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figures of dream are more real than
reality itself. Reading ''Bobbo," the
general public will share the sense of
loss with the authors personal friends,
The Last Sonnet of Priuziyalle di
Cembino" is fantasy of Florence and
the Quattrocinto, graceful, picturesque,
filled with the atmosphere of its place
and time, but barbed with irony which
belongs to any country and any period.
"Ratu Tanitos Wooing" is an allie
CORY Of the sexes disguised as love
story Of the South seas, and "Old and
New is Bar Harbor sketch with a
neW-fashioned moral The last two
pared with "Bobbo." The verses with
which the volume closes are mainly
from NCharlema gne"e and "Montezurna."
Whether in prose or verse; MIR. Whar-
tons talent seems to have been the
ability to wed successfully romance and
satire. s-
l''Bobbo and Other Fancies," by Thomas
Wharton. Harper & Bros New York. LIS.
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The School Of Dismal Dumps is a
name that might be applied with apt
ness to much literature of the present
day. The pathetic is our birthright;
the Inheritance Of t4Celtic gloom" and
Saxon somberness" perhaps, and has
been with us since the beginning. But
the pathos of the commonplace is
surely now having its day-a day, I'M
less it is by the Ballad period, I'M
precedented in English literature. The
author of the pathetic story is surely
above writer's happy. His-or usually
her-material is always at hand; the
little ills that are SO big, -unrecognized
d1SappointmentS, petty Stifed hopes
and squalid aspirations, have become
the literary currency of the day. and
when the hand that coins is mastery
the commonplace seems wonderful.
But with this metal counterfeiting is
so sadly easy.
The stories Of Ella Higginson cannot
be called counterfeit, they have the ring
of something good. We can remember
reading them one at a time as they
appeared in various magazines with
gloomy enjoyment A few of them
were especially effective, but the sane
balance is lost when twelve of these
sketches, each one overloaded with
pathos and innocent of anything but
tear-stained humor, are bound into
one volume. DevOured at one reading,
mental and moral dyspepsia will result
it is a book best sandwiched with
brighter things Originally these sket-
ches were published under the title Of
the first tale, 1.-The Flower That Grew
in the Sand" but this edition is
rechristened "The Land of the Snow
Pearls" This title, we are told, is the
poetic name for the Puget Sound coun-
try, and refers to the snow mountains
that surround the blue sapphire of the
Sound like a row of pearls.
c"The Land of the Snow Pearls" by Ella
Higginson. The Macmillan company s125
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'Lovice'' and 1.-THE Coming of Chloe"
! the Duchess last books will be read
by her many admirers with feelings of
pleasure and pain. Mrs. Hungerford
wrote large enough number of books
| during her busy life to satisfy, one
would fancy, even the omnfvorous ap-
| petites of her yoracious followers
whose cry like that of the daugh-
ters OF the horseleech, of more morep'
! Is far from being heard no more
in the land. Now that the supply has
| ceased 1T will be necessary for them
! to read the old ones over again. for.
| although the Duchess has many imi
tators, they are but sorry rivals in the
minds of her readers. "The Coming of
! Chloe" is, like its predecessors brieht
and sprightly, and the readers of the
Duchess will have the pleasure of
| pronouncing it one of her finest The
characters and plot have the pronounce
| ed family resemblance that distin-
cuisines Mrs. Hungerford's literary pro-
geny. There is the same child wife
| (this time an unhappy little creature
who has fled from brutal husband),
the same surprisingly handsome men
and charming girls, the same varieties
in love affairs and masterful lovers.
| and the same insurmountable obstacles
and the same happy issue in the last
chapter. The West of ireland. In Mrs.
Hungerford's dexterous hand, with it's
nearly humanity and cheer, is pleas
ant setting for 1.-THE Coming of Chloe"
l Loylce" Is in more tragic vein. The