| Show I Around Around the Library Table I 4 4 TRAINING rR FOR FOIl Jon rug IR Iu nr Don C. C Selz of the New Xe York World has written a book entitled Training for Cor tho the Newspaper Trade Ills lon long connection with wih the Journal mentioned qualifies him to speak peah with wih authority on the subject for Mr lr Seltz Selz Is credited with being tho the Inventor in of or the Sunday Sunda comic wih supplement and Incidentally the parent of ot yellow Journalism the stor story of or tho the evolution of or which no ho 10 re relates relates relates re- re And lates In an n entertaining manner this reminds u us that h he ho does himself an Rn Injustice when he says good writIng writIng writ writ- fashion In our mlle mile Ing has gone out of or minute a ago It I wu wasn't nt so o when he filled tied nn an editorial position and apparently apparently lie he has not lost the tho trick of ot ex expressing expressing ex- ex pressing himself in excellent English since he became business manager of or ortho tho the World In one ono of or the tho man Incidents Incident In the life BCe of ot he refers to to tho the fact that tho great San Francisco Chronicle was vas founded without money mone as a n theatrical program a little moro more than fifty years ear ago b by two hoe boys Charles and M 1 II I. I do Young It I literally literally liter liter- ally made Itself b bv exhibitions of or ex extraordinary extraordinary ex- ex nI energy and enterprise All J 1 readers will wi recognize tho the point of or the tho stor story about bout the kid icid cd leport reporter r who was sent out to get pret three minor Items ems and only turned in t two o The Tho city editor asked Where Is tho the wedding weddinG stuff Oh OlI said tho the bo boy there wasn't an any wedding The Tho bridegroom groom didn't show sho up Lest Lost the tho reader might hastily conclude con con- clude that tho the cub had nothing In him Seitz Seltz adds n R saying fH which ho at attributes attributes at- at tributes to Pulitzer A reporter Is al alwa'S always always al- al ways waS a hope and an nn editor always alwa's a n disappointment Ills own opinion of oC that functionary is not eo so IO slighting for tor he says says- J Without an nn editor edior all al I la li In vain Much tuch merit as ns thoro Is In a or well or cl b business office success belongs belongs be bo- longs to the editor He lie makes makos the goods If his id ideas aR and output are not salable I t t best heNt economic management and most mORt zealous ad advertising e hunting Co Phil Phil- must fall fail fal J J. B. B adelphia TIlE THE HOY'S HOYS TIFE OF MA IA MIC iK T TI I. I Albert Paine Paine friend and biographer of ot Samuel Clemons demons Is the theauthor theauthor author of or an nn excellent Boys Life Llie of or I Mp-k Mp It k Twain It I Is as s Interesting a as rule one c cf t Mark tark Twains Twain's own stories for tor I ho bo boys ss s Tho The authorized biographer of oC Samuel Samuel Samuel Sam Sam- uel Clemens selected elected bythe by b bythe the subject himself has gh given en a plain unvarnished account of ot the great humorists humorist's humorists humorist's humorists hu hu- hu- hu extraordinary career In this short-length short Theories controversies con eon estimates all al these are arc foregone fore tore gone ono In line lino Ino with wih tho the d design of or the hook book On account of Its substance and authoritativeness this volume will b be bf of ot interest t to adults who wish a strai straight straight- ht- ht fO ward and amid nd not too comprehensive ensi c re recital recital re- re cital of ot Mark Twains Twain's 1 life re as aR well wel as asto asto asto to the younger readers to whom I it i i Is addressed it I Is biography with wih all al the unessential omitted crammed with In Interest interest In- In terest easU easily but written Harper Bros New York GOLF FOR FOn c If It I men write cook books good books good cook cookbooks cookbooks books bools at that that wh why shouldn't a woman write a golf golt book book book-a a good golf gol book That Tha Is exactly what the authoress of Golf Golt for Women omen has done lone But Dut what Is more to the point poInt the authoress who writes under the noni nom do IC plume A Woman Golfer GoIter has gi en given a better beUer In fact a most mOt excellent reason reson for the book when she says I feel Ceel that as a woman I understand a womans woman's needs better than can any army man The book contains aside from technical analysis and practical hints for tor Improving onos ono's pIa play much Interesting data on noted women go golfers and nd their styles of or play It I Is profusely Illustrated d with photo photo- photographs photographs graphs graphe of ot well veil known wel-known players famous Camous matches etc Moffat Moffat Yard Co New ew York I AND TuBS TITUS im lIE lE CAME Another new non Christmas story Is And Thus Ho lie Came Came- A Christmas Fantasy b by Cyrus Townsend Brady This Is a n series of prose sketches rich In color imagination and human human sympathy In which the love of ot Christ Is shown In Influencing Influencing In- In society In Iii all aU ela classes seB some of or the scenes being being laid In ho hospitals some In mansions s ome some In slums alums Some of ot the sketches are a r little