The Saint Paul globe., 1897-10-31

prised at one of these statements and
pleased at them both, the first seems
so out of character with the prince,
and the last so characteristic Of the
author. Mr.. Adams has written this
life of Jane Austen in order, he says,
'to place her before the world as the
winsome, delightful woman that she
really was, and thus to dispel the I'M
attractive, not to say forbidding, men
tai picture that so many have formed
of her. Jane Austen, the novelist, is
too well known to the literary world to
need much more said concerning her,
while Jane Austen, the woman, is, am
compelled to believe, still a stranger to
most of those who read her books"
The life begun in retired country
rectory, and ended, not quite forty
two years later, in a small provincial
city a few miles distant, is very beauti-
full in its quiet, unselflsh simplicity.
With an exact appreciation Of her own
ability, Jane Austen was but little
swayed by the praise of the outside
world or the lack Of it, and lived and
worked without morbid self conscious
ness
C'The- Story, of Jane Austen's Life by
Oscar Fay Adams New illustrated edition.
Lee G. Shepard, New York $500. For sale
by the st. Paul Book and Stationery COM
pany)
''The Federal Judge" by Charles K
Lush, is a story with modern basis
for it's plot, but a lot of oldefashioned
and we'll worn filing to round out its
meager lines. The book treats of vari-
GUS late capital and labor complica-
tions, under a disguise so thin that it
occasionally becomes transparent, and
the interest that the book may arouse
in this section will be due entirely TO
the closeness of its main subject to
our own days and our own doors AS
a novel, the book has but little to
recommend it; 1t has neither style nor
composition; the attempted character
sketching is without insight, humor or
conviction, and the usual melodramatic
padding is really more than commonly
commonplace and @eatric.
The interest of the story-when it
has any-lies in the concern one feels
in the central motive. A just judge
and one bitterly opposed to corpora
tions is cleverly led into placing the
'"Trans-American road" in the hands
of receivers and defending, with the
stubbornness of his nature-though his
stubbornness is anything but natural at
times-the interests of capital against
] those of labor; he is even led to issue
an injunction restraining the men en-
| ployed by the road from quitting, and
from advising and melting others to
quit the roads employ, and is repre-
sented by Mr.. Lush as believing him
self in this the buckler against corpo-
rations and the weapon in the hands
of the people, Nation is the head
| quarters of the villainously clever but
unconvincing manager of the Trans
American railroad and "Chiopolis'' is
a great city, a nights journey away.
| (''The Federal Judge" by Charles K. Lush.
Houghton, Mif1in & Co., Boston. S1.25. For
! sale by E. w. Porter & Coz
The simple announcement that Chap
mans translation of Homers odyssey"
| is now issued among the Temple clas-
familiar with Chapman's translation,
! and every one is-or should be-fa-
miliar with the serviceable and slightly
! little volumes of the Temple Classics
series; we have had frequent occasion
to speak of the desira bility of both
letterpress and binding of this edition,
! but we are always glad of another op-
portunity to express our quiet salts
faction. The Odyssey" is bound IN
two volumes, of the size and shape Of
| the "Morte d'Arthur'' and Boswell's
Johnson; the first volume has for a
frontispiece a facsimile of the title page
Of the first edition of Chapman's "Odys-
sey," imprinted in London by Richard
! Field for Nathaniel Butter" and the
| second volume contains a quaint por-
trait of Chapman himself, reproduced
| from an old etching.
] c.The odysseus" of Homer, translated ac-
| cording to the Greek by George Chapman.
The Temple Classics edition; two volumes
| 80 cents each. The Macmillan company New
| York. For sale by the St. Paul Book and
| Stationery company.)