Show o g o C A rr C Y W I O Ild o I noYs noes' AND AAD D Tim ruF w AR An Mind Hind nn r ro your r little extravagances says sas the American Boy In tin nn article on boys n d thc the war Keep e p your oui clothes clean Make ke them tt em last longer lon er If It by b doing so sool you ol can an spare spar your our our father the necessity sity alty of t b buying jou O a n nev new pair palt of or shoes or new now pants or r n a new shirt he ha has hae j Just st st. so so much more d dollars nars to to loan to tie the go o cr eminent for shoes sl and pants aj d shirts for the soldiers yes soldiers yes and for th the kaiser Jf Keep p well well iJ K Keep ep strong Rep K Ke c ep clean If It you OU do you u- u can cnn work better for far f r Uncle lc San Sam either I her at home or as a soldier and and this war may last until al alb iff the r readers of ot the American Boy Doy have havo to go into Jo BO into It Dont Don't be unfit for that thAi service The government has opened op ned wide Ido for to serve it in you yop bogs hoys the tho opportunity and erve yourselves your your- ourI our yet ct another way and way to serve 8 selves lv s' s as LIS' well You helped n nobly bly with I e liberty loans you OU can help again now noy more directly Uy and more Intimate Intimate- I ly There is no IO boy O who cannot cann t earn carn the price e of a thrift stamp In winter II you can enn clean the snow from sidewalks II If If you lou nil liv live in fn the n north rth In summer you ou can i l mow lawn lawns lawn help h help Jp in gardens ard ns do a multitude of of things and things and take your yourI I earnings to the tho postoffice to turn them thorn Into stamps Suppose SUP five million boys bos saved but a dollar doliar a month That would give tho the country countr a L year ur to use to beat Germany And you DU can do It You can save Have 2 a month or 5 S If Ie you jou OU set act your our minds to It What a a. glorious thing It would be Ibe tr should be bo able to record that American boys bos saved and loaned to the government ro ro more re than a hundred mil mil- millions millions lions oC ot dollars during the year 1918 1318 Oh you cap can fight in this war in lots Iota lotsof or- or of w w ways aye YS Just Just think how fine tine you'll feel when the war won and you U grown to R a young man you can cash Inget in Inget In get Bret from Undo Uncle Sam w what at you have ha loaned him plus th the Interest And Am face nil all your friends fiends with th the knowledge c that did your part as' as as well as S you could Wouldn't it be bo awful to see the other othor fellows getting their m money no back from Sam Sam-i getting gettinS' nothing nothing- Uncle Sam and nd you ou that Is nothing but tho the sneers of the theother theother other fellows and and taunts taunt that you ou had teen been a a. slacker slacken Get Got Into tho the fight right now And don dont don't t. t stop atop nOOK RI JlE V ANALYZED Who ho reads reds reviews besides o l ho au authors authors au au- thors thorn and ond publishers and the men who write them write them Evidently they the theare are read for recently a 11 correspondent with a taste In statistics Informed Robert M M. M McBride Co Co the publishers publish publish- era ers of Thomas Burkes Burken Nights that in A total of seventy seventy- nine reviews of that book which he had personally examined there were to toI tobe tobo bo boo found in is all nil IU different adjectives I descriptive of the quality of tho the book JM Dr Vh u. t were described du as fulsome ninety fouras tour ninety as commendatory commenda commenda- I tory tw twelve lve deprecatory four shocked i and twenty as scurrilous us Thus far the publishers have not verified d their correspondent correspondents correspondent's cor cor- respondents respondent statistics CI ll Tim TIE E MASTER n DETECTIVE E Hero Here Is s another of or th those se fascinating mystery stories by Thomas W V Hans- Hans chew Cleek Cleek of Scotland Yard aJ again I Is followed through tho the maze maze ze of or a plot which baffles baUles but entertains ns yielding at last to the brain blows of this keen sleuth leu h How the spinning 0 of a gold piece revealed to Cleek the mystery of ot the the Caliphs Caliph's daughter daughter and the murdered murdered murdered mur mur- dered mummy is t told ld h here rc Black k magic mage necromancy and and witchcraft they cried when Carboy Carboys vanished into I thin air wearing the Belt thus giving Cleek Clock a n. clue to the tho Riddle of tho Slumbering Nymph Two men killed a third paralysed l while guard guard- guarding guarding ing the steel cago cage which held Bla Black k Riot the horse that w was s' s slated to win the Derby The n Plant hid the mystery to the Riddle of the St Steel el Room HoofT The Tho Skeleton Hand with the I. I n u ottra oa tea ringer finger was wan oa dealing low death to Its unsuspecting vic vic- im From Frome I and Pa Patagonia a onia ava la and the thc Orient Orlen como come threads of or and crime to to- be he I e. e unraveled el d by b leek aei le k the master det detective cUve of S Scotland op lard card fame This T IH book the he work of or str r. in his prime Js Is now nosy published pub pub- fished In America riel for the the- first time rhe the four illustrations by b Gordon Grant idd S to the Interest