The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-02-11
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J The Macmillan Company have lust pub
shin Of social economy In Columbia Uni
yersity. The title q the lecture ~ rs
Eiclcncy and h tis t ad op !. seq
sion OF the School of philanthropy. a
body conducted by the. Charity organ,i-
cation Society Of the city OF Ne ,s,,, lo I'm
attitude of the modern university IN its
relation to problems of social efficiency.
President Nicholas Murray Butler has
contributed Rref aasIs e write of the
morals and mysteries OF thu, great plane
tary system in a way that will compel the
Interest Of boys ana glrs lan nut Sum ay and
His Family. by Mary Proctor. Silver Bur
dett & Co.. has succeeded N doing. In
n simple and clear manner MISS proctor
eclipses, asteroids, comets, neteors and
shooting stars 80 that the whole seems
very much like ~ fairy story The book
Is we'll illustrated and the diagrams are
made both attractive ana heipiut IN I'M
derstanding the text.
A GOVERNMENT COUNTESS. BY
Martha l.. Schneider. The Neale Pub.
fishing Company.
The heroine here Is not countess UNI
der patent, nor could she lay claim to the
iozengc and strawberry leaves of the
and seif-ass,iined nppellation of the
money counters In the Treasury Depart,
ment nj Washington. She is beautiful y.
and The daughter OF an actress anu IS
10 be- be department slave. Ger best
friend is Jean Ainsle, not go handsome as
noble and self-effacng. who also longs TO
be Ralpis heipmeet, by the s e, re-, token ,s,,
right and In expectations, TOO, arc mao
about the beautiful Dora. There Is u
scoundreiiy knave of prominent sos
ernment official who seeks TO take az
vantage of her frieudless state. put her
innocence is her protection. Ralph wins VIM.
her In the end, wnereupon she Sery
gracerully proves ,o 70 1an ne : more or icss,
axccoi lean. who sticks to her Job in
the Treasury
DICK. BY Willie u. Russell. The Nea!e
Publishing Company. 1, ,,.,
,rhis Story does not tell all OF Dick
Brandons life, only about year ol .. y,
lie and Ruth plight their afo s, " =" . 60 :.
bon rdiny school, and many hateful com.
plications arise. Melissa, the inslruinens
OF evil, Is u saucy hirt, u there ever W ,is
ono not to say u malicious viper. She
nelson's Dicks mind and she poisons
itutfl's mind ana Dick takes TO drinking
and gaming. Dick works III his father .
law once. Dick gets causht III u Giap
game one night and arrested, ana there
is an ugly ruinor arIoat that he mas mace
nway with Il thousand dollars belonging
10 the fudge. He determines 10 iVe =.
down, however. and marr' s, su.n ,rSa
author is from Birming ham. Ala, ana tne
scene is laid there and III Blount, sii'a''
town nearby
-ntf do f.fb ar
and his collegc-made son has been the
theme of many novels. first and last but
Il does not suffer from use ana Is none
the less interesting Out OF TINS iapric
story. THE Great Refusal" d. Appleton
e. CO., which. barring tendency TO drag
and a decided anti-climax IN the dehoeu-
1nent. Is distinctly readable. IN IN. an. !.
C;ray's story the son, while pecessaFiiy
mig i. not SO pronounced pug as ne
generally is, and the father Is free from
the most blatant vices and coarseness Oh
the commercial type. AT OXFORD Adri an
Bassett. son of the merchant prince. Sir
Daniel Bassett becomes a leading spiritl IN
q set OF dreamers and embryo social re-
formers. He interests himself , asr,ye's and m
squalor of the poorer classes makes an
indellble impression on his sensitPe anu ,,ts
rather inng nature ne ID mo
thies with labor against capital lneV, ,Isan;
nrecipitate rupture between them.
once adrift Adrian spends yeara IN
STUDYING social problems and finally I'M
dertakes TO establish colony LOT ,ne
Golden Brotherhood. In the Gays OIL nis
material prosperity he had been aihnnseo
10 n daughter OF a noble, bul rather
notorious. Irish house. but she na.ur any
gave him up when his father did. asr
image was never effaced from MS near,
but strangely enough and IN purely
occidental fashion ho ultimately marries
another. who. for hcr part, has always
loved him. The latter part OF the BOOK is
undenlably weak. but this is somewhat
redeemed by the number OF caretuliy.
drawn characters and the cleverness OF
the dialogue.
Another story of war and rumors
thereof between the Blue and the Gray
has sprung out from the ambush. SO TO
say OF tho Neal Publishing House. 1t
IS called "The Blue sCockade." and Is the
Work OF Miss Flora Macdonald Williams
Ii is neatly bound in gray with gilt let
tering and has an ornamental design IN
blue, which represents the titular cock ade
Great credit is to be given to the author
for introducing a startling feature in
such fiction. This time, the heroine;
South Carolinian, actually prefers her
Southern sutton. though a Northern Of
fcer makes several declarations.
Throughout the better part of the book It
seems inevitable that she should marry
the Yankee, who Is Philadelphia, II
only to redeem her promise. She engaged
herself to him early In the book, but
when 1t came to the point she found she