The sun., 1896-08-22
NEW BooKs.
nrier Reviews or Important and Interest
| ing New Publications.

will remember. perhaps, that In the novel called
"The Golden House," Mr.. Charles Dudley War
ner represented the east side of New York rs
most unhappy area Everybody, including the
German characters, convcrsed mournfully in
tho Yankee dialect and tho fcw persons who
were not consumptlve starved on the low wages
paid for needle work on shirts md pants"
There was, as we remember, no nmeliorating
circumstances. We cannot be positive upon tho
point, but II does not seem to us as though there
were any delicatessen or any beer Nobody went
TO wake or n wedding or danced alta chrlsten-
ing: nobody had gin or whiskey or mixed ale
with dash of pepper to make 10 hot In the coll
lar; nobody broke clay pipes In shooting gall
lory, or had his photograph taken. or played
tcnpins and roAred at the commission OF
pumpe or ate oysters and cold slnw ensan-
euined with tomato ketohup-at least we think
that nobody did. Then In Mr.. Stephen CRANES
east side stories, IL will be remembered, every
thing was dialogue and tragedy. Mr.. Crane
wrote whole book about Georges mother,
n little old woman who did nothing in par
tlcuar but wash dishes and converse and
die, and another about Maggie, young collar
and ouff ironer. who was unhappy In love and
who jumped into the river. In these several
tales there was little or no Joy permitted to the
east side. Mr.. Crane had drinking, but It
was drinking Of a wholly wicked and depress-
Ing character. He had humor. too. but 1t was
apt to be grim humor, and was generally en-
ployed for tho accentuntion and promotion OF
the tragic idea. The play OF his Imagination,
moreover. was essentially tragic and terrible;
his analysis Of the color of the death stains OF
spirits In Georges Mother" afforded nndoubt-
edly one of the most uncanny suggestions
that the east side has ever suffered
aud had fxed upon II. Mr.. Howells has drawn
attention TO the fact that the realism of tho
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cal or the humorous process. This is reasonable
enough. 1t is we'll known that people weep aud
laugh both, on tho east side rs well as In other
places and there can be no question that II is
permissible for the realist to work out his i'm
pressions upon either OF these lines. according
to his own mental and spiritual idiosyncrasy.
So far as we have observed. indeed, II is
proper for q realst to do anything; he
may even write romantcism II he likes: at
least, upon no other theory have we found 1t
possible to account for MIR. Howells's autobi-
ography. and for some of the most recent fiction
OF the late Prof. Boycsen. A new story. "Yeki;
Tale of the New York Ghetto" by A. Cahan ID.
Appleton & Cob. is not in the least like Mr..
Cranes stories and still not In the least like Mr.
Warmers account OF the east side, and yet Mr..
Howelrs kindly and even Enthusiastically
attaches to 1t the warrant OF realism and we do
not doubt for q moment that this warrant Is
perfectly deserved. II would be rather curious
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who Is a native New York novelist has repeat
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seams IN ma. wer, inclined 10 b. zoo statistical
and IN be too rnpcb oiven- evsn whom ,hev wcrs
Germans 10 .he dialect OF Eas, Haddam. We
remember that tho prevailjng east aldo prices
for main sewing were act forth Mt prcot length
in tho conversation of one Of Mr. Warmers chnr.
ac,ers. this wa did NOT much care about Mr.
Cahau gives the idioms and the imapery OF IN.
Yiddish. and these are frequently very Interest,"
inv He gives ma also tho Fnoii.h words TIM,
have been acouired in tho ghetto and sn.lls
them as thev ara pronounced His hero nrides
himself on his advances toward the perfected
"yankee" " style. ho IL n big Iustv fellow wbo
has learned to talk intelligently Of John L. Sal
Iivan. aud who goes to dancing school and
makes love to the girls and wears patent
leather shoes. The story hinges upon his
despair at the sight Of his wife, when she comes
over from Russia after several years OF separa.
ton. She wears n wig and In other ways offends
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