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THE HAPPY YEARS By INEZ HAYNES IRWIN V'lt r!i2?be " Earnest" found out that "There Is no such thing as uid Age. oH.1iff.fc,he real ""Its of tliess stories Is the amount of natural emo tion they can suggest without falling over on the wrong side." A', r. Ztc. nmg Sun, l' $1.60 net. Henry Holt & Co. 10 .west mn st. NKW VOHK CITY KM - Books on Civil Engineering Philadelphia Book Company 17 South 9th Street -lAe&Bs IWtUC ottsTwrr ctrec SJ! BOOKS t grmaHtvKjmt.Mmm mmmSBBBSm 3 flOii i& 1 1 I n l IBS v M iC!S??STrtr-r . 3 GEOHOE O'NEIL, A tu'rnly-ear.oId poet vho Is writing verse of lino quality A PROPHET OF BEAUTY George O'NeWs First Volume Reveals a Poet of Rare Charm No Inrer of poetry should overlook "The Cobbler in Willow Street." the first volume of verse by GeorRC O'Xeil. It is one of the mo.t promising collec tions of poetry which hns nppenred in many a year. Mr. O'Xcil N only twenty j ears old. but he hns an appreciation of beauty and a sift in versification which many older men lacl. In the few short years of his life the beauty of (he world has impressed itself upon him and forced him to nttempt to ninlte others sec. and feel as he feels and sees. He sets forth his compel in the introductory poem, the first two stanzas of which run in this -way: I cannot find the truth that men have told. But onlv know the beauty of a congr; And nothing truer than tho white se foam Feathering where the Bold beach-grass Is long; Or truer than a high complacent pine Pointed to stars upon a lifted hill ; Or any eloquence of harmony Telling as much as w hen. a w Ind falls still. He writes of "such simple miracles as sons and spring," of "yellow iris wading nt the edge" of a pool, of "the slender fingers of an April rain," and of "unopened violets catching the hour's first sunlight'as a crown." lie is fas cinated by the charm of things about him. and he has that gift of langunge which can convey to others some of the emotions which stir in his breast. If he fulfills the promise of this volume we shall in a few years have an Amer ican poet of whom we can be proud. THC COHrLEP. IN -WIT.LOW STTtnET And other poems Bv George O'Ncil. New York- Hon! Llerlsht J 1-55 t wrote "Walking Stick Papers." Did you read it? If not you missed something "monstrously clever," as James Huneker remarked. is his latest. Do you know the people you see every day? Are they to you a great sport, an adventure, a romance of the majestic destiny of the ordinary man? Here you know for the rich joy that they are: your tailor, your washwoman (and her hus band), your lodger across the way, or your neighbor next door; through the eyes of "America's most original man of letters" you become the pleasantest thing in the world, an amateur of people. If you are not a crabby her mit you'll declare this the jol liest, humanest book in the .world. Mr. Holiday's books are for sale in all bookshops, PEEPS AT PEOPLE, BROOME STREET STRAWS, WALKING STICK PAPERS, the best of company wherever you go. Want a present for a man? Give him PEEPS AT PEOPLE Book Shops IB H ffl w H lm . U 1 1 1 Ea PEEPS HT PEOPLE Ii() I Bftt"' About Birds and the War and Heroes and Heroines and Other Things ,T. Walker MeSpndden, who Is one of the most popular of "popularizers," nnd vho has condensed Shakespeare and Dickens niiiK opera librettos and many another author of Interest, lias fol lowed his customary method of concise . nHnl,trt nABA,nU.. In "Tl,n Ttnvn' ,T-l. fIUl 111. JIl.-ICIIKIltUU W -fc.. ....,. . Hook of Famous Soldiers." Among his Mibjerts are Washington, Orant. Lee, Napoleon, Wellington, Gordon, lloljerts. Kitchener, nnd of the recent -world war, Hnig, Joffre, Koch and Tershing. Mr McSpadden incorporates n good deal of useful information, carefully verified, and his book, while written in , readable style, is vcr free from "hero- izing" or the kind of mnwkishness thnt such books are singularly liable to. The field of Charles II. I. Johnston's ' Famous OeneralR of the Oreat War." an the title indicates, is more restrict ed than that of Mr. McSpaddcu's work. And Mr. Johnston just can't help sen timentalizing. His stories, which urc full of interesting data and rich in an ecdotes of the subjects, very often read like the nterngp Sunday newspaper sup plement's