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SOCIETY. Reviews of Preface by Ed- Scribner’s Sons. HIS book presents twenty rep- resentatives peace plans out of the hundreds submitted in response to the American peace award made by Edward W. Bok. Among them is Mr. Lever- more's winning plan. In an introduc- tion to the volume Mr. Bok gives, in his own way, the story of the origin and projcetion of the award. He says that it started with the American people themselves. That his part in the scheme was to supply a channel— unpartisan and non-political—for the :xpression of a deep and general dis- itent that, since the war, so little has been done to achieve and main- uin a real peace. Through this chan- nel of his own providing there flowed . stream of opinions on_this subject =0 varied in source, 5o _increasing in olume, as to convince Mr. Bok that the essential condition of productive fction was being fulfilled—that the great body of people desiring peace were thinking, seriously and unani D in terms of peace. That con- Wwas the necessary point of ac- So the award was made. The lared that the $100,000 oint of departure. that it ural and own theory et to drama of a ther in order to get well made and imme- ¥ influential in the desired di- on If serious and general ng were the fundamental pur- here the award is already a huge Only a beginning,” Mr. Bok The American peace award i step.” And the book i hand offers students an opnort‘unlx" © gather the substance and to sift the values of this group of repre- ative peace plans, HISTORY OF ASSYRIA. By A. T. Olmstead. professor of history, cu- rator of the oriental museum, Gui- n . New York: Confident that fans are wort ¢ that ancient Assy held by this ancient ei from what he considers to f the derived means of d corrobo: , the drawn the for this work. The true carrying point f the old story is, however, the nar- ive power of the author under thé spur of what Is to him a great them Not that this projection, so abound- ng in enthu takes the place of Not at all. What sav is that this wealth of rese < s rich rial, this fine historical and completer today, actively significant cvery respect alive wcient people, 4 eir achieveme cxtent and u to the n. . upon izations, upon su. nturies. In its quality,as inct beauty and dignity, illustrations, of general ex- cellence in every respect, this volume stands as one of qui ceptional in addition to its intrinsic sub- nce as an important contribution ) history itself. THE COLOR OF A GREAT CITY. By Theodore Dreiser, author of “S ter Carrie,” ete. New York: Boni Liveright. About thirty years agq Theodore Dreiser was walking the streets of New York city, just as a little earlier he had walked the streets of Chicago. In both situations he was upon the same errahd And, indeed, he has been upon that si ever since. hunting for himself lain truth of the innumerable him. Trying to capture whole 1n its essential truth, trying to get it down on paper in a clear in- tegrity of reality, trying to put it across to readers as the truth about the par- ticular thing in hand. “The Color of . Great City” goes back to that year, 894, or thercabout. It is a book of moods—many moods—through each of which Mr. Dreiser has drained some wssing bit of the i terfront,” “Th 'Clock,” “The art Man," “The Man on the Bench” and other men of hard lot. Occasionally the mood is a but more often than other- prose mood of literal fact. this thirty-year period real nges have come to the texture of big city. Mr. Dreiser projects this k for the sake of holding fast to some of the vanishing aspects of that carlier period. The book gives Dreiser readers a chance to see that then, as now, fidelity to fact w. hovah of Dreiser's art. ESTERN PENNSYLVANIANS., Ed- itor-in-chief _Charles _Alexander Rook Pittsburgh: Compiled un- der the direction of the James O. Jones Company. Published by the ‘estern Pennsylvania Biographi- sociation. A big and handsome volume of im- portant information—dependable and hereby made available for the use of newspapers and libraries. The dou- ble purpose of the book is to give an authoritative account of the indus- development of western Penn- 1 and to present by way of raphic sketches the men who have made possible the phenomenal material progress of this section. In weneral substance it is the story of iron, steel, electricity, projected tages of this in- articular, it is s the great Je- growth. of p acumen, industrial vision, public spirit—the pplied to the hundreds \f men whose stories are given here 1 proof of their substantial service to the great commonwealth. The book s a model of condensation as, upon its face, it appears also to have been inspired by