The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-12

And when noon came both sun anu sky were clear of anything more strange than the sea birds flying across the roughenlng waves. and diving like winged sunbeams among the rising and falling crcsts of foam"
 THE CRADLE OF THE ROSE. Ry the
 author of The Martyrdom of an Elm
 press. ""Gray Mist" The Trident
 and the Rose. etc Illustrated with
 water color drawing by the author
 Published by Harper & Brothers, New
 York. Sl.5o; at Judd's
 The reader on opening this fine love story gazes with pleasure and interest at the beautiful water color drawing by the author of The Watch Tower of Fort Roskayel." and with antIclpations of good reading to follow, based on tho excellence of thls anonymous authors previous books, enters upon the story. Tho reader Is not disappointed and finds the tale an absorbing and even brilliant one, IL Is story of modern France and bearing upon the present crisis of church and state a story of a conspiracy in the Province of Brittany, the Catholic and Celtic province, which in race and feeling Is shown to bear the same relation to the rest of France that Ireland bears to England Opening with unique and striking drama ot the sea, the story is interwoven throughout with vivid love interest. The beautiful wife of an English d. plomat, in the absence of her husband on a difficult Asat'c mission. returns to her native Brittany 10 satisfy her longing for her land and people by lengthy soIourn Her name and an- teccdents arc discovered, and she sud denly finds herself in tho position of feudal princess. whose word Is law throughout the countryside. As she ia possessed of colossal wealth. she seizcs the opportunity to organize a Royalist instruction, aided hy the hero of the tale. young Breton noble and ex- naval officer Persons who are 'n a position to know declare that tho book Is a brilliant novelization of an actual conspiracy recently suppressed, news of which has never been allowed to lenk out to tho public Others, equally well Informed, say that lt Ia a prophecy. a forecast Of what may take place at any time In the disturbed state of France The delight of Rovanez the lovely wife of the absent British diplomat. at once more hcholding the scene of her birth and gIrlhood, appeals 10 tho heart and. a well pictured scene Is that when re- gardcd as a foreign intruder hy the sturdy Rretons of the village and rudely treated she brings them all to her feet paying homage when she ad- dresses them Tn their own tongue and they find In her their little queen of days gone hy, now beautiful as ever and grown to womanhood The story opens with M'sieur O',er, a gallant ehivalric athletic young noble who while ont for a long swim off tho Ere ton coast Is battling for his life, en- tangled Tn a floating mass of slimy, viscld. sea weed "a broad bed of sllmy growth torn from tho Atlantic floor which heaved up beneath him" Offer realizes his almost certain impending doom, horror stricken. Rut suddenly at last the great mass Sank noisnlesslv from him, mysterIously returning to whence lt came" Half dead with ex- haustIon and terror hc regalns the shore. Soon, when himself again he he. holds for the first time tho beautiful Rovanez She has just arrived to taka possession of Fort Rozkavel Hcncefor- ward their fortunes are lnsoparably linked together and in death they were not divided The novel ahounds in extraordinary situations handled in most original manner. and Ia pure romance, alive with beauty
 That the author of "The Martyrdom of an Empress" was not born To the usages of Saxon speech Is recalled by the announcement that this, her new novel. has been written by her rot only in the beautiful English of which she has acquired such rare mastery, but also in her native French. for publlca- ton in Parisl
 Many novels have received the com plment Of translation, though the translator has seldom succeeded in en- toring into the spirit of the writer. but this, so far AS we arc aware, is the first novel that has ever been written by an author in two languages at the same time
 "The Cradle of the Rose" as has been said above, deals with a Royalist conspiracy, In which the leading arIs- tocracy Of the ancient Duchy of Brit tany are concerned. and. by curious coincidence, one of the most attractive figures in the book will be easily recog- nzed if is said. as the young royal Prince of France now travelling in this country.
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