THB OREGON I SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORlllNO, MAY 88, 1911.
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OTCE OF THB NOKTH WOODS''
br Harriett T. uomaioo.-me
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. I ! into wie awry Datura o
V cab understand and fully believe
tha publisher statement, that, already
the book la In Ita third adit Ion. (or it
la a work far ratnovad irora me or
dlnarr romanca.
Mra. Comatoek haa found, what It haa
lon been aald did not axiatan umrna
iinn fiaid of fiction. She haa dlaoovared
a new and orlaloal charactar In Joyoa,
.and wrestled with probiema in nar ae
relopment that ara uaually loft for tha
.philosopher and aoclaJ aclentlat to oopa
; with, ana ana naa oomi mora fmmnw
aolrlnf tham than haa sa or eaar.
; Tha oene of tba atory ara ao wild
aad ramota thla St. Anga, up In tha
north wood that ona can only picrura
U aa op In tha far away north, whara
alYlliaatioa haa not yat penetrated, or
at a tlroa, feneration removed from tha
presents natthar of which la oorreot, for
Mra. Own stock, haraalf haa aat tha mat
Ur at rt by atatUig- la a paraonal ln-
, tenrleir "That It waa not awar off
In ona of th ramota looaJltlea, but
riht bar In tha atata of Naw Tork,
tha aama atata that holda akyaorapara,
Vail atraat and Coney faland; up among
tha deep wooda that cover tha northern
I -atop Of the Aaironaaeits, near too ini
Ljfalan line." Hera Joyce dwelt !
Black Cat" whara tha men of the vil
lage congregated to dlacuaa with wit
and vulgarity, between llbatlona. the
vante of their little world which nev
er went farther than the lumber campa.
They were, with few -exceptlona, a de
praved, cruel type of humanity, the ex
ception being John Oaaton and Jack
FUmer, and a little later than the
opening of the atory, Ralph Drew.
Among the flrat lot waa Jared Blrk
dale, who bad dwelt In 8t Ange for
many yeara. cruel and debaaad aa the
worst, but keener, ahrewder and of finer
caliber. Ho waa the father of Joyce
and knew t& a nicety her value In the
matrimonial market. For aoma time
Joyce had been assigned, by common
consent, to marry Jude Lauzoon, a great
brutal lout who waa wholly animal, and
with nothing to redeem him. One of
the strongest features of the atory la
the masterful manner In which the au
thor draws a picture of the women of
'fit Ange. She glvea It In snatches
here and there, but their hopelessness,
cringing submission and weight of mis
ery, threads the atory from beginning
to end, though It Is often reeled off
through the philosophy of lsa Tate,
whose humor savea It from being abao
' lutely distressing. Joyce was one of
those freaks of human nature that we
see occasionally In the flora) world,
when we dlacover a great, pure, white
lily springing from filth and corrup-
tlon; both simply rising above their sur
roundings and serenely unconscious of
j from whence they came. Gaston had
come, a year or two before the atory
- opens, from the great world beyond, to
, 'regain his health. He met Joyce and
stayed on. At tha very outsot of thai
Ing to his houM for thfa'purpoe. Jude
aurmialng her move, took a party of his
friends from tha "Black Cat." and trapa
bar In Oaaton'a shack, tbua throwing
her upon tha protection of tba only
friend aha ever bad.
From thla point tha story la worked
out, with Ita probiama and lntrlcaa.es.
as delicately aa tha tracery of eiQuis
Ita lace. Mra Comstock bandlaa great
aoolal forces, human paaalona and re
ltgloua condttlona In a manner that can
not fall to provoke tha moat Intense
admiration. ' Joyce, Oaaton and Jude
hold the center of tha stage through
moat of tha atoryi but at tba time of
Joyoe'a ma rr la re, there came to 8t
Ange, by seal dent, a young minister,
Ralph Draw, whe stopped for a time
with Jock Fllmer. Both these man, at
times, oome dangerously near crowding
tba trio away from tha center, and both
have a strong Influence On tha ethical
aide of tba atory. A strong psychologi
cal force la brought out In tha Ufa of
Draw, while tha author leaves tha life
of Joek Fllmer beautifully open for a
now story and It can come none too
soon Aa a whole " Joyce of tba North
"Woods" may ba o leased aa ona of. If not
tno atroageat, moat vinie ana aramauo
pleoea of fiction of the year. Doubleday,
Page A Co. Price II. to.
