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medium of these letters most facinat-
ing story is told-a story which shows
the finest side OF human life, whether II
college, among the quiet retreats OF
Concord, or on the plains of the west;
everywhere the author has brought out
the divine in the human. The critic
does not imply that the author pictures
his characters as perfect. or all as angels
of light. They have their foibles and
weaknesses as their letters reveal, and
in Pennaworth and Peepson, we have
unpleasant types OF life unfortunately
yery common. But what Mr.. Hubbard
does ia 10 accentuate the divine in man,
which gives to the atmosphere
of his book the fragrance Of
the spiritual rather than the
rank odor OF the gross and seneual.
The heroine OF the story is one OF those
refined, strong and spiritual women of
the new time, who carry with them the
atmosphere OF the divine. Her letters
are an inspiration. 1t is impossible in
a notice OF this book to convey anything
like proper conception OF its scope or
to indicate the marked degree OF success
which has attended the authors effort
to portray the distinct Municipalities of
tho different letter writers, while max
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hicle for well-rounded, wholesome and
delightful story. OF course Mr.. Penna-
worth's views do not repre sent the spirit
OF the book. This gentleman is one OF
the few conservative souls in O group of
predetermined, progressive and growing
characters who, however, represent vari-
GUS phases of human thought and intel
lectual development.
Many stirring events enter into the
closing pages, but at last the sun smiles
over sii. Part III gives the love letters
which pass between Miss Harold and
Arthur Forbes. They form an exquisite
compilation, rejecting high thinking
and pure sediment. They reveal the
spiritual side of nature, or man under
the influence of the most divine passion,
and consequently at his best They are
complets as whole, and will
prove source OF pleasure to
all who love and aspire.
All readers OF this paper should read
this work. as no one can peruse its
pages without being made better man
or woman. The book is asorbing in its
interest. Almost every page is enlivened
with quiet humor. And what is more,
it is volume characterized by high
thinking and rejecting the nobest
aspirations in life. We know that we
are all largely what our ideals make u.s.
Thought colors life. Behind the deed
stands the thought, behind the thought
the ideal. And the tendency OF this
work is to raise the ideals OF life and to
expand our conception of God, who is
the True and the Beautiful no less than
He ia the all-powerful, all-prevading
Spirit OF Life. You should read it-give
Dlo Of in q
which cannot be absorbed in an hour.
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IN VARYING MOODS, by BEATRICE HARRA
DEN.-Published by &. 2. Putnam's Sons,
New York city. For sale by the stoll &
Thayer company.
The sudden and extended popularity
which has recently crowned the success
of Ships That Pass in the Night guaran-
ssss RHRH thA5 aYss With sasgfssa5ssssss
pen. 1t might be hard to specify with
accuracy the qualities which differenti
ate the short chapters of In Varying
Moods from Thousand other chapters
that escape notice in current literature.
1t is plain that we are interested in the
people themselves-in these men and
women who 80 often have sorrow as the
close companion Of life, who struggle
on, suffering and perhaps in their own
estimation failing, who touch us because
they are real human beings. 1t evil
dencss noble power In the fiction writer
when his work interests US in character
and mental habit rather than in events,
adventurous or other. Miss Harrsden's
plot in Ships That Pass in the Night WAS
slight, and it might have been still more
slight without injuring the real meaning
OF the story. In A Bird of Passage, one
of the short sketches of the
new volume, the author shows herself
capable of presenting @ situation"
(but even that, to be sure, is something
different from an EVENT. and in the same
chapter proves herself appreciative of
the humorous side of life. The other
episodes of the collection are all serious
and essentially moral in their bearing.
They are more than serious; they have
something of the same flavor OF the pa
thetic which penetrates Ships That
Pass in the Night. The manner in
which Miss Harraden dwells upon the
uncertainties and disappointments OF
existence, the human helplessness be-
meath the hand of fate, recalls to some
extent The Story of an African Farm and
passages in Dreams, At the Green Ora
gon, The Painter and His Picture, The
Clockmaker and His Wife, An ldyl OF
London, and the allegorical sketch, Sor-
row and JOY, which complete the con-
tents of In Varying Moods. are all sad
with the calm sadness of res ignation. II
one was inclined to ask the author why
ahe does not place more happy lot OF
people in her pages, she might possibly
answer, II give you people whom l
have seen with the bodily eye or with
the eye OF imagination, and also ask you
how, under the conditions in which you
see them, they could be genuine men
and women and be particularly cheer
full. At least the various individuals
into whose inner history Miss Harraden
gives US a limpee-fsrmer's daughter,
author, artist, or clockmaker, as the case
may behave had an experience. Each |
can say WIKI" and any one who can
say that has something which appeals to
the rest of US. La Varying Moods will |
not pass into literary annals as a great
book or as opening an epoch. but it is on
nearly all counts worth reading, and it |
is being read.
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OUR ENGLISH COUSINS, by RICHARD HARD. |
ING DAVIS. Published by Harper Brothers, |
New York city For sale by the Stoll 4 |
Thayer company.
In Our English Cousins Richard |
Harding Davis has grouped five graphic,
energetic and entertaining papers
Three English Race Meetings, A General
Election in England, Undergraduate
Lille in Oxford, London in the Sesson,
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