The morning journal-courier., 1908-02-29

 r. are endearing to all except Goidie and who lovas the wrong man but is awakened suddenly from her error by a series of surprising incidents and lastly there are the three brothers Will, Oscar snd Peter the latter of whom was "'in a bank The Arkin- saw Cousins" is good story and more from the same pen will be welcomed. THE LOST GODDESS. by Edward Bar
 ron; 3+ l pages; Henry Holt & O.,
 s151; al Judd's
 All aboard with Capt. Winthrop for q trip to the inland waters of Brazil's widest regions to rescue The Lost Goddess and all your patriotic fer vor is stirred to the heroic and peri lous mission for is not the Lost God dess aforesaid not only supremely beautiful but in immanent peril of be- Ing forever immured in those foreign Wilds among savages and to top all is she not an American No wonder Capt. Winthrop, immensely rich, young a former college athlete, has his pulses stirred at the recital by Guata, the dark skinned. half breed of the story of how he came to see this mysterious and beautiful American who was held captive in an almost inaccessible spot and worshipped by the natives as superior being. Thrilling to the brave young captain is the tale of Guata as to how he alone of all his companions escaped from the murderous tribes of natives in this secluded region hitherto almost unknown to civilization, by successfully breasting the seething rapids of one of the widest of wild and turbulent rivers. the rapids so strong. so boiling, so rushing as to be compared with Niagara's current after It's leap of the falls Capt. Winthrop fired by the story despite the snake like eyes of its relator gets his war paint on so to speak, harnesses up. equips his beautiful yacht with pro- visions, powder, ball, guns, pistols and the like and obtains a sturdy crew mostly American. The Indian who has narrated the story is taken along as one of the crew to serve as guide. He with his comrades on the ill-fated ex- petition he had told of, had gone on the immensely toilsome journey in quest of caoutchone and so dreadful was the journey, covering hundreds of miles in wild country, that at one time they for ten days made progress only by swinging themselves along like monkeys from branch to branch in the tree tops for the ground below was a watery morass, the currents alive With the vovacious caymen that devoured several of the men who had slipped and fallen from the tree branches from weariness and exhaustion. There was, to start with, in the book an encounter in a New York mansion between Capt. Winthrop and Col Alvarez, a rich Peruvian, smooth and stealthy and treacherous in which Alvarez for pre- sumptuous advances toward a lady was felled by blow from the captain Alvarez was heard from later. The yacht was named "The Goddess" and tine trip was replete with adventures after its arrival in southern waters. At various ports, knives flashed. pis- tols were used, sword canes too and the little company of Americans had bloody hand to fights with belligerent and well armed enemies who were gem erally thieves or else hirelings melted to the attack by malevolent personages who sought revenge upon the gallant captain of 'The Goddess to wipe out old scores. So the tale goes on brist- ling with sensational events.
 How the story turns out the reader will discover In time and he will be 10th to lay down the book despite the improbality of the tale for the story is well spun and has plenty of go and originality throughout Moreover there are beautiful American women on the yacht, one In particular ravish- ingly beautiful, q queen among fair women of the kind whom men fight for and rave over and who is the star in an idyliic love story that runs through the warp and wool of the TO- nance Tine spirit of adventure is in- fectious and the reader hurries on eag- CT to know the finale which, 1t may be said. is all that could be deseired if one likes a happy ending for the cruise and "a joyous anticipation of wedding bells for the lovers. Tine miscreants all probably meet their just deserts,