a clear aim toward entic statement. These two uctors stand in tribute to the com- pany of editors whose avowed pur- pose was to fit this monumental body of knowledge to a definite and use- ful end. MY FAIR LADY. By Louis Hemon, author of “Maria Chapdelaine, Translated by- Willlam Aspen- wall Bradley. New York: The Macmillan Company. . That which made “Maria Chap- it 5 {riumph fo its author and <ource of deep joy to the reader is, in full measure, here in this group of Jort stortes by Louis Hemon. The ‘lear seeing, the tender feeling, the fense of dramatic content, these in §it word and companies of words stand back of these stories as l“h(‘.)' God back of that other ‘one. ~“My 4ir Lady"—just two old men, meet- after many years, and drifting Kk in that clear reminiscence that la%o so often commands. “That gar- den * * + and the sunlight! There \as always sunlight in those days. {And the little Liette, under the, great itraw hat that shadowed her eyes. “And when you spoke to her, ta say some of those childish things which ‘are so extraordinarily important, you came quite close to her and bent a trifle down and forward to get a good Jook at her face deer 1> this shade. Two old men, meeting szain, recall- ing the dead years by eaying over again the name of liette, filling these empty years with the “poignant per- fume of youth” seeing again the “Jlittle girl with tender eyes who held her court between the house and the tall somber trezs on the lawn mar- hled with sunlight” That's all. A little handful of beautiful stories— only geven or eight. XING TOMMY. By George H Bir- mingham, author of “The Great Grandmother,” etc. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. This is the story of Tommy, &n Irish clergyman, who slipped over to Berltn on some wholly unclerical business of his own that centered. primarily and privately, op tne vane - k) New York: Charles New Books ishing value of the German mark Out of his own safe parish and into Berlin, with its varied and variegated unsafeties, the career of Tommy be- came 80 otherwise than the one to which he had been foreordained and ordained that, to follow bim, becomes a matter of dealing with new prin- cipalities and reigning princelets. No one gives to readers more deliclous foolery than does Georgs Birming- ham. 'No one is more at homes with the plain human nature of the cloth than is he, nor, indeed, with the German outlook, past and present. A nensensical to-do, leughable from the first pade to the last one. Doctors would do well to prescribe this book for nine-tenths of the illnesses under their hands. THE SHADOWY THIRD. By Ellen Glasgow, author of “Life and Gab- riella,” etc. Frontispiece by Ei- enore Plaisted Abbott. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. It Is an appealing realm to the average—that middle ground between the real and what we, in our short sight, call the unreal, wherem plain fact ‘comes in contact with curious, intangible Influences and effects. It is within this zone that Miss Glas- £OW sets this group of short storles. One of the most interesting of these is the story of a house in which, dur- ing the civil war, a young woman concealed her lover, a Union Soldler, escaped from a southern prison. Sud- denly, overcome by her love for her own cause, the girl delivered the young soldier to those in pursuit of him. "This act, certainly one of clear treachery, even though induced by a love greater than any personal love, becanie a_spirit, the spirit of that house. Through the passing years this spirit survived. In a situation quite different from the one that gave it birth, the spirit takes pos. session of a wife who, under its domi- nation, betrays her husband in a mat- ter of vital business importance to him. Just the old spirit of treachery taking form and direction again out of the strength and persistence of its original impulse. Interesting and in- terestingly projected, all of these stories of the borderland. THE LAST TIME. By Robert Hich- author of “The Garden of Al etc. New York: Geo Doran Company. s BTOUD of short stories of the fa. ar l({xhcnv pattern-—pleasantly AZINg in a smooth and easy han- dling of situations picked off the top of- social - Hfe. - The first one, “The Last Time,” is a woman's futile on - fession of having made death a fairly 1cceptable escape £ nd from his wife's jealouss. A commonplace, theme, you sec The remorseful woman in the role of admonition and warning fails to register clearly. Too big a fool, too selfish, too belated all around to'count for much. The sec- ond story hinges on that old letter that went wrong—the love letter that criss-crossed to the wrong wom- an, the one to whom the man is en- gaged. But