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REVIEWS OF THE NEW BOOKS Novels From Several Well Known Writers—The History of a Railroad and a Volume Concerned With the Question of Civilization. IDA GILBERT MYERS. WALLS OF GLASS. By Larry Bar- author of “A Conqueror Passes,” etc. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. OTHER love in its depth and enduring provides surpass- ing theme for moralist and poet alike. Maternal affec- tion, regardless of the qual- ity of the offspring—indeed, in direct ratio to its worthlessness—is uni- wgepally held up &s the crowning glory +f womanhood, the redeeming hope of the world itself. Bvery sacrifice that & mother makes for her children adds to her worth. Does she: slave for them? She should. That is being & mother. Does she dery herself every comfort that they may be supplied? 8he should. What can & mother want be- side her children? Do they go wrong? Never mind, mother, it is up to you to make them go right. The more she endures for her children the better does she stand in the opinion of her neighbors and friends. “A mood mother!” Larry Barretto in “Walls of Glass™ has created a mother who deserves— well, suppose you decide about that. If you haven't read the story you would better do so. 1'm not going to tell it, except in a most general way to let you know that here is a mother who was left suddenly with a very young son, just little more than a baby. Of course, he was to be the reat doctor that his young father had oped to be. There was no money— only little Joel and his mother. Just us she would do in & small town the mother tried to get a living by making Jams and jellies. You know how that would turn out after the first village flair of sympathy and patronage. Then she tried—well, she tried every- thing that the little place offered as suggestion and false hope. Then, finally, she did hit upon a plan that promised the littie Joel just what every good mother should seek to se- cure for the advantage of her child. Time went on—20 years of time, Joel had been sent away to school, end kept away. He had had pretty good advantages and seemed in a fair way to follow and outstrip the am- bitious young father whe had died. Yivery dollar that the mother could get, every present that came her way, overy half-inch of advantage that she could gather in—all of these went to the training of Joel. What a good mother! A beautiful one, too. A 1ady of qulet manners and composed bearing. Twenty vears of this, just about. Then—nobody else so quick to repudiate his mother as Joel himself. No others 8o prompt to deal her out 20 years of contempt and ostracism as those home-town advocates of mothers who looked after their children. You read this story to find out for your- selves what was the matter with Sophy Deming, Joel's mother. In all THE SUNDAY itown. Yonder is the man of substance, | the conspicuous good citizen, over. there the perennial climber and on that side the bevy of busy gossips. Now all of these whip into intense activity over the prospect of some business project that will boom the town. In Carthage it is a great dam for holding the water of the Mississippi and turning it into electric power. Prospectors and promoters and experts swarm into the place. Native ambitions soar and native activities grow in variety and scope. | Against this background, nowadays such a wide-spread background, Mr. to every the business of making his romance of “The Old Home Town.” A sturdy story of town booming follows, a laughable matter of human nature behaving and misbehaving itself, a plausible and engaging love story. The whole takes its place with that stripe of realistic fiction which stands as a good reflection of the historic development of the country at a crucial point in that development. Some time ago one learned that this novelist never makes up things as he goes along and never writes about trivial and inconsiderable matters. The theme is always a big one. Its projection rests upon a full seizure of the facts in their prime implica- tions. Upon such foundation the artist bullds firmly and interestingly this or that important phase of modern American life. */ 0w SECRET HARBOR. By Stewart Ed- ward White, author of “The Glory Hole,” etc. New York: Double- day, Page & Co. ¥ the thing hadn't happened that did happen this would have been either no story at all, or one about a man with more money than it is good for any one to have. A dull recital, such, for the self-coddling of over- rich 'young men offers little variety and no interest in either the speclal ways of amusing themselves or in the preordained outcome of such a course. But, this is another sort of story, for, suddenly, the man comes to life. In- stead of satling round and round the world in a beautiful yacht, as he had already done more than once, he, under the impulse of something real to do heads his craft northward and into a hidden harbor, where the real business of this adventure begins and ends. It is, in substance, the romance of a mine whose owner, a woman, ig- norant of its value, gave it up and went back to her home when the young husband was killed by a ruin- ous