New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-25
SOME NEW NOFELo.
STORIES OF CHARACTER AND ADNhNi
URE.

EYES LIKE THE SEA SEA; tSs H HIngarian by r. Ms
bet Balm O.. p. Putnam's sons)
THE HONORABLE PETER sTRLfS s5 a Teic ester
People Thought OF Him. 10y f"u'
Ford. Henry Holt d COZ
THE PEOPLE OF THE MIST. BY H. Rider nag
gard illustrated d.ongmans, Green q W
4 FLASH OF SUMNER. Novel by "'''
X CLIFFORD. %. Appleton q COZ
VISITS A Novel BY Fletcher Battersha'' 'Dou'
Mead & Coz
Miss Emily Iawess. whose 'Graha ,ar
the full her passion for the study OF ifiSii go,
'''o 'u. .. NO ,,ou os her capacity to wildly pct
- bah calls her new book "Maelcho' ~,
teenth- century narrative She adfh''s III w. - "a
cation that although II was begun az O -
venture pure and simple. the story gre" So.
and more ugubrious as II vert OH. ~ " .,,
"a I,rov what to call the completed WORK. '"ous
!, or,o. "a near to being historical romance %
,v,hiro Exactly where the history becomes III
tion or the fiction history. 1t Is imposS'''e "
There is evidence in abundance ''ia' ,,ca.oa,
grow as II advanced into something veg T.
firm, the thing the author had III Hi'"u w" -
hogan II for IL Is long before the u'u'a' NV
cor,ss unon the scene TO take the pia0c "a -,
ortb ~ English blood. Hugh Fitzwiliiam Gay "a,u'
whose extraordinary adventures among '"e W.,
tribe OF OFlaheres OF West 'ohhauen' no.
tho attention OF the reader reasoh"pie eNp
ton NJ the change which took place III ihe a','o
mind may perhaps be found in the lmposs'oii'''
NJ deoicting ANYTHING more lurld or 'errlD'' ~
tho sceres which poor Hugh l. represented ~ nav
witnessed in the early chapters OF the 'a''' 80
utt.r hopelessness OF taking Hugh uhro"7" ''
further experiences without producing '"e en-
an anti-clmax may well have caused MISS i""''o
=, ,,rn in desperation to the 'griTnmer anu "''
,,., ,ho,oa to be found in the career o.
uaoIcbo the senachie The period Was one III
which an ireland was in tunut OF ''F' ="
chiefs AMI tribes al war with 'a'h p'"V' -
r.ssting.lv force the attempt OF the f'i- -"
,,udcr Queen Elizabeth to irnp"s" En7'sh IL 9 49,.
,b.. prot.stant religion upon IN" irish peopie' ''
49,. ,,.,,bot chaotic material Miss Ia"i'7a
,. ,,shtonod her romance. The name o. N1'''"'
vas one TO conJure with in lrelana !" '"o1
For ike Robin Hood Of earlier tunes }" '"7
and ike Rob Roy OF later ones IN S'o''""'' Nv
crown the author tells us. 70 be le-'"u III HIS
avn lifetime Mythical taough he appears 70 De-
for ,be name Is not to be found In the 'e'
,,t. n. t. made very real parsonage III ''
story q commanding. noble and finally p''n'",
c.,r. AGAINST a background Of lawlessheSs anu
strife. ,,,,,.
