St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-26

himself, for his work Of suppression
and variation has been SO skillful that
the soul Of Buddha's gentleness and
charity alone remain, while the gro
tesque body Of myth, fable and ORR
entail incoherance has been decently
inferred. Nor can the EDITORS method
be adversely criticised in itself, for his
results will tend to promote wider rec
ognition Of the appeal of the life of
the spirit to men of all lands, lifting
some of them to the Office of universal
prophet. But perfect candor might
have led the editor to say that a great
deal Of old straw had to be threshed.
and then some good Hebrew wheat
thrown in to make so good a book as
''The Gospel Of Buddha.''
('The Gospel of Bucdha,' by Paul Carus.
The Open Court Publishing company Chi
cago. 81. For sale by the st. Paul Book
and Stationery company0
The Empire Publishing COMPANY
issue a small volume, which is lavish
ly dedicated to the A P. A, the Y. M.
G. A, the Loyal Orange lodge, and
the writer's husband, and contains an
account of the domestic trials of a.
young lady who married a man una
BILE to control his appetite for alcohol.
keep his hands off other peoples prop
ety or hold down" any kind of
job. She was naturally very unhappy.
but there seems a distinct lapse of
logic in her disposition to attribute
the husbands frailties to the fact that
he was Romanist, and had been ed
ucated for the priesthood, but re-
nounced his vows and the Roman
church some two weeks after ordina-
ton. The title is unduly sensational
('The Franks of a Catholic Priest - nv
Lydia Anloff. st. Paul. Empire Publishing
company. S1)
Louis Becke possesses in his knowI-
edge Of the South Sea islands a great
deal of material out OF which to make
interesting fiction. The ground is COM
paratively unbroken. Stevenson did
little directly with the life of the Is
ands, and yet the fact that Stevenson
lived and wrote on one Of them has
enormously increased the interest of
that section of humanity which reads
books in everything pertaining to that
part OF the world. At times Mr.. Becke
rises to the level Of his opportunities.
In the nature Of things, his stories
cannot be pleasant ones, as the brown
characters are unfailingly devoid of
that natural sweetness Of disposition
which Charles Warren Stoddard first
taught US to associate with the natives
of the South Seas, and the white char
acters consist of the scum of the no.
tions of the earth. These are NOT tbe
materials out of which pretty stories
are made, but there are some wavs of
telling ugly stories which are more
acceptable than other ways In "Lup-
tons Guest the author treats his ma
terial with imagination and restraint
and the results are as satisfactory as
may be. ''Ninia,," "At a Kaya Drink
ing" and "a Boating Party of Two,
are further examples of Mr.. Becke in
his best mood. The book is over
weighted, however, by the many brutal
tales dealing with white men and
native women, and loses greatly there
by. The stories are all alike. and all
hideous. One or two of them would
have represented the phase of life the
author desired to show as satisfactori-
ly as a dozen. and the reader would
nave been saved much nausea. If is
always wise for an author to consider
the readers comfort.
n 1.-The Ebbing Of the.sTide., :, by Louis Becke.
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