Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-11-05
JANE AUsTEN's ORIGINAL
MANUSCRIPTS ARE OUT
Volume Is All Interesting Leg
acy From Ycslerycars.
Real Find.

LOVE: ~ ItI;INDSiiIp AND
OTHER EARLY WORKS. now mrs,
printed from the original manu-
scripts. ~ Jane Austen. Frederick
\. stokes publisher.
y Gcw book OF Jane Austen \
Legacy from the ycstcrycars |, is
like hearing that II Rembrandt can
vas or Beethoven manuscript has
been discovered or that "a Strad has
been uncarthcd. 1t is very similar
{" On" finding amid the lavender and
lac" %: an attic trunk some heirloom
81 - departed ancestor. Memories
"f this renius of letters crowd thick
and fast upon MS. We car" not IL
such work comes from her golden
period or not. she speaks aEaiu from
tn. retreat of Stevenson and we
turn with anrctinuatc care. eager
intcfcSt and certain reverence" the
pages OF this unique volume.
Tn" book under review contains
Love and Friendship" novel told
in series Of letters; Lesley Castle"
an unfinished novel IN the same
farm, The History Of England"
.""in tn" reign Of Henry ~. 10 tn.
orcjUdiccd and ignorant his,"riau'p;
4 collection Of Letters. containing
letters from Mother t. her Fr.iui.
fr"m a Young Lady cross ii In love
:" nor Friend" and what mas been
s'%Icd as scraps
Jane Austrns Life short.
Jane Austrn's III. was short, as
many Of her admirers know: il COY
"rcd = span "f i"rty-iw" years.
fourteen OF which w"r" Uupruduciivc
la r.sHc"t Of writing publication.
This juvcuila is k"cLl, Satiri-
al plight of tn" charming writer.
They were written when sh" Was u
aud hence about eleven years before
h"r dcpartur FROM .'"v"nsru, rs
.'h"Stcrton pnlntS oIt .u h's trlliant
preface. These earl" immature
manuscripts. NOW published. r"tute
tn. silly contention that IN" ladies
~ the world az Jan" Austen wee"
..Nn"ctcd To faint wh ~ they received
proposal of marriac" Th"y mi.ht
81. called 4 satir" ON the Fable If
Tho Painting Lady" IN" writes
What is more Important these
manuscripts cutting IA satire. hub
hliug with lights ~ .mpr"hahi" non
sense. are u"oph"ii" ~ "Nor'hlur"r
Abbey ,whos" humor has BEEN lost
on many readers and "ur'd" and
Prejudice" and ~" 90 NOR" literary
valu. than that unfinished fragment.
THE Watsor.." given to tn" world
some time ago. ct tn" dull story Of
Lady susan"
Love and FreiIt, hin" Il is inter
"StiuE 10 note al Jr> 90 have been
written ahuu, III. tiru" Jane Austen
was e.. .nrosing ,h. FIRST draft OF
Sense and Srus'hiliiy." then called
Gin 1872 "t.lcu,r and Marianne" We
have in Talbot "th" uobl" youth
the first study Of Wickham that IA
vori'a lHdy-hiil"r character OF Jane
Austen. vhich aeUrcd in nearly all
her novels II. IL WuIouEhhy In
sense and S.naibilIty." Crawford in
Mansfield rark." churchill in En-
ma and :" a certain extent Went
worth ia "rersuasion' Wc nrd Laura
also prophetic "C her other famous
women characters.
Volume Fine study.
ConSldcrcd in tho abstract. this
volum" j. - Inc study Of genius in the
hrs, glow Of a bubbi'nE. eNUbor.nt
mature whom hrcakin the letters Of
silence. Their" was passion In Jane
Austen. and as chcstcrton tells US.
her original passion was a sort OF
joyous sc"ru and a fighting spirit
aEains, all that she regarded - NOR
bid and iaN and poisonously silly"
If the lovers OF Jane Austen ind
JOY In Love and Friendship" Lesley
Castle, etc. they viii munich with
zcst the delicious lidbits contained in
her History ~ England, whose clos
ing monograph on Charles L.. is dated
November -. 1871. Here her knife
of satire IS kccnest and her humor
overwhelming.
For this great gift TO us, We are