cave-in. The adventure is that of rescuing the mine, first from the hands of a band of sharpers who had dis- covered it, and next to such produc- s modern treatment might se- . The first cause of this expedi- tion is a man with a double purpose in mind. He wants to set this kins- A corollary of this thought is that the individual household itself is, by and large, in a bad way. The novel in hand projects one of these disor- ganized homes. The father sub- merged in business, the mother busy with her own ambitions and flercely Jealous besides. The children, two of them, going their separate ways to- ward disaster. To make every phase of the situation worse there is no lack of money. The story hinges on the enmity of the wife toward a young woman, and opens out through the evil that can be wrought against in- nocence with nothing more than a mance. Probably there could not be, since the obvious aim here is to plc- ture the dangers that lle in the pres. ent free status of the children, the present absorption of fathers in busi- ness, the present futllity of many rich and ambitious women. The romance gets a specially wierd cast from its placement on the Pacific Coast where racial complications are lkely arise, or where racial strains can be ¢ome matters of suspicion and cons quent scandal. A pretty sordid pic- ture, with only one ray of real light In it—but, if it be a warning, why dress it up like a benediction? BOOKS RECEIVED THE WHITE GOD'S WAY. By Stan- ley Shaw, author of ‘‘Hearts Afire,” etc. Newark: Barse & Hopkins. DREAD DWELLING. By Richmal Crompton. New York: Bonl & Liveright. THE TRIUMPHANT RIDER. Frances Harrod. New Boni & Liveright. LEIF THE LUCKY; a Romantic Saga of the Sons of Erlk the Red. By Clara_Sharpe Hough. New York: The Century Co. YOU'RE ON THE AIR. By Graham McNamee. In Collaboration with Robert Gérdon Anderson. With a preface by Heywood Broun. New York: Harper & Bros. THE ROAD TO ETERNAL LIFE; The Way That Leads to the All Power in Individual Being. By James Hooker, author of ‘“The Road to Universal Peace.” Indian- apolls: The Peace Publishing Co. HOW INSECTS LIVE; An Element- ary Entomology. By Walter Hous- ley Wellhouse, M. A., Ph. D., ete. New York: The Macmillan Com- pany . 8. A Second Study in Democracy. By H. E. Buchholz. Baltimote: Warwick & York, Inc. THIS SPOKESMAN'S SECRETARY; leing the Letters of Mame to H By York: STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C. SEPTEMBER 1 AROUND THE CITY BY NANNIE LANCASTER. dad the tinie he was sued for a busi: ness that would have robbed him of his last cent. But—funny! It I could only get a snap of him!" he two other young gentlemen must have pictured, each according to hik individual imagination, the humor- ous effect of a disreputable picture on | the nerves of a sensitive sinner after he was sober again, for the chuckles broadened into guffaws. 1t didn’t seem to occtir to any of them that the oldish gentleman who had given his influence to the boy and saved his father in a legal decision vas entitled to respect. The sight was Just something to laugh at. So they laughed. ‘They meant no real harm, of course. {fe:v of us do, take us by and large, hut— While it may be true that the mil- lennium is coming it's a right smart distance down the road. . accom- k% % A WASHINGTON woman, panied by a friend from New Eng- land, has been having a Summer hike through the Far Northwest. It isover now, and the local traveler {s home with a sheaf of experiences—with this small one for illustration: ‘The woman from Vermont is a dear lover of nature, and after a day's ac- tivities would hunt around for a porch to enjoy the twilight and watch the stars come out. She said it rested her soul and gave her beautiful visfons of scenes not down on the map. The Washington woman likes porches, also, when there are no mosquitoes, but anyhow— . When the two reached Montana, they stopped, for one place, at a town that you might call a gateway to the Yellowstone Park, only, of course, it really isn't, belng miles away, and so chilly for the first two nights that a porch reverie would have called for fur coats. The third evening was an admitted ‘“cool wave,” and the land- lord, with a show of local pride, men- tioned the possibflity of snow. The New England woman, surprised at a climate that could carry on like that in late August, and disappointed at not being able to enjoy her evening w‘l’th the stars, asked the man: ‘Don’t you ever have evenings warm enough to sit on the front porch?"” And the astonished landlord eja lated: i ““What are houses for?" * ok ok ow Hmu is a small something that may account for some of the stolen cars you read about in the papers: A clerk In the Government service bought a car, latest edition, at so much down and so much a month untl paid for. As he was known to be of the “good-fellow” type that has to borrow before every pay day, his fellow clerks were nhturally aston- ished, but hoped that the new respon sibility would make him meet his ob- | ligations on time. And it looked as if the miracle had happened, for the purchaser kept his sedan in beautiful order and drove it to office every day to save