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Reviews of RUSSIA FROM THE A.lllOAl! EM- BASSY; A, A o By David R. Francis. lllu-lr&ted. + New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. S United States ambassador to Russia between the years 1916-18, Mr. Francis saw this country pass out from under the czar Into a prov s.ona. ment, then to revolution, then to anar- chy. The bock in hind is an intimate " and informal record of the salient points in this transition. Himself on the ground by virtue of his office, Mr. Francis was able to seize at first hand the various manifestations of this disintegra‘ion of a great empire. He was able, also, to' co-ordina.e these ‘widely separated manifestations into an illuminating unit for the world outside of Russia to gather for its in- forma‘ion. In addition to this com- prehensive view the book gives in- numerable side-lights on the Russian New Books|* butween Maj. De~mot. adventure, and Badshah, th The setting Is, in. ‘the o life of Indla. In other it is that of the military service where constant m. ings amoag the .natives u ritish outposts of (ndia mot is a soldler. . He is lho a big nmn hunter in the. In one of these lines, or the other, therefore. the action is urgent and exciting. =~ The atmos- phere, in either case, u-mn- the exouc life that is portraye romance de- velops, slowly and mbwrd!mtely. aiohs | 9 with the-vital course of th: bination of the man and -the animale the . sober, unassuming soldier . who through the amazingly inteRigent co- operation of Badshah in more than one moment -of !mminent danger comes to nown to the natives as the ‘el phant god.” beéfore whom they trat *hemselves - in fear and wors| lp. Al adventure this is a- surpassing One leaves it qll('-e in love with Mh Badshah and’ tne major. human . | that the woman brings out in this PHE.-SUNDAY - STAR, WASHINGTON, to belleve thh!lk. A.Il Dllllfl mnhAllM Corbin Hend aouwmqmm Boston: Houghton Miffiin Co: #OR ME A 8y A.l'rl ‘Corthis. ""' Eransltes from the French by |THE WAR TRAIL. By Elmer Russell l‘nfiflck ‘Taber Cooper. New York: op.gr, author of - “The Wh Frederick -A. Stokes-Company... o e New Yor! M. cofl.hl- has the mairied wonun of this confide n herself, sl SELF-DEVELOPMENT: A Handhook ‘h’""".‘m""":n‘“‘,,.‘;‘“ “:;“""‘ for the Ambitiows, Bv H. Adding. ton Bruce. author of “The R! e of wllo of a mn. olearly . her inferior ln' Personality,” ecor. New \"ork: Funk The_effect of this ph.n & Wasnalls C; since; , Keep, introspection, ‘agnalls Company. :&lnhe:: olo‘lf. q. drab.days ate iold | THE. SETTLEMENT OF WAGE DIS- off, one by one, without a single Lxln- PUTES. By Herbert Fels Ph D. ture calculated to “attract aicen associate profescor in economis But attention, rather w University of Kansis. New York: D lrruln.nly in the mnder. by Virdauae ‘The Macmillan Company. the truch to life “lfl: AlmoAln' %'l;‘noll.gg" N '{nn WAR. chae ams. New SoRAY, and sonral ew.-‘r:mfl!‘*gn'{.'fi “Ffl York: The Macmillan Company. 8. lap—" ‘big_fire with ali [ YOUNG HEROES OF BRITAIN AND BELGIUM. By K-thlean . Burke, of “Little Heroes of Tlustrated by Marguer- New York‘ Doubledly. D.: ADDII- self. hose many moments, when I'seem 0 l'“::‘ then 1 think that my |THR mlm kA m By Ju- .aceful and eonuntaa minutes dre per- !ette Gordon Smith. New York: haps the worst of llL" It 18 upon .his ‘The Macmillan Company. note of tion that the simple and|THE JUBILE® GIRL. By Arthur ell-ni Tfeot B e e Ty mari. 4e Hog.| Preston Hankins. With frontisniecs D.-C, NOVEMBER .13, 1921-PART 1. : TN o ook o of “The White Blanket.” etc. With fllustrations from original draw- anMy the luthor. New York: G. uug'h:. Abraham, Pres. of U. 8. u-g;:{ N. V. Thll‘?