The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-08

E6mc Good Found In the SOuis or
the WOrshipers of Mnmmon-
Grace lie BarOn's 'TOId Under the
Cherry Trees" Edward StrNte-
meyer Adds '"FO Alaska for Gold"
to His Bound to Succeed" Series.
"Mammon & Co." by E. F. Benson.
.. Appleton & Co. For sale by the st.
Paul Book and Stationery company.
The author of "Dodo' has given US in
this book a sprlghtly story that has to
do with a few people living in London's
smart society. The very good thing about
the book is that the heroine of the tale
Is an American girl-one who comes into
the blase lives of these English people
and brings out, after a time, the good
Wktch lies deep buried in the souls OF the
Ev0rshipers Of Mammon. She IS a truly
drawn type Of the American girl as one
meets her in real life, not an English
caricature Of our country women. She Is
bright yiyactous and is able to influence
>'Mammon & Co" because she is neither
q priS nor a preacher.
The chief figures in the story are Jack
and Kit, otherwise Lord and Lady Cony-
beare. Thy are both soTdid. mercenary
people. seeming to have no soul for any
thing above money and social place. They
were fond of appearing other than they
were to sets ether than their own, but
We're singularly upsecretiVe to each other.
Each allowed the other a wide latitude
and in consequence they were excellent
friends, and always lent each other a
helping hand If there was any scheme Of
3 al
through. At the time Of the opening of
the story a beautiful scheme is In the
minds of Kit and Jack waiting to be
Matched. Attention was just beginning to
be directed to West Australian gold min
ing. and the public had awoke to the fact
that there were large fortunes to be made
in that direction. a Mr.. Frank Abingdon
has q whole fleet OF little paper COM
panies ready to be f1oated, and by dex-
ferrous management, Jack is made presi-
dent of the mining company, his onerous
duties being 10 have his name on the
'front page" OF the reports, and regular
attendance at the meetings of the COM
pany and to congratulate the sharehoId-
ers. For the use of his name, as the
head Of the company, ne was paid $4,000
q year. ard thought himself quite a new
Est Il. and a great Improvement on the
old. for he only lent his birthright and
the poitage he received is quite consider
able
Things so beautifully for some time,
but The story is trGs 10 life, so they do
not SO beautifully forever. But meantime
/ there are a number of social functions
/ tTesome, crowded affairs-at which a few
| paoDte say the most brilliant things mag
: 1naiie and the others crowd, and cape,
and cat. and are generally dull.
! Then the love story Of the good genius
OF the tale, the charming American grl,
Is told She marrIes a young English
man who is in the pale of the Mammon
/ people. They are utterly unsentimenraI,
| but have,t perhaps, as much true send-
ment as any lovers.
And a last Mammon fails his votaries,
for the mines on paper show their true
| worth, and the dire misfortune and al
I but irrevocable disgrace that ttail upon
I -iflt~ and Jack bHng them closer together
! than they have ever before been, and. rs
/ he expresses II, they both agreed that
] they would try not to he such brutes.
I and Lily the American girl, told them
/ how saying that turning over a new leaf
meant not even looking back once to the
old one, not to repent but to go straight
. on.
At the end Of the book there is pas
\ sage which reminds one Of some Of the
things in Dickens; not so much in the
STYLE Of expression as in the thought,
Outside, the, world moved on it's way.
and each unit in the crowd moved to his
appointed goal. some of set purpose. 9th
ers unconseious of it, but none the less
on an inevitable way; In the brains Of
men stirred the thoughts which, for good
or i'll should be the heritage Of the
next generation, part Of their instructive
/ equipment. The vast design was being
worked out unerringly. INCREASINGLY, IN
| hurried and undelayed. through the, sin
Of one the virtue Of another To fail it
self and to fail was but a step towards
The Ultimate perfection; behind all work
and chance meetings by the death Of
The scarcely-born and the innocent. by
the uuscathed life and health Of the
guiltlest. by love and beautiful things
and terrible things. had all reached the
spot where they stood today"