The sun., 1898-01-01
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We have q story that 10 told directly and with an
air OF candor. when the phrase maker invented
i tho expression, "refreshinR candor." he paid TO
candor compliment that is not too great for IL.
This story seems like real experience, and IL 10
! only by stretch Of the IMAGINATION that It can
be made to seem, as subtitle calls 1t, "a fairy
, tale Of to-day" IL is really novel, but, be-
! ing direct and candid, It is quite different
! from the novel that Is regulated by art
| 1t begins. indeed, in the form Of fairy tale.
81 will begin my story by saying that my
heroine. Una Hope. had noble mother and
childike father" The praoticed novelist Of to-
! day, having no idea Of fairy tale in his mind.
would never begin In this way. He would say
to himself: "of course. it will be seen that be-
gin 1t so; therefore do not need to say It," And
thinking himself clever he would omit the II
will bcgin.' Miss Archer follows her heroine
through her entire psychical development She
narrates how. as a child, Una threw her fathers
| pipe and tobacco out Of the window. because
her mother disapproved Of smoke; how. in tho
light Of her mothers explanation. she perceives
that II was wrong to lock up he cat in the but
| terry; and how, when she had covertly taken
strawberry from pan in the cellar. she con-
fessed the act to hor mother Immediately on be-
| ing questioned. Things that sho heard sank
doep into Una's mind, and she had a rema K
able intuition that saved her from many dan
GIRL" tho rector said to her. and she never mar
| ried Robert Rupert, who classified things and
| compiled data in museum of natural history.
"Give me q kiss, Miss Hope" Rupert said to
| her one night when he had escorted her home.
mol Good night, Mr.. Rupert" she replied,
and she ran up tho steps and rang the bell
| with great decision. She was older when she
| met Col. Doubleday at the seashore. The
| Colonel was employed in some Government
yUna onlan and n
| philosopher. He quoted poetry with great
| facility and aptness. General opinion at the
| seashore declared Of the Colonel: Hes howl
| ing SWELL" He was fine bather. He approved
| of Una. One day, the story says. the Colonel
came up suddenly out OF the water and sat down
| beside her. She smiled and bowed. Where
| have you beeni have been looking for you
he said gently, bending over her. These words
| sank deep into the heart Of tho child
woman" They. took sun baths together
| and played croQuet, and the Colonel dazzled
her with his beauty. philosophy and quotations.
| Una by this time had come to be q pretty effl-
cient ationalist. too She said very clever
| things to tho Colonel concerning imitation
| Wedgwood pottery. Her intuitions saved her.
| for the Colonel superficial and a fiirt.
Always when her emotions were strongly
| aroused she went away to sit down and think.
She thought the Colonel out OF her heart and
| brought u more mature W tuo Cdso
| of Raymond Knight, q middle-aged man, tall
and well proportioned, an expert examiner Of ma
| chinery for firm of instrument makers. There
| can be no doubt that she frightened Knight.
| The trouble with him was that he would not try
to understood mystic philosophy. He was pain
| fully unreceptive to the idea of Imagination as
| the highest form of Mind. He seemed to be un-
able to interest himself in the Feminine Prin-
| ciple and the Woman Soul. Una insisted upon
| A. Ct,1, l.
| an essay utterly upsetting the philosopher
Buechner. She gave him Browning and Emer-
son a-plenty. and made him very hdgety. Once
| when he got cross and inquired how she knew
| something that she had said to him, she replied
| that man named st. John had said 1t. She
| sent him poems by Richard Watson Glider and
stories by Richard Harding Davis, which he
| read dutifully and returned with comments
| going to show that his soul had not boon
| penetrated by them. 1t will be seen that Una
| had undergone a very great mental and spirit
| ual development since her affairs with Robert
| Rupert and Col. Doubleday. But she was not
| able to transform the nature of knight. He re-
mained mere expert examiner of machinery.
1t was impossible, even with the aid OF the poets
| and the short story writers, to ill him with the
light that never was. He grew peevish and
! finally called Una an old maid. She renounced
| him after he had renounced her. She thought
| long ana Qeeply, as ner WAS rinally
| from the silences the approving admonition
| came to her: Keep thee to-day. to-mor-
| row, forever. free as an Arab OF thy be-
| loved" She understood. ITO be worthy OF my
| friend must be able to do without my friend
| she said, and she dismissed the hope to be mar
| ried from her heart forthwith. 1t will be seen
from this that the story is really no fairy tale.
| 1t is a candid account of q soul chastened and
purified. and permitted, through ceaseless denial
and endeavor. TO rise to the supreme consolation
OF philosophy. II Knight could have been
brought to the same pass, that would have been
of course. double triumph; but he was plainly
person upon whom the blessings Of imagination
| could never descend.
1t Is good to read a well-told story of q gallant
captain of the sea. and in Commodore Balm.
bridget From the Gunroom to the Quarter
| Deck" by James Barnes I'd. Appleton s. co.,.
we have a story of the sort told in the most
readable and vivid way. There are good rea-
sons why Mr. Barnes should be possessed of &C
curate information regarding his subject. and
| we do not doubt that this Is just as well as
spirited picture. 1t shows us Bainbridge as q
| boy living with his grandfather in New Jersey
town. and at many interesting points Of his
| career afterward. We SEQ him at Is
aboard tho packet ship Ariel. Capt. Wal
| dron, sailing out OF Philadelphia. There he
| Is soon discovered to be a likely youngster.
| Before the Ariel Is four weeks out he can lay
along the yard with the best of them. and his
! quick intelligence has served him 30 well that
he is no longer accounted a green hand. For
three years he sailed with Capt. Waldron. and
we next see him at ls as first mate Of the ship
Cantor. sailing in the Holland trade. Here. as
soon as he is aboard, he tames a drunken and
insolent crew. confscating their whiskey bottles
and tossing them overheard without ceremony.
Mr.. Barnes describes him at this time as feet
IL In height, weighing $50 pounds. broad in the
shoulders and deep In the chest tremen-
dously strong in the arms and back, and
| looking hve years older than his Pctual
age. Capt. Stebbins OF tho Cantor Is Q man OF
unimposing character. and his creS- ready
to take advantage of him. but W. . the appear
ance of Bainbridge they are quick to suspect, in
| their own significant phrase. that there Is an
officer on board" They are made sure OF 1t in