story one feels that Gaston Is a ma
, With a history and ao later developments
prove. Joyce falls In love with him
' and Gaston feela her fascination grow
1 Ing upon him, but realises that they
are of two separate worlds, and, lest
the temptation to become a scoundrel
. overcomes him, he urges her on to
marriage with Jude. He assists them
to build a house and after the mar
rlage is a frequent visitor to It, but
alwaya In a parental, protective sort
of way. Jude had alwaya been jealous
of Oaston and tha eerpent aoon ahowed
Ita' head. The atory la full of tragedy.
. but a greater tragedy could never be
written than the year or two that Joyce
lived with Jude, which Included the
birth and death of her baby. Such
tragedlea are not uncommon among the
brutalized and besotted, but the agony
of Joyce, as she tried to live up to tha
bc Ange coae or morality for women
and to keep her faith and do her duty
to Jude, la ao exquisitely pathetic that
uib nun or it en enters m vpirv uniii
JVof the reader. At length, In a drunken,
throw her out of tha house, oroceed.
" Ing to smash to pieces the furniture
ana everytning mai was so aear to ins
girl In her little home.
Jude, In hla drunken rage, divulges a
scneme ne is listening to rob oaston and
Joyce feels that before leaving 8t Ange
. ana must.inrorm uaston or it, and go
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"Mary." by Winifred Graham For
those who have pondered over tha atory
of "The Servant In the House" this
story of Msry will have an added oharm
and a lesson never to be forgotten, for
It Is tha aama Idea carried cut with
the figure of tha mother In plaoa of
the eon. The time la tha preaent ana
the place England, and the people auch
aa we meet every day of the year, with
their eorrowa and sins, their selfish
misconceptions of light and wrong, and
their diverse Interests which become ao
rbaorblng to the reader. Mary la a
gardener by profession and through force
or natural circumstances sna nnas ner
self In the employ of a famous artist
whoae former gardener has Just been dls-
mlHsed under a false charge of dishon
esty. If the reader cares to ba analy
tical ba may figure out tha predominat
ing traits of human nature and find a
character to personify It, but tha book Is
better enjoyed read Just for tha story's
sake and rememberef for tha lessons
the characters teach, unconscloua of any
definite purpose. Tha artist and his
wife are in need of council and help,
their son, a young; man still In college,
has mistaken the over enthusiasm of a
friend for tha call of God then there
Is the garden r who bss been iur.jd
of dishonesty, the under gardener who
wants the place, the people of the vil
lage, especially the ohildren, who suffer
for the sins of others all this condition
exists when Mary becomes head gardener
for Arrow Penreath, the artist. What
she does, and how she does It. la told
In the atory In ao sweet and simple a
manner that the book holds the reader
spell bound, compelling him to learn
the truth and beauty or the text and
know Mary as shs Is, not as we have
been told she was. That Is the point of
the story, to know Mry aa she should
exist In our hearts, not ss a saint to
be worshiped In place of the Christ
In the book, Mary, speaking to Penreat
says: "The Angelus has always bee
rung by men to venerate the one woman
who would most keenly have desired to
escape veneration. The Virgin Mary
wanted no prominence In her life, she
sought' no pralBe, But dwelt In humble
retirement, only looking from afar at
tha greatness of her Lord. Tha very
thought of being held up as an object
of worship would have tormented her
quiet, retiring spirit, possibly disturbing
(If such things could be) her eternal
rest Was she not content to alt apart
In silence, offering no word for the
ages to come, willing that history should
be written In which she is but a simp
handmaid of the Lord? If fu
ture generations throughout the cen
turles were Intended to fall down and
pray to her as to a glorified saint, plac
inc her on a pinnacle with Qod and the
redeemer, would not her son, during hla
one at Lendorfa feminine creation. "A
woman aha waa. for a braid of bar
hair was flying and aha was just In tba
aotvOf recapturing It and atowlng It
away beneath "a bat that for all tba
world waa Ilka bla own Baden-Powell."
