The herald., 1896-01-12

less than a brochure with the above title
! that tells of the virtues of new patent
medicine. The story of Trilby is summed
up in rhyme, ending with this touchi ng
verse:
"Yes, the world is full OF Trilbys
Just as foolish p'r'aps as she,
Who VIII IN troubed W tn headache
Seek some silly remedy
Had she spurned svengall's offer
When her headache made her sick,
And just taken bromo- seltzer
'Twould have cured her just as quickp"
Pictures abound in the little volume that
were taken bodily from Du Maurier's
book. 1t is one of the boldest and funniest
OF all recent appropriations of literary
work and the public seems to relish it
hugely.
Harpers to suppress the pamphlet, but the
sympathy of everybody will be with the
medicine man, for he has only made use of
some matter that has at last grown stale,
and even offensive to good literary taste.
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ARCHITECTS OF FATE. or Steps to Success
and Power: book designed 10 inspire
youth to character building elf culture
and noble achieve .nents by ORIsoN SWEET
MARDEN, author of 'Push hing to the 'front.'
etc. Houghton, Mii1lin e Co., Boston.
d" All are architects of fate,
Working i'll these walls OF time"
"Our todays and yesterdays
Here is great book in it's way. In his
preface the author tells us his "aim has
been through concrete illustrations which
have pith, point and purpose, to be more
suggestive than dogmatic, IN style more
practical than elegant, more helpful than
ornate, more pertinent than novel; The
teaching of the book, while directed more
particularly to youth, is fit and powerful
addressed to any and all ages.
The refrain all through the 450pages is,
"Conquer your place in the world; man
hood is everything" The volume is brim-
ming with the most inspiring words of
cheer and help gathered from the great
known to all the world. Thirty fine por-
traits are furnished, beginning with Phil
lips Brooks and endlrg wi h John Ruskin; !;
and is divided into twenty-sX chapters.
The :e is also a remarkably full, even an
elaborate indeX-an index of every name
and topic touched upon in each of the
chapters. In fact, it is a long time since
we have come upon so faithfully edited a
volume. Every good thing in the book is
made easily available through its table of
contents and its unusually excellent index.
1t is not careless gathering together of
vast material and left in jumble. but
everything is at hand and assorted for in
Stant use.
We can unhesitatingly commend this
volume as one of the mo It valu ,ble of the
year-or any year, for that matter, and
deserving place in every ausehold.
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In speaking of local color in literature it
was declared in these columns last week
that there is no such thing; in fact, that
there 10 no such thing as barren realism. IT
one describes house, OF barn, or a land
scape, it cannot he artistic work unless the
writer is All artist-uness he can do the
describing in language above the ordinary.
He must make the thing himself, which
gives it it's distinction. There is no honey
IN the flower, and what the bee gets out of
it is onty sweet water. The bee makes
the honey out of this So of the aui thor. He
must have something more than The
bare material. In little essay this mo-
men. before us John burroughs touches up
this idea and says of ii in discussing ltera-
ture: "Ihere must be other things in a
novel or other imaginative work than local
color, local flavor, the atmosphere of tim
and place; these things must all have been
supplemented and in a measure changed
by the genius of the artist. We shall de-
tect New York or New England or CALI
fOrnia or the south in his work, only as we
detect the local fora in the product of the
bee. The honey of Hymettus is not like
that of Pentelicon; the honey OF California
is not like that of Michigan or Florida, yet
all kinds agree in being honey and not
merely nectar. You can taste the flowers
in each one of theni-the clover, the orange
blossom, the thyme, the linden. the sumac !;