Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1899-08-31

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She came in this morning with
handful of books to put in our trunk
to take with us to the mountains.
Let me see them, said l. "Umph
Richard lie Gallienne's Young Lives.
Well, we wont take that. Too much
nauseating sentimentality in that for
the woods, my dear. used to like
lie Gallienne. His prose fancies are
delightful, but his Young Lives" has
been used by him to advertise himself.
Is a thinly-veiled autobiography OF
his youth and his opinion of Liverpool.
The inhabitants of that good old town
will not, fancy, look smilingly upon
the pages of Young Lives. " Their
ways and the ways of their town do not
please this sentimental writer, but l
think it is rather to her credit that
they do not
Now, what else have your" Stanley
Waterloo's Launching of Man"
That may pass, for the fine description
OF tho woods of Michigan will read
well in our camp. And then, too. Beth,
! am sure you may enjoy parts of it
for you have prediction for red
haired women, since nature has given
you Titan locks, and Waterloo has
tried to importalize those women OF
Henner's. Hed-haired women seem to
be popular in fiction and on the stage
just now. Zaza holds our fancy, and
then there is that Alphonse Muhca,
who raves OF Sarah Bernhardt. You
| remember Waterloo's first book, "a
Man and Woman" Interesting and
curious. Revolving? Yos, in some
parts, but on the whole a fine study of
q man and a woman.
MA fol, Beth, what is this?" Grant
| Aliens European Tour. :" We are
NOT going to Europe, and if we were
l would prefer Baedeker. 1t is bad
form, / suppose, not to talk of going
to Europe in the coming. IL months.
| All the people who do whatever any
body else does, who want to keep in
the swim, are already talking of CROSS
cousins from the Atlantic are saving
up pennies destined for Paris, and the
number of Americans bound for Europe
will be akin to the plague Of locusts
that came upon Egypt. Now, Mr..
Allen always seems to he 'in tpr the
make" When everybody was talking
about women's license in conventional
ity, Mr.. Allen Immediately wrote up
that broad and advanced romance A
Woman Who Did" And just now, when
everybody is talking of going to Europe,
out comes his little volume, "A
European Tour" l have no doubt Mr..
Allen thinks that we Americans need o
lot of instruction in the matter oil
enjoying Europe, but it is little
late in the day to expose the crude
ness of some few Americans, mostly
Westerners, who do the sword act BY
trying to swallow their knives at table
d'hote, or the few who make those
delightful breaks in conversation which
Mark Twain makes a business to write
Mr.. Allen writes a book that may b.
of interest to the Allegheny schoo
teachers and the Chautauqua circles
for he appeals right plumb to the intel
lect. But really think that l woule
rather see Europe unguided by Mr.
Aliens school room pen. He tells III
of the history of every city, and he lett
the people and tho fine vistas that on
gets of human nature go by the board
He does not seem to remember that tn,
poetry of life and the real Juice is b,
the wayside. He never gets off tn
beaten track. His book will do. m.
dear Beth, for Cooks tourists, but TO
people who like to solve travellers al
! lurements in their own way, wont do
am going to take this volume o
"The Dreyfus Story" by Richard W
Hale. In no other country, my dear
save France itself, has there been -
much interest aroused in the Unite,
States as over the Dreyfus case. Eacl
new chapter in it has been discussed
and today it is the leading heading Il
all this newspapers. Not to know of ii
!, not to know the circles of its influence
, labels one at once as ignorant and on
of the world of up.to- date things. II
Importance is not known and the in
, f1uence it may have upon future age
an unknown power, and yet how man
of us can say we arc we'll acquainte
with the important facts of the case
Not many, and you, Beth, mortifie
Q me yesterday when spoke of the anti
Semetic question, and you looked a
though / we're talking Greek. Nov
Q there is going to be no further excus
) for your ignorance on the subject. w
+ will read aloud in our camp thi
volume of 6S pages, in which is re
+ viewed tho case of Capt. Dreyfus froi
the secret trial to the preliminary wor
of the present trial before the Court {
. Cessation. And after that we wi
read aloud Capt. Dreyfus' letters
his wife. Yes, | agree with you tina
there is suggestion of yellow joui
nalism in the publication of tines
:, letters, but there is the consolin
thought that their publicity may hel
to prove the unfortunate mans innt
4 cence and arouse sympathy throughot
the world. Tho book wont be pleasar
Q reading, because the letters are ha
( rowing and sad, but it won't take us Ion
and am ashamed not to know more {
this important case than | do.
/ Personally, l never cared much fc
s Beatrice Harraden. She always dea
r with such unpleasant, unhappy people
0 and though her books, l am sure, hay
# the hallmark of genius, they are nj
r pleasant reading for hot weather, s
u we will put aside this latest one
Q hers, .'The Fowler" for fall reading
!. | SKINNED over it the other day IN
= find the central figure in the story, I'll
bird catcher, is a most contemptib
s little man who has strange fascin;
@ tion for strong, healthy -minded CO
# lege woman. There is no crime in I'll
# story, no gross physical Temptation
It The bird catcher is SO mean that b