New-York tribune., 1901-12-06

| never have ventured 70 gay London from her
| fathers castle in peaceful Surrey She cause
herself a great deal Of worry and troupie' dliu
her antics though well told, will hardly prove
an enrichment to fiction. Yet those VINO lINe
| thrills. the kind one gets from reading about
blood G,els. highway robbers and eXecuIi"i'S'
Will be disappointed. After getting TO town
| Lady Peggy trusted her shapely self in mascp-
line attire with jealousy as explanation OF
her rashness. It took her but u moment 10 Si'P
into her brothers clothes. but it was a. 1ort-
night before she was able to get back INTO her
hoopskirts To test Sir Percy's love she mas
Querades as Sir Robin McTart, country rival
of whom Percy was hopelessly iealous- In2s
makes possible the duel with which she starts
the merry game A scarf cIeverly tied in new
fashion attracts Beau Brummel and makes 1t
necessary for her to continue to act the young
dandy She becomes the popular gallant OF the
hour. at time when in London every hour was
faster and madder than the one when "ehl
before. She fights highwaymen, and is almost
hanged for one She breaks the heart OF hef sup
posed rival a court coquette. The real OH
Robin appears on the scene to add further COM
plications, and makes it necessary for Sir Percy
to rescue her. In doing this he proves his love,
and it was to get this very proof that Lacy
Peggy went to town.
A story of the Middle West by one who knows
Caleb Wright by John Habberton Boston:
The Lathrop Company. 1t is not unnatural
that many of the characters come out OF the
East for all Wes.erners did that, if one goes
far enough back. The story is an exposition OF
Western spirit and energy. which are shown IN
greatest strength in a town struggling tor d
boom. and tina. means a town which the rail
road has missed. 1t is interesting study OF
back-country life perhaps a little undeVeloped
in parts but containing enough of humor and
pathos to be interesting. Caleb Wright is the
central character and the one who is responsible
for most of the action He is introduced as a
clerk left in charge of the Claybanks general
store the death OF the owner. who has Willed
the property TO his nephew, Philip Somerton a
clerk in New-York City. The will provides that
the young must continue the business or
the valuable estate goes to several Institutions
With his young wife Philip goes to Claybanks
and is almost tempted to throw up the fortune
and return TO the city, so dismal is the prospect.
Caleb Wright comes to the rescue with some
timely and characteristic philosophy and the
Somertons take up their cross. The ordinary,
everyday life of village makes the book until
Caleb goes to London to introduce cornmeal, and
this is the way he went about it:
English people don't seem to move about an
swap stories an prices. like US Americans. l
reckon l came home too soon for the good o
that deal for L had a lot o things in mind to do
in London make cornmeal popular. 1t seems
to be the English way let things alone until
some O. the upper classes take to 'em, so | was
goin' to try the meal on some o the swells; but
the more 1 thought of it the more 1t seemed
that they. too belonged 20 the foIlow-ny-l leader
class So / made up my mind to begin way up
at the tip-top, an SO i wrote a letter TO Queen
Victoria, Sayin I'd come all the way from Amer
lea to make the English people practically &C
Quainted with the cheapest and most nutritious
food known in the temperate zone, an that l
was catchin' on fairly, but the common people
seemed to think that ii common stuff which
ii wasn't l would be glad TO prove to her.
Besides l knew o Americans richer than any
nobeman in England who had il on their table
every day. l said / could make six kinds O
bread an three kinds o puddin' out o corn
meal an I'd like chance TO do il some day for
her own table; if she'd let do it in the palace
kitchen, I'd bring my own pans an things, SOS
not to put the help to any trouble. But it
didn't work. Though put in an addressed pos
tai card for reply, the good lady never answered
my letter Too busy, 1 spose.
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