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treated, and muCn ID aRlu WHICH bneuH
light upon her curious history. Alto
gether the analysis of Coresn life and
prospects is helpful. The aim of the
whole book goes somewhat beyond the
above points, and bears upon Great
Britein's relations to the far eset.
This part will excite much interest.
The author finds that the Englishman
has the vantage ground almost every
where. He is to be browning influence
in the east He is to bring in the final
age of gold in all these lands. This may
sound like bombsst to come, but the
author is very serious. He has attempted
to treat the question of Christian mis-
sions in fair way, but it will be evident
that ne has not viewed all The facts and
relations in just light.
The book 10 fine addition to the stock
of literature which treats OF the races OF
the world end their prospects. and
ought to have wide and reading. 1t
evidently comes at the right time. It ia
bountifully illustrated and fitted with
maps.
TRILBY, a novel. By GEORGE DU MAURIER.
author of Peter Ibbetson. illustrations by
the author. Post svo cloth; ornamental,
sale by the A. W. Berry Stationery Co., 120
South Spring street.
Trilby ie better, stronger and more
original story than Peter Ibbetson.
Its scenes are also laid in Paris, in
the early sos. The author introduce US
to the student life in the Latin quarter,
with which he was himself go familiar,
and to men and women whom he him
sely must have known. Mr.. E. J.
Paynter, Mr.. Thomas Armstrong and
Marks were his studio companions ;
while it ia whispered by Mr. du Mau-
rier himself that Little Billes is based
upon the late Frederick Walker, the
artist.
Trilby, who gave her name to Mr.. du
Msurisr's latest romance, is, in the
beginning OF her career, a professional
model-and an amateur Camille.
She comes from the people; she was
born in Paris, of an Irish father and OF
q Scottish mother, and she possesses all
the virtuea-but one.
The evil she did, before she learned to
do better things, was done from want of
thought rather than from want of heart
perhaps it was done from too much
heart, and it was done because ahe had
tween evil and good, between what ia
right and what is wrong. She is dan
gerous, daring, but not coarse char.
actsr, very difficult to handle in fiction,
and she is handled by Mr.. du Maurier
in very delicate and a very mastery
way. She sits for the head and the
hands to lots of people, she says, for the
feet to others-she has wondrously
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''sits for the altogether" to select few
only. And it is as "the altogether, :"
mentally, not physically, that Mr..
du Maurer draws her for us.
Trilby WAS about as tall as
as Miss Ellen Terry" says Mr.. du Mau.
rier, land that is charming height,
think" And once, when her great eor-
row came, he describes her as smiling
in forlorn sort OF way, with the up
per lip drawn tight against her teeth, as
if some one were pulling her back by
the lobes oil her ears. The great masters
never made better or stronger or more
original picture of the physical express
sion of mental agony than that, and it
is little touches like these, now and
then, which make Mr.. du Maurier 80
charming, we think-whiCh make him
suggest. somehow, more of Thaokeray
than any other man who has written
English since Thackeray's day and
which make his work as writer 80
charming.
1t is beautiful story OF three men
who loved each other as brothers and
woman who loved them all with that
sort of oomradeship that one expects
from his dearest friend.
That is why you hear 80 many men
talking about the atory-for men, more
than women, have genius for comrade.
ship. But you seldom find it in the
modern novel which is given over to the
immature love OF boys and girls, or to
an analysis of the meannesses of men
and women. But Tatfy, the Laird, and
Little Billee were bound together by
that kind OF friendship that seldom gets
into books you can't generalze about it
or give recipes for it in platitudes. You
only know that it can't be found among
men who are without that depth and
fidelity in their emotions which is called
honor. 1t ia not matter OF culture or
esthetcs-for Kipling's Soldiers Three
exhibit it in "a admirable manner as
Du Maurier's Three Guardsmen of the
Brush.
Pleasure and good fellowship may
have had much to do with the begin
nings OF euch comradeahip, but, when 1t
is once established. their Office ends; for
the test of oomrsdeship is the hard
ships and the SORROWS that are endured
in it's name. 1t is one OF the permanent
things of life that give it continuity.
The beautiful thing about it all is that
1t carries with it none of those generally
accepted obligations that are called
duties. The whole relationship is 90
absolutely voluntary.
Now Trilby made her fret appeal
to these men, because she had the faculty
of taking mans view of Oomradeehip.
She saw what genuine, unselfsh thing
it was; she grasped, what go many
women OF finer opportunities seldom
understandable meaning OF honor
among men.
She did not ask them to pity, protect,
or hatter or pet her (the appeal which
most women make)-she simply said,
LET me be your comrade on the same
terms as YOU are each others comrades,
l ask no quarter because l am a
woman" She had lost her honor among
women, but she kept mans standard
of honor to the uttsrmost-"to think of
other people before myself, and never to
tell lies or be afraid"
But Trilby was beautiful, magnetic
woman, as we'll as a comrads, and Lit
tie Billee and Taffy loved her with
q great passion. One OF them gave his
life for it,; the other, because he was
stronger, grew to be finer, nobler man
by reason of it.
OF course we have spoken OF the
charm of the four characters in this
story as though they were real people.