The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 29, 1922, Page 17

ive "elite i ie f FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER Among the folie of the Sun,” Frederick : Century wing recently returned Shira visit to the ton line, Mr. O'Brien, who Wisited Seattle from y islands recent now writes his rich me i made his White “Mystic Isles" such tolls of the Sun.” making {te public bow today, is not only iAeorbing record of travel and fing narrative of adventure. Bis & book of humor, of kind philesophy, of striving’ te situations, And it is all ated in an alluring nica which has caught co from the people « yous Polynesia so loved by new book deals with those coral wr fortal Pacif! rous Arch the of man me preover, in the new book he tells! ventures in the Mar «is, and the reader 3 again those unforgetable ed Often, Daughter of the Pix Seventh Man Who Wallows in Mire, and many others who firet io his “White Shadows.” see Fighting Bdge.” Willlam Mac Raine; Houghtea Mifriin Co. spite of ber red hair, Bob Dillon, pares potatoes and rune errands | & construction outfit in the far seems to be a hopeless coward only friend ts ragged 15-year June, whose father lives as 4 near the camp. June, in fear) A man who has 4 biackmaller’s on her father, begs Bob to take i away and marry her. SMe he does, but permits his bride fa day to be kidnaped by the in Atolls of the Sun, Cryder of the Bi The Importance of Bird Life, The Wind Bloweth, The Fighting Edge, The Last Mile, Certain People of Importance. =) there te the very figuree--Exploding Eggs, Van-| 29, 1922. New Books Woods, | Pigeons, market and homing; on the} training of wild birds: on bird’ as food: on fea! and the feather in | dustries} on guano; on birds and} fame; and the history of their pro tection, etc see “The Wind Bioweth,” Century Co. In his “Messer Mare: Byrne created what J Cabell called “a very ma: tiful book, out rich-flavored daye and far-off nge lands.” “The Wind Bioweth,” t* In some & more splendid achieve Donn Byrne Polo,” Mr, Branch Hy beau respects ment te Uncle Alan whe went with ared little for the tid, since they ple; there ts 1 read every boc F for bin wind: heart had b him, and him at her breast;* is the cold wife, the young man married, with her greedy lent mother: there is the woman wail strange w her love o kept her life clean eweet and warm jand childish Druse woman he mar ried at Reirut, and the uncommen jway in which b it her to a crippled Arab wrestler; there is the w of the fiords he found in the } Argentine: and Granya of Ireland, who tried to die for Dark Rosaleen, | j Dut Shane took her to America and | married her And always there ts the sea—and the ways of ships and sailing men jand thru it all, and at the end jof It all—there are the giens of An trim | eee “The Lant Mile,” Frank A. McAlis ter; Doubleday, Page & Co. ‘This is a first novel, a sincere and | significant expression of the bewil dered ex-service mam who got some ted bully who dominates her/ thing of an ideal in France and ts Feeling runs high in the unity, both against the kid and the supine young hus In desperation Bob determines B conquer his fears, to win the res. of his lost wife and the com ty, and to make of himself a fighting hard to keep from slipping }back into the old ways of material j tm. Broadhurst, the young returned | soldier of the story, is not very ar jticulate nor perhaps very sound tn his rebellion against the inertia that who will measure up to the) is pulling him back, but he is honest standards of the frontier. author of “Man-Size” knows to tell a story that fairly gal- away with the reader. In no of Raine's books is there a @f such insistent. instantaneous as the gypsyish June, nor a who makes a better fight for his desire. eee of the Big Woods,” C. Shedd; Doubleday, Page & “The northwest timber country is he setting for this story of the strug @ great lumber corpora- on and the mountaineers who re- to sell their land for a song. in his effort to find some place for his energies in which he may express his new vision He blunders into the ranks of a new radical party, and finds that the way ts not with them. The olf friends outgrown, the old fe distasteful. Broadhurst indulges in @ casual love affair with a flap ber, severs his profitable connection with an advertising