The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-29

! Tho yellow God, all Idol OF Africa. Ry
r. Merrill. Published by Cupples %
Leon Company, New York
In this story Mr.. Hageard gets back
substantially on the ola ground of his
! great novel, "She. - Here we find an
African priestess ruling IN uudisputed
glory and power. The Asika is her
title, and her people are the ASiki peo-
| pie inhabtlug the Ashland, The story
| opens in London, where unscrupulouSS
| speculators. Sir Robert Aylward and
| Mr.. Cbampers. Haswell, are promoting n
great Sahara syndicate enterprise, seek.
/ ing 10 use the good name and high char
acter of Major Alan Vernon 10 de-
lude the public into subscribing for
their shares. There is il the London
office of Sir Robert Awkward hidcous
little golden god which is the property
of Major Vernon, and has been brought
TO England from West Africa, where
Alan was on service and whore lie
picked up his servant, Jeekie. This
idol is supposed 10 he bringing the
eyndicate great good luck, and Joekie
tells its story to the assembled party,
which confirms the spectators IL their
belief IN the powers Of the idol TO nr!ng
good luck. while at the same time
shocking their nerves by a prophesy of
the death of one of them. There is
Miss Barbara, niece OF Champcrs. Has
well, and Barbara and Major Vernon
come 10 an understanding directly
after the Major has broken with the
syndicate, She is very glad that be has
quit them, as she considers them a lot
Of swindleTs. Vernon, beng a poor
man, takes up from Jeekie S talk the
idea TO 90 to the Asilliland, and they
start, making tremendously long and
difficult journey TO get there. But on
getting there Vernon finds great favor
with The Asika, n splendid, beautiful
young woman who claims 10 know
everything that has trguspired in the
past. being tho incarnation Of the spirit
of all the Asikas from the first. The
horrid mummerics and ceremonies Of
the Big BoMsa and the Little Bonsa
idols, their curious mechanism, and how
they work, are all described IN graphic
detail. But Major Vernon loathes Tho
Asilia, and though she determines TO
marry him at the end OF Der bond with
the Nungana, who is supposed TO Inc
when he will for year have been the
husband of The Asilia, he makes up
his mind against it. At Vernon :
request The Asika sends 10 the coast
for him u ton of gold bv carriers of
ber own. Then his great longing is to
eescape. And on the night prior TO the
day upon which mis- wedding with The
Asika is TO be celebrated he and Jeekie,
with the Mungaua, after much fighting,
great peril aud toll, get away, aud to
their great surprise 6ud on the way, in
the great African forest. Sir Robert
Aylward and Barbara. Barbara has
started TO find Major Vernon, being
aware OF the Journey nc has taken. And
Awkward starts after Barbara, her uncle
having died iu the meantime and
Awkward being named as her guardian
He wants to force her TO marry him,
but she loathes him. aud Jeekie and
highly ingenious story, full of color. of
action and all sorts of sinuosities of the
human mind. heather as well rs Chris
tan. 1t is by all odds the best story
that Uaggard has written since his SEN
sational novel ..She -