The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-05-19
Social and
Person0l

The reading and recitation given BY
Miss Kate Z. Fuller at the Womans
Club last afternoon made one Of the
pleasanrest afternoon OF the season
Miss Fuller has a splendid voice,
voice whose feXibilty and excellent
training render the gradaions of thought
and emotion as expressed by her some
thing to wonder at and thoroughly en-
JOY.
Mrs. LEROY introduced Miss Fuller.
who gave rich and varied repertoire.
1T included Tennyson's Break. Break,
Break" his "Bugle Song" and Crossing
the Bar" number of dalected poems
from Paul Lewrence Dunbar, and other
grave. gay and pathetic selections. She
addressed a large audience. with many
strangers in 1t, and was heard by all
with the greatest pleasure.
An Informal reception was held after
the programme was finished, and Miss
Fuller was overwhelmed with congratu-
latlons and compliments.
Redfields' Succession.
Two young gentemen-Mr. Henry
Burnham Boone and Mr.. Kenneth Brown
-virginians by adoption, who are now
spending their time In Albemarle county,
near the State University. made no little
stir In the literary world some years ago
by disqualification of novel, purporting
to he a"plcture of Virginia social life
md called "IGastover Courthouse
"Eastover Courthouse" has been followed
by "The Redfelds' Succession" just put
on the book market by Harper Brothers
The second book is not q sequel to the
first, though the scene is presumably laid
3n the same section OF country, and
many of the characters that figure IN
"Eastover Courthouse" aDpsar also In
THE Redfelds' sHccesat1z' Still the
II,
background and arrncspfera being rather
an advantage than otherwise. ne plot
IS very simple, the aura etisaE. o. the book
lying In It's color.rg ard cnara ctertzai-
ton in the fact that ttas writers have
epprehended the community Of ssslihs.
the sympathy, the good fellowship and
the loyalty prevailing In many Virginia
nelEhborhoods betewen the people who
have been called as clanniSh as High
landers.
The fact that neither Mr.. Boone nor
Mr.. Brown are Nrginians imparts 10
their second. M to their first story. much
originality and piquancy. il Is a great
help TO see things from point OF View
that Is not 30 partial. but that 1t can
be good -humoredly critical. One catches
The full flavor Of circumstance with
much greater ease by perceivng Just
where another has fallen short of it
because he hasn't been born with the
'.rhe Redhelds' Succession" as a whole,
A. q most readable book. clear, clean
and wholesome, full OF the Joy in out
door life and living and of the easy phil
Iosophy which are characteristic of VIZ
GINA It's flow Is smoother, Its nara ton
less broken than "Eastover Courthouse
One can but help wondering, In reading
the book, who sat for the portrait OF
Hugh Darlington and his wife, miss
Nan; who furnished the originals OF
ST, Claire, General Gault and Mrs. Bessie
Taylor.
The irnpersonatlon on which the author
have expended most time and care J
that of Trueman Gaut, their hero. he
NOT complex problem, like ST, Claire
hut he IS rlght-minded and full or guam
lies that make for fine results, Messrs
Brown and Boone are 10 be congratu
lated on having produced piece of nc
t!on that evinces a distinct advance u
the special line to which they have hithert
devoted their efforts
Their hook Is for sale In Richmond b,
the Bell Book and Stationery Company.
Esther to be Repeated.
The oratorio of Esther. the Beautiful
Queen" is TO be repeated at o'clock 10
night In the Young Mems Christian AS
rociatioI. Auditorium for the benefit o
the First English Lutheran and Venable
Etreet Baptist Churches,
Y The oratorio win be directed by Mr.. an
Mrs S. S, Perkins with tho foslowin
cast Of characters:
Esther, the Queen. Miss Martha NJ sneat
Aha uerus. the King, Mr. James E. Dunbar
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Mr.. j. l.. Mitchell
Sfnrdecat. ....,....,..,...tAr. w. j. Bales
Zeresh. Haman's wife. Miss Adele Qgilvi
aLordecais elster.-,.,,..,.Aiiss Sue Hosa,