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BAYOU TRISTE—A STORY OF
LOUISIANA —by Josephine Hamilton
Nichols. Illustrated. Price, $1.50.
Publishers, A. S. Barnes & Co., New
York. For sale in Raleigh by Alfred
Williams & Co.
Miss Nichols has written a charming
Southern story in which is portrayed the
pleasant relations that subsist in many
homes in the South between the negroes
and the white people. As the years pass,
while there is no abatement of amicable
relations between the race§ in the South,
there is less and less of that knowledge
and peculiar good feeling that exis'ed
in slavery or upon the great plantations.
Miss Nichols has portrayed the old tiihe
relationship with the fidelity possible
only to one who has been in touch with
life on the Louisiana plantation. She un
derstands the negro dialect and renders
it perfectly. The book, charming and
delightful, as a picture of the South, has
a deep interest in the well told love story
for which the picture of old conditions
is an admirable setting.
Eminent critics have said that the re
viewer who gives the plot or the end of
a love story ought not to be tolerated.
Therefore we leave to thfc reader the
pleasure of reading, each for himself or
herself, the unfolding of tpe charming
story which Miss Nichols has written. It
will entertain and delight all who are
so fortunate as to follow it through the
skilful telling.
Bayou Triste will have more than or
dinary interest to the readers of this
paper from the fact that its author is a
sister of Mrs. J. R. Young, wife of State
Insurance V’cmmissioner Young, oi B.il
eigh.
COMFORTING WORDS FOR SOR
ROWING MOTHERS, compiled by
Gertrude Benedict Curtis. Price uO
cents. Publishers: Fleming H. Revell
Company, Chicago.
The compiler of this little book is well
remembered in Raleigh. She is the
daughter-in-law of Rev. A. W. Curtis,
and with her husband spent last winter
in this city. She lost both her children
in Japan, her own health was shattered,
and she had to return to America to re
gain her health. She prepared the book,
out of her own nebd of comfort, for sor
rowing mothers. Some of the poems art,
her own, others are poems and extracts
from “hearts that have passed through
the furnace of trial and bereavement and
are thus made able to comfort those who
are in any affliction.” One of the best
poems is by Mrs. Curtis. It is:
“I entered once a school-room filled with
noise,
Os thrice a score of happy girls and
boys:
One face so passing lovely seemed to me
It stamped itself upon my memory.
But when I went again it was not there,
Instead, I saw a little empty chair.
The teacher in my face the question read,
“Promoted to room above,” she said.
“Within my home there stands an
empty chair,
The child it held is now no longer there;
The dimpled hands and face I used to
kiss,
The clinging arms, the fond embrace, I
miss.
No voice I hear, from morn till night in
play,
No little footseps in my home all day.
The child I love is gone—but oh, not j
dead
“Promoted to the room above” instead!
FAVORITE NOVELS OF NOVELISTS
(From Tit-Bits.)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is generous and
candid enough to declare that he finds al- {
most as much pleasure in reading a good !
novel as in writing one; and his taste |
lies chiefly in the direction of fiction of i
past generations, “If you ask me to
name the novel which in my opinion is
without a rival,” he says, “ I should j
without hesitation say ‘The Cloister and j
the Hearth,’ a story which, long as it is, !
has genius on every page of it. The |
second page I should award to Scott, his
‘lvanhoe’ for choice; and among, recent !
works of fiction Barrie's books have
given me most pleasure.”
Os the last generation of story-writers i
there was perhaps no better critic than
James Payn, who divided his allegiance
equally between Soott, LAckens, and
Thackeray. “To my mind Ivannoe,’ ” he
once said, ‘‘is the greatest novel in our
language and the oneMhat will live the
longest; but it has a formidable rival in
‘Vanity Fair,’ and perhaps in ‘David
Copperileld,’ and “Martin Chuzzlewit.’ ” !
The late Sir Walter Besant always
found a fresh charm in “Lorna Doone,” j
which he considered quite the best novel
of his time. He had also a great admir
ation for Hardy's “Toss of the D'Urber
villes” and Meredith s “Richard Fever- j
el”; Indeed, with the single exception of j
Lorna Doone,” Sir Walter, like so many j
excellent judges, held that Meredith is !
head and shoulders greater than any oth
er recent writer of fiction.
Mr. Meredith, however, while admiring
Sir Walter Resant’s books, awards the
palm among his rivals to Thomas
Hardy, many of whose books, such as
“Far from the Madding Crowd,” and
“Under the Greenwood Tree,” he finds
unfailingly delightful. t)f the giants
who are gone he holds Scott, Thackeray
and Dickons unapproachable.
