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DECEMBER 12, 1922
SOME NEW NOVELS WORTH WHILE
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A Storehouse of Pleasant Memories
Ne ( ENTERTAINMENT is se cheap at reading, no pleamrt
te lasting. Who dots net recall with joy tone hook read
long age but never forgotten, ht characters are old friends, the
semes places you have been, and the ideat fused kte your own.
Oxford books are a storehouse of such pleasant memories.
THB WITCH-CULT IN WESTERN EUROPE
'By Margaret Auch Murray rf3 33
A care&I unmjudiad turv? of European witiheraft with most interr
ing account of the omriMUen, ceremonies, rite, etc. The urieus retder
ertErdi" boefc hrope!ogy mil find this in many wtp ia
THREE STUDIES IN SHELLEY
9y Archibald T. Streng 3 50
"It is jW such studies , tf,ese whith will rate ,he poet te his righ&l
pUc. in the genewl regard. It fa net the lent of Professer Stret: A merits
that he rtawem the value of fundamental brain work in poetry!" New
Yerk Timts. '
WILTSHIRE ESSAYS
&y Maurice Hbwlbtt ejt 2 20
"Mr. Hewlett's essays dMTer from ether well-writtcn specimens of 'the
genre In that he has hved his cssavs, net merely written them. mUihtn
tsstp het ofthestecerest books of the century.'' ThtAreenaut
A MUSICAL PILGRIM'S PROGRESS
By J. D. M. Reara cN,l ! J0
TSj ta ' ne7me'. ,eveI!',tJl that leads from the unformed
duldish moments of first daDytmn with musk te these of man'e complete
eomprehensien of the meaaug of melody as n authentic voice of life."
Ne Yerk Trtbunt.
THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND WORLD PEACE
By the Hen. Newton W. Rewell wrt 3.50
Mr. Rewell's thesis is the importance of cooperation for peace both inter,
nationally and internally, and he tpcalts enthusiastically for the League of
Nadens. He also finds the continuance of the British Empire, rather
than its disintegration, necessary te a World settlement.
THE ENGLISH MADRIGAL COMPOSERS
By Edmund Herace Fellowes 5.00
"Dr. FellewM has given us back the greatest music England has ever
produced, he has shown as no one else has, the wonderful variety of ex
pression of things grave and gay contained in it; and he has placed his
wide knowledge at the disposal of every student." Londen Times,
e4t all booksellers or from the publishers
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ir a Deauuiui yeutiff woman appealed te veu
te find her husband's body and his murderer, and
you, thinking the husband dead would you be
justified in falling in love with the "distressed
I damesel"? This is only one of the many problems
confronting Mark Brenden. Scotland Yard detfir.Hv
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THE RED REDMAYNES
A new novel of romance and mystery
by
EDEN PHILLPOTTS
Auther of "The Grey Roem"
$2.00 at all bookstores or from
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 64-66 Fifth Avenue New Yerk
DR. ALBERT SHAW, Editor of The Review of Reviews,
calls it: "The most extraordinarily interesting book I have
passed under my eye for years."
Beasts, Men and Gods
By FERDINAND' OSSENDOWSKI
Have you read this' amazing book?
De net miss it!
Send it te some man or woman for Christmas, as some
thing at once unique and distinguished.
It Is the people who have read the book who arc using such
book of astounding, breath-taking, enthralling adventure" (Times)
"Ne novel could held the thrills of this true book" (Bcnj. Musser).
EUGENE S. BAGGER writes: "It is the most stupendous and mag.
nificent thing I have read in a long while."
At nil bookstores, $3.00, postage extra.
E. P. DUTTON & CO., 681 Fifth Ave., New Yerk
The Life and Letters
of Walter H. Page
War Ambassador te England
By Burten J. Hendrick
Frem a
portrait by
Laszle
"Once in a long while comes a book of such magnitude
of importance that one wants te herald it with a blare
of trumpets te shout from the house tops news about
it. Such a work is the recently published 'The Life and
Letters of Walter H. Page.' " Chicago Daily News.
