Show Gossip About New Books and Authors I Colorful Story Laid in Venice In America we associate fanciful stories stones told and repeated a hundred times with quaint spots of the 01 old 1 world To those of or use who wI-jo are unable to visit the popular shrines of Europe there thele comes a knowledge through constant constant constant con con- stant reading In London Dickens has brought us ua us Into the quaint smelly places of the lower cla classes ses while others have given us a peep into the tho forbidding castles and the inviting country places In Paris we know the Montmartre district dis the wold revels and wilder crimes of the tile Apaches Of Berlin we have read ead tales of the military of the government gov of pt diplomatic scheming and intrigue Venice has always been to us to place a z t wonder There are the tho strong passions pas pas- of the Latin the romance ot of sunny Italy the tho vengeful spirit of a hot-blooded hot race I It is in this Venice the source of ot everlasting wonder to the Yankee that thit Nathan has placed his latest romance The Leopard Prince The Tho book is a worthy successor to hi lii j other romances of or the old world Castel del Monte The of ot Rome The Hill of ot Venus The Crimson Gondola and others The Leopard Prince Is just such BUch BUcha sucha a book as girls gins adore adora It is pompous intriguing full of ot e loves passionate sp speeches Illo illogical situations colorful descriptions and heroic deeds deeds' It is a romance of Venice in the tour four I century at nt the tho period of tho the thoI Bosnian conspiracy The The Page com com- pany Dos Boston ton I Characters Weak I I In Weeks Novel Convict 14 B by R. R K Weeks i is a T. novel that is not as absorbing as s its title It is a typical En English lish tale written ij hi In t typical English st style le with much of the action taking place in Great Britain Certain ch chapters are somewhat morbid InOr Id d and depressing It u is difficult to understand Just u t who Tho the author h has nominated t to be the hero I 5 c 1 I and ind heroine of or his tale One of or the C can n. Is ill described as follows He had dark e eyes ejes es and a small head small email hands and wiry muscles small features features fea fea- tures and a thin mouth Not an entirely prepossessing young oung man n and l his actions ns do not tend to better the first Impression He Is an Il Innkeeper Innkeeper- b by the name of Harr HarJ Gardiner Shortly after tIle the Story tory opens he flings a chisel at the head of one of his guests and the man n dies of a fractured fractured frac frac- skull received in the fall Gardiner Gardi- Gardi ner is absolved from bl blame e at the coroners coroner's coroners coroner's coro- coro ners ner's Inquest because the true circumstances circumstances circum- circum stances are not brought out The dead mans man's wife bel him guilt of murder however She leads him guilty fall fail In love with her and then to to make him tell the attempts real affair He lIo story ot of the bec neB suspicious S and nd she discloses to trial rt her motive Later he 1 Is brought brought after he makes maltes a an attempt to cape from the tue police escape es- es Another young woman in the tho sto story comes forward and on th the witness testifies that t the dead map man hn a a. revolting had uttered remark about while half drunk and that his ow own wife wICe this Gardiner to hurl provoked I the chisel testimony aids In lightening at him This ot of Gardiner He Is the sentence In love with ness and they ultimately the witness witness wit wit- find after he ha has d fj term jn In prIson happiness wife ot of the man he ha killed The own life sacrifices her to saVe that ners ner's best ot of Dents Denis Gardiners Gardiner's GartH GartH- York New Cruelty of oi Tsars Recorded by Saltus The Imperial Imperia Or Orgy a a. brilliantly Edgar Saltus Is written book story of telling the the Tsars Tsar ot of Russia from the Ivan Jvan to Is a most Nicholas the Last It amazing and Tsarina historical record Tsar pass Jass In review and gOvernments their acts constitUting In truth literal an orS org prolonged through tunes the major motives cen of which For madness Tie cruelty Caesars lust at and unbridled were hot hor their most debauched cruelest and ore Tile The tailed failed equal this ree rec Imperial Imperl l Org Orgy for the Is r remarkable power and color written with which tt It Is and for the le restraint er and his of the tho writ masterly knowledge or of his material Ed Edgar r Saltus at his best re Is as one or of the few prose rose masters Ameria and Tho Th Imperial Or Orgy I Is Is' Is isby by r far r his finest work 1 1 right New ew York Good for Children Of Every Age Widget by Willie i Hawkins is a. a J book which child n enjoy and one which parents 11 Joy reading to their children Not since Alice in Wonderland as delightful a book for childr all ages been as Widget et A Widget is the of a witch and a midget a d course all Widgets are queer wouldn't be fair to O o tell you ju jua juf jufa a is but do any harm to let you ou 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