The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-11-30
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DONOVAN PASHA by Gilbert Parker.
.Frontispiece in color by Talbot Kelly.
Price sl50. Publishers: ID. Appleton
& Co.. New York. n. Y. Sold in Raj
Hi eigh by Alfred Williams & Co.
OF the fourteen books by Gilbert Park
or. opinions differ as to the bcs5 but
there is TO difference of opinion upon
one point, to-wit: All arc good, all
charming, all delightful. The Seats of
the Nightly and THE Battle Of lie
Strong have perhaps been most widely
read. but his great book is When Val
mond came to Pontiac" 1t is master
piece of fiction. worthy to rank .ita
the dozen best historical novels of the
world.
Donovan Pasha" is something alto
gether unlike his other books. and lacks
the absorbing interest that characterize
all his French Canadian stories. 1t is In
dealing with French Canadian primitive
life that Gilbert Parker shows his great
est talent He seems to have gotten into
the. very heart of those people and to
have lived among them for generatinls.
Tut Donovan Pasha," the result OF four
visits to Egypt. is a series OF tales sent
out to the public to make ready Tor
novel on Egyptian life on which ne has
been working for some years. III theh-
selves these tales arc of an original .ypc
and racy of the Egyptian soil. Ihey
will whct the appetite for the forthcom-
inc novel which will be worthy of Gi'aer,
parkcr-another way of saying that nc
living novelist can better it.
OLD PLANTATION DAYS by Martha
:. Gielow, author of Nanny Remin-
iscences." Publisher: r. H. Russell,
New York.
As a reader or interpreter, as well as
author, of negro dialect stories, the au-
thor has made reputation. In this at
:ractive volume she has given in prose
ard poetry many stories of old plantation
life that Will interest everybody and
give a peculiar pleasure to those VINO
remember the old days on the plantation
hefcre the emancipation. There is one
Improvement in the spelling in most
books of negro dialect that VIII be APP
rroved by all who have heard the old
lime negroes talk Nest writer's OF dialect
stories spell child chill" which sounds
more like chill than child. The author
of these stories spells it chile which
seems to give the lingering softness of
The voice of the OLD fashioned NANNY"
whose ways and character the writer pic
lures. Here is sample of the poems
.'Mamny's Luck Charm For Bride,
dedicated to Chicago bride:
.IIyar. honey, take dis little sif'
And place it nigh yo' heart,
Twill keep away dat littl riff
What causes folks ter part.
Hits only des er rabbit toe.
But den, de luck il brings
Is wuf er million dimes an mo-
An all de woddin' rings"
BE sho' you wear it on you bre's'.
Pcrticlar on dc day
De preacher comes ter pray an bless i
An iine 20 hands ter stay.
Dcs' keep it. honey, an you'll fine
Hit hols CT magic spell
Ter make yo' lover true an kline,
An han'some, des es well.
Err rabbit foot what's congered right,
LAX this un is, i know.
viii make you always glad an bright,
And good an pretty, sho.'
THE SOCIAL. COMEDY. rs pages, GX12
line and half-tone drawings. carefully
printed on heavy coated paper, bound
in red and gold. Price. 81. Publishers
Life Publishing Company New Yorl
City.
Life. the weekly illustrated journal
occupies q UNIQUE place in the world OF
literature. 1t is far more artistic thar
lunch; ii is far cleaner than the French
humorous journals, and il deals with live
public questions to a much greater extent
than Fliesende Blaetter. Among Ameri-