Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-04-12
Books and Authors

David Mckay. Philadelphia, has rem
dered distinct service to clean snort
IN publishing THE Good Loser" by +.
Richard Schaycr. 1t is the account OF an
cleven-year- old boy. tho son OF parents
struggling with adversely. who was
trained TO proficiency as tennis
player by kind-hcartcd past cham
pion who saw in him the making Of
true sport IT is touching story
win ideals worthy OF any players am
billion inspirngly aud lastinclv i'm
pressed on the boy who made good.
Charles Wellington Furlong. whose
expedition among tho Fucgian tribes
or Patagonia was undertaken for Har-
Dcr's Magazine. recently contributed
collection OF rare PataEonian plants
TO the botanical departments of Cor
nell University, to the Gray Hcrbarium
or Harvard. to the New York Botanical
Garden and to the Smithsonian Insth
luton at Washington. Mr.. Furlonr's
expedition. which was undertaken dir
ing the summer OF 1307-0S, was ono Of
the few which has ever explored ths
inland region OF Southern Patagonia.
TO the Last Penny" new novel nv
Edwin 1.cfcvre. Is published this week
by tho IIarpcrS. The hero n luxurIous
young college graduate. was shocked
INTO responsibility to life when he was
suddenly confronted by the belief Thai
ms father had embezzled the money
with which he had educated him. He
Shouldered his burden bravely, bade
Good-by to his friends, and set ont to
answer an advertisement I'm Ohio.
Thompson. tho head Of the successful
Tecumseh Motor Company, was a man
who experimental In len as we'll as I'm
machines. And Tommy became one OF
MS experiments. and IL successful one.
Then came the moment that Tommy
u.1,n
out. lie rushed back to New York to
face it. There 10 learned many strange
things. and most of all-the strength
of fathers love. Mr.. T.efevre's pre-
cnding novel. The Plunderers," was
published last summer.
eff Wishes Were Horses" by C,oun-
tess Barcynska &c. F. button & Coz.
is book that you will thoroughly
enjoy II Is the story OF an English
man possessed a glib tongue, deter
mination and n sweet wife who adores
him. Thus provided. he works his way,
step by step. up the social ladder,
looking down on his humble relatives
and his wife. until a moral and Rnan-
cial catastrophe shakes him from his
seif-worship and opens his eyes to
things as they are-and especially TO
the devotion of his wife. The extra.
ordinary capacity for getting under
the surface Of things and people which
Countess Rarcynska showed in "The
Little Mother Who Sits at Home" Is
again evident in this powerful story,
and makes irs characters real and
unforgetable to the, reader, While the
presentation of contemporary social
life and it's pretense is drawn with q
new power and subtle satire
In ''Mr. Cushing and Mile. du Chas-
tel" by Frances Rumsey (John Lane
Coz, the author has given us, with an
unusual faculty of analysis. 4 fine de-
lineation of racial and individual char
acteristics. Behind her theme is the
certain mind that has thought out for
itself those distinctions that make up
the life Of her characters. She pos-
sesses that rnrest of all gifts In a
novelist-the art Of shrcwdly inter-
preting human emotions and attitudes.
Mr. Gushing Is an American with gem
erations OF wealth and culture behind
him. Mile. du Chastel is a French girl,
with all the tradition OF France as her
heritage. The conflict OF egoisms be-
tween these two persons and the bear
ing OF the other characters on their
lives make a fascinating story. and
one that is distinctly different from the
usual novel. Daring in idea, fiasterful
In treatment and beautifhl in phrasing,
IL is tho first real international novel
since Tho American. of Horny James.