The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-04

husband Of the Moaner had to stand
six nights OUT of the week, and his
wife thought ! 1t so strange he should
go to South Americal# TIE wonder
will be intense If he ever returns.
Great Tribute to- Wonen.
A literary review of pronninence
pays an unsual tribute to women in a
recent number when 1T saws that one
publisher in New York States that
women are their best customers. They
not only buy the new books. but
standard works, books about women
and about babies and old books. They
also buy with discriminating taste,
and, more than all, these same pub-
fishers say that they Seldom lose an
account made by woman, and it is
almost never necessary to look I'm the
financial standing of their women Gus
toners. Perhaps one woman in
hundred is looked up,while of the same
number of men at least 80 per cent of
them would be investigated before the
sale was completed.
Between Aug. 25 and Sept. 25 ec-
cord1ng to recent report, the five
best selling books in the large cities
OF this country were "The virginian."
Mrs. Wigs Of the Cabbage Patch I"
castle Craneycrow," Temporal Pow
er" and Hearts Courageous" OF these
three We're written by women.
The Book Lover
Hope Loring-By Lillian Bell. Published
by l.. c. Page and Company. Boston.
, .Ihose who take up this new book by
Lll LII Bel with pleasant anticipations-
ana all who have read her former books
VIII be sure to do this-will Law il down
When they have finished it with a feeling
OF Keen disappointment, Indeed, it is
ct.
that the book is out and out dull. On the
contrary, it is interesting enough as tale
and as the work of a novice at story tell
ing 1t might be rather good But Lillian
Bel Is not a novice.
5er Little Sister to the Wilderness
and THE Love Affairs of An Old Maid"
were clever and original, even brilliant in
spots: In these books Miss Bell betrayed
a biting little style that was stimulating
ana amusing. Hope Loring2 does not
possess that style. Miss Bell does not
manage to say clever thing in the whole
book. Nor has she been successful in
drawing convincing characters. The hero
Inc is not flesh and blood creature at all
thougn the writer has aimed apparently
10 make her very up-to-date maiden in
DEED 10 an even greater degree are the
oIher characters puppets. The first half
OF the book would make an excellent story
for young girls. for it is a description Of
fashionable boarding school life. The last
haf OF the book has to do with Hope Lor-
ing. the heroine as a young lady The
Lorlngs are wealthy and live in New York
where they are considered important units
in the social 400"
Hope I.oring, who loves to dance,
through the connivanue Of friends man
ages to appear at fashionable theater
as dancer without her relatives know
ing anything about tic She takes an
other name, and this name aids her in
getting her father out Of financial diff
Guilty. He has purchased copper on the
stock exchange and finds out too late that
his enemies, more powerful financially
than he, determined to squeeze him.
Hope, using. her stage name and a small
nest egg of her own, sells copper and
makes a fortune. However the family
do not get the benefit of this fortune until
several months after Mr.. Loring has fail
ed, for Hope is knocked down by a run
away borse and loses her mind the very
day that she makes her fortune. She
RECEIVERS in time, and the family are once
more restored to wealth after Hope has
confessed that the name of the dancer
Is her own name and that she had COM
nitted the indiscretion of appearing on
the stage as a public dancer. A number
of love episodes, among them Hopes, is
interviewer with the story.