The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-04-27


lilies. Almost n reader will inhale the
fragrance OF Towering almond and lily
of the valley while bending over the
pages of Virginia" almost will hand
BIO stretched out to pluck red and
white rose from tho tangled gardens
surrounding old houses such as those
lived In by the Pendletons the Tread
wells and Miss Priscilla Bate. In short
Virginia" Will make an Irresistible
appeal to the imaginations and hearts
! of Miss Glasgow's townspeople, states
people and countrypeople.
1Thc Invadcrs."
/ BY Frances Newton Symmes Allen
/ Houghton, Mfflin & Co., of Boston
$1.30 net.
This book is clear proof that the
tastes and standards Of American nov
elists are veering to an uplift. Politics
! in fiction and the exposure and down
fall OF political bosses have ceased to
be burning centre of interest with
writer's of literature. Life with its
manifold and vltalzed concerns, its
high hopes and ambitions, has once
more taken precedence in the mind and
at the penis end of literary artists
The story is written around small
New England village. not far from
| Boston. The pathos lies in the fact
that the elder village generation rep
resentinG original orners of homes for
many years. are passing and leaving
their youngers to bear results of in
Movements and lack of success The
inheritors of mortgaged land and
houses naturally resent, however, nat
urally resent the presence In their
midst of the Irish and tho Polanders,
whom they consider purely as In
vaders.' without reckoning up their
humanness. in the very least
Nothing is cleverer or more acutelv
analytical than the attitudes held and
portrayed in different households, and
pictured by the authorcss of the In
vaders." of the resentment toward the
Poles and their kindly priest; toward
the Irish. with their expansive ana
emotional natures.
There are several love stories in the
book and as many heroines Olivia
Laid Is the principal of these devoted
III her young strength and intelligence
TO what she considers a work Of atone
ment. giving out her energies to scien-
tine farming and the redemption of hers
and her mothers home. Then. there Ia
the village postmistress, Prunella
LOOMS, girl with n practical cast of
MIND, who amaZes herself and her rela-
tives when she bursts the shackles of
tradition and bestows her heart uDon
a young Polish pianist. although he
eVentuatcs as the son of n prince
The book has delicacy Of touch and
realism in Characterization and incl
dent that render il most attractive.
IL is individualized by q freshness OF
ina gination and a freedom from hack
neyed ideas
Refections OF BeSinninE Husband"
BY Edward Sandford Martin Harper
fishers. s1.20 net.
married philosopher and one that
views matters and people outside from
enough as a writer to command a SYM
pathetic reading audience. Women will
an one sa of them 10 hear such
about womans mind--if il is n fairly
good one-that it is so extraordinarily
slim ulating to mans mind so that
when you are too tired TO talk to a
man you can chatter on amazingly to
q ane %o' The, r row she is the right
do! They are the great natural stimu.
liant and tonic for mankind"
NM Mt Martins reflections are concerned
lions between the price of commodities
anu anc, eGin,enIment with the place a baby
experienced views OF Major Brace. with
politics. education and improved pros
poets, Dwelling upon these. MIR Mar
complished: how we endure labor nrj
vations. disappointment, restricted
closet space and lack of gardens. and
go on comparatively orderly and pa
tient. getting what we can and going
without the rest. Shops are full Of
crowds surge here and there. strilters,
Strike and pickets picket. juries find
me polls open and close. and the papers
tell us who was elected
me author of the book expresses
himself clearly, and will command a
nearing al the hands OF the reading
public
"The Opening Door,
by Justus Miles Forman Harnar G.
Bros. of New York and London 81 N
net. Si'oo
IL comes as matter of surprise that
SO Young q writer as Justus Miles For
man has produced a novel that ia an
10 The good for suffrage Pertains ,h,t
statement might be qualified by the
observation that authors. and esne.
ciaiiy successful authors have n hahit
Or being sufragists. They look below
me mere surface of life
ne Opening Door has n very or
thodoN New Haven. Connecticut. point
or view. There is no especial plot only
me experiences OF Hope Standlsh
connecticut girl before and a fter ma
riage MAI
As suffrage worker, she proves
ialIurc during her girlhood. Her en-
aan ehort TO put her Humanitarian eff
forts behind her
Hut as a married woman her sym.
pathies IN behalf OF the cause as suf
rage is represented in her estimate
WINS over her husband. and her house
becomes meeting place for the clev
crest people of her acuuaintancs tbosa
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