The herald., 1894-09-23

among the pirates bold for the safety OF
his secret trust, and for the hope OF
meeting "the Lady OF the Halcyon,"
whose smiling face beams happily on us
at its close.
1t is a most delightful nautical story.
charmingly told. and the very bresth OF
love seems to fill the white sails OF the
mischisvous but peerless Hslcyon.
This last book of this versatile author
10 equal to any OF his previous efforts,
and superior to most OF them. 1t is ls'
sued in Neely's Library of choice liter
ature.
MARsENA AND OTHER STORIES OF THE
WARTIME, by HAROLD FAEDERIC, cloth
edition 81. Published by scribner's Sons
New York city. For sale by the Stol d
Thayer company, 139 South Spring street.
This new book from the pen OF Harold
Frederic Is a collection of four tales, in
which scenes and characters associated
with the war period, sH it affected q
typical northern village, are depicted
with an admirable commingling of
humor and patnos. Mr.. Frederic writes
mapifestly from actual knowledge, and
his portrayal OF the men and women
who figure in his stories ia always faith
full, while free from any touch OF unar-
tistic prejudice. In Marsena he draws
the picture of village coquette who
was quick to derive advantage from the
military exoitement of the war, and
who ooolly sent one suitor after another
to the front, and threw the leaet eligible
over for the colonel OF the local regi-
ment. The War Widow. The Eve OF
the Fourth and Aunt Susan are the
titles of the other tales making up this
| t,rtn
its flavor OF tragedy and romance, and
each recalling memories that will be very
real to all but the younger readers, to
whom the war itself is now only vague
tradition. Mr.. Frederic invariably puts
his best work into whatever he under
takes, and one feels in making the &C.
| quaintance of any piece OF fiction from
his hand that 1t la corHcientiouslJ per-
| formed and that it will convey instruc-
ton aa well as entertainment. What
Octave Thanst is doing for the middle
west, and what Miss Wilkins has been
doing for Ney England, Mr.. Frederic ia
doing for rural New York. He has
caught definite atmosphere and his
productions are in their way unique,
since they convey tho impression of q
fully differentiated local color. From
the purely literary point OF view Mr..
Frederic is master of an excellent
manner. His realism is genuine, but il
is never deliberate. His depictions have
the grace of the peetic temperament.
Some of the characters OF theee stories
are worthy to place besides The Cop
perhead, certainly one of the very best
types Mr.. Frederic has created.
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TIMAR,s TWO WORLDS. by MAuRUs JoKA1
Coih-edittap. $J - Pp.pliisRs9 bbgyuph bgyu sbf7htf;
street.
Maurus Jokai stands not only at the
head OF Hungarian literature, but be has
won claim to be entitled one OF the
leading novelists of Europe. Although
q veteran in the republic of letters, i,
has not been GO very long since his mama
became widely known on this side OF the
| Atlantic, but his fame has spread 80
rapidly that his work bids lair ID bs ap.
preciatsd almost as widely as Tolstoi's,
even If not as closely criticised.
TimRr's Two Worlds demands our spe
cial attention as work OF genius, drawn
with firm strokes, depicting phases OF
lie foreign to our experience, describing
graphically an unfamiliar country and
with an excellent narrative attractive
| ness. The characters have this breath
of life in them, although they live not
as We live.
Timsr is q remarkably strong ooncep-
ton. AS q humble skipper in the open.
ing scene he ie not particularly interest
ing, but tho gradual change worked in
HIS consoientiousness by opportunity
and temptation, the retrogression from
the uncslculatng integrity which was
part OF his nature, the insidious relaxing
of his moral iosr-all this is shown with
the analytical skill of master.
| While the individuality OF the actors
when thsy fret came upon the scene of
action Is not emphasized to any degree,
the perilous passage of tho Danube, with
which the story opens, is drawn with a
power that ia marvellous it is one OF the
most vivid word-pictures imaginable.
Jokai writes OF the Danube as one who
knows and loves it. and the life and
color OF the descriptive portiona are one
OF the story's many charms. 1t is a
powerful romance, worthy OF perma-
nent place in the worlds literature.
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LAMPS OF THE TEMPLE. choice examples of
the eloquence OF The modem pulpit. Com
piled by THOMAS ". HAHFoRD. Published
by Laird d Lee, CHICAGO. Ill. For SAFE by
Ihe A. w. Berry stationery Co., 120 South
Spring street.
lEo O0aluc suAt hulu0 upon Ju6 WAYS
OF men from the lamps OF the ancient
temples OF GOO are part of our best ia
herltance. The world would oe dark
indeed but tor these lights of earlier
days. G!d is light, and all along the
pathway OF ayes He has kept the lamps
of His temple st1ame with unwasting
oil. Not many wiser words have been
spoken in these later generations than
those by John Robinson, when he bade
the embarking pilgrims be surs that
God had yet more light to break forth
from His work." and then urged them
to be- as willing to receive it from others
as they had been TO receive il from him
The voices that have spoken for God in
the last half a century have indeed
been filled with "tuneful BREATH" and
their words have made the wilderness
glad. The design of the com pilation
OF this book was to gather in one happy
volume come OF the best examples OF
power and eoqusnce OF the modern
pulpit.
In the very heart of this design there
lay strong desire to show, by large
variety OF selections, that the light that
beams from these many lamps is sub
stantially one, and further, the compiler /
was ambitious to show by the best OF all |
proofs that the common charge that the |
pulpls does not concern itself about cur
rent questions, and especially about the |
great social problems of our age, is |
wholly and entirely elander That /