The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-23

THE CALL OF THE SOUTH. BY
Robert Lee Durham. l.. c. Page.
of Boston. S1.50.
A very strong novel dealing with
the race problem in this country and
written by Robert Lee Durham is to
be brought out by l.. C. Page and Com
pany, of Boston. this week
The book presupposes Il President IF
tue United States. Hayne Phillips,
whose father was from Massachusetts
and mother South Caroinian, and
WIG has been elected on his war re-
cord as colonel of the list Ohio in the
trial by battle of the Monroe doctrine
with Germany in the year 19l--; the
Presidents wife, and four daughters
notably Elise and Helen; Lola DeNale,
daughter of a New York Senator; three
aspirants for place as presidential SON
in-iaw in the persons of Captain
George st. Lawrence Howard, n V. c..
and younger son of the Earl of Dud-
deston Senator Richland, who can buy
ten times the eardom, and whose
brains equal his bank account, and
Evans Rutledge, a young South Caro-
lima newspaper man, of Washington
city; Senator's Killam and Ruffin of
the two Carolinas; Congressman Cal
houn and Smith, of I<illam's State. and
Hazard, of New York; BLACK Henry"
.
his comelY daughter, Lily; the briefest
glimpse backward into reconstruction
in Alabama. and yet briefer glimpse
beyond at the cannibal Guinea Gumbo.
a tferocious native-African slave, rs he
lies out" in a Kentucky River smamp;
and last, the thread that ties them all
into one warp and wool, John Hay
ward Graham, a Harvard man of cul-
ture. "all but white, hut mmistaka-
ustsF, l,t
blood "a gentleman, every inch of
him. hero of a Harvard Yale foo;-
ball game, rescuer OF Colnoel Phillips
at the battle of Valencia. eN-trooper
and White House footman, incognito
for reasons of his own,
With these and the usual assortment
Of attendants, soldiers, citizens" Mr..
Durham has woven an absorbingly in
tepesting story. of which critic of
national fist rank says: ut is tre-
mendously strong and very well writ
ten. 1t leaves me Easping."
a "call to arms" battle and cam
paign; herosm and cowardige; a young
girls impulstve decoration" of the
player who had saved his college--her
Haryard-from black defeat political
pyrotechuics and swings around the
circle as sllrewd managers inject u
hero and his campaign hat into the
l'N'iANAN
the electorate; love--on Canadian
rivers on Pacolet River plantations,
in the Palmetto State, in the Virginia
mountains. in the stately White House:
serious senatorial debate in Washing
ton. and serio-comic senatorial primary
carnpaigusl lin South Carolina a
daugllteg;s ..doalrzation of her father
and unhesitatiag trust in his words,
and that fathers supremacy sacrifical
love for her; a righteous executive
hearing battle against Mammon and
,hievery intrenched; the aspirations
and longings, mother-loves and loyal
ties excellencies and laclsings of the
negro race, set forth with sympathy,
without jeer or taunt or rainfall these
are used TO make what another most
capable critic calls IAN intensely pow
erful and at times thoroughly re-.
strained statement in excellent tenn
per" Of the faith of a great body of
American citizens and of what ira gedy
waits upon the feet OF the unthinking,
romantic younger daughters of the
republic, IL the great American father
--personified in President Hayne Phil
lips--slall become carelessly or weakly
sentimental as he sets wide ili-nlaced
doors of hope for the negro race"
Robert Lee Durham was born MAY a.
$50 and is directly descended through
his great grandmother. Katherine Lee
Baxter. from Thomas Lee, of Stratford
House, in Virginia. Both of his grand
fathers were members of the North
with their five sons followed Lees flag