The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-07

him to wed the bony, angular Lad.
 Katharine, the daughter of an earl ant
 heiress to his immense wealth. Cap
 tain Henry Clermonte, disinherlted ant ' disowned, fell in with his friend, Colo
 nel Howard Richerson, and finds tt
 his surprise that he has been appointed
 chief aid to the colonel, and that they
 were to sail for India at once for duty | What befel the gallant and true hearted
 young captain, his participation in the 1 ever memorable defense of CaWnport
 and it's bloody scenes and his rescue 1 from an awful death by a beautiful anC
 enormously rich Hindu princess, Eng | Kooran, whom the captain had despe- | fish educated and Christian, Zanct rately fallen in love with, and who, as was in due time developed, returned the | captains love-all this and much more goes to make up this interesting and
 graphically told story. The heroine, Zanee Kooran, is so beautiful, true, strong and womanly that unconscious ly she enters the heart of the reader, who follows her with deep interest through the dramatic episodes of the story. The several conflicts in the tale are narrated with much skill and the cust oms and habits of the natives, their characteristics and homes, make a pleasing background. The book is pub lished by F. Tennyson Co.,, New York and London; for sale by T. H, Pcase & Son.
 A very pretty little gift book and a very charming poem is An Idyl of the Rhine, by Louisa Palmier Myers, pub lished by F. Tennyson Nicely company, New York and London, and for sale by T. H. Pease & Son. All the world loves lover and a pair of lovers such as this story in verse tells us of appeals at once to the human heart The au- thor has told the story of these lovers gracefully and delightfully."- and the word pictures stand out clearly and ar- tistically There is such dainty grace virgin modesty and purity about the beautiful maiden of the story that it is no wonder that the gallant young Ger man officer of high estate and birth and long descent fell .straightway in love with her when he met her by chance at Bingen on the Rhine. The
 
 lively and the author as effectively narrates how naturally and prettily the silken meshes ,of love were woven about their hearts The little glimpses of sGerman life and scenery and society are a pretty background to the roman tic side of the tale and the various pie lures of German landscape where the a < np a1 tn b.y attractiveness of the little volume
 '''The Gordon Mystery, or the Plot That Failed" by c, Du Mont Parmater,
 12 mo, Cloth $150, for sale by T. H.
 Pease & Son. It is not often that detective story is found so cleverly formulated, and ingeniously worked out
 The unravelling of The Gordon Mys- tery" is quite worthy of Sherlock Holmes, being infinitely faithful/in de- tail proof and presentation. Many in- teresting types of character are depict ed, each fitted to his role, in this strange net work of plot, and counter plot. Especially impressive are Ben Allan the Gipsy King, and Red Wolf, the Shawnee Chieftairi, while their re- spective camps form setting, both and instructive In the of Matthias, Peckharh, the indomitabe champion of justice and right, and Jasper Crofion, criminal of the upper class, whose heart was the birth place of dark conceptions, and evil deeds, are presented the two great extremes of human nature. Kindness, and moral strength, pitted against cruelty, cowardice and imnlor- al selfishness-a strong moral lesson Is by the temporary success of he deeply laid schemes, meeting with liter defeat, under an over-ruling by which the ends of jus Ice are assisted.
 Loves Quicksands," by Virginia | 0itmar, F mo, cloth, s1.25 For sale by | T. H. Pease & Son. A strongly dra- natic novel, portraying intense human emotions. A book that not only fas- mates the reader as a story of absorb | ng interest, but broadens the senti- nent of charity and love. It is strong, | pathetic unique. In its pages is a l tartling and forceful answer to that | question of deepest interest to all men md women, "Is marriage a failure, tnd, if so, why?" Married women who cad Loves Quicksands" will not be ontent until they have read it to their husbands. A beautiful undercurrent If charity runs through the book, yet here is sharply outlined the inevitable tction of the law of retribution. After eading this story, no one could engage | n the islander of another without the bought occurring to him: Am I not lanting the seed through karmic law f harvest of islander for nlyself?" After reading the execution scene, no ne could ever again hear of the execu- ion of even the most depraved criminal 'ith feelings of satisfaction. In this lade by that noble woman, Frances }. Willard, who said of her: Tt is my onviction that this young woman, arnest, studious and devoted, is as ure to bless the world as she is to live t all" F. Tennyson Nicely company, publishers, IA Fifth avenue, New York ,lso branches in London and Chicago
 Messrs, Little, Brown & Co.,, Boston, ave in progress new book by Captain lahan, which will be published in the utumn. Meantime his recent volume, The Problem of Asia, and Its Effect 'pon International Policies is in feady demand as are also his stand rd works on the Influence of Sea ower." Capt. Mahan's "The Influence Sea Power Upon History can now