The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-03-20

discover. Improba bic romance some
may say, but a romance that gilds the
stern workaday world of It's prosaic
frown is worth taking TO heart for the
pleasure 1t gives.
"f.orc RcsicEcd."
BY Charles e. Pearcc A. c. Nc
Clurg s. Co, OF Chicago. sl.2o net
The incidents Of the Indian Mutiny
have always possessed painful inter-
est for those who have shuddcred and
thrilled over this red page OF Anglo
1ndinn history and wcpt over its NUM-
bcrless trngediea.
tcrwoven with the siege of Cawnporc.
An English girl joins her father in
india Just before the mutiny breaks
out. She. with other women and chill
drcn, spend the weary months of the
siege in the residency at Cawnporc.
The girls love story does not cngross
the entire time and attention Of the
reader. however Many Of the historic
incidents connected with tho hcrolsn
of the defense OF Cawnporc are related.
reaching a climax in the coming Of the
relief party, when hope began to grow
dim The love story is very we'll told,
and it's sweetness helps to render less
grim the annals Of war and death with
which it is contraStcd
The book is very Interesting as a
whole, and gives an idea even in the
midst of the alarms OF war. OF Anglo
Indian society, It's amusements and the
graTcr side Of life for the men and
women who compose its frontier gar
risons.
"From Bull Run to 4tppomnttox.,
\ Boys View. by Luther W. Hop
kins. sixth Virginia Regiment C. S. a.
Fleet Mckinley CO.. Baltimore
photograph Of the Stuart Monu-
inent on Monument Avenue. This CITY.
appears on the cover of Mr. Hopkins
book, and the great cavalry leader. 10
whose command the author belonged.
looks out of the frontisplecc in knight
". gray and plumed hat much as he
might have done when he led the way
to the echo of his soldiers refrain.
Well follow the fca Their Of Stuart to-
night"
a paragraph appearing in The preface
of the book is quoted here. as illus
tratins the difference between this
book and Others that have been written
graph says: ..Historians have told us;
much about the war. but they have
left out the part that appeals most TO
ne boy, and it is this part that have
tried to bring before the public. Men
may read the book If they will, but
it is, written more. particularly for tho
youth. The boy Of to-day and the boy
that Is yet to he ought to know OF
the bloody sweat through which this
nation. III rcaching its present posi- ;
ton among tho great nations OF the
in IT,, II is said that ono hoyis a boy:
two boys and a half boy and three
boys no boys at all. That may be true
Of the boy running loose. unbridlcd
like a colt but gather up those hoys
and train them. harness and hitch them.
and they will move the world or break
trace lam Is the boy a @n9 dSodss inc
average ago OF our soldiers il timcs
Of pcacr. but when war. come ana
there is a call for soldiers. II IS mainly
yci. strange 10 Soy he historian has
never thought II worth While 10 put
much emphasis npon what the boy
does in the upbuilding OF q nation.i'
Mr.. Hopkins, Vito is native of Lou
doun county. Va. entered the Confed-
crate service in 1861 as q lad OF SOW
entecn. and 50 is we'll qualified to write
his experiences from the hcy's noint
OF view
These experiences carry the reader
f rom, p,.aaTpers Ferry to Bull Run.
book Is most attractivcIy arranged.
the color iilustra tons including the
!r5 rs 3, t tlags and their history;
robert =. Lee and COMES from such
rare ensravings as The Last Meeting
Of Lee and jackson a Chancellors-
The text accompanying these illus
trations Is Fl ID with Incident and In
terest. calculated to make an especial
appeal to boyhood.
"Grhy Days and Gotd.h
BY William Winter Afoffat, Yard &
CO.. Of New York. $500
In It's first shape" writes. the an
thor. in his preface to this important
work, :" Gray Days has passed through
more than fifteen large editions. It's
success abroad as well as at home
ana indeed the success that has at
tended all my publications--is deeply
gratifying to me. the moro so that 7
did not expect 1t. That which has
pleased many and pleased long must,