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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28

f. w. Hornung is to be thanked for res
cuing that resourceful rascal Rafles from
the sea and allowing him to live for more
adventures and burglaries. AT the end of
the Amateur Craftsman" it will be re-
membered, Raffles succeeds i'm making his
escape from the OBTAINING officer by plung-
ing headlong over the side of a ship and
disappearing into the glorious sunset.
Bunny" the companion of his many
crimes, is left to the tender mercies of the
law and docs time for the discovery of
the big jewel, the Emperor's gift. No
reader who knew Raffies, however, is sur
prised to find him again in London, dis
guised in the garb of an incurable invalid
brought back TO enjoy the pleasure of dying
in his native land. Under the title of
"Raffies" Mr.. Hornung relates more stories
of burglaries cunningly and carefully
planned and executed by Rallies and Bun
ny, with the former, of course, the leading
spirit of the enterprises. Raffles, in these
his further adventures, is the same old
delightful character. cultured, resourceful.
droll and remorseless, stealing as much for
the excitement of achievement and the
pleasure of execution as for the gain in
pounds, shillings and pence. In fact, in
the story of "A Jubilee Present. Rafies,
after recklessly taking a beautiful golden
cup. worth several thousand pounds, from
the Museum. returns it to the Queen sim
ply because it is too beautiful to be smash
ed and melted for the sake of the bullion
gold IN it. There are eight well told stories
in the book. all exciting and characteristic
of Rallies and Bunny. and the last one,
The Knees of the Gods" leaves a great re-
greet that Mr.. Hornung should have seen
ht to have Raffies definitely bowled over by
a Boer bullet while he was serving his
country with the army in South Africa in
the same daring. reckless spirit he had
shown in his private enterprises at home.
Charles Scribner's Sons.
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THE ~QUIBERON TOUCH.

Cyrus Townsend Brady is surely a master
hand in the writing of sea stories and ro-
mances, and in none of his other books has
be used his art to better advantage than in
the "Quiberon Touch" With the daring
capture of Quebec from the French by
General Wolfe and his gallant little hand
full of Englishmen, and the destruction of
the French fleet by the great Lord Hawke,
together with the stirring times on land
and sea which came in between those two
events, Mr.. Brady has constructed a ro-
nance of more than thrilling interest. His
style is f%orceful. imaginative and vigorous,
and his descriptions of the battles between
the wooden war vessels of those times are
exciting in the extreme. The love affair of
Captain Philip Grafton, of the British navy,
and the beautiful young Countess Anne De
Rohan, chatelaine of J~osselin, is exquisite
ly told, and in the tender scenes between
them Mr.. Brady shows the same strength
as in his battles. 1.-THE Quiberon Touch"
is certainly a rafting good romance. d.
Appleton & Co.
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PAPA ~BOUCHARD.

When the parrot, Pierrot, perhaps weary
of his seventeen years Of life in the Rue
Clarisse. hoped off the balcony and went
forth to find the gayeties of Paris, Elise
said to Mademoiselle Bouchard: Depend
upon it, mademOiselle, that ungrateful
Pierrot will never come back of his own
accord. If he had been a she bird, now
but Pierrot is like the rest of his sex. It's
in them to run away-and run away they
will" And sure enough, in the same chap
ter. Papa Bouchard, the brother whom
mademoiselle has brought to the age of
ifty-four in a clean, blameless mode of
life, engages bachelor apartments in the
Rue BassanO, overlooking a cafe chantant
or two and half a dozen brilliant restau-
rants; and, what is still worse, takes with
him in the capacity of valet. Pierre, hus-
secret longing to see some side Of Partisan
life not quite so quiet as that on the Rue
Clarisse. With the detection of these three
male members of the dove-cote, Molly Ell
lott Seawell proceeds, in her inimitable
way. TO complicate matters. and TO make
the story OF Papa Bouchard" one of the
sprightliest little books OF the season. The
situations and adventures in the naughty
cafes and gardens of Paris are droll in
the extreme, and the characters are light,
airy and delightfully."- human and full of
spirit. Charles Scribner's Sons.
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ANNIE DEANE.

