The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-12-06


Page < Company. New York. is The
SUI cess Of Mark Wyngate," by the gif-
ted writer Ina L. Silberrad, whose pre-
ious books have attracted much alen-
/ ton On account of their originality Of
thought and subtle charm. In Mark
WyEgate' these qualities are again ap-
parent, and firm, strong touches in de-
scribing telling situations and drama
lie episodes are unusual among women
writers. The story is of Judith LOring
and Mark WyHgate also are working in
partnership to discover a certain opal
escent dye. Mark as a youth had be
friended the girl Judith when she.
motherless and with father dying,
: was in want and sore distress. Judith
! is an exceedingly interesting type Of
woman, one of rare strength of charac-
ter and physical beauty. She is
/ splendid character beautifully drawn.
! In mind and force she is far the supe-
lior OF the cold, passionless Mark Wynn
gate who admires her high meGt2l and
moral strength and her personal beau
| ty, and aWakes at last all too late at
Judith's sublime, supreme self-sacrifice
and tragic end to the realization of the
] woman who had been so important a
factor in his business plans and ambi-
tions-awakes at last to the fact that
she loved him with all the strength of
a high and noble nature. The book is a
strong one, forceful and fascinating.
For sale by all booksellers.
\ happily written romance is His
EXcellency's English Governess," by
Sydney c. Grier,~ whose previous sto-
ries. "A Crowned Queen" Like An
other Helen, The Warden of the
Marches" etc, have been read with
zest by thousands. 1t tells the life of
an English governess. Miss Cecil An
struthers in Bagdad and the region
round about it in Turkish Arabia, and
SO well is the story told that it seems
wonderfully real. Miss Cecil. obtains
lucrative position as the private in
structor of the eleven-year-old Aim
Bey, son and heir-appointive of His
Excellency Ahmed Khemi Pasha.
There is a Fascinating love story run
ming through the book, the charming
and estimable Miss Cecil and DIR.
Charlie Egerton, cousin to the wife of
the resident English consul, being the
lovers. The course of true love does
not run smooth, for many difficulties
and dangers crop out along the lovers
pathway. All this adds much to the
readers interest, but the chief beauty
of the book is, as is we'll said of it by
the Boston Transcript, the luminous
insight it gives of life and manners in
, Turkish Arabia, especially in its &C.
cult relations, and of the impenetrable
maze of plotting and intrigue in which
everything and everybody is in some
way connected or concerned Miss An
struthers is engaged for a term of two
years, which at the end Gf that time is
to be renewed for another period of
three years, when she is to be relieved
of her charge with a large extra bo-
rus. Her pupil plots to keep her from
marrying Egerton, so that she shall
consent to remain near him indefinite
Iy, and his grandmother and his faith
er's wives (his own mother being dead)
plot for the furtherance of their own
sinterests and designs and to feed their
hate and jealousy of the F'rangi Wo-
man. Take it all together, this plotting
is full of surprises in its development,
as might naturally be expected from
the work of past-masters in the art of
intrigue and forms story of continu-
Gus and absorbing interest. and Wtihal
it is so perfectly told, carrying as it
does native color and native atmos-
phere with mastery force, that the
book is really deserving place far SUI
perior to that belonging to a mere work
of fiction. His Excelency's English
Governess" was originally published in
London in 1896" Published by l.. C.
Page & Co., Boston. Price $1.25; for
sale by the Pease-Lewis Company.