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Show - h .; Si WOMAN'S-fiXEpNE- Ni. 149 vV CURRENT LITERATURE. jxs ii.. it read in the Reapers Club, - .. .... It. goes without saying that this is an szzz cf current, literature, and nikn"tw books' i4ifm W. nr. Sniriars 2nd criticisms are so profuse and Siie jaaldue-of- . cxTrlmslicapy written, ; thatne gets a Ttsjgdod idea of the book 7 itself: as judged soother's standard, without readiug it; It as iMrefore comparatively easy to know vkbsl io read, and to become familiar with V : 7 Undoubtedly the current literature of the period excels in true, merit that of other dzjs, though someftooks there be that can cnir estimation be surpassed, the. k of Mormon the Iliads the Shakespeare and Milton etc vet Oijssey. T sis a wliole with a few exceptions, we have saOTEioolcs and better, better still they reach the nases of the people, and the people atxsn y publish in serial forms the books, wards put upon the market; by this mean authors sometimes double and treble their. payments for work, and they also cprne more within the reach of the peopled do them good. ' Twill now, speak of 'a few new books which have recently created something of a furore in our own country and across the; ocean, more especially in London, and the, Athens of America. VShiDS that Pass in the NiVlit " from a beautiful quotation in, IyOjic: fellow's so by the most feminine methods; she gives in her books clear, logic, brilliant sarcasm, arguments that clinch the 'facts, and show" , , plainly the impropriety; of . women taking care of debauched husbands, from a delicate senseof duty; the terrible consequences oil bringing into the world the offspring of such marriages, the nauseous pleas, that CA.u:ie me rami ann mnnpm i t ip u'nniQn guilty of the same offense, the foolish van.. ity of society mothers, who urge. -- their innocent nnrl nnrp inv marrv daughters, v j uut fnr q wealth and position, or rank and title; she VO.iC K1 JAllZ.it UCLX1 vigorously portrays in tragic pen pictures, the extreme agony and suffering; the 'Ship? that pass in the right, and speak each hideous crimes society perpetrates even in other in passing, ; married to avoid scandal and preserve life, Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the . ue uhuai convenuon amies mat darkness; custom ana So on the ocean of life we pass and one fashionable life require. She holds up a ' speak r another, ideal standard to guide Only a look and a voice, then darkness again perfect, moral, ; humanity, shows that man mustxA can ; and a silence." bring to the marriage altar as unspotted The skeleton of the story was written at a record as he demands from the bride. an Alpine resort Tor invalids Petershoff It is the doctrine of our own church as we which furnished the characters, but was all know, though the world will not re finished in a London drawing room. ceive it from a "Mormon"- - She has cerBeatrice Harraden, the author, an tainly displayed deep and keen intuition, and has .. of the ulnar and a true realization of the corrupt condiinvalid, paralysis nerve of the right arm, and carries it in a. tion that underlies what is termed modern, sling. She lost' the use of her righthand fashionable Society. Her keen appreciation by over strain in writing and playing the of humor is also noticable in some of the violoncello. Slie has written much for scenes she depicts, but kthe dominant Blackwood's and other magazines before characteristic is her intense sympathy with this first book which has made her name the pains Of the 'world. famous, "miles and miles of stuff" she says herself 'Heavenly Twins," presents a most exalted type of perfect and d She is described as a bundle of nenres small and frail as a lily, very dark with womanhood, extremelv sensitive, married to a man eyes like a Creole, wears glasses, has short and j hair and is : unconventional in manner, and of low, moral nature, from whom the law ndt yet thirty years of age, talks rapidly, gives her no means of escape except in These two books are truly enthusiastically, with the charming accent disgrace. Studies From Life, as the author herself n d of a English' vvoman Miss was born in London , began, her has styled them. Sarah Grand is of English parentage education in Dresden, but afterwards attended the London University and passed though through her father she has ay trace in classics and mathematics with the title of French blood, on her mother's side she of Bachelor of Arts, she knows nearly all is of North 'Country Stock, and Quaker descent on both, her maternal grancttather the literary Wopte in London. Her books have.beeii escribed by. an however was mrued out of the Society Friends lecause he would hunt; the English Clergyman