The herald., 1897-10-31

count of Little Crochet" on the Gray
Pony, will give its great wilderness re-
neWed interest.
A BROWNING COURTSHIP, AND 9TH
ER STORIES. A group of charming
short stories by Eliza Orne White, au-
thor of ''Winterborough." The Coming
of Theodore" when Molly Was Six"
"A Little Girl of Long Ago." etc. limo.
Sl25 Houghton Mihln e Co
Here are eight short stories, the slender
est being 1.-TWO Authors" the neatest. cut
est THE Fatted Calf" and the best one.
all in all, the one that gives title to the vol
ume. No one who knows the range of the
authors fancy in character sketches could
doubt her ability to make a taking affair
out of the Northbridge Browning club,
with its membership of fifty women and
six mer. The young woman of 20, who con-
fessed that she really wanted to know
some young man, was made member.
though secretly hating it all. and Mr.. Paul
*. Brown the leader of the class. fell in
love with her, he. too, feeling that in his
heart he was playing a part Well after
much iciness and misapprehension the Two
came to an understanding, but each one
limiting at a secret that should be told the
other. And then the presents came in
everything being Browning. even two busts
of him, and other things in proportion.
This outpouring from friends they could
not even pretend to like, and so the secret
between them came out-they did not like
Browning and the Browning club. Still,
as the end was so happy, there were no
heartburnings. "a Browning Courtship'
is very charming opening of q CHEEKY
book.
THE REVOLT OF A DAUGHTER. BY
Ellen Olney Kirk, author of "The Story
of Margaret Kent" "Ciphers," ''Wal-
ford" "a Lesson in Love-" etc. 1Gmo.,
$l.25. Houghton, Mifflin Si Co.
Fifteen years ago. when 1.-The Story of
Margaret Kent was published. there was
much discussion Of the problem" involved.
1t seemed in those days a rather bold one
whether reputable woman artist might
cultivate the acquaintance of rich men
and lead them to buy her work--whether
she might lobby" in any way and yet be
well bred" SO many complicated prob
lens have since been presented to Ills in
our novels that Margaret Kent's adven-
| lures seem mild. The woman artist often
does what it was then agreed that she
should not do. Perhaps it is only part
of "Bohemiansm. In the many stories
from the pen of Ellen Olney Kirk in the
meantime she has kept pace with the
times. In this latest book she gives US
mother, the Marchese Bertini-who at
the very outset of the story is 40 and a
widow after two marriages-and a daugh-
ter, Kitty is and original. Which is the
heroine of the story 1t is hard to say. The
marchese has returned to America after
twenty years absence in Europe. Kitty
adores her mother and has but one wish
in life, TO be exactly what her mother is.
almost from the time her little daugh-
ter was born, Constance had felt a vbrat-
ing responsive quality in her. To each the
look speech, touch of the other was the
answer to q need, the satisfaction of a
hunger In rearing her child Constance
Bertini had treated her simply as another
Constance Bertni, pouring into the OPEN
ing heart and mind her own knowledge,
beliefs, logic, instincts, like a strengthen
ing cordial"
The revolt occurs when the marchese
objects to Kittys lover-an old lover of the
marchese, by the way-as "a failure" not
in the matter of money or position, but
"the sort of failure that means disenchant-
ment, means deterioration, means being
miserable.' The marchese had tried. in
Italy to bring Kitty up an American girl
Had her father lived, other influences
might have asserted their forces" She
had "meant to make no mistakes with
Kitty" "had meant to foresee everything,
TO provide for everything;" to be, as some
one reminds her, "omniscient and omnip-
otent," forgetting that Kitty was only half
her child. with q separate character, a sep
arate temperament, which must be taken
into account.
All sorts of tangles are duly untangled,
and during the process some very good
things are said upon various subjects
the woman question, ideals, marriage, etc,
etc. There are various types" of lovers,
Of women and of girls. Mrs. Darrow, the
model housekeeper of today, declares that
we are better housekeepers than our grand
mothers 'They did the best they could
so much better than their neighbors that
it was then believed they did the best that
could be done, but our best is SO
far beyond their possible, that there can
be no comparison" The eVolu-
ton of cold turkey into croquettes and
patties may be as scientifically interesting
as the differentations in chrysanthemums
and geraniums under treatment"
The quest ton of the possibilities of earn
ing ones own living comes up for discus
sion, and the girls enumerate Kitty's "tal-
ents." "Heaven help her if she has ever
to earn her own living by any one of them"
observed Constance. 81 hear people talk
of the astonishing abilities of this woman
or that. Mrs Darrow was saying yes.er-
day so much good work! There are really
no amateurs nowadays! l refrained only
by an effort from saying that there We're
nothing but amateurs"
A man brings this talk on woman to a
close rather abruptly by the following
sally: "I have just one atom of curiosity
which almost piques me into enduring the
new state of society for a few hundred
years, and that is to see what women will
have become by the year 2500; whether, with
all her advanced and advancing IDEAS, she
will by that date have succeeded in accom-
plishing anything original. She initiates
man with amazing cleverness; all that man
has done she attempts to do-commits muir
ders and suicides, writes books, rides
wheels, keeps shop, dances on the tight
rope performs surgical operations,
breaches and lectures. But so far she has
done only one thing man cannot dor
In the working out of the difficulties aris-
ing from the revolt, mothers will find much
food for thought.
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