‘oldln Book ‘of 'nu Gc tlest Art. Through the invention of & French. man, named Belin, it is now possible to transmit documents or checks by ;l:-leu. 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With an | 8dditions 0, introduction -by Gelett Burgess.| The lists which appear In this New York: Bubiished for the Au- | column esch Sunday are reprinted thors’ League of America by Dou-|at the end of the month-in the li- bloday, Pane & T ey Cbe. shisined Tres at the obt: at the THEIR FRIENDLY ENEMY, By Gard- lllbrlry. 7. or will be sent by mail for ger Hunt.ng, author of “Touch- 15 cents & year. down and After,” etc. 'Y The Macmillan Company. Photography. THE SYRENS; A Novel. By Dot Alllm 'nm Alr Bnuh and-the Photographer. New York: Doubleday, Page & KING—OF KEARSARGE. By Anhur Camn, & O. Friel. Frontisplece b; Art. M. ‘Clement. Philadelphla Penn Publishing Company. THE BLOOD OF THE CONQUERORS, By Harvey Fergusson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. THE CRYSTAL HEART. By Pnym- Bottome, author of “The Tower,” etc. With pen- nnd-lnk drawings by Norman Price and frontisplece by R. L. Van Buren. New York: The Century Company. riL8 aiiege. ‘Wanderer. M523pa. B. ed. Prvu Bel-ctlan- Bhaw, G, B. Back to Y-8h262b. - Somerviile, nd Rose, Mar- tin, pseud. !t -aways. Y-8053. Nn;r_&ql C. Boolrx‘s’ln General. 1919. Squslze. J.C. Life and Letters. Y-| Stecle, D, M. t’):tlen After-Dinner peecher Stratton, chron ed. (Elml Amefl- lern American Y-9R256. Methuselah. Photography as a Fine WRL-C "ll IL 1901, X Motion Picture Pro- 3m, % aphic Technluuephvcn -H523 2 organ, oto-engravin | mmer. WRU-HT3pp, Pietorial Pho‘t’oslanphy ln America. 1921, Rose. L. G. The Commercial Photog- WR-R72. ke, H Tapher, vu Dyke, enry Camp Fires and Guide Posts. Y-V28c. situat on anc deals strai tfu. . 1y with certain conspiclous persons who are behind the downfall of Rus- sia iwonin, the oursi~n o openly declared to be a German agent of disruption in the empire. Others come .n for an cqually iruna app...s al. Made un of - sonal 'efte's o communlications both official and un- official, of independent reflections upon the passing phenomenon before him, the book in hand is invaluable to the student of Russian affairs, both by virtue of these facts and the posi- tion®of the writer In relation to his sources of information and to the government of Russia itself. HAIL, COLUMBIA! Random sions of a Conservative Engl Ra By W. L. George, author kil etc. Illustrated by George Wright. New York: Har- per & Bros. Mr. George justifies his claim to conservatism by waiting six whole months before “writing up” the United Stites and the people thereof. One judged that the foreign visitor with a bent toward expression took hls pen in hand at the port of New Tork and kept it flowing ¢il it went off into the Pacific. This restraint sccounts, one assumes, for the gen- eral geniality of Mr. George's obser- vations on the big country. He is im- mensely Interesied. There is nol doubt” about that. Sometimes he is puzzled, despite effort to conceal this failure of his mind to function simultaneously with some of our per- | A. P. H, and Sheppard, 8. B. S{lver Rromide Grain of Pho- Ioll'lphlc Emulsions. WRE-T72. Literature Balfour. A. J. Emn Y-B1 Bostwick, A. A Librarian’s Ope! Shelfy Ysmgll* e Lt of a ra 'v.Beesh. id by Meade Bchaeffer. Dodd Mead & Co. Y RANCH. By Arthur Chp- man; atthor of “Out Where the Wert Begins,” etc. Boston: Hough- 'on Mifflin Company. THE ISLAND. By Bertha Runkle. thor of “The Truth About Tolna, ils the story herself. - Sh ete. New York: The Century Com- ' pany. With 1t by seying, “Throush it sl 1 ¥ » ¢ THE LEATHER PUSHERS, By H. C. :::‘..f::: ‘.fllfi.a‘&.