The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-03
BOOKS AND AUTHORS, COMMENT AMI. GOSSIP
ION Coronation Odes-"The Siege of the Lady Resoute
"Drewitts Drean'-"The Credit of the County'-"A
Welsh Witch'-"The Golden City'-"Ye Noun
taineer"-"Somewhat of a Liar Myself"
Somewhat of a Liar
August Magazines.


sorbed into the very marrow OF one
conscious being.
No one can read this earnest book with
out feeling a desire for truer ana
purer life here on earth, nor will any one
lay 1t aside without being imbueo with
a caimer and a loftier sense of what TINS
life, its hopes and its fears, its sorrows
and its pleasures. its successes and its re-
verses, really mean in the great, stipend
Gus. Divine scheme of the Universal Be-
ing.
1t is a sermon and song combined
and the reverent and irreverent alike will
find In this volume much food for thought
and serious reflection.
Rarely In the hissory of literature. Mr..
Nicely writing of "Ye Mountaineer." has
the analogy between poetry and paint
ing been SO perfectly presented as In this
very unusual as well as extraordinary
book
TIE scenes are laid along Lake George
and Lake Champlain during the histori.
cal period Immediately preceding the war
OF the Revolution.
1t enbodies local coloring Of sufficient
strength and quality as to give fiction the
appearance of fact, and its diction and
rhythm are SO perfect and charming that
eminent critics have pronounced it an
unouestionable classic. Its author is I'M
doubtedly among the first poets Of the
time.
Pen picture follows pen picture as the
enticed lmaganihon begins charming
journey while the entranced reader
awakens from the revelry, only to fin
the beautiful Story at an end.
The author is Southerner, born
among the mountains of West Virginia
and seems to see everything with the
eye Of an artist nor brush in its divin-
iy, tic viz oil
ever ,facnated the eye with a more
divine coloring than has come from this
authors pen.
Somewhat of a Liar nyseif. by J. W.
DeVore.
The very suggestive title Of this book
will be most fully appreciated and en-
joYed, as the reader passes on from
page to page and finds each more filled
with interest and excitement than the
last, and becomes exhausted with enthu-
siasm over the dramatic climaxes of
ina ination which terminate the finale
OF most of the episodes.
1t is predicted with proverbial assur-
ance that this unique volume will not
fall to interest deeply the people Of all
nations who prone to study the
trend of human thought. and may read
iiv c"n"Ade 10 his comprehensive writer
the enviable flllet of renown and sue
cess which is the just and exalted ac-
cushion of fall talented authors.
The originality of this work must
claim for it a high place in the realm Of
fiction. After reading the courtship of
Ran Sydenstriker and his fiancee Indy
Beeswa2. their characters will ever
stand forth in memory's pages, while
the soliloquy of the author must satisfy
the best informed. as well as the most
ignorant.
The Siege of Lady ResoIute. Written by
Harris Dickson. Published by Harper
Brothers. For sale by the Bell Book
and Stationery Company. Richmond.
Va
ment is made that the reign of the his
torical novel is over. Yet the type re-
main !, and n, hourishes. In The. Siege of
a picture of France during the admins
tration Of the gay and grand monarch,
Louis XIV. The portrayal Of the court
with dts antiques. shows Louis hopelessly
under the diplomatic sway of Madame
de Maintenon. cool. crafty and watchful
1t also depicts the ambitious unscrupu-
lousness Of the epoch in a very graphic
Versailles to Louisiana, the gayetr and
reckless dissipation of the mother coun-
try being effectively contrasted with the
wild freedom Of the American province
where men and women met life face to
face. unsha ckled by conventonalism and
were weighed in the stern balance which
revealed them at their true worth and
decided the matter of their acceptance or
rejection in their new sphere of action.
The Lady Resolute" was woman to
. wooed and though her winning re-
aired the proverbial seven years, which
Jacob has established as the test Of con-
stancy, yet. in the end she was won, and
won willingly. The book, which is a fine
ne in the main, loses something Of it's
~],,.1 ts~S,<
tier day mannerisms, or more proper
Iy vulgarisrns of speech, which do not
fit in with the period described. Il hard
rank in the time of Louis XIV. would
greet his friend with the morning saluta-
ton Of huiio, there! Such freedom of in
tercourse and colloauial inelegance be-
breeds contempt in the twentieth cen
tury.'' "A. Al l.
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