Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-11-09

sibi!!,ies OF working out color
scheme for your garden. The author
does not ignore the difficulties and
Inc details OF gardening. but helps the
amateur and the experienced gardener
aiikr, rich fund Of practical hints.
carrying out Il successful garden.
LITTLE MISS BY-THE-DAY. by
Co.. New York.
Of Little Miss By-the-Day.'' whose
switchihg personality reaches far be-
yond the pages Of the book to carry
the reader cntrauccd through chapter
after chapter of charming romance.
lmngin" AN extraordinary little per-
son, VINO has learned TO speak English
only. with Il French acc"u;-aIthough
sh" knows no French; who up to her
SeNenteeh'h year. had never gone be-
yonh Tn" Earden gate Of her country
home. and never learned the meaning
OF death; whose education was limited
TO Knowing how 70 curtsy to dress
her hair in the manner Of the French
court, and 20 play 4 phenomenal game
Of chess. This is Felicia Day as she
mood home in BrooklyH-a Brooklyn
Where shabby houses had sprung up
nIslne stately, cruinbling mansions
cu instead OF tho children of oid-to
nndcrtakc the formidable task Of lift
ing the taxes and mortgages tina, had
brought the old house to the indignitv
( Of public auction placards. What fol-
lows makes a story, breath-taking in
/ ITS surprises, hcart-warming in its
/ romance. captivating in it's elusive,
( penetrating charm.
MRS MARpEN. BY Robert Iichens.
| George II. Doran Co. Ncw York
! THIS is psychic story It is some
what gu, Of the ordinary. especially
Mrs. Mardcn. a society woman and
butterfly, loses, her only son in the
war. stunned by his death she grad
uaiiy Turns. though confirmed skcp-
t!c to Peter erwin, a medium. for COM
Tort hnoyed UP by apparent mes
/ or rather urb"licf Is suddenly shat :
tered by tragic and dramatic series
or I,,o ev"m ems. Lhc rSaiity Of a spiritual
, dcTcurrcnts Of tale OF London society
which Mr. Hichons tells with a direct
wh f h%' ,b ser syeIar peGYlIr Power
I person may think regarding claims as
4 TO psychic manifestations. interest in
ne su5Jec, has grown tremendously
these so-ca!ied psychic Manifestations.
found an answer not only for the
problems Of Mrs. Marden. but for
faced today by like crises in spiritual
matters. There is more than Il hint
3i base truths. and mysticism that
-
iatton that comes to Mrs. Mardcn in
her dying hours.
THE LAND THEY LOVED By
9 II cummins. The Macmillan Co.
This is a story OF Ireland. 1t is
neither an exciting nor sensational
st"!E, but simple narrative in which
the play OF human emotions sustains
the interest Of the reader from start
10 finish. II presents pictures that
are true 10 / fe and hcurt-appcalins
Y a 90. -.s.
the heroine, returns from America to
her home farm ia the old Country
She Is drawn back by her love OF the
land ana by her love for two or three
. nrothers who Were rivals for hcr hand.
Sn" finds thai in her absence the TWO
brothers had qUarreled bitterly. and
that one has died for Sim Fem and
the other for the British in France
Rates relations, with Eugene. the
mira brother. form the main interest
Of the hook. though its theme is partly
TINT or the tragedy Of ;he Irish sol
der In the great war The scenes
OF the story move from tn. country
to Dublin, where Kate has some ad-