| Show I oss p bout aith an t J eto ew f I Little Book Tackles I Engrossing Subject I Can love loyc survive the he shackles Iso No doubt you have definite Ideas I of at your own but nevertheless you will w enjoy the opinions of four clever I writers ay at contained in a symposium I entitled The Ten Foot Chain It seems that an editor and four tour I writers became engrossed in the subject sub sub- j jeet t at dinner nr They rhey had reached no when the counse was serve served and anti hence the book bool Th dinner conflict t ranged ar around I this question What men mental tat and emotional reaction would a a man and a woman undergo linked together by a ten ten foot foot chain I for three days and three nights Achmed Abdullah countenances survival survival sur sur- vival In a tale of charm charm one one that would Invite tc reading whether the reader happened to be engrossed with th the subject or or not Max Brand takes the same view in his story Out Ont of the Dark E. E K i. Means Jeans takes an opposite view In Plumb Plum Nauseated a story of a aLegro negro Legro couple which ends all too quick quick- ly This little tale la ts full of clean wholesome humor and enriches the volume which deals wUi a mighty subject sub sub- The last story is by P P. P. P Sh Sheehan Shiehan ehan and Is entitled Princess or Perch eron It offers a novel treatment vt 0 f I the subject t and leans to the theory that all love and nothing more gets unbearably Jy monotonous The book k Is well worth reading d J b bI I R Reynolds O Publishing company p New York No Lagging Moments In Mystery Story There Is not a tC a lagging moment moment- In InThe InThe inThe The Turnstile of Night the latest noel from the pen of William Allison author of A Secret of the Sea From India to Dreary and to England the reader like the gaurd- gaurd lans lana of at th the sacred talisman follows the people of this book Who Vho Is the strange clergyman who comes comes and goes mysteriously Why the clergyman's daughter keep I her ears covered so carefully Who Vho f pr r the her bet heroine so drawn to each other and yet so strongly rel re- re l Jell el led d' d These characters are real reat personal personal- Ules The story Is proof that the writer writ writ- er cr of ot this book and A Secret of the Sea is a new author worth watching Doubleday Page Co Garden City New Mew York New McGrath Novel Up to Standard The Drums of or Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath measures up to the high standard set by this popular author The fortune of The Drums of Jeopardy Jeo Jeo- pardy ard th the famous emeralds which bring in their wake a long history of crime and sorrow Is the theme of MacGrath's MacGrath's MacGrath's Mac- Mac Grath's new romance John Hawksley carries arrles them a a kings king's ransom ransom ransom-In in a II chamois bag bal around his neck Pursued by 11 relentless red agents he climbs s through a window into the apartments of pretty Kitty Conover a newspaper woman and involves in herand herand her herand and involves her and her friend Cutty the government agent in a romance and find mystery Is one of the most that that MacGrath hys hia written Harold MacGrath is one of the seven seen leading leading- novelists and since the publication of or his first romance twenty years vears ago has written perhaps mere lucre best sellers than any nn of his con- con Himself an indefatigable un l ld I adventurer he has explored explored sit sit- ex ex- the far corners cornera ot of the earth and gathered a wealth of material for his novel Double day Page e o ro o Harden arden City New York Novel of M Modern dern Life Engrossing Mary fary Wollaston by y Henry Kitchell author of The Real Adventure ture tUle Js-a Js novel of or modern life as ns changing chang chang- ing lag and as ns revolutionary as vivid and as aa interesting as Is that life itself With full rull knowledge and ad yet ret with the finest Linest innocence Mar Mary has baa met a n. great emotional crisis and put its consequences bravely ravely and without hypocrisy behind her She has looked the facts squarely in the face and like lile a true Wollaston asks only to be judged orl 1 by them nut But her hel family fam ram ily and her intimates e insist s on g giving her hera Yh rt tw a a. halo and putting her 1 among the abel shel abelI I I I saints I When the complexities of life Rn an and love I I thicken about aboul t hop her this t attitude becomes I She he Ules o talk lalk it out with i her father she seeks her brothers brother's confidence confidence con con- but neither will listen I Then when she has given up the ge and resigned herself to final defeat deat she goes to the one man she phe feels might hear her and understand understand could could she but buttell buttell tell him This scene the night between the girl who Is almost beaten and the man who has never won is The The The Bobbs- Bobbs Bobbs Merrill Merrill Co Indianapolis Thrill of Mystery P Pervades Sa Sand d Holler Sand nd 1 Holler is e e een en more delightful than of Line Clothes lothes-Li lothes Alley 1 I the quaint and amusing story that won won WOI famo fame for Miss Maniates Following a a a- rutty bypath in the rural south country country- you find Sand Holler peopled Holler peopled with homely and