The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-04-28

cnAr1Ot race on tlmlinr mOuel anu
Stephen Crane has swept the deck with
might lie led to believe they would be
like, II somebody told you SO. Lord Fleet
wood has taken his bride to the prize
fight. Janey isn't in love with the show
but she is in love with her hius band who
has been compelled to marry her because
he intimated that he would, in the midst
OF quadriile. Fleetw ood Is a brute and
the more brutal he is the more Janey
loves him, until one day he finds himself
in love with her, when she doesn't any
more: ~ learn to like everything you
do and say; and every person you like"
breathes the redeemed rascal. But Janey
only calls him "my lord. and begins to
feel her warm heart freeze up at her hus-
bands belated advances. In truth Janey
is fine bit OF character. Her father, the
old Buccaneer, ran away with her
mother while she was the wife of love-
less lord, too. And this early part of the
story is an exhiarating part. II is quick
ening enough to jounce even the Mere
dithism in 1t and make the blood tingle.
THE AMAZING MARRIAGE. BY George Mere
dith. Charles soribner's Sons. l2mo
Cloth vol. Price, $3.50 For sale by
Preston g. Rounds.
Mrs. Adam Johnstone was divorced
from Adam Johnstone and she then
married gallant fellow named Bowring,
by whom she became the mother of Clare.
Captain Bowring was killed in one OF
England's little wars, but il was not for
him that his widow mourned ell her life
so much as for Adam Johnstone, who was
still living, and had married again, be-
coming the father of Brook Johnstone.
All this incident was before the first
chapter of L. Marion Crawford's new
story, "Adam Johnstone's Son." just
nm hliahah hu ho afr
opens with Clare, young woman of
grace and Innocence, and Brook John
stone, young man OF grace and OF the
world. And Glare Bowring and Brook
Johnstone fall against one another. As
old Adam tombstone remarked to Brook
when all the story of his lie begins to
come out, when Brook and Clare are in
love and Lucy Bowring and Adam John
stone in their mature age have met again
not to plight new troth, however. for
the second Mrs. Johnstone is still living
"Such cases don't arise often" But there
is evidently no kinship or relationship
between the young people, and Adam
but i wish TO God you could marry the
girl, Brook. She's as good as her
motherl" And Brook Johnstone discov-
ers TO his Joy that he can "marry the
girl" And there you are.
A "good story?p Well, Adam John
stones Son" Is by no means another
"Casa Braccio." But IL you doubt that
ii is a good story, just read the first few
chapters and then try TO stop. or course
Crawford las set his stage in Italy, but
the actors In the drama are strictly Eng
lish, every one OF them.
ADAM JoHSsToSE's Son. BY r. Marion
Crawford. Many illustrations. hacmil-
Ian & Co. 12mo. Cloth. Price, sl.5O. For
sale by Preston AZ Rounds.
Few OF the "Women OF Colonial and
Revolutionary Times are enshrined
with more of vague sentiment in the pop
ular heart than Dolly Madison, who was
Dolly Payne, then Mrs. John Todd and
who was still ''young LADY" when she
became the wife OF James Madison, the
"great little Madison" "Father OF the
Constitution" and the fourth President
of the United States. In the words of
Mrs. Maud wffder GOODWIN, author OF
this second book in the Scribner series of
the title above quoted, Dolly Madison
"was not a great woman-nor of that
stern stuff which formed some of the
heresies OF Revolutionary and Colonial
DAYS. Her nature was like
lake, rejecting brightly whatever
image was nearest, and when one by one
all earthly Images were Withdrawn 1t lay,
tranquil to the last, rejecting Heaven.n
The book Is vastly interesting with the
domestic and social life of the early Gen.
tury reflected through the medium OF
the charming personality OF Dolly Madi-
son, delightfully."- and sympathetically
written as il is with the romantic figure
OF Dolly Madison always standing out in
bold relief against the background of pic
turesque and stirring events and inter-
esting people of the nations history.
Dolly MADISON. VOL 2 in "Women OF Col.
ouial and Revolutionary Times" Charles
Scribner's Sons. l2mo. Price, SIPS. For
sale by Preston & Rounds.
J. A. Mitchell Is the editor of Life, a
periodical that one reads weekly from the
first line to the last and longs for more.
"Amos Judd' is Mr.. Mltchell's first
novel. 1t is a love story in which boy
prince from India, is trsnsplan,ed to New
England, and his development i'm this
contrary environment is a quaint sub
ject for the kind Of n delightful study that
Editor Mitchell delights TO make. Mr..
Mitchell has written rare good story
and his style Is, OF course, clever and re-
freshing even setting aside the odd idea
which he has chosen to develop. There
is mysticism commingled with hard
"sense" and the idea is fruitful. touched
by the Mitchell wand. The volume is of
the dainty 16mo. style now so popular
for the novelette, and Amos Judd' is an
idyll.
AMOS Jupp. BY ]. A. Mitchell. l6mo. Price,
rs cents. For sale by Preston 81 Rounds.