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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 12, 1896 2 AS SEEN BY A PARISIAN Another Witty Frenchman Who Tells Us All About the American Woman HE FOUND HER “NOT ONLY FIN DE SIECLE, BUT EVEN FIN DE GLOB E” AS WELL i “The Time When Feeble, Fair Creatures Stretched Out in Hammocks and Gouches and Dreamed of the Spoony Pressings of Hands, Which Occus rred to Them Days Before, Have Passed Away " If there be any blessing in the gratification of the wish of Robert Burns, “‘to see oursels as ithers see us,” the American people of this generation have a right to regard themselves as among the blessed of the earth. The “itners” who see us have been in no wise backwara in letting us know what they see or what they think they see. So many observers, in fact, have published their observations and their judgments upon us, and these have been of such variety and contrariety in tone, styls, intent and purpose, and of such diversity of taste, talent and degree of ability, that we may fairly say of ourselves, like St. Paul,*Iama debtor both to the wise and the unwise; both to the Greeks and the barbarians.” One of the_ critics of our country and our manners who must be classified among the Greeks is 8. C. de Soissons, whose newly pub- lished work, “A Parisian in Americs,” has & | sufficiency of charm in its wit, grace and v vacity to make it & readable book to the gen- eral public. Ii we do not regard it as exactly | true of our characteristics, we will noue the less grant that it is amusing. There runs through it, moreover, a little strain of origin- | ality which implies that if the critic has not been & profound student of America he has at | any rate been an acute observer, and has noted certain iraits of our society which have | not been noted by others. It may be, of course, that these newly discovered traitsdo net exist among us, but that does not affect the value of the book as 8 means of entertain- ment. If M. de Soissons did not discover these novelties of American life he invented them, and deserves credit for that. | The suthor announces in an introductory | chapter that he came to America not to study its wealth, its democracy. its politics, its won- derful landscapes, its great cities or the char- acter of its statesmen, but its women. He sdds, very illogically, that the reason he came to note woman psrticularly was because all other features of the country have been so fre- quently described that no other work on any of them is necessary; just as if the American woman had not been blamed, praised, criti- cized and described about as often as anything else in the country. Possibly, however, M. de Soissons meant only that those who described the country generally have done it justice, while those who tried to describe the women led. In that case, of course, another book was needed. After the chumps there is always a demand for the artist. Having announced that he came to_ this antry to study the American woman, M. de ssons does not tantalize his readers by post- | poning his judgment upon the object of his study. At the close of his introductory chap- ter he says: “To my great satisfaction I found the American woman not only fin de | siecle, but even mere than that—fin de globe.” | ‘A strange phenomenon which I have ob- | -4, says the author in the first chapter of | “{s that, notwi thstanding her promi- | nent position in the social life of this country, woman does not occupy, as it seems, the same great place in the hearts, minds, imagination snd passion of the -Americsn artists and poets.” Following this assertion is a clever contrast between American art and lterature and those of European nations, snd particu- larly those of France, in reference to women. | Very few American painters, we are told, have attempted to depict the American woman, and those who have done so have avoided the nude and aimed to display the beauty of her toilet rather than of her body. Itis added that this strange phenomenon is observed also among American scuiptors. or “statuaries,” as our author calls them, and St. Gaudens, Kitson, Proctor and Dallin are famous chiefly for their | works representing men and not women. We may gather some idea of M. de Soissons’ | estimate of American women of the East from an artistic standpoint by his statement con- cerning the type of women painted by Thomas W. Dewing. Of the work of this artist he says: “He has lived for a time in New England and those tall languid girls oi Puritan descent, entirely