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Reviews of OTTLINE GUIDE TO SHAKE- SPEARE. By Paul Kaufman, Ph. D, ‘ew York: The Century Co. O use this “Outiine of Shake- speare” {3 to sot its high value at once, Tt is not easy to con- ceive 80 much of actual prac- Ul assistance as this litte Book 1s pared to give, not only to t kespears, but to him who is something less than the student the one wh joy in merely reading this phenomenal all-men-in-one. A 1all volume, this one, easy to carry about—Iiterally a handy book. A book that is bursting with good help. Here i3 the historic background of Shake- speare without which no literature may be justly considered. Hero are the allent facts in Shakespeare's individual and family life—documented and au- thentic, Hers s a synopsis of the plays +—-an admirable piece of condensation, a useful feature in a book of this The characters themselves pear here, and with them anal of the plays which they animate and project. A whole array of useful fea- tures of lesser import follows these reater and mora vital polnts. Here Vocabulary expiaining the more di cult words of the plays. Here also a pronsuncing list of words and a digest of the grammar employed by the poet A metrical analyste of the plays, an in dex of the songs, a list of famillar quotations and a working bibllography study of Shakespeare—all this tells something of the richness and use- fulness of this comprehensive guide. It indicates, aleo, the amazing amount of esearch that went into this study. And after the collection of material from the stupendous work of condensing thi ass to the limits of the book in hand selection, order, lination, graphic srms of ready seizure by. the eye many kinds of knowledge and insight have gone into this little book that one oks upon it not only as one of the most wpetent of guldes, but as a model also the peculiar genius and purpose of modern outl AlLS OF SUNSET. Ry author “Scissors.” Frederick A. Stokes Co. beautiful romance background. T ain > No al study ep introspections, no sodden de- the marriage no new nan, no free life— ne of the vogu w so wearisomely d of flction . where ted by obstacl for: the 1 N “ecll Roberts, New York overcrowd- Instead a any number of out- such as one can understand. A conflict of rellgion oh, no, not by the lovers. By the old folks i i A difference in natic —projected as a barrier E 4, old folks. The s too swift and strong. And so voung Englishman wins the girl the Italian fishing village. Not, mesalliance at all, s it turns for the girl is lovely and cul- tured and all the other things that a young Engishman deserves. But is, after all, the splendid background of this romance that captures one. With true skill and gent feeling this author portrays Venice in its unique beauty, In its historic flavors in of its special moods. Venice he makes a beauti- o of Chioggia, a fishing village Adriatic coast. A very beau- tiful story from every point of view. A story that makes a point of beaut und achieves it in delightful measure. | nd-out s of the B Rekindle The THE GOLDEN VILLAGE Josep Anth authce of Fires,” ete. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company. A writer of the vagabond tribe will ny excuse to take to the open And readers of th tribe wiil ept any of these excuses to fol-| their leader into the open with| and gladness. Joseph Anthony| a writer of this order. You and I| of the same” breed. Sb, out we the trail of an old man and ndson. The boy, almost an! can—not quite thoug! not so réadily have fallen into quest by the is are grandfather, who has come Lo the new | warld to find the golden wheat fields, | aid here, and and Ormay mnd Torok to spread so widely d as well Visoc erenyi and Krivat, rians, all, who had come 20 years before. The boy's r and mother had died in Amer- « when Stephen himself was noth- more than a baby. And some- ng in the blood made him step beside the old man in a delectable ing up and down and across, £ for the golden fields and the friends of his grandfather's ger da And, believe it or not, finally come upon this group before had left w world. Then leader over there and i in prison when he, o sail with the other: very beautiful atmos- and —Hu over, fat irnes into a phere these friends who in the old had so0 looked up to him. Very and delightful, the whole of it, both in spirit and in the sheer sim-| plicity of its outer form. THE SACRAMENT OF SILENCE. By Noel Sylvestre. New York: The MacMillan Company. This is the story of a priest who “the sacrament of silence, prison rather than violate of his priestly office by what has come to him in ity concerning a crime com- the neighborhood. A very this. One that calls and fine discrimi- handling. To it author applies just these quali- ties. And out of this sympathetic conception a very sincere and appeal- ing story comes into the hand of the reader. A story wherein manly cour- age linked with human understand- ing d something lke atvine sympathy produce & 4 to clear anybody's sense of iman velues and human obligations. t, not at all a story built on the lesson