The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-01
soMEHoW GOOD. BY william do
Morgan. Henry Holt and Com
pany, OF New York, publishers.

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Nj. dc Morgan. as tho author Of two
s!se, .deIight.f,'I books as Joseph
sent Somehow Good" Will, confidence
TO a reading world that IL already most
strongly disposed in Ills favor.
,,l me impression made on the. reader
IN his latest literary venture, has
\ lost nothing OF the charm III rarra-
Ton and tho nice discrimination in
Character shading which have always
been bis distinguishing charactcristics
az u writer.
Somehow Good" has the additional
MORT of originality In so far as the
way In which the plot is conceived and
worked out. The story in brief outline
IL this: An E,nglishman just returned
tn lis native country from New York
receives. coon after landing. an cleo
trio shock which occasions total loss
of memory
young girl who is his fellow trn-
Weller on the London twopcnny tube
1l tne time oil the accident. las the
Englishman conveyed TO the home OF
her mother a semi detached villa in a
London siibnrb- The mother comes
out TO tho cab to see the stranger wa!f
on wl,om her daughters syInpatllies
hhVs been expended and recognizes
N him her husband from whom she
Las beer separated by unfortunate cir
Cnmstancts many years previous. The
Englishman, without his memory. not
knowing even his own name. for his
part only recognizes something vague
~ familiar in the beautiful. compass
Elonatc face on which he turns his
half-conscious eyes.
lie is taken into his wife's home and
In course OF time is restored TO
Ills normal condition. except for the
fact that everything concerning his
past life, up TO the time he was shock
cd IN the twopenny tube. has as conf
pletely passed from his consciousness
n y it ft..I Lao. rs.n
which epongc had been passed. wip-
ing 1t clean.
From the first, his wife and her
daughter are uurenitting In their care.
qualifications enable him to procure a
good business position ir, London.
lie secures lodgings rear his neb.
friends. and after awhile. begins his
still young and attractive. His re-
marriage. his gradual recovery of
memory, and the happy ending OF his
stepdaughfers romance. furnish album
est OF the novel and hold the readers
attention r1remittingly.
The tragic undercurrent Of the novel
INVOLVING tho cause of separation be-
tween young husband and wife is the
unpleasant side of the book that Will
not keep out OF sight. 1t is constant
~ lurking in the consciousness of the
heroine, who. in the midst of her re-
honeymoon. feels the danger that liz
waiting like wild beast to spring
upon her. when the linking one by one
IN chain of circumstances shall re-
store her husbands memory. Her
superb self-control and the curb she
puts upon her every word and thought,
concentrate interest upon her as upon
some skilful player in the game Of
and of which she shows herself the
mistress.
Her daughter, Sally. is an admirable
creation, fun-loving, wholesome. in
mixture of chidishness and up-to-
date shrewdnesss that is most adroit-
~ blended by the skill of the writer.
one can almost hear the infection OF
nothing in that" One can almost see
the upward arch of her merry eye
hrows. and the flash of her white
teeth.
life she was n cause of disunion and
bitterness. so in -urr she develops into
link binding together sundered
hearts and home ties and bringing
eventual harmony out OF discord and
bitterness.
other characters in the hook. tho old
colonel and the major: with glimpses
pf their club life; Or: Vereker and his
Nereker:" all have their appointed
places in book which they round
int completeness.
From a psychical point of view. tho
description of the hcro's condition
when memory returns to him is wond-
crfullv well managed. SO that although
the book is. founded on unhappy and
rnpleasant tragedv. no one Will derry
lis ability and the excellence of !rt
siiierary construction.
TIE CRY OF THE CHILDREN. BY
Mrs. John Van Worst. Moffat.
Yard and Company. OF New York,
publishers. SIPS.
The Hon. Albart J. Beveridge has
written an Introduction for this book.
Which deals in simple, airee. and
pf children. Her subject is child labor
In the cotton mills throughout the