The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-22
REVIEWS OF NEN BOOKS
''FROM KINGDOM TO COLONY, ONE
OF THE INTERESTING PUB
LEGATIONS
MARY DEvEREUX THE AUTHOR
''FoIIy Corner" n Novel That Fur
nishes an Insight Into Eng
Iish Country Ldfe-Oth-
er New Ones.

From Kingdom to Colony" by Mary
Devereux. Little. Brown & Co.
From Kingdom to Colony is at once
romance that has the charm of novelty
in plot and a historical novel of no mean
character. It's scene is Marblehead,
Mass, and the events narrated are char
acteristic of the time just prior to the
Revolutionary war and of the early
years of that conflict.
In Dorothy DevereuX is drawn a char
acter about whose FEASIBILITY women will
differ. She is sixteen years old when
the story opens, full of life and spirit,
maidenly but adventurous, and, as a mat
ter of course, beautiful. Her brother
John and her best girl friend, Mary
Broughton, are lovers, and in due time
wed. At the outset of the readers ac-
quaintance with these and many more
good people of Marblehead the little sea-
coast town is torn with rumors that a
garrison of red coats, hated by most
of them, is to be quartered on the town.
The read coats come, and it all seems
natural, when Mary and Dorothy are
spending an afternoon in a cave near
the DevereuX homestead, that a young
British officer should come upon them
there. Kyrle Southern, the officer, by
a misstep, falls from the mouth of the
cave over d rocky ledge and is wounded
Dorothy bandages his head and when
he RECEIVERS consciousness it is to find
himself gazing into pair of bright eyes
tender with sympathy. This is the first
meeting Of the hero and heroine
Dorothy's next meeting with Southern
is even more romantic. Men of the WILL
, age, loyal to the causes of the colonies,
plan to smuggle arms ashore hidden, in
a ships cargo. On that night Dorothy,
in a suit of her brothers outgrown gar
ments, goes out to watch with dwarfed
peddler who is guarding the signal Ian
tern. Fearing the man might be a Brit
ish spy Dorothy runs forward and throws
the lantern over the cliff. The stranger
is Southern. Supposing Dorothy to be
a boy he asks her many \questions that
betray his interest in Dorothy DeVereux
Finally she inveigles him into entering
one Of her fathers store houses and locks
him in, and the arms are landed in
safety.
After several more chance meetings
with Southern, Dorothy one evening at
tends her brothers wedding. On the
way home the party she is with becomes
scattered by reason Of encountering a
street riot, due TO the presence of the
red coats in the village. Southern sees
her standing alone and rescues her, only
to take her riding on the saddle in front
of him to the house Of a squire, whom
he forces by threats to marry them He
then takes Dorothy home and leaves her,
with love for the man and hatred for the
enemy of her country battling for the
mastery Of her heart.
Kyrle Southern, though husband, still
has his wooing to do, and with all the
odds against him. Dorothy, declaring
continually to her self that she hates
Southern, keeps secret the fact Of her
marriage, but in reality she loves him.
While lowering near an inn in the hope
OF seeing Dorothy, who, with Mary is
passing night there, Southern is taken
as spy, for George Washington is at
the same inn holding a council Of war
with his chief officers. This brings the
story to a pleasing and dramatic finale
In way that need not be disclosed
here.
The book is well written and it's many
exciting incidents are graphically told.
Its characters are warmly human, and