The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-03-08
,"3LADY ROSES DAUGHTER.
Latest Novel Published IS Literary s len.
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Mrs. Humphry Wards new book, n Ia
dy Roses Daughter has Just been pub
lished BY Harper and Brothers In advance
OF It's serial conclusion In Harper.s,
Monthly, In Difference to the eager e.
mand Of the readers, who are In hurry
to discover the ending Of such on absorb
ing novel;: The story has been running
for several months In the magazine, ana
will lbe finished in tho April number. t,
Is being published in three editions. /; Of q
varying beauty, Tin proportion to- their
price s1,5O. $500 and $500. NJ IL S ts
The handsome $500 edition Is in $50 sets
of two volumes eadh autographed BY the
author. 4s 5Ss,} 5ta .i& lg3
Rose s Daughter is the crown
ing triumph Of Mrs. Wards unusually
successful literary career. It show her 81
at her very best In plot and sly le,st WIN
none Of the academies Of her earl Ter " it-
ings, none Of the sermonizing Of Of II e, o.;
ert Elsmere," and little Of the mechanical
evidences that occasionally affronted
one In Eleanor" rs a 55 * tn ls}
WI " " THE EPL OF.
The heroine Is young woma n tkno own
as Julie LIE Breton the Irregular daugh-
5ter5sof an English noblewoman. she Is
endowed with beauty, grace, wit. TACT az
keen Intelligence; Is left an orphan Wit q
out means and without honorable posi-,
people Of London, yet IS employed as cons
panion by an old lady--Lady Henry
who knows her titled relations, but con-
ceals from them the real identity OF her
.protegee. jules pride sprevants her re-
yealing herself to her family, ana 50 she
suffers comparatively all the amiserleo q
a poor, unknown DEPENDENT She assists
In presiding over the drawlng-roo pr OF
her patroness, and is SO successful So
lciully that she arousesf the older man 8
jealousy. This III leads to her dismissal.
Some OF the Influential friends she has
learned Sto know in Lad Iienry's salon
5rallyatof her rival standard, but without
great enthusiasm, except In the case 81
her loyal cousin, the Duchess of Crow,
borough; Jacob D elatield, who IS IN love
with her, and a few thors Meanwhile
julie, having exerted all her political In
5fluence with Lady Henry's friends Tor
Captain Warkwor tn, a young man. fas-
cinating, selfish determined to succeed
In life, has become deeply interested N
him. Her efforts are successful, ana
l;Warkworth gets the foreign appointment
he covets Then Julie learns that no IS
engaged to her own, cousin, young girl
julie. Julie and Nyarkworth face the
itrvth--that. they love each other and that
st Is too late. julie, although pride IS
her strongest characteristic, lets her re-
serve 20 and confesses her love. Arrange
ments are hurriedly made to meet IN
Paris, and before they say farewell Tor.
over, to take two or three days OUT OF
their lives and use them as they WI !;
julie slips y away from her friends and
rea ches Paris. In the railway station the
whole course OF her life is altered. She
meets, apparently by accident, jacob DE
iatiold, tho man who loves her honorary,
and whose offer Of marriage though ne
is heir to an earldom. she has twice re-
jected. He shows her u telegram. Her
grandfather. Lord Lacklngtton, to whoIn
a short time before she had revealed her
Identity is dying. and has tly, asked
for her, She is overweight and scarcely
realizes her dangerous position, and she
Yields with p!tiful weariness ID to Dela-
flold's determination to take her back
to London. She sends telegram TO
Narkworth and reaches London IN time
to see Lord qI1aoldngton, who dies atter
acknowledging her relationship to him
and providing for her In his will. She be-
licyes herself heartbroken after thus TALL
IN q K yYarkworth, and, becoming ~, the
fn ithful Duchess takes her abroad,
Through the Duchess tactful maohina-
items Delafeld comes to -.lem when ) ulle
is conyalesclng. She Is INA state OF splr'
itunlt confusion--does not know now &c
3faco a future which seems to beE IN ruins
t1,hen I slowly, through the best influences
OF a man Of integrlty. she hnds hersell Q!
solid ground, ~.
The book is, first OF all, good story.
and after that 1t Is a remarkable study
IN heredIty and tho psychology Of woman
London society at its best Is the back
ground of the action.
"a BIOGRAPHICAL,
Mrs, Humphry Ward was born IN 10
bart, Tasmania, June II, 1851. She IS
granddaughter Of the famous DR., Arnold
OF Rugby, and a niece OF Matthew Ar
nold.0 ~.
IN 1879 Miss Arnold married Mr. Thoma:
Humphrey Ward, editor ofH"The Engllsf
Poets" and art critic OF the Londof