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£ srie. in bet valiant sporting it of putting up fwd front. ? ?fl ralline ‘Ta “beteen the discoras F Reviews of New Books HE - jacket cover says, “The Car That Went Abroad.” And we sald, “A war book, of course. Another war book!™ So, we slipped it down to the bot- tom of the pile to wait for & more propitious day. We should most cer- tainly have read the real title with its subtitle. The latter tells the story, of father and mother, he promises to be & real problem for some wife in the future. Right here the pears—one that any youth m! sire. And she likes the boy, too. But —looking at that father and mother, particularly ' the father—she says, “Not today, thank you.” The youth finally goes out to his ranch, where he is about as lonely as it is good for any one to be—but, it is all right, for he gets g long look at things out there_and, m where he stands, his father ‘Km" to be dead wrong, and his mother looks like & big woman. 18 the bulk of the matter. Things come right, as they should do with this square and ir young chap. Very touching llt!l; places in this ro- ‘Motoring Through the Golden Age”—|mance, and that is exactly what the adven- ture is. The surprise ind rellef over this discovery help to shape the joy- ous spirit with which we climb into that car at Marseille ready to go along. There are four people in it already—the owner, Narcissa, age fifteen; “the Joy.” ten, and *the head of the family.” The Midl is the ex- cursion land—to Aix and Arles, to Avignon and across to Grenoble, and up into the Alps and down and around to pick up neglected spots, and final- 1y off to the east again with the Black Forest as objective. Our hearts are, however, in old Provence. There we go from enjoyment to enjoyment in the company of these easy folks who get into warm and immediate touch with anything and anybody along the way. They picnic by the roadside, they make a living companien of the car, as they should. They saunter along, the car does, in sun and rain; they stop at the least mod of the spirit to do =o, and, in every imagin- able way soak up the joys of that de- lectable journey through the golden age. All this was before the war— just before. The considerable with- holding of this book till the present serves to remind the reader of peace- ful, sunny, golden days for France, and to bridge cver, for the moment, its recent torn ane unguished years. And then the great adventure is over. The folks are back home. And “when 1 pushed back the wide door, drove into the barn, cut off the englne, and in the dim winter light saw our capable conveyance standing in its accustomed place, I had the curious feeling of never having been away at all, but only for a winter’s driv dreaming under dull skies of summer time and France. And the old car— that to us had always seemed to have a personality and sentience—had it beén dreaming too? It was cold and growing dark. I came out and locked the door. We had made the circuit— our great adventure was over. Would 1 go again under the same conditions? Ah, me! That wakens still another dream—for days ahead. 1 suppose one should not expect more than one real glimpse of heaven in this world, “but at least one need not give up hoping. That is the way he writes it all. Delightful? Surely all of that. PERSONAL MEMOIRS OF THE HOME LIFE _OF. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By Albert Loren Cheney. Washington: The Cheney Publishing Campany. 1t is the intimacy of these sketches of Theodore Roosevelt that gives this little book a very real place in the Roosevelt literature. Its author was at one time editor of the Oyster Bay Pilot. He and Mr. Roosevelt were neighbors, sharing alike in many of the activities of the commgnity. It is from this short range that most of these incidents arise. It is Roosevelt, the friendly neighbor, the unassuming villager, the fine man and good fellow that, in the main, appears here. To be sure, many of his larger activities come into this record, but these are already common property. It is.for the numberless little. views of the great American that Mr. Cheney’s vol- ume will be treasured, and for which readers are now in debt to this neigh- borly historian. ESSAYS; Speculative and