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) OUR REPUBLIC: the American By S. E. The American lis vividly the revela- tion that “Green's the English him. Then, for the first time, - had a chance to know something the behind the king and the commanders of and armadas. Exactly the atisfaction lies in the book in For here is a history of the American people, @ narrative of the zrowth of this nation, through the | w mitting T the spr of the pi . and the unre- toil of the farmer, through 1d of education, through in- Ventions applied to industry, through the development of industry itself £ind the outreach of commerce. One fevls the people—yourself and myself, all of us together—as a part of the Trem: o movement that has inal- republic that reaches from 1. Against this back- are sketched., in their | portion, I won a Varties sirument here htful se of the cked volume, ome volume. Every e and the whole is ~énted through the art of a story Her o vivid, fascinating narrative 1ches from the first white men I on our shores to the immediate Present. Maps—es re here in the readers under- fine body of the text This book is designed for the | the man and t 1o follow handful mighty nati of colonies ¢ WIVD BLOWETH. By Donn . author of “Messer Marco WNew York: The Century uthor of *“Messer 'S it who. out from Antrim, went the last of the vet on the waters. And, oh, the “ampbeli made! And. oh, ame to know! Mar- nd others. and others then out . and Ri a-sailing clipper shi d = on the silver thread agination. these coast litter like diamonds and glow « biood-red rubies. Each is teeped in its own peculiar dyves. Each exudes the odors of its own Each Breathes its own pa I stands, a triumphs of heauty and personality. And the i in Antrim there is 11's wother of the thin old cves. There is Moy- . with whom Shane fell into as lads so often do. And illes. after Moyra dies. Claire-Anne, the wise and pding woman with the kind t live thing ~Claire-Anne the harlot. And off in Heirul there is Fanzile with Whon. for the first time. S bl thinks he has ! cret of living, On,y Fanzile. hrashed | And then | om where promply the Antrim s sails aw on his| isinessof merchandising. Home a | Beirat, he finds Fanzile gone— with the wrestler from Aleppo. that the woman nd needy. And so | goes on. Finally. ‘Malley. the sweet nd Shane Camp- of tling to the ritu the ie woman. The beautiful vith the flavors of domess ety upon it after many ma ¢ youth and the auest of | hithe, one thinks—or does Kitchell Wel Life. Robb: in substance. | i of the herd. | i 1 i cakness of the outside the herd. Tt { the insiders as against story of rapacity | ting a solid gle “innovator. anded against the the his Greer is too. of hier—hoth Pnzineer. traveler, a Ay namic behaviors, a”stranger to the business ritual of » corporation of which himself a part. And this ectly real account of the do- freezing-out of Joseph to the suave proc siness. The daughter father—an odd. oTigi- t girl. for whom the have social a E too, ix a_perfectly real cerugt of the methods of ~ polite acicty when its sanclity ‘is threat- i outsider. Joseph Grecr Il—he would—both iness and the women toward him to the safety . The develop- an it fames with nd creation | ndous personal force. A | —that Joseph Greer—a the Al Greer leaves it all—but he zone away somewhere to work (other big undertaking. to work wn atmosphere of vitality | achievement more stable than iding dollars to an already ‘hig pile of just mon. the <trongest and most significant stories of the American life that is ! Jusi now Lrying itself out RILIAN. By Arnold Bennett. author of “Buried 3 . New York: George H. n Company. Mr. Bennett's new story knocks one moral precepts higher than Since society got started mothers have sedulously tanght their daughters that chastity should be a Joung woman's prime preoccupation. And th world has sustained these | nother: Here Arnold Bennett | showing, 1 as a pikestaff, that a girl may, thout benefit of clergy, run away th a ma live with him, have a “aby and come out of it all honest woman in_the world's accounting. “Lilian" offers the familiar case of 1lie young girl, beautiful, poor, work- | ing in a business office. On the other.l side of the desk is her employer. This | ix @ world-wide situation. And the iater development, in large lines. is ot unfamiliar—except for the ulti- | snate implication. However, it is with 1he situation itself that the authér deals in a very knowing study of the Jourg girl whose power lies in making i man happy by more domestic ways 1han taking stemographic.notes. As ol a kite our comes along with a novel bl {5 great inslght and understanding. As a novel, likely to fall into the Jiands of girls who have. decided iotions of their own about personal Freedom, It is going to have trouble. i old folks will see to that. From Whe story as a whole one gets, also, 1lie implication that the veneer of sndependence for woman is so thin That the least jar scales it off, show- §ng underneath’that unchanging wom- zn. who, sinve “Adam .deived and Eve apan.” has been reaching out for pro- tection, and care and dove. The wom- an_of economic independence is a Dinlogleal freak, an accident. & make- rhift, a leftover. This conclusion s, @1 least. one of the by-products of $lie study of “Lilian.” ALACK CAESAR’'S CLAN. By Albert 3 Terhune, _author of ete. New York: George . Doran Company. y this, 80 the au- mhor sa¥'s. hoping. genially. in the same ‘wreath, that it will, nevertheless, turn ut to be interesting. And-it does—all <f that. The adventure is sct on the Yiorida coast. where, more than a hun- red years ago, Black Caesar rivaled the = o | buccaneerin, Orleans sued. sun Reviews of New Books of Plerre Lafitte over New The black pirate, & fabulous treasure/ship— pur- same old legend, you see—and then died out of this troubling world, the hiding D ol History of | the years. ace a secret. According to the way { the legends, the treasure grew with And the story In hand is just People” was to | #nother one of the many adventures that had already used this hidden tread- u their motive and object. Now, Black.Caesar's clan