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Show A ROMANTIC TALE. "The White Pearl." By Edith Barnard I Delano and Samuel Field: Published by Duffield & Company. New York. A romantic tale in whi:h Mr. Field has enlarged on the plot of the moving picture pic-ture scenario by Edith Barnard Delano, in which the popular young actress, Marie Doro. was featured. The hook is pleasingly pleas-ingly illustrated with pictures taken from the film scenes. The action of the story carries the reader from the old New England town of Fairhaven across the oceans to the Orient. A wonderful som, stolen from the forehead of a Buddhist god in the island of Kuroshima, comes into the hands of Bob Alden, son of a wealthy ship owner, who gives it to his sweetheart. Nancy Marvell of Fairhaven. Among the 'natives of Kuroshima there was a saying that the "white pearl" would be returned to Buddha after four lives had been sacrificed. sac-rificed. And truly the pearl seemed to carry ill luck with it for the lovers, for Bob's father interferes and Bob is sent to take charge of the company's business In .Japan. He frustrates the plan for separating 'him from his sweetheart by secretly sailing on the same vessel which carries Nancy on a voyage with her father, fa-ther, the captain of the ship. An exciting story of storm and shipwreck follows. The lovers are separated and Nancy alone is cast by the waves on the beach at Kuroshima. Thus the proohecy is fulfilled ful-filled and the "white pearl" is' returned to Buddha's shrine. Bob, picked up after the wreck by a passing vessel and carried car-ried to Yokohama, does not give up hope that his sweetheart also has been saved, and the book has a happy ending when his long search for her is rewarded. "THE VIOLIN- LADY." "The Violin Lady." By Daisv Rhodes Campbell. Published bv The Page Company, 53 Beacon Street, Boston. This is the third of the Virginia Hammond Ham-mond stories and here we find Virginia in Paris, where she is studying music with a friend. She makes rapid progress and is soon playing at entertainments given by many of the wealthiest people in Paris. Through the efforts of her instructor in-structor she secures a fine position and,' along with a friend who has been studying study-ing in Germany, travels over England, France and Ireland, giving recitals. She is courted by many of the English dukes and lords, but tells them all that she is wedded to her violin. She hy.s many friends in America, however, that she thinks a great deal of, and one evening while she is playing . she seems to be dreaming and in her dream she sees Alan Kingsbury, an old-time friend. and realizes that it is him tiiat she loves. They complete their engagements, but Virginia is not up to her usual high standard, and later, when she hears that Alan is very sick and that he is with her aunt in Paris, she hurries to him and finds that he has always loved her. but. knowing her ambition, did not want to put anything in her way. He gains strength rapidly when he finds that she really cares for him, and thev are married mar-ried soon. lter they go to America, where they make their home. A very interesting story and one which acquaints you with manv of the undque customs followed in Pans. Gondon and many of the other important cities in Europe. The characters are consistent throughout the entire book. The volume is Illustrated by John Goss. VOLUME OF POEMS. "Poems." By Chesler Firkins. Published by Sherman, French & Company, Boston. Bos-ton. The death of Mr. Firkins last vear brought to a sudden end his short 'and brilliant career as a journalist and poet. The verses presented here are a selection from a much larger number which have appeared during the last twelve years in magazines as diverse in type as the Atlantic At-lantic Monthly and Puck, and in representative repre-sentative newspapers of (lie middle west and New York Citv. The poems range from the highest plane of lyric imagination imagina-tion to the extreme of nonsense verse. They naturally divide themselves Into four groups poems of city life, poems of the northwest, poems of childhood and humorous verse. The first group of poems expresses his sense of the city's tremendous power ruthless. cruel, wonderful, beneficent. 1 Perhaps no poet has at once so vitallv ' and so heautifully depicted the soul of the city as has this young writer in such poems as "A Cry in the Market Place" and "A Gift of Ice Among the Tene- ; meats. " No less appealing Is the tender-i ness with which the suffering of the1 childhood of New York is portraved. All the poems are distinguished bv (heir b-'rlc j charm and their richness of thought and! beauty of diction. j THE WAR AS SEEN BY BOYS. j "The Human Boy and the War." By1 Eden Phillootts. Published by the1 Maemillan Company, New York. " i In each of Mr. Phlllpntts's novels there ; has been some really notable charact or. In this book it is a bov, a likeable, warmhearted, warm-hearted, very hum an youngster. The story of what he is. what iie thinks, wh.