The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1898-08-05
LITERARY NOTES.


rounded out, "rhe School For Saints"
by John oliver Hobbies, will be great
disappointment.
1t is brilliant in s'yle, and the char
acters are delineated with boldness and
strength, but the plot lacks continuity.
The author cannot be sufficiently
praised for her mastery sketch of Lord
Beaconsfield. The sentiments she
makes him utter in this book might
really have emanated from the great
statesman under similar circumstances
In actual life.
The strongest impression made upon
the reader by this last work of Mrs.
Craigie is that she has made it the
vehicle to convey to the public her
views of Roman Catholicism, and her
reasons for recently embracing that
creed.
By the way, it is worthy of note that
in the book just mentioned and two
others that are in great demand, name
ly Evelyn Innes," by George Moore,
and "Helbeck of Bannisdale," by Mrs.
Humphry Ward, the Church of Rome
plays very conspicuous part.
Despite the critics comment that
Mrs. Wards novels are ponderous in
style and tedious in plot, thousands of
them are sold yearly. In her new work.
l"Helbeck of Bannisdale," she is at her
best. Her characters are well drawn
and natural. The story is interesting.
Laura Fountain is the daughter of All
agnOstic who has contracted a second
marriage with papist of noble family
who has relinquished faith and kin for
his sake. But upon his death she be-
comes reconciled with the church, and
, with her stepdaughter Laura, is well
coined by her brother Allen Helbeck to
the ancestral home at Bannisdale. This
brother is a man of noble qualities, and
loyal Catholic. He and Laura fall in
love and after many misunderstood
ings are betrothed. Then Laura dis
covers that she cannot surrender her
soul or mind to the faith that her lover
! cherishes, nor can she give him up, so
she cuts the Gordian knot of the prob.
lem by suicide.
. To us of this enlightened end of the
! 10th century, that period of our colonial
! history when belief in witchcraft was
I rampant possesses a peculiar fascina-
, ton. Therefore "The Little Salem
Made" by Pauline Bradford Mackie,
i will enjoy much popular favor. 'Tis
the story of pretty, innocent, vain little
! Deliverance Wentworth who is accused
: of being witch and tried on that
Z charge. before the Jealous Cotlan
Mather. The announcement is es
pecially interesting.
A book that is Interestingly southern
is "Pearce Amerson's WILL" by Richard
Malcolm Johnston. AS he writes of the
), world of which he is a part, he writes
$ we'll. The scene of this story is il
Georgia. Pearce Anderson was a pros
porous planter of high social position
u whose youngest son angered him by
i marrying a girl whom the father be
lieved to be of plebeian family. Ii
!, his rage the older Anderson makes al
i Just will which he is later induced
to destroy. When he dies, however, Il
will is submitted for probate, and thu
history of this peculiar document il
!, very quantity and dramatically told.
/ Mr.. Maurice Hewlett, the author o
J. that successful romance, "The Forest
Lovers" has dedicated the book to Mrs
n w. X. Clifford, the novelist. 1t is a tall
/ of England in the time of the Crausadt
and is full of love and war, the onl,
t two things worth living for or writing
about, as witty Frenchman said.
,, In" Arachne," George Ebers has givel
| US a SUIT vi ESi plldu lllS III bue yea
274 b c., in which the most powerful
passions, love, jealousy, revenge, brinj
about an interesting complication o
incidents.
II Mrs. Burton Harrison will shOrtl,
publish novel of English society llf
d entitled 1.-TWO Men and Girl"
~ A book of short stories by Charlie
- Belmont Davis, a brother of Richart
n Harding Davis, will appear in the fall.
e "The Duenna of a Genius" is a move
lie full of healthy romance, common sense
/, and shrewd humor. The genius is
y musician, the duenna her elder sister,
J; charming creature charmingly drawn
l. The author is NJ. +. Francis (Mrs
l. Francis Blundell.)
e The Appletons will soon publish
new book by F. FrankfOrd Moore
q author of "The Jessamy Bride" 1t
e title will be 1.-THE Millionaires," and I'll
p said to be brisk and breezy. II. l..
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