The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-20
NEW BOOKS

THE QUEEN OF QuELPARTE. By Archer But
Ter Hubert. Illustrated by Lukens Boston:
Little, Brown Co., No. 254 Washington
street.
The author bases this interesting ro-
nance on facts which came under his op-
servation while acting as Korean CORE
spondent for several American journals IN
lS97-9S The story is largely given to the
adroit movements of Russian intrigue to
secure Port Arthur and make it a second
Gibraltar and the hero, Robert Martyn
is an associate with the Russian Colonel
Oranon and his daughter in, the business.
The island of Quelparte some years ago
was the object of Russian and British am
b1tlon to make it a great strategic point
each watching every motion of the others
naval squadron to prevent the other from
occupying it. Later when Russia fixed her
eyes on Port Arthur after the Japan China
war; she intrigued to have Japan take
Quelparte as compensation for her own
seizure of Port Arthur, disposition which
China tried to prevent. The deepest in
terest in the story follows the account Of
the funeral of the queen of Quelparte
(Quelparte standing for Korea), who was
murdered at the Korean capital in 1895
because she was suspected of favoring the
transfer OF Korea to Russia. The Russian
game encountered an obstacle in Chinese
intrigue. An impostor, dressed and look
ing like Colonel Oranoff, nearly blocks the
Russian plan, and the colonels daughter is
conspicuous in the most tragical scenes,
which follow each other with great rapid
ity till one feels surfeited with horrors
All these things might very we'll have oc-
CURED, for Russian intrigue was at work.
1t need not be stated that the cars ennis
saries won. The love episode is fine
TOM TAD. By William Henry venab1e. New
York: nodd, Mead & Co. 372 Fifth avenue
Minneapolis w. Donaldson & Co. Price 81 so.
This is good story of boy Tom Tad
more. and several other boys with odd
names and characters in the Miami VAL
ley OF Ohio: These boys are real boys,
even "Old Barclay" the meanest boy in
| the lot, and Sam Noggle, Seneca Shocks
and Alice Thug, and Squinty Runkle Tom
was the best Of the lot and the local
schoolmaster let them talk horrible lot Of
very bad grammar. But there is some
heroism among them as appears in the ac-
count of the big Ohio river flood of 1884,
| when the old stream rose seventy feet
above normal stage.
THE PHARAOH AND THE PRIEST. An His
torical Novel of Ancient Egypt From the
Original Polish Of Alexander Giovatski. By
jeremiah o,i Curtin Translator of With Fire
and Sword "Quo Vadis'' etc.. Illustrated.
Boston: Little. Brown & Co. Price, 1.50.
The author, a graduate of the University
| of Warsaw, has published seventeen books
dealing with Polish types. and presenting
realistic pictures of life at the close of the
| nineteenth century. This is the first of his
books which has appeared in this country
| The period Of this story is the eleventh
century before the Christian era, when
| the twentieth dynasty came to an end and
new dynasty came into power with
sovereign self chosen. The story is seven
| hundred octave pages long, and is at times
| exceedingly dull, but it is packed with in
| formation about the period of the action,
| the government, social life. industries.
religion, etc., not always consistent with
| the more recent knowledge recorded by
distinguished Psychologists who have ex-
humed the civilization of old Egypt back
| to the first dynasty.