The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-14

}Rlsses1luiii'' ana Aldrlch;s ''story ola Bad
Boy" Plnkey is Just Il healthy MS.
chieto,is American boy, and ne ad ven
sp sT ana or g as and we dGws yoa nEe N VIZ
Nil his mLschlevous 5pranks paid With q.
view to getting even we never find Nm n n,
stepping beyond II certain boundary me Inc
beyond which nc is TO ALLOW nether, him
fatuation for his aiilniiy," as e, elects
TO- Gall certain young aia or t ms Ses
OF tho book; aud his encounter WIN t n
old farmer, WHO has. mado himself th nc,
terror Of tho nelghborhood boys Is highly
Isntisfuctoty&tO the render us well as 70
Pinlsoy himself. Altogether, though not
| so nattrnl rs some other boys Of fiction,
| I'inkey is boy with whom every youth
should be acquainted.
!rAp REckoN = Ga I, 3 Robert y nn w..
N ton a. Co., New York.
In tho authors protected series OF ro-
mances dealing WITH the Key .,1, Az
volume Is the fourth In order, though the
third III point Of appearance. CARDIGAN
and tho Muid-at-Arms have alone pre-
self wifi arIalrs il New York city a g.
In Tryon county IN 17Sl dealing DEln
pnlly with the raids OF tho infamous wal
Ter Butler and Buffers Rangers, . nnd in ,no
Johnstown. Cnrus Rcnn,let. tho hero Or
| the story, IL n Colonial spy nctlns as
secretary to the cnBnsing SIR peler u I.,tt
passing as one having purely. British
ssympnthlcs. 10 the house OF Sir Peter
comes Il winning maid OF eighteen sum
mers, the Hon: Elsin Grey, and Carus.
being but twcnty-four himself. FOUND ,lls
In Canada, Elsin had met thut same
Walter Butler, had t1lnced with him At
great ball had fallen a victim to his
i little matter Of Il troth between them;
Yet, Elsin for Ill that. as she pointed
out 10 Cnrus she really did not like But
Ter half SO we'll as she did him, Carus.
but Butler had a hypnotic power over
her which she knew not how to re-
Butler came to New York on business
and he and carus became EN-, enemies , at
on anicable terms. There was q Ger
tain secret panel In n certain wainscot-
Ing. behind which the young Anleri-
stealing back one night from ball ran
down tho hldng-place and found there
part Of a letter from Cnrus to his Feel
lcncy Gen. George Washington. We may
4 be sure there was the deuce to pay, How
IIlsn Grey, suddenly blossomed from n
girl into Il woman grown came to the
rescue, houted Butler, rescued Cnrls and
later fled with him to other pnrts.. he
reader may find interestingly set forth
+ In these papers
There Is no end Of brisk action In the
story. fights, adventures and exciting
between Butler and carus was one to
the death and Carus won It. Whether
Butler was able to exert any hypnoio 4
power on 1Is,n after his death to pre-
the reader to surmlse. The story is old
with8nll those agreeable Qualities OF man
3ner which have made Mr.. Chambers so
Justly popular.
THE ANCIENT GRUDGE. BY Arthur
sitanwood Pier, Al PIP. Sl.5O HouSh-
In THIS book the young author Of phs
more than makes good the promise of his
early work. THE Ancient drudge" goes
far beyond anything that MIR. Pier has
yet written Il Is = fine story pulslng
and substantial background Of Ameri-
can life It unfolds a tale of stirring In
terest and develops the counter motives
ferent characters. Only chance could
have made friends Of two such men as
Floyd Halkct and Stewart Lee, who held
all the personal graees that a different
fate had denied to Floyd. He is clever
charming. agreeable, but underlying his
attractlveness ran Il very obvious vein
SSt
make mess Of his life. Stewart loved
success, worshpped applause. His first
year as an architect In the town OF Ava
Ion brought him both IN the most graft
tying way But Stewards work like his
character, lacked staying qualities, and
customers fell away from him. Then he
practically forsook architecture for
painting n WHEN an MS sk'ii Was even
urc. Lastly. led on by the wholly vision
airy dreams Of success. which he habit
ually followed. he yearned to be leader
OF the workingmen u their, fight against
the Halket- Steel Mills, and. quite igno-g
rant Of the real facts. he began attack
ing his old friend Floyd In letters to the
newspapers. This was the biggest mis-
ed, was entirely IN the right, and even
Stcwart's own wife saw how completely
no was wrong. His friends frankly de-
misguided as was Stewards, ignorant es-
pousal Of the cause Of labor, one can
hardly regret It.. as through II he was
brought to noble and unselhsh end
life that had been vacillatlng, mistaken
and IN several ways ignoblc.
THE DIARY Or A BR1DE.-.Anon, PIP. 4
1G2. slao net. Thomas Y. crowell &
The title tells the story. Nothing hap
pens. Jack is never cross to his little
bride, no hirtatious stranger with black
moustaches and tired eyes comes to wreck
vndes 1t to make q domestic uphcayal.
Happy Is the bride. as Is the nation. who
has no history. and the bride TO whom
we are 81, here !, 'ntrodHeed has absolutely
or her simple days md with musings
and comment on q variety Of subjects,
These arc perfectly 1nnocuOus and per-
fcctly pleasant, No reader Of them will
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