Show VI m About Writers L and N ew BooI Books s jp THE HARPER CENTENNIAL 7 volume of or unusual interest in the tho theary ary The Harper Harpel Centennial has haM Iary t been received with Ith the ts tf of ot the publishers Harper h subtitle expresses the content tl the be volume A Few of or the Greets Greet- Greet President s 8 and Congratulations of or New New j. j son Ison Governor Whitman Jt Ic and Mayor Mitchel of or New e York YOlk It write to the famous publishing Lf- Lf se of or Harpers founded rounded in 1817 1317 senda send send- them their best wishes a t. t the foreword the publishers tal take c slon to sa say Tames James March that t was in t per and his younger brother John h practical printers began business i In in a room on Do- Do It was m rn Aug- Aug street New e York thc printed Seneca Sencca'S s 1817 that they edition of ot 2000 copies In an l thc elder Duyckinck The title page pago the he first book bool to bear the Harper is s reproduced In this volume tt e the entire book bool has been re- re ted with various reproductions in j limited d edition a n. feature rt IA he e Harper Centennial year ear James I John John Harper Harpel were the first mcm- mcm Is of or the firm The two younger bers i Joseph Wesley and Fletcher as compositors upon the thc book the thein of oC former became a n. member 1 in 1823 the latter In 18 but the thc theof of the tho firm continued to be J. J tE arper until 1833 when It was wasH wasill ill H ged ged to Harper Brothers 0 plant was destroyed b by fire lre InA in ini J and was replaced b by the present A i dings the distinction ri dings which bear the first important example construction in New ew Harpers Harper's Magazine was started J 7 une an and is among the notable rily magazines of ot the world To Tote fl te from the foreword again t The e century of or literary achievement eh ch the House of Harper represents 4 with Seneca and closes eloS with the of oC the United States The TheD D tors of or Harper Halper Brothers count IL happy happ omen that the new docu- docu tary edition o of President Wilsons Wilson's J story of ot tho the American People should j the close of the first century r. r house and tho the beginning of the thet theW t J W authors and other nota- nota i s contribute to the large largo list o of lets let- let 8 s congratulating the firm on Its of or a century's activities cx- cx Jessing as President Wilson does docs In Sling lIng language langua e tho the hope that for w other ther hundred years the honorable of oC the hou house e ma may be main- main a nod ned to the benefit alike alilee of ot those who d and of or those who write Har Har- Har r Bros Nek York WEsT ESl IS WEST wise In ln the ways wars of or the east sk Ok a proverb for tor the tho ages when ho fId Ld East Is east cast and west Is west est gene Manlove Rhodes he of oC the tho west ti d the dim dint trails knows as aB Kipling t l the truth thereof In fact tact never I- I rt twain t shall meet In London New rk or wherever life treads tread Its Us even evenI I iy y there are men and women who 1 rn this phrase over in their minds I t ten Ven n the old spring spring- fret comes oer o'er oer em nt and the other side Ido of ot the world l ls They Thoy are tho the traveled ones I The little ways of oC the desert the I itaI processes of the west no one HJ owe lows as Rhodes does oes Death quick quick- loyalty the virtue par excel excel- v- v rt ot of the far tar places and tho the ways I t in n when ahen they are going wide wille un- un V i you ou It is a romance of ot the irit X ant and the cat cal cattle lIe e lands of Arizona IM ew e Mexico an epic of or work a poem oem of or the crystalline peaks and skies sIdes A story ston of the only aristocracy we have worth north speaking 1 tho A the tho men who do things who take orders because none are necessary 4 who look you In the eye because I M Y are what the they are There is ls a ato ng to it It-a It a bouquet of or originality om encountered In fiction H. H I t r Co New York I I HIS O OW HOME OME TOWS TOWN I eFrom From time to time In our leading the statement is Us made that aper er cent o of the men who succeed In fi metropolitan cities are town small-town men who came from the tho farms 1 the count county 6 seat at back home 4 gr grett t many of or them too men who whore re ro class first failures back there Ina in little street one-street town that gave g a im un birth It Is not always lack of that writes men man down fall- fall ii S. S Prejudices long IonS standing ir and a name for being the un under under- el i u do their part It Ls Us easy casy to know lwow j town Larry Evans pictures In his hist k iii t volume Ills His Own Home Town stere t ro are a hundred of them In your ion Only this Is the stor story of or an nn Slier dog dog ier-dog who could not make male good in city at first and went back to the lJ n that had reviled him to prove pro a man The entire story ston Is a n. finished picture of oC life in our tern states and woven into It Is t ii romance of or a u. truly wonderful wom- wom H. H. K Fly Co ew New York iv C CAUIN IX FEVER j I here Is a certain malad malady of mind by too much monotony lash lash- able folk call it ennui but western western- l' l call it cabin fever lever But when when- ir r It attacks attucks you lot o it reveals