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16 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, SEPTEMBER 27, 1925—PART 3. v ] REVIEWS OF NEW BOOKS LR e Ul S LI ST RS s S N RS e SO THE PUBLIC LIBRARY | i seioois: Sovicess: = ::: oor L o7 ond Measur- SPANISH WAR VETERANS e N AT et Knight, C. S. Both Sides of Evolu.|Erickson, H. T. The Slide Rule. tion.” MW.K744. LEB-Er43. Recent accessions at the Public Li- o Fisher, G. E., and Schwatt, I. J. Com- Le Corbeau, Adrien. The Forest Gi- At the last meeting of Richard J. brary and lists of recommended read-| ant. NX- R T e L LIS e e W. Di . 3 . George W. Dreyer, i vl Co Macdougal, D. T. Growth in_Tr ng will appear in this column each | Mactousty, B T Growth in Joress Goft, R R, Second Book In Algebra. | Troop K, 3rd United States Cavalry, EXPERT TO TRY TO SAVE Meetings for the coming week: Rich- ard J. Harden Camp, Thursday. P S BY IDA GILBERT MYERS. | supported by an upstanding pair of |SPINDRIFT. By Harold Titus, author . CRUEL FELLOWSHIP. By Cyril | YOUng folks whose interests and pre- | of ““Timber,” etc. New York: Dou. | SUm42- NX-M146ga was mustered 1 Hume, author of “\Wite of the |occupations are not entirely made up | bleday, Page & Co. Science. AT e e ssns il e uras i Klgeora TD'5on " | ander J. S S WASHINGTON’S TREE D g c SRR o 3 esires. s sin &2 4 n. V- 3 e 2 2 s - Centuur.” New York: George H. o1l o Tefreshment to novel read. pPursuit of his own lost memory and Natural Sciences. Morgan, 3.3 M. e. Prehistoric Man. Karpinakd, 1. ; History of Arithme. | teers, was elocted to membership. . Tho novota e e e ot I of the man for whose crime PWA-MSZ.E. - LC-KI147. urnside Post extend: Last A novel does well that fills its hour | embarrassed and apologetic with- | e himself suffered prison sentence is | Beebe C. W. Galapagos, World's End. | Murphy, R. C. Birds Islands of Peru. Osborne, G. A. Examples of Differen- | of the camp to ai'e‘nfi"n“'éeif’lvo'éiffi,l? P L Wetk on e N and goes on its way. Not one In a |drawals from the presence of over- | the linie along which this story runs. M999-E39g. M998-M95, = tial Equations. 1889. LGD-Os 1. meeting, which was accepted. The Horse Chestnuts Planted by thousand does even' this. But what | arden and uncontrolied jovers. Some. | 1S setting is a remote fishing hamlet | Bliss, G. 5. Weather Forecasting. 1921, [ Natlonal Geographic Soclety, Wash- | Se¥ymopr, M. . Plane Geometry. | entertainment committes is planning First President. a surpise shortly after national en- on Lake Superior. Its atmosphere is MH-B614. ington, D. about the novel that not only flls | thing urgent to do is for lovers, as The Book of Wild its own hour but stays by many of [for the rest of the world, the best of | that of hardship—the stormy lake, the | Brown. W. H. Textbook of General| Flowers. NR:N216. e e aiot of Algebea dnto campment. By the Amcciisd Erees e e o g by D B e e e o et hotnys | arduous life of the fiaherman, the bit. | Botany. N:BSis O'Toole, G. B. The Case Against Evo- Smu;l“e"“{i““csch;’,‘:f:m;?'%E‘sg;_mme P FREDERICKSBURG, Va., Septem.- G W G v e following left Friday for na-|ber 26.—Martin Davey, fam y 26.—) y, famous trea the | terness of elusion and defeat. The|Burke, E. J. Lectures in Biology, Bot- lution. MW-Ot6. Baunting reminders of the awiul lone. |of Satan. —Immediately around S U posi g - Parier The Ea: Geometry. LE-Smé8p. i iness and helplessness and futility of | two, ciding the e -e | Story opens In a dramatic moment—| SHL g Perrier, Edmond. =The efore A 4 5 tional S e e A ;i;‘*bLh‘ medium of FOMANCe | the escape of a prison “trusty,” With | Califf, ~ Gladston Permanent Bird | History. MW-P427e thiBefore |itofieii i e, Tha fSlotes Arithmetio: | Baat Com i ader taChis 1 o comk | eickeon and)congressman fromsOhlos il el e = prodip the hubbub of pursuit that follows it. PE-C125p. Schuchert, Charles. Outlines of His- | .. Advanced. LC-St73za. Holin ann wifa; Bast: Comunasse. 