Show NEW NW BOOKS R Reviewed h b by Y HARRY I GRACE RACE Good books are art like treasured BASQUE PEOPLE By Dorothy Oars Can Canfield field 27 pp 2 00 Tr True o to life stranger lifo stranger than fiction This book will appeal to those who ho enjoy enjo reading about people who live In a n worM world different than our own The author of The Brimming Cup and other books deals with a people veople she loves and un understands stands e-stands the Basques In Basque land time timo has seemed to pause Their customs continue con unchanged from a far distant past Herein lies the fascination of seeing tho the past still sWI living In the present With rare style Dorothy Canfield plays upon the wide variety of human emotions WASHINGTON ROUND MERRY A Anonymous ous pp This book gives me the same shock as my morning mirror It appears to reflect the tho awful truth without reverence reverence rev of everyone everone who Is Ig anybody Jn in n Washington from the President down Some of our Idols are shown shO with feet of ot clay elar It ridicules the Career men of the State Department calls the former Ambassador to Mexico Little Nemo Andrew Mellon as The man who stayed stared too long The Tho book Is as Intimate to Washington higher strata rs s s ones one's own threshold with tho the door wide open and the hinges broken BLACK DANIEL By ny 7 W. W Morrow pp An historical Romance by the tho anthor author au an- thor o of Forever r Free Following the death of his wife and a year ear later his brother Daniel Webster determines to quit public life at the height of or his career Influence and Importunities of ot friends fan fall to shake his decision unIt he meets and wins I f he llie lovel lovely Caroline LeRoy His speech which John Marshall said saved sated tho the Constitution Constitution Const Const- probably never would havo have been made had It not been his promise to this wonderful lady to continue In Inthe Inthe Inthe the service of his country countr- I find It a o brilliant dramatic moving love story of ot a great man THE POOCH By Ross Santee pp 2 Ulus by author If a d dOg g Is just a mutt his chances of belonging to some real boy who understands understands un are always alwa's good That's A bit of Spikes Spike's philosophy In his auto auto- biography But Spike Is a pedigreed wire hair Terrier whose whoso pet peeve J JL isa li is lia a L skunk whose Joy is a fight and whoso whose idea of a resistance piece Is Isa isa a chew out of a carcass that has remained remained re re- in tho sun a week Big Dig Boy tho the cowboy who owns him doesn't mind except when Spike crawls Into Big Boys Boy's bunk Spike puts me In mind of my own boyhood friend not friend not too effete If you OU know what I mean ALBERT GROPE By T. T 0 O. Mann pp Without attempting to appear facetious to me Albert in this book gropes for tOl and achieves the better things In life IlCe He lie Is such a timed soul the tho son of a widow and charwoman charwoman charwoman char char- woman In a London suburb Living In almost abject poverty he ho finds employment employment em em- In a second hand book store as a hand handy boy His struggle for education education ed ad- ed- ed his Innate refinement the torture his soul endures la ip contact with society because of hIs hla extreme shyness and his hectic flight from froman an experienced need needy lady to the arms arma of ot his final love makes this an AIl Interesting In itt noveL i Released Week of September M IS 1911 |