The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-01-19

pens to have much money. The girl
IS young, innocent and unsophisticated
and she is thrown at once into a So
ciety to which money is an open Sc
same in England, as in every country
under the sun. The story, as it's name
indicates, is told by Ambrosine, and it
is SO frankly immoral that it quite
takes ones breath away. 1t is more
immoral than immoral. From cover to
cover there is no mention of God, re-
hg1on or of a moral Scrupie of any
kind, and yet it undoubtedly is in
tended to be truthful picture of mod
ern English society. Ambrosine falls
in love, Of course, with a refined dis
tant cousin of hers and when he does
not become her lover-every woman in
the book has one-she asks herself
why it is that she revolts against this
common practice, and finally concludes
that she would lose her own Self-re-
Spect if she did as others. She is much
more shocked at her husbands lapses
in grammar and his coarse manners,
than his paying the dressmaking bills
of Lady Grenellan. Finally, her I'M
derbred husband goes to the war and
takes the measles on the way over
and dies. OF course she marries the
man she loves, though she discovers
that he has been mixed up in the
most disgraceful scandel with her best
friend, who is painted as somewhat
resembling a saint. The book has a
lower tone and is more unblushingly
pagan than many books which might
be considered much worse. Ambr osine
and her friends give the impression
that an ariStOcrat covers up his voices,
and is vicious only in a refined way,
while the common horde are loudly
and vulgarly bad. That all English
SOCIETY asks of it's members is to con-
duct their scandals with discretion, is
plainly put. Mrs. Glyn, the writer, who
has recently come to New York and is
being made much Of by literary and
society folk, is not an acquisition to
literature, and the fact that her book
has been enjoyed by New York So
ciety tells a story to those who have
read this remarkable effort
Law Applied to Fiction.
A strange suit has recently been set
tied in France. According to a New
York paper a clerk in a small town
in France brought suit against the
writer Of a certain story charging him
with having put him in his book in
libellous manner. The writer of The
book pleaded in his own behalf that he
did not even know the young man, but
the judge said that an author incurred
most grave responsibility by intro
ducing into fiction a public official to-
N1lO1l ne attributed lIHIlIOfdI COIQuCI
without first aScertaining that no mis-
apprehension could follow. Then he
awarded the young man 1000 francs
damages and ordered that the novel
should be withdrawn from circulation
This shows that We. do things diff
ferently over here and that it is no
joke to write stories in France.
Pen Busy in Prison.
Roland b MolineuX, soon to be pub
liShed by G. w. Dillingham; & Co, New
York, and entitled 1.-THE Room With
the Little Door" 1t is supposed that
the story concerns a man condemned
to death and waiting his doom at Sing
Sing, where, it is said, the story was
written. If this is success, it is to be
supposed that Molineux will &c in fcr
| literature, and many are anxious to
see the book. Whether this will ne for
the good of literature remains to be
| seen.
An Old Tradition Broken.
An item of news which is creating
some interest in the literary wcrld is
that after an existence-and a very
sober one-of lightweight years, the
| North American Review has started
the publication Of a serial story That
this story is by Henry James may be
| considered sufficient excuse for this
very serious journal to break down
! the reserve of nearly a century The
| English Review of Reviews is also be-
! ginning to publish fiction.
Book by Zola's Spirit.
We learn from the spiritists Of
| France that lola is to dictate the Sc
quel of a book he left unfinished, by
| way of a medium to whom he is now
communicating. But the writer who
sends this piece of information hints
that, as the work seems tc have come
| to a sudden stop, the spirit of lola
has baked, or something has occurred
in the astral world which prevents the
| completion. If Zcla has become spir-
| itualized in earnest, it may be that
this latter part of his work, should it
appear, will be more righteous than
the bulk of the work he did in the
flesh.
The Christian Science Novel.
The tenth edition Ct "The Right
Princess" by Mrs. Burnham, is an
nounced, 1t is interesting to learn
that this Christian Science story is
! Endorsed by believers in Mrs. Eddys
tenets, and has the approval Of Mrs
Eddy herself. Mrs. Burnham, though
writer for some time, has never be-
fore attempted to write propagandist
novel. In the. last number Of Mrs
| Eddy'S organ she issues sort of man.
| ifesto partly in answer to some of her
critics, who hold that she has given