Show n u v uc u a aUl Ul U U a. a A l GOSSIP AUTHORS AND NEW BOO BOOI World Is Young In Brite and Fair Geologists say the world is about abou two million years old This Is a lie The world is no older than eleven ot or OJ twelve years at most It Is in other othel words not older than boyhood which i 1 renewing the youth o. o of oj tris mundane planet In spite of what wha the geologists say about it I caught the geologists in this colossal colos cobs sal falsehood when I read Brite and anc i Fair Pair which purports to be the diar diary r of ot a boy and which so far as I am aa L concerned it is The writer of ot the diary was not par par- hair haired d up about what you or I 1 might think about It His motives were far from mercenary In one place I he says i have read I S this diry for 2 million dollars Now Nos r anyone can read It for tor a dollar and ant I cents which while defeating the purpose of the author affords this little old ola world a a. large measure of en en- en- en This extract also gives you yot r some Idea of the high regard in which L Henry held the e English g language as ar 3 she is hia the spelled He might have gge beer been 1 father of the simplified spelling movement Only he He didn't think that far Henry Shute became a lawyer a judge on the bench instead But But the is this when this when i you read the book YOU u will be imPressed the tact fact that tbt it m. m is ls always morning 1 with somewhere in the world Brite L ant and youthful Fair might Bill Bilt Sv have been written by hi r Shakespeare as the line lint r i 1 will win never try ty to be good again ii if it S 5 X I down live I a million years has been handed I through generations everywhere of ot boys boy I fa Juniper year old tree in ld John hn Milton beneath beneat r Merrie Old England might have penned this lab epIc stirring Child Child- God od made the little lIttIe Ill fit II And if it you crush It it will lie die Men and women change nations I change the face of or the lan landscape assume a a. lighter or a more somber may hue during dirring seasons of time time but but boys change never The pranks In tn Brite and Fair are the pranks you and I and Benjamin Franklin and Martin MarUn Luther and Lyman Abbott played once upon a time Beany Henry and Ed Tole might have been plucked from your own boyhood and clamped between the pages of book Lizzie Tole a the girl 1 i ever over see seo in my ray life is the counterpart o of or bid our heart be still sUn the little girl with yellow braids who helped 1 us with our childish sum many years ao ago To To quote from Brite and Fair Would be impossible On One wouldn't know krow where to begin Anyway it wouldn't be fair to the an auW author thor We enjoyed every word Yard of i It and it-and and wp We laughed Occasionally we laid the tIle book down as we recalled some IncIdent Incident Inci IncI- dent of our own boyhood boYhood- and and nd for a a. moment wo we O were WE're young toung again agarn Tes Yes geologists have grossly overestimate overes overes- the ago age of th the world And Andin in passing may we wc suggest sus-gest that t the line Une on the title page pas All rights of at translation in foreign languages reserved re re- re reserved served Including Including- I 1 the he Scandinavian is entirely superfluous L There could be no more heartrending ing sight In all the world than that ofa of ofa a a. Scandinavian scholar engaged in r tr translating and Fair t. t In the first place nt the spelling would I drive hi In the second place f the boy who wrote the Diry never had tre least intimation ir II the world that his work might one day be translated trans trans- bated into any foreign language IncludIng in In- In eluding the Scandinavian He didn't provide for it No Henry Shute was an American boy with a distaste for orthodoxy In spelling and grammar gi One can read the whole of ot Brite and Fair without being annoyed by a single comma A colon would stand out like a lighthouse Henry wrote the diry to please himself Throughout tire work worl he be Implies implies Im im- Im- Im plies constantly that it lt t is meant for no other eyes than his own This however will wIIl not prevent a considerable consider consider- able number of people from prying Into Henrys Henry's private though youthful af at- at fair And it will do them good good- Cosmopolitan Book Corporation New York New Novel Full Of Bright Humor refreshing Is The Dippers Dippers Dip Dip- pers by Ben Travers No not swallows nor aeroplanes but professional dancers Hank P. P Dipper Dip Dip- per and his wife are engaged to en entertain en- en n- n a country house party Mrs Dipper arrives on time but her husband hus- hus ba band dl coming on later misses Ills his train he chauffeur sen tto meet him picks up the wrong man and regardless regard regard- regardless less lessof of expostulations produces him to the e expectant guests as Mr Dipper In ie order Jn to avoid nn an awkward lc situa rt n tion tion Mrs Dipper and the tho strange man mar make at ea a i compact P of of silence il and n In I SP spite c fht t is n I promises to go well vell till tm the the- thereal real Mr Dipper breaks In upon the scene The consternation that ensues he be S tween host hostess an and guests On- On In and uninvited l the author pro in graphic terms to relate The db book