. Review of reviews and world's work. on was written to aid the sectof Russian Quakers, or Doukliobors, as they arccalled, in their efforts to escape to a land of liberty ; and all the pro-ceeds from its .salein Russia, P^ng-land, the Conti-nent, and Ameri-,ca will be devotedto this is a powerfulstory of a manand woman wliohave sinned andrepented, andwho, each in a dif-ferent way, finallyreach the highestideal of life inserving vivid picturesof Russian so-ciety, of peasantlife, of the ghastlyprisons and thesqualid existencesthat lead to the prison, of the crowded and fil
. Review of reviews and world's work. on was written to aid the sectof Russian Quakers, or Doukliobors, as they arccalled, in their efforts to escape to a land of liberty ; and all the pro-ceeds from its .salein Russia, P^ng-land, the Conti-nent, and Ameri-,ca will be devotedto this is a powerfulstory of a manand woman wliohave sinned andrepented, andwho, each in a dif-ferent way, finallyreach the highestideal of life inserving vivid picturesof Russian so-ciety, of peasantlife, of the ghastlyprisons and thesqualid existencesthat lead to the prison, of the crowded and filthytrainload of exiles being transported to Siberia—allthese are marked by the terrible realism and largefeeling of the master craftsman. It is as relentless, asoverpowering by sheer truth of detail, as a Verestscha-gin battle scene. The author of Quo Vadis has chosen for his Knightsof the Cross (Little, Brown & Co.) those Middle-Agetimes when the religious but militant order of theKrzyzacy (somewhat analogous to the Knights of. MK. FRANK NORRIS. THE NEU/ BOOKS. 763 St. John) were engaged in the conquest of pagan Lithu-ania. To the fact that these fierce (liristians carveda path for the Cross with their swords is partly duethe later ineradicable hate of the Polish nation foreverything Teuton. The romance runs closely alongthe lines of With Fire <nid Sicord, P(ni Michael, TheDeluge, and the whole group of the authors historicalnovels of Poland. Witty Max ORell calls his first novel Woman atidArtist (Harpers). It is an amusing tale of an Englishpainter who, in order to surround his wife with greaterluxury, tries to sell a patent to both the French and theRussian Governments. The result is a .series of ludi-crous diplomatic complications which in the end sendthe artist back to his wife well content to resume hislove idyl. Maurus Jokais Debts of Honor (Doubleday & Mc-Clure Company) hinges on a so-called American duel(as noted under Miss Cholmondeleys Red Pottaye),which threate
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