Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1891 — A New Aristocracy. [ARTICLE]

A New Aristocracy.

The latest novel to create a genuine sensation among the scholarly critics is j “Birch Arnold’s” “A New Aristocracy." A lady, under the above nom de plume, is the author. It relates to the sqcialindustrial’*question, and prophesies tho j future upbuilding of a new aristocracy, which shall be that of tho heart and brain—tho heart to feel for the miseries of our fellow-men, and the brain to wisely plan for their relief. The author will hear of no other sort of Christianity, and denies our right to amusement while fellow-creatures are doomed by poverty to a life of toil and suffering. Apart from the sweetness and devotion of its spirit, this book is an excellently told story. Tho Chicago Herald says: “This is a novel with a purpose, and it may be a very great novel despite what certain critics may say. Through every chapter of certain novels by Dickens and Thackeray, a purpose gleams; and. too, by means of them some very serious evils in law and society wore overthrown and the world made happier and better.” Bartlett Publishing Company, New York and Detroit.