Mr. G. A. Henty, the author of so
many charming stories for young and !
old, admits that among all the books of j
modern writers that have given him |
pleasure he is most indebted to "Lorna
Doone.” Mr. Rider Haggard, among liv
ing writers, admires none more than
Mr. Stanley Weyman, whose “Gentlc
«man of France” he considers a master
piece of fiction. He is also a great ad
mirer of Conan Doyle, and considers that
that clever and popular story-teller has
never written anything to equal "The
White Company,” a verdict which Sir
Arthur himself indorses.
Miss Marie Corelli confesses a liking
for Marion Crawford's Italian stories.
She places the author of ‘‘Doctor Clau
dius” at the head of present-day story
tellers; but her. real heroes in fiction are
George Eliot and Charlotte Bronte, Scott
and Dickens.
Edna Lyali has a similar affection for
Dickens, whose '“David Copperfield” she
knows from cover to cover. Scott's novels
she loves, especially “Rob Roy"; and
among the other books which hold a high
place in her regard are “Silas Mainer,”
‘‘Esmond,” and Mrs. GasKell's “Cran
ford."
Mr. Christie Murray he has spent
his happiest reading hours with Charles
Reads’s Cloister and the Hearth;” but
in very close rivalry he places “David
Copperfield” and '‘lvanhoe,” while he
pleads guilty to an affection for “Tom
Jones.” Mr. George Gissing’s favorite
authors are Charlotte Bronte, Meredith
and Thomas Hardy, in the order named;
and of all their works he loves best “Vil
lette,” “Richard Feverel,” and “The Re
turn of the Native”; and the late Mr. R.
L. Stevenaon, whose taste in fiction was
as indisputable as his gift of writing it,
placed Scott at the head of his favorite
novelists, with “Guy Mannering,” “Red
Gauntlet” and “Rob Roy” as his best
stories, and of later works of fiction he
had the highest opinion of Thackeray’s
“Esmond” and George Meredith's “Rich
ard Feverel.”
The Literary Outlook.
(BY HERBERT BREWSTER.)
The manuscript of a part of General
De Wet’s history of the Boer war, reach
ed this country only the other day, and
it is now being considered for publica
tion in book form here. It is understood
that Archibald Constable & Co. have se
cured the entire rights for England and
America, and the arrangements which are
new being entered into in this country
are, of course, being made w’ith them.
Those who have had a look at the manu
script speak very highly of it. However,
the sale of the book in this country will
necessarily be much more limited than
in England. Dr. Doyle's most excellent
histyry of the Boer war did not have a
sale here, though it must be
admitted that Dr. Doyle’s attitude fav
ored the English, and probably the ma
jority of American readers would in
cline rather to the version of the Boer
side, such as that of General De Wet’s.
Krueger's .memoirs will be published
not only in this country and England,
but in almost every country in Europe.
Contracts were made only a few days ago
for Norwegian and Danish translations
of his work. No recent work of any kind
has attracted so much attention as these
recollections, and they probably deserve
all that has been given them. The edi
tions in all countries will be out in two
weeks.
Miss Mary Johnston evidently does not
believe that the day of historical novels
is over, and we are not at all sure that
it is for such as write like Miss Johnston.
“Sir Mortimer” is the title of her next
story, which is to run serially through
one of the magazines before it makes its
public apearance between book covers.
All that is told of the story at the pres
ent time is that the period in which the
action of the plot, takes place is that of
Queen Elizabeth. The heroine is a lady
in-waiting at the Court and the hero is a
young officer in Sir John Ncvil’s fleet.
Miss Johnston spends most of her time
in her Virginia home. She writes slowly
and the typewriter comes in for the great
burden of her composition. She has re
cently directed the dramatization of her
story "Audrey” which has just opened
in New York City.
The following story by E. C. Gilmore
is an interesting addition to what has
been said and written about Hall Caine’s
having first introduced the Pope into a
play, in his version of “The Eternal
City.”
“All this poppycock talk about The
Eternal City being the first play that
has ever contained a characterization of
a Pope of Rome is amusing to me. I
have good reasons for knowing that it is
nothing of the sort. Away back in the
middle '7os, when I was managing Ni
blo's garden, we had one of those ex- j
perienees which L am not likely ever to j
forget. Dion Boucicault, then at the ]
height of his fame, had just finished his |
famous run in ‘The Shaughraun.’ He
wrote a new play which, although I
won’t be positive of, however, the pope
was the principal Character in the play,
and Boucicault played the role himself. !
At the first performance, although the
play met with little popularity, there
was no hostile demonstration. But the
next morning the newspapers opened fire
on us with a unanimity which was awe
inspiring. The second night the house
was packed, and in all my experience I
have never witnessed such a scone of
pandemonium. In spite of the fact that
he Avas the popular idol of the day,
Boucicault was literally hissed off the
stage. But the actor was game and in
sisted upon giving another performance.
