The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-26

INNS lLsssWl Elg. Iffe-- feffecLlng OF
! afan. 4t1is efsnox Particular use to say
that the symbolism is blasphemous
Nothing is blasphemous nowadays. But
it is certainly revolving, and indicates
deplorable lack of imagination on the
part of the writer.
At the end of the book, when the
ship-wrecked Englishman finally gets
back to his own country, life grows a
horror to him there.
81 could not persuade myself that
the men and women / met were not
also another, Beast-people, animals half
wrought into the outward image of
human souls, and that they would
presently begin to revert-to show first
this bestial mark and then that. I do
not expect that the terror of that
island will ever altogether leave me;
there are times when the little cloud
spreads until it obscures the whole sky.
Then I look about me at my fellow
men and l go in fear. see faces keen
and bright, others, dull or dangerous;
others. unsteady, insincere-none that
have the calm authority Of a reason
able soul. l feel as though the animal
was surging up through them; that
presently the degradation of the Island
ers will be played over again on
larger scale. I know this is an Illusion;
that these seeming men and women
about me are indeed men and women,
men and women forever perfectly
reasonable creatures full Of human de-
sires and tender solicitude, emancipated
from instinct and the slaves of no
fantastic law-beings altogether differ
ent from the Beast-Folk Yet I shrink
from them, from their curious glances.
their inquiries and assistance, and long
to be away from them and alone"
Enough has been said to show that
1.-THE Island of DR.. Moreau" will give
an tmpressionable person the horrors
for week-which Is the extreme limit
thank heaven, Of the harm a modern
author is able to accomplish!
c'The Island of DR.. Moreau," by H G..
For sale by the St Paul Book and Stationery
Company
"The Ouananiche and It's Canadian
Environment" Is a book for sportsmen
with a scientific turn of thought, or
for scientists with taste for sport
The ouananiche is the salmon found
in various inland waters of Northern
and Eastern Canada which communi-
cate with the sea, and it has the reputa-
ton of being one Of the "gameSt'
fishes known to lovers of the rod. Mr..
Chambers has written a very complete
and interesting monograph regarding
it. He takes up first the description,
classification and habits of the fish;
considers the philology Of the word
"ouananiche;" describes the methods
of angling for it; devotes a chapter to
its geographical distribution, and an
other to it's Canadian environment in
general, while several are devoted to
the particular resorts where the author
has pursued and caught the fish. Some
space is also devoted to the other fish
and game of the same waters, and the
concluding chapter deals with the
Montagnois Indians and their folklore
The volume is very handsomely printed
and bound
(''T. he Ouananiche and It's Canadian En-
vironment," by E. D. T. Chambers. New
York. Harper & Bros. 81. For sale by the st.
Paul Book and Stationery company
The Macmillan company issue a neat
edition Of the poems Of INLAND in the
German text The contents Of the
volume, which will commend itself to
lovers Of German literature, have been
carefully selected and edited by Prof
w. T. Hewett, Of Cornell.
(''The Poems of INLAND" New York
The Macmillan Company. $1.10. For sale by
the st. Paul Book and Stationary company)
1.-THE Broken Ring is by the author
Of Her Majesty" which will be re-
membered by flction-consumers as one
Of the prettiest and brightest Of last
summers novels. Miss Tompkins' new
novel is also a very pretty story and
prettily told. 1t deals with the love-
affair of Princess Lenore, of Herzog-
thum, and Captain Delorme, Of KONG
reich. These two Kingdoms are at war
with each other, and the handsome cap
tain makes captives of the willful prin-
cess and her maid as they are driving
through an out-of-the-Way corner Of
the Konigreich kingdom. The royal
captive, instead of being sent to the
capital, is conveyed to an old stone mill
in the depths Of a forest, and the cap
tain-who is really a person of much
more exalted rank-lays artful siege
to the heart of the princess while act
ing as her stern jailer. The love-scenes
of the book are natural fresh and
charming. 1t seems ungracious to find
fault with SO pleasant a story in
day when pleasant stories are very
rare, but would not Miss Tompkins do
well to abandon her mythical German
kingdoms with their royal inhabitants
and take up with American youth?
THE Broken Ring is good, but it is
less good than was "Her Majesty" for
the reason that the setting of the two
stories is too much alike.
81
Tompkins. New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons.
80 cents. For sale by the st. Paul Book and
Stationery company
> Brander Matthews was so fiercely as
sailed as a realist, cut-and-dried,
hard-as-nails kind of realist, after the
publication of His Fathers Son." that
he has not unnaturally yielded to the
temptation to remind a very unobserv-
ant public that he can do other things
equally well, and when it is needful
can be unf1inchingly true to dreams.
Tales of Fantasyy and Fact deal
chiefly with the former element
and the denounced realist finds
himself so very much at home
in it as to give rise to the
supposition that it may be his
native heath. Most Of the tales are
reprinted from the periodicals. The
two which are in Prof. Matthews best
and most genial vein are 1.-THE Rival
Ghosts" and THE Twinkling Of an
Eye" The latter Is the detective story
which took the second prize in the syn
dictate competition in which Miss Will
kins won first laurels. 'The Rival
Ghosts" as magazine readers will re-
member, deals with the complications
that ensued when Eliphalet Duncan,
lawyer, of New York, visited the Dun
0o n hoy c.