Show Jef Jeffery f ery Farnol Writes Pleasing Colorful Romance The High Adventure JJ Typical Typical Typical ical of High Standards Standards Standards Stand Stand- ards Compels Attention The High Adventure by JeC Jeffery ery Farn Farnol l is s a typical Farnol story full of interest and color We e are out upon The High Adventure you and I Ij battle murder murder murder mur mur- der anti and sudden death Bill BlI blood fire Ire and stricken field are all one oneto oneto oneto to us Show m me your teeth teeth excel excel excellent lent Look Look at these fists fists sut suf sufficient I venture to think f did well eli enough at dt school and university uni uni- and shall do better I trust I Meanwhile l Bill Dill my Doy poy ie let us seek some hospice where we may refresh and shelter us though us-though though Indeed a a. barn were better suited to your our true adventurers to sleep in a barn would be a novelty to me Bill and therefore hath Its attractions attractions- Come a aSo So saying Jeremy caught up his tough ash plant and rising to vigorous vigorous vig vig- orous limbs strode cheerily onward with the great dog at his side who looked up at him ever an and anon with eyes of ot adoration Thus Mr Farnol starts his hero Jeremy on his travels travels travels-to to outwit the attempts of oC his guardian to send him overseas and to find the murderer of his father The quest brings in its train all an the ad adventure adventure adventure ad- ad venture Jeremy seeks and more that he doesn't including love and romance It is a strong story winding its way through the country and the period of or The Broad Highway introducing again that colorful life of sport and fashion a heroine o of charm and beauty a villain of the smoothest and subtlest and the theauthor's theauthor's theauthor's authors author's usual qUaint characters Absorbing and ing hours hours' are in prope t for the readers of ot Mr Farnol's new ro ro- ro mance Little Brown Co Boston Bos Bos- ton Mussolini Writes Preface To Story of His Life Although Mussolini has baa a a. well known aversion to discussions and about himself he con- con ed to write the preface to his own stor story The Life of ot Benito Mussolini l compiled complied by his friend lm l G G. G and published published pub pub- on February 4 by F. F A. A Stokes company S S In it he says I have sometimes meditated upon the 1 fate te grotesque and sublime of ot the public man But ButI I hav havo not arrived at any conclusion conclusions conclusions sion Jut jutt because it Is fate we have to tc deal eai with The public man manIs manis manis is born public public he he bears the stig- stig ma nia from his birth He is a pathologIcal pathological pathological path path- case You are born a public man as you are normal cr 1 mentally menially deficient No kind of ot apprenticeship apprenticeship ap al- ap- ap will serve to mike make a public man one of whose natural tendency Is towards domesticity The public man like the poet it horn II to his doom He lIe can never Slate escape t t. t His tragedy Is one one In Infinite infinite In- In finite it range ange it exten extends s from mar- mar to the supplying of ot auto auta- graphs graph S. S This confession of mine Is a I caprice I am perfectly resigned to my lot as a public man In fact I am enthusiastic about it It Not just on account of the publicity public public- It ity which it entails that entails that phase of ot vanity lasts only from ones one's twentieth twentieth twentieth year ear to ones one's twenty-fifth twenty not Just for the fame and glory and perhaps the bust to which one may be entitled In the market marketplace marketplace marketplace place of one ones one's s native e village No o it is the thought thought the the realization that I longer belong merely to my my- i self seIt that I belong to all loved by by all hated by y all that I am an I essential element in the lives of others this feeling has on me a a kind of ot intoxicating effect And then when one belongs to all one belongs to none As someone has said already you may attain the the restfulness of solitude in a crowd even better than tRan in a desert I This newly published life of the Italian dictator is an Intimate ac account account account ac- ac count of the personal power of ot the boy who read Les In Ina Ina ina a shed cow-shed the teacher who took off his coat to laud Garibaldi Inthe in inthe inthe the market place the young tramp who slept under the bridge at Ouch Ouchy the editor who carelessly rested his cigarette on a bomb the brilliant leader who at last took the flower-decked flower train to Rome It lt Is la the authorized account of what has never appeared In print and anti is a revelation of ot the Mussolini whom few know The book has eleven excellent Illustrations Pictures Alone Alon Tell a Story Even without reading tho the text any child or an any up grown-up who ex examines examines examines ex- ex amines the four hundred pictures in Thompsons Thompson's ns n's Short History of ot American Railways Hallways recently published by Appleton will obtain a graphic Idea of ot the thrilling story of the iron horse hone that will wUl be indelible and unforgettable The first locomotives and the first trains compared to tho modern giant engines and steel coaches to together together together to- to gether with contrasts between the earl early railroad depots and the present enormous terminals are portrayed In the pictures that ac accompany accompany accompany ac- ac company the entertaining story ston Mr Ir Thompson the Chicago railway statistician for nearly a n quarter of ot ofa ota a century has hall devoted his hili life to studying railroad development That his book is praised by railroad executives and railroad workers Is la lanot not surprising but such u h tribute Is no more emphatic than that of a small boy who after examining th tho thi hundreds of oC pictures picture as all he sat RAt In a public library reading room re remarked remarked re- re marked mark Gee ace 01 but this hook Is great The volume II Is a 1 visual education in American hilton i |