Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-10-17

and understanding OF the man who
was as much as any one else in tho
and who bcheid the results of n in
many lands. Air. Gibbs ccnters his
story about tho tragic love idyl OF
Wickham Brand and the German girl
ne ioved and married. pleading with
iervor and truth against the bitter
ness. unielt by the soldiers AT tho
'front.', with which those at home
nurse the feeling of hatred which is
messed IN. SEED OF new wars. II IS "A pro-
Ioundly touching story. the more so
Tor the restraint and beauty OF the
telling. ''e
aside from the power of the mar
ratiye. the book is memorable for the
stirring pictures OF historical cyont.
portrayed by Mr.. Gibbs In tho vivid
nervous. close-knit style thn, has
made him noted among the great war
c9rrespo ndents--thc entrance OF the
S Sii,ea ,troops into Lille. Armlstice
Mr.. Gibbs looks America as
The hope OF the world, and th. mill
osoDhy OF international rclatIon.bin
t,hhuhciated by President Wilson as
me subject. He writes with convIc-
tlon and an amazing lucidIty. The
sote OF book 10 appeal to the thought
r NJ. reader as well as tho reader OF
hction for Its own sake
ihllip Gibbs is probably the host
hho"h OF all living war corresponds
cnts; lie has recently been knirhtod
Tor ms services In the great war. lie
10 ,ne author Of The Street OF Al
venture, The Individualist." Now
It 1t, Can BE Told" People OF Destiny"
The way TO victory" etc.
YOUTH AND THE BRIGHT ME-
DuSA. BY Villa Gather. Alfred a.
Knopf. New York.
There are not many living writers
n,,Iu
the mixture OF excitement, anticipa-
ton. and curious respect with which
each successive volume OF Miss
Gathers Is now awaited.
This collection OF eight stories is u
new exhibition OF the writer's power
and remarkable artistry. The theme
on which all the stories more or less
loosely hang--youth's adventure with
the many-cOlorcd Madusa of arts
in itself fascinating: but IL is the
writer's quick. bold cutting into the
very tissues of human experience and
emotion. the daring play OF her i'm
asinat!on, that make each OF these
stories stand out as separate new
discovery about character and life.
Coming. Aphrod!tc" the first story
In the book is perhaps the mos, in
teresi!ng from an artistic point of
view. Its savage and purely pagan
theme loses nothing from being set
10 an accompaniment OF New York
asphalt streets and studio skyliShts.
This story OF "a young painter. drawn
BY accident under the Overwhelming
obsession Of "a woman's beauty. has
both the grace and the naked ruth
lessncss that one expects to find only
In a fragment OF Creek art. The Dia-
nond Mine the story. of a great
singers life. is n whole novel re-
solved into It's elements and fore
shortened with an Ironlc simplicity.
The last four stories in the volume
are published from Miss Gathers
81,
and "Paul's Case are the stories that
made 4 reputation for their author
"Pauis Csae" has been studied. init
atcd. plaS!arizcd by young writers as
parhaps only .. licnry's The unfn-
!shcd story" has been. In finish and
execution Miss Gather has travelled
"a long way. but the same ardor and
restless energy OF Imagination which
give her work the stamp OF genius
lame out amazingly in these earlier
tales.
TRAILS TO TWO MOONS. ~ Rob-
ert Wcllcs Ritch!c. Little, Brown &
Co, Boston.
This is dramatic Western story.
dealing with the efforts OF the cat
sheep herders who have gradually
encroached upon what had been con-
s!dercd hitherto an exclusive cattle
territory. Original" BIZ Blunt. in
speGtor Tor the cattle stockmcn of
Broken Horn range. while attempting
TO capture Fang Wheeler, the leader
OF gang OF cattle thieves, incurs
the enniity OF Iiilma Ring. H!lma's
father was sheep herder, who was
killed by man evidently secretly in
the employ OF the cattle barons. and
she knows but one desire-to avensc
her fathers death.
Cold. selfish, sclf-centcrcd. Hilma
focuses all her hatred of the cattle
Nk.h 1sI, IA
XIII unhesitatingly and gladly. She
would almost marry Fang Wheeler,
whom she does not love, could she
therein attain her object. But she
rails TO take into account her own
human frailties. or the strength OF
both Wheeler and Original" and all
three are quickly caught in the whirl
OF the conhic. between the sheep
and cattle factions tina, surges over
the plains and even into the little
town OF Two Moons itself.
Trails 10 Two Moons depicts all
the CHARACTERISTICS OF the West Of the
period, without any sensational over
drawing OF its lawlessness. The au-
thor's style is rather more restrained
than usual In a book OF this type. and
MS characters are sharply individu-
allied. Trails TO Two Moons" is n
good good story in Itself. which needs no
romance on It's purely Western"
flavor TO win it popularity.
PADDY-Tii E. NENT- BI1ST-TH ING.
By Gertrude Page. Frederick A.
stokes Co., New York.
Lord. what girl she is! Be-
CORA. II she'd been boy there'd not
nave been soldier in the British
far yet. She'll be Just herself, I'd
If I'm not mistaken, the Incnu 90
down before her like nincpins, Oh
Lord! and she'll snap her fingers in
thcir faces and go rampag!ng on like
= real, thoroughbred Irish fusilicr -
II Paddy wasn't like the how her
doting old father had longed for, he
had to admit she was "thc next hest
thing" with her headstrong, devil.
may care, tomboy ways. her warm
little Irish heart and her rormish