Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-28
Between New Book Covers

| and the rearing of children without the
marriage tie? That is the question of
| recent book entitled "The Greater
| Love-
| family, said yes. The mans love and
her great love purified all, and
through all her sorrows, she never re-
| GREETED her course and always declared
| she would answer the same question
in the same way If called on to de-
eide again. The man in the case had
| a wife who was incurably insane, and
was thus denied the right to love, ex-
cept outside the pale of society and
law. 1t counted for nothing that the
man made efforts to marry the woman
upon the death of his lawful wife, but
was prevented by his own death.
However, she felt no sting of con-
science; she endured the disgrace in
by Wild Waves Tossed is a love
story. pure and simple. The tale COM
mences in England, about the year 1872.
The heroine Is abducted by a captain
in the English navy, who had, before
her fathers death and bankruptcy.
been a sutton for the lady. She Is res
cued by the hero, sailor, and with
him takes passage on an American YES
sci to join a kinsman In the new world;
she is a passenger and he is common
sailor.
The ship is overhauled by the royal
vessel under command Of her captain
lover In the meantime she had heard
that English vessels dared not impress
an American seaman who had his wife
aboard, and to avoid the loss of her
only help in time of need, and to avoid
being taken alone as an Englishwoman
to the English vessel. the high-born
woman proposes to her rescuer, the
sailor. that they be married by the rec
tor, fellow passenger, and that they
do so as a mere matter of form to save
and protect them both. They are mar
ried forthwith.
When the American vessel is boarded
many seamen are impressed, the nero
is arrested as spy and his papers are :,
taken from him, while the heroine Is
taken with her husband.
On the English ship events come
rapidly. The captain insults the bride,
| fights a duel with the husband and is
killed in his cabin. The American
brig Constitution appears and the hus-
band throws himself into the ocean,
swims to the American ship and gives
his information, which is followed by
an attack on the British vessel, the
recovery of the impressed seaman and
the bride and the landing of the lady
among her relatives.
Through all the tale the hero was
known as Seaman William Brown and
! as such he sought and won the love
| of his wife, until finally she herself
prays him to forget the bargain Of
| their marriage and be her lover and
| her true, loyal husband. 1t then de-
velops that instead of a common sailor
| he is United States naval officer
| and gently born. She parts with him
only on his appointment as second In
command of the Constitution on the
breaking out of the war.
| The story is filled with many de-
lightful and delicate love-making
scenes and Is truly. as its title page
announces, IAN ocean love story"
BY wild Waves Tossed. BY Cap
tain Jack Brand, late u. S. N. New
York, The Mcclure Company.
"The Sword Decides" Is story of
loves hates and ambition in the
fourteenth century.
Roberto of ANTON had many years be-
fore despoiled his elder brother.
Charles Martel. king of Hungary, of
the fair kingdom of Naples. But now
lying at the point of death, because of
his religious fanaticisn, he desires to
make tardy restitution by wedding his
daughter Giovanni to Andreas, grand
son Of Charles Martel, and brother to
King Ludovic of Hungary.
The story opens like the tale in Lalla
Rookh. Andreas is journeying to Ma
pies to meet and wed his betrothed
and receive his kingdom with his wife
at the hands of the dying king.
Andreas goes as conqueror to re-
ceive his kingdom as his right. But
Giovanni seeks no lord nor master.
She is and will be queen alone. She