plan and purpose. Just a story stead—simple, true, idealistic, lievable—involving the simple lives of a lowly class of men and women. By John Masefield, ter Poems and York: The under divulg that ¢ tted n in its adequ SARD HARKER. author © Salt-V Ballads,” ete. New MacMillan Compan: Part of the time pursuing a dream and part of the time involved in a series of events that sum to stren- nous adventure, Sard .Harker hers glves a man's account of himself. The dream eurrounds a woman, 8 girl who had crossed the boy's path when both were little more than children. After 10 years he comes, by way of the Pathfinder, of whose crew he is an officer, to a coast where he has been told, in a dream, that he will again meet this girl. From this point the action advances nto the realm of pure adventure. -From this point Sard Harker comes upon nbout every sort of villainy, the thwarting of which becomes his prime business and sole - objective. The love theme in this case Is al- ways secondary to that of man-size action. The woman remains in the background, elusive and shadowy, ex- cept as an incentive to the prodigious actlon of the hero. To be sure, at the last moment there is the happy ending that the conventional love tale demands. But otherwise the business is chiefly with crooks and thugs and pirates of Spanish-American color and kidney Not a snugly built ro- mance, this. Often the author him- self appears to become enamored of a relatively insignificant situation whose crude local color seduces him quite away from the legitimate and expected sdvance of the story itself. However, it is filled with action which the lovers of robust doings set | tdden themes | the course of true | it e he| of friendship, even of homage, | haracter caleu- | be- | New Books will enjoy without a single regrot for the balance and finish of & full and rounded tale. JOHN PEREGRINE'S WIFE. B Morgan Gibbon, author of * 410, New York: Doubleday, Page This i{s n story of what is likely to happen to married folks who malke belleve, refuse to put thelir cards on the table. Now since this withhold- ing, in one direction or another, hits about every case of marital life in the wworld, why, this may be called a fairly universal story. To ba sure, for the purpose of drama thers must be an extra emphasis on the features of this particular case of matrimontal adjustment. And the ecarly part of the story goes into this disclosure. A ret chapter in the life of John Peregrine is opened to the reader. This {s withheld from the girl till after her marrfage to John. The secret involves nothing less than the actual parentage of a supposedly fatherless little boy of the nelghbor- hood. You readlly see that the au- thor has set himself a lask here since, among women, here ix the un- forgiveable sin. This constitutes the foundation for all the misunder- standings, concealments, distrust and growing dislike between the'two. In a theme of this kind—so common, so likely to be sordid and ugly—every- thing depends on the author's skill with the characters, on his construc- tive abllity. As a story-teller Mr. Gibbon ranks well here. As a maker of men he is exceptiomally sympa- thetic dnd adroit. At this point one stops to wonder how two men, as real the two outstanding men of this | romance are, came both of them to love the one woman, the wife of | John Peregrine and the woman be- sides of Dan Richards' devotion. She must have been all right, but from where the reader sits she appears to be & poor thing shillylng and shally- ink back and forth between these two better folks than she seems to be. USAGE IN AMERICA. Wade. New Crowell Co. M. By York: SOCIAL Margaret Thomas Y. More exelting and than the ritual of the 2 1 intricate even church, or that | most and elaborate | secret order—so we are told—Is the | ritusl of the world of sbefety. Just {what to do, and when, and how | these have more than once proved to | be the hidden rocks—so the informa- tion runs—upon which many a bright argosy of social aspiration has gone to doom and disaster. But in accommodating world every reasofable need is bound, sooner or | later, to open out upon opportunity. it is in this case of social usage. Industrious investigators and compe- tent writers have gathered up a Iibrary of information upon this sub- ject in point is the book in { hand too, that bears evidence of more than the usual sum of | prepuration for the work projected. Margaret Wade bas gained a pro- fession by way of personal experi- ¢ as the social secretary of women 2 Washington official life. Out of this experlence she has gathered the usages of official life at the Capital These this author brings out here in an orderly and organized whole that Bives to the book an easy and prac- tical approach. While these matters are of moment, things that must be- |long to the working equipment of any one within the soclal domain, and while the author so considers them, | this fact does not release her from her native sense of humor, from her own individual way of presenting these momentous matters of soclal iife. To the general reader, this