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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-08
New Conditions for rnus.

Cincinnati, April 7--Local patrons OF
baseball VIII see several new. contli-
tons here on Thursday, when tho Chi
cago team opens the National League
season IN this city,
"A new grand stand that; Is said 10
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-04-08
oncnIns In cIeyeIand

Cleveland. Ohio. April 7.--Clevoland
and Detroit will open the 19la Amer
lean Lea que season locally next Thurs
day.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-16
RoNN,E PRINCE CHARLIE.

THE LONE ADVENTURE. BY Halliwen
Sutcliffe. 12mo, PIP. 4O3. The George
II. DOran Company.
Mr.. Sutcliffe's historical romance Is
at bottom an instance of the ugly duck
ling that proved to be swan. The eld-
est born Of the ancient house of Royd
OF Windyhaugh in Lancashire is a dis
appointment to his parents in stature,
and strength. and in spirit. Their
younger son is their favorite. SO when
the prince lands, and the Jacobean gen.
try of the county set forth to accom-
pany him on his march to London, the
heir OF Windyhaugh is left behind to
guard his mother and the estate. Hence
forth there are two stories running
parallel. the one of the disastrous cam
paien. the other Of the ugly duckling at
home. who, under the influence of love.
but also because he has hidden deep In
his breast the virtues OF his martial race,
gradually Is transformed into a swan.
rearing his white panache into a man
of determination and action. His op-
portunity comes after the rout at Cul-
New-York tribune., 1912-03-16
EDUCATIONAL.

RAVENELS ROAD PRIMER FOR SCHOOL
CHILDREN BY Samuel ". Ravenei'
C. T. Compiled and prepared at the re
quest of the national chairman Good
Roads for Child Welfare Department" Ma
tional Congress OF Mothers. illustrated.
12mo. pp. 159. (Chicago: A. {. McClurS
e. Coz
Giving the elementary principles ana
prsctices OF road making grades, drain
age, construction and maintenance.
ELEMENTS OF PHONETICS. English,
French and German. Translated ana
adapted by Walter Rippmann from we
12mo, pp. y, 14S. (E P. Dutton & Co)
GRAMMAR AND THINKING. a study OF the
working conceptions in Syntax. BY Alfred
Dwight Sheffield. l2mo, pp Z, l96. Co.
p. Putnams Sons.)
THE SCHOOL IN THE HOME. Talks with
Parents and Teachers on Intensive Child
Training. BY A. A. Berle, A. NJ, ID. ID.
l2mo, pp 210. (Aoffat. Yard & Coz
New-York tribune., 1912-03-16
A LA DUCHESS"

"A ROLLING STONE BY B. NJ. Croker.
l2rno PIP. 3l2- Brentanos.
The novels Of "the Duchess" filled in
their day pleasant and far from un-
profitable mission. They furnished
wholesome amusement, pictured life in
ths most attractive colors, and Incl
dentally preached pretty manners ana
sound. attractive morals. Mrs. Croker is
in many ways "the Duchess's" successor
No modern problems for her Of love or
wornen's rights or mems responsibilities,
either. Her hero is the most engaging
Of Irish penniless spendthrifts; his sister
is the most charming of we'll married
women; and the bark of his uncle, who
threatens to disinherit him by marrying
is far worse than his bite. However, the
rolling stone must be taught to anchor
himself in order TO gather moss. 80. II
he would inherit the avuncular fortune
in the fulness Of time, he must prove
himself worthy by earning his own living
in a legitimate way Now, since the days
Of 'the Duchess a new method OF earn
ing a livelihood has been opened up for
INDECENT young gentlemen in the world
OF fction-that Of Disgusting themselves
as chauffeurs. This is the method chosen
by the rolling stones sister for him, but
Mrs. Croker has the good sense not to
send him speeding all over the continent,
along the road of the Williamson heroes.
She sends him, instead, to quiet Eng
lish village, in the service of two elder
ly spinsters. The story is trifie. but 1t
is q pleasant one, innocent reading that
is far from dull
New-York tribune., 1912-03-16
FICTION.

