. The literary digest. gle in the North and in the vSouth with a fidel-ity to history that has a singular charm for the reader, and a posi-tive value for the student familiar with the historic characters andtheir setting. Hugh Wynne is the son of a Quaker, somber and austere, and Vol. XVI., No. 5] THE LITERARY DIGEST. 131 of a French mother of invincible vivacity and sweetness. JohnWynne, the father, like many of the Quakers of the prerevolu-tionary time, is a Tory inevitably by his creed of non-resistance ;but the boy Hugh shares the sympathies and inclines to the in-fluence of his Aunt Gaino
. The literary digest. gle in the North and in the vSouth with a fidel-ity to history that has a singular charm for the reader, and a posi-tive value for the student familiar with the historic characters andtheir setting. Hugh Wynne is the son of a Quaker, somber and austere, and Vol. XVI., No. 5] THE LITERARY DIGEST. 131 of a French mother of invincible vivacity and sweetness. JohnWynne, the father, like many of the Quakers of the prerevolu-tionary time, is a Tory inevitably by his creed of non-resistance ;but the boy Hugh shares the sympathies and inclines to the in-fluence of his Aunt Gainor, who, with small effort, makes a rebeland a patriot of him. Hughs comrade and, later, brother inarms. Jack Warder, tho quite unconscious of his martial possibil-ities, is one of the first to hasten to the field; Hugh, restrainedfor a time by consideration for his father, follows him, but notbefore he has fallen in love with Darthea Peniston, a young ladyof overcoming but capricious charms, of which all the young gen-. S. WEIR MITCHELL. tlemen of her set, whether patriot or Tory, are supposed to beenamored, including Hugh and Jack Warder. And these find adeadly and, for a time, a favored rival in Captain Arthur Wynne,a cousin of Hughs and a kings officer. There are revels, duels,battles, captures, escapes, plots, counterplots, intrigues, endlesscomplications—all end in Dartheas rupture with the dreadfulcaptain, and her marriage with Hugh. The characterization is admirable, at times even surprisinglyclever and delightful. Hughs father, without sympathy or sen-timent, saturnine and intolerant. Hughs mother, a quaint,pathetic little figure, inexpressibly sweet and touching, stunnedand stifled at times by the rude shock and the oppressive atmos-phere of her husbands conscience and duty, but ever elastic torecover her cheerful, happy moods of love and grace and daintypleasantry. And Aunt Gainor, silly, match-making, meddle-some, but always meaning well and always enjoyable; andDa
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