The Saint Paul globe., 1897-05-30

dramatis personae The stories ar.
none Of them agreeable-to speak--55
them as enjoyable would be to offend
against the precision Of dtctlon with
the old-fashioned people who "entoy
Ill health" But the reader OF THESE
sketches finds his interest aroused e&nh
his sympathies quickened by these ur-'
pretentfous tales Of crude emotions 5azaff
bald, unlovely surroundings IN a way
mere enjoyment to other days. me
people are not nice, the saloon
is inelegant and sometimes over
strong, but these are only incl
dents, and the author Is con-
admiration for his handiwork because
of these qualifications alone-not De
cause Of them, but rather In spite of
them. With such surroundings and
such people the elements OF pathos-
and tragedy are one with the sur
roundings; the humor-if there IS to
be any-must come from man alone.
Number" though it must be admitted
that usually the circumstances are
stronger than the man.
(''The Lucky Number by I. X. Friedman.
Way & Williams, Chicago S12o.)
"a Galahad Of the Creeks is the lit
the story Of s. Levett Yeats last SooK.
1t is rather ambitious sketch or some
hundred and half pages and about
shares the volume with another tale
of Eastern life, ''The Widow Lam
port" "a Galahad Of the Greeks" IS
much the better story Of the two ana
at intervals is even quite above the
ordinary. The Eastern field that ..
Levett- Yeats has chosen. however,
L; ;a1, oY%ic
to be odious and one in which the
reader is likely to heavily discount lit
erary virtues of the ordinary type. =
",rhe Galahad of the Greeks" is Per-
egrine Jackson, young Engllsaman
who begins his official career as as
sistant commissioner Of Pazobin, an
evil-smelling district in Lower Burma.
He brings conscious purity and am
bilious ideals to his new post, post
where spotlessness and enterprise both
seem to be but matter out OF place.
He Immediately and most innOcently
falls in love with the beautiful wife OF
an American missionary. She is4a
woman, mentally and morally insig-
nificant, but adequately serves as the
object Of two mems devotion and "the
Galahad" finally dies in her defense.'
The parallel to the knight Of the pure
heart and, strength is one of ten
found mainly in words. The best part
Of the book rs apart from the main
characters in the minor persons and
incidents. 80
("A Galahad of the Creeks" by r levitt
Yeats. Appletons Town and Country Libra
ry. Paper, so cents. For sale by the st. Paul
Book and Stationery company)
''Kings in Adversity'' is the title
of small volume made up Of two
stories by Edward S. Van Zile. Love
stories, of course they are, and stories
Of tottering crowns. The hero Of enc lis
a crown prince Of an Insignificant
principality, travelling incognito in the
United States, and it's heroine is a New
York society girl; the hero Of the. other
is clever poker-playing Yankee,
small and crumbling European prin-
cipality, and it's heroine is beautiful
German princess. With such material
something surely should be done and
the author WeaveS out of it two stories.
not, in truth, far out of the run of+the,
ordinary light fiction of the day. but.
interesting and readable-the thing for
a summer day. The poker conceits III
the last story suggest a possible sec.
ondary meaning for the books title. :.
(''Kings in Adversity.'' by Edward S. Van
Zile. F. Tennyson Neely, New York. Is
cents. For sale by the st. Paul Book and
Stationery company
ga Fault of One" by Effie Adelaide
Rowlands is the story Of a mistaken
marriage. AS such it is uncondition-
ally gloomy up to the last chapter
For some reason-whether psychOlo-
gical or geographical is unknown to
us-England, Invariably draws such
plots to herself and so it is no ,surr
prise to us to find the characters Of
| "a Fault Of One" with an English
back ground and surrounded in, an
English atmosphere. The book ranks
well with novels of it's own particular
cIass-a class neither literary nor last
ing, but quite sufficient for railroad
iournies or hammock weather.
ctA Fault of One." by Efie Adelaide Row