THE MAN FROM JERICHO; BY Edwin ttEL car, car,
lie Lltsey. 12mo. pp 29O. emo Neale
Publishing Company
4 story of Kentucky life of the present
JOHN RAwN. Prominent Citizen; BY Elmer
son Hough. with illustration. by M. N.
Leone Bracker. l2mo,. PIP. $50. Crhs
Bobbs- Merrill Company
The narrative OF modern business
THE LONELY QUEEN. BY II. G; Bailey
i2mo, Up. S4c. (rhe George ". Doran
Company
An historical novel Of which Queen
Elizabeth Is tho central figure.
THE MOUNTAIN GIRL BY Payne Erskine
win Illustrations by ]. Duncan Gleason.
12mo pp. vi, 312 Boston: Little Brown
a. Coz
A love story Of the Blue Ridge.
THE LONE ADVENTURE. By Haliwell
sutciifre. 12mo. .pp. 4o3. CThe George H.
Doran Company
Reviewed in another column.
RED EVE. BY Il. Rider Hgggard. o Illu'trs- a
tons by Arthur G. Michael. l2fno' PIP
3jl. doubleday, Page COZ
4 tale Of the Middle Ages.
THE MYSTERY QUEEN. BY Fergus Hume
Illustrations by Howard Somerville l2mo
PIP. III. 81. (Ine G. W. Dillingham; Com
pany)
The BREAKING-PoINT. A Novel BY Fred
Lewis Fattee. 12mo, PIP. 392 'Boston
Small Maynard & Coz
Narrating the struggles OF John Gait,
minister of large city church, 10 De
tho spiritual leader OF his people instead
OF n hgurehead, and his fight for the soul
or woman.
N SEARCH OF Already. BY Nina wilcox
putnam. Illustrations by J. Scott Will
fans limo. PIP. 36l. Doubleday, Page
4 CO..
The adventures of Cecil Fitz-wlliams,
Earl OF Chamboyne I'm his search for an
American heiress: how he becomes an
itincrart vendor OF summer cottage tnr-
niture. and his meeting with Lolll Plashta'
HIERoNYMUs RIDES: Episodes in the Lits
o, a knight and Jester at the Court OF
Maxirlilian King OF the Romans By
Anna Coleman Ladd. 12mo' PIP VIII 800
THE Macmillan Company
THE STUDIO BABY. And Some other Chill
dren. By Modesto Hanns Jordan. Illus
trated by Hermann Heyer. 12mo' pp. III
CThe Cosmopolitan Press)
Seven short stories about little boys and
girls.
A LTIAL sIS.s6n 'iis FTontispiece. i2mo, pp. i47
tCharles Scribners Sons.)
Besides the narrative which gives the
book It's tus there are three G5hss 3i..,tsssd ssSr
SOUL and "a Prophetic Romancer."
THE BUTTERFLY HOUSE; BY Mary E. VII;
kins Freeman. with Illustrations by Paul
julien Meyian l2mo' pp' W. 'p'ad'
Mead & co..
4 chronicle of life in a New Jersey VII
lage.
yIsTAS OF NEW YORK By Brander
Matthews. Illustrated. i2mo. ~, 242 'Har-
per g. Bros)
Twelve short stories. each one having for
It, theme some aspect Of life in New York
City.
4 BLIND LEAD. BY Lawrence I. Lynch: II
Iustrated. l2mo. PIP. 324. tChicaso Lard
& Lee.)
A detective story.
HIDDEN HOUSE. BY Amelie Rives. With a
frontispiece by Gayle Porter Hoskins l2mo,
Do. ISL philadelphia: The ]. B. L'ppincott
Company
Reviewed in another column.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-16
CATKINS.

