The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-12

the disposal of the author Of this book.
His logic is as grotesque as that of the
White Queen in Alice's Wonderland.
Because John G. Whittier in collecting
the "The Songs of Three Centuries
did not include many love-songs, there
fore American poets are not responsive
to feminine influence.
Occasionally, by some unexplained
happy accident the structures of NJ. de
scissors are just as when he con-
dennis the American millionaire for
building a great country-house upon a
narrow city lot. The chief value Of
millionaire is in the fact that he can af-
ford to set his neighbors a good ex-
ample in architecture and art, but in the
former respect he is too often found
wanting.
AS an example of the author at his
stupidest the following may be quoted:
1.-THE Columbian Fair was large, i'm
mense, gigantic, but it was only a COM
mercial fair. a larger shop than the
others, that is all. And I think I am
right in saying that this is what the
Americans desired. They made AN
open display Of businesS-business be-
fore pleasure, business which brushes
out the fancies of art, for they are not
disposed to use time and money on
such trif1es."
GA Partisan in America" by S. c. de
Saissons. Boston. Estes & Laureat $125)
"In Quest of the Ideal'' is translated
from the French Of Leon de Tinseau
1t is a pretty story which would have
been prettier If the sociological discus
sions had been omitted. The thinkers
of the book are rather unreal and fam
tastic personages and their methods of
seeking the ideal are not strenuous and
convincing enough for the Anglo-Saxon
reader. The women of the book are,
on the whole, more firmly character
lied than the men, who are too nebu-
lous for personality. M. de Tinseau
has been SO unkind as to create two
attractive heroines. AS there is only
single hero, one heroine of necessity
takes the VEIL and most readers will
vote that it is the wrong one. The
translation is sympathetic and good.
cIn Quest of the IDEAL by Leon de Tin
seau. Philadelphia. ]. B. Lppncott Co. 81.
For sale by the St. Paul Book and Stationery
company
d. Appliton & Co., publish in their
Library Of Useful Stories" an interest
ing account of 1.-THE Story Of a Piece
of Coal" by Edward A. Martin, F. J.
S. It collects in a few pages the facts
and wonders Of a lump of coal, treating
of its vegetable and mineral history,
it's discovery and early use, its bear
ings on the pay-problem it's illuminat-
ing gas and oils. Such passages as
were not applicable to America in the
original edition have been replaced by
matter concerning the coal of this coun-
try.
(.The Story of Piece of Coal" by Edward
A. Martin. New York. D: Appleton & Co:
so cents. For sale by the st. Paul Book and
Stationery company)
"Green Gates; An Analysis Of Fool
ishness," deals with the love of a man
Of forty Che whose folly is dissected)
for lame and piquant girl of
eighteen, who loves somebody else and
dies of it. The characters are clearly
and sympathetically drawn, and there
are great many bits Of charming des-
cription and flashes of good dialogue,
but the story strikes the reader as be-
ing, on the whole, beneath the authors
powers The situation is hardly ade-
quate to sustain ones interest. Things
do not happen In the book. Some years
ago Mrs. Meredith, under the pseu-
dcnym of Joanna Stats" contributed
to Life a number of little sketches
and parallels whose quality was so
rare and charming that it has fingered
in the mind of the appreciative reader.
When Mrs. Meredith gives us novel
as excellent in its way as was her early
work, she will have conferred boon
upon the misunderstanding public.
And until such time as she does this
we shall continue to be dissatisfied
with her work, holding 1t not equal to
her ability.
CeGreen Gates" by K NJ. C. Meredith. New
York d. Appleton Co. 81 20. For sale by
the st. Paul Book and Stationery company
TN a Dixie Shanty" is the title Miss
Pool gives to her account of a summer
spent upon ninety-acre farm of dixie
land in the town of Marshfield on the
seacoast of Massachusetts. 1t is bright
ly and agreeably written and the local
characters who enliven the summer
for the visiting ladies are sufficiently
amusing. There is an attractive girl
Miss Pool revels in attractive girls
with much personal magnetism-who is
spending the summer with her aunt,
Mrs. Peake. She is kinder Southern
by birth, but with good deal o'Yankee
to her." and the thread of her love-af-
| fairs furnishes the book with a season
| ing of romance which adapts it to
| modern palates, too faded to accept the
account Of an out-of-door summer on
| its own merits. The book is book Is
bound in an especially tasteful and
summerlike cover of pale green with
a landscape design in black which Ia
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