The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-10-04
nLouNr OF RREcKENHoW. Written

mond by the Bell Book and Station
cry Company. Price, s1.50.
The cry Is often raised nowadays.
md with truth, IN tho literary word:
tThere is no new thing under the sum-
What OF it. when the old is Vitailzed
hy n writer, who. having lived by sym.
pathy and Imagination with the person.
ages of an ideal world, can clothe mental
nictures with the strong light1of an inner
consciousness, and send them out to I'M
press the mind of others with thelr
rare fidelity to what is highest and pur-
est. or basest and most contemplate IN
human life-that human life which links
the old and new indissolubly, being the
same yesterday, to-day and forever.
Miss Dix in her "Blount OF Brecken-
how braves precedence m that heE
novel. If classified. would be historical
She is brave indeed, in telling even an
Historical narrative through the neolun
OF letters. since the miscellaneous puon-
cation of Correspondence, from \ ne Let.
tiers OF Elizabeth. 10 the iet'eIS 81
Browning, Bismarck and Victor Hugo,
has give, people dstasts for the epis-
toIsrv form OF fiction. and has caused
them 70 feel in other instances that they
were prying INTO secrets belonging TO me
dead and rustling among family traced
and yellowed pages not Intended FOR othef
eyes than those to whom they were o'-
1ectly addressed.
But there are grades in the historical
novel and there are varying iashiohs
and styles among the ANALYSTS ana racoii-
teurs of a period. Miss DIX begins her
hook IN the English year OF l642 ana
closes it in the latter part OF the same
century. during the hourishing years OF
+he Restoration The figure of the ENG
llsh cavalier in the bravery or ms plnthed
hat, with his love song on his lips, turn
ing aside from the tunult OF war 10
u i, y,ic CT
IN his devotion to his king, meeting ad-
yersity with courage which robbed 1t
Of its sting-Englands embodiment OF
chivalry and romance--is so human'zed
ne TO invest Miss Dixs book with an
interest which makes her readers ieel,
after all, that a touch which invests me
nast with pristine freshness and undyins
youth is a touch that never falls to score
its mark. =,
The cavaliers lady is another fine In
Epiration of Miss DiXs heart and hano.
three stages of womanhood are revealed
H. her novel through her Representations
Of Arundel Carewe. Charlotte Ro"les-
STONE and the latter's mother, appearing
only by implication, which yet suggests
her clearly.
The girlish life and buoyancy of Char
,otte Rowlestone and the serene and rest
fpl reptlencss of her mother serve as an
excellent foil for the portraiture Oh 'he
main woman of the book, Arundel Care"e.
For. with It's sdelIghts and It's o'her
groupings. the vital issues OF lioulit
of Breckenhow'' concern themselves win
one man and one woman, AruNuei Stt-
rewe and James Breckenhow.
The tale Of their living and their low
ing might ut the twentieth. as II does
the seventeenth century, Tor IL repeats
the heart history of mankind throughout
the ages - .,o
creation of Miss Blk, lin days of old
when knights are. bold.7' That he also
Gives for love and dies" holds in 1t no
element of improbablity or eXtravagant
romance Told simply and strongly, 1t
seems to chime in with the possibilltles
of a character whose natural ambitions
and aspirations were controlled by the
sternest standards of constancy and the
highest form CT unselfshncss. Arundel
Carevc is remarkable for being thorough
IL consistent as maid wife and mother.
She is a woman to whom dupliclty IN all
forms is abhorrent and her attitude In
separating herself from her husband al
ter the knowledge of deceit and treach-
nry on his part has come fully nome to
her, Is shown in her statement OF Whal
appears TO her to be the conclusion Of
the whole matter" She writes her feel
ings to her husbands mother ana her aunt
thus:
..There is no Bevi now. only shape
with a beauteous face that goes up and
down and hath the bearing of gallant
man. And it is a belief In his own lie
that frights me from him If, when he
was found out. he had known his guilt
and been honestly ashamed or honest
~ terrified, or honestly had pleaded, con-
fesslnS and nrcnnstng amendment dc
not saw 20 ~ have forgiven. hut could
have pl,el Kim But for what he is
now, The deyourng End devoured lie,
can have no Pity, ard least of all can
have any love | .oNei. al best, only
the beautiful shadow Of a man, and
fee now nov Ioor and vain a thlng II
was. And might have loved the sub
stance"
THE BEATEN PATH, BY Richard
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Macmillan Company, of New York and
London For sale in Richmond by the
Bell Book and Stationery Company
Price $l50
Mr. Maxim has written story OF
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bodied in Meyer, the revlvalist. in Mobray
Doniphan; in Colonel Gilbrred and II
his hero. Thallon, is unusually good
The story Is not an attractive one, bu
the situations are strongly put and th'
ending is very dramatic
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