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‘BOOK REVIEWS
From an Unbiased Viewpoint.
By A. E. RAM SA UR.
“The Struggle” is a nice book of 324 pages, bound in cloth boards and
well prepared mechanically, in the creation of which A. Wessels & Co., of
New York City, and Sidney C. Tapp, of Atlanta, Georgia, are joint accom
plices, the former as publishers, the latter as author. The plot is laid in
the United States, germinating at Rocktite, Tenn, and branching into Wall
Street—something like a four-leaf clover in form, but not so lucky. The
name of the book is an appropriate one, but does not apply to the book itself
so much as to the reading of it.
After an unnecessary stay at Lexington, where due attention is paid
to Henry Clay—also unnecessary, as Clay cannot appreciate it now—the
reader is “whirled along” to Rocktite, Tenn., where the trouble really begins.
The expression “whirled on” is used nine times in making a trip of two
hundred miles. But what if we do make a whirling dervish look like a white
chip, a great end is accomplished. We reach Rocktite, Tenn., where is the
home of Colonel John Shelton. In the yard of the homes are vines “en
twined around” oaks, and a broad farm “recedes back” from the house.
The Sheltons have four beautiful daughters. They grow up into the four
heroines of the book—preserving the four-leaf clover scheme.
Enter Thomas Kinston and John Winston, classmates at Yale, the sons
respectively of wealthy planters in Louisiana and Alabama. They meet two
of the Shelton girls, and in two chapters woo and marry them. At the wed
ding Mr. King, of New York, and Alex Wilson, a neighbor of the Sheltons, fall
in love with the other remaining daughters. Wilson, in particular, is in a sad
state of affection. These are some of his symptoms: “In his room all alone he
could see, in his mind’s eye, her long queenly auburn hair adjusted over her
head and falling down here and there over her neck, . . . and her plump and
beautiful form, for she stood five feet and seven inches and weighed one hun
dred and forty-five pounds. And as he sat there alone in his room thinking over
his thoughts, his heart went out for her—he desired her—he longed for her.
Rest he could not, sleep he could not—her vivacious, living animated form
■was ever in his mind’s eye.” His mind’s eye must have been on the blink
with all that in it. He couldn’t stand this, so the next evening he called
on her. “She was dressed and ready to receive him. Her queenly, solid
and compact form wore a white silk dress with the usual evening parlor trail,
with short sleeves and low neck. Carefully adjusted was the bunch of roses
resting at the proper place. Her heavy suit of auburn hair seemed to hang
a little loose here and there.” They were seated and talked awhile. “All
the time he was moving by degrees a little nearer her, and she, conscious of
his touch, was quietly leaning from him.” This is the culmination of the
scene, and Wilson went home, with an engagement to call the next Sunday
evening.
The author and reader are present while Grace is completing her toilet
to receive Wilson on that evening. On this occasion, “arranging her golden
hair and low-necked dress and placing the flowers at the proper place.”
Everything at its proper place, she meets young Wilson in the parlor, and
they sit on a lounge near the open window, through which great streams of
moonlight are pouring. After some unimportant remarks, young Wilson tells
her how he admires her beautiful golden auburn locks, and touches her hand.
This is his first touch. After a few seemingly desultory remarks, he still
holding her hand, “then, squeezing her hand tighter and placing his other
hand firmly against her forehead and her golden locks, said, “I declare I
hate to leave you.” She said nothing, and he looked into her face again and
said, ‘I declare, I hate to leave.’ ” And, reader, he did actually leave, with
out, so far as we know, taking away that hand placed so firmly against her
head, or closing that beautiful face he had opened to look into. But no
harm resulted, for on Tuesday evening next he is back to see her. Soon
they are engaged.
In the next chapter Summer arrives. Mrs. Shelton, Grace and her sister
go to the Springs, and there Morris Slogan, son of Pont Slogan, multi-mil
lionaire banker and broker of New York, meets Grace and falls in love with
her. John King comes back into the story to be with Ruth. Grace was true
to Wilson, and soo after the girls returned to Rocktite there is a double
wedding—the Shelton girls and Wilson and King. Rocktite was enough to
drive any woman to early matrimony.
Now we have a fair start, the four heroes married to the four heroines,
everything ship-shape, so that we can give our attention to the Wall Street
branch of the foliated plot; for we must now, dear reader, mingle with the
bulls and bears of The Street.
Here in the very haunts of Corporate Interests and in the lair of the
Trust Octopus we mingle for a few chapters, while all the workings of high
and corrupt finance are laid bare. It is terrible, the way they do; and
through their machinations the finances of the country get into such shape
that the planting industries of the South begin to fail.
Chapter Seventeen takes up the troubles and misfortunes of our original
characters. Colonel Shelton having realized what a crowd of people the
author has on his hands, dies quietly of heart disease. Mrs. Shelton, ani
mated by the same obliging spirit, goes to join the Colonel. This in the first
of Chapter Seventeen.
The characters now remaining are very much detrop, and the author is
forced to remove them, even if they are inconvenienced thereby. Kinston,
who has been reduced to poverty by the Wall Street people, commits suicide
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