t. t and value of Off the llie e. Do Doubleday Page pase Co Garlen Garen Gar- Gar LIen len en City N N. Y NOVEL Philip C Curtiss author ot Between vo T Worlds 0 s received a a. fow few da days s 's ag aga ago agot a i t from from- froman an unknown Canadian soldier who Is a n. prisoner In Germany German Somehow he had picked up a copy a-copy copy cOPy of of Mr Curtiss' Curtiss earlier novel The Ladler Ladder Ladder Lad Lad- der ler and arid in his gratitude for his his' enjoyment en en- en- en t he wrote I thought it it might Ive you pleasure to know that a regular reg reg- ular soldier In the Gordon Highlanders HI a t French sergeant and nd a Welsh miner i have all expressed a a wish welsh to reread this altogether delightful d story delightful story stor a n it striking ing t testimony to the breadth of your joui appeal Heres Here's looking at you u Mr h Curtiss Mr Curtiss says ay that he Is Ie p particularly pleased to know that thit The Ladder which describes describes' among imon other thet things the i pe of 1 a span In battle battle bat bat- tle tl- v n ritten before the lie l war var lIe began bean nn should ring true truc to soldiers wh who oho have flavo known n the reaUl reality co COMRADES nADI S IN IS COURAGE Good Good cheer In wartime Is acknowledged acknowledged edged edger the world over o to be an asset olSet of inestimable value to nations l Those who have the good fortune to road read Antoine Antoino Comrades des in Courage will gain a wholesome strength of or purpose and optimism that will enable thorn thom to lace face the future un- un haunted launt d The lieutenant is an officer In the the wench French Fren h arm army and his original work has been translated Into l- l English Englishby by b Mrs Phillip Duncan Wilson the result re result result re- re sult being being- a live ll throbbing work of or ortrue true literary merit Evidently the work worl of oC translation lon was as not done with simply sim sim- simply ply ph a pure purely routine spirit but is marked by b that gift of transferring the thought t an and l f feeling eling of the author Into another tongue Th The Thol volume ol me is one of the three trul truly great ret b books ks th that t Uie the war h has brought forth In France Fran e both as as' as asa a literary achievement and as a popular success Heroism m and arid adventure are here but greater still Is the unfolding of the soul of or a nation through the reactions of a a- a cultured French Fr officer as ho he hele le views view's 8 th the horrors honors of world conflict His noble faith In hi ultimate victory his passionate devotion to France are an Inspiration Uon to Americans about to undergo undergo un un- un dergo the baptism of or fire tire The Tho book bool bears a notable dictation To m my sons so so that when the they are grown the they mayme may mayme me honorable m men men n strong free and bra e Doubleday Double Doubleday a- a Page Co Garden Garden Garden Gar Gar- den City N N. Y TilE GOLD S BLOCK Just how many great live o stories orm and nd develop to to a a. thrilling finish in n t the le offices of the great business of Americas America's greatest metropolis olis Ils This question Is almost sure to form arm In the toe mind of or the r reader ader of ot this most host entertaining story by Sophie v err rr whose Wh se Blue Envelope draped modern business In a garment of ot ro romance rOe ro- fiance mance and keen Interest W tY you u like to f feel el the tho thrill of or Inching clinching big business deals or match v 3 9 w th New w. w Yorks York's political p Inner ring 1 You will find hero here the story pf of a young young U K girl secretary to a cap captaIn captain tain of or industry who did no so The story torY is is' is isone s one of J lov love c o and business success suc sue cess coss which proves that theros theres no sex sex- sex In brains The frontispiece by Fanny Munsell aptly discloses the heroine hero hero- hero ine Ino all B atypical typical young American office office office of of- fice girl slender slender slender- bright t and nd plucky pluck looking D Page Pago Co Doubleday Gar Garden Garden den City N Y Y THC TIIE TJI KENTUCKY WARBLER 4 James Jamea Lane Allen a aUthor athor thor of ot The Kentucky Cardinal C rd 1 l again tells the taro talo of the Blue e Gr Crass country and of ofa a oung hero who wanders ers ot off after attar abird's a abird's birds bird's note n t Ito to find romance romance and and the kc key to o. o his Is own locked nature The same same delicate delicate- grace grape of f style stylo found In In The Tho Kentucky ritu kV Cardinal Is again revealed re Tho The vol volume rrie which la Is 18 printed l and b bound und has an an attractive frontispiece e The book Is dedicated by its noted author to t the young Ken Kentucky tucky forest lover lover Doubleday Doubleday Page Pao Co Garden C City lY N N. Y Y V. 51 M. C. C A. A MAX MAN DARES I shall never forget the story that was told me of or a certain Incident on Vimy ridge We Ye had hall been making our wa way one morning up Souchez A all valley alley e where thousands of brave brae French troops had lavishly poured out their lives hives to stem tho German thrust and shortly came Into full run sight of or rid go There is was as the ri ridge ge whose whoso name has haa echoed around the world