The morning journal-courier., 1908-06-04

THE GOLDEN ROSE. BY Amele l Rives. published by Harper X Broth
 crs. New York, Sla9; ni ludds
 Hero we have slight touches of pey
 chology. the psychology of love, Of sex
 ual passion on the ono hand and of
 Platonic passion or the golden rose of spiritual communion on the other
 and as a whole beautiful story k
 evolved. n etory of goSsimer delicacy and lightness. and expressing despite < its etherial quality. The scene Is
 lovely old home in Virginia and there
 arc hnt few characters. \ handsome
 young man of good breeding scholarly
 tastes. who is looking for materials for
 hook which he is to write drifts lnte
 this fine old Virginia home and Is con-
 rronted by vision of loyeinoSs,
 young woman graceful, delicate, who has hcen married once unhappily. ] There ls an instant meeting and
 nneling If souls Cupid began his
 work at onco with suc 'ess Tho lov-
 CTS have cxauiste hours of soul com
 munion The lady with memories If
 her unhappy marriage weighing upon
 hcr eonceivos of an ideal passion, q
 love which shall he of tho stuff that
 dreams arc made Of that shall involve no physical fufllmont The young lman. enraptured by the dream Ike
 delicate beauty of the woman yields
 assent 10 her terms and for few hap
 py weeks the lovers find exquisite hap
 piness without q cloud in their el;N
 But tho young man is called to India
 to travel in tho TIhnalnyas with q com-
 rade with whom according to q previ-
 ous arrangement he was to seek perl-
 ous mountain climbing adventures The
 parting of the lovers comes-a parting
 exquisite but painful This is the
 climax of the fair ladys dream of an
 ideal love and an ideal marriage from
 which the physical is omitted, q love
 and marriage which should give her
 the golden rose she sought instead
 of the painted apple a love which should he idylllc and purely spiritual
 and holy. Tho beautiful lady awakes
 from her dream to find that men are human and the golden rose a vanish
 ing myth, There are pictures of Vir-
 ginia scenery of rare beauty and fclic- : ity in the story the little darkeys' sayings and doings are cute and pi- quaint. while poetic touches and fash es are numerous. Yet occasionally there is bathos as well as pathos, The
 reader will doubtfully regard the hints of telepathy, reincarnation and Budd- |, hism and crystal gazing theories with ' which the lovely, dreamy, spirituello lady Is dallying and will sympathize too with the ardent lover who when absent from his charmcr begins to , think doubtfully of marl gfng to dwell
 solely among the stars.
 The rcader will catch the dreaming E of the fair lady regarding love from the following extract:
 ', Love? Love? The word had a fierce , sound of mockery for her ears the
 sound as of the laughter of a sinister $ earth-born deity Pan himself, per. [, chance, who, as a fisher of men ii n some darkly invested sense, filings out f this magic bait. wherein the poisoned P barb is SO exquisitCly concealed. ant = finds no food for mirth in the helpless I Writhngs of his prey, Had .hc buried 1 herself Iathoms deep in lovely, sexless , thoughts, had she shut out the voice ol S the world with it's ever-swelling cry O e those who marry and are given in mar @ riage of those who sell themselves ol . are sold in the market place. had she 0 calmed and stilled and purified he, n soul for this that in the end Love E should sweep down upon her and Ter . her see her image in his eyes as com. Il mon clay? That is not loye!" she criet v in desperation, pantlng at bay before f her own spirit l could not love witt = that love-~hc could not love mo witt : such love. As man thinketh in hi. | heart so is he, and in my heart