The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-04-14
BY z. Temple Thurston.
Harper and Brothers, publishers, New
Il York. through the Bell Book and Sta
tionery Company, Of Richmond PIP.
500; $3.50.

800; $3.50.
a Very strongly conceived and written
& bpok-one that is altogether removed in
II It's setting and expression from any touch
of the ordinary and the commonplace.
The story begins with an art exhibition
in London, where an artist, George H.
keghtley by name, created sensation.
lie had painted a portrait announced in
4 the catalogue as miss Katherine Crich-
ton When visitors to the gallery, cat
alogue in hand, came face to face with
" the portrait, this. according to the au-
4 thpr, was what they SAW: "A baby of
eighteen months, witha personality writ
large across the dimPling, chubby cheeks
and the pale blue eyes Pale blue they
were then, chips of china-old Nunlin.
I lNeightlcy had also caught the forceful
q chin, the sympathetic mouth. the restless.
,Infathomabc eyes, that fixed a gaze
IA on you and left you in a tremble of an
B ticipation. Keightey had, in fact, sur
passed himself. He had prophesed n
personality, Yet keiu within a day to the
eighteen months,s YJu.felt all these char
4 artelistcs; you did not notice them. The
X picture tempted your imagination to put
a on It's three-league boots and step on into
II the future. There 1t was you saw tho
Il possibilities. This is not the last we shall
pee of Miss Katherine Crchton, you
sooN'h 'i.1'S VIII SOuI sci.
4 Having brought forward his heroine in
TINS way, bespeaking al once the interest
Of his reader for her, Mr.. Thurston makes
Z her the central pivot in his stirring, APP
peaiing book drama. He does not weaken
the force OF his novel by introducing a
multiplicity of characters. Besides kath-
h erlhe CIlchton and hey husband John
4 Spurrier, Captain Seyd ard Barbara Dur
rant are the only ones that count.
one gets clear insight into the dis
posltlon and motives actunting the life
= rule or katherine's mother, and Of Mrs
Il Spnrrrier, but that insight is given by
# inc fine art OF the writer and not By
prominent or continual Representations
prominent themselves.
me book drama begins with Rather.
Tler; she nineteen and he thirty-t live
III hatherlnc writes to barbara Duran
t,e e5s ,til her approaching nuptals AZ
Ter inns naive fashion. She says: 'sIr
n three months time i am going to i,
married 10 John Spurrier, Of Gienworth
# mother KNOWS the details of tho estatt
settle I on ne She can ten You how
food match it isl can't. But Is h
IN ioye with me? II looking at me Ink
II touching me as though j were. fraii
filiEree OF china; If talking to me a
thoug ;.1. i, \ \ were ;. something, away frol
n 6tgns OF being In love, then he worship
FSs me. ] IN love with John; | admir-
@8 nlill, fespGcl nm, look UP to him, an
can see for miles and miles iii III
roads n white thread aud my eye
happy"
After, the wedding honest John ha
bis parliamentary duties and the wOr
pr MS estates 10 keep him Very bus,
N indeed ineshing him like a bird in III
snare. ana his Wife felt herself ncp
u lected because John aid not know VIE
che wore 4 new gown for his allure
ss83 his duties 10 MAKE daily love To he
N When. she left London for Glcnwor,
s the spring after her marriage. she ia,
Ri gyen less of her husband. one day vile
# he had been kept Away from her uni
s8 her patience gave out and the stcWat
ss still claimed his attention. she told hin
n hYour work, Your estate, your politics,
ssa they're all captivating inc. and | ha
8s them. every ASPECT of them Yoil and
s are only living now for ten, twentl
thirty years or s@.-inaybe less. YIN
Will they be TO YOU thcn2 Your work
fraYed rope broken; your estate aGr
.3S uf land 10 hold our TWO small CONN
s your politics a few curious old schcnl
preserved In the spirits OF history, no u
10 any one, but as objrct-rsspns Of I
tsittering away Of a nNan's life. Set .
Il pl,oose all these shifting thin's r.to
II love that has ruled the whole nest
8 them ever since creation,'
.sf'pu're wrong there, said John, S
/. En- knew she was
.sYonr telling mo so carries no cow
s5 ton with 1t. / know that ana right
Then wnat does this all meant
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