The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-09

have been swccthcarts from childhood
Marcy Preston. however, counts for
n good deal moro than mere nook
| heroine. She represents the home low
| Ing type which embodics tho Virginia
girl that is altogether contented with
her surroundings. her husband. her
children and her friends. one who by
grace. beauty and natural wit can
achieve social triumphs, but who holds
aloof from them because they have
nothing to 60 with the scheme or
things, iii which her bearI delights.
! Contrhsted With her and with Robert
Norwood, sensible. manly young fell
low, are Julia Farwcll, Louise Lloyd
and Douglas Lloyd. New Engianucrs.
who are soiourning III Virginia and
boarding al Glen Haven while doing
so. Miss Farweil is restless philan-
thropist, interested, in the negro ques.
tion and social conditions in the South
generally. Miss Lloyd Is a much more
natural and agreeable character, who
Is free from fads and self -delusions
She has accompanied Miss Farwell in
her Southern trip for the pleasure it
promises and bestows. Douglas Lloyd
a shrewd. practical New Highlander.
has como South TO persuade Julia Far
we'll 10 abandon her ambitions and
become his wife at once. representing
10 her the lack OF motive In further
delay and his great desire for home
with wife in 1t. Julia feeling sure Of
her power over her lover. and unwilling
TO relinquish at once her educational
work among the negroes in which she
is engaged. puts aside his suit for a
year.
| Douglas Lloyd is furious with her.
and while he is at his worst, he meets
Marcy Preston He falls in love with
her and She with him Tics binding ~.
two to Miss Farwell and Robert Nor
wood are broken, and tho firs; part oil
the story closes with their marriage
at hand
! The second part Of The book dwciis
upon thu after marriage romance. with
Douglas LLOYD, has wife and children
living In Norfolk. but Marcy Preston
ma squerading in. her great grand.
mothers hrocadc gowns. slender, gold
on haired and Eirlish. amid the sur
rcnndinGs where she flttcd naturally
and gracefully into the picture, is ono
thing. and Marcy, young and untricd
with the cares of wifchood and mother
ilood upon her. and the problem of ad-
jhsting herself to difficult labor prob
lens and to the negroes that arc the
products OF education and so-called
training, is another Douglas Lloyu,
with New E;nglanders love of order.
| does not make sufficient allowance for
youth and Independence in Marcy
Julia Farwell is at hand to widen The
| breach between the two There Is
! jealousy and mutual fault ilndinr.
| Then Marcy Lloyd takes her children
and goes back TO Glen Haven. the old
! Gloucester county home. and Dougla 8
/; Lloyd drifts dangerously near TO dune
dom in the hands of an experienced
woman of the world. before he comes
! TO his senses and seeks the fnIilmept
! of his true ideals In reconciliation and
+! reunion With Marcy under the root
| tree and beside the hearth where. from
| first to last her heart alone seems to
| be really and truly at rest and at peace.
! The main purpose of the book Il. the
expression of the authors belief III
the superiority OF Marcy Preston,
through her devotion to home interests
and her absorption in them. over the
restless, dissatisfied class of intellec-
! tusl femininity which Julia Farwell
exemplifies. The negro question and
several other questions relating to
social conditions are also brought in,
and are treated Discriminatory
| The style OF the book Is most attrac-
tive and its connection close and
smooth. The characters are spiritedly
| drawn and there is II It, enough OF tho
romantic coloring and trend Of an
earlier day to remove itantireIy from
| tho realms historic, psSchologic and
lnolitico. Which have invaded much re.