From The London Spectator.
OF many a flower of famous note
The summer weaves her pail;
! give my love 10 one remote
And less inclined 10 fall:
The catkin in his yellow coat
And gray fur over all.
lie comes a champion unafraid
Though winter rule the land,
When never a primrose lights the glau
Nor violet scents the hand
Or ever a cowslip ball is made
or the crocus hollow scanned
He comes TO hedgerows bare and black
And breaks them into JOY.
With a tuft Of yellow atop the stack
For every breeze to toy;
He carries a winter coat on his back
With the merry heart OF boy:
He goes before the leaves are green
or the cuckoo loud in May;
And children love his olive sheen
OF silver suited gray,
For he Is catkin-soft for queen,
And he grows above their play.
When merry roses sway and float
And beckon from the wall,
And breezes bend the lily's throat
And holyhocks grow tall
| mind me OF the yellow coat
With gray fur over all!
New-York tribune., 1912-03-16

University Press.
According to an inserted note, the
manuscript here published for the first
time was acquired by the British Mu-
scum "at the sale Of Archbishop Teni-
sons MSS, l July, 1861" While in
charge Of the parish Of st. Martin-in-
the Fields, the Rev. Thomas Tension,
later Archbishop of Canterbury, estab-
lished in his cure the first free library in
London, in which, Mr.. Westcott assumes,
he deposited this volume Of eighty-tive
folios bound In white vellum, presented
to him, according to an inscription, prob
ably in his own hand, on December Is,
[16l 50, by Mr. Wright" whom the
editor assumes to have been the Rev.
Abraham Wright, who died in the fol-
lowing year. Mr.. Westcotts researches
have unearthed but one reference to this
manuscript in English literature.-in
David Irving's Lives Of the Scottish
Poets" Edinburgh, 1904, where it is
said that MIR. Ritson informs us that in
the library Of st. Martins Parish, West
minister, is MS. volume containing "all
the Kings short poems that are not
printed" The collection was not re-
ferred TO. however, in Or. Irving's study
of the Kings works, and no later critic
or biographer has drawn upon IT, so far
as the editor knows.
1t contains fifty-seven poems, of which
twenty-six have never been published in
any form. Nine more are now for the
first time identified as part Of James's
output. OF the remainder, seven are
contained in the "Esayes of a Premise"
and Exercises at Vacant Houres"; eight
appear in the "Lusus Regius," and the
rest are 'in scattered sources not easily
accessible" Details Of arrangement and
revision in the --ing's own handwriting
indicate that this is his own definitive
text
The writings of King James l Of Eng
land and vi Of Scotland are a curiosity
Of rather than a contribution TO, Eng
lsh literature. Here, then, is this royal
poet at his best in one Of his heretofore
unpublished sonnets:
Not oriental Indus cristaIl streams
Nor fruitful Nilus that no banks can
thole;
Nor golden Tagus; where. bright Titans
beames,
Ar headlongst hurled. to view the Ant
artike Pole
Nor Ladon (Which sweet Sidney doth
eXtole)
While 1t, tn Arcadian Beauties did en-
brace:
All these cannot. thee, nameless thee, con-
trole;
But, with good right must rander and
give place:
For, whilst sweete she, voutsafest to
show her face.
And, with her presence, honors thee like
daye;
Thou slyding, seemest. TO have a slower
pace,
Against thy will, as II thou went away;
And, loathe TO leave, the sight Of such
Thou still imparts, thy plants. to every
stone.
II Is so far above James's poetic av
erage, Mr.. Westcott admits. that one
New-York tribune., 1912-03-16

SURGERY AND SOCIETY. A Tribute to
Listerism. BY c. w. Saleeby. NJ D.,
I. r. s. E. Syo, PIP. 395. Moffat, Yard
& Co.
DR.. Saleeby's tribute to Lister-to anti
septic surgery and the aseptic surgery
that sprang rom it--leads him far afield,
for. indeed. the achievement of the great
Englishman who but recently died In
the fulness Of years has reached far
afield in its consequences. Therefore
the author is justified in linking eu-
genics to the service rendered by Lister
10 obstetrics, and even In continuing iI.
these pages his fight against the anti
vivisectionist movement. His introduc-
ton Is of wider import yet for 1t is a
plea for the dissemination OF accurate
scientific knowledge among the masses
OF laymen in England, who, he com.
plains, some years ago chose by popular
vote an unnamed English statesman
(AIr. Chamberlain. one infers), as the
greatest" man Of their race then living.
in deplorable Ignorance OF what Lister
had done for them, their children and
New-York tribune., 1912-03-16

