The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-23

Gus onslaught. of the joint authors in
this most recently published novel of
Virginia history.
Governor Holiday.
The story of the book opens in thu
year 1879. Its scenes are enacted part
ly In Warrenton, Va. and partly in
Richmond The relation borne bv 1879
TO the years that had gone before 1T
Is explained. The results Of that year
are traced throughout those that have
come after. down to the present day.
Glass distinctions, class ideas, man
ners and patriotism are exploited by
typical Virginia men and women of the
latter half of the nineteenth century.
many of them incorporating under
names that have been historic in the
Old Dominion since its earliest DAYS.
| There are among them Judge and Mrs.
| Ingram Mayo Braxton and their beau
| tful daughter. Leila, silhouetted against
| the background of Morven, their an
cestral home, near Warrenton. There
is John Randolph Harrison. Lelia's
lover. who was drawn into the maei-
strom Of Eeadjusterism and could not
| win his sweetheart to be his wife untll
he had vetoed the Riddleberger bill
Harrison Is supposed to be Governor
Holiday. There are Colonel and
Mrs. Francis Southall Daingerfiell
| Cary Gordon Dabney and Betty. mis-
/ sister. who married Byrd cambridge
! and made her bridal trip to his forest
| home in an OK cart.
Shrewd guessing reveals the idea OF
these delightful gentle-people and 9th.
ers like them. hut penetration Is some
what at fault as to who is meant, wher
| Captain Charles Churchill Lancaster. OF
| Charlottesville. is brought into notice
~ .1,t. Nj, nj ~
characterizes The Betrayal" may b.
noted in statement regarding th!.
Il gentleman that he had married
/ peasant when mere boy" Such mar.
riaEes.' the reader is further informed
were rare a gentleman might marry
a peasant, retain his social position
4 his wife be tolerated by the aristoc-
racy. and his children. despite the vul-
4 rarity learned from their mother, be
invited to formal social affairs: but his
grandchildren's position in society was
i determined largely by their fathers
conduct lust what Is said here is
made additionally plain in the case of
GLADYS Lancaster. the daughter of
| Charles Churchill, who exemplined her
| mingled heredity on all occasions and
in all company.
Attacks Governor Mann.
Mr.. Neale considers the entire book,
of which he is joint creator, as a satire.
Truly the satire is pointed enough and
all-inclusive. One OF its chance barbs
is aimed at F. Hopkinson Smith ana
another at Roger A. Pryor. Presiden:
Edwin A. Alderman. of the University
of Virginia. and his colleague, DR.. AL
phonso Smith are both sharply raped,
as is Hon John Goode and others under
assumed names. The former chief ex-
ecutiye of Virginia. Governor Swan
| son, and the present Governor OF Vir-
ginia, Judge VIM. Fl Mann, are smartly
taken to task, extracts from speech
made by Governor Swanson at Surry,
| Va. September 10, 1908, being quoted
, and letters from Governor Mann t.
| General Malone, written In 1879 anC
| 1880. being reproduced.
! AS the story is supposed to refer te
! Virginia's history in entirety, men OF
| all its periods are open to aspersion
| Washington, indeed Is not exempt from
| it, nor Thomas Jefferson. nor Mrs LIZ
] Sale Pickett, widow of the Confedcr.
ate general. nor Mr. or Mrs. Anybod,
Else. who is considered to have de.
MED the traditions or broken through
| class distinctions or forgotten loyalt,
! to the Old Dominion.
The Authors.
1.-THE Betrayal Is certainly In eX.
| preston positive, not q negative
quantity. What has been taken from
its pages causes it to speak for itself
| in language that is not to be easily
misunderstood. 1t deals mainly with
a tragic part of Nirglnia's political
past. and deals with 1t in an original
way. AS novel its construction is
| faulty and fragmentary. but it will not
| be read primarily for its romance
| rather for it's cauStic criticism of ma
and the authors. conception of their
party affiliations and their perfldy to-
ward the State that gave them birth.
4 Walter Neale one of the collabora-
tors of The Betrayal" Is the president
OF his publishing company. and an au-
thor as Well as the head of book
firm Elizabeth H. Hancock lives at
| Ellerslie, a colonial home near Char
lottesville, Va. Some years ago she
wrote charming book OF Virginia life
entitled Betty Pembroke" Since then
she has sompiled and edited "the Auto
biography of John E. Massey,"a piece OF
work recurring unusual Ia