The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-03-18
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wouldn't or sho couldn't marry. Dlfits
cult as the situation was Peele might
have had her, IL he had not made, az
Pam observed, IA curious mistake" we
have not greatly cared for Peele or shared
PANS wliole.souled admiration for his
force OF character. Despite the authors,
insurance TINT Peele's Will Ia stronger
than Pam we must say that VIC thought
the great man cut rather a wobbly and
sorry figure, beside the sacrificial uhcoi,i-I
promise Of hers. PANS views as tor the
ptoprleties OF marriage ule did not In any,
scnsc share but ho would have accepted
them to his own advantage and her own
hurt, rather than risk the damaging OF
his own prospects. Is 6
AS we might expect from, the Baroness
Won Hutten, the book Is cleverly and
ably written, and perhaps, barring the
rather too long account OF PANS child.
hood, no reader should have any diff
Guilty In keeping interested Y In It. The
chnracterizaton Is very good Dick Maxse,
Cousin Susie Kennedy, and one or two
others being particularly vivid. There
lis also hunor, a standard Of dalogu well
above the average. originality OF set
ting and background. Pam" Is q good
piece Of work and a novel well worth
reading. As
TOMMY CARTERET. BY Justus Miles
Forman. PIP. s47. $50. Doubleday,
Page and Company, New York. Bell
Book and Stationery Company. Rich
W nond. 70 # 3isis q
This is at once the most ambitious and
quite the best thing that Mr.. Forninn
has so far written. It has more body,
more breadth, more vitality, and on the
whole moro sincerity than any 0f his
previous work. Mr.. Fornan's worst fall
Ing has always been an all-persuasivn
artificiality that spells both his manner
and his Characterization, and It Is pleas
mt to note evidences here OF better work
In these directions. Not that this failing
has been In any sense overcome, however,
Mr.. Formans style remains rather un-3
pleasantly overwhelmed with nffecta-
tion. The author has a way OF address,
Ing imaginary comment and renafk to-
his hero on the slightest provocation,
and frequently holds up the ourse Of the
narrative to deliver an hnranguN like
this: al IA i!.,
oh Tommy. Tommy! Here's a new
Tommy. indeed I have read these first
pages OF your little Journal book many
times over. They have made me laugh
and they have made mo weep. Such an
Imposing little chapter, Tommy Such
literature! Were you quite quite honest
m wondering, when you 80 scornfullys
denied" etc. s8
II Mr.. Forman would cut out ali this
sort of thing and conina himself closelyj
70 the story in hand. minus The sent,-5
mental annotatons, we have hopes That
no VIII give us a good book yet. NJ
Tommy Carteret. the younger by taxi
ing on himself the Imlsdcmeanor OF his
31ather.5 old Tommy. finds himself con-
Edemned, apparently Forever to a life Of
exile In a strange land, Almost needless
TO 5sa there was a sweet girl he left
behind him. The lonely life OF the land
4 OF Egypt wears on Tommy. and In time,
Tor reasons which do not appear adc-4
SflIia ! ni~ clonr. he hecOm engaged to q
beautiful. II somewhat redundantly i,g.
1 ure e young native girl Tho wedding
YAltyyS - fis,dau. lluHtScr.i5by tho rivals
gang, the bride-tD-bc Is killed. Tommy
gets ;tscruel wound Sin the head. Tommy
sees tsl2sts after that, and IS distinctly
3 queer, as the phrase runs. in his upper
story; and 1T looks as II. his release from,
exile, which happens along about tho
same time, Is not going to do him much
& good. $ TO whether Tommy Is destined 4
/ to remain too eccentric for3the rest Of Ills
life TO secure the girl he likes the best,
I'VE are quite content oeleave the prob
EaD'illtles OF the case In the hands Of any
experienced and fair-minaed reader.
~ y mas occurred to us that the plot is
E 8trifle scattering and incompact, but
1T produces some dramatic and weiis
handled scenes. we have been inter-
&ested in reading this book, ana No think
mat number Of other people will be,
THE =. 4 VIclss1TUDEs OF EvANGEI1NI,.
~ lsinor syn PIP. POI. $3.50 Har-
H5 per Y !. z Brothers, Now York. Bell Book
Some years ago '.The Visits'of Eliza
BETH published ANONYMOUSLY. excited
attention and interest In the literary
world Tbs author OF that guilefully In
!nocent production, IS the Ellnor GIyn,
whose name appears on the title page Of
The Vicissitudes Of Evnngeline.''
Concerning this very clever authorcss
one is informed that ,..I5inorS Glyn Is
the youngest daughter OF the late Doug
les Sutherland, Of Toronto, Ontario, and
was married in 1892 to Clayton Glyn,
~, P., n typical English squire. "A wo-
I man Of very attractive personality. she
is tho Their oftwo beautiful children
NLdIBoL anu JullcLLe. a&liertf sister, Lady
Duff Gordon. 1t will be remembered, n Is 4
tho well-knoWn titled EnglIshwoman who
conducts the most succcssful8 'dress,nak-
Ing establishment In London under tho
name Of "L,cette.' Among Mrs. tilyns
most intimate friends. is Lady Warwick.
Mrs. Glyn lives at isheerng Hall. IIar-
low In lIssex--,a beautiful old estate that
has been for over two hundred years In
her husbands fanny Mi. Glyn is a no-f
table sportsman and numerous guests
visit the Gyms during tho shooting sea-
son. AS Will be recalled the house
party figures conspicuously In II Mrs.
Glyns books. snnY her own experience us
Il guest iii English country houses has
evidently furnished her with some OF her
most spicy. details"
Her latest book Is characteristic I'm
scttlng and circumstance, A young Eng
lish girl, thoroughly out OF the common
by reason OF her birth, her beauty and
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