Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-11
Books and Authors

Z. p. Dutton e. Co. have in train for
early publication a second volume of
collections OF sketches by Donald Han
key whose Student in Arms Is re-
peattng In this country the remarkable
success 1t ia having in England whore
1t Is the war book most In demand.
The new volume Will be called "A
student In Arms. Second Series and
Will contain in addition to q number of
sketches OF life In the trenches and
the supporting lines a biography of
Mr.. Hankey.
The love of a mother striving TO do
everything for her daughter. but fall
ing woefully to understand the desires,
the needs OF tho modern girl-this is
the underlying theme OF "Brown-Eyed
Susan" by Grace irwin. just from the
press OF the Little Book Publisher, Ar
ltngton, \. j.. Susan Yorke, Miss TWINS
heroine, represents hundreds OF girls
who do not often get into books-Eirls
who go to the public schooI, to NOR
NAL" and then teach. This Is exactly
what Susan does. ultimately securing
a position In a school In an italian set
tlement Here she has many amusing
and exciting experiences, all of which
are wildly sketched: and here, too, be-
gins the romance. the happy consum-
nation of which brings the volume to
a pleasant close. The authors fund
" diio lIeE cU1pndblS on the nome
~" everyday incidents which, after
all. make up 80 large a part of life.
and the Interest of her plot and char
acters. combine to make "Brown-Iycd
susan a most appealing little book.
The many readers of Edward Lucas
Whites "El Supreme" &C.. p. Dutton
& Coz. which. published last. fall, has
shown with every month since its APP
pearance steadily increasing sales, have
all been mysti6ed and had their curl
osity piqued by the dedication of the
v 1t reads: ITO the S%candaIized
and Indignant Ghosts of John Parish
ertson This Book Is Ironically Dedi-
Gated" Its explanation is TO be found
In the source from which Mr.. Lucas
took much OF the material for his story
of life in Paraguay a century ago.
These Robertson brothers were Scotch
merchants, who in the early part OF
the last century accumulated a large
fortune in the South American trade.
They went to Montevideo and thence to
Asuncion when quite young, soon after
the failure OF England to acquire do
minion over that region. and they knew
well DR.. Francia. the Dictator of Para
quay, the hero OF Mr.. Whites novel,
EEL Supreme" He quarreied with and
banished them because they failed to
get for him the arms he needed, and
in consequence they hated him con-
sumedly. In the thirties and forties
of the, last century interest in pr
Francia as the most mysterious and
autocratic ruler on earth was high In
Europe. and information about him
hard to obtain. So the Robertsone
wrote two three-voiume books in which
they recounted all their experiences OF
twenty years before in Paraguay. From
their "reminiscences Mr.. White ha.
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descriptions OF life, people, manners
and customs that give his novel such
remarkable and exotic color, and make
1t seem SO like n moving tapestry OF
people and scenes. But they constantly
vilifed Francia throughout their books
and Mr.. White, looking through their
abuse, visioned him as a different sort
of man. a man much better than they
described him AZ being. So he amused
himseif by dedicatinE his full lcngth
portrait OF tho man they 81 hated to
their "~scandalised and indignant
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