Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-12-04


acr- Chief OF the American Rcvo-
luton, by Charles Martyr. has re-
cehtly been issued from the press OF
Artemas Ward. New ork.
By the measurement OF years.
wards public career WAS chiefly that
or Massachusetts, statesman, but he
holds strong claim to national men,
DRY Tor his services to the embryonic
united States during the first critical
months OF the American Revolution.
Ana these services arc here for the
iirst time considered authoritativety
and In detail.
wards temperament fitted best his
long career AZ a provincial legislator
ana Judge. but tho great John
ADAMS testified that as a military
commander also he won tho esteem
love and confidence OF his army AMI
their country" Ward indeed filed
the extremely difficult post OF the
1rst comma nder in chief of the Reyo-
iutioh with so great n degree OF dex-
terity that even his bittere-t detrac-
tor, while planning to have him
she'ved by the Continental Congress,
testified that they dared not" essay
II In Massachusetts.
Such corroboratory tributes from
such dissimilar sources pres.nt NOR.
than ordinary reason for. and Justin.
cation OF. study OF Artcmas Wards
charhcter and career. yet in all there
generations until this year 1927 and
the completion OF Mr.. Martyrs work.
no one has seen nj TO produce his
biography In any adequate style. A
surprising omission In view OF the
multitude OF books TINT have appear
ell on comparatively trivial and com.
monpluce subjects
The biography is built chiefly on
nr.1,
sources. and by all availablc tcst. Il,
attains an unusual degree OF accuracy
noth In statement and s,andpoint
furthermore II Is entcrtaInInrly tol,I
ana living touches are given To The
Sh,ei nramntfs pcrsonne Of the second
hhlf OF the eighteenth century.
one sees Washington's steady ris.
20 greatness; Charles Lees mctcoric
rise and sudden fall: Dr. Cburch,.
brief and inalodorous snan: and san
uci Adams. master OF the Town
mcctinS. travelling the same poI,tI
Cal route with Ward for quarter ~
century. until their paths were SON
hrated late in life by the n.tinnni
division OF opinion on the ;,n;;,a
states attitude twardn Franc. and
Ehsiand during the days OF the
French Revolution.
quite clearly brought ont il IN.
n
bors OF modern historians. maj III.
American Revolution carried much ri
the anguish OF civil war for those
Sooo co!onials who vacillated he
'"srl the new thought" OF indie
pcnncnce and the old creed Of LOYALTY
To the crown 49,
mere are several considerable AL
cit'ons 10 standard history. They ar.
'ound chiefly In the chapters treating
nf
crude iacsimilics OF original contom
porary documents. never before NH.
iished. which have an important bcar-
IhH on the American plans for Tho
Battle Of Bunker iIiiI.
~ Is probably not too much tn .,v
mat no one can possess or obtain n
correct understanding OF the sicrc
"i hoston without reading tho chan.
'c'S "e'o'eu to II In this biography.
THE OLD MINES SECRET nv
Edna Turpin. The Macmillan a.
New York -
Eonh Iurpin is a Virginia author.
ana hcr popularity as writer Of
notion IL attcatcd by the favor win
which Honey sweet" Treasure
mountain aud other books nom nor
heh nave been received by "A dis
terminating reading public
- Sh' Story Is
'ittI" virginia village. just grown
up country where people said
they" about the United States he
TORE the world war brought the
We OF loyal service The boys and
girls in this village had new idea
OF IT before the great war was over.
ihclr work together in the war gar
,Tchs and the various tests Of their
loyalty brought the war home to
them as 1t did TO many another small
town in America. 1t is more than
Inc story OF the village however
lot one boy is certain that the old
sterling mine will yield more than
all the gardens. His adventures
and the several secrets solved by the
mine make thrilling tale.
The author writes us: THE mine
that gives some or the thrills TO
me story was suggested by real
old mine here on Echo Iiiil plan
tation, my fathers home and mine
silver was obtained from this mine
in the l7o0's by blacksmith. ono
OF Lafaycttc's soldiers. who settled
here on the glcbe land. and he made
coins in the likeness and simili-
tnde OF Spanish millcd dollars. as
described in the story, THE Old
Mines Secret used the black
smiths real name. too. One of his
descendants. who had been my ia
theirs overseer and my widowed
mothers farm manager. was the
FIRST person who told me about the
mine"
NoBODY's MAN. Ry f. Phillips
Oppenheim. Little. Brown e Co,
Boston.
When Andrew Tallente. after los
Ing his seat In Parliament. struck
his secretary, Anthony Palliser, who
had conspired with Andrews wife
and stolen precious political papers
from him, he did not expect to sec
Palliscr crash through the railing
at the cliff edge and go spra wiling
into the mists below. Upon search
below. no trace of either Pailiser or
the stolen papers could be found.
Andrews wife left him, but Lady
Jane Darlington, a neighbour, succeed
ed in restoring partially his lost
in hn n