orM Its joll made very sacred sacre b by the w washing inhuman In Inhuman human blood blood blood-a a long IonS low scarred hill swept bare of an any sign of life except for its deserted zIgzag tr trenches and a afew afew few tew gaunt Jaunt naked t tree r 1 trunks Up over those torn tom slopes lopes we wont want carefully carefully carefully care care- fully picking plc our way WC around the shell of oC tangled tangled tangled tan tan- cr craters tes te's and through the maze ma barbed wire We passed the thc old front line trenches trench ind st started r l' l across I ground of ot No o tans Mans Man s the furiously torn Land covered co with the dreadful debris there of or the battle which had raged And Ana then came to the spot Elot where hero this thing thins had hai happened as related by b a Within halt half an hour Canadian officer he said saiu stormed after the ridge was before beCore tho line h had hul lIl wn wen w n been n consolidated consol consol- con consolidated sol sol- appeared rd a anion amono n nus there fiero s' s suddenly app app- where a 1 y MC M 1 u us from fr m no one knows l C C. C A A. A secretary serving out hot coffee coHee to Every l erY ono one else olse r was lying hing my m m man hut of shell fire buthe hut but that flat under the storm sturm he was gas standing at his hili work ork utterly except hs the th men e eho oblivious lous of or serve urve Ive I never ho to lo was trying ho he knows God been religion much on of or the sight I ht went on on but somehoW that young Y M M. C C. A A. secretary tar standIng stand stand- In all aU l Ins Ing the only m man n them ther 11 that III what n w n that hat rain of or sholie T n B. Frances to me Dv By By Dances save gave ave rell religion F bru- bru for Sayre in Harpers Harper's Machine e ary PEELS FREIS HOW AIRMAN AERMAN n Atlantic Monthly Month Month- l the James Jamea N N. Hall hail In how an airman tells ly for February feels when on on the Job I became copious of or a feeling of remembered what J J. J B B. loneliness I There was had said Bald that morning In that isolation I tnt unpleasant something one look longing make something tc make one wonder I do earth to down n to ath at feel teel r really ever er we shall 11 for for the longed I too air home In the tho that I and all t sound or of human or of the motor and the roar oar heard was wind through h wires th the tho awls t cf of the human hu- hu human hu hu- which have tave no and struts sounds sound jo s more and are no in them T l man mon quality companionable than thon the lapping n n of the adrift on a ar bo ho to a ni man ii waves would Underlying this h r raft t In W oc mid an In part responsible responsible doubt feeling an and anu no aou uj knowledge B of or the sible fallibility ei for mr V it H o of Was that thai the B se seemingly e m perfect rode so go steadily which mechanism of the tho quick response through the air arrangement of which that would make to an Inanimate matter inexorable er law if IC a few eternal and should part of the equally frail wires of response respond phlegmatic quick but less mechanism capable of capable fallible another capable It IL Is said sahl registering horror tIe life Review In review In the theand past Its of passinG seconds and then then-ca- space or of a feW pablo of becoming equally inanimate I matter SOLDIERS I DRAMA DRAM An Interesting Interesting proof of the widespread wide wide- spread Interest in the drama rama among Americans may be be found In the fact that copies of or Arthur Hobson Quinns Quinn's I Representative American lean Plays Plas Harpers Harpers Har Har- pers have ha been ordered for tor all the cantonment libraries of or the new national national national na na- na- na army CAROI YS 01 OR 01 Till 1118 CORNERS This volume b by Ruth Belmore Endicott Endicott Endi- Endi cott Is a n true Look Up book as she ahe herself terms It Dont Don't c confine your our ur vision Ision Is ion to the workday world just In n front of or you Look book Up at the sUn sUn- sun sunshine shine and the blue sk sky Breathe In happiness and grow crow younger This Is the stor story of or one whose motto was Look up up It Is illustrated by Edward EdwardC C C. Caswell whose work reflects the theauthor's theauthor's theauthor's authors author's Ideas faithfully Carolyn of or the Corners Is a clean- clean cut story of everyday e iffe with a heroine who ho practiced the gospel of looking UI up uli and making malting things a a wee Voce bit better Carolyn May Cameron Cameron Cam Cam- eron OTon Is a character that will live 11 long Ion longIn longn In n fiction she fiction she Is so 80 natural so wholesome wholesome wholesome whole whole- some so thoroughly worth while To Tob become b acquainted with wH her Is like letting in tho the sunshine and n looking up l I I at the th blue sl Dodd Dodd Dodd Mead Co New ew York THE TIIE IlM 1 OP O n I OTI 0 I recall no piece of at literature literature ant am Miss Gatlin's story stan unless I t am greatly great great- Iv ly mistaken cn Is s literature that literature that has s so brought home to me In these perilous days what this war shall come to roar mean to the mothers and fathers lathers of ot America The rhe spirit of noble sacrifice that these then partners In Tho The Full Measure of Dc De how how fine tine that phrase of |