The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

the s'seraphine' by means of guesses
ON "a bottle of beans, and his daugh-
ters~stern reputation of his money
making schemes 1t is impossible not
to find traces of morbidity in the lat
ter part of the book which even Mrs.
Growers discoveries in the last chap
ter part Of the book, which even Mrs.
entirely eliminate. but as the morbid
ity seems to be inseparable from the
interest, which is everywhere strong
ly sustained, the average reader prob
ably will not object to it.
c'Mrs. Gerald by Marie Louise Pool. New
York. Harper & Bros. $1.50. For sale by
the st. Paul Book and Stationery company
Julian Hawthorne has discovered the
spirituality of human affection, and
has written a romance about it which
is very interesting and quite different
from any Of Mr.. Hawthorne's previous
works. In many respects this latter
fact is in its favor, for Mr.. Hawthorne's
novels have heretofore been largely of
the mechanical type and have failed to
Impress the reader with the authors
grasp on this world, as we'll as on the
next. Love Is a Spirit" is very far
from mechanical. 1t might be the work
of a man of twenty-five, filled with
enthusiasm for his theme. 1t is fresh,
vigorous and crude with the happy
crudeness of youth and inexperience.
The most absorbing problem presented
to the reader Is to guess how, at fifty
or whereabouts, the author has con-
trived to do this thing. 1t amounts to
new birth intellectually, and the
promise of Mr.. Hawthorne's second
youth, let us hasten to add, seems
far richer and more hopeful than
that of his first. The book, certainly,
Is not what the world might expect
from Hawthorne's son in the plentitude
of his powers, but 1t is much nearer
the general kind of thing the world
has always expected Hawthorne's son
to do than. anything it's author has
produced hitherto. Its spirituality may
be crude and 1t is decidedly morbid,
but it is alive, 1t is real, and the psy-
chology at moments is penetrating and
profound. The spectacular ending Is
in a cheaper vein than the rest of the
book and jars very decidedly upon the
readers nerves, almost effacing, as he
lays down the book, the kinder i'm
preston produced by the earnestness of
the earlier chapters. But, like
all spiritual dramas, 1t was a
difficult thing to bring to a
satisfactory close upon an earthly
stage. We are not entirely convinced,
however, that such difficulty was suf-
f1cient to justify Mr.. Hawthorne in i'm
porting the supernatural element into
a romance which would have been
stronger had it been kept a purely
psychological study.
Glove Is Spirit" by Julian Hawthorne
New York. Harper & Bros SIPS. For sale
by the St. Paul Book and Stationery COM
pany)
It is reported that the publishers
have already sold 100000 copies of the
Temple edition Of Shakespeare. The
latest issues in the series are Mac
BETH" with an etched frontispiece Of
the interior of the old Swan theater,
and Antony and Cleopatra" In the
latter volume the etching is head of
Cleopatra taken from g. bust in the
British museum.
C'Macbeth'' Antony and Cleopatra
The Temple Shakespeare. New York. The
Macmillan Co. 40 cents each. For sale by
the st. Paul Book and Stationery company
-Cornelia Atwood Pratt.