The herald., 1896-02-09


fell from them, and it became theirs at
last to lay at the feet of the world the
greatest gift any nation has ever be-
stowed-an adequate revelation of the
purpose of God for humanity. And
that knowledge, which is the cure of
ignorance, is also the cure of egotism.
When we lose ours ,lves in the wider
whole, we attain that sanity of view
which made an American woman some
wears ago remind her sisters that "the
Eternal Womanly is beautiful. but the
Everlasting Womanly is capable of
getting itself laughed at"
FRAIL CHILDREN OF THE AIR; EXCUR-
sIoNS INTO THE WoRLn OF BUTTER
FLlhS. By SAMUEL HUBBARD BOULDER.
Houghton Mfiiin & Co, Boston.
Here is fine, handsome volume Of
279 pages, in which is told with charm
ing simplicity all the unscientific mind
could ever care to know about the
butterfly family. And it is an amazing
amount of knowledge, too, and made to
fit the popular need and taste. 1t is
technical enough for eXactness, and
yet couched in natural speech. and
cannot fail to do much towards stimu-
lating the study of entomology in
thoughtful and scholarly way.
Each of the papers that make up the
book is an independent treatise, and
still when taken together they make
up consistent history. a good index
is supplied, and is supplemented by
list Of works on butterflies, making the
volume quite complete. Il will not be
found so valuable for this extreme
west as for the east, which has been
the main field of the authors work and
observation. Foil plates illustrate the
book, though they are not colored as
soma of the costly editions of Mr..
Scudders works have been; but for
popular use nothing has been mora
satisfactory.
STATESMEN THREE. by ARCHIE FISK. No. I.
The Statesman Publishing Company, New
THE EFFEcrs OF THE GOLD STANDARD, by
w. II. SMITH. Charles II. Kerr e. Co., Chi.
cago.
These two cheap paper covered treat
ises on the gold robbery and silver
time, and deserve to be noticed to-
gether, since anybody who would read
one would read the other.
THE LARK, GELErT BURGESS, EDITOR. Pub.
lished by William Doxey, San Francisco.
This is No. 10 of very curious liter
airy AFFAIR." puzzle, in fact. at first
sight. 1t is printed on tongh, coarse
paper, and resembles paper bag when
first take in hand, but is tangle of
layers and folds when you begin to cut
the leaves. The illustrations would
make Bsardsly green with envy-or re-
morse. The first impression one has in
looking at the publication is that it is
a sort of literary high jinks. One fan
cies that the whole thing is conceived
and conducted by some clever news
paper men who are not on regular runs,
but have gone out upon siding to
blow off.
One of the pages presents a figure,
nude but for sash; in an attitude of
distrassful contemplation of nearby
window, and with the legend:
''The window has fouc little pa mes;
But one have Il;
The window panes are in its sash;
wonder why?"
This comes very near being cred liable
nonsense.
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A WHIRL AsUNDER. By GERTaUpE ATHEK-
TON Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York
For sale by stoll & Thayer.
Here is a little book that will be very
freely commented upon, which is what
publishers like.
OWN Give comes to San Francisco
to wed Mary Gordon, to whom he was
bstrothed two years before in K ngland.
Miss Gordon is staying in the Red
Woods forest, and in going to find her
Olive comes across the Bohemian club
at its big summer frolic one night. He
finds Helena Belmont watching the fun
from the shadows. They make short
work of getting acquainted. To him
she seemed very beautiful, as she
smoked the cigarette he gave her.
In due time he and Miss Gordon are
invited to Miss Belmont's home, near
by; but he alone goes. 1t is wonder
full place. no end of company. with bot
ties always cooling in the mountain
brook. The men who come to visit
there are many, and they linger long.
They are very free and easy as to dress,
and only put on coats and vests at din
ner time. Olive, the handsome Eng
lishman, awakens an interes! in Helena
which no other man had done, although
she had been formally engaged to eight,
the last one being then on his way from
New York to claim and carry her away.
Many things happen. Helena resolves
to ''cut out" Mary Gordon. To this
end she takes Olive away from the
company at the house one evening. far
up into the forest, where they sit on a
log and talk.
"They talked until the night turned
gray. Then Olive looked at his watch"
"Do you know what time it is?"
II do not in the least care!'
sit is 5 o'clock, and can see that you
are tired. Oome!"
When Helena finds the game is grow
ing desperate. and on the very night
before Olive declares he must leave
her, she commands him to meet her in
the drawing room. The two talk al
most as long as on the last occasion;
but the man makes break for liberty,
presumably, at last, for all at once
"she found herself on the other side
of the door and heard the key turn in
the lock-"
Did che suffocate with shame at all
this? Not at all.
"She only remembered that she was
very hungry and tired. She went into
the larder and sat on box and ate q
plate of cold chicken and bread; then
went to bed and slept sound!y."
Next morning Helena, having mean.
time calmly dismissed the man who
had come 5000 miles to marry her, an.
nounced that she had been beaten in
her attempt to win the Englishman, at
which all greatly wondered. A few
hours later and telephone message
| tells her that Olives train has gone off