Evening star., 1903-11-28

work is by far too yoluminous for absolute
rendering in English. A greater part of 1t
Is comprised of chit-chat and gossip and
complainings. which can have but lit
tie value either from an historical or a
biographical point of view. She has
Judiciously eliminated the useless parts and
rendered only those which throw light upon
Napoleon'S state of mind du.ing his con-
hrement and his reflections upon matters
historical. political, personal and military.
he unbosomed himself freely to Gourgaud
and the latter proved faithful scribe.
When the plan was conceived that Gour-
gaud should make his way back to Europe
to arouse a Napoleonic sentiment the diary
changed materially I'm character. Accounts
of quarrels with Napoleon which previously
had not been infrequent, but were not de-
tailed In the text. were specifically recited.
AMI every possible evidence was given of an
open breach between the former emperor
and his aide This was done to prevent if
possible, a repetition of the action of the
English with regard to Las Cases, whose
Journal was confscated by them when he
departed from Longwood. 1t served. toe to
indicate that Gourgaud could not well be
an emissary of Napoleon's. 1t appears
that Sir Hudson Lowe was easily befooled.
although he was so very suspicious. Gour-
gaud artfully played upon these suspicious,
and was thus enabled to leave st. Helena
with his diary and to make his way home.
1t is for this reason that so much pickering
journal. which the translation has elmi-
| mated. The volume is most interesting to
any student of the Napoleonic episode, for
| 1t throws bright light upon Bonaparte's
motives fr many cases, and permits a new
ading of his character.
SALLY OF MISSOURI. By r. r. Young New
York: Mcclure PHILLIPS & co. washington:
Woodward & Lothrop
There must be something in the atmos-
phere of a state which, breathed in from
birth, enters the very substance of an indi-
yidual to cause him In adult years to feel
as a part of the soil. Else. why should the
people in this story. natives of Missouri,
brag so persistentIy of their commonwealth?
Why should the authors characters. drawn
with consummate skill and convincing pow
err sing the praises Of Missouri from the
first page until the last? And why should
the reader, relishing throughout these evil
dences of love of the STATE, realize. after
ALL that this is merely type of what Is
happening in every other state in the
Union2 But there are other elements than
this of state devotion in this story. There
is. for instance, good red blood, chicanery.
honesty. enterprise, persistence, sacrifice
and love. Sally herself is a revelation in
these days of many heroines charming
creature wholly suited to her environment.
Her father, knave that he Is. yet wins the
reader by his breezy force and his love for
boy. with his first realization of love,
warns the heart. and Unc Bernique be-
comes a parsonage. Young Steering, who
occupies the top place in the male cast is
interesting but not emphatically so. The
whole makes an absorbing story of the Mis-
souri, days of zinc and lead booming, when
fortunes were won and lost in short order
THE KEY OF PARADISE. By Sidney Pickering
New York The Macmillan Company. Wash
ingon: Brentanos.
This story deals with a hitherto unwork-
ed period, that of the French occupation of
Italy in the early part of the nineteenth CEN
tury. 1t renders an interesting and vivid
description of the condition of Rome at that
time, when society was riven by French and
anti French factionalism. Then the scene
shifts and a picture is drawn of the ex-
treme lower portion of the peninsula, where
guerrilla warfare ragged for a time and
spread devastation through the land. The
love theme deals with a young princess.
married out of a convent by a blase man
considerably her senior and incapable of
appreciating her true character. Owing to
the prevalent social mode, he goes his way
ard she is placed in the care of ''caya-
Eere servente,' or gentleman servitor,
human watch dog, responsible to the hus-
band and willingly bound to perform the
trifiing services demanded by lady OF
fashion. She is adored at A distance by a
Young English officer and brought to real
ize that she is hopelessly in love with her
neglectful husband Out of a seemingly I'M
possible situation comes happiness Tor at
least two people. The story grows more
and more brisk the end approaches, and
the climax is highly dramatic. 1t is a book
to read with constantly increasing interest
THE HOLIDAY CASE; a Tale; BY Burton E.
Stevenson, author Of AT odds with the Re
washington: William RsIlantyBe q Sons.
Despite the foreshortening of the first
part of this account of the unraveling of a
murder mystery. which somewhat mars IL
in the eyes of those who know how in
quests held in highly important cases,
this tale is calculated to keep the reader
steadily at the pages to the end. 1t is short
enough to be read in a couple of hours. A
New York banker Is found in his private
Office stabbed to death, and his daughter
is accused of the crime. She is exoner-
ated through the smart work of the young
lawyer associated with the man who loves
her. Then the plot thickens. The mys-
terry remains. and the girl is abducted by a
band of clever swindlers. The efforts to
find her and to thwart the master rogue
form the theme of the story thenceforth,
and the author. telling his tale without
unnecessary diversions, manages to weave
some threads OF romance into his narrative.
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