".H,J SSaipSWW s r w EVENIHO LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER S, 1914. ' ,....' r . I .. 1 ... . - , - . ..... ... ,. ' i 1 - Mssssttitfriitohla. MINGLED INTERESTS IN LATEST BOOKS VJljjd In a. murder, gft K.JH?ckn"lll' but esoi wvej oi n Boulh Aram BAEDEKER TO BOOKS FICTION Till? AUCTION I1U3CK Jljr hex ntch lorell Knlcht, a tfRullful fclrl, la ploltM by n scheming small-town mothf Lorell ov inn iirai wimo wr.' Damen in Rf into ins clutches escape unscathed. y (JeorRO V Cable A Krtlllh hafnM lha nri .tutl!... M. t&tlA iSit tMA 1a-.. VbIk .. Va..u tti w .. ... :"" .. ,K . i ..'kl"'1L i wiiubo umuirrs commix puiciae una ,....?. nnmnej' '" to mnrry tliclr enemy THE HOU8B OP nntRlT Anonymoui The. tfty of nn English politician, who attains RTPAtheftfl and IhMi ilnVa Intn .li.tl nfia.iir1f t A bitter, vivid book, with elements of great' nets lAtY rASSANDIlA By Mrs Cloorno do Home Valiev The story of n, fcntltUe, rilgh-fttrun woman and n phlegmatic, pit" occupied htishnml. and Iho IneMtnble con sequences which do not no "oer the bor der A wholesome and interesting no el TUB nnVOlT OF TUB ANCIKI.8. tiy Ana. tle France An allenorlcnl satire. In which well-known llvln characters nppear the Slot of which dents with n planned reolt ot the fallen angels In modern times una oi me celebrated iTtnchmnn s greatest nofka BTI.VIA'S MAnniAOK Ily t'pfhn Sinclair A eharmlng Southern girl married a I1sko lule New Vork aristocrat nlth tragic re rults A good nocl, spoiled by over-propaganda'. NON-FICTION CAVALRY. By General xon Uemhnrdl Tho Interest of this book lies chiefly In the In , t reduction by Sir John French tho lender of th English expeditionary forces on the Continent French Approved of riemhardl plans In tho present war these plans hate not however, been followed CHIMJllEN IN HONDAOK Ily Edwin Mark ham, Judge Lindsay nnd Ocorgo Creel A book setting forth the evils of child labor. Written In n anlrlt of rntnadlnir feror nnd considering practical means ot combating aa literature Itself" Thereupon we find a clue to tho mysterious prototype of the fair heroine whrf clothes herself In mys tery, nnd Is never Interviewed tnnoccnt discovers her mother no other than Lady Illythc, handsomo. unscrupu lous, a cldslilnp vlllalness In silvery tony and a coronet of emeralds. "Laay Blytho's face grew Rhnstly pale In the uncertain llffht of the hnlt-vcllcd moon. " 'What do you mean to do?' she asked nrsent-dav child labor ells T(IB HUMAN SIDR or PLANTS Hy.IIojnl A Dixon. A book designed to make children as well as adults familiar with the plant kingdom. Fascinatingly treats plants as crenturea Mtli human attributes mis.moii'8 or mr kaisers coiht ny Anne Tophnm. Mlra Tiipham ROcrncm for many years of Victoria l.oulro the Kaiser's duughtor, presents herein a plcturo of tho Oerman War Lord as lio li practically un known. Till: SECRET OF LOUIS PHILIPPE Ily MarK Stella, who claimed to lno been his daughter Remarkable revelations suppressed since IK10, gltlng a fascinating Insight Into the Intrigues of royalty TltrtOrOH THE URAXILIAN 'rtlLDKK NEB1 ny Theodore Itoooelt Colonel Itooeevelt'a account of his hazardous ex plorations In South America Rj W not my body, but my soul. So she promptly dies. Were "Innocent ' n. first noot by nn Un known writer It Is certain It would never find a first-class publisher. It may be that, however, tho "cnrplng of critics" has had a subconscloui effect upon Mlsi Co rclll and that; she has unconsciously been living down to their worst conceptions of her. DOROTHY CANFIELD FISHER Author of "Mothers and Children" Holt. Mysterious Marie's Mawkish Melodrama It laa customary for critics, for n Ijood many cars let's see. It was nbout30 that lfor first book, "A Honmnco of Two Worlds " appeared to "elate," as she Is so fond of describing It, Marie Corclll. In the dus of our childhood, despite tho flippant contempt of levlow era. wo remember bclntr thrilled by "Ardath" and "Tho Sorrows of Satan," although. In rrmturer j earsr attempts to read these popular works proved pain fully tedious But then. In diyrKwhen Anatolo Franco and Thomas Ilnrdy wcro merely names, wo were thrilled also by Irfiura Jean Llbbcv nnd Bertha SI Clay Kow Miss Corclll has novcr, even by her most unkind assailants, been classed with Charles Garvlce, tho Laura Joan I.lbbe of England, or with Miss I.lbbej, the Mr Uarvlco of America. In taking up Miss CorclU's latest novel, "Innocent" (Doran, New York), there was an expectant anticipation of Jcjuno Jojs Despite the length of tho book I3S pages wo ,bogan hopefully "Tho old by-road went rambling down Into a dell of deep Ercen shadow " Ah, moro bjgono mem orlts of tho ernal opening of Miss Clay's romance, "A Modest P.isslon " But to go on "It was a roprobato of a road a vagrant of tho Innd having long ago wandered out of straight nnd oven courses." Whereupon wo know having learned symbolism of scenic oponings from d'Annunzlo that "crooked things" are Kolng to happen In this book Innocent, the heroine, Has grown up believing- herself old Farmer Joceljn's daughter. Before he dies he tells Inno cent tho truth. That, 18 jears before "vVhcn thero