St. Paul daily globe., 1895-12-22

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bindings.
('The One Who Looked On By F. F
Montresor. New York D. Appleton
& Co. $1.25. For sale by the St. Paul
Book and Stationery Company
1t takes all kinds of books, as well
as all kinds of people, to make up q
world..'A Pitiless Passion" is one OF
the books which would be better if,
as an Irishman might say, it were
another book altogether. In other
words, in choosing the fatal inclina-
ton of a lovely young woman for
strong drink as her subject, Miss
/ MacMahon has at one stroke repelled
half her audieince. 1t is a hideous,
| pitiable subject. We are sorry for
George and Norman, her husband,
but we would prefer that the authors S
| cleverness were expended in telling
us about people about people of a
different sort. The vice of intoXica-
ton is very rare indeed among the
class of women who read novels of
| this kind, and it is hardly probable
| that it will do enough good as a
tract to atone for it's unpleasant
qualities as a tale. The minor char
| acters are pleasing and well drawn.
Magdalen Ponsonby in particular is
graciously conceived and finely exc
cuted. Miss MacMahon is compara-
lively new writer, but a facile and
interesting one.
CA Pitiless Passion" By Ella Mac
Mahon. New York. Macmillan & Co.
S1.25. For sale by the st. Paul Book
and Stationery Company
'The Young CASTELAR," is one Of
the stirring stories with which
George Manville Fem is accustomed
to arouse the heart of youth. It
deals with certain events of the civil
wars in England, chiefly as they af-
/ fected Castle Royland. Sir CRANKY
! Royland was summoned away to
fight for the king, and the duty of
putting the old keep in fighting con-
dition devolved upon his young son
Roy and Ben Martlett, a faithful
man at arms. The account of how
they did this, how they trained their
raw recruits and what happened
when the fighting really began, will
be intensely interesting to any prop
erly constituted boy, and makes very
pleasant reading for the boys elders.
C'The Young Castelar," By George
Manville Fem. Philadelphia. j. p
L1ppimcott company. $1.50. For sale
by the st. Paul Book and Stationery
Company
A charming gift-book and one
especially appropriate to send to
friends at a distance, since it shows
what dainty work st. Paul can do
in this line, is the variorum edition
of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,
issued by the E. W. Potter company,
of this city. If there are any read
ers so unfortunate as not to know
Omar, they cannot make his ac-
quaintance in a more attractive
guise, while his old friends will be
glad to have the different readings
of divers quotations, heretofore con-
fined to scattered and inaccessible
periodicals, placed with the familiar
text. Paper, printing and binding
are perfect of their kind, and the
book is a delight to the eye and the
touch. The frontispiece of the vol
ume is drawn by Mrs. A. De F. Par
sons, so that the art of st. Paul is
admirably illustrated in the little
volume, as we'll as it's more mechan-
ical resources in the art of book
making.
('"The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam."
st. Paul. The e. w. Porter Comra
ny. $1)
"Stolen Souls" is the promising
title of volume of short stories by
the brilliant young author of "Zor-
aida" Hypnotism, anarchism, mys-
terious murders, strange thefts and
occult adventures which take place
all over Europe, from Siberia to
Egypt, are Mr.. lie QueuX's themes,