is but a handful of servile fellows, tools for the villain of A smooth, audacious villain is Rodney Hade—a daring and ingenious scamp who incites one to a zealons pur- the tale, suit against Hade service man. concerning of his varlous rascalities. is Gavin Brice, And the two make a pair that gives one no second of let-down tonishing adventures. made a_very beautiful background for this action—the Florida coast in its sea origin and growth. oft secret thelr active work and as- The author has Being himself, Mr. Terhune could not resist getting a collie dog into this game of crime hunting— and Bobby Burns justifies himself fully at every turn. Melod rama’ maybe, but a rattling good story, just the same, THE CAT'S PAW. ner Lincoln, author o Seal ete. ton & Co. Impossible to figure out why any one should have poisoned old Susan | Baird. She By Natalie Sum- “The Red New York: D. Apple- was poor and harmless, save for a thread of temper and a tongue quick to match it. she certainly Ty, was, Bu* poisoned wn house over in Georgetow is the stepping-off place for Sumner Lincoln’s latest myster: Relatives and near relatives dead in her This atalie sto- and friends gather, naturally, at the old home of Susan Baird’ the ones with whom, thereafter, the mystery has to do! a particularly recting {a look Sou sev cusing them w er turn. suspi or a or la faint ter, here, And these This writer subtle power of n—a word, maybe only gesture sets the nd xo is every other | reader off. hot-foot..on a new trail. no less than n_persons come under the ac- > of the reader and all of | h plausible reasons back of the de-\the suspicions attaching to them in And, at the last. the real crim- | inal proves to be the only completely are has di- innocent-behaving one in the group. This, too. one recails us a part of the method of this writer. Both charac- teristics are used at the author's belit here. So the master remains an ex- citing conjecture up to the last mo- the [ with the innocent ! guilty now and then. monplace of real deeply guilty man should never for wholly people life. That is But, the story of lment. If one has any quarrel at all author here it is not that should act a com- that a an. instant lose his blameless bearing mak one wonder it could be so perfect in his part. ever. this !vet from this source. is a good story- a hypocrite How- he best THE EVIL SHEPHERD. By E. Fhil- 1i Oppe nheim, author of “The Great Impersonation,” etc. Boston: Little, the most romance. titles the story Englishman. wickedness tric for London Thames. and Sir that a long Brown & Co. The “evil shepherd™ is, by all odds: interesting person Thomas Grast. is a rich and eccen- with a reputation runs al in this who 11 over way down the Hiding himself behind an exterlor of mysterious behaviors, Sir Thoma a genuine sportsman, and with certain notions of his own about law the Th: | picious and e ! Walled House ames. is scene of wild orgies. with be hor that fields. false this i for goodness. ure_on man. be farther from the fact. i cording to common report, is Nothing appears afe with him, save broken-down outworn find permanent refuge No one thinks of counting this | No. this Is only another her th and _conventions. leads his own life free from interference by a sus-| ondemning _public. his secluded estate on believed to The be the Nothing could e part Youth, ac- s not safe to animals | in his of this The story is well on its way before Sir Thomas appears in it. And the substance of this beginning chance. tastic, that ment i In- | outcome. !is sound—but, of the ' “evil take second place. give the whole is a shade fan-: 50 one does not vhile he is in it. for the move- ift and varied and bril- | Quenmell, IS DAUGH- [liant that one is carried along in its; ter. | tide of incident and mystery and final | A £ood diversion for the terrill { hour that might otherwise be a dull jand empty one. THE WORLD IN REVOLT: A Paycho-| as_soon as one gets| shepherd” other ! Serving | Churchward. Albert. shepherd his | think of lyarett; logical Study of Our Timex. By P ! sources, ave Le chology Translated by Bernard York: The Macmillan Compan: Gustave Le Bon, | chologist, in this volume goes behind | the great war and its results of revolt | prooks. . H. The Practice of Auto- ana chaos, in order to point out the: e the effects and | Carrington, Hereward. Death. QA- 234. the the remedy in | chology tra tion \influence of tle itse of ing principles m, if. of causes, in Bon, author of the Crowd.' for this general | ment of whole peoples toward de- | struction and dissolution. effect. a study of the psy-{p;.0 the crowd. standpoint the author discusses the !Hall, G. S, Senescence. QA-H 144s. mental evolution of the peoples. & forward. he takes up the conflict- modern warfare, | cing the influence of ideas in na-|H,it. L. E. Food, Health and Growth. 1 conflicts, and satting forth the i tal factors in the bat- i Lee, G. From the French ps move- The book [ The this Mov- Beyond this he describes | some cf the political illusions of the | Lord. | present as these are manifested in the concept of the nation itself. He gives, Paton, Stewart. Signs of Sanity. QH- in detail, the psychological blunders of the peace treaty, and immediately sets the problem of a society of na: tions, defining the elementy of na- tional an. book ic: nce able role in an interdependent world. faulty man of genfus and | The abstract theme is made concrete d international security. The in_part. addressed to Amer- discusses our unavold- by innumerable refcrenges to the con- duct of nations during: and after ‘he great war. is a forceful and ob- jective portrayal of the international situation- and of the world future worked out on the basis of crowd One of | psychology. BOOKS RECEIVED. THE MYSTERIOUS OFFICE. By Jen- nette Lee. ew Scribner’s Sons THE GOLDEN BOUGH; A Magic and Religion. B: George Frazer, F. Hon. D. C. L., Oxford: Hon, Litt. D., York: Charles tudy ‘in Sir James . F. Cambridge and Durham? Hon. LL. D., Glasgow: Doctor Honoris Causa of t he Strasburg. millan Company. THE BIOLOGY OF DEATH. 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