carfare. One morning, for a change, he came to work in a street car, and in answer to curious inqui stated that his car had while he was at dinner. N that last stormy day when the raln seemed to be com- ing down from the North Pole, a pessimistic woman packed away her Summer clothes and hung her fur-collared voat on the line to take away the odor of moth balls. The next day she had to get out some- thing thin to wear {o market. While she was waiting to be served, she started up a chat with an- other customer and, naturally, the subjet was the weather: “Haven't w e heen having a lot of rain? Yester- day was 8o stormy and cold, I thought the Summer must be over, and today is like an oven. Something must have gone wrong with the earth, and no wonder, after all the earthquakes and hurricanes we've been having. Even the papers don't know what to make other customer obviously lacked faith In the press: ‘“Papers— huh! T get my facts from the Bible. The world's coming to an end, that's what.” “Oh, I think you must be mistaken, if you will excuse me for saying so The interruption came from an old man who had been buying cereal in a box. “To my certain knowledge, the world has been threatened with n sudden end by forty.eleven prophets who got it from Scripture. When my father was a young man—that's been a long time ago—the folks in. his sec- tion got up a May festival on the grounds of the church to raise money for the pastor's salary. After the congregation had worked all the day before fixing up booths and swings, and baking and roasting and making cakes and lemonade for next day's opening, the &now fell that night and spoiledeverything. “So, the congregation, being of a plous turn, took it as a sign that the pastor didn’t need his salary that year—nty great-aunt proved it by the Bible. To my mind, the extra rains and earthquakes and general weather upsets don’t mean anything more than one of Mother Nature's little tantrums. Everything always comes out right in the long run.” It seemed a comfortable doctrine, and the pessimistic woman was will- ing to let it go at that, but the prophet-customer knew better. The world was coming to an end—she was telling_the store man about it as it came her turn to be waited on for sugar. “Yes, sir, you see if it doesn’t turn out as I tell you!” And the man smiled pleasantly as he tled a string around the hag “Wouldn't he surprised, Ma'am—16 cents—anything more?” ¥ ok kK WO oldish gentlemen came out of an imposing hotel, arm in arm. cu- 2, 1926—PART 2. Democratic Women Celebrate Victory at th e Polls—Mrs. Ding- ley. Acting Head of Pen Women, Speaks at Unveiling. Home Economics Association Notes. BY CORINNE FRAZIER. l;.m\gu CELEBRATION of special in- | just oA Tetest to those clubwomen who | Vi where she participated in the are striving through their na- | unveiling of a big bowlder commen: tional groups to improve con. | ruting a Revelutionary hero who I ditifns at the polls was held | hnd scant recognition for the tre- vic red his in San Antonto. Tex. the past week, | mendous service he rendered bers of a Vi : o dom nt wom- | country in its struggle for free A T | At Cuckoo, a spot between Rich- J e gathered at a luncheon g o ‘1—5)?:’1‘3:2“::\1:-"111:‘ signal success of | mond and Staunton, where the Cuckoo thelr - volunteer service campaign in | Tavern once stood. so named becaus which they had “‘met the political sit- | its first owner was supposed to hav uation and conquered it | imported the firet cuckoo clock into The Texas women's citizens' com- | America, a group of patriotic citizeny mittee for Dan Moody as governor re- | headed by Charlottesville ¢ hapter of | iewed at this luncheon the high lights | the Daughters of the American Revo- of the significant bit of work done in- | lution, of which Mrs. Joel M. Cochran | ‘onspicuously by them at the recent | is the founder. dedicated « boulder gubernatorial election—work which, in | fittingly inscribed to_the memory of the opinion of many, may have far-|Jack Jouette, the l17-year-old youth reaching results. In their enthusiastic | who rode a race with death equally response to the call from their leader, |as courageous as the one which made Mrs. Jane Y. McCallum, was evidenced | Paul Revere famous, though not so the earnest determination with which | handsomely recognized. the women of the country are work- | According to the story recounted by ing toward honest elections, with |speakers at the memorial ceremony, proper protection for the polls—a de- [ young Jouette was employed at the termination which is back of the many | Cuckoo Tavern during the Revolution- campaigns for “bigger and better elec- | ary War, and his roadhouse was the tion returns,” now holding first place | scene of many meetings of officers on their way to and from the battleflelds. on the programs of prominent wom- One day some British soldlers on n en's organizatiohs. confidential mission from Cornwallis Mrs. McCallum, who is a writer of some note in Texas and a well Known | ¢iopped there and during the course of their dinner became a bit careless clubwoman, together with her com- mitteo Taid aside porsonal affairs and [ {1 