Los Angeles herald., 1910-10-16


In conception the plot is strong. The
faithfulness of the Anglo-Indian at
mosphere; the superb portrait of the
young rajah, serene and majestic in
his robes of white; Adam Nicholson,
the ideal Englishman for india; the
transformation in the character of
Beatrice the thrill we always feel
when we are reminded of LUCKNOW
all of these things-and they are
many-place the reader deeply in the
authors debt.
For a first novel it is remarkable.
It's appeal is genuine and on an or
der that commands admiration. There
is skill of workmanship. The social
groups form and dissolve w tn natu"-
alness and grace; the shadowy, sin
uous, dreadful figure of the old rajah
reappears again and again with ter
rible menace; always in the back
ground the reader hears the mutter
of the coming storm, so that anttci-
patton seems always to point the way
to events still more absorbing.
1.-The Native Born" By l. A. K.
Wylie. Illustrated by John Newton
Hewitt Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Mer-
rill Co.
Miss Sylvia Pankhurst. whose "The
Suffragette," the Sturgis & Walton
company have in hand for publication
this season, has sent her publishers
little resume of that book In it she
explains that the early portion of the
volume is given to a very brief sum-
mary of the woman's movement in
England. The bulk of it is an account
of that movement from the very recent
time when it became violent and mill
tant to the present. Here is para
graph from Miss Pankhursts sum-
mary:
Having dealt with the early history
of the woman suffrage movement, the
author comes down to modern times,
and gives the reader an intimate in
sight into the picturesque agitation of
the suffragettes. An account is given
of the events which led up to the first
militant outbreak and the manner of
it's organization. The aim of the author
is always to let the reader see what
was going on behind the scenes, in or
der that the motives of those VINO have
engineered the movement may be thor
oughly understood. In the course of
the story the protests at cabinet min
isters' meetings, visits to their houses
and receptions when they were present,
the deputations and the by election
policy are explained. The writer is able
to give descriptions of the treatment
of the suffragette prisoners from her
own experience. The hunger strike is
also dealt with, and the reason for 1t,
and it's effect upon the women who
were forcibly fed is carefully described.
An account is given of the various
police court trials of the suffragettes,
including the one at Bow street, which
contains a full account of Miss Chris
label Pankhursts brilliant cross-eXam-
ination of the cabinet ministers. This
part of the work is chiefly illustrated
by the snapshot photographs which
have been taken by press representa-
tiVes and others at the various raids"
professions, and demonstrations. One
of the most striking of these is
photograph of Miss Christabel Pank-
hurst signaling to the suffragette pris-
oners from a house overlooking the
prison, whilst the companion photo
graph shows the prisoners themselves
waving their handkerchiefs in return
from their cell windows"
"The Suffragette." By Sylvia Pank-
hurst. New York: Sturgis & Walton.
When Louis XIV was a good young
man in those days of happy innocence
before Pompadour, Du Barry ct al, had
swan into his ken, and before this
gilded royal youth had even dreamed of
the varied joys of the Pare aux Cerfs,
his pleasure loving uncle, the Due
dOrleans, ruled France on his behalf.
and encouraged the elegant world of
which he was the chief figure to throw
aside the constrained and decorous
ways of Louis XIV, and to eat, drink
and be merry, since the natural course
Of events would send them to better
world in future not remote beyond all
colonization TT iS of this DerfOd of