The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-14
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, new form of expression that stimulates
Ia readers mentality much as the COLI
tact OF cold, clear water does a hot
and dusty traveller on an August day
She leaves Jim Bone and Sylvia in
Euckersviilc, where she picked them
up But she leaves them married
lovers and takes her leave of them
annually In these words. Eve are not
very sensible about aprrcciating tho
sturdy growth OF love after marriage.
This is why authors usually end the
story with the wedding bells. We can
only thank God that larger per cent.
OF lovers remain constant to one an
other through all tho disillusioning
hardship of married live than writer's
Of mere fiction would lead us to be-
ievc. or even the statistics of divorce
courts"
"'fhc Sentence of silence
BY Reginald Wright Kaufman.
Mofrat Yard Il Co, of New York. sl.35
mel.
Reginald Wright Kaufman is one Of
The most widely -Known writer's in
America on questions Of social reform
HIS present book Is dedicated 10 his
wife, who has been his coworkcr in
All that he has attempted and accom-
plished, by gaining his knowledge at
first hand in tenement houses and
Sums. city boarding houses and all the
secthins centres where life and color
abound III high tide.
The author says in his rorcword
that ''ir The purpose Of this novel is
not clear TO the serious reader, then
nothing might say would make ii
clear. II the characters, TO whom
have been merely chorus. do not of
themselves present their problem and
its need OF solution. then either [ err
in. n" manner Of my Interpretation or
my readers err in their manner Of APP
preach. The so-callcd sex question is
all educational and moral question.
Not until We have faced tho subject
with open eyes can we hope for a
realization of what now stares at US
on city pavcments a,.G in countr!
lanes"
The book relates in tse main TO the
INFRINGING Of young people to the
mistaken ideas which impcl fathers
and mothers TO send heir sons and
daughters out into the world unpre>
pared for the practical struggle be-
fore them, unguardd as to the rculi-
tics which the struggle involves.
The problem Of how best to cdu-
cate boys and girls SO as to make the
hest possible Foundations for after life
il one of the greatest OF all problems,
one which appeals 10 all right minded
fathers. mothers and educators with
uncommon and uncndinS force.
MIR. Kaufman has presented his idea
of household mistakes and their con-
sequences with directncss and SINGER
lily. However. readers may differ with
him. they win have no doubt as toI
the strength of his convictions and his
purpose in telling them TO others. =
Aside from the main purpose OF his
novel, its characters are we'll drawn
and the story is constructed with
Judgment and sustained with interest.
It's seriousness and its Importance diff !
fercntiate il from mere romance. Mr.. !
Kaufman is a prcachSt Of social re- !
form, and he chooses literature as nj
vehicle through which lie can give
utterance to truths that mankind at
large arc slow TO think about sensi |
bly, and helpfully.
Truth is not always welcomed. But
Il surgeon cuts Ia heal. 20 save life. not
to destroy it. and sucn an author as
MIR. Kaufman is like the surgeon.
What he has TO say may wound like
q knife, but. like the knife. IL may
avail To work an effective moral cure. |