as tne "uoctrine ot of Despair. " Miss. Harradan is at the present writer was born in Ireland where her time in America (possible she may come father was quartered in command of a here,) she-- is now enroute to California naval station, her two brothers "true to to the family tradition went into the Royal hoping to findc health iiMhesunshine. Her latebook 'In Varying Mocds' ' is a Navy;" she says of herself that she was collection oTstories first published in brought up on Punch and the Saturday Blackwood's and other standarcf English left school at sixteen, and was' married im Magazines. Her style is morbid in my after to an officer, in the army opinion, and not altogether wholesome, mediately whom she accompanied to the East, though the meral sentiment is good, the Egypt and Ceylon, to China general tendency is not hopeful. I am not through Malta, and Japan. She has produced many short surprised that it has been , severely criticised by the clergy, and she says she stories previous to her books, in fact while receives no end of letters from people , who writing them, which are said to be perfect works of art. "Kane" the disrepre-tablsay they pray for her a nd beseech her to little t, lovable, old "Janey" r turn tack to the straight and narrow "Booinillau" the Lancashire cripple girl, path." the Chinaman,' "The Heavenly Twins" by saran orana the ineffectual, "Ah Man" is one of the most talked of and widely J,The Yellow Leaf and "Eugenia;" fiction was enread books of the present time, and has another effort in ordinary iu all these been written with a purpose, showing the titled 'Singularly Deluded," her characters are never weak, the sentimistakes made in marriage to men of immental young man or yearning female, but moral character or tendency in that directhe real heroism of human endur- - . tion, a note of warning to young women; portray better calculated to in fact the author is ambitious to arouse ance. Such booksre them to read higher exmothers to the correct view which she holds, inspire those wp and every intelligent that there should be one standard of cellence,woman i'certainljfc read with profit before might moralitT. and virtue for men and women young ldeala and the H cavenly Twins alike, and that all women should arouse marriage, Like many for her own enlightenment. from the apathy which makes mem surSarah Grand feels she has a , render to the existing . conditions of other women to deliver. ,. modern society, but she wishes them to do special message - . ' r A A . "1" 4 1 '.,.' ' . . is-hers- Ilzgarines abound in almost all known newspapers crrries,inand the meadows are as thick as cvTTiZips (so to speak) for cz2y recently a lady of my acquaintance, oc- czpjsd a whole afternoon in a club, telling ca ccjj the newspapers and journals, edited, w5j5u3y..ca-5part by women in the United Speskinjr of American Magazines, the has perhaps the largest cjrcula- N txjzi. 2X the present time, of ant solid s22Lg22se and is decidedly progressive; and i2 jL&dics journal larger still, tircgii it is of a lighter character dealing Ctim-ppolila- n ' Tibs Popular Science Monthly The en 2nd Harper's, maintain a strong hold catHs side tne water, and , deal with such and moral subjects as are Essay scientific rrssi2ii xo eep tne wona moving, Ktrli, American Review and the Forum; sen cp the political and general questions f tHs and other countries giving every tie opinions of the greatest leaders ryrfr 2nd ststssrnen of our time, on almost every zj i-q- sdeet of interest. ' Q - . Eclectic , LifiSincolis, The rj JftChtre'f, Littells Living Age, The IfpulHy and New England Magazine hrM thr own, the last two more especially 7 Astern people who are somewhat ' Atlan-S- z cccssxrative; and we have three very popular' newer magazines that are widelj' cfrrzlaied; perhaps because they contain hrk notices of all current matters, and nrws rf tbe day. There are the Review, ejMziZFS1l Current Literature, and The the. last named deals with the great liinil questions, and problems that are world, and particularly zgZzizzg ssodbgieal matters, progressive nd radical reforms. We have only tnlioned the most important works of t2s Hs4 nor scarcely those, scores and dsssss jet remain junmentioned helping to educational, scientific, commercial, fersfkc&iring and agricultural methods 2nd psrsnits, and to mold the religious and sxzl raws of the world of mankind. all the Befepsthe most pernicious areof those of reviews of the day th? Iostic writers;, who believe nothing exsejt ushL can b clearly demonstrated E2nislically or scientifically. fr.2sy of the magazines and newspapers -- " well-rounde- . light-hearte- d, pure-soule- d r Har-rada- well-bre- ; , Scrzbne move-snsntss- t -- e, 4 soldier-servan- ' . -- - 5 |