The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-06-21

"yvhen all my lessons have been learned,
And the last year at school is done,
/ shall nut up my books and games;
Good by. my fellows, every one!'
"The dusty road will not seem long.
Nor twilight lonely, nor forlorn
Tho everlasting whppoorwlls
THAT lead me back where / was born.
"And there beside the open door,
In n large country dim and cool,
Her waiting smile shall hear at last,
Mother am come home from school.
THE GREY CLOAK. Written by Harold
MacGrath Published by the Bobps-
Merrill Company OF INDIANAPOLIS for
sale In Richmond by the Rcll BOOK
and Stationery Company. Price. S1.5o
The pen of Mr.. MacGrath has busted
itself in .rrhe Grey Cloak with the days
of gay adventure in France. When
N1ayarin's star was in the ascendant and
men held their lives at the throw oil
dice or the flash of sword.
The book opens with a midnight ad-
venture. The description of 1t is BREATH
lcssly Interesting and graphically given.
Tho complications which arise from 1t
affect the destinies more or less of every
Individual in the book and transfers the
scene OF action from the gaycst capital
in Europe to the vast solitude or cana
dian France and the citadel of Quebec,
with the savage foes that Turk in the
neighborllood
The plot OF the bool, IS good and skill
fully worked up. The characters arc
strongly and sombrely touched In Rem
brantesduc fashion. the high lights
bringing out strongly the depth OF the
shadows cast by evil and sin.
The element OF probability enters not
lat Nf
Grath. He has written strong and
STIRRING romance, calculated to fire the
,n,arination and to make the blood
Jingle. He has overleupt in the doing
M q t,inInp considerations that might
have hampered the play OF his fancy and
tbcst freedom OF his hand Thomas
Mitchell Pierce has added TO tho interest
~ ..,r,,,a crov cloak" by number OF
VI o,,I,,'t s,I rorcofu, Illustrations. the
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the age of swasll-bncklerlns ana au
venture. But his swash- pucklers 'ilu
adventures were noblemen ana poets VI
franco. And that makes dftference'
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THE TWO VANHEVEL,o. ny i ,...
Harrington. An COTTON now pe.lls
brought out by Mcclure. fhl!llps anu
Company.
Booth Harrington. who is at ms pest
In "Nonsieur Bocaire," has now IN course
Equalization another edition or nc tWo
Vanreves" The opening scene or TINS
romance Is laid in town called 'Rouen.
- 1,df a1ta
found in the days Immediately precedlhs
the Mexican War. The name Is taken
from the mixed identity of Tom Vanrevel.
a young lawyer. and his Jaw partner
Crailey Gray, whom MISS Betty Chre"e.
the belle of Rouen and the heroine or
tho book, has come TO confuse. peiie'lhs
each to be the other.
IL the introduction Of Mrs. Tanberry, q
lively widow and an old friend OF the
Carewe family. The reader liners pre-
viously that n feud exists between rom
Carcwe Miss Betty ignores the fend IN
making the acquaintance OF the fedunl
enemy, but mistakes Crailcy Gray Tor MS
partner, and imagines that III MN, her
foe" She simply knows Tom Vanrevel.
whom she considers In the personality OF
Crailey Gray to be the falthless lover OF
her friend. Miss Fanchon Bareaud. she
despises him accordingly for trying. UNI
der the circumstances, to make love to
herself. He knows nothing OF the case OF
mistaken identity and is much mystified.
Mr.. Tarkingtons acquaintance with tie
lovo songs popular and appropriate to
The day which he describes is made appar-
Ont bv his choice of those which rendered
night vocal In a serenade given the Ca
RIVE household where the descriptive
nowers OF the novelist come into full
NAV and Mrs, Tanberry expands into
thc most spotrive of chaperones. Carewe
ncre has gone down the Mississippi to
Kew Orleans. His daughter Is left be-
MA with her lively protectress The first
aysnino NJ nere's departure the widow and
l,er rhSrra listen by moonlight to manly
lamar accompanied by a guitar, imploring
,;stnnors In dulcnt strains:
uco, 1rornet me! Why should sorrow
o,or ,h,f brow a shadow Ming?