The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-03-18

I
nance OF Cliveden.'' THE Red Dwarf
of Rabenstein,'' Fora del DeStino,
The Wrath of Ciiveden Reach I'm
der the Black Flag" "Brabantio' 5
Love, "Cliefden Lights and Shades, .
THE ConfeAsion of Rui the Priest
and Madame Recamier's Secret"
In the matter of Illustrations there is
nothing remarkable in them until the
readers fOrtitude has enabled him TO
reach page 1872 in the story of "Braban-
tics Love-" There the reader finds him
SELF face to face with a mermaid de-
cidedly out of her element. This young
woman, clad only in the rainy-day garb
common TO her kind, is portrayed
standing on the end of her bifurcated
neither members, leaning for support.
and she seems to need it, against a
! cluster of pillars
Beyond is seen the water, with a
SondOla in the middle distance. from
which the young person has wandered.
me expression on the mermaid's face
Is similar TO that to be observed on the
faces OF fishes when all the. water is
drawn out of the aquarium.
Pharach'S Daughter" .iS supposed TO
be translation from a Greeic manu-
script of the twelfth century. The
| translated manuscript Subterfuge is
one frequently adopted, as it places the
burden of a poor story either upon the
manuscript or upon the defenseless
translator. In few preliminary SEN
fences Mr. Aston sets forth that he has
left the tranSla ton practically as the
him. Fearing, perhaps. that he has
given the classical authority too
much prominence. Mr.. AstOr terminates
| the prologUe ~ the pleasing little use
of Latin 'yord, '1acunae," just to
show he, too is up in the classics
He might have said ''hiatuses" but for
that.
At one point in '.Pharaoh's Daugh-
ter" Mr.. AstOr. or his translator
thoughtfully notes that three lines OF
the manuscript have been effaced. II
had been mJAh better if pages had
suffered effacenent.
The second story, to avoid confusion
in time, is carefully dated Dec. 25, 1890,
and turns from mummyI cases to the
cosy Piccadilly bachelor apartments
of Captain Blythe, formerly of the
Tenth Rifles. The captain is perusing
THEIRS "Austerlitz." the history of Ma
poleOn's campaigns, and for all the
reader knows he suddenly falls asleep.
A COssack soldier comes into the
room and takes him before the Car
Alexander and the Emperor Francis OF
Austria. They recall to him that he
has been reading Theirs, and the ear
| then tells him who he is and the EN-
peror Francis Of Austria. Then the
battle begins, the plumbers of 1905 are
repeated and Blythe is condemned to
death.
He awakes, as it were with an an
euriSm of the heart and dies within a
short time. Mr. Astor calls this a
Christmas story. 1t certainly suggests
Heath and not birthday
For Monsieur de Neron'' the reader
s whirled to Paris and informed on
the first page, in small type, that it is
! october %, 1894 Here again. Mr.. Aston
does not shoulder the story. but places
1t as burden upon an SOld gentleman
OF 81, who figures intermittently as
In brief, the story tells of the rein
carnation Of Nero, some very nice
talks with him in very nice English
and the burning of the Tuillerfes
There is a picture Of Mr.. Nero at the
me old gentleman ends his tale with
the Information that ne fears Neron.
and for that reason always sleeps with
a revolver beneath his pillow.
MT AStor cannot let the thing end
without q thrust at Americans He
mas the old man speak of the EXPIRES
SlVe FernaCular" of Americans that
the American revolver means bust
ness every time" The last thing in the
story is an exclamation point after the
word time 1t is just one instant
anterior to the readers exclamation
In Under the Black Flag Mr.. AS
tor comes over to America, setting his
scene in November 1900 s.at the sea
son of reddening leaves the literary
longest-Way-round for autumn, in the
Anglo-Dutch colony of New York. He
mas penned for his English brothers a
/ description of Manhattan island at this
/ period Captain Kidd and his long
low, Takish craft. carronades. slxrII-
and-bones flags, treasure and other
plratlcaI properties embellish the. tale
w men the story opens the colony is
experiencing sharp emotion uDor
learning that Captain Kidd's pirate
sloop with himself and his bloody crew
is casting anchor lin the incornpar HE
beauty and the autumnal pathos of
their midst"
The story begins with a rendezvous
between Captain Kidd and his burgh-
ers, KEN Rapalye and Rip Van Dam al
the house Of Diana Mietjen. in Broad
way Kidd discloses to them a. plan
70 seize the colony for the house OF
range All Kidd asked, in event OF
success, was a temporary gOvernorshir
ana orders from Holland.
me contab is interrupted by the de-
nVeIy OF a letter at the house demand
ing KIDD surrender at Boston. threar-
Snlhg MIN With being outIaWed if he
ulsObeyed. The Dutchmen decline -
entertain Kidd's proposal and he sail.
away, mad as a hornet.
his lieutenant. Bendthebow. who has
| Deen having a love affair with Dianass
Stepdaughter Amanda, is 10th to leave
AAiC liz SAOOp Is gong I'D the F,9Si
river Kidd calls BendthebONr to hin
ana says he is tired of piracy and in
tends TO give it up, incidentally hfdine
his treasure chest
He adds that there is one. thing he
must send over the ships side with
cannon ball tied in it's midst" This
IS ms black flag. In good time his
cnest is taken ashore in this remark.
: able way: .
1t IS put in a boat with Kidd and
Bendtnebow and four rowers, ''the
chest IN their midst" AS Mr. Aston
makes no further mention of burvins
the chest, this in their midst was
probably its resting place, temporarily,
at least And that's the last you hear
or Kidd The story ends in a wedding
Inc last story in the book. Mad
anne Recamier's Secret suggests 2
toilet preparation for the preservation
OF perennial youth But it is not +.
MEETS HIS WATERLOO.