The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-23

sketch.
"M gfTdah Mourn MourniRg'n by Ruth McEnery
For sale by the st. Paul Book and Sta
t1onery 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 q 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 well
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
of her best, considering that she has
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.
Little Margaret Smell, the Village
Runaway" Cyrus Emmett, the I'm
lucky Man" Phoebe Ann Little, the
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 Tompzins, 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 Of TWEEN
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. Rorers pro-
nounced views on these important sub
re- t. Il
to Mrs. Rorer's domestic lessons on
Indigestion 'The Right Food for
Different Men"-and Mrs. Rorer in
this chapter fully details the only al
lowable diet for the editor, plumber
and iron worker, the traveller and day
laborer-"The Best Foods for Stout and
Thin Women" 1.-The Best Food for
for the Nursery" "The Best Food for
a Growing Child" and Cooking for
the Sick and ConvaIescent." 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.
Ladies' Home Journal Household Library
so cents. Doubleday G. Mcclure New
York. For sale by the st. Paul Book and
Stationery company.
Literary Notes.
If anyone thinks that Fenimore Cooper
has ceased to be read let him say why
Messrs. Houghton. Miff1in & Co. are prepar-
ing to publish in October an entirely new edi-
ton of the Leather Stocking Tales in five
l.
their poorest work for their BEST but it 10
worth remembering that Cooper himself de-
clared that his Leather stocking Tales
stood better chance of permanent popular
ity than anything else he wrOte.-The Book
Buyer.
Besides the fifteen illustrations in the arti-
Gle on "Author-D Diplomats" the October
critic contains portraits Of many noted au-
thors of the day. Mr.. Mortimer Mempes'
hitherto unpublished Whistler of the snowy
lock is the frontispiece. Mr.. Zangwills pho
tograph by Holinger was made especially
for the Critic A photograph of Mark Twain
at Onteora Is also seen here for the first
time, and one of Mr.. Spencer Trask, the
banker-author Miss Viola Allen as Glory
QuayIe in 1.-The Christian" appears on the
front cover of the magazine. And other inter-
esting faces are those Of Lieut. MIS- the
superintendent of the West Point mill
tary academy: NJ. Louis de RougemOnt, the
famous traveller and adventurer; Mrs Rich
mond Ritchie Gilbert Parker, the late Rich
ard Malcolm Johnston Kassandra Vivaria,
Henry James, Daudet and his daughter Miss
Fanny Davenport and the vivacious Gyp
The Young Man, an English publication,
gives the following account of how Mr. Kip
ling became converted to the idea of prohi-
biton:
''Mr Rudyard Kipling tells us how In a
concert hall in America he saw two young
men get two girls drunk and then lead them
Keeling down a dark street. Mr.. Ktpling has
not been total abstainer, nor have his writ
ings commended temperance, but of that
scene he writes: Then, recanting previous
opinions, l became a prohibitionist. Better
it is that man should go without his beer
in public Places and content himself with
swearing at the narrow mindedness of the
majority; better it Is to poison the inside with
very vile temperance drinks, and to buy
lager furtively at back doors. than to br ng
temptation to the lips of young fools such as
the four had seen. l understand why
the preachers rage against drink. l have
said, There Is no harm in it, taken moder-
ately;" and yet my own demand for beer
helped directly to send these two girls reel
ing down the dark street to-God alone knows
what end. II liquor is worth drinking, 1t is
worth taking little trouble to come at
such trouble as a man will undergo to COM
pass his own desires. 1t is not good that We
should let 1t lie before the eyes of children