The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-28

was not hard TO win. and when he had
once given IT, particularly If under the
warming Influence Of Old Methuselah
Three Stars, that delicious brand Of Of rye
ehsp.. had introduced him he talked
readily about himself Mr.. Chester Coate
discovered this..-Coate the pasty-fac,ed
wooer o. the higher chaW. ana aus
tle1lanly department.. Mr.. Coate. with
wonderful condescension. consented TO
become poor Kipps social guide and mem
tor. Ter the coming of that twelve hun
dreEi rounds a year warmed the quondam
diapers apprentice that he was now IN
very truth a gen'rnlan.
Fo!kestone house as man Of the world
and of leisure, kipps had no difficulty
about making friends. People were won,
;!erfully kind 10 him. Had his powers Of
have unuuestionaby been brought up
against the cynical reflection that filthy
lucre Is. after all. the great heart.open-
cynical His amaze,nent was unfcigned
when Miss Walsinghan, who ne had rev.
erenced as a goddess when he was a
class, agreed to marry him. What Heen,s
real feelings toward him were we are
never told. but we are led to infer that
she vas ~. hnd TO- the az aayannges no 70
come. Kipps's passion burned Itself out
in one fame. He admired Helen evtrava-
gantly, but later he confessed to himself
that ne had ceased TO love her; Then he !;
met Ann Parnlck,, who was living out,
and with whom in his impoverished youth
he had once split a sixpence. An immense
climbing forthwith seized the soul Of
Kipps. Poor youth. All his instincts
were up in arms against the further
forcing Of his culture ne was Immersed r!,ea
though Of course he never put It IN Just
that way. Dinners, teas. calls, parties,
conversational development filled him
with sense Of vast obnoYiousness. He
broke from Mrs. Somebody's, ingenious
Anagram Party on an Incredible plea Of
having forgotten something ana went vent
his sincere friends had benevolently
nulcted him Of come back unexpectedly
through Chitterlows comedy, which
Kipps, In his callous pliability mad staKed.
the MAY was an immense success. klpps
grew again rich from it.. He opened a
shop. and We have every reason to think
lived happily ever afterwards.
Mr.. Wells has done in this book an
exceedingly, good piece Of character I.e,a,
cal al Ii hnmor and unfa!ing keenness remind
one at times irresLstibly OF Barrie. klpps
Is dissectcd in much the same mastery
way tia. om%g nP bnt P ts
| lack can scarcely be extended to his de,
iineation here. His little cockney Soy
stands forth maker, ana tllS - II u!itl-
cult accomplishment for any aut hnHc MI a1
ways made him a little difficult to class-
~. but "Kipps must unfaiiin nS wr hiars
who are really worthy OF serious con-
| slderation.
ELd1W JP1 81 a. yS5 B. By 2 MaFla@
| and Company New York.
a dozen or more of short stories, re-
1 lating TO the Sunday adventures o. laay
curhnass v Gh Rfr oT Massey Was her
| name, and single. for that Inaltert WIZ WIZ
] her station: she worked for the NEWS
of San francisco, of which paper sMs w W,
apparently The star reporter, h ~. "a, ~
the big assignments. the murders. poit!-
/, cal and other scandals. exciting ep1iso,ues
Of divers sorts The Times Record" mad
4 son. and Ted and Rhoda were constantly
| running into each other in pursuit of the
same stories. Sometimes Rhoda scooped
Rhoda. In tho last episode Of all, We WIN
/ merely hint that Ted scooped Rhoda per-
/ maneDtly, but we decline to speak more
/ sir, and Mrs. Thompson Working IN ca
| boot could beat any other pair Of news
gathers thar ever worked themssee 'A,.,
se9es w are eeh r and Veil worked
| out. Miss, Michoelsons own, experience
In journalism, guaranteeing the accuracy
OF her material and color.
] THE QUEENS PAGE BY Cornella Ha-
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| Indianapolis.
The story would properly come under
/ the head of an historical novel for chill
drent had such thing been heard or.
| However, II is 4 sweet little story ina
] will be .entoyed by old and young, me
two little Velasco twins are children or
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