too melodramatic melo mole dramatic to be he convincing convincInG but Dr Brady is a deft deC story teller teler and the spirit of ot his book l i Is j excellent This series of or short stories about people of or oraU all aU strata of or society and of ot man many lands reveals how Christ came to tho the rescue of ot men and women sorely tempted by pAs passion lon or misery G. G. G I P. P Putnam's Sons New ew York A A MAX MAN OF OP AThENS AIES One of or the most timely of ut th the new novels aIR Is A Man lan of or Athens Athon by Julia JuHa D. D Dragoumis a Greek writer who gives a fascinating picture of tin the tw and patriotic spirit of or the Athens Athena of C toda today The name of is JS on the ton tongue ue of every even one who speaks of or orthe the crisis through which Greece l Is now passing pasing and ana the Colw follow 1 ig g conversation r. l from Mrs US rs book bool gives the tle opinion of or two native born born then Athenians ns on the tIme man from Cr e We Ye want to do jr lr rat at things raid nid Costa but to reverse the Engl English h Jingo sn song though we tray may want to flint wo we have haye neither the tho money nor enough chips nor the right kind of or men men The heroes of or 18 1821 1 are aro all al dead and burled buried There Is one man man at nn any rate ratel ratel cried criel Zoe w h n p V 11 elos That man from Crete Exact Exactly that man from Crete Croter I was n out with Father In the Square tho the day day that he was first elected and I hoard heard his speech I never forgot It I. I and I never shall Words arc are cheap These wore not every everyone one was weighed and counted Another day dav I II Imet Imet met him at the One ne I woman said Raid something about our going downhill BO so fast and I r dont don't know what hat made the Idea come to me Just then but I Haid that according according- to history man many nations went up and nd down like the sleds sheds on the and that sometimes the very velocity of ot their descent served to carry them triumphantly up the tho opposite slope Some p laughed and one old lady asked What do you ea say eay I about our chances He said with witha wih a k queer little smile In hi his beard I 1 quite Quie a agree ree with the young lady who has Just lust spoken All Al tho the same said Costa COta If it your means mean to give Ivo an upward push flush to the sled In our lifetime he must hurry lurry Zoe nodded her head lie Ho lo Is hurryIng hurry- hurry Ing ing slowly Co New York TUB TIlE CAVE TWINS IX For the Jollification and amusement of ot the youngsters the proud parent 1 should make make tho the acquaintance of or Lucy Fitch Perkins Perkins' Tho The Cave Cavo Twins Thins a newcomer in this writers writer's wel-l wel known well twin series It I tells of ot tho the adventures of ot and Firefly who were perhaps tho the first human twins that were ever born The They lived In the stone stono age period and this record of or their doIngs do do- ings I Is full ful of incident and humor besides besides besides be be- sides conveying a prel pretty good notion noton of ot what life must have o been In those early earl days It I is l illus mus Houghton Houghton Houghton Co New ew York I II TIlE THE TIE RUSSIAN N G. GARLAND D OF I FAIRY AIRY I TALES PAIES There have hae been een many collections of oC stories from Russian folklore but there Is always room for tor a 0 new book when that book Is ap as nf well wel written as The Russian Garland of Fairy Tales Tules are arc Russian folk legends translated from a r collection of or chap books made In Moscow They he are edited by Robert Steele and Illustrated In color by 11 R. R de lel an artist whose work I Is del delightfully humorous flobert Robert Robert M M. M McBride McBride Mc- Mc Bride Co New York THE IE lOI Y CHIn CHILI Meeting old and valued friends frends Is as agreeable In books book as It I is In life and andI I among our ourS literal y friends trends few rew are dearer or more mure welcome to us than AlI Al- Al I I I I Inn Ian of or the many cn ad tures So very many man indeed havo ho been beon tho those e adventures ad that It I might r easily asly be he supposed ed that the tho possibilities R of Africa had hod been entirely exhausted tet h by bythe bytho the tho Intrepid n n a supposition tion ton whose rn rashness this latest history of or his experiences suffices to prove It I must of ot course lourse be bo admitted that In Inis Its is broad outlines the nl account count of oC his enterprise concerning concerning The Tho ho Ivory vor Child anti and ane It Its especially the ono one supreme Guardian is la not unlike unlike un un- un- un like lee certain other of or those tales tale of ot which ho Is tho the central figure Once again agnin thoro there Is an object to be bo sought for COl and brought ht away once again a 0 strange people aro are II discovered red far 0 away Wo in tho the wilderness once n again there Is Isa isa a R fierce culminating battle to the death but hero horo the resemblances end and the differences begin The stor story opens In England at the time when Allan Alan returned with wih young young from tho the first of ot the expeditions expeditions tons recorded In The Holy Flower It I Is then that Allan Alan meets young un Lord hi his and beautiful betrothed she who horo