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Reviews of ECOLLECTIONS AND LETTERS OF GEN. ROBERT By his son, Capt. Intro- duction by Gamaliel B thor of *“ Lee York: Doubleday. 44 Pa F1E first vivid recnllection 1 have of my father Arlington after Mex arrival at his return from ican Wur 1 epening sentence of Capt. Robert E Lee's “Recollections,” gives the ke - mote of this free nd intimate study of Gen, Lee A pi of the ti her the son reveals the father in many & frank and t ier memory. The re the father reveals him of his us purpose of the plete the story of Ler t oniy the accounts of the and lead er. And this story o life 15 oniy supplement ciul service of It never a contradiction Dot his leatd The truly nt book is to public o the off i fumily supr noble n defeat. One New Books And. by tiis token, it palls now Just as the ncorrigibl | able person of our acquaintance drives sometimes, to the rude retallation of a bored indifference, to the ac of yoorer. but livelier stuff. Better for the occasional uibble than for the sut- | istying ail-around dinner. MIRACLE. By Clarence Budington | Kelland. author of “The Steadfast | Heart,” ete. New York: Harper & Bros. Ste. Anne de Beaupre giving sight !to the blind is the theme of th wvel. The setting is old Quebec. ather, an atmosphere sustained hrough a finely intuitive handling of the physical facts of the city itself. The story, that which leads to the working of the miracle, is the story »f Donovan Steele’s rebellion against misfortune. First, betrayved in love. cle becomes an outlaw against himself, a foe to mankind, a rebel against a skeptic—an alto- ther hopeless and even dangerous ature violent man reacting inst < to him to be un- vable And Mr. Kelland an onally good account that man lere, a man seen thousands of in life itself. At the story | and then, { | sort whom we b times, out loose think of no greater source of inspira- blind t ~ South than for patri his count buman AGATNST onia H eMillan Compan prime both in i that ti i Mi trum s nian e | ar | World Cou to gair calculated the she fa other war—« two the acee human nature o political wisdom ¢ awain leust | to land in| waywise 1o hand and to | that OLI» GLASS: Hy N. Hudson China New old erick of use | not it we of ric mmeon re told quite W our houses bulb, and our Tu; pictures and 4 pans even to have a old ho! ir while from ta in the heati furniture, i books, in our po N. Huds passion f hold th yw dip to elec of them, translucent By what final per- | what t and and under what im yieans did they reach feetion? The art ine yarticular people do th jpterpret? What was their place in fe industrial lite their origins. | $iere Mr. Moore gives answer to these auestions and others equally impor- fant. The book is bent upon infor-| wmation and i uilt serve that purpose. Therefore, it deals with entials, with pointed and concise atment, with many illustrations » eve to gather in definite fe with comparisons and con- with useful summaries. Here history of glass making—a | of the art itself, with its wdustry in various | Bohemia, | gland. A trasts, the ition defi urope ance, Spain, flowering in expression £ glass conside suspects. a free exposition— hever academic, never over-weighted —of special character and stamp one brand of old glass and an- her So that, with this book In and, You may come a real happl- ness of adventure to a speaking and even familiar acquaintance with these forms t now greet you with the @loof look of the complete stranger. EHE INEVITABLE MILLIONAIRES By E. Phillips Oppenhelm, authot of “The Passionate Quest ete Boston: Little, Brown & Co. In B, Phillips Oppenheim’s newest yomance you will come upon an H!)»le- date Midas—indeed, upon two of him— & pair of brothers com tted to l}\? pious duty, imposed by parental Jast will and te: ment, of scattering along the highway weral circulation the huge fortu to them. Millions in | this fortu: millions that go right on gncreasing in an almost eerie fecundity, under the circumstances—in % disconcerting a of r’;‘]"'“"“‘:"“:’" young blood could, more kely, ;\‘a\):‘:n:( nobly the strain of this injunc- tion to make away with even so tre- mendous a sum. T e been known to do it. But this is