Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-09-12
Books and Authors

John Lane Company announce tho
s ssepi"s large re- rriintins OF Parkway
nave also Just gone 10 press with the
,"enty,seven'h edition OF THE Col
Ice, ice a. poem IS OF Rupert Brooke" and
Hopes 'Indta's Love Lyrics
on August 80 the Scribncrs addo,
mye new titles to their well-known
Scrlhncr Series for Young People .
me new titles , are Noah Brooks "'rhe
The Steam. Shovel Man Frank ~
Spearman's, The Mountain Divide,
EErus Townsend Brady's, ON tho old
The conscript OF ll3."
The Princeton University Press is
pupnShinE this month 4 third edition
o! Edwin Grant Conklins. "Heredity
and Eny.iron,men, In tho Development
mas grown steadily, and six large
priht!nss have been necessary since
me hrst edition appeared in 1915. It
nese and French. This la;cs, edition
has been revised, and much new ma
terial added.
The Old Card" BY Roland pertwce
. .nomi L.yerishO. is the authors
ligh,tul narrative OF the declining
s yeats OF an old English actor. mis-
IA! love. and the pleasant romance OF
his adopted daughter. az modern A.
he els is Old tash!oned Il IS hlled win
stage and that OF London.
An interesting objec, lesson Of Tho
way the simon-pure brand of Russian
solsnevism In Industry, really works
Book b ln"5ffs hX Che n. IN MS
Tsf ;, meeting he manage sr'sssrs; OF
S Smnr I'M mine near ear EkaterinhurE, an
nine years representing the foreismcrs
who had bought and deveiopeed UT i
,oc men sd me h9,shevists controlled the
Office and decrecd the mine the nron.
cry OF the miners. They we're sud
Their dreams were realized. Thcv we're
no longer laborcrs: they were owners.
w oTf '"s s1dse nh have though, tina,
OF rich mine would have ORGANIZED
and developed it, but they didn't The
fed ,h vas their property That salts.
w france and was. therefore, a symbol
OF capitalism. so they destroyed ali INC
ma anuif,Ieh anna h Which had been
; Stats at an expense Of 1900 900 francs.
uneh thcy began working the mines in
laoor became too difficult. and one after
""o'hcr the miners drifted away
The story OF a Lover" published
ey boni & Lveright. is one Of the
lew truthful autobioSraphies in Inc
cnE !tSh language. II Is an in,.ns
se.ection, from the flow of human ,ite
VI INC important love episodes a,d
iIeiations typical OF the career ~ ~,
lovers VINO go FAR along that wonder.
iuI and tormentinE path. encounic--
Ing ing strange delights and bitter nan
The feeling of love often affects ~.
style of the book itself and gives
rhythm to the prose. One feels ira,
this is unconscious on the wrjtnre
part. that it is the emotional matcri,J
Of the book that produces it's bca,,tv
OF form and not the writer's ar, ~,
IL is commonly understood IL shouiS
take It's place in literature Ak :.
classic in autohiograp hical form and
dcely amorous material. II is A love
story of the most thorough. going
kind for it shows how the passIon ~
love permeatcs everything in the
lovers lifc-his work, his attitude to-
wards society. his philosophy. and all
of his human relations and his atti
tude towards God. 1t is also most
could not have been written by any.
body but an American living in these
days OF social unrest and change. held
by old traditions. but not satisfied bv
them. and restlessly experimenting
with new impulses towards marriage
and institutions in general