flowery nnd extravagant character sketches of personalities which have plunged into the news. Doubtless niilitnry nnd political critics will take exception to some of Mr, Johnston's appraisals. The fault, if indeed this is a fault, in Mr. Johnston's book is that it has no sense of the rompnrative-all is superlntive. Rut lots of people want their heroes 100 per cent or nothiug, nnd Mr'. Johnston will satisfy them with his percentages. It might be pointed out that his estimate of Field Marshal French, for instance, will not be con curred in by the majority of Uritish military men or statesmen ; his attacks on the dead Kitchener have stirred a big row in British urnij circles, and former Premier Asquith, who was at the head of the government over the period when French was failing in Flanders and France (for which he was supersedeil by-Tlaig), has discredited much of the marshal's claims made in his lately pub lished war book. In addition to such predominant personalities of the war as Joffre. Foch, Albert of Belgium, Fersh ing. Haig and Diaz, sketches, very val uable, are given of Petain. Alleuby. DTspery. De rnstelnnu, Jan Smuts, Stanlej 'Maude and Julian Pjng. In "The Ilovs' Book of Battles" Chelsea Curtis Fraser tells interestingly the stories of eleven famous land com bats. They include Bunker Hill. Sara toga, Yorktown, Au-terlitz. Waterloo, Gettysburg, Sedan, Ypres, Verdun, sec ond Mnrne, Argnuuc-Meuse. The book is well illustrated. "Thornton Burgess's Book of Birds" tells In the familiar nnd easy-to-read stle of this favorite writer for the ouuger children the life stories of tome of our best-known nnd bet-loved na tive birds. .Louis Agajssiz Puerto, one of the masters of ornithological art. fur nishes a liberal supply of lifelike illus trations, many of them in color. "Singing Onmes for Children" are written by Eleanor Farjeon, who bases her games on fairy leinds and stories of nature. Full directions arc given for staging the several pieces and the metri cal text is lilornlly- interspersed with singable ltrics. .1. Littlejohns. It. A... has. supplied some very charming pic tures in colors. A classic much beloved by the Ital ian children is made available for their American cousins in "The Little Lead Soldier." The story which the writer. Anna Franchi. has written about the toy is full of liveliness, od adventure, and it is told with engaging simplicilv and with much literary distinction. S. F. Woodrull. who has turned it into English for -the first time, hns to his credit an ndmirable translation, and the illustrations by Hattic L. Price arc ef fective. - I "Pioneers of America" tells in easy going story form, yet with historical accuracj, some hero-tales of the da.s I when America was Jint the great re- public thnt it lias grown to be. but was I a wilderness offering opportunity to the brave and brawny and brainy to new out a new nation. La Salle, Boone, Pontine, Lewis nnd Clark and other well-known figures of the early dajs appear in the pages. The authors art Albert Blaisdell and F. K. Ball, both well-known writers for the joungcr generation. "Billy Vanilla" had a real name of William McMillan. His friends were the Shaggy Boy, with hjs woollv things for cold weather; the Boy a Thousand Years Old. who knew almost every thing; the Man With the Red Whiskers, who was as good and kind as he was strong; the Little Old Lady, who wasn't so very old nftcr all; Little Silver Locks, just a gTT-1. but a likable oue, and Carlo, that had to have a nart in and of even thing, even the cream caramels. There were many snowbirds aud some other birds, more dogs than Carlo, nnd even some wolves, aud one big red bull that fortunately was a coward. These children hunted fur buried- treasure -organized a cru sade, went in search of the North Pole, and figured in some very exciting times A delightful story for bojs and girls from live to ten. LOYS' DOOK OF FAMOUS SOLDIERS. By . J Walker McSpadden. New YorK. T V ( rouell Co FAMWS QUNEHALS OF THK OUEAT WAn n Charles K. L. Johnston. Boj- I mi Th rns" Co. EOYS- 1'OOK OF I1ATTLF.S- By ChelM-l ( urtu 1 raser. new ioik: i. l . rowen Co THORNTON' BURGESS'S BOOK OF BIRDS U Thornton W Burgess. Boston, Little, Brown & Co THE LITTT.1: LEAD SOLDIER. By Anna Franchi 1'hlladelphla-. Tenn Publishing Co 1 Ml