The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-27


 ageF of The Associated Press.
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 Phillip Oppenheim has certainly writ ten one of the most interesting works
 of fiction of the year in his "A Prince Of Sinners which is handsomely pub lished by Little. Brown & Co, Boston
 Mir. Oppenheim in this work presents a story which has to do with modern
 English political and social life and the main political theme is the immediate necessity for tariff reform in England as the means of quieting unrest among the masses by providing work for the
 unemployed; who, menaced by poverty and want and hunger are a menace to the well being of the country. But it is not a political novel. The political question is worked into the fabric of a delightful and expressing romance. The character drawing is fine, the style
 breezy, the action strong and sustained and Cupid has his innings as is very cleverly set forth. In his combination of economic problems with stirring ad- ventures and unexpected documents, politics with lovers, life in the slums with life among the upper middle classes and the nobility, the work of
 the latest story suggests the work of Charles Reade in some of the best chapters in Hard Cash"
 Lord Arranmore, a polished and cyn-
 ical nobleman, was the prince of sin
 nefs from whom the book takes it's ti- tie. Once, when he was a young and
 idle man of good social position, he had had shock. In a very dramatic way
 lie was suddenly made aware of the 1 misery of the dwelIers in the London siums. He disappeared from his usual West End haunts, and for ten years I worked among the poor as police court missionary. Then came the time when he abandoned his efforts in de- spair. An attack of brain fever sets in and he disappears utterly leaving wife and child and for twenty years he was wanderer in Canada under an I assumed name and gave himself up to all sorts of dissipation. Twenty years were missing from his life, twenty years for which none of his friends could account. and from which he him. self refused to raise the veil. That
 during this period he bore many names and lived many lives, that he was "a
 man who went to he'll" and whose eyes at times still reflected the things he
 had seen there, is the sum of what the
 reader is allowed to guess, at the start.
 l The three leading women who figure I in the book were women of strong in- dividuality, especially one of them 1 Mary Scott, and a highly dramatic
 scene ersues when this young woman 1 takes a hand in exposing the mystery of
 the twenty years of Lord Arrandales l life. The unfolding of the plot of the story closely holds the readers atten- tion. Of the book the Brooklyn Eagle says: "It is a grown-up novel for grown-up people, and for the hard but
 reasonable cynicism of the grown-up men of the world it would be hard to I match. All round, from whatever as- pect. it is an excellent piece of work | polished in style. brisk but balanced I in incident, real, but romantic in char acter. It comes as a surprise to MT. Oppenheirn's previous story, "The l Traitors" which was romance without
 reality and closely bordering on melo- | drama. ."The Traitors" by the way,
 seems to have been an accurate fore
 cast of what happened, the other day
 in seryia. and it should take a new l lease of life for it's portrait, of the as-
 sassinated Alexander and the politics
 of Belgrade"
 The Commercial Advertiser says: "It
 is a clever sermon in practical charity,
 and an interesting cross-section of con- 1 temporary life, showing the complicat-