The morning call., 1894-10-28

stern alton she declines the offer OF MS
hand, and among other things says TO MIN
IF you could forget wnat you call art, IL
you could sac life at all with Stralght un-
trammeled vision, If you could Dc ike
man instead of like nothing at all III
heaven or earth except that dyed flower, 1
might perhaps care for you 10 the rlgnt
way. But your mind is artticially colored'
1t comes from the dyer's. LIZ is green
carDatiOD, and want natural blossom 70
wear in my heart" The story taxes us
name from the carnation dyed green
which Reggie and his companion, wear as
the outward symbol of their art cult;
New York: ID. Appleton & Co. For SAFE
by the Bancroft Company.
THE SECRET OF A LETTER.-Thls Is
very interesting love story of the old sort,
wherein plot and incident are the all-in-all,
ana psychological analysis Of character,
meralizng and reflections are, as the ora
tors say, Conspicuous by their Absence
Simple and straightforward is the style OF
the story, there is no searching after effects,
and from the opening to the final chapter
there is no pause in the movement OF the
story. Evidently Gertrude Warden is no
prentice hand at telling love tale Is the
judgment that the reader will rapidly
reach. A young man falls In love almost
nstan taneously with young woman
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of England. Her name is Mrs. Cameron.
| but unknown to Shirley North she bears an
Italian title. scandal-tainted on account OF
the murder of her hus sbaDd and the suicide
of her reputed lover. 1t is, however. a
| case of only one side OF the story, the other
side completely exonerates the lady, and
through trial and tribulaticn the lovers
ultimately arrive at union and happiness.
! Some of the characters are graphically
drawn, notably the Indian colonel.
"who knows 1t ALL" and is impatient OF
! contradiction because his will and law are
identical. The one blot on the work is the
! character OF Sir Everard Morrison, whose
small, deceitful and cowardly actions. pos
sibe as they are in themselves. are TO ally
inconsistent with the qualities elsewhere
! attributed to him. New ork: The Inter
national News Company.I
GRAY RoCKs.-The scene of this tale Is
laid in the inter-moun tain region OF Idaho
and Montana, and though the character
drawing and style are crude, the story is
| by no means an unreadable one. The hero
is a newspaper correspondent from New
| York, suitable heroine is found in the
mining camp of Gold Bluff, and the rest OF
the characters consist of the usual medley
to be found in mining aud frontier towns
There is the mining sharp, enriched by
the appropriation of the result of ethel
land, the greatest town boomers, "Lht
most remarkable men of the country
strong men, bralny men, 6ustlers, tht
cleauest-cut lot of men on the continent
We known the type here. San Francisco il
overrun with them. great finaDcers, grea
orators. Napoleons of journalism. TIL,
most pathetic figure and the best drawn
too, is Colonel BOnifield, Southern gen
tleman and miner who digs after FORUM
on his own claim, Gray Rocks, from leve
to level. considered by all a visionary bu
ever opeful, till on the 500-foot level b
strikes big pay ore. There is promise il
the work, and with labor aud patienc
much good work may yet come from tn
pen of Willis George Emerson. [Chicago
Laird & Lee.
The BIRTH OF A SoUL.-If any one !
led to read this story by the influence o
the subtitle, "A Psychological Study" h
, will be disappointed. But il he reads
simply as story of struggle and love
will be satisfied. as 1t is well written an
interesting. The theme is the BATH
/ waged in the heart of young girl De
, tween desire for luxury and wealth ant
: love. Left an orphan at an carry age
3 Alix Half0nd succeeds to a large IoFtun
! that Is burdened by sole condltlon-lDa
I she wed man in race and ialtn one
3 her own people, Her grandfather.
I Jewish merchant, who had aIassed NJ
fortune in London, had put TINS proVlso |
2 his Will, aud when Alix falls III loVe IL
a with man of different race and Iaitn. "
: course novel-like, though hardly hie-hkt