It Avas our third and last for that night ;
the audience almost tore the seats out.
and then I stepped in. and, wishing to
protect my furniture as well as my star,
insisted upon an immediate change of
bill. To his dying day Dion Boucicault
never forgot that experience.”
Mrs. Mary Stewart Cutting has done a
notable series of stories in her “Little
Stories of Married Life,” recently pub
lished and has, by the success which the
tales liaA'c made, placed herself in the
position which she has both striven for
and feared for years. “It is so hard to
strike ten twice,’ she explains. One docs
not need to be told that Mrs. Cutting
has been through all the suburban ex
periences and has lived the married life
with which the hook deals. Five of her
six children are living; her husband died
nine years ago, and since then she' has
been trying to write the stories Avhieh
she says she was always making up to
herself. Before her marriage, she wrote
a few poems which appeared in Lippin*
cott’s Magazine signed Mary Stewart.
Later on she wrote a number of children’s
stories for a small church paper.
“Writing for children,” says Mrs. Cut
ting, “I found an excellent education,
as one is obliged to be clear and con
cise. But it was about seven years ago
that I begun to turn my attention se
riously toward Avriting. It was slow and
discouraging. By dint of hard work I
got one or two stories accepted by dif
ferent leading magazines and papers. Try
as hard as I might I could never get two
articles accepted and sent, and sent and
wrote, always expecting a refusal and
with fresh determination to succeed each
time all manuscripts came back to me.
About three years ago I wrote “Their
Second Marriage” Avhieh was published in
one of the magazines. Before long I
found this was giving me a reputation
and since then I have Avritten only
stories of married people.
“I do not write a story quickly. I
THE NEWS AND OBSERVER, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1002
have to dive into it —and I can never
write any outside of it beforehand. I
ha\ T e the climax in mind from the very
first and that is always clear to me if
nothing else is. The people I write about
become entirely real to me. Once I
wrote a murder and detective story, and
never wanted to again—it was so horrid
to live with such dreadful people.”
Mrs. Cutting has, in fact, made her
reputation in a practically new field—
she has begun her stories Avhere other
writers leave off. Marriage is a very
general experience and the married peo
ple live with as much energy and ac
tivity as bachelors and maids, or the
boys and girls, yet in fiction they gener
ally cease to be once the marriage cere
mony is performed. The stories in the
present collection seem to reveal the
very heart of domesticity, but, in every
instance it is the married life that one
likes to think is truly representative,
the married life Avhose problems and
trials are only to be solved by the abid
ing affections of the contracting parties.
The book leaves a very pleasing sense
of satisfaction with the reador.
“The recent book which comes to mind
in this connection —perhaps because of
contrast, is R. V. Risley s “The Life of
a Woman.” The latter story—a long
one—treats of married life in the su
burbs, but it is rather a psychological
study of the woman than an exposition
of married life itself. As a sample the
following attack of the wife’s friend on
the husband is given:
“J>o you mean to tell me.” she ha
rangued him, “that you prefer this mean,
dishonest, gossiping, stupid, infinitely
commonplace country suburb, full of
fools, to the city—any city—where men
and women live instead of female asses
and masculine pumpkin heads? Good
God! I’d rather live in a slum than in a
place like this, Avhere the tOAvn lives
to cheat you and the fools in the resi
dence districts live because they are
country mad! Do you know what effect
this sore of thing has on the mind of
even an ambitious woman? Look around
you—some of these poor provincialized
vegetables might have been women —wo-
mch with women’s life, and vivacity, and
gayety, and charm, and helpfulness, and
beauty. What are they now? They are
out of touch with life, so prematurely
aged and yet so immature that they
Avould be burdens to any city man I
know.
“If their husbands Averen’t half mad
Avith the ‘country,’ and as dull as a
computing automaton, they would feel
it, too! But you can see the effect even
on the men, the effect of being provin
cialized. Are the old residents here like
city men? Have you ever stood in the
Grand Central depot and watched the su
burbanites come in? Have you seen the
difference between the men and women
of the suburbs and those of the city? I
don’t say it is not all right for the aver
age, the typical, for the great mass of
people who make up what they call the
‘public;’ but for a woman like Barbara,
who is not ordinary, who is not medi
ocre, it’s madness and God’s own Avaste.”
Coupled Avith interest in Dickens’ works
has always remained an interest in his
manner of life. As a result new facts
are constantly coming to light. Martin
Harvey, the English actor who increased
his fafne tremendously in presenting
"The Only Way,” and who is now in this
country, recently added some valuable
Dickensiana.
“It is not generally knoAvn that Dick
ens Avas an excellent actor. He Avould
often appear in the characters he had
created in his books, and called for the
highest praise from his contemporaries.
