The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-04-14
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II have Killed thee,' she breatnec, -
have killed thee--though Imeent it not
even hell itself doth KNOW"
"By her great diyan the dead man
had fallen She put her strong
hand forth aud thrust him--ne was al
ready stifening backward from the
shoulder until IL lay stretched
beneath the grent broad seat, It's glazed
and open eyes seeming 10 stare upward
blsnkly az the low roof OF its strange
prison. Then my Lady DunstRnwolde
drew the oreperles down about the di-
van and that was the end of the lover who
had loved her on a wager that he could
prove that proud as she was she was only
woman and weak.
And that was also about the end OF
Clorinda, the heroine of Mrs. Francis
OF Quality" Mrs. Burnett has created
violent women before and has afforded
them ample reason for displaying their
violence. Clorinda kills ber particular
rascal with a loaded whip and she is in
murderous spirit even though she had not
designed to kill him. Then she airily
slowed the corpse, that, after all, was
only hateful thing to her, out of sight
under the divan and thus attempted TO
close AN incident, as the dipiomatists
would put it.
We guess that Clorinda will be found
fault with and the new book will meet
with plenty of protests. But it is selling
fast because il is mighty good reading
from the standpoint of the reader who
wants to be tingled by novel. There
is plenty OF tingle about "a Lady OF
Quality"
A LADY OF QUALITY. BY Francis
Hodgson Burnett. limo. Cloth.
Price, g. 30.
A soothing contrast to Clorinda is In
in the book of that title by A. 4. Quiller-
Couch. Here is love story, too, a love
idyll, the romance of a fisher girl that,
thank goodness, tends happily"-not
happily in the old time conventional way,
but still happily. la is a constant woman
and her constaucy Is Independent Of the
conventionaiities.
Another book of stories by the same au-
thor is called Wandering Heath" 1t is
q charming collection OF sketches and
legends with flavor of the sea about
many of them and with its beautiful
print, paper and binding the volume Is
immensely attractive.
Ia. BY Arthur Il. Quiller-Couch. 16mo.
Cloth. 20 cents.
WANDERING HEATH. Stories, studies and
sketches. BY "Q.n "a. II. Quilior-
Couch). limo. Cloth. sl.25.
Another book OF fine stories, Anthony
Hopes "Comedies of Courtsbip," Is
issued in the style Of Robert Grants
p" Bachelors Christmas" rough edged
and with a rich red cover, stylish
volume. There are six of these .'comed-
les" and for wholesome love stories with
out any clap-trap about them, we COM
mand them to lovers of love stories, who
are every body bewteen the ages of seven
teen and seventy. And we guess that
anybody who has ever been Gin love''
will recognize what Emerson meant by
the declaration that genius in writing is
only telling what everybody already
knows all about
COMEDIES OF CoyRTsHIr-By Anthony
Hope. 12mo. Cloth. sLe0.
49,
The late Eugene Fields "Love Affairs
of Ribliomanic, is, in the idiom of the
of love story. In its introduction his
brother tells us that the charming poet
and delightful ma was hopeless victim
of the disease called disease
that Mr.. Field himself referred TO as a
"soothing afiliction." The books he
possessed cost him many a hard earned
penny, many a pathetic sacrifice, but he
got them and loved them and one does not
need to be so fanstical a book lover to
enjoy these love tales written with oil the
Field spirit and all the Field heart with
tears and smiles mixed up together as
they always must be in true love affairs.
TEE LOVE AFFAIRS OF A BIBLIoMANIAc
BY Eugene Field. Cloth. s1.2h
Enriched with quaint pictures, daintily
printed and bound, Robert Louis Steven
sons "Child's Garden of Verses" Is de-
lightful volume. illustration and orna-
are by Charles Robinson, TO
whom all praise, whoever he may be.
Every page is illuminated by his sympa-
tnetic pencil. There Is nothing In all the
literature or the revival thereof
that Is more charming tnan this volume
of verse for children.
A CHILD's GARDEN OF NERsEs-By
Robert Louis Stevenson. I2mo. Cloth.
Rough edges. Gilt top. sL50
"Irallie's Bushranger," by IL. w. Hor-
nung, Is another clever story I'm the dainty
sketch, written with the speed and point
that characterize a good piece OF play
writing. IL Is dramatic and picturesque,
aud ii irresistably yanks the reader along
from first chapter to last.
IRRAIIE's BUsuRANaERs. BY T.. W.
lornung. 16mo. Cloth. Gill top.
s5 cents.
The Book OF a Hundred Games Is the
latest book of "parlor" amusements, and
IL is about the best in contents and ar
engagements thst we know Of Many OF
the "hunored games" are familiar or
will be recalled, but there are many that
Will he new to every body, ard probably
not one that will not bo new TO some
body.
The RooK or HUNDRED GAMES.
BY May White. Cloth. al.
The nsr est book 81 whist IA the recent
American edition 70 Cagendish, issued, byl
the i>cfllnsfs. And there can be 90 bet
ter hook. Ihs volume ~ convenient I'm
share, conYsa saieltiy arranged, illustrated
'Or efteT FsisfsAce, appropriately bound
and printed, snd in every eay commen-
surats % ~ parpose ~ manual The
English 'Hofk j. brought into harmony
with Aulefic18 pTartice and the book ia
thofOughiy ar eith the America game.
Both codes % lawasse, howeyer, included
CAvYsDsn on WHIST American edition.
Price, fi.Z5.
MARIE coREfII ~ RED.
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