The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-24
A,ons With the Great Alexander.

The reader will follow with eager interest
the adventures Of the three companions
in Robert H. Fuller's story of The Golden
Hope (The Macmillan Company. Tho
title here is hardly an assurance Of the
vigorous contents OF the book. Golden ia
no longer the effective adjective that it
doubtless was once upon time. Nearly
everybody who makes it his business to
discriminate would say yellow hair instead
Of golden hair nowadays. OF course ye-
low hair would not do, but there are other
words. At any rate considerable meas
ure OF strength has gone out OF golden"
As we make out the golden hope here
was the hope entertained by young Clear
chus Of Athens after his visit to the oracle
at Delphi. The oracle told him to seek for
his abducted sweetheart in the track Of
the whirwind, This might have heen
vague. 1T was simplified by spelling
vhrlwind with a capital initial and making
il stand for Alexander the Great. Clear
chu= and his two comrades, Charee OF
Thenes and Ieonioas Of Sparta. followed
Alexander the Whirlwind on his Asiatic
enterprise.
There are great doings in this tale. 1t
is crowded with them indeed. We have
Demos themes in the fourth chapter stirring
up the Athenians to opposition to AleI-
ander That great orator was hardly
aware of his limitations at that time.
Ariston, the rascally uncle OF Oearchus
made plot, as the habit was with too many
Of the ancient Greeks. Syphax the pirate
carried of Artemisia. sweetheart OF Clear
chus. In consequence of this the fortune
OF Clearchu. was left to the devious manipu-
lation OF his uncle. Even TO these times
the word uncle" has maintained a dark
significance,
We read OF the overthrow OF Thebes in
the ninth chapter. In the chapter follow
ing We find one Of our heroes, the gigantic
Theban Chares, purchasing with all his
fortune, and with his mighty sword into
the bargain the beautiful Athenian dane.
ing girl That's. celebrated at a later date
bv the distin gushed English poet, John
Dryden, Chares was huge, handsome,
uncon cerned person. In the eleventh chap
ter We read that he sat in the house Of
That's in Athens idly watching the 1.-the
motions Of the tame leopard belonging to
That's as that animal worried an ivory ball,
That's lay on a couch OF sandalwood. Con-
templating the Theban with half closed
do with me?' He had no satisfactory reply
He had bought her in kindness and for a
vhim. II he had OF bought her she would
have gone to the noble Phradates Of Tyre, =
Young man who was beginning to be
deca dent. Chares loved war and sleep
Possibly That's would not havo thought So
much of him il he had been less splendidly
indifferent.
Our three comrades went ahead to spy
upon the Persian army. They all but came
to their end In a great swamp Of reeds,
where the Persians we're pursuing them.
Fortunately the wind blew strong in their
faces. They set fire to the reeds, and the
pursuers were consumed Chares and
Phradates met at the battle OF the Grant
GUS Il have, thee. dog!" Phradates
screamed az he bore down on the Theban
who was already engaged with several
enemies. 1t will interest the reader to
learn from the story just how it came about
that the noble Phradates was mistaken on
that strenuous occasion.
Alas! our three Greeks were eutwitted at