Abstract

Inventions and a Portrait

This article critically appraises several books. Some of them are: "The Queen's Heart," by J.H. Hildreth, "The Rough Road," by William J. Locke, "Virtuous Wives," by Owen Johnson and others. These novels run pretty well across the gamut of story-telling, from the treble of the yarn to the deeper tones of humane realism. In three of them the note is not a clear one, one must own. "The Queen's Heart" does its best to blend a number of rather unsympathetic vibrations. Its captain is the romantic champion of an ideal, which resides in the person of an exiled and imprisoned young Queen, her Majesty Isigone of Rhodes. He himself is an American, but the lineal descendant and "heir" of "the last Grand Master of St. John of Jerusalem, who reigned in the Island of Rhodes."