The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-06-12

actor transformation by alcoholIsm
which he portrays in "rhe Black
Cat; to tho mastery of conscience In
Tho Ten-Tale Heart and then to
the most carefully worked out. of all
Poe's conscience stories, civilian Will
| son." in which Wilson'S conscience
appears IS his double. The double is
finally slain, but with dying breath
addresses Wilson thus:
| You have conquered. and I yield.
! fet henceforward art thou also dead
| dead to the world to heaven and to
| hope! In me didst thou exist-and
| In MY death sac by this Image. which
is thine own, how utterly thou has.
murdered thyself"
| And Mrs. Stanard adds: "Is there
nothing of the preacher. no moral pur-
/ pose, no lesson drawn from human
experience in this arraignment? ?"
Sire. Smiths Prize story.
Mrs. Mary Stewart Smith, Of the
/ University of Virginia. who is visit
i Ing her son, Tucker Smith. 1T sans
souci, Waikiki. Honolulu, has been
I recently awarded a prize by a Homo
| lulu weekly. for her story in Marie
/ Celeste competition appearing in the
! columns OF that publication.
| The Marie Celeste was gallant. but
| Inflated ship, owned In the early
/ century by Captain Forth, OF Rrcok-
/ lyn. He was persuaded by his wifA,
! when at home from a three years
4 cruise. to take her, their daughter,
! their niece and a party OF intimate
4 friends on a voyage through the
4 Mediterranean. The party left New
| York Harbor in May. expecting to be
back in Brooklyn for their Christmas
! dinner.
/ Nothing was known of them after
/ ward The Marie Celeste was found
/ hopelessly adrift. Intact and unframed.
/ the party that had started so merrily
on their way from New York straight
! for the Gates of Hercules.
/ Mrs. Smith explains the mystery by
| the landing, for days plea sure, of
| passengers and crew on a volcanic
/ Island near the shores of Southern
Italy, which created BY volcanic ac-
= and submerged, Captain Fortin's party
/ and his sailors finding 4lke a tragic
! death and burial.
! Virginia has three literary women
(, who are bidding active defiance to Dir.
/ osler's age -limit-Mrs. Smith, Mrs.
Terhune and Mrs. Pryor. Mrs Smith
was delighted with Mrs, Pryor's recent
novel of former Southern life, THE
| Colonel's Story" and has expressed the
| warmest praise IN regard to it.
l"rhe House in the Hedge"
BY Ralph Henry Barbour. Illustrat-
Led by Gertrude a. Kay. Monat, Yard
& Co., of New York. si.lO net
\ charming summer idyl, in which a
house surrounded BY hedge and Sit
uatad at Eastmeadows not far from
Boston, plays an important part Tho
principal characters In the book are
| Marjorie Pryde, whose father was a
! Virginian and her mother Massachu-
sets woman: Larry Pryde. her brother:
her Aunt Myra and Fairfax. her cat
Jocelyn Hare friend OF Myra and
Larry Lar Rec Reed harrington. injured in an
automobile accident. and the sinvalid
OF Hedge House; Jefferson fully a
| writer and Reed Harrington's friend
] Marjorie Pryde, chaperoned by Aunt
! Myra, goes from Washington to East
| me adows where the Prydes have a
cottage for the summer. On the cot
| tage lawn stands an elm with plat
form built IN 1t. about ten feet from
the ground. with steps leading up 10
/ II, a railing around 1t, and benches
to sit on From the platform Marjorie
could look over into the premises OF
/ the House in the Hedge" Her limo
cent spying led to her acquaintance
with Reed Harrington and his friend,
! Tuuy. and lays the foundation for a
| very sweet love story. The whole tone
| OF the book is genuine and unaffected
and utter lack OF pretension renders 1t
refreshingly wholesome and entertain
Ing. .7i'T'.
1.-THE E1ccption.p
(, By Oliver Onions John Lane Com
pany, of New York. $3.50
strongly written story OF woman
who has secret indlscretion OF her
early life 10 guard, and finds It's evil
consciousness cropping up at every
turn. spoilng all her chances for han
piness and imposing upon her an ever
| growing burden of secrecy and un-
| happiness.
The scene OF the story Is laid in Eng
land There are alnumber of cleveriy
described people of more or less ,ndt-
vtduality. but Berice Beckwlth absorbs
within the circle OF what concerns her
the major Interest of the tragedy which
her own wrongdoing has begun in her
earliest youth. The death or young
English soldier In India seems for
time TO set Berlce free She resolves
10 beEln life over again. But after n
while echoes from past that should
be forgotten are repeated in her ears
ana she nnds herself entansled in nn
ever-tightening web of fear and deceit
Tho author of the book has verrv
foreible way OF depicting consequences.
ana consequences IS the game which
the book exploits. When The game
na> been brought to finish, the chief
9lyer throws down her cards. She
tnl nave no more OF 1t. She bids
iareweil to her fellow players and van
isnes from their sight. She has found
if5,.t-w game. and she calls it expIation.
"Whcn the Red God. CALI,
by Beatrice Grlmshaw. Mofrat, Yard
CO. Of New York. sl.s5 net.
Ihis novel has It's opening scenes
laid in New Guinea. and its closing
plantation, high up on the Astrolabe
river. Il tells the story Of an irish
man Hugh Lynch by name, who, after.
various adventures in other quarters
o. .he earth married a native girl at
her to his Island home, some distance
rom the mainland. After some months
Inc Inc wire ran away with trader named
oanderson Hugh Lynch pursued him
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