Show VIRGINIA RUSSELL seem deficient In matur maturity maturity While it may there Is the rare charm ity It of or expression Vir Virginia VirgInia Virginia of fresh and youth in ginia Russell the novel Just published the author being Mrs Irene of ot this city elt When it is stated that Judge W V H II Dickson is her father it will be that understood whence the rare powers are shown in the work in question It may be said with candid safety that no Ideals sus sustained work ork of ot its kind shows loftier tamed so evenly and serenely To no trick of pen to no mental effect can this rare trait be charged It can come conic from tram and be sustained only by b an Innate love loe of or the highest is the product of ot a steadfast striving after aCter pure 2nd and yearning earning for tor Ideals that unsullied youth alone can give hope for Cor realizing While wanting in Intricacy and dra dramatic dramatic matic effect the plot Is natural and andeas easy and flows as a placid stream yet jet et never wants Interest and is happy happ In that 1 nothing seems is a spon spontaneity spontaneity In it like that of ot the falling of ot ofrain rain ran and the caroling carling of birds The dic die diction diction tion Is rare In quality and Mrs has a genuine gift of description Per Perhaps Perhaps haps the best that may ma be said of or the work Is that interest In Its denouement never flags and no one can read It with without without without out a sense of or pure uplifting and nd ennobling sense sens sense being engendered No lover of ot the beautiful and true in fic tlc fiction fiction tion will regret the time spent In reading this book R B W S |