The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-03-17

quisite marriage song of Tbeocritus
on Helen and Menea,is, some lines or
which tell OF Helen's accomplishments
thus.
Like her no nymph can willing osicrs
bend
In basketworks. which painted strcaks
commend.
with Palas in the loom she may colt
tend.
But none, ah! none can almate the
Tyre,
And the mute strings with vocal souls
inspire:
whether tho learn'd Minerva be her
theme
None can record their heavenly praise
so well
AS Helen. In whose eyes ten thousand
Cupids dwell"
The author goes on to describe the
discord produced by "'rhe Judgment or
Paris the picture illustrating 1T being
a reproduction of Solomon's painting.
and one of the most beautiful in the
book. The author also describes the
upbringing of Paris, son of Priam.
King OF Troy. and the manner in which
he learns the secret of his royal birth.
| He tells OF the visit of Paris to the
court of Menelaus at sparta, of how
! the guest charmed both his host and
| Helen with his many accomplishments
and great beauty. and how he after
! ward succeeded. during the absence OF
Meneaus in Crete. in persuading Helen
| to go with him to Troy and there be-
| come his bride.
| Meneluus. as the reader is told, re-
| turns to find Helen gone. He appeals
! to Agamemnon and the Greek hosts
assemble. the siege Of Troy and the
punishment of the guilty and of all
who shield them is begun. The chap
tiers in which the influence of Helen's
! loneliness and her grace upon the Tro-
| JAMS is described, and the part that
| she bere during the ten long years be-
| fore the siege of Troy ended with
| victory for the Creeks the manner In
| which her we'll remembered and
inatchless beauty disarms the fury Of
! Menelaus her return with him to
Sparta; her gorgeous apparrcling at the
nuptials of her daughter, Hermione;
her many wears of splendor and unin-
terruptcd happiness with Menelaus af-
ter this his death and finally that OF
Helen. enthralling and fair to the last
are things that the reader can never
weary over in the reading.
Donald Lea SAYS of her at the end
"tIelen was the daughter of adventure
and the child of change, to whom mi.
grafton was no less natural than tc
the swan that gave her life. Through
oil her adventures she maintained al
ideal freshness a mysterious virglnitS
of soul.
"She is not touched by the passion sh
inspires, or by the wreck of empire!
ruined in her cause. Fate defowers he
| ~, f1,o utytn n
her chain. Like beauty she belongs t
all and none. She is not Judged as wlve
and mothers are, though she Is both; t
her belong soul woundng blossoms o
memorable love, as well as pain-healin
; poppyheads Of oblivion; all eyes ar
blinded by the adorable, Incompatible
grace which Aphrodite sheds around he
: FORM
: KATHERINE sON1ERV1LLE. BY Ami
Somcrs Gilchrist. Published by Maj
shall e Bruce Co., of Nashville. Tenl
!, This book covers space of about flft
years, and follows the fortunes of til
), somervlle family before the War betwee
the States. during that time and after
ward, Other families associated with til
somervilles are brought into the stor.
, The scene opens at THE Oaks" til
[ Tennessee home of the Somervlles.
:, shifts to the home of Jefferson DaNi
g then United States Senator, in Missi:
3 slppi; to New Orleans: comes back
"1'hc Oaks" during the Sixties; pix