The chemist’s dainty daughter draws the old dreamer out of his laboratory and the young dreamer out of his yacht, the one as neatly as the other.
There is a factory in the story, with a hard-headed business man for a manager and a gentleman for owner. There is a community of working men; their lives and feelings and interests, also their schemes and plans. A minister; two of them, one a woman; one to society, one to the working people. A strike, a mob, a murder, a settlement.
The manufacturer wins, and so do the workmen. So does the chemist’s daughter, as indeed she deserves.
Gladys.
A Romance. By Mary G. Darling. 12mo, $1.25.
A story of love—the ever-new old story. The bright and beautiful daughter of a fond old man who has nothing to do but delight in her pleasure, and watch her numerous lovers, spends her first summer after school-days at Bar Harbor. Too good and true to be spoiled by pursuit, she, nevertheless, but slowly learns to distinguish conjugal love. Her fortune takes her more or less blindly through the school of experience—a school that tempers not its exactions.
There are interesting stories within the larger story, and interesting fragments of other lives than the two. We part from several of the personages unwillingly.
After School Days.
By Christina Goodwin. 12mo, cloth, 1.00.
A tale: quite a new sort of history. School-days over, four girl friends return to their homes and life begins. As often happens, life is not as they picture it. What it is for the four and how they severally meet it—that is the story.