. Review of reviews and world's work. ist. LOVE STORIES. Manon and The Lady with the Camel-lias, though not written to instruct school children,stand acknowledged international classics ; MadameBovaryand Mademoiselle de Maupinhave alwaysastonished exacting readers by their literarj^ perfec-tion ; Lamartines graceful, tender Raphael and Zo-las poetically idealistic Page of Love deserve an evenwider circulation than they have reached. These, andseveral more love stories by eminent Frenchmen, havebeen reissued by L. C. Page & Co., of Boston, in una-bridged translation. Another Boston fir
. Review of reviews and world's work. ist. LOVE STORIES. Manon and The Lady with the Camel-lias, though not written to instruct school children,stand acknowledged international classics ; MadameBovaryand Mademoiselle de Maupinhave alwaysastonished exacting readers by their literarj^ perfec-tion ; Lamartines graceful, tender Raphael and Zo-las poetically idealistic Page of Love deserve an evenwider circulation than they have reached. These, andseveral more love stories by eminent Frenchmen, havebeen reissued by L. C. Page & Co., of Boston, in una-bridged translation. Another Boston firm, Little,Brown & Co., publishes a tale of love by sentiment halfEnglish, lialf French, half , half Romanist,called Hearts and Creeds. Present-day Quebec yieldsthe scenic background for this conflict between naturalinstinct and traditional doctrine, whereas the youngSir Galahad of New France (Turner), w^ho comes apioneer to the Mississippi wilds, is troubled by no such 758 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RE^IEIV OF REI^ •neith bovce. piohlem, but havinji cast liis eye on Caiiosra, a daujihterof the Xatcliez, weds her without h)iii^ deliberation,and takes her home to the ancestral castle. Tis notrecorded when he sent the squaw back to her reekingtepee. Two American writers of the weaker sex, Miss EllenGlasgow and Mrs. Hutchins Hapgood— Neith Bojce—depart from the common Anglo-Saxon theory (orpretense) as to sexual relations, though either choosesfor her main theme alove-affair of the popu-lar sort. One readilybelieves that men losttheir hearts to LauraWilde, she is so com-pletely charming ; tlieirradiance of Ijaurasbeautiful soul andMiss Glasgows brightachievement in liter-ary t e c h n i c causeThe Wheel of Life(Doubleday) to shineout among the novelson this seasons Ilapgoods TheEternal Spring (Fox,Duflield) also usto more than luke-warm approval. Con-scientious Clara Lang-hams f»ar of marrying because of a supposed heritageof latent lunacy was e
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