The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-12
sJhIIE GREATER LOVE. BY Anna Me-
,,r., St,nil y~t,o 2r,uI,1tgl,.


1S ing Co, OF New York. si.5o.
IT Is n proof of how much more com
1piex life has grown to be for peopl
1.-THE world over. when such II book n
1.-THE Greater Love" iinpresses itself o
1.-THE mind as revealing not only pos
1sibic but n probable phase of life an
HCxpcriefce.
# The New England town of Broad
qhurst and the leading family of Hath
jkcrly form the background OF the boo
lpicture and bring in some Of the lead
Ting types thrown out upon II. Notabl
gs,villlam. the eldest brother, the on
1Iembcr OF the Hatherly family VIII
for several generations has known hoy
ITO make money; Edmund, William
#son. lacking the qualities upon whicl
his fathers success is built. and yet
Imam with aninherent nobility of Char
Incter, making amends for many weak
tnesses; notably. Thomas HatherlN. WI
iliams younger-brother, dominated ii
advancing yenrs as in childhood nnt
fyouth by the compelling force Of char
tacter In his elder. and notably, Magnn!
Trent, the stepson of Thomas Hatherly
la priest of the Episcopal Church and ;
hritnalist. man in whom his devotion
ITO his calling produces an austerity OF
life and a narrowriess of outlook thai
keep him perpetnally at war with tbs
Inatural impulses OF life and youth
Other minor personaSes include Isa-
bel Hatherly. ,.iiliams wife, faded
Ifretful and inadequate woman. resent
Ing her unimportance and visiting the
koutcon1e of 1t on those more effectual
E1han herself, Mrs. Wayne and her
;daughter Gertrude, recent inherltors OF
wealth that has procured their adlnis-
sion into Broadhurst society.
The two vital people in the book,
laround whom Its problems are woven.
9are Eleanor Ealgrave and her dauSh-
tier Constance, both imbued, in .opposi-
1ion to their surroundings, with that
Iaristocratic spirit, embodied sometimes
{ in persons unknown to heraldry. which
sEEets its possessors apart in high and
disturbing solitude"
Eleanor vaigrave in her girlhood
twas Eleanor Hatherly. Rebellins
;Rgainst her brother Williams domina-
rion and the narrow restrictions OF her
early life. she had left her home and
gone to Paris to study art She returns
Ito Broadhurst and her family at the
Beginning of the book after an absence
of twenty-two years widow with an
only daughter, Constance.
On Constance. indeed. the prime art
sof the writer is expended She is IN
troduced as having the air OF girl
WHO has been clustered in the lady
chapel of her mothers life, yet who
has heard within that safe shelter the
lmurmurs of the outer world. The
relation between mother and daughter
in. beautiful, the utter affection and
soneneas of their lives revealing rare
Capabilities of maternal and filial de-
yorion.
Eleanor valgrave desires for her
daughter that which she has been con-
tent all her life TO DO without, the SAFE
shelter of home life and the bulwark
OF family ties TO intefpose between
her and the outside world. Paris ana
exile had not mattered for the mother,
but when the daughter has reached "
1 TO the stature OF young woinanhood,
America and Rroadhurst beckon and
= the mother responds.
The mother had taken her life into
her own hands and defied society. For
Il her daughter she passionately desires
i ali safeguards against the penalty
whose price she for herself has not
1esitated to pay.
The tragedy of the book lies in the
secret OF the mothers life. jealousy
Kept from the girl. When it is finally
revealed to her she judges with the in
! exorable finaiity of youth, and for a
& tine their world goes 10 pieces for
both. Then when Constance has hex
eyes opened by the compelling power
Il of love in her own heart. she compp-
llends, and cornprehendng. she for
s gives.
81 Her mother arises afterwards to the
q supreme test of greater love" that OF
4 seif-effacement, and the book Is
drought to most interesting climax In
& most dramatic way, one that leaves
THE reaAar in the attitude of putting II
s3 nown NANe yet in the full tide of at
oyt nd nh which n
saouch of satietytIlss intruded
FTHE TRUE STORY or. ANDERSON.
WILLIE PRISON: A DEFENSE OF
II MAJOR HENRY WIRZ. BY James
s5, Madison Page, late second lieutcn-
ant Company A. Sixth Michigan
Cavalry, in collaboration with NJ
]. Haley. The Neale Publishing
Company, New York and Washing
ton. Illustrated. octave. So Postage
IA cents.
This volume should be in the lbrar.
fpf every lover of justice and the trutl
s. af history. especially In the Northern
Il States. where monstrous libel on thi
~ Confederate authorities Is given ;
II crcdence which amazes the South. The
gkssouth knows the facts
9is In Dixie this work should be used q:
& feat book in the schools, that til,
4iSIllS6 iiltSs klioW ttIllt lll'
IL cti;nc of Andorsonville was in the hor
st title judicial murder of an naocen
l1nan-a victim offered to appeasc Til
Is EWIath OF section driven to fanatica
q fTeyenge by the press. the pulpit ana in
1idmed public opinion. Witnesses 70
St the prosecution only were allowed Il
4 ftestify: those for the defense we're eS
tcinded. rendering the tribunal" befor
which Wirx WAS convicted travest
"a upon justice and d flaw in Civilization
x Unmatched only by the atrocities of til
j Duke of Alva and Jeffreys.s Blood
Il sAssiZes."
& III i am in a position TO confirm in som
d tdegrec the statements made in Ileuten
VI ant Pages book. In the fall OF 1856.
.& when in the hospital at Americus. Ga
81 nine miles from Andersonville, con
valescing from a wound. by invitatio
from8Dr Mudd, an assistant surgeon q
I visited the prison an
IS Ehsd ample opportunity TO inspect III
si inside OF the stockade and of talkin
81 With the prisoners. l did not hear
% single prisoner make a complaint &
VI 6ruta! treatment, OF course, there wer
nardships inseparabie from prison lif
III biy evenings We're spent In Majc
syNirz's quarters. lie impressed me
9Th a soldier who would carry out the orc