The herald., 1894-08-19

the 1utEcQuctiUD, Mf. NliCAhuO
J z. Gaudhi OF Chicago is q learned tray
eler anG writer, who in his introduction
fully explains the Journey 60 Thibet, and
makes plain many facts which in the
other editions are little obscure. This
is owing to M. Notovitch being @ for
eigner to India and not expected to be
an authority on the religions, manners
or customs OF her people, while Mr..
Gaudhi. bsing native, thoroughly un-
derstands these subjects, therefore HE
| foot notes make the facts very plain.
Like other foreigners, M. Notoviteh has
formed incorrect ideas, especially on
subjects Tor which he mad to refer to
works written by Europeane. These
facts Mr.. Gaudhi has carefully pointed
out, making it tho most complete and
the only illustrated edition OF this WON
! derful book yet iesueG.
THE WINGS OF ICARUa, by Miss LAURENCE
ALMA-rADEMA. Goth edition, Sl.25. Pup
hsned oy Macmillan 81 Co. For sale by
The stoll Il Thayer company. 129 South
Spring street.
Miss Laurence Alma-Tadema, the
daughter of Alma Tsdema, has made an
essay in fiction in pretty little volume
called Tho Wings OF Icarus. and devoted
to the meditasions in epistolary and
! journal form of Miss Emilia + Fletcher. G
very unhealthy young Englishwoman,
VINO seems biest with most inciecrim-
mate power of loving and who comes TO
| grief by giving her lover like opportuni-
ties of loving widely. The story ie told
by Emilia Fletcher herself, first in the
form OF letters to Constance Norris, her
dear friend, couched in terms OF endear-
Eent that would be extravegent even
for lovsrs. In the first of these letters
she hints darkly at lost but absorbing
love, then verges toward light in relat-
ing her adventures with strange and
unkept young man whom she finds wan
| dering about her grounds, and who
proves to be genius and poet, and
with whom, in spite OF all this and her
| (supposediy) somewhat pre.engaged af-
iections, ehe falls irretrievsbly in love.
The marriage day ia set when che
sends for her acutely loved Constance
to come and see her lover and Get the
seal of her approval upon him. Con-
stance comes, and does this unmistak-
ably by falling in love with him herself,
whils he gives himeelf up to mastering
| affection for her. This Emilia Fletcher
discovers, but, not strong enough to re.
nounce her lover, marries him, TO the
minery OF all three. Later, growing
stronger, she sends for Constance, re-
nounces her husband. and leaves the
| two alone together, having fret signiii.
cantly clasped their hands and blessed
them. 1t would seem that even this
was not what they desired, for both at
tsmpt suicide, and Constance accom-
pliehes it, while the husband and wife
part forever. Extravagant almost to
. hk.. ~f h ta.pf hn tnr.
| is, unwholesome and Unhealthful as it
must be in effect, there is real power
and real pethos IN the telling, and real
ability indicated in the workmanship.
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SAMANTHA A. THE WORLDS FAIR, by
JOSIAH ALIENS WIFE tMiks Holey). L.
lustrated b7 G. de q lmm. Cloth edition,
! 500. published by Funk Il Wsgnalls
company, 1920 Astor pace, New York
! For sale by d. Bronaon, l20 South Spring
street.
Josiah Aliens Wife ia known to every
household in the land. Next to Mark
Twain, no humorist ia more widely
read. or deserves to be, than the author
OF Sweet Cicely, II her writings she
has always been shrewd observer of
human nature as it reveals Itself in the
round of homely, evsry day life, and the
keen sarcasm and adroit humor with
which she lays bare it's foiblea, it's weak
nessea and grotesque outcroppings have
rarely, ii ever, been equaled. So skill
fully, so slyly does she draw out the
ridiculous elements in her characters,
that the readers emile grows broader
and broader, until it become hearty
laugh. And yet there is nothing over
strained in her humorous hits. She is
at time, also, intensely pathetic, SO
/ hot ~ Df har
! Her wondrons pathos and humor, 80
perfectly blended, have made her emi-
nently successful as a writer OF bright,
humorouasteries. But the strong fea
ture OF all Mias Holley'e humor is its
moral tone.
She seems to realize that humorists
have higher mission than merely fur
nishlng amusement, and she uses her
talente in the interest of all that is good,
launching the keen shafts right and lett
at fashionable follies aud society sins,
She always displays q vivid Imagination
and tull acquaintance with human ma
ture in it's various aspects. She uses
what we may call the American ds-
lect" OF an inland country town, and
uses it very effectively.
AS was to have been expected, Samau-
tina was at the late worlds fair, and as
was likewise to have been expected
"Josiah Allen's Wife" writes a book
about her visit. From the preface, in
which Samantha tells OF the theft and
sizs" of her emotions when che 'men.
tally tackled the job" OF writing up the
worlds fair. 10 the cloaing pagea filed
with regreta that Colum bus should have
died without seeing Jonesville, her new
book is replste with the irresistible
mingling OF humor and hard
hearte6ness that is 80 peculiarly
this authors own. Picturesque and
side-split.ing 10 one OF Samantha 8
charming hita-her description OF
Selirda'e ride on the camel, with SCOT
ton flannel infirmity getting worse every
minute" 1t ia not only an interesting
and funny story of the wanderinga OF
Samantha and her ''pardner" at the ex-
position. bat it is also o descriptive ac-
count of the fair. that will be specially
welcome to those who were unable to 90
to Chicago last year. You surely can
not find brighter Literary outgrowth of
the great event of 1893 than this volume.
1t is graphic account, it recites multi
tudes OF facts OF positive value, and the
funny side Of the fair could hardly have
bsen intrusted TO more satisfactory
hands. It's logic is unanswerable, its
pathos and romance appeal to every
heart, it is just the book to be taken up
at odd times and read piecemeal, in or
der to enjoy a hearty laugh. 1t will