out of place in the pros: tight- | buttoned, keep-up-your-appearance society, | have undoubtedly left a lasting impression on him. Their long erect necks, blonde hair, pale, wistful faces with prominent noses, and their well-modeled lips must have a strange {ascina- | tion for the painter. Also asmodels they must | possess & peculiar charm. Their bulld is firm and round, mature around the hips, with un- developed busts, natural waist and an increased | length from hip to knee a8 a striking peculiarity.” Turning from painting to poetry our critic says: ““I have before me a book entitled ‘Songs of Three Centuries,’ edited by John G. Whit- | tier for the use of the American publie. The | | volume contains several hundred poetical compositions of the world-renowned American poets, butonly & few, and those very tame and insignificant poems, are inspired by women.” Even Longtellow’s “Evangeline” is a tribute to the sentiment of love rather than to woman, | for in the whole poem there is no reference to physical beauty except in the two lines: Ah! She was fair, exceedingly fair, to behold asshe stood with Naked snow-white feet on the gleaming floor of her chamber. M. de Soissons does not undertake to explain why the American woman is neglected by tlie artists and the poets of the country. Hesays very frankly it must be considerea one of those strange things which can be accounted for only by referring it to some peculiarity of the land in which one lives. He adds, however, that if art and poesy are careless of the Amer- ican woman, so is the American woman indif- ferent to love, sentiment and romance. She has, he says; much head and little heart. “She cares less to be begutiful than do the women in certain European countries, but she wishes much more to have brains. She is also more susceptible of goodness, honesty and friend- ship.” o 1t is not easy to pack into a little space a di- gest of all the Parisian has to say of the charming subjectof his study. He makes of the American woman, indeed, something fin de siecle and fin de globe. In her life, we are told, love plays very little part. “The times,” he says, “when the feeble and fair creatures, stretched out in hammocks and couches, dreamed of the spoony pressings of hands which occurred to them days before h passed away.” It would seem from this that our Parisian had never studied the summer girl, but he quickly shows thet heisnot ig- norant of the role he plays at the seaside or the mountains. The American woman, he says, ‘“loves more often and more quickly” than tife European. She delights to repeat. 1 knew, T knew, it could not last. *Twas bright, twas beavenly—but 'tis past. The artistic eye of M. de Sossons does mot altogether approve of our woman as & type of beauty. He says she i8 not beautiful from & sculptural point of view, but if & pairter had & magical palette he might make her beautiful. Her best charms are derived from the fact that her [ather and mother united when young in & marriage for love, and have transmitted to her the gifts which nature lavishes upon the children of youth and love. In addition to this the mixture of races has given much to | the charm of the American woman, and “The Hibernian, Frencly, Italian and German strains, mingled in her veins with the blood of the An- glo-8axon,have tempered with vivacity or with country nearly every kind of plastic beauty— the voluptuous nonchalance of the creole, the aristocratic purity of lines of the English woman, the expressive and changeable physiognomy of the French woman, the dazzling complexion of the Irish girl. From these different nationsalities she has borrowed the characteristic excellence of each; youth and love have done the work of elimination, since, as we must remember, marriage in the United States is the resultof instinctive affinity much more than in other countries.” If we find in these statements something of contradiction we must remember that woman is a contradictory subject and be not too severe in our judgment of M. de Soissons. It is not easy to write of the American woman and write logically. Even our own authors are unequal to that task. To praise her at one moment and to condemn her at the next has | been the habit of man since the beginning of the world, and De Soissons, though & Parisian, is sufficiently human to be entitled to avail himself of the privilege which by this time may be accounted as an established right of man. When he had writien his observations of onr women M. de Soissons went on to write his opinion of our