The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-06

| Paris during the investment Of the c1t,
 by Henry of Navarro, and the story oc
 cupies but four days of the week pre-
 ceding the kings declaration of adher
 ence to the Catholic church. It is {
 fresh engaging and well sustained ad
 dition to romantic fiction. Miss Run
 kles work is pronounced by critics
 the most highly praised serial story
 ever published in the Century Maga-
 zine" which is certainly very higt
 praise. The Boston Transcript says oi
 It. "The new author has a genuine Du.
 mas touch" The San Francisco Chron. icle says: Equals the ablest work of
 Weyman or Conan DoyleAa surpasses
 their best in portraitureJ of woman.'
 The Brooklyn Eagle says: "A romantic
 story of the first rank" The Club Wo-
 man, Boston, pronounces 1t: "The best
 piece of historical fiction ever produced | in America" The Hartford Courant:
 Tt palpitates with life at every page. D
 The New Orleans Picayune: "A story
 of the kind that all men, the wise as
 well as the simple like to read" These
 are few of the many most favorable
 endorsements the book has won. One
 hundred thousand copies were printed
 for the books first edition. Published
 by the Century company, New York, 47O
 pages, price $1.50; for sale at Judas.
 "A Daughter of New France" by
 Mary Catharine Crowley, illustrated by
 Clyde o. Deland, $1.50; Little, Brown &
 Co.,, Boston. This brilliant story opens
 up new and very interesting field in
 American historical romance. A DOT
 ton of the novel has Quebec in the time
 of Count Frontenac for it's scene, but
 the greater part of it deals with the
 early days of the French settlement of
 Detroit. From the treasure houses of
 French Canadian history the author
 has drawn the material for a narrative
 which sketches the society of the city of Champlain at the end of the seven- teenth century and at the beginning of the eighteenth century, and which pie lures the brilliant Gascon chevalier, who laid the foundations of our Ameri- can city of Detroit, with his company of sturdy voyagers, Coureurs de Bois, sons of proud seigneurs and the women who loved them and shared their fortunes.
 Mary Catherine Crowley, author of "A Daughter of New France" has been actively engaged in literary work for the past ten years. She is well known as writer for the young, and has also contributed to various magazines and syndicates, sometimes under her own names, sometimes under a pseudonym. Miss Crowley is native of Boston and had the good fortune to be born of scholarly stock. Her father, John c. Crowley, is an alumnus of Harvard uni- versity; her mother is graduate of the Sacred Heart. Manhattanville - later the daughters alma mater. With so favorable home and school influences, a large circle of travelled and book-lov- ing relatives, a host of family friends among the clergy, and, in due time. 8 broad and varied social life, her liter ary gift made rapid and symmetrical development. In 1892 Miss Crowley went abroad, visiting Rome, Paris, Dresden and other old world cities. For the past eight years she has lived in the west, part of the time at Detroit. She has travelled in Canada, and is fla miiar with Quebec and Montreal. Thus among her acquaintance belong ing to the old French Canadian families and from the pages of old memoirs and histories, she gathered the material for the ground work of this romance, "A Daughter of New France" which | occurred to her in 1894 It was be- | gun three or four years ago, laid aside | for other work, and finally taken up and finished during the past winter. | Miss Crowley was for some years a | member of the New England Woman's | Press association, and of the Woman's Press club of New York city.
 'The Silver Skull" is another delight 'ul story by S. R. Crockett. who is de- ;ervedly a high favorite with discrim- mating readers and with all who like | l good story. MT. Crockett is prince lmong story tellers and in this work las fine historical foundation which le most skilfully builds upon "The Sil- ger Skull' is a bold and stirring tale aid in the mountains of Italy. in amous revolutionary times He deals with the revolutionary story still. told lmong the people, and of which MT. Crockett says in his preface there Is 10 truer and no stronger tale in all the ong history of Italy than that of the Silver Skull" which was the badge of $ bloodthirsty and ruthless band of l nurderers as the world has ever seen" Ie had also had the advantage of con- ulting the journals of General Richard ,hurch. who made an end of the Socie- y of the Silver Skull, and he brings nto strong contrast with the band of lurderers, the chivalrous and patriotic vardarelll. The story Is told in the rst person by Isabella, of the house of Ionte Leone. She has been adopted by he Vardarelli, after the destruc- ion of her family who had incurred ( he wrath of the "Silver Skulls" Dress l d as carnival revelers, these murderous { len, under a leader disguised as Pun hinello, had broken into the noble t ouse and assassinated all of the fami- { except little Isabella. The story nev- { 2 lags, from start to finish, and holdAil 1 le readers attention to Its close How le Vardarelli, manly outlaws and vir- f lal rulers of Apulia, who despise the c liver Skulls, find and adopt little Isa- r ella, who dressed as a bandit, accom- r anies them on their forays, trust 2 l by her deliverers and loving them in l turn. and how she, disguised as boy r eutenant meets and falls in love with l 9 ichard Church, a gallant English sol il CT sent to bring the province of Apu- n l under the kings sway and domain, t nd how adventure after adventure oc- i ITS all through the story told in MT. 1 1 delightful way, are matters p