The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-05

| what cold nature. and which his ioye
! grow strong enough to override only
when that no longer made any diner-
ence.J If they had married. first OF last .
| everything would have heen VOL ant
! tho veil that separated them often seems
| 40 thln. almost SO artinclnl, that 1t is
| annoying that no strong hand Is reached
out to nun II down. Indeed, this criti-
ctsn applies more or less accurately to
| I.ly,s whole unhappy lsltuution ore
feels instinctively that II is unnecessary;
| that something could have been done
about 1t; that her splendid endowinents
| should have IN some way suniced 70
spare her the final turn OF the world
cold shoulder.
/ And from purely artistic point Of view,
we think thnt In bringing her norolne
| to the last ditch In an apprenticeship at
| the fancy millinery shop Mrs. Wharton
| has struck the single false note IN THO
otherwise perfect harmony of finished
| literary art.
In "irhc House of Nlirth"it requires no
pcculnrly trained criticism to recogntzn
a book OF great abilities and conspicuous
| worth Above tho level OF our modern
novels It towers head nnd shoulders
ii lacks to make. !. g book OF , really \,
lasting interest. Mrs. Wharton's work is
not easily to be compared witt, any other
novelist of the day, certainly not III
America Her perfect ignlty. 90 nsleS-
ably touched with flashes Of hu Y, r.
bright satire and keen insight her state
" and polished style, her subtle sTsychol-s
ogy and high analytical skill. her i~NnarK-
able gift of enchaining the readers IN
tcrcst through page after pMst, .. y, u
broken comment, are almost distinctiEely
her own. She is, In II way, alone III nsr
nw,n class. Yet we risk nothing IN say
ING TINT she Enthusiastically belongs among
that handful OF Engllsh-spenlang hoyel.S rs
the justification of whose. DOCKS M.e ,o LIZ
chief literary events Of our day. II there
hns been doubt Of this before. as there
nossibly has the appearance OF me M!
House of Mlrth' must now permanently
remove It,
rur GAME AND THE cANDLE.-By
Frances Davidge. PIP. 81. $l.5O. y.
Appleton & CO., New 1ork.
"The Game and tho Candle" appeared
almost simultaneously between covers I,.u
Of readible novclettrs: Miss Tor Mrs,
sDavidge writes very clevery and for Two.
thirds OF the story, tho readers interest
Is we'll sustained. After that 1t drags
a bit There Is somewhat v,oleh.
change Of scene and OF color, and tho
Inevitable denoucment is far too long de-
-layed, However. as books go. this one IS
entertaining and rather more readn ne
than most The people IN It are new New.
Workers. of birth and polish. PROMISING
buC slulSt yOuIlt nan
maria re; he webs silly Plnkys (christccned
Myrtle) when he might for the asking
have had clever and sterling Emily. PinRy
dlsgrnces him. kills his love ana goes
to Paris; whereupon, thanks to Emily, ne
lis given the chance to show the niln-
hood In him. His unexpected metthnor-
$phosls into brilliant young physician
WITH care-lned face is not as CON
svincing as We might wish; but. AFTER
ALL our main criticism on the story, hard -&
hearted as 1t may mako us appear, is
that Pinky was SO cNasperatlngly STOW
about dying.
THE RACE OF THE sw1FT.-By Edwin
Garlic Litsey. PIP. 15l. Little, Brown
& Co., Boston iee
a group pf rather vivid and well-wrtten5
tales Of wild animals in their haunts. -.
fox. a hawk, Il wolf and other untamed
creatures are Mr.. SLitsey's successive ne
roes, episodes>in whose careers he details
rather with energy and strength than
charm 1t would almost seem as If the
"humnniza ton" of animals In fiction, for
which Mr. Thompson Seton. or Mr.. l<fp-,
ling. is chiefly responsible, has been about
worked out: but those who think other
wise should derive pleasure from this
book. Z.
THE STRIFE OF BRoTHERs.-By Jo-
scph Tyrone Derry. PIP. 100. Frank
lin Printing Co., Atlanta.
Mr.. Derry has performed the unique
.feattof writing "a history of the civil war
in very creditabeHverse. His metre. If
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