men, our art, musie, architec- ture and literature. It is scarcely necessary to say that in dealing with these subjects he is Deither so vivacious, so witty nor so enter- taining as in the first chapters of his book. Like every other European he found that the American man works too hard in his office, and is too subordinate at home. He takes no pleasure and neglects to educate his higher faculties, the result being that he is distinctly inferior to his wife in education and intellect- ual development, and is therefore regarded by her as & creature intended-only to support her and provide her with monev. M. de Soissons declares we are improving in art, architecture and music, but are declin- ing in literature. Like the rest of the world, he perceives we have lost Emerson, Longfel- low, Lowell, Whittier, Hawtherne, Bancroft, ‘Prescott, Holmes and Motley and have no one to take their places. He finds it strange that we should have sympathized with Germany rather than with France in the war between those two nations, but consoles himself in the belief that it was only a temporary aberration of the intellect. Cur newspapers amaze him by the freedom with which they publish the details ot private life of prominent people, but he quotes approv- ingly the statement of & correspondent of Figaro who visited Washington: “In point of humbug, to teil the truth, all newspaper men are equal, Europeans as well as Ameri- cans. Newspaper men can be compared 10 the chimney sweep, for with both, after all, the main question is the dratt—it is the draw- ing power that makes success.” For one thing we owe our Parisian critic an assorted variety of warm thanks. He telis us that after he had written his first American book, “Boston Artists,” he was told by a friend, “If you wish to meet with financial success you must write something’ practical, as the | in | silver question, for instance, because America art is considered a frivolous thing.” M. de Soissons did not write on the silver ques- tion. He avoided frivolous things by writing sbout women, and we have thus been spared another solution of the money. problem. In the name of the people we give thanks. [Bos- ton: Estes & Lauriat.] JOoHN MCNAUGHT. THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER. A new library edition of one of Mark Twain’s better known books. While primarily written as a story for boys and girls there is much in the work that has proved attractive to readers | of larger growth. The story deals with the adventures of & poor London boy, Tom Canty, with Edward VI of England at the time when he was heir-apparent to the throne. The young Prince insisted that the boy change places with him—that he assume the royal insignia of office,which he obligingly re- signs. The humorist appears to have drawn largely | upon his imagination in describing the every- day ceremonial of a king robing himself in his everyday clothes. This function Mr. Clemens describes in & manner strongly rem- iniscent of “The Gondoliers,” and with a minuteness worthy of Mr. Gilbert himself. Instance: “In the beginning a shirt was taken up by the Chief Equerry in Waiting, who passed it to the First Lord of the Buckhounds, who passed it to the Second Gentleman of the Bed- chamber, who passed it to the Head Ranger of Windsor Forest, who passed it to Third Groom of the Stole, who passed it to | the Chancellor Royal of the Duchy of Lancas- ter, who passed it to the Master of the Ward- robe, who passed it to the Norroy King-at- Arms, who passed it to the Constable of the Tower, who passed it to the Chief Steward of the Household, who passed it to the Hered- itary Grand Dlaperer, who passed it to the Lord High Admiral of England, who passed it to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who passed it to the First Lord of the Bed- chamber.” Without attempting to follow the London Ssturdsy Review, which reviewed the “Inno- cents Abroad” seriously es a work of travel (1) there exists in our mind some little curiosity regarding the source of Twain’s data. We imagine that neither Hume nor Green would make himself responsible for picturing the Archbishop of Canterbury in the charac- ter of s valet. Despite’ these little drawbacks, born of a too fertile imagination, «The Prince and the Pauper” isa good story, and it admirably succeeds in its attempt to instil into the minds of tha American youth a hatred ot customs which obtained in me- dieval Merrie England, at the same time presenting & more or less correct view of the same cnstoms. [New' York: Harper & Bros. For sale in this jcity by A. M. Robertson, 126 Post street; price $1 75. LITERARY NOTES. Mrs. Stowe is the subject of the leadingarticle in the Critic of July 4—an appreciative study by James Herbert Morse, the poet. The essay ‘was written years ago, when the famousauthor of “Uncle Tom” lay at the point of death. For years it stood in type, but in 1894 the matter was ‘‘distributed.” When news of Mrs. Stowe’s death was received the forms were already made up; but as good fortune would have it | the leading article was of exactly the same length as the paper on Mrs. Stowe, so that the latter was readily put in its place. In the same number of the Critic is an article on “The Boy Poet of the East End,” London, whose portrait is printea, together with a poem that justifies high hopes of his future achievement. The lad, who is only 15 years old, isemployed in a factory. There seems to be no end to the new ways of celebrating the Fourth ot July. The Youth’s Companion special number this year had three stories of exciting celebrations, each of which is different from any ordinary celebration. This special issue is s0 attractive that every member of the family will read it. “The Declaration of Independence in the Light of Modern Criticis.a,” by Moses Coit Tyler, professor of history in Cornell Uni. versary, possesses a well-considered timeliness morbidezze, with grace or with languor, the settled characteristics she has inherited irom her ancestors. So one can find in this as the opening article in the North American Review for July. Professor Tyler discusses this venerable and “classic statement of po- the | litical truths” from many standpoints, but al- ways in a loyal and patriotic spirit. Thomas Hardy writes to the Critic to deny a charge of plagiarism made by one of the cor- respondents of that paper in 1882 and ignored till now. He says that he has never seen Judge Longstreet's “Georgia Scenes,” from | especial originality which he was sccused of copying a descrip- tion of & militis drill in *“The Trumpet Major,” of which a new edition has just ap- Hearts.” It will give children an acquaint- ance with nature in so healthy and entertain- ing & manner that their friendship for her will be life-tong. “The Sentimental Sex,” by Gertrude War- dan, is the title of a new novel said to possess and interest, which is to be published shortly by D. Appleton & Co. Those whose appreciate the value of season- able pecreations will find a mine of wealth in peared. He was, however, indebted to Gif- | OutiLg’s summer number. The spice of pure [ 7, - Jf RN R S LAt mr e e o — 0 - .. — - - Out on the slumbering ocean Wavers a dreamy sail. Musing, the beautiful Phyllis Turns from her dreamy tale. “Just like the half of my story, Calmed like the ship on the sea! Lost for a breeze is the sailor— And likewise this story for me!” CHARLES D. SOUTH. wheels through the Tyrol, and the pleasant list runs on till each manly pastime has re- ceived due attention. Messrs. D. Appleton & Co. announce for im- | mediate publication, “Yekl, a Tale of the New | York Ghetto,” by A. Cahan: “A Humble En- terprise,” by Ada Cambridge; “Dr. Nikola,” by Guy Boothby; ““An Outeast of the Islands,” by Joseph Conrad; “The King’s Revenge,” by ‘[ Claude Bray; and thenew editions of Apple- tons’ General Guide, Appletons’ Canadian La Marseillaise. Allons, enfants de la patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrive! Contre nous de la tyrannie L’etendard sanglant est leve, L’etendard sanglant est leve ! Entendez vous, dans les campagnes, Mugir ces feroces soldats? Iis viennent jusque dans nos bras Egorger nos fils, nos compagnes ! CHORUS. Aux armes, citoyens! Formez vos bataillons ! Marchons! Marchons! Qu ’un sang impur Abreuve nos sillions? Tremblez, tyrans, et vous, perfides, L’opprobre de tous les partis. Tremblez, vos projets parricides Vont enfin recevoir leur prix! Vont enfin recevoir leur prix ! Tout est soldat pour vous combattre, S’ils tombent, nos jeunes heros, . La France en produit de nouveaux, Contre vous tout prets a se battre ! Amour sacre de la patrie, Conduis, soutiens nos bras vengeurs ! Liberte, Liberte cherie, Combats avec tes defenseurs ! Combats avec tes defenseurs! Sous nos drapeaux, que le victoire Accoure a tes males accents! Que tes ennemis expirants Voient ton triomphe et notre gloire ! - - —— - G—- - — - — S - - a .o e o ford’s History of the War with Napoleon (Lon- don, 1820), and it would scem highly probable that the American author had drawn from the same source. With this number the Critic closes its twenty-eighth volume. Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright, who has written one of the best field-books of New England birds—*Birdcraft,’” published by the Macmil- lan Company—has written for early publica- tion by the same firm an attractive child’s story celled “Tommy-Anne, or the Three sport flavors every page, yet the sport is ever as it should be—clean, wholesome and bene- ficial. Out of his store of knowledge E. B. Abercrombie brings interesting data concern- ing the great trotters and pacers; practical yachtsmen -R. B. Burchard handles “The Twenty-Raters” with a veteran’s skill; Ed W. Sandys tells the novice how to master the art of swimming; G. L. Warder cances downa lonely river; Mary Trowbridge Townsend tells how she shot her first white goat; Seth Greer Guide, Appletons’ Hand Book of Summer Re- sorts, and Appletons’ Dictionary of New York. The Macmillan Company will publish very shortly, “Rheumatism — Its Nature, Its Pa- thology, and Its Successful Treatment,” by T. J. Maclagan, M.D. The author discusses the wvarleties, symptoms and duration, the sect and the nature of the disease, with the various theories which have influenced its treatment, such as the lactic acid, the neurotic and the miasmatic theories. SOME RECEN T ROMANCES The TJale of a Liad Whose Ambition It Was to Be a Streetcar Gonductor OF COURSE HE WON AN HEIRESS AND - SECURED A FAT GOVERNMENT JOB A Mosaic of Fact and Fiction Thal t Deals With European Diplomacy and Gourt Intrigues, Entitled “The Vanished Emperor.” Robert Buchanan’s Surprising Love Sfory, “GCapture by Marriage” A tale of Washirgton life, told by two lead- ing characters, is Harriet Riddle Davis’ new novel, “In Sight of the Goddess.” Stephen Barradale (whose only ambition in youth was to grow up to be a streetcar driver, and whose stumbling block in that career was his inde- | cision whether to run a caron F street or on | the avenue), had become & sort of polite | lackay, at & yearly salary, to wealthy people who were desirous of being introduced into Washington society. Horatio Childs accepts & cabinet position, brings his family to the capital, and looks about for a private secre- tary—one whose people are of social impor- tance. He finds Barradale, whose father was an admiral in the navy, and employs him. Childs hds a daughter, Constance, and she is the goddess of Barradale’s dreams. The two young people have the usual misgivings and trials, and finally Barradale, concluding his suit in vain, gets a commission from Secretary Childs to go West on business. Heis thinking of remaining West, when he finds between the leaves of one of Childs’let- ters a “Parable of a Foolish Virgin,” which Constance had written, and which explains everything so satisfactorily that Barradale loses no time in returning to Washington and happiness. The story is interestingly written. [Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, pub- lishers. For sale by Joseph A. Hoffman; price 75 cents.] THE VANISIED EMPEROR. The story with the above title, by Percy Andreae, purports to reveal some hitherto hid- den history regarding Emperor Willibald’s strange disappearance from men’s view dur- ing the early part of his reign, anda to throw | light on “the Emperor’s purpose in vanishing completely” for so long & period. The book | winds up by the Emperor’s sudden reap- pearance, whereat he begins to make his power felt in the world; dismisses his chan- cellor, whose services had long been deemed indispensable to the Governmentand treadsall over obsolete customs and useless forms. As the author himself says, the romance is built up on » mosaic of fact and fiction, and it has a deal to do with European diplomaey and court intrigue. He has invented transparently fictitious names for the personages whose share in the events described is more or less | based -on assumed facts. For instance, the | Emperor Willibald of Arminia means none | other than Emperor William of Germany; the | Duke of Cumbermere is the Duke of Cumber- land; Franconis is France; Brandenburg, | Prussia; Noveria, Hanover; Prince Otto- | marck, Prince O:to von . Bismarck, eto. | The claim is made that everything that | is true of Emperor William II of Germany is | also true of Emperor Willibald of Arminia, ! while not all that is true of the Ar- ! minian Willibald can be said to be| true of the German William IL The | famous diplomat, Sir John Templeton, fig- | ures prominently in the story. which contains | s real episode in_ Sir John's extraordinary | career. It is opined by Mr. Andreae that those readers who are acquainted with the inner | history of the present dynastic relations of | Germany, which are the outgrowth of the his- | torical events of the last forty vears, may recognize even in those incidents of the story | which apparently fly in the face of il histori- | cal facts & certain substratum of actuality that may claim, 80 to speak, to be at least “‘a color- | able imitation of the truth.” [Chicago: Rand, | McNally & Co., publishers.] A CAPTURE BY MARRIAGE. A delightful story is this romance of ti _ day by Robert Buchanan, published in the Lotus Library series. It is full of surprises to the reader, who is happily deceived as to the out- come. Catherine Powers, an heiress, is sought after by a throng of admirers; but she enjoys freedom too well to permit the question of ‘marriage to trouble her. Her cousin, Patrick Blake, who should by birth have inherited the fortune that Catherine possesses, makes love to her not merely on account of the wealth, | but because he really loves his kins- woman. Catherine resents his advances, and Patrick swears that no other man shall | marry her. Suddenly Catherine is kidnaped, | and her whereabouts remains a mystery for | several days. Patrick is arrested on suspicion, | but is dismissed when a word comes from the | heroine that he is no way toblame for her dis- appearance. Patrick suspeets one Philip Langiord of causing his arrest, and swears,to get even. Catherine keeps secret the story of her four days of absence, even the parish priest failing in his efforts to get her to tell all and ! defend her character from evil rumors. She | left nome again, for a time, against the priest’s advice, depositing & written con- fession with him, however. After her de- parture, Langford, whom sne had refused to see, was broken-hearted. The. story was made that he was the real kidnaper, and that he had taken Catherine prisoner in the hope of getting her consent to marriage. Once Catherine had told Langford that in the old days marriage by capture was far more satis- factory than the present system; so he took her at her word and strove to win her by torce. Soon the word reached Catherine that Lang- ford had been shot by an unknown person in the hills. She returned it time to hearthe wounded man telling the priest how dearly he loved Catherine, and how he wished she could hear his dying protestations. Catherine steps in, her eyes full of sympathy’s tears, and de- clares her willingness to marry the man who captured her, and Langford recovers with as- tonishing rapidity. [Philadelphia: J.B. Lip- pincott & Co. For sale by Joseph A. Hofman; price 75 cents.] ADAM JOHNSTONE'S SON The name of F. Marion Crawford inscribed on the title-page of & novel has come to be | regarded both in this country and across the water as a guarantee of excellence. His admit- | ted power as & writer has done much to eradi- cate or nullify that prejudice which certain critics hesitated not to express against the «“American novel.” Those who are aware of the finish- and the depth of analysis exhib- ited by the author of “The Ralstons” in much of his work will welcome the latest effort ot his pen. Itisentitlea **Adam Johnstone’s Son.” The story is a romantic one, with the scene 1aic in Italy. Unlike most of Mr. Crawlord’s other Italian stories, however, the principal characters in the work are English, and the action of the tale runs on with almost rhyth- mic smoothness. There are, too, numerous es thatare forceful and which the reader is tempted to preserve for future reference. Here is one, indicating a close study of the habits of natons: “‘There is something almost phenomenal about an Englishman’s stolid self-satisfaction when he is alone with his pipe. Every man has his own way of smoking. There is a hasty and vicious manner about the Frenchman's little cigarette of pungent black tobacco. The Italian dreams over his rat-tail cigar, The American either eats half of his Havana while he smokes the other or else he takes a frivol- | ous delight in smoking delicately and keeping the white ash whole to the end. The German surrounds himself with a cloud, snd, god-like meditates within it. There is a sacrificial air about the Asiatic’s narghileh as the thin spire rises steadily and spreads above his head. Its civilization and it is the badge of the con. queror.” We quote a singularly beautiful paragraph from an early chapter of “Adam Johnstone’s Son,” showing what a master of the art of sen- timental writing