The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-15

paint a fantastic and not a real world.
There are greater books on psychiatry
but this work is clever and for the un-
scientific reader who has an intelligent
interest in current civilization will
prove attractive.
C'Genius and Degeneration" by DR.. Will
lam Hlrsch. D. Appleton & Co. New York
$3.50. For sale by the St. Paul Book and
Stationery company
Capt. Charles Kings latest story. "a
Tame Surrender" is quite the best
which he has published for several
years. OF late the tales of this ever
popular but not always equally inter-
esting story-teller have moved a. ittl,
heavily and have had a somewhat
3Foded air as if their author were be-
slhhlng h1msen to weary Of
the incidents Of army life
which, even when exciting. ex
hlp1ts certain monotony in excite
ment. "A Tame Surrender is a. story
OF the Chicago railroad strike Of 1891
the field fs a fresh one and the book
nas something of the breezy vigor and
freshness which secured the popularity
CT Capt. Kings earlier novels.
"a Tame Surrender" by Capt. Charles
~ ing, FnllaoeIphla Is cents. For sale bv
the ST. Paul Book and Stationery comnanvI
In Limitations" if we mistake not
MI. T. r. Benson has expanded a short
81 PuoIlSned some years ago. into
the bulk of novel The exnerina ,t.o
IS a hazardous one to perform ana the
chances are against success. AS tha
meme OF short story, the motive ~
i-llillLdllonS was powerful; as the
plot OF novel it seems hardly adeo
9uate, though this may be due to the
Lact 1nat the writer has not made the
most or 1t. 1t may be laid down &c
rule of the trade that 1t is neva,. $50 80
Whlle Tor a novelist to go deep into the
hearts or his creatures and treat ~
the mental and moral crises of tbeJr
lNeS from the subjective standnoint
uniess ne can do it with a firm hand
and convincingIy. no III
Tom Carlingford, the hero Of the
story, is a young man with a genius for
sculpture who is converted to The GreeIr
IDEALS OF art by his first visit to AthN
ems. Later, he falls in love with a
young woman who is a Greek goddess
In the flesh and marries her. AZ he &c
competing his first great piece Of WORK
IN the Greek manner. a statue of no,,.
eter, his father loses all his move IN,
dies, and Tom, in order to support hia
La1nlly, IS obliged to abandon his chosen
FORM or work and produce statuettas
Whlch the London public will admire
ana LONDON dealers will buy. There
are tragic clements in this situation
put they have not been realized as thew
might have been, and the reader Is not
nearly as sorry for Tom Carlingford as
that young mans artistic plight de-
mands, for the reason that CARING
lords creator has not handled the Sit
uation SO as to make it convincing. In
short, Mr.. Benson's touch upon the real
issues Of life, the things that matter
rfr,ir
has still to serve his own apprentices
ship both to life and art Still. It is
something in this and genera ton even
to make the attempt to write a, real
book about real things, and we are
deeply in Mr.. Benson's debt that he
has not written a romance of the cav
alier days or tale about the interior
Of Africa. There is good deal of
aimless but amusing conversation in
the story, and If the reader does not
hold the writer too closely to the
standards he has evidently raised for