The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-09
Gan American naby Abroad"

terested personages. The result la
highly entertaining piece of fiction.
can American Hnby Abroad"
BY Mrs. Charles ". Crewdaon. Tllus-
trated by r. F. Outcault and Modest
Stein. Little, Brown & Co.. OF Bos-
ton; $3.50.
a new American type. the Kentucky
beauty is exploited in this very in
genuous and refreshing bit of romance.
An American baby here plays Cupid
to one of the charming young women
about whom the story Is written.
1t begins in Munich, where two Ken.
lucky girls from Bowling Green. Eliz-
abeth Lawrence and Mary Marshall, are
staying under the care OF Franklin
Lechner. To Munich comes Elizabeth
La%rence's fiance, Jack Clay. The two
young people are welded In Munich
and go off to Egypt, Jack Clay being
a keen Psychologist. When a return
to America IS contemplated Mary
Marshall comes over to Join tho Clays
and THE American Baby" in London.
jack Clay is recalled to Egypt un-
expectedly and has fever there. His
wife starts from London to nurse him,
leaving her baby in charge of his
black mammie, Roxie. and Mary Mar
shall. Afterward, it is decided that
the whole party. In going back, shall
sail from Alexandria for the United
States.
So Roxie and Miss Marshall under
take to convey THE American Baby"
to his parents, going to see the Passion
Play at Oberammersau and stopping
in Rome to witness a special mass con-
Quoted by Pope Leo. The baby enjoys
Oberammergau hugely. and, through
the Intervention of a young priest
who is friend Of Mary Marshall, is
blessed BIZ the Pope at Rome.
The travellers have a very exciting
adventure before they reach Cairo.
and restore the baby to the waiting
arms OF his parents. The hook is a
light. vivacious novel with clever
dialogue and entertaining book situa-
tions. 1t is an admirable selection for
summer reader.
"The Lost Art of Conversations
Edited by Horatio S. Kraus. Stur-
gis and Walton Co., OF New York. S1.5o
net.
The aim OF this book is to bring to-
gether in one volume the best English
ESSAYS on conversation, with a view
to providing those who would excel
in the art with hints. suggestions. rules
and precepts, likely to be helpful ir
the making of good talk.
Tho hook should be welcome to ladies
who would have their drawing-roor
places for the delightful Interchange
| of thoughts and sentiments both grave
and gay, and to those of the other sex
who would commend themselves social
" by the happy faculty of saying the
right things in the right way.
The essays assembled here are II
themselves entertaining and OF hisi
| literary uuality--those OF Swift. De
Quincy and stevenson. for example
models each in it's own style. They
hold that conversation is one of the
chief measures of civilized social life
| that II is, comparatively speaking. a
| lost art; that it may, II 1t be careful
ly cultivated. and If certain rules when
I condition the successful practice OF
| II he Observed become again source
of general delight, and factor IN the
| snread of culture and intelligence; and
| that 1t may, perhaps, attain something
of the social and intellectual influence
| which it possessed in its great days.
uThe Twisted Foot"
Bv Henry Miller Rideout. Hough-
| ton Mifflin Company, of Boston; Stu
net.
he was voyaging to Manila was picked
mn by an outrlgger containing black
haired man. with a yellow body, and
another with scowling bronze face
beneath long, blonde locks, standing
ont in a shock around IT.
/ The man. David Bowman. an Amer
ican. compelled these hostile comrades
10 row him to land on a coral island
where a young Englishman gave him
shelter. This young Engiishman was
murdered shortly after the Americans
| arrival by a man who LETT behind MN