The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-10-26

girls. and all the sounds that may add
! color TO his work.
| IN this portion or the book it is
needless 10 say, the African color is
painted In by Mr.. Hchens with the
same art that went to the making OF
The Garden or Allah"
! To the house in Alriers come ,nanv
! who enter into the story, including
Jacob Crawford, an American impress
ario. whom CHAIRMAN. SIN engaged
in pushing her husband has persuaded
10 come. This impresario. drawn most
opViouSiF from our own Oscar Ham
/ nerstein. has been searching the
world for new singers ana composers
who strike a fresh and startling note
ana. after reading the librctto and
hearing part of the music he agrees
TO produce the opera IN New York,
but only after il has been cut, pad
oed ana built UP after his own ideas
Inc scene shifts TO New York and
mere follows some of the most vivid
writing In the novel SIR. Hichens. IT
VIII be remembered. came TO America
during the preparation OF the stage
/ version OF The Garden OF Allah" and
renamed through the rehearsal period
until the play was produced At that
I 'iHe ne must have observed with acute
and Photographic Intelligence MANY
or the scenes and Incidents that are
embodied in one form or another in
y
more than that not only are the ac-
tual happenings faithfully transcribed
In his story, but he has caught and
presented the very atmosphere OF tho
producing managers end of the the
atrical world.
lie has depicted the apparently hone
less confusion attendant upon rushed
rchearSais OF great productions the
chaos that speedily resolves into order
eu sihoothhess. and he has, as we'll. pre-
scented the attitude of a first night au-
dlence, The cvasivc comments of critics
and the complex. quivering. nervous
pS!choiogical effect of a first pcrforn-
ahce upon both artists and audience
Upon the fate OF the opera hangs
the logical conclusion of the story.
winch MI llichcns has disclosed with
Just sufficient reserve to permit of :,
healthy and happy imagining as TO the
'uture of the musician and his wife
The Way OF Ambition" is long.
counting the number of pages, but II
] Is so vivid in its stimulation of life
/ so new in it's treatment OF music and
musicians. and so intensely interest
ing merely as Il story that IL hurries
the reader through chapter after chap
ter of most excellent writing
"Prescou OF Snsi<ntcheunn"
By Harold Bindloss. $3.50 net
Mr.. Bindioss has. given us another
good story of the country which he ha q
chosen as his field, the Canadian North
west. y good looking. educated young
farmer and his friend, a dissipat ted
black sheep OF good English stock, n
, party OF English tourists. among whom
appears the girl who is destined to
become the hero's wife. and the famous
Mounted Police of Canada people the
! story, which quickly become n mystery
tale with Il supposed murder at the
bottom of il. The corpus deficit turns
| up in good time, however, and the hero
! Is lifted above the suspicion which had
! fallen upon him.
AS in his other books, Mr. Bindloss
turns his knowledge of the mounted
police TO most interesting account and
I the search by members of that organ
| ization for the hypothetical murderer
\ forms the real feature of the story
"I'hc Point of View"
BY Elinor Glyn.
1t is difficult to believe that the same
/ brain that conceived The Visits OF
/ Elizabeth has turned out such
wretched stuff as The Point OF View"