Political, By Arthur James Balfou: . A, F. R. S., LL. D., author of “Theism and sense of humor and a real apprecia-: tion of some of the sorry aspects of the human game. PRINCESS NAIDA. By Brewer Corco- ran, author of “The Road to Le Reve,” etc. Illustrated by H. Wes- ton Taylor. Boston: The Page Com- pany. E It happened in Switzerland where, Wwe are told, royal refugees are of an astonishing number and character. There would have been no adventure if Bill Hale, American, had stayed in the Grand Hotel to wait for his sister and her husband, instead of walking away up a lone path all by himself. It was on this path that he met cupid, a mite of a lad who jabbered in an unknown tongue to 'him. Not far away there stood that “loveliest lady in the world” who has been the un- doing of young men since time be- an. It took no time at all for Bill ale to discover that this was beauty in distress, and less time for him to don his armor in her succor and pro- tection. Beyond this flaming moment the romance is a whirl of ready and momentous action. The reader is con- scious of Bill Hale threading the Al- glne corners on two wheels of his ' car as he swings into the great game of pursuit with a kidnaped princess as_the prize. When encoun- ters come Bill Hale is able to knock out four men, or six, in a fashion that Wwould have éxcited 'the envy of Demp- Sey himself.” When old diplomats, bound to the service of the tiny king- dom in the Land of Nowhere whose sole hope is the beautiful princess of the story, discuss the grave mat- ters Bill Hale turns a suave Machiavellian trick upon these past masters in_the art of finesse. Some American, Bill Hale! And, of course,. he wins the lovely lady—then one comes to wonder what Bill can pos- 8ibly do with her now that he has her. Exciting story, though, that gives ne not a second of leisure, not a oment of certainty. THE MYSTERY OF THE SYCAMORE. By Carolyn Wells, author of “The Clue,” etc. Frontispiece by Frank McKernan. Philadelphla: J. Lippincott Company. “I killed Samuel Appleby myself,” said Daniel Wheeler to the officer of the law. “I killed him,” said Wheeler’s da_uxhteg. i : killed him,” said W}_leelers wife. That is the story. Instead of the familiar hunt for the murderer, the law finds itself embar- rassed and circumvented here with three self-confessed criminals on its hands. This situation opens the way for the advent. once more, of Fleming Stone, Wl:m, in the course of time, neatly eliminates all three and up the real murderer instead. ;‘:ev;h"{u of !thehfltultlon gives TR to this new my: by Carolyn Wells. R ACROSS s A reat Northwest.” By Roy Chap- man Andrews, author of “Camps and Trails in China,” etc. Photo- g'l'aph! by Yvette Borup Andrews. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Travel readers who accompanied the author on former explorations will follow with even more zestful interest his present account of ex- periences in Mongolia and North China, as leader of the second Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History, New York. The il- lustrations, which add to the motion picture vividness of the text, are con- tributed by the writer's wife, Yvette Borup Andrews, photographer of the expedition, who, to quot “was my best assistant in the field. With an opening chapter that gives Humanism,” etc. New York: George | fresh reminder of the centuries of H Doran Company. The ten essays of this volume were written during the nine yvears follow- ing 1908. Logically they gather into two groups. The first one deals with cultural themes, the second one with political relations. _An_authoritative scholarship, a mellowed wisdom, and a ripened judgment cover them all ‘Within the first group there is a dis- cussion of decadence—that decadence which attacks great communities an historic civilizations—which is to so- cieties what senility is to man, and is often, like senility, the precursor and the cause of final dissolution.” is in this group, also, a discussion of beauty, its content, its laws, and its lawful estimates and criticism. Berg- son’s creative evolution is the theme of another essay.. .The presidential address to the Psychical Research So- clety stands as another one. In the second group the political themes have to do with Anglo-German