The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-08-25
NEW BOOKS.
A Story.

Iorman's story -f 'Buchanan's VIE
Harper K Brothers) We could not help
noticing the great amount OF expectation
with which the characters were occupied.
yuriously enough, they expected things
,ha, had already happened. Said old Mrs.
crowley: yes, l expect it's that. l ex-
,c,t | knew it was that all the time Said
mi, same stately and excellent lady, half
iage further on: why, then, when she
married. and found what a brute Buchanan
was, | expect she turned back upon her
I'D affair with Faring and began to idealize
chat and to paint it up in pretty mother OF
rcarl rainbow %colors." These were what
we may call retrospective expectations.
All the characters expected with q good
asai of freedom. They did not feel them
selyes bound to expect In any particular
direction. They made no bones Of expect
ing backward and laterally. Beatrix
Buchanan gave a little absent smile as
She said: Il expect ! must 60 in to the
others. They'll think I'm not civil To
this little Miss Trevor replied: "Il 60 too.
expect they re talking scandal in there,
and want to hear IT," Said young Farins,
the hero of the tale: 81 near voices inside.
exrect we must go in, mustn't WEI" The
book is full Of this liberal form Of speech.
OF course, Mrs. Crowley could have justified
herself for saying Il expect knew" She
could have described this expression a5
jdiornatic and @lliptical. Filled out it
would ne: Il expect il will be found on
Investigation that | knew There Is not
much that cannot be justified by the in
eculols,
Faring and Mrs. Buchanan loved each
other. They we're console ntious. They
determined to fetter their affection. Mrs.
Buchanan said to Earring: "We must lie
Harry, lie and grin and make jokes, and
never let any one know-that-our-hearts
are breaking. Help me, Harry He felt
the full distress Of The situation. Earring
strained his hands together behind him
and shut his teeth: He loved her very
dearly, and this sort Of thing was not easy
to bear" There is a grand sentence to
show that it was not easy for either OF them.
We read: He turned away and walked to
the other end Of the long terrace, and
Beatrice Buchanan, in spite OF the nervous
spasm which was shaking her-well nigh
empowering her-watched him 90 watched
with a sort of fierce pride the set OF his
head thrust forward, In a way he had
when under stress, with the strong cords
Of his neck straining at his collar-watched
the brown hands 80 fast clinched behind
bis back that the fingers had gone white
But there was no danger. He was q
tower Of strength. Indeed, he looked like
a man upon whom a woman might lean.
Strength was the first impression one
gained upon meeting him-quiet, indomi-
table, u~npretentious strength. Possibly this
vas in part because he was an unusually
zIont 80 MAN Gtroun man ara navar
laxative" 1t is we'll known that no talka-
tive man has ever. either been elected
President or conferred fame upon the State
of Nebraska. A strong still man in a
blatant land-that Ia the thing to be. Mrs,
irony. "Do you suppose God is fond OF
practical jokes, Harry" she asked. How
He must laugh sometimes, mustn't He, at
the hideously comic things people do with
their lives." The silent Harry made no
reply.
Stambolof is a strong, gloomy character
in the tale. He cherished terrible memory.
Col. Eversley related the story OF Stambolof
% little Miss Trevor. Said the Colonel:
.You see, there was a Frenohman, the
Comte de Colonne-de Vitry-Colonne-
who had an extremely beautiful wife. ]
expect he loved her. no one could have
helped it, but he was a blackguard and
Aendishly jealous, and he ussd to illtreat
her shamefully. Well, il was rather an
open secret that Boris stamholof loved
her too, and that She returned it-she was
very unhappy, you understlnd but "
was Just as openly known that she was a
good woman and that there was nothing
wrong. Then one night, at a dinner party
NAn- An m
bleau, Colonne, who was in a nasty humor
and had been drinking a bit too much wine
probably, insnlts1 his wife fouliy before
all the guests. st .mbolof got up and
struck him in the face, and, half an no ur
later, in Colonies " hall, with two or
thres of the other msn holding candles,
they fought a most informal duel with
sworfs, and Colonne was killed run
through the heart
1t may he thought how this tale shocked
little Miss Trevor, who herself loved
S~tsmholof. It is very terrible. and We
have quoted it only to show Mr.. Forman's
atrength in narrative. II 1t is permissible
70 outline the general story We will say
that Buchanan. who found life wearisome,
cast of the burden Of his high social estate
and went away to be q tramp; that he was
stabbed by a. man whose cheek Was mArhou
by a deep scar, that he lost his mind and
that his lungs came 20 be affected. that
he returned home in a demented state
after Mrs. Buchanan a married Faring,
that the man with the scar tried to black
mail the hero and heroine Of the story,
that a great Russian hound tore the black
mailer to pieces and that Harry and Betty
were permitted to be quite happy at last.
We have marked a passage in which
Mrs. Buchanan addresses Earring after
Buchanan has disappeared. Says Mrs.
Buchanan: Harry, l wonder il we ore
wise to marry each other. II we do not
do it | shall die; that's certain. But l
wonder-I wonder if I shall bring you happi-
ness, It's a serious thing, this marrying,
you know. No, let me talk on. Don't
stop me. or one thing ! Am certain, my
how. Whatever may come, l beiiere I'm
going to make you happy. I feel 1t some
how, as women do feel things. I wonder
if I'm wrong. l believe that there are no
more troubles and igriefs in store for US.
If | thought Motif I thought that I was