The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-04-30

| ness of Christian prejudice, the narrow
ness begotten by 1t in the prosecuted race,
| and the barbarity of the prosecutors.
| The heroine, Henriette Cajena, is the
| daughter of Spanish Jews settled in Ger
| many. Left an orphan, she is reduced to
the condition of a street-waif and peddler
and the children of a Rhenish village, in
| furiated by her good luck in a game OF
| marbles and her refusal to return her win
i nings, fall upon her and maltreat her till
she is disfigured and nearly killed. She
| is rescued by the pastor OF the village and
taken into his household, first as a ser
want, and afterward almost as an adopted
daughter. He teaches her TO respect and
| adhere 10 her own faith, though she is
brought up In all social relations as if she
were a Christian.
This anomalous state of things causes
trouble. Jette-by this pet name she is
known 10 her friends-develops flom a
haif-starved, bony little savage of thirteen
into beautiful graceful and lovable
maiden, and the son of the house, young
doctor, falls in love with her. Wishing to
provide home for her before speaking TO
her OF love, he waits and works for some
TWO or three years, and in the meantime
Jette is seen and coveted by rich but
dissolute and unworthy young banker of
her own race, and her guardians advocate
INT ihdIIidSe Inc SlIl, HcllUS LOT come
escape from a union which is horrible to
her, allows herself TO be persuaded into a
sort of tacit consent, but finally learns of
Won Feldern's love for her and revolts
from. the lot before her in terror and dis
gust. Won Feldern in vain attempts to
persuade her to disregard the opinion of
the world and marry him, for
she is convinced that such a
marriage would be fatal to his
prospects. Finally, through an unfor-
tunate train of circumstances, she is
thrown into the power of a malevolent
village woman, who denounces her as
witch, and mob of irresponsible loafers.
led by this woman, beat the girl to death
on the very spot where she suffered ILL
treatment at their hands while yet q child
The pathos of the story is great, and
the plot Is well worked out. The chief
charm of the book is in its heroine, for
Jette is an exquisite creature full of the
innocent grace of girlhood, the warmth of
an Oriental nature. and the spontaneous
lovabie impulses of n sweet and womanly
character. Her faults are the faults OF in
experience rather than of temper, and the
development of her character from the
little barbarian of the earlier chapters to
the loving, suffering woman of the last,
is deity pictured. The pastor and his wife
are portrayed most skillfully, and the
characters of the banker, Goldman, and his
family show a thorough knowledge of the
type and much skill in depicting human
nature as it is. There is very attrac-
tive character in Won Feldern's impulsve,
passionate, kind-hearted friend the young
Magyar, Hans Won Czechy; and several OF
the minor characters are good character
sketches. The hero is perhaps the least
person in the book. His char
acter lacks definite form; 1t is too shad-
owy, too ore-sided, and altogether too
much like an embodied emotion With at
tenticn 10 this important point OF making
the hero human as well as heroic, 1t is en-
tirely possible that the author of this ro-
nance might write really great novel
along the same lines. Boston: Houghton,
Mifiiin & Co. S1.50)