Evening star., 1905-11-11

This latter was public nuisance, a. black
mailing sheet such as will be found both In
the cities and on the edges OF the settle
ment Its owner was q consummate scouh-
drel never happy unless making troupie,
swindier the consort OF thieves, brute. Yet
he managed to play his game Tor long
time. until at last he aroused puonc sehti-
ment to the tar-and-feather point and ne
had the discretion and the good fortune 10
make his escape, thanks to the Intervention
of those whom he had most saVageIy as
sailed In his days of immunity.
Mr. Thwing has woven thrllling story
about the misdeeds of this rascally PUBLISH
er, a story that savors OF the pine WOODS.
The hum of the big saws Is In the atmos.
phere. The snow sparkles. me 9ooh M 20 o.
the great logs falling Into the sledges re-
yerberates. And in this setting tnere oe-
velops a tender love tale, with many sl9o
lights of suffering and sacrlfce, rewaros
and happiness 1t is a book to make
deep Impression, for 1t not only entertalns
with a faithful picture of life In the lum-
Der regions, but it suggests high thoushts'
THE CHERRY RIBBAND; Novel BY 8.
r. Crockett, author of The Lilac sun
bonnet" &c. Illustrated by Claude
Shepperson. New York: A >. Barnes
& Co.
Mr. Crockett's reputation as writer oi
vigorous interesting ronlances was iargely
established by the success or Ihe LILAC
Snnbonnet." Since that work appeared.
eleven
than two dozen novels and In the course OF
that writing has departed somewhat at
times from the line of his first work. He
returns to 1t in this tale of the prosecutions
Of the covenanters in tie latter years OF
the reign Of Charles II. and he dedicates
tho Dresent book to the American readers
of .~rhe Lilac Sunbonnet." Already two
editions of 1.-The Cherry Ribband' have
been called for, success not to be regard
ed "a remarkable in view OF Its attractive
quality. It tells stirring tale of love ana
war and faith and introduces in 1vie Rys-
land a heroine who will win all hearts, ana
master of men In her rather. 1reachely
and brutality are abundantly In eVidehce,
and bigptry and narrowneSS or spirit pul
the tale closes with the defeat of the forces
of evil, Mr. Crockett rises to high pltch
In his last scene when My Lord OF Liddes-
dale saves the lives OF the non-con1ormiSt
prisoners whom a vengeful militia captain
Is about to put to death for private reasons.
A YELLOW JOURNALIST. By Miriam
Nicholson author of I'm the Bishops
Carriage" &c. Illustrated New York:
d. Appleton Il Co.
There is an acrid taste here. a something
of unpleasantness. clever though the per-
formance is, and IN way true to the lie
Miss Nicholson sets forth to describe. It
Is yellow all right. So yellow that the
reader seems to be perusing the pages OF
continuous series of red-fudge pages OF the
most saffron kind of newspaper. There
are murder cases and lynchings, and will
cases and family scandals, and in the
midst of all these alarms the woman jour-
nalist is center OF attention. The story In
told in the first person singular Perhaps
that is what gives 1t its bitter taste. as
well as its snappy quality. One who had
read I'm the Bishops Carriage" would, OF
course expect this breeZiness. It Is true
that the woman journalist did some good
things, posed as an angel OF mercy now
and then, and played the game as the
champion of the crushed and the charger
Of tyrants. But. somehow it Is all rather
saddening. 1t may be modern, but 1t In
not good fiction.
HOME LIFE IN FRANCE. BY Miss
Betham- Edwards. Offieier de rInstruc-
tion Publique de France. With Illus
trations from photographs and famous
paintings. Chicago: A. c. McClurg &
Co.
"The first turning of French door
handle" says the author on her first page
Of this large and instructive work, rs
symbolic. Just as we lower the knob to
the left, our neighbors raise 1t to the
right, so we may safely take It for granted
that everything done across the water Is
performed after a fashion directly contrary
to our own"
La1eadio Hearn said mu,>n the same thing
of Japan and the japanese. but with a
broader basis in fact and with more cor
ROTATING details. It may be true as urged
by Miss Betham- Edwards. that the French
are different from us in many ways, but
that there is 90 radical difference az this