Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-02-12
IF WINTER COMES' is
MAIN STREET" RIVAL
David Hutchinson's Popular Book Reaches 3O5th
Thousand, and He Is Reported at Work
on Another Book.

tho stories where tho stranEeness
OF surroundings and customs counts
rothing beside tho humanity OF tho
story. 1t Is essentially grent
human story. but 1 can think of no
English or American writer who
could have written 1t. Ditto Is 10
low In the social scale that II has
never occurred to her that she could
do anything but serve others. Yet
there Ii tinge OF romance coloring
what would otherwise be .ordid de-
tails and events of living. II kind
OF bcwitching beauty which surprises
and touches us.
Collectors of Wyeth.
And speaking of novels we were
asked the other day by lady on
the weather side OF nifty to suggest
novel as good as The trimming
Cup" Il want" she said. "a book to
give friend. she Is a single lady.
The trimming Cup is very interest
ing for married people. but hardly
think IT would do for Il single lady"
CrhIs Is AN absolutely true storyO
The collectors OF wyeth and there
must be hundreds OF them In this
country. viii none OF them want to
miss his rip Van winkie." The
book is. OF course. primarily intended
for children. but think few chill
dren Will appreciate as truly as their
elders tho gorgeous coloring and the
imaginative quality OF Mr.. Wyeth's
pictures. Many OF his books have
been things OF delight, but rip Van
Wrinkle" IS pure Joy. think no ono
else except Parrish has possaHsed
To tho full these two qualities which
appeal 40 strongly to Americana y.
G. Wyeth makes an art OF his psy-
Geological effects. Here one gets the
natural happy. normal Impressions
from his yellow and brown pictures
and the strhngencss and mystery
from his blues and puppies.
"The Hook of Life"
upton Sinclair is one of our re-
current surprises. II is hard to
conjecture what he will do next.
The Book Of Life" Is comprehen-
sive undertaking. lie assumes right
~ that there arc many questions
every one wants answered lie
tries to. answer most of them In this
book. ! am inclined TO think what
viii ljngcr longest Is his discussion
Of diet and especially OF fasting. APP
pRrently. no has experienced to the
full in these matters. Meals anyway,
he believes. should not be an art. but
mere necessity done away with In
the brlefest possible time. In his
own household. the food for the mex,
meal is cooked while ono meal Is in
progress. No more time Is given to
N. You need not fear. he declares.
no ono will starve In less than three
or four months. and it you are fat
To begin with, II Will take stll long
er. II there is anything you want
to know about fasting. you are pref
" sure TO find II in The Book OF
Life" or course, some people
wouldn't call fasting living.
After all. II Is a great thing to be
an artist. a. A. Milne. OF Punch, in
his volume OF essays called III I
May" discusses how. though the ar
list cannot live without the ordinary
man. how much more true II is that
the Inter would have no reason for
living were II not for tho artist. He
says: Not only can we write on
Shakespeare's tomb. He wrote Ham
let or He was not for An age, but for
all time but we can write on a con-
temporary bakers tomb. He provided
bread for the man who wrote Ham
let. and on contemporary butchers
tomb. lie was not only for himself,
but for Shakespeare
Copyright. 1879
THE EYES OF THE VILLAGE. BY
Anice Terhune. Tho Macaulay Co.,
New York.
There Is yirulent craze Just now
for beiittling small-town life and for
making IL the theme for pseudo So
m!rth. The Eyes OF the
Village shows the swecter, the more
human. the more accurate side OF
the picture. II paints the small town.
with unerrIng fidelity yet never sor-
didly; revealing it's life in truer and
cleaner colors than do Its detractors.
The story centers about tho romance
Of Philip Eden-stalwart and idol
smashing young ciergyman-and tho
two women whom Destiny threw into
mis- lifo: sunshine girl and a girl of
mystery.
But the strings OF tho decidedly
original plot are In the bony CRASH OF
wise old EN- Ufford. spinster, who
dominates the book. EN- merits rank
with David Harum and Mrs. Wigs:
ms character who must live in every
readers mental portrait gallery. Her
caustically glea ming wit--at war with
her all-loving heart-shines through
every chapter. Her speeches are az
rue ms they arc vitriolic. EN- Is n
delight.
There Is sweetness, n strength, a
sincerity and n wealth OF dramatic
lower 10 the story which Will carve
TOT ~ place OF Its own. Much of
tho authors early life was spent IN
ECO IDE