likable folks The thrill of ot mystery and the charm of a romance which does not riot run too smoothly In In- trl Tue and hold your Interest Wade Sheridan Is a real at man while Kenneth Lloyd loyd is a very human and not too perfect heroine The appeal of or little Star the mystery boy is irresistible Olynthus an exasperatingly lovable I husband with limitations his wife the industrious Ann Ani Bee and all the little Bees provide a source of amusement that never fails I The man many readers who enjoyed Am will vill be be captivated anew by the swiftly flowing vigorous story of real p people ople I In ii the unique setting of ot SandI Sand I Holler HoUer Reilly Lee Chicago Fascinating Love Story Is Told In the House of Another is another absorbing story from the pen of H Beatrice Beatrice Beat Beat- atrice at- at rice Mantle author of Gret 0 ret When ben Una came to after the automobile automobile automobile automo automo- bile accident she in ina was a appointed room which she did not nize She got out of bed and looked at herself In the mirror This beautiful face was not hers Was Vas she crazy Or had her soul and that of the woman inthe Inthe in inthe the other car exchanged bodies Anyway Anyway Any ny way she must say nothing and watch and be careful They might put her her in in an all asylum And the next morning she went down downto to breakfast A handsome man whose I manner was n at th the was s t table polite II e She and gathered yet lh very a that puzzling this was aR her husband But she told herself her her- self she had never married anybodY Thus begins this fascinating psychic I and mystery story set in in one 11 of the Ute large cities of the West The Thc heroine starts out to trail herself to discover 1 who she is is to find out about this bat bat- fling appealing man who Is Ia her husband husband hus band She enters a jungle of conflicting conflict conflict- In ing and thrilling circumstances How Hov she works out her fate makes one of 01 the most enthralling stories of the sea sea- son The The Century Co New York Strong Novel Found I In Poor Mans Man's Rock A virile American novel by the a author thor of North orth of three Fifty-three is Poor pooi Mans Man's Rock l by Bertrand AV W SinclaIr Poor Mans Man's Rock Hock a sunken menace at any stage of the water lies off I island in the Gulf of Georgia just between between be be- be- be tween the mainland and Vancouver Is Is- Is land In season the Pacific coast salmon salmon sal sat mon swim In vast schools around its iti I base seeking the baby herrin- herrin In it its I I surrounding shoals and kelp beds beds- and I since e only rowboats may safelY bravo brave I its treacherous currents and anti floating floating I kelp hither eOl come e lone fishermen in tn I I j I scores Old men broken men adventurous men and those seeking sport i r never fait fail of or their catch catchin in In salmon I season Poor Mans Man's ans an's Rock Roel has given ven g many marty a aman aman anan man nan his chance and it gave jack gave Jack l Mac luc uc- uc Rae te his opportunity when he came ba back k from France to find his father dying his expected inheritance lost and himself him him- himself self dowered with the Si legacy o his fathers father's fa- fa a ther's thors hate bate toward the successful rival riyal or of his youth now a wealthy wealth cannery man ot of the district With Scotch clannishness clan clan- ai and tenacity of purpose Jack took tool upon himself the avenging Of his lis fathers father's dis disappointments and los losses es and heartbreak I he took his Quickly enemy's measure and quickly he formulated his plans to break the man financially To 10 this end i I he be entered the field of buyers for the i fish Ish canneries as an Independent operator operator oper oper- ator and the author presents a stirring picture of the struggle th the fac tac- tiona of this tremendous Industry How Jacl Jacks Jack's s 's vengeance worked Out his singleness of how purpose was threatened b by his love how he reacted struggle matte make the he to the elements of or a a. novel which is undoubtedly the strongest strong est esl Mr Sinclair has yet ct written Poor Mans Man's Rock noel Is not merel merely an imaginative Imaginative novel noc it is a 1 segment of ot a a. real life depleting depicting a actual conditions and a true mans man's hand handlin ling of real problems Little Brown Co 10 Boston t. t I I Journal of W Workingman I Interesting Tale TaleA I I A World to Mend is described b by bythe y I the tue auth autha- autha Margaret Sherwood herwood a as S the journal of a workingman It I is isan isan S an Informal record from day to day of a f the experiences and reflections of aa a as s sj cobbler a man who stun i by the war to an Intense consciousness 5 C cf f his own failure as a citizen begins begin S a new life of active homely rel relation relationship tion 1 ship with humanity in in- inan an endeavor r to to discover a finer citizenship for himself himself him him- self and Cor for others The character of ot the the- cobbler is a au- notable achievement hE he grows an and d expands under the stress of the tragedy y of war ar and the problems of peace c. c Through this man mans man's s ke keen keu n eyes ees th the e 1 leader eader sees the