Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1895-02-10

occasionally. but they dlda't have the
same charm for him that they had pos
sessed In former years.
In the days when the three Britons
had lived so happily In the French capt
tai they had known among the many
Bohemlans who frequented their haunts'
a German (or Polish ] forget which, jew
Of marvellous musical talent, This man,
a long -whiskered. long-haired. sinister
locking, cold-blooded, cruel rasamuiiln'
whose name was SYengali, had fallen
Desperately In dove with Trllby, and had
frequently besought her to marry him.
but she appeared to have an instructive
dread of him. despite his evidences or
affection. Imagine. then, the astonlsh-
nent Of the Britons. when five years
after they had left Paris they learned
that Svengali was creating a sensation
throughout Europe by his wonderiul
skill as a musician. and that he had
with him a Madame Svengali Crrilby, OF
course) whose vocal talents were az
founding the world. The strange part
about it all was that nothing and been
heard Of Miss O'Ferrall for years. ara
that when our artists knew ner she
couldn't sing a note. and was completely
tone-deaf. They met her In Paris once
when she and Svengali were at 'he ze-
NTH Of their glory. and much 10 their
nrofol;n1 establishment "Trilby cut
them" and would not even acknowledge
their bow Little Billee" was Ike other
men. This cruel treatment on tne part
OF his Old sweetheart, coupled wi.h othrr
circumstances. awakened all his former
love for the girl (such treatment always
does have a salient effect on mem, ana
he forthwith proceeded 10 begin enew
his rawlings over the model.
The artists had always marvelied now
Trilbv obtained her vocal training, al
though they remembered that she had
an exceptionally sweet voice, ana TOT
long time they could not believe that la
SvenpaW' was the harum scarum girl
they had formerly known. But subse-
qucnt events proved that she was, ane
that Syengali had developed her SKIN
by an arduous course OF training, ana
bv the hypnotic influences which he eT~
.rclsed over her The story ends In Ion
don. The musical celebrities had gone
thither To give one OF their concerts, ana
I'm the midst OF the entertainment, just as
Trilby was about to sing. Syengah, VINO
was directing tho orchestra, died OF
hoart-failure and the girl, though rot
at first aware that he was dead, sudden
~ found herself deprived of all her vocal
novars. She acted strangely on the stage,
and created such n sensation that peo>
plp concluded she was mad. The three
artists FASTENED behind the scenes ana
took charge Of her. As soon as the hyp-
notist had passed away, she practically
lost all recollection Of her career WIN
him-in fact her mind seemed blank
on this subject She was tenderly nursed
bv her old friends. but gradually faded
Wn0E =
love had come back to him with the
force OF hurricane, was overwhelmed
with grief. and so, at her demise. ne,
too. lent his assistance TO the author ~
shunling off this mortal coil. VOLTA tout
Du Maurler's book Is wonderful, not
Only for the diversity Of character dis-
PLAYED within it. but also for It's origl-
nalitv and freshness Of style. There
have been many discussions as 10
whether II IS a moral or immoral WORK.
I shall express no opinion as 10 this.
We're 10 say It was the latter the
whole edition would be exhausted by
tomorrow afternoon. ] viii say, now
ever, that Trilby's record during he'
early years was not altogether what II
should have been. and women. | doubt
not. will yilify her memory Men are
more sympathetic about maedalen'
and such creatures-they viii al
condone her faults. For my part III
frankly confess that ! consider the poor
girl a lovely character, but I'll leave
others 10 judge for themselves. There
can be no question about the fact that
"TaTy." the Laird" and Little Bill
lee" were all that men should be, de-
spite the fact that they had many faults
and were not ovcr-pious. Du Maurier'
religious views viii not meet the ap
proval of the RELIGIOUS, but "chacun a
son gout
The Illustrations In "rrilby" have gon'
far towards making the book what it IS
In point Of artistic skin they are fully
apace with the literary skin displayed
by the author. In every case his interpre
tstfJn Of he characters Just neetE ~
readers lima gnatiOn. Nearly every pag
Of the volume is brimful Of French quo
tations. songs and slang Gn the original
and those who have not studied this Ian
| guage are sometimes rather nonplussed
| but We. who speak the Partisan article
| Ike IT, When we are able 10 translate
an "and" or "the" We feel quite proud o
| ourselves And. moreover. even II yO,
can't read French you will find In "Trilby
| q liberal sprinklng Of German with whicl
10 amuse yourself. aEd n you can't rea'
| that you can even find a few Italian boz
mots upon which to chew.
y younS newspaper-man told me yes
| tcrday that he would rather be the auth0
Of "Trlby" than millionaire | endors
/ his sentiments
THE IDLE REPORTER.