theil Femarks, paying no heed to organized a State-wide “poll protection | ¢ho youngster who attended their crusade.” which is said to have Te-| oo "Byt the boy, apparently un- concerned, was all ears. He learned sulted n a much more accurate ac- sounting than usual and a much larger | £OMCCTRel: PO T tlon that, thelr im- mediate commander had been ordered volume of returns. o This group of women, entirely With 1o steal upon Charlottesville, where a out remuncration, devoted thelr U0 | jogisiative meeting was belng held in during the election period to the bUblC | secret, attended by Richard Henry ness ‘of acting as guardians of W | 1ee patrick Henry, Thomas Jeffer- ROl g o bailots, inacou: [son and other prominent leaders. s ariti Ml handltapestoa | SUDBIREE{nwATC Inchescyed, (H R U O vile: war o nhi | younE Amerfoats motntel (his 1ofse DOTULAE O o ation e | and odesliEaitHe winiilo ward bis Hon ‘on the part of the women, who | compatriots of thelr danger. He was i 2 Tt | forced o a 50 ) actually stood by and s O te cast, | throush the forests-in order to avold thus guaranteeing that the rl‘:ul( %f ?:;o;#;,.'“ ‘1:1““{“;l:v:):g(::lfl;::::i“;k reach- the election would represent the wi i < d s e eesalui i “the 4 ) prablem ng which dispersed the sessio) PO e tho _chairmen ot | redcoats to discover that their “hirds Bflnfl\r:)l‘lfll districts in Texas who at- | had flown" “'h('h‘ [he)'”' ade thelr way tended the luncheon in San Antorilo | leisurely to the ll"flt.. PRSI indicated unanimously at least one For this signal service Jack Je¢ va o eriiwila. Tesult of the work done | eventually wnx mwarded a brace bf | y Ve 's ¢ ittee. In speak- | pistols, a sword and he thanks of e | ',::fimn",,‘i“ their distr the com- | was not featured ml.\mvflvun hm]. s | % 1 “land it was not until a group of club {ttee chairmen emphas! ed the un 1 5 : L . :::mfll\' heavy primary, attributed, at [ women fl“l“ .(ht |k|.‘ .\,”L‘. g ,!|‘¢.‘,:‘,::.r‘ Jeast in part, to the vigilunce of the | I 1‘r‘x{1t ‘:‘[t‘h;;a' u.(:‘; to the splendor | v i ¢ role of guardians. of 8 4 ) v # \\“"".“” ”‘l “‘:‘:.n""‘l"“;:‘f::‘:‘“m‘"l““:\‘ recognize him hy fitting Iflf‘]!ll‘ll‘l e Mrs, Dingley, in her address, likened his exploit to e of American Pen Women, has returned from Charlottesville, Democratic headquarters here in s Hier aireh HIKered rashington are that the success of | B €2 _ o o‘:u,:‘ ‘t‘::mlmls:n inaugurated by the | Bevere. mul‘in the \,l- uw(hv”i!:.'._;)ll l‘“ women of the it Southwestern | #nd of the l"'lu Alfsechgielt e State will have even more powerful H;«ll ‘l‘ u“\ on m)‘ A Influence than its own promotors il T piacing (e eesativ 0 ‘et realize is propheste . wi have vet realized. Tt is DrOPREHEL | one iutriot to his compatriot. Jack i arantee the which seene ¢ St Rive fairy was trip over the love ing to Mrs the Paragus moonlight, was liness in 1 part that the s ove gt was pretty bumpy approaching the centr: Brazil, Mrs. Seton states covered 0 miles in 10 A narrow gauge, thrown down thro the forest, and 1 traveling! Mrs. Seton expects to return his country about October 1, it w earned at headquarters yesterda R k% EMBERS of the program mittee of the American Home Feonomies Association held a meet ing in the Mills Building of this city Thursday for the purpose of dis cussing preliminary plans for an nual meeting of the organization which is to be held in Asheviie, N C next June. Mre. Jane McKinmon, home dem onstration leader for North Carelina who is chairman of local armnge ments. and Miss Blanche Shaffer dean of heme economics North t 1 co Carolina College for Women, who i« local program chatrman, met hers with the officers of the assoctation who serve on the committee, includ Lita Bane, president: Mise wards, executive secretary s Helen Atwater, editor of the Journal of Home Fconomics. Miss Keturah Baldwin, business manager of the journal, came over from Baltimore to attend the confer ence of the program committee. Miss Anna Richkardson, fleld worl er in child care and parental edu tion, arrived in ° Washington week to begin her work under a car grant from the Laurn Spelima; Rockefeller Memorial. 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That was where a helpless and dying man sald, “You've been a damn fine woman, Sophy.” Traglc Sophy Deming! Who wouldn't like to write such a story as Larry Barretto has written here? Such understanding of a situation that might go easlly exist outside of a hook. Such restraint that with of | balloting conditions 2 significant shange will be noted in the quality e eiiates who will tand for of- fice in the Lone Star State. Demo- cratic leader that the example set by the governor- elect will encourage oth andidates of his caliber to enter the field. It i conceded to be a victory of the Jouett Edward 8. Jouctte and general com and Nashville rect descendant of lowed Mrs. Dingley in which he expressed the deep grati- | tude of his family to the patriotic women who had so” honored his ances tor. Mon. By Upton Sinclair, Pasa- dena: Published by the Author. SUMMER BACHELORS. By Warner Fablan, author of “Flaming Youth.” New York: Boni & Live- right. SE(Y AND THE YOUNG. man of his on & more manly way than that of mere diversion and, besides, he wants to restgye to the mine owner that which belongs to her. The au- thor uses this substantial material to excellent advantage, to the end that a really exciting and plausible matter opens out to the reader. A point, minor in the development of this par- ticular romance, but very generally vertised, and—that was mbout all he had to say. But there are I\\'(n“!