The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-11-19

i'll spent life. and. while We think this
scene IS somewhat ovcrdrawn, We arc
not disposed TO criticize. as Mrs Town
send is also u poetcss OF no mean or
der. a charming love story runs
through the whole book like thread
or gold and holds it's interest to the
end. Altogether. 1t is "a good book,
wholesome and educu,ivc.
For sale By III Methodist Episcopal
Church. South. Publishing House,
Nashville. Tenn DUVAL PORTER.
Frank Harris. the London editor and
Shakespeare scholar writing his list
OF twenty favortte books. has included
only one by an American author. This
book is Sister Carrie" try Theodore
Dresser. the best story. on The whole"
he says which has yet come out OF
America, perhaps better than any real
istic story which has yet been produced
in England" Tho eager admirers or
this novel by Mr.. Dresser have had
10 wait long for a successor. for the
author spent ten years OF labor and
thought before he brought out his new
book, Jennie Gerhardt." witch has
Just been published by the Harpers
The interest felt in John Galsworthy.
remarkable play entitled Justice" has
placed him in the tirst rank OF dramat-
lists and novelists. He has been cngaE-
ed in literary work for about fifteen
years Born at Coombc, Surrey Eng
land. in 1867. he was educated at lIar-
row and oxford, leaving the university
with a lawyers degree. In his play
Justice" the plot Is simple enough
"A weak young man-thouBh he need
not have been so very weak and yet
have fallcn-fnrgcs a check to rescue
from a situation, horrible both 10 him
| and TO her. the woman hc loves. OF
course. lac intends TO return the money.
lie was too soon detected. tried. con-
vlctcd. The horror of prison life Is
presented with terrible vividncss. The
hopclCssness Of the mans rcgencru
ton on release, the inevitable degrade
| ton oil the woman. are brought home
with relentless logic, The whole play
is such a marvellous example OF re-
strained and concentrated power that
it's effect on the reader is like that Of
being shaken violently from dozc.
The English officials - Winston
Churchill. home secretary. among
/ thcm--wcrc SO shaken tina, thcy set
| instantly afoot reforms of the prison
system. and carried them through; they
mitigatcd solitary confinement. among
| other things The British public was
! so shaken that they could not but
think C;alsworthv had used some meth
cd of getting AT the facts ether than
that OF vitalizinG through trained
| ina gination the lifclcss information
/ gained by interviews"
| Charice .5cribncrs Sons. of New York.
, have gotten out most entertaining
/ sketch of John Galsworthy and his
works from which the above para
srapSs are quoted
! Mary L.. Waller has contributed 30
J the autumn output OF hcticn in My
Ragpickcr.' an itppeaiinE story of a
Paris waif. The aathor of The Wood
carver of Lympus' has given to liter
aturo nothing finer than Nanettc. the
| little ragpickcr, who never knew a
| mother. and who finds the heart
hunger for one appcased In clnging to
| the stone pillars of Notro Dame in the
! thought that tho great Cathedral
our Lady of Paris" is 10 her a mother
who comforts and cherishes. MY
! Hagpicker" is brought out by Little.
| Brown and Company, of Boston. Mass.
, There is a foolish saying to the eT-
! feet that every knock is boost"
! one would not ordinarily associate such
a remark with Alfred Noyos. who. now
that "ShcrwoodI" his poem-play ct
Robin Hoods merry men. has been
published has made good his admirers
declaration that he Is a genuine major
poet. But somehow the remark slips
into ones mind apropos of the several
persons who have lately declared that
Noyes is too conservative IL poct 10
be the next poet laureate of England"
a knock" Is this--and boost in its
naive evidence that every ono who
talks OF such things takes it for grant
ed that Moves is the man who will be
most seriously considered rs the next
laureate
a book fr children, in which the
pictures seem actually alive. has APP
reared this fall. in THE Moving Pic
ture Book" by a. u. Baker. BY n me-
chanical apparatus with revolving
disks. through which the reader looks
at the pictures. the figures represented