rela- * tions from the viewpoint of 1912. The freedom of the seas and the founda- tions of a durable peace are the most important and timely of the discus- sions in this group. The whole forms a_considerable body of discussion—all of it informing and interesting, much of it of immediate and substantial bearing upon present world questions. THE GOLDEN ANSWER. By Sylvia Chatfield Bates, author of “The Vintage,” etc. New York: The Mac- millan Company. Right at the doorstep of this ad- venture you will be met by a man and a little girl. Your chief aim, there- after, will be not to lose sight of this pair, for not again, soon, will you be lucky enough to share so joyous a comradeship. Such elaborate secrets as the two withhold from each othe: and then, finally, share! Such guess- ing games as they invent! Such fairy tales as they, in equal partnership, create out of ‘the plain stuff of their little cottage set in its mite of a *garden' larmony is an adorable little ’gh'l. but she is no more lovable than {s Amos Fortune himself, tryin to be a whole family to this ch"{i ogl mysterious origin. There are other people in the adventure. And there s a proper love story with the regu- lation heights and depths. The real triumph of the whols engaging mat- ter lies, however, in the beautiful friendship that the author has so beautifully made to fxisl between the Erown man—a real mai too—and this little girl. There a poetic grace about the whole that is very captivating. One might wonder why uthors so generally search for cryp- lic titles—but this is not the place for SCARAMOUCEE. By Rafael Sabatint. Boston: Houghton Miffiln Company. This is a romance of the French revolution. ~The setting is more than a picture of France at that period. It is, rather, a revival, a .vivid revival of the sharp social contrasts which, near the close of the eighteenth cen- ury, had reached their climax in France and were, at the moment, heading upon revoiution and disaster. Rafael Sabatini is, first and foremost, a Mllgrl:u.mh is fact the back- ground of the romance in hand is in debt for fts genuin both in romance opens. As Scaramouche he joins a band of wandering players. There- after the action progresses by wa: of the adventures of this dari i '.!lAQ t and fascinating novel of sub- stantial historic value. A THING APART. By Lucy'Stone Ter- rill. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Mer- rill Compan: : Byron said it first—that “man’s love is of man’s life a thing apart”—and, n_ was something of ingly written " story tten story the way—is founded upon this to man, love is an easy ter- of - theory that, incidént of ready change, an in lude in the great mad ‘game ocs on fove s And thi st The hoabans o e us| s a er. ‘:he wife is a bit of valiant spo l | i Genghiz Khan, and his still more fa- mous successor, Kublai Khan, who almost in a night” created the great- est empire the world has ever seen— and of Mongolia’s supremacy over all Europe until excess of luxury brought the downfall, where force of arms had failed—the author visions with cam- era-like realism. his entry into “the land of mystery,” adventuring across the Mongolian™ plains, meeting with picturesque incidents, customs and types; glimpsing a zoological garden in the desert, interesting enough to form a chapter of animals, and birds— or to the sacred city of the living Buddha; a visit to the forests of Mongolia—then on to the Gobi desert, the way made excitingly glamorous with hunts, fishing trips; a night walk n a canyon; descriptions of camp life In queer remote places, and, at last, the ending of the expedition at Peking, where Mr. Andrews, with Dr. G. D. Wilder and Everett Smith, paid an official call upon the Duke Tsal. THE PUBLIC LIBRARY. The following list includes some of the latest additions to the Public Library. Plays for Amateur Acting. Andrews, Kenneth. America Passes By. 1917. VUP-An24a. Barnum, M. D. Our Aunt From Call- fornia. 1903. VUP-B268o. Benedix, Roderich. Mabel's Manoeuvre. 1876. VUP-B433m. Bowkett, Sidney. Lucky Miss Dean. 1906. VUP-B6751. ~ Bridgham, G. R. Her First Assign- ~B763h. Quits. 1896. VUP-B 6q. Brown, Alice. Joint Owners in Spain. 1914. VUP-B816j. Brownson, M. W., and Kerst, V. E. Victory Through Conflict. VUY-B82. Bryant, E. M. The Peacemaker. 