1o)| (ol Ao Bhos oo oas ety FrherTent, ot ghout it hat flel What you Say. [entpetec i spanied Somnd s I & ey i A Guide to the Trees. | torical Geology. MC-SchTs. Thompson, . P. ‘Caiculis Made Fasy. | Chiet ‘John Lewis Smith, i Rl ficraa Srisat ns e aatoen tan i e a b i T e o e e of man as a hunted thing, i e 0 T oot 6. GO Slence of Blotory. |y 32 LETIE 1 T oy | Homer o bendions W Siout Dept | Georke Washington piantea hers 1 mmuat beldone o S P alcalivnioerin i Birds of Wash-! " MV-Scos. ; E. L. New X “omdr. C. Belknap, Past Department | represent the 13 original e ting ar And the easement | 2 Vols. 1909. Ref. Sharp, D. L. The Spirit of the Hive. | o i1 Atithmetlc. LC.Ta%n. = | Comdrs. Willlam Mattocks and Arthur Pt i e e oke o OY-Sh27s. . M. Animals of the Smith, G. E. The Evolution of Man. MZ-D913. MW-Smé7e. Dbody has héen v all | 1s the diminishing and prot about vouth’s bewilderment and its|tocracy, gradually letting down their yearnings—half dream and half dis- | immemorial class prejudices for the League, Senlor Vice Comdr. A. Nolan | its great age and the inroads of the and wife, Cayatheno De Quesada, | chestnut blight, is located on the prop- Cuban consul; A. J. Kimmel, wife and | erty of John F. Scott, which was for- r afety in the lake| hamlet is never complete. There is always the fear of discovery. There Is Modern Algebra. LD-W467mc. Wentworth, G. A. Elements of Geom- etry. 1887. LED-W48T7e. torted pictures of the things around |admission of industry and its emolu- : 3 S 1 t | 3 y and SinGve thelBtint ysia o . C. L.and M. A. The Stratig- | Snodgrass. R. E. Anatomy and Phys. a L WAL s him. K of course he can help. | ments. This is the situation: At the | #1Wa3 ard that lost| S0 ©o o 4 e y aughter; William E. Rink and wife, | merly a portion of the Ki - ity & g % - 0 v AR E fackber iology of the Honey Bee. OY-Sn53 . - S % S 4 y & portion e Kenmore es- ) fiben he stops. a® troubled gnd con.|Hesd Watling's is the modern busi. | Moment w h:n the murder was com Sthes o ”‘A‘_‘ 3 2 Pl he F ) - | Physics, Ch J. A. Chisholm and wife, G. Willlams | tate, the home of Betty Washl: fused as youth itself. For he desa't|ness glant. It is his daughter, charm. | Mitted—by some one. So f:?e(:.:":-i‘:‘ R pper Devonian. | Sullivan, J. W. N. Aspects of Sclence. ysics, Chemistry and Astronomy. | und wite, J. E. Wilson, William Ohm, | Lewls, sister of George \x‘umn’g‘;: goes on, with panic alway bow of this escaped prisoner. Plain of work and a little love story 3 Bragg, Sir W. H. Concerning the Na- | John Barber, Leo Devlin, Joh X v - : . . & the Na. : evlin, John Ford | It has been viewed lenderson, Juniu; Our Weather. MH-T| ture of Things. LH-B734, and wite, George C. Cook ‘and wife, J. | visitors during. the e aor o Relation to Landscape. MN-H38g. 1460. Holman, R. M., and Robbins, W. W.| Townsend, C. S e D S LT know how to help. Noboudy does.|ing and intelligent, trying to be ap Geology in Its | Talman, C There is no help. Then he goes all{son to her disappointed father, who vey, J. Glascoe and | than a century. over it again, milling round = ound | stands as the lady of this romance. . 1 « in wishes that have no beginning and | 1ts hero 18 a son of the landed leisure | PTovile the less strenuous, the more| A Textbook of General Botany s | o e IEE o perinenta iR s (Ca N SR Ioite Wil Swyne, W. McKenzle, | Congressman Davey has made a no end. class, cf ver into trade, first t - 2 » e tale. N-H? & 2 A . . 3 lery, John oyn Wi p S Gind Eoe iife) i | class, come over nto e then (o Hard to keep a theme like this clear | Sl AT Uil Statos Westhor Buried, Giova | Kentall Jamse, Infecmsaiste) Ghams | OTNCHI (T Deralin: b AT e it | n s, oA ot thettres arlt® Claude Fishers ilfe that we|make a man of himselt and then (0} of melodrama. And maybe this one| 1951 MVXIissscc . Of the Race.