Show II 1 BOOKS AND THEIR MAKERS I MODERN NOVELS In the railroad d station of ot one of ot our larger lar r cities recently two men in clerical garb were discussing the merits of ot mod modern modEm ern fm novels the th conversation evidently be beB bes B s caused by th the fact tact that one of the clergymen carried a copy of ot a recent popular romance He asked aked his minister If he had read this work say saying y ying ing that for tor himself he always found it lL necessary to sandwich his theological studies with the reading of ot Interesting The other replied Yes and like yourself I am an ad admirer of Emerson Hough An educated TO an n when he reads reada re a novel kaires dc re more han ian an Interesting story he be wants It i to hI f written in good English and the bet r written it is the better it is for tor his hia is wn style st of ot expression slon A novel if the story atory is III entertaining la Ia as in Improving ones ability to ex ox himself elf In good as u if he hes hent s Jt nt ot the time in the study of great creat mod models mods modIs els Is s and what is of at most mt importance he obtains this thia benefit without the exertion if of f study but while he Ia la pursuing And this is very Important to a professional man mall who has to devote so RO time to the study of subjects inti connected with his hili caUIn Hough Bough I IT find always writes interestingly y and ands andI I L s style as all In 1140 W M or Fight is Ia a odi of ot clear dear forcible and graceful Eng sh TWO LITERARY ATHLETES Two TWI athletes have recently entered the J i race and announced themselves fr or the Uc competition James B Bt BI t I author of An Olympic Victor and Ellery H Clark whose Loaded Dice i proving very popular Mr Clark and Mr Ir Connolly were of the party of Amer Amr Ians who went nt to Athens for the first of the Olympic games in 1896 i t molly liked the place so ao much he was strongly Inclined to offer otter to stay with he king of Greece for his board and ng ig tIe He had been presented with a mys ma il rabbits foot toot before leaving Amer America ica ca To all of the Americans it brought broucht iek lCk Clark had Ma his first experience with it In 11 1 the ruining broad jump The Greek would not allow the Jumpers to tomake tomake tomake make a mark to run from This is the whole iole gist of the event according to American practice and Clark In conse COruM consequence quence made two fouls toula on his first t two j One more foul and he would be disqualified Imagine a trip of LOO miles and one trial tri l left Connolly ran up to Clark For heavens sake he said touch rabbits foot toot foott v t ark did dirt so and aad his next trial was ws winning jump GIFT OF LOVING Of all human gifts surely that of J v ing has received the last Jut general T A genius for music mulde a genius for tor mathematics or natural history ry or sculpt t tire ire or mechanics me hi is at once admitted and ando o claimed But what of a genius for loving loing which of all aU is ill infinitely the rarest The trouble is 18 that every one conceited enough DOugh to think that he or Eli 1 is a wonder at It t it But frankly do dowe Wp we really indeed see fIe so sa many uses ses a boat about us Are we not rather struck ty If Jf the husband stays drearily at ome orne every night of his ide life Ute and if the theis iff is entirely absorbed in the baby are areis tv is not asked enthusiastically to applaud a do lappy appy home This i J Ia the national ideal Tid tens of thousands th are yawning hero herov v ally through It But Bu Wheres love in any bit t L It t shies sIes Everybody insists it there in barrelfuls much as they in F f sted std in the fa ry tale in the case ca e of the tM theT r T tian an with the invisible clothes We e are r 7 it t defending hubby when he gets tan tanh tand h d 1 up with the blonde lady lad but emo emot t speaking only emotionally be it it may be an upward step 7 von have a 10 per cent capacity to tove toive ive ve it Is hard to be fobbed off with a n Coper 4 per pr cent From Infatuation Lloyd Llord Osbourne JAPANS JAPAN S PROBLEMS Japan ja i an has hall s at home more ae se sep aei i p to t her thair thau tills this California business a aPS r PS p Frederic S I sham laham the author and g gr trotter In Korea she be has Invited i of o of troubles similar to those England has haa had to grapple with for tor gen en In Ireland The situations in inT r T mi ml T respects are comparatively alike pan oan an has bas become landlord over her neI C i Represented R pre by incorporated compa Japan buys the tM land of or the i a d 1 Koreans and rents it to them so that the returns return to the he Japanese invest are arf variously estimated at from 14 10 1 to topi tor toD pi D r cent She to be repeating mistakes mi tAkes and constant strife ol 1 1 irritation ensue The comic side of c if It it were not so 80 serious is J JL L tut t no w Korean or other alien allen is ill allowed I i 1 i land in Japan the Japanese Ints in F ts upon being exclusive property own i t m in n thIr own W realm The Korean nat mat nata mata a K J v resents an nit anomalous lous combination f ard ardell well history will willI I r i bly go on repeating itself DRAMATIZED NOVELS o jc ic frequently said i that the drama t 11 novel noel is out of fashion Nothing t I i d il be