The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-24

chievousness" which he was guilty of
uttering.
DOUBLE ,hOUBLE.-By Herbert Quick.
The l3cbbs-M Merrill Co.
This very rythmical and euphonious IL
tie Instantly calls up an ominous picture
50 to say. is not OF that kind. Florian
Amdon. prosperous, a chronic celebate.
rather morbid and intensely refined.
wakes up ON a sleeping car one morning
he Is a different man. This Mr.. Eugene
Brassfcid, whom he pcrforce must ac-
cept as himself ,, Is In every respect his
fatal five years Amidon finds popularity.
friends. fortune and even iianeee ready
to hand. and has TO adapt himself with
siderably by an old friend OF MIS- other
life and by the beautiful hypnntist, who
Is getting to be quite .comr,oI factor
in modern fiction. The idea is cleverly
tanned.
tG G. 2. Pntnam's Sons are publishing a
vidual." by Hartley Burr Alexander. a
doctor Of philosophy OF Columbia Uni
versity. The subtitle discloses the VOL
ume to be an analysis of the imaginative
man and nature. While this is not a
subject OF very widespread interest, and
Is, indeed. rather dumfoundlng, the au-
thor has endeavored to interpret the
function and meaning Of poetry in it's
modern complexities and its bearing on
human life.
Who's Who" for 1906 is out. and re-
cords occurrences as late as September
30, 1905. Many new and interesting ad-
ditions are made this year to biogra-
phies, and the value Of the book is fur
Their increased by subjoining motor and
telephone numbers and telcgraphic adj
dress where such are requisite. There
are. something like 1900 pages OF biog-
raphy.
THE BITTER CRY OF THE CHILDREN.
BY John spargo. The Macmillan
The problem Of poverty, as 1t affects
ehiIldlhood. Is the theme OF this book. In
OF careful Investigation and thorough
analysis Of the conditions that beset the
children OF the poor From the abund-
personal experience and observation, his
statements become, not matter OF
opinion, but one of fact. To the made
a qua en-, and III improper food supply he TRACES
but the wide reaching prevalence OF dis
ease, vice, crime ands despair Of the
pauper classes. Food first of all--food
for the starving body. before education
from the hdeous and CHASTITY phantas-
magoria of poverty. and In his chapter on
the school children he records the pttiful
tragedy OF attempting to educate the
hungry, ill-fed child.
| FOOD AND DIET-By Robert r. VIII
liams. NJ. A.. NJ. d., Professor Of Prlc-
tice of Medicine In the Medical College
\ OF Virginia. Lea Brothers & Co.
! DR.. Williams discusses the question of
/ Dictates under two heads, Food in Health,
and Food In Disease. III Part T, the
needs Of the body for different kinds of
1 food and the manner In which they are
utiYzed, arc explained, together with
4 the principles of cooking and detailed de-
scriptlons of the different articles OF food
1 In common use. Part III deals with the
variation from the normal diet which
are necessitated by the more common dis
4 eases. For the benefit of nurses and hos
| pltal superintendent an attractive fea-
ture has been added in the shape OF
! u section devoted to recipes for foods
for sick patients and conyalescents with
full directions for preparing and admin
|istering. AS far as possible technicalities
have been avoided throughout SO that the
subject may be Ineligible to all. AS a
4 handbook for home use, this book should
he especially valuable. Ignorance is al
4 ways costly. This Is particularly true In
the feeding of growing children. in whom
lhabitual errors OF feeding frequently pro
duce effects lasting through life.
THE CRIMSON BLTND.-By Fred M
/ White; r. f. Fenno g. Co.
This book Is by no means to be con.
fused with "The House With the Gre eli
shutters" 1t Is we'll at the other enc
Of the line In the thick OF detective tc
ton. And but FOR the Inevitable .dsap
pointment at the lnslgnifcance of the mys
terry which the reader has almost held hi.
breath in anticipating, 1t is pretty goos
of its kind. David Steele, a popular novel
= list. with uncounted millions In his brain
= hut of no avail against creditor, Il
about to be sold out, is offered a thou
sand pounds for merely giving his ad
vice. When he gets back to his ROOMS