The herald., 1895-11-17

Common, Miss Mabel Glare Craft, Mrs.
Elizabeth A. Wore, Mrs. Margaret Collier
Garham, Miss Tessa Kelso, Mrs. Flors
Haines Loughead of Santa Barbara, Mrs.
Evelyn Moss Ludlum of San Diego anG
MIS-. NJ. Burton Williamson, president of
the Woman's Press club here. This is q
long and worthy list Of women workers.
THE HEART OF LIFE. BY ". II.
Mallock. author of Is Life Worth Liv-
ing, The New Republic, etc. G. P.
Putnam's Sons, New York. For sale
by Stoll a. Thayer.
Mr.. Maliock has been good deal criti-
clsed for holding so pronounced views or
life and duty, and by many accounted
an mpracticable, butt rom no quarter has
ever come q word OF complaint that he is
dull. On the other hand, he is held to
he one OF the bright lights among the
modern novelists who essay to teach q
lesson in philosopy or morals.
This story is English, and most ssri-
GUS and elaborate portrayal of character
and analysis of purpose and motive. The
styl is simple and strong, commanding
attention and respect. OF the Countess
Sbimna he says: IF much in her air
in her face. as She looked az him, was an
almost tragic serenity. Her upper lip
had a certain Lift in its curve, as if shs
were ready to gasp with acute feeling,
and the look OF her eyes was that of
hearts-ease wet with the morning." :.
1t is a handsome volume and will share
with earlier ones the interest that always
attaches to a writer OF acknowledged
merit.
CASA BRACCIO. By F. Marion Craw-
ford. Mcmillan & Co., New York.
Two volumes, in box, bound in buck
ram, 81. For sale by Stoll & Thayer.
A brace of beautiful volumes, daintily
encased. The illustrations are strikingly
GOOD and given an artistic character to
the work wholly lacking in the earlier
volumes. How many of our readers, who
made the acquaintance of Crawford
through A Roman Singer, realize that
ly all of his more ambitious undertake
ings. the scenes of this latest work are
laid near Rome. really in Rome, and tho
time Of which the house of Braccio 10
made to tell is aobut half century ago.
1t is rather sad story, but much
ford's later stories. He has shared, with
SO many others. the feverish feeling that
he must do q great mass of work, aud
some of 1t has shown the lack OF care and
thought. He has always sat down to
write book with a devout purpose. but
money or mass of writing, or both. And
so he has suffered somewhat as to his
reputation, as all writers must who yield
to the clamor OF the publisher for soms-
thing that will be sure to sell.
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Here is an epigram from q new book:
1.-THE invention of the piano derives its
chief i'm portance from the fact that it hae
so immensely enhanced the value of
silence"
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W. Davenport Adams, writing of How
to make living by literature" takes a
discouraging view of Literature as pro-
fession-newspaper writing and all. Al
the close of the article be says: 'Young
men DESTROYS of bracing q literary
career ought TO be told the truth. 1t is
career demanding vide knowledge, good
health, great industry. and, above all,
fortitude; save in few instances |,
yields monetary return comparatively
small. II is a very harassing occupation.
and especially SO where the writer's do
nestle circumstances are unfavorable. At
the best it is a trying business, and at the
worst it IL deplorable.