The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-06-10

| FLowER-o'.THE-CoRN. BY S.. r. Crockett
author OF THE sttckit Minister 1.-THE Fire
Drana' etc. New York; Mcclure, Phillips
$3.50. ~
MT. Crockett's excursions into Europe
for material for his stories have not, in
Ine estimation OF a good many people,
been as successful in results as are his
stories based on characters and conditions
IN his own land Of the heather In this.
book MS hero Is Scotsman, and the
beautiful herotne.-she and he, altho
with Marlborough's army in France in the
reign or Louis XIV, were Scottish born
and bred. The girl Frances Wildwood
was called "Flower-o o. the Corn by Cap
tain Maurice Raith Of Marlborough's staff.
because he first saw herin the Netherlands
IN harvest field, and so named her.
pretty picture she looked standing in the
sunshine, her hands clasped tightly be-
mind her, holding a bunch of blossoms lust
gathered, pausing in a glad song she was
singing, as a bird pulses out the glad
ness of it's heart and the vivid brevity Of
iHe. THESE two had little tiff and she
regiment, with hooking laughter be-
slowed upon the young aide Of MARI
borough. But Maurice Raith loved the
girl and the tale is Of how, ultimately, out
OF the dark tragedies and prosecutions
and cruelties of the period, Frances Well
wood, or Flower o. the Corn" daughter
OF the chaplain of Ardn1illan's Scottish
regiment, was married to Maurice Raith
each having stood the severest tests of
love Incidentally the struggle of the
colonlsts for religious and civil liberty is
portrayed. Flower o. the Corn" appears
IN her noblest role when, to save
Maurice's life, she pledged herself to die
nVing death by marrying a man she did
not love- The author has in the forty-
fourth chapter, introduced dramatic
climax OF no little power. Such fine pas
sages. however, are rare, and it is to be
feared that Mr.. Crockett, in his anxiety
to furnish his publishers with COPY, is
writing too much for his own literary
Reputation. Is
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