The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1906-05-24
The new PUBLICATIONS
SOME OF THE LATEST BOOKS
OF THE SEASON.

Justin HuntIy McCarthy's New Ro-
nance, "The Flower of Franco
EFPatriOtism and the New Internation-
aIism," by Mrs. Meud--Coming New
Books, Etc.
Justin Huntly Mccarthy gives us a
splendid new romance. from his gifted
pen in THE Flower Of France pub
lished by Harper & Bros ($l.5O). He inn
parts to the story imaginative touches
here and there that add new life and
beauty to one of the most beautiful ep-
isodes in history. OF course it is to be
dramatized (for e. A. Sothern and Jul
liza Marlowe) and then there Will be an
other play, taking, as the novel does,
new view of the wonderful little peas
ant girl who saved France from be-
coming a Continental Ireland. 1t is the
maidenly rather than the mystical
traits Of Joan which Mr.. Mccarthy
seeks to emphasize. She wins her VIC
tories quite as much by the power Of
her faith and. innocence as by her
strange guiding voices.
OF this new book the New
York Herald says. Nearly t1ye
hundred years have passed since the
girl Joan issued from the little village
of Domremy to perform one of the
most extraordinary exploits known to
history and to die death Of lurid
tragedy. In all that time, as Mr. Nc
Carthy reminds us, men and women
have tried a thousand times TO paint
her picture, to snatch from meagre fact
and liberal fancy some image Of her
likeness as she lived.
An unknown hand heWed from stone
brave, staring face under a soldier 9
helmet, full checked and round eyed
which many take for the form and
pressure of the Maid, and which at
least was fashioned in the time of heI
triumph, Fantastic draughtsmen IL
Illustrated chronicles with grotesque eff
figies, which perhaps conveyed to them
some fleeting impression of youth anC
beauty and divine courage and divine
inspiration, but which convey to Us
nothing or less than nothing Whim-
steal individuals of sixteenth century
of seventeenth century days delineatet
an Amazon in Greek or Roman trap
| pings of war and believed that they
had done well enough The eighteenth
century saw her minimized by Voltairt
and exalted 10y Schiller. Sardou il
France and Mark Twain in America
] gave the nineteenth century view Of hei
/ personality. Mr.. Mccarthy steps for,
ward with a twentieth century concep'
ton which differs from all its predeces
| sors.
Joan was seventeen when he intro
/ duces her. Though young in years SHE
looked younger than her years for thu
seal of womanhood was not set upor
| her, and she seemed then and thereaft
er in spite of her physical ripeness, t.
be ever the wonderful child.
She was middling tall, of sturd!
carriage; slim of limb, she was stoutl.
built and for strength and endurance
she was the equal Of any lad of he
standing in the Valley of Flowers
Her hair was very dark and thick ant
long; her eyes, dark blue, looked yer!
1 steadily and steadfastly at everything
she found worthy of her gaze. As TO
her face, some would not call 1t beauti
full maintaining it too sexless, or a
the least too boyish for that might!
praise Yet it was so fair and candle
and kind and brave, and so governed b,
a strange harmony of strength am
softness, that if it had been in YER
truth the countenance of a striplin
boy the spectator would have bee
ready to aver that 1t should have beel
the face Of a fair girl In absolute re
pose 1t showed almost stolid with tn
transmitted calm Of the peasant hn'
hut when it took form from high emo
tion of love or anger it quickened int
such nobility of passion, pity or rag
that beholder might well cry aloud j
all sincerity, Behold the face of an an
gel!
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