The Portland daily press., 1894-10-26

said this little word of praise, we may
be pardoned.sfor finding fault with tar
rance" variant" "avoidant," com
mandant point of view," when Clarence
and his mother remet." The
Mild Barbarian is young man, bred
in the country under the care of deli
cate invalid mother, who has known and
breads the world of fashion, and Ger
man professor of great learning and sim
pie nature. An uncle leaves him a
million with the condition attached that
he shall live in the New York mansion
left him at least three months year
during the next thirty years. He hest
tates about accepting but does, and
comes to New York. He is not spoiled,
nor even blemished; and how it happens
is well worth the evening it takes the
reader to find out. New York. Dap
pleton & Company; Portland Loring.
Short & HARMONY
A Victim of Good Luck. By W. f.
Norris. Mr.. Norris is one of our favor
ties. His short stories, which appear
from time to time in our leading period
lcals, are among the best printed; and
his novels, which are not too long and
ambitious, keep ones interest unHagg
ing to the end. His last story that
comes to our table is of an attractive
country bred young lady, who comes into
a fortune which she does not want and
which she tries unsuccessfully to get
rid of by turning it over to the heir who
had been for years expectant, but who
had been at last cut off by whim or
pique of his rich old uncle, the decedent
This young lady, though unquestionably
strong minded, is not selfish, nor fast.
nor immoral, nor oblivious of the de-
cencies of life, aud therefore in these
slight particulars she differs from a good
many of the modern heroines, who have
had their run and have. let US hope,
begun to pail upon the taste of lovers of
good sound literature. Our Veronica
Dinsdale is a lovable character, albeit
she is not of the goody goody class at
all; and. through some interesting vicis-
STUDIES, she came out all right with her
lover. her fortune and her friends just
as we should wish it. New York d.
Appleton Company Portland: Loring,
Short q Harmony
The Flute Player and Other Poems
BY Francis Howard Williams. 1t re-
quires some courage nowadays to take
UP with the notion of reading, even a
thin volume of poems. We fight very
shy of such lncubrations and would
prefer some friend to taste them first,
agreeing if the effect be not too painful
to follow with sip or mouthful our
selves. But we are bound to say that
having no one conveniently at hand to
put forward by way of experiment and
so being compelled ourselves. we not only
tasted the poetical dainties offered us by
Mr.. Williams in his Flute Player and
Other Poems, but devoured them all
with relish, and can recommend them
to our friends. 1t is little book one
ed and wide of margin. The odes, SON.
nets, songs and trifies are in great vari-
ETY., from gravest to gay, and while we
do not tarry to criticise them in this
place, we unhesitatingly pronounce in
their favor and declare them well worthy
the attention of our readers. New York
and London G.P. Putnam's Sons. The
Knickerbocker Press; Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmony
Ever since the publication Of M. Zola's
famous work. Lourdes, was commenced
in the New York and Boston Sunday
papers discussion and criticism have
kept even pace with the progress of the
story, and there is not much to be said
that has not already been printed over
and over again. Briefly told, it is the
account of journey to Lourdes, where
is the Grorto of Our Lay, in which the
Blessed Virgin is believed by the faith
tul Catholic to have appeared to a peas
ant girls. -Bunadette Sou brious. A
healing fountain now gushes from the
spot where Our Lady stood, magnifi-
cent church has been erected in her
honor, and multitudes from all parts of
the world make pilgrimages to this
shrine, before which the most astound-
ing miracles are claimed to have been
wrought. That enormous numbers of
persons have been cured of diseases that
have baffled human science there can
be no doubt. To M. lola, the naterialist.
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