The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-29

materials Mrs. Clifford has woven a
 engaging and fascinating comed
 which is replete with bright epigram
 matio passage at arms between tn
 irascible Cartouche and his friends an
 visitors, and many flashes of wit als
 enliven the situation. In the end tru
 love wins all around the board am
 three weddings appear in sight.
 '"rhe Sin of Jasper Standish' b.
 Rita" the well known and popula,
 author of Vanity" "Sheba," "Th'
 Good Mrs. Hypocrite,' etc. R. F, Fen
 no & Co.,, New York, publishers, will b'
 found to be a work of uncommon inter
 est, much more so to most readers thai
 some of the much extolled books of the
 past year, It is a story essentially anc
 the author knows how to tell it. There
 is mystery about Standish which i'm
 mediately aWakenS and quickens the
 readers interest and the startling rev 1 citations which come at last with stand
 ishs dramatic ending as a fleeing felon
 his tragic death cheating the galloWs of
 it's due, are related with the skill and
 felicity which have crowned the au- thors previous efforts with success. The book is unsensational, yet alive and prolific with incident. The various peo- pie who figure in the story are realistic. There is retired, wealthy English man, a widower who leases the Her mitage, beautiful but decaying estate in Ireland which he restores and re- habilitates and makes his home His | s1 f,1T iuh girl, former mates at boarding school
 become fast friends. Their respective lovers also figure in this bright tale of Irish village life and people One of the strongest figures is a widow, housekeeper for the English gentle man, His wrongs have blighted her life and her one purpose is to discover and bring the betrayer of her dead daughter to the bar of justice. It is 6 | fascinating and lifelike story. The book is for sale by Judd. Price $1.25.
 | "The Assassins," by Nevill Meakim | published by Henry Holt & Co, New York price $1 50. For sale by the Pease- l Lewis company Here is a tale out of | the ordinary run which deals with peo- | pes and potentates of the times of the 1 Crusaders and Ismalians and abounds with adventurous deeds and pictur- esque situations and scenes and inci- dents worthy of the Arabian Nights and all cleverly told and very enter taining. The hero Hassan, a Bedouin captive has a new adventure and exhib its kniPhtly powers on almost every page and the beautiful Saida whom he finds during his brief stay in Para disc" and from whom he is too soon rudely separated. proves an inspirations to him and spur to honorable deeds all through his subsequent career, The story brings upon the scene the knight ly Saladin who, being a rival of the grand master of the order of amalga- mated assassins, Hassan is deputed to assinate, paradise forever to be his re- ward therefor; and also in the story King Richard, the Lion Heart, and his amalgamated hosts of crusaders appear together with vivid accounts of skirm- ishes and slaughtering of prisoners and seges and of battles with the sultan's armies. The story as story is success beyond doubt. The interest is well sustained to it's very dramatic end ing Of the Assassins the New York lIlDuHe TeIldTKS III tHb cuufSe Ol q re- view of the book: Prom the novel of modern life, however skilfully written it may happen to be, it Is sometimes a pleasure to turn to some book which is so remote in its theme and SO fantastic in its atmosphere as to seem to have no 1 relation to the actual life of any period | in the history of the world. "The As | sassins" is such a story, as extra ordin- | ary in it's incidents al tale out of the | Arabian Nights, but perhaps for that l very reason. unusually entertaining | The reader who takes it up would do | well to put out of his mind all expec- | tation of mere credibility and to yield himself to the enjoyment of altogether amazing things. Tn fact from begin ming to end, MT Meakin crowds his pages with spectacular and grim occur rences. The last chapter, one Is sure, will contain just the climax for which one has been looking; but as q matter of fact, the author here gives his nar- rative a turn which is az surprising as 1t Is artistic"
 "The Winding Road" is vivid story of remarkable interest by Elizabeth who has already won a large
  array of readers by her previous books such as Poor Human Nature" "The l Harp of LifeS etc. This book is pub ished, by Henry Holt & Co., and is for ( sale at Judds, price s1.50 The scene If the story is laid chiefly in England f md very pretty pictures and glimpses f If English scenery and life and charac- Z er in one of the farming and sheep 7 'aising districts are given incidental f o the unfolding of the story of the love if the sweet and pretty Phenice--the f armers daughter and only solace of n lis declining years--for a refined and f ,entee wanderer. This wandering :, minstrel finds his way occasionally to Vi he farm with his violin and soon exer- ises an irresistible fascination upon he lovely and lonely girl whose heart as been pledged without her consent or c ove to her cousin, who is matter of ' act, reliable assistant at the farm stern n nd true to duty but who neglects the T yooing for the care of the sheep There F