The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-15

i comforts the heart or fOrSaRen infancy
and restores to cruelty tried but
/ manly nature its faith in the world
of humanity.
The story is. a fair sample, of those
Which follow II OF these The H9ung
Edinburgh in the 1745 period. The
Great White Deens'' following in .1749,
has Partisan background: the fourth
story reverts to the year 1895 and in
PRODUCES Queen Elizabeth of England;
the fifth has to do with the forty-tifth
| year of the great Queens reign, and
the sixth makes an advance to the
tim time Of Charles ,l IL The seventh. and
belongs to the early Georgian era. when
women often saw their image reflected
! in the mirror OF a faithful heart"
OLD WIVES FOR NEW. BY David
Co.. of New York. publishers. s1.5o.
| There is nothing that can excuse
! a book which deals with the coarser
/ sides of life excep. an infinite amount
of delicacy and cleverness in the hand
| ling of the book situations and the
portrayal of the characters.
Mr.. Phillips, who is popular, author.
and who has written several justly
commended books--"Thc Second Cen
| Grafton is one--has missed his cue and
let go his standards in old Wives
I for New Granting that there Is
I some truth in what he says, it is truth
/ so revoltingly presented that the bei-
I ter class of readers must certainly wish
I 1T unwritten.
4 1t does not seem possible that an
4 honest critic could do otherwise than
: deplore the fact that a man capable
4 of doing so much better things. should
have wasted his time and talent on q
originator. and is such a poor compli-
: Iment to the tastes of the American
: public.
Social evils are never cured by be-
H.. 4 GOV.
t New style. so that Mr.. Phillips has
-Inot even the excuse of pointing Il
8 moral. His book is simaly trash. and
: if anything he writes could be so class
!; ed-merely stupid trash
); THE IRON LORD. BY S. II. Crockett
q Published by the Empire Book Co.
4 of New York.
d quarter of the nineteenth century, the
: scene being laid in Scotland.
e Prominent characters in the story
2 are Jacob Romer, hard. cruel
), man, owner of the Incubus Mines al
!, Kmktown, Scotland; Caroline Romer, his
q secretly married Wife, whom he has
u ceased to love and visit. and who lives
q with their only child, Vida. in cot
$ tage near Thonsby; James Kahn. a
SerHian, manager OF the Incubus Mines
fand agent for Jacob Romer: Philip Gal
:. mont, son of the local doctor at Kirk
g town leading hero of the romance. as
81,
: leading heroine; Ludovic Morris, CAL
t monts chum at the mines. who mar
e ries Janet Fowler, daughter of one
Of q, the leading parsons in Kirktownf
: DICK Finnan keeper of the Folfs Ker-
: ny Lighthouse with Billy Bryan. a
genial freshman; Rose Nunsby, a pref
: y, but. slightly deformed girl music
.eacher. In love with Philip Galmontl
the Rev. Mr. Irongray, "a Kirktown
clergyman, and Abraham Fyfe. jacob
ltolnefS gardener.
The book has all the spirit in nara
ton and swift succession of incident
ICrockett writes.
IN MARY's REIGN. BY Baroness
!, GREY or e.: Supplies, Leon Co, Of New
The book period here is 1853. and the
Incidents related in II are described
as taking place in London and .its
The hero of the story the Duke
y Of WcsseX. hero OF a score of adven.
q lures which have alternately shocked
t and amused court circles, has once
q more come into public notice; this
tragic and dramatic that every enor,
S mas been made to hush it up. But
through some unguarded source ths
: story has come to light and is causing
i. q ninc-day wonder here.
$ NssseX according to the story, has
v long been a suitor for the hand OF
I Lady Ursula Glynde, ward of the
/ IN waiting Lady Ursula. who has
Z been the regning beauty of two Lon
don seasons, apparently reciprocate,
j. his affections and an announcement o
II the engagement was confidently locke,
for But combinations set in.
s. Some time ago the duke CHANGED t.
$ rescue from "a gang of toughs de
IS were tormentins. She was n GYPSY
Mirrab. by name. The thing that al
a tracted WesseX to her at first glanc
as was her startling resemblance to Lad
vi Ursula,
81 He paid scane heed to the Gypsy
O. however and was quite ignorant o
: the fact that she had fallen head owe
heels in love with him. Failing /
W Mlrrab, one day recently while de
or cidedlY under the Influence Of LIQUOR
m went to Hamilton Court. where she ha
's,I.a certain fete. ssr ta
to The duke, meantime. had quite for
gotten tho existence of the Gypsy CIR
s. D wh1 ;, Locked on lin as hero. Ac
ed and excited, at Hampton, and engage
go in controversy with the MarnuI
"a dn suar re- Of the Spanish Ambassador
'p suite, WeSseN was horriGed He be
eni lieved her to be Lady Ursula, h
loved had fallen victim TO the grow
~ ing &, soclety mania for drink.
&c Nirrap. connecting Sunrez with Yves
n'a seN's undisguished contempt for hel
~ self, in ht Of drunken mania. dro,
~ knife into the Spaniard's side. Yves
i. sex. aghast at the deed and believin
Z 4 the work of Lady Ursula took il
IS, blame on hlmse u,asurrenderng to ii
80 officers of the Jaw ana declaring i
,ss and he alone was responsible for II
GU sthbblng. He was NJ, once placed und,
We The unravelinG OF tho situation an
ed ,he final understanding arrived at !,
no the lovers, each of whom had mur
a 70 forgive, VIII be the pleasant tas
iai OF the reader,
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