residents nt of the little 0 sea coast town and nd shares his ing absorption in the history of Jac Jack JackS k S Sands m 4 American ric n youth and of the c family fatuity of ot Billions Iro Irown Katharine her father and her Irresistible grandmother grandmother grandmother grand- grand mother In tl th b oli there is romance there is II realism there there there-is Is a constant play of ot tumor humor now gentle now challenging and there is 15 a steadily developing philosophy of the higher meaning of ot democracy The The- Th possible part in shaping aping the future of the republic of ot those who have served in this time of great trouble is sketched in vitally suggestive f fa fashion Very quietly very searchingly the author discusses social problems problem confronting us especially the problem how to keep alive in America In da days davs S of ot peace the spirit of self self- sacrifice manifest st In the war Miss Sherwood has mirrored the thought of or the Hie times in a subtle man- man ner The artistic presentation of the subject is such as to catch the Imaginations nations and move the minds of old and young alike Little Brown Broa Co Boston 11 I New Oemler Book Wins Its Way The P Purple Heights is b by Marie Conway I ii Ia latest novel and it itIS itIs itis is as us rich in laughter and tears in thrilling dramatic situations ant and in au all thos thos' other elements that endear a story to a a. a. a great public as was the theauthor's thea authors author's a first astonishing success McGee Peter Devereaux Champneys Champney's widowed widowed wid wid- I owed mother lived in m a n three-room three house in a S. 5 C. C and this bo boy was vas the last of the once powerful fam tam ily of Ih the Champneys She died of ot I too little food and too much work orl and the little bo boy who had bad already alread been pronounced a dunce at school became an odd job y youngster In the town and a on the river And his belo ed mother dying r. r had todd him to raise the name of ot Champ- Champ nes ne's to greatness a again ain Peter saw the purple heights afar and he felt that he had discovered a Q i way liY to achieve e his mothers mother's ambition I Riverton S. S C. C pr promoted him from odd oddI I jobs SObS to clerk clerIc in a hp hardware store and I could do no more Peter did not disappoint his mother mother who had said she would know when he rea reache-J reache hel the purple heights By By of of New York and way Paris Parl by br way way of ot toil and suffering and the gift that RI niverton erton could not see by way 1 of mar mar- vl-re vl to e an unknown girl who hated lIsted hint him and then to ti an unknown who loved him Peter ter achieved woman purple hel Th The the Century corn com Ian any New York lark Cit City I I j I i r I I i I i Suffrage Story Told by Militant Now ow that the women of America Am r coming into their own ca ate are on a book boo forth the setting latter history of the suffrage movement Is timely and full run of ot interest Jailed for Freedom by b Doris Stevens one of the militant leaders of oC the movement move move- ment is such A book It deals largely large I with the intensive n of bf r the suffragists campaign cam cam- age by b to win wi the paS paS- congress of the national amendment suffrage narrative enfranchising women The Tho ends with the passage of the amendment by b congress The author tells of the what the purpose was I women who went to Jail following demonstrations half of which they the made in be behalf behalf be- be their cause She tells of the martyrdom of fine women incarcerated with women of the fiends fl and criminals underworld dope of the hunger strikes which ruined the health the of many man and of unyielding spirit of ot these women which conquered In the end Not ot the least interesting the chapters of ot B. B B book are devoted to sketches of ot Susan Anthon Anthony and slid Alice Allee Paul laul The book is III well Illustrated with photographs Indomitable leaders of oC the of the thc party and camera pictures of the demonstrations parades The rhe and antI arrests of the workers author says S 'S That women have ben been bc n aroused n nw neer De w or a again in to be content with tl th there can cun be no doubt T TJ a ultimately secure for them power poweI power and responsibility tn s system stem of government is e ev th tive tite How revolutionary changes no one can One thing is certain The back They The will nev never r agal sl slaves Boni Boni ar ali r New ew York John I John Fox Jr Close Clos s Remarkable Series Erskine Dale Dl te Fox Jr closes closs triumphal series serit's of novels life Ure written b h John Kox tox u appropriate tha thi I goes back to the t hp the people so o happily e Vox's J. J ox's mountain stories been In his mind to tc aba sho pioneers 1 Puia I t he Indians though of Vt t is a splendid type of Cf the th tb J the time Dale lc is a It ron ro Of the th Cooper type type type-a a a C Georgo Rogers Ik lork x a athe n the I rf and I great gre t revolution itself it lf 11 T is 5 one of great grea t charm da rm J heroine hr n. n is the t h it 1 Erskin Dales Dale's Dal au aU John n Fox 10 Fo s clos-c-s ci 10 his hl lit with th K a 1 p of full of patriot patri ii- ii I i M 1 I sit no of or 1 MV rn I i s a Sons i VorK 0 |
