The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-30

! his appearance incognito till he shall
discover how things have gone in his
absence.
Sir Walter prided himself on his
mastery Of what he called 1.-The big
bow-wow" style; no other Of the Wav-
erly novels illustrates this power
better than 'Ivanhoe" One stately
| and stirring event follows another, all
holding the reader rapt in thrills, but
none quite as much the siege OF the
castle OF Front.de-Boeuf by Richard
and his Saxon friends. Rebecca from
the lattice recounting to the wounded
| lvanhoe the fortunes of the battle
stands out in the memory Of many
reader as Sir Walters greatest sue.
cess in the grand style. And despite
the heroic mould in which the char.
acters are cast, they yet surpass in
the hold they gain upon the reader.
Few have closed the book without a
sigh OF regret that the hero had to
make choice between Rebecca and
RoWena; and in our own day and
country few can fail to see the like
ness In many respects between Rich.
ara OF the Lion Heart, and the presi.
dent so lately gone
The knights are dust,
And their good swords are rust.
Their souls are with the saints,
we trust.
In the passage at arms as Ashby az.
| pears the Mysterious Knight, whom
the reader knows to be Ivanhoe, fresh
from the crusade in the Holy Land; in
the contests OF chivalry he valinntly
de1eats the Norman champions, and
Destows the prize Of Queen Of Beauty
upon his youthful love, Rowena; the
reader gets but a glimpse of a still
more mysterious knight, whom he can
only suspect to be the king. From,
the jousts all journey on their several
ways, but in the forest the Normans
plan lawless ambuscade and carry
or to the castle Of Front-de.Bo for
motives OF revenge, or passion, or
| greed, 1vanhoe, who had been wound.
ed at Ashby, Rebecca, Rowena, and
Isaac of York. The mysterious knight
or the Fetterlock appears as the timely
leader OF the merry men of the green.
wood, who besiege the castle, to the
great disaster Of the lordly brigands.
After the rescue of the prisoners, all
save Hebecca, there follows the joyous
celebration of the forest outlaws. 4
happy interlude between the scenes of
derring-do.
| IVA SAAeooo ming UCpdIIcQ 1OT
stlll more strenuous struggles In win
ming back his kingdom; Rowena and
CEDRIC sought their home; Ivanhoe
followed his chief; Brian de Bois-Guil-
bert. Templar though he was and
pleoged to holy practices, bore off his
unhappy prisoner Rebecca But he
was discovered in his wicked designs
by the austere head Of his order. In
an assembly of Templars, however
Rebecca was condemned to death a
6 sorceress who had seduced from the
paths of virtue an unwilling knight!
Her only chance for life lies in the
ordeal by battle. Her one champion
is lvanhoe. far away though he is.
whom she had cured Of the wound
received at Ashby. Brian de Bots.
Gullbert, by the irony of chivalry. ia
the champion OF his order and of vir.
lure IN distress At the last possible
moment lvanhoe comes squirting into
tne hsts. to victory which all tho
laws OF fiction foreordain. Hot after
him comes Gathering Richard and his
train, to unfurl the royal standard as
undisputed King Of England. And all
live happy ever after? Save only Re.
becca! If Ivanhoe must wed Rowena.
every masculine reader feels that he
would gladly offer himself to her rival.
For as Prince John cried whom he
| first saw her. by the bald scalp of
Abraham, yonder Jewess must be the
very model Of perfection whose
charms drove frantic the wisest king
that ever lived."
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"Gulliver's Travels" by Dean Swift
as condensed by James B. Connolly
will be printed tomorrow.