New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-19
NEW NOVELS.

THE LILAC sUNBONNET. A Love Story. BY S
r. Crockett. ID. Appleton CO.
ROUND THE RED LAMP An v Being Sop Facts Do Spa
d. Appleton & Co.
THE BEILRINGER OF ANGELS. and Stner
Stories. BY Bret Harte. Houghton Miihh q CO.
One turns TO Mr. Crockett's new novel, The Lilac
sunbonnet" with the comforting feeling that no
problem of the modern woman, athletic or other-
mise will be presented for solution In its pages
The heroine of this Galloway love story. Winsome
Charters is as sweet and as simple anu az o'"o''
a girl as Mr.. Crawford's Bar Harror ma'ue"
f. hard and i-mannered and generally as
ogreeab,e This dainty lass OF the Gran
noch lochside is certainly the most charm-
inc creation that Mr. Crockett has given u.s.
and her portrait Is drawn with dehcacy OF 'o"0"
and with an affectionate tenderness when eaVe 'o
one in doubt for moment why young Raiph feue"'
the candidate for the ministry VINO Is so!ouiI''e
temrorarily at the Dullarg manse with the Ne''
AZ, welsh foil desperately in love with her at
first sight The pastoral character OF this love al
fair. with background of farm ana village sO
eip participated in by several sk'ifuily Drawn rus
Tics OF decided individuality is rudey interrupted
by the entrance of dramatic element INTO '"e
story There will scarcely he two opinions as 10
The urd character Of me account OF the attack
upon Greatorix after poor W.nsome had tainted al
his feet.
But as the sn5 something had
been crouching beastlike in the heaner iU as
crawling horror suddenly sprang with vo,cei 1
rush upon him as ne oeht over and bore him back
ward bareheaded to the ground >, 49,. s.rorg man
So unexpected the assault that s'r S '@ ~
"a C;reatorx was had not the least cha ,i ~ ~
resistance He reeed al the sudden cohs L so
MS throa' 10y Linton So terrible the strngency Of
their grasp. He struck wildly al ms AS an,,ne
3ESins ahove him his arms only met one another IN
blows He felt the TT 5ef the sudden agony he
sent abroa the mighty roar OF MN was silent
save for fierce whinnying growl as oil "iu oe"''
greediy tapping Doo'' ,.o,ous
Tho assailant of Greatorix was not raVe"ous
.,o,f or a mountain lion. one might imagine
W. A., ,osor,ntion II was the half-witted Jack
Cordon whose opportune arrival saved "lnsome
On the whole this is an admirable s,ofE-oi'e
which has great deal Of color. ana winch ~ i'i
ne the hero Is concerned. may easily De pe"e'ou ~
he in part least. autoDiogTapiHc' -,
scots IN the dialogue of the farmhands ana VIZ
,oga humnkins may easily be skipped without seri-
s loss 70 tn. main story if lacks the patience
20 puzzle it out J., .Ao s,a,
NJ n general practitioner in medicine OF suik'iS
suggested TO DR. A. Conan Doyle HAPPY ,'ie lol
his new volume of short stories houi'' Ne ~
1or," Therein he has recOunted many mclaeh's
NJ a medical mans life-pathetc, dramauc' 'rdsU
aud even comic-some of which are uiluo"o''u''
founded on fact, while others are as obviously ',''
odu.t ~ the authors bold imagination In
econ Of ripe experience and of iron nerve Keen Vi
eve and sure of hand whose skill Is never
fault The admiration which the au'ho' eN"'".''
has for this man scarcely fail 10 ne sn"''' ''
.he reader so sympatheticaly has MS cha'aC'e,
IN tie most attractive aspects been depicted. Anu
ra,, wben one reflects upon the matter. there Il
M professional man who is brought In such 'ios'
touch with the tragedy and sorrow OF hui'd" NV
from birth death, as is the surgeon anu F";
e,c,an His notebook. which the ethics OF the ieui
cal profession seal to the public eye contains "
record Of extraordinary bravery as ven a.
<rautv Of Measure as we'll of sufferlng ana oi
all this complicated human experience III Una"
Doyle has made clever use in MS storlos' ""'
from the melodramatc unhealthy OF Inc '"'o "a
lady sannox" to the simplicity and truth 10 hu
man nature of The Curse of Eve, cover q VICE
cold In reading these tales of the slck-champei
and Of the operating theatre however one o"i''''
f,uite escape the feeling that he wouid prefer ~ "
out in the fresh air. engaged with '"e ia'o -
lock Holmes in solving some apparently H"pe'e
trable mystery. . 80
Tho ethical problem which is presented IN the
.itle-story of Bret Hartes new volume OF 'a'eS
.oThe Bellrnger Of Angels. is extrefhei! ooiiI'
II would have cleared the moral atmosphere oi III,
story much If the author had made ciear the re"'
,alations between the pious one OF the pro'H''S
WAYNE Of Wavne's Bar. and the fascinating MIS-
NcCee: the evidence regarding the other pro'lei -
unfortunately clear and leaves hot"'H7 i" 'a,
Imagination. As for the siren herse''' II - i'm
cult for a Of old-fdshlOheu hObo''H ~ ''
clio her indiscriminate depravty with such pre-
,vn,ial nuritv and nobility as the author ATTRIBUTES
N her And what a feeble specimen OF man -
MCGEE himself who sooner discovers that Maui,
son WAYNE and his Safe were lovers IN the o'
DAYS than he begins TO plot ana pan !" =, 49, -,
them together and take himself out OF 'n'i
nav, NJ Hartes memory OF the sort o. men
vvbo were along the Stanislaus must be iaiihs hII
~ he wishes us to accept Niece AZ type. me
sheriff of Siskyou" Is truer to real ne Two ol
the stories Young Robin Gray ana a rose Vi
clenboeie" are Scotch in scene and partly III SUD
-. rhav may he "reminiscences Of the author
cops,Iship at Glasgow. but we confess 'hat we
would rather he would go on painting mis- densh''
fuIlv impossible people of the mining camps imam
venture further into Mr. Crocketts ana MI '"'