The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-11-16
NEW BOOKS.

THE LADY OF CAwNPoRE. BY Frank Vincent
and Albert Edmund Lancaster. New York,
London and Toronto: Funk & Wagnalls
Company.
pore" may expect to find a remarkably strange
and satisfying romance. The scenes are laid
in New York and Benares, thus alternating be-
tween extreme modernity and excessive an
tiquity. The hero is a young clergyman, Mar
maduke Allan, who is betrothed TO one of his
parshioners, young girl of birth and pos ition.
His religious faith is crushed by the combined
efforts OF occultism, agnosticism, and pam
theism, and he loses his fancee
Beatrice Orme, through the tactics of
DR.. Ellington (his fathers executor),
who desires her for his son. Frustrated by this
double blow, which has compelled him, for Bea-
trees sake, to appear before her in a contempti-
BILE light, from which he cannot redeem himself,
he forsakes the pulpit and goes to Benares,
where he is Instantly plunged into sensuous
and dreamy atmosphere, in which rajahs, baya-
deres, fakirs and occultists combine to surround
him with volnptuousness and mystery. His most
thrilling experience, in this antique city is his
association with Adwe, an exquisite baysdere,
who accidentally discovers erucifx in his
dwelling-place, and from that moment evinces
a vital interest in the Christian religion, which
perces the Utmost recesses OF the apostate's
heart. But ali this time secret influence Is at
work in Benares, the tendency OF which would
and its ties, did he not feel himself irrevocaby
bound to the enhancing Orient. What that in-
huence is; whether or not IL has any necessary
relation to the strange personality who figures
as the Lady of Cawnpore; what the circum-
stances were that successfully aided old Dr.
Ellington in his malign msnipulations; and
whether the audacious hero, whose brilliant in-
telect is kiuded with passionate feeling re-
covers the love that he SACRIFICED and the Gre
ator he forsook, II Is the function of this most
absorbing romance to disclose.
The SHADOW OF SHAME. BY Austyn Granville
Chicago: Charles h. Sersei & Co.
A powerful novel, most ingeuiously con-
structed ana sustaining the Interest until the
last page is reached. There is mystery of a
very novel character kept up with great clever
ness, aud the claim set up in advance by the
AUTHORS friends for IT are fully justified. His
Style is closely allied to that of Rndyasd Kip
ling, though. IL has greater polish and dis plays
profouuder knowledge OF affairs. the scenes
OF this, his laest work, are laid in the American.
colony IN Paris, and with the French anu German
armies during the memorable siege of ls7telST.
The salient features of the story gathered
largely from within the authors own personal
know ledge. The heroic behavior OF Julie dc
Aarguerites before Metz aud during the bic
siege of ctrasourg fnds It's actual counterpart
IN the romantic career OF a near relative of the
author, Miss Pauline Granville, young En-
war, equipped and led into battle the first con.
tlngent OF the famous Red Cross society for the
suceor OF sick and wounded soldiers Miss
dTanyii c WAS personally decorated by Prince
Frederick Charles with the order of the Iron
Cross, an honor which was subsequently, con-
ierred upon Miss Florence Nightingale
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