The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-07-07
the highest expectations rails
cd In regard TO his edtorship Of the
splendid work that Is being published
by the Burrows Brothers, of Cleve-

fulfilling the highest expectations rails
ed IN regard to his editorship g, 81 the ne
bv the Burrows Brothers. OF Cleve-
land.
AS Volume ". will enter upon the
period Immediately preceding the War
Of the Revolution md the causes
bringing. 1t about. It's. advent Will be.
looked forward to with the greatest
Interest.
The volumes already out have de-
tcrmined the great value Of the history
for readers and students for the
searcher after what is fullest and most
clearly demonstrated by text and illus-.
tration. Volume III Is especially i'm
wherein the national American spirit.
MS disassoclated from that of the
Mother Country, was first aroused to
consciousness and took on distinctive
ness.
FRAULEIN SCHMIDT AND MR.. AN
STRUTHER. BY the auth or. of
"ElIzabeth and Her German Gar
den," Charles Scribner's Sons, of
New York, publishers. PIP. aa.
Perhaps it is unfair to expect of the
nuthoress of SO charming book as
,Princess Prscilla's Fortnight that
she should Immediately write. another
equally interesting story. Perhaps the
volume under review only seems some
|
one that is surprisingly sprightly.
'Fraulein Schmidt and Mr.. An
/ struther" resolves Itself for It's reader
Into an epistolary monologue con-
! English mother, whose maiden name
was Watson. and of a German father
called Schmidt. A servant named DO
| hanna, cat and a stepmother, COM
! plete the Schmidt menage.
Mr. Anstruther is an Englishman
who Is being sent to Jena. in Germany
! where the Schmidts live, boards In the
1 family, and discovers. only when the
4 time arrives for him to return to Eng
i land and bid adieu to Fraulein Schmidt
! that he Is her lover and mother friend
i Rose-Marie. at the first Of her "epis
4 tolary monologues." INDUCES in this
4 kind OF reflection over the belateo
/ love making:
Don't you think" she says. 1T Is
very wonderful that you should hays
been here a whole year, living Wit,
your German on me, and never have
i shown the least sign, that | could see
4 of thinking of me or Of caring for me
at ell? And then an hour ago. JUS
one hour by that absurd cuckoo clock
here In this room where we said good
Z by, you suddenly turned into something
!, marvelous-well--int Dear Roger"
Rosc-Marie says all this on Noyem
Der 9Th. By December 4th Mr.. An
cooled. and that an American girl; {
, Miss Cheriton. has caught his fickl
fancy Rose Marie has "a spell of III
!, ness over the denouement,a hen beirt
81 philosophical. she adapts herself t
Z changed conditions and adopts he
quondam lover in the guse(of friend
8 The "epistolary mono1ogues" are agail
$ resumed. The months pass. Rose
l Marie's stepmother dies. and, Incl
: dentally, her income dies with her
: Rose Marie and her father, reduced t
! slender means, remove to cheape
house. ,on steep hillside, with
Q gnarled apple orchard around 1t. an
: live more frugally than--eYer
Mr.. Anstruther continues to crop u
s continually. At length one gather
: that tho engagement is broken betwee
9 hiss American heiress and himsel
Then one hears through the "monc
: llogues"S that he Is returning to Berlin
: The next thing Is visit to Frau
= lein# Schmidt's father, and the las
: thing renewal OF his abandone
: courtship. Fraulein, speaking throuG
7. |3letters. nouts him. and declares thu
:. she Will never accept him again as
. Hover. But one lays down the boo
: with uncertainty. For who can answe
= for woman's heart or tell ich Wa
z her impulses may or may not turn?