Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-15
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
THE DUCHESS or ANooutEME Ahc
THE TWO REsToRATIoNs.
0iimpses or Hssvsn--A Valuable war
Map-Ths Soul Of Liiith-Ths
White COMPANY.


trait. New York: CHARLES ScRIBSrs's
Sous. 1886 pages. $1.25.
For sale by WEST. JOHNSTON Il Co.. Rich
mond. Va.
The Duchess of Angouleme was the
daughter of LouIs XVI. and MARIE An
rorNE1rx and the wife of her first cousin,
who was o son of him who became hing
CHARLES X. After the decapitation OF her
parents she was imprisoned in the Temple,
and is styled the " Orphan o. the Temple"
She shared and consoled the exile OF her
her uLcle, and returned with him when
he was restored to the throne OF France oy
the allied powers after NAPOLEON was
forced 70 Elba. Her dire misfortunes dis
ciplined and chastened her character, so
that with intense patriotism she blended
piety. fortitude, and many other noble
wonanly traits. She also had masculine
qualities for government and command.
which strongly challenged the property OF
the Sale law. NAPOLEON said, "She was
the only man Of her family" Yet she was
a pure and true woman, and one OF the
charms OF the work before us is her devo-
ton to the memory Of her parents and
the contrast which she presents TO the
other members and attaches of the royal
court.
The first restoration was when LOUIS
XVIII. mounted the throne after BONA.
PARTE was sent to Elba, and the second
when BoNAPARrE was confined on 81.
Helena after his defeat at Waterloo. On
| both occasions LOUIS was between the
upper and neither millstones OF restored
| loyalists emIgres. and reactionarles on the
| one hand, and ImperIalists. many OF whom
| he retained and tried IN vain to conciliate.
and reyoutionists on the other. IL IS said
| that 1.-THE mills of the gods grind slowly
There was net anything godlike IN the po-
| litical mills of France IN those days, Tor
| they ground with fearful rapidlty. Much
| new gearing had been added TO them ana
| to their quondam motive-power. Inc
| guillotne had been attached.
The Duchess of Angouleme could hardly
support the painful associations when her
return TO Paris and the Tulerles so ylvidly
revived. but at last she learned to master
them and conducted herself wlththe most
commemorate dignity and efficiency IN
every position in which she was placed,
though many Of them were OF an exceed
ingly trying nature. The King. instead OK
honoring FoucHE and TAILEYBASD with
them both DESTROYED without the least
hesitation. His more ludicious niece was
opposed to their appointment TO the high
places which they held. Our author gives
A startling sketch of these two demons bY
CgkIE,uBsI,SD, who was alone IN one OF
the chambers of the Church OF 1T. Denis,
in which the neglected remains OF LOUIS
XVI. and MARIE ANTorSETTE had at last
been entombed. He saws:
suddenly door opened. Into the still
ness of the chamber came Vlce leaning on
the arm of Crims-M. de Talleyrand sup
ported by VI. Fouche. The internal appa-
ritlon passed slowly before me, entered the
Kings apartment. and disappeared.
Fouche came 10 swear fealty and homage
To his lord: the teal regicIde knelt before
the King and placed the hands that caused
the head Of Louis XVI. TO fall between
those of the brother OF the martyred King;
the apostate Bishop administered the
oath"
We wish the Duchess of Augouleme
could have intereeded for NEY and LAVA
LErrE. Her refusal TO hear the pleading
of their wives seems hard-hearted and in-
consistent with her character. But she
mad probably found that her interference
was unwelcome and useless. The leading
ladies Of the court OF the aristocratlc
salons--even delicate ana tender girls
and crum blers at the hardness with which
il was shed. This work is intensely IN.
teresting and presents history III one OF
its most attractive and abiding forms.
The Goddess of Atratdbdr. BY WILLIAM r.
BRApsHAw. illustrated. New York: i.
+. DoUrHAT.
This is a history of the discovery of the
interior world, and 1t is the production OF
n hraln that must, whatever else may be
said of il. TEEN with tho richest sort or
wild imagination. If, however, the idea
was uppermost in the mind OF the author
TO stimulate an abiding interest IN his
story he succeeded more completely IN
showing his own hearty sympathy IN all
that he wrote than III catching and hold
ING steadfast the attention OF any, save
the scholarly contingent into whose hands
the book NAV tall. The idea Of leaving the
realistic field and launching into the
mystic domain of fiction is by no means
new or novel at this day, and the style OF
the work is initiative TO an extent that -
painful, notwithstanding the cleyerness OF
technical detail. JULIAN HAWTHORNE, IN a
tattering introduction 70 the book. de-
clares that the story is based upon a
profound understanding OF human nature
and is calculated to attain deserved
celebrity" but the rapid leaping from
frozen facts into the hottest realms OF
feyered imagination is too suggestive OF
feeding crocodiles at night with peanuts
for this to be realized.
The White Company By A. Conan DOYLE,
author of THE Firm of Girdleston," etc.
New York: LOWELL, CoRYELL N Co. 4Sl
pages illustrated. Paper. 5Oc.; cloth,
SIPS.
This is a delightful story of England in
| the days of chiyalry. when her territory
extended across the channel. The hero
was reared in "a monastery. aud left 1t at Il
to enter the army. Thus we have pictures
of monastic life. of rural England, Of
home-life in fortified castles. of voyages
by sea, of forays into the enemy's borders,
and, with ali. a most charming love-story.
The book is filed with knightly names,
and has many descriptions OF bow-maklng
and archery and some accounts OF the
tournaments of the day. The language Is
quaint and striking, and every page shows
that the author is a genus aud that be has
Owed deep into and brought out many
treasures from the folklore of the chiyalrIc
age of which he writes.
Sea Me,o Abbeu BY FLORENCE WARDEN,
author of House on the Marsh etc.
etc. Price 81. Boundin cloth. United
States Book Company, successors to
John W. Lowell Company. AZ to $50
Worth street, New York.
This book is written III the authoress's
peculiar vein. but it Is none the less inter-
esting for that, and it IS the best of her
productions. The scene is LAID upon the
sea-coast in Yorkshire. England. in a most
picturesque spot. The heroine Is the
| daughter of the captain OF band OF Snug
/ glers, who was once brave naval officer.
She has many romantic adventures,
especially in Sea New Abbey. her dilapi-
! dated ancestral home, which is tull of
secret chambers, passages. aud subterra-
mean hiding places. Ii is also the resort OF
the smugglers. who finally disband. and
the captain, who has been greatly wronged
| by his nation, gets righted aud becomes a
| law-abiding Englishman once more.
The Soul of LiHth. BY MARIE CoRELLI. au-
| thor of "A Romance of Two Worlds"
etc, etc. New York: LOWELL. CoRYELL
Il Co., 43, As, and AZ east Tenth street.
J This is a strange. weird. fascinating story
| full of occult science and theories. ~
| Rami- Zaranos. "a pure oriental thorough
BRED is the hero. though such designa-
| ton is too commonplace TO apply to wise
man from the East, who can draw an
essence from the earth upward. wrath.
| like in shane. "or from the very bosom OF