Evening star., 1898-10-14
NEW SERIAL BY :. X. CROCKETT.
An Announcement of Unusual Inter
est To Star Readers.

VIII appear III ine Satufu0N STAR TINS week
The serial will run through eighteen mum
bers of the Saturday Star and bids fair to
prove the most popular pisce of fiction this
famous writer has yet produced. 1t bears
| the title. The Black Douglas 1t is re-
| Earded by all who have read the man.
uscript as the best romance since The
Raiders" Here is what Mr. Crockett says
of it himself:
1t is the story which | have been think
ihg of and arranging in my mind for the
| past ten years The fall of the great house
| Of Douglas constituted the one romance of
ny boyhood. Their castle of Thrieve
stands on an island in the midst of the
river Dee, and TO this day its great walls.
over seventy feet figh defy the storms Of
| Galloway. the backbone of the story is
| the elimination of the great family in the
| person of William Douglas who as boy
| of twenty-one held all Scotland south Of
the Tay in the hollow of his hand. who
coined money at lis own mint. and rode
abroad with more than regal train. Ger
tain local heroes, famous in the annals Of
the country. also come into the story The
nCst popular of these are Brawny Kim
| the historical Samson of Scotland and his
two sons, who will be useful in getting hero
| and heroine out of their difficulties
Il may say that this final tragedy of the
| Doug.as is the most popular of Gallowa aye
| tales. SURPRISING even the one which have
| all eady told in the pages of The Raiders"
The time of this new Crockett story is
the middle of the fifteenth century, the
| historic period of Scottish literature 1t is
! not a dialect story.
| MIR. Crocketts earlier stories won the
praise of Robert Louis Stevenson, who said
| of them: They are drowned in Scotland
| They affect me like a visit home" Crockett
| has been called the successor of Steven
| son, but The Black Douglas" entities him
| also to be known as the successor of Scott
Another attractive feature of tomorrow S
Star will be article from the pen of
Louis De Rougemont, the story of whose
| remarkable adventures among the can
nibal tribes of interior Australia is the
talk of all Europe
This first instaIlment of the story Of
Louis De Rougemont takes up his life
from lis landing in the Australian MAIN
| land in company with party of blacks.
1t includes description of a cannibai
| least and the remarkable capture of a
couple of whales Also fight with alliga-
tors, and an account of some of the curious
customs of the natives and of their wonder
ment at some of De Rougemont's perform
| ances
| Nam Sephny's Quest is the title of
short story which will also appear in the
Saturday Star. II is pathetic tale OF a
negro mammy's search for her son, who
had been sold away from her in the old
| slavery days; how the quest succeeded
through the aid of young northerner, and
| how he was indirectly indebted to Nam
Sephny in winning a beautiful southern
girl.
| Amorg host of other articles the fol-
| lowing deserve especial mention:
! CHILEAN BACK WOODS. GilustratedD
Frank Carpenter writes from Conception
an interesting letter telling how south
ern Chile is beii opened up 10 settle
| ment.
| FOR AND AGAINST. QllustratedD
| The Dreyfus affair has aroused Paris 20 a
great pitch of excitement This letter
from Sterling Heilig tells how the peo-
| pie generally look upon the matter
| WHITE FOR AUTUMN. QEustratedD
Paris fashion letter from Felix, who
says that this is the color now in most
demand for all .orts of stylish gowns
| FOUR ACRES ENOUGH. Qllustrated)
| The story of a hard-working Chinaman.
who is making money as a truck
gardener on little patch of ground
| near this city.
| LACK OF DRY DOCKS. Unustrated)
Showing how far the United States is be-
hind other countries in the matter Of
equipment for the repair of its ships
NEW YORK FASHIONS. Qllustrated.)
| The weekly letter from The Stars reg
ular correspondent tells to what an ex-
tent golf affects the styles this fall.
| SMOOTH SHARPERS.
Expert gamblers who ply their trade on
transatlantic steamers and finI plenty
OF rich geese to pluck
DEATH LISTS IN WAR
Ratio of men who died from wounds and
disease during the great civil strife BY
! Leslie j. Perry.
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