1908. VUP-B844p. - Cameron, Margaret. The Piper's Pay. 19056. VUP-C143p. Carthew, Lily. The American Idea. 1918. P- 6a. Comfort, F. C. “The Magic Voice. CAVANAGH & y Distributors . 3411-3413 M St., Georgetown, D. C. Phone West 865 C.RIFLEMENAFTER | CAMP PERRY HONORS | Start Work on Range Tomorrow to Get Ready for Annual Shoot. Fine Shots With Team. The District of Columbia National Guard rifle team, which has arrived at Camp Perry, Ohio, to engage in the| annual national rifie matches, will| start to work on the range tomorrow | morning for the big events scheduled, for the next two weeks. The team left this city Thursday evening at 7:15 o'clock. The competition for positions on the rifle team have been keen and the national guardsmen have been work- ing before the targets preparing for the national matches since the early part of May. The local rifle shots rolled up some good scores on the range at Camp Sims, Congress Heights, D. C., and as a result of the long practice are expected to give a good account of themselves in the national matches. . Some of the recent records in off- hand shooting and rapid fire were forty-eight points, scored by Sergts. Jensen, Frincke, Schricker and Capt. H. H. Leizear, with many possibles at rapid firing. The team, as announced by Brig. Gen. Anton Stephan, commanding the District National Guard, who is espe- cially interested in the coming shoot- ing matches, is as follows: . R. D. La Garde, team captain; Leizear, coach; Capt . executive officer: C. Frincke, Corp. Schricker, Corp. H. H. Muir, Corp. L. T. Rhea, Corp. F. J. McGovern, Private Roy L. Longanecker and Private S. N. Moses. Four men enlisted in the District National Guard during the past week and there were four promotions, Maj. La Garde, adjutant general of the gaurd, has announced. Those who enlisted are James Wheatley, John E. Davis, Eugene Davis and Arsinio Licudine.: The latter is a Filipino. Promotions were as follows: Sergt. W. P. Lightfoot, headquarters and service company, to be first sergeant; Corp._J. A. Schricker to be sergeant. and_ Privates L. T. Rhea and F. J. McGovern to be corporals. 1918. VUP-C734m. Cooke, M. B. The Case of Sophronia. 1906. VUP-C775c. Fleurette & Co. 1919. 31. J.. and Clifton, Lewis. Tom 1881. VUP-D583t. Down, Olipbant. The Quod Wrangle. VUP-D E E. C. The Plerrot of the VUP-D766p. Doyle, Waterloo. 1917. VUP-D776w. Dreyfus, Abraham. The Silent Sys- tem, 1889. VUP-D828s. . Eckersley, Arthur. A Tabloid. 1914. VUP-Ec53t. Fairbanks, S. VK. The Other Voice. 1918. VUP-F1350. ‘The Great Look. 1912. 5. Fenn, Frederick. The Nelson Touch. 1908. VUP-F36n. Fenn, Frederick, and Pryce, Richard. ‘0p-0'-me-thumb. _1904. VUP-F360. Gibbs, J. D. A False Note. 1888. VUP-G352f. Gilbert, Sir W. S. Sweethearts. 1902. VUP-G372s. Godfrey, G. W. My Millirer's Bill. 1903, VUP-G544m. Gordon-Lennox, Cosmo. The Imper- tinence of the Creature. 1909, VUP- 41. Graham, B. N. Spolling the Broth and Other Plays, 1913. VUP-G762s. Harris, F. A. Class Day. 1877. VUP- H242c. Harrison, Mrs. C. C. The Mouse Trap. 2. VUP-HZ4Tm. Hay, Ian, pseud. The Crimson Cocoa-’ nut and Other Plays. 1513. VUP- H328c. Houghton, Stanley. Five One-act Plays. 1913. VUP-HS814. Howard, Keble, pseud. Come Michael- 9 837c. A Jennings, G. E. Between the Soup and the Savoury. 1911. VUP-J446b. Kavanaugh, Katharine. My Mexican Rose. 1912. VUP-K173m. .. C. The Matrimonial Fog. 1918. VUP-K77m, Laidlaw, A. H. ir. Captain Walrus. 3 . VUP-L143c. Lawlace, W. M. The Japanese Wed- ding.” 1888. VUP-L425j. Ludington, H. G. A Lunch in the Sub- urbs. 1909. VUP-L9631. McKinnel, Norman. The Bishop's Can- dlesticks. 1908. VUP-M194b. M‘Igg;;,."l‘. L. Giuseppina. 1909. VUP- (3 Marshall, Robert. A Wire En!ang)a-l ment. 1908. VUP-M364w. Mrs. Jarley's Famous Waxworks. 1902. VUP-M697. M. Box and Cox. n.d. VUP+ 846 Nance Oldfield. Arr. from Charles Reade's story “Art.”” 1894, VUP- 6. Newboult, F. J. The Upstroke. 1914. VUP-N429u. Owen, Harold. A Little Fowl Play. 1913. VUP-Ow26l. Paston, George, pseud. Feed -the Brute. 1909. VUP-P267 Paston, George, 959?- Tilds Hat. 1909. VUP-P267t. Payne, F. U. Plays and Pageants of Citizenship. VUY-P296p. Rackstraw, E. C., and Muskerry, W. Make Believe. 1910. VUP-R115m. Satterlee, Clarence. A Christmas Carol. 