The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-06-08
NEW FABRICATION.

'Ine GOOd Red Eartn' IS the happ,
 well chosen title of a new book by tha
 gifted author, Eden Phillpotts, who's
 previous works have given him an es
 tablished place among the most artis
 tic and most meritorious fiction writers of the day. His Children of the Mist,
 Sons of the Morning" and "Lyins
 Prophets" have won for him a large
 constituency among the cultured pub
 lie and his new book will be eagerly
 sought for. His portraiture of west ol
 England landscapes and people are
 distinctly the work of literary artist
 and the "good red Devon earth" its
 fields and farms, its harvest times, its
 skies and waters and ancient edifices
 stand out vividly and beautifully
 Choice pictures they are and the ar-
 lists soul is in his work. His work is
 painstaking, yet not labored. It is not
 hurried and one loves to dwell upon his
 word pictures, especially the lover of
 nature in her varied moods. He has the gift of poetic expression. Take this vista from the hill overlooking the hamlet of Marldon, seen through the
 eyes of the lovers Sibella and Richard: "A great shoulder of the grass lands
 concealed the village, where it lay far below. and swept in vast and regular undulations worn out by waters that
 rolled and retreated hence before the
 birth of man. Unnumbered or
 chards filled the valleys with sober summer green; and they were set against red earth or the brightness of whitewashed cots; while beyond this immediate field of view, separated therefrom by gentle hill crests and great woodlands, dale upon dale of sim liar character extended and faded with diminishing perspective into the hazes of noon. Distance modified the abrupt changes of color under the various cu- tivation, and the soft south wind, moist with long kissing of the sea, swept all and brought great hazes, dewy and op- aline, that washed the world with li- quid light.
 "The grass on the ruin waved; the harvest about it's base swayed and rip pied over the steep hill, The corn tops were a golden green against the darker stems and foliage. They whispered and rubbed delicately together and made the hushed music of waters flowing far away; they bent in unison, and, as floods of colorless light swept over their heads. the scarlet of poppies ap- peared, with the lavender of gypfy roses and the golden eye of a corn chry- santhemum; even as waves ebbing about an ocean, facing rock reveal the 1. Al throb."
 There are also strong character pie tures chief among which for success ful work in this important line is AL pheus Newte. the oily, sanctimonious, canting pedlar and would-be lay preacher, who plays a rascally trick with Sibellas long hidden legacy and with the documents which reveal the se- cret of her high birth. The lord of the manor, proud unbending, stubborn, yet upright and honorable, who finds at last to his unspeakable joy that the beauti- full sibella is his child, is another drawn character. There are several strong dramatic incidents in the story. Of "The Good Red Earth" the New York Tribune says: His Devon figures have veritable blood in their veins and they move against a back ground which has the quality of true in. it' The Chicago Record Herald says: "The Good Red Earth" smells of the country. Local coloring and characters make the story interest ing. Alpheus Newte is quite piece of character drawing and his remarkable flow of language lends humor to the story. The authors portraiture of west of England landscapes and people has given Eden Phillpotts a distinctive place among fiction writers of to-day"
 The Book Buyer (Charles scribners Sons) happily says: He is very en- tertaining scamp, this MT. Newte, and l very human one, not~a theatrical agent of darkness, but a self-seeking aypocrite who, having attained his own aim, is sincerely willing, and able, too, to help others. He comes out strong in the end. well deserves the hanks of the lord of the manor, for in III his life of deceit and cant he has never been so much himself as he is in hat one moment when, utterly disin- crested he straightens out tangled | paths and departs with an old mans | blessing and his check for five thou ,and pounds" The book is published | ,y Doubleday, Page & Co at $1.50; for | ale at Judd's.
 "Joscelyn Cheshire" by Sara Beau | nunt Kennedy; Doubleday, Page & co.; $150; for sale at Judd's. This is
 real tale of the Revolution in the ] 1arolinas Mistress Joscelyn herself | S so ardent Tory as to drive Master | Richard Clevering torn between love md patriotism, well nigh to despair. The pictures of life in the prison hulks f Wallabout Bay, more dreaded by the than death itself, are in- ensely dramatic. The story is of deci- ed interest throughout the war scenes nd love scenes and dramatic incidents bound. True love wins, and the reader ,ill think the patriotic and devoted richard well earned his prize. Of 1 his very attractive story the New -ork World says: "In an exquisite finding of pale blue and white this tory comes into book form after serial in Everybody's Magazine t is a novel of the Revolution. Among magazine readers it was received with 1arked favor, and it well deserves a lsting popularity now that it has ar ived at separate covers. The heroine,
 delicious Carolinian and Tory to the ole of her foot; the hero, a stalwart, lanly patriot who sets out to whip the ing's men and by token of his loving ill, to force the .royalist maid also into
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