The times., 1897-07-04

bump OF love for mysJery-lt ga not pro /
woke all the sadness " hica ii might. fobe
sure, il was an unhappy occasion; but'a
firm belief in the Immortality OF the soul
and the Iinitless inven ton of Dr. Doyle
robbed death of all its victory ana the
grave OF all its sting We really looked
Tor detective Holmes in the very next
story The detective wishes TO De re-
yiyifed; that is clearly shown by the
effort whfch he made to desert the styN,
a recorded in John Kendrck Bangs
Pursuit of the House Boat Surely so
good a friend OF the late detective as
Conan DoyIe himself would not be ignorant
az the mans wishes or deaf TO his appeal
So when IL was announced that new
story was finished by Dr. Doyle, and the
said story was actually brought before
us In tidy book form, we hooked at the
FIRST chapter. confident of reading II ''The
Resurrection Of Sherlock homes" But
1ncre was only disappointment for the
looking Holmes is still in the Eouseboat
lan1euting the failure of Es expedition
against Capt. Kidd ard cursng the fa'e
which makes ham an exile from another
Conan DOYLE book.
TIE new story is called "UEcle Pernac,'
andlnit We are vauitpd hack at neie
hound TO 100 years before the days of
Detective Holmes achievements. Tins
time tie story is French. II concerns the
rettyru w. his native land Of a young
royalist exile. He is called back by
friendly letter from his Uncle Eernac,
with whom the family had not before been
on good terms There was my Stery con
nected with this letter.
rf-.s. ...sl..R at zach end with red wax,
hut the wax did not bear the impress OF
Ills uu,le's ring, but Of a large, coarse
grained thumb. Moreover, while The IN
yitateu within was written in French,
there was scra wled on the outside the two
FE.lish words Don't come The young
man wh3 received the contradictory cpi>tle
was for a moment confused in making up
his mind. But being a coed ana obedIent
hero. with "a proper regard for his obli-
cations aud the possibility OF the story, he
bravely turnS q blind eye 10 this point OF
the seal. a.d the Injunction and digs up
score OF reasons why ne should 20. And he
does 20. and thereby hangs the story Of
'UuCle BernaC.'
lie no sooner lands in France than he
fails into immical tells. His adventures
are diversified, but always exciting and
there is a perfect chain OF eventfui de
pendeulies. which holds the readers at
teution page after page. Dr Doyle knows
how todotlissoTt ofthing. HelS ventable
spider 5ud Woe to the fly who ventures so
near his paIlOr even as the first chapter.
Bul there il side 10 the story broader
and mort general than the personal fiction
OF it In Uncle Bcrnac' Or. DOYLE gives
us ms picture OF Napoleon. Ills alone
would iI.ihuc the book with an interest 10
carry DO. eycl If tho story vaiHe Is not
t.stsul.c asif Is tNcw York. .. Appleton
y 60. Washington. ByenlauoD
There are many good things in this
quarters Yellow Book SO many, in
fact that we are almost tempted back into
q repetition OF what is forced by each re-
curing volume Of this interesting child
of the Bodley Head Literature and art
move gracefully through the pages de-
lighting tie eye and casting ingraiiat.ug
Cundt Sccusiou to the Ia Sic and discretion Of
the reader Almost the only important
name III the table of writers S Richard
L GaHi-ne, and 10y sCriptural compensa-
ton a "a essay OF his which com eS laStstands
first in the proportioned list of merits II
is dissertation Oh the birth Of beauty in
tie perceptiye faculties.
He starts with the optimistic and con-
sIing principle tLat all things arcin them
selves beautiful, OF contain the possibility
Of beauty. 81. to bc more explicit. they
may respond 10 conception OF beauty
wHtch VIII proclaim them beautiful. be
cause beauty is in the eve Of tire behold
er He Hkels beauty t. a sleeping woman,
whom De calls "a sleeping beauty to be
awakened by the kiss Of great love or Of
great genius"
Then Nr lie Gallienne launches into an
earnest and truly sensible discussion of
this wonderful and elusive quality. Beau
~ Is. in fact, 4 collaboration betweea the
bcholdcr and the beheld.'' ne says. 1t
has no abstract existence, andiS visible or
invisible. as one has eyes to see it or not
& see IL that is, aS one Is endowed OF not
endowed with a sense Of beauty yam hieratic
sense which, strangely enough l. common
- humanity. Particularly is this assuu.p-
ton ma r. in regard ID the beau yof women.
''Every man, however beauty hfnd he
NAV really he- considers himself judge Of
wIuleu-though he IaiEht hesitate 10 call
himself a Judge Of hoses. Far, indeed,
fIen its heine true thai thecuIsc OF beauty
l. universal, there can lie tut little doubt
that the deluoCracry is for The most part
beauty-Ilind, and that while ii EeS a CeI-
tam indifferent pleasure ia tie loneliness
that comes Of health, and tie pIettness that
goes with ribbons, il diSlikes and fears
that finel beauty which il selCom cumely.
never pretty and always strange.
2 Well, as no one would dream Of art
criticism by Ilebiscite, why should uni
vcrsal conventions Of the teauty Of women
find 30 Ia:ge an acceptance merely beca use
they are universal? There arc vast multi
{udes, no doubt. WHO deemed the scented
soap beauties of Rougereau mors beau
tiful than the strange ladies OF Rotticelli,
md were you TO inquire, you would dis
cover that your housemaid wonders to her.
self as she dusts your picture to the sound
of music haE song, what you see in the
plain, lean women Of Burne-Jones, or
the repulslvc ugliness of THE Blessed
Damosei' she thanks heaven that she was
not born with such a face as she takes
q reassuring glance in the mirror at her
own regular rrettiness ard more remark
etle bloom For, you see, this beauty is
stlu asleep FOR her-as, but a few weeks
ago, it was asleep for all but the artist
who first kissed it awake
"All beauty was once asleep like that,
even the very beauty your hOusemaid Vim
.derSisf,,is and perhaps eEemplif es lay
asleep awaiting the eye of the beholdcr;
it lay asleep awaiting the kiss of genius:
and, just as one day nothing at all seemed
beautiful, so some day all things VIII
come L. seem SO, if the revelation lac not
already complete.
For. indeed, much beauty that was
asleep fifty years ago has been passion