The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-03-26

NEW COOKS RECEIYED.
Some Recent Publications Briefly Re
viewed.

D., rector Of she Church Of the Epiph-
ans, Washine. ON, j.. c., delivered on
Sunday evening, January 10Th. Printed
by request. Ten cents. Byron S. Adams,
publisher. Fo. sale by West, Johnston
& Co.
"Thcre is a prince and n great man
fallen this day in Israel" Taking for his
text this sentence from the Book OF sam
ucl, Or. McKim eulogiZcs Bishop Brooks
with exquisite simplicity and deep feeling,
and deduces from the supreme beauty or
his life the great spiritual lessons which
are it's most logical teachings. The In
tense humanity Of Brooks is especially
brought before the reader. and. in spite
of the fact thai this Christ-like quality Of
the great preachers nature and character
has been the central subject Of a aundr'd
e~ulogies and loving "reminiscences DR..
Mckim's ~allusion 10 It is so simply but
so graphically made that it interests us
afresh. Says he: 1T was this catholic
Inindedness that made him kin TO men of
such diverse types and beliefs and condl-
tions. The rich and the poor, the Guilt
waited and the ignorant, the Harvard lit
craft and the Boston shop girls and arti-
sans, all felt themselves somehow in
touch with him. He lad something for
everyone"
Reading further we find n comparison
OF the Bishop with the Apostle Paul, be-
cause Of the intense absorption in the
thought Of Christ Which filed both lives
and made them glorious in their effective
ness. DR.. McKim concludes his sermon
with an illusion to the almost universal
feeling-that the death Of Phillips Brooks
w5s untimCly and his work unfinished in
the following words: ITO our feeble sight
il seems that his death was untimely; that
fhA hue he 1gr.,I GO xsgT1 md gaPrro1 ca
Loyalty cannot spare him; that univer sal
Christianity suffers unspeakable loss in
his taking away. But God knows better.
His work was done. or rather it still goes
on. and il win go on to the ages of the
ages, he being dead, yet speaketh.'
LEAFLESS SPRING. BY Ossip Schubin,
author Of Countess Erika's Apprentice
ship" After the German. by Mary J.
Iafford, Philadelphia. j.. d. Lippincott
Company. $1.25. For sale by West,
Johnston & Co.
one becomes attached to facile, hand
some Jack" that incarnation of insta-
billty Of purpose. but cOnstancy of love.
one quite loves the aunt, Mrs Winter"
with her sweetness and her history, her
affectionateness, and her unrealized ideal,
for her answering devotion TO her
nephew, when all other voices proclaim
him "ne'er do we'll Beautiful, passion
'ate, unhappy Angelina, with her double
burden of illegitimacy and an unloved
and unlovable husband. creeps into our
very hearts, and even the less emotional
of us recognize the pathos Of her last
letter to the one love Of her life. Grant
me but one hour Of your life, which you
meant should be wholly mine-but one
single hour. Then you can return to your
wife. n | to the loving Heavenly
Father" Her history has to me ali the
sadness which attaches to pure nobility,
whose life is one aspiration for what It
IS destined never to attain in this world,
and to even the most spiritual Of us, the
promised realization in another sphere
strikes coldly on the hearts that beat with
warm. rich blood. Angiolina's life is, like
Maggie Tulliver's. full of almost but yet
not quite realized happiness. Sir Brian
and Mary fell in the category of the.
Tom Tulliver' type-sevcrely correct,
coldly p~roper-they are unattractive in
spite of. or. rather, because Of, their I'M
deniable virtues.
The whole story is narrated in the
style Of Mr.. Schubins' other novels-di-
rect. simple. the sentences clear cut and
corcise-the character portrayed naturally
and easily. occasionally one is over
wrought TO a slight degree. and occa-
sionaUv a metaphor rs strained, and an
epigram hippant, but, on the whole a
Ieafess Spring' is a realistic novel, well
written. and Of intense interest TO those
who found THE Burgomaster's WIFE
pleasing.
A MERE CIPHER. A Novel BY Mary
Angela Dickens. author OF Gross cur
rents" Macmillan & Co, New York
and London. S1.OO. For sale by west
Johnston & Company.
"She had a small, worm iaueu idce,
which might. once have been pretty but
which in losing its girlishness had gained
nothing in character OF lhlehlseHce.
Tbere was no trace of youthfulness about
r. but neither were there any OF the
us,al SIGNS of age-no wrinkles, no crows
go no gray in the smooth brown mar
which was drawn plainly OIL her FACE
and knotted behind witt scrupulous neat
ness. but after a fashion that suggested
a total absence Of considerauon OF any
| other effect in the wearers NINA hei
figure. though the dress she "oIe 81.
fectually disguised the IaC1, was sISn'
"a undeveloped as tina Of a young girl
srha hlue ewes were so III assured as TO be
aInost frightened. and her manner was
aa,allv an assured That is the authors
nfcsrrs of 1.-THE Mere Cipher" a mar
ia woman crushed and suodued by q
hvshsnd at once brilliant. INSCRIPTIONS
and cruel: vacillating but subtle; dah-
gerous but genial.
oThe story is that Of an unhappy mar
r,oge of an IL rateiy noble II most Ill
,sed woman for a man much younger
thon herself. who m innocently INTO
her life with his youth. his tender hearts
and his sweet nature like a radiant sun
hesm "in a shady place" 1t is pathetic
- u,atch her affection bud and blossom
IN that brightness of the gay young pres
a,ca and 10 ralize as we watch the
orovth. that the young mans afecuon-
oteness Is but the outcome or pity Tor
an abused and weak woman; nat ms
| cheering presence. If 1t possesses all the
light and beauty of a sunbeam, possesses
also It's spontaneity and impartiahty-that
n As bright, because 1t Is It's nature 10 De
so.
cruelty and oppression find their hnai
f,nt, iu murder, and the mere clpher
goes Gown to her grave unhappy ana I'M
Justified TO the very end, and leaves us
Borrowing al once for her sad life, her
wrongs and her crime, which loses halr
rs Nervousness because Of its object, the
long list Of small ~tyrannies ana out
RACES that have led up to 1t, ana the
frank confession OF the long SUFFERING ana
| tortured woman who commits 1t. On the
whole the story is erninently unhealthy,
,rore like a record OF some celebrated
GAG. before ths courts than a story OF
everyday men ard women; 1t deals TOO
| exclusively with abnormal condiuohs OF
| life 10 be other han morbid.
COMMANDER MENDOZA. BY Juan
.--f-e. H,n5V and Country