The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-05-27

And yet this same critic, after begin
ming in this cutting manner, ends by
eonfessing that Mr. Howes people in
terest you and carry you along with
them on the dulest kind of errands, and
that IL you know what's what you will
prefer to go and buy a bonnet with Mr..
Howeils any day rather than to follow
some writer's through a slngle-handed
combat.
You do not go to buy a bonnet in
'"Their Silver Wedding Journey" but you
do many other things equally unimport-
ant, which are, nevertheless, agreeable
things TO do. Basil and Isabella March
were always, even when upon their we'd
ding journey. entertaining peoDle with
whom to travel, and people VINO had n
lively artistic interest in the affairs of
their neighbors. They have not lost
their interest in other people in spite of
their affectation of great age One Won
ders incidentally what their creator will
do with them at siXty-five when fifty
seems such an advanced period of life
to him. and one remembers that Colville
in Indian Summer" carried the burden
of forty years painfully and with sensa-
lions that properly belong to a much
more advanced period of life.
The comments of the Marches upon
the sights of Europe are occasionally
something less than exciting, but what
they think about the various love af-
fairs of other people in which they get
themselves mixed up Is always interest
ing, and one takes their journey with
them, on the whole, with a good share of
the delicate pleasure and profit which
Is so frequently the reward of an excur-
sion personally conducted by Mr.. How
ellis.
A London publisher is reported to have
said recently that 'if you were to meet
William Dean Howels without reading
his books, and If you were to read Rich
ard Harding Davis books without meet
ing the author you would be willing t.
swear that they We're the finest mel
living" Into book like Their Silver
Wedding Journey" as If to atone for its
Unusual lack of incident, there seems to
penetrate more of the personal atrnos-
phere of the author than finds its wa.
into some of the books where the story
is more prominent, and we get the inn
preston that while 1t is certainly not
one of the most stimulating books of
travel ever penned, IL sun was written
by zone OF the finest men living"
(''Their Silver Wedding Journey" BY
W. ID. Howells. $.50. Harper & Bros.
For sale by Lowman & Hanford)
:. :. :.
"A Man of His Age" by Hamilton
Drummond is a good book of its kind.
The kind is now somewhat threadbare Che
ing Of the family known as historical
novel, variety romance. and If the pub
fishers had any consideration for the re-
viewers they would not keep on turning
out so many volumes OF this sort that are
OF about the same general excellence, for
all the applicable adjectves have been
used up three times over and there re-
mains only the threadbare statement that
If you like this kind of thing, this is the
thing you like. This especial romance is
story of the Huguenot wars, and Cath
crime de Medeci and jeanne and Henry of
Navarro are among the prominent char
acters. The story Is told by an old man
who is recalling the souvenirs II his
younger days. and 1t is told with fire and
force and the interest Is well sustained
throughout.
GA Man of His Age" by Hamilton