The Minneapolis journal., 1902-11-24
NEW BOOKS.

IN KINGS BYwAYs. By Stanley Weyman,
New York: Longmans, Green & Co., 81 and
90 Fifth avenue.
This volume Of short stories of life in
France under the kings Of the seventeenth
and eighteenth centuries-Henrv of Ma
varre, Louis XIV. and others-is more
attractive reading than Weymans long
drawn out historical novels in which he
deposits the work of his imagination tn
MI up the large gaps incident to the ST.
fence OF history and tradition. Having a.
fertile imagination and gift of descriptiye
power, Mr.. Weyman has done somewhat
better than most writer's of historical ro
nance are doing, butathat form OF. litera.-
lure mas not the vogue it had awhile ago.
In this volume the reader will find in
'Cr1llon's Stake For the Cause" "The
Two Pages, 1.-THE Diary of a Statesman,,
and "A Daughter Of the Gironde' interest
ing. In some Of tie stories are described
the terrors of the blood thirsty Lfeue and
tne hldeeous days Of Robespierre's re-
gilne.
sIEfAEN HEN HoLToN. A Story of Life as It II
IN ni,I;o Io"n and Country. By Charles Felton,
l pidgin: Boston: L. G. Page g. Co. Minneap.
OILS: n. Mccarthy. Price 81 80
Th1s is an excellent story in the infer.
est of temperance, the authors reform
plan being to secure rightful ends bv
adopting Ilghtful measures instead of law
lessly smashing saloon windows and de-
stroying property after the manner of
Carrie Nation. He proposes to abolish tho
par by law and introduce an effective sbb
stltute more in keeping with twentieth
century civilization. Stephen FIolton.
pastor OF a little church of the slurns. saw
enough OF the evil of the saloon to make
him a stalwart champion of rational re-
form and the story is full of incidents in
the. progress OF his work and the reader
will not object to the fact that the hard
worked reforn1er, who had found Il most
efficient helper in a former housenaid of
fine quality. married her.
THE HOLE IN THE WALL. BY Arthur Morri-
son, author of ''Fales Of Mean streets,'' etc.
New York: Mcclure, Phillips & Co. Minneap.
oils n: Mccarthy. Price, $3.50.
The title of this book is the name OF q
public house In Wrapping. England, where
Captain Nat Kemp, guardian Of his little
motherless grandson, who tells the story.
sold liquor to sailors and acquired yalu-
ables in pawn for drink or cash lent and
other stuff which was feloniously obtained,
all of which" were put in Il receptacle in
the wall of the building. The BOYS father
captain Of ship, had with him far away
at sea, money for his son. amassed during
many years. This he quietly sent to the
old grandfather, Nat, who put it in the
hole-m- thew but miscreants on the
fathers ship sunk her to get the treasure
he was supposed to- have and he was
drowned. The money in the hole the
wall became thereafter the object of the
lawless endeavors of bad men who dis
covered it was there and the story de-
tails the fights the grandfather had to
guard it until. under peculiar circum-
stances and the influence of his innocent
grandson. he parted with the money,
which in a tragical way went to the bot
tom of the Thames and then the old
grandfather, who had committed many a
crime, reformed after the burning Of the
crime stepped Hole in the-EVall public
house, and the boy was sent to school,
The story is in various places quite thrill-
ing. >.,-
TIE SHADOW OF THE CZAR. BY john R
CARING. Illustrated Boston: Little, Brown
Il Co.
This romance of Polish history of some
four hundred pages is certainly pack ed
full of stirring adventure, dark intrigue
and bloody tragedy sufficiently to crafty
the most ardent devotee Of such literature,
but it is very admirably written and the
author has presented in his heroine the
Princess Barbara, a most splendid and
heroic type of true WonaThood. while the
hero Paul Cressingham, or Woodville. as
he became by inheriting a great English
estate is worthy of her. The story is
based on the historic fact that, under the
rcsettlement of Poland, under the treaty