The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-12-03

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pre-eminent1y the ffone-smasher. Bon
O.! had his eyrie high UP In q recess
81 the Sierra, not many miles from
Malaga, and every worthy traveller who
passed that way was hauled up and held
for ransom, for Don q. was no ordinary
hold UP man, but a f,ill.fledged sedues-
trador or ransom holder, and right
wealthy had he waxed at tho game. you
may believe. Many were the expeditions
confidently dispatched to pluck him from,
his mountain nest. but all In vain; they
always returned fewer In numbers and
bringing back nothing but now tales OF
bloodshed and horror.
Zach story contains a new adventure.
completes III itself. and the central In
terest In them all is tho unique forco
OF the bandits personality. Don @. was
Il strange combination OF whitns, or iron
will and cout-tly grace and sardonlc hui
NOR and savage cruelty. Perhaps his
tinhestitating cruelty was one OF his
strongest = characteristics. though even
that was subject TO q. passing caprice.
IN the. opening story tho brigatd himself
caused Evil Hay to be provided with
81 loaded revolver, with view to see
ing wtethet. his prisoner would not break
Ills parole and shoot him down. and wien
l5wil.Ilay's honor wouldn't let him do 1t,
sorely as lie longed to, the vulturc-faced
bandit babe him go on his way unframed.
Iii another story We read how IL famous
artist was made to paint for his right
hand,' and because when lic tried
TO flattcr his subject into compliment hui
NOR and refined tho evil features to. tho
point, OF snintlincss. Don O., lokine, at
the finished portrait, was courteously dis
pleased and announced that the painter
would be buried at sunset. Later,
as n kind Of parthian vengeance M. Blu
fort In the anger OF despair viciousiy
painted in the portrait OF the man as
no was, the ,1ivid-liddcd eyes the vulture
5physiognomy. the bitter. srleering jaw,
a face hardly OF this human world. and
as he had never fatlomed Don Q.'s &C.
centric nature was unutterably surprised
that the new picture earned him his ITO
and his freedom.
There is not q dull page anywhere IN
this book. Tho stories have the cream OF
originality and are all unconlmonly well
done.
THE WOLVERINE. BY Albert Iathrtop
II ,awrencc 1877 PIP. SLED. Little,
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This Is d " ell and crisply written story
witE5no lack OF romance ind adventure
to give 1t flavor and with an originality
IN plot and development that render u
highly entertaining.
rho period treated Of IS one that has
been less often touched upon by histori-
cal novelists than most othcrs--the period
succeeding the Revolutionary W. IN
America, when the restlessness In Anglo
Saxon blood began to stir and the East!
crn tide began to move swiftly inward
towards wilnt is now termed the Middle
West. Z. 5,.s E5S753sst AL
Old Detroit. with It's picturesque french.
element, marking the course OF rlier
jesuit exploration and ton. be-
comes under.th pen OF Lawrence. ir15"The
$IVolyerlne,'' tho spot where the ndvanc-
ing tide Of Immigration was met in It's
course By aSinorc primitive. but already
established population, and the contrasts
In characteristics and ideas are sharp,
" shoWnFby contrast, the one against the
other. III
The hero OF the book Is Perry North,
New Englander, whose calvinistic ideas,
and beliefs are constantly shocked by the
anconscquent gayety and frlvolity Of
French social customs as revealed by
TIL
He struggles long against his love for a
charmingly depicted French girl Marie
Beaucoeur, because she is French and a
Romanist in religion. Then as his vision
clears and its sphere enlarges, he realizes
life and It's meaning from g broader,
deeper. truer. sta ndpoint, the barriers Of
separation arc swept away and tho lover
aid his beloved, as man and wife. be-
como each q better part Of Gods divine
plan III creation, because of what they
answer to in each Others needs and in,-
perfections
One OF the best bits Of pen portralture
iii the book is that which describes Stevens
Thompson Mason in his social and off
cia relations as secretary and Governor
Of the then Northwest Territory, in
the Mansion House, at Detroit.
Mason was a. Virginian and has still
many rela tives in Virginia who will be
interested in noting the manner In which
he has been introduced TO the public
by modern writer of fiction.
The accounts of balls given at the Man
sion House are presented In (. peculiarly
entertaining manner. The skating par
ties III winter, the house parties In tho
french homes around Detroit seems all
Isthe more vivid because OF the element
| of savagcry In Indian nearness and Of
| the primeal forest warfare which con-
.stantly goes on. just beyond the border
line of civilization. IA. e
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