The Saint Paul globe., 1904-06-12

the Populist party at the state cleo
ton runs the stock of the road down
to such point that the Brentwoods
are unable to maintain their position
In Boston society," SO they decide to
go West and their destination is the
very town where Kent resides. With
them goes Brookes Ormsby, million
alre and rival of Kent's for the hand
of the fair Elinor.
Expecting to follow the romance,
one finds after a little reading that
the romance Of Elinor and Kent is a
secondary consideration with the writ
er, and 1t Is "the grafters" who absorb
his attention and more than two
thirds of his book. The reader does
not very much object to this, however,
for he finds the politicians and rough
characters of the mining town much
more natural and human than the
hero and heroine, who are a little
vaguely drawn. The state is at the
mercy of gang Of corrupt officials,
with which the railway company is
also involved, and between the two the
hero, Kent, seems at times unable to
balance himself. The keynote of his
perplexity is struck by Elinor, who
says to David, "1s it any worse to
take bribe than it is to give one?"
In it's study of the ways of Populist
statesmen the book is undoubtedly
good, but as one reads one wonders if
things in this republic are really as
bad as Mr.. Lynde has painted them,
and whether book like this does good
or harm. That it is an absorbingly in
story and well told cannot be
denied, but there are the usual incon-
siStencies of the author who blends
ve-making and politics, such as the
hero having nothing more tender to
say to E1inor on moOn-lighted bal
cony than the part he has taken in
the last election. 1t is a book-that all
men will like and women find rather
difficult to read without skipping.
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Kindly Llght-By Florence M. Kingsley.
Henry Altemus Co., Philadelphia For
sale by st. Paul Book and Stationery
company.
very pretty and pathetic little tale
is this of a dear old lady, whose
husbands death has affected her poor
mind, and she has been taken home by
her son to be cared for by his wife.
The wife is good woman, but she
gives mother a loveless perfunctory
care, with no heart in it, which makes
the tragedy of many a mother-in-law
story. The little old lady has deIu-
sions and one of them is that she must
go back to the home where father is
waiting for her. So one day the dear
nearly to the old farm. She walked
IN, made herself at home and when
the daughter of the man who had
bought the place found her she was
safely ensconsed on the sitting room
lounge fast asleep. The girl guessed
who she was from her rambling talk
and took her up to her old room and
put her to bed. When the busy,
bustling daughter in-law arrived, in
dignant at mothers acting up the
girl begged that mother should re-
main. So there she spent the remain
der of her short life, perfectly happy
to be at the old place and babbling to
father, whom she soon followed to a
better land. The second story In the
DOCK Is pleasant little tale of bride.
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change Handbook for 1904.
Even the most casual inspection of the
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