Show Charming Tale M Dragged From Past I M To be able to reach into th past and touching it with the POof pov PO of the written word recreate living reality is la a gift that is isE l stowed only upon the chosen few ris Jenkins in his new novel noyer ri J cess Salome Salome Salome-A A Tale of the Days Camel Bells Delis has certainly proven claim to that enviable distinction De Dc cities resurrected live again in mad barbaric splendor of ot the pa Like a purple veil of or witchery Mt languorous atmosphere of ot the East d The years between have rush away behind the present fading ir in unreality and unreality becoming reOne meOne re me One does not read b but rather Ih liv he heb and moves amid the scenes of lo Io ago II With Stephanas and Shaoul we eter e eter ter the second city of the world A Ai in Syria and with them are carried breathless from scene scene through the unfolding dr dran n not of ot their lives Jives Who are these p p p. p grims and what is the power that drives them ever to the fulfillment of their mission Through a shifting series of scenes we come at last to truth that underlies underlies' It t story We Ve are gripped om the f fir r when Stephanas wins favor in mit II eyes ees of Princess Salome that la lat hat turns to love Then comes the raHe raHe ra He lc Ides es but he love lo-e between the thi grows with a strength that tears h hl from the friend of his youth and tui tur him from the great mission upon they had set out t t ether destined to meet again but only af art fate has torn Stephanas from Salon Salor turned her into a soulless dam thirsting for revenge and left bert h h. h desolate Then it is that he feels on 01 more the mighty call of his form forn mission and the events that foil lead to the final meeting of ot the thet It friends Stephanas and Shaoul wh the former has reached the ultima croal noal oal of ot his supreme faith Here the th this theis is depicted one of the most drama end Ind gripping scenes of this un i sual powerful novel J. J B D. Lippincott C Philadelphia |