The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-04


a transatlantic outing enjoyed by pr.
Hatcher and of glad days spent by
Vim with Sturgeon In England.
i His book lis especially rich every.
where in aneedote and "Reminiscences
/. and everywhere 1t is lightened with
the spirit Of optimistic humor. Allu-
sions made to many Virginlans, with
! whom Dr. Hatchers ministerial in
fluence and his travels rendered him
FAMILIAR, VIII make the book specially
and generally interesting. 1t is written
Informally and spontaneously, and
! takes In the years from 1894 to 1910
the measure OF DR.. Hatcher's life.
"The Way Up"
BY NJ p. Willcocks. John Lane &.
/, Co.. Of New York $3.50.
/. The story of this book is mainly
the story Of Michael STROBE, the iron
| master an Englishman OF to-day. who
| determines by his own unaided exer.
! lions In the outset of his career to
! devote himself to finding out the
/ why's and wherefores Of sundry social
\ and economic riddles. He exemplifies
! his belief that a man must start from
| his own standpoint and not from that
| Of his class or rank. He decides that
! he Wapts to face actual life and not
! of the sentimental middle class.
| In order to carry out his ideas he
wages for years fierce battle against
rivals better equipped for business
| than himself. Only his energy and
ability save him in the chance he de-
| sires to give in turning over a great
Industry to the men for cooperative
production, the method which Michael
believes to be the system of the flu
ture.
His work obsesses him. In his ef-
fort to personally adjust the claims
OF labor against capital, and to illus
trate the claims of the individual
! against those of the State. he is car.
Iied away and blinded by fanaticism
INA, renders him impervious and deaf
70 everything outside of his work.
During his early manhood Michael
| Strode marrtes woman in whose
heart is the world and the love OF all
| IL mas TO give of pleasure and power
| and adulation. woman to whom his
! work and his plans and his humans
larlanism seem only the empty dreams
| OF an idealist; woman who with
| holds from him the support of her
! sympathy and the needed help of her
/ capital. When Michael STROBE refuses
| TO sacrifice his work to her she claims.
! IN her turn. the right of a woman to
/ I'VE her own life. She goes away from
| her husband and little son, and on
the stage and in the dramatic world
| OF London she finds her vocation.
| But day of reckoning comes for
these two-recreant husband and wife.
| lheir boy grows from childhood into
| noyhood He goes TO London, sees his
/ mother on the stage. and is heart
| broken over the tragedy of estrange-
ment between his parents. After
| while the boy travels to Guse in
! Northern France TO collect some data
needed By his father from the Godin
! factory there. He is stricken down
with typhoid fever. Mother and father
are sent for and meet for the first
| Tune In years over the lads death bed
| both realize the mistakes and faults
| that led to their separation and render
them almost strangers to each other.
| Inc woman had lived for pleasure
| Now the futtlity of what she has done
ieaVes her nothing to hope for. In
| the strenuousness of his labor fight
! the man had lost sight of duties and
responsibilities that he owed first of
/ all. Beside his dead child his sins
4 OF omission rise and confront him
After this the book moves rapidly
! forward to Its climax. There are
other characters beside those men.
TONED that grace its pages-Mchae ell
sIooe mother, VINO might stand for
the mother of humanity: Louis AvioIet.
who is most skiifully drawn in, and
Phl!ippa Halliday, whom Michael only
perceived for years as means to an
end. and finishes by realizing that, as
4 always. he has taken all and given her
/ nothing in return
4 The Way Up is the way of hu-
! mainly, way in which every sue
| cess is partial failure that leaves a
| doubt behind as to whether 1t has
| oeen worth the fight made for 1t.
! But the struggle it relates touches
| hearts that thrill to the truth of Its
portrayal For the pages on which
Its drama of labor and of love is told
stir with Vital truth. To such men
as Michael Strobe. who enter and pass
| through the world not as through a
LABORATORY. but workshop. one is
convinced that the work of recon.
structing a new social order is to be
entrusted, Notwithstanding the fact
| mat such men are never quite sure
whether women are clinging parasites
or stemmed growths. strong to stand
the buffetng OF all the winds of
| heaven"
'rhe Man Higher Up"
BY Henry Russell Miller. The Bobbs-
| Merrill Company. of Indianapolis. $3.50.
newsboy, who through effort and
talent becomes political boss and
/ then develops into a peoples rights
4 champion by transformation, is the
| nero of Mr.. Miller's novel, the scene