New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-11

/ IN Colonel Carriers Christmas with his charm
/ undiminished. He is the same chndUks and
chlvalrous type, and his deeds, like his per
/ sonality. have the same winning SAVIOR tha; took
Mr.. Smiths readers captive a long time ago
/ In this latest brief narrative Of Colonel Carter
/ and his doings he is represented at the outset
as being at daggers drawn with Mr. p. A
| klutchem, the hard fSted moneymaker whom
We seem TO have met before. The trouble be-
/ tween the two is complicated by events Affect
ing the fortunes OF the coloneIs old friend. Fitz
The well meant efforts Of Of kindness,
/ but Of small experience Of the world, to gave a
difficult situation only lead to something very
ike disaster. But M. Smith, n telling
Christmas story, has not, Of course, set out to
harrow up our feelings. The coIoners dis
cornfture at a New-York police station Is Of the
most fleeing character, and out Of the episode
there flows ultimately happy readjustrnent OF
affairs. little girl is introduced into the tale
TO give added turn to its sentiment She and
al the other characters effectively drawn
and the whole composition has the true atnos-
phere OF the Christmas book It is one OF Nj.
Smiths most artistic performances
Encouraged By the success Of Some E1De-
rences Of an Irish r NJ" and "Au on the Irish
Shore" the authors Of these capital books have
brought out q and revised edition Of An
Irish Cousin" which they first published in 1850.
For American readers it is practically new
book, and though it is not so good as either
OF the volumes We have just mentioned Il Is
decidedly worth reading. for Messrs- Somerv1lle
and Ross have way OF their own in sketching
Irish life In their better known works they
have sketched it with peculiar feeling for its
hur1ors There are odd hUmOrs, deity hit or,
in An Irish Cousin" but these are only Incl
dental The main drift Of the novel concerns
young woman who has come to Ireland tom
Canada to live for time in the house o. two
kinsrnen-an uncle Of hers and his SON There
is a mystery in the family but the authors nave
thought well to approach the solution Of it with
out the aid Of the usual dramatic eNpedleD1s-
Through most Of the chapters We are interested
chiefly in the picture that is given Of what We
eurrose Il a typical Irish household, with the
delights Of the hunting field and the ways OF a
rural reiEhbOrhOOd thrown in for the sake Ok
variety The tragic note only clearly declares
itself as we near the end This is probably me
first book Of the authors Certainly It suggests
the amateur. Just as certainly Il has seine IL
diyiduality and IS entertaining.
place and Power differs from all Of the nov
els with which Ellen Thorneycroft Fo"Ier tnTA
Felkin) has thus far amused her PUBIC IL con
tains hardly any Of the fippant chA'tef anu
machine made epigrans II which her ch-lacteIS
have been. accustomed to indulge, and Tor this
are not sorry. NOR tO-.e--I-Jf - - 30 ~
serio,s Ms FeIkin seems TO have lost her
$50, Of her material The whom she
| ~-searts 10 Us as q type Of irrelisiOn, defyins
/ -ba church and all its precepts, and thereby
drawing down a kind Of curse upon his head.
&c not in the least credible or Interesting He 3
. more uuppet, and no one else IN the book
epog-s any closer resemblance to ordinary hu-
r7aritv. The curse aforesaid being launched at
Conrad Clayton early in the book, the reader
ra-severes through many pages simply out OF
curiosity Is to The outcome not because ne
feels any sympathy for the men and women
--ezarted When the climax Is reached 1t Is
eaa1 10 be Of a melodramatic nature, and TO De
rather poorly handled into the bargain In fact
Ms FeIzia has produced OF this occasion an
inert and wearisore story.
There is nothing inert about Barrie Of Grand
BAYOU" On the contrary, it bristles with ex-
element 4 murder OF very revolving char
acter is talked Of on the first page. The keeper
n = lighthouse on the French coast Is the Grim
i,aI and at the time Of the opening OF the story
Earbe is living with him. child growing IN the
shadow Of his norose nature like flower In me
granny Of a blood stained wall She ~ she
grows up, witnesses things hardly less horrib4s
than the murder TO which have alluded The
col, is constantly claiming its victims within
eirbt Of her home. In one scene she plays the
rart Of a heroine, and rescues young sailor
r-or, the grave. Thereafter. 10 al appearances.
banpiness should be her portion. but when love