Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-09-21

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& book are well calculated 70 stimulate a
poy s interest in hunting and make him
long for stroll in the country with mis-
gun.
TIE NAN ABOUT TOWN. Short Stories.
philosophical Reflections; Curbstone Pol
4 lticians::s The Brown Eyed Girl; Some
.heal Fish: Stories. Letters from the Re-
1 sorts, and the Six Barefooted Boys. BY
/ dsr Tucker; reprinted from the Eve
ming Leader, Richmond. Va
i Ibis pleasing little collection of stories.
4 verses and anecdotes from the pen Of, d
s local Journalist shows the demands that
j are made upon the versa tility OF the up-to-
date sneWEpapeT man. and likewise indi-
cafes the nigh sense OF humor which per-
vades the soul Of the average Ameri-
1 car.
!. tdr Tucker has limited the number Of
1 mis- readers by confirming his whimsical
!ittie sketches almost entirely to Rich
1 slond and Richmond people, but his adj
i2lTsTs here ought 10 receive his book with
I much cordially, for IT'S local color is
vivid, and not page of the work is dull
1 or tiresome.
/ Rarely does the author cease his fun
making even for a moment. and so often
i Goes he fool his readers by comm e.. cling
in q sober strain and then shifting back
TO his notwithstanding. suggestions. that
We dare not take him seriously. And Mr.
tucker doesn't want to be taken seriously
re seeks only to be agreed bly, ephemeral
/ the most any journalist can hope for,
/ and succeeds most admirably In his
| foreWord he Waggishly says in reference
| TO his writings: They are cast before
| friends, however, to show what may come
| out OF q mind bothered with back rent,
! grocery bills, and divers other little things
that come to fellow w1th six barefooteu
! md
Judging from the merry strain to which
| the jocund Tucker has turned his Tyre we
| fancy that the aforementioned difficulties
| md encumbrances are not weighing heay
| ~ upon him-that he is letting the other
elbow bother about the back rent, and
| s,ill probably keep his boys barefooted all
| he winter.
One portion of the volume is entitled
! Few Alleged Poems. We don't think
ne verses sustain the allegation. for
owadays verses, to be poetry, must be
! l!deously dull and distractingly abstruse
:hereas the Tucl>cran rhymes Jingle
: clearly and cheerfully even though thew
90 occa slonally give the cold shoulder to
| some of the duly accredited rules or
meter. Mr.. fuckers poetic STYLE is NOT
/ like Miltons either in its dignity or loft
ness OF sentiment, but that fault-if fault
It be-ls offset by the fact that it is also
unlike Browning and Emerson's. III
snort. its just an unpretentious, come
ana -take-a-smile-on- kind of poetry.
10 sum up: THE Man About Town"
| Il. e. the book and not the author, ie /,
| good' CHEEKY thing to have lying around
IN undertakers' shops and hospitals on
dark days, when life is sad and the price
| Of coal is high
THE BANNER OF BLUE Bv s r
Crockett. Mcclure, Phillips & Co.
! This is story Of Scottish life at the
t1me when the agitation between the es-
taoished church and the Free Kirk was
ABOUT to eliminate in separation There
are numbers OF strong characters por-
! trayed i'll 1t. The mystery of it is very
| mysterious indeed, involving the abduc
ton Of two young girls; the placing of
them on an island where only their Gus
| todlans lived, and from which they finally
made good their escape
The book takes us among fisher folk.
churchmen. mobiles living in their castles.
hunters and herdsmen, but the central
figures are well-to-do joiner and his
TWO daughters; the former, a stern, UNI
bending and independent citizen and re-
ligionist; the latter, the lovely girls, who
were abducted.
The story is not the best Of Mr.. Crock
etts, but it is deeply interesting, and
that Il will find favor with the general
public we doubt not, though the vogue
OF Scotch stories is not so great as it
was awhile back
THE SMART SET, magazine of clev-
erness. October number Ess Ess Pub-
fishing Company, New York
Contents: The Turn of the Wheel
Frank Lee Benedict; A Paradox. J. J.
O'Connell; The Old Cafe, Arthur Macy:
Esther Kahn, Arthur Symons; The Luta-
MIST Victor Plarr; A Brokers' Billet-douS,
Felix Carmen; An Experiment in Verac-
ity, Stuart T. Patterson; The Dreamer,
Elsa Barker; A Profane Quest James
Jeffrey Roche; Three Tablecloths, Ger
trude Lynch; A Universal Language Ed
win L. Sabin; No Transient Guest, John
Winwood; Aims, Thomas Walsh: An In
carnation of Helen, James Branch Cabell;
Dismissal? Hildegarde Hawthorne; The
Immoralities of Music, NJ de Dunois; A
Woman Friend. Zoe Anderson-N Norris;
The Creation Of Lilith, Bliss Carman; LIE
Bracelet. Paul Marguerite; Ping-Pongo-
mania, Harry Crown Bloomberg; To Dol
~, Truman Roberts Andrews; The Enter
tainer, Mrs. Everard Cotes; The Entreaty,
Ridgely Terrence; A La Pension, Harri- |
son S. Morris; Life Madison GOVERN:
The Descent of Man. Douglas Story:
Earths Weariest. Theodosia Garrison;
The Virtuosity Of Mr.. Benjamin. Fletcher
Cowan; The Last Journey, Myrtle Reed;
The Last Man and the Pen, Roy Mel
bourne Chalmers; Belated, Charles Cor
don Rogers; Cupid's Calling, Roy Farrell |
Greene; Dialogue, Ella Wheeler Will
cox; The Moon and the Maids Marvin ,,
Dana; Lover and Oracle; Clinton Scollard; |
Song, Amulet Andrews; The Quest of
Blocker Van Dorm, Herbert Hall Wins
low; The Artistic Temperament, Ethel M
n A,,f1, = he
Power OF Flattery. Violet Clarke; Peri
helion. Frank Roe Batchelder; They. that |
Knew the Law, Bertrand w. Babcock;
The Etiquette of Art Criticism, e. L. W.; /
Under All Skies. Carlotta Perry; The Past
and the Present, McLanburgh Wilson, A
Still Small Voice, Emma Wolf; Caprice,
Frank Walcott HUT.
The first number of THE HOBBY (Au-