The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-05-31
COCO STORIES FOR SUMMER READING
Posthumous Novel by the Author of The Prodigal
Judge" and Tale Of Widow Who Dieted.-
Magazines for the Month Attractive.

practically secures all he wants, how
a feminine member of the English ar
istocracy happens to be mysteriously
aboard, how she falls in love with the
Captain, how his subsequent adyen-
lures lands him in the arms of bux-
ON bar-maid of his own class and how
he finally marries the LATERAL this
is told in the book And very good tel
ling it is.
A delightful story for a summer day
or with a chair cheek by jowl with
the steam radiator, for that matter, Is
1.-THE Minister of Police" by Henry
Mountjoy.
This is of that class of story which
has for it's setting the environ of the
French Louises at the time when the
sinister Richelieu held devious and
subterranean sway.
What would the world have done
without Richelieu?
He is the best theatric and literary
property it has.
He's the stock in trade of the his
torical novelists and the raft to which
the sinking histrion clings despairing-
ly to slow music from the Union. All
you have to do is to put on red toga,
fold your arms and cast darkling looks
at the handsome young conspirator
who is romping recklessly on toward
the guillotine with the due regard to
the movements of the lilac spotlight,
and everybody in the audience is sure
you'll be elected to Congress.
The Minister of Police, however, is
a charming tale of the type, and can
be recommended to everybody in
search of what is sometimes termed
rafting good story, full of escapes.
thrills, bewildering women, beautiful
heroes, crucial documents planted in
orange tubs and later restored to
Richelieu by spies masquerading as
devoted retainers to the bewildering
ladies, and such like. Incidentally it
draws a brilliant picture of Madame
du Barry.
"His Worldly Goods" are located in
New York city and the gentleman in
the case in sanitarium the while his
beautiful wife with long blue eyes
round in automobiles with blonde ath-
letes and an archdeacon stands on the
cr"h in nerturbation of spirit.
This story II by Margaretta futile
and published by the Bobbs-Merrill
Company.
ic ohcOrhiro toll full 1f
talk, distinct in characterization, we'll
sustained as to plot, atmospheric and
possessing literary eclat.
A penniless girl of good connec.
| lions is married off to millionaire de-
generate, developing tendencies that
cause him to be immured in a sanitar-
ium and she proceeds to hold high,
cultured and seductive sway in sun
dry mansions to say nothing of sea
side clubhouse where she works de.
| vastation to the extent of being kid
mapped and hurried off In a yacht to.
ward Bermuda.
! She is rescued, however.
| Later everything turns out we'll and
F.! she marries the serious young clergy.
bioh w NJ hdo, IIoIIl Tic
! been in love with her although he
didn't know it until once when they
shook hands and in delirious flash
her long blue eyes like corn-flowers
| looking into his own
| We all know how it goes
To tell the truth, there is good deal
of interesting philosophizing about the
relations of the sexes
These things l know" she said
| There is little loyalty among men to
the women they sacrifice 1t comes at
length, all of it, to grudging attention
and yelled disrespect."
when love affair comes to moth.
| ing with a woman, she has no other re-
sources to take it's place. But a man
goes the harder to work.
"Or loves again." said Nadine, "or
forgets it entirely, or gets drunk, OF
marries widow for money, or seeks
an adventure which he may find at any
open door. If women would only be-
lieve it-but they never will. They GO
on believing that each lover that