-i t he does and what he wants is told with much I'.uinor and sympathy. )( -s n ent-dny storv and a very entertaining bit nf fiction. Two nf die aether's former works a re "I.'V1. "'' ; 1 "Old L'elubule." HAWAIIAN LEGENDS. ' "Legends of Gods and Ghosts." By W. D. Westervelt. Published by the George H. Ellis Company, Boston. These legends have been collected and translated from the Hawaiian by William Drake Westervelt of Honolulu and depict (he typical native life of Hawaii, relating closely to Polynesia as well. They are printed on good paper and in ten -point ty:'M and are Illustrated with many sepia half-tones taken from actual photographs and nen-and-lnk sketches of historic localities lo-calities and objects. There are eighteen different legends in ' this volume, which contains over 250 pages. The writer of the introduction, in speaking of the Hawaiian legends, says: "The legends of the Hawaiian islands are valuable in themselves, In that they reveal re-veal an understanding of ' the phenomena of nature and unveil their early history with its mythological setting. They are also valuable for comparison ' with the legends of the other Pacific Islands, and they are exceedingly interesting when contrasted with the folk-lore of other nations." na-tions." And in another place: "Such nature-myths as these are well worthy of preservation by the side of any European fairy-tale. In purity of thought, vividness vivid-ness of imagination and delicacy of coloring, color-ing, the Hawaiian myths are to be given a. 'nigh place in literature- among the stories of nature vivified by the imagination." imagina-tion." NEW ZEALAND SOCIALISM. "The Socialism of New Zealand." By Robert H. Hutchinson. Published by The New Review Publishing Company, New York. This book is the result of an eight months' visit made to New Zealand with the idea of investigating its institutions. , The purpose, according to the author, is ! to give some account of the working of I New Zealand's advanced legislation 'and to dispel the prevalent idea that her I progressive institutions have in any way I solved the problems of capital and labor, j A chapter is devoted to a brief outline of j New Zealand's evolution. Considerable ! space has also been allotted to an account I and criticism of the recent strike, because I it seems to be the culmination of a series of events and the eruption of the most important forces which have been current In New Zealand for the last decade. Considerable Con-siderable space has also been given over to the subjects of industrial arbitration and woman suffrage. The book contains o er 150 pages, which are divided into nine chapters. ' ' SINGLE TAX MOVEMENT IN UNITED STATES." "The Single Tax Movement in the t'nited States." By Arthur Nichols Young. Published by Princeton University Univer-sity Press, Princeton. The author has undertaken in this book to give a complete historical account ac-count of the single tax movement in the 1'nited States, together with a discussion of the tactics of the single taxers, their programme, the present status of the movement and its Influence upon economic eco-nomic thought and upon fiscal and social reform. A brief Introductory survey of the chief anticipations of Henry George's doctrines is presented in order to show the place of the movement in the history of economic eco-nomic thought. The formulation of George's economic ideas In the light of the economic environment amid which he spent the formative years of his life, the California of the two decades following the gold discovery of 18-18. is then taken up. Next follows a description of the reception of "Progress and Poverty" In the 'SOs and of Henry George's activities in the spreading of his gospel. Succeeding Succeed-ing chanters describe the development of the single tax movement through the recent re-cent political campaigns undertaken with the aid of the Joseph Fels endowment. There is also a consideration of some general aspects of the movement and an 1 appraisal of its significance. The writer has had the opportunitv of discussing various aspects of the movement move-ment and Its programme with ;i considerable consid-erable number of those most active in the i movement today. j "ONE HUNDKED BEST BOOKS." j "One Hundred Best Books." Bv John J Cowper Powvs. Published by G. Arnold Ar-nold Shaw, New York. " I Tills list of books is designed to supply the need of persons who wish to acquire : a general knowledge of such books in world -literature as are at once exciting . and thrilling and written In the style of' the masters. The fact is recognized that I modern people are most interested in modern books: but it Is also recognized that such books, to be worthy of this interest, in-terest, must uphold the classical tradition of manner and form. j PRINCETON VERSE. "A Book of Princeton Verse." Edited by A'fred Noyes. Published by the Princeton Prince-ton University Press. Princeton. Tiiis book of Princeton verse is selected from poems written during the last six years on the Princeton campus, with the ; exception of one poem by a Princeton man 1 in France, according to Alfred Noyes. : With the exception of one contributor, moreover, it is chiefly the work of under-qiaouates. under-qiaouates. who are still in residence. The t .-a-. njix cL.L.J-ljl JVLr X-e-sn. in print before, and a considerable quantity quan-tity was actually written for the book itself. The quality of the work is unusually un-usually fine, and, according to Mr. Noyes, it has been selected from a large mass of material that falls only slightly below the average level of the book. A WESTERN GIRL IN AN EASTERN SCHOOL. "The Girl From the Big Horn Country." By Mary Ellen Chase. Published by the Page company, Boston, Mass. Virginia Hunter is the girl from the Big Horn country In "Wyoming, and this is the story of her experiences while going go-ing to school in Vermont. She does not wish to leave Wyoming, but her father insists that she should go to school, and so he sends her to the school which her mother went to when a girl. An aunt warns here to be careful and how she should act and talk In. the eastern states. She does not heed these warnings, however, how-ever, because with her frank