The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-21
BOOK NOTES.


If Han Gaines new book, ssThe Eternal
Journal office through Zercher e PooIve,
! displslees his Christian IN popular esteem
i It viii be a literary surprise The Eter
! nal City" stands to be contrasted with
| the earlier work by force of the fact that
| the same skeleton gfins from behind
both. It would not be exact justice to say
| that each is built on the same framework,
Roma and not 2 few traits Of John
SSt., ~ LaVlq fsossl, II ~, e Sllli
| of God, as some say Hall Game auda-
be run to David Rossi,n who was the son
of the pope, and his character takes on
pope himself in his efforts to free the
/ from a 9espotic government ana an equal
| His religion was the religion Of humanity
and his ideal government lodged IN the
1.-The Eternal City will not have the
/ same fascination for women readers as
| The Christian" because it is so weighty
/ with politics. in addition to its love and
! It began with an insult from David to
/ Roma, in the shape of a publicly uttered
I him in revenge, learns to love ard then
the crown to his work instead of acting
as betrayal, and his complete forgive
piest day in the lives Of the lovers Hail
| Game takes them out to a fox hunt Just
ture in the country out of London. 1t
was here that came the mutual revelation
that love had succeeded cross purposes in
their lives 1t came upon the heels of this
pretty passage;
went out to walk among the euealyptus,
ana came upon a beautiful dell SURROUND sur, ssIIasl
ed by trees and carpeted with wild HoW-
ers go.
was anybody here to throw flower at
HE picked up a handful of violets and
tossed them over her head.
. When ] was a boy this was where
men fought duels.' said Rossi.
. The brutesi What q lovely spot! Must
be the place where Pharoah,s daughter
found Moses in the bulrushesH
=" Or where Adam found Eve in the
Garden Of Eden
=" What surprise that must have been
to him., said Roma Whatever did he
think she was, l Wonder2
g An angel who had come down in the
moonlight and forgotten to go up IN the
q 'Nonsenset He would know in mo-
ment she was a woman
& Think lIl., Of i, She was the only woman
g And fancy He was the only man. ,,
the chief actors in the drama. this OF
Roma at this period Of her career is the
powerful book for all its profound studies
in chara eter and analysis of the deeds of
the fiercest political strife among peo-
pie of high-keyed passions If it is not
his creates work, as Game wished It 70
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l
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