agency whose most vital.concern is publicising the number of buttons on a widely known brand of underwear and sets Out to find realities. The book ends with @ note of tolerant exasperation, but an intimation that ohne who has | unlearned so much will think his way Into the struggle is drawn osker, | oe to a satisfying conclusion young surgeon, who has built a . hospital in the hills and be- the dominating force in the im community. ) Drawn into it also ls a young, + impressionable girl, who, by hig offer of marriage, strikes first biow at the surgeo Leonfidence. Leading in a contest that he realizes be hopeless, Cryder directs a c struggle to eave for the nts ws their only source of h, their land. The corporation ly wines but the struggle gains the young surgeon what he in his self-assurance failed to ob the favor of the girl he loved. pGeorge C. Shedd is a Nebraskan, iB officer of the Shedd Investment ©] Co., and himself an owner of large timber interests. “The Importance of Bird Life: A jar Account of Its Economic Six- and Conservation,” George is Hartley; Century C be To the average city-bred person, ‘The place of the bird im nature is the one to which the esthetic ue of its song and plumage en- Mitle it; the farmer, who actually has song and plumage to enjoy, ex- Presses his attitude mainly by shot- Suns and scarecrows and bits of rag ‘om bush and tree to frighten winged thieves away. As a matter of fact, birds are of “supreme importance in that economy @ nature which enables man to be | fed—the stomachs of even the rascal | Birds prove when examined that they do more good by destroying quanti- ties of insects than harm of any Kind. Birds also spread plant life, Incinding forests; and they act as seavengers. All this Mr. Hartley treats, while Sections follow on domestic fowl; on TURK CHIEF Raouf Bey, chief of staff to Mustapha Kemal Pasha, Turkish nationalist leader, is the real head of the victorious Turkish army that has oceu- ‘Pied the whole coast of Asia Minor and now thivatens Con- antinople, Ss Frank A. McAlister is the nom de plume under which the author, « Princeton man, chooses to conceal [Bis identity. In @ sense the novel is jAutoblograpbical. McAlister ts the [ disturbed, pussied, exasperated voice jot youth. eee “Certain People of Importance,” | Kathleen Norris: Doubieday, Page & | Co. |. This story Is a pageant, « pletorial [history in warm quiet colors of a | family and a city. The family cycle of the Crabtrees began in Iilinols, | when Reuben, the pioneer, his ample |bosomed, strong young wife and | their brood of children treked to San | Francisco. There Rueben bartered sugar and coffee, built up a strong wholesale firm and made his home. Mrs. Norris takes up her story with the second generation. Old | Reuben lived now with hiv daughter! | Fanny and clung tenaciously to pow-| jer as the head of Crabtree & Co.| May and her husband, Stephen, who hoped some day to inherit the firm, lived tn the old home across the bay | with Bertie, the spoiled heir, and the| {four girls. Unsuccessful Hesiry and | jhis managing wife, Bob, their "thil-| | dren and children’s children scheme | jand love, rebel and frotic Miry the pages, Eame, Viek, Tina, Lou, and |their blooming cousins flit thru the neglected old gardena and the big | shabby rooms in the bustles, and the big sleeves and bell skirts of the jelehties, each intent upon her care- |fully chaperoned calls trom the| young rector or secret mad cap meet-| ings with the inarticulate young! | Spaniard. The cycle ends with old| Rueben's long deferred death, scattering of his fortune, the de of the proud first family into the obscurity h it sprang the Amiens Farmers | Blown to Pieces | AMIENS, France, Sept. 29.—Two ifarmera working in a field east of | Amiens were blown to bite when one jor them struck an unexploded shell. What is said to be the largest fresh | |water ferry in the world is being built for service betreen Detroit, | Mich., and Windsor, Ont. WANTED For Shops and Roundhouse RATES 100 per | | | | | | | Mechanica and helpers are allowed time and one-half for |] time worked in excens of olght |] hours per day | Apply Room 3028 Arcade | Building, Seattle SEATTLE STAR worth Brood ectrioa! way 4 Allison prooswov Oo” 1; Home? 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