Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-06-21

the front. no better protection OF our
society in its aforetime Christian refine
ments can be youchsafed to US than
the reproduction In vivid truthfuFness OF
tho high examples or womanhood which
Illustrated the daily walk and conversa-
ton IN lives and usefulness and happiness
OF the mothers ana sisters and wives and
daughters OF our earlier history.
From the J. w. Randolph Company.
THE DUCHESS OF POWYsLAND. BY
Grant Allen, author OF The Tents OF
shem," "Mamie's Choice" etc. New
York: United States Book Company,
successor to John w. Lowell Company
l2rno. Pages SS5.
This book IS entitled 70 claim rank IN
the higher class OF contemporary novels
no less from its interest than its moral
tone. II is a story Of English society
and some phases Of high life are keenly
saterized. The interest Of the reader is
not invoked IN behalf of unworthy men
or women, nor are his sympathles for the
worthy checked or chilled by ridiculous
or repulsiVe caTicaturcs. Upon tho other
hand, in all the incidents OF the narrative,
the contrasts OF character are sharply
presented with the Obvious purpose sue
cessively accomplished Of enlisting SYM
thy for tho worthy and contempt or
scorn for the unworthy. The portraitures
OF tho English snob in quest Of social
recognition with his heartless trihing
with the affections Of a young girl in
humble life, and OF the impecunious
nobleman in quest Of rich wife TO sup
plement his narrow income, vastly In
sufficient for his gambling propensities
| and prohigate tastes. are well conceived
and well executed. And against these
portraits are well set out the two
herOnes Of tho story-one Of them in the
calm dignity with which she accepted the
revelation of her lovers true character;
and the other in her scornful rejection OF
the offer Of her mercenary suitor. The
romance OF the story IS that this gifted
plebian girl becomes a milionairess, and
| consequent upon that the wife Of this
noble" adyenturer, and as such Sile
| Duchess OF Powysland. The unhappy
| experiences OF their welded life, with tho
ira yical close 10 him, and the almost
UNANIMOUSLY tragical outcome to her, are
graphically unfolded in the progress OF
the story, and the reader will ind the
narrative very entertaining.
From the Cohen Company.
CAMILLA. A Novel. Translated from
the Swedish and the Danish OF Richert
Won Koch, with Illustrations by Edmund
II. Garrett. New York: Thomas \.
Crowel. S05 pages.
The story deals with Baron Crusenbors
and family, who are Swedes. and Camilla,
a Danish girl Baron Crusenborg IS a
member OF the old regime and a man %
verv conservative ideas. and his wife, who
Is OF emnently respectable stock, though
not his equal IN birth. has somewhat
advanced ideas, particularly regarding
the rearing o. children. Being much more
clever than her husband she has her way
IN everything. and that too, without
causing any interruption In the current OF
n very pretty domestic life. The Crusen-
borgs have four childron-two daughters
ana two sons. one OF the daughters IS a
religious fanatic, and the other a very
merry. bright girl, fond OF society. The
elder son. Elof. IS a thOughtful youth OF
strong character. and his brother Claes Is
exactly the opposite. Both fall I'm love
with Camilla, who lives IN a whlrl Of ex-
element fascinates all the young men
who are thrown into her company, scons
at religion, ana IS a bundle Of contradic-
tons She. however meets with n terrible,
accident. resulting I'm fever and delrium,
| and upon her restoration 20 health her
whole nature changes and she becomes
the wife Of Elof Such is a skeleton OF
the story, but In the filling I'm there is de-
ciied freshness and originality and we
may cay quaintness. Yet with al there
is a times suggestion Of the impress OF
both the new school OF fiction and the old
style three-volume novel; on the whole,
Il Is q novel out OF the ordinary.
For sale by the j. ". Randolph Com
pany.
THE UNIVERSITY or VIRGINIA
MAGAZINE May and June, 1896.
Table OF contents: THE Only Theme ;
"The Conquest Of a New Woman" p;
AT thu Close OF the Year." r.; "The
Fairies" Qn "a Midsummer Nights
Dream" j. T. Orrick; "Delirium." r.. W.
| P: "Auecdote Of Montesquieu and Ches-
/ terneld," D.; Dawn" r. W. p; The
| Champs Elysees." b.: The Penalty Of
| Greatness" VI. H.; "He Who Loseth, "
Il. T.: what Them" Robert Page
| Cooke; - Tonement-House Hero" r. II.
! Fife Jr.: "Aielchtha on His Father s
! Blindness" T. Aftermath-"Life," r.
"Her Portrait; Lafayette and Ma
poleon." H., High Noon" p; Editorial.
/ Easy Chair Editors Table, Clippings
Headquarters United Confederate Vete-
! rams.
! BROKEN LINKS; \ LOVE-STORT. rs
Mrs Alexander Author OF The snare
OF the Fowler" "The Wooing Off,
"The Admiraps Ward" - Crooked
Path" Her Dearest Foe" etc, etc
New York: The Cassel Publishing
Company, 81 east Seventeenth stree
! ONION Square,
For sale by Hunter & Co.