The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-01-07

is once understood the story can be fol-
lowed with interest
The heroine is a woman with a husband
ana conscience. and the hero a civil en-
sineer. sort of Sir Galahad shorn of the
/ haIo-a silent, sturdy. resourceful man
Inc scene OF action ranges from Gibraltar
10 London and back again to an inland
| village OF Spain, and then Into northern
Africa. The local color is superb, and at
certain points the story goes with a rush
which carries the reader with il breathiess.
The chapter in which Warmer is captured
by Hassan. and that which recounts Char
| nocks rescue of the enslaved Warmer
from the Arabs are as good as anything in
current fiction. Bat IL would have been
! more artistic, though not so pleasant, to
have omitted the happy ending of con-
ventional sort, and dropped the curtain on
/ the supreme moment when Charnock
! brings to the woman whom he loves the
| brutal husband whom she tolerates only
because he is the father of her child That
situation is unique. and 1t ought not to
have been spoiled by sentimentality. New
York: The Macmillan Company. s1.5O).
Love Made Manifest Is a new novel
by Guy Boothby. who usually makes him
self interesting if not imposing. This
time it must be confessed that he has
done neither. His hero. Claude de earn
yon, is understood 10 be one OF the great
noveiists Of the century, sort Of Steven
son, brought up in the South Seas. He
marries, for no perceptible reason, q mar
row. minded egotistical, priggish woman,
daughter OF Dissenting minister. All this
time he has half-concealed passion for
an old playmate, Loie, Lady Beckleton,
who has been sold by her father to a rich
FOUNDER Their passion finally becomes
irresistible, and they depart together for a
South Sea Island. Considering the fact
that De Canyons wife absolutely refuses
TO live with him on account of his ire
ligious views, and Lady Beckleton's hus-
band is confirmed dipsomaniac, one might
dismiss the case from mind with the chari- |
table thought that there really was con-
siderable excuse for their action. But that |
is not the end CT it. Claude is gnawed |
by remoTse at intervals. and the cravings |
result in his going, with Loie, TO live |
among lepers and minister to their needs. |
Here she dies Of a feye-, and he is eventu-
ally shot for stirring up an alleged re- |
bellion among the wretched inhabitants.
The book is one of those which seems to
have no possible reason for being. tChi-
cago: Herbert S. Stone & Co. sl.50)
Little Leather Brooches. and Other
Southern Rhymes" is a book of quaint
drawings in color, with rhymes to match.
by Francis p. Wightman. The rhymes are
mostly folklore songs and ditties, some of
them picked up from Southern plantation
negroes and street vendors, and nearly all
OF them are musical. a few. as in the case
OF "Ol' Dan Tuckah," are already familiar
to the public: others will be new. and the
eccentric illustrations add much to the eff
feet. OF the nonsense rhymes. the follow
ing is fair example:
hen sat on some turtle eggs,
And Matched out goslngs three.
Two were turkeys with slender legs,
And one was a humble bee.
The facial expression OF the hen In ques-
lion is faithfully reproduced. New York:
j. f. TAYLOR & Col