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which he began to lisp his mothers S
name" that is, that power which in in
fancy was able ito exercise the dlVine
heritage of choice between evil ana
i, good"
The narrator of this story was dwell
er amongst these simple folk, and looked
on with wonder while the genius from d
| peasant stockholm out of his TIME
1 grew to be a scholar so far above all the
| rest about him. And then there was Ill :
tie Ulrica, the wonderful daughter or
| Marae Brun, whose life, like that OF
Hans, promised a career all unlike any
| thing ever known among these hills. The
two grew up together and loved each
other. But Ulrca's gift was song, rar-
| er one than her boy playmates. AS her
| powers grew so did her fame, and at
length lured her away to study and ap-
pear before the great world of which
| she and her people had known nothing
one is strongly reminded of other fair
| haired singers who came from this far
north. The lives of Hans and Ulrica
| were so closely interviewer as children
that it seemed a dreadful thing to sep
arate even for a season. THE two had
| entered life together. and none could
| tell what was to happen. But the good
| God knew"
Of the parting the locker -on-for the
| author writes as a simple chronicler of
| incidents and not as story teller-says:
That night Hans laid his heart open
| before me-a child's heart. simple and
true. but throbbing with a mans love
| He told me of what passed that Sunday
night between him and Ulrica. at least
all that he could tell-how they had
broken his ring, and how part hung
round his neck and the other round hers.
over her heart. l tried to comfort him,
to assure him that she would prove faith
full to her pledge: but though he said
- i
be the case. She will forget me, he said
sadly. not because she wishes to. but
because | shall fade away andl become
so small to her out in the big world
And Hans was right. Fame had lured
U1rica away. and she never came back
in time. But she did come, and then she
hated God because Hans had not been
saved to her. Fame is oft the forget
fulness of love- and no disappointment
nor suffering can bring back the simple
happiness that is once gone.
1t is story of curious and pathetic
interest, told with charming grace.
THE CAVALIERS. by S. R. Keightley,
author of The Crimson Sign. etc
Harper Bros. For sale by Stoll G.
Thayer.
This is a very handsome volume, al
most an exact duplicate of the make
up of The Exploits of Brigadier Gerard,
and is appropriately illustrated. Emer-
son declares that the Englishman, of
all men he had ever seen, stands firmeSt
in his shoes. II was a wise saying, and
the story here told is still another con-
frnation of the rare pluck and staying
power of the British boy who has been
well bred.
1t is the story of an English youth,
with good blood in his veins, and who
had been taught to believe and live in
the faith of his father, whom the son
describes as "a gallant, God-fearing
gentleman, who stood by church and
king-a religion that was plain, whole
some and sound every day in the week"
The boy, thus started in life, easily
became spirited man. who could fight
stoutly for any cause he espoused. AS
was once said of an old partisan fighter,
"all the conventional English virtues
We're packed into him." 1t is story of
| adventures wild and various, having
| a foundation in the history of the time,
and reminds one very vividly of the
| work Stanley Weyman has done SO well.
1t is a volume fully as lively in incl
| dent as A Gentleman of France, and
deeper and sturdier in tone, while the
| literary workmanship is excellent.
THE VANISHED EMPEROR, by Per-
cy Andreae; Rand, McNally & Co.,
Chicago.
The plot of this intricate and rather
bold story is based upon the curious dis
appearance of the emperor of Germany
at recent date 1t has for its sugges
ton, if not support, a small basis of
historical fact. For a certain emperor
''once on a time was forced into brief
exile and not few grave troubles came
of it, as we'll as almost no end of social
and political gossip. In this case. how
ever, the vanishing consisted in the
monarcfs mysterious departure to car
ry out A secret marriage contract.
1t is an ingenious story, but has not
much likeness to Anthony Hopes great
| invention in The Prisoner of Zenda, for
somehow this monarch does not become
| invested with a great amount of interest
or consequence.
There are no vitalized central figures
in the mind of the reader, and therefore
| the whole narrative is devoid of the
| power to enthrall. One feels, all the
time that it is a rather fine conception,
and still it drags in places and is loaded
rather heavily with complications, unre-
| lleved by any situations absolutely thrill
ing or really humorous.
1t is an attractive volume and abund-
antly worth reading, and yet it is not
| one that makes a vivid impression or
leaves behind an enduring remem-
brance of it. The literary quality is only
| moderate.
| EMBARRASSMEN By Henry
James. Macmillan Co, New York.
| This fine, large volume-a model OF
| bookmaking, as the text is a model OF
| correct and finished English-contains
| The Figure in the Carpet, Glasses, The
Next Time, and The Way it Came. AL
| of these the magazine reader has had
| opportunity to see. and no doubt they
have been quite generally read by ad-
mirers of Mr. James. OF his place in the
! literary world there is not much uncer-
| tainty. He is not popular author. His
style is correct and it does one real good
| to turn to him once in while; but it is
| essentially cold and not a little trying
| One who has time-and patience-car
read Mr.. James with pleasure and pro-
| fit, but we confess to feeling that he
takes the heart out of things, and otter
created literature only to consign it tc
| cold storage.
| CHECKED THROUGH; MISSING
| TRUNK NO. 1850. BY Richarc
Henry Savage, author of My Official
Wife etc. Rand; McNally & Co.
Chicago.
This is a handsome, paper covered
novel of the regular publications of this
enterprising publishing house, and is full
| of sharply varying phases of plot and