The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-20

Russian eagle Of the cover design
promises plot Of this character and
the promise is fulfilled. In the first
chapter tall and boyish youth intr5-
duces himself awkwardy enough: my
name is Prince - he says to a
group of ladies he has befriended, and
the ladies Herewith call him MIR.
Prince" and the story begins. This
young gentleman goes to England to
test life as lesser mortals test it, and,
incidentally, OF course, to be in the
same city with fair Russian maiden.
He becomes Secretary to Bayne, M
p" The nihilists become interested in
this secretary to Bayne, M. P, and
plan his destruction by the methods
most in favor with this class of So
ciety. Many adventures follow, and
some all but prove fatal to both hero
and story. At last Olga Nitroff, the
Russian girl, succeeds in saving his
life, and he is finally ir~e1gled back to
his own principally, where the reader
leaves him happily married to the girl
who saved him from the plots of the
nihilists. Another romance Of a less
sanguinary character runs parallel to
this tale, and the actors in the second
cast have no claim to royalty, but are
just poor and happy newspaper peo-
pie.
D !Gssecreftary to Bayne. NJ; P" by w. PETIT
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Mr.. Charles NJ. Skinner is one who
goes direct to nature for wisdom and
comfort. Her first lesson is one taught
so we'll in no other school: "Calm-no
useless emotion or action for it's own
sake; this teaches security and repose."
Economy-''t the adaptation of means to
an end without waste Of energy. ma
terfal or time" constancy-"each force
each element, holding to it's purpose.
evolution - everything working to-
wards the death of the unfit and the
establishment Of higher, more self-suf-
hclnS formS;" these are some of the
other lectures she gives in her world
VIDE class room. The title of Mr.. Skin
ners story of ramblings in the world
1s with Feet to the Earth" the
springy sod. the trees and live things
OF field or woods, whether bird or but
terfy or only stray humans, are his
dramat1s personae, and, as his love for
the red gods" is devout and unassum-
ing, what he has to say in their service is
acceptable to their other followers
The man who has sky in his eye has
sunlight deeper in. and the green things
or the earth make fertile tracts in his
head
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Mr.. Stanley Waterloo writes "Tba
Story of Alb, the history Of ga man of
the Age Of Stone, who lived so long
ago that We cannot closely fix the date.
and who loved and fought we'll" "The
Story of ABB is an archaeological ro-
nance, If such a combination of terms
is permissible: Mr. Waterloo has spent
some time on the study Of the Stone
Age, and believes, contrary to the opin-
ion Of scientific teachers of the sub
1ect, that the gap that is supposed to
divide the paleolithic from the neolfth
ic man does not exist The transition
from one form of development to tho
other he pictures in the life of one
man, the inventor of the bow and ar
row and the polSher of weapons and
utensils. This Alb is an interesting
creature and his primitive times are
worth reading about. Considering how
frequently fiction is added to archaeoI
ogy' by the scientists, it is onIy inst
that once in a while a novelist Should
be allowed to add archaeology to his
fiction, and while the result Is not abso
lutely stirring as fiction nor exactly
convincing as science, it affords a fair
amount OF both pleasure and instruc-
ton. At all events it makes the man
OF the Stone Age seem little more
closely related to ourselves.
("The Story of Alb; Tale Of the Time
OF the Cave Men," by Stanley Waterloo:
S125. Way & Williams, Chicago)
Mr.. Henry Lauren Clinton, whose
prominent position among New York
lawyers has brought him into contrast
With nearly all the famous criminal
cases tried in New York for MANY
years past, has written the history Of
the Celebrated Trials" in which he
has taken part The trials include the
Cunningham-Be ndeu murder, one of
the most stirring trials that has taken
place in America, and the Tweed and
Hall trials-the outgrowths of political
feuds-and many Others The book is
largely autobiogrAphical and has the