The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-29

| 1 don't like 1t. and I'm going to get
out before it's too late. I'm going &c
4 find some decent and simple place tc
\ live inland I'rLgoing down town to fine
| out IL there isn't some way In New
| York for a man to earn an honest liv-
i ing"
THE HEART OF A CHILD. BY Frank
! Dandy. The Macmillan Company
| publishers. $50.
AS in other books written by Frank
IDanby," many of the characters in THE
i Heart Of a Child" are drawn from real
| life. 1t is a novel that supposedly
| deals with the life OF 'gaiety girl" In
London from the inside.
| The book was begun by the author
ess and her brother, Mr.. Owen Hall,
during three weeks spent by them at
Harrowgate where Mr.. Hall died sud-
denly. When it as finally finished the
whole aspect of the story was changed.
AS the old nursery traditions say
at begins at the beginning" and takes
UP the life OF the heroine, Sally Shape.
when she was a child living in the
slums Of East London. She is brough.
to the notice of the reader as perform
ing an improvised version Of a cake
walk Cor the benefit of an organ
grinder and her companions in an alley
adjoining the foul tenement in which
she lived.
While Sally danced, her father. in a
fit of drunken rage. threw boot at
her mothers head and Killed her, she
being a weak and timid woman with q
tendency to heart failure. Sally was
more capable and unafraid. At the
age of sixteen, when her fathers
worthless life ended also. she faced the
world on her own behalf.
She passed through various viclssi-
tudes of fortune, but owed her first
distinct betterment of fortune to her
friend, Miss Rugeley. who as a distrtc.
visitor, had taken an interest in her
and procured her place in jam and
pickle warehouse. Afterward she was
run over by Lady Dorothea Lytham.
driving her new 40-horsepower Pan
hard and had to be taken to n hospital
Lady rorothea, by way of atone
ment. helped to get her a place as
trier-on in a fashionable London estab-
lishment when she was discharged
from the hospital. Here 1t was that
her peculiar style Of personality and
her red hair began to be considered at
tractive. From the Bond Street es-
Enlistment Sally Shape. her name
changed to Sarita Mainwaring. went on
the stage in a song and dance perfor-
NANCE, cdlleQ IN Far -CaLhay, special
ly. arranged for her. In little while
she became the fashion and had scores
of admirers. But she was simply good
friends with them all, except Lord
Kidderminster, and him in the end she
married.
The way in which she appealed to
what was highest and best in his ma
ture and won through the natural OPP
position of his family to his marriage,
makes very interesting romance, if
nothing more than romance.
The book throughout is most clever
in Characterization and description and
is full of shrewd knowledge of men
and motives" along with its humanity.
1t quite sustains Frank Dapby's" re-
putation as an authoress of uncommon
merit.
FURzE, THE CRUEL. BY John Ire
vena. Moffat, Yard and Co. of
New York, publishers. s1.50
An authors foreword says in this
book: almost everywhere on Dart
moor are furze heather and granite.
The fur:e seems to suggest cruelty, the
heather endurance, and the granite
strength. The furze is destroyed by
fire. but grows again: the heather is
torn by winds, but blossoms again; the
granite is worn away imperceptibly by
the rain This work is the first of
proposed trilogy. which the author