The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-12
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DOROTHY VERNON OF HADDoN
HALL, by Charles Major:
CPubllshed by the Macmillan company.
For sale by Preston & Rounds. $500
II would appear from the tale of Doro-
thy Vernon as written by Malcolm Ver-
non. a cousin, that that spirited heroine
and Sir John Manners postponed their
elopment unnecessarily long. For SIR
George Vernon did not repent, he plain
ly never would have consented to the
marriage and the couple were compelled
to run away after all. If they had only
taken that course, say in about chapter
Ave of cousin Malcolm's tale, they would
have been spared many trials and much
suffering which In no wise contributed
TO a different or more decorous conclusion
than seems to have been foredained and
always available.
Mr. Howard Chandler Christy pictures
Dorothy for us. particularly in frontis-
piece that affords carefully drawn por-
trait i'm riding costume Developed from
a freckled face, lanky specimen of IL
years, as cousin Malcolm saw her last
prior 10 the opening Of this tale, Doro-
thy became a wonderful beauty, notably
the country side around for glory OF face
and carriage and marvellous red hair,
that we gather, may have been not unlike
Mrs Leslie Carters, for instance. AL
though the frontispiece portrait Is
touched with pretty colors, Mr. Christy
doesn't venture TO interpret the red hair,
which Is TO be regretted
Well, our Dorothy is a loud girl, for
sure. Perhaps IL is her Leslie Carter hair.
But, then, il was a loud age. that of
Elizabeth prior TO the convenient removal
OF Mary Stuart. The family of the Yer
mons and the Manners have been arrayed
against one another for generations-the
Montagues and Capulets of Derbyshire.
l. kfa,., hot lfll
falls i'm love with and he and Malcolm
Vernon have about decided that the feud
ought TO end. Sir George, Of course,
would never hear of ending the deud or
consent TO such a match and IT Is kept
from him for long time. Meanwhile he
proposes 10 marry Doll TO Malcolm, again
TO a Lord Stanley and again TO Leicester
himself-and he drinks brandy and acts
altogether nasty when his plans are frus-
trated through one cause or another until
Sir John Manners runs of with Dorothy
and the story and the plans of her violent
father come 20 an abrupt and generally
satisfactory conclusion. IL Is hard,
though to conceive OF either Dorothy or
Sir John ever settling down"
We mote, with pain that Mr.. Christy's
girls as here illustrated, are getting to be
at least six footers.
LOST ON THE oRINoCo. by Edward
stratemeyer:
| Q.ee and Shepard. publishers. For sale
by Davis $1,000
IL will be welcome news 10 the boys that
MIR Stratemeyer has started a new series
| that promises TO be a mighty entertaining
| addition TO his already large contribution
| TO wholesome juvenile fiction. Lost on
| the Orinoco" is a story OF American boys
| In Venezuela and is the first of series
| 10 be known as the American series,
| the plain justification for which is TO be
| found I'm recent events particularly. and
| generally I'm the broadening interest that
| the people OF the North American conti-
| nent take in their South American cou-
4 sins. the great family that still bear the
1 stamp Of Spanish conquest I'm their Ian
guaRe. Like other series OF this popular
| writer the FIRST volume I'm the Pan-Ameri-
| ca Is a complete story by itself. but the
| people IL introduces Will doubtless be our
| acauaintances through sundry volumes 90
| come The story introduces five wide
| awake Yankee boys who visit the dilapi-
| dated but picturesque country OF Vcnezue-
| Ia I'm the company Of man who has
| achieved distinction as n traveller and
| hunter and Is now a professor. Amid ex-
citing incident and adventure. the lads
| and the reader learn lot about the
4 country, It's plantations. its industries. its
| past history and It's present condition.