The sun., 1893-07-01
NEW BOOKS.
Brief Revievvr OF Importsnt and Interesting q
New Publications.

Mr.. Henry James talks very deliRhtfully
about his friends, the artists. in the several
sketches included in Picture and Text"
Harper 4 BrothersL Tho sketch entitled
Black and White"fs concerned with Messrs.
Abbey. Millet. Parsons. Boughton Du Maurier.
and Relnhart, and there are. besides. special
sketches devoted to Messrs. Abbey. Reinhart.
Parsons and Sargent. and q review Of the
caricatures OF Honor6 Daumier. The English
village OF Broadway. which Mr.. Millet appro-
priated. and which Mr.. Abbey and some Of tho
others have since shared with him. is passingly
described. and pictures OF q number OF its
characteristic features add to the charm OF
Mr. James's flowing text The tenor OF what
Mr.. James has to say here can readily be
guessed. OF course These artists are his
friends. and they are fine workmen, and this
is an analysis in which liking and admiration
are the constant notes. 1t Is fine tribute and
agreeable reading, and both the subjects OF II
and tho general public should be very much
obliged. Portraits OF Mr.. James and Of Messrs.
Mllet. Boughton. Du Maurier. and Parsons
are included among tho illustrations.
The aim OF such story as Anna Katharine
Green's Marked Personal" (G. L. Putnams
Sons) is to excite and hold the curiosity. The
reader to whom 1t addresses Itself Is tho sort
OF reader who is accustomed to ask whether
tale is stirring. and not whether 1t is plausi
ble Some people. II we may believe what
they say OF themselves. are superior to the
weakness OF being curious. They will be able
TO read the arst chapter of this story and to
loave Off tbere. Others will not be able to do
ANYTHING of the sort. They will insist upon
knowing tho secret Of the two men who were
summoned to house in Amity street to dine
and to NIT suicide on a July evening in the
year 1863. Their interest will grow as
the storm OF the draft riots sweeps into
Amity street. postponipg the dinner and
the narticular tragedy. They will not
mock Mt tho idea of the man with
the cross branded upon the palm of his hand
who shoots himself through the heart. per
contract ON bis wedding morning. They will
mako no question OF plausibility. but will
want very ardently TO know whether tho little
old electroplater with the hunted look, who
baa scarred bimself with sulphuric acid in
order to conceal his identity. will he able to
evade the Nemesis in tho shane OF n large,
calm noctmnrked man who ia after him.
They will ebiver in svm nm tbv when the demon-
dvnamo NJ the little electronlater begins to
wbirr while the pockmarked man is toying
with it Tbero are mora things than plausitle
thinas Ifthere were not, the world would not
heoin to be tho vorv interestine place it Is,
Four honcst clerks enter into a bond to rob
their emnlovers for the snke OF the human
rnce. In tho course OF year they steal some
tbino lika n million doIlars each. Not one of
tho clerks convcrts anv mart Of this stolen
monav IN bis ovvn nrivata nae II Is all unself-
isbly devoted to charity and the promotion OF
etriLos In fourteen vears ZACH clark has
stolan fourteen millions. and the practice has
extended Throughout the country. SO that
trnsted clerks are rohbinr their emnloyers
evervwhere from Maine to California and from
Canada Z, tho C;nl The advantapes resuItin1
20 .nciatv row th;o uriyorsaI rohhorv mr..
.normons Evnrvbodv ia weII eatienad The
eao;.a,;sts ,h;.n.ad ~ erst hut tha hanon.oroa
~ tho .nh.mo uos r,od. so onn,rert ,o tbom
~. tn.y oIso ,o,I IN With ~ Itcon,ivotod tho
lit. ID nro,.d TOO .tron, fo, tho ;r1iciorv
Nh. an nito,ist;o nross euccnmhod to A. ond
thor. no,v .xists In +bo ,ouptrv n einoIo ;our-
nj a, tronsoardont ohi,,tv which 10 givon
nuo1 for nothing Tba comnloto focts ro-
rard,no tb,s nnnoro,,eled .conomic ravolution
GO cot torth hv Mr. Morrison 7 Swift IN n cnri.
ous and cIover story of satire and humanity
onti,led a T.apuo of .Justice. or Il II RIGHT
to Rob Rohhers9" lCommonweaIth Sociotv
Rostonl II ia for tho reader to mako answer
- +hs ouostion IN tho title. We notice one
nointn, incongrnitv IN Mr.. swift,s Ttonia
Tha s,orv males mention ~ hail which all
ono,,,ro oorId ,sa f-.aIv for ,yh,tav,r euh-
ioct thev chose "and which "became n forum
o,irtons. ;ntoII.ctual li,on In n "tbaro w.ro
M limitations ~ enaeob and everv suh;oct
known to man could he siftod 70 its m oIscuIesn
Wo shuddnr nj tbis nictnro Wa have heon
rot,ms IN .unb halls and wa hoisre I, tha
tbi.ving q, tbe bonest clorks was wrong altar
Nil that th,s ,ornn, a, inteIIactuo, Iife W., tho
nunisbment for r. II secms curious to ,,s that
n bumanitarion Iite Mr. Swift shon,d abolish
reIipion as be verv contain ntuouslv doss in bis
storv and loave nm institution of this dismal
character in full swino.
Miss NJ. c. Keller tells us TINT ber chief OBJ
ieot in writing her novel. Love and Rebellion"
II. s. Ogilyiel, was to present the facts of the
reconstr,ction period in tho Southern States
She wished to set forth, in n wav to win the at.
tsntion and tbe interest Of tn. Northern reader
the conditions and the ouestions growing rnnt
Of tho presence Of the negro element in the
no,itics and the social life Of the south To
soutberners of course this has long been A
subiect of Tn. ,rst i'm nortance. and n NAV be
that what has been needed 70 give Il n like IN.
terest and TO afford an equal UNDERSTANDING Of
II among tbe Nortbern nublic has been tho
romantic and lively fashion NJ renresentation
which Miss Keller has chosen. Tho great
class of readers WHO first of all insist