The herald., 1898-12-11
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~(Edited by Enoch Knight
THE GENTLE ART OF PLEASING. By
Eleanor Glover. The Baker 4 Taylor
company.
The apparent purpose OF this little book
is to try to show certain people, especially
certain young people, what 1t is that makes
them unpopular with their mates and their
neiQhbors. Such folks rarely, if ever, know
what the real trouble is, and hence the au-
thor has planned and penned this volume,
TO reach persons who cannot be so well ap-
preached as by something in story form, as
this is put. 1t is very ingenious and ought
to be effective.
JEFFERSON WILDRIDER. BY Eliza
beth Glover. l2mo, cloth, decorated,
gilt TOP. SIPS. The Baker & Taylor
company.
A story treating New England life and
character broadly and with unusual dis
cerament OF the universal elements OF hui
man nature and the reciprocal influence OF
one character upon another. Jefferson Wild
rider is not story told for a purpose, but
one put together from such material as ev-
erywhere interests us in human life, and
depicted for an effect of reality, which
should carry its own lessons. Most promi
ncnt among these is the moral force of love
emphasized in both the principal and sec
6pdary motifs OF the story; another lies il
the inevitable results of the natural working
cut of the inherited, and at times unchecked
character tendencies of the members of the
Msldridsr family. The author, with marked
Hercs and occasional touches of humor and
gef,Hne pathos, tells story of intrinsic in
tetest.
1t is written in fine literary form.
FORTUNES TANGLED SKEIN: A
NOVEL. By Jeanette H. Walworth,
author of Uncle Scipio,' Southern
Silhouettes," etc. The Baker & Taylor
company.
Mrs Walworth is at her best in this story
which has. in truth, many startling phases.
The porraiture is excellent and the plot
and Incidents are successful. if bold. 1t Is
not often that difficult detective work is to
be done. and it was done swiftly and sure
". 1t is strange story in some ways, a
pitiful story of family troubles, but there
are heroes even in such neighborhoods, and
SO compensation comes for the uncanny side
Of affairs. The unraveling OF the tangle is
skillfully done, and the interest is well sus-
tanned, for there is the thread of love story
throughout. and this never fails. The book
Is not laid on very broad lines, but the
material is very well used.
THE INGOLDSBY LEGENDS: Or Mirth
and Marvels. BY Thomas Ingoldsby,
ESQUIRE. Illustrated by Arthur Rack
ham. j. NJ. Dent & Co. London.
Never before have these papers, so long
Known as the "Hgoldsby Legends been
issued in form so enduring and attractive.
Ihe volume is fine in all ways, and the illus
trations especially noteworthy, being, in the
first place, in colors. and in the second place
delicious in design and drawing.
The first collection of these curious lit
erary productions was made in 1910. The
posthumous edition, however, in lS47. Great
ed the greatest interest OF all. for it then
became known that the author was the Rev.
Richard Harris Bonham, although the pub
lie had long before partly guessed the secret
of their authorship There is a sketch OF
Bonham's life and the prefaces of all the
editions also appear. thus giving all that Is
known of these curious productions, which,
Is our readers know, consist OF prose,
sketches and poetry in various measures
and moods. OF course in these remote
days such a volume does not possess an in
terest at all like that which was aroused half
a century ago in England. but it is a volume
worthy place in every library, for it holds
some literary treasures.
STORIES IN LIGHT AND SHADOW. BY
Bret Harte. Houghton, AIifflin & Co.
This las. volume OF Mr.. Harte's contains
seven short stories: They are:
"Unser Karl" "Uncle jim and Uncle
Billy See Yup," "The Desborough Con
nections," "Saiomy James Kiss," The Man
and the Mountain and The Passing of
Enriquez.'
The book will be bought at once by every
lover of the best things in the story-teller's
line, and which one of this list of tales is
really the best one. will never be settled
so thoroughly good are they all.
"A PURITAN WOOING-A Tale of the
Great Awakening in New England. BY
Frank Samuel Child. author of San Old
New England Town, The Colonial
Parson," ""AColonial Witch, etc l2mo,
cloth, gilt top. Sl.25. The Baker & Tay
Tor company.
The years when jonathan Edwards,
Charles Wesley and George Whitefield were
firing. Sc hearts anG Imagination o.: the peo-
pie with new enthusiasm, are rich with
literary treasure Mr.. Child, who is fire.
quent lecturer before historical and patriotic
societies, is among the first to delve into
that age and work portion of these re-
sources into current, popular form.
"A Puritan Wooing' is the story of
courtship which involved the play of in
tense. fanatic religious feeling, and the
deeper forces which master the human heart
in its experience Of the tender passion. The
life OF the period named "The Great Awaken
ing appears in all its startling changes and
tragic situations. Large portions OF the book
are vivid pictures of real scenes, the historic
setting being accurate, and painstaking at
the same time that it is highly imaginative
and vital with the literary spirit.
The book is a gateway into a fresh realm
OF New England life. 1t brings one into
close touch with tile men and the times that
had much to do with the larger outlook and
broader work of latter days.
The sombrcness of it is relieved towards
the end by the softening 70 certain charac-
ters in the tale; but never before have We
seen the effects of Jonathan Edwards