The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-12-31

hood and being sdisnllerited by his mother
And after ALL Peter did not marry her.
Something went wrong and he smarrleds
simple little Prue. whom he ftclwards
came, to l9ye Tar better Than
8of plot. aH owever,, It !! Is well done and
pleasant to read .ss IA az.
THE THREE DOLLS -B Josephine
IA Scribner Gates. Pp., 14S. 9 Bobbs- Merrill
8 CO., dlanapo Is. t4, MI s95ss
81 /. Eight charmingl written short Stories
Involving the adventures f some inter-
$esting tots q Immature age, which viii q
other tots ofB similar sosts and sconditi ons.s
Josephine Scribner Gates 8 earlier tuve-s
niles involving the CO. GERS OF tho Live
Dolls and the /. Lost Doll have endenred
book should undoubtedly result In E the
winning of still her read ers. The illus
Strntions by Vlrg iniaS Keep are excellent.
and "a he Volume lis insteyery way vel g,
i eye. 3s iSs3
THE GIRL, WIT III THE GREEN E;Y Es:.-
BY Clyde. Etc i. d. g fhe s9fasHllz
~ Bell Book and dtiQnery co, ~ 5s3
"a neat little ed .ti0n or recent pl lay by
8one OF the most popular OF mo Tern drn M
b atists. There seems no sespe tally reason
why 1t should have been gut hered into
4 covers, except that enough pc oples may
possibly want to read 1t to MAJ the pub
SlIcation pay; M early en- clement. o.
: bigamous marriage . and q young wires
The comedy no doubt acts he tier than 1t
reads, but rs readable enou sh.
The Janua NJ aziraes.
scribner's for ] anu opens with an
amusing satire OF modern sanitar WI u and
Nepveus
stion, - and Is told in the form OF extracts
Sfro n III Philippa' s oWn. dinry. Ernest
Thompson Seton contribute s o per on
&,'.Tha Wapiti and His Antlers,' wi h the
authors iflustrat Ions. Mrs. Frances sIIodg-l
son Burnett's tWo-art ser.a The pawn
OF a To-Morrow," - concluded; while AZ
IA. De Wolfe Hopper's Letters and pa
res olsGsorge pins
3lof Barncgnt, '1 both ntinuo. y tomas 8t,.f
y Millard, V a wei II known war CORES ponde
deals effectively with the international.
results OF the Portsmouth peace confsr.8
enc q III ,rhe Powers and the Settlement"
Other contributors are Helen Ia. nss,. Eu-
ward A. r robinson, Gertrude e. McGlffert,
William III. Woods, u E'rss:k tIooKer anu anu
e. S.. Modal, i5g3,.s g 5|.s n @
THE January Cosmopolitan gives ample
evidence Of the progress which this mag
gazine has recently been making lHera
4 Is an excellent list Of cont ibut! ons, IN
esnasns 81 to-day Maxim Gorky cons
tributes a poem, and n H. 6. S4 Wells "a
short story. Charles I'd yard Russell fur Y, ],
nishes paper on Gsrma.tiS,ng 81 ,tns
OF ,.The Ways Of an INDIAN" Alfred
I Henry Lewls's "StorySsof Paul jones'.
Some OF the other men and
women who help to make this an An-
usually good nmber ars rheodore WAS
Bait Loolnis, r. ebert Lorraine, Bailey
nIillard. n and Ambrose Bierce.
Tales offers novelette from the
French Of y ulos olaretie called E''I and
s storea Ga ansno os
This Is not Including the single American
story. "rhe Queerness q Of Things by
Emery Puttle. Some of the more gener!
ally known! European authors VII whose So
Hauptmann, Anton Chekhoy. Jean Car
|3rere and Maurus Jokai.
In the Atlantic for January, Maurice
tho point on Our Anxious Morally"
issue Or more than transient interest. We
may mention, here Francis g. Lowell,s
y
Herbert II, p. elrce'a 1.-THE Mutik and
the New Regime In Russla,a' md John w,
Fosters Tho Chinese 4, Boycott u s, r.
! Orth wrtes on the question of Special
Leg'sation." Mary Moss and NJ. a, De.
Wolfe Howe on some re- cent books, md
"A. Schinz, on 4Icsperanto: the PROPOSED
Universal Iangung go. = Short stories are
by 10. 81 Johnson, Harriet Prescott Spot
ford and Esther n, Y Iiffany, and verse by
John Finley, M, I.ennnllG and Elsa Barker.
Some excellent colored pictures by Alien
True, illustrating 1.-THE Teaming Of the
Vest, are a. strong feature OF the Jan
guary Outing Magazine. Good drawings
and photographs are always q notable
feature OF this mapnzne. Alfred Henry
bLewls's serial, The Throwbncl," conttnr
lies In this Issue, as does G'ouyerneur
Norris nWinkler Ashore Henry Van
Dyke, q famous out-of-doors man, con,
tributes a short story called "Tbe Trag-
Fedy OF Little Red Tom, and Rene T3anlla
writes interestingly OF The Motor-Roat
8of tho FIXTURE n James I4ocie's New
Years Festival mt Box ara, illustrated
from the authors photographs, Is 70
opening attraction. It is part 'cnfarly M
8terestlng 10 note that Charles b. Cooke
q of Richmond, I contributes o paper TO tis
issue on "a subiect In which lie Is q recog-
Splzed authoritarian How Field Trials M
Sduepcc tile Breeding Of Settlers and Point
5ers., Other contrlbutors OF note are l1slln