The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-05-24
n. BY no. faddist-lovers OF varying degrees love
rHE CALL OF THE SOUTH BY Ro-
bert Lee Durham. The L. G. Page
Company. of Boston. through the
Bell Book and Stationery Company,

bert Lee Durham The L. G. Page
Company. of Boston. through the
Bell Book and Stationery Company
OF Richmond; sl.5o
This book is dedicated by its writer
10 the lion OF HIS tribe, stonewall
Jackson Durham"
1t presupposes period OF time ano
condition OF affairs In the United
States which the people Of the South
do not believe can ever come about.
It discusses racial problems which
could not be brought uppermost, en-
cept by the widest stretch of an un-
bridled Imagination, and unless pre-
ceding conditions too revolving to be
considered. had been conjured UP tc
account Tor after-results.
The mischief done by such nislead-
ing books as "Unclc Toms Cabin
rightly estimated as one of the fruit
full causes of the War Between the
States, might be many times repeated
Il such present works OF fiction as
'The Call OF the South should 60
abroad in the land to inflame the
minds and pervert the judgment OF
those unacqualnted with the actual
racial conditions which the nation Is
facing.
That these conditions need to be
dealt with in spirit of the wisest
conservatism. and the most entire pru.
dence, is evident to all thinking and
right-feeling persons. That ques.
lions involving such grave and vital
Issues as those raised in "The Call OF
the South" should not be introduced
into a sensational twentieth century
novel is evident to the reviewer, who
feels that from literary, political OF
patriotic standpoint such book
should not have the publicity or prom
dnence that even a discussion of 1t
would bring about.
THE SPANISH JADE. BY Maurice
Hewlett. Doubleday, Page & Co.,
4 of New York. 90 cents.
A most lovable and suggestive story.
full of the very fine essence of ro-
nance and chivalry, which harmonizes
with the land in which the tale is told,
that which gave birth to the bleak
pride of the Castillano, the flint and
steel Of the Argonese and the Ian:
guage which wells Andalusian fire.
Mr.. Hewlett has infused added zest
into his story by his art in picture
contrasts. After having made pic
ture in his readers mind OF Mistress
Eleanor Vernon. the English maiden
OF high degree and clear. disdainful
ayes, ne puts against ner inc NlNlu,
hercely-colore beauty of Spanish
Manuelo. with her "tawny gold. hair"
sunburnt skin and jade-green, far
seeing eyes, her coiled crimson hand
kerchief and blue-gree gown.
Manvers himself, clean. Wholesome
and an Englishman, renders the part
played in the story by Estebau, Don
Luis and Gil Perez. more comprehen-
sible by its extreme unlikeness to
himself in thought or conduct
The tragedy of the story and the
pitiful downfall of Manuelo are min
gled with the compassion awakened
for her in the heart. The merit of the
book, above all, is in Its extreme real
ism. The mind accepts it without
question and with the feeling tina
everything might have happened jus
as It is related.
SOME LADIES IN HASTE. BY Rober
W. Chambers. D. Appleton g. Co.
of New York, publishers. $3.50.
"A book in which the whimsical
fancy of Mr.. Chambers runs riot, anc