The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-02-25

hooks has the chance TO express cor
dial approval Of any OF the popular
romances of adventure from every
point of view. Sometimes they are
good romances and poor literature; some
times they are good history. mediocre MT
erature and no romances at all; more
rarely they are good literature ana lack
ing in the other qualities which give
vogue to the adventure-story.
ITO Have and to Hold" by Morey John-
ston. more than meets all the require
ments which can be made OF such book
1t is a story OF the jamestown settle
ment, It contains from first to last no
single dull pnge. 1t IL crowded with PIC
turesaue incident and all the kinds OF
thrilling adventure that n lively imagina-
ton can devise. the characters live and
move and possess themselves OF our
affection from the first, instead or being.
as so often happens in the adventure
story, mere puppets about whom the tale
Is told. Above all. the book is delight
fully written: there Is charm and fervor
and freshness in the way II Is told. 1t
should and doubtless will, have one of
the great successes of the year.
The hero OF the tale Is one Ralph
Percy. gentleman. who in the midsum-
mer OF the year 1921 Is strongly urged by
his friend, Master John Rolfe, to betake
himself to jamestown and select a bride
from among the ship load OF damsels i'm
ported by Sir Edwin sandys as wives for
the colonists. He thinks to bring home
some rosy milkmaid. TO cook his meals
and keep HIS house, one who shall be
~ l.
turns with a naughty maiden who ac-
cepts the protection OF his name. but de-
sires TO acquit herself of that obligation
with gold. She Is fugitive from the
English court, ward of the king. who.
by changing places with her waiting
mad has sought to escape a distasteful
marriage forced upon her by her royal
guardian Her English wooer follows her.
and his arrival presages a thousand dis
asters to Master Percy and his bride.
There is--almost--a peril to page, and
their escapes are as novel as their dim
culties In the end the worthy and in
genious hero vanquishes all his enemies
and Ia possessed OF his wifes heart as
well as hand but this does not take place
until every conceivable obstacle has inter-
yened and each In turn been conquered.
The episode OF the encounter with the
pirates and Percy's command OF tho
pirate ship Is one of the most ingenious
that ever romancer contrived. and Stew
vensons self might have been glad to
achieve It. Surely one can bestow no
better praise than this on an aspirant
IN the romantic Held.
,,sro Have and TO Hold" BY Mary
Johnston. Houghton. Mifflin Co. $3.50.
For sale by Iowman 4 Hanford.
80.
THE "Annancy stories" are collection
NJ West Indian foik-tales, such as col
ored nurses repeat TO their charges IN the
islands which have suddenly come near
"a rs. The author, Miss Pamela Colman
smith. Is a young English girl now living
IN New York. whose childhood and youth
were spent on a plantation In Jamaica
and the stories which she re-tells here
arc those which were once told to her
II has already been demonstrated NY the
tales which Uncle Remus told the htue
hoy. that this Is the only satisfactory
method OF collecting folklore. for In no
other way does It retain Its charm 30
well.
wAnnancy'' Is a Rogey~man, n creature
half.Spidcr and haif-human, and the ad'
ventures OF Anuancy and Tiger" an
other DOGGY person. maNe up the greater
mar, Of the book. To most readers how
aver. tho pictures win prove more fascin-
s,inr than the text. for Mss Smith 4
more artist than writer. as her greatly
admired color prints demonstrated last
winter. Her drawing Ia naive and piquan'
saslF ls1as mott e
~, fresh impressions of child and some
times tho calculated simplicity 81 th'
tapaurse artist Whatever other qualities
q has or lacks. It never falls In Interest
NOR in the acceptable human touch which
"a much moro precious than merc tech
nical accuracy
,ters Is the tale of ne Man an y,
81 poaeh rEgs" which In its mixture
~ ahsuraity and shreNdacss recalls the
fahlss Of oriental Justice. and also con
,evs a moral as TO the treatment oi out
lawed dohtsl
I'm a before time. man WAS trabbin
from one town TO anoder, an after him
had walk an walk 10 many mile, hin
Vas very hungry An SO hlTa stop az 8
s,cok uhop an aNcd fc Someting fc eat
An Aey brought him six poaeh eggs. An
ne eat dem an nc say him don sot ans
none, TO pay 10 dem, bat would eom'
back an pay when he itnd him fortune.
SO after twelve years, de man ~a'
risln along de road. on him way back q
him own countrv--fe him had found him
forune-an' was goin' home back. fe Sc,
him fren' an relation. An as him go hS
de Cock shop. him stop an pay six penc'
"a dc egss he had eaten twelve year.
before.
An de keeper OF dc CooS-shop say. Il
was not enough. dat Il de man had not
eaten dc egss. aey would have grown %!
TO chickens. an de chickens would grow
up to hens, an de hens woul3 lay NOR,
eggs. an dey would grow to chickens an
dat dc six eggs would he worth more Oar
sixty pounds, not six peunys,
AN de man say he would not pay an,
more dan six pence. An de Cook-shol
keeper say him mus. an SO at las q,
Cook shop keeper take Go man to a,
Judge. an de Judge didn know what q
say An while dey was conversin' an %
3udse was tinkin'. little boy come in I,