The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-14

written, dedicates what ho has here
done to his friends among the painters.
and hopes they will like tale about
"a painter which says nothing about
painting
The time of the book is the middle
| nineteenth century. and the place the
village of F3oldanl, in Holland, with the
gray. trackless overyasel heath cncom-
| passing it. and the grim, gray Sky
bending above it.
In the village lived "a really religi-
Gus grocer" by name Simeon Doris. Lis
Doris, his son, left pulling infant
when his mother let life go, was fed,
cleaned and smacked in infancy by an
uninteresting ncighbor of the father
Simeon, and much protected and In
dulged by a matron in pinafores, ietta
Donderbus, the little daughter OF the
village dominic.
From the beginning of their childish
intercourse and devotion to each other,
Yetta believed In Lis as a genius. q
painter of a srown-up future. who
would make the world ring with his
fame. Simeon Doris was honest and,
therefore. had no money. Yetta's In
genuity and seif-sacrfice found way
to provide Lis with paint box and
some lessons from an artist named
Pareys, delettante, who was spending
q winter following summer holiday,
in Boldam.
The girls permitting Pareys 10
sketch her hand and arm, to secure
for her what she desired in the way of
help for Lis, was the first step toward
the traged;, marking the climax OF the
story. For, after years had come and
gone without the boy being able to
follow up the small advantage he had
gained and without Yetta's attaining
to being anything more than a teacher
in an adjoining village to Boldam the
girl concluded to marry Pareys on
condition that he allow her to fur
nish Lis enough money for him to go
to Paris and pursue his career. OF
course, Lis did not accept the money
as charity. His was a simple, unworld-
" nature. easily deceived. He believed
the money 20 be the price of his home
in Boldanl. whereas it represented
about five times its value.
So Lis departed and remained away
for five years. AT the end of that time
he went to visit Yetta and her husband
in their beautiful home, not far from
Bodam. He painted some wonderful
pictures while he was there. landscapes
showing the mauve-gray against slate
gray of the heath and the heather,
which always appealed TO him more
strongly than anything else. The pic
lures were stolen by Pareys through
his valet, and exhibited in the Paris
salons over the latter's name, render
ing Pareys Immediately famous. Lis,
having learned that Yetta was un-
happy, and being told by Pareys OF
the sacrifices she had endured on HIS
behalf, remained silent. though his
heart was nearly broken.
He refused the none: and medal
which Pareys offered him as compensa-
ton for his pictures and began, slow
ly, painfully, but surely. to reconstruct
his life and his life work on indepen-
dent lines. But tile threads were too
tangled. and before belated happiness
could come. hate prevailed. Lis went
down to death because of it, but he
was loyal and faithful to the end.
| The book shows special merit in the
skill with which the characters are
! differentiated and drawn in. From tho
/, "Parsoness' and her texts, to the
dominic in his faded dressing gown, to
| the Lobster family, the Baroness de
| Rossac, Job, the slave of Odo Pareys;
| Jacob Raft, the worlds master painter,
and Redempta, the foster-child of Lis.
| TO say nothing of Simeon, his bed-rid-
| den father--every one is an Individual
| lied factor in the Impression which tho
| book produces as q whole.
| 1t is strong, clear and forceful, and
/! its moral teaching is of the best. The
, appreciative reader will fin? in it much
| food for thought aud realize its COM
polling demand on his Interest and
sympathy
| .Galnhad Jones'"
! BY Arthur Z. Adams John Lane
Company, of New York and London
/ sl.50,
That chivalry did not end with the
middle ages. that its vital spark may
live and burn in the breast Of a mid
dle-aged Englshman. even though he
be unromantic in person and unfortu-
tunately placed in the midst OF scrdId
surroundings, Is the task which Mr.
Adams has set himself to accomplish
in a work of fiction entitled by him
"Galahad Jones'" The reader puts
/, down the book when 1t is finished with
a feeling that what the author attempts
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