The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-25

has Won back Granada from the Noors:
5Dolores a lady of the court, beloved of
Don John, and the pathetic figure Of
.Tnez the blind girl, who also loves Don
5John-all these, move before us as reali-
ties.
beinsrthe narrative of the marvellous
events taking place in the palace during
ona, nipIt The characters stand OUT
boldly and in sharp contrast: the vic
.torio,1s Prince and the gloomy, unpop
-u1ar King: the brave old hero Mendoza,
with his answering loyalty to the King.
and the fawning GoIrtiers, at the sans
time plotting treason III their hearts.
In contrast to his promise as a soldier
his bravery as man. is the beautiful ten
dprness and respect of Don John for his
sweetheart. the fair Dolores with the gold
en- hair and deep gray eyes
It is a stirring tale of by-gone DAYS with
a MAGNIFICENT setting. and told with that
| skill which Mr.. Crawford possesses in such
Eish degrea.
HER VERY BEST. BY Amy E. Blanch-
ard. author of Miss Vanity, Betty
of wye" 1.-TWO Girls etc Illustrated
by Margaret F. Winner Philadelphia:
J. b. Lipplncott Company. Bound in
cloth, Illustrated, u mo-, 271 pages.
Price, s1.25.
Miss Blanchard.s new book-"Her Very
Best'-will be welcomed by those in
search of good. wholesome stories for
young girls. In this day there are so
many books that are unfit to be put in
the hands of girls budding into woman
| hood that it is a pleasure to find one In
teresting and at the same time harmless
Like he authors previous books. Her
Very Best conlmends itself to the high
aspirations and the noble thoughts that
revolve in youthful minds, and that the
latter tells of dual love affair does not
| make it less attractive to young maids
TOMMY AND GR1ZEL. BY James NJ
Barrie. New York: Charles Scribners'
Sons For sale by The Rel Book and
Stationery Company, Richmond. Via
Bound in cloth. illustrated, y mo, :G3
pages. Price. $50
In Tommy and GrizeT' we follow "Sel-
tinental Tommy through tbs remainder
of his life. He continues 10 he the SAM
whimsical, imaginative creature. disap-
pointing to the end because every now
and then our hopes are raised. and we say
20 ourselves. "Now. Tommy is going to do
something grand but he disappoints us
very time; and he continues to the end
Of his life to dream noble things and
never do them. In contrast, we have Griz-
Il, strong. capable. heroic. loving much
t%iIu NUS IOfSlFinC lllucl TO the less stable.
imaginative. artistic Tommy.
The story is a tragedy, and ends unsat-
isfactorily; but, since it seemed impossible
TO make Sentimental Tommy other
taan he was, there was nothing lett for
-1r. Barrie to do but kill him, which he
Toes in dramatic style. The book has all
# the quaint humor, the delicate pathos,
fhe fine character painting, which we
earned to love in THE Little Minister
but. as a. story, it is not q success. Mr..
Richard lie Galiieune says Of him:
And then he is not. never has been
md never will be. a novelist. He is an
cssayist using the form of the dramatic
sketch to illustrate his med tation upon
!timan life. His method, particularly in
this recent book, is a little like Tommy's
own early method. He is so fond of the
children Of his own fancy that he seems
reluctant, lzke an anxious mother, to let
them act for themselves, though I will
aGfn.t that they occasionally break loose
from their Great tors leadng-strings and
play moving scene on their own ac-
count so we'll that we forget their mother
author
y KENTUCKY CARDINAL AND AT
TERMATH. BY James. Lane Allen. New
York: The Macmillan Company. Bound
in CLOTH illustrated, Two III one voume:
ldI Sc l. Ilp, Slll c--cQSGS, sib-
pages. Price. $3.50.
These two little games of literature are
now issued in one volume by the Macmil-
Ian Company. 1t is most Sumptuous
volume, bound in red, with numerous god
kentucky Cardinals" disnortng upon the
cover. Inside there are wide margins. fine
iaper ANA clear type, with hundred
illustrations by Hugh Thomson. The IL
luStrations are Vsry quaint, and suit the
,i,-it of r1, Nc
however, is a new preface by Mr. Allen,
dated October 1900, in which lIa gives u
brief autobiography of his life and traces
the various influences that resulted in Civ
ing him that intimate knowledge of the,
outdoor world which is the chiefest
charm OF his writing.
JOY AND OTHER POEMS. BY Danske
cambridge New York: G.. P Put
nam's Sons. Bound in cloth; 12mo;
gilt top; round edges; 206 pages. Price
$1.25
This is a. new and enlarged edition of
Mrs. Dandridge.s dainty poems There
is a delicacy, a refinsbment, and a spon-
taniety abouc this little volume of verses
that one rarely finds. They bubble up
as ioyously as the song of the bIuebrd
and are redolent of the sweet wood
scents. The writer is a Nature worship
per- and theI dear old mother has opened
her heart to this fair apostle and shown
to her the secrets of the birds and the
butterflies. of thu flowers and the wood
fairies.
The verses are classified as follows:
Poems of the Imagination. Poems OF
Nature Posms ot Love and Friendship.
The poems are almost fau1tleSs, metric
ally considered. 1t is impossible to give
a fair example in this limitetf space.
but these two short poems show some
thing of the writer's style:
FORTITUDE.
The trees are standing straight and bold,
Stripped for their wrestle with the cold;
The clouds are flying. cold and gray;
The restless birds have flown away
The storm-swept soul has cast aside
The vestment of her summer pride.
Come ic:l and snow; come, shriel5ing
blast:
The soul daep-rooted. standeth fast.
And bears through Winters bnffeting,
The secret promise of the spring.
WINGS.
Shall we know in the hereafter
All the reasons that are hid?
Does the butterfly remember
What the caternillar did
How he waited. toiled. and suffered,
To become the chrysalid?