more false There never Dever has haa hast hasi i i t time when so many playwrights t mt i to fiction for suggestions W end iid foun fount t ati rs Stage productions of no less than thanE thant t f E recent novels of ot the i c are now under r way and r T k krs rs are at wark work on fo foal oar r others It ItIe j Ie weli wh established that Shakespeare took t p plots riots of As Like It s t Measure fv f Measure A Winters Tale and ct Ctr r plays plas from trout novels nO Why should tLE tE dramatists of oC the present hesitate be to 10 toso tot Co t so ELUSIVE ISABEL Lighting hundreds of incandescent c lamps lampe r 1 the Omaha auditorium by electricity t without wires from a plant plants plantE E s r miles away is 18 the wonderful achieve rent of Dr Frederick Milliner of ot bat hat batty batI I ty remarkable demonstration of what hat ray be bo done by wireless electricity opens po The same Inventor e B year ear ago nade an electric truck tv w 33 as successfully operated without wires 1 i the Union Pacific railroad yards yarda at Omiha which Indicates that naval tor torr r rd des ca may be guided and exploded In Int InT t T e r I ame wIttY way ws from ship or shore in rt such an an invention is said to he be in f th h possession of the British government It EP ms possible pOll ble that wireless ity irv rr a revolutionize the world If It it Ie le p hy nv this the means to Ii I explode i on board war vessels p or in fortifications from a distance of mil s war may soon be a thing of the past It is ta not DOt clear chr ci r whether in writing El Ei siv sive Isabel Ibel Jacques Futrelle had win wm of ot the work of ut Dr Milliner or had hea of the experiments of the British go the secret of or which has b n so carefully guarded p the th m i 00 I C which he develops In hs his loman for flu lia ut explosion of ot submarine 1 minIs h b 1 t were only oaly dreams of the th Ima mat nia nation arts anticipation a of jf jt i ii ta in any eny event certain that hi ii ingenious use of f these ideas for t i 11 iy or poses poe of ol his plot I THE GOOSE GIRL By Harold MacGrath of f T f Man on the Box Bax Half Halt a Rogue Ilic Lure of the Mask Muk etc Illustrated 1 L LAndre Andre Castaigne cloth 1 o The compan company India rn ia apolis Harold MacGrath is a friend of tn people one of l gentle bene benefactors benefactors factors He lie writes for tor sheer entertain entertainment ment and his stories invariably invariable fur furnish furnish nish fish it No Xo dread weight of or social problems loads them down to oppress the laboring reader They The are fresh tresh and buoyant as the morning of life full tull of zest ze t the courage and an the glad abandon of ot youth and flying gal ga ban banner banner ner mere of wit adventure and love 01 Where here ever eer they go and apparently they go everywhere they make glad the heart of man I With Mr lr MacGrath the latest is I al always alway ways way the best The Goose Girl Girt pos possesses possesses lIesee In superlative that char characteristic characteristic characteristic quality of sheer entertain entertainment entertainment entertainment ment which stamps him a born story storyteller storyteller storyteller teller Tt Jt is I besides among his novels the most to plot the most moat literary In tone and the most admira admirable ble in workmanship We Ve wilt will 11 venture the prophecy that it will prove also the most popular Charm Is III the only word to convey ibe impression that The Goose Girl makes a manifold various elusive but real charm It has hag first of all the tile charm ef af place now the fragrant flagrant sunny vine vineyards vineyards 0 yards yarda of the Rhine country and now a quaint old town of gabled roofs frowning castle walls walla crooked streets and antique Inns Charm Cham of plot vlot also attaches to The Goose Girl We have had before per perhaps perhaps haps the aspect of two small European kingdoms not appearing on any known map of the princess of one being re required required required for political reasons to marry the prince of the other and of ot a ayoung ayoung ayoung young American valiantly mixed up in it all But the author has hu invented so many fresh tresh moves has contrived so many fresh cross purposes and tan tangled tangled tangled threads has ha infused ed so much life Ufe and liveliness into every incident and has ha thrown such glamour over the romantic Adventures of the dear de delightful delightful goose girl that the Ity of at the performance is III beyond dis dispute pate Cheerful imagining t makes al our castles in the air come coins true Then too The Goose Girl has charm chann of characterization Its Ita people are men and women whom w we love to know and know to love and In whose place we can ean fancy ourselves acting with fervor and fine relish The Identity of an un unusual unusual Unusual usual number of persons is veiled and the game of determining who is who goes ahead with brisk and unflagging fascination Though no masks are actu actually actually actually ally worn wOIn in the story It is still In ef of effect feet an affair of masks and faces It remains to add that The Goose Girl has hag charm of style easy simple deft clear direct always forward full of humorous appeal and poetic grace Mr MacGrath has never written so engaging a tale It glows with kindliness