Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1888 — AMELIE RIVES’ TRAGEDY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

AMELIE RIVES’ TRAGEDY.

The Author of the “Quick or the Dead” Ventures Deeper—A Thrilling Work. [New York Special.} Amelia Rives—as she still signs herself—the young Virginia authoress, has written anew work which is likely to cause a sensation in

comparison with which the furor over her famous novel, “The Quick or the Dead?”will prove insignificant. “Herod and Mariamne,”' a tragedy from her pen, will he published complete in Lippincott’s Magazine for September. 'The work is founded on the history of Herod the Great, as related bv Josephus, and formed’ the subject of one of Vol- : taire’s classic tragedies. The plain, unvarnished tale of Herod’s cruelties

as found in the pages of She “History of the Jews cannot fair to make the reader shudder. Mrs. Eivos-Chanler has understood perfectly how to adapt the incidents to. dramatic purposes,, and the result is beyond doubt the strongest work in that particular held ever produced by an American author, for power of expression, depth of feeling, brilliancy of imagination—for the work is imaginative despite th 3 historical foundation—and ability of construction, “Hercd and Maxiamno’’ is not ex. celled by any modem tragedy, and must be regarded as a work of genius. Of the literary merits and demerits the critics will have much to say. , -

AMELIE HIVES.