| Forms According to the Interna-| istry Companion. LO-K3361 G Pt O Wood. (G ICaIins VY. | dectabe ths et oty e I e I & iy thine s :;‘ not altogether clear. But it is, all Huds;:,', \:“,‘f “]‘m"f,_ Vntibing: ik l‘lio}r(mlv System of Classification. | Mallik, D. N. ‘The Elements "ot As- | Thorne and wife. William O'Brien ’fli’ifif“mflh‘?.‘ffv’&’f e?(;er:ul:m;::gm:f eyt | e e e toupen ot | the same.'s robuat and lusty action| " est’ Reifish “Binds. 150 o | o lLOLE, 5 elionomy. 1921, LRAMZ05e. Shuster, W. Bundy, J. Orken, L. C.|of restoring the tree is esttmated st the Jonguil Club while South tells| dustry. The giving way of worn-out | Whgh [ ¢ polnts does not go be-| 1IG3r. Watson, E. L. G._Moods of Earth and | Meyer, Martin. Fiest Problems in Nelson, O. E. Kilstrom and ladies, W. | about $400. this \writing man the story of Fisher— | class prejudices before a triumphant | YOS the Poss Idtekfl of the human in | Huntington, Ellsworth. The Charac- Sky. MY-W334m. emistry. -MET8f. W. Price and ladies, Dr. J. Miller, F. i Fisher himself coming and going once | reality. And to each of these inter-| WA¥S That ure davi, mor beyond the ter of Races as Influenced by Phys- E — Huhn_and Helen Wells, before the story took its start. A | woven elements this author gives its of fate in the ways of strange| ical Environment. PY-H Mathematics. i retnahats - Miss Edna Holloway, Miss Katharine| New Zealand's epidemic of infantilc quiet thinz- just four of us siiting | proportionate part in the story, deal- Baler: Dhom: e e Tiea Ao s are vogue in Lon-|Teague, Mrs. James Burns, Mrs. Irene | paralysis, which claimed many vic there while South in his even way lets | ing with each also in a clear appre- Department’ Pr tims, the life of Fisher drift over us and| clation of its value as both drama und & 2 { o ster o COA L LA L LB o > o . o settle upon us. A true story—no| pleture in the setting out of character Ay P L N N> Nl Noals Noal> Nosll> o) > D oS SNl W ° . : - . a sl ) ® oS Y ) v Nl v G D CNf® OWn doubt alout it. True, at least, in the | itself. Old Watling himself is worth AR AR LR IR PR S AR LB, ® ® ) S a8 s S, | a LN RN AN NI AN PR LR PR AR W AR SR N B 2 2 A sense that there are innumerable| knowing. So is the lady mother of Fishers who are being downed In the| the vouth. The whole is an intelli- ’ unut ble loneliness of being alive| gent and sincere plece of artisi cal-| | in a densel sled world. Under- | culated to give pleasure to readers and, this story never once le:\\'e&s\\‘hu are looking for a really good It is his ste The | novel effect upon one lles in| CHOICE. By Charles Guernon, author sed and exclusive attention| of “Eyes of Youth.” Philadelphia t nd man himself. | J. B. Lippincott Co. ekt ymechanion Ve tallc of destiny, of fate. vet ot d o oSt an B | that which we look upon as a master- A e g concere, Intelllgent | ful destiny is of no other stuff than | kA ’ ough the|ihe gecisions that we made last week, | of one vouth's life., vecrerday, this morning, upon mat- WOUNDS. By Frederick | ters of no great moment at the time. | Palmer. author of “The Vagabond.” | Such is the line of projection that this | etc. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.|romance takes. The unconsidered act Frederick Palmer believes that there | of a boy and a girl. Then the sequence are hurts to the spirit, lacerations of | Of time and far places and unforeseen the soul—*"‘invisible wounds'—for | events. Then suffering, and tragedy, edicament save | and near defeat. Finally, the saving that of love itself. Upon this bellef— | spark of the will to overcome. With- or upon this theme—he has based a |in this big outline is a dramatic ro- ance of depth and unusual beauty. | mance by way of which a stricken In its full course the story s backed | girl refuses to be overcome and there- by the great war itself, taking from | by herself overcomes. The story is the forced and unnatural charac- | rich in place, moving from one inter- teristics of that event situations and | esting point