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l'.ien, there. are the accounts of the Gordons, noble Scottish clansman, who found the scenery here comparable to those of*their bjeloved highlands; at ‘‘Wakefield Manor” when the Duchess of Windsor Wallis Warfield of Baltimore often visited her cousin, Mrs.’Basil Gordon.
Also, te accounts of “Montpelier” in the F. T. Valley where lived Caroline Homassel, wife of Dr. Philip Thornton. In her diary, which Miss, Hite is reprinting, she tells of hrer grandfather escaping from the Bastille, of her love for Alfred Madison, nephew of the President, and the dramatic "account of the burning of the old Richmond Theatre in 1-811 and the sa\ing of her life by Dr. Thornton whom she afterwards married. , i1 . '
Miss Hite’s book is divided into* three parts. The first part is a valuable collection of pictures f old homes whose architecture is as varied as those * Who dwelt within them and who have added j the “character lustre” to an historical book of this type. With each picture, however, is. the story of the home.
The second part of the volume tells of old churches and theirministers. This wiil make a valuable addition to future religious Virginiana.
The third part of' the forthcoming volume is made up of miscellaneous stories — stories tfhat will soon be preserved in
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