Life — May 14, 1891 — page 8: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE: ‘* HOW 18 YOUR BURNT TAIL GETTING ON?” “OH, DON'T MENTION IT! IT's A VERY SORE POINT.” A STORY OF PROVENCE. HERE is a kind of story (which has never become domesticated in this country) in which the characters appear and reappear, and float about indefinitely in a haze of landscape painting. The author's aim is to create an artistic atmosphere for idyllic characters—the ultimate effect being similar to that made by a clever impressionist picture. If it is very well done you have a mild and gentle pleasure in reading it, and your nerves, which have been rasped by un- wsthetic things in life and letters, are soothed into reconcilia- tion with the rest of your bod: An admirable story of this kind is “ The Golden Goat” (Harper's), which has been translated from the French of Paul Aréne, by Mary J. Safford. An overworked Parisian man-of-letters goes to Provence for recreation, and to amuse himself by looking up the ancient records of the region where “so many peoples—Pheenicians, Phocians, Latins—have left the impress of their race and language.” But only the relics of the Arab occupation are of particular interest to the hero of the story. An old coral-fisherman tells him the legend of a Golden Goat which haunts the cliffs about Puget-Maure, and guards an ancient treasure. This brain and fancy, and in his search for the Golden Goat he finds a charming girl of Provence to love him, and make him happy the rest of his days. ‘That is all of it as a story—but as a picture you will carry away with you a host of impressions of quaint people and picturesque landscapes. OT Among the most important publications of the y leyrand,” with which American readers have been made familiar by Zhe Century. The Putnams have already published two volumes of the (vith Mr. Whitelaw Reid's Intro- duction), in a ve antial and fitting library dress—the paper, typography and binding all being excellent. Henry “Spain and Morocco” (Scribner's) is a collection of travel sketches by one who has been in many lands, and has kept his eyes open for color and character in ris the “ Memoirs of T: completed transla them all. When he writes of a region new to him he sees it comparatively, with all the suggestive features of other countries which he has visited as a background. This is the most entertaining kind of travel-writing—and it is the quality which prevails in ain and Morocco.” Among other notable books recently published—to which we can only allude—are L. E. Chittenden’s “ Recollections of President Lincoln” (Harper's), which gives a personal view of some critical periods in Lincoln’s administration , - "in Putnam's ad- mirablt series of “ Leaders in Science "; and a popular edition of “ The Journal of Sir Walter Scott" (Harper's). Droch. NEW BOOKS. GOLDEN GOAT. By Paul Aréne. Translated by Mary J. Saf- New York: Harper and Brothers, Bertha's Baby. By Gustave Droz. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers. Love's Cruel Enigma. ‘The Waverly Company. Twitight Echoes, By Emily Stewart Weed. Moulton. An American Snob, By R, H. Sherard, New York: W. D. Rowland. Recollections of President Lincoln and His Administration, By L. E. Chittenden, New York: Harper and Brothers. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott. From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford, New York: Harper and Brothers. Charles Darwin, His Life and Werk. By Charles Frederick Holder. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. A Field of Tares, By Clo, Graves. New York: Harper and Brothers. The Washington Cook Book, New York: G. W, Dillingham. A Wronged Wife. ingham, The Lawrence Reciter, By Edwin G. Lawrence and Professor Philip Lawrence. Philadelphia: ‘T. B. Peterson and Brothers. By Paul Bourget. New York and St. Louis: Buffalo: Charles Wells By May Agnes Fleming. New York: G, W. Dill- “SO YEZ HAS AN ORDER IV ARREST FOR Mrs, MaGumRe, AN’ YEZ PROPOSES TO TAKE ME WID YEZ, YOUNG MAN, ALLOW ME TO AX HOW YEZ INTIND GOIN’ ALONG WID ME; 1S IT IN AN AMBU- LANCE OR IN RIMNANTS?” comicbooks.com