is the engaging aspect of “Social Usage In America,” even though one realizes that this js Dot by any means fts vital and serious intent. That lies in an assured summary of the regula- tons of soclety, bath in the Capltal and in the whole of the United States as well. A case OFFICER! By Hulbert Footner, au- thor of “Ramshackle House,” etc. | New York: George H. Doran Co. | general pulchritude of the policeman is a quite disregarded fact |coneerning _this guardian of the |peace. To be sure, it is the brawn of the policeman that counts, nat- urally and fairly, since it is upon this that the pubiic relies for safety— |upon fleetness of pursuit and readi- ness of attack, upon the arts of seizure and the taking of chances against every sort of physical odds. ; Yet one often wonders why the fip- standing comeliness of the police- man, perfect by-product of physical fitness, does not more often enlist him in the cause of romantlc ad- venture. It is clear that Mr. Hulbert Footner also has had these wonder- ings upon this subject. For here he |has drawn Larry Harker, No. X5667, away from his tedious and unevent- ful beat to place him upon the high- way of romance. To be sure, Larry still retains something of a profes- slonal front as he joins in the pur- suit of a thlef—a girl who in the fiying course of escape registers with Larry Harker an indelible picture of young loveliness. But duty is duty, 50 Larry half-heartedly affirms, grow- ing ever more positive in this asser- tion when he recalls the mocking glance that this clever fugitive cast upon him. Deep in the heart of him he is the primitive male, the pur- |suer who, in good time, will be the | possessor. So Larry vaguely senses as he grits his teeth in a_fresh re- so've to uphold the law. You know the end of the story. The girl is in- nocent. Larry turns from lion to a nuzzling lamb. Not =0 easy to make a hero of romance out of this ma- terfal. No real obstacle to such an achievement, but plenty of prejudi- clal ones. However, Mr. Footner has turned the trick by way of a really |lovable hero and an all-around fine wirl. Laughter goes along with romance, not enough of it, though, to | turn the comedy Into farce. | THE LIFE AND DEATH OF cLEO- PATRA. By Claude Ferval. Trans- ted by M. E. Poindexter. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. There seems to be setting in just now a movement whose object is to take away from certain celebrated women some of the infamy imparted to them by centuries of historic con- sideration. A few weeks ago it was Messalina. Now it s Cleopatra. Crucial tests for the power of any rehabilitator, it must be conceded. Yet the work of these students s worth while, quite aside from the par- ticular individuals upon whom thelr efforts are expended. By example both reafirm that no person, of what- ever period, can be judged except the product of his own time and his own immediate surroundings. In pursuance of this usually neglected theory, M. Ferval in his study of Cleopatra reconstructs the period In which this woman lived by a series of pictures that illuminate not only the face of the Egyptian world at that point of time, but that outline as well the face of the Roman world. The author of “Messalina” pursued the same course. Within this setting M. Ferval portrays—not a monster of infamy, not a sorceress of seduction— but a woman whose intelligence and beauty and power found outlet in the directions and waya of her own time. Such treatment is for a bet- ter understanding, for a truer ap- praisal than can possibly rise oyt of the traditions and superimposed prejudices of the vears intervening between our day and those of the “serpent of old Nile Vivid, cotem- poraneous in its lifelike quallty, highly informing and altogether in- teresting, this story of Cleopatra in |- The the midst of her own world, in its ef- fect upon her, n her effect upon ft, Hobbs, Franklyn. Secret of Wealth. 1923. IH-H663s. Jackson, B. B., and others. Thrift and Success. 1919, TH-J137t. Kirkpatrick,. B. A. Use of Money, How to Save and How to Spend. 1915. TH-K637n MacGregor, T. D. Book of Thrift. 1315, IH-M177b. MacGregor; T P. Talks on Thrift. 1913, TH-M177t. Marden, O. 8. Thrift. 1918. IH-Ma3ét National Education Association of the United States. Thrift. 1917. IH- N216. Rickardson, A. S. Adventures Thrift. 1916. RY-R396. Robertson, C. E. How Money Makes Money, 1922. TH-R§47h ? Sanders, T. E. Saving and Investing Money, or Ten Lessons in Thrift. 1917, 1H-Sasés. Sturgis, H. 8. Investment, a New Pro- fession, 1924, HR-St97! Taylor, A. W. Investments. (Alexan- der Hamilton Institute, 1924.) HK- 0M726, V.23, Villlers, V. de. Financial Independ ence at Fifty. (Magazine of Wall Street, 1921.) HR-VT15f. The Household Budget. Donham, S. A. Spending the Family Income. 1921. RY-D7l6s. Farmes; L. C. A B C of Home Saving. 1916. RY-F22i Leeds, J. B. Household Budget RY-L513h. Lord, I. E. Getting Your Worth, 1922, RY-LS87g Taber and others. The Business of the Housenold. 1918 RY-R112b. University Soclety of New York. Save and Have. 1919. RY-UN34s. House Competition. 