The Saint Paul globe., 1897-11-28

York, $500. For sale by the ST. Paul BOOK
and Stationery company
A charming. story charmingly told
is Mrs Lincolns "An Unwilling Maid.
It is Revolutionary romance, the
happy history Of one of our first In
terna tional courtships, and, If the
books ending is really a prophecy on
the heroine's future, we may take 1t
that this marriage cannot be used as
an argument against the much-con-
demned custom. Betty Wolcott, a lit
tie rebel against King George, falls
in love with an officer in that same
kings army, and her heart and her
will have a pretty struggle and neither
really surrender to the English until
Gen. Washington triumphs over the
foe. Little Miss Moffit. Betty's small
sister, and as charming small sis
ter as ever was put in book, plays
an important part in the story, and it
is through her rescue from a Watery
grave that Betty and her English
lover first meet, and at the end Of the
story Miss Moffet justly remarks:
Its just like fairy tale, and I'm
in it!' The book is fresh and whole
some as a sea breeze, and people Of
any age, with young hearts, will find
in it interest and enjoyment Of a very
real and fine sort.
can Unwilling Maid" by Mrs. Jeanie
Gould Lincoln. Houghton, Miffiin G. Co.,
Boston. $1.25. For sale by the st. Paul Book
and Stationery company)
The Little Journeys to the Homes
of Famous Women" have reached us
in dainty pamphlet form at various
times during the year, and now most
tastefully and substantially bound into
a book they make good their promise
Of Importance. Elbert Hubbard, who
makes these little Journeys to the
homes of famous women, writes Of
them and the women who have made
them shrines for pilgrimages with a
spirit Of familiarity and good fellow
ship, which, if little too gossipy for
scme tastes, is, nevertheless, very con-
tagious, and one leaves the home of
Mrs. Browning and Mary Lamb feel
ing that one knows the daily course Of
their lives in way purely personal,
and that one understands better the
women themselves and what they were
to the home rather than to the world.
The homes Of which Mr.. Hubbard
writes are those Of Mrs. Browning,
Madame Guyon, Harriet Martineau,
Charlotte Bronte, Christina Rossetti,
Rosa Bonheur, Madame de Stael, Eliza
beth Fry, Mary Lamb, Jane Austen,
the Empress Josephine and Mary
Shelley.
\ LlCCle Journeys Co the Homes or Famous
Women edited by Elbert Hubbard G. P.
Putnams Sons, New York. $1.75. For sale
by the st. Paul Book and Stationery COM
pany0
ga Question of Damages" Is a short
story by ]. T. Trowbridge, in which
reasonable little plot is worked out
in Mr.. Trowbridge's well-known man
ner. A railroad accident throws a
slippery man of the world into
charming village home where he pro-
ceeds to fall in love with and propose
to the daughter and support Of the
house, Notwithstanding the fact that
he Is already quite as good as en-
gagged to Helen Wilde. For his in
juries he exacts from the railroad
heavy damages, and at the same time
allows all the expenses Of his Illness to
fall upon the shoulders of his latest
love, who gives up her music pupils to
have more time for nursing him He
departs finally not to return, and sensi-
tive Lucy Tilbury is left to make her
empty arrangements for her wedding.
The way in which his own large ideas
of adequate damages are finally worked
for his undoing is the point of the
story.
CA Question of Damages" by ]. T. Trow-
bridge. Lee & Shepard, Boston. so cents.
For sale by the St. Paul Book and Stationery