The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-10-31

uehSnpuly amusing parody on tho
more modern adventure tnles. though
the author says In tootnotc. that
tho story was first published In 1881
and antcdntcs a story With q similar
theme By noted author. Tales of
Connock" Is the subtitle OF the collec-
ton. but Tho reader will hardly note
any connection of tho stories with tho
authors home.
Certainly McTaggart, the hero OF
Muriel Hines latest novel, The Man
With tho Double Heart" (Lane), needed
both of them and even n further com
/, plement, for he was the most promis-
cuous lover that ever charmed women
and he loved so many different kinds
that two hearts could not possibly con-
tain the images of them all. Jill. tho
daughter OF window smashing SUI
fraEette: Fantinf, the INSCRIPTIONS.
fascinating and blackmailine owner OF
an up-to-datc gambling establishment.
and Cydonio. daughter of the newly
! rich each occupies certain ana
definite niche In one or both of hts
hearts. They all give him trouble, too.
each after her own manner. but Jill
also brings him complete happiness
happiness more perfect because she
marrics him long before she learns that
he has inherited a great italian title
and is immensely rich. McTaggart is
a most engaging young man. and the
author has built around him and his
two hearts n lively and notably enter
tanning story.
"A Seven Days Chronicle William
Jasper Nichols calls his novel, wild
Mustard" GippincotD, the title of
which is suggested by the weed, which
has 70 bite individual and effective"
The author has crowded much into his
seven days chronicle. Aunt Emily
starts the excitement: she persuades
Anne. the charming young heroine. to
attend suffrage meeting in the neigh
boring town. An adventurous English
militant. General Murphy. the terror
OF the London police, addresses the
crowd: great is her power over the
meek and mild! Anne Is filled with
enthusiasm. and when she finds herself
elected associate general of the
woman hikers on their march to Har-
risburG. she fe els that her romantic
dreams have. indeed. come true. AS
Joan dare liberated France. SO shall
she liberate her sex. Surely q chance
TIC accomplish something. From the
middle of the town. before n crowd Of
jeertng onlookers, the procession sets
out upon the road. BY the time they
reach the suburbs. Anne finds that her
army has dwindled to six; the threats
and cajolIngs Of Aunt Emily are OF no
avail. there are soon but four in the
entire company. How sad it was that
after such glorious hopes there was no
one left to follow on to freedom! The
enthusiastic Anne realizes that
woman's place is-well, not at the head
OF n suffrage parade, and rapidly she
finds now, and truly important, in
tercst in her old lover. The humor OF
the discovery that the male standard
bearer who eloped with General Miss
Murphy was In reality Aunt Emily's
long-lo husband is climactic.
Concerning Russln md Germany.
y n n6i nf ftn i,t.
Price Golfers Germany and the Ger
mans" n book whose author died some
time before the present war was even
thought Of, is issued by Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons. The author, as in the other
travel books he wrote, professed to re-
gard the countries from the American
Sont of view" His education until he
reached manhood was foreign. and he
studied long enough in German uni
vcrsities to acquire an intimate knowl-
edge of the people and the country.
In spite OF n tendency to rhetorical cf-
feet the book gives a correc: view Of
Germany as stranger with some Eng
ish sympathies saw 1t in time OF pence
commentary on German military
ways and on some persons will be found
in The German Army From Within
tporan), which processes TO be writ
ten by n British officer who served In
the German army.
Similar to this is 1.-The Russian Army
From Within" (Doran), by w. Barnes
Steveni. newspaper correspondent
who lived many years in Russia 1t Is
made UP of opinions and Impressions.
with occasional concessions to the de-
sire for definite facts.
A brief general account OF the Ger
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