their children's children, and FOR genera
tions yet unborn.
He protests also against England's to-
tai lack Of institutions OF research rich-
ly endowed, drawing sharp contrast
between his own country in this regard
and the United States, and, OF course,
between the haphazard ways Of England
and the scientific management OF a
trained German bureaucracy, WHICH
leaves nothing to chance and overlooks
nothing, which enables its scientists u
devote themselves to research, and does
not hamper them by requiring them 10
teach. as a paradoxical reward for SER
vices already rendered. STILL the run
damental cause Of English indifference
toward science, her lack or appreciation
Of its significance and value, he says
lies in the national preference for quick
returns, and the cash estimate OF al
human affairs" England, he concludes'
with her falling birth rate and the ap-
palling physical condition or the chii-
dren Of her poor, can no longer af1ord 10
"muddle through"
To Lister however. There Is an IN
troductory chapter on surgery as 1t was
even in the days of the Franco-Germah
war. a shambles. Then comes Pasteur'
the forerunner, with a simple explana
ton of the nature OF bacilli and spirlll@
the vegetable and animal enemies IN
the blood. Lister, standing on the great
Frenchman's shoulders offered the boon
OF antiseptic surgery. and-met with the
opposition that has always been the rate
of the innoyator, even among ms col
leagues. There are, further. consldera-
tions of Listerlsm in all its modern az
pects. with a look into the future-a dis
cussion Of surgery and alcohol-ano,
finally. a tribute to Florence Nightingale
and a study of the modern nurse. DR..
Saleeby abandoned the practice OF medl-
cine in order to devote himself to the
spread of knowledge among the people.
He is rendering in his own way an I'M
portant service to humanity, and one
that. II may be added. is fortunately re-
ceiving the recognition 1t so fully de-
serves.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-16
MIR. Arnold Bennett as a writer
of Short Stories.
IN THE FIVE TOWNS.

THE MATADOR OF THE FIVE TOWNS.
And Other Stories. BY Arnolu Ben
nett. I2mo. PIP. 420. The George IL
Doran Company.
The author of 1.-The Old Wives Tale
is an artist, but neither In that DooN-
his best-nor in any other has he ever
given the fact the smallest emphasis. IN
deed. II is characteristic OF MIN tld'
while he does not, we suppose leave
form to take care Of itself, he certainly
leaves us forgetful of it. Life is MS IlrsI
interest. and his last. We hardly care
how IL is that he does the trick, Tor we
arc CO swiftly. and so contentedly, taken
I'm into the current of raw human IN
terest that flows through his pages
What he is in his novels he is IN MS
short stories The present volume, mace
up Of some twelve or fifteen narratives Oh
life in the Five Towns. asserts once more
his amazing energy and his almost
casual manner Of relating episodes Whlch
may have been invented, but have all
the air of actualities observed as II WIN
the eye Of a reporter
II is amusing in the perusal~ OF TINS
book to recall the Stevensonian hypoth-
esis, the cult for Maupassant' the
school of Henry James, and all the en-
thusiastic debate which has raseu
around. the "art" of the short story ana
the distinction between that literary
form and the "anecdote." MI. BehhetI
tells anecdotes, and if he knows it, as
U "a
he is not in the least perturoed over
such a circumstance. Why should lie De
The tale Of his young Bursley Dos'
who engages in a comically ll-Iateo
filtration, the long exposition OF Bursley
manners which wears. anonymously
enough, the title Of THE Death or simon
Fuge." may both be quite innocent Oh
any dramatic point in the strict SENSE
hut what really matters is that MI Ben
nett amuses us beyond measure ana
keeps us intensely interested not only
in the local, representative ways OF MS
figures, but in the personal traits OF the
latter. 1t is simply a case Of one cara
after another, to use the designation
which this author has himself eXplolted
in one Of his drollest compositions. Inc
people in "The Matador of the FIVE
Towns" are not all of them, to be sure
eccentric. but they simply exude Char
acter." How, we wonder, does Mr.. Ben
nett keep it up? We judge from the fire.
ouency with which he publishes new
books that he must keep busily writing
with both hands. But with incredible
ease and assurance he manages 10 make
the last book as beguiling as the one
that went before.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-16
OPERATIC.
TARANTELLA BY Edith Macvane.
12mo. pp. 25. The Houshton Mlfln
COmDanN.


