The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-20
MARY BOYLE, Her BOOK
DELIGHTFUL VOLUME NOW TITS
THIRD EDITION
Much Talk About crosland,s 1.-THE I'm
= speakabie Scot"-Death of George
Douglas Browne, Author Of 1.-THE
House With the Green Shutters"
Causes a Sensation in the Literary
World.

MARY Boyle, Her Book" is one of
those delightful volumes of reminis-
cences which appear from time to
| time and serve to link one generation
| to another. The book is now in it's
| third edition which gives testimony to
| it's interest and readableness One is
| inclined to liken 1t to ",The Book of
Remembrance" by Mrs. e. D. Giles
pie, well known Philadelphia and
| great granddaughter of Benjamin
| Franklin, although we would give the
| palm to the latter book. Mary Boyle
! was a writer and q poet though never
| famous, born in London in the first
years of the nineteenth century, grand
| daughter of the Earl of Cork and re-
lated to half the prominent and titled
| families of England. Indeed as one
| peruses Mary's pages, one is quite
| convinced that titles are pleasing to
| her and that she takes much substan-
tial comfort in the fact of her rela-
| tionship to Sir this and Lady that.
But withal, if Mary had been a man
she would undoubtedly have earned
the title OF good fellow" as her pages
show much of kindness toward the
whole human race and are evidence
that though she remained unmarried,
she was neither soured nor embittered.
The writer spent her life visiting about
in the great houses and palaces OF her
relatives and titled friends as we'll as
much time in travel of which she was
very fond. The passion Of her life was
for the stage and theatricals; she must
have been an excellent actress herself,
though she Is too modest to say so in
plain words. She knew well Charles
Dickens and the Brownings, indeed
there were few famous persons in lit
erature, art or the stage that she was
not on friendly terms with and her
book is full Of delightful stories OF
them. In speaking Of her, visit to
Florence she pays a tribute to Eliza
beth Barrett Browning, who at that
time was in very poor health, no new
thing with her. II have never in the
course of my life," she says, "seen a
more spiritual face, or one in which
the soul looked more clearly from the
windows; clusters of long curls, in a
fashion now obsolete, framed, in her
small delicate face, and even shrouded
it's outline, and her form was so fra
gile as to appear but an ethereal COW
ering. / would fly to Casa Guidi and
spend the early evening with my poets.
How delightful were those moments
how swiftly did they pass; how rich
was the wit, the wisdom, the know
ledge, the fancy in which I revelled
with those dear companions" Mary
Boyle died in 1890, very old lady,
and her brother undertook to edit the
"reminiscences which were not quite
finished at her death, but he also died
at his task, and the book was pre-
pared for the press by his daughter.
1t is one of the most readable records
we have Of an interesting time and
interesting people of modern days in
England.
"The UnspeakabIe Scot"
"The Unspeakable Scot" by T. w.
| FL. Crosland, is creating good deal of
! talk in London. It is a furious on
| slaught on the Scottish people by one
| who evidently has some serious griev-
ance against them and has the merit
| if merit it be of doing thoroughly what
| it sets out to do. Mr.. Crosland con-
! siders the Scottish people to be the
riff-raff Of the earth without one re-
| deeming trait and he says SO in no
uncertain way, and every one who en-
! joys invective should read the book,
though it is hardly likely that the
writer will convert all his readers to
his way of thinking. There is no doubt
that the human mind is so constitut-
| ed that it enjoys this sort of thing so
| long as 1t is not ones own country
people, or pet opinions that are touched
upon, and when an EngliShman writes
a book for nothing but to call Scotch
men unpleasant names, there is a GER
tain amount Of enjoyment to be got
| ten out Of it by an American. But
at all events the writer of it has made
| himself famous in a short time by his
achievement and by the variety and
picturesqueness Of invective which he
has at his command.
The BookloverS' Library has a griev-
ance against Mr.. T. H. Ewing, who,
| in a syndicate article, has been sug-
! costing a combine against circulating
| libraries and the Booklovers in partfc-
| ular. Mr.. Ewing sees trouble ahead
| for the book business unless something
| is done to head off the octopus of the
| circulating library. Just how the Ii
braries are hurting the book trade is
not stated clearly, and the Booklovers
| Bulletin, the monthly library review of
| the enterprising Seymour Eaton, uses
| some very reasonable arguments in
| discussing the question of Libraries. He
| says truly that the output of novels
which every one wants to read to keep
up with the times, has become so ire
mendous that novel buying has almost
| gone out Of fashion. Libraries are not
! large enough to contain them, nay,
few houses would hold the books that
| every one wishes at least to glance