The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-06-27

proouceu Dy tnat process. Alfred
Brennan, the artist, has read about
"Phroso" before drawing her picture
and so far has made no mistakes.
Anthony Hopes ''Phroso" is lovelier
than the princess Of Zenda. Her eyes
are violet. her hair Is yellow and her
figure is Creek. Anthony Hope does
not exert himself when he portrays
masculine heroes. He endows them
with courage. chivalry, honor, high
birth and a love OF adventure as
matter Of course just as a painter Of
proscenium curtains gives George
Washington top-boots, bun coat and
a cooked hat. 1t is Anthony Hopes
way of making a hero. Lord Charles
Wheatley is not differentiated from the
sham king in THE Prisoner Of Zenda"
by any mental characteristics. They
are both men Of honor, brave, faithful.
and chivalrous. Only, Rudolph. the
the nose OF the line from which he
sprung by mistake. At the beginning
Of both stories they are unattached
and bored young Englishmen, ready
for anything adventurous. But "Phro-
so" is not like the princess. The prin-
cess was, is, for that matter, a lady
bound by convention and ready to let
her heart break for it. Phroso ID an
island girl isolated from the world.
She is not a princess and has not a
court except the villagers, who con-
slider the island hers and theirs with
out regard to the purchase Of it by
foreign lord. Phroso is little savage
If her lord is killed she will die with
him, see If she does not. But Anthony
Hopes forte is not the drawing of
character or hewing of wooden castles
in Spain His stories are full Of real
guns that kill people and spears that
jab clean through a man when pro-
voked; dark, underground passages
blasted from solid rock, passages that
end in a sheer descent into black
water. He tells tales that the children
Of men have liked to listen to since the
beginning, Homeric tales of brave men
and lovely women in peril of their
lives-the men fighting to the last in
Howeils would have superseded the
''Iliad." If Hamlet were not SO full Of
device. incident, action. the character
study would be enjoyed only by essay
lists and those who read them. The
children of men would bark back to
Homer and color.
Chapters From a Life" by Eliza
beth Stuart Phelps, is the story of her
own life. which has been running In
McClure's for five or six numbers.
There is a sly dig in the present in
stallment at the Andover professors Of
theology, who gave Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe a scant welcome when
she came to reside among them for
a while. Mrs. Ward does not know
why except that "Andover was a
heavily masculine place. She (And-
over) was used to eminent men and
to men who thought they were 50, or
meant to be, or were thought to be by
the ladies of their families and the
pillars of their denomination. At the
subject of eminent women the hill had
not arrived. Mrs. Stoves fame was
clearly a thing so apart from the ira
ditions and from the ideals that And
over was puzzled by it. The best Of
her good men were too feudal in their
views of women, in those days, to un-
derstand a life like Mrs. Stoves. 1t
should be remembered that We have
on, since then, so fast, and so
far, that 1t is almost as hard for us to
the perplexity with which
even instructed men used
to consider the phenomenon Of su-
perior woman, as 1t was then for such
men to understand such a woman at
all. Let us offer to them the width OF