1921, National Small Home Bullder's Plan Book. WIM-N218 Outwater, H can-Homes, BOOKS RECEIVED. LITERARY VESPERS—ALTARS OF INSPIRATION. TFirst series. By Edgar White Burrill. 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An attractive and helpfu! collection of books, posters and material on thrift, savings and budgets is dis- played in the lobby. Books on Benja- min Franklin, whose birthday, on January 17, always marks the open- Ing of National Thrift week, are col- lected for easy consuitation in the lobby. Special attention is called to the following books, which .may I= secured at the library: Books on Thrift. American Academy of Political ocial Sclence, New Thrift. 1920, 1H-Am37. American Bankers' Association Savings Banking. 1023. Atwood, A. W. How to G 1917, IH-At98h. Bexell, J, A. First Lessons In Busi- ness. 1919, IH-B469f. Chamberlain, A. H. and JI. F. and Conservation: How -to It. 1919, IH-C356t. Fowler, N. C, jr. How to Save Money. 1912, TH-F827. Hall, Bolton. The New Thrift TH-H14t Illustrated. New Funk & Wagnalls Co. THE BOYS' OWN BOOK OF FRON- TIBRSMEN. By Albert Britt, au- thor of “The Boys' Own Book of Adventures,” etc. New York: The Maomillan Company. THB ECONOMY OF HUMAN ENER~ GY. By Thomas Nixon Carver, Ph. D., LL. D. New York: The Mac- millan Company. UP-TO-DATE SOCIAL AFFAIRS. By Mrs. Herbert B. Linscott, author of “Bright Ideas for Entertaining.” Philadeiphia: George W. Jacobs & 0. THE OLD TESTAMENT; A New ‘Translation, By Rev. Prof. James Moffatt, author of “The New Testa- ment; A New Translation, ete. Vol. I, Genesis to Esther. New York: George H. Doran Company. MORAN OF SADDLE BUTTE. B Gunnison. Chicago: A. lurg Company. A WOMAN OF FIFTY. By Rheta Childe Dorr. New York: Funk & Wagnalls Company. THE PHYSICIAN AND THE PEOPLE, By Leonard L. Landis, M. D. Pub- lished by the American Assocla- tion of Independent Physiclans, G. Designs for Ameri- 1921. WIM-Ou87 Saylor, H. H. Inexpensive Hom Individuality. 1912. WIM-Sa® Small House Service Bureau. How to Plan, Finance and Build Your Home. 1921. WIM-Ar247h S Bureau of Standards. How to Own Your Home. 1923. HXR-Un30. Whipple, Harvey. Concrete Houses. 1520 WIM-W577. Wise, H. C., and Beidleman, H. 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Huebner, Insurance. 1922, 1 Lovelace, G. M. Life Insurance damentals. 1923. IIL-L9431 May, E. C. The Emplre of Life Insur- ance. 1923. IIL-M44Se. Thornton, W. Short Lessons in Life Insurance 1923. IIL-T396s. s, z= Fun- Inyestment. Thrift Teach yor Investments. 4 Home Planning. Comstock, W. P. The Housing Book 1920, WIM-C736h High-grade oleomargarine made chiefly of cocoanut ofl Suffolk, Va., claims to be the largest peanut market in the world. 1923, often is 1000 Miles in 786 Minutes Chrysler Six Dashes Off 1000 Miles in Continuous Run in Phenomenal Time of 786 Minutes, or better than 76 Miles per hour, without Mechanical Adjustment. Beats Its Own and Other Records and Retains Los Angeles Speed Trophy Wires just received tell how the C ler Six has re-affirmed its Beating its own previous record by 3 hours 41 minutes, Chrysler in this latest run is faster by 1 hour 2 minutes 25 3-5 seconds than the fastest time ever made at Culver City in a similar stock car-event. Chrysler Six retains possession of the Los Angeles Times Trophy for strictly stock cars, won by its previous record-breaking per- formance of 1000 miles in 1007 minutes elapsed time. It had its own splendid mark to excel, and it has done soon a new and faster speedway in a manner to make every Chrysler owner glow with pride and satisfaction. supremacy in long-distance speed and endurance. On the Culver City Speedway at Los- eles, Monday, Januar 5, Ralph De Palma exceeded the wr‘st;xl:gnon’xenal Z‘f"(;‘rmancz of last September on another track, by driving a Chrysler 1000 continuous miles in the still more p! omenafnme of 786 min- utes 6 1-5 seconds elapsed time. The average speed was 76.32 miles hour for the entire Not a single stop was made for mechanical adjustment, tire changes, or even to add water. The following telegram from Los Angeles gives the details: “Our birthday gift to the Chrysler. “Today, on the Culver City Speedway, Ralph De Palma, driving absolutely stock Chrysler tourin car, except with special ‘gear ratio of 3.75 to 1, made 1000 miles in 786 minutes 6 1-5 seconds to elapsed time, a ing 76.32 miles per hour with absolutely no mechanical adjustment, tire changes or even addition of water. 3 “Timed but not certified as to stock by A. A. A. ; “Car given to the Committee of the Los Angeles dealers’ association for stock certification. “This non trophy event beats previous record of 848 minutes 31 4-5 séconds, with average of 70.71 miles per hour made with similar gear ratio. “Chrysler still holds Los Angeles Times Trophy for fastest one thousand miles made by absolutely stock touring car with standard gear ratio. “GREER-ROBBINS CO.—HARRIS.” Maxwell Showroom 1221-23 14th St. Nerthwest Chrysler Showroom Gz2neral Office and Service Department ° 1612-22 You St. N.W. _H. B. 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