Mr. Paul Leicester Ford undertook lo'"'''''''
task IN attempting to describe in detai IN" sour
, 49,, .n.r,cter Of the power which Ne"-YorN
,.,rl "boes' wiells lie has made ms attempt
,, ..rh. Honorable Peter Stirng. ana NJ mas sue
ceeded in drawing portrait when Is Dor" am
,t e.suv recognizabIe Stirling begins hs career
az a brcness lawyer. and. being man Oh S''"''"'
character and resolute will. soon hnds hinS'i' III
rh,, bts nolitcal career begins and brings MI"
r,, ronularity The secret OF the power whlcA
H.. acquires among the men OF his wari ~ mus
EXPLAINS: "Ive lived among them ior years.
gone on their sumner excursions w ",N
9TH them all over the district. nave hePei
Thorn in their troubles. have said kihd "o'n
over their dead I'm godfather to many WIZ"
others I've stooG shoulder to shoulder wneh tue
bullets were dying. 10 you suppose because
sneakers unknown to them say I'm wrong ana DE-
cause the 3cent papers. which they never sec aouSe
-, that. they pre- going to turn from me unless
r,,b. them That f. the true secret OF the l""''e
~ rcformors \ logical argument IS All right III "
,r, ~ ANNALS bat when 1t comes 10 swayhg
49,, ,;.s give TIE 5000 loving hearts rather IMAM
,,., logical reasons" The type. dealzed thoush
IL IS In many ways. Is "A good one Tor purposes ~
d,,ion An. MIR Ford. possibly having the l''e
Kim, ~ Graycserd in mind. has stunned II carr
fuuy Tn, things however. to which h. has given
,, s,,,ciont attention are the tendency %
,, ,.,l ..hoss' 10 exercise his power To selhsh'
,,.roeuarv and wholly disreputabe ends. anu the
fact tina, the reformers are occasionally "'l' 81
arouse the moral of the pubic sufn'''"UN 10
s,c,,ra IN. overthrow OF ,.e system IN "In'r !"
show this aspect OF political life I'm great cry
Mr. Ford would have had 10 take as Ms nero
man ~ an altogether different type from Peter
stirling whose Inherited character. education ana
as.oc,ations made II impossible for him to develop
in,o a thief a matchmaker and drunkard lh'
r.,l boss" in his most Characteristic ana oIe'
s.v. form, comes from entirely different stock ara
crows alore entirely different lros from those
yhich Peter S,irii1r followed The book. how
over has a certain documentary value. as has been
coon notwithstanding its obvious defects as ltera-
Rider Uaggard is upon his chosen ground when
no takes the hero OF his new romance Leonard
Outram TO Southeastern Africa and turns MN
,oosc 90 70 speak among the People Of the Mist.
faks n.
mo,ive FOR Young outram'S Journey into the wids
Of Africa IL the TINT has taken many or me
author other heroes into the heart OF the BLACK
continent A search for treasure The treasure Is
there r the form OF Jewels % great value, ana
ne comes within IN ace Of securing them But
curiously enough. fate il against him; and after
series of wonderful adventures which prove con
clusiycly that Mr. Haggard's inventive faculty ana
Imagination st In admirable working or'eT'
he returns 10 England empty-handed Not exactly
that however for he brings back with him bride
who. If she is all that is pictured. is certainly
,reosure worth more than all the rubies which were
used I'm the religious ceremonies OF the People OF
N. MIST The real story relates the rescue or this
English girl. Juanna Rodd, from the save-deaIers
bv outram and his faithful otter-who Suggests
I'm, Is by no means the equal or tmsioposaas-
and It is told with characteristics spirit and vivid
ness Il would have been better story yet II
Outram's English sweetheart had been faithful 70
him and he TO her. and u he had returned home
with the rubes ami with the power to regain
possesson OF hi9 ancestral halls
After her Aunt Anne" Mrs. Clrords new novel,
"a Flash OF summer is something Of a dsap-
nointmcnt both the theme. which Is. on the whole
sad and in the treatment. which. though mtell-
gent smacks OF the commonplace. Poor Rather
,,c's fate at the hands of her cruel and brutal
uncle and also at the hands OF the equally dis
agreeable man wnom she is forced 10 marry. is in
deed "A pathetic one. and her sorrow Is made all
~ ,.b - ,nr,,.rf Ia ah
reveals to her the whom she really loves
That this lover should die, and that she should be
prremptory summoned from the side of his body
10 IN. home OF the whom she hated. Is with