New-York tribune., 1895-12-14

,,,,. ,o bad little humaneness He coveted beau
ty I'm woman hungrily. and seemed 10 be porn nos
tile TO them" Further hints OF this young mans
nature may be gathered from the fact that he
drives his bride from the church door TO prize
0gh, conveying thither in the same coach with
her the bruser whose patron he is) and leaves her
after the battle her own reflections ana the so
ciey of the bruisers lass TO walt FOR his return to
the country inn where her solitary honeymoon IS
passed.
But how win the love and respect OF husband
who carrying undaunted in the face OF all Eng
land the drag load OF this strange alliance ac-
ceps The fact of his marriage only to deny all fea
claims OF the relationship9-for Fleetwood rejects
all advances looking TO even meeting with the
young savage-as he deems her--he has married.
How. II his love and respect be won at last, be
able respect and love the man who. to corTlrin
his sense of satisfaction IN the possession Of
noble wife, must lay subtle snares Tor the feet OF
the woman he fancied can plot. as only 4
backguard can. the financial overthrow or the
man who her from him? The BIRTH OF his
child the known sweetness and strength OF Carln
thlas nature. aided by severe shock 10 his quiv-
erng sensib.lities. bring him TO her feet at last
too late The woman's heart Is poured ont upon
brother and child: the husband. who has outraged
all wifely feeling. has part in 1t.
Carinthia is throughout calm and strong: "a hag-
gard Venus" "a beautiful Gorgon.' are the expires
s,ons OF one of Mr. Meredhs phrase kers descrip
tive of her Reared upon the philosophy of her
Gather the old Ruccaneer OF the INA Xms men,"
she Is soon self-suIicieni in the new world into
which she is flung from her clouds and crags. She
braves her husband, Notwithstanding the apparent
delicacy of her position with the same cool uncon-
cern with which she fronts mad cur and proposes
The hot iron for the wound he has Inflicted With il
ALL thanks 10 Mr.. Meredhs felicity of touch and
almost unparalleled knowledge OF the sex, she is
nure womany. when the embraced
breathes respect into she wings beast; that IS
CArinthia's mission to Fleetwood. Let him 90 hence
to his conventual cell; he is profit for no longer
moralizng.
one suspects in "The Amazing Marriage in spite
of the defiant tOne-ra;her. because of it-a con-
cesson to the authors critics. There Is less
eating dialogue which eludes the comprehension OF
all save the elect; there fewer of the aphorsms
which stocked The Pilgrims Scrip and like re-
ceDaclos OF wisdom in the noveliss earlier works.
Lord Ormont" betrayed the same tendency to
ciliation. That the power Of shutting sentences Of
meaning in Tho compass OF word Is still his
many passages bear testimony; yet one picks and
chooses these-there is the prodisa largessc of
the old days If We note the absence OF of the
extravagances that have made capital for the
cheap-wit;ed among critics miss the unre-
strained play OF fancy that illumned the OF
his obscurity and made splendid twilight far
prefera bic TO blank and staring day. BY this time
the world of readers may be said TO be divided
into two classes: those who read Meredith TOT ioNe
of him and those who read him not at all III Is
safe TO saw judging from his latest WORK, that
,hese readers will continue in their allegiance 10
Meredith the unrcgenerate. unmoved and unspohed
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