The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-29
ROBERT ToURNAY. "A Romance of the
French Revolution, by William sage.
Boston: Heughton, Miftisn & Co. Bound
in cloth; i2mo.; Illustrated; 3Is pages.

French Revolution, by William sage.
Boston: Heughton, Mifti!n & CO. Bound
in cloth; i2mo.; Illustrated; 3Is pages.
Price, sl.50.
The scene OF this novel is laid in France.
during the great French Revolution.
The hero IS one of the common people,
who. compelled TO fly from his nome.
because of a quarrel with the young tord,
goes To Paris 10 seek his fortunes Here
he mixes with the revolutionary element.
and iinally goes into the army. When
he has risen to the rank of colonel. he
returns 10 Faris to brang diSpatcales
While here he hears that the daughter
of the old nobleman from whose house
he had fed is about 10 be arrested. he
had. while serving the father. fallen In
love with the daughter, and now, know
ing that she is alone N the world, he sets
out to rescue her. After many adventures
he succeeds in carrying her into Germany,
but he himself returns TO France. He
greatly distinguishes himself shortly after
in battle, but is summoned before the
Committee of Safety at Paris, to answer
for aiding an autocrat to escape. de
Is thrown into prison, where he langufshes
for many n1ossths, and at last is con-
denned to DEATH However, the woman
whose life he had saved had realized
that, though he was not an autocrat she
loved him. and had come TO Paris. at
the risk Of her life, to learn something
of him. She hears that he is to- die
next day, but. after an exciting inter
view with Robespierre, she enables him
to escape from prison. The next DAY
Robespierre falls, and the Reign of Ter
ror being, at an end, the hero and heroine
are married.
ters we get interesting and fairly accurate
views of the principal scenes and char
acters of the revolution. a chapter each
is given TO the call to arms, the march
of the women on Versailles, the attack
on the BastiIe and several chapters to
the life in The prisons and the scenes
of horror enacted there, together with
r picture of the calmness with which the
aristocracy went to its death. Among
the PRINCIPAL persons of whom we have
pictures are Danton, Robespierre, IIoche,
81. Just. Couthon, and Theroisne de
Mericourt.
THE IMMORTAL GARLAND, "A Story
of American Life. by Anna Robson
Brown, author of 'tsir Mark "A
Cosmopolitan Comedy" &c. Appleton's
Town and Country Library. New York:
D. Appleton & Co. Cloth. 81; paper,
SO cents.
1.-The immortal garland for which the
hero strives is the one of which John
Milton wrote: THAT immortal garland is
to be run for, not without dust and heat"
1t IS not a story of hermit life, but of
an actor a man Of high ideals AND noble
impulses. who endeavors to use all
opportunities to benefit his fellow-bejnss.
and ever strives to win 1.-The immortal
garland" sacrificing his hearts desire
rather than lower his ideal of his duty.
In vivid contrast the author draws for
us a poet, a man of genius. a man Of
fine thoughts and finer words, yet weak,
vacilatinE. and easily led: q. man who
dreams noble things all dav long, yet
does them not, and dies leaving the world
no better for his genius.
The scene Is laid in a suburban towr.
in New Jersey and in New York city
The style is interesting and vivid, and
the characters well brought out.
The MAGAZINES.
Among the timelier articles in THE
CENTURY for May is an essay by An
drew Carnegie entitled Popular Illusions
About Trusts
An editorial in the same number calls
attention to 1.-THE Real Danger of
Trusts"
The sense OF flunor that gave piquancy
TO Richard Whiteing's story of social
contrasts, no. > John Street" is his
rrofusely illustrated papers on THE
National Zoo at Washington. Ernest
Seton Thompson. author of 1.-The BIO
graPhy of Ia Grizzly" dwells particularly
on the opportunities such a reservation
offers to wild animals TO retain the
habits of exercise, etc, on which their
happiness and health depend. "a Word
of Warning 10 Young Actresses" is
addressed especially to would-be actress
es or amateurs, and it carries weight, as
II is uttered by a most successful ac-
tress, Miss Clara Morris.
Significant Ignorance of the Bible" re-
cords entertainingiy the results of certain
attempts by THE author, President
Thwing of Western Reserve University
to determine to what extent the Bible
has ceased to be a book familiar TO
The average collegian of either sex
The Literary Shrine of Which Prof
William Knight, the Wordsworth7an
writes with Illustrations by Harry Fem.
is Dove Cottage, the home Of Wordsworth
and De Quincy. Under the modest title.
Leaves from a Notebook TG4os. Bailey
-Aldrict offers a few pages that show him
alternately at poet and proser-or rather
as poet and wit. Adventure is the mo-
tive in the concluding chalrter of Ben
amin Woods .Hardships OF a Reptiler."
and sometimes more than mere travel
sketches are to be found in Our Friend
the Sultan of Jolo," by Charles B. Haga-