Iori will ll undoubtedly 0 b be ac acclaimed ac- ac claimed as one of r the most humorous I of the season The TIre comical situations I are unusually diverting John diverting John Lane Lanc 1 company New NewYork York Dainty Story of Mayflower Women TIe The Women Who the flower Mayflower May Mav- is li a dainty volume by Annie nnie Hussen Marble Marbe It Is a charming charmine to th the tho women who came In tn the thi Mayflower the Ann and the tIre S Fortune Who who maintained 1 s such ch hi high h standards of home life in the early l colopy Plymouth I Historical records have been care care- fully searched and family annals ex ox- ex- ex in order to provide human terest material in interest in- in for tills little book There is no attempt to make a gen gen- study O of any family and only P an effort ot reveal glimpses of the communal lift during 1621 There are arc also studies of Individual women who were in that sturdy band and tow hose influence may tie ne traced resources in domestic life and education tion The Tho book makes males the Pilgrims Pilgrim's life seem more real to us today Much has been written about the men who vho braved the wilderness but this book gives the women and girls the credit that is due them It is a small volume bound in brown and gold and would make an attractive tive gift gUt book Tho The Pilgrim Press Chicago The Dawn Is Pleasing Story Reflective of the Interesting of ot a woman who through all the trials of ot middle age has kept the viewpoint viewpoint viewpoint view view- point of ot a a new boo book is given to the cold and unresponsive world under the fetchingly denture demure if it saccharine title of ot The Dawn or The Sweetest Story Ever Told The author is Mrs Louisa Louise Coulson of Butte Mont and New Jerse Jersey The book is unique in the respect that no other lady poet who has wIth 1 minuteness minuteness minute minute- ness and ecstacy set forth the details of her affection albeit maternal has ever embellished her volume with actual ac actual ac- ac photographs of railroad stations entitled Where We l First Met or pic plc- tures of the tho home of the authoress Mrs Coulson is also responsible for a former boo book entitled Poetic Gems They are to say the least delightfully conglomerate One finds s everything between the tIre boards from Lines on I Moving a Printing Office to Dewe Dewey the Hero and The Tho lIH Old De Dell Bell Cow Cow Cow- Quinn Boden Co Press Iress Railway Hallway N N. Ny J J. I S n I Red Cross Work Subject of Book The bonds of un understanding and friendship have been strengthened between between be be- be tween the United States StateR and anti Italy through the work of the tire American Ked ed Cross Charles 1 M. M Bakewell h has s written written writ writ- ten The Tire Story of the American Red ReU Cross Cros In Italy The purpose of the book Is to tell the tIre people who contributed contrib contrib- so generously g to the work just what their money did in Ita Italy The book is handsomely bound and illustrated It Is written In an entertaining enter enter- manner and the reader will g-aln g a a. better understanding of Italian and conditions through it The stor story is told in a strictly im m. m personal way The only exception Is istle the tle Just meed of praise bestowed on Colonel Robert nobert Perkins the Italian commissioner A prominent Italian recently ie- ie said Tho The work of the Red ned Cross in III Ita Italy taly has been not merely an an act of compassion com cam passion but also a work of or lars largo ron con e statesmanship Tho The book is far from belna being a dry statistical account of or expenditures expenditure's and policy Here is a t typical passage The Tho picturesque and sparsely in in- in habited island joland of Sardinia ardinia is la little 1 known For sonic some strange O tIle the tourists have hayo never discovered it consequently con eon it Is still an unspoiled land lan where the traveler is received as A guest instead of being regarded a aJ legitimate le la pre prey Theli scenery is beautiful and n l va ried ned Flowers Jowers of ot all sorts abound ant an and tire the air is often otten full of fragrance 1 the the herbs herbEl and shrubs The women werner are fair the men tall and fine lo locking In the more inaccessible towns they thel r still wear the picturesque native cos coso tume Each town has its distinctive pattern The costumes of the tho women I are very rich and brilliant ln antI and In ir I II the case of the well well-to-do ve elaborately o embroidered b and adorned J with rr much I gold Jewelry generally family heir heir- looms The Macmillan company New Nes York Regulation of Birth Rate Urged Again bringing her plea for the voluntary voluntary vol vol- vol- vol regulation of the birth rate I of ot the nation by its women Margaret Margaiel Sanger probably the tire best known of 01 all advocates of birth control an ana the dissemination of ot proper sex literature has Just published Women and the New Ne Race In her latest work Mrs Sanger again makes a stirring appeal to the tho heart of humanity a plea aimed to swing public opinion against ag the legislation which now forbids the distribution ot Oi Information concerning contraceptives In a i short preface Havelock Ellis I gives his wholehearted approval of the theauthor's