Price, per set of S Vels., $10
Limited de luxe edition, Price, $25
(only a few sets left)
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DONN BYRNE
The wlelder of a mnflc pen In his
second novel
DONN BYRNE'S MAGIC
It s Used with Telling Effect in
a Tale About Hew "The
Wind Bleweth"
"The Wind Bleweth" (The Century
Company), by Denn Byrne, Is mnde of
the some rnnglc that filled his cnrller
book, "Mcsser Mnrce l'ole." In the
creation of sheer glamour there nre few
living nutuers writing in the Kngli.su
tongue who are his equal.
The story starts with Shane Camp
bell, an Irish lad, going up a mountain
in County Antrim en his fourteenth
birthday te see Dancing Town "the
mirage of Pertcausey the Isle e
Ne Land at All and the Swinging City,
and they were te be seen In the blue
heat haze ever the sea from the Moun
tain of Fionn
Llttle Shane gees te sea in a sailing
ship at his earliest opportunity, full of
wonder and half hoping te find Danc
ing Town or Fiddler's Green, as the
sailermen call it. In time he becomes
master of bis own trading bhip and the
story of his jeumcylngs and the lands
and peoples he comes te knew Is full of
the meA bewildering richness and color.
However, the real theme lies deeper
than mere surface enchantment. "In
his boyhood he had known the wonder
of life. In youth he had known there
existed sordid tragedy. In young man
hood passion hnd crnshed like light
ning " and at length when he is
beginning te be an old man his wife
nays te him, "I knew three things
Here is this dim room, with the red of
the fire turning te a gentle yellow
I knew that kindly Ced lives, thnt I
love you, Shane, and thut we shall net
die.
In short, Mr. Byrne knows that there
Is a poignant beauty in the adventures
of the soul ns well as in the romance
of strange lands. In the accepted sense
of the word Mr. Byrne is certainly net
a realist, but he comes very close te life
and admirably succeeds in his effort te
"capture the elusive, unbearable nehe
that is the mainspring of humanity."
Terhaps because he writes net only
about facts, but about dreams.
AN UNTAMED BUCKSKIN
AMERICA:
A FAMILY MATTER
By CHARLES W. GOULD
"The best as well as the most recent study of the
effect of a mixture of races upon a country."
DR. c. B. DAVENPORT in Science.
Illustrated. ?3.00.
CHARLES SCRIINEft'S SONS, Fifth Avenue, New Yerk
The Chronicles of Queen Make
a Worthwhile Animal Story
Once in a blue moon f-eme Inspired
author writes an "animal btery" that
is worth while. This is net meant te
Include the liibterlcul or zoological type
of Roberts or Bull or Terhune, but
n story that can weave comedy and
pathos into the everyday life of a
dumb brute. Herace Mvcrlght, with
his usual enthusiasm, has proclaimed
David Grew's "Beyond Repe nid
Fence" ns the best nnimitl story since
Jack Londen's "Call of the Wild."
And here Mr. Livcright is net over
stating, although I1I1 firm, Benl &
Llverlght are the publisher.
In ninny respects Mr. Grew has
passed the heights set by the late
author of "Jehn Barleycorn" in his
story of the life and adventures of
Queen, an untnmed llttle buckskin of
the then limitless prairies.
Much of the story is taken up In
telling of Queen's long fight te keen
nway from the domination of her arch
enemy, man. Just why she feels this
n version te her two -legged fee is set
out in a succinct mm convincing man
ner, tind when Mr. Grew portrays the
finnl eanture of CJiiccn there is a bob
of svmnathv from the reader.
It is in this "breaking In" that
human1 muke their only appearance In
the story and Mr. Grew shows tell
ingly the lnck of thought with which
they inflict upon dumb brutes.
"Jleyend Hone ana ionce is wertn
while in every Hue. It is colorful.
It Is Interesting and it is unusual in
its subject matter and its treatment.
