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I Et 11 ti New Nev Book Appeals Appels i i f 1 To All Al Boy Scouts r p Tho The Do Boy Scouts Scout of ot the Wolf Patrol b by Br Corcoran Is another doS des desi de- de s si edition to current current books bools with witha 71 1 a direct appeal to the thc rising rising genera genera- 2 I tion ton The boys of ot who were not old enough to go SO to war f fOund nd just as a. a many thrills at home ch chasing a aGerman aGerman f. f German Gorman spy when spy when they did not know r which of ot two men was the spy Since Sinco 1 h these boys are Scouts Scout of ot tho the red- red blooded type which Brewer Corcoran m r knows how to describe and since he I i 4 himself has sad much actual experience I ence with wih the Inner workings of ot UnI Uncle Un Un- I si cle do ce Sams Sam's secret ecret service through his hs t Id connection with wih the tho Intelligence de det department dot do- do t the result resul Is a story full ful of I I which no boy will want to miss I I The Tho Boy DoY Scouts of or America America have set sot sett I t l i tI the official seal of their approval on onit ont it t t d' d di this as on Mr r. r Corcoran's first first Scout If stor story The no Boy Scouts of or Kendall Kendall- ft l Th Th Th Pa Page e c Co Boston L if j Garden Hints Ae Are r 1 jj Offered Young Gardeners il lj 1 In A Little i t Gardening e Book for a I I ii ft Little Girl by Peter Peer Martin tho I P has added another Page 1 ge company compan alde cal book to Its Ideal series Berles t This little volume volum written wrilen in the thes s same same ne interesting style stylo as the previous Volumes In In inthis this known well known wel-known series is isan 4 an excellent elent guide for the young oung garcen gardener gardener gar gar- cen dener r who can use uso only tho the average n crago l equipment In her work First tile the Ue subject of ot hot-beds hot and anderly early arly erly spring preparation is discussed In a 1 a simple manner Then 1 the tho author takes tales up up the preparation 1 of t the the thc soil the actual planting and tho the care Scare lt that must be used to make me tho the i inn email 3 I garden a success success J In addition dlton to truck gardening the l I books book give gho valuable rucJ information on ont onI t I fowe flowers s. s Ul the tho planning of ot the garden selection of ot varieties etc A carefully J j complied compiled Index Inde Is supplied enabling J the rc reader der to fine quickly the subject 1 In which she is interested I 1 rh Tho Th author is well en versed vered vero in his hist subject f. f haying having supervised for many I 1 years cars I large and su successful gardens in t both Florida The The The I Page Company Company- Boston Doston J I t Oto Otto I H. H Kahn Kaim Discuses Discusses Problem o of Peace I In days S 'S when national Interest Inter Inter- 1 f est cit t is c centered nt red in the the- solution o of the theo k o economic problem the country will wll f i. i t I. I welcome the opinion of of Otto OUo H. H ahn I in f in Our Our Economic nH mid and Other j lems Mr Mr Kahn gives a a L clear pic- pic I tur turn turc from t jt Point of ot view What h t must be bc done to set the world I again agarn on on is its feet lonc financially Mr lr r. r Kahn makes a brilliant contribution tion Uon t to this baffling problem He dis- dis I L railroads constructively he I j fallacies a cles of or a an l il designed ill taxation tUon nod nd ho lays las bare the fundamentals funda funda- 4 me metas tas of or our our economic structure r J 1 Mr Ir X occupies an international k position In the thc wo world ld of ot finance Ho t with wih an nn authority that Is s sJ J J as on On wide practical experience He dals ls dr with t toa today but but he brings to his j discussions the th vision of or tomorrow His book s that hat everybody interested in ih the w rl r out of ot our great national na na- na- na problems should read read Every thinking and S tan