the things in your our soul foul it uncovers your our l rt-et rt ct and unsuspected vir- vir WI rl nn nfl TIll nn cu I- I j I 6 V 1 1 2 months of or h Inaction surfeited with 0 r small beer of oC prosaic domestic i Sf 1 after carefree Independence and andS and'S S 'S b by of the IllS i lie 10 symptoms In tho the hitherto wholly 0 wife wHo Mario farlo A sharp exchange 4 a quarrel fostered b by a dY mother-in-law mother and Dude Buds do- do I 61 itic tlc happiness la lay in ruins Freed Wife and child and bank account he riched forth to reconstruct his hie life liCe 1 tow ow ho lie and Marie fared through r IT r attack of cabin fever how fever how they ered and strove nn and developed Is is of B. B M. M t r. Bowers Bower's now story It t It gives a n true picture of or thet tho the t tt it t that its characters are human well defined that Its story interest will be taken taleen for granted by ie e who are familiar with this auB au- au 8 B tales talea Cabin Fever will hold jil lever ever likes to read of ot outdoor life lite 1 ot of people who do not fear to let tl r primitive impulses swa sway them 1 ho zo frontispiece by Frank E. E Schoon- Schoon Is Is an nn artistic touch that enhances 1 ji attractiveness of ot the tho book Lit booe-Lit- Lit Lit- iq Brown Co Boston Doton jI WOLF OLF a he Wolf Cub is a story unusual heme and setting I I 0 V I beginning to end Jacinto Que- Que tho L-tho Wolf Cub isa Isn poverty strick lad with a genius for tOl lead lead- P. P i a. a intelligence and such gO ge and daring that his feats rs as a have made him the mo most famous ban in all Spain But when Jacinto ab abducts the tho b beautiful dau daughter of ot the hidalgo Don Jaime Julme when she I Is eloping with a rascal rascally ras ras- cal cally Frenchman he finds other keen leen an and brave e and daring men matched against him Morales the matador for tor the time honor of Spain pain Feron tho the T Frenchman for t revenge tenge and Carson the time American for the honor of oC womanhood woman woman- hood hood all all combine for the tue rescue Man Ian against man until disaster l' l overtakes o them and th then n shoulder to shoulder er they call on oil ori all their individual re resources resources resources re- re sources un until this particular tangle in Quesada's career carcer is straightened Th The stor story is picturesque and romantic romantic romantic roman roman- tic to a degree with adventurous ad people peo peo- pIe in circumstances which are arc only possible in Spain and with such a compan com corn comI I pan pany Spanish spirit whether hether of high or low degree gleams from Crom o el every page Action is the keynote Invariably dramatic dramatic dramatic dra dra- matic action and It is maintained l to the very CI ending Little ending Little Brown Co Boston I II I 1 AMERIC AMONG TUB TIlE TIO I Tp arrive at an estimate of national character from the home homely facts of ot our national history Is the purpose of ot this volume as expressed b by Its author II H II H. Powers author authol of ot that striking work worl The Time Things Men Ien Figh For He lie would too discard the tile time time- honored honore prepossessions and epithets which have too long Ions done dut duty with us as estimates of or foreign nations and ar arrive arrive ar- ar rive nyc at a juster conclusion based on their actions In short he sa says s this book is an attempt at an historic In Interpretation Interpretation interpretation In- In of or our national character and of our relation to other nations With this purpose in mind he devotes the first part of or his text to a consideration consideration consideration con con- of or America at home taking up UI such topics as Tho Time First Americans Amen Ameri cans The Logic of Isolation The Time Great Expansion The Break With Tradition an and SO go forth The book bool is timely and well written written- New York THE rUE HISTORY 01 OF 01 EUROPE The History of Europe from 1862 to 1914 is a volume o of unusual interest In regards to the world conflict It gives an unbiased narrative of the thc chief events in European history from flom the beginning of oC Bismarck's chancellor chancellor- ship in to the outbreak of the great war In 1914 Emphasis has been consistently laid upon the events affecting af at- international relations thus making the book boole a true history of ot Europe rather than an aggregation of histories of oC the separate states of Europe The Time campaigns in the several soy sev eral enal wars of or this period have been treated not in technical detail detal but hut I I I I with sufficient fullness to enable the I general reader to comprehend tho the chief movements and antI the thc reasons reasons reasons' for tor their success or on fa failure II The Time student student student stu stu- dent of military science is enabled enable In addition to follow tho time significant de developments developments developments de- de in relation to military tactiC tactics tac tac- tiC tics The characters an and methods of or those statesmen who had tho the greatest test influence upon international affairs have ha been developed at length The alliances and the conflict of oC Interests which resulted in the present great war ar have o been especially stressed stressed Mac Mac milian Co New ew York PROOF SP AMERICAN