The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-11-08

IlOuelIeHl IS most SdtlSIdClOIy dHu true
 love wins, and the crown is dispensed
 with. The New York Journal in an ex-
 tended review of the story, says:
 "Teeming with adventure, intrigue and
 stratagem, the curtain is raised upon royal tragedies. The swiftly changing
 scenes and action compel the
 readers attention to the end. For
 Love and Crown" will be highly es-
 teemed among the best of historical
 novels"
 Captain Ravenshaw, or the Maid of ! Cheapside," romance of Elizabethan
 London, by Robert Nelson Stephens,
 author of Philip Winwood," An Enc my to the King" etc. Published by i L. c. Page 6 Co.,, Boston. For sale by ! T. H. Pease & Sons. This is one of the
 successful novels of the day; one also
 that has the great merit of being highly diverting and entertaining without dealing. with king or a throne, a | princess or a palace, without intrigues
 or diplomacy. It is a story without | marching army, Its romance is merely
 an incident, and it contrasts sharply,
 yet pleasantly, with the historical nov el of the day. As a character study it is clever wholesome and bristling with interest. During the time of Elizabeth
 there were more than court affairs in
 England. There were common people
 in London and among them was a dare
 devil element, of which the author
 writes most entertainingly. One who
 cared the least, one of the most daring
 was Captain Ravenshaw, a houseless
 wanderer about town, who swaggered
 through the streets after the curfew
 hour, bragging and fourishing his
 sword \ drinking and eating at the tav-
 erns and forgetting to pay; turning
 penny honestly or dishonestly, and
 eking out a bare existence as best he
 could. He loved to fight and run away.
 His heart was soft, but he liked to
 fight and edge out of it. He was a
 ne'er do well and was glad of it. His
 adventures were many and they are
 written with an easy hand. It is sto-
 ry of common man, and in it the au-
 thor has shown his skill by picturing
 old London and it's neighborhood with
 much exactness, The book is hand
 somely gotten up and is illustrated by
 Howard Pyle and others.
 The New York World says of the
 book in an extended notice: When MT. Stephens wrote, not so long ago, of a much quieter gentleman, whom he called Philip Winwood he did not al- low his narrative to pause for lack of incident. It may be imagined that with the swaggering, swashbuckling Ravenshaw at his pen's extremity he has kept the chapters stirring indeed.
 'There are passages in the book of Ravenshaw which disturb the refine ments of our mother tongue. Tn the Elizabethan day plain language was at no discount There are pictures drawn with a rough pen. Yet the pictures agree with the traditions of the period. And after all, what MT, Stephens prom ises in preface In which he ceverly lances MT. Howells Is "mere story" He has kept that promise. One who picks up this story may find fault with 1t, but will lose no opportunity to read 1t to the last line"
 "The Sea Letter, a Tale of Martha's | Vineyard" is a romantic story by Will liam Henry Winslow--a very pretty ! story of sea and shore, of rocks and cliffs and bathing scenes. of pirates and summer boarders, and how some sum mer boarders unearthed glittering gold en treasure from where it had long been buried and solved mysteries of long standing, which resulted in a dainty and beautiful young maiden's discovery of the true history of her birth By this discovery also her fath- er the coast hermit, Is restored to his fortune and estates in Florida, and also to his daughter the aforesaid beautiful young lady whom he thought long since dead The story glides along smoothly, giving bright and gay pen picture of the gaieties of swell social life at the island, until the mysterious message in the bottle washed up by the sea is found and thereafter the romance comes in There are two very happy to cap the climax after the mystery is all duly unravelled. The story is brightly told and will be found # absorbing interest. Published by Henry A. Dickerman & Son, Boston; orice $1.5O, and for sale by all booksell- ITS.
 Among the Great Masters of is very handsomely bound ', ketches and appreciatory comments of amous painters. The text is by Wal CT Rowlands, and there are thirty re- of famous paintings which lone are worth the price of the book. The list of artists of whom the work reats comprises Phdias, Pausias, Cim- bue, Fra Angelica, Hugo Van der foes, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, )urer, Corregio, Michael Angelo Celli- v ii, Titan, Palissy, Tintoretto, Callot, aubens, Brauwer, Van Dyck, Guido, :, 'aul Potter, Velazquez, Poussin, Cano Salvador Rosa, Teniers Wren, Hogarth, Reynolds, Pajou, Car :, eaux and Puvis de Chavannes. The r york Is exceedingly merit orious in all Publisher by Dana Estes & 'o., Boston; the electrotyping and , rinting by the Colonial Press. Cloth, lit top in box, price $1.50. Doubleday, Page & Go. are Just pub V shing Charles H. Caffin's magnificent f ook on Photography as a Fine Art" Y yith hundred pictures showing the V ,ork of such expert photographers as e fired Stieglitz, Gertrude Kasebier, V ames T. Kelley, Frank Eugene, w. B. h yer, Clarence H. White, Edward h teichen and Rudolf Eickmeyer, Jr., nd others who are doing the most of that is artistic in photography
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