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REVIEWS.
Bright Showe By KELEY SNOWDEN.
London: Stanley Paul & C.
A Regular Macht. By Ace Watson Fax.
London: Macmillan & Co.
The uthures of this charming romance has a long peligree of novels to her credit. and throughout A Regular Madam dio. displays the skill and boneraft of a The essence of this well-written story is experienced writer. The period she chooses ontained in the "Rationale" which forms is that of King George, when England and its closing chapter. It is nothing more or France were struggling for mastery in less than a plea for free-love-the story of Canada. Lady Barbara Bardone is the only prodigal father. The author says it is daughter of the Earl of Banchester. Fur intended for grown men and women, but
her father brings a a child may read it; and it hus, in fact, hven
stepmother upon the scene, and Lady Thai serialised in a family newspaper."
Barbara's resentment leads to her laring sent may he so but it is somewhat highly
to a young ladies' sebrol in Gloucestershire. Bavoured meat to set before bales and Her brother Godfrey, Folloring a disagree- sucklings. It may be true, as the author
ment with his father, has joined Fraser's maintains. that the ses impulse is
Highlanders And gone to Canada, At the immarnt: hit the nee wertain pluses of seminary, Lady Barbara meets Angèle, the the sex impulse which are apt to least aughter of French-Canadinu nobleman, Idegeneracy and profligues, and we would be and when Angele is summoned buck tu
sorry to believe that such an
not
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no apparens TORSON,
French
Ja picturesque į
skilful writer as Keighley Showden worlder. Barara escapes from the scaminosy wish to advocate a state of society in which accompanies Angèle on
ship-of-the-line to Canada. wen and womens, ofter all these ventaries of surroundings, the remainder of the story upward tendency, after centuries of culture.
passes quickly Trini meident to incident, and and moral training, should became
the stirring episode of Wolfe's capture of indiscriminate and as incontinent as the One is clerely worked into the suny. animls of the field. Surely, humanity has n higher destiny than that. We say nothing
**
A Regulus Madam" is more a woman's that a man's book, and our readers will
of the story itself beyond that it is well-fat it interesting to compare the life lived written. So it is, with some strong chara by the young lady of the Georgian period ter drawing: but it is its touching me with that of the young miss of milam of than the manner in which it is told with the present day,
Mr. Snowden
ANDREW
P. HAGGAI London: Stanley Paul & Co.
D.S.O
romance in
England and François 1. reigned in France, when Da Prat and Wolsey were rival knights of the rival armies met in further rivalry on the Field of the Cluth of Gold. Interest in the histories movel is unt yet. dend, nor is it likely to die so long as the life of a byegano age, is so attractively pourtrayed as it is in these glowing pages. The clash of nems sounds real; the mode of speech is realistic, if somewhat inflated to the modern car; the repartee is keen and favoured with a defunct gallantry; and the hvement and ineident are such as only a saldier could wake them who wields his pen Tu tross as cleverly as he does his swarid. who has a respite from the deal monotony of modern commerce this dip into the
refreshing. story of a romantic age will prove most.
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Love Affairs of the Cants of Europe. By
TODENTON H、 F.S.A.. barrister-at- law. illust suited. "Lomtan: T. Werner!
Laurie, tel.
which we are post ennevrned. writes: "I put love highest among the] concerns al life., Love is now put lowest: The Bamauan of Bagari. "By Lieut.C'ni, being commonly uidered, if not as au instinct sinful while unblest (this view of it is going somewhat uit of fashion), at least
The famous Seigneur de Bayard has as n thing to be ashamed of, an aberration." á weak mood, and in every case the chief figured before now in the pages of rominee, danger of society." We do not agree with as doubtless he will gain when we of thei this statement of the east." It sechs to present age are happily dead and forgotten. that there is some confusion here between With mich skill, Colonel Haggard has
right-seeded in building up a lofe and passion. Amongst migst thinking persons since the world' began; love, ¦ which annst of the characters are taken from true love the adoring, alluring force which history, when Heuer VII, was King of has irresistably draws man to woman and woman to suau, has stirred the highest in pulses and awakened the noblest and most benign emotions, nad ver men and women to the highest pitch of self-sacritice. But men and women do not always live on the hull-tops of identised love. And, though bonds may gall there who have too lightly entered the trimonial state in their yes some of immaturity and inexperience. safeguards 406 still needed to protect society from disintegration. We have no desire, Jarover, to misrepresent the suchor, and we therefore, close this notice with the Following quotation from his “Rationale"? :... "The narriage system as we know it, with its minoral unions of envenience, the snoblery or the fear of want that them, and the spirit in which it is bolstered up by force intolerance and despite, must he transmutel. -In its place we should have a system of free contract. in which the bond, would he love and love only. Marriage would be a sacrament lart no trap. To iny mind it is inconceivable that a society 10
A may be imagined from its title. this enaditioned should be harsh towards my
wal passion not self-indulgent and anti-volume contains some spicy narrative, but social. Seeing that marriage might be it is by no means so mifensive as one might It is not exefly the kind of back contrected easily chut not lightly, hg- | éspout.
