" Katharino Leo " (Mrs. Henry Jenner), being apparently a sympathizer writh the Jacobite cause, is qualified by that circumstance as well as by an agreeable literary talent for the task she has undertaken in WHxII FOrTUNE FROWNS, Being the Life and Adventures of Gilbert Coswarth, a Gentleman of Cornwall; How he Fought for Prince Charles in the years 1745 and 1746, and What Befell Hlim Thereafter (Horace Cox). Mrs. Jenner tells once again the molancholy story-for even those who would not wish the result to have been other than it was may call it melancholy-of Culloden and the harrying of the fugitive Jacobites. It was unavoidable that Mrs. Jenner should provoke comparison with Scott's immortal novel, to which, indeed, she 'ays the compliment of wounding her Mr. Coswarth in that same skirmish of Cliftonbridge in which young Mr. Waverley received his providential wound. The wanderings of Mr. Coswarth andDonaldDubh ant' Ephiteach, when pursued by King George's soldiers, recall, too, the wanderings of Alan Brack and David Balfour in "K idnapped." So that Mrs. Jennor is treading a path troddeD before by great masters. Still, she acquits herself with credit, and her narrative, if rather sluggish in the earlier portion, is graceful throughout, and, from the time that Mr. Coswarth sets out to join the Chevalier, really stirring. The Ephiteach is a clever and amusing study in Gaelic character.
" Katharino Leo " (Mrs. Henry Jenner), being apparently a sympathizer writh the Jacobite cause, is qualified by that circumstance as well as by an agreeable literary talent for the task she has undertaken in WHxII FOrTUNE FROWNS, Being the Life and Adventures of Gilbert Coswarth, a Gentleman of Cornwall; How he Fought for Prince Charles in the years 1745 and 1746, and What Befell Hlim Thereafter (Horace Cox). Mrs. Jenner tells once again the molancholy story-for even those who would not wish the result to have been other than it was may call it melancholy-of Culloden and the harrying of the fugitive Jacobites. It was unavoidable that Mrs. Jenner should provoke comparison with Scott's immortal novel, to which, indeed, she 'ays the compliment of wounding her Mr. Coswarth in that same skirmish of Cliftonbridge in which young Mr. Waverley received his providential wound. The wanderings of Mr. Coswarth andDonaldDubh ant' Ephiteach, when pursued by King George's soldiers, recall, too, the wanderings of Alan Brack and David Balfour in "K idnapped." So that Mrs. Jennor is treading a path troddeD before by great masters. Still, she acquits herself with credit, and her narrative, if rather sluggish in the earlier portion, is graceful throughout, and, from the time that Mr. Coswarth sets out to join the Chevalier, really stirring. The Ephiteach is a clever and amusing study in Gaelic character.
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