The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-17
"The Mistress of shenstone."

BY Florence l. Barclay, author OF
The Rosary" C. P. Putnam's Sons, OF
New York and London. S1.35 net.
/ Written by the same author, The
4 Mistress of Shenstone" is not In any
sense a sequel to 1.-THE Rosary" though
| acquaintance is renewed with Myra,
Lady Ingleby of Shenstone, Jane Dali
main and others.
| The story opens on the terrace of
| Shenstone, where Lady Shenstone, ac-
| compauled by her husbands little dog,
/ Peter. was pacing to and fro. both In
rather a depressed frame of mind over
the absence on the frontier of India
iof the husband of one and master of
the other, Lord Shenstone, engaged ac-
| lively in distant border warfare, be-
cause he was anxious to personally OBJ
serve the effect Of explosives-which he
| of some OF the mettsas of advanced
warfare.
A telegram brought to Lady shen-
stone apprised her, Off the coming for a
night of Dr. Deryck' Brand, great
! nerve specialist frSn< London, who tel
egraphed her tflatNlhe was visiting a
paSient in her neighborhood and in
| voked the hospitality OF Shenstone. He
came. and he and Lady Shenstone had
| a long and confidential talk, in which
] she confessed that she had never been
allowed TO develop into the full flower
| of womanhood, her mother and her
! husband having always treated her as
| a child, only her husband had been
/ tenderly affectionate to her, and her
mother had not. But she had never en-
tered into her husbands engrossments
and interests, never felt that he had
| considered her more than a being to
whom he should accord every care and
protection.
| Before she had quite finished all she
| wished to say, Lady Ingleby learned
the real reason why so important
| parsonage as DR.. Brand was giving her
so generous a part of his day. A dis
patch from the War Office brought her
the news Of Lord Ingleby's death in an
assault on Targai, India. a mistake in
signaling having caused premature
explosion Of mines which he,vas super
intending. DR.. Brand was present to
help her bear her trouble.
The War Office tried to keep secret
the name of the man through whose
error Lord Ingleby's life was lost. His
widow said that she did not wish to
know anything about the matter, and
SO his identity was kept in allegiance.
The man was James Airth, the Earl of
Menteith. the owner of vast estates in
Scotland.
He came back to England and went
to a quiet place on the coast of Corn
wall to recover his health. To this
place the mistress of Shenstone was
sent also by DIR. Brand, that she might
grow strong and we'll again. But she
Went under an assumed name. And the
Earl of Menteith registered himself
simply as Jimmy Airth
Without the disclosure of real ident-
ity in either case, the man and woman
knew and loved each other. Later com
plicattons hard to be brushed aside
arose. But Florence Barclay is a
writer of real romancSs and this one
ended asa honeymoon began at Moore
head Inn on the Cornish coast, and by
a brides celebrating it through in
scrtbing new name, after fashion
of her own, in the visitors book of
the inn.
Full OF sentiment and romance and
trimming over with the potentialities
of life. this book. like THE Rosary"