St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-06-05
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tudil tuc duIuOE VI DdIu0S VI NEW
York" In his new novel he has util-
lied material suggested by the recent
Panama scandal in writing story of
| great interest and cosmopolitan cast,
| The reader is given a glimpse of Pam
| anna in the days of the California gold
| fever: then, approaching our own time,
| we get a picture of New York during
| the great blizzard of 1883, of Paris and
| of modern Panama. There are realistic
| touches throughout the work, though
| its general style is that of a romance-a
| romance full of life, incident, plotting,
| tragedy, love. villains and high society
people. People who love sensational
stories will hardly be disappointed I'D
/ this one. The Home Publishing CO m
pany, New York. Paper, so cents.
| "a Medicus in Love-" novel Of
student life, by g. Won Taube. may be of
interest to students of certain phase
| of life, but for the average reader it has
very few attractions. The story teaches
nothing, unless it is to repeat the old.
old story of the redeening power Of
| woman'S strong. unSelfish love.
| The characters are unreal and call for
| but little sympathy, except that Of
! Julchen. the beautiful Siamese girl,
whose fall was certainly sad one until
she met the student Alexis Savo. who
made her his wife. w. d. Rowland,
| publisher, New York. Paper, so cents.
| 1t is question worthy of some con-
| sheraton as to the best form III which
! to produce and preserve such features
of the worlds fair buildings and ex-
| hibits as are best worth preservation.
| 10 gather, shelter and properly display
| in so great profuslon the results of the
| achievements of civilization, at a cost of
| fifty or sixty millions OF dollars, only in
| brief period. when the buildings are
| taken down and the exhibits are re-
moved, to lose it all, to have preserved
| no proper representation OF the brilliant.
| though fleeting spectacle, would be
a serious mistake. obviously,
| there is but one way i'll which
| this can be done, and that is in the form
of book, print and pictures IN about
| equal parts, neither so large as to be
cumbersome, and yet large enough to
| do the subject full justice. Such is the
plan of 1.-The Book of the Fair" to be
| issued IN twenty-five parts of forty i'm
| perial pages each, by The Bancroft
| company, Auditorium building. Chi
cago. The most thorough and elaborate
preparations were made by these pub
| IIshers to produce what should be in the
| highest and best sense work of art and
| of utility, book which should be at
once beautiful and useful. The best
processes were adopted and the best
artists secured to illustrate the text
| which is by Hubert Howe Bancroft.
| We have here, then, the history and
| description of the entire exposition by
an author of known character and re-
| pute, aided and adorned by the most
beautiful pictures that can be produced.
| 1t is safe to say that i'll no other form
| could the great exposition be so well
presented and preserved.
| The Bancroft company, publishers,
| Auditorium building, Chicago.
There is something delightfully."- real
and yet charmngly old-worldly in the
stories that Mary Hartwell Gather
woods genius evolves from dry and
/ musty histories or half-forgotten
legends. The Lady of Fort st. John"
and The Romance of DOllard'' were an
entirely new departure in story writ
ing. The scenes are all laid in the
towns or in that part of our new world
that was chosen by the old French set
| tiers as their homes, and to which they
/ transferred so great portion OF their
/ native customs and style of living that
4 the impress they set on the new
has never been effaced. The people
we meet in these stories are so en-
/ tirely different from the everyday nine
/ teenth century folks that share our busy
/ lives that we are irresistibly drawn to-
ward them, and live their simple cour-
teOus lives, while our eyes dey0ur the
1 pages. L he last one of this charming
/ authoress' tales is called "Oid KaS-
kaskia." The time, when the old sleepy
town was the capital of a wide domain
that was finely whitfield down into the
state of Illinois. Old familiar names
that have frightened the annals OF the
history of the Prairie state are found
| bestowed upon the original settlers who
| brought them from La Belle France. Col.
| Pierre Menard's defendants still
live in that state, and the
names the Edwardses, Morris ons
Nigas and Edgars are kept alive by
tradition no less than by living repre-
sentatives Who that has stood in the
streets of that dear old town and lis
tened to the stories Of what happened
there at the meeting of the legislature
that demanded and secured statehood
could fail to enjoy this glimpse of that
poetical past? The main incident of the
| story is the historic overflow at that
time when KaskaSkia was flooded by
! ciiOoo
days coming Just as the spring freshet
was at its height in both the Mississippi
and Ohio rivers. That flood lives i'll his
tory. The pretty gentle love story of
Col. Menard and Angelique touching
that Saucier, darker one OF deception
and treachery of DR.. Dunlap and Maria
Jones, is a perfect picture OF those
times of transition and development.
| The tragic fate of the promising young
lawyer, Rice Jones, and the hint of
deeper silent tragedy i'll the heart of
jolly Peggy Morrison are just the
touches needed to bring these people,
all OF whom lived and loved and suf-
fered, home to the readers heart.
Houghton. Miffiin q Co.. Boston; DID.
Merrill, ST. Paul. Cloth, s1.25.
Houghton, Miff1in q Co., of Boston,
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The poems, which have been chosen
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the dates CT birth and death of the au-
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The book is bound in paper and in
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1t is published as Double Extra Number
!, l. of the Riverside Literature Series.