to another—France, Italy, incidents t contribute to the | England. It is substantial in its char- romance its most tense moments, its | acters, who are lifelike men and highest points of suspense. Since | women, interesting ones as well. Pos- Hecht Co. Sale of 2,000 English Broadcloth Shirts B.W.M. Sales Monday—At The to_the boy " ch there is no % Nhe? (9 -\ - ""l % ™ L o love give healing to stricken | souls, it must be love raised to the nth degree of purity and strength. | And it is such a love that Mr. Palmer here seeks to portray The story, sibly, at the end there Is too strong a suggestion of special providence, but if this be true, it is overbalanced by | g the really fine note of courage—plain. | everyday, usable courage—upon which therefore, moves on a high level of | the story ends. And its theme, that purpose, though it deals in inflm:\le‘“f _the stupendous significance of | fashion with the groundwork of war | choice, decision, is one to whose prime itself. The early part of this romance | importance the author E|l‘ s compe- is of idyliic quality—picturing the life of a sheltered girl who, with her learned father, lives, his companion E|NDS HOW INSECTS ‘. and friend, in seclusion. It is this girl o Tater becomes. the center of | CAN SLEEP ALL WINTER terest in a world shattered by war | and filled with its horrors. Clean-cut — | pictures stand out here as the reul|Russian Scientist Discovers Tem- body of war itself, as the real body < of personal sacrifice and personal| Perature Drops Directly With capacity to endure and still not to give over. A swift story of incident Aetivity. linked to incident in cumulative inter- | Covespondence of the Associated Press. est brings together here a rich con.| MOSCOW, August 28—The Russian fent.of charcter and incident woven |scientist M. Bachmetjew has deter- Into an even and substantial fabric of | mined that the temperature of insects romance. Strengh is the outstanding | increases in direct proportion to their quality here and beauty. The two in-| activity. separable | Butterfiies, he claims, furnished THE SMITHS. By Janet A. 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Washington’s Fastest Growing Department Store - $2.00 wherever books are sold finding in nature—in bird or flower, or of behavior or appearance that seems - to link up all life with the life of man 1r‘ three gears this kind I remember yet my sur prise and delight when the blackbirds by the author of to moak, walking up and down mean- while like an expert cook waliting for COMES the finishing second of perfec- {ion. 1t seemed uncanny to me that their wisdom was much like mine. A e 3 hundred ve made me cautious of claim for the great animal, ma It is things of thig kind, much stranger things, too, unpretentious adventure—just walk- Ing out here and there, in the woods, by the lake, through the meadows. P SE But astonishment is at every hand. Won't Belleve'—that the wonderment lies right at hand, if you but look. A'S-M- s not so much some- fhing to read as it Is something to do. HUTCHINSON And such a fine and clean and whole- leasures that no other kind of pleas- ure can surpass. Every page of this that lies in an intimate peaceable friendship with all out of doors. Vachell, author of “Fellow Travel- ers,” etc. New York: Frederick A. LITTLE . BROWN 8 CO. rokes Co, Publishers. Boston Y creeping thing—some strange habit (J]he first nOVCl himself. Among a hundred joys of in the park carried thelr breaderusts to the water bowl and put them In it lF WINTER just Alar experlences that we tome upon in these outfarings with Gene Stratton-Porter. A most And this is the value of “Tales You That this dlary some doing it is, besides, coupled with book bears evidence of the happiness | WATLING’S. By Horace Annesley A clear romance—one, too, 5o well founded and sustained as to stand distinctly clear of the rabble of cur- pent novels. The love story itself is 4