camo on n sudden storm Just a flash of lightning" a mjsteriotis man appeared, leaving a baby at the farm. Whereupon Oh, help mo, dad," Innocent said plteously; "It's not my fault that I am what I am " Desplto what she Is, Innocent goes to London nnd writes a novel "Not an ephemeral piece of fiction," says Miss Corelll, "not a 'Wells' effort of Imagina tion under hdraullc pressure, not an hysterical outburst of sensual dcslro and disappointment such us moves tho souls of demlmondalues and dressmakers, not even a detective sensntlon, but JUBt a Book, a. real Book, likely to live as long FlrA rMBiBaawNHMii m-iMG OMD Novel by ANew GEORGE GIBBS Aotiotofmlh, Bolted Door" ''George a novel preset contrasting house -keepi r daughter at d vho f ven tell a story- real people. in every rswj, D. APPLETON Pullklien. II ba in his new two etroDgly :foes, a lightt t innocent a snow-girl wide awake. Mr. Gibw enow bow to His people are The Flaming Sword". Is (npjt admirable t Wet.'-'--Buffalo T AIL BOOKSEtXEXS And company KcwYork mxm'' Wild Woods and Waterways Revelations of the beauties of forest and stream that will appeal to every lover of Hod's out of -doors. BT WILLIAM CHALMERS COVERT i ii r iiuriMh im sjfc;a covert i W&'-$lfm Author cf "OlaiT el S J?iHB I)ii!tru I1S8 att E Hlb On Sale at All I H43 Book and Depart-1 HnP ment Starts r : In nn angry vvhlnper 'I must know. What are jour plans of vcngeancoT jour campaign xif notoriety? your scheme of self-advertisement? what claim will jou make?'" A sweet mother, as wo see, who must have been familiar with Innocent's liv ing prototjpe. L.ady Blytho ono night takes out of a drawer a case marked ' veronal " Next morning doctors. "Sulcldo-" whispered ono. "Oh, no' Mere accident nn overdose of veronal some carelessness quite a com mon occurrence " Amadls do Jocolyn, "a refined libertine, hnd lived a life of selfish alm-i to selfish ends Ho had been looking nbout for n frcih victim when he met Innocent." In nocent amused him for a time, and he pilnts her picture. Then ho casts her off Innocent walls " Tor jour amusement jou havo ruined me ' " 'Ruined jou'" He turned ipon her In Indignant protest 'You must be mad You have been as safe with me as In the arms of jour mother ' "She gave a tragic gesture of eloquent despair " "You have ruined me Just tho same Getting Near the Fighting "Tommy Atkins nt War" (McUrlde, Nast & Co , New York). Is a renl book nbout tho war. Whoever. conceived tho Ide.i of gathering up letters from otllccrs nnd privates nerving In tho trenches at the front letter written hurriedly on pads held on tho kneo while tho nlioll-j went screnmlng overhead nnd tho thick, choking smoke of their explosions filled tho nlr desorvei thanks Thcso letters form ono of tho most vivid pictures ot modern war that it is possible to con ceive Tho writers bnvo for the most pnrt not been gifted with grace or fcllc lt of phrase A butcher from Clapham If scarcely equipped for tho tricks of rhetoric And jet, In their very simplic ity their homeliness of phrase, thcso bits of correspondence give ono tho smell of povwlor, tho cold of the trenches, the discomfort of body and spirit that this bloody work entails Withal, the humor ous nspects of tho work nro tho things that most Impress the soldlerB friends For Instance, Sapper AlrKcnnj, Ilovnl Engineers, records tho experience of n comrndo whose cap win shot oft so neat ly that the bullet left n groove In his hair Just like n harbor's parting And his comment wn.t, "Tho fellow Hint did that must havo been a barber In Lon don." I'rlvato Watters writes that one of his comrades has iv ripping cure for nournl gla, but ho Isn't going to fiko a patent out on It. "While ljlng In tho trenches, mud Villh pnln in tho face, a shell burst beside hlni Ho wasn't hit, but tho ex plosion rtndcred him unconscious for n time, and when he recovered his neural gia had gone Ills name Is Palmer, so nqw we call the Ocnnan shells "Palmer's Nouralgla Cure ' " "War Is rotten when jou fleo jour best ral curl up at jour foet," comments an other letter And, on the other elde, this letter from a Frenchman ' In tho Department of the Nord, I heard a British ofllcor of high rank declnro with delicious talm between two ferocious attacks on tho town, 'Gen tlemen, it was nothing. Let's go and have tea ' ' The book is fult of odd bits of com ment, none more Illuminating, by (he Way, thnn that of the cockney who ob served that the city soldier stood the htlto of cannonading better than tho countryman, "becauso he was used to trams nnd motors!" Pulitzer's Life Any of tho six secretaries of tho late Joseph Fllt7cr could sjmpathlro lth Tantalus from personat experience. It Bcems that Pulitzer's favorlto diversion was to havo a secretary sit next to him at tablo and by adroit often maladroit maneuvering of tho conversation manage that the poor fellow should not bo per mitted to swallow a bite. These six men must havo been marvels ono wonders that they are not all now holding cnblnot positions or managing great enterprises Each was picked from hundreds of applicants from nil over the world. 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