The Saint Paul globe., 1897-03-28

T The world is blind-she will write a
dozen chapters and-presto! the scales
will drop!
The book is not without its value;
but one must judge it by the authors
own standard. She states her inten
ton quite defnitely-how much of that
intention has the book realized? A
certain Familiarity with the various
arts is hers without doubt, Joined to
an admirable enthusiasm for her sub
ject; but more than an amateurs S
edge-more than even an anna
teur's love-is necessary to accomplish
even part of such a crusade.
Audiences by Florence P. Holden. Nc
Clurg & Co. Chicago. 81 %. For sale by the
ST. Paul Book and Stationery company
Two dainty little books bound In
glowing cardinal covers, from Harper
& Bros, contain two farces-one a
farce only in name and forn-the 9TH
er a farce in reality and in the other
meaning Of the word
"a Previous Enga cement" by w. D.
HOwells, is clever and fascinating
about the best of Howells' numerous
farces. OF course the dialogue is racy
and unexpected-one always expects
the unexpected in a we'll constructed
farce-the plot hinges on the "pecu-
liarity' not to say the "uniqueness''
L
her rasieS-perhapS because Of
them-is far from unnatural. The lit
tie play affords the reader an hours
amusement of the better sort.
Six Cups Of Chocolate is about as
inane as the most indescribably stupid
boarding school dialogue ever succeed
ed in being We had really thought
that this particular form Of puerile
vacuity could not exist apart from the
yellow-backed, dog cared dialogue
book, the sheet curtain and borrowed
long skirts Of the very youthful dra-
matte aspirations Of a past genera
ton. To find it brought out in a form
which challenges comparison with more
worthy matter is a surprise and
shock to our mature judgment.
CA Previous Engagement" by W. D. How
by the St. Paul Book and Stationery COM
pany. Six Cups OF Chocolate" from the
German. by Edith V. B. Mathews. Harper &
Brothers. 25 cents. For sale by the St Paul
Book and Stationery company)
We are charmed to know that Sir
Thomas Mallory's quaint and enthrall-
ing La Morte d'Arthur" is to be print
ed In the Temple Classics This de-
lightful old book-One of the first found
worthy of his press by Caxton-is
known to too many readers only as the
source of Tennyson's 'Idyls of the
King" Arthur, the Celtic king, and
now for many centuries the faVOrite
hero of a Saxon people, has many times
fulfilled the old prophecy that che
should come again" and conquer the
conquerOrs of his people. We welcome
his power again in this dainty and
suitable edition. The first volume now
on our book table, has, as frontis
piece, an appropriate decorative design
by Aubrey Beardsley; the text of this
mobile and joyous book entitled La
printed by Caxton, land finished in
the Abbey of West Minister the Last
Day of July, the Year of Our Lord
MCCCCLXXXV." The spelling and
punctuation have been modernized, but
nothing that really belongs to the abd-
ing interest of the book has been sacTi-
feed.
(''La Morte d'Arthur," by Sir Thomas NAL
lory Part l. The Temple Classics. The
Macmillan company. New York. so cents.
For sale by the st. Paul Book and Stationery
company
Essays, Or Counsels Civil and Moral, !"
by Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam have
been added to the Temple Classics
SO rapidly are the best things of Eng
llsh literature being brought out in this
edition that we viii soon be able to
stock our book shelves with whole
rows Of it's handy and satisfying
little volumes. There is something
about the ensemble of these small
bCCkS, whether bound in cloth or
leather that endears to one afresh the
old Elizabethans.
C'Essays. CT CounseIs Civil and Moral, by
Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam. The Temple