Thla was tha heroine of tba atory. Joan
Lackland, whoae history waa interesting
but not nearly ao much ao aa bar fu
ture adventure were to bo. Sha la
rather an unnatural young woman, with
a courage and aplrlt for advantur un
precedented In woman-kind, yet ah waa
sweet and womanly, wen when aha
dared and commanded Ilka a general.
Tha atory la a aeries of advantur In
which tbeaa two take the leading parts,
and necessarily weaving Into It a
romanee aa strong and refreshing aa
the adventure.
While It Is not an entirely new field
far the fiction writer, Mr, London al
ways stamps hla work with anaa in
tense Individuality, that even old ground
seems naw and untrodden to hla raadera.
In "Adventure" on get far mora than
romanoe and exciting entertainment, for
the author aa every ona knows. Is a
keen observer, and he has brought Into
the narrative, so much Incidental In
formation that there la a strong educa
tional feature to It
Perhaps the most complimentary and
roost truthful criticism of this tale Is
to say, that In It. Mr. London has more
than bald big own with bla ad mi rare.
ThMacMUlan Co. , Prlo ft 10. ",
Th Peacock of Jewels," by Forgo
Hunnf-Thl author la aa oonslstent aa
he la prollflo no' matto how many
book h writ during a year each one
la aura to be out out of th earn pat
tern, lined with tha aama Bilk, padded
witlj the earn thickness and. basted,
bammed and Stitched with tha aama
thread only tba outside trimming dif
fer In tha outside appearance. There
la tha anaky Oriental who has family
Jewels,, th shady old relative who seem l
to be dealing unjustly with bla or her
ward, there la tha lov story of a pr
feotly beautiful, Innocent, ill treated
girland this character invariably gives
the reader to understand that th au
thor doe not know anything about wom
en when they are young, or else he ha
never met any. Then there 1 th crime
that must be traced and th final scene
In th library, when th srutltv ' ara
brought to Justice, tha girl marries the
hero who haa aavad her fortune, the
relative Is Justified la the ayea of the
world, and last, but never the least, la
tha surprise of knowing which one of
tha many unsuspected parties really did
commit the orlme. Fergus Hume holds
a place of hla own In our hearta, for
by hla oonslatenoy he seems to have
taken us Into his confidence and given
us "Inside Information" before the first
page Is begun. "The Peacock Of Jewels"
Is a splendid detective story, interest
ing and exciting at times, with a first
rata hero and an Imbecile heroin, and
room for plenty of gueae work. Dil
lingham Pub. Co. Price 11.10.
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"What Happened at Quasi," br George
Cary Bggleston. Quasi Is the name of a
peninsula plantation on the coast of
South Carolina, Jestingly given because
th narrowne of th oonnotrngr neck
of land give th false appearano of
an Island And things happened there
many thing. They not only made moat
exciting tlmea for four school chums
who were csmplng there after a glorious
cruise In a dory, but had a roost Im
portant bearing upon the fortunea of
the family of the two Carolina broth
ers who had as their guests a boy from
New England and one from Virginia.
Four fine, clean, capable, good fellows
they are, who know how to meet emer
gency without flinching. They learn a
great deal from their cruise and so will
tha reader. A feature of Mr. EggUa
ton's book which add greatly to their
popularity Is hi ability to oonvey
much from bis own remarkable ator of
knowledge without lessening tha Inter
est of th book. Lothrop, Lee Shop
ard. Prlo l.J0.
With a aoor or more novel to bis
oredit. Including "A Maker of History, "
"Mysterious Mr. Sabln," A Prince of
Blnners." "Th Malefactor," "The Illua
trloua Prince," Mr. Oppenhelm flnda tha
publlo as eager for hi next book aa
heretofore, and with tha author In tho
limelight of American publicity there
la every reaeon to believe that bla new
set atory, "Tba Moving Finger," will
aoon ba numbered aa usual among the
best sellers. Mr. Oppenhetm la now 44
year of age and having severed all busi
ness connections, ha Uvea quietly at
hla English home In Norfolk county,
near the North flea, when he la not
traveling., Mr. Oppenhelm la accom
panied by hla wife and daughter. They
will return to England In about two
months' time. Little Brown at Co are
Mr. Oppenhelm'a publishers.