pair, roundabout th ot only inured to w In their personal pow So the matter becomes serious prob- jem to this filial pair, for the money steadily piles up upon itself, no matter What the demands upon it may be. Do they in a whimsical fiing step out to back the thinnest of stage ventures? Promptly that s omes a boisterous ‘and money-lined success. Do they, just in a frolic, get behind some wild-cat business scheme? In no time at all that scheme steps solemnly over in the yanks of high finance—a stable gilt- «?d investment. This is the story— 1% hopeless efforts of these kindly brothers to live up to the intent of a re- spected father. Comedy, throughout. Comedy of the soft-footed sort, its gait what Ben Jonson calls “a fine and easy person sipation. right moment the author introduces ruence without man in the depths can ! tiis a woman again egins to turn the beaten and blind- tow the help that was » come from the shrine of | A love story, a story of - of religion. this will be people, either for one th storfes, Its and acceptance will those who are already 1 and heart toward the spirit working in the conc f this immediate life CLYDE FITCH AND HIS PERS, By Montrose J. Moses and Virginia | Gerson. Tlustrated. Boston: Little, | &« rd of 62 plays of his own m counted. bespeaks for Clyde exciusive absorption in the 1t turns out, nevertheless, that wrote several novels and made some lesser literary ventures apart from the These, by comparison, however. inconsiderable, -and it is, there with drar ation and pro- n that ClI is S0 notably titled. This be atu- wssume that this book calen- ! to the profe to the play and managers ucers who either shared work teh or stood against him. A book reminiscence in which the eraft ha r derived in Aud it is that sort of book, ge folks which no low 10w interest turned in efficacy th A rec ing. Fiteh theater remain charm & aetivity of rare ity for fr call 1o the that every vistons, ndsi pre ssion who rtistic here | 4 fine ds will ething it nature reud like & Valentine Wil “The Man With * wte. ‘Boston: keround of this adventure that particular point in the that approaches and downfall of Robespierre. this backeround the activities voung English spy are threaded n & network of. in- that entangles him, | ul apprehension and | ath, W it for | this the | What | stand n absurd | unbelievable extravaganza, -be- monstrous setting con- ceeptable. A strenuous | to-do, which achieves a | lence in the historie at- | that it creates, and in a handful of revolutionary characters that it projects vividly and in hare | With the authentie accounts of sus body of the sans-culotte. | BOOKS RECEIVED. BACKFURROW York: T t BREW; and Cale Young strongly would otherwise sensational istent and and active exc re zaton. | Putnam’s Son: Other Poems. | Rice, author of “A Pilgri rip,” etc. New York: The Century Co. - ISRAEL POTTER: His 50 Years of Exile By Hern Melville, au- by Dick,” ete. Illus- ank T. Merrill. Bos- Botolph Society. By John Evton, au- pectanc: ete. Ti- Mary Sherwood York: The Century JUNGL] thor of lustrated Wright Co. THE MESSAGES AND PAPERS OF WOODROW WILSON; With Ed- itoral Notes. An introduction by Albert Shaw, and an analytical index. New York: George H. Do- ran WHAT MEN Do. vin Jackson, mentals York TH by New By Wiilliam Mar- author of “Funda- of Business” etc. New : The MacMilllan Company. APAN YEAR BOOK; Complete Cyclopedia of General Information and Statistics on Japan and Japan- ene Territories for the Year 1924- By Y. Takenobu. Eighteenth annual publication. Toylo: The Japan Year Book Office A LUCKY DIP. Tllustrated and Mix- #d by G. E. Studdy, the Bran by George Jellicoe. New .ork: Bren- tano's. LITTLE AUNT EMMIE. Allen. Tllustrated by Frances Brundage. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippineott Co. YORKE THE ADVENTURER;: And Other Stories. By Louis Becke. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Co. THE NDESTRUCTIBLE UNION; Rudiments of Political Sclence for the American Citizen. By Wil. liam McDougall, professor of psychology ' in Harvard College. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. By S. Josephine . P. H, ete. New York: Harper & Bros. WOODROW WILSON: Memorial Ad- dress Delivered Before a Joint Sesxion of the T'wo Houses of Co gresx, December 15, 1924, in Ho; of Woodrow Wilson, Late Pre: dent of the United States. By Dr. Edwin_Anderson Alderman, Presi- dent of the University of Virginia. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co. EDERAL INCOME AND ESTATE TAX LAWS; Correlated and Anno- tated. Being a compilation and An- notated of all Federal Income and Extate Tax Laws Since the Organi- ion of the Federal Government, and a Correlation of Such Laws Since the Sixteenth Amendment. By Walter . Barton, and Carroll W. Browning, members of the Washington, D. C., Bar. Washing- ton: Published by the authors. MELLON OFF.TO BERMUDA. NEW YORK, March 28 —Andrew W. Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury accompanied by his son Paul and three other students from Choate School, Wallingford, Conn., sailed to- day in Royal Mail Packet steamship Araguaya for a week's holiday in Bermuda. “It is the boys' Easter vacation,” said the Secretary, “so I thought I'd take a vacation with them.” By Alice E. pmble” Constant to the outstunding iy of its beroes this is an amiable | fairs of the Treagury Degpartment, 3r. Mellon was reticent about al- [y Bl [t 92 29, 1925—PART PLATOON SCHOOL PLAN SUBJECT OF ADDRESS Miss Rose Phillips of Detroit to Speak Thursday Night in Local Church. THE THE PUBLIC LIBRAR SUNDAY STAR, 3WASHINGTON Lowry, 1. B. What Does Your Child Weigh? QPB-LI5Tw. ce, Mrs. I N, C. Food and Health QN-M1 MeLaughl A.J. D..C Clark, J. B. The tections., 1921, Franz, S, 1 education. i Hart, T. Taking Care of four Heart. QFG-H2 Macfadden, B. A. Constipation. QFD- M162. Morse, M. 5. Bacteriology for Nurses. 2d 'ed. QCG-MS38h Noyes, C. T Home Caré of the Sick. QDY Smith, 8. C Q m6sh now, W.F. The QI'F-Snév Williams, E, e Willis w t |wuood, . €. Cancer Life [Woodcock, H. H, More w MARCH Control of Sex In- Q-C5417. Nervous and Mental Re- QEN-FS$5 Me — Almas Legion of Honor to Hold Affair on Saturday. The second social get-together event of Almas Legion of Honor, in the form ef a dance, will be held urday at the Colonlal Hotel. Capt Miss Rose Phillips, director of | Harry C. Weirich, in charge of the % £ : committee on arrangements, an- Heart? llfl‘,’)"" Behindlap ity Detroit elasore nounces various specialties and music ganizer of 90 platoon schools In that | will be furnished by the Marine Band city during the past few years, wil Jrchestra. speak Thursday night in the audi-| The membership of £ the First C ieis 300, composed of Shri of the First Congregatic seen service in eithe QFCR. [Church at Tenth and G streets, on|States Arm avy « {the “Work-Study-Play or Platoon | according to C J MI-WS5. School™ The 1 ng will be under |the organizatio Light. QFCR- |the auspices of the District of Colum- . i {bia I gue of Women Voters, who caged Miss Philips to come to| THETA DELTA CHI FETE. ashington An invitation . of Recent accessions at the Public Li- brary and lists of recommended read- QH- - ing will appear in this column each |Meanes, 1. L., and Hathaws Sunday Exercises for Health Minott, A, C. 5. How to Be B Health. and Keep Youthful. QH-M666h. an Public Health ociation. | Moore, H. Public Health in Committee on Muni Health . AL-M784D. Department Practice Report. | Morse, J. L. and others QI-Am35 | and Young Child. QPB rong, D. B. Community Health. |Muller, 1. P. The Daily Personal Hygiene. at- the How 1Is Your Th ant | e 18 e Minutes. n v creal Diseases. | SHRINERS PLAN DANCE. | | | rs who have | the United | Marine Corpe. | H. Mims, and | owing | 1, and Hoag, r Complexes. QFN-W67 L. R. Tuberculosis, Our 6o, J. Healthy Children. Q@ Diet for Children. QPE- terinm f 14 for special delivery from Blair, Mrs. M. J. B. Health ; ’ auty for Women. QH-Bo74l A. The Buby's Health. QPB- || and | Pratt K QH- 1887 ton H ilding Rinehart, S Health i Your Mind and You 7 am Have last cleaned, to 9 p.m. th Club. Methe M. The « QH-RAT3, Bat Your Complete QH-R1 Smmonsense season’s dres led dyed a new Spring cc by Carmack rics z . J. W. M, and Turner, ¢, B Personal Hygicne for Nurses., QH- BSSip R Crampton, C. W for Daily Use CSt6ph, Suleoby Currier, A, F. How to Keep Well | Qn.