The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-26

THAI he has succeeded in producing
q mildly amusing book is q result due. thoro-
foro, rather to accident than design. I'VE
have got over that maudlin day" he remarks,
with a cheerful and characteristic elegance Of
expression. when fiction was stranger than
life. We have entered on an era when the
province Of the novel il TO teach the relentless
truths Of experience. not to delude the untried
with ideal expectations that are never realized"
And so this friendly philanthropist sets forth
TO demonstrate for us some Of the relentless
truths Of experience and, at the same time, Stay
the demon OF idealism. Charles Henry Mon
tagu Macmillan Max is q youth with an abb
normally developed tasto for opium, n weak
heart and brain, and an unfortunate habit of In |
dulging, on the slightest provocation, in tire
some soliloquies Of inordinate length. In some
way, which is not very clearly indicated, he has
been involved in a plot to overthrow the Chinese
Government and nberate the toiling masses
OF tho Flowary Land from the oppression Of the
Mandarlns, and we first meet him in the Con-
sular prison at Shanghai, where he has served
the term OF his sentence and is about to be r-
leased and deported to England. An extraor-
binary young person known as Ayesha, q sort of
Chinese Cleopatra, appears to have been the in.
strument of his undoing, though 30 free and UNI
fettered is tho author In his methods that
this portion Of the story is wrapped in
impenetrable and not unpleasing obscurity.
In England he meets with some curious adven-
lures and 10 thrown among some Of the most
absurdly incomprehensible characters over
evolved from mortal inner Consciousness, and,
ON page AZ. VIC are informed that he will
eventually commit suicide. Hence the catas-
trophe, when It arrives, finds US not alto
gether unprepared. Before killing himself he
employs some Of his spare time in writ
Ing q novel in which ho has endeavorod
10 ldealize ms me INTO inc who'o g"hus
VI an'orous "hu "noi'oue o.hme. "ma nus
pun .ninSs IN ueh " "ey 'n"s
"ou,u na,e oiusnou W oouon ~ ueop inoo jug
NV eo"f'e'y hoooee"y W s'S,o sna' en
onof' tn"' "ou,u Ian "e.o No~ Nv
oueo appfoeia'eu. ~ eo'nou ueVe,-
hineu - MAKE inc NJ u suoooss' ~ suots
we'e JIM III uis.o''tins " y 'hie' su"'' ANU
'ho 'hei u o.hers u'ei"mi"s "k"ihe. IN
expected euuacl.ics' ihueooheies' anu aneeI".
lions o. style. Inc most important ana inc most
IL oio".i0e 'tu.ne
u.uuoo" oS .he au'h"ris 'noleloro 'no iao' -"
when a nan imoeche neurouo nus satura,oe
hihse't WIN opium anu arrived al inc suieiuai
s'ase' - IL tnorousnts !uainea ~ oni"' euo
eeSs III .he neWos senoo ne'i'n "nion 70 u
oo,ros "a q, IT, No.. .1o,,ivo In th., INA
49, .-s..u- sa,-au.s m. -
s - -. -
"eio'eu o"'oSa"pho ii' ~ i".'' "No, ~
pages oi h'stericai ra'ihs' 'ne seh'ie""n ''"'
mis- Drains out
And where was MAXI
He was dead,
In that little word lies the barrier TO all mans
science, telling the wisest, at the end Of their life's
labor. that they know nothing.
MS batbos.
~ a., a,,, line th, ,rtho, has NEATLY
A. -iU, 40 - '
huu tlItCIlNGly buIllIiVo w IL
In Dream Tales and Prose Poems" which
forms volume ten of the series of foundations
from Turpencff published by Messrs. Mac.
milan & Co. Mrs, Garnett has prepared an ex-
ceilent English version OF q numoer OF the great
Russian novelist's shorter pieces, some OF
which were written not long before his
death. VI the iour dream Iaies. CARA
Nilitch Is the best KNOWN but each has the
weird fascination ana strange uncanny power
oil one OF Poes taies OF Mystery. while ooth
they and The short prose poems show the Won
drous insight, the power OF subtle psychoiogicai
analysis, and hat gray melancholy character
istio OF SO many OF INC mouelh nussian "ri'ers
and OF Turgeneh In particular. Here is one OF
the shorter pieces that SHOWS the author IN his
most cynical mooa'
One day the Supreme Being took 1t into His head
to give a great banquet in His palace of Azure.
AL the virtues were invited. Only the virtues
. . men He did not ask . only the ladies
There were q great many OF them' great and small
The lesser virtues were more asreeaoie anu sehia
than the great ones ou. 'hey al appeared IN sooo
huhor' n '. N., "
oeon,ns ~ 80 800 y
p-.H@ss 90 ~ ,o,aIIv ,n,cou.,nt.t
Tss H., a.xe one q, the l.die, His arm and lad he,
M, 60 ,o otbe,
.penenceneer, he said. indicating the nut.
"Gratttude," he added, indicating the secons.
Both the virtues were amazed beyond expression
ever since the world had stood, and it had been stand
ing a long while. this was the FIRST time they had evel
met.
". Con., nov,s almost invariably oiv.s hi,
-sode-s n,entv Of good hard fighting, and n,
- - adv.ntures ~ tho ro,lickin1 s,an.dasI
sor, and when he avoids the red lamn- IN,
1870 ,ah. and the consuIting room
no 10 = most cbeerv and ontertaininr
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