The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-16
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yarns, We chcerfully commend It,

| Doubleday. IL PIP. sSl.so. I1uupieu"S'
| Page & Co.
MIR. Doubledays idea In this book Is
| to set forth the adventurous side or IN
| vention-the adventures incident either.
| to bringing a practical invention through
experimentation to perfection. or TO
| operating an invention or somebody cisc.
| 1t mas often been pointed out that we
are nowadays too much inclined TO take
| for granted the wonderful discoveries
of science during the past century and
tho still more wonderful way IN which
our new knowledge has been applied.
Undoubtedly III the wireless telegraph.
he nir-ship. the submarine. tho telephone,
the fast liner, there is romance, pure
md nnndulteruted. Not only do we neg
lcct tho romance, but for the most part
VIC arc content to remain III ignorance
Of The simple physical facts. III turn
Ing our attention for a little while into
this channel, MIR. Doublcdays book Is OF
vrlue as we'll as interest.
One OF tho most interesting chapters
In the book Is that on Bridge Building
Achievements This gives an account
Of the building OF a modern steel bridge
over the Goktck Gorge, IN Rnrmahle by
volved III this undertaking half way
around the world from the home. factory.
and base of supplies, may well be imas-
infd: but the American concern relied
so fully on It's facilities and capabilities
that II put III a bid far lower than the
price asked by English builders. secured
the con tract, sand successfully put the
work through The replacing OF the old
Niagara suspension bridge over the
Whirlpool Rapids BY the steel arch bridge,
which now spans the river a that point,
Is also interestingly narrated. Other
good chapters are onR"1Iow Automobiles
Work. Tho Life Savers and Thcir Ap-
paratus, = Moving Pictures" Long Dis.
tancc Tclcphoning, i4''A Machine THAT
Thinks and Artificial lee Making"
Ws imagine that the book is intended
primarily for boys, who Should certainly
like 1t; and atilllts too. will find it both
entertaining and Instructive.
a PARODY ANTHOLOGY. Collected by
Carolyn Wells 397 PIP. Scribners, New
York. For sale here blythe Bell Book
and Stationery Company
In "a Parody Anthology" Miss Wells
has compiled a companion volume to her
Nonsense Anthology published a year
OF. so ago, and both collections have a dis
tnct place III tho library OF llumor. Miss
Wells is Il parodlst Of no mean ability her
self, as we'll as a clever writer or that
form OF mctrical composition. which, for
want of a better name. We call mon
sense" verse. She is therefore well quail
compilation along this line. and her VOL
umc will be a real treat to lovers Of
humorous verse.
Nearly every well known poet, from
/ Chaucer+ to Kipling, can find himself hit
off in these pages. III an Introduction
Miss Wells tells us that "of oil the poets,
Tcnnyson has probably been parodicd the
most followed closely In this respect by
Edgar Allan Poe" The single poem
| . Toe 1,or IF nal
is ''NIy Mother by Ann Taylor with
.rhe Raven" Gray's "l1legy,' The Song
OF the Shirt "The May Queen" and
I "Iocksley Hail. coming hard after
Among so much clever verse 1t IS diff
cult to select the best, but we quote one
livery good one, which also has the merit
of being brief. It is, as will be readily
guessed, both on and after William
| Wordsworth:
| Gle lived amongst the untrouden Ways
TO Rydal Lake that lead;
| A bard whom there was none to PRAISE E
And very few to read
"Behind a cloud his mystic sense,
Deep-hidden, who can spy?
Bright as the night when not star
is shining in the sky.
"JInread his works-his Milk White Doe
With dust IS dark and dim;
It's still in LongNan's shop, and oh!
The difference to him. ,
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r11r r,As,M u COMEDY. BY Thompson
- B,chnnnn osG pp $500. Hurper's,
Noyr work.
II ..rhn castle Comedy Mr. Thomp-
.on puchonan has writtc,.l. n charming
,itt,o romance that Immediately suggests
|mNlonsicur Teaucairc.'' And It is high
praise 10 Mr. Buchanan to say that his
| story will hear compn rison with that Ut
! III gem q f Booth Tarkingto Tho gener-
n, manner Of the two stories Is very much
| alike. There Is the same I'rcnchman of
nnhla birth ftemporarily masn,lerudinS IS
men,ol. the same beauty who loves him,
thn so mo hostility OF bcauty's other suit
ors and the same dash; courage, wit, Of
thc hero. The two conclusions however,
nro different. Mr.. Buchanan's story ends
rnnniiy, but the ending IS a little more
snnn o,lt. and In a way n little less noble,
tbnn the ending of "Bcaucairc''
,rho yivacious Young Frenchmun who
vas discovered singing a love song In
| Nav pnrcy's gardens one day, was not a