Year: 1875

kindness OF her womau's nature-then, she thought.
she could put away violence and be gentle young
girl When she first met this Engishman and found
that he took delight in being near her she had
ventured to hope that a haven would at last
be open 20 her But the reek Of the gun
powder from that FIRST pistol shot still clung
TO her and she now told herself again, as she
had often told herself before that would have been
better for her 10 have turned the muzzle against her
own bosom. She loved Paul Montague with all her
heart and she despiscd herself for loving him. How
weak he was-how ine0lcent-how unable TO seize
glorious opportunes-how swathed and swaddled by
scrupes and preudiceshow unlike her countrymen
in quickness Of apprehension and readiness of action
But yet she loved him for his very faults telling herself
that there something sweeter in his English
than in all the smart intelligence Of her own land The
man had been false 70 her false hell had sworn to
her and had broken his oath had ruined her whole life
had made everything blank before her by his treachery
She finally proves her devotion him by renounclng
all claim upon him in favor Of Miss Carbury, whom he
desires to marry This latter young lady who has be-
come alarmed by rumors that have reached her ears
concerning Montagues connection with Mrs Hurtle Is
induced by him to appeal to Mrs. Hure for condrma-
ton of his that he has been untrue to
her Miss Carbury since he first addressed her Mrs
Hurte responds to his demand with unselnshness
and assures Heta that whatever may have been his
conduct toward herself toward her Hetta his devotion
has wavered The young lady expresses herself
as perfectly satisfied with such ofairs and mag
nnccntly Indifferent the suerngs of her rival renews
her engagement with Montague, the harmony Of their
attachment having been only slightly disturbed by this
revelation Of his baseness Mrs Hurte finally sails for
America, in company with Mr.. Fisker and the Mel
NOTES She has shown certain noble traits OF charac





are so oyerbaanced by others that unatracve that
it is with a sense Of relief that we part with her.


HONORABLE EXCEPTIONS


There are two comparatively good characters in the
book The first is Roger Carbury Paul's benefactor
and cousin but also lover Of Hettas He is hope
lessly uninteresng but, nevertheless, on the
like breath Of pure air, for he s at least sin
cere and honorable He is described as a being
forty years Of age, a stout, good looking man,
with a firmly set, square face, with features
finely cut, a small mouth, good teeth and well
formed chin. His hair was red, curling round his head,
which was low partly bald at the top. He wore no
other beard than small almost unn0tCeaUe Yhiskers
His eyes small, but bright and very cheefy when
his humor good. He about five feet nine in
height having the appearance Of great strength and
perfect health more manly to the eye was
never seen. And he with whom you would in
stinctvey wish at first sight to be good terms
partly because in looking at him there would on
you unconscious conviction that he would be very
stout in holding his against his opponents; partly
also from conviction equally strong that he would be
very pleasant to his friends His love for Hetta is
characteristic. He had poetry about him He
did not for All the out
side belongings of love which are so pleasant to many
men, and which to many afford the sweet
ness in life which they really relish nothing to
him There are both men and women 10 whom even
the delays and disappontments of love charming,
even when they exist to the deriment of hope 1t is
such persons to be melancholy sweet to pine,
sweet 10 feel that they wreched after roman
tic fashion have been those heroes and heroines Of
whose suferngs they have read in poetry. But there
was nothing Of this with Roger Carbury. He had, as
he believed found the woman that he really
wanted who was worthy Of his love- and now
having fixed his heart upon her. he longed for her with
amazing longing He had spoken the simple truth
when he declared that life had become Indifferent to
him without her No man in England could be less
likely to throw himself of the Monument to blow
out his brains We cannot help regrettng that his
was unsuccessful but consoed by the thought that
Miss Carbury entirely unworthy of him The
depth of his tenderness and the nobility Of his
character by his forgving Montague for
mfg the woman he loves having met her under his
(Rogers) roof and adopting her as his daughter
and heiress after her marriage with Paul without
which the young couple would have been about penn-
less He is nevertheless commonplace and with the
best of intentions the reader fails TO become interested
IN him.


John Crumb young countryman, who rescues the
girl he loves from Sir Felix Carbury who decoys her to
London, also challenges admiration The scene
where he "drops into the barone just in time and
the pounding the scoundrel receives from his brawny
fists, "each blow obliteratng a feature" is quite re-
freshng But these two olerable characters fail
to redeem the weary and monstrously low moral at
mosphere Of the book.


THE "BEAR GARDEN"


general idea Of the character Of the gentlemen to
whom we are introduced can be drawn from a descrip-
ton of the club of which they nearly all members
It called the Bear Garden and had been lately opened
with the express view Of combining parsmony with
prohigacy. Clubs ruined, said certain young
parsimonous proaigates, by providing comforts for
old fogies who paid little nothing but their
subscriptions and took out by their mere presence
three times as much as they gave This club not
be opened till three O'Clock in the afternoon before
which the promoters the Bear Garden thought it
improbable that they and their fellows would want
club There to be no morning papers taken no
library, morning room. Dining rooms, billiard
rooms ana Caru rooms WOulu suHlCe lOr the bear
Garden Everything was to be provided by purveyor,
so that the club should be cheated only by man.
Everything to be luxurious but the Injuries
TO be achieved first cost. 1t had been happy
thought and the club said TO prosper. Herr voss-
ner the purveyor was jewel and so carried on affairs
that there trouble about anything. He would
assist in smoothing little difficulties as to the
settling Of card accounts and had behaved with the
greatest tenderness the drawers Of checks whose
bankers had harshy declared them TO have no effects
Herr vossner jewel and the Bear Garden was a
success. The club in the close vicinity Of other
clubs in a small street turning out Of st James
street, and piqued itself its outward quiet
and sobrety. Why pay for stonework for
other people to look at; why lay out money
in marble pillars and cornices, seeing that


GESTLEMASLY ADJUSTMENTS.


you neither eat such things, drink them, nor
gamble with lhem2 But the Beargarden had the best