The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-25
The Seale Publishing Co, of New

York. $500 net.
Facing the opening page of General
Farley's book is charming color pic
turc of the Russy house at Fortress
Monroe, on James River. The chapters
on James River are prefaced by sew
eral lines from a poem written by
Harry AIetcalfe and delivered al re-
union dinner of the West Point class
of 1861. in the home of General Charles
Roe, on the Hudson. The lines say:
when shadows fall at evening time,
Our fancies go back and our hearts
keep rhyme,
With songs that were sung in the
Aud Lang Syne."
They sustain the claim of the book
10 be retrospect of peace and war.
He begins the retrospect on the James
| lad, he served on the United States
Coast survey, and later, when he had
Graduated from the United States Mil
| itary academy as an officer in the
army. He describes the first trip taken
by him from the sea to the head
waters-~of navigation on the James
| since 1865. the period of the trip be-
ing June ., 1905. He includes in his
description a brief sketch regarding
J TIC contest between TIE
and Monitor, published in the au-
| thor's article on The Era of Ironclad
| Warfare which appeared in 1904. In
addition there are notes about all the
| other historic points on the river and
! incident about visitors and households
| at Claremont. the old Allen home; Cob
/! hams Wharf, Barrett's Point, City
| Point, Lower Brandon. Westover, Shir
ley, Malvern Hill, Sherwood. Curtis
! Neck. Pressure Isle. Drewry's Bluff.
| yarina and other famous estates along
| the banks of the first settled river in
| America
The mention of Jamestown is very
! interesting. There are several pages
devoted to McClellans operations from
his river base in 1862, and charm
| ing "Reminiscences of Christmas holidays
as they We're kept at Lower Brandon
| in 1856. and a deer and turkey hunt
| in approved Southern style. General
| Farley. in speaking of Richmond,
| writes: .'Of the late capital city of
/ the Confederacy | Will not speak fur
| Their than TO say that the city as
knew it in my boyhood has changed
greatly. and for the better, as have
/ all our cities in a section of land
| where industries and trade have en-
! tered.
| The illustrations for that part OF
the book on "The Potomac River" and
1.-THE Hudson are all in color and
! are most Interesting Among them
are Brentwood. the residence of the
! first Mayor of Washington, D. c.; Sun
| set at West Point Highlands of the
Hudson Our Adjutant' and Cadet
Troopers Drill at West Point" and
last part of the book is devoted to
art Criticism" by Lieutenant John
Farley. U. S. A., 1S2S'29.
1t seems happy and graceful
thing that after more than half a
century in army service, General Far
ley should write this delightful retro
spect of Peace and War" record
in which anecdote, history, biography,
| observation and experience-boolks.
battle. soldiers, pictures, theories, men
and things are happily mingled. He
has selected for his memory pictures
the three rivers connected with his
life, and. 1t so happens, the three
| American rivers that arc richest in
/ legend. history and romance
Applc Tree Cottngc.
BY Elinor Mccartney Lane. Harper
s; Bros. of New York. soc.
The late lamented author of Nancy
| Stair and "l<atrine" is to be still fur
| Their remembered by the appearance in
/ DUCK luIIil OF HeI sLOIS, Apple lIee
| Cottage" following the publication In
| Harper's Magazine of an earlier ro-
nance, Rose o. the Dawn"
| The Apple Tree Cottage" is mid
| summer pastel sketch OF the New Eng
land coast and a nower-bordered cot
tage at its edge-"one of those stories
| where he and she are all that count.
and life and love are as deep and
] delicate as the summer sea- 1t
1 chances In the story, which has the
crisp Celtic mirth native to its aus
4 thor, that a young millionaire has fled
to the apple tree cottage to secure n
Irest from designing matrons, and
4 there, through being compelled to sup
1 port the fiction that he is married.
a fiction perpetrated by himself--suffi-
| GENTLY complexities matters with the
i girl he meets and loves. 'Srhe Apple
! Tree Cottage" enjoys one peculiarly
Iinalienable distinction: 1t is a story
! Of which Elinor Mccartney Lane Is
said to have been especially fond.
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