The Minneapolis journal., 1903-04-17
NEW BOOKS.

FROM THE UNVARYING STAR. BY ELLIS
worth Lawson, Author, of ''Euphrosyne and
:. Her Golden Book" New York: The Mac
milan Company. Price, S1.5O.
:. Stephen Austin. the hero of this book.
cultivated dissenting minister in. an
English country town, went thru the deep
waters Of self-sacrifice and endured re-
proach and Misrepresentation because of
his desire to shield a beloved sister who
had been drawn into the peculiar sin
which shuts a, woman out of society which
seeks even to bar her out from hope of
forgiveness, so 'antagonizing God Himself,
who saves to the utternost. Austin stood
and found and sheltered the sister so long
as she lived. His own love affair is mar
rated with great beauty and power and
Helen Faucit from the day the two met
in the. glory of the summer in the wood
and she gave him the spray of oak leaves.
appears as a rarely lovely and strong
andss womanly character: - Austins good
angel, crowning his life; sorrow and JOY
with llrl}s blessing. After passing thru the
hilltops with joyful songs. % :
HAND IN HAND. Verses by Mother and
Da,ghter. Doubleday, Page & Co. Mime,
apolis: N. Mccarthy. , Price, ST. ,4,
= Most Of the poems in this volume are
venses breathe a note Of sadness, as If her
memory was surcharged with sorrow and
shadow; with occasional bursts Of sun.
shine. If she sings bar Of welcome to
spring. she, subsidies, i1rs rsgloem as. .Sgsvs
Knocked by retttrniTg Spring, turn aside
To my gray cloister. Never more for me
Will her blythe. message.i In my heart abide
To cheer me with it's green felicity.
Hers As the voice Of youth, or: hope new
- y sDOrn, ( r. > E.. E." (
Aid wakes no echo in a. life outworrnn:s',ss y, !
The daughter sings herself generally out
of the shadows and
Let me still smile since Death connot,be-
Remembered love, and love was never
is the dominant sen tfpaent,'' "A Little Sin, -
"The Woman' Shara l;sH,SSssssss Better Dream
Than Weep 'secrgtsSEare good examples
Of her poetic gift (which is certainly
genuine. II -. 4%#>*.@ 2..@ n.
THE TURQUOISE: CUP AND THE DESERT.
York: Charles scribner's Sons. Minneapo-
lis: NJ Mccarthy. Price, $1.25. 10
A brace of genuinely good stories. The
first as pretty love story as was ever
penned, with a case of conscience in it,
A beautiful Irish girl and an English earl
in Venice; the girl requiring the wonderful
! turquoise cup in the treasury OF st. Mark
as the proof of the earls devotion. If the
| latter gets it he must steal it.. He cannot
but it. Thereby hangs the tale. The Ole
cardinal is besought by the earl to help
him out. And he does, but in a very in
teresting way. ;A-turquoise cup was stoler
from St. Marks, but the cardinal took care
| that it was sbogus. = The earl had his sew
eral quarter hours of guilt and penitence
and the genuine cup became, curiousy
enough, the bridal present of the Irish
beauty The morality of the tale is not
altogether perfect. 1.-The Desert is also
a love story and very charn1ingly writer
and purely of the desert and beautiful
! girl of the desert. One can hardly blame
Abdullah for shifting his religious stand.
point to have. Nicha for his wife-a gir
whose beauty filled the room as would {
perfume, when shes removed her veil.
CoRNET STRONG OF IREToN's HORSE. BY
Dora Greenwell McChesney.z :, Illustrated
New York: John Lane, 81, g.
The author has drawn upon a period
1fun Of romance and heroism for this story
;lSShe has already written two stories O.
I the Cavaliers and Roundheads. and zlla:
shown herself abundantly capable of en-:
tering .sinto the real spirit OF that bloody
conflict. which meant SO much for tn.
liberties of England, even if the saint.
: Of Cromwell were, as q general thing, fa1
from being immaculate saints. Miss Nc
! Chesney has a most picturesque style and
IinEdescribing the career ofReuben Strong
i and the taking up of his work by Deborah
i Strong, the mother, to redeem the vov
1 Of her huband to fight. in the '.cause o
/ Cod" she portrayss IN most thrilling
manner the hard and cruel army life o
1 those days Of blood and terror. The pas
sage where Deborah is brought befor
j Cromwell and Fairfax and her sex is re
/ vealed is. inpresstvelya dramatic. and tn
author, throughout consistently sets fortl
the stern, relentless spiritssef the army o
parliament, all the great characters. Cav
alier and Roundhead, figuring in the story