Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-07

Auinss5 OF, Weii-ordered gardens, and Of
the iiuttering sweetness of young girls
heart and there Is also with it all, q
deeper feeling Of the pain and sadness Of
human life While over the whole Of 4
there is touch of sentiment. Of playful.
ness or tender, whimsical sympathy an6
! beauty as gentle as the summer wind
/ that flutters the books pages and as
sweet and pervading as the perfume OF
dried rose leaves which exhales from the
story with every thought OF its fragile
| and quaint heroine.
| JACK RAYMOND, Mrs f. L. voynick
Cloth. $l.2S. J. B. Lippincott Co, Phila-
delpfia For sale here by Hunter &
AZ RS: voYNIcHs second book
I fAN I falls far short of the fascna.
! 80 ton Of her earlier one, for
EShsSIs while 1t Is, true that there are
GzssaaED many books which make more
pleasant reading than The
Gadfly," there are few, indeed, that can
in anyway approach the strange horror
of that wonderful drama Of flerceness,
pain and beauty. One seems to find in it's
conflicting. uaazes haunting alleEory OF
the sufferings of all mankind. We have
here the story OF an outward life changed
by inevitable events, q body ularred by
cruelty and pain, character distorted
almost beyond love or recognition, and a
soul that has been hurled from the fair
heights of beauty and aspira ton; and
that wTithes and fumes in the rlire OF it's
wrotchedness,-ru ocking, fierce, scornful,
reYengeful, and yet pitifully brave and
tender. We seem tc 500 in the story the
soul and body Of the whole human
race. writing and warped under des-
tiny of sin and rain.-rebellious, helpless,
wicked, ugly--yet. retaining with it ali,
a spark of that divinity which, through
all degradation. still proves our k,nship
with God But in Jack Raymond the
scope Is less wide the insight at times at
fault. the END less convincing, and the
central tragedy one that had best be left
outside the province of the novel writer,
even though it receives the brave, sin
cere handling that is given it here
The book. however, is not one that can
be called poor. It's author shows in it a
strain Of sweetness that is clear and fine
q close touch with nature, a sincere ap-
probation of human sympathy, a dra-
matte belief in the inevitableness of char
acter development. and a strong picturing
Of the tragic depths Of human woe
These qualities. in their varying degrees
give an individuality to the story that
marks it as unique. yet 1t would be going
far to say that il is either pleasure giving
or corlnendable.
TIE RUSsELLs IN CHICAGO. Emily
Wheaton. Cloth, SIZE. L. c. Page &
Co. Boston For sale hore by the Bell
Book and Stationery Co
fSf this daintily bound and we'll
ESSs / Illustrated little book, there ap-
ESak pears a very complete and sat
sfaE&SSS isfactory guide book to Chica~
EsSgs5ss so. and readers Of its pages will
find details not only of the
buildings. streets and outdoor sights a.
the great city by the lake. but Of the Sc
cial life Of its people as we'll, their clubs
charities, balls. play-houses. and even
their personal characteristics, manners
and customs being carefully ard honest
" set forth There is much to be learn
ed here, but the heroine's various expert
ences do not fail to carry her just where
the most exact knowledge is to be gain
ed. and ike the priggish Rolo and his
erudite uncle of our childish days. who
travelled over Europ e.-"Rollo's Tours
over various parts OF the continent
bound in green with a gold figure of the
hated Roilo On The cover-and served up
learning under the thin guise of a long
drawn story. just so the tale here is, but
a mere excuse about which Chica COS
beauties and eccertricities are grouped
Buc on arriving at years of discretion and
what one Of US has not ban
ieite5 Rollo and mis- aggravating uncle to
the topnlost and busiest Of our book
shelves. and by the same impulse we re-
fuse. now and ever after. TO read any
tale that promises TO be a story and ends
only in being a guide-book. A guide-book
in its proper place IS q most interestingAnd
delightful companion, and trucked out in
The garments Of novel it becomes
fraud and a bore and I, for my part,
will have none of it.