The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-12-10

! are few. His wife kceps to the-seclusion
: or her room. but sne makes her In
4 fluence felt nevertheless.
| Tho girl and boy, of th.s bye ono day
story are properly and wildly In lovo
! with each other. No cold gcalcula ton
for thom. Their minds are set on de-
aenting the opposition. by which pa.
tcrnal vigilance bcsets them. and as
(! is always the case. they arc success
! ful.
U There is youth, fragrance and ro-
(, nance In the story, j. Cranfordlan per-
fumn, and sort OF the -world-well-
/ ost-for-lore kind OF spirit that rem
ders the appeal II IN .kes altogether
J irresistible. The quain. iliu-trations
I, show that j. Scott williams has put
the color OF the text into his brush.
for the pictures bring out It's me anins
and render the whole couiplcte.
/ '..roddic."
BY Gilbert watson The Century
Company, Of New York s1.2o not
/ 4 story with ST. Andrews. Scotland.
ffor a ckground. instantly sugEests
/, the tden of golf. SO 'Toddie" classes
Itself In the mind aa golf idyl. 1t
is, moreover. the romance of caddic
4 who Is q woman-hater. oae who when
ifhe was commanded by the IMAM who
/ gave him employment to go into a
! warm kitchen and accept its hospi-
tality. almost went to the length of
! disoheying because the presiding deity
/; OF the kitchen was--a womap.
I The golfer 10 whom Toddie owed
onthuhiastic and devoted. allegiance
| becomes lover. and COLTS with wo-
! mnn by his side. Toddle's consterna-
i ton ut such an unlocked for happen
! Ing Is 40 great that he is driven, OIL
/. meeting the Kitchen hostess out for
! a walk, to communicate his fear of
impending trouble to her sympathetic
| ears. She Is equally unhappy because
/ her young mistress is the object of
| Toddies majors affections. The two
talk the matter over and end by losing
| their dread of each other. and, in
their turn becoming reconciled to the
| attitude of their bettersi because they,
| too. are In love.
| The book is written with much skill
In depicting the different types OF men
who are caddies by profession and
! the discomforts of the life they pursue
The manner in which love affects
Toddie. the change II brings about in
/ his habits and characters. is made ap-
| parent with much quaint Scotch hui
| NOR. Altogether the story is cleverly
! told and interspersed with humor that
! Is fresh and delightful.
I b. u.
"The Amazing Adventure. of Letitia
Cprbcrry.'
BY Mary Roberts Rinehart The
Bobbs Merrill Company. of Indienapo-
lis. Ind sl.25.
! Howard Chandler Christy has made
| the pictures for the latest novel by
1 the woman who has become famous
| through her authorship of The Cir
cuiar Staircase" The Man in Lower
| Ten and other stories of that kind,
| or course, every story must have
! natural solution. no matter how
strongly all evidence points to the SUI
Rernetura and usually when the SO
! luton comes the reader is left with Il
/ sense of disappointment. &nt 80 with
The Amazing Adventures of Lctitia
carberry. Mrs Rinehart Is too much
Tor air artist for that, She leada her
! readers through a bewildering maze
that seems utterly impossible of exit,
! and then in the last chapter, when
I she is good and ready. she bares her
| secret. so.uneHpccted and logical is
F., 1t that the reader fairly loses breath
with the excitement OF II all.
| When the reader is not wondering
/ he Is laughing, for no matter how
! serious the situation may be, one of
the three spinsters who hold the centre
of the stage at all times. does some
thing absurdly incongruous just az in
life when the dreadful and the ludi
crous often marc. hand in hand
Letitla Carberry, "Tish" for short.
the shrewd. self-assertire. whimsical
spinstcr. under whose wing. SO to
speak, the mystery happens, and who
conducts a private and vigorous invcs-
tiga,iou, III n delightful character. Her
heart is made OF gold, but she chooses
to conceal 1t behind many small as
peritles 81 speech ard conduct, and in
particular to dominate over her nurse
in way that sorely tries the latter's
soul The second spirster--Miss AGgic
--"who adores guinea pigs" and who
was once engaged. 20 q young man i'll
tho roofing business, who fell off
roof, thereby providing her with lifc-
time theme for conversation, is, In her
way, just as delightful as fish, The
story Is told by AIiss Lizzie, WHO re-
mains In the background except that
she niauifcsts womanly weakness for
love affairs as displayed in the 70
nance between Tish's .ncp cw-younG
DR. Andrcws-and Ruth Blake, "the
littlo nurse" around whom much Of
the mystery clinEss
Imag inc an unmarried woman he
tween the ages of fifty and sixty.
whose tongue is only a shade less
sharp than her curiosity; who is proud
OF her spinstcrhood, yet goes to all
sorts Of extremes to untanGle the love
affairs OF others and to assist i'll their
examinations; who. when nerved up by
Il tablespoonful of blackberry cordial.
is willing to drive runaway ANTONIO
bile or go motor boating Mt midnight,
and YOU have - picture of Letltin Car
berry. Her character, as are all the
other charact. rs, is revealed slowly,
giving tho Impression that ono is
forming an actual friendship.
Tho Amazing Adventures. of Letitin
Carberry' Is real book. To know
fish Is to love her. and to road her
adventures is to nd, TO the JOY of
living,
.,Thc Unofficial Honeymoon"