The death of Thomas Wentworth Hlg
ginson removes one of our best loved
men of letters and historians. Hs un
doubtedly knew bow to Impart an un
usual amount of human Interest a veil
as aoholarly accuracy to what ha wrote.
"What Wa Long to Know," Colonel
Hlgglaaon one said, "la that tha great
acta of hlatorr were don by men like
ourselves, and not ; by dignified ma
ohlnea." Hi "Larger History of th
United States." first published In HIS,
wa undertaken In direct response to
th requests of readers, teachers and
parents who had found hi "Young
Folks' History of th United State"
something of a godsend. Later, In 1I0S,
similar reason mad Imporatlv th en
largement and revision of th "Larger
History," so that probably no man ever
had better reason to know that his work
was warmly appreciated. Colonel Hlg
gtnson considered United States history
more Important, more absorbingly In
teresting, and more plcturesgue than any
hlstorlo subject offered by tha world be-
aide." Harpers,
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41 failed outright and (6 were con
ditioned. The number from the Mc
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It la Impracticable to waah th hair
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ministry, on his. cross, or after he rose
from the tomb. have told his disciples
to come to him through Mary, to hail
her as an object of devotion T But he
alone could read the simplicity of her
heart. He saw ber, knew her, loved her
as she was. So you see, It Is merely
out of pity for, her that I do not like
the Augeius beiL" Mitcneu Kenneriey.
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"Adventure," by Jack London From
the "Call of the Wild," Mr. London has
turned his ear to the .call of the sum-
Vner seaa and found his first story,
which could approaah In strength and
brutality, "The Sea Wolf," down In the
Solomon Islands. We use the word ap
proach, advisedly, for we do not believe
any author could duplicate that monu
mental work or disgusting bestiality.
He - was a very sick white man. He
rode pick-a-back on a woolly headed,
black skinned savage, the lobes of
whose ears had been pierced and
stretched until one had been torn out,
while the other carried a circular block
of carved wood three Inches In diameter.
The horse man was greasy and
dirty and naked save for an exceedingly
narrow and dirty loin cloth; but the
white man clung to him closely and
desperately. At times, from weakness,
bis head- drooped and rested on the
woolly pate. At other times he lifted
his head and stared with swimming eyes
at the cocoanut palms that reeled and
swung in the shimmering heat. He was
clad In the thin undershirt and a strip
of cotton cloth that wrapped about his
waist and descended to his knees. On
his head was a battered Stetson known
to the trade as a Baden-Powell. About
his middle was strapped a belt, which
carried a large caHbered automatic pis
tol and several spare cups, loaded and
ready for quick work." Thus the hero
of the story' Is Introduced to us as he
makes the round of an Improvised hos
pital, where great number of his slaves
are sick, and dying, from the Solomon
Island scourge, dysentery, which had
struck Berande plantation. David Chel-
don himself was on the verge of col
lapse, from the same dread disease, ex
cept that he had the white man's power
of resistance andthe indomitable will
of an Englishman. Furthermore he had
no desire to fall Into th hands of his
man eating blacks, whom hs knew
would fly at his throat like ravening
wolves and mount his head to dry In"
the sweltering sun If he should Show
any sign of weakness, or, by 111 luck,
happen to faint Even In his extremity
he wa forced on, perhaps not unwill
ingly, to practice the most exquisite
cruelty 'npon hi cannibal slave.
Tlie only hope was. in the arrival of
his Xretghtey. th "Jessie" and Its .crew.
The ."Jessie" came but only to bring
death and. disease, and when the far
thest.Jlmltof .-.Mdoj-BJic. ... had Jbaen
reached, a whaler nosed Its. way Into
shore and David Sheldon woke up from
his fever to find himself attended by
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