man woman Jd ho ead Mr If Kahn Kahna whole chapter on The Thc Th T Task Tk J Ahead head on which he be heU heta ta Te The C primary cause of or poverty Is uld Furthermore les- les n pro r naturally makes for hIgh o r Hl lb h wages wac accompanied I by J cost of or the esi es- es i pf r do o the worker nop no U p good kO v Jul 11 t they hc flo do 10 the rest tEst of or the f J cort nUy a greats deal rca deal of or harm The i I welfare r pt F the so called middle classes k f e tf o. o the themon mon and women living on I 1 I lyo t 0 n tv th tub the small p- p f L- L v sl the J C proC professional nl man rh urt r t l ta Just as important s to 1 I.- I. tt J ty as thc th welfare claro of ot the r y c I t through undue ac f g t tlona n t th unfair use of or his power d' d through h atc output the tho workman work- work i t man mal t t t n. n in which the J j Vj rl 1 rt o of prices becomes become l tHe middle cla classes ses he ho t lt cbs clas animosity against 1 o 6 be he of ot in- in e. e t to his his- legitimate i 1 iy J am of or cour course e h ld true trUC of George H. H Co NewYork or e olAI Ju kI k I i J aul Elit Entertains Lh th gallant galant exploits of or the 7 W eb k arm army in as the th heji i l i on lara lara Winlow r has thas w written an an n appealing Juvenile story 1 I- I in Our Slovak yc ho ho Cousins Tho The opening scenes of Our l Little LittI tt 11 SI Slovak k Cousin faithfully picture the ho 4 bard haj-fl primitive bt colorful life Ifo of ot acla und under r Iu Hungarian n misrule t TJ Th rhen cn n BO that wonderful r I val valorous rous march of the Slovak Slovak army n across ross Siberia one of the o great romantic 1 Incidents Ci of or the war ta Seat he c- c t. t Lt Later r the th settIng netting 11 Prague the I ie beautiful u historic hs capital of ot the b j Ci vak lands during durinS the cx ex nd d enthusiastic birth of r the 2 d pe d O oJ of h. h both C Czechs and Md had lo had Page Company n sto II t lian Writes 0 of l t Centy Century 1 Despite ita Ut Importance Impo probably there thero is ro no oth other i period of ot French History on or which th the g general generd nera reader has haiL such false and indefinite Ideas IdeM as ns Ut the pe period o during the tho sway of t Rich T ad and XIV tuis X j In The Tife Seventeenth Century Jacques ques B has lias ns' ns presented d an an entirely nt view of ot Richelieu than Is generally ly cO conceived eVo for with Boulenger ho he neither was 3 a a speculator specula specula- tor nor noa t doctrinaire not ar az admin admin- S 'S r. r j r a l legislator r hut b af an unI un un- I daunted a t d cardinal cardil I who heI held on his I y u t piece by piece e the pol pol- poi poi- icy 0 of c 1 id td the universal mona mon man a ot-nh ot Y p of the e ap PU h both 4 or j J and r.-and A n bl under his te feet bot t. t 4 t ot le grand 1 f S o I ot eit r d c or ly In the thel olly l p lint J hJ t I p I I 4 1 t 1 Yr L I r r I N. N r I S f reign of ot Louis Luis XI was the tho most most Im Important Important Im- Im of ot an an important cr era Is shown in this volume G. G. G P. P Putnam's Sons New York lork Dean Bean of Letters S. S Selects Select Best Bet Stories Store The Tho Great Modern American Stories Is an anthology compiled and and edited with a a reminiscent introduction u-cUon u by William Dean The dean of cf American letters leters with the c of ot a a long life of of or Unparalleled unparalleled un un Un- paralleled familiarity with wih the literature liters litera ture tura of the tho world orld and especially of ot American Aerian literature has hero haro collected twenty four American short stories stores stores' that h have appeared since approximately approximately the beginning of the civil civi war war period perio which he considers worthy worth of remembrance and d perpetuation Un swayed by opinions aloof aloof from temporary so many of ot which ho he has hns seen arise and fade tade a away way Mr r Howells has chosen calm calmly and basset has bas hasset