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short weeks space? One has slain
his thousands and the other her tens of
thousands wider spread popularity
Of the woman we are bound to admit
but among their many admirers who,
uncompelled, having read a novel by
one of these writer's, would straight
way read one by the other? Compul-
sion has it's benefits, and the reviewer
his reward, for it is only by seeing
these two typical authors together that
either can be fully appreciated, or the
humor of life understood. can Open
Eyed Conspiracy and 'Wayfaring
Men" are rare foils to each other In
one is studied simplicity, in the other
unartful grandiloquence. The plot of
each is commonplace;4 yet the one
leaves the impression of fresh
ness and humor; the other OF. trite-
ness and platitudes. One has few
events and much movement; the ether
is fairly crammed with events, and yet
is as. lacking in movement as the
poets painted ship upon painted
ocean" zone mans meat is another
mans poison, however, and Edna Ly-
all has a whole army of folk that
fatten on the diet she administers, and
perhaps, as physicians say of the pecu-
liar appetites of fever patients, the
craving shows that the victims syS-
TENS demand that sort of thing. "The
Wayfaring Men"-a rerverse imp sug-
gests though fools"-of Miss Lyall' S
novel belong mainly to the theatrical
profession; their prosecutors and SIAN
derers follow various and devious ways
in life Defrauded orphans, phaTisa1-
cal philanthropists, fraud, unhappy
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marriage, the evils of the English di-
vorce law, breken-hearted actors and
a few other trif1eS Wearily tangled to-
gether make the substance of book
of some 452 pages. The characters are
distinguished by outward and visible
signs and are confidently spoken of by
their creator as men, women and chill
dren, but anything farther removed
from living human beings it would
be difficult to find. We do not wonder
that Miss Lyall believes in a special
providence-it would have to be very
special" indeed, to understand hu-
manity as she pictures it.
f''Wayfaring Men," by Edna Lyall. Long
mans, Green & Co., New York. $1.25. For
sale by the st. Paul Book and Stationery COM
pany)
'"The Massarenes, by ,Ouida, is a
book of but slight Importance. 1t is
poorly conceived and wretchedly- exc
euted; the grown folk, we thank heav-
en-, are unnatural, and the children i'm
possible. The author 1ashes herself
into fury against the genuine. evils of
the times with a passion and abandon
which make US forget the object of
her wrath in sheer astonishment at her
contortions, and so defeats her own
purpose. Ouida is mistress sometimes
of other peoples emotions, but not of
her own. In view of the work in other
fields that she has done, remembering
''Bebe" and THE Dog of Flanders"
''The Massarenes' is pathetic in it's fu-
tile grasp at intensity and power.
''The Massarenes, husband and wife,
are somehow attributed to America,
and she, poor country. is held accounta-
BILE for the evils that spring in their
train. William Massarene acquired his
immense fortune in the new world but
the guile which inspired him he
brought with him from the old. The
crude civilization of our West 1--WE are
quite willing to admit the crudity,
WickedneSs and everything else in it's
diSfavor, but the effect is, nevertheless
strange to us in Ouida's handling fur
nishes Massarene with the opportunity
to acquire wealth, and he hesitates at
neither force nor guile. Marga-
ret, his wife, a woman of the
lowest Ulster peasantry, slaves
without ceasing, and without
chance or apparent reason for better
ing her education until, late in life, her
husband announces his intention of
making a place for himself in English
politics and society. The book is the
sickening history Of this part of their
career. The novel has neither sanity
nor repoSe enough to make it impress
sive or forceful, and its author would
do we'll to remember that, though "the
times are out of joint" the one who
would set them right must be strong
of hand and calm of nerve-hysteria is
not the best recommendation for a ply
sician. Says quaint old Sir Thomas
Browne: "a good cause needs not to be
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Books of the Hour.
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Mr.. Howells has crystallized the at
mosphere- -of~Saratoga about common
place little love story and made a
marvel out of his work. "An Open
Eyed Conspiracy is like a fly in am
ber-nothing very. wonderful in the
fly, as a fly; nothing over wonderful in
the amber, as amber: but the combina-
tion is one of natures most artful
pranks, and it's reality suggests worlds
of sunappraised forces. ss-
A clever woman said of ""The Nau-
lahka" that its background is one of it's
chief characters; with equal aptness,
though,.in a different sense, the epi-
gram applies to this Saratoga idyl Of
Mr.. Howells. Our old frineds, Mrs. and
Mr. March, are spending the week-or
month-Which they yearly give them
selves at Saratoga, where Mr.. March al
ways so sincerely expects to find his
lost youth waiting for him around the
corner of the United States hotel that
he accuses himself of some fault if it
disappoints him, as it always does"
Isabel and Basil March are surely as
exquisite types of unpretentious culture
as the pages of American literature
contain, and the quaint humor through
which Mr. March looks on the world
seems a, part of his quiet place in life,
Modern Saratoga in comparison with
his old-fashioned gentility has al
most the force Of wit. "The place." he
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eriIarges, has the charm of ruin,
thought it's in such obvious repair; it
has a past; it's so completely gone,by in
a Society sense. The cottage life here
hasn't killed the hotel life, as it has at
Newport and Bar Harbor, but the ideal
of cottage life everywhere else has
made hotel life at Saratoga ungenteel.
The hotels are full, but at the same
time they are society solitudes." In
this society solitude he finds young
girl with a naughty beauty that at
tracts his old eyes, and he romances
about the humor and the pathos of her
probable fate-.coming in vain, with
brave hope, to the new. Saratoga to find
the gay life of the past; and the quaint,
kindly desire to play special providence
to her is so strong upon him that 1T
seems but the fulfillment of his hu-
1n6fous thought when he finds Mrs.
March and himself chaperoning Miss
Gage after the sudden departure of her
village friends. AS if to fill out the
aneager outlines of his little romance,
a friend from his Boston life, hand
some youth in the story writing bust
ness, drops down on him in Saratoga,
and IS cOnadenlIy TAKEN mo lIe
"Open- Eyed Conspiracy" He kindly
helps to make Miss Cages summer what
she had probably pictured in her
dreams, but this fulfillment Of his own
dream appeals not at all to Mr. March
and his wife. Simple as is the plot
no. need of a sad ending for 1.-THE
love story, seen through kindly, ner-
vous. elderly eyes, is one of the most
fascinating bits in the years fiction. 1t
goes without saying that it's finish is
q delight, and the force that almost
crushes us in "The Landlord at Lions
Head" is here at play. An Open Eyed
Conspiracy occupies the debatable
ground between Mr.. Howells' double
decker novels and his .farces.
can Open-Eyed Conspiracy" by W. D.
Howels. Harper and Bros, New, York. 81.
For sale by the st. Paul Book and Stationery
company sa.- -
An experience unique and humorous
enough to deserve commemoration is
sometimes the lot of the reviewer. TO
what other mortal will fall the pleasure
of reading novel by William Dean
Efewells and one by Edna Lyall in one
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-17