( opinions floating around, and the owner of one voiced the experlence of a brother who clerked in an automo- bile concern, 3 “Nobody stole his car. Te didn't keep up his payments, and the shop | took it away from him. Customers both men and women, come in with vice president the Louisville ad, who is a dl-| Jack Jouette, fol-| with an address | By Marle ¢ rmichael Stopes, president of the Socfety C.B. C. and Racial Progress, ete. New York: (. P, spirit- where excess s nudging at the elbow. Nuch a stralght course right to the end through matters calculated to make one writing for a nice public re- tire into some prettier corner than the truth presents. Such kindnes and good sense where there is around the case only brutality and hypocrisy Such a determination to picture Sophy Deming in truth, not in the shocked Judgment of the community. T like bhoth the man and the artist in this writer. T envy him, a little. T predict for him—but my prediction counts for nothing. T will hope for him, in- stead. the recognition which honest urt, such art and has shown in “Walls of Glas richly deserves. There is no wa hiding such vromising work as this, and there should be no such way * % %ok THE RED CONFESSOR, Galllzier, author of he Lotus Woman,” ete rontispiece by Eric Pape. Boston: L. (. Page & By Nathan PRODIGY of sheer lahor lies hack A of this hi novel. Here out is the Rome of 400 vears ago. in a complete, painstaking of street and way and quarter, of church and pal neé, of structures even then in impos- sng ruln. of ancient Lills inclosing the active and tumultuous life of the city stself. Labor, too, as vivid in_effect w»s it is impressive in bulk. For as one walks these streets of old Rome one has the sense of actuality, of be. ng there, of partaking in this anclent and urgent way of life. When now and then one draws out of the book he wakens to all that has gone into it that such immediacy of effect may be vroduced. Against this hackground there goes the story of struggle and warfare. The church o the one hand, the emperor from north on the other. And within this historic and seemingly unending strife there are lesser ambitions and in trigues. It is with these that the “Red Confessor™ directly deals, leav ing the great contest as a gorgeous background for the adventures of Gutdo, Lord of Florana, who, with his friend and patron, Benvenuto Callini, fought even the church itself, which had despoiled the young Guido of his inheritance of Fiorano, th its hun- dred towers.” The power of Paul IIT =tands here against the secular power of rebellious young noblemen resist- ing encroachments upon their right for the sake of gratitying the fave ites of the Pope. The lost wife of Guido lends strength to this pussion of pursuit in many other directions, the villainy of Pler Lulgi Parma, dominates the whole adven ture. More than a single plot weaves st intricate way through this picture of Roman life. flgure passes here— Michel himself, the self-satisfied. t bom bastic and very human Cellini, too, and many another. The whole is big and involved story, thrown against a gorgeous background of history. A completely fascinating romance into whose reading will go more than one night, for it {8 a book of slow prog- ress and a multitude of places for ac- rual pause, or even for a géing back ward, A truly remarkable work, whose clear charm }ifts out of an enor- mous mass of important de portrayal of old Rome g * % THE OLD HOME TOWN Hughes, r Ladder.” New & Bro HIS particular old home stands beside the Mississippi. It might, however, be any one of a thousand villages throughout the country where bordering streams have been converted into power for the in- dustrial uses of modern life. The recrudescence of Carthage might, therefore, be that of any of the others. 80, the story. if it runs true, is calculated to give a film account of vour old home town and mine a chronicle naturally turns every veader into a critic. checkIng off the th here in a smiling gusto of re- congnition and enjoyment. shaking the head there in denial of the clear license o often claimed by the fiction makers, meeting here a familiar village celebrity and over there squally familiar noaccount of the orl a Angelo By The York Ruperi Golden Harper town sumptuous | More than one great | ! ail in the | Such | useful in stories of the open is the au- thor's clear infatuation with the ways of the world around him. Plenty of people love nature. One does not at the moment, however, recall another with the personal and friendly and original assoclation with it that Mr. White evinces so casually and rally here. A little thing, perhay but it serves to vitalize the entire ad- venture with an atmosphere that gives both reality and charm to the action throughout. 