The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-02-21

tor NernOn'S career DeCulS siie 10 "
cdedly lacking iii intellectually All
this IS 81 way of showing off Amelia's
antithesls, clever young professional
woman named Maria Burley Green, to
tho best advantage. Amelia suffers. TN
der the authors disfavor and Maria 8
httractivencss is correspordlngly en-
HANGED. @3i
So much for rival types. The hunior
or the situation In brief Is thus Sena.
tor Vernon pleads a press OF senatorial
work In Springfield as an excuse for
not meeting an efgngement =. mace LOT
him By his sweetheart and for cutting
short his Chicago visit in spite of the
pretty pouting displeas,lre of Miss Ans
ley. One cannot help but think that his
excuses are fegned, and that he Is a per-
furctory, If q conscientious lover. When
he returns to Springfield, he finds q red
rose on his desk accompanied by q card
asking his support for tho woman's stif-
frase Bill: The card bears the name Of
Maria Burley Greene, whom Senior Yer
non recalls MS a successful woman law
We, with Furnishing practice IN
Chicago Almost Immediately he meets
Miss Greene and is introduced to her.
His preconceived predjudices melt be-
meath the glance of her eye. and the
warmth of her smile, like frost beneath
the sun. Hc promises not only to sup
mort the suffrage bill, but to make q
tsreech IN It's behalf; he does SO while
Maria sits looking on. begins with a
careful citation Of statistics, and winds
M with an mpassloned panegyrtc on the
5gcntler sex. exclaiming with his eyes
fixed on Maria:
II fill this cup to one made up Of lowell ell
ness alone, gt IA
A woman, OF her gentle sex, the seem
Her health and would on earth there
stood some more of such a frame,
THAT life might be all poetry and weari-
ness name. @
After this he takes Maria for a drive.
and accompanies her to the railway sta
ton, ms she leaves for Chicago. promis-i
Ing her with his adieu. that the SUI
frage bill shall certainly pass. Then.
comes the deluge. His speech is reported
al, large in all the State and metropoll-
tan papers and his name Is broadly
coupled with that Of Maria Burnley
Greene. Her advocacy of the suffrage
bill arouses opposition in high social
quarters; great pressure Is brought TO
bear upon legislators from every quar-
ter Of the State, and Vernon Is aroused
from his dream of triumph on the eve
OF the day when the bill is to come up.
BY hints of disaffection among those
pledged to him and by the news that the
grea test woman. socially and clubwtse,
Of Chicago will be present with a num-
her of satellites to lead the opposition to
II
Vernon strengthens his defenses as far
as possible, When he enters the hotel
dining-room on the fateful morning, he
sees Maria Burley Greene and rushes
across the room to greet her.
!,
him to turn and be confronted with an
other party that of the august Chicago
social leader, and among her companions
Amelia Ausley-whom he has not seen
since his absorption in woman's suffrag &c.
It is a trying moment. The senator eN-
cuses himself TO one dear cEarmer and
walks over to the other. Madame. the
august, meet him with reproach and
Amelia with aloofness. While he tarrics
with the latter to mako his peace after
breakfast time passes. When he finally
reaches the State house, the bill about
which he has made so many fine prom
Uses has been defeated without his even
being present to vote for it.
He has only one glance at Maria who
departs speedily, but that one Is enough.
Having had his little fling into Bohemia
and tasted for a little Of possibilities In
the land of "Might-EIave-Be en,' he falls
neekly enough back into the traces OF
uull conventionality, feeling as many an
other has done his utter inability to cope
with the wiles of tho unending feminine
variety"
The illustrative, decorative and typo
graphical work Of the book Is beautifully
done, and 1t is most artistically gotten
out.
VIOLET. BY Baroness Won Hutton.
Published by Houghton, Mifflin &
Company. New York. For sale by the
Bell Book and Stationery Company. rs
To say that the popular author of Our
Lady of the Beeches" has done something
really remarkable in violet" hardly
does justice to the impression Which the
book makes upon the reader.
The hero, Violet, by virtue of the old
Mosaic law that the sins Of the fathers
shall be visited upon the children" Is
banned and barred from the natural COM
panlons Of boyhood and young manhood.
BY virtue of his heaven-born genius as
n musician, he escapes from the world
around him, filled with discord, into u
world of harmony. Ills home is on an
island. with an old lighthouse keeper and
his wife, the only persons who love him
truly In spite of the misfortune which
clouds his life. TIe sits for hours In the
sunshine hearing the song OF the sea.
happy In the sounds which delight his ear
and tho colors by which his eyes inter-
pref 1t, thoroughly at peace because his
inner ana outer life arc tuned to accord.
Genius is seldom not misunderstood.
and Violet Maue did not escape the fate
or genius, That he remained true to his
ideals and stood tho test of great tempta-
lions ard great SORROWS is told in chap
tiers. the dramatic situations of which
are handled with rare fidelity and dell
cacy Of Interpretation.
Violet has been rightly termed "A
Musical Romance" and it has been truly
said In regard tolt:
Gods meaning in the world Is har-
mony;--the inrer life with the outer, The
highest attainment Of the musical genius
is the expression Of this harmony through
his or her own personality. Just In so
far as the musicians life is not attuned
to his ideals will his art fall short OF its
highest mark. The hero composers In
stnctve love oe harmony keeps him
from the wrorg kind Of life. Behind the
apparent irresponsibil!ty Of the genius
TO the world is seen the higher RESPONSE
biity to himself, The actual plot itself
| IL skillfuuy handled and may safely be
| left to the reader, The authors inter-