Mr. Crawford is: “Every woman knows the calendar of her own face. The lines are yeers,one for such and such a year, one for such and such an- other. The streaks are months, perhaps, or weeks, or sometimes hours, where the tear- storms have bleached the brown, the black or the gold. ‘This little wrinkle—it was so very little then!' she says. ‘It came when 1 doubted for a day., There is a shadow there, just at each temple, where the cloud passed, when my sun went out. The bright hair grew lower on my forehead. It is worn away, as though by a crown that was not of gola. There are hoilows there, near the earson each side, since that week when love was done to death before my eyes, and died— intestate—leaving his substance to be divided. among indifferent heirs. They wrangle for what he has left, but he himself 1s gone be- yond hearing or caring, and, thank God, be- yond suffering. But the marks are left.” ‘‘Adam Johnustone’s Son’” is fully up to the high standara set by the author to himself in “Casa Braccio” and “Sant’ Ilario,” and it will, ‘without doubt, be so accounted by readers of standard fiction. [New York: Macmillan & Co. Forsale by A.M. Robertson, Post street; price $1 50.] 5 THE CRIMSON SIGN. ‘A Narrative of the Adventures of Mr. Ger- vase Orme, sometime Lientenant in Mount« joy’s Regiment of Foot.” The sub-title of S. R. Keightley’s latest work shows to the reader the scope and time of the book. “The Crimson Sign" is full of action. It describes how Gervase Orme met Dorothy Carew while fightin in Treland for King William against James II. Together they were shut up in Londonderry dur- ing the siege by James’ forcos under Sarsfield. The Viscount de Laprade, Dorothy’s cousin, was made a prisoner and lived in the house with her brother Jasper. Gervase found out Jasper was a spy, but saved him for Do- rothy’s sake, with whom he was in love, al- though she was engaged to De Laprade. When the city was desperate Gervase carried the: news to the English fleet, and the ships saved the city. De Laprade found out Uorothy loved Gervase, gave her up to him and the story ends. [New York: Harper & Bros. For sale by A. M. Robertson, Post street; price $1 50.] JERRY THE DREAMER. In this novel Will Payne, the author, paints a man who dreams, whose lack of logical power makes him & prey to happily drawn, impracti- cable theories, and who torments himself with suspicions which he nurtures. Jerry Drew is this man's name, He goes to Chicago from a small country village and gradually works himself intoa good position on & newspaper. He meets Georgia House, daughter of & rich jurist. and elopes with her. After they are married Drew becomes insanely jealous of his wife’s cousin, Sidney Bane,and at the same time begins to develop socialistic theories. He drifts away from his wife, loses his job, em- barks in a socialistic newspaper scheme and fails, and finally, utterly down - hearted, he seeks out his wife egain and they are recon. clled. Jerry seems to wake up to life's reali- ties toward the end. [New York: Harper & Brothers, publishers. For sale by A. M. Robert- son; price $1 25.] CAMILLA. This is a translation from both the Danish and Swedish of Richert von Koch. The name of the translator is not given, but, whoever he may be, he has done his work well. “Camilla” is a novel of society life in Sweden and may be calculated upon to cause s sense- tion in America, considering the fact that it | deals in phases and experiences heretofore little written-of. The scene is laid in Stock- holm. The heroine, who lends her mame to the story, is a fascinating Danish girl whose views on matters doctrinal and religious startle the friends and family by whom she is surrounded. She is advanced in her ideas, but even those wno are tempted to eriticize her latitudinarianism of thought and action cannot fail to see that her heart is of gold. Certain scenes in “Camilla” are very power- fully written and appear to have lost none of the fire of the original. There is, besides this, & simplicity about the book that is charming. [New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. For sale at all bookstores.] TALES OF FANTASY AND FACTS. This is a collection of short stories from the pen of ihat clever writer, Brander Matthews, In “The Dream-Gown of the Japanese Am- bassador,” he gives an odd example of the scientific beliet of the working of the sub- consciousness, while in “The Twinkling of an Eye” a Dutch clock plays the detective most successfully. 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