The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-06-10
NEW BOOKS.
Brief Reviews of Important aud Interest,"
ing New Public cations.

Brief Reviews of Important aud Interest,"
ing New Publications.
The story Lock and Key" by James NJ.
Galloway tG. W. Dillingham; Company Is in its
second edition. but VIC have mover seen 1t be-
fore 1t Ia very curious story. We do not
think We should like to live In Metropolis. the
great communist city that John Harvey built
under the shadow Of Pixies Peak There is a
diagram OF II on page p. 1t is dreadtully
right-nnglcd city. John Harvey was an up
right man. four-square to every wind. Plainly
he modelled his city strictly upon his own
character. We doubt If there was round
thing or n curlycue in it, We believe that the
trees were square. and II there were any
merry go.rounds in Neuropolis we are cohi-
dent that they wCro square also. Some may
think that 1t was q neglect ~ opportunity NOT
TO have anything round in the place.
The Neuropolitans themselves were per-
fcctly satisfied and happy. In the summer
evenings they used to go through the square
streets to the square squares and Sit there
with the utmost enjoyment. In times OF po-
ltica excitement they gathered around the
great Administration building. which was 600
feet square and situated centrally in Admins
tration Square. This square building was
white as snow and was adorned with carving
and statuary in the simplest and yet most ex-
qusite taste. and was grand In general effect
and beautiful in detail beyond description"
rose from all the corners OF the eight city
squares and supported flower gardens.
In the bowels OF the Administration building
n strong room contained the treasure in gold
wrung by John Harvey as ransom for the
English cities OF London and Liverpool. 1t
represented E1O0.OOO.OOO. and was in minted
money and in massive vases contributed by
patriotic duchcsses. Surely this was not too
much OF n ransom for the rich cities in qucs-
I,br IIar hav mi lal IN
don into dust and blown Liverpool as far as
the kyles OF Butte. He was wonderful man.
He did destroy the British Navy. He did IL
with his white yacht Abaross. which was
decorated with gold and silver and looked az
beautiful and peaceful as a turtle dove.
1t was a bad day for the bluff and confident
British Admiral in Yokohama harbor when he
ordered his flagship. the Vulcan. to throw Q
12-pound shot across the bows of the Albatross.
which was about to run out The Aibatross
waggled bit. in deliberate way. pushed up
a 14-foot snow-white tower astcrn. quite mys-
tcriously, and discharged a bolt. the compost
tion of which is not known. but the color OF
which was red. blue and green. The Vul-
can. ilrst-class battleship. was ripped
asunder as the sole OF q shoe Is ripped
from the upper. The Admiral was a good
one. as they say in the navy. He was aston
ishcd. Of course. but he ordered all his 12-inch
guns to open on the snow-white yacht. They
opened How they did 1t Is a wonder. for 200
of the crew had been laid low by the red. blue
and green bolt. They peppered tho Albatross
with 1.OOO-pound projectilcs. which shed them
as though they had been homeopathic pills.
One proJecte glanced into Yokohama. killing
a number Of innocent japanese.
After sinking the whole Asatic fleet John
Harvey proceeded to the English Channel.
where he destroyed the rest OF the British
navy without difficulty and in about four
hours. Whether he widened the Channel.
knocking Off Dover and Calais, is not declared,
but his thrce-colored explosive was terrible.
and we should not wonder IL both France and
England lost considerable territory on that
fateful day.
John Harvey married q sister OF the King OF
Spain. ana his daughter is the heroine of this
story In our opinion she is moro beautiful
| than the Administration building or the cle-
waited metallic flower gardens in the Metropolis
public squares. though that is a good deal of
praise to bestOw upon anybody. She had an
order to 90 into the treasury. where the rich
British spells were preserved. whenever she
pleased. OF course she never took anything,
She held also the KEY to her fathers tomb.
which was most extraordinary place 1t was
down eighty steps. and an organ played and
choir sang when persons went in and stood on
certain tiles. There was catafalque Of the
heaviest ana hardest metal in the world mot
known to our present science). and the founder
OF Metropolis lay on it in his stock ing feet
Does the reader think that we are induging in
| n pleasantly? Hear passage from the story
itself;
1t the figure of tho dead, . tall powerful man,
the hair and eyebrows perfect end ha night tho
eyes closed; the hands crossed naturally on tho
chest the feet shooless bat stocknged stretched at
full length upon his back tho black catasal1ue,
Tho hands, limbs and every outline were perfect;