Identifier: reviewofreviewsw22newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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,who is placed among the hardships of pioneer life andof Indian warfare, who can conquer her lover in sword-play, and use a rifie with the best of them. There arefew chapters in which one does not find the excitementof a duel, a battle, scalping-party, or some equallythrilling incident. Mr. Edward Bellamy, the famous author of LookingBackward, had written The Duke of Stockbridge(Silver, Burdett & Co.) even before the book that madehim so well known. In fact, it is said that LookingBackward grew out of this romance. Shortly before hisrecent death, Mr. Bellamy authorized the publicationof the novel. It deals with the great revolt of thedebtor-farmers of Massachusetts against the laws whichdealt so severely with them in 1786. An officer of theContinental army, who led the revolt, is the hero ofthe narrative, and his love with a belle of WesternMassachusetts makes a pretty story. Miss Molly Elliot Seawell essays, in The House ofEgremont (Scribners), an historical romance of the time L
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MH. EDWARD BELLAMY IN 1889. (Whose posthumous novel The Duke of Stockbridge,■ has justbeen published.) of James II. Aside from the stirring iiu-idents andthe many adventures and misadventures, narrated withmuch s;>iritand skill, the striking part of Miss SeawelTswork is her attempt to renovate the figure of James II.—an even more difficult task than that which confrontsthe apologists for Richard III. and King John, but one 762 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY RE^/EiV OF REf/IElVS. which Miss Seawell enters on with enthusiasm and notwithout success. Mr. F. Marion Crawford has chosen old Madrid, in thetime of Philip II., for the background of his romanticstory, In the Palace of the King (Macmillan). Hisfigure of Dolores is a captivating one ; and her lover,Don John of Austria, makes a noble and spirited hero.King Philip is one of the characters in the tale, and allthe pageantry and splendor of the Spanish court aid inenriching the background. Mr. Maurice Hewlett has his field, so far as styl

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