The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-01

end. Nothing could be less like life
than the haps and mishaps of Miss Ell
eanor LynWOod, who is separated from
her husband on their wedding day. Is
told by some opportunity discovered
friends that he is doubtless a bad lot,
tries to go on the music hall stage,
falls, and returns ANONYMOUSLY to her
boarding school to discover that her
husband, who is searching for her dis
tractedly, has become Lord Ponte-
tract in the interval that has elapsed
since their marriage. Little girls who
elope from boarding school with
strange men do not usually come to
such good end as this, and wise
mammas can hardly be expected to ap-
prove of tales which convey such an
erroneous impression. However, the
little story clatters along as gaily as if
such thing as probability did not ex-
ist and will serve to make a half hour
pass agreeably enough.
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1.-THE Mist on the Moors" is an
equally improbable story but it's i'm
probability is a trif1e more convincing
and it is written with that touch of
exalted romance which has redeemed
many book in the past and will re-
deem many another in the DAYS to
come. The story is of an abducted
maiden imprisoned in remote farm
house upon the Cornish moors who is
seen, loved and rescued by the son of
gentleman farmer living some miles
away. There are some realistic touch
eS used in describing the folk-life of the
country which serve tothrow into high
er relief the essential romance of the
story
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The Intriguers" is pleasantly
written novel by a bright young writer
who follows Mr.. HoMells at respectful
distance. From the standpoint of the
consumer of fiction the story is suffi-
cient, but to the critic it is irritating
because it might have been a much
better book. 1t is written too easily,
too fiuently. too carelessly for the ends
OF literature, and yet there are some
things in it which are notably well
done. The relation of Dorothea
Wayne to her mother is essentially
American and well hit off, The
girl is cold, proud reserved.
self-reliant; the mother is fee
BILE, romantic and a, -chatterer.
1t follows that Dorothea has to be
depressing her volatile parent contin-
ually. especially upon the subject of
her own love affairs. She shrinks
from Gliding her mother. yet never
shirks the duty, performing it with a
certain austere reluctance which is
very realistic The part of the action
which takes place in England is much
less satisfactory than the indigenous
portion. Sir Hubert Downes is a
purely perfunctory figure. and his cas-
tie with tall spires which was built
of brick in the tenth century-that is
to say about hundred years before
the Norman conquest-inspires the
reader with a lively desire to under
take Mr.. Barry's education in the his
tory of English architecture The
characters and scenery of all this part
OF the tale seem to have been cut out
of pasteboard with flourish of the
scissors. There is, indeed, throughout
a certain staginess, a tendency to
achieve cheap. effects. or more accu-
rately, to produce an effect with
cheap material. which is to be deplored
IN a novelist. while legitimate enough
in a playwright It is to be hoped Mr..
Barry will see the error of his WAYS