The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-05-12

ton. Little, Brown & Company. of
Boston. PIP. goS, s1.5o.
The charming author of "a Girl of
Virginia" and of "Nlistress Brent"
needs no Introduction to insure a
favorable consideration, ut the hands
OF her Southern readers.
The book She has entitled "Jcnifer"
begins in Norfolk, ana has its setting
transferred for n short time to the
continent of Europe and thence back
to New York and the North Carolina
mountains.
The complications OF the story are
brought about by the old mistake of
mans marrying in haste and repent
ing ut leisure. Even on their wedding
trip the bridegroom and bride began
TO drift apart.
'.I7or her the forvici heart OF every
city; for him, its quaint or curious
nlacos. For her, the hard-trodden
crowd. pressed road, for him. the UNI
known path the unguossed byway.
Thus 1t cane that Jenifer learned the
t'renchmans way of harvest; Alice,
his methods of millinery; Jenifer no.
ticed the quiet homes and thrifty
ways, and felt the charm OF low cot
tarns and circling doves and bare
foot children; she, the allurement OF
cafes and drives and theatre halls
With such n beginning in married
life the ending Is forecast. Jenlfer
nature was elemental; his love for the
stately home lie had acQuird In the
Carolina mountains called to nm
across the seas, and brought MN pnck
in tho spring of tho year to the tields
whose breadth and wildness delighted
ewes that were sick of old-World trim
ness.
What he loved his wife hated His
rapture of possession IN ms nome
moved her not at all Only the tele-
phone on the wall that sp p, % ,,o eolt'
nEttnication with the world OF people
outside appealed to her. The conversa-
tions she had over 1t and the unpack-
ing of her trunks were her only con
genial diversions, while Jeni1er Wllh
his crops and fences and woods. pas,
turc and cattle. stable and horses, haa
never an idle moment.
After n while the wife. having no IN
terest in her husbands occupations
sought and found dangerous amusemen's
for herself Then came rctrbuton ana
trapody. out of which was evolved de-
liverance for Jenifer.
The book Is written with q passionate
strength and depth OF feeling, that pu's
IT decidedly ahead of anything Mrs
Thurston has hitherto published. Inc
descriptions Of book situations. of noun
tar, scenery. of the influence OF nlStoliS
associations and hereditary instincts, o,
mountain scenery and of the human INC
that shapes and decides interests ano
events, is done with an effect at first
hand that renders it as extraordinary Us
it is clear-cut and forceful.
SIX MAD MEN. BY Rix Faber. The
Old Greek Press, Chicago. PIP. 4o5.
The scene of this book Is laid in Ne"
York City, Will, country house fe"
miles up the Hudson. The central fig
ure Is a beautiful girl with q certain
mystery surrounding her, though she Is
introduced as a member OF a householc
in which a lady of high standing loves
her as daughter.
Six men, one after the other, TAI
madly in love with her. one being repre-
sented as the teller of the story. Tn
result is rather chaotic. The writer 0
the book preface says:
when you read Six Mad Men yol
will know that the men described are
real So.na Of the events are Hereby
dramatic. but there is something SO nat
ural about them that you know they
really happened. 1t is not nice TO thinl
that weil-bred men will go anr
get drunk when they are crazy
about a woman and she has re
jected them, but they do: 1t /!
not pleasant TO think of q murderer loos'
in society, but We hear Of them every
day in the newspapers. The man wht
wrote this book described what he saw
the business men around him, the lift
Of his associates in politics. He ha+