The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-18

ner pen which have been reprinted in
the United States during the last year,
one Out of Due Season. was a fine,
strong, restrained, artistic piece of
work which inspires the reader with
the hope that anew novelist with quail
tiles that were really worth while had
appeared in the field. The other books
were miss-ish, romantic tales. appar-
emily manufactured by the square yard.
Now, just aus the reader had grown
reconciled to counting Miss Sergeant
out comes 1.-THE Idol-Maker" to unset
tie ones last judgment upon the author
The book is too long and a little
deffuse, but it is undeniably interesting,
and the central idea is veritable treas
ure-troye. No one could fail to be alb
sorbed in the fortunes Of a fanaticaI
bank clerk in INDIA, who conceives it
his duty to new down the idols of
wood and stone, nearly losing his life
In an attack upon a temple. He comes
home to find that the uncle who has
educated and supported him and pro-
poses to take him into his business,
secretly manufactures idols in great
quantities for expectation to Africa,
India and the East in general The
situation Is new and picturesque and
the predicament of Perry Wilson is
wildly presented. There is a good deal
mere to the plot, but the rest Of it is
more conventional in character AS
whole, however, the story will be found
well worth reading.
C'The Idolmaker,'- by AdelIne Sergeant.
New York. d. Appleton & Co 50 cents.
For sale by the st. Paul Book and Stationery
company
Rick Dale" is one Of Kirk Munroes
readable and healthy books for boys.
1t is all about the son of San Fran
cisco millionaire who had been kept
from all forms of exercise and excite
'ment on the supposition that his health
would I not stand them. He had no
gamesS no boy friends. and no am
bitionSs and Was getting very tired of
spending snforfey when his father pro-
posed to send him to China under the
escort of Prof. Sonntag and Dr. Sonn-
tag. his wife, the couple having engaged
to look after his mind and body. But
when the steamer sails after touching
at Vancouver, Alaric is left behind by
| little arrangement of his own, pro-
ceeding which is not to be commended
on general principles. However. he
works hard all summer, has innumer-
able adventures and proves that there
is the making of a man In hina-a fact
which his father is glad to see demon
strated, and so all ends happily
c'Rick Dale by Kirke Munro. New York.
Harper & Bros. 81 80. For sale by the at
Paul Book and Stationery company
Bilious Courtship" is translation of
NGyp's" latest novel, in which that ri
quaint chronicler returns to her earlier
and better manner "Bijou' Is pre-
Sented- without comment by the author
who seems anxious to avoid taking
sides. She is a young girl whom her
family and friends regard as the flower
OF perfection in every way, but who is,
nevertheless, in her determined egoism
| a study In depravity. She turns her
little world upside down, is the occa-
| sion of two suicides and innumerable
heart-burnings, and finally marries an
infatuated old man for his money. hay-
ing shrewdly made very sure that
enough Of it viii be settled upon herself
| to make 1t worth while. NATURALLY such
| Bijou as this is not an agreeable
acquaintance, but her merciless chron-
| icier has set DOWN. her character with
| cleverness,sa force. .=.
scBiiez ~lHE Syss New York. F. Tenny-
son Neg -s7sents.l
aaSEzssszis tale OF the turf