The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-11-22

CHI: RICTIN1 OND, VA, So.
charming little lady, indeed. When I.
baby, d boat oh which she had been lett
, W accident was wrecked In the struts OF
Mnckihaw. ahd tho baby was washeo
ashore. gls 5s
n sho was adopted BY Mrs. Austn, the
wife Of the lighthouse keeper, anu the
story OF. her Childhood days until tnef
happy restoration To her mother. inter.
wovon with many brightly told Incidents
and descriptions OF village life at Olu
Mncklnaw, make the chapters OF q DOCK
OF lively interest to the young.
insect stories and Bird Stories. by lie.
more o. Mulets are two such delightful
books that growi, people Will invade me
chi.drcn's territory and DC constantly -
found with them in their hands.
All the secrets, Of insect and bird life.
and they are beautiful secrets-are ID
In these little volumes with n glow.
color touch OF Imagination that giluls
reality with loneliness, and transforms
even the most prosaic truths into pic
turesQuc romance #esg ~
THE LITTLE c.iEvAL1ER. BY Mrs.
NJ. e. NJ. Davis. Published by ttough.
ton, Nfiff1inf & Company. Of Boston End
New York. For sne by the Bel BOOB
md sta tionery Company. Price sl.o.
AS a writer Of Louisiana stories ana TO-
n1nnccs. Nfrs.sDavis is too well known
and too nj UGH admired to need praise.
The scene Of THE Little Chevqlier turns
on the French regime In New orleans
during the early eighteenth century Pc
riodN.
Tho ENGRAVING OF the flower OF Partisan
ch.vnlry upon the soil OF New France.
lie at the court OF the Governor 81
Lou 'siana, the mystery that clothes II lie
Little Chevnlier,'' and tho unfolding OF
a fascinating love story make ana sus-
tain the interest Of novel. written ny
one OF, the most Individual OF solthern
authors.
THE OBTAINS DAUGHTER. By Gwen
dolin Oyerton. Published by the Mac
milan Company For snle by the Bell
Book and Stationery Company Price
ssl5o
The scene In "'The Captains Daughter"
reverts to the army post life. with winch ~,
the talented author Of Anne Carmel
Is most IA millnr.
while the book does not by any means
show the strength and power which mace
Anne Carmel" so remarka ole' still the
narration Is pleasant, and the incioents
enough out OF the common to render the
volume very Interesting. ia
The characterize ton Is exetremely 1000.
THp lDAMsEL AND THE SAGE. BY
Eleanor Glyn. Published by Harper
Brothers, OF New York and London.
For sale BY tie Bell Book and Sta
tionery Company. Price. sl.2o
Probably every damsel who reads Mrs.
Glyn,s whimsical little composition. In
stinct with the witty cynlcism winch
has made Mrs. Glyn famous, VIII Wish
to hav, sage, to consult. Perhaps reao-
the Sage. At all events. II damsels SET
themselves to work to decide betw',en
tina r merits Of tn etwo. they Will nos
stop until they have finished finding
out what Mrs. Glyn has to say ~ favor
OF each
THE BARoNET IN CORDUROY. Pub
lished by D., Appleton and company:
Of New York, and written by Albert
~. oe FOR sale by the Bell Book and
Stationery Company. Price, $3.50,
4 story Of kfashiona BILE London me-
with the fashionable frequenting the col
fee houses and routs and oal's ~ Ph.ltS.
A story as we'll Of wonnan's lie over
Swallowed by 10 mans cruelty and endlns
In dealt and tragedy.
A view OF an age which ts not a pretty
onc. 4 strongly written. book, however,
and an. which has much literary merit.
THE BLOOD LILIES. BY W. A.. Fraser.
puhlIshed by Charles Scribners sons
and sent through the Bell Book and
stationery Company. Price slT :.
The title of Mr.. FraserFs BOOK indicatss
i. style, It deals with the half-breeds
80 ia canadian northern provinces, their
be,'efs their traditions and their super
The story Is weirdly and vividly written.
RED HEAD. BY John Uri Lloyd, author
Of stringtownF on the PIKE. lilustra-
tions and decora lions by Reglnald =.
birch Dodd. Mead &; Company: For
.aie nv the BELL Book and Stationery
Company. 35as, s54y
AZ Mr., Lloyd says In his introductory,
Red Head needs no Introduction to read
ers OF Strlngtown on the PIKE Ihose
who met him there, and others who make
| his acuua In lance for the first tlme IN tne
present volume. get q distinct pleasure
| from the meeting, and snould araW IN
lifa began in trouble and ended IN trag-
odv.. but whose courage remained as un-
| dn,,nted a the mountain peaks, whose
spirit of freedom he had by heritage;
There Is something peculiarly fasc'nat.
Ing about these nountaineers. VINO I'VE
In the twentieth century and maintain
medieval ansrs \. Mr. !; 5o then Fox Es Jr.
t ttnI IN The Little Shepherd Of Kingdom
Come has he portrayed the true spirit
Of the mountaineer But IN ~ th ,stt oq 3ps
mountains and changed the scene from a
mountain feud to mountain T fam bsa lie
tried to write q war noyel. me peau =
| Of his first cha piers made some amenos
for the conventionality. Of his latter ones.
| MIR. Lloyd has not made this mistake;
and the result is thatthe has portrayed
| n character that one must love-
The book Of has It's or aH1s p the
it unfortunate 20 Msad IN the
Wars Wars Of the Roses, slight as are the
causes Of these deadly hatreds between
| mountain families this one VIII appear
to the reader as too far fetched.
The book IS prettlly decorated tn the
marginal designs portrasylsn,g the wa W.
light, and whose wild spirit he carried