The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23
guessed humor are hidden in every

guessed humor are hidden in every
sketch.
"Moriah's Mourning" by Ruth McEnery
Stuart. Harper & Bros. New York $1.50.
For sale by the st. Paul Book and Sta
tionery company.
"The People of Our Neighborhood
1.-THE People of Our Neighborhood,"
by Mary e. wilkins, is series of short
character sketches that could be by no
one save an author of assured position.
Not that all or any of them are a shade
better than many nobody could
write; indeed, many of them are many
shades worse than nobodies ever offer
to unwilling publishers, but from the
like of Mary e. Wilkins the like of
these are welcome, and that's the pity
of 1t. Yet the greater pity Is that they
are forthcoming.
The sketches are quite uninspired and
perfunctory and carry all the we'll
known signs of the pot boiler The
income from Miss wilkins justly pop
ular novels and short stories should,
we hope, place her quite beyond the
necessity that is ever the only possible
excuse for the pot boiler" and it
seems hardly too much for her warm
admirers to ask that she give us only
so much of that to give.
The sketches which make up the pres
emit wee volume are nine in number.
The village types portrayed are the
often used models for many pictures.
Timothy Sampson, the Wise Man."
Little Margaret Smell, the Village
Runaway" Cyrus Emmett, the I'm
Neat Woman" Amanda Todd, the
Friend of Cats" Lydia Wheelock, the
Good Woman"-the list reads as famil-
lar as "Bettina Annette Wentworth, the
twO+headed woman; Mariana Mar
CARTE Tompkins, the living skeleton"
and all the many others Of the old
fashioned village fair.
''The People of Our Neighborhood," by Mary
E. wilkins. Doubleday & Mcclure, New
York. so cents. For sale by the st. Paul
Book and Stationery company.
"Good Cooking"
Mrs Rorer does not believe that the
household books are yet so numerous
that zone telling of a better and easier
way of living will fail to be accepta-
BILE. The little book she offers Is in
dainty outward FORM and, without
doubt, contains many valuable. sug-
gestiOns. She, herself, says that these
papers are the natural result OIL IWSn-
ty years practical experience, and
are, on the whole, the most cOmpre-
hensive Of all that she has written"
Considering the earnestness Of this
personal recommendation, the many
believers In Mrs. ROrer's teachings
will be highly interested in the book.
1t is divided into two parts First the
cooking lessons, including the prepara-
ton of soups, fish, meat, poultry, etc.
and setting forth Mrs. Rorer's pro-
nounced views on these important sub
jects. The second division is devoted
Indigestion" The Right Food for
Different Men"-and Mrs. Rorer in
this chapter fully details the only al
Iowable diet for the editor, plumber
and iron worker, the traveller and day
laborer-"The Best Foods for Stout and
Thin Women ''The Best Food for
Bloodless Girls" 'The Proper Cooking
for the Nursery ''The Best Food for
a Growing Child" and Cooking for
the Sick and Convalescent." In this
second division Mrs Rorer's views are
even more pronounced and peculiar
than in the matter of cooking, and
many times in the reading of them
one is convinced that a wholesale re-
formation of every known social con-
dition would have to take place to
make Mrs. Rorer's domestic reforms
possible.
Good Cooking" by Sarah Tyson Rorer
Ladies' Home Journal Household Library.
so cents. Doubleday & Mcclure, New
York. For sale by the-St. Paul Book and
Stationery company.