Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-10-27

Il IS needless TO say that Amelia J.
! Bars last novel, 'The Maid of Nader
] Lane is a truly delightful romance
| and like an OF this writer's works whiCt
| vary SO much each from the other. In
! style character. and n we may borrow
! the express Ton, ln stage setting Is So
| vivid In expression and so historically
! exact that the reader IN putting down
| the book feels as II 1t had been a deni-
| zen Of odd New York IN the days
when Canal street was a suburb and
| the Bowery lane of rose shaded gar
dens
The story Is a sequel to the one told
| In THE Bow Of Orange Ribbon" a
book which had great success some
| few years ago.
The hero OF that book, John Moran,
we meet here again In the role OF a
| successful and dignihed physician. and
the heroine lovely Ava Willing Is a
matron as sweet, gracious and lovable
a. was the giriish heroine.
In the story before us. the maid Of
Maiden Lane Is an only child Of Dr.
and Mrs. Moran, and the hero is a son
Of the captain and afterward General
Hyde who IN The Bow Of Orange
Ribbon figures Js an ardent and warm
We will not spoil the txpectant read
er's enjoyment OF the story by detail
ing the trials and fluctuations which
make their course Of true love anything
but a smooth one only promising that
the chief incident which leads 90 the UNI
happiness Of the lovers Is one that not
infrequently occurs In everyday lie.
and of which many OF our readers have
perhaps been made the victims. This
incident. however Is relieved from trjt-
oness by the skin with which the dis
covery OF the blunder Is worked into the
plot.
The book touches very lightly upon
the political issues Of that era. 1871 90
1895 but dwells al much greater
length upon the horrors Of the French
revolution and the bewildermcnt and
disappointment OF the new born repub-
lie OF the west az the frightful crimes
committed IN the dear name OF liberty
by the nation which America had
fondy hoped would prove 10 be a sis
ter republic in reality as well as In
name.
In conclusion, Il IS safe 10 predict that
II 'The Maid Of Maiden Lane" does
not equal Jan Vedder's WIFE and a
few others Of Mrs Bars earlier works
il will not detract from the reputation
as a successful teller Of stories, which
that writer so justly enjoys
In THE Lost Continent" CutcNfe
Hyne has written a romance that out
Haggards Haggard II is founded on
the tabled Atlantis and IL purports 10
relate the adventures Of Deucalion. who |
founded Yucatan and was then recalled
by Queen Phorenlco of Atlantis 90 aid |
her IN quelling the disturbances IN her |
kingdom and also % become her hus- |
band. The author has given some stir |
ring pictures of hghting in the old days. I
but he has crowded his pages with wild |
imprObahilties. Thus on the way home /
10 Atlantis Deucalion's shin Is met hv 1
three great man-eating gCa lizards ana /
IN the fight with these monsters he /
overcomos them boy throwing lance in I
20 ,he eye OF the largest. The story of 1
the Siege 81 Atlantis Of the meeting /
OF peucalion and Nlis OF the fierce /
woOinr of Phoreuice who was a pre-
historic Cleopatra. with n pretty fancy
for sword play and lighting ed the head |
NJ her troops Of the walling up OF Nails
and the escape Of Deucallon. am this /
story, crowded as Il Is with improbable /
tiles Is told with 20 much force and
that any reader will