Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-07-15

palities the regent of which has kidnapped
his nephew So irresistible is the gallant
Col O'Rourke that a second beautiful wo-
man filings herself into his arms before he
manages to STAY the wicked prince and re-
lease the child but he resolutely remembers
his affianced and turns his back on the
scene of his achievement. Next he appears
IN Egypt and has another narrow escape
from death and a matrimonial alliance.
Then he goes to Tangiers. where he assists
Cupid in Strengthening the tangled affairs
of an American consul and a blackmailed
American woman of German title. Finally.
he is brought back into the game of intrigue
by a hurry call from the lady of his true
love, who is infmured in a rock bound cas-
tie by wicked brother-in-law bent upon
marrying her. n remarkable duel closes
O'Rourke's fighting in this book and sets
him on the road 10 happiness.
There is fighting galore and intriguing
without stint in the nearly 400 pages of the
story. OROurke wins the reader from the
moment when he pawns his watch to pay
his landlady's account and then dresses
himself carefully for go at the gaming ia
bles with his last francs Death calls him
many times, but he is hard of hearing in
that direction. and he earns all that comes
TO him by dint OF good hard work with the
sword and pistol and the use of quick wit
ORourke Is worthy of another volume.
THE AMERICAN STATE SERIES.
Edited by w. w. Willoughby. associ,
ate professor of political science at
the Johns Hopkins Universfty-THE
AMERICAN JUDICIARY. BY Simeon
+. baldwin, LID. associate Justice
OF the Supreme Court of Errors of
Connecticut, and professor of constt-
tutional law in Yale University New
York: The Century Company
Judge Baldwin's treatment OF the tu-
dietary In his valuable volume in the Amer
lean State series Is such that If widely
read. the work will make for a much clear
er popular understanding of the functions
and limita tons of the bench. He sets forth
In plain terms the precise relations between
the courts and the people, showing in the
first part the nature and scope of the iu-
diciau power in the United States, and in
the second part the organization and prac-
teal working of American courts Illus
tratins h!s propositions throughout by eta
uohs OF typical cases, the author discusses
In order the English origin and early de-
velopment of the American judiciary. the
separation Of the judicial power from the
legislative and executive in the American
constitutions; the relations of the judiciary
TO the political departments of government:
the force of judicial presidents: the judicial
power or developing unwritteu law: the iu-
dicial power OF interpreting and deve!oping
written law, ana the judicial power of de-
caring what has the form of law not to
De law. In treating of the practical work.
inSs Of the courts he defines the limitations
OF the state and federal Jurisdictions and
Analyses the differences between the yari-
Gus methods Of judicial procedure An
especially interesting chapter on the laws
delays Is followed at the close of the work
by one on the attitude OF the people toward
the Judiciary. In point of the delays of the
court processes Judge Baldwin seeks TO IN
dicate the differences between the American
and the English systems. especially in that
the former Is the more liberal In its bear
ing upon the litgants, giving a freer scope
of appeals and exceptions and a wider field
for argument. He gives figures to Illus
trate the great congestion of some of the
courts Of this country. indicating that the
americans are exceptionally Htigous
people and that the judicial machine has
not been sufficiently expanded In late years
to cope with the grist that is brought to 1t.
TWO MOODS OF MAN. BY Horace G.
Hutchinson, author Of "A Friend Of
Nelson" &c. New York: G.. p, Put
mans Son. Washington: Woodward
x Lothrop,
Instinctively one feels at the outset that
there must be something out OF adjustment
in the moral makeup OF George Hood
whose letter to his bootmaker served a
means of making him acquainted with the
narrator. IL Hood was all right in his
moral nature. In the finer sense. why
should he be content to lead a London life.
with gypsy wife down in the heart of the
west country living in vans? Hood took
his fliend down TO meet this beautiful
gypsy wife. Then he had. of course, to call
In his friend when circumstances led him
into temptation. by making him fall in
love with another woman. Hood was the
man of two moods" The one found ex-
preston in the woods life with the gypsy
vile. whose beauty was absolutely unin-
tellectuai In quality. and whose companion
ship at no time reached his mental needs
The other sought definition In the form oil
marriage with the other woman" whose
mental qualities exactly matched his own
A bigamist Hood could not be. He would
not lead a dual life. He fell back upon the
pretext of the informality of his gypsy
marriage. and left the beautiful woman ot
the woods. and their little son. Then he
married according to the forms of law and