The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1894-11-20

pAHNb Ohc ~ bf~' 49,
surcsase. Amid the florid and, garish prod,
uots OF the cross breed ng me1nod
la novel production this seems
sweet ana fragrant and modest Hover,
quietly blooming for the deleeta1ion Oh
such as love TO contemplate human
nature ia its everyday working out OF
It's destiny; i'm its loves and Us marry
ings; the birth, growth and iulnilnent
of the great ethericai tnins
called love. IL Is, In shoft,
q real love story, ana As
story, nothing else. But the garnishings
of character showing are as deightiui as
the movement of the chief plot,
which has several little wheels
spinning merrily within Its circum-
terence. Winsome Charters ana
her love affair with Ralph Peden does not
claim all our interest. There's Meg ana
Jess and the numbering love- making Oh
their cuffs, and there's bold, osd BAR
onet whose guile does not In the ieas.
ptofit him. All is told with such simple
ort, oil is 40 sweet and wholesome,
90 sane and common place, maSes us love
the lover so, and enjoy the acquaintance
OF all, that the book comes 10 seem
friend. 1t is reckoned inferior to the
former books by Mr. .. II. Crockett, but
how much OF this judgment is due
10 the absence hereo the novelty OF the
first dare not estimate. IL Is a charming
book, full OF interest with people 81 they
live, pictures them clearly, IL readable
down TO the last line. ID. Appleton & Co.:
III. Gregory, Providence.
ain the wilds OF the West Coast" by j.
NJ. Oxl'y, is narrative OF adventure on
the coast OF British Columbia. A boy-a
real story book boy--is the hero OF In
numera BILE scrapes, and tile possessor ofan
extraordinary amount OF sagacity. Inc
Whole book is abnormal, and gives no
true picture OF that portion OF America
In which its scenes are isid. lne
men are not real men, the boy 10 most un-
real, the Indians are traditional characters,
and all tho surrounding and contributing
circumstances are improbable or impossi-
bic. Icannot understand why such books
are published. Their day Is passed. There
ere so many better ones. Thomas Nelson
q Sons.
Nora Perry's latest book Is called slope
Benham," and it is very plainly labeled
book for girls, SO that nobody need fear
to meet such impossible boy-prodigies
as furnish the chief characters in
authors frat story that fills an entire
volume, and IL Is distinctly success as "a
story for girIs.n Why, by the way, need
there be stories for girls! Must girls have
mental pabulum diluted for them, or
strained, ,or different from the pabulum fit
ted for boys? This Is an old question-worn
out, perhaps, or settled long ago. But 1t
seems to me that IL Hope Benhsm's story
qualities are worth relating to girls they
ought also to In nterost boys; and In this in
stance they uld interest such boys as
brave the sub-title-'a story for girls"
The story exemplihes the model boarding
school and the extreme good sense OF
Hope Benhsm, who seems TO be meant
for type Of what girls ought to be,
with one shining tsient-for playing
the violin--tempered with circumsta ,ces
that always turn to the advantage OF
the young girl. 1t 10 good book
ifanything a trifle too good. III we do
not all require tobasco sauce In our lite
rary soup, we at least relish dose Of pep
per, and enough salt to recommend it to
our palate. Proper digestion demands it.
Little, Brown 81 Co.: Preston & Rounds,
Providence.
The novets preaaced by the Hon. Emily
Lawless are not OF the sort nervous people
like to read late at night, after the rest of
the fam H. rstircs. This story OF "Maelcho"
(Appletons) gives a fine picture of early
and unhappy Irelsnd-back in 1877. The
last book OF this talented and titled author
| read sunk the heroine under the
waves OF a little bay, and left her there
strangling. She has haunted my dreams
ever since. ] felt grieved that she should
die, and ell so uselessly; but since she
had 10 die / felt that the author
might have spared me the feeling
that i was accessory to her drowning.
When Grania died my interest in the
Hon. Emily Lawless expired, and the
reading OF this later book merely con-
frmed he aversion that came over me
then. H. Gregory, Providence.
The bringing together OF an estrsnged
Rmily OF brothers and sisters, the growt n
and bossomiag OF n young girl, and
the final rccVnc liation, is the france
work of "Madeleiue's Rescue" by
Jeanne Schultz (Appletons). This is "a
story for girls and boys" Why need that
be stated II is a story for whoever
likes good story with a good motive,
3. we'll told, and made easy TO read with
large and clear type and q number Of good
pASAuANos IL NAtbOAgt
"Christ the Socialist" ia a story full of
stress, and overloaded with purpose. Its
suthor masks behind the title page line
"by the author OF Philip Meyers Scheme"
II Is story Of social import, telling of
labor troubles ia New England town,
aud OF the transformation of a minister
from belief in anti-socialism TO a state
oi mind that led him to consider Christ
himself socialist, but he had only come
TO this CONCLUSION when he WAS killed in
trying TO save mill owner from the ven-
geance OF mob OF his striking workmen.
The whole book is meant 20 illustrate an
Idea he s0cis ist idea. The narrative form
is subordiuatec TO the preachment, and
Is l.4ade the vehicle to convey long dia-
ioguea between he minister and an old
fchoolmaster relative TO the latter's
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