The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-10-27

h NeAt pNISOiisiSCo NllO LSa ulC III ii~
 Head of Hundred" as well as in To
 Have and to Hold" are John Pory,
 John Rolfe and George Thorp. "The
 climax of the story" says l.. F. A.
 Maulsby, in the New York Times ''is
 the same in both books, the bloody h.
 dian uprising of the period in which
 both heroes distinguish themselves" /"
 '''The Head of a Hundred,'" the wri-
 ter continues, "has much less slaughter
 and bloodshed, is less complicated in plot, and Is told in fewer pages, but 1t l seems, at least to one reader, that it's
 similarity to TO Have and To Hold is 1 worth noticing" The book has since it's first publication found thousands of
 delighted readers The New York Mail | and Express says in its notice of the book: "It is, altogether, an admirable
 work of fiction, worthy of resurrection | from the semi-oblivion into which 1t had fallen; worthy also, of the atten- 1 ton of readers in search of good fiction, which is at the same time historically
 reliable and of good literary quality | "Sigurd Eckdals Bride, Romance 1 of the Far North" by Richard Voss, translated by F. E. Schoonover; Little, | Brown & Co.,, Boston. 12mo $1,5O A | powerful and brilliant novel with an at 1 mosphere almost as Arctic as Nansen's
 memoirs, and with a strong dramatic | interest. The scene is laid in Scandina- via, and the winters among the snow | drifts and the icy atmosphere of the
 mountain solitudes are described with
 remarkable skill. Sigurd Eckdal and | his friend start together on an Arctic | expedition in search of the North Pole and met with startling adventures, and the story ends with very dramatic | climax Messrs. Little, Brown & Co
 make a speciality of the publishing of transations of Scandinavian novels,
 the discovery of Selma Lagerlof by American readers being due to their
 enterprise in this field
 "Keea, the Surf Rider" a Romance
 of Pagan Hawaii, by Alexander Steven son Twombly; with ilustrations; New York: Fords, Howard X Hubert; 400
 pp.; cloth, $150, Here we have an ex- cursion into a virgin field for romantic fiction in this romance of Pagan Ha-
 waii. As the title indicates, the story
 is laid in a time before the white mans
 advent into these islands. In form and
 effect the tale is imaginative fiction,
 with all it's variety of interesting char
 acter and exciting event, yet every
 page bears witness that the author has
 studied the underlying facts of locality,
 custom, modes of thought and express
 sion and depicted them with the allur-
 ing coIors of life The loveliness of na-
 ture in these isles fascnates all trav- elers who visit them, and in this book it
 is described with no unskilful hand;
 but the real interest of the volume is in
 it's human story. It is tale of adven-
 turous daring and the transforming
 power of an unselfsh love. It is to the full as exciting as the recent reVivals of chivalric European romance of hun- dreds of years ago, while it offers the freshness of new regions and unfamil- far actors. In outward appearance the book is very attractive, with flashing surf and flying sea-birds, while the H. lustrations are from picturesque pho tographs of localities mentioned in the story. It is a veritable romance, rich in color, stirring with the passion of life and gallant deeds, admirable in charac- ter-painting, tender in sentiment, in- teresting with wealth of curious and unfamiliar lore.
 "The Weird Orient" by Henry Ilio- wzi, author of Tn the Pale" etc, | 12mo. cloth, $1.50 Henry T. Coates & Co.,, Philadelphia. These legends, in- stinct with the mysticism of the east, were gathered by MT. IlioWizi during a lengthy residence in Tetuan, Morocco. | They are largely from Arabic and Per- sian sources through a certain Yakoub | Malek a Parsee from Bombay of | whom Mr Iliowizi gives a picturesque i account in his introductory pages-and | now for the first time accessible in any | modern language. The literature of | the east has always certain fascination | for the practical western mind and it's tales and legends furnish a never fail- | ing source of intellectual pleasure. | What we do not always realize, howev- CT, is the mystical meaning-the curi- | ous philosophy, so different in many points from ours-that underlies and is often symbolized by what superficially is merely the play of fantastic imagina- ton expressed In glowing words and i gorgeous imagery. This underlying vein of mystical philosophy of Oriental | literature will be found in all the tales collected under the title of "The Weird | OIlSllt, WHICH MI. lllOWlAl assures us he has transcribed with substantial ad- | herence to the form in which he heard | them told in Tetuan His own Eng fish is picturesque, although marked here and there by the peculiarities of one who is not writing in his native tongue; the reader will probably find that this but adds pleasantly to the eXuberant, rich coloring of the Oriental style. Himself semi-O Ori- ental by race the author sympathizes with these tales throughout; he does not merely tell them as an outsider, but enters into their spirit and meaning, as may be seen, for instance, in the tale of King Solomon and Ashmodai" where may be found , moreover, some foot notes of interest to students of Tal1nu- die lore. The book is illustrated by d and half-tones after drawings by w. Sherman Potts, of Paris, which admirably render the spir- it of the tales, especially very striking drawing Of Ashmodai.
 The Pilgrim Shore with many little authentic and fanciful by Edmund H. Garrett Uniform with Romance and Reality of the Puritan Coast" 12 mo. $2, Crushed morocco, gilt edge, S4. Little Brown & Co.,. Boston. MT. Garretts new book does