The morning journal-courier., 1908-09-17

nullUlnE ltHlHuluIN ShdNh0 i'i hoi'NFi fclling the trees, clearing the lands tllllng the soil, sowing the crops, etc. II all makes mighty interesting read ing and tho literary work In the book is well done
 TAMAR CuRZE. By Berthe St, Luz.
 Published by II. F. Fenno, New York.
 sl.50.
 A strange. weird tale with an ab- normal woman of great beauty of the fierce oriental type, as the leading character Miss Tamar Curzc. if you please. She arrives from the far east to visit Glandour court, the lovely home of Sir Lionel and Lady Clan dour and the idyllic love of the lord very slowly at first but later on surely. lt was as if serpent had entered their Eden when the magnificent Miss Curzc with her sinuous, 1.-the graceful | figure. her eyes ablaze at times with passion like those of some fierce un- tamable, wild creature, came Into the arena. She was possessed of hair of mixed coppery color, her eyes were yellow. the pupils being mere black threads slanting downward It was seldom that she sat in a chair. She couched, or coiled rather. crouchins on rugs and cushions. Her dress was usually of yellow velvet, which was twined, wrapped about her or twisted or wrapped about her in a way that seemed to harmonlzc, or form part of herself The lily-likc wife of Sir Lionel soon began to droop. as she be- | gan 10 realize that her hitherto de- | voted Lord Lionel was falling under the spell of this strange, marvellously 1 beautiful stranger. There was a mod el, gentle governess in the household whom the strange lady began to dis | like and the feeling soon became l mutual. The housekeeper. too, also deeply loyal to Lady Glandow, began to see that something was wrong and the share of the alarm of the loya I govcrness. Pretty soon pet animals of the park and tho mansion were found dead one after another, evidently torn by some wild animal The magnifcen' tamar had, 1t seemed the power ant habit of turning herself into a leopar, dess at times and biting and tearing animals to death. The Oriental theor, of reincarnation comes in by way O. explanation of the transformation in
 voved It is vlyidly written stor, that despite the gruesome heroine, l
 ,hS Ia, c.,
 The September American MagazIn
 New york) teens with good reading Charles Roman leads ofr the numbe
 with "1he Wonderland of Delrium.
 II is record of the personal experlenc es of the author, who, within the pas
 year, lived through IS days of dellrlur
 in Washington Hospital
 Octave Mirbeaus character sketc
 of Emperor William Is equally interest
 Ing. No such brutally frank an convincing picture of the Enpero has ever been published In America. Other articles of notable interest ar George Fitch's humorous description c
 the divorce colony at Sioux Fall South Dakota, Mir Dooley's remark , on Big Game Hunting" and Ray Stan nard Bakers personal conclusions A to what we ought to do about the nc l gro. In addition to these articles Q , 'Handlcaps by Dr, Luther II. G, lick, and "Harnesslng Socialism" b Ernest Poole.
 The Interpreter gives hIs person, recollcctions of three great general l and an xPresldent-Grant. Sher dan, sherman and Cleveland "rh , Pilgrims Scrip" Is full of vital ma, , ter.
 7 O. Henry begins new series of ste ries. Other contributors of fiction ar.
 Mary Stewart Cutting, w. ]. Lock a Marguerite Campion, Mary Heato . Worse. G. w. Ogden and Larrey Bow
 man,
 Q The September issue of the Engl, q eering Magazine opens with def