theauthor's authors author's alms aims and urges the tire widest reading possible of the book boole In Woman antI and the tho New Race Mrs Sanger Singer accomplishes her aim airs of bringIng bringIng bring bring- ing Ing- her hel subject forcibly before hc She Slip marshals her facts and figures In iii such a manner munner as only onry ncr her I conclusion seem seems logical Incidentally Incidental iy I the new work worl is sufficiently Sanger Sanger- esque to give a thrill or sensation to I the mere meie curiosity seeker or to tho the flapper who is continually seeking seeing liar r-or th thrill rill rib I. I While Judgment on Mrs Sanger's ganger's theories must still remain in the hands of doctors legislators and birth control control con con- it is safe sate to sa say any person person person per per- son sufficiently interested will lose n no na time in reading Woman and the tho NeW Mew Race Hace It Is is in the main well welt written written writ writ- ten well WE'll assembled and thoroughly interesting while Mrs Sanger exer her womans woman's prerogative now and then by using sentimental drivel to appeal to the heart on a subject for the reason she usually sticks stick to to her subject in a n masculine manner of I writing It is worth an afternoon l Brentano's New York r Worthy Tribute To Great Author With the tho publishing of ITe Hearts of ot Women Woman the tire latest effort of Nor Icy Rob nob- erts an English author Brentano's main i its reputation fort for giving the public a something s unique in the tire latest nooks i. i And d c with the tho usual sagacity th the editors l I have c chosen a subject which c Interesting as Well Mel a as novel I P Hearts of ot Women f is an eloquent and anti j jI jI I I moving story stor discussing g the treatment I of women at the hands of law and the theL L d church It is a daring book bool unique both bothin in plot and presentation With a truly interesting plot the book moves to the study of a group of women 1 Land and plumbs the depth of ot female emol emo emo- l tion It takes tales them singly and In groups L in one situation after another and without without without with with- out becoming a dia diagnosis portrays s ef effectively ef- ef and faithfully the relations of the various incidents to the emotions of ot the women The book bool is dedicated to John Galsworth Galsworth Galsworth Gals- Gals r r- worth and is a worthy tribute to a great author Bretan's New York T Teaching caching Not Soulless Occupation Howard Mumford Jones author of ot Gargoyles and Other Poems the Cornhill company and and head of the department department de de- de- de of comparative literature In the University of Texas refuses to see In teaching a dry as dust and soulless oc oc- oc- oc Readers of the letters of Wit Wil liam Ham Vaughan Moody will remember his acrid strictures against what hat he called caned the theory at the University of Chicago Chi Cht- cago On the other hand we have Al AI- fred tred Noyes at Princeton Robert nobert Frost at Amherst and Bliss Carman at the University Uni Uni- varsity of California A. A E. E Housman the author of ot the exquisite Lad Is a a. professor of Latin at Cambridge Cam Cam- bridge England Born in Michigan educated In Wisconsin Wiscon Wiscon- sin and Illinois and anti working In Montana ad Texas Professor Joes has put Into the new volume published by the Cornhill company a range of poetry as wl wide e as the range of his wanderings In G Gargoyles t are found songs of ot Hutte the tire city de de- de moniac of the tire sand dUn dunes s of Lake Michigan of the Mississippi l I t t the he Texas lexas river and J plains University l lure luro ure of the life the gypsy gypS trail a recreation o of Chaucer's Troilus and de street street- c cars urs sardonic love poems and h humor are reflected in a robust f this uris hp volume ol of or p poetry by hy a 11 college professor protessor who f to being something of ot a vagabond ag con con- I Galsworthy Novel Looms Above Average t ter er John books booles Galsworth than In has written beter better bet bet- Chancery Chancery e est st to the latest lat- lat appear on the market Howver How How- e ver ever the same cannot be said o of f the tho other writers of of many the l Us ls latest opus while he falls day In Tn b below elow his own h high gh slightly looms far tar above the tho ordinary standard vet iet he In Iii writer Chancery is a sequel to The Man of oC Property and mer of a a. lols tc It t to also Indian Summer Sum SUm- The Saga Continues L Awakening It Is like lIko I and A Man Ian of ot J Property a an m n unusual and poetic a little mUC idyll study of ado adoFo ado 1 F Fo t of oC a 1 little lc OTh The story deals with an Jn English lish fam fa o Iv ily ly of oC wealth and with their their associates s In spirit and does oes not treatment It t Mr Galsworth Galsworth's latest at st novel as such suh earlin earli 1 The Country 0 House an and ones an as Property This Is b true The Man of ci t also for fol it i is concerned i m in b- b W with 0 I fairs of or the famous Fo Forsyte Forste te family famil an aneth and ane I th the Man W of at Property e I While dealing considerably with a I later generation than appeared I therein there there- I in Forsyte old James Irene young June and other wh who contributed to to render the |