The Washington herald., 1909-02-21

the murderer. and thereafter besides
rbe-isHinE her grief for her father. sEe
becomes Mad Barbara sullen,
and source Of danger 70 the two who
share the secret Among party Of revel-
Isrs John Gore. son Of the murderer,
comes 10 Barbars's rescue. fighting duel
with a hot-headed young lord who has
ATTEMPTED to kiss her. Eventually the
elder Gore hides the girl in = lonely
country house in charge Of two brutal
servants. who cruelty mistreat her, and
capt. John. who has been told lying
tale bv his father. sets out on the road
70 seek his missing sweetheart After
that the story becomes wild with adven-
t,Ire and fairly red with blood. but the
tenderness OF true love Is al the deeper
for il. and the readers sympathy al the
sweeter when the tragic beginning makes
a fine and gracious end
4 quarter Of q century has elapsed
since the appearance OF Helen Hunt
Jackson-s Ramona. which vas written
with the object OF doing for the Ameri-
can Indian what Uncle Toms Cabin"
had done for the negro L was promptly
translated into many languages and was
hailed by many as the great American
novel" II is still a good seller. but Is
now more modesJly called the Cslifor-
MIA book by George Wharton James in
his Through RamOna's Country CLit-
tie. Brown & Coz. book of rs pages.
with many pictures. telling and showing
all that any tourist on the trail OF A ia
nous story can want to know There
F~,Tr- ~
known the original Ramona. or the In
dian Alessandro; but Mr.. James assures
US that every character in the book IS
fictitious. Ramona herself being COM
posite portrait. The descriptions. how
ever. anu the background are real; and
this background of California scenery.
missions. Indians. and their avocation and
habits. Is painted ny the author in sober
prose. He is one Of those sentimentaIists
10 whom most Indians are white and
most whites black, but let that pass The
Indians certainly were maltreated by the
whites though not so badly as they NAL
treated each other. The most interesting
pages in this book are those describing
the astonishing changes tha; have taken
place in California since Ramona's day
the Indians nearly all gone. ard replaced
by Chinese and japanese; Los Angeles.
then a town OF 5000 Inhabitants. now
a city OF 200o0o, taxing itself this year
SO 100000 for an aGueduct 10 bring water
a distance Of over 200 miles. and so on
guide book Of even ten years ago is
useless.
To those who desire TO get a strong
impression Of the formality and dignity
Of life in the good days of Queen Anne
and the neighboring periods, We recon-
mend volume. imported by Scribners,
which. to give its full title. Is called
English Houses and Gardens IN the
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: a
Series Of Birds Views Reproduced
from Contemporary Engravings by Kip.
Badeslade. Harris, and Others. with De-
scriptive Notes By Mervyn Mscartney-"
Some OF the views are well-known from
the reproduction IN modern biographies.
but others have been for the first time
rescued from old county histories and
other obscure books Together they win
have some value for the architect and
landscape gardener. and great deal Of
interest tor the student OF eighteenth
century life The notes by Mr. Mscart-
ney make no pretenSe to anecd0tai enter
tainment or biographical fuliness. but
give the ownership. date Of building, and
other details OF the sort.