The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-04-17

\ WHERE THE TIDE COME IN. Ely Lucy
Meacham Thruston. Illustrated by
Charles Grcenwald. Published by
Little Brown and Company, or 13os-
ton. I'll. # s. Y s X Il, 3.3 II
Afow years ago a charming romance.
entitled "a Girl Of Virginia." appeared
over Mrs. Thurston's signature. The
scene or tile book was laid ut the Uni
ycrsity OF Virginia, and the story was so
we'll and graphically told that itslautllor-
Tess ut once gained prestige as a dclinea-
tor OF southern life which Will insure a
cordial welcome for her fastest publica-
ton, Where the Tide Comes m
| Norfolk, Portsmouth Virginia Beach
| and Bowling Green, lin Caroline county,
are The localities touched upon. some
prominently, others incidentally, In this
later volume. Life sin suburban village
on a great strawberry and vegetable
farm, in Gloucester county and at Bow
ling Green. is described with the know
Hedge and the acumcn of one to tho man
Tor born" .l:sS N
The house party at the home Of judge
Warner, In Gloucester county. Is written
about in such Il realistic way that one
| Is sure the althorcss must have some
ltlmc been at Just such a house party
1 herself and one feels quite sure that
Judge and Mrs. Warner might easily be
Identified among the 8royal hosts aud
hostesses With which Gloucester Is filed.
Tho main lovc story OF the book IS
i woven about a young lawyer named
Blakey, and the heroine Of the book, sc
Nottoway3 who Is a very sweet and love
/ ~ embodiment OF youthful womanhood.
4 ,rhe story gathers force from an under
i current OF pathetic complications in which
/ Page Nottoways fancy Is enangled, that
i Ia furnished BY h man named Van ldor-
/ ton The lleroine's sense of honor and
Thigh principle intervenes and saves her
4 from a probable mistake and its conse-
i ducnces. Blakey the hero, is a type OF
! the young southern manhood which holds
/ the future hope Of the State In the con-
! scrvatism and Judgment. In the adher-
fence to hereditary traditions with which
4 ambition Is tempered.
/ 1t is IA question as to whether the gov
i error who comes into Mrs. Thurston's
4 pages is or is not Governor Montague.
The authoress leaves one in doubt on this
A point but one inclines to the belief that
1 lGovernor Montague must bc.lntended. IL
so. he will be pleased at the impress sion
4 he makes in as we'll as out Of fiction.
4 There is no doubt at all about what
! place is intended when tho "old man,
sion" near Bowling Green Is mentioned,
1.-The home which In actually has descend-'
4 cd 10 Mr. John White from generations
4 who have lived there before him, the
4 home which Is now frightened by the
1 graceful hospitality of its mistress, and
! the presence ow young voices and foot
I steps about It.. 1.-THE Mansion is rs
stately in age as it must have been IN
youth and Mrs. Thruston has its traeit-s
1 tons hy rote, for she refers to:
THE feast which Washington spread
/! for Lafayette on the wide, level lawn
/ when they joined forces for their menu
orable march on Yorktown; to the an
cient cedars-memetoes of Holland and
home, three centuries and q quarter be-
fore: TO the box and the gnarled null
berries overshadowing It, the box min
Cling its pungenf leaves with the rough
and uneven mulberry follage;&to the
old locusts keeping guard over graves
fallen to primal levels; to the legend OF
the wliitc-robcd maidens who dance there
when ono of the household must make
his bed with the dead; to the avenue or
hollies, huge as oaks, and to tho terraces
beyond where tulips blossom among the
potatoes and jonqulls and narcissa flower
among tho peas
Tho story is brightly and smoothly
given with Just hint of shadow to make
the sunshine gladder by contrast and
therein tho authoress gains q point. IIu-
man mature turns with relief to pleasant
pages. such MS may be surely found By
those who will appreciate Where The
Tide Comes In"