The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-18

70 success, but In doing 80 makes n
bitter enemy of the very man whom he
! had thus assisted.
Lathom also arrives" but as Grad.
dock has fallen In. love with and is
whom Lathom loves. this middle man
OF art finds another relentless enemy
In the artist. particularly after he
Is not possessed of high principles.
! Joyce refuses Craddock, naturally. yet
he and the Wroughtons travel together
London and works hard.
During the absence of his patron. his
forms the acquaintance of the embit-
tered play wright, and the two compare
notes. with the inevitable result that
he becomes convinced that Craddock is
a precious scoundrel. Therefore, when
the party returns from Egyptian wan
derings, the jobber in art is compelled
TO return to the artist and the dra-
matist their respective contracts. and,
tt uaiS, is forced.just why Is not al
his cheek ma"d for the fs slasr
He had bought from Wroughton a Rey-
nolds portrait for that sum, and had
to an also inevitable American.
OF course, Joyce accepts the artist
as is meet and proper, and thereby
| brings to close n wcll-told tale.
"a Changed Man."
by Thomas Hardy. Harper & Bros
rh In these twelve minor novels" the
though they We're e'e ali printed in is s eest
rately at different times in various
magazines mag zine and periodicals, they are
volume
In somewhat lighter vein, than his
gpe e novels they nHyertheless are
its grave. tender. pathetic, or ironical
ASPECTS and SO are, in very truth. con-
densed novels rather than mere short
nnnnla 10Th N, II
low are again brought wildly and ia
military before us in these convincing
narratives of their life.
In ~ Changed Man." which gives
titie 10 the book. a .captain of hussars
woos and wins fair maid. She glories
in in, her transplantation to army life.
But suddenly her husband experiences
change of heart; he has been deeply
SSt Sur by the words Of preacher who
feels, hears and heeds a call to another
service; The wife is bitterly disap-
resigns from the army and enters the
ministry. she turns to another man.
They plan TO elope, and then a page
deeply, AS if from having ourselves
passed through II brief but poignant
at an Ancient Earthwork" reevals
fine study of the antiauarian's ruling
of the maid and the dragoon who re-
turned from the Crimean War to up
set what life had provided for her and
of what life had in store for him, and
of the muddle. the futile muddle, of 1t
all; in The Waiting Woman" for years
Il woman is prevented from marrying
the man she loves because she does not
know the wherea bouts of her husband,
whose body all the time lies ut the
bottom of the river on whose bank the
two meet. and III "Alcia's Diary" two
women love the same man, and the
wrong woman suffers.
And in The Grave by the Hand
post" What the Shepherd Saw" in
all except "A Tryst at an Ancient
Earthwork" and the last story IN tho
volume. 1.-The Romantic Adventures of
a Milkmaid," which is sheer, fairy
like romance, IL is the irony of fate,
the sacrifice that blind chance eXacts,
and their resulting bewilderment fail
urc and tragedy that inform these
novels. There is in them, as has been
said. much of tenderness, pathos and
beauty. but. after all and through all,
their dominant note is the ironical
futilty Of life, the hopeless belief that
what will be will be-" and that most
of what will be is certain to be un-
happy.