The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-18

rienced country proceeded to set nm OK.
ample to Europe Mt large In he matters
OF national pride and the enforcement OF
national rights. Our earlier error judg- Y
ment as to tho treatment OF the pirates
was due to the illogicallty OF politicians
who urged the schenptHt immediate aet-23
Element as tho best and a little time was Z.
requisite for the creation Of q healthy
and sell reliant public opinion. # 81
The events OF tho narrative stretch over
some thirty years. and Or. Hens account ii
OF them makes Interesting reading. More
than that. his book adequately covers n
period In our historyaubout which little 4
or nothing authoritative had hitherto been
written, and hence should have a unique
and constant value. TX
THE WHITE r ERROR AND THE RED.
BY a. Cahan. Pp. 400. s1.5D. a. s II
Barnes Company. New y DIRK. 5 y
Perhaps the most striking feature of
this new and timely novel Of revolution
airy Russia is tho extremely realistic. ais
most matter OF fact way In which the
scenes and descriptions naturally growing
out OF nstory this theme are set forth
Mr. cahans familiarity with Nihillsm
and the hopes and methods OF Under
ground Russia seems thorough and deep
and tile reader receives an impression OF
exactness and reality Of the sort usually
conveyed only byFthose who have. ac-S
tua]ly taken part In the matters under
Discussion. The picture tina we get here Z
OF the Russia OF the students and the
Hliberating party Is fairly Photographic
lin its minuteness, and that the leaders 4
os this party all end In prison walls or (
on the galoWs Is probably not merely an
accident OF plot. Mr.. Caha n. who is said
to number many Nihilstlc leaders among
$tn l1aivH
the o wner of one OF the largest private
collections Of underground literature
In existence, would not appear to enter
tain any too optimistic views as 10 the
ultimate successflllnegs OF the work and )
methods OF the secret organizations.
The climax OF tho story Is perhaps. this
assassination OF Alexander i ]. II which IL
never described with the close attention Y
ITO detail that would characterize the story
OF a reporter who had been present and 4
was writing up tho affair for his paper.
The four people who were hung MS a re-
suit OF thls-one CT them being the first
woman Who had been executed on
Russian soil since 17l9--flgure with more
or less prominence In the story. The hero
lis Prince Boulatoff who becomes cons
tvertcd TO NIhllisin while at tho univer-t
I sity and later becomes one OF Its most
distinguished leaders. The secret meet
ings OF the patriots, their rapa ssioned
$carnastness. their almost fanatic devotion
to the Cause nre set foru. with graphic
fidelity, Considered as whole. Mr.
Cahan's book is rather an eXcelently
dnne picture Of. revolutionary Russia.
titan it Is a great novel. IT 's not SO
good a story for example. as airs. Voy--a
3nich's "Ollve Latham" but III Is the
gclcnrest and most minute portrayal OF
actual conditions that we remember to
have read. ys
DOWN TO TIE SEA, BY Morgan Rob-
ertson. PIP. Sl2 si5o. Harper and
Brothers, New York Boil Book and
Stationery Company Richmond.
Down to the Seals a series OF salt
water tales by the author Of Sinful
Peck" Mr. Robertson was g sailor. for o.
number Of years, and knows Wlereof
Ito writes; and lie tells a story IN q SIM
ple, straightforward way that is both
appropriate and agreeable. The tales In
tits volume are Of all sorts. The opens
Ing story is rather curious A blind boy =
&issralsed by his father IN absolute igl'o-
rance of the fact that he is blnd-that 4
there is such a thing as blindness or as 4
sight. He finds out the truth about him
se eli from a young girl who straya into
his fathers garden, and that night ne
runs away in#tho hope of finding her If
again. Through chance he becomes q q.
sailor, Ills ship Is struck by lightning,
and the shock 1--WE are not RESPONSIBLE Z
for the physiology Of !t) galvanizes his
optic nerve 80 that lie can see. Every
other soul OH board is killed by tho ex-
plosIon, and tho ship which picks him
in holds, by a strange coincidence, the.
/ girl whom he had started out to seek,
which naturally makes a decidedly happy y
ending. 81
& VA Cow. TWO Men and a Par
sonp relates how Il short-handed vessel
successfully employed the services Of q
bossy the business of setting sails.
1.-THE Rivals were battleships. who had
a mighty struggle for supremacy, and
their story personfles Thorn with speech 4
and brain, III the manner that Mr.. lSipllng ys
L has employed in connection with locolno-
tycs. "A Hero or the CLOTH very anus L
iingly recounts the ordeal OF teretoaillng
Spalson, upon whom strange coil q
circumstances imposed the necessity Of
getting regally. # not hilariously, I'M
Etoxicaled. B:
$"Downfto the Sea" will interest every N
body with a hankering for salt water
literature, and no doubt many other pso-
sple besides. Size