The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1901-06-29
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of the years to come rhe Orisisr. Of
Il embodies in its broa| isicsnism, WI
its historical setting, trusiiess to ao'
the finest and best IN |bpAl life and IN
traits, many elemen 20 10 make Vn
what the Great ican Novel; IN
ought TO be. II a,eived high re'
praise from critics \ Re specialists On
in their line. and howl ,the people Al
may differ in their opA Of =, it is us
being read by everyb for the first Iel
edition Of 100, 600 wSHhausted in NJ
six dAys,and it is notsll on in its y.
second 100, 200, The fsbf "Rich- si'
ard Carvel" rendered its b read a ~
foresone conclusion, espt ny as the 5,
descendants of Richard tsnong the ~
principal personages I'D ~ story. ~ =.
That fine old Southern ntleI n, ',
COL. Comyn Carvel, is Il t1Ankl ="
Of Richard, and his chart b =, :. y
ter, Virginia, the heroine hook.
is very like her greatgi ~ eother.
Dorothy Manners, who's ~ set
all London on FIRE in avs of
Charles James FOX. She Intense
southerner and loves ihe<| p man,
and therein lies the ft is in
the time of the CiJWar a ind the
years just before, aing in Il pc early
5'os, and leading 1 the crisl is and
it is especially iE.eresaS for the
light that it throws upon this lperiod.
Hamilton W. Mabie, of the Outlook "
says that lit is distinctly the most
carefully studied and the most con
vincing novel which has yet been
written on the Civil War; no other
story brings the reader SO close to
some Of the great figures in the strug-
gle no other brings before the imag.
nation quite so distinctly the.terri-
BILE experiences which befell those who
stood in the center OF the storm The
Crisis is a foot-note 70 American his.
tory, as well as a stirring and moving
novel
Mr.. Churchill takes the Puritan and
the Cavalier and in their descendants
shows that the great Civil War of
these United States was but the out
come of the inherited dislike Of these
people for each other. OF them and
of St. Louis IS the scene of action, he
says;
Two centuries before, when Charles
Stuart walked ont Of window in
Whitehall palace TO die, when the
great English race was in the throes
OF a civil war, when the stern and the
gay slew each other at Naseby and
Marston Moor, two currents flowed
across the Atlantic to the new world.
There the stern men found the stern
climate and the gay found the smiling
climate.
After many years the stream began
10 move again-westward, ever west
ward. over the ever blue mountains
from the wonderland Of Virginia to
the greater wonderland Of Kentucky,
And through the marvels Of the inland
sea and by white Conestogas thread
ing vast forests and floating over wide
prairies until the tides met in u mael-
strom as fierce::'as any Of the great
tawny torrents Of the strange Father
of Waters. A cit5faa dnded by Pierre
LAclede, a cert, y adventurous sub
ject of LOUIS, y !, saealt in furs and
knew not NJ Versailles, was 70
be the plss-s-s abe mingling Of the
two It'd ohIctfter cycles of separation
Purit, AYES Cavalier united on this
clay ~ K in the Louisiana purchase
and /lept westward together. Like
,the struggles of two great rivers when
ttey meet. the waters were for a
rme dangerous.
( With a few vivid strokes Of the pen
he puts the Puritan and the Cavalier
Of the day before us as typed by Ste
phen Brice and his rival, Clarence Coli
fax, and vou feel they are 'hot very /
different from their ancestors Of old.
Meeting him in crowd, Stephen
feels that he has seen the face Of
Clarence Colfax before in a portrait
over in England of a daredevil Roy
alist 1.-THE face had impressed him
with its story. He hadioften dreamed
Of il and Of the lace collar over the
dull gold velvet that became it so
well. And here IL was at last in a
city west Of. the Mississippi river
Here were the same delicately CHS
elled features with their pallor and
safety engraved there at one-and-
twenty. Here was the same lazv =
scorn in the eyes, and the look. which
gives to the lids the hair
styaight and fine and black; the viii.
full indulgence-not of one life, but Of
generatioas--about the mouth, the
pointed chin. And yet it was a face.
10 dare anything, to DO anything "