The Saint Paul globe., 1899-01-15

worth while in these late stories. not
even the best compares with Alice
Browns "In the Market Place" The
writer's of fiction for the Chapboolk were
usually young-unafraid youth was
the character Of this small magazine
Well unto the time of Its death--and
these sketchs partake Of both the vices
ard virtues Of youthful creations, and
50 1T goes, without saying, that the
most of them and the best of them,
Tor that matter, are poignantly sad and
fateful. Conceived in this spirit Of
youthful bitterness is Clarence Well
ford's "Her Last Love"-a terribly
healt-broken little story OF real pathos
and Beatrice Willes "A Little Boy of
Dreams" sketch both sad and subtle.
These. with fragment by Maurice
Thompson, and one by Clinton Ross,
are the most worthy of notice.
"Chapbook Stories" Second series. Hubert
;; Stone 4 Co.. Chicago. For sale by the
81 Faul BOOK and Stationery company.
''Friendship and Folly"
This story is not calculated to add to
Miss Pools reputation as a teller Of
good stories. and her friends must re-
gret its publication just now. 1t has
all the faults of which her work has
ever been accused. and few of it's
Wonted merits. The customary mag
netic" heroine of whom her readers
have grown fond is magnified into a
kind of soulless Circe who breaks mems
hearts and upsetS women's lives Just
for fun. Prudence Ffolliot breaks an
engagement with a nice man to become
the f1ancee Of an English peer When
his family compel him to throw her
over for a brewers heiress, Prudence
wins back her former lover the night
before he is to be married to another
girl. and carries him off to Europe in
the steamer on which he had previous
ly engaged passage for himself and
bride. After this. decency ought to
compel her devotion to him for a few
months at least. but her honeymoon is
barely over before this astonishing
young woman is making herself agree
able to all the fascinating disreputa-
bles at all the resort hotels they visit
in their travels. After this the peers
wife dies. and Prudence. whose name
is a glaring misnomer, is eloping
with him on a bicycle when she luck
lily has an accident and breaks her
neck. This is the only pleasing in
cident in the whole book.
Friendship and Folly" by Marie Louise
by the st. Paul Book and Stationery COM
pany.
Mr.. Anstey for Boys and Girls.
The cleverest stories for boys and
girls it has been our pleasure to read
for many months, outside of '"The Jun
gle Book" and "Uncle Remus," are
some seven tales by F. Anstey, publish
ed under the title of"Paleface and Red
skin,' the name of the initial story.
G of
between 'The Jungle Book" or Uncle
Remus" and this collection of stories,
for the materials out of which they are
made are utterly unlike, and the tales
Of Kipling and Harris reach a much
larger audience among "grown-ups"
than will Mr.. Anstey's. Fashioned
more after the model of Hans Christian
Redskin'' and it's companions, and
quite as thrilling as the old masters
Little Tin Soldier is "A Toy
Tragedy" MIR. Anstey Is strong in in
vention and humor, as he certainly
showed many years ago in "Vice Ver-
sa," and even these tales for boys and
girls are full Of a dramatic spirit that
makes as intense the tribulation of lit
tie Dandy in "a Farewell Appearance"
as that that makes terrible the Con
fession Of Stella Moberly.'
The illustrations by Gordon Browne
are spirited and humorous to an un-
usual degree and well drawn as well.
1t is to be regretted that "Paleface
and Redskin" was not or the market
for the holiday trade, Cor it would GER
tainly have been a, prime favorite as a
Christmas gift for little folks
"Paleface and Redskin and Other Stories for
Boys and Girls by F. Anstey. Illustrated
by Gordon Browne. $1.50. D. Appleton &
Co.,, New York. For sale by the St.
Paul Book and Stationery company.