The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-07-23

denotes through her father and her
Orientalism from her mother. AT the
critical moment, OF her life the man
she loved failed her; at another time
what must decide her future. she was
brought face to face with her father
and asked him to recognize her. He
replied, 1T is impossible"
cast aside by those two who might
have been powerful factors in a new
life and new religion. the Fast re-
claimed her. She became during the
Boxer uprising the Goddess OF the Red
Lantern Light. a divinity of the Boxer
League. arrayed in scarlet, holding in
one hand a great sword and in the
other an enormous red lantern like a
bloody sun.
She became an Inmate of the palace
of Jung Lu. the great Chinese man
DARN and military leader. who pre-
scented the Boxer goddess to the Dow
aser Empress of China at grand
council held in the throne of the i'm
perial palace. From that time on the
Boxer goddess was given retinue
and a Manchu handmaiden by the En-
press. who also bestowed upon her
the flaming pearl" of the Chinese
dynasty, symbol of the unattainabie
and ruby, emblem of the Red Lam
tern Light Society.
WIN these magnificent gifts and
other regalia, the Eurasian girl be
desired to be. "a very great lady in
deed"
When the uprising had done its
bloody work. and had its further pro-
gress stayed. the mission folk came
back and found the Eurasian girl
dead by her own hand upon the great
'Dynastic Throne with a jade cup in
her hand from which she had ouaffed
oblivion. When she felt that THE
god of her father who had given her
life only to cast her. off. had rejected
her, the long fierce duel of he, life
was over. and the East claimed her
child.
"a BiE Horse to Ride,
BY L. b. Dewing. The Macmillan
Company, OF New York $3.50.
Sometimes the clue to the full mean
Ing an authors book is found in its
very last words. as is the case with
the book under review. whose heroine,
celebrated dancer, says:
Il shall live in the country some day
when I'm no longer capable of dane
ing. shall feel the first warmth of
spring; l shall see, best of all, the
fall of the year. shall remain there
more and more. II grow old 1 don't
wish to grow old on the stage. I shall
bid 1t farewell. my laurcls fresh, my
triumphs high. l should like to have
sons. MY sons would be strong and
tall, and 1 should teach them to ride
straight. 1t is for their sake. as we'll
as my own, that l am glad my life is
so largely yet to live, with all the
strength and youth which is mine.
look forward, not back. have faith
In the future. I shall be loyal to my
Big Horse. shall ride outintothe
morning and Mt last not ride back
Perhaps out straight to the sea l
shall go. the tapping waters closing
about me. ] shall watch my horse
swimming strongly to the land, ridden
out. pcrhaps-the horse of life-and
yet unridden."
"A Big Horse to Ride" then. is the
history of life seen through the eyes
OF great dancer, woman who cele-
brates her triumphs in all the great
cities of the Old and the the New
World, and has the singular gift OF
seeing herself as She really is, without
overestimation or undue vanity
The book is represented as being
written from the bow window of the
dancers home in Washington Square
New York. when the dancer has
reached the age of twenty-seven years
and finds she has a creative instinct
which her dancing doesn't satisfy. The
book is written in the form OF an
autobiography. and leaves upon the
mind of the reader first of all the
Impression OF distinctness in reminis-
cence and clearness in presentation
that is rarely unusual
The dancer has not had n very
happy home atmosphere: as child the
relations between her father and moth
er being strained long before the
breaking point point was reached
The child remained with her father,
but was independent f him, her grand
mothers fortune and home having
been left In trust to her.
The choice Of dancing was not under
these circumstances choice of neces-
sity, hut of inclination. Father and
daughter talked il over. and the child
began her training with a clearer idea
than most of what her profession
meant.
In looking back the story begins
at the beginning and keeps a straight
thread of connection There are child
ish memories of long summers at