The Portland daily press., 1896-03-24

this point on happenings
of another color come into
his life; these the readers will asoer
tain in the course of the narrative.
The first portion of this story Is excellent
and does some good literary scoring
"MacAdam came next day. and found
his patient hollow-eyed and qu1escent
from pain, bound hand and foot in the
iron thrall of Mrs Higson, whose nurs-
ing was of distinctly penal character. "
WANT of pluck was not among his
sins, though Mrs. Higson, armed with a
raving mustard plaster, might have ap-
palled the brayest." "When you ha We
never opened your mind to anybody for
sixteen years, the hinges have got stiff
''That we love those we benefit is true,
but we also feel that we have right to
reprove them, if necessary"
The Apotheosis of Mr.. Tyrawley is
not story of even merit throughout,
but it is original, and it offers study
of probabilities gi ven discouraged hu
man being to rectify and reoreate. The
scene iyides itself between London sooi-
ETY., an English country house and the
side streets of suburb the vending place
of costers and oookney trades folk. New
York: Haprer & Brothers; Portland:
Lorlng, Short & Harmon.
In Search of Quiet. A Country Jour-
nal, May-July, by Water Firth. Both
wrought upon and ennuyed by the ex-
elements of the English metropolis, a
society man, a lawyer bent upon writ ng
a book in his profession. betakes him.
self to the quietest of farms, in order to
commune with nature, deveIope his
manuscript and compose his nerves.
This three-ply ruse serves as we'll as
another to put us en- rapport with a mind
both bright and quaint. There is quiet,
homely fun along the pages of this sketch
story-book, which is refreshing and ac-
ceptable, but which is lost in part as
the general plot gets the upper hand to-
wards the close of the narrative.
For taste of the quality of this pleas
ant reading we may gather here and
UlClO q SchlIp4us ALO oAuuO1 NObOIlOo5 NIL.
Chick, the farmer with whom he makes
his abode, as "a very shy man, much
given to darting out of my way. He can t
write; never was in Lnodon but once,
and never wants to go there again. Put
Elm down in a oOpss, he says, and he
knows where he is; but put him down in
a large town, and he sort of goes sense
less'." The phrase Fright here" our au-
thor correctly terms American. Z"
"Now it grows eventide, and I must be
getting Monochrome to my lodgings
across the cowslip fields, the stiles; along
to my frugal dinner, my pipe, my sweet
rough bed, my pleasant waking in the
morning." For a descriptive drawing,
with few lipes-"a girl of two or three
and twenty, with the most charming,
gentle, serious, what may call stained
glass expression. and beautiful braided
masses of hair, something between red
and gold.''
And now begins the acquaintance Of
the Gentleman in search of quiet'' with
the inhabitants of this English village
and the single idyl extends itself, and
by and by tragedy creeps in, and SO
the story moves on-a story unusual for
sweetness and simplicity. New York |:
Harper & Brothers; Portland: I4oring,
Short & HARMONY
James Inwick. Ploughman and Elder,
by p. Hay Hunter. With Glossary.
Unless you are one of those easily can
tankerous persons who can not abide the
Scotch dialect, you will find this recital
of "The Frees'' and "Auld Kirk" of
guileless circle, "Mr. Tod-Lowrie, @.
G. M. P, of the subtle influence of
"Jess'' over the man who would pose as
altogether beyond feminine influence
you will fnd it, I say, very shrewd and
atural and a musing, with just the
touch of pathos which comes Of any pres
entation of life freed from artificiality.
james Inwick, however, is merry rather
than sad, which cannot be said of many
of these character sketches typified, for
example, by The Bonnie Brier Bush. TO
quote-''for Puir Pete had maist as
tonishin' memory, an foeby that, he aye
makit down the text, and whules the
heids on the side o. his bulk an the min
lister couldna gle an aud sermon over
again at an opra time without the hall
parish hearin'o It." And here is a de-
scription of a PASTORS exhausting his
subject, put in unoompomisingly plain
form: "He didna just STAN up an
haver in the pulpit, like heap o. them /;
he aye spak sense, an keepit grup O.
his subjec,' an meier flung ava a text
till he'd glen ye the CUTS o't.' New
York: Haprer & Brothers; Portland :
Loring, Short & HARMONY
Studies of Childhood, by James Sully.
M. A. LII D., Grote Professor of Phil
osophy of Mind and Logic, University
College, London; author of Outlines OF
| Psychology. etc. This is book which
ought to be in the hands of kindergart-
ners, Primary School Teachers, of wise
pa rents, and indeed, of all students OF
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