The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-11-12
McALL1sTER AND HIS p ,, y ~ r1ss
Arthur Train. Pp sii; Si.oy; ali iaici,s

mona =, ,hese stories are better than
+ others but all OF them have tne s u,s
tinct merit of being in quite an unusu a.
vein. Mr.. Trains exper ns,,c as At TOR
jerome. New York, has supplied nun IN Ms :, g
y ,,ooi deal OF picturesque Information, "a. as
the habits and haunt s. OF ,se ini 10 good
NAL f in .js tales. McAllister is COM
,nnnnlace clubmnn, whose likeness 10 IN IN : :
fa,n,,;n,is ex-yalet gets him into all solts
Of difficulties; The nn i t,i,ster na ssed
ii" Day In the Tombs Is IS, Wen ,l !
worked out. original and decidedly IN n
,eresting. but We have not though ~, ! 80
highly q "sar0n dc V Howe Sen the gen
erai theme Of the tales is an ever,lnteres.-
Ing one, and we oplne that reaue,s 80
orally will find them lively ana iAoi .
or less exciting reading.
THE BATH CoMEDY.--By Agnes, !, ana
Ererton Castle. PIP. 29S., sl6V. ~ a.
Stokes Co.. New York .o.,t,,
thousand. OF Mr.. and Mrs. Castles ~, anus
inp little novel OF fashionable ne l, q" a.,
the snn OF Bath The scene IS alu ~
The second half OF the eighteenth CELL
tury.
DAVID q. FBRRAGuT.- John e, m Ran tan
dolnh SPEARS 81 1,cons p z CO. eg'' phiiadelphia.
w Ssfper any an further biography Of the
first American Admiral was va nee ,s -.
after his sons rather full Life ana Lei ,.
ters Of Admiral D.. G. Farragut IS per-
1aps guestona6le ou1 ~ I hia worry or We'll.
10 has drawn doubtless, upon Loyal
Farragut's work and other accesslpie
books but has also made researches ~
sources not readily available, TO the
average reader. Fnrrngut's career was
mn Interesting one and our author Would
seem to have handled it in thoroug !. !.
IL adequate way. The volume forms Pc pa.
~ the publishers American Crisis Bio
graphies."
AT THE SIGN OF THE DoLLAR.,By
Wallace irwin / yin a Pp 1 York WV roN'
Mr.. Irwin, now the diurnal verse-maker
FOR a New Yorw daily. is one OF tha
few newspaper poets who has risen 70
the dignity Of covers. Mr; ~ lrm "i,o,o va nf
readers. however long before he joined
Inc ranks Of the journalistic songblrds::
and already had two or three BOOKS or
humorous verse TO MS &c, creo ove le SOM %
If Hoodlum." and recently enjoyed the
distinction of an enthusiastic .write-mp"
in leading literary mo monthly, nngern ne nc
minute. Some of them will bcsuile
a laugh out OF you, and all of them are
clever. Keinble's pictures are good
yIyIEN.-By w. b. Maxwell. Pr COG
s1.50 D. Appleton & Co., New York.
Among the many books published on
many subjects this autumn, here and
there. the reviewer chances upon. one
4 that arrests attention, because Of it's
ring Of sincerity and its merit.
''Vivien' is one of these books. It IS
not especially remarkable, or unusual. but
It enbodes story with q great deal OF
human interest in II. Nivien is the
heroine OF the book. and the reader OF Il
grows genuinely interested. in tracing
the successive stages of her infancy, girl
hood and womauhood from the Begin
fling to their GROWING point at the books
end.
Every character and incident that IS
brought into association with Vivien's
life is full Of interest: her worldly, dis
sipated self-indulgent father, the friends
OF her school life, including her mistress
the good Bauermann. and Mrs. Matt
land: the details of the time when she
became self-supporting and went into a
London shop; the curious insight into the
different phases of human nature. Begin
ming with Mrs Wardop, the shop mis-
tress. and the companions by whom she
is there surrounded; the record Of the
pitiful economies. make shifts and hard
ships of a London shon-grPs life; the
manner in which she resist.s temptation
and comes out Of her time OF trial