Omaha daily bee., 1895-09-21
NEW pooKs.
DoTY DoNTCARE-By Mary Farrlng,on
Foster. Cloth, 81. Estes & Iauriat,

DoTy DoNTcARE-By Mary Farrlng,on
Foster. Cloth, 81. Estes Iauriat,
Boston,
Doty Dontcare is the servant OF beautiful
quadroon, who has a Jealous lover. Over
jealous In her attachment she causes consid-
erable trouble, but atohes for II in the end
by sacrificing her life for that OF her mistress
in one OF the negro instructions at Santa
Cruz. The peculiar local dialect, the fine
shades of caste governing the inhabitants
and the many supersttions prevalent are
all we'll handled In presenting this charming
picture of life in the garden Of the Antilles.
ON THE SUWANEE R1VER-By ople
Reade. Cloth 81. Laird 6 Lee, Chicago.
The story hardly meets the usual standard
Of Mr.. Reade's efforts Some Of the char
acters are overdrawn and the language is
often stilted, There is nevertheless strong
charm in the way the plot develops and the
manner in which the two lovers are ulti-
mately united in bonds of matrimony.
THE OLD SETTLER, THE SQUIRE AND
LITTLE PELEG--By Ed Mott. Cloth, 81;
paper, so cents. United States Book COM
pany, New York.
1t is a real pleasure to form the acquaint-
ance of such droll characters as those
portrayed by Mr.. Mott. The old settler. the
principal character, Is an old-timer OF the
crossroads species, whose mind is stored
with an inexhaustible fund of wonderful ex-
periences kept ready on tap to be poured out
in drowning floods over the pretensions of
any rival teller of stories in the neighbor-
hood. There is a good deal of rich humor
lurking behind his irascible temperament and
his rhetorical capacity may better be i'm
agned when 1t is said that he could chop
words shorter and stretch them longer than
any border orator that ever breathed. The
'squre, always ready to nag his senior, and
Little Peleg, the old settlers grandson, are
interesting types of the border character
While most of them have already gained
envable popularity in the columns of the
New York Sun, they all deserve more perma-
nent place in literature and will bear reading
more than once.
LITERARY NOTES.
Hans Breitmann's new book is announced
for early publication by Unwin in London
ana Lippincott in Philadelphia. 1t is to be
entitled Hans Brettmann in Germany"
An intimate friend Of Thomas Hardy repre-
sents him as having said that Hearts In
surgent," has been so carved and emascu-
lated in the interest of magazine proprietes
that when 1t appears in its original form
as book 1t will have the effect Of quite a
new work.
The Goethe Archives have Just yielded an
other treasure. This is a manuscript volume
| Of verse interminged with prose, containing
about 100 pages Only eleven of these pages
contain poems that at some previous time
| have been given to the world.
1.-TWO neat phrases" says the Publishers
| Weekly, "are fitting about the literary
world. The first is due to Mr.. Zangwill,
VINO lately spoke OF numDer OF cOntenl-
| poraneous writer's as falling into the seer
| and Yellow Book The second is attributed
| by an essayist in Blackwood's to an anony-
nous and probably imaginary friend who
| classified decadent literature as of three
| kinds-'erotic, neurotic, and tommyrotic.'
| One of the new magazines to be started
| in New York in the fall will have no illus
! trations. Its projectors believe that "the
| illustration Of our popular magazines is
being overdone, and that the public is tiring
| of simple picture articles the chief merit
| Of which lies not in the letter press, but
| in the pictorial art" They affirm boldly
| that ARTICLES are accepted by the editors
| of most magazines simply because of their
adaptability to illustration. and that the in
| trinsic worth of the material itssf is lost
| sight Of, and purposely So:
The police are suppressng the sale Of the
| Indianapolis People, Police News, Police Ga
zette, the illustrated Record and other SEN
| sational papers in Richmond, Ind. These
! papers are what Is classed by a new law
| as pernicious literature. The law was passed
| by the last general assembly, and provides
| a penalty of from $40 to 5000 for printing
| selling, or publishing books, papers, or peri
| odicals, the chief feature or characteristic
| of which is the record Of crime or the
pictures of crime committed, criminals des-
peradoes, or men and women in "unbecom-
| ing costumes" The newsdealers packed the
papers up and sent them back to the news
| companies.