The old; old rumor that Mr.. Nat c.
Goodwin is to have theater OF MS
own in New York has recently been
revived with a lot of new embelllsh-
ments. saws the New York Herald. Mr..
Goodwin has been ambitious to pecome
an actor manager for a good many
wears; and, if he should ever attain ms
desire, he would find many we'll Wlshers
and supporters among the theatergoers
of this city, with whom he has always
been favorite.
But the truth of the matter is that
it is extremely doubtful if, for some
time to come at least, any capltallSt
will be willing to risk his money. In
any new theater building project IN
this city The experience OF men VINO
have made investments of that sort In
the last few years is far from encour-
aging. and while every one wishes Mr..
Goodwin a realization of his pleasant
dream, a very little figuring sut1ces TO
show the extreme riskiness of such ven
lures under existing conditions, and
the consequent slight probability of
the building of the new playhouse.
Julia Arthur seems to have made a
good beginning in Detroit with The
Lady of Quality" the play Mrs. Bur-
nett made out of her own strong novel,
with the assistance of Stephen Town
send. The play does not closely follow
tbe novel. but Clorinda is shown at her
birthday party in breeches, and there
after in fine feminine toggery; in the
rose garden by the dial, with OXon,
.pd in the scene of the unintentional
killing. Miss Arthur, of course, looks
the part, and her acting Is highly
praised. Edwin Arden acts Sir John
Oxon. and some other we'll known play
ers. are in her company. 1t is SAID that
the scenery that was destroyed in the
Detroit fire will all be reproduced in
time for the New York engagement.
Nov. l.
THE Sign of the Cross" will have its
five hundredth performance in London
next week. after which 1t VIII be
shelved, and Wilson Barrett will brief
ly review some of his earlier successes,
giving first place to '"The Silver King"
."The Sign of the Cross" has been
translated into the German, and made
it's continental debut recently at the
Frederick Wilhelm stadt theater, In
Berlin. receiving the approval of a
large public and the hearty condemna-
ton of the critics, which is practically
the repetition Of its history elsewhere.
Clement Scott gravely tells this story
about a limelight man who, on a re-
cent occasion when Henry Irving visit
ed the Borough theater, Stratford, was
so enamored of "The Story of Water
loo or 1.-THE Bells that he forgot all
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/ patron'd by passion, but can sustain
itself upon a temperate dispute
ctThe Massarenes, ,',Eby Ouida. r. f. Fenno
Paul Book and Stationery company.)
George Ade, the clever young author
of the popular success, "Artie,'s has
sought to add to his reputation by the
publication of 'Pink Marsh, Story Of
the Streets and Town.
The book is not so readable as it's
predecessor and will hardly strengthen
its authors hold on a tickle public
whose interest was aroused by the
neWness of his first venture. Pink
Marsh, a colOred bootblack in a Chi
cago barber shop, is a youth with oh
servant eyes, a clever brain and a VOL
uble tongue. He is the medium
through which Mr.. AIDE sees Chicago
life of many kinds. Pink is something
of philosopher and an artist and
tones the stories to his own liking
From bootblack to Pullman porter
Pink's career is followed, and his ac-
counts of his and other peoples ex-
periences are obscured by a jargon
which we hope is as peculiar as it Is
difficult to understand. Allowing for
the difference in color scheme, CHM
mie Fadden appears to be Pink
Marsh's antitype, and nothing espe-
cially fresh is to be found in the book.
C'Pink Marsh" by George Ade. H. S..
Stone & Co., Chicago SIPS. For sale by the
st. Paul Book and Stationery company
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theatrical representation. By its means ap-
parently live fish swim about in the gauze
water in the diving scene of the latest Lon
don melodrama, 1.-The White Heather The
illusion is said to be wonderful.
London dispatch to the New York Iimes
says: 1za;bt
W. S. Gilbert announces to an Edinburgh
Interviewer that he will write no more plays.
He saws he is disheartened by the erroneous
noint of view from which criticism is written,
adding: ., 20 ho
was a scoundrel Of the worst type, and DO
not feel disposed to put myself forward as a
cock-shy for these gentlemen
Discussing plays, Mr.. Gilbert remarked:
.rThe fact is managers cannot judge of play
when they see it in manuscript. If Pinero
sends Irving a play, it is accepted, not be-
cause it is a good play, but because it soy is by
Pinero. and if a stranger, though a clever
dramatist, sends Irving or Tree, or any one
else a play it is refused, however good, be-
cause they can't judge of it"
In conclusion. Mr.. Gilbert criticised the !,
onoorness and monotony of English acting"
as exemplified by Sir Henry Irving, Beer
bohm Tree and George Alexander.
After so many years of distinguished sue
cesses as a comic opera librettist in collab-
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-17