hasset set the seal ot of his wide knowledge and distinguished This anthology anthology anthology an an- Is in the distilled ju judgment o of a aI alife alife I life fe of great writing and great eat experience experience ence and will wi undoubtedly take tak Its II place place as a one ono of the standard anthologies gies In the En English language Mr Howells has Included the tho following following fol lot lowing writers In his selection Edward Edward Edward Ed Ed- ward lowing Evere Everett Hale Hariet Harriet Prescott Spoford Spofford Spotford Mark Twain Henry Henr James T. T B B. Aldrich Charles Charles' Warren Warron Stoddard i dard Francis Bret Harte Frank i Stockton Edith Wharton Sarah Orno I Jewett Mary E E. E Wilkins Freeman I Alice Alce Brown Ambrose Ambroso Bierce Bierc Hamlin Garland Henry B. B Fuller Fuler George Ado Theodore Theodoro Edith Wyatt Charlotte Charlote Perl Perkins ns Stetson Oilman Giman London R. R Madeline Yale Wynne ne R Madelne Dashiell Dashiel Virginia Tac Tracy G. G W. W Cable Cable Cable Ca Ca- ble and Joel Chandler Harris HarrIs Boni Liveright N. N Y Socialist Writes I Of Alb Albany ny Affair Albany The Crisis In Government by Abany Louis aldman with wih an Introduction introduction tion b by Seymour St Si Stedman has S Just been ton published by Boni ht It I Is the dramatic record of cC tho the trial and expulsion of ot the five New Hew cw York Socialist oci al 1st assemblymen e n writ written ten l byone by byone one of or the thc as assemblymen best equipped to condense in clear concise and in intensely intensely intensely in- in tensely human form fon over over pages of ot testimony and ar arguments delivered at atthe the famous amous trial Strange Sango enough side by side on the jacket of ot the tho book appear protests against the action acton of or the state assembly b by Morris Morrs HIllquIt the well wel socialist and Charles Carles Evans Eans Hughes late Justice of or the tho United States supreme c court urt i Wholesome Wc W Crl Story Stor Is Ne New Arrival t Strangely mingled d are emotions and and- and motives in Wine o o o. th the Wl Winds ds Keene Abbotts Abbott's novel hovel el of oC the west wet of ofa ofa ot a day that Is gone This is not a anim- anim Im- Im plc pIc addition to the cowboy and bad badman badman badman man additon sch school ol o of fiction that has tempt tempt- od ed Id so many Kc New y Yorkers to win Tamo amo by seizing inspiration from the tho movie with which to fashion a picture motion picture moton-picture best seller seler It I Is Js a real story with wih the west as a fitting background and not as the main appeal appel Dr North made a a abig big mistake such as many another another- man has made n e and nd following what was was at one time Ime the thc practice he h brought the memory o of his mistake Into the est west and c resolved to at atone ne Trough Through days das when Indian raids wore common and en of all al sorts sorts' Inhabited the plains he lived with Ith his memories s and learned to drink of t th the wine o o 0 the winds Ho was tempered into a finer steel and he regained his confidence n e 1 In fn n him him- self sel Of curse course course- a a- a woman comes into th the stor story one r reminds him of oC the woman of oC 18 carl Tr r life How JIow she he he reveals e of or her love love and faith and how sh she beca became o a part part of ot his life Ute together with the tho sorrow and ami happiness happiness happiness happi happi- ness that that results arc maters matters with which readers m must st acquainted in the reading Keene Abbott Ablott has d done e ewel well wel to fa write a western story torY not nol o ot of t the tho o trap clap clap type He has hasi done his Is Isbit bit to top prove that the field flold tins has tas not been exhausted for all al of or save the thc group group who are turning out the he en endless endless endless' end end- less less' thrillers of ranch feuds and les' les which the tho foreman foreman fore