The herald., 1898-03-27
BOOKS AND THEIR MAKERS

| But she and Arthur uuarrelel, and
"Poppa" Wick took her and her mother
abroad for few months stay The fur
of the book is In the account of what they
did, which is. indeed, very funny. Some
of the characters of the former volume re-
appear here, and thus the American
GirF' is projected into this book with ali
her acquired momentum. "Poppa" Wick
Is brick, while his wife mets rather too
readily for serious business. Things get
badly tangled towards the end of the tour,
! and great distress comes upon the family
when the gossips have 1t that Mamie is to
wed Mr.. Dickey bod. But it turns on;
| that Mamie Is only aiding him to win and
bear away another young woman and IN
| the midst of it all Mr.. Arthur Page drops
down out of the clouds and the earth
| smiles again.
THE BROOM OF THE WAR CODA
story of The recent war between the
Greeks and Turks. BY Henry Noel
Brailsford. 12mo, cloth, Sl.25. ID. Ap-
| pleton & Co.
| This remarkable picture of the actual
conditions in the Greek army during The
recent war is drawn by new author of ex-
cept!onal promise, who served in the For
eign legion. There are glimpses of Lamia.
Pharsala Larissa. Nolo, Valestino and Do
| moioo. The author was one of the disor-
ganizcd and ;eaderless assemblage which
constituted the Greek army ana his Won
derfully graphic sketches of the conditions
in the ranks, the Incompetence OF officers
and the attitude of the king and crown
v,.;,, -,,1+ l,a cl, ~ pSrx-l lol,.
upon the disasters OF the campaign. The
events chronced IN the volume are near
enough TO us in point of time 10 make It all
very real, and We are gwen in orderly
grouping, pictures that were disconnected
and more or less obscure and meaningless
before.
The story opens ir Lamia near to the sea
and the vineyards of Phocis, a merry place
for the lads TO train in. The guns are all
in Athens; bu. they are safer ,herc!' Ii
is an easy, flowing, satisfying style of
story that tells us of this romantic episode
Of the splenetic Greeks of today, and the
volume can be honestly commended TO the
public. 1: is not great historic chronicle.
but It is most entertaining and helpful
volume.
THE DISASTER.-A romance of the
Franco-Prussian war By Paul ard
Victor Marguerite. 12mo clotn, Size
d. Apple ton & Co.
Like Zolas La Debacle." with which it
naturally challenges comparison, lie De
sastre" has for its theme the Franco
Prussian war. The authors have The ad-
vantage OF being wsll equipped for writ
ing of army scenes. beEg descendants cr a
line of soldiers; their father was the cav
airy general, Auguste Marguerite, who
fell at the battle OF Sedan ard the young
est son, Victor. was himself an officer in
the French army, bu; recently abanGone6
the military career IN order TO associate
himself with his brother in literary work
A most eloquent story is this one of the
events following closely upon the oper-
ing of the campaign of 1870 The Franco
Prussian war is modern his tory but mix
ture OF romance with i; gives added power
and also lixedress of memory Impossible
in dry details aloi'e. We venture the opin-
ion tina: no reader vii. ,ay this book down
withou; experiencing a new sense of the
humbling of France ana the far-reaching
consequences oc that terrible struggle.
Never were such armies so quickly put il
motion and so desperately locked in decis-
i've battles.
For the first time one realizes the dra-
matte element in the case OF Marshal Ba-'
zaine, the suspicious, ;he hesitation, the
surrender, his tria, fo- treason, his SELL
tence. escape and final disgrace ard Death
in Spain.
The book has a moral and ends with a
promise OF 4 rev France that should arse
out OF the awful crucblo of conflict. And
a new France has arisen, not yet as solid
as compacted Germany. but yet new ma
ton that learned its needed lesson in what
once seemed hopeless disaster.
Q O o
PARIs.-By NJ, zoa. The last volume IN
Zola's famous "T-iology OF Thrre
Cities'' Two volumes. Sc The Naomi
Ian company.
After many delays the last Of zola's e.ea.
works is out, ard his ambition IS an
swered. The one thing ,hat is rrst noticed
is the plan. 1t supplements the study of
society which vas begun IN Lourdes ard
carried forward il Rome. The same earn
est priest whose journey 20 Rome was
made Of such pathetic interest appears in
the present volume. never wearying in his
hope but changed in his beliefs. The style
is ivelier than in the other works of the
Triology. which is quite natural, and there
IS rather less of dissertation and d5scrip-
ton. OF Paris. his own beloved Paris,
Zoia says:
Paris charms and captivates foreigners
of rank; that shows how dear it should be
to the heart of 4 Partisan. l have pro-
found love and admiration for it. But as
in the witches caudron III Macbeth there
is everything. all that is best ana all that
is worst; so there are in Paris the most ex-
quisite virtues and the most horrible vices,
the most heroic devotion and the vllest
crimes; in q word, all the different mani
festations of humanity. No veil hides these
tares in my book; and the impiety COM
mitted if there he one in it, has been COM
mitted to show forth in the brightest light
focus of science and goodness that the
heart Of Able rroment comes for warmth.
There he finds the idea of the religion of
the future, of a better social state. which
is elaborated here in the immense daily
work of this great city. For instance.
Paris, which is so charitable, demonstrates
the powerlessness of charity, which Is Il
Christian and anti-social sentiment. II is
necdful that the idea of justice which
raises the weak should kill charity, which
keeps them in degradation. An era of JUS
ticc. that is the promise of the future, and
it is upon Paris that this day Will dawn.
Everybody is working for this, willingly
or unwillingly: the torrent carries away
the obstacles which bar its road and do but
sprVe 10 augment its mower The abhp'S