The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-24
NEW NOVELS.

Pharos, the Egyptian. By Guy Booth
by. Appleton s. Co.
Ingenious, exciting and absorbing as
Mr.. Boothby always is. he has fairly
outdone himself in this curious min
Cling of the mysterious and the pro-
| safe the ancient and the modern, in
this romance. Pharos, who is a hard
ened old wretch of Iimitless wealth and
malicious propensities, gets the hero,
! Cyril Forester, under his influence,
| hypnotizes him, inoculates him with the
virus of the ancient Egyptian plague,
then brings him back to Europe from
the Pyramids. Pharos, in fact, is
none other than that Pharoah who
| hardened his heart against the chill
| dren of Israel and would not let them
go. He is really three thousand years
old, and when, having murdered count
| less innocent people and led his beau
tiful ward, Valerie, a dogs life, he n
nally dies, it is to shrivel up into the
mummy he was before. Forester and
| Valerie, the old man out Of the way
| live happy ever after
Fortunes My Foe. By John Bloun-
| delle-Burton. Appleton & Co.
| Mr.. Bloundelle-B Burton has proved his
ability to interest his readers so often
| that it is sufficient merely to announce
| this new romance, the plot of which
! is laid in London in the middle Of the
| 18th century, when England was at war
with Spain and France. The hero is
naval officer the heroine is born on
shipboard during the battle of Car
tagena. The slave trade with the colo
MES plays a prominent part in the
story, which has for it's background
deception, worldly ambition and re-
venge, and is replete with incident.
The Fight for Dominion: A Romance
of Our First War With Spain. By Gay
Parker. Herrick & Co.. New York.
Had the Senorita Dolores not been
! beautiful and had Horton not been an
Englishman and in love with her, Eng
land and Spain might have died fight
ing for the ownership of the North
American continent and this tale not
been written. Yet, war and the life
of English colonists in Georgia and
| Florida, the opposition of Saxon and
Latin, is the fabric of the story, which
| is picturesque and romantic and leaves
a glow of gratitude in the heart of the
| American reader that the former
triumphed At this moment it seems
odd that there should ever have been
a question which should dominate the
continent THE Fight For Dominion"
is Illustrated
| The Kingdom of Hate By IT. GaIJon.
| Appleton & CO.
| This admirable story ought to extend
| the authors reputation, for romantic
| imagination and dramatic quality il
almost equals The Prisoner of Zenda. -
l 1t is as full of vivid scenes and stirring,
| surprises as nut is of meat, and to the
| plot is added a bright, engaging style.
| Inc princess Viviana has been left heir
| to the throne of Labyrinthia, on condi-
J att
| moner Being a child at the death of
| her father her uncle, Count Chaillaoia,
| is appointed her guardian. He seeks
! to mount the throne himself, stopping
| at nothing in the way of force to ac-
! complish his end. For this reason he
| hires bankrupt Frenchman to marry
the princess, but by a strange sequence
| OF events, the hero, Bernard Aubanel.
! becomes her husband instead 1t would
be impossible, even were it desirable to
| recount the complications into which
| this state of affairs leads the charac-
! tiers. Suffice it that the romance is cap>
ital of its kind.
"The Lion and the Unicorn Bv
Richard Harding Davis. Scribner's
pSons. For sale by Putnam, Davis & Co.
There are five stories in this collec-
ton, the first that Mr. Davis has pub
llshed in over three years. All are cap
| italy told, although the title story
seems the weakest and least character
| istic of the group. A young American
playwright in London is in love with
young woman who thinks her miniature
painting more important to her than any
mans devotion. She is convinced of
the error of her ways through the me-
dunn of another girl, an actress, who
shows her, partly consciously and part
| ly unconsciously, that she really does
care very much for the playwright and
| that she is in danger of losing him for
ever."On the fever ship is a fearful
story of the sufferings of young officer
| who is being brought back from Cuba
to this country on a transport. He
manages to live to reach New York,
| where he is met by his sweetheart It
| is realistic and heroic 1.-THE man with
one talent contrasts finely the enthu-
siasm of an American civil engineer for
Cuba and the weak subserviency of a
| politician to the Wall street money pow
er. THE vagrant" is love story of
the MINDLESS islands, involving an Eng
| fish governor a fair American girl and
her lover. In 1.-THE last ride together
Mr.. Davis gives the Impressions of one
of the Jameson riders of the day of
their trial and Imprisonment in Hollo-
Iway. Mr.. Davis book will be welcomed
by his admirers, whose name is legion.
The illustrations of H. C. Christy add
| to it's charm