ways and winning personality she makes friends with everybody. She makes good in si-honl and when she returns her old friends are glad to find that she is the snnie old Virginia. She becomes a leader In many ways while at school and at the end of the term she Is chosen to take the most Important part In a play that the pupils are giving. A story 'which the average av-erage girl would be delighted to read and would profit by reading. j EXPERIENCES OF FIVE EASTERN j GIRLS IN TEXAS. "Six Star Ranch." By Eleanor H. Porter. Por-ter. Published by the Page company, ; 53 Beacon street. Boston. A story of the vacation experiences of six pchool girls. They are Genevieve Hartley, a Texas girl who has been go- 1 1 n t to school in the east, and five of :her school chums, who are easterners in 1 I every sense of the won!. j j Miss Hartley's father has plenty of ! money and she Invites these girls to I i spend. Ui- smriipj vfjjjpn Jip- on their Texas ranch. Their many amusing amus-ing experiences, what they expected to find In Texas and what they really found, what they thought of the cowboy's, Indians, In-dians, etc., and the wreck which they have on the way home, are told in an interesting way. The characters are true to life. All the girls act just as you would expect easterners to act if they were suddenly taken from a far eastern to a western state like Texas. The book Is well illustrated by R. Farrington Kl-well Kl-well and Frank J. Murch. "THE CONSCRIPT MOTHER." "The Conscript Mother." By Robert Herriclt. Published by Charles ticrib-ner's ticrib-ner's Sons. New York. A story of the efforts of an Italian mother to visit her young son, who had joined the Italian army just before Italy declared war on Austria. It also tells of the hardships endured by the armies and of the strongly fort i tied positions which the Austrlans were driven from. This mother tries in every way and at last is rewarded by seeing her boy just before, he goes into battle. They have a brief visit, which is their last, as he is later killed in action. The real spirit of the Italian people is well portrayed. ' "POEMS OF PANAMA." "Poems of Panama." By George War-burton War-burton L-ewis. Published by Sherman, French & Company. Boston. Here the author, wiio has been a soldier, sol-dier, policeman, adventurer and writer, tells you in his own vivid verse about the whirr of hostile bullets In many embattled em-battled lands, the thrill of following man-trailing man-trailing bloodhounds after human prey. Hnd many other adventures. The rhythm and swing of these verses bear you along with the poet -ad venturer for a nearer view of the wonderful places where he has been and the things which he t'.as done. Mr. Lewis began his career of, adventure adven-ture in His wanderings have ranged from the prairies of the west to the PJiiiippirjes (with OeneraJ Fred Kun- ston), from the very gates of the Imperial Im-perial City of Pekin at the time of the Boxer rebellion to the jungles of Panama. Then later come new experiences In the two warring Latin-American republics, Santo Domingo ami Hayti. VOLUME OF POEMS. "Wild Apples." By Jeanne Robert Foster. Fos-ter. Published by Sherman, French & Company. Boston. This volume of poems is divided into seven parts. The first part contains a poem, ent Itled "The Great Sea Fight." There are a few other poems in this part. Part two contains about twenty sonnets. Next follow a number of songs, ballads and pastorals. Parts four and five contain a large number of short poems, which are interesting and well worth reading. The sixth part contains a dramatic f ragmen t. entitled "Orlliei." "The Eve of Sanbaln" is the title of the last part, which is a dramatic episode. POEMS OF PEASANT LIFE. ' "When Good Men Meet as Foe to Foe." Bv M. E. Blood. Published by the Southgate Press, Boston. This little volume of rhymes is framed on incidents In Germany, where the I writer was staying when the order came for mobilization. The poems are written writ-ten about the simple Incidents of every- , day peasant life. At the cluse of the book the author says: "Not so much honoring the brave As In the hope that I might Miow What a sad and terrible tiling It is When good im.n meet foe to foe." VOLUME OF VERSE. 'Flashlights." Bv Mary Aldis. Published Pub-lished by the Duf Held company. New York. Much of this volume of verse is in the newest forms and of the most modern tone, together with other metrical experiments ex-periments which show the author'n ap preciation for conventional verse. In subject matter and In treatment the- collection col-lection makes a very striking contribution contribu-tion to the mod ern poetio renaissance. The book is divided into three parts. The first contains city sketches, the second sec-ond miscellaneous verse nnd the third part Is entitled "Stories in Metre." "THE CITIZEN'S BOOK." "The Citizen's Book." By Charles U. Hobble and Frank P. Goodwin. Published Pub-lished by Stewart & Kidd Company, Cincinnati. The object of this volume, according to the authors, is to aid the people in learning learn-ing 1 he facts about t heir city, its community com-munity life, its government anil its Institutions. Insti-tutions. It has been produce- by the cooperation co-operation of t be Chamber of Commerce, the public schools and the contributors who wrote the original drafts of many of the chapters. Cincinnati Is used as a (vpe of community life. Underlying principles and constructive methods are discussed. The obligations of the citizen to the city, as well as those of the llv to the citizen, are set forth. A book which anyone would be benefited by reading. |