Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-03-20 | Page 31 | A Tale of Getting On

!H A TALE OP GETTING ON". Hfl l To Windward: the Story of a Stormy JI H Course. By Henry C. Rowland, author of fl f "SCn Scamps." Frontispiece In colors by ' harlotto Weber. Published by A. S. Hl "V ' -f-rnes & Company. New York. 11 rhlB 13 lh0 flrst novcl bJ' a famous k ZvnZlter of short stories, The hero, Amos t, 'jft 1 f KnJapp, starts out to bo a doctor and eur-li eur-li Wl M ge.on, but Is stopped after graduation by ' ( ' jy lack of money to go on with his hospital I I' clinics. Ho takes to shlp-bulldlng, being MfJ 'HI of the raco of sea-goers, and acquires skill ' T 'Vrl nnd "trongth, being a big man with I ifl m mighty muscles. He Is a college man, i if I and obtalns many advantages through At ' f his acquaintanceship formed In his under-ill under-ill I graduato life. His straightforward, honest git. ' ways, his effcctlvo work, and his readier, readi-er, , ncss In all omcrgencles give him full em-I em-I t ployment, whllo his courago and lndepen-dence lndepen-dence mnko him master of every situation, l ji that Is, for a considerable time. Then he 1 til j , meets The Girl, and Is bowled over. Next a)K U he meets an old doctor who Is both mas-lliJb mas-lliJb 1 r terful, crabbod, and verj- kind and true, J 1 I who both masters him and brings him Into fcin complete submission. The hospital work !X P'r ' tn0 yunf man, his social success, all JsiJ. are viewed with pride by the stubborn old O , man, and Amos rises rapidly In tho world. 1 , I An episode which recalls a kind home ho . j had In hie callow youth redounds much to I ' his credit, though It tends for a tine to throw him Under a cloud. He continues 11 . offish, however, In his lovo affair, at first I through devotion to an old friend, but 1 CJ later he finds tho dissoluteness of this J J friend's character, and makes all sorts o J , I a fool of himself In the matter, ending ' 1 d j with a spell of sickness which brings him I K.uU near to death. Through It all hla old doctor norl friend Ib his good genius, his almoner, his pM faithful rescuer. The story at tho first is 4f I partly a sea story, and lator It Is In New I York's mighty whirl, with plenty of ad- I venture Tho author makes a rush and IgK i go, In spirited stylo Indeed, But It Is a DfU JI struggle sovero for tho young surgeon r U h, from" start to finish. Tho action Is rapid, j7 ' and the Interest Intense. It Is a story that 1; ,L one must read who begins, for It Is tho . J"l compelling sort, and enthralls ono beyond fH j,' j escape.