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constantly the prey OF the ruthless
Norman mobiles, who would wiring his
riches from him by torture and i'm
priSOnment: Robin Hood and his mer-
~ men of the forest glades, not for
getting the redOutable Friar Tuck,
equally adept in the ways of the clerk,
the yeOman or the rOisterer. To them
are added of Norman stock the re
doutable FrOnt-de-Boeuf, Brian de
BOis-Guilbert, the prior of J%OrvaulX,
and Prince John; AthelStane, Saxon
lord, destined by Cedric for the hand
of Rowena: Gurth The swine-herd. and
Wanda, the Jester; and the mysterious
Black Prince, WHO, like IvanhOe, makes
his appearance ~incognito till he shall
discover how things have gone in his
absence.
Sir Walter Pridrd himself on his
mastery of what he called "the big
bOw-wOw" style; no other of the Wa
verify novels illustrates his power bet
ter than "IvanhOe." One stately ana
stirring event follows another, all hold
ing the reader rapt in thrills, but more
quite as much as the siege of the cas-
tie of FrOnt-de-Boeuf by Richard &':G
his Saxon friends. RebCcca from Tie
lattice r~ecounting to the wounded fvan-
hoe the fortunes of the battle stands
out in the memory of many Il reader
as Sir Walters greatest success in the
grand style. And despite tae heroic
mold in which the characters are cast,
they yet surpaSS i'll the hold they gain
un0n to Eoc@2". T9-- hHv0 60 he
book without a sigh Of regret that the
hero had to MAX" = cHo: - Det~-en Re
bccCa and RCw>na:a Hd IN our day and
country few can fai, ~ see the Ike
ness in many RESPECTS between Rich
ard Of the Lion Heart ard the presi-
dent so lately gone.
The knights are dust,
And tier good swords are rust,
Their souls are with the saints, we
trust.
In the passage at arms at AShby Gp-
pears the Mysterious Knight, whom
tht reader knows to be IvanhOc, fresh
from the Crusade in the Holy Land
in the contests of chivairy he valiant
~ defeats tn" Norman champions. and
bcstOws the prize of Queen of Beauty
upon his youthful love. RoWena: the
reader gets but a glimpse of a still
more mysterious knight, whom we
can only suspect 10 be the king. From
the jOuStS all journey on their several
ways. but in the forest the NOrmans
plan a lawleSs ambuScade and carry
off to the castle of Front-de-BOeuf for
motives of revenge, or passion, OF
greed, Ivanhoe, who had been wounded
at Ashby; Rebecca, RoWena and Isaac
of York. The mysterious knight of the
Fetterlock appears as the timely lead.
er of the merry men of the greenwood,
who besiege the castle, to the great
disaster of the lordly brigands. After
the rescue of the prisoners, all save
lRebecca, there follows the joyous cele-
bration of the forest outlaws, a happy
interlude between the scenes of der
ring-dO.
The strenuous king departed for still
more strenuous struggles in winning
his kingdom; ROwena and Cedric
sought their home; IEanhOe followed
his chief; Brian de ~BoiS-Gu:lbert,
Templar though he was and pledged to
holy practices, bore off his unhappy
prisoner, Rebecca. But he was dis
covered in his wicked designs by the
auStere head of his order. III an as
Sembly of the TemplarS, however, Re
becca was condemned to death as Il
Sorceress who has seduced from the
paths OF virtue an unwilling knight,
Her only chance for life lies in the
ordeal by battle. Her one champion is
Ivanhoe, far away though he is, whom
she had cured Of the wound received
at Ashby. Brian de Bois-Guilbert, by
the irony of chivalry, is the champion
of his order and of virtue in distress.
At the last possible moment Ivanhoe
tory which all the laws of fiction fore
ordain. Hot after him comes clatter-
ing Richard and his train. to unfurl
the royal standard as undiSputed king
of England. And all live happy ever
after? Save only RebecCa! If Ivan
hoe must wed ROwena, every mascu-
line reader feels that he would gladly
offer himself to her rival. For as
Prince John cried when first he saw
her: "By the bald scalp of Abraham,
yonder Jewess must be the very model
of perfection whose charms drove fran
tic the wisest king that eve lived"
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