BILLY VANILLA. By S N. Sheridan. Boston. Lathrop, Lee & SheparU Co. $1 5 G1HLS- BOOK OF THE RED CROSS By Mary K. Hde Ntw York: T Y Crowtil ''I. SINdlKQ OAMES FOR CHILDREN. By Eleanor Farjeon New York: E V Dut- ton Co PIONEERS- Or AMF.lilCA. Bv Albert W. Ulatsdell and Franrls K. Hall Boston- Utile. Brown . Co II ULLD ARN W. A. FRASER, Author of MOOSWA, FOOL'S GOLD, etc. "Thrilling episodes in the ca reer of a law-defying latter day Robin Hood of the Northern frontier the most reckless of modern adventur ers." Philadelphia North American , Fourth Edition Now Ready GEORGE H. Publishers DORAN COMPANY New York EY w 1 . Sgt. JFoolcott Writes Dough boy's Book on Doughboys. Other War Books From the risks nnd rlsqucrles of Broadway, where he was ' a first nighter employed by a newspaper to 'analyze, criticise nnd maybe deodorize the now shows for the advice nnd In formation of the public, Alexander AVoolcott, by virtue of the astonishing mutations of the war, found himself In Paris and nt the various fronts ns a reporter for The Stars and Stripes, tile official weekly of the A. E. V. In "The Command is Forward." Mr. Woolcott has irathered from the files of the Stars and Stripes a number of,1 articles written with the newspaper man's keenness of observation and surety of impression. He had especially favorable auspices under which to do his war reporting as the field corres pondent of the A. E. i official news paper, and made so much of his oppor tunities that this anthology of what he considers best worth preservation of his writings as a member of its staff makes one of the most human books of the war, a distinction which It shares with u book on the enrlier phases of tho career of the A, E, F. by his fellow Gotham dramatic critic, Hcywood Broun. Mr. Woolcott has written no work on strategy, no chronicle of battles that already seem long ago, but a very lively,, vivid scries of stories in which contemporaneousness and human, inter est vie for predominance, "Why We Fought" is the arguments of an ex-nrmy captain In faor of the league of nations. It is rather slight in material and tcxturo but presents, in the word of' ex-President Tnft, who agreeably introduces the author, "the testimony of a witness who was u sol (lTer on tho fighting front." "Helping France" tells the inspir- ing story of the reconstructive work of the American Red Cross in the devas tated areas of the battle-torn country. The story is graphically narrated by Iluth Gaines, who wns n member of tho Smith College lied Cross unit. She is remembered for her other books, "A Villa in Picardy." and "The Village Shield." "Uncle Sam. Fighter." gives an account, partly" Impressionistic and partly statistical, of the vigor of deter mination, aud energv of enterprise with which the United States drafted, equipped, trained, cared for and utilized the great army of uenrly 4.000.000 men which wns the determining factor in winning the war for the salvation of civilisation. The civilian ns well as the military aspects nnd workings of the great war mnchinc are concisely stated bv the author, William Atherton Dupuy, Sartwell Prentice. D. D.. out of his experience as a Red Cross chaplain with the Americans in France, hns written a graphic book describing the war from an individual angle. lie calls it "Padre." nnd very rightly, for it is permeated with the atmosphere which is part of tho personality of n welt beloved minister of the gospel. His book is simple and sincere and it gives a good idea of what a chaplalu does in war, a subject on which many persons arc somewhat ignorant. "The Amerionn Front." by Ernest Pcivotto, who during the war was a captaiu of engineers assigned to repro ducing in paintings and drawings the multifold scenes of tho war. especially as they concerned the American forces nnd activities, prints by authority of the War Department a number of his striking drawings, which arc supple mented by text equally facile and graceful. Elsie Janis tells in jolly fnshion of her career as an A. E. F. entertainer in her book. "The Big Show." Miss Janis, canceling all her theatrical enter tainments, entcied heartily into the work of entertaining our soldiers in Fiauce, and gave more tlinn tiOO con certs. "The Soul of tho C. R. 11.." by Mme. Saint Rene Taillnudier, is the story of the