one would introduce into a young Indies pothesis, and that even this true bond is not imperishable for all matings, public marais boarding-bool, gei Mr. Uail skínas over thin would deum td that adultery should no longer ice with a delicaty we eubner but admice. Love, must haveer. to change the metaphor, he uses his brush be the price of divores. the liberty it takes with us. On the other to paint the failings of errant hernines and no excise for a too, amurous heroes with a light touch and hand, there would be
nester descends to coarseness or erriesture. pornoerncy, and no me for one.
In the histories of Catherine of Russia, of as Herbert Spencer foresers, the socialistic sante be inevitable, it is time we revised |↑ tin Empress Josephine, af Princess Caroline our servis. The liberty of heart for which of Brunswick qriño at George IV). and I plend is to be vindiated in the interest many others there is no need to resort to It is they and the sandal for material for hook-making. Their of women and mothers. children who have the first elini te con-conduct was as open as it was Eagrant. their sideration, my this matter tonen aus were coucheted, so to speak, in the appen. They post our morals. I do light of day, with a biking and--hamulossa. not believe they will ever abuse a rational news which, we are glad to say, would not liberty of the kind. I do not think that. he tolerated by any self-respessing people s their emancipation proceeds. they will to-day. Not that men are any less human stop short of it. If socialismo rame in such to-day than they were a century age or a for as to limit er embarrass this liberty.women less fair or frail, but there is at it must be modified er fail; and so far as least a higher code of public morality which eugenics may lead to prohibitions and prevents that rating of vice which was more common, in the days of our great- regressions instead of to a wiser willing con
There was a time when most sints of duct, eugenics will fail also: This is the grandfathers. rosport in which the social order weighs upon of the Courts of Europe were womanhood must like a foreign yoke. any iniquity; nowadays, there is true domesticity and galling. The sex laws are their conver, in royal rimles, and not only are most of our What has woman duae that her attraction n-igning montrels and their consorts above should have been blamed throughout the eproach hut their consider is such as to lurve nges, and herself made finally ashamed of healthy influence upon their courtiers and it? She, for whines an Fastorn fable devised their subjects through all the varying grades this yake of a rynical morality, has been the that make up, a nation. To those who like To follow the bypaths of history. Mr. Hall's painful mother of us all. I do not know anything of humanity more humiliating than volume will not as an efficient and entertain- the fact that we have heliered so widely, ing guide, but we fear it will not enharce und entertained so long, so lase a notion; oir admiration for royaltion as such. it comes suticwhat as a buck to read soine of nor anything were hopeful than the revolt against it, with all that revolt's high turn-Ford Mahnesbury's first impression
n and mislirection."
Paul-Enedin, By Sir WILLIAM MONAY. Bart. London: Stanley Paul & Co.
Sir Willion Magnny has done tasting better than Paul Burdm." This is a stOPY with a plot. though plots seem to be some what old-fashioned in the modern weel. It is well-conceiral, and i worked out in erhil with cuslerable skill, the interest heing sustained down to the last page. Pant Burdon. when the story opens, is unsticvestul · Farmer, heavily in debt and with no apparent escape from his monetary difficulties, A fraudulent young hunker seeks shelter at the farm, and hides in a disused vault in the adjacent ruins of an old churchyard. The tottering walls are struck by lightning the banker is buried in the reins, and his bag of gold egables Burdon to readjust his financial position and to Blossom aut as a spreulative hilder to whom town of belongs the best part of the Danesford. His son joins the army, and I wins the roveted V.C.. his two daughters hecorar engaged to young members of the wobility: and Burden and his wife are received into the most exclusive Families of the county, At the zenith of his prosperity, an old creditor, suspected of the murder of the young banker, returns from America, zud, envious of Burdon's success, heggins a campaign to encompass his ruin. There are ome violent scenes and dramatic encounters, but the would-be blackmailer fails in his schemes, and after Burdon passes through a purgatory of misery he emerges success- fully from all his tribulations. The love, interest is not absent from the story. and come of the rainor characters are drawn with considerable skill.
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