St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-07
sAMoNG THE BOOKS.

interest. Probably no man since Christ
has had more written about him than
the great Napoleon. His character has
been viewed in every aspect. and every
thing he is recorded as having said has
been construed in all sort of ways. A
recent book which adds some what to
memory of the exlled emperor who died
on barren st. Helena has just been
Issued in very attractive form from
the press of Mcmillan & Co., and is the
'"Memoirs Of the Prince de Joinville,"
the third son of Louis Philippe, who is
alike distinguished for his great serv-
ices In the French navy. his services to
this country in the Peninsular campaign
under Gen. Mcclellan, and for the part
he took Gncognlto) III the Franco
Prussfan war. The memoirs cover
period of thirty years. and the author
begins them with his birth, which
ccurred at Neuilly -sur-Seine, near
Paris, Aug. IA, 1918, and when "the
chancellor of France. NJ. Dambray, had
declared me to be a boy | was made
over to the care of wet nurse and
another attendant" The first event of
his life of which he seems to have a
clear recollection was the family dinner
given by Louis XVIII. at the Tuileries
on Twelfth night, 1924. There are
great many pages devoted to De join
vile's education and early life. but,
passing these over, his first visit to
America may be Of interest. He says:
THAT first glimpse Of America full
filled all my expectations and delighted
me. A young country 1t was in very
deed. Nature itself, to my European
| eyes, had pureneSS OF atmosphere,
richness of vegetation, freshness,
general air OF youth, unknown In our
elder countries. Man, too. in his gait,in
| his independence of mind aud his bold
| ness of enterprise, betrayed an eXuber-
| ant vigor Of which our populations, en-
ervated by disappointing experiences
| and crushed by routine as they are, have
| grown incapable"
10 get from Norfolk. Va, to Wash
| ingten he travelled by the Roanoke rail-
way, land thus crossed an immense
marsh, the Dismal Swamp The rails
we ran on being laid open work fash
ion on huge piles fifteen feet above the
marsh, the whole road rocked under the
| weight of the engine, so much as to
| startle the numberless snakes and tur-
| ties inhabitng it. 1t was most novel
sensation. Further on, be twiXt Baltt-
| more and Philadelphia, the train, having
| to cross an arm of the sea. steamed on
| full pace; the engine, uncoupling itself.
| ran ahead onto siding. while our train
| was carried by its own impetus onto the
| upper deck of a steam ferry boat
moored at the end Of the line"
| Soon after De ,Ioinyille's return to
| France he was commissioned to go to
| st. Helena and fetch from there the
| body of the great Napoleon. At first
| he did not like his ''undertaker's Job"
but he went. for he says: 81 served
| my country, and | had no right to dis
| cuss my orders. And there were two
| sides to the question, besides. Above
| Napoleon, the enemy of my house, the
| murderer of the Due d'Enghien. who,
| at his fall, had left that dangerous game
| Of chance wherein the ignorant herd is
| so often the dupe of the political Group
| ier-universal suffrage-aS his legacy
| to ruined and dismembered France
| there was the matchlesS warrior, whose
| genius, even in defeat, had shed I'M
| mortal glory on our arms. To fetch his
| ashes from q foreign land was IN
manner to wave the flag OF vanqulshed
| France aloft once more-that at least
| was what we hoped for-and this view
Of the case recOnciled me to my mis-
| SION"
.f"Memoirs Of the Prince de Joiuville."
| New York: Macmillan d Co. 1928.
| For sale by the st. Paul Book and Sta
/ tionery company.l
Walter Raymond has in his "Gentle-
man Upcott's Daughter" and young
Sam and Sabina" presented to Amerl-
can readers two very quaint and unu-
sual pictures of West of England rural
life, so different from anything we
know as to be of unusual interest. He
now follows up his portrayals of Eng.
lish life with another volume on the
same, styled Love and Quiet Life"
the scene of which is laid i'll Somerset;
and so odd are the characters presented
that one involuntarily asks, "no these
things still exist" 10 which he re-
plies: Truly, i'll remote districts, vii
lagos on the moor and hamletS on the
hillside, does the old spirit still linger
undislurbed; and there, at this moment,
it catches a new poetic beauty, as it
were the glow of a departing day." The
volume will be read with continuous in
terest.
Raymond. New York, Dodd, Mead &
Co; $3.50. For sale by the st. Paul
Book and Stationery company.
In side Glimpses From Colonial
Meeting House," William Root Bliss
does not draw the serene and peaceful
picture of life in colonial New England
that we are accustomed to-. by any
means. The meeting house is described
cussions that would do anything but
serve to promote the spiritual and re-
ligious feeling, and the old stories of
the quantity Of run consumed by the
attendants at a church raising" are &C.
cording to that author authentic.
reside Gimpses From Colonial
Meeting House." by William Root
Bliss. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co..
$3.50. For sale by the st. Paul Book
aud Stationery compang.l
r."
"a Romance of Dion" is the latest
volume from M. Betnam Edwards, the
weu~k1own author Of The Curb of
HONOR and is issued by MACMILLAN &
Co. Miss Edwards has from her first
efforts in literature been regarded as
skillfuI, not only In her portrayal Of
characters, but of scenery as we'll. gen
orally choosing for the latter some re
mote part of Spain or France. She has
been equally skillful in drawing splen-
did character sketches in her late work,
and has laid the scene of her novel in
the ancient city OF Charles the Bold. DE-
ion, in Burgundy, amid its feudal fort
resses, lofty cathedral spires and grim
towers, which look out on the beautiful
wine country around. The o story is
strong one, full OF ROMANCE ma ana raaal love
books of the holiday season.:
I"A Romance of Dijon." By NJ. Beth
am Edwards. New York: Macmillan
$50: SIPS. For sale by the st. Paul
Book and Stationery company.l
~
deacon Lights of Patriotism." a
selection of patriotic utterances in prose
and verse, is dedicated to American
youth by the author, We doubt very
much if any healthy American youth
will become sufficiently interested in
this collection to derive much benefit