The Saint Paul globe., 1899-02-26

the war Is over and we have heard
some queer noises in official circles
ana smelled some queer smells in our
government contracts, one cannot help
put speculate as to how much truth
there was in that caloric charge.
The third and last part of the book
Is an address by Karl Schurz on arbi-
trat1on and international disputes, de-
nVered In 1895 before the arbitration
conference in Washington.
Ihe burden of his thought may be
weighed in his opening words: ITO
snow that arbitration IS preferable to
war" he said, should be among civ
1!ized people as superfluous as to show
that TO refer disputes between individ-
uais Or associations to courts of Justice
Is better than to refer them to single
COMBAT or to street f1ghts-in a word
that the ways of civilization are pref
eraple to those Of barbarism'
"Windyhaugh-
By Graham Travers Margaret G.. Todd.
Cloth; PIP. AIS; price, $1.50 D. Appleton e.
Co., New York. St. Paul Book and station
cry company.
What possesses the young women
authors that they tear open with de-
light all the old wounds Of childhood.
trace with ill-concealed glee the scars
OF youth, and probe with a fiendish
persistence through the callouses of
age? 1t would seem that, when George
Eliot put her scalpel knife into the
tissues OF g1r1hood, there was not a
shred that did not pass beneath the
blade. But dissection has a weird fas-
c1nation about it, and a subject is new
er lacking.
Two women have displayed unusual
analytical skill recently - Elizabeth
Robins &c. E. Raimond), in her char
acter sketch Of the storm-tosse Val,
and Margaret G. Todd in her drawing
Of Wilhelmina, of 'fWindyhaugh."
No doubt the author Of windy
haugh'' is gratified to know that she
has awakened hundreds of heart aches
by her vivid picture of little Wilhel-
mina's throbbing sorrows. There have
been kind-hearted Mr. Darsies and
crusty Mr.. Tail-o'- the-Weeks in the
lives Of many people, and the little
touch responsive chords. Then comes
girlhood cut short by premature wom-
anhood, fronting the veXing perplexi-
ties Of life, the decisions, the pain Of
long endurance, the storms, the TRACE
dies-the calm.
Il don't see why a man and a wom-
an should be doomed, as so many are,
to go on perpetually consuming each
others SOULS" says one Of the subor-
Wilhelmina's sudden departure from
her husband, after but one days
bridehood. In the little sentence the
author has slashed open one of the
livid scars on the face of modern life.
Skillfully has she, by context and in
ference, laid bare the cause of the
Disagreement in the first place. The
heroine was married at eighteen and
had little conception Of life's possibilf-
ties for pain and pleasure She sud
denly walked up to these, but, unlike
most girl women, she did not sue
cumb, but broke away like a wild colt.
Had she bowed to her circumstances"
no doubt she would have been one
of those who fully Justify the authors
discriminating declaration that "a
woman Judges her male relatives in
the light Of the great world and it's
interests. The male relative Judges
her in the light Of his dinners and his
shirt buttons"
"Windyhaugh," taken as a whole, is
diamond in the rough. There are
many brilliant flashes and subtle plays
of color. But the author was evidently
afraid that Wilhelmina was too fine q
woman to be considered genuine, and
therefore she has attributed to her he
roine one or two raspingly sneaking
tricks which are wholly out of har-
mony with the character, and which
do much to spoil the picture The
effect Is much as if she had hung on
Wilhelmina's back a placard, where
on was inscribed This girl Is human,
though she doesn't look it,