The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-15

him merely as an adjunct to her snobbery
of education, which is much more de-
spicable than snobbery of wealth. Eco
Monies is a good study for her if she uses
it to make her a better buyer, fairer
employer. a more intelligent tithepayer,
but bad study if she employs it to no
better purpose than to speculate, idly,
about the financial policy of Turkey or the
guild system of mediaeVal1sm; and art is
good for so long as 1T helps her to beaut1fy
her life inner and outer, and bad for her
as soon as it makes her think her life poor
and mean. i"
The Long Nightly Stanley J. Weyman.
Mcclure, Phillips & Co., publishers.
For sale by st. Paul Book and Station
cry company.
The lovers of Stanley Weyman-and
they are not few-have come to believe
that when he puts out a book he has a
story to tell worth telling, and in the case
of this, his latest production, they are not
mistaken There is a fascination about a
Weyman romance which holds the reader
to the end, and that potent charm is felt
in the perusal of 1.-The Long Night even
though one wishes it was not SO gloomy
and dark a picture.
gle incident in the history Of the city of
Geneva, when during the longest night in
the year it was betrayed into the hands OF
Savoy How the city was saved by Mere
still told in Geneva, and it is about this
tradition that the writer has woven his
story. The hero-and sturdy one he is
IS one Claude MERCER student who
his father has lodged there before him.
He meets Anne and straightway falls in
love with her. only to find that there is
some terrible secret in the life of the
house, which puts her at the mercy of
the other dodgers, Grio, the drunken lout,
and Basterga. the Paduan, who is arch
conspirator and evil genius of Geneva.
Weyman is master writer of fiction; he
has the power of making his characters
live and move before ones very eyes,
and for good or evil hap one follows them
to the end. He never tires even when
he celebrates and gives us infinite de-
tail of horrors as he does in this power
full and painful book The growing love
of Claude and Anne, and his fierce desire
to deliver her from her torturers is well
told. Her terrible secret is that her moth
er has periodical attacks of insanity and
this knowledge the wicked Basterga holds
over her as reason for them both to be
accused as witches, that terrible dread
of the times, when witchcraft was pre-
valent, and burning the punishment melted
out
But the city is saved and Claude is in
strumental in routing the enemy, while
Mere Royaume drops a heavy iron pot on
the head of Basterga and thus falls the
leader of the city's invaders. We leave
future awaiting them and the long night
a thing of the past. Perhaps the most
notable thing in the story is the drawing
of the weakened Syndic Blondel, whose
tell him he has fatal disease which is
rapidly undermining his system. His
craven fear of terrible DEATH his long
ing for the golden vial containing the
only fluid in the world to cure his trouble
which Basterga tells him he owns and will
not give him, is thrillingly told
Gloomy and horrible as the story is, it
cannot be denied that Stanley Weyman
has made a notable addition to romantic
fiction in 1.-THE Long Night"
The Circle in the Square-By Baldwin
Sears. A. S. Barnes & Co., New York.
publishers. For sale by st. Paul Book
and Stationery company.
This is a story with a moral which
cannot fairly be said to be anything new
but the writer of this moving tale has
made it evident that he does not write
fiction for fiction's sake, but to prove a
theory. And his theory is that one man
doing his duty and living up to a high
moral code, may leaven a whole com
munity. In word it is a story of char
acter. and of the struggle which takes
place in the soul OF man when he finds
circumstances have combined against
him. 1t is psychological study of a
mans life.
The scenes are placed in the South and
other days are Enthusiastically treated.
The typical Southern gentleman is here
portrayed and if one was inclined to
cavil, it might be said that in this book
he is almost too typical Shan Morgan,
the hero, is alphabetically drawn but
even SO. one wishes he had been a little
more strenuous, though he accomplished
him aim which was mainly the winning
of the charming Sarah Paige an ideal
heroine in every way. If the writer is a
new one, and one fancies this is his first
book, he has great promise of becoming
a forceful story maker.
Denmark, Norway and Sweden-By Will
liam Eleroy Curtis. The Saalfield Pub
fishing company, Akron, Ohio.
This is another of Mr.. Curtis interest
ing books of travel and relates to his
experiences during a summer spent in the
Scandinavian countries Of the far North.
He dedicates his book to the sons and
daughters of the Scandinavian race in
this country. Part Of the book has appear
ed in the form of letters written to a
Chicago paper and there are several chap
tiers added. The book is mine of in
formation about the people and customs
of the Northern races, and the prospective
traveller in the North could not do better
than to peruse it before starting on his
journey, as it contains hints invaluable