The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-15

things and getting into places in connec-
ton with the present war IN the Ear
East In this book are printed nuns
Der OF Interesting and somewhat unusual
sketches. especially readable, N that me
author has treated them personally, fol-
lowing In them the fortunes Of real or
Fictitious personagcs The first IN mo
book, "Thc Blocking Of Port Arhlr,
is an illuminating bit Of writlhs,5
realistic. Impresslonistic and, Ina ginatl"e.s
sibly add without offence. imagination.
,.rhe Sacrifice OF O. Tern San to cile
another, is something more than a sketon:
1t is n good short story
THE MUSINGS OF UNCLE sILAs. BY
B. b. Clarke. Pages POS American
Thrcshcrman. Madison Wis.
Editorial reflections and paragraphs OF
a humorous8 tendency, no better and no
worse than tile same stuff that is being
served IN In the Fighter VEIN columns OF
hundreds OF papers all over the country.
In fact. some Of the daily paper fellows
do considerably better work than this,
which we should hardly deem worthy OF
covers. However, "Uncle silas' has gone
into second edition.
Facts About Authors.
Edwin Lefcvre. author of THE Golden
Flood" Is of IIuguenot descent, but was
born at Colon, on the Isthmus of Pan-H
ana, In 1871. His grandfather was the
chief justice OF Panama. Though cdu-
Gated to be a mining engineer, Mr. Lee
fevre found writing much more to HIS
taste He had worked In New York
as n newspaper man about SIX years.
lie was for some time subcditor on tho
Engineering and Mining Journal, and IS
now doing Instrumental columns OF the
New York Globe. 1t Is interesting to
note that he came to New York and look
up Journalistic work among the stock
brokers and financial magnatcs because
he recognized the great fictional oppor-
tuntics In Wall Street. s
-
G. Loves Dickinson, author OF re.
lIEIon-A Criticism and Forecast,
which Mcclure Phillips have just brought
out. holds an official position at Cams
bridge University, He is. In addition,
ono of the editors of the independent,
acknowledged in England TO pc the bese
Of the British reviews. He Is fire.
1,,ont contributor to It's columns; and it
Vas in tho Independent that the first
chonters of his latest book originally
nnnnnred one OF his most recent con-
tr,hutIons Is an article on motoring, IN
which he takes the mad rush and Wild
rcoklessness of the most modern sport
as a symbol of the lower moral and In
tellectual level OF our age
Rex d. Beach. author of "Pardners"
is an instance Of the typical Nuns
American "golng into literature, He
is big and muscular-a thoroughsons
athlete who has won many medals for
swimming, and has been also, IN ms
time, "a foot -ball hero. Though In his
carly twentes. he is already vice-presl-
dent Of u big Chicago construction and
manufacturing company. Born In Michl-
gan In 1877, he went to Florida when a
small child; then returned North to at
tend the Chicago College of Law, where
he graduated In 1896, yenturesomo
disposition led him to Join the first mad
rush Into Alaska after gold, FIe lived
there for several years; and acquired
knowledge of the country and the
people second to that of no one writing
to-day, a knowledge Of which he has
made ample use of In his stories, He
saw the humorous side of Alaskan life,
which ot\er writer's seem to have overs
looked, and has brought It into fiction
for the first time III lsi