wedding day, she finds q,
letter telling her OF diegraceful past in
her hnsband's life. She escapes from him
at the station, and sets out to verify the
truth Of the letter. There lie unfortu-
nately no difficulty in doing this, and
che takes refuge with an aunt during q
period of family storm and stress,
in which she unwaveringly de-
clares that she will never live
with Major Colquhoun as his wife. She
does, however, consent, after a few
weeks, not only to live under Major Col
quboun's roof, but to 90 with him and
his regiment to Malta, where she lived
for several years with ber supposed hus-
band, and with peaceful satisfaction to
herself. Then, moved by the horrible
madness that afflicts one OF her girl
friends who, like herself, had been de-
ceived in the man she married, Evadne
loses her healthy poise of mind and
body, and becomes brooding invalid.
This threatens to become permanent,
when Major-then Colonel-Colquhoun
dies, and Evadne finally marries DR..
Gailbraith, physician who has nursed
her back to bodily health, but who never
succeeded in exercising a morbid ten
dency to introspection and an occasional
impulse to suicide. As to the heavenly.
twins, who are not in the least concerned
In Evande's story, but who have much
more interesting one OF their own, these.
two, anything but heavenly creatures
are delightful. To be sure, their es-
are quite too grown up for children, but
they are the two healthy and human
figures moving across tn sad and didatic
background Of the story, and the reader
welcomes them as he does sunlight and
the singing of birds and the voices OF
living children.
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Several weeks ago we called the read
ers' attention to the late numbers of the
Good Company Series, published by the
Lee and Shepard company OF Boston,
One OF their greatest successes in this
series was Sweet and Twenty, by Mary
Farley Sanborn, the author OF 1t Came
to Pass. This same company are
now publishing new novel
by this fascinating writer, entitled
Paula Ferris. In this volume the writ
ing shows mastery of English as we'll as
broadening OF mind and accumulated
experience. The reader at once feels
confidence in his guide, and follows the
story without question. The heroine is
lnaturally) a tine woman, but with a
foible. and having allowed herself to be
admired, Is dangerously near falling.
With the shifting of the scene to
northern region and the coming in of
gruff and powerful male cousin, the tenn
perature falls, serenity returns, and
peace with honor reigns. 1t will be a
charming book to read at the seashore,
Or In hammock, or under shady tree
n the country, or trip on the cars.
Nv
Edward King, author of Ny Paris, is
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