it turns out all right, for the man transfers his affections to meet this mistake, turns his back on what he supposed was his real love, and faces promptly, eyes beam- ing true devotion, the lady whom he has promised to marry. Sha is the right woman, for the indications are that she can take care of him. zaging, in an easy unexacting way A1l of them are of this pleasant qual ity, reminding one, all over again, that Robert Hichens' best work—the mast sympathetic, the most artfully projected, is the entirely unheralded tomance, “The Call of the Blood.” FIRE MOUNTAIN. By Norman Spring- er, author of “The Blood Ship.” -New -York: G. Howard Watt. A relief, certainly, to come upon a novel that neither tries to uplift you on the one hand, nor to drag you through a gray mess of realism on the othcr. The author merely says, “Come on with Martin Blake—youns and romantic—who had the nerve to break awaw from a dull office and go a-sailing the seas of the north after treaure.” If you consent thero will be no doubt about your agreeing at the last that no plain’ everyday im- agination could have pictured what you had to do and to see. The hero is a likable chap—one of those who turn off heroic deeds, easylike, in a manner of captivation. Not extrava- gant in his ways, you know, so that you are likely to laugh at him. Not at all, that. You believe in him and 3 And, beside Mar- bind captain, and weeping bosun” and the “happy hunchback”—much too bad about the last one! And there is a girl. And there are villains in pursuit and a lot of things between the outset and the treasure, between the outset and the wedding. There is good writing here as well as a good handling of sheer adventure. THE LEAP YEAR GIRL. By Berta Ruck, author of “His Officlal Financee,” etc. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. The Berta Ruck readers will be in a hurry to meet this particular Berta Ruck girl. These, by w: of eighteen earlier novels, know what this writer can_achieve with girls on the plain years of decorous, maidenly waiting for lovers and proposals. So, with the leap year privilege as the basis of the situation, they, naturally, come forward with big expectations in re- spect to the girl of this story. And a very unreasonable person it will be who, out of this amusing—and es- sentially sound—portrayal, finds any lack of entertainment for an easy and unexacting hour. Here, in shrewd insight and a very clever wit, the au- thor makes use of that nice line that the male lays down between a desire to be pursued and the shocked revolt that possesses him at the open and logical outcome of that pursuit. Troubles pile sky-high out of this situation. But, under the special provi- dence exercised by the popular au- thor, these melt and fade away be- fore the smooth and happy ending, without which average readers turn away in displeasure. THFE: GREEN BAY TREE. By Louis Bromfleld. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. This is the story of lovely Lily Shane. . A queer story—to get into print—so the mentors and monitors will say, frowning. Yet its theme is drawn from a fundamental fact of all human existence. Evepybody is a stranger to everybody else, a stranger to himself besides. No wife knows her husband no husband his wife, no parent his child, no Damon his Pythias. Deception? Not at all. Just each one 1iving himself out, in secret and more or less deliberately, Kor the purpose of good story and good drama this author restricts the big theme to Lily Shane and her friends in a modern setting, partly American, partly Parisian. A good sense of picture and of story leads one along here in an absorbed contact with the inner facts of a few lives at least, that center about the beautiful and gracious, the sympathetic and intelli- One Block South of Chevy Chase Circle Chevy Chase, D. C. 8 Rooms Hot-Water Heat Garage Open Sunday, 2 to 6 P.M. W. H. WEST COMPANY 815 15th Street NW. bl THE gent, the kindly and charming Lily Shane. Both the story and its title scrve to remind one that the wicked do flourish like the green bay tree— sometimes. Then one is off on a wild-goose chase after the real es- sence of wickedness, and the special quality of that green bay tree in ity flourishing. THE GRACIOUS HOSTESS. By Della Thompson Lutes. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. A book of etiquette, but with a shade of difference that sets it off from the common run of books on good manners and correct deportment by way of which one hopes to steer at least a pot disgraceful course through the sea of soclal contacts. It appears to be all here—just what to do from weddings to funerals, and all in between. What to do at high teas and just teas. How to comport oneself at functions, both formal and less formal. In short, what to do in every conceivable social demand. Now the shade of difference existing here rises out of the fact that the author has sourced all of the various be- haviors, not so much upon the arbi- trary rules, as upon a certain instinct of kindness, an intuition of attitude springing from a fine friendliness of feeling. A useful book, certainly, to have at hand for the exigencles that it covers. BOOKS RECEIVED. LOUIE MAUDE. By Helen Sherman Griffith, author of “The Virginia Fooks,” ete. Illustrated by Hattle Longstreet Price. - Philadelphia: ‘The Penn Publishing Company. CHOICE RECIPES FOR CLEV COOKS. By Lucy Allen. 1l trated from Photographs. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. WHY, VIRGINIA! By Helen Sherman Griffitk, author of “The Lotty Books. Tllustrated by Nora Sweeney. Philadelphia: The FPenn Publishing Company CRYSTALLIZING PUBLIC_OPINION. By Edward L. Bernays. New York: Boni and Liveright. THE JEW AND CIVILIZATION. By Ada Sterling, author of “A Belle of the Fiftfes,” etc. New York City: Aetco Publishing Company. THE STORY OF A GREAT SCHOOL- MASTER. By H. G. Wells. New York: The Macmillan Company. REED WIRE AND WAYFARERS. y Bdwin Ford Piper. ew York he Macmillan Company. By Ar- SUNDAY STAR, ple—=lc]——lolc——]ol——jol——]a[c——] WHAT IS MAN? J. Arthur Thom- | MOAL T New York: | Putnam’s Sons | 'O SEASON: Talks! lowerx in the Onder| of Their Appearance in the Woods | ) Theodora ¢ tu Know | cw York: rles Scribner’s Sons. A WARNING TO WIV By Hester | Hosford. Boston: The Strat- ford Company. THE REAL TROUBLE WITH THE | FARMERS. By Herbert Quick. In- dianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company ENTIALS OF DESIGN. Charles e Garmo and Leon Loyal Wins- Jow, with numerous illustratipns from the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Macmillan Company. THE 3 LE | WITH SI Strange Adven. tures in Natore's Wonderland By Hallum Havmkesworth, autho! of “The . Adyentures of a| Pebble, cw York: Charles | Scribner’s Sons. | THE HOME ROAD. By Martha Has-| Kell Clark, introduction by Curtis Hidden Page. New York: D. Ap- pleton & Co. THE TRAIL OF THE SQUID, Harvey Wickham, author of Clue of the Primrose Petal New York: Edward J. Clode THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions at the Publie Li- brary and lists of recommended read- ing will appear in this column each Sunday. Tales of Adventure for Older Boys. | Bullen. Cruise of the Cachalot. Kip- I said of it, ve never known anything that equals it in deep- sea wonder and my: ry.”" Doyle. White Company. A thrilling story of that band of fr lances who for the fun of it fought for the Black Prince and for “the land where the Grey Goose fle Fitzpatrick. Jock of the Bushvel A wonderful picture of life on th veld and dangers from wild an mals. Shows not only the courage | and endurance of white men thrown absolutely on their own resources, but also the courage and faithfulness of man's best | friend, the dox. No one could know the dog Jock without liking him, gentleman that he was. Hawes. Great Quest. The young | hero with his uncle goes to Africa ostensibly to get a marvelous treasure, but secretly the men who have entangled them in the adven- ture mean to engage in quite an- other quest. The outwitting of | the villains makes one of the most exciting yarns since Treasure Island. Hawes. Mutineers. Quick wits and hard blows, dealt in the cternal fight between honest men and knaves, play their constant part in this absorbing tale. Hutchins. Sword of Liberty. Fasei- nating story of the American gnd French revolutions with Lafayette as the central figure and connect- ing link. K Kingsley. Westward Ho! “Westward ho! with & rumbelow and hurrah for the Spanish Main, O Russell. Wreck of the Grosvenor. A mingling of realistic pictures of lite on board, of mutiny and of the storms and beauty of the ocean. 4 Slenkiewicz. In Desert and Wilder- ne: The son and daughter of officers of the Suez Canal Company are kidnapped by dervishes and ca ried across the desert to the kin dom of the Mahdi, where they a to be held as hostages. The story of their long journey. heroic cape and final return to thelr homes is full of exciting incident. Snedeker. The Spartan. Sets forth with vivid interest the story of ristodemos, who alone of the “Three Hundred” came back from Thermopylae #nd was taunted with being the “Coward of Ther- mopylae.” Stevenson. Black Arrow. What be- fell Richard Shelton with barons, men-at-arms, and the outlaw band of the “black arrow.” r White. Gold. Tells of California in the days of the gold rush. 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