fore- beautiful cau cowgirls in man mun hero thwarts tho the villain lain and wins ilS the land and the girl by his ab abilities shoot a revolver to rido a horse and a The rho spirit p rl p of ot the ranch Is is- is n not l here bUt ut its steady something of tho the of the pioneer Doubleday daY Pago Page Co New N w York Australian Aust s ali li I Writes Of or Visit Here r Hon H H. Y 1 Y Braddon former commissioner com com- corn com missioner ner for Cor the commonwealth of Australia In the United nied States has ia written a a little book o k of ot his s s ions In in this tiis' country It I Is la a a work that will wi aid In under under- understanding under under- standing this Uis country a rY Just just lt as lt may f assist sI t. t thin tho American to understand the tho theAu Au I IHo He Ho writes of our our- characteristics busl Senate and nd o our press pres press OUr our enote the tho r league ahl ani nl Qui auf railways liquor number of other qu question and nd any of ton questions which he rho tho thought cht were ere bothering us us' us as a a nation naton Seen tbt through ugh Australian eyes eyes wo wo we ate are many nany Jany times Ures rather alarming but t more often often ofen oft of en a humorous race There Is a a good good- natured d und understanding to o the book book- a a a keen perception and a a a. a rc readable da Bra Braddon don saw m much eh while hUo he was waS liere bere he overcame many runny false I pt s- s and he carried carrIe back ick with him lm m much mch ch th that t Is Is' Is of ot the real United St States Angus and Robertson Sydney Syd Syd- Syd- Syd oberon S ney Australia ney-Australia l 1 Engi English sh Pr Prize S Story or j C Is Js Published Here In 11 days days' nys I gone sone by the point point of ot view adopted b by man perhaps even by a D majority of ot Engl English Bh and American novelists l t. t a t a- a woman om n ro r d no other vIrU rW th than l that hot of chastity l to give ghe tier her the thO to to ho bo d lY and Vl a as a good So-o So o V. V i JL s. s 1 this i pol t ot tu held OI o l eI it rc or Les ii 1 t Lir 4 t i J j J 5 consciously And It t Is Js one to which a s. groat deal ea of ot our fiction eton still remains loyal But I in sharp harl contra t with wih If It wo we now Bow ow frequently find another and I I an absolutely divergent viewpoint put before us in thc hc demand Iad by certain t tain tairi ln authors that a heroines lack Jek of ot ICha chastity ity hal bo be acc accounted to her for lor righteousness and that this very lack Jack is almost If It not flat Jot quite the only vir Ir tue tuc of which she has needS need S 'S It I is such a demand as this which wo 0 find put put forward by Cath Catherine rIne Carswell Carswell Car Car- swell fn in her first novel the the winner vinne of oC the tho Melrose Melrosa prize of or pounds From first to last as the tho very long vcr very lois lols- story is concerned with ith 3 sexual experiences To thc these c all alIg ls entirely Her work work her Intellectual development her relations with wih her own family tamly the grief grief which hl comes to her at her mothers mother's mothers mother's moth moth- ers er's death al al all are arc of or importance as and on only I as they affect this one es especial eaP espedal es- es P pedal portion porton of or hor ht life sexual sex sex- ual experiences of of hers begin besIn at a n very early age abe She Is on only I 7 1 when hen she falls fUs falls In In love lovo with a young man of ot 25 5 and goes through a a- I variety of varet erotic emotions Other youthful emotional emo emo- ton l YIh vagaries rles follow olow from the tho time she was as 7 1 Joanna Joanna lavished I unreciprocated r ro passion on individuals I UL ut DOHl sexes and until she was 20 iO iOa a a a lov lover r was what she un unceasingly sought Sho was as becoming convinced that she sho must must l be without attraction when Bob Dob Hanken an old friend and playmate returned t to his home In hi Glasgow Glasgow |
