Life — August 10, 1893 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE-: intending reader that A/7ss James's penance con- sisted in the fact that, having married a man whom she did not love, she finally made the best of the situation and sailed away to Aus- tralia in company with her husband and his legitimate child. It was the discovery of the existence of t child which had led the heroine, on her wedding day, to flee unto Pari: apartment, au guatriéme, of an artist friend who was an instance of atavism, being descended h officer who had espoused a squaw in America. Aféss Anna Ross is a very much emancipated lady. She smokes cigarettes and has quite shocking sentiments on the sub- ject of love and marria The Australian flavor which has hitherto pervaded the book is, at this point, overpowered by a much stronger flavor of Paris and the Vie de Bohéme ; and if we felt up to handling the dialect of Murger and Musset with the easy familiarity of the author, we should say that Jasma med quite aw faét in the slang of the afelfers and the scandals of the Quartier Latin, Why, she thinks nothing at all of using words like voyons and brbiches and pain de gruan right along! What makes it easier for Portéa to run away from her husband, is an unpleasant habit that he has of “ appearing to be forever engaged in the action of tasting ;" and what makes it harder to go back to him, is the presence in Paris of a fascinating young English artist whose bap- tismal name one might conjecture to be Henry. did not the author invariably speak of him a: “ Harry At all events he is furnished with dark, deep-set eyes, whose “normal aspect was of those of a man who broods ;” while his complexion “ would have suggested liver to the ma- terially disposed.” Another young artist in a plum-color- ed jersey—for which he some- times substitutes a morning coat and artistically-knotted Lavalliére tie—is also in love with the fair runagate; but he is not in it with * Harry,” whose “actual bias,” it ap- pears, “ was towards the au- sterity and self-renunciation of a therapeutist.” Portza herself, when first introduced, wearing a_ tailor-made from an Engli “So YOU WERE WELL ac- Scotch tweed, and has on TED WITH MR. BANGER her head a “ patulous splash e 1 MARRIED HIM?” raerey I wit neTter OF Dlack lace, THAN YOU DID, IT Ms.” After this one rather won- AS THE BOAT 1S NARROW THEY CON! 87 A SHIFTED CARGO. ECT WITH THE BEER RY A RUBBER TUB 9.30 A. ML 3-30 P.M. ders that Zasma should scem- so much troubled about her vocabulary, After applying the word “chaste” to a china set, she queries in a parenthesis whether “ the cighte tury use of this adjective, which, according to dictiona authorities, should only be applied to a roséére or a word, may not prove “a stumbling-block to philologists of the and she says that we greatly need an English equiv- alent for d/asé. But bless her heart! the philologist of the future who can define a patulous splash, or explain why a therapeutist should be austere and self-renouncing is not going to be bothered by trifles like “chaste” and d/asé, Henry A, Beers. NEW BOOKS. VE NEVER KNOWS. By F. C. Phillips. New York: Cleveland Publishing Company. Four Centuries After. Vale Songs Illustrated. By Ben Holt. New York: The Author. Mlustrations by Donn Barber. Pen Pictures of the World's Fair. By Samuel P. Putnam. New York: The Truth Seeker Company. Nada the Lily, By H. Rider Haggard. New York: Longmans, Green and Company comicbooks.com