The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-10

m. xs,.~oura.n. By Eugene P. Lyle, IT,. quite the bravest story of the sum her time. The Miasourian himself IS fohn Dinwiddie Drfscoll called Din: 1t the close of the Civil War he nnos himself a lieutenant colonel In Gene,ai Foe sheiby.s command. He Is sent by kis eornrades as emissary to Emperor Eaxifhilian of Mexico. He carries con seaIed in the cartridge belt about his person the offer of 50,0o0 veterans Tor he emperor of the New World Em- sire. But Fate. and . fair Paristenne and Maximilian's vacillatinG policy all Sombine to delay his offer until sucn lime as the 5000 Confederates nave surrendered or scattered afar. The kurn of events makes Driscon with a few hundred "Greys' the most valiant eompany in the service of the Mexican Liberals. The Missourians bitterly named by their enemies "Shelby's horse thieves and judges of whiskey," the Nissourians fondly named by their friends 'The old Brigade had been twice refused by Maximilian,-or how differently had the pages of history been written--were scattered. Some were a-hunt for Captain Kidd's treas hre in the Pacific, others went to Ja- ban, others to the Sandwich Islands. others joined the Zouaves, many be- same settlers upon a grant of land near cordova, pursuaded to this settlement by Commodore Maury, then Imperial Commissioner of Immigration.
 But before this peaceful settlement what wars and raids, what adventures It rescuing fair damsels, and out-rob- ping robbers. Rodrigo Galan, a Mexi- pan brigand and guerilla, ever on the lookout for a prisoner who will bring a good ransom fund to his rocky stronghold. captures even in chapter one the noted Jacqueline. Marquiese GAumerle, sent from France on mis- sion of deep import from Napoleon HI. to the Court of Mexico.
 Jaeaueline was something more of an enigma than are most heroines of nov els. and most beautiful women: Her self, an enigma apart. She was How CT Of France She might be a grande dame, of nobility of womanhood as well as of family. Or again, she might be only an alluring, heather witch. that helped to make tempting, and damnable the brilliant Second Empire. But In any case Jacaueline was truly as dainty as flower"
 It was this enigma that confronted Din Driscoi at every turn. It was this dainty flower of France that he must rescue from Rodrigo Gulon, not once' but many times. till he perforce de- clares; It's monotonous" It iS this
  Southern Puritanism, even in the cabin of Cordova. It Is this enigma that an Emperor before his execution helps him to solve An enigma solved at last in old Queenstown to the satisfaction of two lovers, Driscoll of Missouri and Maymie Jeanne d'Avemerle. Now wonder why a girl can't have any peace" exclaimed this same Driscoll on meeting with Jacquelihe, and per- ~ectiy perverse, troublesome mademoi- elle was she. But there would have
 zen no story without her haps and
 ishaps, her mission from Napoleon,
 sr telegrams in cipher. her intermed-
 'ng in affairs of empires, two newest
 .pir&s under the sun.
 The offer of marriage in the cell is
 newhat liberty to take with histo-
 Had Maximilli pu indeed been told that CArlotta was dead? The terrible tragedy, Of the execution of an emperor and his ten faithful commanders is true to history Faithful page An hum- ble scrawl of MaximilliAn over the pages of our modern history. Maxirnil- ian to the last the gentle dreamer. Megta going to his end silently, Meran- ion with his passionate protest against the charge of treason, his heroic cry Of ''Long Live Mexico! Long live the @mperorr'
 The gentle Emperor whose only ann
 
 people, who dreamed always and awoke only after the tramp of events had passed him by, all his deeds mistakes. All his trusts betrayed, shot like traitor on the bare hill outside Quere- taro. All of the tinsel empire, all of the great whims of Court Ritual, all of the splendid titles of new empire, the Orders of ancient Chivalry, which semed but like cotillion fours to conn
 on men," had come to this--this trag-
 iy of putting do death three men on
 bare hill But thirty three years old,
 all the ways of the world unknown to him, the wars and ways of his new world empire never to be learned. The tragedy of this life and death so ab- sorbs the reader that the romance of the four lovers is at times thing to be brushed aside. as one pushes back tendril of blossoming vine at hand that obscures the sight of fierce but gio- rious sunset view, or storm-rent land scape.
 The characters of the book are well