1 's New 886. VUP-Sa88. Smith, S. T. My Lord in Livery. VUP- Smésm. Stewart, A. B. The Belles of Canter- bury. 1912. VUP-St4sb. Thank Goodness the Table is Spread. VUP-T326. Thompson, A. C. The Truth About 1909. VUP-T377t. The Triumph of Pauline. VUP- ‘Wilcox, Constance. Told in a Chinese Garden. VUP-W646t, ‘Wynne, Anna. The Night of the En- tertainment. 1908. VUP-W996n. Wharton, Anthony. Nocturne. WH557n. ONE-PIPE FURNACE Easy to Operate Easy to Understand You should prepare now for winter, which is just ahead. With a A SIM- PLEX you need have no fear about your family comfort, irrespective of weather conditions. ' UNIFORM HEAT ALWAYS with-a SIMPLEX, and so easy to operate. Our Per- sonal Guarantee goes with each Furnace. SIMPLEX THE BIG COAL SAVER Phone or “send postal and our man will call. His services are free. KENDRICK Look for the Big Special Pennsylvania Avenue aks & (Jompany Seventh Street End of the Season Sacrifices You know what our custom has been—to devote the l;st days of August to disposal of the _remaining features of the spring and summer stocks—not counting the cost, but accepting the loss for complete clearance’s sake. So tomorrow and Tuesday you can buy to v!onderful advantage, choosing of wardrobery most desirable for early fall wear—albeit that it comes out of our “stocks on hand.” - Men’s Suits —That were up to $45.00— $99.75 Small lots of Saks Suits—but practically all sizes in the combined assortment. Pencil Stripes, Shepherd Checks, Oxford Mixtures, Herringbones and Plain Colors. Young Men's and conservative models. Good patterns and good weights for fall wear. Third Floor. Junior High Suits —That were up to $20.00— 7.75 Fancy Cheviots—modeled on those smart lines which the boys just going into long pants like—and they are Suits of the Saks standard of make. Good weight for fall. Sizes 31 to 34. Second Floor. Straw Hats —That were up to $4.00— $1.00 Takes in every Stiff Straw—Sennit and Fancy Braid—remaining in stock. Shapes are all correct— sizes and proportions as complete as you can expect— and every Hat is a perfect one. But we won't carry Straw Hats over—and surely it’s worth a dollar to you to have a clean Straw to finish the season. First Floor. / Men’s Low Shoes —That are worth up to $10— 495 A clearance of our stock of Low Shoes—dress, business and sport wear—smart and conservative shapes. Cordovan, Brown and Mahogany Russia Calf, Gun-metal, Vici Kid, Norwegian Grain Leather ‘and All White Nubuck and White Nu-Buck with Tan or Black leather trimmings. Sizes are-well assorted. First Floor. Ladies’ Low Shoes —That are worth up to $7.00— $2 95 All desirable styles—Oxfords, Pumps, One and Two Strap Pumps, Colonials, Buckle and Button effects—in Black and Brown Kid; Patent Leather; s Tan, Brown and Mahogany Calf; All White Nubuck’ and Canvas; and ‘White Nubuck with Tan, Brown Bhie and Black leather trimmings. First Fioor. Boys’ Suits —That were up to $20.00— .79 These Suits’ll work right in for School wear. Some with TWO PAIRS OF PANTS; some double seat and knees. Quite a variety of neat, fancy patterns —sizes 7 to 17 years—and of excellent weight for fall. Second Fioor. - Boyé* ‘Wash Suits —That are worth up t9 $2.50— 1.15 Small lots—but wonderfully attractive Suits— Middy, Junior Norfolk and Button-en models—in a variety of effects. Good colors; excellent make—and sizes ranging from 3 to 8 years. Second Floor. Boys’ Blouses —That are reduced to— 65¢ They are full-cut Blouses—in White, Pongee shade, Khaki color, and light fancy stripes—collar attached. Sizes from 7 to 16 years. They’re models and styles the boys themselves will like. Second Floor. ] Boys’ Sweaters —That are worth up to $7°50—_ $5.00 Just the shape the Boys want—Shawl Collar—of the weight and weave most wearable the year through —and in Blue, Maroon, Oxford and Heather Mixtures. Sizes range from 4 to 10 years. Think ahead to school time—and take advantage of this opportunity. First Floor. ] Men’s Suits —That were up to $27.50— $14.75 Go to Economy Floor for these. There are about 150 of them—Fancy Cassimeres—medium weights; good colors for fall wear—and cut on models that will appeal to both the Young Men and Men of conserva- tive taste. Sizes 34 to 42. + Fourth Fioor. : : Shtrt ' Sqle . on ‘Page 5