Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-28


-old Greek Proverb
The Captains Wife" is an interest
ing tale of life and death at an army
post In Arizona In the days of Geroni-
mo. The author proves his acquain-
lance with social life at such posts,
and with the hardships of soldiers in an
Indian war, and especially in the desert
wilds of ARIZONA. The story Is well
written.
It's central figure is the colonels
niece, delightful girl, who falls In
love with Captain Livingston, ana
secretly marries him, thus becoming
1.-THE Captains Wife,"
On their way back to the fort they
are attacked by Indians. The captain
is seriously wounded and the captain
wife received a shock which renders
her unconscious for q time and results
in the total loss of memory. She for
gets the captain, she forgets her mar
riage, and long before the captains re-
n covers consciousness she starts Tor ner
II eastern home.
Here she is followed by Lieutenant
Hecker, who courts and marrtes her
and takes her back to the garrison with
him, where she again is brought into
daily association with the captain, her
unknown husband.
There is through all her life here an
undercurrent of memory, but 1t never
comes to the surface till another severe
shock restores her memory and her first
love, but mercifully destroys all MEM
DRY of Lieutenant Hecker, who, in the
meantime, has lost his life in way
not very creditable for an officer and
gentleman. From this time she is the
and the result satisfactory.
The story is q severe tax on ones
credulity. Such loss and recovery of
memory may not be impossible, but 1t
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is we'll written, the interest sustained
and the result satisfaction.
The Captains Wife. By John Lloyd.
New York: Mitchell Kennerly.
"Tiill Rise Is a story of life in Eng
land which emphasizes the wide social
separation of the tradesman and his
family from the mobiles and gentlemen.
It. is of value to the American reader
because of the light 1t throws on Eng
lish social customs and because 1t is
an interesting story in itself
or course the hero of the tale is the
manly son of an impoverished noble
family, who casts aside the tendency
OF his class, works with his hands and
brain, and loves and finally woos and
marries his employers daughter, to live
happily ever after.
Hill Rise. BY w. b. Maxwell. New
York: Empire Book company.
Familiarity with Chinese history, Gus
toms and scenery Is all manifested In
Gen. Homer LEAFS book, 1.-THE YER
million Pencil" The story itself Is
the Oft told one of wife, her husband
and her priest, but the manner of the
telling is picturesque, the literary style
Is unusual and always interesting and
the thousands Of strange customs and
legends of the Chinese people are util-
lied to form brilliant background for
the rather tragic tale.
The prologue of the book describes
with terrific power the ravages of
typhoon. although Gen. Lea himself
says: mo one can hope to wholly de-
scribe typhoon. Slaughter as well as
destruction marks its path, for the
typhoon Is made up of flames and
floods as 1t Is of winds, and what
escapes death or ruin from its cyclonic
breath is devoured by Its fires or swept
away by its torrents. No one hopes In
typhoon and men fee but little way
from it."
the book is interesting merely as a
work OF fiction. but 1t offers to the
student of Asiatic life vivid. glowing
picture of Chinese affairs which Is
drawn from a most intimate personal
association which the author has had
In his many years of military and dip
lomatic relations with these people.
= The Vermillion Pencil. BY Homer
lea. New York: The Mcclure Publish
hg company.
Maria Albanesis novel. THE Forbid
len Road" is conventional story Of
conventional characters. The young
soverness, plain, but with glorious eyes.
Il unknown but eminent parentage. de-
,endent but really an heiress-what a
ear old friend she Isl The wicked
iaronet, the gay and selfish butterfly
Il society, the modest and deserving
multi millionaire-how could we do
without them? How, at least, could we
have done without them in the past?
For 1t must be confessed they pail a
little, they something smack. 1t is a
trifle irritating that they should be
blotted out periodically as in the pres
ent instance, with the air of good
humored compliance. This" the au-
thor seems to say, sis the kind of thing
you want-and here you are" 1t is
impossible to suppose that she takes
the performance very seriously. but she
is sure of respectable gate money.
The Forbidden Road. By Maria
Albanesi. New York: The Cupples &
Leon company.
Wall street at its T.. anipulating worst
gets another fictional jolt in Julius
Chambers story ION a Margin" The
rise of Walter Mather to the position
of a money emperor is brought about
in Mr.. Chambers pages through oper-
atoms that bring the principal danger
ously near to the shadows of the peni-
Tertiary walls. Touches of melodrama
are impaired by the elopement of Wal
ters wife at the moment of his most
theatrical coup and by the retirement
of an elder Mather. also a financial
dictator. to solitary life under the APP
prehension that he has become leper.
"On a Margin" is not wholly a new
story. though 1t is rapid one. In the
processes of EXPANSION and renovation
1t has acquired certain anachronisms,
the periods of some modern inventions
and enterprises being rather curiously
confused. Perhaps, however. all chro- |
nology is fair to a novelist with a pur-
pose.
A chapter on 'Do-Nothing Presi-
dents scores the attitude of various
administrations at Washington toward
growing tyrants of monopoly.
On a Margin. BY julius Chambers.
New York: Mitchell Kennerley.
Arthur Stringer displays a lively
and fascinating ingenuity in the
stories just published in book form
under the title of THE Under Groove"
You bounce into perplexities the mo-
ment you open this book. You con-
front an photographic hero who con-
fesses that his life seems to him to |
have no beginning and no end. He |
detects fascinating young woman in |
he NJ IF r,fo 10 ITO