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is princess taken from her fathers
arms on his way to execution and saw
ed by the Importantly of the Red Axes
little son. The children come up to-
gether and are happy enough, despite
the sanguine shadow of the Red Axe
and the tower of execution, until Yso-
linde, type of Lilith, the first wife Of
Adam, with her feline love and witch
ways, lures them both off to the prince
dom of Karl the Millers Son, whose
princess Ysolinde proves TO be. Helene,
the little playmate, is decoyed back to
the Wolfburg, and comes into the pow
er of the heir Of the Duke of the Wolf
mark, whose repulsed love for her turns
into hate. Ysolinde's hate and his
combine to weave web of circum-
stantial evidence around Helene, con-
victing her of the murder, by witch
craft, of the old duke. Gottfried, dis
guised arrives on the scene only to be
recognized and forced on pain of a
worse fate for the maid, as hereditary
eAecutioner to behead with the red
axe, the woman he loves At the criti-
cal moment Ysolinde repents and other
strange things happen. And this is
but microscopic part of Mr..
Crockett's material. What has be-
come of the snap and go" that would
once have made it irresistible?
1.-The Rex Axe by s. R. Crockett. Hsrrer
G Bros, New York. $3.50. For sale by the
st. Paul Book and Stationery company.
Welsh Adventure.
A new romance by Owen Rhoscomyl.s
who is favorably known as the writer
of Welsh stories with more or less his
toric foundations, is called "The Lady
of Castell March," The days are those
WHEN wild tales of the Ooronoka stirred
Welsh blood and more bold buc-
cancers, from the same ungovernable
land, than Sir Henry Morgan sailed
the adventurous main. The hero of
the tale is a youth, red-handed from
the killing of the English judge who
had, against Welsh custom, con-
demned his father to death for muir
der. He also would seek the Ooronoka,
but stops long enough in his own land
to get himself into Infinite straits
of both war and love. The main in
terest of the story centers, not around
the staggering boy, but around the
disguised captain, who Is more honest
and heroic. not, perhaps, because CT
his natural virtues, but because cir
cumstances allow him a historian
other than himself. The author aims
to be- interesting rather than convin-
cling and fulflls we'll his intention.
The Lady of CasteH March, by Owen Rios
ccmyl, 81. Doubleday & Mcclure COMPANY,
New York. For sale by the st. Paul Book
and Stationery company.
Literary Notes.
Harper's Magazine for January is especially
valuable for long list Of articles of con-
temporary interest. Lieut. g. A. Staunton
opens the number with an account Of the
Naval Campaign Of 1898 in the West In
dies" illustrated by Carlton T. Chapman
An article by H. w. Wilson treats Of the
Naval Lessons of the War; and Prof. Al
bert Bushnell Hart contributes an Interesting
historical account Of Brother Jonathan's
Colonies Other articles of critical and his
torical nature are: 1.-THE Weakness of the
Executive Power In Democracy" by Henry
Locmis Nelson, and FIFTY Years of Francis
Joseph" by Sydney Brooks. Capt T. C. s.
Speedy, under the title "a Glimpse at Nubia,''
with illustrations by R. Cation Woodvile,
describes the life and customs of the natives
OF the Mahdfs country, and Sidney Whit
man gives us a glimpse of 1.-THE Sultan at
Home" illustrated by Harry Fem.
The January number Of the Pail Mall Mag
az1ne lnow ready contains the following
among othefa afticles and sst6fies: "The Fall
OF hnartoum." The conquest of the SoudaI
from soldiers point of view, Is the subiecf
OF paper written BY one Of Gen. Kitchener's