The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-30

burning OF JnmcStoWn; BGfkcleSS &C. 4
cond flight; ljacon's encnmpment at
Green Spring; his advance into Glou |
costcr and tho terms lie made with |
the people there; his further plans for /
tile good of the colony that were cut |
short by his illness and death on Oc- /
tober LIST, at the home of Mr.. Pate, in
Gloucester.
AS Mrs. stunard informs her read
sers, the secret Of l3acons burial place !
supposedly in York River, was Loyalty |
kept. She touches upon the grim policy
Of revenge actuatinE Berkeley in TAX
Ing the lives Of SO many of Bncon's
followers; she likewise describes tho
restoration Of tardily won peace. I'M
conclusion she rovcrts to the wonanly
element of the story. Lady Frances
Berkeley the fascinating young
coquette, who held Lord Berkeley In
thrall; to Elizabeth Bacon, who gave
up her fortune for Bacon, the Rebel,
and then after his death became first
Madame jarvis, and afterward Madame
Mole. The Queen of Pamunkey, be-
moaning her husband, the great Tota-
potamoy," comes in for u mention; SO
docs Mary Bacon, the Rebels only
daughter and child.
In the last paragraph of the book,
summing up the Baconian movement
and It's results, Mrs. Stanard asks re-
gafdtnB MIN:
"A fircbrand? Perhaps SO; for some
sores caustic is q necessary remedy.
Proiant? That he undoubtedly was.
but plain speech was part of the
time he lived In and a people settled
in wilderness and driven to desper-
alton by hard times. and the constant
fear OF violent death would hardly
have chosen for their leader in a
movement to, redress their wrongs a
man of mincing manners or Methods
Mrs Stanard's book throughout is
delightful in style. Its Importance as
n link in Virginia history cannot be
over stated, nor its success in awaken
ing interest too confidently prophesied.
THE COMEDY or LIFE. Full page
illustrations reproduced from life.
PIP. ia. So.
Tho American citizen Of century
| hence. who should happen upon a copy
1 Of Tho Comedy of Life" would find
| It pictorlally and otherwise very
| vivid commentary on the life that We
| his ancestors more than three genera
| ton renioved--lived before he was ever
! heard Of 10 us to-day such a pictur
| ing of existence n century ago would
4 give II better notion of what our great
1 great randfathcrs wore. said and did
| in their ordinary intercourse, than any
iSchroniclc we have.
BY present day book-lovers, "The
4 Comedy OF Life" Will be found a hand
4 some volume of heavy paper on which
4 arc carefully printed the best of the
! flll-pnga pictures that have appeared
4 in Life recently.
/ They cover a variety of subjects,
\ ranging from a number of compare
4 lively new and unhackneyed examples
I Of Gibson. throughsthe dainty drawings
4. OF HUT, Bayard, Jones, Read. Foster.
4 Blashfield and Hanna, down to the out
4 right fun of Kemble and montgomery
4 FlagG. The book is of quarto size
4 handsomely bound In green cloth, with
i n special design by Blashfeld, and +
a companion volume to The Social
Il Comedy" which is now in its fourth
Il edition.
THE Comedy Of Life" is a cheering
and artistic volume to have lying about
. on the library table or as one of the
attractiEe features of guest room.
SOCIAL LIFE OF VIRGINIA. IN TIE
SEVENTEENTH CENTURY. BY
!, Philip Alexander Bruce. Printed
by Whittet & Shepperson, of Rich
mond. Va. PIP. 261. s1.5o.
! An excellent forecast of the spirit ir
! which Mr.. Bruce's book is written is
found in his dedication, expressed II
:, these words ITO the memory of m,
!. father. Charles Bruce. of staunto,
Hin, Va, and of my uncle, James Cole:
Bruce. of Berry Hill, Va, as repre-,
scntatives Of all that was loftcst ans
noblest in the l!fe and character Of tht
great Southern land owners and slave
holders of the past"
81 AS the author first, OF THE Planta
: ton Negro as a Freeman" and later
l of the Economic History of Virginia,
: Mr.. Bruce has come to be recognized
n as accepted authority throughout tn
( United States. Until within the pas
v few months he has been abroad 70
h some years. examining in London an
t elsewhere transatlantic sources of in
S formation, that bear upon his past an
: present work, and on others -projecte
al by him in regard to religion an
s morals. education, legal administration
it military system and political condition
n all of which, under tho general hea
n of the institutional History of Vir
d ginia in the Seventt cnth Century wi