The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-23
misery which grips tho heart and Will

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misery which grips tho heart and Will
not let 1t go.
There Is a commonplace enough
young man, who forges tho name OF
his highly respected emplo, Ell because
he desperately desires to deliver tho
woman he loves from the mower OF a
cruel and brutal husband, and start
life afresh with her III South America
Before the two can get away the
forgery Is discovered and the highly
respected employer decides to deal out
justice, not mercy. TO the ,nisera Bile
offender against the law. The man
pleads for chance. but It is not given
him.
While he is serving out his time in
prison, the woman for whom he has
ruined himself finds she cannot sup
port herself and her children. She
has nothing of the Spartan In her
disposition. and SO 1t seems small
wonder that she yields to temptation,
In order to secure comfort and relief
from absolute want
She only realizes what she has done
when her former lover having served
out his prison sentence, comes to claim
from her the hope that has sustained
him through all that he mas had to
OF what has happened. 1t is more than
ne can bear and he kills himself
rms is the grim outline 81 the story
"hlch Is, alas, too comnlon to seem
improbable. Tho poignancy which lends
1t power is found in the FAC. that the
mind considers not primar ily q crirni-
nal act on the part of Il fellow creature.
out Inc motive which prompted the act.
The prison, which has crustld the man
hood out OF II human soul. gives him
pack 10 the world attainted anu ac>
cursed And meanwhile, the social
law, which has driven out the man.
has driven out the woman as we'll,
me facts are presented tcrsely. But
the pity of the two never having had
chance. the incvitablcness of their
| downfall. their helplessness against
the forces nghtng them weighs on the
consciousness long after the las, page
or Justice" has been read The full
flavor of the worlds justice Is exhaIeo
from the pages Of Mr.. Galsworthy's
Play, and its taste is bitter upon tho
lips. It's burden is heavy upon the
heart.
BY William Dana Orcut, Harper
and Brothers, of New York. $3.50.
Inc artistic frontispiccc Of THE
Lever is the work of j.. Graham
| Cootes. we'll rcmeIn bcrcd in Richmoni
ana Virginia, where his present sue
cess ts matter OF plcasurc to many
especially to those associated with him
IN MS work for the Summer Art
ochool at the University of Virginia
In the motif of The Lever the
author, Mr.. circuit. tells IA story Of n.
man. Robert Gorham. who is cbscsscd
by an impulse that domin ates him to
the extent of obscuring his Judgment
ana preventing him from realizing
things as they are lie Looks UPON
them only as he wishes and imagines
them to be.
The ambition OF this man, on whom,
as born tinanciar. wealth has con
ferred great power is to bring about a
gigantic monopoly OF all the worlds
great enterprises and industries and
putting them OH a humanitarian basis
10 lessen taNauon, TO render war i'm
possible and, in effect, TO hasten the
coming OF the millennium on Garth.
The curious thing about the book is
not that Robert Gorham should be
dreamer as many others before him In
hctlon and in reality have been. but
mat the single mindcdness with which
ne dcvotcs himself to the attainment az
impossible conditions should so mark
cdly influence all with whom he comes
IN contact except his right hand man
Covington who is working to marry
ms employers daughter, Alice. though
he is secretly opposing the success Of
The Consolidated ComDauies." Cor.
hams pet ambition.
Gorham is blinded to thu unscru
pulousncss and self-seeIlne, methods
OIL CoVinSton. Alice is hypnotized 70
such an extent by her father that she
has no thought for Allen Sanford !
, disinterestcd manly sutton, alive to
real conditions. but helpless 10 remedy
them The characterizatior Of the
mover is as We'll worked up as the plot
there being much genuine humor IN
give 1t the flavor Of crispncss.
Tho dcnucment Is brought about
by Covington's overrcaching himself
IN an attempt to use n knowledge he
mas OF a secret in Mrs. Gorham's past
life, 10 muzzlo her husbands action in
regard to The Consolidated Compnn-
les Gorham is at last awakened to
{, true idea Of Covington's character.
10 is disgraced and dismissed, and
Ailen Sanford at last has his innings.
The president of Tho Consolidated
Companies abandons his Impractical
ambitions and wins more II: unsclflsb
remuneration than in vain idcalism
The personal happiness OF the book
characters cOmpensates the yeafer for
MI Gorliams failure. The story is
ciea1 and strong in It's purpose. and
presents cntertaininGly the force and
iiniuencc Of single great personality
in fiction.
"Jimmy."
BY julia j. Adams. Illustrated by
Alfred Russell and published by the
author. 55i4 Page Avenue, ST. Louis
Never was there a book written with
a more delightful littlo hero in 1t than
Jimmy. who doesn't pretend 10 be a
nero at all, but Just Il very natural
little lad with all Of a LADS 1ruant In.
pulses.
But these same impulses are con.
trollcd By his devoted affection for
his mother. who. being estrAnged from
father unknown to Jimmy, has lust
her little boy left in all the world to