Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-15

! MISS M1NERvA's BABY. by EnI
ma ma Speed i, Sampson. Reilly Lee
Th,s is The .nlrd story in the dc! De:
Miuerva's baby was born in the n 81
charter Of "bili% and the Ma lex,
was las red as tomato and sm"lled
like violets," and who fcrventy
wished it looked as good as u
story. The little fluffy haired jose
phinc is a baby with the appearance
OF an angel and t&c personality o:
{, rnischievous and adorable spriiee
From the very beginning. the small
heroine is Keen strategist--Hbso ,
slutcly resistrble. She manages every
-pne--cvcn her strict and ohdurate
Minerva" Josephine. the lrrcprcs
sibe. takes happy part in the ld-
ventures of her cousin Billy aud las
friends and cniiNens the life OF the
humanizcd Miss Minerva with new
and disconccriinC problems and joys.
Those who have loved Billy Green
HID Will love him more for his dc-
votion to little Josephine and will
delight with him as she bubbles her
whns icaly humorous way through
the eventful first four years OF he.'
life
ATLANTlDA Hy Pierre Bcnoit.
= Pierre Benoi;, author Of Allan
i!ua. when won the ffenCn ACIt-
envy prize as the best novel OF the
year. and which has just been pub
lishod in this country. lived for most
OF his life i'll Northern Africa. wrc-c
the story is placed. He is tn" son
OF an army officer who was stationed
in A!Eicrs. and he was brought ap
there and also did his military s"r
vice there. He IS profound stu
its history The original Of tho hero
Inc. An;inea, is the extraordinary
Cleopatra Selenc, whose pyrami; still
stands in North Africa, the dauGhtc.
of Mark Anthony and Cleopatra. al
though the story itself is story Of
today and Of people today. ono Of
the most violent literary controver
sizes has been going on in Paris over
the question OF whether "Atlan:iaa."
by Pierre Renoit. which has juss been
published IN this country in transla-
prize. as the best novel OF the year
by the French Academy. was really
based on Rider EIagEard's she. or
not. The author OF "Atlant!da" was
nothing about she" and that his
story differs from II in all essential
points and was really like it only in
adventure written in years Ecnoit
was born and brought up in Northern
Africa and knows the country ard its
people AT first hand.
THE KINDS OF POETRY AND
OTHER ESSAYS. BY John :rskine,
Dufficld & Co.
This is a volume Of four ESSAYS hy
the professor OF English in Columbia
University, in which he deals with,
The Kinds of Poetry" The Teach
ing OF Poetry" "rhc New Poetry"
and Scholarship and Poetry" In
these delightful and discriminating
papers. the author gives II most IL
Eliminating discussion OF many things
concerning poetry past and present.
Thcy hay. the same qualities ,nat
made his essay on The Moral Obllga
ton 10 be Intelligent so striking and
50 refreshing contribution to iitcra-
ture and TO life.
MODERN GREEK STORIES. Trans
lated from tn" original by Dcmc,ra
Naka and Aristidcs Phoutridcs, win
for"Word by Dcmetra Nak;, Duff
This is The second volume in the
Interpreters Series In which Czecho-
Slovak Stories already has an
reared These eight stories by MOD
ern Greek authors are an intcnsc,v
interesting ANA illuminating intcrprr
'ation of Greece and that Greeks of to-
day in their life and thought. and they
are remarkable as well for their
nave been chosen from the work or
the best modern writers OF Greece ana
never before have been translated
into English.