Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-06

IN STRANDED In Arcaoy, by Francis
Lynde tScribners), tue young people.
perfect strangers, one a most unusual
man and the other a particularly at
tractive girl. wake UP out of sound
sleep and discover that they have been
transported TO An uninhabited but very
beautiful spot in the woods. How they
got there and what they did is told in
this delightful story.
publication during July: The Inner
Door" by Alan Sullivan; I'm the
World" by Maxim Gorky; The Air
Man" by Francis A. Collins; THE Ju-
nior Piattsburg Manual" by o. C. Ellis
and E. b. Carey; The Boys Camp
Manual" by Charles x. Taylor. and
The Reconstruction OF Poland and the
Near East" by Herbert Adams Glib
bons.
Edward A. Rose. professor of sociol-
ogy in the University of Wisconsin.
will leave shortly for Russia to carry
on there the same investigation OF So
cial conditions that he has previously
made in America and other countries.
Among his suggestive books already
published are THE Old World in the
Changing Chinese" Professor Ross
will go to China to study the need for
relief and community organization
there and to Judge OF the possibilities
OF future emigration.
Jim Hartigan was born in little
Canadian lumber town In the great
pine forest of Ontario. His being was
heritage of conflicting desires. and
Jim ran the gamut Of the bad and
good. evolving from 1t all one Of the
most vivid and commanding characters
Of recent fiction. Ernest Thompson
Seton is the creator Of wild Jim Harti-
gan, who became "The Preacher Of
Cedar Mountain"-and this is the title
of Mr.. Seton's first novel, just pub
lished by Doubleday, Page & Co. This
great nature writer has painted with
ture Of the West. His people are real
| and their stories are told by a man
who loves and understands them.
Henry Holt G. Co.. New York, have
| just published THE Sorry Tale" by Pa
thence Worth. a story of the time OF
| Christ. Patience WORTH" the invisible
author, whose work was described in
! Patience Worth: A Psychic Mytery,"
| has written this story of a son of IT.
| berius Caesar by q Greek slave. wo-
| man of great beauty and OF noble blood.
| After time she is discarded and gives
birth to a child in leper's howell out
sue inc WaiIS OIL oeInleneHs on the
same night that Christ Is born within
| the walls. In the bitterness of her
| passion, the mother names him Hate,
and hate Is the emotion which. despite
| his systematic personality, rules and
| shapes his life. The two great CHARGE
| ters Of the story. Christ and Hate, come
into contact from time to time in the
tale. to meet finally on Calvary. The
| Sorry Tale" is story Of emotion, of
! pathos. OF tragedy, relieved by the
| beauty and tenderness of its treatment,
| the poetic quality OF it's prose and the
humor Of some Of its scenes. The story
7; brings into close view the historical
characters of Tiborius. the Herods,
PLATE, Peter, and particularly and dom
inantly. Jesus Christ An interesting
feature Is tho opening up of the period
in tho life OF Jesus between his twelfth
and thiftleth years. All the Story, 1t
is affirmed, was communicated through
Mrs. John II. Curran, Of ST. Louis, In
! tho same manner az tho other produc-
| lions OF this personality. William
Marion Reedy says in Reedy's Mirror, 81
have seen the complete manuscript This
10 the most remark able piece of litora-
ture I have ever read. I have no hest
tatfon In saying that this production
ignore any religious claims for II.
and j discount tho 9dveatitious interest
OF the manner Of its pFesentation---is q
: wort6s literary marvel"