The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-18
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Lippincott & Co., of Philadelphia
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Tho prologue Of this book, which de
serves everything good that can be
said about 1t, Is written In Cheer
street, London, where readers have
pictured for them the home Of Jerry
Cardinegh, dean OF the British word.
painters of war" and Noreen cardI-
negh, his daughter. with her tender
irish eyes and her red gold hair
I To the two In Jerry's first home
night from China comes Routledge, an
american war correspondent, who has
d2he wonderful work for the English
as wen as the American press. Tsout-
ledge and Nora, during busy half
hour of the girls father In his study,
nave their own confidential talk, and
the girl says to the man: Always
"heh the ether correspondents come
mere TO Cheer Street-and nearly all of
them call to see father--f have made
them all tell me about the bravcst deed.
Inc bravest man, they nave ever seen
| or known in al their service. 1 think
know them all but yours" So Rout-
ledge tells her about a New Englan-
der. named Rawder. who has come to
| MI his idea OF lofty courage and self
renunclation And Norcen listens and
names RaWder TO herself as ''hcr bray
est man"
1t is a far cry from the peace and
brightness Of Cheer street to Upper
india, where Routledge, who rides
alone who stays afield ia times of peace
promoting war. meets again the jour
nalistic triumvirate. including Card
inegh. He discusses with the last
named the mystery underlying the re-
call OF the war correspondents to Lon
don before the triumv'rate feel
ready 10 start the race for home, re-
conciled only by the prospect of find
ing out in London what is not known
outside. AS usual. Routledge out
distances the others and In Part. ffnds
his recompense waiting for him. in
the person CT Noreen Cardinegh She
seems TO him here and now to embodyI
the worlds bright answer to his long
quest for the reason of being. He
and Noreen cross the channel together
and separate at Charing Cross. she
going on to Cheer Street to make ready
Tor her father, with promise to Rout-
iedse OF seeing him in the evening at
the army and navy reception.
me space OF time between the ar
rival and the reception hour is bridged
by Routledge In visit to his club.
There and afterward at the armory,
where representatives of the army and
navy are gathered. Routledge is called
upon TO face :sa hate OF London and
70 learn that he is suspected of steal
Ing papers relating to the court mar
tial of Colonel Hammond, Of the British
army, papers containing a state secret
most important and to be inviolably |
preserved, and of having turned over
these papers TO Russia, thus furnish !
Ing pretext upon which her long ero- |
phesied war for the possession OF /
Northern India against England, might I
be started. Amid pitiiess alien COM |
pany, changed in an hour one woman,
Noreen Cardinegh. clings to his arm
and says: I want you to know-you |
must know when you are alone-that !
there is one woman who will stand by I
you through all things
After Routledge has run the saunt- /
let of hostility and returned to his
rooms. jerry Cardinegh comes in
Worn he is and much broken. embitter- /
ed beyond measure by the wrongs of /
Ireland inflicted by England and En-
slish lawmakers. Much broodihg. in
deed. over Irish affairs and a visit to !
Tyrone before he set oat for India have
evidently unhinged the dean'a mind |
and he confesses to Routledge that he
knows how Colonel Hammond. OF the
British army, felt when somethingt
sprung leak in his brain. and thai
he, Cardinegh. having met a Russo.
Parsee at Sarjilld. in India, is the man
guilty of the treachery that will ena-
BILE Russia to ignite Afghanistan and
the india border as with flrebrand I
He says: You think that England
spoiled my work-that her treaty
vita Japan was my answer You
think that England has had time to
strengthen her borders, IL Russia and
Japan fght--but the story of Shubar
Khan is told and my work dU,e! You
ana the other boys VIII campaign. but
Did Jerry won't BIO there"
Jerry is man enough still to tell his
tale unfalteringiy and to declare his
purpose OF going at once to the WAR;
ONCE, TO clear Routledge from all sus-
oicion. But the latter interposes be-
.ween this purpose and its execution a
plea that the old mans obsession can
lot refuse. Az Routledge has borne
he hate Of London and the burden OF .
reachery through n little while, he
VIII continue to bear it for Noreens ,
axe and while Jerry lives. And SO he
soes back TO India and is hero as well !
IS journalist during the Russo Japa-
lese War q
The book thrills the reader with its :
'ihrart spirit, with what it has to tell !
IF the Leper valley in india, of the d
lerolc patriotism of the Japanese, OF r
he race between America and England
or the uncensored cable at Shanhaik- +
van, OF the incompatible sweetness {
nd beauty and devotion of Noreen r
'ardinegn The last chapter tells how y
soutledge and Noreen journey down a
he coast together to the Leper valley Q
there Noreen sees for the first time h
the bravest man." Rawder, and is t
iarrled by him to Routledge. The a
nd is as fine as the beginning. the (
lovel holding within it the promise Of &
Fe.t success and widespread popu- II
arity. s
Gloria, I
BY G. Frederick Turner, NJ A. J
odd, Mead & Co., Of New York. G
l.50. a
A story Of adventure, wherein a n
ounE American and New Yorker p
links better of putting a bullet y
trough his brain, because the lady \
his love does not favor his suit and N
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