Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-04-16

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| and yet popular life OF Shakespeare
by one Of tho greatest of Shakespear-
| can authorities. 1t gives a clear and
| vivid statement OF the known facts
respecting Shakespeare's life and OF
tho prevailing critical Judgments or
modern scholarship on his works.
! 1t Is written in most charmin.
and interesting style and sums up
In compact and satisfactory form
just what every ono wants to know
and should know about Shakespeare.
Two Susceptible Girls.
| NOCATIONS. BY Gerald O'Dono-
van. Boni & L!veright. New York.
! In 'Vocations." two susceptible
girls. Kitty and Winnie Curtin are
first shown I'm the home surround
| ings OF their successful father, who
| is sma!l-town trader, and their
mother. who is a sentimental. reIig-
ious. yet infie1ibly hard woman. Mrs
| Curtin has lived a life of vicarious
religious ecstasy. through pledging
her daughters to life OF poverty.
chastity and obedience. They are
to be nuns in tho convent on tho
hill.
| Mr.. O'Donovan indicates with deli
i cate art the sentimental ardor with
| which one OF the girls pursucs an
attractive young priest, and the
complicated nature OF this attach
msnt IL developed into one of tho
| most breathless themes In modern
notion. The motives OF the moro
realistic sister are traced up TO the
day ahe has her vocation" after n
romantic disappointment. and wc
share the Utmost emotions OF 10th
| young women as they take the veil.
and afterwards. The emotional
crisis that succeeds. putting one OF
q clerical sensualist and loading the
other TO break her vows, Is acutely
dramatic. But beside tho personal
I drama there Is mastery picture
OF tho community drama: the wise
old pastor who understands and for
gives everything. tho patient and
undogmatio Mother Superior. stands
out in contrast to the various clei
| les and nuns who havo no true voca-
ton
We agree with the distinguished
critic OF the Westminster Gazette
that Gerald O'Donovan astonishes
| by the completeness OF his mastery
| both Of material and form. and thai
not one person out OF Atty will read
this Tremendously interesting novel
| without feeling the strongest i'm
| pulse to Immediately recommend IL
| to his best friend. II Is no over.
| statement to say that Vacations" is
OF the game stuff and quality as
| many OF tho classics that have made
English literature glorious.
Now Kind of Romance.
SOULS FOR SALE. BY Rupert
Hughes. Harper & Brothers. New
York.
novel with as curious and nm
usual theme as any ever con-
| ceived by this author OF What VIII
People Say?" We Can't Have Every
| thing" etc. 1t Is the story Of a
| woman who finds il necessary to
| lose herself. to disappear: so. para
| doxica!ly. she goes into the world
Of the eternal spotlight-the land
| OF the movies. How this life which
she has temporarily adopted catches
her in its spell; how ambition for
| screen career ovcrshadows every
| other interest; how she sacrifices ono
thing after another-and almost
| misses real love when IT comes at
last-make an entirely new kind o.
romance.
1t is a tale full of suspense and
action. and its background is In
| tensely picturesque 1t gives as
honest a picture of studio life today
In Hollywood as Hughes other nov
els have done OF life In New York.
Battles for Art Success.
THEN CAME MOLLY. BY iiar-
riet ". c. Ogden. Penn Publishing
Co.. Philadelphia.
Molly goes from a quiet old-tash
toned Southern plantation to study
art in busy New York. Here she
meets new friends and tries herself
to her new surroundings. She is
earnest and Woodworking, and has
the competitive spirit which Is as
necessary to art as to business. Sho
enters the yearly competition and
bnttle to success against jealousy
and misunderstanding. Eventually
Molly finds that art must make way
for the great adventure.
An Adventurous Romance.
IN THE FAVOUR OF THE KING.
By Hawthorne Daniel. Doubleday.
Page & Co. Garden City. y. Y.
White men stood ut the brink o,
the Grand Canyon Of the Colorado
nearly q century before the May
dover, with her load OF Pilgrims.
sailed from England to the New
World This book is the story of
Francisco Coronado and the hand OF
men who set off from conquered
Mexico to ind the seven cities of
Cibola and tho land Of Quivera.
| where they discovered not gold ana
| Jewels. but tribulation adventures
and reward, all these in setting
~ stranpeness and beauty where
now wonders and old passions COM
bine to create romance. The story
storts and ends in Spain. the vivid,
magnificent Spain Of Charles V. but
tho major part Of 1t is in Mexico.
Hawthorne Daniel is young
writer on the editorial staff OF tho
Worlds Work. whosa vocation Is
registering the serious affairs OF tho
world. but whose avocation Is Great
ing adventurous romances. This is
his first novel.
A Mystery Story.
THE TRAGEDY AT THE BEACH
! CLUE, BY William johnston, author