The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-11

1 SeIllS nHeES Oh IL SdIldul gentleman
/ tcrposed TO save her
The book IS rather tragic In tone,
but at the last the gloom lghtens.
| The story is decidedly melodramatic
! "The Voice in the Rice"
/ BY Gouveneur Morris. From Dodd.
/ Mead & Co. of New York. through the
/ Bell Book and Stationery Co., of Rich.
mond s1.25.
/ Imagine an island country off the
/ coast of South Carolina. a rice country
/ lying In the main mouth OF the Santee
River and the hundred other mouths,
/ an island labyrinth a million times as
! hiG as that of Hampton Court. and one
T. may have some idea of the background
i for Gouveneur Morris's clever romance
/ which he has entitled The Voice in
I the Rice
! Describing political and social condi-
tons in this island community. one OF
7 the principal characters in the book.
I Sir Peter Moore. says: Lord Marin
/ is chairman OF a committee Of three,
who make our laws LADY Wrenn is
one member OF this committee. and /
have the honor to be another. Our
little country is logical growth We
were Obliged in the days even OF royal
! governors to be law to ourselves
Our sympathies we're. OF course. with
the State OF South Carolina when she
seeded. hut we as n body polite pre-.
served strict neutrality. In these
marshes no government but our own
has ever enforced law. When Lin.
coin freed the slaves. he only freed
such slaves as he had the power 10
Tree. Ours were In now!se affected.
/ They have never heard OF war or
or Lincoln
/ Into this Imaginary community
young man washed overheard of the
! steamship Major Pickens, bound from
charleston to New York, Is introduced
oil account OF his having been picked
up by an island residenter. Sir Peter
Moore, one of the governing commit
tee of three. The adventures of the
New Yorker during his detention al the
Moore home, told in Gouveneur Nor
ris's inimitablc style. are as fascinat-
ing as they are novel and extraor-
binary. The hero's name Is Richard
Bourne. He falls In love on the en-
chanted island, where he is carried
by wind and waves, first with n cool.
fresh young voice with a little drawl
TO 1t, little of golden bells, a little
o. laughter" Then lie fell in love
with her imagined lovely self. But he
never saw her face to face until the
night when he ran away with her from
the island TO marry her. And thcn
her beauty turned his head
Be that as It NAV The Voice in
the Rice is heguiling bit of fiction,
as all who chance to read it will be
quite willing to testify
..'rhc Flowers,
By Margarita Spalding Gerry. Har-
per & Brothers, of New York. so cents
net
Elizabeth Shipper Green has illumi-
mated the pages of a beautiful story on
a beautiful subject with pictures that
exactly harmonic with what the au-
thor writes and that serve to render
her meaning clearer and sweeter and
more flower-likc.
Just a story about All old man bend
ing over rose edges in garden where
petunias, fuchsias. sweet williams, four
o'clocks, peoples, geranums. nastur-
tiums and sweet alyssum filled every
nook and crevice. Just a little hoy,
missing his way in the world outside
and finding n place inside by the old
mans love for helpless childhood as
we'll as flowers, lust a lesson in hui
manity, told simply but tepderly and
calculated 10 carry message that
the ear of the world will hear and re-
member.
"Arbor Day"
Edited by Robert Haven Schauffler.
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This book contains history of
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, United states appears In the book as
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