Julian Ralph, who is making a tour of the
European continent and writing his impress
sions to London newspaper, is finding it
difficult to master the Danish language. THE
Danes he writes, "are not satisfied with
the alphabet. They have invented a twenty
seventh letter, which is an with mark
run through it, diagonally, from north north
west to south-southeast, and this amazing
letter comes in most of the words They are
so proud of it that they paint it, all by st.
self, in heroic size, on the front of the sec
ond stories of the tram -
81 always used to think that when a Brit
ish or Russian or Swedish prince came here
to get a wife all he had to say was: Will
yjou mjarry mje?' but l didn't know a
great deal Of Danish then. In fact, 1 only
knew the word tandstikker' which means
rancid match'-at least, l think SO, after us
ing those matches all over the world. Since
/ have come here I've not only discovered
the with the skewer through it, but 1 find
that the language is so Impossible that the
Danes themselves have given it UP.
'They spell Copenhagen, KjopenhaveD, Kio-
benhavn, Copenhague, Coepenhabn."
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On Our Book Table.

From E. w. Porter company:
Houghton, Mifiin & Co.. New York: ''Glean-
ings in Duddha Fields" by Lafcadio Hearn.
s. .25; Uncle Lisha's Outing" by Rowland
E. Robinson. $125; "The Federal Judge"
an Untold Love-" by P. l.. Ford, $1.25; !;
Diana Vietrix," by Florence Converse, $125.
From the publishers
New Amsterdam Book company: 'By
81 25.
Robert and Linn Luce, Boston: "Going
Abroad?" by Robert Luce.
Charles K. Kerr & Co., Chicago: Dan,
the Tramp" by Laura Hunsaker Abbott
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grafton with Sir Arthur Sullivan. Mr.. Gilbert
returned to serious play writing only to score
failure. His new comedy, 1.-The Fortune
Hunter" which was tried upon the Birmfng-
ham public, has fallen fat. The critics are
unanimous in their verdict that the play lacks
the elements of strength and popularity and
that no amount of carpentering, tinkering, or
revising could infuse life into it. This after
Mr.. Gilbert had announced, seemingly With
out thought of the possibility of failure, that
he had resolved to foreswear comic opera for
more important work. Now it is being re-
called that he promised his public after the
disastrous "Brantinghame Hail. had met an
unhappy fate, ten years ago, that he would
never repeat the offense.
The initial performance of Klaw & Erlang-
er's romantic and melodramatic play "A
Ward of France was given in Scranton,
Pa, Thursday night 1t is radical depart
ure from similar productions, in that the
scene is laid in New Orleans century ago.
Maurice Barrymore, a pirate, is the cen
tral figure, and he scored decided hit.
Frederick Warde produced his new play
Islanders" in Lancaster, Pa, last Thurs
day night. Islander" is historical drama,
dealing with the exciting story Of the war
fare between the cross and crescent early
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Literary Notes.

