Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-06-10

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"a entitled 10 have his long and potential
Environment remembered and candidly
considered.
cRuMBLING IDOLS. Twelve Essays
on Art. Dealing Chiefly with Litera-
t,re. Painting, and the Drama. BY
UamIln Garland. Chicago and CAM
bridge: stone and Kimbail. 1s2 pages
Price, N.2.
This Is another volume whose sumptu-
BUSINESS will captlvate the bibliophiie. 1t
is dedicated ito the men and women OF
America who have the courage to be
artists" and Is In the main a protest
Against the "despotism OF tradition" In
his enthusiasm for the new, Mr.. Gar
land displays n decidedly iconociastIc
spirit. Nevertheless, his essays contain
a vast deal that Is true. and well worthy
of the thoughtful consideration OF young
novelists, dramatists. painters, and sculp-
tors. As to the field OF romance. Mr..
Garland contends that every novelist who
has risen dstinctively out OF the mass
OF story-writers In America, represents
some special local life or some special
local phase, and that the same principle
is being illustrated in England and Con-
tinental Europe. Art" he says, in
treating of literary success. II must In
sist, is an individual thing-the question
OF one man facing certain facts and tell
ing his individual relations to them. His
first care must be to present his individual
concept This IL, l believe. the essence
OF veritlsm Write OF those things OF
which you know most and for which
you care most. by so doing you win be
true 70 yourself. true to your locality,
and true to your time"
This idea Mr.. Garland seeks 10 en-
phasize: for in another essay. the title
of which is Literary Prophecy" he de-
clares that "the surest way TO write for
all time Is to embody the present in the
finest form with the highest sincerity
and with the frankest truthfulness. The
surest way to write for other lands Is 10
be true 10 our own land and true to the
scenes and people we love, and love IN
human and direct way, without being
educated up to 1t or down to it," The
author advances in general the same argu-
ment in discussing painting and sculp-
ture. His mistake Is that he does not
distinguish between the "despotism Of
tradition" and the influence Of what Is
good and inspiring in the past In re-
ferring to the novelists who have "risen
distinctively out OF the mass Of story
writers" he mentions several from the
South.
FOUND GUILTY, BY Frank Barrett,
author Of Love and Honor" &c, &c.
New York: Lowell COryell & Co. Pages,
339. Price. sl.00. Paper cover. 90 cents.
This work engages and holds the inter
est of the reader. Without any effort at
fine writing, its style is animated and
graphic. There is not much depression.
yet there are, as the narrative proceeds,
some sly hits at rusticating artists, and
the foibles of women. 1t purports TO be
from the narratives of some OF the chiet
personages who are introduced-not their
narratives themselves; for the different
parts are put together by the same hand.
The plot Is varied and complicated, but
well and progressively evolved. There does
seem to us, however. TO be an incOn-
gruity in one of its main features; but
that hardly detracts from the denouement.
There Is one very attractive character
that Of Rev. Dr. Bullen. He is a clergy
man, and according to the sanctioned
customs of his time and place, uses wine.
and plays a game OF cards for "A small
stake; but is faithful TO his vocation,
humane, sincere. and pious. lie befriends
one Of the heroines Of the story when
she is intensely suffering from the
cruelty of her husband, and after his
violent and deserved death, makes her
happy by his marital devotion, and the
contrast between her Nnion with him and
her previous worse than enslayed condi-
ton is great.
Her first husband Is vile double"
As Doctor Norman. he Is an investigator
OF toxicology, and practices on snakes.
dopg hlffg and eVeu hia NUN innocent
wife. for both banes and antldotes. He
would have killed her, or driven her
mad, but in the very nick of time she
is rescued by his own hireling, who be-
lieVcs he Is a rogue and a villain. IL was
thought that she had been lost In the fire
which destroyed her dwelling at the time
she made her escape. AS an ardent
scientist, he shuts himself and his wife
up from all outsiders
In the character OF Mr. Everlelgh, he
is an amateur naturalist, of London,
seeking knowledge, as well as recreation.
In the country; but really striving to
entrap the other heroine OF the story,
who. upon her marriage would be en-
titled to $4,000. the evidence Of which
he steals. She loves and marrles another:
but he still pursues her, though he now
knows his own wife Is not really dead :
and after a series Of thrilling Incidents
comes very near getting her In his
power. But by her own moral strength
and decision she saves herself lie has
TO fee hastily from her presence, falls
headlOng from an unprotected and I'M
known stairway, and kills himself He
has at last been detected. and found
guilty" His not dlsconsolate widow be
comes joyful Mrs. Bullen. and the other
suffering heroine, the heircss. DOrothea
urI IL 81 g.. Igr Lot
band Captain " Bromley. Still the dan
gerous part he performs. and by which
he comes so near losing forever his faith
full wife, seems to us unnatural and I'm
probable.
A MEDICATION OF ARTHUR LEE
LII. D., T.. II. s., former representative
OF the Province OF Massachusetts, Bay
at London, joint commissioner with
John Adams Benjamin Franklin, and
Silas Deane at the Court OF Louis XVI
Of France. and sole commissioner at the
Court OF Prussia. by Charles Henry
Lee. Richmond: Whittet & Shepperson.
60 pages. Paper. Price, 30 cents.
This pamphlet is designed as a refuta-
ton of charges found in the writings
of Benjamin Franklin and Sias Deane.
as exhibited by Jared Sparks, the letters
~ '''NS f'AhNs NiAp h4NiiiDii VI DtduIldT-
chais. by L. de LOmenie, and "transla-
lions" QSS9 Of certain documents alleged
TO have been found at Paris in the French
archives. Its contents are mainly en-
braced In a yet unpublished memoir of
the life and times of Arthur Lees
brother. Richard Henry Lee Arthur Lee
though a "diplomatist," by his irritabllIty
and lack OF diplomacy on occasions an
tagonized many of his contemporaries.
This and the opinion OF John Adams.
which the author Of the pamphlet quotes,
afrord a very good explanation OF the
attacks that were made upon him. In
1873 Mr.. Adams put upon record this
testimony: Arthur Lee, a man of whom
l cannot think without emotion; a man
too early In the service OF his country
to avoid making a multiplicity of enemies.
too honest, upright. faithful. and intrepid
10 be popular, and often Obliged bv his
principles and feelings to oppose Machia-
velian intrigues to avoid the destiny that
awaited him. This man never had JUS
tice done him by his country"
The pamphlet contains many interest
Ing letters, and the authors comments are
incisiye.
For sale by West Johnston & Co. and
j. w. Randolph * Co.
SALEM KITTREDGE AND OTHER
STORIES. BY Bliss Perry, author OF
The Broughton House." New York
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