Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-19
Books and Authors

piece OF fiction that is certain to
prove popular is "Anchorarc.' by Flor
cncc Olmstcad. which has lust been is
sued by Charles Scribners Sons Al
though the same quiet hunor that
made her two earlier books so Dopu-
lar pcrVades these pages Miss Ohm
stead sounds deeper note in Anchor
age" She presents little group Of
characters in a small town whose quiet
life is tinEed with sadness by the
semiinvalidism Of the attractive and
talented Young man. Paul. who is the
hero OF the story and TO whom the
principal woman character has devoted
herself. iiut actual tragedy comes Gu
riously among them with the appear
ancc OF a beautiful and joyous girl Of
extreme fcmininity. llilda. The story,
which comes at last 70 an ideally hap!
py ending. turns upon the so nearly
fatal fascination she cXerts upon Paul
and he upon her. |, is throngcd with
&ppealing characters Of which the old
country doctor. a humorst and a phil
osophcr. is perhaps the most lovablc.
The Madness OF May" by Meredith
Nicholson tCharlcs Scribner's sons. is
a fancifui and idyllic love story that
expresses the intoXication OF spring.
Hood. the picturesque gentleman vag-
abond. fascinateS the reader just as lie
is represented as fascinating the young
broker who is so engaging a hero in
spite of certain generous culpability
which has got him into II scrape Of
such gravity that he mcditatcs suicide.
Just as this romantic wandcrer con-
vinccS him and leads him over the
country where he will. through a Sc
rics Of most amusing adventures. so
he seduccs the reader. for the time nj
least. into the acceptance of his own
care-frcc, joyous view OF, life. 1t is a
most charming, fantastic story rcpletc
with delightful characters and odd sit
nations such as none but the author
of ''rhc House Of a Thousand Candles"
could devise.
Irwin Cobb, genial humorist and au-
thor Of a number of books that have
been widely read and admired in Eu-
rope we'll as in America, spent con
siderable time with and behind the
German armies when they ovcrran Bel
GUM and Northern France, and few
men are better qualified TO express in
it's naked features the real meaning
Of German ku!tur 10 the liberty loving
races Of the worid--how il Elorics in
the most shocking barbariSm to ac-
complish it's purposes Now that Amer
lea has entered the war against the
mad philosophy of the German menace
that completely dominates the mind
OF Gerinany---his book Speaking of
Prussians." just published by the
George RI. Doran Company. should lac
read not only by every American sol
der but by every American citizen.
An eye witness of the horrors Of war.
he would choose war rather than that
this free people be brought into bond
age of the Prussian lie warns Amer
lea that the present and future safety
OF American women and children de-
ponds upon what we do now--that we
give Of our manhood that freedom and
democracy may forever be saved from
the crushing blight OF Prussia nism.
I'VE entered this war;" he says. mot
against n people or nation so much
as we entered IL against an idea,
disease, form of paranoia. "a form of
rabies. a form of mania which has
turned men into blasphcmous and muir
derous maddogs. running amuck and
slavering in tho highways of the
world"