The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-14

grim bulk arm-heartedness, cool
headedness and self confidence. If any
one can force events to his special pat
tern of fate, Andrew Vanse is GER
tainly the man. Besides this hearten-
ing hero, the characters include a pol
ished william, damsel in distress, a
jealous woman, and a charming boy
warrior; these, with the vengeance mo-
tiff, furnish the elements requisite for
legitimate romance. The scene is
France, the time that Of the great
Louis, and the people English and
French. The style, while not highly
polished, is suited to the rapid action
of the plot and, though the book may
not be spoken of as literature" that
need not prevent one from pronouncing
it highly entertaining.
(''The Clash Of Arms" by John Bloundelle-
Burton. Appleton's Town and Country LII
brary. Paper, so cents. For sale by the St
Paul Book and Stationery company.
Mr.. Samuel Harden Church has writ
ten romance with about the most
difficult period of the Commonwealth
for his historical basis John Marina
duke" is meant as a sequel to the au-
thor's "Oliver Cromwell, a History and
the same great character is the tower
ing genius Of this romance, John
Marmaduke, whose private affairs and
of the novel, is one of Cromwell's cap
tains. The invasion Of Ireland by the
Parliamentary army in 1649, and the
cruelties by them perpetrated, are
subjects but rarely attempted by the
CLOSING pen Of a romancer; this is a
bit of history that Mr. Church calls the
most misunderstood incident in the
Commonwealth period of English his
tory" and he justifies it by the fact
that Mays history giving an exag-
gerated description of the Irish mas
SacreS of English settlers in the plan
tatiOn of Ulster, had been in print for
two years. The Parliamentarians had
all read it with horror and had resolved
to aYenge the atrocities it narrated
yea, an eye for an eye and a tooth for
a tooth" The period itself is an inter
esting one, and the author has con-
trived to use it to advantage, the pure
ly fictitious parts of the romance add
ing to, rather than detracting from,
the general interest.
C'John Marmaduke," by Samuel Harden
Church. G. P. Putnam's Sons New York.
S1.25. For sale by st. Paul Book and Station
cry company0
"Sheilah Mcleod" Mr.. Guy Booth
by's last venture on the adventurous
main, is very much better story
than '"The Beautiful White Devil"
though it does not, perhaps, come up
to his earlier thrilling rOmances. The
bush is the scene of a murder such as
we have come to associate with that
region in past times. The young hero,
the son of a stern, mysterious person
age, is inVeigled into gambling by
fascinating individual by the name of
Whispering Pete" Losing heavily,
he is forced to mollify his questionable
friend Pete by riding his horse at the
steeplechase. The horse proves to be
a stolen racer of great Australian fame,
and a detective is on hand to arrest
the thieves. He is murdered, and Jim,
the young hero, is led to bury, secretly,
the remains. Later, Jim is about to
marry the girl that he has always
| loved, when suspicion is directed to-
ward him. the ceremony is just over
when the blow falls. The circumstan-
tial evidence is very convincing, but
the girl is always true We leave the
rest of the story untold.
('Sheilah Mcleod" by GUY Bootbby.
Frederick A. Stokes company, New York.
70 cents. For sale by E. w. Porter com
pany)
Mrs. AleXander's Barbara, Lady's
Maid and Peeress." 1t is true that
these sanguinary possibilities become
celestial blue events in the COMPOSING
hands of this popular author, who may
always, for that matter, be relied upon
to temper the wind to the shorn lambs
of her creation with even more certi-
tude than Providence itself. In the
rather lengthy title of this nice, fat
volume, Mrs. Alexander has consider
ately offered her prospective readers
an epitome Of the story. Barbara has
been raised in most humble surround
ings, though she is the legitimate
daughter of peer; she becomes lady's
maid in an attorneys family and after
wards takes her place among the no
bility with the greatest ease to her
self and with great benefit to the
world. In the meantime there are
some temptingly sensational and san
culinary possibilities willfully sacrificed
to the authors known prediction for
happy endings.
.c'Barbara. Lady's Maid and Peeress," by
Mrs. Alexander.)
''The Story of the Rhinegold" con-