Company.
The plot of this story Of Sorrento
should suggest a good, melodramatic
libretto for an Italian composer OF the
modern school. Sicilian revenge ulu-
mately cuts a knot in the life Of an
American woman that was beyond un-
tying without defiance of many conven-
tions The European environment into
which this woman, separated from her
husband, strays is the conventional one
of plotting, scheming, slandering ladies'
Of the Italian great world. 1t amply
serves its purpose however; Italy. as a
field for Anglo American fiction was
conventionalized long ago. The heroines
matrimonial affairs are certainly sadly
tangled; the sweet bells have tangled out
of tune almost from the first. No Won
der that she guards her secret; no won
der, also, that its keeping furnishes food
for the suspicious and ill-will of others.
Then comes the impetuOus Duke Of
Forestanni. What the tarantella has TO
do with the matter, and how the Sicilian
"dea ex machina" enters the Americans
life. may be learned from the book. II
is all. indeed, very melodramatic, and
operate but it IS all quite entertaining
as we'll
New-York tribune., 1912-03-16
THE TREVOR CASE. By Nstsli. Sumner Ian

THE TREVOR CASE. By Natalie Sumner Ln-
coin Illustrations by Edmund FREDERICK,
12mo. pp 332. % Appleton Coz
tale Of murder and mystery.
THE CABLE GAME. The Adventures OF an
American Press-Boat In TURKISH waters
During the Russian Revolution. By> Stanley
Washburn. illustrated 12nc, pp. 222. CBos-
ton: Sherman. French & Coz
The true story Of a newspaper assignment
THE YOKE OF SILENCE. BY Amy McLaren.
12mo. PIP. iv. 3l3. 90. p. Putnam's sons)
A Scottish love story
SALLY SALT. BY Mrs Wilson woodrow. With
illustrations by David Robinson. I2mo, Do
$40. Che Bobbs-Merrill Company
love story.
William Ganson Rose. limo, pp. Sc. Duf-
field & Coz
Showing what vigor. energy and push ac-
complished In the desdest place on earth"
THE ADJUSTMENT. BY Marguerite BRYANT.
Frontispieco. limo, pp. c06. Dufieii C
Coz
A story Of English life.
THE COUNSEL ASSIGNED. By Mary Raw
mond Shipman Andrews. Frontispiece i2rn.
Do. AZ. Charles Scribners Sons)
A short story about Lincoln by the autho,
Of ''The Perfect Tribute"
A KNIGHT N DENIM. By Ramsey Benson
limo. pp. S07. Charles Scribner's sons1
A Nebraska farming community give. ths
background to this story, OF which Bill Hsr
baugh Is the hero
THE WHITE ISLES. BY Franklin r. ph,u,r,
illustrated; Emo pp. $50. Boston: The 9.
A story Of Maine llfe
WINGS OF DESIRE. Bv Mp vu,,...
12mo, pp. 500. Crhe John Lane comnany1
novel Of English life, dealing With ~.
woman problem. WIN '''
New-York tribune., 1912-03-16
CHINESE PLOTTlNGS.
THE SABLE LORCHA. BY Horace Hazel
tine. With eight illustrations by j. J
Could. svo, PIP. 3SS. Chicago: A =
McClnrf, e Co.