53 THE BEGINNINGS OF THE NEW YORK CENTRAL RAILROAD; A History. By Frank Walker Ste- vens. New York: G. I’. Putnam’s Sons. THI‘) New York Central Railroad Is | now a hundred years old. In | commemoration of this goodly age— |as age counts in a new world—and l o its highly successtul achievement, | | Frank Walker Stevens has compiled a history of the early this road In the beginning ti s more t one rond between New York. Albany | land Buffalo. This is the story of | | those roads and of their consolidation into the New York Central itself. The | various steps in this consummation | are set down here. reminding one that leven a century ago had there begun that process of industrial combina- | | tioh that has today reached such enor- mous proportions. The book is rich in illustrations showing the growth of means of transportation within the period under consideration. There are maps and tables and other illustra- tive material calculated to make the study an objective and truly instrue- | tive ‘one. Construction expense pro- vides n valuable means of contrast ith the present in this respect. There so a discussion of frefght trans- | portation and ro: ation furnishes making studles contrasted with the present legislation bearing upon the railway systems. This is 2 big, care. fully prepared history of each of the compofent parts of the New York Central, and of other matters pertain- |ing to the early | system * ¥ vears of this great | | its office is to provide a true | { history and an accurate basis for cer- i tain _comparisons and contrasts be- ) tween the old days of the raiiroad and { these later dayvs of enormous expan- { sion and highly complicated opera- {tions. A valuable history of an Im portant stage in American life 5 ooxor x | WHAT 18 CIVILIZATION? By Mau- | rice Maeterlinck and other writers, Introduction by liendrik Van Loon York: Duffield & Co. RALLY, there are as many inswvers to this query as there are tions that exist at the present tme, or thut have existed in times past. The question, propounded not | %0 long ago by a current magmzine, | published many of the answers that | are included within this volume. An introduction to the series by Hendrik Van Loon starts out with a gesture | of definition, as If it were going to | settle the question for good and all. But, after a page or so of delightful - moving about. such as Mr. Van Loon is capable of commanding, he throws up his hands and turns the matter over to the essayists who. in turn nt in summary forn that which | different places. different eras, and different clrcumstances declare to be | civitization. India. Africa. China. old | Egypt and anclent America step to the | front here in most interesting and in- forming comparisons and contrasts of | the material of these varlous civiliza- tions. The middle ages gives its an- | alysis and answer. So does woman in | modern clvilization. One fiying and | unrelated discussion has to do with | “America’s Democracy of Bad Man- | nera’—an frrelevant and unconvincing | view that seems to have no great I pearing upon the general theme. Upon the whole. however, this is a ' Imost useful survey calculated to col- " i ate wleas upon the under discus: MANSIONS OF UNRES Elizabeth Dejeans, authe body's Child," ete. Doubleday, Page & Co. RUE or not, the genera is that society is in a | | | opinion way. i { y Putnam’s Sons, THE MODERN LIBRARY IN THE LUXEMBURC fourmont. Preface and appen. | dix by Arthur Ransome. New York: The Modern Library THE PROBLEMS OF CHILDHOOD. By Angelo Patri. Edited by Clin. ton E. Carpenter, With an intro. duction by Leta S. Hollingworth. New York: D. Appleton & Co. THE FIGHT OF THE “FIRE CREST”; The Record of a Lone- Hand Crulse from Fast to West, Across the Atlantic. By Alain flev]-bmllf. \\'{m photographs, plans and maps. New York: D. Appl S ppleton THE SEA OF DREAMS. By Alfred Gordon Bennett, author of “The Iorest of Fear." Frontlspiece hy George W. Gage. New York: The | Macaulay Co | MAD RAPTURE. By Elizabeth Irons | Folsom. author of “Free.” New | York: The Macaulay Co TOUCH OF FEARTH Warren. New York: Schuster. AN_OUTLINE HISTORY OF CIINA; With a Thorough Account of the Republican Era Interpreted in its Historical Perspective. By Her- bert II. Gowen, D. D., . R. G. 8., ete., and Josef Washington Hall. New York: D. Appleton & Co. VIRGINIA LEE. By Clara Ingram Judson, author of “The Mary Jane Serfes,” etc. Illustrated by Charles L‘i Wrenn. Newark: Barse & Hop- ns. A NIGHT By Remy | A Lella on & ' THE PUBLIC LIBRARY Recent accessions Library, and reading will each Sunday, may be sion at the Public lists of recommended | appear in this column The following books found in the industrial divi. | Science. 