The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-05-07

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| new woman, who until she met him, Is
| bent on devoting her millions TO the pub
| lie good. Instead she decides To devote
| them To the benefit of the duke ana his
creditors. She Is aided and Allotted by
| her mamma and opposed by her papa the
| latter representing. we believe, uncompro-
missing Americanism. We should say
| that the saving griso necessary 10 tho
highest enjoyment of IA story dealing with
such characters would be humor, but the
! telling of this tale unfortunately leaves
that important factor Co the Inference OF
the reader. Cd. Appleton a. Go. For sale
by ii. Gregory. Price u.
To turn aside from motives and tendon
| cies and all the tangents of fiction TO u lit
tie domestic tale like Doctor Luttrell's
| First Patient, by Rosa Nouchette Carey,
| is far from unpleasurable. Simplicity
| In story writing may strike one as some
! thing of an affectation nowadays, but
| It can never cease 10 bc attractive so long
as it is not n guise for failure In inyen-
| tion and dullness in relation. The Carey
stories have distinct flavor of their
| own. and "A pleasant rs well as whole
some flavor 10 is One can find relle1 In
ones reading where the blood is not
BOILED by the operation. " Doctor Lut-
trell's First Patient" is simplicity itself
for a novel. Ii runs aS smoothly as
pretty mill stream Ii is domestic and
sweet and altogether appealing 10 the
average head and heart. III you are
woman perhaps you viii favor it rather
more intimately than If you arc man.
It is we'll illustrated and nicely put mp
by the publishers, the j. H. Li,ppincott
Company. (For sale by Preston &iRounds,
price sl.25.
Lads Love is another Of the tales OF
simple life, simply told. Perhaps Mr..
:. r. Crockett rather strains after his
| simplicity. No matter. We are reading
his stories religiously these days ana we
| have yet TO be disappointed. The scotch
| fad may or may not endure. The re-
viewers like TO discuss with themselves
| about that Meantime the folks who read
| books as they drink sarsIparilla, Just be-
cause IL tastes good are reading Crockett
| and his school. Perhaps Lads Love
| Is old Perhaps we have read the same
| things without tho Scotch dialect and
other new trimmings. But the old, old,
| story of lads love will never be dis
| placed. We read il joyously in any Ian
| guage that we can understand. Mistress
| Nance is surely one of the most compan-
ionable girls that fiction has given us and
the sisters are nightly attractive too
| As for the unfortunate Hoolet Mr.
| Crockett presents her misfortunes In
way 10 command duo sympathy. ANA
so the whole book, its tragedy and its
| comedy, are altogether delightful. IL Is
| an idyll for which the authors half
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| by ID. Appleton * Co, with numerous
| good illustrations, and portrait OF
| Crockett, the volume is worth possessing
| for something more than reading
(For sale by Gregory Price sl.5o)
| "Mrs. Armstrong; and Other Circum-
| stances il the title OF a neat volume Just
| issued by Stone and kimball (Preston ~
| Rounds, Price Sl.j0) containing ten
readable stories by John Davidson. The
variety i'm the stories, the print paper and
| binding make this an altogether attrac-
tive book for the idle hour that we trust
! a good many of our readers Will have on
| their hands between the blossoming OF
the apple trees and the turning of the
| leaves
Mr. J.E.C G.. Farnham, Of this city, grand
| representative Of the Odd Fellows OF this
state. has written and Snow q Farnham
| have published for private distribution
| "a dainty volume entitled Providence 10
! Dallas, Brief Trip TO the Southwest.
| it is souvenir of the last national
| gathering of Odd Fellowship held in
! the Texas CITY and Is beautifully printed
| and bound, and richly illustrated by half
tones from photographs. The journey TO
| the far southwest as enjoyed by the
Rhode Islanders was pursued via
| Niagara Falls, ST. Louis and Hot Springs
| and the story Mr.. Farnham tells OF
| his trip is as readable and informing as
| "a good letter from a good friend Indeed.
the inception of the quite pretentious lit
| tic work of travel was the authors pen
sonal jottings down originally intended
| for the pleasure of himself and family cir
| Gle. We are sure the fortunate recipients
! of the book appreciate IL fully and find 1t
| vastly interesting and informing. To
| such OF them as may have taken the jour
! new il will echo many of their own pleas
| ant sayings, while to .anyswho may con-
| template the trip or any point of it In the
| future il will be an agreeable supplement
| to the wonders OF the timetables and
| the prosaic guide book.