The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-03

1 dry-Baldry burned at the stake by vil- lain number three
 Ferne goes alone to the forest to hold his sword In readiness at his breast for the ghost of Baldry to thrust in to its hiit, We have had throughout the book hints of the ghost of one Thomas Baldry, but nothing come of the hints and the ghost of Robert Baldry shows no more of coming on spirit
 Therefore of to Panama to seek vif- lain humber three with the sound-roii- ing. Spanish name. Deserted by the ship and crew, Sir Mortimer and his faithful squire, Robin. |.
 a-daie,. wander in the woods of the new world After much wandering they come upon Sir Francis Drake. Arden. Powell and other "Elizabethans.,,-eT The English are sorely Deset with fever and ague, and
 Sir Mortimer. now ghastiy and grey, and clad by chance in a monks habit (No old- fashioned and recognized habilament O. romance is left unused), comes to the rescue with Peruvian bark and knowi- edge of simples and herbs learned of the Indians.
 When Sir Mortimer has won some mead of recognition from even Sir Francis Drake. and has had proof of the un-
 moved friendship of his old Admiral Sir
 John Nevii, and his friend. Arden, he asks Ardeas of news of Domaris. E She has left the Count and "abides in sanctuary with "Sidney's sister, Penn brolae's mother.' As . banquet was arranged at Nueva Cordoba, for determining the amount of 2 city's ransom, which was never paid
 6, for the settling of the ransom of Car tagena another banquet Is set forth. | Alonzo Brora invites to his dismantled
 citadel the English officers and gentle men.
 Pedro Mexia. who had been at the Ban
 quet of Nueva Cordoba, Is present, and
 under the spell of the tankard he tells the story, of Sir Mortimer's torture in | the dungeon of Cordoba. Of Don Luiz | de Guardiola's revenge on Sir Mortimer for his discovery of the hidden path in
 the cactus. The Spaniard has wrought | an elaborate plan to make the valiant Englishman believe that under the screw
 he had revealed the plan and password foT the night attack on the Citadel of
 Cordoba. which revealment, however. was
 the double treachersy of Francis Sark villain number two.
 This was the treachery which had
 broken Sir Mortimer's life and love and
 heart of courage. tbis the treachery which had made him break his sword
 with one effort of strength"
 Now with his honor clear as a flaw
 less diamond, he joyously declares that
 he Is mot yet for the Low Countries ''
 but for "England-England, England ''
 Then back to England, and another love
 scenc in garden. in the rose garden of
 Penshurst: Break for me another rose l-Dioner'
 Though there is a great deal of Eliz-
 abethan phraseology 'watchet mantle, " ''sprightly crak," ''giltern thrown" and l the like, there is none of that Elizabethan l spirit of joyousness, that show of regal
 bu. primitive splendor that so many writers have snatched out of ancient
 times to tighten their modern pages.
 There is little of the vigor and glow of
 the freshness of breeze and salt of the I sea. red blood of fight and glory of con- 1 quest that sparkles and reaches through | many a romance of those golden days with which this romance also deals But Mish Johnstons former work has not lead up to expectation of another Westward Ho. It is enough that this I is destinctiy a more readable book than any of her preceding ones and 1t Is the hearty wish of her numerous Southern friends and readers that this novel will far out-reach in sales even her most successful books. Miss Johnston has
 many friends In Alabama. Her home
 was for several years in Birmingham and
 It was there that she wrote her first romance: ITO Have and to Hold"
 Sir Mortimer Mary Johnston-Harper
 and Brothers, New York Price, A5O