The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1894-09-12

'io eAoricaIeu from every day incidents.
The adventure upon which The Carrot
ers turns is such refinement of COM
plIcation that it can only be enjoyed as
a plot In the reading. We recommend
it as bringing in it's wake laugh of
genuine amusement. New YORK: Har.
per q Brothers Portland Loring, Short
& Harmon. Price SO cents.)
The Maiden's Progress. A Novel in
Dialogue, by Violet Hunt, is constructed
upon rather original lines, and is dis
tinctly successful.
Some chapters of this dialogue-novel
appeared in The Sketch, Black and
White, and the Pail Mall Gazette. The
theme is that of the fn-de-siecle young
woman who wishes to enter upon
Wanderjahn, yet has in this instance
TOO much delicacy of feeling and real
purity to enjoy Bohemia after taking up
her abode within it's precincts. Modena,
Peggy and Verona are a handful, to be
sure, and there are few phrases of slang
that do not see light in these pages. The
lesson is there all the same. Especially
racy is Modena's assumption of ignora nee
of horses, where she rides her mare,
SELMA" in most extraordinary fashion
to "phaze" Captain Provis and prevent
his proposing to her, and later develop
ments in the cardroom, here she is lis
tener TO all the men say about the affair
and her part in it. There is good deal
of satisfaction to the sympathetic reader
when this especially fair and winning
maiden despite her faults and sfoibles)
is arrested in her progress by the barrier
Of pair of strong, manly arms, and
safely captured once for all. That the
victor should be lord is not detrimental
since he is lover worth having, and de-
serves his good fortune. New York:
Harper & Brothers; Portland: Loring,
Short & Harmon. Price S1.00.)
DR.. Janet of Hawley Street. A novel,
by Arabella Kenealy. A very sensa-
tional story is here made the vehicle for
much strenuous statement as regards
heredity, physical culture and bad train
ing Tor no training) bodily and mental.
g Feed babies property" says DR.. Janet,
sand they will generally be good tenn
pered. Feed children properly" and
they will, in most cases, be fair-natured.
Feed men properly and they will rarely
be criminals. "You can't grow fine flowers
on badly nourished soil; you can't grow
fine men on flimsy food" Feminine is
kind of spurious womanliness. IT here
is the masculine" and the "feminine,"
but too little of the womanly." And
again, "The scientific doctor never cures
his patients. He treats a conglomeration
of muscle, brain and bone cells. and
disremem bers the man, and after all the
man is about the most important thing
in that mass of anatomical and physiolo-
gical fact"
To one third of that sort of thing add
two thirds highly colored romance, and
you have the book in question science
Tor comments upon scientific fact) and
sensation-to be taken in doses to suit
the taste. The story is certainly not
lacking in terseness and vivacity. New
York: D.Appleton & Company IlorinQ,
Short & Harmon. Price S1.00.
Love and Shawl Straps, by Annette l..
Noble, with the collaboration of Pearl
Clement Coaun. Of such bright and en-
terJaining stories as this we have none
too many. Uncle Jacks Executors, by
Miss Noble, which came out some years
ago, was noted at the time as being I'M
usually charming and natural, and
Love and Shawl Straps shares the same
qualities. The prevalent scheme of per-
sonally conducted party travelling in
Europe is in this case shorn of any hack
neyed effect by the simple and chatty
style of recital, and the really witty
sayings and droll doings of the folk
abroad in each others COMPANY. 1t is a
story that young people will find full of
interest, but a salutary and excellent
one. Paris and London, Prague, Swift
zerland, Venice mo attempt is made to
strike untraveled paths; but the old
localities take on new delight visited
with this jolly party and frightened by
love making that is refreshing in it's ar
dor and sweetness. Not monotonous
page exists from cover to cover. New
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons: Portland:
Loring, Short & Harmon. Paper bound,
price SO cents.
Salome Shepard, Reformer, by Helen
M. Winslow, is pleasant story, in the
course Of which young woman, lowered
with couple Of million dollars, encoun-
tiers strike in process in the factories
IN charge of her superintendent. For
the first time in her life she looks at the
matter open-eyed, aud begins to discern
responsibility of her own. Ultimately
putting herself at the head of her prop
erty interests, she directs them till she
can give them into the hands that have
upheld and strengthened hers i'll the good
work and have now come to mean hap
piness as we'll as moral support to her.
Her schemes for the betterment of her
people are all sketched out in the story
sometimes practical, sometimes touched
with idealism-as all plans should be I'd
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