The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1899-11-28

| sketches are out of WORK Like tuc
| stories of the country folk these Will
+ per sketches show an appreciation or
! the essential picturesqueness that al
! taches to the humblest human concerns
and an admirable capacity for presel--
| ing il yiyidly and suggestiyely.
A volume that is i'm the nature of
memorial to its author contains coll
lection of short stories by the late Ma
ria Louise Pool under the title of the
initial story "A Widower and Some
Spinsters." published by Herbert :.
stone * CompanyD There are round
uozen of theories and they are thor
oughly representative Of Miss Pools
daintiest work. Among the several eX-
cellent writer's who have portrayed
New England country and village life
none has given us pictures more effac-
tive than this observing and p1instak-
ing author. They are marked by rare
simplicity of style, for neither i'm her
earlier writings was Miss Pool tempt
cd to strive for effects for the sake Of
effects nor does the finished art OF her
later years disclose anything nut a
sincere purpose TO maintain a Standard
Of faithfulness In dSlinatiOn dnspO led
10y any affectation. Her humor is most
agreeable anl her pathos sincere. This
new book which 'the publishers have
fashioned in their accustomed taste
ful style will be cordially welcomed by
the constant admirers OF Miss Pools
work and by the many new readers
who i'm growing numbers are coming to
recognize her genius and that much of
what she wrote will find a place among
American classics. DR.. A. NJ. Hale.
who seems to have been lifelong
friend of Mis- Pool provides an intro
duction with "A sympathetic sketch of
her life. There is portrait fronts-
piece and another taken when she was
i'm young womanhood and pictures OF
her home.
No. 27G in Appleton's Town and
Country Library is IA Corner of the
West" by Edith Henrisdta Fowler. a
sister OF Ellen Thornycroft Foyler. The
sisters arc both known 20 readers OF
he better class of fiction as authors
of several brilliantly written books. ~
Corner of the West" is a tale of social
life I'm Dcvonshire an1 London, simply
natural i'm Incidents and situations, kten
i'm NATURALIZATION Of Characters, and
teuderly. sympathetically human in
feeling. yet withal OF exceptional depth
and value as a satire upon the demor-
alizlng artificiality OF modern English
society. The conversational quality of
the story contributes greatly 10 it's
rea 7ableness. (For sale 10y Gregory.
Cloth 81: paper 80 cents)
Whether Louis de Rougemont told
thl truth or not when he spun his IA
nous yarn of adventures in the bowels
of Australia 90 the wonder Of the geo
graphical experts an scientific folk
generally asa we'll ns the or linary read
cts OF the extracts published in the
press. D. certainty made an effective
story al one that for exciting incident
and convincing particularly has not
been euuallod since the day Of Robin
son Crusoc The Lipp nCott Company
has published in a handsome volume
with forty-six spirited Illustrations. in
clpding "A portrait OF the man who re-
arad the advcutures, " he did not have
then-and the former achievement ~
"A sufficient credit--"Thc Adventures of
Louis &c Rou gcmouS as told by him
SELF with preface by thc member OF
the f, tafiul stuW ~ the British peri
udlcul lhai discovered the tXtraord-
inarN individual and FIRST made public
h.s amazing story. A. 81 tale OF advcn-
ture the book d. remarkable. while the
circumett.N .NCes OF tg pubnShinC 10 the
word. o. Nell na The sp ulauon ihat
VIII mutually be igdulFed as To how
4 much oi 10 really must be- true. give n
4 an ini rtHt that neither "A Veracintfs
/ 'nt 1nirir uor "a work OF obvious fiction
''uia al"nc providc. ~ was Tho London