1926, v. 1. Ref. LA-6An7. Assoclation of * Official Agricultural Chemists. Officlal and _Tentativé Methods of Analysis. RGEI-AsT. Brownell. Herbert and Wade, I. B. The Teaching of Science and the Srfence Teacher. LA-BR13t. Cunningham, W. ., ed. Adventures in Sclence. LA-Co1 Downing, 12. R. Teaching Science in the Schools. LA-DTa6t. gineering Foundation, New Popular Research Narratives LA-En3dp. ik, J. 0. How to Teach General | Selence. LA-F8$33h. Franklin_Institue, Philadelpt | ern Views of Physical LA-4F85. Guggenhelmer, H. The Einstein Theory Explained jand Analyzed. LH-Gi34e, Hazelrigg, John. Fundamentals of | Hermetic Science. LRB-H33. Lodge, Sir 0. J. Atoms and Rays. LHP-LS2. Mann, W. Annualog, | En York ¥ " Science. Theory of 3 Interna- Data New York (State) bus in General Science. Schuster, Sir Arthur, A. K. Britain's H ence. 1921, LA-Schs, Thompeon, M. de K. Theoretical and Applied Electrochemistry. RQ- T377t. ‘Whetham, W, C. D, and M. D., comp. Cambridge Readings in the Litera- ture of Science. LA-4W578c. Whitehead, A. N. Sclence and the Modern World. LA-W3583. = Chemistry. na age | S A. Chemistry in Mod. LO-AR682¢.} Charles, and urse in Analysis. LOC-B294 B. First Principles of | 1915, LO-BS28f. The Chemical Age Chemical tionary. Ref. LO-5C42. i Cranston, J, A. The Structurq” pf Arrheniue. dern Life Curtman, | Qualitative | 1. Chem Brownlee, Chemist A al ¥ Die- one in white of dad’s—Judge Blank, who signed my clvil service papers when mom insisted is that when he’s sober you couldn't make him belleve he ever got soused, prove it. | Michactis, $140 to make o first payment, o after they have been taught <o drlee and get their permit they start out as happy as kids. Then the garage, gaso- | line and oll stick in their little bills and the monthly $20 comes around and. not recelving the money, the shoj it was bought from takes the machine out of the garage and adds it to the | used’ department. Of course, T can't | swear that was the how of ft with | this chap, but, knowing his w i seeing the quiet resignation which he accepts his loss, and hear: ing my brother tell of the hun- dreds of others who set up a car only to have it ‘stolen'—well, sir, I'd be willlng to bet a month's salar Blank’s automobile wa taken the company ments. W You Know. * ok K A you are addicted to cafe suacks, you may be interested in this g which even Solomon in ;.h”n‘\lf,,-":fi.'x‘:‘\' would have to admit is something new A woman was seated at a porcelain. topped table with a wenterplece of | paper napkins on a nickel standard and artificial palms at the door, A white-capped waitress asked for her order, and the woman answered with pleasant tranquility: “Coffee and a bunion.” world except for three young men on the curb. They were handsome youngsters of the elegantly careless type, and the inel, having made a the others a discovery, was giving aughing share. Say, fellow: bird! Wish T him for the folks at home. look at the gay old iad a camera to snap 0ld friend 1 ought to go to work. The fun of it with not If vou talked your head off to Fine old buck, too. Saved Matter, 1924, LO-C857s. Creighton, H. J. M. Principles and Applications of Electrochemistry v. 1. LO-C8¢4p. Deming, H. G. General T.O-D3%4e. Eucken, Arnold. Physical Chemistr Foster, Willlam, and Laboratory Chemistry Fournler, d'Albe, Element. LP-F! Gordon, N Chemistry. Hatschek, 1mil, ed. The Foundations of Collold Chemistry. LO-H287Tf. Holleman, A. ¥. A Laboratory Man- ual of Organic Chemistry. LQ-HT251. Holmyard, E. J. Time of Dalton. LO-H739. mieson, G. 8. Volumetric Todate Methods, LOC-J243v. Kahlenberg, Louls, and Hart, E. B. Chemistry and Its Relations to Daily Life. 1920. LO-K125. Long, J. 8., and others. Qualitative Anal LOC-L85q. Lowry, M. Historic tion to C‘hemist 19 Lowy, Alexander, and Harrow, jamin. An Introduction to ganic Chemistry. LQ-L95i MeClendon, J. F., and Medes, Grace. Physical Chemistry in Blology and Medicine. LO-M135p. Masson, Irvine. Three Centuries of Chemistry. LO-M387t. Masters, W. N. Qualitative Analysis of the Common Metals. LOC-M3934. Mercer, J. 1. Bp. Alchemy. 1921. Leonor. ‘The in Colloldal Chemistry. { | Fundamentals of | LO-Eu24.1. | Heath, I W. in General 2 The Moon- m. . Project Study LO-G653p. of Real Surprise Given At Pirate’s Banquet Chemistry to the Leung She's profession is to make sorties by land and by sea. His patron saint is none other than the famous Capt. Kidd. His guardian angels are Morgan and the rest of the galaxy of famous pirates. But none of those is able to hold a candle to Leung She when it comes to vivid imagination. At a banquet to which Leung She invited his colleagues to discuss various matters he promised them a treat. Mis guests are still talking about it, and the town of Ko Sha, near Pakkai in south China, is still shuddering over the dramatic ferocity of Leung She's surprise. He marched his guests into the banquet hall, and with a flourisa of his hand | asked them to behold. There were no delicately wrought place cards on the table, no flowers. But at the head of the table, near the place of honor, were the heads of three men, recent victims of Leung She and his gang. The guests complimented Leung 8he upon his originality, and fell upon the viands. b Introduc: LO-L957. Ben- or- 1 of mania Effects of vstems. Tons N L0 Millard, ; Chemistry. -MO1p. Physical General Chem: - 11. 