H. ]. Whigham, the winner of the amateur
golf championship for go and 81, is en-
gagged at present in preparing small vol
ume entitled "How to Play Golf The book
is not intended to compete at all with the
minton.' But it will give in concise form sug-
gestions and directions for. beginners and
for older players, without being overburdened
with mass Of discussion and detail The
book will address itself especially to the
needs of American players, and the subjects of
its many illustrations VIII be chosen for the
most part from among them. The book may
be expected about Nov. 1. Herbert S. Stone
& Co., Of Chicago are to be the publishers
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The Danish Language.

in the fifteenth century The opportunities
for scenic display were improved to the great
est possible extent
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-17

Robert W. Chambers has published no
book of fiction for some time, and his forth
coming volume, The Mystery of Choice"
will be looked for with interest by the many
readers of this brilliant and imaginative
young American author. The Appletons are
TO nnhliSh the hook.
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I Sons The rights for it's publication as a
serial in the United States and Canada have
! citation. Arrangements are in train for It's
4iserial publication alsoSin Great Britain and
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Among the fall announcements of books
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drawn by CD. Gibson. portfolio OF six
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Drawings = Frederic Remington" illustrat-
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they are faithful prsSfntments of actual
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The well-known scholar, DR.. Edward Dow
den, is the author of the, Important volume
on French Literature which is to appear
shortly in Appletons' Literatures Of the World
Series.
Houghton, Miflin 81 Co..; New York, an
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Now First Collected, y by. Edmund Clarence
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edition; Inequality and Progress" by George
Harris; IAN Unwilling Maid by Jeanie
Gould Lincoln; "Stories and Sketches for the
Young by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
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The title of Sarah Grand's forthcoming
novel is derived from the name Of her hero
inc. 1.-The Beth Book is the story of
Elizabeth child who develops into a wo-
man of genius. This is the first novel which
the author has written since "The Heavenly
Twins 1t is to be published in America
by D. Appleton & Co early in November.
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-17

A new story entitled Lost Mans Lane"
has been completed by Anna Katharine
Green, author of "The Leavenworth Case" ,"
THAT Affair Next Door" etc. The story
will be published in book form in the United
The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-17

The well-known scholar, DR.. Edward Dow
den, is the author of the Important volume
on French Literature which is to appear
shortly in Appletons' Literatures Of the World
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02
STATE NEWS.

A meeting of the cotton mill men of the
South. having as it's object the curtail-
ment of production. was held in Charlotte
last week. Another meeting will be held
May 18TH.
Mr.. II. A. Jenkins. of Salem, who will
have charge of Carolina Beach Hotel this
summer, will go down to open it on the
Bird of May. to accommodate some mem
bers of the Baptist State Convention
The hotel will not be opened regularly
until May 10th.
Il. w. Hawkins, Esq, a prominent at
torney of Littleton, Warren county, has
been here several days. He has conclud-
ed to locate in Charlotte for the practice
of his profession He leaves for Little.
ton tomorrow but will shortly return
with his family.-Charlotte News.
Miss Olivia Crutchfeld, aged about &c
years, who was so horribly injured while
at work in the Columbia Cotton Mills
at Ramseur on April 10th, is much i'm.
proved, and is out of danger. Her hair
becoming entangled in the machinery
was the cause of the accident; several
inches of the scalp were torn completely
off. It's surprising that she was not in.
stantly killed.-Asheboro Courier.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-05-02

The members of l.. OBJ. Branch camp
30, are requested to participate in the
ceremonies on Memorial Day in the hand
some uniform worn on the occasion of
their trip to Richmond last year. While
waiting to be assigned to quarters at the
headquarters in Richmond, persons pass
ing were heard to remark, What camp
is that-it is the neatest looking camp
that has yet arrived" Let the old vet
Grams come out in force in uniform to
hear that gifted orator and gallant
soldier, Col. r. II. BENEFITS address on
the Private Soldier" of his heroic deeds
and gallant exploits during the four
years Of hardships on the many hard
fought battle-felds on which the North
Carolina soldiers participated and re-
Elected honor and credit upon their own
State. Let the veterans turn out in
full force. Those living in the country
are specially invited to participate on
Memorial Day.