The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-10
middle class color. but even these

which they nave lived down. but Tor some rea-
son tell. After their quarrel tho heroine and
her lover come together again with little osten-
slle reason. There is much talk about the
emotions throughout the book. but little evil
dence OF any ones feeling tho sensations
annyzcd. We APPEND few of the authors
brilants; others like them are scattered
layishly over four hundred rnRes. which may
make tho book entertaining reading at sum-
mcr resorts.
According to your ladyship. Englishmen hide
thrir feelings carefully rs they do their stars?'
Precisely: and English women hide theirs care
fully they hide their carriers. And I've pa
thence with either
We are all like cottages with neat little gardens in
front and dirty linen hang out to dry in the back
yard; and it is our own fault IL poke our he ads
out of our back windows and hear what our neigh.
bcrs are saying about us there.
What want is mrnzliag order for all sincere
and uu'h.srcaking persons; that would make tho
world much better pnd happier place.
whence she had z 1t this idea into her head Il "a
impossible to say; but. every one knows incOr-
rect ID, are the ideas that stick
Like all persons to whom refinement il an &C.
quired taste. Percy aud his sister had in AN agra.
waited one might almost say in an infammatory-
form.
Some men make love 70 a woman because they
think her the most attractive woman in the world.
others make love to her merely because she happens
e. he the most attractive woman In the room. l
often wonder If the woman knows the difference in
the two brands.
The art Of forgetting IS a vulgar accomplishment.
welltrcd people remember everything and are
ashamed of nothing.
Dear normal. fallen human nature finds It difi-
cult 10 rca1e-evcn IN imaGinaton.-a heaven
wherein the angels not consumed by laudable
and absorbing curiosity To- the domestic arrange.
ments OF the archaugels. And at the bottom Of orr
comfortable. English, evil hearts should none of
Us feel any the less al home with them if tloy were.
Have you never noticed that, as rule. books arc
not written by the people who can write them. but
ly .epeople who can't?
Don indulge in Illusions Elirida they smell OF
brcadand butter and the smell Of breaiard.bu
IS rcpusIye to the adult masculine nose.
Descending from his hilltops and his guide
books to worship the gods adored by the null
titude. Mr.. Grant Allen. in Miss Cayiey's Adj
ventures" tG. y. Putram'S Sons. has written
an amusing. II rather fippant. detective story.
His heroine, whom he represents as an Eng
sh girl and n graduate of Girton College. Is
really the sharp American girl travelling
about the world, familiar to us through the
tales Ola dozen woman novelists. but this i'm
probability is no greater than many others in
the story. She tells the story herself and Is
her own detective. being naturally endowed
with the supernatural prescience and intuition
OF all properly constructed detectives OF fiction.
For instance. she thus discovers a lost will
which is needed to bring the story to happy
end:
Inside the FIRST shell of the desk were several
locked drawers and two or three open ones. In.
stinCt taught me somehow that the central drawer
on the left band side was the compartment behind
which lay the secret receptacle pred It apart and
peered about inside IT, Presently a slip panel,
which touched with one finger. The pgeonhole
few and discovered A 81 | rlutchel
at somethng-the will!
The young woman's instinct was a gift more
valuable than second sight in dealing with the
curiousy built desk. Before he gets her to
the desk. however. Mr. Allen takes his heroine
clear around the world. and cannot resist the
temptation OF impartinG to the reader occa-
sionally information about travel for which he
has not found room in his guide books. There
is plenty OF go to his story. nevertheless; it is
easy reading for hot weather. and the reader
will enjoy its absurdities as much as he will
the story itself.
Mr.. Frank +. Bullen. First Mate" is evil
IDENTITY making hay while the sunshine OF Mr.
Kiplngs praise lasts "Idylls Of the Sea" apple
tons is a collection Of sea'skctches and stories.
some Of them not bad. but all rather heavy and
all somehow leaving the impression that they
are not written BY sailor-an impression
that was felt at times in reading Mr.. Bullen's
first and much better book. The Cruise of the
Cachalot' We have Mr.. Bullens own assur-
ance and that Of persons who know him that
he has been a sailor, so that we can only re-
gard his work as another instance Of how
much less likely men engaged in a profess
sion are to see the picturesque sides Of
their calling than outsiders are. at any rate
when writing for laymen. One tale. called "A
Nineteenth Century Jonah" after describing
an imaginative fight between an octopus and
sperm whale tells how ono OF the crew OF
whaeboat is swallowed by the whale and
elected alive by it in its death agony. after a
bomb has exploded in its lungs. Though
doubtless this description is theologically
orthodox. it might create doubts as to the au-
thors scientific accuracy and his knowledge OF
whales. The hero OF this adventure. on being
taken on board the whaer. came near being
thrown overheard again by the crew. not.
strangely enough. because he was such a
whole -soulcd liar. but because they thought he
was q Jonah
In romancos Of miscegenation, as a rule. II Is
the lover who is white. while the woman Is
black. rcd. yellow or chocolate coored. accord
Ing to the authors taste. The love OF white
woman for n man of different tint somehow
creates "a feeling of disgust and repulson in
most readers. 1t required Shakespcarc's gem
Jus to save the situation in tho one exception
have made the young woman interesting with
out leading her to a tragic end. Tho plot
about which Mrs Campbell-Praed has woven
her Impressions OF Japan in Madame Ian"
tArpletonsl seems therefore unfortunate
A blind English girl, to save herself from
Q life Of poverty and i'll treatment, is in
duced to marry n Japanese. She is sepa-
rated from her husband Immediately after the
marriage on her promising to visit Japan
after an interval, becomes suddenly rich and
RECEIVERS her eyesght. She goes to Japan,
where sho gives ear impartay to the love-
making OF an Englshmnn who has made his
pile in Australia and to the lectures on Japan
ese life and customs OF learned japanese
guide. She prefers the lectures to the love-
making in practical way, falls in love with ia
pan, and the guide turns out to be her long lost
husband in disguise. We should like to read
Mrs. Campbell Praed's account OF this pair
after they had lived together for a few years.
provided. Of course, it were based on the ex-
yb, h,,l fail.