The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-05-30
FICTION.

There ere eight stories in the hand
some little book which Way & Will
liams, Chicago. have just published for
Mrs. Ella w. Peattie. and the title OF
the book Is taken from that OF the hrst
of these stories. "A Mountain woman
which describes the acute unhapptness
Of q western goddess of nature when
suddenly transplanted from the grand
eur Of her home among the mountains
and the cataracts into the stuffy COM
monplaces of fashionable New York.
The "mountain won an" sta DIS this de-
pressing contrast as long as she can,
considering that 1t Is part of her honey
moon, and at last makes a break for
liberty by returning very mysteriously
to her occidental surroundings. There
her bewildered husband finally finds
her, and there he has the unexpected
good sense to permit her to remain, he
choosing her home in preference to his
own.
1t does not follow, however, that this
first story is the best. The second one,
'Jim Lancys Waterloo" Is distinctly
superior Perhaps some Of our readers
recall its original appearance in the
Cosmopolitan. 1t Is the story of Ne
braska farmers grim, silent and ul-
timately disastrous battle against ex-
tortionate railway charges, drouth and
mortgages. The story opens with
Lancy taking his newly welded wife
from Illinois to their future prairie
home, both happy. hopeful, contented.
1t closes with the woman returning
within two years dull. apathetic and
detected, to her parents, prematurely
broken on the rack Of western poverty
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sense a companion Voiume 10 Henry w.
Nevinsons earlier work, the sum
stories or London. 1t carries ln,o the
keen perceptiveness and the same
power over broad effects which char
acterized his study of the municipal
problem. 1t aims to put upon the can
vas with sharp outline and daring con-
trasts of light and shade realistic pic
lures Of the suffering and stress Of
1those whom fate has ground down
hinder the cogs and spindles and wheels
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llustrate its own moral Nv very
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