The herald., 1897-04-11

tion at the end OF all his thinking seems
to have been to become an artist. With
ample means and pretty wife, he went
to Paris to study Here his daughter,
Sylvia. was born. The wife dying soon
after, Edwards came back with the child
and the art study ended. And not only
did all this happen, but on arriving home
the young man found that the family
property was lost, except what little
his friend Huntington has rescued from
the wreck. Thenceforth this friend was
all things TO Sylvia and her father He
was both friend and playmate to the
child, and was always addressed as
Uncle Dick"
When the war broke out the strangest
thing of all happened. The family had
gone to country house. One day Hun
tington went out to say that he and Ed
wards must enlist. At last the latter was
persuaded, and then and there, that Syl-
via should not be left in distress If fate
were unkind, Huntington proposed to
marry her. 1t seems to have taken but
q few words and a few minutes to ac-
complish this, and then with kiss the
husband left her. taking her father to
tHC tidih iOi POotOis "A lCW ddyS tdlcI
Sylvia was summoned by letter to go
to the city and see them march away to
the war
There Is no hating of events, but rather
a tumult of happenings. Huntington
was soon brought back, shot through the
heart, while her father was only left to
Sylvia short time having been wound
ed and fatally broken by his army ex-
perience. OF course her husbands prop
erty belonged to her, for he had married
her for this. And so, after legal battle
over the will, which resulted favora bly,
to her, Sylvia found herself handsome
young woman with large wealth. 1t did
not take long for the old nurse, who had
been with her since she was born, to
persuade her that it were best to go back
to France, where things would all be so
different from what they seemed here.
They went back and it Is at this point
that the story really begins.
We cannot follow 1t in detail, how
ever OF two brothers, rich in estate,
and of good name, who had offered
themselves to her, Sylvia chose the base
and unworthy one. But the Count de
In Roche's mother treated the young
American woman with rare courtesy
and in the fine old house the "Chate-
laine" would have been very happy, as
well as powerful, but for the conscious
ness of her husbands heartlessness and
the sense of wrong wrought to. his
brother, the gallant Captain Regneer,
who gave his life for France during the
German Franco war.
christine Rochefort." Mrs. Princes
first novel, had a similar plan, and a
palmer motif, namely, the problem of a
great strike, based upon one aspect of
French Socialism. In the present vol
ume the plot is more involved and it may
be called more ambitious venture in
fiction. But 1t is we'll sustained, and
although there are some rather weak
situations, it must be set down as a
strong book.
A PEARL OF THE REALM. A story
of the Reign of Charles I. By Anna
L. Glynn. limo, cloth, SIPS. Dod6,
Mead e. Co.
The scenes of this fine story of the
troubled events of England in the seven
teenth century are laid in Devon and
mostly cluster around the neighborhood
of Ewell and the old manor house of
Nonsuch.
1.-The earl Of Arundel perceiving a
sumptuous house called Nonsuch to have
been begun. not finished, by his MASTER
King Henry VIII, he, for the love and
honor he bare to his old master, desired
to buy the said house of Queen Mary,
for which he gave faire lands to his high
ness, and, having obtained it, he did
not leave it till he had fully finished it on
as ample and perfect sort as was intend
ed by the king; and as it is now evident
to be beholden of all strangers and others
for the honor of this realm as pearle
thereof"
Such is the record in the British mu-
scum, and out of the history connected
with the old house this story has been
constructed-and a most excellent one
it is.
LOVICE, by Mrs. Hungerford (The
Duchess). ]. B. Lippincott company.
A few weeks ago we had occasion to
speak of Mrs. Hungerford's books and
the place she would probably occupy
among the writer's of fiction in the fu-
ture, for her vast literary work has not
yet been fitly and permanently classed
Still later these columns contained full
list of her stories and review of "The
Coming of Chloe" the last volume pub
lished before the authors death.
And now we have in Lovice the last
word from the pen of The Duchess,
posthumous novel which is declared to
have been in complete manuscript form
ready for the publisher before the swift
end came.
This announcement is made for the
benefit of our readers and is not intend
ed as notice of the volume, In the or.
dinary sense. The book will be widely
read and its author charitably remem-
bered.