Since I have been performing his Sydney
Carton in ’The Only Way’ I haA’o been
brought into close association and friend
ship Avith the Dickens family and natur
ally have learned many interesting inci
dents and facts about the great novelist
which, I believe, are not generally
known.
“It was while Dickens Avas playing oc
casionally in ’The Frozen Deep’—a dra
matization of Wilkie Collins’ Avork—that
the idea first came to him of making
‘A Tale of Two Cities, into play. For he
always considered this his finest work.
“But nothing Avas over done in the
matter by Dickens, and, though other
dramas have been written on the sub
ject, it remained for Freeman Will’s
Avork to become popular. Henry Dick
ens, son of the novelist and a well
known English lawyer, has often told me
how much he wishes that his father had
seen this performance of his favorite
character.
“Tlie great success of ‘The Only Way’
in England suddenly brought the sale of
‘A Tale of Two Cities’ to a considerable
item, and the publishers have told me
they could follow the provincial tours
around England by their books of sales.
“Miss Dickens, granddaughter of
Charles Dickens, has essayed the part
of Sydney Carton in private theatricals,
and I have a treasured photograph of her
on my mantelpiece in the character. So,
too, Gen. Ibtden-Powell can lay claim to
having performed it, for that officer,
during the siege of Mafcking, was for
ever entertaining his garrison, and it is
said the versatile general gave a fine ptr
formance of Carton.’
Among the congratulatory letters ,
President Wilson received on his inaug
uration as president of Princeton uni
versity was one from Laurence Hutton,
the well-known author of “Literary
Landmarks,” addressed to “Professor
Woodrow Wilson, Library Place—with
a better place in Prospect.” The street
in which President Wilson lives is called
Library Place, some distance from the
official residence of the university
presidents, an ancient stone mansion
situated in .the university grounds,
known as “Prospect.”
S. Weir Mitchell, in spite of his 72
years, is still actively at work along
many lines. A new essay, “Heroism in
Every-day Life,” will appear next
month.
THE HISTORICAL NOVELIST.
Writing to the editor of Leslie’s
Monthly apropos of a story for that ma
gazine, Emerson Hougli pays his com
pliments to the historical no\'elist. “It’s
a phrase I resent,” he says, “and the
much-abused term was unknown Avhen
I began “The Mississippi Bubble., Besides
my book is history, not the jingle jangle
of twenty-four hours' sword play, the
history of an epoch which passes up the
great valley of Truth, as do the iron
threads today along the valley of the
great Father of Waters. I began the
book really Avhen, as a child, I came on a
ropy of Henry Hoavc’s once-famou£
Avork. ‘Historical Collections of tin*
Great West,’ and before I had finished
V
Avith it I simply read that volume of? the
face of the earth, for our old hoiustead
now contains no trace of it-”
THE DECEMBER SMART SET.
The Smart Set for December opens
Avith “Winning Him Back,” by Anita
Yivanti Charters, in which the author
has achieved that most difficult of liter
ary tasks, a story in which true humor
is sustained from the first page to the
last, Avithout any interval of dulness.
The plot is as simple as it is ingenious
and distinctive, while the characters are
sketched Avith consummate skill, so that
their eA'ery Avord and action are con
vincingly human. The rare merit of this
story deserves highest praise.
WROTE A BOOK WHILE WAITING
FOR HIS WIFE.
Madame de Genlis, in a Avork on
“Time,” tells us that the famous Chan
cellor D’Aguesseau, observing that his
wife always delayed ten or twel\ T e min
utes before she came down to dinner,
and, reluctant to lose so much time daily,
began the composition of a work Avhieh
he prosecuted only while thus kept wait
ing. At the end of fifteen years, a book in
three quarto volumes was completed,
Avhieh ran through thrqe editions, and
Avas held in high repute. Madame de
Genlis profited by this example. Having
to wait at the dinner hour in the Palai3
Royal for Madame de Chartres, who was
always fifteen or twenty minutes late,
she utilized the time by copying a se
lection of pooms from eminent authors.
It is told of a German critic that he
could repeat the entire “Iliad” of Homer
with scarcely an error. Hoav many years,
think you, did he spend in depositing the
immortal epic in his brain? Years ho
had not to spare, cr months, or weeks,
or even entire days, for he was a physi
cian in the full tide of practice; but he
contrived to store in his memory the
twenty-four books of the old beard of
“Scio’s rocky isle” in the brief, dis
connected snatches of time Avhile hur
rying from one patient to another. Dr.
Mason Good, a celebrated English phy
sician, performed a similar feat, hav
ing contrived to translate the whole of
Lucretius during his long walks in Lon
don to visit his patients.—William
Matthews, in December “Success.”
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