& QH-C834n Sthiviakeb ) Froude, C. C. Right Food. QN-F 5 Gehring, 3. G. The Hope of the riant, QE-G274h, Gillett, T H. Food for Health's Syke QU-GA141 Hammett, ¢ How ‘to Be H1s6 Herma 1 Howard, W. ministratio tory of Dise 17 o of T and Miscellaneous. Way to Health & The to all persons in lor interested in the school stem, to attend the meeting is ex- tended by the league. Miss Phillips, | KT |in addition to her talk, will answer questions from the audience question of indorsement of the EXpectant | yiatoon system has been before the | for a long time, it is said, and te action has been taken, | lack of @ complete understanding of the plan. There fore Miss Phillips was engaged {explain the matter to the league and | from | the public_as well. Merle - - -| " Theta Delta Chi is one est fraternities in tr ing been founded in 1847 mombers in Washington are First As- sistant Postmaster General John Tl Hartlett and Thomas O. Marvin, chair man of the United States Tariff Com Expectant Mothe & of hington ersity was commemorsted by the van Powers was the principal | speaker, and Robert Ash, an alumnus Panama, and Miss E nie L Physical Exercise unnive Theta I W Washington s The 1 at W. Sunlight and Health | S W, jr. Bi-| delicate cessfully here The Public | QI-Schd Young Child’s 1923 Adventures in dry cleaned K Ql ‘ Normundie. , Mother, QW Training . raining | paord, Byron Lundare = . { " Hair and fis Growth, - | Thave WL He srrect Bating | d Athlete. VAT: L & ¢ | R. C. Ma s Respiration. QS-F o 3 rational Corresponden e =10 S Pa. The Pharmacist QM-6InS§, Preparing for Moth- The Do and Swain, F Qx of 4 lowing Health Is Wealth n T. Public H ind the Natural ase of Baltimore, QI-HE&3Tp Kellogg, J. H. The Natural Man. QN-K284na Liederman, E. E. He L62h alth of the ou old itry, hay Among the - Medicine and J et R Md Thompsen teriais | QZA- Chi6p. | Webe 3 - Fundamentals | izing QX- | Wilsor Hair Dresser. Dict of | First Hospital Kathryn. QX WS, A B2 Steps in Organ- 1120 Que-n St. N.F or. Q 3243 M D. Man- | Successful [ | F s Health, QH- | . Qu- 1 | Carnzadk | | § DrRY CLEANING Co. el le——— [ [—a i a8 [—— s [—— [0 e [0 e [n]——n] U U o, 316 7th I.Cunningham Co E B | ————]a|c—] Cunningham’s Easter Sales Begin Monday! COATS~-SUITS-DRESSES A tremendous assortment of smart, good-looking Women’s and Misses’ Wearing Apparel, specially priced for this great merchandising event. 26384 Right on the Eve of the Great Easter Shopping Movement, when tens of thousands of Washington Women are ready to purchase Spring Apparel, we are opening to the public one of the best buying opportunities on record. It follows out our determination to be leaders and present the very newest fashions at the lowest possible prices. The First Group DRESSES AT $28— These alone would make a wonderiul sale. Printed or plain silk crepes, Elizabeth crepe, georgette, fine flannels and sport silks. We shall include many beautiful ensemble models of silks and other smart materials. COATS AT $28— Tailored of fine sport fabrics, as well as soft suedes, Poiret ills and flannels. Most have fur bottoms. New high shades, chili, waffle, gingersnap, also navy and black. All are silk or satin lined. All sizes. SUITS AT $28— Short and long tailored models and the very smart short box coat effects which are enjoying popularity. Plain tailored and embroidered types. Powder blue, chili, navy and black. These are exceptional values at $28. The Second Group SUITS AT $38— Charming ensemble models oi lorsheen, kasha, English .tweeds, silk faille, amber, crabapple, sand, chili, powder blue, navy and black. Dresses of figured crepe, printed silk or flat crepe. All sizes, but not in every style. 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DRESSES AT $48— Many are replicas of exclusive models. French crepe. flat crepe, crepe romaine, georgette. Many lace chiffon and painted chiffon frocks for afternoons and evenings. High shadcs are in the majority. Our great apparel organization—in co-operation with other out-of-town stores—has exerted itself to the utmost to secure maximum values for this event. It will be one of the most important sellings of the Easter season. m=—— R eI o l——alal = lal —— o] c——— o ——ao|——=alal——=]al——x}a Hl N | | | | Ll m £ | | | | [i m fl W ] Q