The herald., 1896-01-26


Spirit, and live out thy Ii e as the light
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This bright bit of verse was inspired
at looking upon a picture by Monet
the picture of the divinely new COW.
"Under turgid sky of autumn day
Against a sunset reveling in tone,
Beside a scraggy stack of purple hay,
most divine green COW! you stand alone,
Ind MUNICH on grasses red aud blue and pink,
And every color save simple green.
Tell me, sweet one, in calthood did you think
That some day by man you would be seen
Who had chromato.pseudo-b bleph eh?
And that you'd be picture by Monet?'
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Very few books have come out since
the fall output. A great lull is on the
trade everywhere. Publishers send
only few of the commoner sorts to
this coast for review, anyway, so re-
stricted has been the sale of good books
in years past. It is to be hoped that
all this will be changed before long,
and the worthy efforts of the dealers
here be appreciated by publishers,
through enlarged liberality.
PObll SOClEI1 POLlIE Ana Otner
Lawson, Wolfe Il Co., Boston and New
York. For sale by stoll & 1hayer.
OF seven essays, the one which gives
title to the book and The Salon in
America are most interesting and po-
tent. They deal with real life, and the
best side of real life-the social side.
Mrs. Howe is charitably disposed
towards polite society, but deplores
the apparent fact that the rules which
govern in 1t are not the rules of right
and reason. She calls to our mind that
the king of Wall street, chief of stock
gamblers, found every door opened to
him.
"No assemblsge was perfect without
him. One unlucky throw overturned
all this. Down went his fortune; down
his eminence.'
HE was dropped as coldly and self
ishly as he was taken up."
Many kinds of coarseness are named,
and the conclusion is that real excel
lence has not much to do with making
up society as 1t is found today. There
is too much assumption of some espe-
cial merit.
"The dressy young lady puts on airs
and struts in fine clothes, or conde-
scends from an elegant carriage. Elder
women show it in hardness and hateur
of countenance or in unnecessary pat
ronage. We allow classes of people to
assume special merit on false grounds.
It may very easily be shown that it re-
quires more talent and merit to earn
money than to spend it, yet, by almost
common consent of the fashionable
world, those who inherit or marry
money are allowed to place themselves
above those who earn it. If this is the
case with men, much more is it the
case with women. Good society often
feels itself obliged to apologize for a
lady who earns money" ,,y .rue
=, These are plain words, but W. a.
ePASo,-, N---.- -OAi Iu0 oUCIdl trouble
of community is traceable to this un-
happy fact. Thrift is neither honored
nor approved Of, by those who have
come into easy ways of getting money,
and foolish ways of spending it.
Said one little girl to another, a little
while ago, as she pointed across the
street to good looking residence in
the southwest portion of the city, 81
suppose they are all we'll enough, but
they are not very nice people-they
mostly mace their money by saving
It'll" This is known to the writer to be
q true incident.
Mrs. Howe's final word is this: 81
do not think that the manners of So
called society today are so polite as
they were in my youth. Young women
OF fashion seem to me to have lost in
dignity and character, and in general
tone and culture. Young men of fash
ION seem to regard the young ladies
with less esteem and Difference, and a
general cheap and easy standard of
manners is the result
Outside of this charmed circle, how
ever, Mrs. Howe finds the standard of
refinement and good breeding higher
than half a century ago, which is what
most observant persons everywhere
note. 1t would seem that certain peo-
pie who are pleased to call themselves
'soclety," are not, as a rule, the best
bred and most cultured men and
women in the community, even in the
east where culture is supposed TO 90
for so much. What shall be said of the
case in the far distant and terribly new
west?
Surely this is to be said: the case is
bad enough.
THE MAVERICK CASE. By Dr.. HELEN pEss.
We have received from the author.
VASs ~ ChO VoJ5 10 AOW Ill
Southern California, a copy of her spir-
tied monograph on this famous case.
but have only had opportunity to OK
anime it very slightly. 1t purports to
contain the main facts and points of
the controversy, with something of
an account of what the women of this
country are doing to get further
hearing for their imprisoned sister. It
is a strong book, but whether it is
wholly fair we cannot say.
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THE SISTER OF A SAINT. and Other stories
by GRACE ELLERY CLAIMING Stone a
Klmball, Chicago. For sale by Stoll a
Thayer ~ ''0-' ~
The author here sets down six most
excellent short stories, and the pnb-
fishers have made out of them one Of
the ost attractive books of the season.
In point of local interest The Basket of
Anita will be found the most note |
worthy. it being story of this very re-
gion. 1t is simply and forcibly told.
In point of dramatic force, A Strange
Dinner Party, a tale of early New Eng
land, is, perhaps, most deserving the
foremost place in the list. This is a
worthy little volume and deserves
praise and recognition. 1t is high
toned and wholesome book, and does
credit to the stock from which tile au-
thor is descended.