Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-07-07
BOOKS

For the Soul Of Rafael IS the title
! OF new novel by Mrs Marah Ellis
! Ryan which has Just been published
| by A. G. McCmrg 4 Co. Of Chicago,
/ The scenes are laid at the old Mission
! Of San Juan Capistrano where Mrs
| Ryan now lives and she has bestowed
1 most exceptional attention on the ac-
I curacy of the dejails which 60 90 make
/ mp the background and atmosphere uf
her novel The action takes place an
the time when California was still
[ largely IN the hands " The old Span
lsh arist0crats and the American 'in-
vader' was beginning 20 take possess
sion. When dashing ploasurc-loving
/ Spaniard has 4 marriage arranged
Tor him with "a young woman he has
never seem beautiful saiut-llke girl
Of great devotion and piety 90 is
hardly reasonable to expect any hap
piness from such union A man Ike
Rafael would scarcely Dc IN Fym-
paihy with the amount of time his
wife spent On prayer and the confess
siouaL His friends would scarcely De
her friends And iu a case Ike This
there Is always some one 90 catch the
wandering eye OF the Indifferent hus.
band,
Perhaps these clements do not seem
10 provide any novelty On pl1t-bui'd-
ing. But that Is because they are
elements only because II Is not pos
sihle IN a word 10 convey any ade-
quaie idea Of the glowing. picturesque
quality Of this romance 81 Old Califor-
MA, IA which all the characters are Of
the rne aristoclatic Spanish type.
There is only one American How
much 81 q hero ne Is can be imagined
when 1t Is realized that he IS able 20
oifer Rafael's wife her only possibility
OF happiness. Vet is strong and fine
enough 10 hold them both 90 the line
Of duty There Is some tragedy 100 the
book, OF course but as a story il b.
wonderfully moving. and OF absorbing
interest from the very beginning.
Upon the appearance Of The book
mas been layishsd an amount OF 4tten.
ton seldom accorded q book OF fiction
II VIII be printed iu two Colors with
decorations Of The most striking char.
ecter by Ralph Fletcher Seymour The !
Illustrations ale from @ series OF re- |
markable photographs taken by H8r-
old Taylor under the direction OF Mrs |
Ryan. and are in uo sense like the !
ordinary Photographic illustrations
The story Of lie iu college circles Is |
admirably told by an anonymous writ |
er In the entertaining novel entitled /
IN the House OF Her Friends" Just |
issued by Robert Glier Cooke. Inc |
New YORK. This book Is one Of the |
most thoroughly well-written volumes .
Of fiction, especially strong en- its SUBJ 4,
Tie delineatlons OF character skllfully
achieved by a mastery hand that Is
guided 10y the power to assume die
ferent points Of view. IL is NOT often
that writer Is able to show tha read
er the varied opinions Of individuals /
on their fellow-char9Ctors iu the
dramatis personae. wherefore this
accomplishment is the more
remarkable. Many OF the little trials
and fluctuations that enter into faculty
life are woven into this absorbing
story and II Is most original On It's con-
ception as being a fresh presentation
of college lie. not from the standpoint
Of the college students part In things.
but IN gathering from the inner circles
of the real college machinery" the