Brentanos, of New York, do not publish
many books. but in this one they present a
story Of human, tragic and passionate eie-
ments. 1t is by an English author, A. F..
Slade. and is a story of English life. 1t
might be called a conventional English
story were it not too far out of the ordi-
nary TO be so characterized In a remote
way it IS suggestive of Hardy's "Tess of
the D'Urbervilles," but only remotely. The
heroine, Annie Deane, a beautiful, trusting
and unsophisticated country girl, laughter
of a village blacksmith, reaches, by a some
what different road, the same sad fate as
Tess. An accidental meeting with a cul-
tured young vocalist from the city and the
clandestine acquaintance that followed.
leading 10 a course of true love that ran
smoothly for a while, only TO end in hide
Gus ruin, marks the beginning of a life of
sorrow and strange adventure. The de-
scription of the early meetings of the low
ers would make a bright picture were ii
not that the inevitable end casts its shad-
ow before. When Annie's ruin overtakes
her she finds herself with her lovers pho
tograph and a check for &25, but he is gone.
and she does not even know his name. Dis
cardeG by her father, but sustained by her
mother, she seeks service in London, where
she at once begins her life work OF finding
the father of her child. The PHOTOGRAPH
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GARCILASO.

"Garcilaso" is a fairly well told story of
the days when Ferdinand and Isabella
ruled Spain. told by j. Breckenridge Ellis,
and from the press of A. c. McClurg & Co.
There is a double love story running
through it-that of the somewhat vainglori-
Gus Spaniard whose name gives the book
its title, and a maid whom he sought long
to find, but holly r%enounced when he found
she was not a Catholic, and that of his
friend. a German knight, who long had
been in love with the same heroine. and
whose religious faith was of not so stern
a mold as that of the hero. The story treats
of field. and camp, and palace. with friend
ly tournaments and hostile passages at
arms. and in the closing chapters deals
with the haling of Garcilaso before the in
QUESTION and his escape therefrom. So the
book viii be found interesting, and as it is
attractively bound and well printed should
have cOnSfderabl HE vogue
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NEW CANTERBURY TALES.

Mr.. Maurice Hewlett has the ability,
which belongs to but few who weave fiction
about the past, to invest his tales with an
air of reality. The personages who move
through his plays are not automatons, but
breathe the breath of life. What they do
is done because it is natural and inevitable
for them, not because their author pulls
the strings. His characters, therefore, i'm
press themselves upon the reader. Who
ever has read Richard Yea and Nay"
for instance, will, in spite of himself,
thereafter find his opinion of that King Of
England colored by the characterization
of him in that novel. 1.-THE New Canter-
bury tales are fresh proofs of his skill in
setting forth the medieval. Chaucer's pill
grims, he assures us, were not the only
ones who went the Canterbury way, and
so six of them whom Chaucer did not
know tell each a tale which together make
a single romance. There is the glamour
of old-time about them. but an individual
ity of style and treatment that make them
seem very human. The Tales" are a fine
artistic bit of work. The Macmillan Com
pany, publishers.
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THE TORY LOVER.

Miss Sarah Orne Jewett is so great a
favorite as a delineator of contemporary
New England life that doubtless many of
her admirers had a feeling of regret when
she turned her attention to the historical
novel. So many can produce such novels;
so few can write acceptably of the people
of to-day. However, while the readers of
her short stories will probably still main
tain that she is at her best in the field
which she has made so especially her own
they cannot reasonably find fault with her
Tory Lover" In it she has taken that
doughty patriot. John Paul Jones, for her
leading character. the lover young Rog-
er Wallingford, taking a secondary place.,
in spite of the authors evident fondness
for him. He is a manly young fellow, how
ever. who meets with various misadven-
lures because he is suspected by his as
sociates of cherishing Tory inclinations,
even after he has become an officer on
JOnes's ship. Miss Jewett has succeeded in
investing her story with an atmosphere of
%actuality. The characters seem like real
personages and yet are of another century,
not of to-day. Though there is abundant
opportunity for it there is a pleasing alb
sence of swashbuckling to which readers
of recent historical fiction have become so
accustomed. The author holds herself in
admirable restraint, and the result is a
story that seems to represent a bit of revo-
lutionary life and a group of revolutionary
people as they really were. She has evil
IDENTIFY made a close study of Jones's char
acter and has not made him a hero with
out flaw. The story is worth reading for
more reasons than one. There are several
illustrations, among them a portrait of
Mary Hamilton" the heroine. whose at
tractiveness explains why both Jones and
Wallingford were her ardent lovers.
Houghton, Miffiin & Co, Boston.
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CT or THE FICTION WRITERS

sophisticatedness The new school of fiction
above referred to brings out some of these
qualities. Mr.. Give Hollands My Japan
csc Wife dealt with the subject very deft-
~, and SO does ~ japanese Nightingale
a new story by apparently a new author.
The name of the alleged author, Onoto
Watanna, is evidently assumed. The book
bears internal evidence of having been
written by either an Englishman or an
American. But the author, whoever he
may be, shows familiarity with Jap
anese life. character and dialect, and
has written a good story. 1t is a
pretty romance, in which the good
points of the japanese character, and espe-
ciaIly of the japanese women and their
capacity for disinterested and passionate
love. are brought out in a manner that is in
structive as we'll as entertaining. Neverthe-
less. one finds that a heather woman can
be jealous and tell fbs as we'll as her Chris
tan sister. The Japanese atmosphere of the
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-28

Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett's novelette,
The Making of a Warehouses" which ran
through several numbers of a leading
magazine during the year, has been put into
book form and is TO be classed among
the most readable of the seasons fiction.
1t is the story of Emily FoX-Seton and her
fortunes. but Emily. sweet, unselfsh and
deserving as she is, and much as the reader
is pleased when she wins without conscious
effort the prize that all the other women
are coveting, is not the most interesting
character in the book. That distinction is
reserved for Lady Maria Bayne, a shrewd,
sharp-tongued, selfish old woman. The
story is pleasantly told, ends agreeably and
can be read at a sitting-all recommended
tons to the habitual novel reader. Mrs.
Burnett cannot write a dull book, and in
this volume she returns to her early style
which won her so much fame. 1t is said
that she is about to publish a story telling
still more Of the history of some of the
characters in this book. Stokes & Co,
New York.
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island with knights and ladies who. with
all their chivalry, adventures and love for
the lists, might ave just stepped forth
from King Arthur's court. The events of
the story take place in the time when
William the Norman yet dreamed of Ed
wards crown, and Harold kept the
marches of Edwards kingdom" and the
characters are most BETTING the times
women strong enough to wed the men of
their choice, regardless of opposition of
kings or courts, and men ready if neces-
sary, to die. lance and sword in hand. to
uphold their lady queen of love and beauty.
The romance of "Karadac, Count OF Ger
say" is of exceeding interest, with its pas
sionate, half-barbaric loves. its fierce bat
ties in the lists, its superstitions, and, with
the glamour of the old knighthood days
throwing a charm over all, is really fasci-
mating. Frederick A. Stokes Company.
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scenery. life and character. They read as
if drawn from life or founded on fact and
are tinged with a mildly reminiscent air,
as If the author were drawing on her MEM
DRY more than on her imagination. The
Our County referred to is doubtless
Amelia county. Virginia, where the author
was born. Each one of the nine stories is
complete in itself. and they are skillful
combinations of character sketches and
story, the Virginia landscape, the Virginia
surroundings and the Virginia atmosphere
being pleasantly conspicuous in all of them.
They are illustrated by photographs of
scenery taken on the spot. New York: G. p.
Putnam's Sons.
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A JAPANESE NIGHTINGALE.

TIL growing intimacy OF our relations
with Japan-perhaps one might say of the
relations between the Occident and the
Orient-has begotten a new school of fc-
ton. There is something very charming in
the best side of the home life Of Oriental
peoples. especially in that of the Japanese,
the most natural. p%Oetical. imaginative and
interesting OF all Oriental peoples. They
have been called the Yankees of the East
on account of their enterprise and pro-
gressiveness. but they surpass American
Yankees IN their innate simplicity and IN
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serves as a valuable ciew. The child proves
to be musical and becomes a singer. Father
and son meet without knowing the rela-
tionship that exists between them, though
the mother does. Finally the inevitable
knowledge comes to all of them in a situa-
ton which is full of pathos. suffering and
retribution. The father of Annie's child was
not naturally and deliberately base; he
was only weak and selfish, and through all
his successful musical career he carries
tender and remorseful remembrance of
her. Her own life is one of noble devotion
and self-sacrifce, and while she is a victim
of a too common social tragedy she repre-
sents, also, an original creation in fiction,
the memory of which remains with the
reader. The story has many other char
acters besides those mentioned and is dra-
matte from beginning to end.
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story is aided by delicate subtoned illus
trations on every page, which, though often
repeated, do not become tiresOme. These
illustrations purport to be by Genjiro Veto,
which is probably another pseudonym for
a skillful English or American artist. The
illustrations are good, but the story would
be interesting without them. New York:
Harper & Brothers.
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inserted twelve fuli-page drawings by ].
II. Vanderpoel.
Mr.. Andrews is now living at a country
place in California and is at work on an
other novel. the scenes Of which are laid
In Colorado. With him is his wife. who is
also his adviser in his writing. On the fly
leaf of "A Parft Gentil knight" is this
dedication: ITO the sympathetic and in
spring collaboration. who is my wife"
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The above illustration appears in Maurice
Thompson's novel "Rosalynde's Lovers"
which was oun among his papers after
his death, and was lately published by the
Bowen-Merrill Company. 1t pictures a
residence in the indiana town where the
scene of the story is laid.
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IN 4 COUNTY.

