The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-09-04

keep house for them. This Is the story
as mother told me and I've seen for my
self that 1t Is true; such a dreadful look
as came into the mans eyes rs he heard
his mothers voice. for he Is nearly thirty
years old now, but small like child. And
now you see his father has grown more
and more gentle and tender and unlike a
man.. as II trying to supply the mothers
place and everything Is unnatural and
Terrible "A @ Il Y x }5i # & $8 81 A
And now for glance at the other side.
Who can fall to appreciate Barbara. wife
and mother, tender and true, moving In
a home circle that Is delightful and allur-
Ing. tentented and happy, and always
shedding happiness around her? She Is
more "lndependent'3 than livery Steele,
because she rules absolutely with love-.
She has no wisl, to leave her queens
garden and battle with the fiery world
alone and scantily armed. II often Won
der" she says, ''fow a woman who has
5nbt been reared with men, sees Into the
depths of life by the light Of her own
feminine Observation-Disclosures only. Since
gers twined in fathers, 1t has always
been mans sustaining hand that has
reached Sout to me In times happy or
troublous. fathers on one side, Evans
on the other, and then the boys. Now
having to be led, but soon to be my adj
vance guard when Il shall need 1t most"
Beside her survey philosophy the fatal
ism OF IVORY steele. who prefers certain
and complete dissolutlon'' to the "inex-
pressibly distressing Idea Of s. a life
stretching on endlessly before lis, is like
an ulcer that we shudder to touch. Bar
.bara Is sharp too, with a wornan's Wit
and is quite the equal inzintellectuality OF
the brilliant woman Grant. The pages
ibristle with cleverness that one has a
strong mind to quote, but through IT all
shines that ncom parable virtue that dls-
what, in 50 many words, IL s this woman
ierrant Of whom we have been reading!
1t Is not until the very end that the author
ventures a definition. Barbara 9 father
gives It. "a woman erfant God help
her, 1t seems to me, Is she who, either
from choice, hazard or necessity " seeks q
course outside the protecting wal Oh he g.
natural affections Here $isa tne. essence 9.
though rather vague and doubtfully ca
1nosed. And Of sBarbara--what definition
shall one give of her? There is here no
"a gneness and no doubt. One smiles at
the case, why Barbara is woman !. y =, 81
Apart from the problem with which the
hook deals, 1t possesses unit common M
terest as a work OF fiction Z ere. arc $.
sblemishes, but minor ones, nnd, IN q Ten X
t,,re less fine, as whole, they Would az
Ss s,,a show at ALL The character
drawing is cleverly done-N1 RS. sg = en < |,
Smith, with her big heart not at Z az
concealed behind the screen OF " o ,IlEti
5wseness; La,.S1a Cartwright, a. gentlle-
woman Of the old school; Sukeys era mon,
Who bless her. lis an offshoot OF the same st
stem that produced Bar ara, and ALL u, the
Others ono sees, too, little Bot Evan van
and Barbara's father. Ivory steel t 70
E,s leff IN an unsatisfactory posi- " Q
have suspicion that we areAto hear Smore
III her. This s very good, bu IL t s6 ,s
scarcely fair to drop her SO sud- 10 envy
here IN an altitude that may mean an any 7
of 4, half-d dozen different things and divert ,
Our interest at the close to the maj urlns
romance &c sukey Crandon. We love e
sukey passing we'll. but she had no busl-
ness 'usurping the final pages Y. IN eN-
icmsion OF the leading figure In the DOCK O.
2$next3it TO Barbara. Some absurd ties g o.
stvle-nirnpersona Immortality sort OF
5ieIly-fish aggregation of unidentified long,
3;nr. 54..the butter that facilitates RAPID
anslt ,,Fctc.- are prepared NOR ea s.
3ily "a overlook. In fact, the inlniit'apie
FI3a rba ia has charmed us into 80 please
and plant n frame Of mind Athat;W Z, are :, =
Randy to forgive her. anything untll, WIN
4. burst Of generosity, we even forget th Ia
she would tench men how to smokte ); 1 "
3bncco sby vote and to adjust their8p leasur:
to the ordinarily unrecognlzed rules I. o.
Cleanliness More than this can no f man
do. tass 81 VI 81. 5 s. 5.i