The herald., 1895-12-22

just little bit like reading a forbidden
book" Still, we are told, sit only
atfecter her a little unwholesomeiy."
"She Gifted asked Rosie's father ques-
tions she would not have dared to ask
her uncle, for John butcher was be-
yond SEX" Indeed. she had always
been man of pure heart and plain
speech" even in his youth he was
perfectly free from any sensuality
and now, in middle life, seq was fact,
like the color of horse or squash"
and "all that pertained to it he talked
of upon the same plane"
But the worst of it is that our author
thinks that "all this should have been
tonic to Josie, and thoroughly whole
some to the dainty, over-bred girl"
Perhaps there can be found in modern
literature something more out Of place
and atrocious than this. but if so it has
escaped our notice.
But Rose had fine time of it in
Chicago, rioting in the companionships
of those delightfully."- frank people who
appear never to deem it safe to leave
much to the imagination. At last Mr.
Mason, person of whims and wheels
who edited newspaper, was invited to
the "Coolly" one fine summer when
Rose was at home. He walked with her
languidly among the trees and found
it so delightful that, in a moment OF
! ecstacy he actually declared: "Now,
think I rather like this!" When his
story was to end, ana he about to de-
part, his senses were 80 tumultuously
stirred that he actually proposed to
Rose in these hot words:
II cannot promise to be faithful to
you until death, but l shall be faithful
SO long as fill the relation of husband
to you. If at any time / find a woman
whom / feel l. should live with rather
than with you, l shall tell you of heI
with perfect frankness."
And, as if this were not enough, she
actually felt, or fancied that she felt, a
+ mans beard touch the back of heI
hand! Whereupon, although he offered
| to let the thing stand open for sixty OF
ninety days, the brave and noble girl
declared: 81 decide here and now
will go with you"
And presumably she went.
The small faults of such book one
! feels like ignoring. Even when q
friend is made to say to Rose, "Youl
Thoreau l have read, but he don't sui
! LILO ilho ClO I.OChJ hiOuhtesii iOiiO"o,
| one cares not 80 much that the author
despises the third person singular as
that ne seems to despise every person
who observes the amenities of correct
speech and refined life. But it would
appear 20 be too much to expect oil
Hamlin Garland that he write Of nicf
things in nice way, for if he had done
this he never would have been known
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| MARIPOsILLA-B MRS. CHARLES STEWART
! DAGGETr Rand, McNally &c Co., Chicago
and New York. Cloth, 81 %. For SALE
here by Stoli & Thayer
Mrs. Daggett has here pictured a
beautiful Spanish girl of San Gabriel
whose family had fallen from the ole
estate of leadership into poverty anc
dependence. 1t is a faithful and pa
thetic sketch of the family, the strange
ly beautiful daughter, the quaint ole
region and the new life that came with
the eastern tourists, among whom wers
Mrs. Sanderson and her son Sidney
The action OF the story is foreshorteneo
by the limit of its range, thus making
the book bare of incident. It may
have been the authors main purpose
to picture AN exalt locality, even t(
the sacrificing of plot and incident; or
perhaps, her intense love Of the beau
tiful region she portrays may have I'M
| consciously led her into elaborate de