SI SLANG Arthur Bartlott Bartlett Maurice the last American delegate of ot the time relief commission com coni- mission to enter Belgium prior to our declaration of war tells in his book boole Bottled Up in Belgium Moffat Yard Co an Interesting story of ot the difficulties difficulties difficulties dif dif- of or tho the American relief workers work work- ers ens holding holding- an any sort Rort of conversation without fear of tho the present ever German German German Ger Ger- man man spy Says Sal's Mr Ir Maurice There existed happily a domain of language which was a trackless country country coun coun- try tn a no mans man's land for anyone anone not trained to Its Its pitfalls its quagmires English would not do French would not do There remained for tho the baffling of ot Inquisitive cars ears tho the vast ast rich range of American slang On that ground we felt we wo were safe To illustrate I had just heard that thata a German In tho the United States had made an attempt upon tho the life of the thc President It was at a time when ever every event of the kind was making our participation participation participation par par- In the war more mora certain How the news leaked In I do not know I shall never know That was the tho peculiarity of ot news In Belgium You heard the rumor but you could trace it to no apparent source In tho the barbers barber's shop were several German of ot- ot Entered Sperry of ot California who had just returned from a trip to the provinces and would be likely to know knots nothing of the report It would I be better if It he were Informed before reporting at tho the Pass Tho The information was coded code l nn and the dialogue dialogue dia din logue ran somewhat as follows Nix on an any of those these spangled Delicatessens getting getting- wise but If there were any in this burg they'd be bo scare heading about a Heine Helne who has Just tried to put over OCi a Czolgos on the thc Main Squeeze A pause pauso and then back from the lath lathered ered lips in tho the other chair I gotcha getcha Steve What's the tho next call for dinner in tho the dining car cam You can search me But Dut I think it Is all to the tho merry Sa Say Sal when will vill those these guys IUS stop trIns try try- Ins ing to steal second with time the bases full lull What do you OU expect from bush lea league beans Tho The skids for tor them But tell mo me Am I taking too lon long a lea lead off art first 7 These will never tumble to the line in 11 a thousand vr ars I I LI LINCOLN Particularly appropriate is the publication pub pub- Ilea lion of oC this book Lincoln the initial volume In the tho series of ot Heroes an and Leaders in American History Theauthor Tho The author Wilbur F F. Gordy Gorely whoso whose Stories of oC American History and other Juvenile works along historical lines has given a 3 time timely account of ot tho the lifo life of ot tho the great grent President On tho the frontispiece fron Iron of tho book are printed Lincoln's Lin coln's coins words Let us have o faith that right makes malM might and in that faith let us us to the tho end dare to do our dut duty duly as we understand it Just when the United j is enterIng the world wOId conflict con con- filet against the tho powers preaching that might mal makes es right this book hooe appears ap ap- ap- ap I pears It tells of the lesson to bo he learned by young oung Americans from tho the life of or the thc martyred President It Il Is an old an and truo true maxim which says that wo we learn from experience tho the author says in his preface preface- meaning mean ing o of course our own personal ex ex- But Dut much is 15 to bo ho learned also from rom the experience experIenc of others especially Il of ot tho time great and ancI the good who have h. lived before us Herein lies the value of or biography Perhaps to Lincoln Lin Lin- coln coin more than to an army any other man in inthe th the history of our country countr has been given Iven the time power of or influence over the lives U of or tho those c unknown to him To thou thousands ands who never saw him but who I know eno hh him i 1 through his imis letters an and speeches and antI through h the record of his private and public life ho is Js an In tim tim- Such a hero an and l leader e who continues to live in the time ideals an and l In Institutions Institutions In- In of or his hia native e land is ono one of its richest t possessions and it is especially lally fitting In lays days wh when n the nation is a again called to take tako a a. stand in a great groat cause that wo we should learn to understand and appreciate something of the high purpose and l immortal achievements of his life With that I thought In iii mind this book bool has been ben prepared It is the time first of or a series selles called Heroes and Leaders In AmerIcan American Amer Amen ican History a series which will in include In- In elude clude may of or the men m mi I various fields ot of service ser in our national life liCe who iio have ha had much to do 10 with mal making our country what it is today The rhe volume is b by many reproductions of Jr rare and famous pictures pic pie tures not only nl of or Lincoln himself but butof butof butor I of or civil war scenes In which ho lie fig tle- tired Time The hook book is Just tho the thing |