The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1896-05-17

a powerful influence for good, and tend
to correct these standards. Women are
becoming educated up to their respon-
sibiliteS, and when men come to know
that women expect from them al mat
ter of course just the same standard or
conduct as men expect from women, it
will eventually mean all influence work.
ing almost exclusively for good
Would you open all vocationS to Wo-
men?"
The restrictions placed on women
by nature are so obvious and so gen
orally admitted by women themselves.
that any artificial restrictions are out
of place and uncalled-for."
What do you think is the tendency
of modern literature?'
ION the whole l think it is good. The
tendency towards scrappiness and SEN
sationaliSm is only the naturel result OF
a period when, for the first time in gar
history, the lower masses of the people
have begun to read anything. The food
provided for their mental palates SHOW
ever, suited to their wants, which Will
doubtless improve as time goes on.
incidentally speaking of pessimism
Mr.. Kidd said that you always find 1t
amongst the upper classes, because as
a matter of fact, the springs of vitality
in society are to be found elsewhere
CINDERELLA AND OTHER STOR-
les. BY Richard Harding Davis.
Charles Scribner's Sons, New York.
For sale by Stoll 4 Thayer.
Cinderella is one more of the truly
Van Bibber stories, and smacks OF New
York at every turn. The scene opens
at the Hotel Salisbury, (which is so
called because situated on Broadway
and constructed on the American plan
by man named Riggs" 1t is good
story, one of the best of the many that
have made the author famous.
Four others follow Cinderella, and the
five make up this newest volume just
now given to the public. One or two of
these have been made familiar to maya
zine readers, but to the general public
they are all new, and the volume VIII
be eagerly sought.
THOSE GOOD NORMANS. BY Gyp.
author of Chiffon's Marriage, etc.
Translated from the French by Ma
RE Jussen. Rand, McNally & Co.,
Chicago.
We have to confess that we have
never read any of the pretty Comtesse
Martel's novels except Chiffon's Mar
riage, and that one we neither liked nor
approved. 1t was commonplace as to
everything but one or two outbreaks Of
wickedness, and even these We're not
very interesting.
The present volume is wholly made
up of dialogue. and is rather trying be-
cause or the dWkWdruHeSS-dI least, at
first-of this form of writing. The theme
is family Of Norman descent who have
made up their minds to get their
moneys worth out of the world, and
especially from their OUTLAWS at the Nor
man watering place. where Madame
Dutrac has taken the family to set up
an establishment for social business. l"
Madame Dutrac's portrait is thus
given: "Forty-five years of age. Lean,
but not slender; dry and angular
Punched nostrils; thin, white lips. Enor-
nous hands, fat and red, which seem to
belong to another body. Dress: Triple
balloon sleeves; twentyfour gore skirt;
Material expensive and loud. Charac-
ter: Neither heart nor intelligence"
And so Gyp goes through the fam
ily-and everybody else, for that matter
-impaling her wrggling victims upon
the point of the sharpest of Gallic pens
She is the chief of that modern band of
critics who have taken to serio-comic
satire for their pastime. and their bread
and butter, as well: and he who likes
a torrent of perslage will like this
book, though 1t but tells of far-away
Normans of very ancient type.
A KING AND A FEW DUKES. BY
Robert w. Chambers, author of
The Red Republic" etc. G. p.
Putnam's Sons. New York.
1.-THE Red Republic" which has been
once or twice mentioned in these pages,
was novel SO strong in color and ac-