The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-24
NEW BOOKS.


All with very curious pictures after every
body else was in bed and asleep. When
opportunity made It possible. she said re-
markable things, as when she observed to
young Mr.. Darnley Stair. speaking OF brew
ers' horses: .They are splendid. I've seen
them with the heavy carts In these narrow
streets: their necks are 20 thick and curved
they hold their heads 10 proudly; they
clutch the ground with their great hoofs-
It's like the o,,ok Of Job But she was care
Yul never to talk that way to her mother.
She attended very faithfully to business at
home was a much more competent mother
10 rne younger children than Mrs. Crawford
was: and, unlike some artists and poets.
she was in very fine health and unfailingly
cheerful. Curiously, fine as her perception
"a. in matters Of beauty, she was entirely
thoughtless Of her clothes and Of style in
dress She was not handsome, but some
how she managed TO get herself greatly
liked: the reader will like her, or we are
much mistaken. A Virgin painted by
Dutchman' was Col. Hamilton's opinion Of
her. That will indicate at once how peculiar
and how pleasant she was.
The other characters will interest the
reader. too-Darnley Stair, who did not
seem properly to belong in the brewing
business. and with VIII om Susan had her
tragedy; Archie Hamilton of the navy, who
was not an ordinary young man, and the
Colonel's niece, Julia, who did not have that
perception of the poet and the artist which
Ia or may be the rose Of joy. but did have
loneliness and beauty, also great gifts.
An excellent and moving story Of Scot
tish people who did not speak the
dialect With clean conscience we com
mend it.
A Book Of what Happened TO Christian.
We are told in Rosa Nouchette Carey's
story, "A Passage Perious' u. B. Lip
pincott Company, Philadelphia), that all
her life long Christian Fordham had ex-
pected something to happen, and it seems
no more than reasonable that, having
happened. we should be made acquainted
with it. Even when she was a mere mite
Of child Christians historian says,
with curly head just level with the table,
her baby precocity had astonished her
mother. Me wonders she had remarked
In her small chirping voce-'me wonders
what happenings baby's dot to-day
'Baby's happenings became quite a house.
hold proverb at the Vicarage, boarded
up with other like sayings by fond and
admiring parents"
All that happened TO Christian We can
not even suggest, but it is pleasant to report
that the final pages (3s5-68y find her happy
with Jack. They drove over to Chesterton
together 1t was a lovely October after
noon, and in the soft autlImnal light the
old house looked strangely peaceful. Jack
gave his pony to the gardener, and they
went into the quaint old hall. isn't it
Just lovely, Jaok2' she asked her husband
and he assented in the strong, rude phrase
customary In the army. to which he be-
longed. Ripping" he said They sat
down together on the old oak settle
soft sigh arose to Christians lips as she
looked round at the wide staircase and
the old clock and the deer antlers over the
high carved mantlepiece. Lovely, indeed
and they were to have year Of it before
she accompanied her soldier husband
back to India @You are sure you don't
mind going,to India?' he inquired, a little
anxiously. Mind with your" and he
saw at once that his anxiety was unwar-
ranted.
We presume that the delectable old
house was named in honor OF the eminent
English essayist, Mr.. G. X. Chesterton,
40 frequently quoted by the Erening Post,
though we are not sure of it,