1. and Link, Mrs. EoOTRT s A. M. D. Laboratory Manual of | righ Language Study General Chemistry. LO-Sch351 Schlesing | infancy 'st importance to the publ g(‘lq“‘:\nr:nn who are striving con- scientiously to improve the internal mechanism of political machiner WARD NELSON DING acting president the Wul been received from Mrs | Iirnest Thompson Scton, presi dent of the League of American Pen Women, sent from central Brazil { where she is traveling with the Field Museum espedition in the capacity of orian. According to Mrs. Seton ientifically the trip is proving |to be very profitable as well as very | interesting. At the time she wrote from Corumba, Matto . she was on the point of making a trip into the interior of Brazil where no American 5 AR ary aspects ave | woman has previously set foot. She Tomorrow & planAry Cep iness | described “the jumping-off place’ from ‘;’-‘N{““" e wndertakings, They |which the parly was fo begin this in ke harmontous conditions and i | terfor. trip as place alive with wild Bttt iere, will be sensed cour- | life. birds, crocodiles and anteaters age. determination and (-M|m|sm'; J-f‘:!’!:;o ,:r ‘-h\:.m'l;:n::v) Rk k cult task that you may hav ne ¢ e o . bt have Besitated m‘llm South American journe. ‘ttempt for fear of failure, may e | well ed under the prevaillng in Huences, and although ultimate su cess caNNoL, Of COUFsE, he EuaTANts there are much greater pos than If the effort were made uni pspiclous aspects, 1t wil a great value for those who. consume: With love, are in_doubt as to rec procity. There will be engendered a feeling of responsiveness that must necessarily henefit lovers. Children horn tomorrow will during ¥ enjoy normally good health, provided they are properly nurtured nd are allowed to revel in the fresh air. This condition will continue until ahout the fifteenth or sixteenth vear. ! when, the slgns denote, they are liable | to be attacked by a rather serious mal- | ady, which, in addition to sclentific treatment. will demand constant care | and an fnexhaustible fund of patience. | Their characters will never cause | worry and parents will at no time | be in doubt as to what these children | will_do in given conditions. They | will be strong-minded, self-reliant and | ambitious. 1T encot in their vouthful hopes and asp ‘hieve mor D has What Tomorrow Means to You BY MARY BLAKE. Ry ordi- | than Tf tomorrow is vour birthday. vou | are sturdy and robust, fond of work { if it be of a congenial nature and more disposed to bhe happy in an unconfined atmosphere than if en gaged in toil of a sedentary nature. | You are in all things ambitious to xcel and never fail to put your best | energles into any task that eccuple vour attention, whether it be in the | fleld of labor or of sport. Your dis- position is an affable one, somewhat ton boisterous at times, and you are | always willing to go out of your way | to e obliging. sereet and | in no sense of w “broad- | aster.” As a natural result you enjoy the confidence of vour friends and assoclates, In your intimate relationships you by Theodo Smith, J. D. M. Chemistry and At- omic Structure. 1924. LO-Smb Thorpe, Sir T. E. KEssays in Histori- cal Chemistry. 1923. LO-4T30e. Underwood, H. W. Problems in Or- ganic Chemistoy. LQ-Uni. Physics. Principles of Physies, Report Is Submitted Ior a year a commission, of which Gen. Richard Mulcahy was chairman, has sat to inquire into the position of the Irish language in the Gaellc districts. After holding numerous sittings in the Irish-speaking districts, the committee has presented a report in which it recommends the establish- ment of & permanent commission, the Chute, H. 1920 and Physics. ministration in the more intensely Gaelic dlstricts and provision for spe clal agricultural instruction. It also advocates the migration of large groups of the inhabitants to more economic_holdings, improvements in fishing, fish curing, netmaking and boat bullding and urges the govern- ment to lend money for the purchase of modern boats and equipment. It is from the Gaelic districts that the cry lof distress is chronic. A bad season Exer- | drives the people over the starvation others. Ele- of Physies and Principles ugen Evaporating, | Condensing and Cooling Appa- ratus. 1919, LL-H29.E Jeffery, G. B. Relativity for Physics Students. 1924, LH-J36r. Lodge, Sir O. J. Ether and Reality. LHP-L824e. Luckiesh, Matthew. Foundations of the Universe. LHP-L96. Milliken, R. A., and others. cises’ in Lahoratory Physics for |line and gives rise to tales of Irish Secondary Schools. LH-M825 | famine, Roger, John. The Force of Gravity. | LIU-R633f. iearcroft, W the Atom. LHP-Sh32s. Tammanu, G. H. J. A of Aggregation. L. Taylor, L. W. h Bouk on Phy: Sleeping Sickness Controlled. TOKIO, September 11 (). —Thé sleeping sickness epidemic in Tyoge prefecture wus reported under control tod. with approximatel 100 deaths 3 X recorded. The wave of sickness start- Whitehead, A. N. The Principles of |ed in August and several hundred Relativity with Applications to ‘cases have been reported. Most of the Physical Science. 1922, LH-WB584p. victims are past middle age, 1. ¥. The Story of exclusive use of Irish in public ad-! | Rome Excited at Plan pose with the reading but are lovable and sympathetic and not | given to fits of petulancy or change- leness. 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