The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-06-26
.rThe Faith Of Men by Jack
London, a Collection OF
Stories Of the Alas
kan Indians.
"BRED IN THE BONE
A New Story by Thomas Nelson
page-"I7hc Singular Miss s
Smith" BY +. M. Kingsley.
A Peep Into the New Maya
zines-Notes Of Books and
Authors.

THE FAITH OF NtEN--By Jack Lou
don. Published by. tie .lncniiiial1
Company, Of New York and Lon
don. FOR sale by the Bell Book and
Stationery Company. Of Richmond.
Some recent writer's, particularly south
erners have become celebrates through
their ability in the limo Of negro dlalect
stories.
Others, like Cable, excel in their French
Creole speech and Characterization.
Gilbert Parker hus ci,osrn tho Cana.
dian French of the voyageur camp fires
MS his especial aptitude and Jack Lon-
don has essayed, with great success, the
reproduction of the Alaskan Indians and
The lSlordyke miners in the book OF short
stories which has been issued under the
title Of '"rhe Faith of Men,.
These stories have appeared at differ
Ont times In different magazines. They
are brimful OF color and stamp them
selves unforgetably upon the conscious.
ness of the reader through the force ana
power of the writer.
In his simple directness. and IN the
way that Jack London reproduces MS
gathered impressions of the meaning Oh
life against a background, where there
IS sharp reverslon to primal snvagery
In types, Mr.. London Is altogether Kip
lingnesuue in his attitude and expression.
The analytical, problematical element
In fiction has so dominated style and
expression, as to produce LIBERALIZATION
and attenuation; to render books anaem1c
md colorless. It has remained for such
men as Kipllng and London to intllse
fresh blood into narrative and descrip-
ton, to arouse imagination and stimuli
late sluggish impulses and desires DOR
rnant through disuse.
THE eight stories running through The
gath of Men, may all be read with
more or less of pleasure and profit. but
the one which comes last-tThe Story
of Jees sUck"-is by far the best. ices
Uck" was a vagrant Toynat Indian wo-
man, in whom several nationallties were
blended who was endowed With the
seduction beauty of the Orient, who
proved herself capable of great love
end, wien the time of trial came. of q
regal renunciation.
For the sake Of the man she loved she
gave up her claims as wife and mother
and though she had travelled far to look
into the face and touch the hand OF her
boys father. yet when she found MN
happy in a home among his own people
and with a woman of his own class a
Z his side whom he loved, she fought dow
every natural, yearnlng Impulse, and re
:hrned in silence with her child to Alaska
~ Not 10 sit down and repne, ah, nc
But TO be the mother Of boy who, II
after years, became a man with grea
power for good in his native land, 0.
herself the story says:
"Jees Uck was a young woman when
she went back into the North, but she
lived straight and no breath was ever
raised save in commentator. She
stayed for a while with the good sisters
at Holy Gross, where she learned to read
and write. and became versed in practical
medicine and surgery. After that she re-
turned to her log house and gathered
about her the young girls OF the Toyaat
village, to show them the way of their
feet in the world. 1t is neither Protes.
tant nor Catholic, this school. but the
missionaries of all the sects look upon 1t
fEfth equal favor The latch string Is
Railways out, and tired prospectors and
trail-wearX men turn aside from the flow
ing river or frozen trail, to rest there
for space and be warm by her fire"