The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-07-09
Books and Authors.

RICHARD CARvEL.-By Randolph
Churchill illustrated by Malcolm Fra
ser.
Dorothy Wordsworth to Coleridge:
yes do you send me a book for my
birthday. Not q bargain book, bought
from haberdasher. but a beautiful book
to caress- peculiar. distinctive. individually
Il bool, that hath first caught your eye
and then pleased your fancy written 10y
am author with tender whim, an out
of Dis heart. We VIII read it together ln
the cleaning, and when the gathering
dust doth blur the page. well sit with
hearts too fun for speech and think lL
over"
Royalty Of late has made n sensation
at the court of ST. James by setting a
new fashion foo the selection of wedding
gifts. and Ne think D. one wished 10 emu
late the sovereign example of the Prince
of Wales. with the help and guidance of
Dorothy WorGswOrlhs adm0niuon, one
could not do better i'm the matter OF
choice than TO let 10 fall upon Richard
Carvel" "a notable success lu day OF
successes. already set apart by popular
favor as one of the novels not made 90
be- forgotten.
since the advent of Mr.. Stlmson's 'King
Noanctr" we have read nothing SO
breezy, so Joyous ID tone yel 80 many
So unaffected. and therefore, SO potent
in strength. The story Us one oI coio"lai
days when life was more simple ana ole
rect. less complicated ana lHliD7por--t-
problem than DC is at this hour ANA IN
this day OF grace. For the Nineteenth
Century n its passing, fondly imasines
itself the living and only cXpositor of all
that Is most elegant, cultivated. and
aucipatcd; ir is inclined % turn JOS
back upon all fashions ana customs
which have NOT their origin I'D us l4hle'
and OFF which Do is not az once, the Aiph"
and Omega
But Ne nave only io open the pages oL
charming Richard Carver % become
convinced thal as the stately m.nlel JOB
JOS gliding grace is t0 the mdecorols
whirl OF The modern german. ass the pure.
punecnt breath of p.uc-sc0nted forests is
10 the sicky atmosphere OF am over
heated conservatory. $50 is the naurM
d.gu.ty aud generous ceremonial of our
foIe.atners days m comparison with the
ml.erialm. hard and uuwinAing. which
now stares us iu the face. o. tHe unr-
which stalks abroad boo the assumed garb
of Progress. clbowug and jo-tlns AN
eager noisy way. driving its snreNd bare
ealus aud-ShyI0ck- Wlse-cryins aloud
for us pound of flesh.
When Carvel Han s,sl reared n stately
front m Princess Anne county, Maryland
our authors skin makes plain t0 us th4t
the provincial gentlemen with whom Doe
dealt were stll knights and cavaliers.
Brave ana beautiful ln their lace -nd
velvet with their jeweled suuh-3oNes
and diamond-hilted swords. DIS men
were loyal aIlke G" tAeir Cod theIr hinB'
anG their ladies' ialr; tney t"fe" VIDE
She toors of thc.r paclous homes in end
less, bolndles5 hospitality ana We're IN
brief component parts of community
which held within itself the promise ANA
fulllment of a Henry, q Jefferson, and
"a Washington. grand and heroic figures
on the early pages OF American history.
Not alone with American and Ameh-
cans are we interested. however. Enllv-
ching versatility transports us across
the broad Atlanue and renders the Eng
land of Horace WalO0le and Charles Fox
am open sesame. where wo are entertain
81 al will. Again. when our hero turns
his face To the land OF bis love, when
the lowering sto-m-cloud of war bursts
AMI he buckles ON his sword Tor liberty
cause. we feel that on tine deck of the
"Bon Homme Richard ard with John
Paul ne but fulds his destiny. though it
leads him face TO face with death, and
through fiery baptism of blood and lat
tie.
How gladly our hearts revert even
en- great victory To- the best portrait
ure even I'M this book that Of gentle Pat
lv Swain and beautiful, wlful Dorothy
Manners. colonial lassles and ladies', so
deficatelv and deity delineated that they
seem part and parcel of the scenes in
which they lived, and moved, and had
their being.
They were not bicyclists-these ladies'
of a byg0ne day-we inter lney Would
have biushed at the mention or DIurcated
skirts or boomers, yet we are told thal
men fought for their smiles ana "ould
have died FOR Their love as lhs modern
beau does not thlnk IL worm MS WINE
10 do for the modern peile'
Memory snrlnes them I'D l1nter H,]e
or romance ike lhe DIt"-h vA elIeF "i"-
time rose-Jdfsi whose Iias-"lic0' a'"a'
has vanished WIN iAeF owners we rear
lIe thtl me ""iIu "'a "e1''' f'"00 40'
ther AVin8 IN il ana rs we crosse VDI q 90
Tor moments Ieifo7 pecuou' we are
once more IN the garden OF MtiDoIo-
street house, Dorothy, slender and taI'
lives 10 olr vision and the TIC OF DoIo-
tny sweet voice comes 10 us aclos' 'HS
lapse ol years -s''i.' loI 8'g s0.''
This the burden OF my song.
PATENTS AND now TO MAKE MON
EN OUT OF THEM BY w. b. Hutch
fnann and l. A l'rfsNeiI. members