The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-19
Miss Cally Ryland's Story,
Daphne and Her Lad; 1t
Is Interesting and Writ
ten the AUTHORS
Best Style.
Q THE MAGNETIC NORTH"
"a New Book, by the Author Of
"1'he Open Question The
Mid-Montll Magazincs-AAtu-
thors and Book Notes.

DAPHNE AND HER LAD. BY M. j.
I.agen and Cally Ryland. Frontispiece
by Eliot Keen Published by Henry
Holt & Company OF Boston. For sale
by the Bell Book Il Stationary Co.
The appearance inathe book market OF
a volume with Miss Rylands signature
Il as collaboration, arouses no small degree
of interest in Richmond. where this clever
authoress has an ackno wleGged ireputa-
ton and a large coterie OF friends ana
admirers.
The story Of the book is a love story.
1t is told in letters. I Any one acquainted
with Miss Rylands style Will identity
her MS Daphnc's Lad" Then perforce,
\ one Is to be made acquainted with NJ, j..
8tLagen as Daphne.
One gather from the letters that
gFrIoaphne,. as the editor of a"Womahs
3 Page In a Philadelphia. paper, commend, !,
ed herself by virtue Of originality anu
fertility In resource to Miss RSland. VINO
EXPRESSED her communication and thanks
~ for clipr,ings used IN the following lines:
.,ro Daphne praise--compelling SAGE
!. Whose wise and witty Woman's Page
~ Man see Its features from afal'
Y Reflected In "Tl,e Evening Star,
The scribe, with thankfnlress mbued,
Herewith expresses gratitude"
Daphne" In the person Of NJ. ..
s Iasen. replied by a note of thanks to
the commitment contained In the verse.
and so the correspondence was began
and the letters indited. thatarun through
the pages of very quaint and highly
romantic piece of realism, II there nc
such a thing, for Of the book romance
there is no doubt, and the fiction OF 1T
is undoubtedly realistic.
The thing which chiefly strikes the
80 m
land. as the Lad" does her woong by
letter. She glides into manly inpersonn-
ton so easily, She is at once SO delicate
and tender and yet so ardent over,
that one yields to the glamorr OF her{pen
and Is quite ready to believe her. for
the time being, the character IN which
she chooses to masquerade.
s.,Danhnen is equally mystifylng and OF
course appeals equally to the imagina-
tion. The first Of the series ofNletters IS
written March 10th, 1908 The last Els
dated July S0th, of the same year, ana
brings the book to wholly surprising
conclusion.
AZ To what is revealed in%the letters
n 4 10 the question Of whether Daphne
&l,aHevad her LAD, TO be n lad, until two
hitherto revealed toB.Seach other on'y
n through the medium of, correspondence,
stood sas;e to face, are matters for eaeh
I, retsItr to determine.
"a But 1T seems better to take things here
at their face value. The very genuine
note OF wildly awaked tenderness which
e,rbodies the charm of the letters would
lose its freshness and force. If ono be-
lieved that each word in them was writ
ten only for n purpose--that of publlca-
ton.
Its a finer and higher standpoint In
Interpretation to discard all personality
and environment. to look upon Richmond's
newest literary sensation as il Daphne
elusive like her shadow In Grecian days
4 OF old were simply Daphne andher CHI
valrous lover just the Lad Who, in the
end. reaches high for the Daphne In
the moon and cries out in his pain when
he hnds his hands and his heart left
empty, and Daphne" still prisoner in
the region of extinct volcanoes and burn
ed out passions