hore upon uon her ne' ne neck a a strange birthmark shaped like tho time cr crescent cent moon and was wa therefore called Luna Sitting beside Allan Alan at dinner she Aho tells tello him of or a n. n curious occurrence of or her childhood and antI a I little later the house I party at castle castlo of which th thy y yaro aro tro both members Is enlivened by time the appearance of two strange men In castera eastern east cast ern era dress asking for The They Thoy perform certain quite quie remarkable feats cf of r magic magi foretell several fc events bring Allan Alan an nn extraordinary e. e and cause him him and tho the future Lady to see soo visions In an especial kind lelnd of smoke o. o Wonderful a as all nl this I Is It i Is surpassed bv by tho the further un unfolding unfolding un- un folding of or tho the thrilling tale In truo true un-I un I Rider HideI Haggard stylo Longmans Longmans Green tc Co Now York II THE A 11 STREET ET GIRL There are arc two kinds of women One kind spends and spends and amid keeps some man mann working only nl that she may continue con con- to spend The Time other kind knows krows tho the worth of mone money because she earns it I. I J I Don Pendleton an nn agreeable young oung fellow Just out of oC Harvard knows a 1 woman of ot each kind To one of or them Frances France Stu Stuyvesant ant he Is engaged Frances Frances' father allows her a n year rear t to tt spend on herself herselt Her hats cost 50 her dresses or so apiece I IDon Don and arid she sho ho decide they cannot marry until he is h. h earning at least the mere I pittance of or a n to keep her herIn herin herin in clothes clotheR and pleasures The other kind of oC girl Sally Saly Winthrop Win Win- In- In earns 12 a 1 week and week and e 1 lives on It She Is a steno stenographer In tho the theall Wall all Wallstreet 01 street office that employs Don Until his lathers fathers death Ileath Don Donelon elon belonged ed to Frances Frances' world wend Then h he lie had to earn his hiM living Thus he lie entered Sally Salv's s world worle and became acquainted with wih this wholly new type of or woman oman And tho the I acquaintance changed his whole life How it I did so Is told in Frederick I Orin Bartet Bartletts Bartlett's novel The Wall nl Street I Girl It I is told In a n merr merry and entertaining enter enter- taming fashion Dons Don's Ignorance of ot the workaday workaday world and his efforts to qualify for tor the Job jb of ot a n bond salesman are aro amusing The reader fears he would not have hae gotten goten very far without without with with- wih- wih out the coaching of oC Sally Sll tho the wise and andrac grave ra c little stenographer ropher Sally knew the selling bond bond business She knew a good se salesman man when who ho heard one Don had I it He Ho made good Whether or not he ho married Frances you ma may discover by reading reading the bo hook book Its Is sprightly ht style stylo will sIll gIve you a a. n restful rest rest- tul ful hour or so 50 The excellent Illustrations of ot Georgo Ellis Els Wolfe olo are a a distinct distinct dis dis- addition Houghton Houghton PIlE CASTLE BUILDER YIE o. Many a n quaint volume touching in Its Is sincerity has been wrought about the time life theme of an Invalid In ald The Theory very ory helplessness of oC tho struggle at ot the ono one 1 laid low by hy sickness or wound makes of or them an nn Ideal whose figure forms the keystone to the tho story Etta Eta Merrick Graves In her latest work Tho Castlo Builder Casto has achieved a notable success She has hns given given the reading public a n novel no el the romance of ot which shows snows tho the Influence exerted o on the tho lives of ot others by an invalid Tho The gentle one exerts a pow power r that molds the tho lives of or others and The Castle Builder rears Indeed a 0 stately staely edifice In characters the tho formation of oC which Is no little part of or orthe the development de of ot the plot pLot Tho The stor story i IB 18 Interestingly told as ns are all al the novels no b by this auth and It 1 has hasan hasan hasan an added n 1 the somewhat somewhat some somo- what unusual character In the leading role role to to borrow from the dramas drama's rama phraseology Time The Castle Builder Buller Isa is isa isa a big book book possibly book possibly not In pages pasas certainly certainly so 60 in the character of ot its is writ writ- Ing Sherman Sherman r French Co Boston HOUSEROOM I I 0 US F It 0 0 I There Thore Is 18 the unusual In the time latest production by Ida Wild 1 This novel Is h entitled Houseroom and deals with the uncanny side of ot life The Tho plot concerns the story of oC a girl whose whoso husband husband has gone one Insane Handled by 13 a less gifted writer than Ida Wild ld such a theme would be harsh and unpleasing But the talented author gives rhes the reader a novel no whose pages are perused with wih even added In Interest Interest In- In terest owing owing to the the out line lino lne of or action acton depicted The denouement ment Is well brought wel out and the tale talc proves one of the tho fascinatingly Interesting interesting inter Inter- esting ones which Insure Instant hearty recognition of ot the next nOt work bv by th the same writer John John Lane Company New ew York lork 5 |