‘fl%" .,.'P" Iua.. ‘Witwer. New York: G. P. Putnrm’s {llustrations from photographs. oy e pr s this| Sons Boston: Little, Brown & Co. jouns woman, in meking up her|THE YOUNG MAN FROM JERUSA-|THE NEW WORLD: Problems in Po- household, appeirs -to have collected| LEM. By William G. Ballantine., litical Geography. By Isai h Bow- an assortment of crooks. The machi-| Bogton: The Houghton Miffiin Com.| mah. Ph. D., director of the Amer- 8! 3 atlons of one after another of thess, | pany. lcan Geographical Soclety of New an en of all together, to relleve ork. ustrat wit] maps iher of any surplus wealth that may |DFFTE, DAUGHTER OF MAN. By| ..q yith 65 engravings from pho- ying around make th: rosti o !;:;‘,’:‘h 5°h G Chater |+ tosraphs. Yonkers-on-Hudson: R Rihard Thirer. World Book Company. Henry Holt & Co. THREE SOLDIERS, By John Dos o Ak Passos, author of “One Man's Ini tiation,” etc. New York George H. Doran Complny. " John :Dos P ssos has' a. mission. * Three Soldiers”-embodiés it. He has, also, tremendous energy, and flery feelings, and a passion for digging tel the grain of truth out of clumps o! waste. All of this, and 'more, he| hurls, by way.-of t| new novel, upon the war machine that gathers up the youth of a county dnd sacrifices it to the worn-out traditions of an estab- lished order. ' He {s speaking for this youth, or so he seems to be apéaking. | The three soldiers who deliver the message of Passos are of the rank and file. The glory of the career, i there be any. is so buried under tne' ardors of discipline, petty pi u tions, small duties, deadly ' routine, personal discomfort, revoiting asso- ciations, that one's country fades away, one's duty takes on new fea- tures, one's pride is buried under the humiliations of the daily life. Each !¢y succeeded . o et three s Yollowad br s ms About herselt, taking her and her flery writer to the smallest H money ‘over for ulo knvpin:. Hi possible hardships. It is a ona-sldul "The turn of picture? Perhaps. Certainly the au- !‘. aana. elw.r. thor has not overdrawn the “uide that| A tent line. of ' action he has presen ut some, some soldiers, too, will ay that 1¢ has qul 1‘:?-““ bave nun this gift a bnur nother slac; one, too. that 18 as real 25 %his altokether harrowing one. As | AMERICAN POLICE 2 matter of fact, youne soldiers bave |\ TION. By Bimer D. Graper. New ‘Irud); i;l]ne to l'.ha tmtf.l'n ni::'il- Yor ‘The Macmillan Company. tion of s_portrayal ey claim that It 1s unbalanced, prejudiced, ex- | [N its substance thisvolume takes tr.vagant. It is, nevertheléss..a live |, 1 "done in the-way of city police rogu‘ncgs gitunfl h: is .lm:ua. n|leul- i { and biting thing. administration. From the work of many antly amus ut not_or a single A mindte Is he haughty. The haughty | DAUGHTER OF THE SUK. By Quisn a’;fi"“".fi',:,'n“ iy Dotk Lt nglishman must have gone out of| Sabe. New York: Charles Scribner's o shion, or else he stays at home. Sons. m‘ 1| Calr‘ulnlyé h; is .t x«‘: 5 in thx: lo- hA treasure hunt lies n:“tho ro‘;u ol cality. By Way of Mr. George's jour- | this strenuous and exciting adven- ' mey—in at the east door. down to the i ture. - Somewhere off the west coast |35, Well, the sdaptations that certal. gult, out to the coast and back again, |of Mexico, so the story rai lice pro- :u ght a n:";y:rlaw ?f our own co\::- tnllmlloua -’tore‘ of Ugld and L jon. nlrodfucilon the ry—a gratifying view. too, on the|priceless jewels and carven vessels,, orical whole—we see how it Impresses this |secreted by Montesumia 1L at the ap-|oucior Eives & brief bistorical sketch of waywise and intelligent visitor, we|proach of the Spaniards under Cortes, traighten up a bit under the kindly |early in the sixteenth century. 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