The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-05-19
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With HOOPS of Steel.

With Hoops of Steel.
In her book, With Hoops of Steel"
Florence Finch Kelly has given a
yirile picture of the life of the cowboy
| of the Southwest There is a larger
use OF guns than is true to life now
a-days, but probably the story does not
| exaggerate the conditions of the SOS.
| Mrs Kelly is the wife of the well
| known newspaper man, Allan Kelly,
and spent weeks and months with her
| husband in the mountains, on the
| plains and at the COW camps. These
experiences gave her an Insight into
the life of the Southwest possessed by
very few who have tried TO depict
| them She describes a roundup on
| the landscape so that reader can see
it before him. Some of her descrip-
tons are most vivid bits of word
| painting. And with what truth to life
she depicts the white mans feeling
toward the Mexican. One who has not
lived in the Southwest cannot fully
realize what this feeling is Her de-
scription of the sufferings of a man
| from thirst on the desert is the most
graphic | have ever read; and | know
something about what she depicts. I
have felt the pangs of desert thirst,
and have unsuccessfully labored over
fellow man dying of this awful
thing. only to see him expire at my
| side. One who has never seen death
come in this way cannot conceive
what il is. But Mrs. Kelly's descrip-
ton of the tortures of a thirst-wreck-
ed brain brings the scene very near
TO one 1t is a splendid story, well
told; story one will want to pick up
again for further reading of some of
| its brighter parts. The Bowen-Merrill
Company, Indianapolis. Price s1.50.
When Rlsdec Are Out and Lovo's
Afield
The above is the significant title of
a novelette, by the Rev. Cyrus Town
send Brady. The scene is laid in
North Carolina during the dark days
of the Revolution in 1891, when
CORVALLIS and Tarleton seemed to be
overrunning the Southland. The pc
Rod of the novel covers the time of
General Greenes command in the
| South. There is a splendid descrip-
ton of the battle of Guilford Court
House, the turning point in the war in
the South, that being the initial move
which later resulted in Corvallis
surrender at Yorktown. The central
| figures of the story are daughter and
niece of Judge Burton. firm royalist
The former is betrothed by her father
to Col Duane of the British army, but
she is secretly IN love with Captain
| Curtis Baird of the Continentals. The
Judges niece Is desperately in love
with Col. Duane, but coneeais this
| fact from the Colonel and her cousin.
OF course all comes out well, the two
young women securing the Tneq they
! love for husbands II is stereotvped
little love storT. not at all ctsjit TO
the author. However, it is good lit
| tie story to while away a dull day
with at the mountains or seashore
j. B. Lippincott Company. Pbiladel-
phia. Price $3.50.
Mcclure's Magazine for May.
McClure's Magazine for May is rich
| in those qualities for which it has
come to stand-reality and vivid por-
trayals. of life. The great feature of
the number is unquestionably the re-
maskable chapter from Captain Alfred
Dreyfus own story of his arrest, deg
radiation and Imprisonment For d.
rectness, self-control and simple truth
fulness, Dreyfus' narrative could not
be surpassed. The portion of it which
appears in the magazine is made the
more forceful by contrast with the Sc
| lections from his diary. written on
Devils Island. for his wife. In the
diary the supreme suffering of this
man. imprisoned for he knew not
what, prosecuted by he knew not
whom. and his heroic courage in re-
| fusing TO die. are told with q painful
intensity impossible in anything but
yeritabie human document The " hole
story reads like a chapter from the
secret records of the Middle Ages
That such an experience as that re-
corded in Dreyfus' own story was pos
sible in the nineteenth century is one
of the most terrible proofs we have OF
the incompleteness OF our civilization.
Two articles in the May Review OF
Reviews deal with the Russo japanese
situation. Mr. Charles johnson ex-
plains in detail Russia's apparent
readiness for war as shown By her
style OF preparation on the military as
well a sthe naval side Mr.. Samuel E.
Mofet. on the other hand. describes
Japan's navy, which has made truly
remarkable record OF growth since the
war with China. seven years ago. Both