The Mystery

Halfway through The Mystery, by Samuel Hopkins Adams and Stewart Edward White, I decided that I definitely was not going to review it. But now that I’m done, I kind of feel like I have to. It’s just so weird. At least, it seemed weird do me, but I’m not really in the habit of reading slightly sci-fi pirate-y horror stories, so.

The Leopard Woman Illustrations

I’ve had the illustrations from The Leopard Woman sitting on my desktop for kind of a while now, so I’ve put them up at Flickr. See the rest here.

The Leopard Woman

They are few genres more sexist than the early 20th century romantic adventure novel. If you don’t believe me, read The Sheik. The Leopard Womanby Stewart Edward White, isn’t quite as bad as that, but it’s the same sort of storyline — the proud, adventurous woman being subdued by the strong, masterful hunter-type.

The masterful hunter, in this case, is named Culbertson, but in Africa he goes my the name of Kingozi. He’s an Englishman, and, along with a German named Winkleman, one of the world’s two foremost experts on Africa. The Leopard Woman was published in 1916, but I’m guessing it takes place a couple of years before that, because war breaks out between England and Germany halfway through the book.