The sun., 1896-06-20
NEW NOOK
Brief Reviews OF Importnut and Interest
ing New Publication


"Mapuie. )" by Steuhen Crnno 3D. Applcton &
COY is a story NJ n truek driver. n bartender.
and n Girl who vorked IN n collar and cun
foc,orv 7, IAN storv ~ i,nnressionis,ic reoIis,u
liko AIR. Crnne,s ,yor story "The Red Radre of
Courage" which the London reyiewers with
unnnimity md enthusiasm pronounced the
rcal thing "Naygic ~ ia also n n ronl thing "a,
shop,d ,bInk ,honuh Il n,av bc that n ia mt
onv tho moro l,veIv nv reason NJ Tint circum
stance Thetruck drivers name is Jimmie md
he and NopuIe ara brother and sister I, IL won-
derhl thnt tbev should ever have grown up. The
combined n experience in war OF Nopolcon Roma
parte Frederick the Great Lord Nelson Iulius
Caesar. and Scipio Afrlcanus could scarcely have
involved the turmoil and the violence that sur.
rounded md befen this pair In tho first twenty
pnpcs Of this story there is moro noise and riot
than wa should have supposed IL possible for
even forty volumes of fiction to contain Ronrs
valiant ronrs, roaring curses ana roaring babies
flil tho first twenty pages and there is also, on
mage 10 IN nuflied runr of conversation" The
frat twenty pages would be remarkable. in tho
book perhaps were IL not for the circumstance
TINT tho other pages are a good deal like
them. Yer fnder, d--n his soul" Jim
mis sat nursing his various wounds"
"Mnggle broke n plate" "'Good Gawdw she
howled." "Th, little boy ran to the hnlls.
shrieking like monk In an carthqunkc" These
are mere sentiments or impressions gathered by
opening the pages of "MngEio" quite casually
They sound ike tho real thing, though wo have
absolutely no notion regarding the shouting OF
a monk In IN earthquake. Tho inexpcrenced
fbres OF the boys eyes wer, hardened Mt an
early nge. He became n young man OF leather
He lived some rcd years without laooring.
During that time his snecr became chronic"
That 10 about Jimmie. We should never
dream OF contradlcting It, "Jimmic's occupn-
ton for n long time was TO stand ON street cor
ners and watch the world 20 By. dreaming
blood red dreams at the passing of pretty
women" Surely we need not go on quoting;
anybody can see from so much that the book is
lur,d enough to be forty times the real thing,
There is a chapter of excellent humor, describ.
ing Jimmles manner of driving a truck: hut
not all the humor Is Intentional. Pete the
bartender. betrays Maggie and she walks down
TO the end of n street and disposcs of herself In
waters that "lap oilily against timbers." Pete
himself, and Jimmie, and Jlmmie's besot,ed
mother come to no conclusion in the story
They are left to continue the bloud-rcd life
through tho red years. Perhaps that is the
proper punishment for them. Jimmle's sneer Is
chronic. 1t is TO be remembered, and tho bar
tender must pay to have his Jackets laundered
THE Nth Commandment" by Halliwell
Sutcliffe New Amsterdam Book Companyl. is
the story OF n young curate who is dissatisfied
with the conventions and the Inertia of the
Established Church In England and who leaves
the ministry eventually IN order TO become n
novelist. How much the sympathy OF tho
reader will assert itself In behalf OF the curate
will depend. we should think. upon tho depth
OF the readers own feeling in regard TO
those matters by which the cura,e was
disturbed. He girded at tie necessity