THE SABLE LORCHA. BY Horace HazeI-
tine With eight illustrations oy j. j.
Gould. Svo, pp. 3SS. Chicago: A -
McClurg & Co.
ANONYMOUS letters threatening dan
ger in obscure terms; picture that dis
appears from its frame practically be-
fore it's owners eyes; mirror that IS
shattered in his presence and that or
his friend by no human agency, the
glass. moreover, not falling from the
frame. but remaining there in a tracery
Of thousands Of cracks; the disappear
ance. finally, of the recipient of the let
ters from the deck of his yacht, with
his friend within a few feet Of him
these are but the first happenings OF
q tale of widest adventure, whose eXpla-
nation of the mysteries is. however so
simple that the author deserves praise
for having invented ii. There is. after
all. a wonderland of science, and 1t Is
not impossible that the East has pene-
trated it farther in some directions than
The West This is, at least, prevalent
belief OF the present day And it is East
against West in these pages, the East
as it is represented among us in the
melting pot of New York. Chinatown
home Of many bland crimes and blander
criminals, is the scene in part, but the
point of departure is China itself, where
the intended victim Of it all declares so
insistently that he has never been. Mr..
Hazeltine has invented a god plot, and
worked it out cleverly. The only weak
point of his story is that 1t takes some
time before the reader gets really inter-
ested. but he makes up for this there
after. A good book TO read by way OF
relaxation after a strenuous days work.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-16
POETRY AND DRAMA.

POLITE FARCES For the Drawing. Roon
BY Arnold Bennett. limo. pp. 81. CIhs
George II. Doran Company
Tho three farces which are comprised n
this book are entitled The Stepmother
"A Good Woman" and "A Question OF sex
MAGDALENE. And Other Poems. p .Annis
Arlington Tyson. Svo, pp. 81. tMontgOW
cry Ala. The Paragon Press
THE TERRIBLE MEEK one-Act stsgs
Play for Three Voices: To Be Played ID
Darkness. BY Charles Ram Kennedy
Frontispiece. i2mo. pp. ~. Harper
Bros)
THE HERALDs OF THE DAWN. a Play IN
Eight Scenes. BY William watson Front
isplece 12mo, pp. 90. The ,Iohn Lane Com
pany)
MODERN DRAMATIsTs. BY Ashley Dukes
I2mo, pp VI, 3lo Chicago: Charles ~
Sergel & Coz
Critical studies Of the modern European
theatre and Of the works Of such play
wrights as Bjornson, strinberg. sudeTm.nl,
John Galsworthy, Arthur SchnitZler, Tols0y
and Gorky Capus and BrieuN. Maeterincs
and D'Annunzio.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-16
ESSAYS.

ROMANCE AND REALITY. Essays and
Studies BY Holbrook Jackson. 12mo, PIP.
203. (Mitche Kennerley)
Some Of the titles are Here and Now. "
Going TO Nowhere" Winter Glamour,
Deserts OF Noise" Immortal Russia" and
"a Note on Dandies."
WHY THE WORLD LAUGHS. By Charles
Johnston. illustrated. svo. pp. 3Ss. ,Har-
per Bros.)
Telling what 'he different nations laugh
at with stories and examples.
THE ROLLING EARTH outdoor Scenes and
Thoughts from the Writings of Wait Whit
man. Compiled by Waldo r. Browne. With
an introduction by John burroughs. FRONTS
piece. l2rno, pp. Kill 22O. (Ths Houghton
Miffiin Company
A collection OF "out-of-door' passages
from Whitmans poetry and prose.
New-York tribune., 1912-03-16
Lfferorv .Nese,s dnd Criticism

loden. He it is who guides the fugitive
prince to safety, he it is who helps the
prescribed partisans Of the Cause 10
escape to the Continent And. his work
done. his right TO his ancient name es-
tablished, he finds his reward. 1t is
brave story Of the growth of character
under stress of circumstances, VIVA
story, also, Of the rising, its high hopes
and its slim chances, a tale Of undeVlat-
ing loyalty to the Stuarts, OF double deal
ing and treachery, Of battle and the
miseries of defeat and retreat. The au-
thor insists somewhat overmuch upon
the virtues as well as upon the romance
OF the Young Pretender, without sue
ceeding altogether in convincing ms
reader. The best part of the book lies in
It's study Of the young Lancashlremah
who found himself in the Lost Cause.