The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-12
HOLY ORDERS. By Marie Corelll Pub lished by Frederick X. Stokes ca New York sI50

1 HOLY ORDERS. By Marie Corelll Pub. ! lshed by Frederick X. Stokes Co.
 New York, Sl.5o.
 Unwearied and fully possessed of the idea that she has a mission, as usual, Miss Corelli in this, her latest novel assails the drink evil and incl cidentally for alleged misrepresenta- tions assails certain sections of the American Press. likewise certain American newspaper editors The cd | itors are descendants of Ananias. " Incidentally also she frees her mind as regards America In general and | in so doing remarks:
 America Is like half-grown boy l who Is all collar and tie and proud oi 1 his pants. His pockets arc full of ! string and marbles and he thinks them i valuable property lle pulls them out every few minutes and looks at them 1 with pride lle shows them to you ! and chortles over them, saving, "SeS l what I've got" But remember he's | only a boy When hos a man he's q, 1 likely az not to be the finest creature l ln tho world!
 Moreover, American readers arc in- formed also that they know very lit- | tie about the English people because | they do not know very much ahou, the real England of country towns and villages, London is no more real l England than Paris s real France. ] The lattcr-day press and "decadent l literature, also London correspond | cnts of American journals. are on al- | s) in their estimate of the real Brit l ish mind, and so on. As to her new story it is of the usual Corelli type a seething mass of impassioned word, 1 and sentences, glowing with energy ! and fire, and abounding in platitndes 1 richly clothed. Bnt Corelli is always | sure of her audience and a big one 1 too. She possesses the rare gift of writing books that command host l of admirlng readers and Holy Or. 1 ders" will be like her other books, one of the best sellers Holy Orders" ls l a dramatic story of love and hate, of great strIvings and splendid unselnsh ness contrasted with greed and ignor- ance, Here, the plot flows along calmly as summer idyll; there, It surges over rocks of passion to heart stirred depths
 The chief character is Everton a clergyman whose Holy Orders' arc to him the only reality in life. His | roctitude and patient endurance make him figure of faith and courage not to be forgotten Other characters arc society people, stage favortos, sim pie village folk, powerful financiors and such individuals as the clergy. mans beautiful wife an exiled Catho- lie priest and an attractive American bachelor, and last one of the dom | mating figures in Jacynth, the wicked. est and most beautiful woman of the village.
 The problems entering into the dramatic plot are tho vital ones now so prominent fin America. The treat. ment of the Drink Evil and the Tcm. perance Question has direct bearing | on conditions in many of our states The relations of the Christian church on the one hand and the yellow press on the other to the lives of the people are matters of immediate concern. II does not appear that Miss CorellI would abolish beer. Her evident wish Is to abolish the adulteration of beer with deleterious or poisonous in. Eredients. The clergyman, Everton would sanction the drinking of pure wholesome, unadulterated beer. Says | EVerton; Tt is not fair or just to the ! poor that they should get poison in. stead of pure stuff for their hard earned money--they have as good 4 right to be thirsty as gentlefolk, sure. l ly'--and they ought 10 be able to buy l good, wholesome beer Coo. culus indicus and tobacco used to be employed in the adulteration of bee, these deadly ingredients are forbid den now by law but in how many in. stances is the law not privately Set at l defiance! There's never brewery without It's own chemical shop neal by,"
 And regarding a victim of the vii. lagc brew another character says:
 Hes poisoned. He has got as much arsenic Inside him as would kill a horsc-it would kill him if he had not accustomed his system to it.
 
 As d sample of CorelI's riotous fancy take the following description of the fate of the wicked and beautiful Jacynth, Ferrers takes her up in his dirigible balloon and dies on the way leaving Jacynth to drift out to sea and