The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-15
NEW hooks.
brief Reviews OF Important and Interest
Ing New Publications

Harold Frederic wrote. Tho Market Place"
frederick A. Stokes Company we have a
cover symbolically treated. We have red hearts
oVershadowed by the sign Of the English pound
sterhne aud Cupid. kneeling by q pile OF treas
ure. offers bag Of the same to Indy. Cupid
wears sorrowiul expression. whereas the lady
does not look at all unhappy The bag that
Cupid holds In his hand bears a remarkable re-
semblance to boxing glove. and 1t may
be that he looks sorrowfu because he is
about to uppercut the lady or otherwise
to do rudely something pugistic and
painful to her as punishment for
her venality. or this. however. we are
not sure. for experiences has taught us not to
De sure OF anything that may lie in Cupid's In
tention. The book Is concerned with the for
tunes OF tremendous Spectator. or pro
hoter. He 10 a Juggernaut OF finance. and
much heavier and more formidable specimen,
IT may be said, than Mr.. Anthony Hopes late
lanented god in the car" who was not very
ponderous deity. though he was a noteworthy
talker. This one talks. but he talks American,
which Is much superior to present day
English for Juggernautish purposes. More
over. he does things He catches all his
enemies short" on Rubber Consols."
thereby making millions out OF absolutely
nothing. The battle was over. and the victor
remained on the field. sitting alone with the
Board Room" n spacious. beautifully fur
nished place in which no Board ever met He
bad no need Of Boards. except as magnani-
nous concession TO the law He was as iude-
pendent as the newest Of the discoveries. He
liquehed the air. After forty years OF unpro-
ductive endeavor he was now at the top. His
triumph was so sweeping and comprehensive
as to be somewhat shapeless to the view. He
could crush and torture and despoil his
enemies until he was tired The respon-
sibility Of having to decide when he would stop
grinding their faces might come to weigh upon
him later on. but he would not give it room in
his mind tonight. A picture OF these :aces Of
his victims shaped itself out Of the flames in
the CRATE. They were moulded in a family
likeness these phantom visages: they were all
jewish all malignant. all distorted with fright"
lie went to see his sister. an elderly widow with
children. who kept bookshop and who knew
that she must have beer and cheese at nine in
the evening II she wished to escape being queer
next day. He took pleasure in having his
beard OF and in buying embroidered braces
and other matters at the outfltters.
and he went to lords house in the country
and to Switzerland with his sisters children.
He circumvented the lord. a large and placid
being. who thought to blackmai him. and he
married beauty with title. who grew to be
so fond OF him that she would come for him
after dinner before he had finished smoking.
He was strong" man: he bought whom he
pleased. including his wife's father. and he
crushed the cohort whose faces were " all Jew
ish. all malignant" who had offered to float his
rubber consos enterprise at 90 per cent profit
for themselves. This is the way he made love.
He and Lady Cressage were walking in Swift
zerland:
Now wan, to ask you-it decide to form an.
MI all a
pRny-if should decide to form it, I say-eould
come to you aud ask you to join hdt Board OF
course l could ask-but what l mean is-well |
guoss you know what mean"
Tho metaphor had seemed to him most ingenious
and satisfactory vehicle for his purpose and it had
broken down under him amid evidences of con-
fusion which be could not account for. All at
his sense OF physical ascendancy had melted away
| disappeared. He looked at Lady Cressage for a
moment and knew there was something shutting
and nerveless in the way his glance then shifted
the dim mountain chain beyond. His heart auttered
surprisingly inside his breast during the silence
which ensued.
Surely you must have said everything now that
you wished to say she observed at last. She had
been studying intently the trodden at her feet
and did not even now look up. The constraint OF
her manner and certain pleading hesitation in her
words began at once TO restore his self command.
DO not talk of it any further. beg OF you" she
considerably. Hyou wish to please me. let us hurry
forward now. And please-no more talk at ALL
But Just . word-you're not angry"
She shook her head very slightly.
And you do know that I'm your friend-your
| solid, 24carat friend"
After moments pause she made answer almost
| In 4 whisper "Yes-be my friend-if 1t Amuses
you led the way with precipitate steps down
| the winding road.
Ae wa heya aaid xubap 10 ha
| ried atterward. she did not hesitate to show
that she was greatly in love with him. Surely
| she could never have come to be equally in
| love with the character called by some the
| "handsomest man in England and the best
| groomed man in London" exaltations OF de-
scription calculated 10 awaken the apprehen.
| sion OF any sensitive person. We have always
wondered moderately at the phrase well
groomed :" 1t so suggests the sharp use OF the
currycomb. And as for the "handsomest man
In England" how the dickens is such a mo-
msntous fact determined? We will wager
that armies and navies could be formed
out OF the handsomest man. leaving the
question Of prominent beauty to the general
| people TO decide On page 80 We find 1t said !:
| THE satisfied conviction that he was talking
| well and behaving we'll accompanied him in his
| progress through the meal. His confession. at
the outset. OF his great hunger. and OF the sin
| lister apprehensions which had assailed him in
his lettering walk about the place. proved a
most fortuitous beginning; after that they
| were ready TO regard anything he said as
| amusing" Here the word "fortuitous" seems
to DO used In the sense OF fortunate" 1t
could hardly have been intended to say most
accidental"
| This book does not claim to be infallible--
simply serious. No being knows He thinks
he knows A few grains. strategically shifted
here and there. in his organism. and he knows
or thinks he knows. something altogether
otherwise. All is attitude and relatively. Chi
cago. 1899" With this denrecatory, II some.
what dogmatic declaration does Mr.. ]. Howard
Moore a new philosopher Of Chicago, intro
duce us to Better World Philosophy;
Sociological Synthesis." The Ward Waugh
Company Mr. Moore's philosophy. We infer
is somewhat advanced and even materlalistic
At any rate, he lays much stress on tho theor!
OF evolution and on the influence OF the mani
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