St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-10
BOOKS RECEIVED.

publishers. Chicago. Paper. 80 cents.
Letters to Governor Lewelling," by
j.. X. Hudson. editor of the Topeka
Daily Capital. Topeka Capital com
pany, publishers, Topeka. Kan. Paper,
% cents.
1.-The Tools and the Man: Property
and Industry Under the Christian
Law" by Washington GLADDEN.. HOugh-
ton, Mif1lin Il Co., The Riverside Press,
Cambridge, Mass. Cloth, Sl.25.
The Story of Malta" by Maturip
BallOu. HOughIOn, Mfflin d Co., B0s-
ton. Cloth, Sl.50
"Old Mortality" illustrated. by Sir
Walter Scott. Macmillan az Co., New
York. Cloth, Sl.75.
Brooks reports on Chicago
Brooks Commercial Agency, 2l0 Chi
cago Security building. Chicago, I'll.
In his later book, The Son." Paul
Bourget has even more wildly than i'll
"Comopolis" brought out the idea OF
fatality. or the influence of inherited
ideas. The book is powerful one; the
scenes are as distinctly lined as If cut
with engraver's tools, and the people
who live and love and suffer amid them
are graphically human. Andre CorneliS,
the son, loses his father by assassination
while still child. That father, law
yer in Paris, was one of those unfOrtun-
ate creatures, who, while possessed by
the most intense love for his beauti-
full wife, is awkward and unable
to express his feelings in words.
The wife, while being lovely
and arStOcratic and dainty in all charm
ing ways, is rather shallow woman,
but good. virtu0uS and extremely re-
hncI,Onh n TripnH IN
old schoolfellow. who is also daintily
bred. a gentleman by birth and thor
Ough Partisan by training. The hus-
band discovers that this friend loves
his wife with consuming passion, and
in his misery writes of his feelings to
the sister VINO had taken his mothers
place to him. The letters are religl0uSly
kept by that doting sister, and fall into
the hands of the son who had grown to
manhood at her death. Meanwhile, the
father is mySterously murdered, and
the friend marries the widow, and a
hatred that sprang from mutual jealousy
grew up between Stepfather and
stepson that strengthened as the
years passed. That fatal package
of letters first arOuses suspicion i'll the
sons mind that attaches to his step
father, and from that hour his sole pur-
pose in life is to satisfy himself OF the
truth of his suspicious. The beautiful
mother, loving her second husband as
she had never been able to love her
first, though trying and succeeding Ill
living as exactly as the letter or marriage
demands, as it Is possible for woman
to do. grieves over the GOODNESS between
her husband and her son, Wnom she
also loves. jacques Tesmond is strong
character. The one passion OF MS lie
was the beautiful woman who became
his wife. That love was pure, lasting
and unSel6Sh. Nothing could be liner
than his last supreme effort to avert
from that dear heart the added misery
of the knowledge that his death was due
to the boy she loved. The book is strong
but not pleasant. The working out of
''The Mystery of the Imperial HOTEL as
the story of the assassination was
called, is unusual and ingenious, but
not pleasant to remember.
"The Master of st. Benedicts," by
Alan st. Aubyn, is a very mild, harm
less sort OF book. There is no plot to it,
and not much story. There Is within 1t,
however, a hint of love story OF more
than usual beauty and strength; that OF
the old master and his gentle wife. 1t
may lie meant for protest against the
modern high pressure Of what is known
as 1.-THE higher education of women" as
the picture of the girl student life at
NEWMAN is certainly overdrawn.
This may be inferred by the con-
clusion of the heroine, Lucy Rae. on her
first visit to the place, seeing woman
with her sickly child i'll her arms Groom
ing to it while it smiled up into her
face. Lucy turned to look at the
sickly mother and noticed the chlld'S
arm-a lean, puny little arm-had
escaped from the shawl in which it was
wrapped and was feebly embracing the
mothers waist. The sight of the small
clinging arm brought the tears to her
ewes. There was compensation even
here; there was something here be-
tween the mother and child - there
wasn't much to show for 1t, only a
grooming voice and little wasted,
clInging hand-that would last longer
than the stoics, that would last to and
through the doOm's day fire."
Lucy simple III most things, has sense
enough 20 know that no woman's love is
likely to be strong enough to save man
from the results of acquired and IN
herited tastes and passions, so SenSibly
refuses to try the experiment OF marry
ing the star student of st. Benedlct'S to
save him.
The Dryburgh edition of the Waverly
novels with its original illustrations is
a delightful piece OF bookmaking. Every
thing about this edition is as good as
one can wish. Mechanically it is perfect.
The paper is soft in tone and good in
quality. The type is convenient In size
and clear and distinct. The illustrations
are of the finest, and are careful repro
ductions of the costumes and manners
of a chiyalrous time. The number for
April (the books are issued monthly is
"Old Mortality" The Waverly novels,
with all their old-world pictures OF fierce
border fighting and loving and hating,
will never lose their interest, and, in
these DAYS of sugar coating all sorts of
lessons. they are valuable for their fidel-
jty to historic fads, if they had no value
in a literary way. And "Old Mortality"
is so true picture of the day Of relig-
iouS intolerance and persecution that no
lover or student of men should fail TO
read, or rather to reread it under its
present delightful guiSe of modern i'm
prOyement. We may have Outgrown
some of the ire and passion that made
the life of those days possible, and one
is tempted sometimes to think that we
have outgrown the vigor, both mental
and spiritual, that enabled men and
women, too, to die or live a life worse
than death, for the idea of a principle
that was above the purchase of wealth,
but we shall never, let us hope and
pray, outgrow the feeling that sets the
heart a-tnril and oyerflowS the eyes
with tears, and clinches the teeth and
pales the face as we read OF knightly
deeds Of splendid daring, such as Scott
loved and wrote about.
"The Story of Malta" as told by Ma
turin NJ. Ballou. is one of special fas-
cination. This precious stone, set in
the silver sea-" has been owned and
coveted and fought over for ''more than
5000 years, during which the island has
been constantly associated with heroic
names and startling events, playing a
prominent and tragic part in the mighty
drama of the past" Malta will always
be, as it has always BEEN possession of
inestimable value to the country hav-
ing dominion over it, on account of its
commanding position geographically,
dnminat tiny &c ir does the coasts of Fill