Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1901-08-29

~ 3e Tying through space. You remem-
her what said last week about moving.
No such objections can be lodged
against flying, and the art of flying is
now mastered. Long live NJ. Santos
Dumont. who sits in HE aerial canoe
a and wings his way to the Eiffel Tower
and back, as il he were riding 10 a
hanson from Berkeley Square to Char
ing Cross only far quicker, there being
NO tratiic and no one to run over. There
is danger now and then of running over
bird, / suppose, but no more. Think
Of the joy of soaring into the en-
pyrean, ten miles abovs morning papers
and fifty miles above evening papers"
The new books are chiefly novels
with q clever exception IN that enter
taining work entitled THE Day Book
Of John Stuart Blackie, which con-
tains a new Litany OF much vigor.
Here are two clauses:
A. from the thea libles-the
Roman Pope. the editor Of party news
paper and woman when enc is In the
wrong.
Good Lord, deliver me- .t
From lair woman when she weeps,
from a false woman when she smiles,
and from aoierer woman when she talks,
Goud Lord, deliver me. y
Editotsf5f periodicals wanting new
form OF linquisition should write to
notabilitne5 for something in this
manner Such confessions would be
InoreS1nstruotiye and interesting than
lis& of favorite characters ia fiction,
t~so forth.
" The new novels is river
w Mr.. Douglas S!aden, full Of
Fl n and wit, entitled MY Son
NJ I'D, recommended to oil and
pnr1s snuEy who are thinking of what to
of. I'D during the holidays. MIR. Percy
49, 'nete, who is bringing his lens to bear
UPON all social follies OF this our de.
generate day, subieots the betting
mania to bis scrutiny in 1.-THE Grip of
the Bookmakerh the central characters
being Mr.. Mortimer Gordon, late Mr..
Harrie Of ths turf, and the son he il
bringing up as gentleman. In 1.-THE
Luck Of thu Wallis" Mr.. Il. r. Benson
returns to mis- more Dodoesque manner,
" it'll a stronger infusion OF plot. An
other fashionable epigrammatist also
returns to her first style-John Oliver
Hobbies, who, resting awhile from the
atudious and high toned refinements Of
Robert Orange. and his circle, rolliolss
it In ''Ths Serious Wooing'' more as
lug u5tu W 10 IN IlS llELle yellow
pseudonym books, Why it ia arrogantly
tailed 1.-THE Serious Wooing, cannot
conceive, since it is but one instance
out of thousands; but there il 10. The
new novel is full Of hard frankness, but
amusing withal, and valuable com
pendulum OF current slang. A book with
more stuff to il, but dealing with not
dissimilar folk, ia MIR. Gissing,s "OuI
Friend the Uharlatan. the history OF
young and shallow egotist who runs
for Parliament and arranges his love
affairs solely to SUIT his purse--s
very clever piece of character writing
throughout. There is also MIR. George
Moore's "Sister Teresa, " the narrative
OF how prima donna Evelyn lines, .
enters convent, forming the sequel to
Evelyn lines, which Mr.. Moore has
been rewriting. This is not q bad
occupation for certain novelisrs--to re
write their old books.
Think all'women enjoy Mrs. W. X.
Clifford. Her new book, "A Woman
Alone" is entertaining. Her stories
for there are several-are of Mrs. Cliff
ford's best style.
The moral Of all the stories would ap
pear to be that woman alone is
Eoiuhu uuuaHpys duu ltlhL p9ttbr is al
unoongenial husband or marriag
without any vast amount of affection
than life Of single blessedness or
judicial separation. The heroine uf tn
fret story Is foreign lady, who, Il
her own country, had an uncommon
good time as the centre of more q
less intellectual set She had the mis-
fortune to marry an English gentleman
who was simply that and nothing more
He was devoid of energy and ambition
he cured not for the chatter OF literary
artistic or political coteries, and b
firmly declined to go into Parliament
refusal which, knowing what we d
of him, we confess seems to us to q
credit alike to his heart and head. Ii
wife wished TO help him, and he hate
to be helped, especially by a womal
His ideal OF femininity had bee
formed by long contemplation of b
feminine relations. The end OF 1t wi
he came to the conclusion that he W,
/, unsuitaby mated and he went abroa,
" leaving his wife in LOndon. just
GUS thing, but after while it stale,
and she weRried OF the babble of ORA,
ingrooms this drHwingroom al.
wearied of her. She ceased to be Il
mode. At the moment of her depre
eione deepest depth, her husband r
turned to town, and, forgetting to ca
on her took up his quarters at neigI
boring hotel. Her ambassador, vi
went to him with q view to bringiI
about reconciliation, returned wi
the intelligence what that int
ligence was we had better not revea
Let ii be remembered that Mrs. on
ford's view Of life tends towards ress
nlsm.
Marie Zellinger,n as her name su
gests, was also Of foreign. extraction
She came to London with view
earning an honest livelihood by q
practice of the reciter's gentie art 81
recited admirably, but she had an u
fortunate habit OF emitting to pay
bills, and that fled to trouble and a
noyancs. fortunately for her a well.t
do diplomatist fell in love with her
first sights rad was,.only 100 glad
marry both her and her. debte... In h
slight sketch Of Marie .Zellinger's cha
M aeter, Mrs. Clifford shows something
her old skill in delineation. The sto
is much shorter than "a WON
Alone, and very much more to 1
point. Marie also was q woman alo
for while, but she had the good seq
to put an emo to her solitude at the iii
favorable opportunity. Miss WilliaI
son. - too.- was alona a hoard a Iint