The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-17
SOME NEW BOOKS.

edith wrote Lucille" the novel In verse
has been little in vogue. Mrs. Juiia
Detto Young, of Buffalo, a writer whose
minor stories and verses have won
much approval as they have appeared
from time to time in the newspapers
and magazines, has, however, seen mt
to enter the field which Meredith was
the last to occupy and the fruit or hsr
resolve is before us in considerable
volume called "Glynne's Wife" and done
as to its mechanical aspects in the very
best style of the artistic Roycroft PRINT
ing shop. The story sought to be con-
veyed through the mechanism OF Mrs.
Young's iambic pentameters is-to Dor
row from another-"of a Jealous wo-
man who divorces her husband. but
who is controlled by the love she
thought dead, ,and when he has suf-
fered for his sin flies to him again.
forgiving all. The story is set in a
high key. Mrs. Young idealizes her
women. Garnet Glynne is a character,
not the drygoods frame so common in
current fiction and verse. She bores a
sentimental but selfish husband with
her schemes to uplift the world. He
grows cold, and finally wavers In his
allegiance, and the high -blooded wo-
man shakes herself free from him. Ru-
NOR pledges her to an old and faithful
friend. Glynne. realizing what he has
lost, seeks diversion in ocean yacht
ing. The temptress pitifully dies while
he is at sea, and Garnets heart Is
melted toward the dead. She visits
her. lays tribute of blossoms on the
coffin. and then her love for her hus-
band wakes. In the last canto he has
returned home and is going away again
In, Il;
who has learned something of his pen
itence flies to him, overtakes his yacht
at night on the bay, and in scene of
rare beauty. with the moonlight and
the waves for a setting, is reunited to
him and there Is hint in the closing
lines that she Is once more to be
'Glynne's wife," We do not ourselves
care for the novel in verse, whether well
Ill, or indifferently done; but it must
be said that Mrs. Young possesses a
sense of rhythm, a command of melody
and copiOusness of vocabulary which
mark her poem as something to be ad-
mired. Maybe by and by she will put
these uncommon talents to better use.
There is a dash of affectionate about
Richard lie Gallienne which would
cause most persons to dismiss him
with a short hearing We're it not that
the young men has also unmistakable
genius which is liable to flash out in
most delightful evidence, one never
knows when or where This fact is
strongly impressed upon the reader of
his second series of Prose Fancies"
CChicago: Herbert S. Stone & Coz
These fancies are vagrant and fantas-
tic, covering whatever topics relating
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thor's mind. And before all is this
quaint introduction:
Poor are the gifts of the poet;
Nothing but words.
The gifts of kings are gold,
Silver and tlocks and herds,
Garments of soft, strange silk,
Feathers of wonderful birds,
Jewels and precious stones!'
And horses as white as the milk
These are the gifts of kings;
But the gifts that the poet brings
Are nothing but words.
Forty thousand words!
Take them-a gift Of flies!
Words that should have been birds,
Words that should have been flowers,
Words that should have been stars,
In the eternal skies.
Forty thousand words,
Forty thousand tears,
All out of two sad eyes.
Probably the best fancy in the book
Is the first, telling of Seventh-Story
Heaven inhabited by a most irrespon-
sible poet and his bride. The poet
hasn't a sou and doesn't know from
one minute to the next where he is to
secure his next bite of bread; but for
the real joys of life, dream the brave
dreams sing the rare songs, and roam
at will through the beautiful gardens
and delightful palaces of the imagina-
tion. 1t is pretty lesson in charming
colors that happiness is in nOwise de-
pendent upon rank or wealth or sta
tion, but is something to be had by
any who merit it, Indeed" says Mr..
lie Gallienne, 'our paradises if we only
knew, are always cheap enough; it is
our hells that are so expensive" AL
most any mood can find in these airy
sketches something to charm and bene-
fit. 'Tis fine book most delightfully."-
printed.
During the past year or two the edi-
torial page of the Chicago Record has
been frightened by a series Of idiom-
attic sketches of the streets and town
contributed by George Ade. AS these
have appeared from day to day they
have attracted pleased attention, but
1t was not until the best of them were
put together into a book, called "Ar-
tie" from the name of the pert young
ster who Is the central figure, just as
"Chimmie Fadden" is in Mr.. Town
sends Gotham sketches, that their full
charm was rendered conspicuous.
"Artie" is not a Chicagoized imitation
Of "Chimmie;" he is unique and origin
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and about all the faults that can be-
long to boy who is mischievous as an
imp Of perdition but not vicious. The
doings of Artie, as pictured by Mr..
AIDES prose, are made more salient
still by the o. ..ine drawings of John
T. McCutcheon, which certainly ex-
press as much character in as few lines
as any book illustrations we have yet
seen. Chicago: H. S. Stone & Coz
o.
Whoever Albert Kinross may be, he
has written in 1.-The Fearsome Island''
(Chicago: II. 8. Stone e. Coz book
that there wasn't much call for and
one that would not have been missed.
1t purports to be modern rendering
of the narrative of one Silas Fordred.
master mariner. who is shipwrecked ID
on an unknown island, where there is
ing people, a great idol with diamond
eyes and arms that broke and tore in
two the luckless iconoclast who sought
to gain possession of the tempting
gems, and a whole lot Of other grim
and ghastly paraphernalia of mischief
that isn't worth describing. There
would be some excuse for this book II
1t were half way respectable in point of
literary execution; but the fact Is 1t Is
bunglingly done, and the one who reads
1t simply wonders why it was ever
penned or printed.
1.-THE Story Of Electricity" by John
Munro Is the latest number in the APP
pleton's library Of useful stories. II
describes understandingly and under
standably what is known concerning
this mysterious force in nature, ex.
plains the workings Of most Of the
common electrical appliances, such as
storage batteries, telegraphs and tele-
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