The Washington herald., 1913-08-03

Prof Smiths book adequate II 10 apt
to lead the inexperienced wrong.
KEREy OF LowBoLE: By Tn. I. sibbz.d.
New Ycrk-Georse H. Duran cnmpsny.
A weird story Of the olden time. told
In quaint language Abundant incident
reveals the mode Of thought and ways
Of life in old England that still believed
in witches and feared the alchemist wiz
ard.
Thomas Ashe, said to be q defendant
Of the famous Elizabethan DR.. Dee. as
trologer and mathematician. was q mys-
terious parsonage with Q past and ap-
parently without a future. All that was
known about him by Zachary. his de-
ciple, was kept locked in the latter
breast Ashe had loved q gypsy girl.
whom he married. Keren was her daugh-
ter. Ashe, immersed in scientific re-
search, and his lovely wife. had been
happy. beyond human knowledge. They
lived ip Flanders at Reutscher. when a
man of power. whose addresses the
woman had rejected, denounced her as
a witch, and. in spite Of every effort,
had her sentenced TO the stake. Ashe
was granted a farewell interview. He
was carefully searched as he went In
and was watched as he gave her a last
prolonged embrace. Then he left and
she fell dead. He and their child with
drew to England where he lived an an
chorite life amid his retorts and alem-
bics nursing his revenge and preparing
lit.
Keren knew nothing Of all this. But
vague natal influences. curious dreamlike
"reminiscences, haunted her, and made of
n
fathers experiments, in which she usu-
ally helped tending the fire and rendering
such service as she might. added q weird
touch Of experimental learning that set
her apart from other girls. Her quiet
repose, her reticence. her selfpossssion.
made her a useful friend to lean on in
an emergency: those who loved her did
so with absorbing devotion; those who
hated her feared her. They did not un.
derstand her and thought her Of the
devil And she had to fee.
The manner In which the intricate plot
Ia woven and unraveled, recalls the old
school Of novel writing: every situation
is carefully brought about and nothing
left unexplained. The dissenter. Tobiah
with his constant Bible test for every
man and every decision, yet human in
spite Of his sterness. and Zachary, the
poet, the picturesque. dispossessed eldes,
son who cared little for this world,
goods. and whose devoted love for Kerer
at the last clears away the clouds tha,
obscured her horizon Is magnetic char.
acter.
THE LADY AND THE PIRATE: By Emerro,
Houeh. Illustrated. Price. N3 Indianapolis
The Boobe Merrill Company
The hero Is a modern buccaneer
Henry Francis Drake, millionaire bach.
| elor and pirate by choice, who sail
the Mississippi from the headwater,
to the Gulf. The villainous crew
board the boat: the dashing pirate kid.
| maps the girl. and maroons his rival
But the villainous crew are Just two
small runaway boys. who caught Pi.
| rate Drake, the staid bachelor, and Sci
him chasing down the Mississippi sfte,
his own boat. For he rented his yachi
unwittingly to his rival He kidna o,
his sweetheart. maroons his rival, and
| learns from the piratical crew how tc
make love and the secret of the boy.
hood he never knew.
Emerson Hough has told this tale II
fascinating phraseology. The fun Il
heightened by the mock seriousness oi
the piratical conversation. Il 10 Jus,