The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-25

80 ~ oAIe' except the poor and unfOrtu-
nate among whom she did much quiet
good Later they moved to Staten-IsIand
ana since then she o. not come to New
AoTK. Her house is filed with souvenirs
ot nef FORMER life. Pictures Of her eXalt-
ed relatives and friends cover the walls
OF her charming sitting room. Personally
she appears the happiest of women in this
world OF discomfort Her hair is I'M
touched with gray; her 1.-the figure is as
active as when she diStanced the brig
ands of the Turkish frontier or gaIoped
over the sands of the Sahara desert. Her
face beams with intellectual activity and
enjoyment of life, and her manners be-
tray tnge of gentle imperiousness which
reminds one Of the former petted and
spoiled darling Of a dozen courts. Guy
de MaupaSsants picture of those two inn
mortal lovers on a Mediterranean island is
an, the brilliant figure Of the most aris-
tocrat1c court of Europe. now living SIM
ply and JoyouSly on pfosafc Staten Island
1T is doubtful that this Austrian exile
will ever return to her old haunts 1.-THE
Martyrdom of an Empress was her own
maFtyrdom as well. for it barred the
court of Vienna against her forever. Her
bold betrayal of the courts malice and
injustice to her adored empress and eX-
posture of the truth of Rudolph's death
will never be forgiven"
Another Clever Book.
Lovers Of the charming romances
written by Mr.. and Mrs. Egerton Cas-
tie Will be glad to know that they have
completed another book, which will be
called 1.-The Incompatible BeIIairs,F
and dealing with the doingS of the
risky little widow who played such a
large part in "The Bath Comedy" the
last thing to come from the pen of this
clever pair. From reports from Eng
land we learn that Mr.. and Mrs. Cas-
tie are a singularly happy couple, liv-
ing an ideal kind of life in a romantic
country place and quite realizing ones
ideas of a congenial married life. They
are at work upon another novel which
is to be entitled Rose of the World"
Something New.
There is rarely anything new or
strange, and yet there is an element
of novelty about a book called Bio
graphic Clinics" written by DR.. George
M. Gould. in which he sets forth the
rather queer theory that the i'll health
Of Carlyle, Browning, Huxley and 9TH
| ers was attributable to a morbid
function" of the eyes The book is well
| reviewed In literary paper and the
writer takes the essays far more seri-
ously than would be imagined. DIR.
| Gould, If we mistake not. is the same
| Gould who edits the most prominent
medical journal in the country and
| lives in Philadelphia, where he is very
prominent in his profession. He at
| tended the convention Of medical men
| in this city in 1901, and was the guest
| of we'll known family. This is not his
| first book, though it is the first to be
| other than technical and not only for
members Of his own profession. He
| arraignS physicians and administers a
| rebuke to literary critics. He admits at
| the outset that the clinical data" upon
which to base his theories is exceed
ingly meager, but he Historically en-
| viSageS'' by medical description the
M 1n - I
writes and uses many reasonable ar
guments to support his position. He
| believes that "eye strain" was the
| trouble with Huxley, Darwin, Brown
| ing, Carlyle. and De Quincy, and as
| eye strain is DR.. Gould's speciality, he
| feels that his ideas on the subject may
! be of some value.
DIR. Gould rather insinuates that
most Of the troubles that has aff1ict-
| ed persons in the past and in the
| present, for that matter are due to
the eyes and some defects in vision.
! The only wonder is that every spe-
| cialist has not written a book of this
! description, for as a rule eye specialists
see only eyes and ear specialists only
| ears. but DR.. Gould's book is interest
| ing because he is evidently sincere in
| believing what he. says. The pains
| in the head that De Quincy suffered
| from. and the twitching of his body,
were symptoms of eye strain. His
! opium habit is also to be attributed
| says. has had a subtle and astonish-
| ing influence upon character, upon lit
| erature. and even upon history" More
| than one-tenth of all the persons in
! the world who are obliged to work
| with their eyes are, according to DR..
| Gould, having havoc played with their
| minds and dispositions by this hither-
| to unrecognized disease. Nothing is
! said of the eye strain occaSioned by
| the sight of an ugly woman, but we
| should think a rather interesting chap
| ter might be devoted to that Come
| to think of it, there is a good deal Of
! eye strain. If DR.. Gould had let
| Browning, Hurley and Carlyle rest
| in peace and told US what is the mat
| ter with Andrew Lang, Alfred Austin
| Hamlin Garland and the writer OF
| Quincy Adams Sawyer he would have
done a more valuable thing for let
| tiers.
Stead Has Novel Idea.
Mr.. w. T. Stead, who is nothing If
not original when originality is at
premium, has recently evolved a novel
| idea which he proposes to carry out
! in his Review Of Reviews. 1t is moth
ing less than a serial story dealing
with current events and running on
as long as Mr.. Stead lives, as it is
| feared he is not enough of a Christian
Scientist to overcome death. 1t will
| have no particular plot and one would
| fancy the characters would be rather
changeable, but it will certainly be
| thrillingly exciting and if it contains
! facts, will probably have to be slight
! ly expurgated. Some one suggests
| that the heroine will be Julia" who
| is a friend of Mr.. Steads' now in the
| astral world, and who communicates
with him through friends. A heroine
| from the other world is quite alluring
and admirers Of Mr.. Stead will wait
| eagerly fer the first installment of
| this everlasting novel.
| In FEBRUARY, Doubleday, Page e Co.
will publish "A Woman That Tolls"
| by Marie and Bessie Van Worst, the
| former the daughter of the late Judge
| Van Worst, of New York, being the ex-
| periences of the writer's as working
| girls in a pickle factory of Pittsburg.
| and including an account of work in a
Southern mill. For this book Presi-
/ dent Roosevelt has written an intro
| duction, in which he speaks most high
! ly Of the volume and adds some inter-
| esting experiences of his own.
/ St. Paul, Jan. 25, 1908. NAB.