The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-22

and what IS more III
food Wholesome a,,c
and old.
a ROYAL BAKING POND
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1.-THE Candidate" Is different from other
novels OF Its CLASP and which saves It as
story the charge Of beng g, n nGysI
Gray son' or members Of Ills party run
into. The hero, or at least the y ca o!ngS
5ayeni /. 0ups sens
I3mnnlY and OF sterling char but Wnom
1--we Should have found. we suspect RI lher
compsnlon urays%o !. a9 e. I'd
the two;were together quite a lot. once
they got lost OF. the w estern plains anu
spent tho night in a remote farm house
Impending tragedy. This IS told in the
Ischapter called !" Jimmy 0rayson's Spell:
and is really o. distinct and structurally5
Isperfect short -story time z ray
day. spoke for three hours on his eighth
! In order TO hold spell bound an interested
little man who was running away from
great speech to q practically empty room
| In order to brighten nway, by q, spretense
OF crowd gang Of o,,tla w who y .had
planned TO kidnap him: These little inter- ;a
to our mind the books chief attraction;
Mr.: Altsheler's manner Is .dignthed, but
tion OF a good sense OF humor would have
proved deoid edly beneficial. Harley gets
tho secretaryship TO the President, to-he In
the end ~ with prSspset the
THE GOLDEN HOUSE. By Robert il. I
Fuller: PIP: 4os. sl.5o. The Macmillan
AS a picture Of life in ancient Heilas,
this book Is. worthy, in many important
rsapectsto take rank With the CLASSIC
ss spfii
of the times OF which he writes. to say
nothing OF the mere histories and techni-3
calItles, rema rkably we'll. The action is
Greece, In a last brilliant flare, were fast
shickering out. Philip OF Afacedon Is dead
and the boy Alexander IS Just coming into;
aksa sp toy asGs
|trlumphal march into the Far East. which;
Is shared by the hero or heroes Of the
story. Any one who reads this book VIII
petition than be Is eyer likely to get from
| the tperusal OF a history or OF many hiss
tories There ts. OF course, lighting q
war paeans. mercennrIes and other mat
tiers whose acqualn lance we made in tho
celebrated work Of xenophon nit across;
an. e. s Gsa afe.
strange composite OF his own vast host,
Darius, the Great King, and tho lux curious
Persian mobiles lend color and reality 70
aet ha o9 tHe ala fno
the battle Of Issus and at the Granicus
and other historic incidents connected
| with Alexander's great campalg n,8 all con-
tribute to round out tho fulness OF the
I narrative. hi Ss 8 883#
The heroes Of the story are a sort Of
and the soldiers three. They are Chares Of
| Thehes, Clearchus OF Anthems, and Leon-.
das Of Sparta. Through the Vaccinations
OF "a wicked ola !, uncle clearehus's .falrI
the unhappy event reaching the young
man as he Sits enjoying himself at what
would be nowadays his BACHELOR dinner
and the Pythia COUNCILS, him to seek his !:
lost love In ''the patch Of the whirlwind. =
As was not uncommon with aPythin'a re-.
what the "whirlwlndp was, but It Is sultl-l
.mately identined as Alexander's army.
Hence the three young men offer their
Ss tG Tine Seunf k srkng 5eene
1.-THE beginning Of the book is that In which,
Denosthenes harangues vast crowd
| In the Theatre OF l)lonysus, urglng GTeece
81 the Macedonian. Another good one,
shortly afterwa I'd. Is on the occasion OF
tho sale Of the Theban population .po Into
deed, animated scenes. notable alike FOR
their own interest and for their value,
from a historical point OF view abound, i,
Greece and the w1r'd
I Mr.. Fuller has succeeded In making them
the background for a story is very much
WILLIAM cILLEN BRYANT. BY VIII Y
llan15s Aspen wall Bradley, PIP, go. 76c,i
nat. Macmillan. Coz New York.
the We'll I Know Know n \ En- glish Men OF Letters
series. published under the general ed ltor.l
ship Of Mr.. ohn Morley and ls, We q %.
the r,t yeupe aexotaa ee,
! eTal I plan is Of this series, Mr.; Bradiey,s
( "Bryant' seeks saeeessfllly to combine
4 at Interpretation OF the poets work The
4 lay no claim TO being tho new fruit Of
ana
a aedsS ayf he
q gng q ths eyer e
s Weisht II ~ ttlmes NV bradley WRITES
clearly and well he! has 20 vital re-
4 withland appreciation al his subject and
4 his book makes ant lent hand book
/ for those Interested In the life, and times
\ the author says, 10 not yet valued at y ts
true worth In this3Sc .ss x ~
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER. BY Ca
Harper and Bros, New York; Bell.
4 Richmond. 4f n
! young mother Wishing for q book OF
/ domestic sort, no doubt there must be
some who DO, else the publlshers would