Evening star., 1901-09-14
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
LAZARRE By Mary Hartwell Catherwood. Illus
trations by Andre Castaigne. Indianapolis: tn
Bowen Merrill Company

| LAZARRE By Mary Hartwell Catherwood. Illus
tratlons by Andre Castaigne. Indianapolis: The
Bowen-Merrli Company.
The mystery of the lost dauphin has al
ways been a favorite subject for the re-
search Of historians and occasionally for
! the imagination of romancers. This pitt
| full prince, unconscious victim of the Red
| Terror, was supposed to have perished in
prison under brutal treatment. Authenti-
| Gated reports of a death were circulated.
| The mob believed. The royalists held fast
to the hope that the son of Louis XVI and
Marie Antoinette had been smuggled out
| of the temple prison and succored in a
| foreign land. Later, when it became safe
| for Bourbons to proclaim themselves,
dauphins sprang up numerously. AS the
| Able Edgeworth says in the story, they
| were thicker than blackberries." Certain
1t is that no dauphin ever came to the
throne of France. that the uncle of the
young heir, as Louis XVIII, reigned for a
| brief period while Napoleon was in Ell ba
| and was later swept from the throne when
| the emperor returned.
| The author of Lazarre has accepted the
| theory that the dauphin was brought to
| this country a semi-idiot and here grew
| to manhood. She restores him to mental
| and physical health through an accident
| and his wholesome life among the Indians
| of New York state, into the custody of
| whose chief he had been given by the
| scheming agent of the royal family. She
weaves around him a tender romance, car
| ries him back to France to claim his rank,
! puts him in imminent peril more than once
| there and in Russia extricates him from
! his dilemmas with adrot touch of in
vention and finally returns him to America
TO develop into G semi-miSSionary among
| the Indians and the agent Hof the new CIV
| 1lization. The story touches lightly upon
| the war of 1872, introduces a few historic
American personages, and gives a glimpse
4 .n,riC 3tf,,r,n
ops easily and smoothly, almost too
smoothly, for its least reasonable phase
| occurs in the supreme crisis, where the
| lady of Lazarre's love, after a year of
harmless alteration, RECEIVERS her mental
powers without apparent cause and forth
with proceeds to argue in the most direct
| manner against Lazarres remuneration Of
the chance to ascend the French throne
held out to him by an emissary of his
family. The reader is forced to wonder at
such miraculous cure of mind apparent
ly hopelessy stunted by great grief The
style of the telling is exceptionally good,
and, save for the structural weakness not
ed, the romance is strongly woven and Is
calculated both to please and to revive
Keen interest in the dauphin tradition.
THE DAYS THAT ARE no MORE. By Elizabeth
Bryant Johnston Illustrated. New York: The
and during the war OF the rebellion are
They are rendered mainly in the negro dia-
lect, for which Miss Johnston has the
power Of unusually accurate production.
spirit of reverence for the past appears
strongly throughout, and several quaint
and attractive characters are developed.
Dat Butterfiy's Chris mus Gif - is an es-
peclally tender love tale. Some of the IL
Illustrations are reproduced from photo
graphs by Miss Frances Benjamin John
ston of this city. The authors previous
literary efforts have been mainly in the
historical line, her George Washington
Day by Day being acknowledged as an
authority of biography. The present vol
ume displays her versatility and literary
taste.
THE BELEAGUERED FOREST BY Ella W.
Peattie. New York: d. Appleton 4 Co.
A spirit of mysticism hangs over this
tale of the pine forests of the north, a tale
of woman's sacrifice to an abhorrent
duty, incurred in a moment Of thoughtless
abandonment of conventional prudence in
the choice of a husband. She links her
fate with that of man progressively sue
cumbing to paresis, discovering the truth
after she has entered with him the be
leaguered forest" There are phases of the
story which rise to classic heights. The
introduction Is somewhat tardy in it's ac-
ton, though perhaps necessary to justify
the extraordinary choice made by the
young woman when a practical stranger
asks her for her hand. 1t is certain to
leave marked impression upon the reader.
THE BACKwooDsMAN; the Autobiography of a
Continental on the New York Frontier during
the Revolution. BY II. A. Stanley, author Of
Who Saved Oregon etc. New York: Double
day, Page & Co. Washington: VIM Ballan-
tyne & Sons.
The romance school of novel writing con-
t!nues to demand new phases Of American
history. The revolution has already fur
mic tic bY,a Mt af
this one is somewhat novel. 1t carries the
reader among the Indians of the New York
tribes There is a mystery Of birth long
unsolved, a murder to begin with; fighting
scouting, woods life, hair-breadth escapes
and love-making. The mixture is of aver
age efficiency to hold the interest. The
story would be improved by better punctua-
tion and by some judicious curtailment.
IRISH PASTORAIS. BY Shan F. Bullock New
York: Mcclure, Phillips & Co. Washington:
Woodward Lothrop.
This is the story of everyday Ireland Of
the present time, the Ireland of hardship
yet of merriment, of intense labor and
scant rewards, of pathetic patience under
a heavy burden, the Ireland of the fields
and novels and bogs Divided into tales
which bear a slight mutual relation
through the temperance of characters, it
presents the varying aspects of this land
of want and sorrow and yet Of witty ac-
ceptance of life. Surly Peter Jarmin and
staunch Hughey Fitch and attractive Liz
zie Dolan start the course with a love
sketch, and the other tales. delicately toned
to offer view Of the landscape and of the
human panorama, follow in changing
moods.
THOROUGHBRED MONGREI, the Tale Of
Dog told by Dog to Lovers OF Dogs BY
Stephen Townsend, F.R.CS., with Introduc-
tion by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Illustrated
by j. A. Shepherd. New York Frederick A.
Stokes Company. Washington: VIM. Balan-
tyne Sons.
The adventures of dog Of uncertain
breed, dubbed 'the Chihuahua" in conse-
quence of mistake in the shipping, are
delightfully."- told in this little book, which
will appeal to the admirers of the barking
world. Hett, black skye, tells the story,
and 1t is of Hett that Mrs. Burnett writes,
bespeaking confidence of the creatures in
telligence and capacity to reproduce the
scenes Of her active life. The illustrations
are clever.
MRS. GREEN. By Evelyne Elyse Rynd. New
York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Washington:
Woodward & Lothrop.
Mrs Green is a loquacious English wo-
man Of the working class, whose views of