The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-28

ciety at the opera and at the dance.
The main thought underlying ana
running through all Mr.. Pulitzer mas
to say may be found in a paragraph or
his chapter on the dinner. describing
the moment OF the mems arrival from
the dining room in the drawing room.
lie says: Now Will come the supreme
test of the evenings higher success
These men and women have III the
first part of the dinner enjoyed one
another's society in the sympathy OF
common appetite which precluded
more delicate ef:inities Throughout
the rest of the dinner their social inter
course was continued with the AIDS
and accessories of rapid and varied
sequence of dishes. After dinner the
men had their cigars and Wall street.
the women their cigarettes and clothes,
as habits to occupy their attentions
But now they sit face to face. mind
to mind with nelner food. nor cooking,
nor dress, nor stocks to serve as dis
fractions and allies to their CONVEX
sation They sit in the regions of
pure thought Will their minds. crop
ing toward one another along a tenu-
Gus bridge of words, meet and find
companionship in mutually of mental
| interest? Will their tastes in common
soar from oysters to authors. from ar
| tichokes to architecture. from can
| yas-backs to composers. from peas to
| poetry? Or will their minds. like ba-
! HES, walking without furniture, toddle
| toward one another, meet in dizzy
| contact. and, having fallen painfully
t oearth. crawl shifting piteonsly back
to their respective nurseries?"
"on the Trnil OF Washington"
BY Frederick Trevor Hill. d. APP
q, M - vnrlr
All the traces of the Revolution and
of washington's campaigns around
New York have not disappeared. Roch-
Iambeau's headquarters are still stand
ing In fine state Of preservation near
Ardsley, and Revolutionary cannon
near the site of Washngton's camp at
Dobb's Ferry Mr.. Frederick Trevor
Hill was able to trace many of Wash
ingtons movements by his diaries and
orderly books which refer to roads
bearing the same name now as they
did then.
Mr.. Arthur Becher, who has illustrate
ed Frederick Trevor Hills "On the
Trail of Washington" published this
month. took extraordinary pains to ac-
quire accurate data for his pictures.
going to West Point for his studies of
old Artillery and famllarizing himself
with every detail of uniform and equip
ment, down to the very buttons on
tho soldiers coats.
Frederick Trevor Hill, author of the
book, is a lawyer in active practice
and has been such for tweny one
years. He did not begin to write until
1900. Since then he has produced one
book of short stories. three novels. one
law book, two Biographies, three vol
umes bearing on American hisory and
series of essays on Abraham Lincoln.
He lives most of the year at Irving
ton, on the Hudson. and many Of the
events described In "On the Trail of
Washington" occurred In the immedi-
ate vicinity of that village. Among
those events are the battle Of White
Plains, the capture of Andre. the en-
campment of Rochambeau. the begin
ming of the campaign against York
town and the capture of Fort WASH
ington.
The book gives in Interesting. read
able form, suitable for young boys and
girls, an accurate account of George
Washington not as a dignihed Presi-
dent of the United States, but first as
a child in his home, then as boy In
his adventurous surveying expeditions,
and finally as a young man lighting
with and later commanding troops In
the American Revolution.
1.-THE Great English Short Story Writ-
ers."
With Introductory essays and notes
by William j. Dawson and Coningsby
| W. Dawson. Two volumes, S1.00 each.
Harper & Brothers. of New York.
The aim in these volumes is to not
only illustrate the development of the
short story form, but to furnish eX-
amples of the art Selections from the
older writer's quantity contrasted With
the Notwithstanding which make eX-
tremely good reading and serve as we'll !
for historical reference.
The origin of the short story, as
given in the Introductory essay. Is to
be found In the utterances of the
first men who, told their stories around
the savage campfire" This from mouth
to mouth fiction of ancient days, 1t is
pointed out, possessed the first requis-
lite OF the short story--"that there
should be something to tell" The
readers attention Is called to the fact
that within the space of 900 years
three master craftsmen of English dc-
tion--Nathanlel Hawthorne, Oliver
Wendell Holmes and more recentl
writer, Richard Garnett-hnve found
inspiration for plot and setting for
thee distinct stories in a slender an
ecdote which Aristotle was content to
hurry into few sentences and bury
beneath the mass OF his MATERIAL
The ,moat.nrimitlve form of the short