The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-05-11

keep home together for his three
sisters and Melody Waller IN unprac-
teal, but delightful girl, born of
Spanish mother and an English father.
and inheriting the extravagant tastes
OF both. Urged by her fathers en-
treaties and his necessity for money
She nearly marrfes a rich Englishman
whom she does not love. Al the last
moment she draws back and runs away
with her poorer sweetheart, who at
the very nick OF time. is given Il head
mastership in school with IA good
salary.
Then loan Ellaby and Maurice 10
huns romance fares on TO happy
ending, and two pairs OF lovers fulfll
the fortunate destiny of humanity. The
story Is we'll thought out and develop
ed, and the lesson of il, that love is
worth more than anything in life, is
made very plain indeed.
"Napoicon's Campaign In Russia Ammo
ISI."
BY Or. y. Rose. Illustrated by O
Mertc, taken from Yein In husband.
1872" Published by the author, Of
New York Sl.50.
AS stated in the subtitle, this work
is medico historical. Beginning with
the crossing OF the Nicman in June
1912. the reader is carried on To Mohi-
lew. OStrowno, Polotsk. Erasnoi, Sno-
lcnsk. Walutina. Borodino, to the con-
fiagration of Moscow. and then during
the retreat arc described the battles of
Winkonow. Jaroslowetz, Wiasma, Nop.
Krasnoi. BcrcSina, wilma. Kowno
AS tho author says in his preface:
There is no campaign in the history
of the world which has left such
deep Impression upon the heart OF the
people than that OF Napoleon In Rus
sia. ammo 1872. OF the soldiers of
other wars who had not come home
it was reported where they had ended
on the field of honor. OF the great
majority of the 100000 who had crossed
the Nicman in tho month Of June. Ammo
1872. there was recorded in the list of
their regiments. In the archives Dis
appeared during the retreat and moth
ing else"
when the few who had come home
; those hollow-cycd SpectreS with their
I frozen hands. were asked about these
comrades who had disappeared during
! the retreat. they could give no infor-
NATION. but they would speak of end.
: less, Of never heard -of suffcrings in
/ the icy deserts Of the north, OF the
cruelty Of the Cossacks. OF the afro
cious acts of the MoushIks and the
/ peasants Of Iithuania. and. worst OF
all. of the internal acts of the people
/ Of wilma. And it would break the
\ heart of those who listened TO them"
hundreds Of thousands who have per
ished Ammo 1872 in Russia from cold.
hunger. fatigue or misery" The vol
umc is written in a most interesting
manner and Is wcll worth the reading.
common Discnsrs."
/ BY Woods Hutchinson. a. NJ. NJ. D..
iioughton Miniin Company, of Boston
| and New York. $50 net.
! In his attractive but authoritative
manner, DIR. Hutchinson in the present
Offering treats Of such common dis
caseg as dyspepsia, catarrh. asthma.
! hay fever. Iirights disease, heart dis
case, sea sickness and other less known
| complaints OF the human body DR..
hutchinson is probably the most
widely-read author on popular medi-
/ cine to-day.
The first chapter in the book is de-
OF Pills and Powders" In this he says.
When Eve ate the apple she was
making AN experiment in therapeutics
! In this she was only living up TO the
professional obligations OF her scx.
l probably with an eye to its use upon
Cain and Abel in the next domestic
emergency. Even the misogynist Moses
admits that il WAS because the fruit
was to he desired to make one wise "
In the second chapter. under the
heading Home Doctoring." the author
gays: Not all our memories of the past
are rosy Lovingly Az our thoughts
may llnGcr around the swimmin' hole.
the little truudlc- bed. the moss covered
bucket, the little window where the
sun came pccping in at morn there is
one rather vivid chapter of our childish
recolicctions which they distinctly pre-