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1924 a genuine appeal, the Emperor and Emress belonged. The Emperor w~s a mystic and the Empress, either from natural inclination, or from ~Jose association with him whom she so . ~ar ty loved leaned also towards mysttctsm. ' Josephin e Oakes Wheeler. A Splendid Detective Yarn "RIPPLING RUBY" By J. S. Fletcher The im·entive talent of Mr. !"letch.er is evidently inexhau~table. ~or, ~~ spttc ABOUT BOOKS AND THE of the fact that he IS wntmg his mysPEOPLE WHO WRITE THEM tery stories at the rate o.f t~o or three Intimate Pictures of the Czar a year, they maintain the1r h1gh :'verage . USSIAK of excellence. Moreover there IS what "MEMORIES OF THE R ,..e ml'ght call a Fletcher s_tyle and a COURT" By Anna Viroubova · . .. t Fletcher method of consfructmg a story I d Anna Vi(oubova, a Y m wattmg o that ·s so perculiarly his own th . at rea~ the late empress of Russia, and later a h b h t s member of the Royal family, interest- ers easi lv get the Fletcher a It, t a_ 1 · ingJy writes of her relations with the they e~gerly read every book he ~ntes. Emn.ror and Empress, and her know!The present book is concerned Wit~ the .,.. h adventures oi James Cranage, a. pnvate edge of the Siberian peasant preac er, secretary tem.vJrari ly out o_ f a JOb and Rasputin, whom she personally k~ew . ,.., There are a number of good 1llustra- financiaily brok.:. He carnes a mess~ghe f hem for the sake of earnin~ t~e fee :-vhtc tions in the book. Many o t are l·nadvertantly invoh·es him m a senes of snap shots, taken by the author herself, d b They are intimate pictures _ of the _Royal adventures highly exciting an Y no h h h means devoid of danger. The man to family taken on board_ t elr_ ya~ t, ~n t_e '"hom he carried the message. and the palace and during thetr extlc ~n S1bena. · The book is thrilling, espeetally those one who sent it arc, in succession murparts about the methods of Kerens~y dered. The nemesis which. pursue? them and his successors; and the many exc1t- to their death is a mystenous Chmaman ing events in Madame's own life follow- whom they had evidently robbed of ing her numerous arrests, and her final something of great value. Crana~e .be · gets a new job vith an _ eccentnc escape to SI na. noblewoman and in the . twmkle ?f The private life of the Emperor and an eye, she becomes mvolved m his family according to Mme. Virou- the same tangle. The valuable stolen one of cloudless happiness ." object is sold to her by an agent bova, "Never," she writes, "in all the 12 years of the two men afterward . murof my association with them did I hear dered and the lady sent Cranage w1th the an impatient word or surprise an angry article to be deposited with her lawyer look between the Emperor and Empress. in London. The agent who sol~ the. vatuTo him she was always "Sunny" or able and the lawyer who rece1ved 1t for "Sweetheart." deposit constitute the victims of murMIIe. Sophie Tutcheff, a protegee of ders three and four· Cranage meanwhile the Grand Duchess Serge was the first is scared stiff with the fear that he may person Mme. Viroubova says to create be listed as a victim. There is a fifth what aitet:wards became the internation- murder, perhaps the worst, certainly the ·l Rasputm scandal. most dramatic. Why the book was called "Those who expect from me," Mme. Rippling Ruby is something of a mysViroubova says, "secret and sensational tery in itselL It is the name of a race disclosures will, I fear, be disappointed, horse, a favorite for the Derby, and ap-for Rasputin's every move for years was pears now and then. However at the end known to the Russian police. He had of the book she is much in evidencebeen called a Priest, more often still, a finishes with a rush. Like all of Mr. monk, but the truth is, he was not in Fletcher's books ' 'this one is interesting holy orders at all; he belonged to a from cover to cover. James Walter Doughty. curious species of roving religious peasant, which in Russia were called Stron- "THE STORY OF MAN AND 11iki, the nearest English translation of \VOMAN" the " ·ord being " Pilgrim. " Of the type By David P. Jackson, M. D. of Ru ssians to whom the Stranniki made A book on intimate but important a ed to be married, ~nd wer· i· th,e questions of our everyday life ~~ich ~ g ith President Lmcoln at Fords 1 ,,.·II no doubt give the reader new · eas t~;at~e in the night the great lea~er un the subject of sex, and the variOUS was shot by John Boc;>th .. The semor phases of sex life. It i~ broad an~ _ un- Rathbone, then a major tn the army, <krstanding in its viewpotnt and rebgtous was stabbed and severely wounded _by in its treatment of things heret~fore Booth when he endeavored to sel~e C l>nside red too personal. There 1s a the assassin. Congressm~n Rathbone s i rankness without crudeness and broad- mother, then Miss Harns, the daughness with delicacy. HarMary Tn1c. · ter of United States Senator I~a _ ris of New York, was an mttmate friend of Mrs. Lincoln. ~~e. spent the entire night in an ~dJolmng .room watching over ' Mrs. Lmcoln until the death of the President the next morning. km WOULD PRESERVE LINCOLN RELICS The largest privately owned collection of Lincoln relics in the country, for which Henry Ford offered the owner. Captain Osborn H. Oldr~yd. a sum sai d to be in excess .of $¥l.OOO, will be purchased by the Umted ~tates under the terms of a bill introduced in Congress recently by Co~gr_ess man Henry R. Rathbone of lllm01 s. Congre sm an Rathbone's ~ill provides that the Oldroyd collection, n~w housed in the ancient house oppos1te Ford's theatre where President Lincoln died. shall be bought by the gov ernment for $50,000. The hou se which shelters the collection is now tht! property of the government, having been purchased some years ago for LOST COUNT HERE Last Friday afternoon New Tri~r's econd teams defeated Pa~ker ~1gh school of Chicago. The ltghtwe1ght ~core was 30-18, and the heavy score ~vas so large that the scorekeeper lost count. JZII E·enoa St. £yuaatoa Phoae 'IIZI· MOON In the new Moon four-passenger Coupe-the luxurioaa Sedan or Petite Sedan-you will find the same outstanding individuality of Moon ~esign-the sa~e thoughtfal consideration f.or every deta1l of construction, upholstery and equipment. Th~ 11tw Moon bodi~s Me Mdde ~xclwiv~ly by Pt~llffiGia. $30,000. "wa; In the Oldroyd collection, w 1c numbers some 3,000 pieces, are a number which link the career of the great Illinoisian to the modest house and law office at Springfield which he occupied before he began his momentous trip to Washington. . 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