The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-11-10


Wyoming. Mary enjoyed herself 40
much that whun Thanksgiving called
her back to her Eastern home, all She
could say, while she choked back her
tears. wus, ut will be all right to be
at home again but oh, how I do hate
To leave Tncla Billy"
All girls will enjoy reading about
Mary and her stay In Wyoming.
PETER. a CHRISTMAS STORY. BY
Mrs. Edwin Hohlor. II. +. Button e.
Co.. of New York. publishers. Sis.
All children like Christmas sturics.
and certainly nothing better or sweetcr
In its way could be imagined than the
story Of Peter. the little English Lord
OF Mobtrly. When tho end OF his little
chapter. or adventures comes the
author, who has pictured him so well,
SAYS Of Peter: "Wiil he change as the
years go on and he grows to be
big sclloolboy? Somehow l do not
think lie will. for. although we must
all grow older as the years pass. a
loving heart and an tinselfisi spirit
are possessions which will always re-
main With us Ind need never leave
u.s."
THE BEST NAN. BY Harold Maegratt.
Will Crete illustrator. and Frank
I'M JSOOLH uccoTutoE. BODUS-MeTTilI
Company, OF indianapolis. pub
fishers.
A clever, bright story brought out
and illustrated most attractively. ~
story of modern American life. In
which Love is pltted against Money
and comes out winner.
a poor young Southerner and o
powerful New York capitalist are the
characters opposing each other. The
reader Is recommended to the perttsal
OF the book to find out who was the
best man. and whether the young man
succeeded in his desire to marry the
daughter of the capitalist.
a KING; IN RAGS. BY Cleveland Moi
fett. u. Appleton & Company, Of
New York, publishers. Up. $751;
sl.50.
The King in Rags is a mlIlti-million.
aire of New York, who is Kidnapped
and forced to see life as 1t goes on In
the tenements which he owns. and
where conditions are impossible In the
fostering of anything like sane and
moral living. :, esare5
The multi-nillionaire's wife. hating
his greed for gain and his methods 5in
acquiring it, separated from him. years
before the story opens. Their only
child. a son. has been brought up IN
the working class. as far removed
from the sphere of his fathers influ-
ence as possible. How the father IS
brought to a juster appreciation of
life, and how the son marries the wo-
man of his choice, are the principal
features In the development of the
book characterization and incident.
| THE TRACKS WE TREAD. BY q. Is.
I "a 81 nm D
Company. of New York, publish
ers. $3.50. 81
Readers of The Spur Will be pre-
| pared for another story of Western
| life. as viriIe as the country about
which it is written. by the same au-
| thor. Camp and ranch life, with all
| the color and the adventure with
| which such life,is filled. is interviewer
with love story in which good pre-
| walls over evil.
THE WORLD AND THE WOMAN. BY
Ruth X. Gardiner. A. $. Barnes
& Co, OF New York, publishers.
| st.50.
This book is the story of good yo-
mans struggle with social conditions
/ as they are to-day in Washington, 1urod
into the devious ways of an adyen-
tufcss through a passionate pride in
her daughter and a proud determination
to place her in the social position she
| is entitled to by virtue Of her birth
and expectations.
There is a good deal OF intense drama
| in the story. The heroine. a very mod
ern young woman. With great deal
OF spice and independence and charm,
is a part of a group OF Washington's
younger set.
| The story is free from melodrama
and from exaggeration. but there arc
| strong situations. with SO many
| glimpses Of the good and bad of human
nature and of Washington life that
the effect sometimes approaches that
Of melodrama.
| Mrs. Macross, descendant of one
of the great American families, Is dis
covered in the beginning of the story
supposed widow. living Upon the
pension OF a husband whom she knows
! is not dead. She lives obscurely In the
family homestead in little Western
town until her daughter comes out of
/ boarding school. Then she sells OFT
everything she has In the world, goes
/ to Washington. and CANDLES It all In
I establishing one years credit through
! the payment of Il largo rent, cash in
/ advance, for hor fathers old Washing
ton estate.
| On this basis she starts In deliberate
ly to play the social game In the hope
of placing her daughter for life In the
position she is entitled to and doing 1t
before her false pretenses are dis
covered.
A FOUNTAIN SEALED. BY Anne
Douglas Sedgwick. Tho Century
| Company, of New York. $3.50.
.SealeT' gifted Amer
lean writer, OF long English residence
has wrought q novel of American life
a strong, simple, vivid, and fascinating
narrative of life and people In New
York, Boston and the Vermont hills
with Illuminating glimpses of Eng
4 lish life. men, and thought.
The plot Is unique. Valerie Upton
a woman OF rare charm and grace az
ter several years OF happy residence
In England. returns to New York on
the death Of her husband. and takes
up life anew with the daughter left
behind when she found life with hel
husband impossible. But between
mother and daughter stretches a wide
1 gulf which the mother,s love strives