New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-07-05

4QNeUo EAEk, JUNE To-
-. Love Story Of Parnell, which IS
i. main theme, next 20 Parnell him
II o. Mrs. O'Shes's book, has taken
:, Mace once Tor all among the arrest
- ,ove-stories Of the world. She
:. chosen 20 tell il with incredible IN
serve. For that among other reasons
ne book lcsped at once into fame
and can never De forgotten. Few
xomen would care 10 lay bare as she
sss. and 10 the extent she has her
avn and her lovers secrets. Told
more disereetly. the romance would
lave been no less romantic. but discre-
ton there is none. Il by chance Par
nell holds a place anywhere in Dante's
Inferno the keenest OF his tormen;s
would be 20 know Of this book.
To Mrs. O'Shea. and TO her only. TINS
proudest O. men poured out his soul;
Ia d bare his heart and himself. ara
she has betrayed him 20 the public ne
dcspised To publish the Browning
love letters or the love let'ers o.
Charlotte Bronte TO Paul Heger- acts
OF tTeACneTN DOtu AlN~AAAte "
7 don't doubt for & moment that Mrs.
O'Shea has done it out OF pure devO-
ton 10 Parnel's memory. Yet she
Knew better than anybody that ne him
self would have disclosed nothing; and
hat his letters 70 her would never nave
been written had he dreamed they were
ever. for any reason, TO be yelled 70
the world in cold print. Half the book
Is surplusage; there are hundreds oil
paxes about herself and Captain O'Shea
which might have been burnt and the
world no loser. The rest IS immortal.
The Gun she hands yOu is filed with
The wine of life. In his veins and ia
hers ran wine and fire. Not in ST.
Augustine. not in Cellini, not N Rous-
,esu. is there more passion than here.
They met first in the lobby OF the
House OF Commons, "and his curiously
burning eyes looked into mine with a
ronderful intentness.' She let fall a
+ase from her corsace. Gle picked 1t
m and. touching II lightly with his
Ins. placed it in his button-hole.' All
this in a crowded room. people passing
and repassing. Then a dinner. then
the plsv. and a dark corner IN the box.
The climax comes with that dramatic
eject Of which Mrs. O'Shca has the
secret: II IS in the train from Charing
Cross 70 Ethan, where Mrs. O'Snea
lived.
81 leaned back and closed my eyes
and could have slept but that the little
flames IN Parnelrs eyes kept Pickering
before mine. though they were closed.
He took off his coat and tucked II
-oB7d me. but I would not open my
ewes 70 look al him. He crossed over
and leaning over me 10 fold the coat
mors closely round my knees, he whls-
,sre6 I love YOU. I love you; on, my
49, how | love YOU And | slipped
~ hand into his and knew l was not
afraid" ,coo
Through the summer months OF loeO
he ,7+rirue went on. There were the
-.usl so-did incidents. Presently ne
vas living. hiding, with Mrs. O'Shea IN
lsr. or her husbands, house. ne
O'Shss= had not then separated ou'
lived uretty we'll apart. The marriage
- was 20 neither Parnell nor her
-assor why their love should not run
lis course; she had been marrleu ,ni.
.,s, Years and had children. captain
0,SLos g-as not unaware. There was
all a. duel. but duel there was none
Ps-waen Parnell and his mistress grew
W nj only love but the most com
,i.,s confidence. Putting morals ASIDE
.bs ,io-u-a OF their relations is otteh
,ra--v one. though there are toucnes
A. eor-moruess. and AZ moments the
is.,s-s and the passages OF aNecLioH
ave something or the cockney. lar-
nell vas 2 gentleman born; with great
gr-i-v. but his dignity melts with Ihe
-. :: r. furnace She was ms
av;ss~ and "oueenic" and he IS her
-E;,r~ 4 child is born 20 them while
PANEL ;s in Kilmsinham Gaol. whence
rarv o. mis- letters are not pleasah1
-. ,o- ;s he heroic accent often
- be Iaard But the note OF passion
q, ,.~e- long absent. SO Il went OF
vas- mr. wear. Parneil all the time or
g,ri---~ Ireland into a conspiracy o.
Sstrs5 against England. OF boycotrns'
~ o,,+-s9a Of murder. till even ne pc
cane anxious lest the devil nc hau
rou-sd should prove 100 strong lot y I'lI i.
n The case Of the Pn9hiA a.
murders r. did prove 100 sITonE'
the murders of Thomas 6urse az
Lord Frederick Cavendish he nad no
direct share Brady and the resI VIZ
10 tools" Of his; they were OF Al 80
more advanced wing Of lrlsn pa1r! 20.
Nrs. O'Shea and Parneii we're tcge
IN F1+bsr on the morning When lhe
- ~ he murders came He SAID al
onee ne should resIg n. Mrs. 9hss
-nrvsrsd. 40. YOU are not coward
YET he did offer 20 resign. and u va
NJ Gladstone who diesuaded hum. Ht-
Gladstone thought him. In Mr.. Morley
words. "ir some respects most usefuI
man
For further details o. the relations
between Captain O'Shea- who Tor
Tine PLAYED the part OF the mari com
rlaisznt Mrs. O'Shea and Mr.. Parne!I'
i must refer this reader 20 the BOOK
when he can get j.. Throughout, Far-
nell had 10 standard % morals or CON
duet. bu. his own. His morals. az A.
ferl said Of his countrymen, cons lsted
IN no. having any. The moral side OF
the Pzrnell Commission proceeding
he question Of mis- own guilt. never
troubled him. His partial acquittal did
rot elate him. l. was IN sucn moments
that the depths Of the mans character
zane % the surface. "He never knew
ill then how he hated the English;
Apparently because they cheered him.
b. them he would not be Judged
whether rightly or wrongly; well or III.
Theirs was never the verdict he sought;
Ehen the Divorce Court decree became
known, he remarked.
There will be howl. but il Will be
the bowling Of hypoerites."
Then comes one Of the most illuml-
mating sentences in the book; as he
thinks Of the Irish also:
"&ot altogether, Tor some OF these
Irish fools are genuine in their belief
that forms and creeds can govern life
ard men. Perhaps they are right, 50
Ear as they can experience life But
am not as they, for they are among