The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-10
and show in their true colors, despite
the tinted atmosphere worked around

and show in their true colors, despite
the tinted atmosphere worked around
them.
A woman "of a certain age" and
equally certain prejudice tells the next
story. What Youth Can Do" the tale
OF the evolution Of a young Italian In
Venice, certain features of which
| would not appear at all foreign in one
of Mr.. Hamlin Garland's Western sto-
| ries.
1.-THE Pilgrim Sons" is a tolerant
satire on the American movement Lon
| downward, sketch Of womans social
ambitions from her husbands point of
vieW-a husband and point of view
that shift quite as readily to the wife's
intentions as the proverbial weather.
cock. He admits himself a snob, and
defends his position: mo civilization
has yet reached that high stage in
which all the virtues and graces COM
bine. If you have political Inequality.
as in Italy or Spain, then some meas
ure of equality in everyday social in
tercourse is apt to be evolved, you
meet as man to man, and the snob
is Suffocated before he Is born. If on
the other hand, you have political
equality, as in America or England.
then social inequality is like enough
to follow, the natural kindness of hu-
man intercourse is chilled. and the
snob luxuriates'
''Pasqualfs Picture" is a contrast
to the other sketches in style and mat
ter; 1t has In it less of satire and more
OF pathos. A simple incident in We
netian peasant life, humorous at the
beginning, the taking of a photograph
mystery upon mystery-and the yet
greater mystery and tragedy of its
fading, 1T is an interesting. if Fragment
tary, sketch
From the Other Side" by Henry B. Full
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Stationery company.
''The Strange Story of NV Life"
The eagles Of Austria, the lion of
England and the elephant Of India
decorate the covers Of 1.-THE Strange
Story Of My Life" and suggest the
cosmopolitan character Of the plot: per-
haps the sanguinary character Of the
tale strains through the binding and
influences the complexion Of the vol
ulne: 10 Keep such story in bounds
must be as difficult as staying fire. for
1t Is very strange and startling indeed.
Like most of Mrs. STANDARDS stories,
us attractive qualities are difficult to
place, and one wonders, even while one
continues to read to the end, what it
was THAT even 1nQuCeQ one to begin.
Literary style, CONTINGENCIES or fresh
ness are not to be found here. and Of
carelessly tossed together adventure
there is rather a surfeit than a suf-
f1ciency; but through scenes of agony
and complication of misery the reader
wades on, IF but to see what next can
well arrive" and the event usually out
strips ones most narrowing imagin
1ngs. Fate has the heroine in a. cruel
grasp, which she relaxes now and again
for just that elusive moment that tab
by grants the mouse before the next
pounce. From disaster to disaster the
poor woman goes on in what might be
called-so monotonous does it become
the even tenor Of her way. OF course
the story has much to do with the
army-what story of John Strange
Winters can afford to leave out the
background Of barrack life-and moth
Ing unusual is developed in this direc-
ton. The army in India then accounts
for the elephant on the cover, and the
subsequent adventurous career of the
English heroine on the continent is re-
sponsible for the other warlike national
animals.
"The Strange Story of My Life" by John
Strange Winter. Rand, McNally & Co.,
Chicago; 1.50. For sale by the St Paul
Book and Stationery company.
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