ness good cheer and love His wide and public will welcome The Goose Girl with delight THE MAKING OF BOBBY BURNIT By George Randolph Chester Illus thus Illustrated Illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg Flags and nd F R B Gruger cloth The company Ind md Indianapolis IndIanapolis With much of the shrewd practical business wisdom of the famous Letters of a Merchant with quite as generous a measure of humor Mr Chesters Cheaters story has lias in i addition a most engaging love interest The three ele ole elements I ments wisdom humor and love are I moreover excellently well compounded Each is present in the story in pre precisely precisely precisely the right proportion and in the skilful hands of the author the three have been mixed and stirred and beat beaten en to lightness and finally browned to a delicious crisp The story Is I in indeed Indeed indeed deed Instantly tempting even to the fastidious appetite and it is thorough thoroughly ly h digestible by the most capricious fancy faney Bobby Burnit himself is a chap whom one likes the moment that one shakes him by the hand han Who Tho could help Ilk lik liking ing lug so iO utterly jolly jony fresh tresh young oung fellow as u Bobby Bobb Burnit is whose faults are after atter all aU faults of training and not of character At whatever game Bobby plays playa he plays fairly and squarely he Is a good loser and when luck is with him is generous to the man who has haa lost No more likable young man has hu appeared In the pages of American fiction in a very long time In n truth Bobby Is more than likable he is la lovable Having given ones one own n heart beart out outright outright right to Bobby at the start it is very easy for tor the reader to understand why Agn i Elliston ElUston Is Js fond of him and so 80 the love part of the story seems seema at once natural and is III convincing The story is III American to the core Both the rapidity and the ease ea e with which immense deals are made Bob Bobbys Bobbys Bobbys bys equal capacity for unbroken idle idleness Idlene ness nese ne and for constant toll toil the large horizon the teeming possibilities in commerce that are suggested on the aide side and in the background all these theM things are truly and typically Ameri Amen American American can Though it is concerned in a away away way almost constantly with the mak making makIng ing tag of money It Is III by HO no means sor sordid sordid sordid did for money making is Ia but its lu sub theme the real one being th the making of a man manThe manThe The process a by which this evolution to Is Drought brought about captures the tile reader by its ita Freshness and whimsicality The odd 00 will left by John Burnit owner of an iii im immense immense mense store which provides the curious conditions on which his hili son shall shan take takeover takeover takeover over the business has a certain chens itne esque e que flavor that is It really capital The punctuation of the storys progress IY by Bobbys receiving every little while through his hili fathers old clerk I rk a long gray glay envelope containing a message or ot f 11 r I tl 0 0 I I I I GEORGE R CHESTER Author of The Making of Bobby Burnit sound homely business philosophy i edged sometimes with sarcasm abd again s soft tH cn d by fatherly affection forms a de device device derice vice rice each recurrence of which emphasizes the readers pleasure He finds looking h forward to the appearance of ot the next gray envelope and trying to Imag Imagine Imagine ine tue in what way it will meet the latest late t crisis in Bobbys Bobba affairs and how Bobby Hobby himself will be affected by it At times h is fearful that Bobby wilt will willbe be overwhelmed But it is a Joy to see him buckle heckle down and in the end grit wins m as it should bould haul And nd Bobby Burnit Is made RILEYS POEMS The poems of James Whitcomb Riley Rile are favorites 8 with the composers of songs and aDd hundreds of musical settings have been bean provided for them The one une which has Mil been most frequently tl set to musk music mu tc is Ii probably A Life Lesson better known as all There Little Girl Dont Cry Among A ng the com who have tried their skill akin upon it are H A Norris Norm P PA PA I IA A H JL L B Vincent c Kor lor syth C ki Mary K IC Wood and J Jordan I THE MAN IN LOWER TEN TENBy TENBy TENBy By Mary fary Roberts Roberta Rinehart author of The Circular Staircase Illustrated in color by Howard Chandler Christy cloth lO The I company Indianapolis The Circular Staircase was one ef ot the happy sur of 1948 1 Here was watt n a 1 astory story by an author practically unknown which combined elements of ot humor and in such entertaining proportions l that the reading public was Wall immediately The combination was wm some something something something thing new piquant and different like the first taste of at grapefruit dressed with oil oilIn oilIn In The Man m is Lower Ten Mrs 1118 Rine Rifle Rinehart RInehart hart tells an even better story star with even eyen greater gayety gayet and end even more In Intense Intense tense humor This incessant spontaneous ous irrepressible humor of ot hers may be betaken betaken betaken taken as u her distinctive contribution to detective fiction the very essence nce of ot her true delightfulness It has bas its |