The Overland Monthly Volume 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...'The Captain of the Janizaries. A story of the times of Scanderbeg and the fall of Constantinople. By James Jl. Ludlow. New York: Funk &. Wagualls. 1887. -Drones' Honey. By Sophie May. Boston: I.ec & Shepard. 1S87. For sale in San Francisco by Samuel Carton it Co. the other not; the friendship existing between such women (rarer, but no less possible than the like magnanimous relation between men): these are the main figures, and the main topic; for the young man whom love leads to abjure "drones' honey" and become a worker in the world, is rather a figure-head, though an appropriate and effective one. Narransauc, the Maine village, is delightfully sketched. The DeviFs Hat,1 The Blind Brother? Cashel Byron's Profession,3 7 to 12 and The Jesuit's Ring, ' do not call for much notice. The DeviFs Hat is a story of the Pennsylvania oil regions, overflowing with local color; indeed, the story--which is slight enough, but told with intelligence and good-breeding, and quite out of the ordinary line in plot--seems used chiefly as an excuse for descriptions of oil-mining, like the descriptive serials of travel or so forth in the magazines. The title does not indicate any Satanic legend in the story; the "Devil's Hat " was only the name given to a hat-shaped hill, in which the hero of the story sunk his oil well. The BlindBrother is also a Pennsylvania story--this time of coal-mining, strikes, and Molly Maguires. It is rather a boys' story than a novel, and is of fair merit in that capacity, but no more. Cashel Byron's Profession is one of the Harpers' English reprints, and an uncommonly disagreeable story, in which the heroine, who is the very'flower of high civilization, marries deliberately a prizefighter--and the author approves her ...