American Commission for Relief in Belgium and northern France, a story that will always glow brightly ou the pages of American history tor its service nnd sacrifice. Coming, as it does, from the pen of a noted French woman, the tribute is all the more ef fective. These books view the war from many angles, and in nearly every case aro the record of personal participation. Any of them would be admirable for Christmas giving, and most of them would bo permanently tieasured. THfJ SOUL OP THE C. R. B. By M'adarne Saint R"ne Tilllandler New York: Charles Scrlbner's Sons. SI. 7.1. THE COMMAND IS FORWARD. By Alexan der -Wooirott New York: The Century PADRE. By" Sartwell Prentice. New .York: E. P Dutton & Co $2 UNCLE SAM. FIOHTER. Bv W A. Dupuy. New York: F. A Stokes Co. SI. SO. HELl'INO FRANCE. By Ruth (mines. Now York: IS. P. Dutton i. Co, $2 WHY WE FOUOHT Bv T. O. Chamberlain. New York: Slnemlllaii Co. 1. THK BIO SHOW. Bv Elsie Janis. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp. $1 oO. THE AMERICAN FRONT. By Ernest Pelxrtto. New York Charles Sorlbners Sons. Symbolism of Wpmen's Clothes .Teunette Lee says the idea for her now honk. "The Rnincoat Girl." origi nated from the problem of fashions aud women's clothes. "I suddenly realized one day." she writes her publishers, '.'that, far from being trivinl and ephemeral, fashions and women's cloth ing are vitally significant indices of deeper, social conditions. The thought came to me nb a kind of Sartor Resnr tus, turnrd other end trf. The fashions of the 'COs, with their crinoline and ringlets, were so thoroughly typical of the spirit that spread itself in Fourth of .Tulv oratory nnd the windy ideal ism of Brook Farm. Where fashions rh'aneo oftenest and with the most an parent caprice, I discovered, there is the fullest life. Fashions in the Rain coat Town of my story change, oh,-so slowly. From this idea tho story arose." LOVE LAUGHS S. G. Tallentyre One hundred years have passed since love laughed over the un expeced ending of this tale. Yet its charm and quaint beauty remain as pleasing, its crinoline as fresh, its square rigged ships as swift and graceful as on that memorable day when Captain King waited in the wet shrubbery for Camilla to come and the story to begin. At All Boohtllen. GEORGE H DORAN COMPANY m IsMiiNf ; ', ijfpm MHsBWBMwcZ5PisHsi.isisisissB CAPTAIN ERNEST PEIXOTTO Wlioso official war pictures are re produced In "The American Front" NOVEL OF NIPPON FuiabaleVs Work First Native Fiction to Be Englished An inslght.jnto Japanese customs nnd domestic life is given, in "An Adopted Husband" ("Sono Omokagc").. which Is n translation from the Japanese of Futnbatei by' Buhachlro Mitsui nnd Gregg M. Sinclair. Tctsuya Ono Is the adopted husband, a figure common enough In Japan, but singular to occidental minds. Aud the other points of 'the 'triangle nre Tet suya's wife, Toki-ko, and his wife's sister, Sayo-ko. Tctsuya turns, finally, from the nag ging of his avaricious wife to the shy love of Sayo-ko, whom Toki-ko had oppressed and abused and finally tried to eject from the shelter of the only homo she know. ' Then it is that Toki-ko awakens to a realization of the folly of her atti tude toward an honest husband and es says toaiin him back. Sa.o-ko. unable to forget that Toki-ko is her sister, sac rifices herself aud her love with the phlegm which seems so characteristic of the .Tnpanese in these crises and takes herself beyond the reach of Tctsuya. The now wretched lover tries to restore his own self-respect nnd his regard for Tokf-ko, but fails, nnd the close of the book finds him a voluntary outcast. "An Adopted Husband is mildly in teresting, but, like so many translations, has doubtless lost much of its power in tho translating, which, if mnv seem to some readers, is not as skillfully done as the book perhaps deserves. This i .described as the very first Japanese novel to be Englished. AN' ADOPTED H"SRAND. TninFjltinn from the Jnpnneaf of Futabatel Bv B, Mitsui and GreKB M Sinclair. Nev. York: .Alfred A Knopf. 1"8. Robert Cortes v Holliday Author of "Walking Stick Papers;" Etc. Haveyou a Broadway mind? A Fifth Ave nue habit of thought? A Wall Street point of view? A Bowery man ner? A 125th Street cast of culture? 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