The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-25

IS Iar from the greatness OIL Inc lieu
Badge" or that remarkable sketch of
shipwreck, -Four Men in an Open
Boat" the happy result of Mr.. Cranes
unhappy eXperiences-and is of Inn
portance from the futures point of
view only in as much as 1t shows that
Stephen Crane has not lost the cour-
age of his convictions or the art to
make them obvious.
(''The Third Violet by Stephen Crane.
d. Appleton & Co. New York 81. For sale
by the st. Paul Book and Stationery COM
pany)
William Joseph Yeoman, the author
of "A Woman's Courier" is to be con-
graduated on the number of adventures
he has found it possible to crowd into
short weeks space. Like all tales of
wild adventure, it is told in the first
person,-who would have the courage
to engage in all the mortal combats
and wade through all the seas of
blood thrust upon one by the modern
writer of adventure, if this form of tell
ing the tale did not demonstrate the
hero's final escape?
"a Woman's Courier is concerned
with the conspiracy of 1896. Romance
has usually been Jacobin in sympathy,
but in this respect Mr.. Yeoman has
departed far from the customary. The
hero of the tale is Sir John Talbot, a
VOtion to William as ever attached it
self to the Stuarts. Sir John, on his
sisters insistance, follows to London
her lover, who is supposed to be i'm
plicated in the conspiracy. He falls
into and ScrambleS out of one adven-
ture only to fall into the next with
so much regularity and system, and
the apparent possibilities for more are
so exhaustleSS, that the reader is per-
hn ocn
ever like the tale where another wasp
went in and brought out another grain
of corn" When the end does come,
it is a purely arbitrary one and seems
not at all to mark the limit of the
authors inventive ability.
CA Woman's Courier" by William Joseph
Woman. Stone & K:mball New York 80
For sale by the st. Paul Book and Stationery
company.)
Glamour" is a book in which cheap
sentiment, atrocious English weird
magic, lordly titles, wizard rings, dis
aster, unWise Self-sacrifice quotations
from the poets, mystery, Christianity,
theosophy, dreams and somnambulism
are jumbled into a folmless chaos quite
beyond the reviewers power or desire to
fathOm.
The mournful thing about book of
this. kind is that it will find wrapt
readers among the uncultured and ir-
rational, who will fall happy victims
to its nnawkiSh Sentimentality and high
flown romance A sane reader escapes
from the task of reading such book
with merely sigh of relief and a tenn
pOrary feeling of nausea; the unarmed
and too often young victim of such
inSidiOuS trash is the ignorant sufferer
and receives from it in mind, morals
and taste a warp never to be made
straight.
C'Glamcur," by Meta orred. ]. P. L:ppin-
colt company. Philadelphia. S1.25. For sale
by the st. Paul Book and Stationery COM
pany)
''When the Century Was New is a
romance with a historical background
by Charles Conrad Abbott. In a cur
ious preface an account is given of
the tearing down Of the Old Horse
Head inn and the consequent reawak-
enlng in the mind of the oldest inhab-
liant of the old stories of murder and
mysterious disappearance connected
with the old house when the century
was new. These doubtful rumors lead
to investigations on the part of the
author which reveal in time papers
and circunstantial evidence out of
which he constructs the story of a
past tragedy and a very much in
volved plot. The ending is an incon-
slstently happy one, but in this re-
spect much may be forgiven an author
VINO naturally does not wish to leave
the stain of murder upon the lives of
his young lovers.
,C'When the Century Was New by Charles
conrad 60 Abbott: j.. B. Lippincott Company.
Phlladelphia; 81. For sale by the St. Pau
BOOK and Stationery company -
The International Studio" for July,
IS number which should be equally
desired by artists and public. "The
studio can not fail to appeal to any
one with artistic sympathies, and is
enough in itself to give higher ten
aencles to art in America. In decora-
tlon especially its principles are SO
sane and simple that we look forward
with hope to the time when it's in
Huence will materialize in our homes