Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 28, 12 December 1912 — Page 10

XJttJB RICHMOND PALLAJDIU3I A.ND SUX-TELEGKA3I. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1D1T.

"CEASE FIRING"

Latest War Story by Mary Johnston a Smashing Argument for Universal Peace. Bobbs-Merrill's Stories Vivacious Christmas Reading.

BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Mary Johnston in "Cease Firing," (Houghton-Mifflin Company), paints on a big canvas. With bold strokes which yet melt off into tender nuances of delicious color. And its panoramic view of the civil war is as illuminating to the tyro as its grim horrors are convincingly reminiscent to the experienced. Mary Johnston first hove to with "To Have and to. Hold" a tale of more or less elemental passions exploited in the early Virginian days. But the picture it drew of the time was not so much its claim to consideration as the way in which it was drawn. This writer has a peculiar honeyed style which "sickles o'er" her virile foundations like a tonal wash over a dull canvas. It's this that makes the reading of her epic-like record of some of the greatest, battles of this frightful war endurable. Otherwise the microscopic detail would weary and the realistic pictures of the hell of war sicken. Here is a really great book, great in conception, great in execution. And a book that should be ready by the American young of the species. For in it, as nowhere else, perhaps, is the heroism and gallantry and patriotism of the Southerner so borne to the consciousness. The book is an astonishing exhibition of erudition and pains-taking research and is admirable in its unprejudiced point of view although written distinctly from the vantage of the resident of the South. Through it weaves the golden thread of a romance as beautiful and ideal as it seems unreal. Unreal because of its honeyed film of words thus: "The Southern spring was at hand, a mist of young leaf and bloom, a Bound of words, a sapphire sky, a va pour, a warmth, a rhythm. The sun dipped behind the woods across the river, leaving air and water an exquisite coral." But, beyond everything else, the reader gets the horror, the terror, the beastliness and the folly of war. Over and over the author rubs it in "It's all infernal. I have grown to see no sense in thi3 war. North and South, we surely might have been wiser." "Think!" said Cary. "No one ever thinks in war. The soldier looks at his enemy and then he looks at his murdering piece, and then, instinctively, he seeks the best position or what seems to him the best position from which to fire it. And then he re-loads and looks again at his enemy, and instinct does the job for him once more and so on, ad flnitum. But he never thinks. If he did that, you know, there'd v no war." "Yet to them, too, it was fearfully an every day matter. The time to vizualize what will fall under the harrow of war is before the harrow is set in motion. Afterwards comes in Inevitableness with iron lips, and Fatalism with unscrutinizing gaze, and Use with filmed eyes, and Instinct with her cry " 'Do not look too closely seeing one must keep ones senses!'" "And so at last, from the general to the drummer-boy, from the civil ruler to the woman scraping lint, no one looks very closely at what falls beneath the harrow. Madness lies that way. And in war one must be very sane." "I should not have said that such things could happen in a Christian land," said Desiree. "They happen," said the parson's wife. "War is a horror and a horror to women. It has always been so and always will be so." "A smile was on her lips almost of derision. "War is so stupid,' she said." Here, too, is a significant saying "Dreadful as was this war, it had, as a by-product, the lessening of caste. Men came together and worked together as men, not as conventions." And here a Southern view of General Grant "Prnm l l P ll.iT (rrnim1 nml rnqirtac' f of the river far above Vicksburg, Grant, the cigar between his teeth, parallel lines showing across his fore head, studied flank movements. The Yazoo again! though it seemed a ! stream of ill-omen. Not that Grant j thought of omens. He was not super-j stitious. A plain, straight-forward, not!

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I over-imaginative, introspective or sophisticated person, he did not so much plan great campigns as ;ucu man giea.L cauipigns as tane, unswervingly, the next common-sense step. I lis merit was that, in the all pervading fog of war, it was usually upon firm ground that he set his step. Not always, but usually." The book is interesting, primarily, in short, because we get the sane Southern view-point. And we are too accustomed to the prejudiced northern. The four color illustrations reproduced from paintings by N. C. Wyeth are not the least of the book's attractive format. "The Red Button" is the clue to the murder. You know this before the first page is conned over. Although the button isn't mentioned until on towards the middle of this very entertaining story. A story of a new sort of detective, one Rosalie La Grange, a not altogether unfascinating boarding-house lady of various previous adventures who niftily pokes about until she finds the red button on the fire escape and then But it wouldn't be fair to the BobbsMerrill company to tell the rest. It's a cracking good story, however, and by Will Irwin. Evidently of boarding-house experience at first hand. Irwin is ever ready with a jibe or two as "This bit of conversation fulfilled Rosalie's purpose. It turned the subject from herself to Inspector McGee's self; and she knew from a life of experience that no man lives who can resist that lure." "The Midlahders," by Charles Tenney Jackson, is a good story. There are a lot of good stories of this type being written nowadays. A hundred years hence they will be fished out of the dusty discard and reprinted as representative pictures of their time. They are not the emanations of genius. But the careful record of keenly observing talent. "The story of "The Midlanders" has, of itself, a certain fascination, with its shifting mise en scene from Southern lagoon to Iowa prarie, but its chiefest interest lies in its depiction of the political unrest of the day among a class of those citizens who are sometimes termed "the bone and sinew" of the nation. The romantic interest is dominant, however, and ends happily enough. But the thing that will interest you most, if you happen to be inoculated with the newspaper germ, is "Wiley T. CurWho Said Corns? It Works on a Sure, New Plan. "Glory! Come and See How GETS-IT Works!" "GETS-IT," the new corn cure on a new principle, works like the touch of a fairy's wand. No more knives, razors, files or other instruments of torture for corn-sufferers. No more salves, plasters and bandages that hurt the j rest of the toe more than they relieve the corn. "GETS-IT" never irritates or turns the true flesh raw. It is safe as water. But my, how it does get after corns, bunions, callouses and warts. It works painlessly, but it shrivels 'em right up till they drop off, leaving the firm, healthy flesh underneath. "GETS-IT" is guaranteed to give satisfaction, or money is refunded. All druggists sell "GETS-IT" at 25 cents a bottle, or it will be sent on receipt of price by E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago. Sold in Richmond by A. G. Luken & Co., Chas. L. Macaw, Conkey Drug Company.

ran," and his "News." Curran is a familiar mid-Western type. There are some good things in the book, among them this "That "was love, she answered to renounce and not be embittered, to try for something better than one had,

to be better than one truly was. That was it. Love meant trying." Bobbs-Merrill Co. "The Elected Mother," is a silly sort of suffrage tale. It is by Marie Thompson Daviess and published by the Bobbs-Merrill Company. It is a cute little book and you can read it through in twenty minutes. It really isn't a half bad argument for woman's suffrage, however, although its emotions are somewhat mawkish if not pseudo. A Lady-Mayoress, in embryo, finds herself expecting an heir at an inconvenient moment, namely the crucial period of the campaign when she should be out stumping the town. All turns out well, and, as stated on the cover, "the hand that rocked the era-1 die also ruled Wahoo City." Mary Roberts is a fortunate young woman. If she's young. In any event she's fortunate. One could afford to curl round the edges if fictional compensations

abounded in the offing as they do for ', one ot thoBe courtly young expatriates "Mary." ;of fortune who roam the highways of , Her latest ready-to-be-dramatized Europe and the fringes of the earth novel, "Where There's a Will" is a ; through the courtesy of their couponsort of inverted "Seven Days," which ! cutters in the provincial U. S. A. had such a tremendous run both as I Incidentally he is tall and lean and

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