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By WILLIAM J. LOCKE. Children of Circumstance. By IOTA, author of “ A Yellow Aster." Sold by all Booksellers. Sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, by the Publishers, D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 72 Fifth Ave., New York. 1995 The Literary News In winter you may reade them, ad ignem, by the fireside; and in summer, ad umbram, under some shadie tree; and therewith pass away the tedious howres. FEBRUARY, 1895. VOL. XVI. The Land of the Sun. WE close this book uncertain whether to review it as fiction or as a record of travel. Suppose we try it first as a novel. In that case we cannot say that it is an unmixed success. HAI LA VIGA CANAL. The plot is of the simplest, and of the unexpected there is not a trace. . . . But there is another and a far more successful side. As a record of what is to be seen in Mexico it is not only very interesting, but it is told in a charmingly picturesque way. The author sets out with the determination to admire everything she sees, and to write lovingly of the people, and she carries out her determination unflinchingly. She say that she sees everything through rose-colored glasses, but imperfectly expresses her unmeasured admiration. We can recall no such undiscriminating enthusiasm in late books of travel, and Mrs. Tiernan's statements-pleasant reading though they make-would have greater weight if they showed a more judicial spirit. There is nothing statistical in her fervor and she does not No. 2 descend to the level of figures to justify herself in the eyes of Philistines, but she writes lovingly and as one thoroughly saturated with an admiration for all things Mexican. Did we say all things? We must make a single exception-her dislike of the government occasionally shows itself and in bitter words, but it is not too much to say that her views of Mexican politics are unlikely to meet with the assent of the majority of her American readers. The defeat of Maximilian has passed into history as an example of retributive justice, and no mere sentimental regret for his fate and that of Carlotta is likely to reverse the judgment the world has passed upon his attempt to found a throne in an American republic. But the book is a delightful one if we decline to look upon it as a novel and exclude the few political allusions, for she describes Mexico in such glowing colors that it makes one long to see it as she saw it. The illustrations are a score of good half-tones. (Appleton. $1.75.)-Public Opinion. Harvard College by an Oxonian. HARVARD men will be interested to hear what so distinguished an Oxonian as Dr. Hill has to say of the University by the Charles, although his book is meant, of course, primarily for the instruction of those who have never seen Harvard. Dr. Hill spent several months in Cambridge, and he writes, not from the confused impressions of a chance traveller, but out of an ample fund of knowledge. Indeed, his comprehension of the peculiar merits, as well as the peculiar faults of Harvard, is remarkably subtile and acute. He gives a brief but entertaining account of its origin, history, and growth, from which his English readers will be able to correct some of the false impressions which have gained ground about our institutions of learning. He compares it most intelligently with Oxford, and points out, with scrupulous fairness, where it is superior to the older university as well as where it is inferior. The praise he bestows will make the hearts of Harvard men glow with pride; and they will have to acknowledge, with regret, that the unfavorable criticisms are equally well deserved. In fact, Dr. Hill's book is an unconscious witness to the desirability of the changes proposed by the late Frank Bolles, secretary to the University-changes which, we understand, President Eliot in his infinite wisdom does not altogether approve. One or two small errors of fact in the volume might be cited were it worth while. For example, it is hard to believe that the function of "afternoon tea is unknown in Cambridge. (Macmillan. $2.25.)-Providence Sunday Journal. At the Gate of Samaria. ANOTHER of the army of emancipated women, a hater of conventional formulas, a restless seeker after the mysteries of life, appears in the heroine of "At the Gate of Samaria," by W. J. Locke. While still young, Clytie Davenant wearied of her English country home, "Durdleham, with its soullessness, its stagnation, its prim formulas." She had artistic tastes, and yielded to the temptation to smuggle condemned books into the house and to read them surreptitiously. It was not unnatural that such a type of the young, fearless womanhood of the day should acquire the habit of holding her head back, with the chin pointing upward, free of the throat, for the attitude emphasizes the girl's determination to solve the "riddle of life" in her own way. It was just as natural, too, that at last she should break the chains which bound her to Durdleham and seek freedom from its stiff conventionalities in the art life of London. Her fate was the usual one which men seem prone to inflict upon the emancipated woman in fiction. If she had not met Hammerdike, who appealed to the romantic and imaginative side of her nature, but who was at heart an utterly worthless fellow, of abundant physical prowess, but devoid alike of moral courage and of character, a less dramatic, not to say tragic, result might have attended the girl's attempt to solve the mystery of life. Her experience was indeed sad and bitter, both as a wife and as a mother. The story is told with ease and fluency. The name on the title cannot conceal the sex of the author. (Appleton. $1; pap., 50 c.)-The Tribune. |