The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-06-06


atoulng for the ungrammaticai eilip1icsi
speech. the dialect ana slang Of the studio
and bohemian life.
There is al artist named Hawker. who
il supposedly the hero of the story. al
though he never does anything hsroic or
even interesting. except To fall IN love
with a nice girl who Is an heiress. ard in
whose company he is aiwa.s duH and
uncomfortable. There is the artists fam
iy. Who are iiirerare and commonplace.
and whose voices and manners jar upon
his refined nature much as they do upon
the sensitive reader
There is q fashionable summer hotel
and summer boarders. who take deep
interest in the progress of the courtsnip.
The mother and sisters of the artist
are Jealous of the nice girl bnt the old
farmer father is silently sympathetic.
and the nice girl completes her conquest
when she rides with him on his OK cart
and allows herself TO be driven 10 the
entrance OF the hotel, In the very face
OF the ariStocra,ic sunra II boarders.
In squalid and crimy Bohemia near
Uawker's New York studio there is a
group Of artist frienos and model
named Florinda. who is very sorry when
she learns Of his love for the heirsss. but
she does not Kill herself or even lose her
appetite
The speech OF these Bohemian artists
Is a mixture of "Chimmie Fadden" and
studio jargon. which Mr.. Crane makes
them roll off most glbIy--in fact. he
scenes far more at home IN this company
than with any Of the other characters,
and then, too. his iGIosyncraSics in gram
mar and metaphor are not so noticeable
as In more refined society. For instance,
when he employs the word dove as an
expression Of the past tense of the verb
dive. and where he causes his chief liter
,x4fs. - ,x=fsy ,fVl "A
her" And one queries why one set Of
people In Il mountain stage should be
''mucilaced" to their seats. and another
person in the same stage should have
been permitted secretly and impious!y
10 wriggie in his seat
But why dwell on all thiss Let us hope
that the dog. and the one or two clever
descriptions and the happy ending may
redeem the book for it's readers
FOR THE OTHER BOYS SAKE and
other Stories. BY Marshall Saunders.
Philadelphia; Charles Fl. Banes. 1t0
Chestnut street. Seattle: Hardins
hook store. SO Third avenue. 81.
Miss Saunders former hook. Beautiful
Joe has prepared ali her readers 10 give
this latest work from her pen warm
welcome. For the Other Boys Sake"
will not disappoint them. for her artistic
conceptions and the humor and pathos
OF her situations are quite as marked
when she writes of her child heroes and
heroines they were in her delightful AMI
NAL story.
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an impartial statement OF the conditions
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Postal Savings Banks: detailing the
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