Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-02-05
LOVE AND WAR.

IF the heroine be lLe =,
novel. "Sally Castleton' 9oulii-
4 erner'" should meet a wide ap.
prevail not altogether on account Oh
sally fresh and charming though sile
ie in herself. but on account OF oally
plus her younger sister. Genie
Yon see. there are really two hef1
oines and. what is nearly as nice, Two
heroes That is almost too much TO
exnect YOU say. Yet here it Is, en-
bodied in a well-told story. with
plenty of strength to the theme,
which is love, and plenty OF Color 70
the background, which is war tne
war" ~
While Crittenden Marriott, VINO
wrote the book, does not reveal any
startling originality of plot, the mar
ratiye is quite worth While. Here
we find a Southern girl in love WIN
Northern man. Well, there could
have been a great many worse things
than that. and a Southern girl in love
with q Southern man Woulu III" .
been no story at all.
Quite a gap reaches between oaliy
Castleton. daughter of a Confederate
general. and Captain Radcliffe, d
Yankee spy: but the greater the gap
Ia he SPAWNED the greater the love
that spans it. :.
Sally's sore trial comes when she is
asked to win Radcliffe's confidence
for the sole purpose of betraying MN
IN his DEATH Tortured by her loyalty
TO the South and her love for Rad-
read.
steadily Colonel Page regarded her
eyes, / want you to do IT, ne as
scverated. "Why should you not!
sos.Svtbv not? why not? Because it's
,onstrousi It's vilei It's degrading!
s'No duty for ones country can pe
degrading, Miss Castleton. Ana eVS ih
If it were all you say, why sho o.i.e,
you not do 1t when the south "sAS
soS% The South. The SOUTH The South
NAV have nv life and welcome.
said I would die for 1T and l VIII.
But even the south has no 7 ri ilbdr 20
ask me to lie and cheat anu oisiiolioi
myself. 1t is too much
rs it?' , 4,,,os ves
Ask me anything else-anything..
THE South has nothlhg ei nna u fb inn
and no other. From all her children
she asks something-from each ac-
cording to his strength-irom one ms
property, from another ms cnlldrel
asks ths-this, nothing else. r.
woman within reach but you Is capa-
| HE Of rendering it. The South calls
you. viii sou fail her.?
Sally was white as death. In thu 4
tragic eyes distended, In the name
| of the dear old South! How many
times | have said l w9uid an 40 sa amSi
| fice. How many times ] have prayed
| FOR a chance to render it some great
some glorious service. And now th'
chance has come and it is TINS
''But you are right. 1t is not 70
me to choose my service. Or to h .3
back because i is d saa.donn ,6,is
object when 1 thought some othe
| woman was to do 1t. What right haV'
| I to shirk the task now? To ask tina
/ it be laid on some other shoulders
| To ask that some other undertake Tn
| thing ] scorned to do myseifE
This is really fine. Sally accepts
and because this is a book, Radcliffe
of course, does not go to his death
| He wins in his undertaking and h
wins in his love, and you admire hin
| in both.
OF course, Genie is a sort of sec
ondary heroine-but she is a heroin
none the less, winning her spurs an
her husband much in the way tina
Sally won hers.
"Sally Castleton. Southerner." &
Crittenden Marriott. Lippincott. $f.2'
"Katherine's Mother" published i
the Outlook Of January Is, was writ
ten by Minnie j. Reynolds legisla
tive secretary of the New Jerse
suffrage organization. Mrs. Reynold
was managing editor of the suffrag
edition Of the Evening Star last fal