The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-28
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of all these happenings
cover the auici>snnds."
B.. Anna Chaplin Ray. Little, Brown
4 Co. OF Boston. st.5o.
Winter social life in Quebec. as seen
and participated in by Americans, Is
fascinatingly described in Miss Rays
latest novel, under the title given
above. The book is in the main at
tracttve. the environment being well
sketchcd In and the grouping OF the
hook peonle being skilfully arranged
But the plot of the book is objection
able. The best and purest instincts OIL
humanity cry out against such misfor-
tunes as those which bcfall in TINS
instance young and innocent people
of Miss Rays creation.
Having brought them into an neon
ceiyable situation, any way out OF II
must seem hopeless, in so FAR as sus-
tanning the dramatic grip OF the STORY
IS concerned. So that the endlns q
tho novel is disappointing, and TINS
seems a pity, for otherWlss ~ iio'u ~,
much OF genuine merit. flashing wit IN
snci., intercourse, and much genuine
accuracy in local color and description
'.By Inheritance
Nv octave Thanet. The Bobbs-M ef-
rill Company. of indianapolis. mo-
The problem OF the American ma
tiou. the future of the educated negro
on whom las fallen the inheritance
~ HI. race. is here considered in assoc
citation with story of Northern ana
southern life. that touches points OF
vital Importance and interest TO pom
sections.
The story begins in Pittsfield, Mass,
and is continued on an Arkansas plan
.tatlon, not far from Memphis Tenn
A wealthy New England woman
Agatha pantorth, her nephew, Giies'
and General Montgomery and his
family are the chief characters IN tne
hool, ana are excellent types Of what
they are intended to represent the
best and truest opponents OF New Eng
land and Southern education and rear
ing
!, Harvard graduate OF the negro
race, mulatto, named Sidney Dam
ION. and plantation-bred quadroon,
called Lily Pearl, both Of them lifted
by natural gifts and superior advan-
tages above others of their race. are
with the ignorant and
brutal members of il, who render the
efforts of the so-called philanthropist
vain work when they turn toward the
social and moral elevation of the At
rican
such work OF fiction as by In
can never do good. 1t can
but heighten sectional discord and
misunderstanding. The better it is
written. the more mischievous it must
be.
For it treats of the grayest Issues
Inn In
names the imagination by the por-
.rayal of horrible and impossible
scenes and instead OF proving, as 1t
Iries to do in this instance, that me-
sroes arc hest off in association with
good white people, and under their
control, 1t is certain to only widen
he separation between white and black |
md intensity the evil II seeks to.
,ure.
when the Wildwood Was In Flower |
BY G, Smith stanton, j. S. Ogilvie
publishing Company, New York; 81
let,
Beginning with New York and fol- |
awrrg~the rail to the end OF the line.
he author Of this little volume gives
, vivid account of his life on the |
Western frontier, INCLUDING many re-
nindcrs or hS-Sone days, including (
he antics of bank robbers and horse |
hieves and tho summary punishment I
inflicted upon them,
The reminders so back through win
ers on the prairie with their deep /
,nows their blizaards, their dug /
,uts and their atsaw-pile sheds. They
llso furnish Information as TO The n
OF u stock ranch and the /
hippng Of stock TO Chicago. They |
give an account Of how the winter
'amc up against the red man, OF the
firth OF rallroad towns ndstheir de- /