Without being ungallant it may be said
that Marion Harland CMrs. Mary V. Ter
hune) is getting far enough along in years
she is sixty-nine-to be tempted to in
dulge occasionally in retrospection. She be-
gan to write for the press at fourteen and
has been a prolific writer all her life, pro-
ducing a surprising amount OF clean and
wholesome literature. I'm Our County is
a series of nine disconnected stories. or,
rather, sketches, founded upon Virginia
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When My Lady Peggy Goes to Town."
as related in the vivacious comedy bear
ing tina title, issued by the Bowen-Merrill
Company, she dons her brothers clothes
and passes for a young man of fashion.
While in this garb she attracts the at
tention of Beau Brummel. and the two are
renresented above.
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Although the authors. X. and Hesketh
Prichard, confess that they have been I'M
able TO find any record of Jersey history
descriptive of the period during which
Karadac ruled. they have peopled that
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The SucceCc Of the Year

GA great book for the children; away
ahead ofthe ordinaryjingle and rhymes
one finds so often. "--Tribune, Salt Lake
"One of the best Juveniles published.
1t would be well if the volume could
be placed in the hands oe every child
in the land."-Burlington Hawk-Eye-
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EUDN STTLTD n TUTThN. TUm" TNMmTUSNL
The C NJ Clark Publishing Company, of Boston. with Caro- NJ Clark, a young
woma its active head and proprietor. finds itself now at the conclusion Of the first
year of existence holding the distinction Of having produced bt. w books, both of
which quickly achieved thtc coveted postion-a place On the list of six bests selling
books in tisc country. The first of these was Quincy Adams awyer' ~ Charles
Fetn Pdgin which quickly went through several editions until mad passed the
mark, and eontnuest to be" "a good seller" 1T is a ratting goodhomespu story e
New England life is the common verdict. The second book brought ot by this
house was "Blennerhassett"a romance of Aaron Burr. y the same author who
wrote heir first book 1t Don came into demand aO.
Both books are atuactvay bound, finely illustrated ad will have their place
amongt the popular holiday volumes.
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$50 good that none is better."-
Times, Albany.
"The great Juvenile book of the
year."-DesMoine Capitol.
zone of the clevercst Juvenile books
eve issued. "-Cap Sedalia, Mo.
eff there is a brighter child's book it
is slow in coming. New York World.
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CIVIL take a foremost place among
books for children. News, Newark
n. ].
CIVIL set a whole lot of people
wondering why they never thought of
that sort of child's book. Herald
Rochester, n. Y.
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Kids Of Many Colors

"Has all the elements Of a sure sue
cess.-Nashville American.
"Will make a strong appeal to little
readers and picture lovers. boston
Transcript.
obstructive as well as entertaining;
i, is simply incompatible. States,
New Orleans.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-01-25
The AdmIrnI.n nrrcL

a we'll known admiral who did nota-
bic service in the war with Spain told
n good story on himself when In town
recently. He came TO the city during
the restoration of Independence hall
for no other purpose than TO secure one
OF the original bricks OF the historic
structure. One day he visited the hall
ard told the caretaker who he was and
what he wanted That official. willing
to do favor for such distinguished
person, wrapped up one OF the bricks
and handed 1t to the admiral. who was
profuse in his thanks.
Upon his arrival in Washington the
admiral gave further evidence of his
gratitude by writing q letter TO Direct
or Ritter expressing thanks to him.
What was his surprise the next day TO
receive call from the caretaker who
had given him the brick, with the
statement that II he did not bring II
back TO Philadelphia at once lie would
surely lose his job. Reluctantly the
admiral returned the cherished brick.
a short time after he received the
identical brick, accompanied by n slip
OF paper on which was written. "Si-
lence is golden. "-Philadelphla Record.
Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-01-25
What Japan Is Doing

Each japanese soldier" SAYS Colo.
mel Webb &. Hayes, who has just re-
turned from China, carries n little
broom with which he brushes his cos.
tune. They differed very greatly from
even the American soldiers. We had
what the captain thought was right
and what the quartermaster had In
store. They had what the regulations
demanded. They are new at this husl.
ness and have everything that is re-
CURED
The japanese soldiers on this march
Illustrated what the nation is that is
behind them In the sixties the en-.
peror decided for western civilization
ana went In TO obtain what was tho
best. They went TO Germany for the
military discipline. to. England for
their navy. and they have a good one
now. and then to America for a public
school system.
1T is rather cold blooded proposI.
uon, but they are now casting about
Tor their religion. and when we see
what II Is we shall have the perfect
one. They are gathering the best from
the whole world and are making OF
themselves an ideal nation"