Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-21
RICHMOND TMEs-DIsPATCH: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 81 1914

ter tho extraction OF one tooth. the
dentist declared thar nothing more
was necessary to be done, IngeborE had
about nine days OH her hands. besides
something little less than FLO In her
tractive poster, advertising seven days
In IIucernc. for seven guincas. 30 Inge-
borg simply runs away. The trip is
described with the authors pcrvasivc
and persuasive humor--no one can help
laughing at the account--but during
It's progress JnBeborg meets her fate.
1t IL personified in Herr Drcmmcl, pas
tor of a parish In East Prussia. He is
Dn abBtracted, concentrated student,
chiefly OF fertilizers. to which he de-
votes all the time that he can steal
away from his parochial duties. But
he is also Teutonically thorough, 20
InseborS cannot escape him. She mar
ries him aud goes 20 his country, Of
course. Then follows chapter after
chapter OF humorous narr8tion--hu-
norous in spite OF i,s very apparent
fidelity to tho truth In It's portrayal OF
life, and In spite OF it's ironical treat
mont or the German point OF View CON
corning woman and her duties to "Ein-
der. kirche. Euechc." Most OF the book
deals with Ingeborg's life in relation
to hor husband and her neighbors,
though touch Of romance threatens
TO cause complication for while:
does cause It, indeed. but rngeborg's
Innocence and her f,russiun husbands
stol!dity bear them both safely over the
crisis. AS study. The Pastors wife"
Is genuinely Significant; as novel, II
liz clever. &c not brilliant, extremely
amusing, and. as haa been said--nlto.
Sether delicious.
"lnnocen.: Her Fancy and Ills Fact"
George II. Dornn Coz is truly
Coreliian romance from tho pen OF
Marie Corslli II Ia n story, n romance,
u love story. with all the sweetness.
sadneis. pa;hos and souifuIness that
we nave learned to look for from the
anthor when she devOtes herself TO the
telling or II SWEET tragedy. innocent
Is tend+v young heroine OF the old
homestead. which, she learns IL her
shame. ls not her old homestead at
all, because hc:' escutcheon is blurred
by bar not unknown TO .hcraldry.
When she learns OF the bar, she goes
to London and takes her fathers name.
though without Informing the world
why. and there she develops 4 won
drcus gift and becomes n great novelist.
But AZ palnter--on. these paintera.-
tritles with her, and she suffers and
Just keeps on suffering till the end.
And tho end IS sad, as 1t should be.
Doubtless the book VIII be widely pop
uinr. because IL Is so sweet ,,id so
anG.
J. is "a grown-up May lvorson who
noy: appears IN tho latest stosy from
tho pen Of Elizabeth Jordan, May
iYerson's Career" fHarpers), and tho
Atory of her adventures after leaving
tho convent will ne interesting. there
fore, to grown people. az well as To
girls not set grown. The love story
OF May binds together all twelve chap
tcrs of the book, which, otherwise
might be taken as q collection OF
stories Couccr ming the heroine. During
her last year at the convcnt-aIay had
determined 10 become nun. but her
father persuades her to try her hand
ut newspaper work Cor at least three
years before obcy!ng the call of what
sae consid,,rs her vocation. She agrees.
and II IS the account OF hr- experiences