The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-09-19
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THE HOUSE ON THE SANDS, By Charles Mar
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THE HOUSE ON THE SANDS, BY Charles Mar
Head. Price 81. so.
Mr.. Marriott's former book, 'The
column, has been well received because
OF Its modernfty and fine literary quality.
His new volume Is what some people
would call political novel, but it is not
altogether that. for the character studies
OF Godfrey Julian, Audrey Thurston,
Michal Julian and Christopher Lanyon
give 1t the aspect Of a psychological study.
julian was amember of parliament con-
SENTATIVE and tmperialist. Lanyon was
tenant on his Cornwall estate and
Audrey Thurston was a highly intellec-
tual young woman, STALL slender, with
long, white hands, and BOLDLY cut fea-
lures, dark hair and wide, gray eyes,
Julian was away from home so much that
he did not know his tenants very WELL
and his agent, Trevai told him Lanyon
was all right These two, Lanyon and
Audrey Thurston, figure conspicuously
thru the volume. Their relation to each
other was peculiar For some years they
had lived together thru the bond of in
| tellectual sympathy, which had brought
| them together in London. There was no
further intimacy than "a cold affair Of
marked passages In favorite authors. of
common tasks and mutual renunciations y
There was no formal marriage They
| only told Audrey's aunt that they were
going to live together as brother and sis
ter all their lives Their enthusiasm
Waned in a few years. Audrey found that
Lanyon cared little for the cause OF hu-
mainly and very much for himself. Audrey
developed rapidly as woman and she
/ found life meant more than a mere ex-
| ercise of the intellect. Thus, when Mr..
Julian came into her life she became in
| terested in him, as representative of the
great outer world of business, politics,
science, art, society and facts accom-
! plished and accomplishing. Lanyon de-
veloped as a crank and finally became in
sane, and one night assassinated Randall
Tate, the poet lover of Julians sister
Michal, thinking Tate was Julian, whose
/ admiration for Audrey Thurston had
deepened into love. The part Sir Peter
Lawrence played to bring about LANNON'S
deed, the details Of LANNON'S trial, con-
viction. and sentence to an asylum, and
how Julian and Audrey Jared after the
trying occasion, are related in most i'm.
pressive manner. The showing of what
|.deeps of infamy political enemies may re.
sort to to get a rising statesman out OF
the way, is one of the interesting fea.
lures of the story.
THE SHADOW OF VICTORY, "A Romance o.
i Fort Dearborn, By Myrtle Reed. New York
l. G.. P. Putnam's Sons. Minneapolis: N
I. Mccarthy. Price $1.20.
The author has wrought a very impress
Esive love story in which. old Fort Dear.
kborn, in the earlier nineteenth century
days, guarded the site Of the imposing
city Of Chicago. These are vivid pictures
of the fort life; of the trading post with
out the stockade; the lounging Indians
and half breeds; the runners with direfu
rumors of Indian massacres and imminen
attacks upon the military post. Brave
men and brave women awaited whatever
might come at the junction of Chicago
river and Lake Michigan, and none
Drawer than Ensign George" Ronald ant
Beatrice Manning, who are the conspicu
Gus figures in the story and plightet
their troth In the smoke Of battle. The
author distinguishes herself as a delinea
tor Of the tragedies and horror of Indiar
warfare in the thrilling chapter entitled
1.-THE Red Death the story Of a running
fight with the red devils, by which Georg,
Ronald saved the life Of the woman h,
loved.