ASPECTS OF MODERN
BIOLOGY CONSIDERED
Te the valuable series of "Mone
graphs en Experimental Biology" has
been added "Injury, Recovery nnd
Death" (J. B. I.Ippincett company),
The author Is W. J. V. Osterhout.
professor of botany nt Harvard Uni
versity, nnd in this volume be endenvera
te treat certain aspects of biology ac
cording te the method of the exact sci
ences. His volume, he points out, is
confined in its treatment te certain
fundamental problems which he has
studied quantitatively."
Dr. Osterhout's researches nnd stud
ies of the preblcnw hne led te a theory
of some ntpeclh of iniury, reeeveiy and
death, as well as of antagonism nnd
permenbility. He states that behavior
of organisms studied rn'iy in these re
spects be predicted with a satisfactory
degree of accuracy by means of the
equations which he has developed te
expren his theory in mathematical
form.
While this is n book for the special
ist, It discusses its matter in clear lan
guage and should prove a useful sum
mation of certain aspects of biology,
in the modern sense, for general renders
who wish te keep informed of the latest
Ideas In science.
A Little-Known Secretary
One of the effects of 'Tarty Battles
of the Jacksen Period," by Claude G
Bewers, published by Houghten Mif
flin Cempnny, is te bring into nromi nremi
nent relief former Secretary eP State
Jehn Forsyth, who bus beceme dim en
the pages of history. The fact that
Forsyth was the minister in Madrid
who negotiated the purchase of Flerida,
was for several years considered the
most able debater In the .Senate, pre
vented Georgia from going with Seuth
Carolina Inte the nullification move
mint, directed the affairs of (lie Stnte
Department through the France-American
crisis, niul served for six years
as Secretary of State, U little known.
In the preparation of his work Mr.
Bewers eame into possession of the
portfolio in which lie carried his papers
te the palace of Ferdinand in Madrid
while negotiating for Flerida and a
number of letters written by him In th
twenties and thirties.
A BACHELOR'S JOB
Ferman In 'The Man Who Lived
in a Shee' Telia Hew He
Rese te It
Transformation of a rather dreamy
and colorless life, thnt of a bachelor
scholar and bibliophile, into one of
vivid realization of personal responsi
bility and the imperative need of
mingling in the affairs et the world,
gives Henry James Ferman oppor
tunity for the telling of a whimsical
story, which he docs in a delightfully
whimsical manner in a novel he calls
"The Man Who Lived in a Shoe"
(Little, Brown & Ce.)
In autegraphical form, that is, In
n sort of intermittent diary, Randelph
Byrd, literary recluse, narrates the up--set
caused lnhls sclf-ccntcred exist
ence by bis only sister's death. The
iiruntlen of the lattcr's three little
children, two boys and a girl, Inte his
apartments, is the' cause of the meta
morphosis of an erudite young book
work into a real human being nnd one
whose inborn romantic nature is fully,
theush nt first unconsciously, devel
eped through contact with the little
mowers nciper suppuea 10 me
harassed young bachelor by an orphans'
home.
That's where the romance begins. It
would be unfair te the render te tell
in advance Jist hew it ends. The
"villain" part of this charming life
drama is supplied by the husband of
the schelnr's bister, who, having de
serted her sevcrnl yenrs before the be
ginning of the story, returns Just in
time te make trouble in the household
of the transformed bookworm and also
te prove the mettle of the man sud
denly catapulted from the snug com
panienship of his beloved volumes inf
tne pest or overseeing ana canng ier
bis infant nephews and niece and their
scarcely elder "mother's helper."
Randelph Byrd's first essay into the
DusmesH world is net n snming success,
but he has n certain obstinacy of tem
perament, for all his erudition, thnt will
plensc the red-blooded men renders of
"The Man Who Lived in a Shee," and
at the same time win the approbation of
women who delight in Just the sort of
ebstlnncy that is an outstanding feature
of the character of Mr. Ferman's en
gaging, if whimsical, here.
THE SPEAKABLE TURK
Zia Bey Says Something in
"Speaking of the Turks"
Few voices, cither of interest or au
thority, have been raised te give the
"lde of the Turk In the Near Knst
maelstrom. Therefore the Unspeakable
Turk has become a fixed figure in the
general mind. It is the Otteman's side
of his home life, of his ideals and of
what he terms his persecution by Chris
tinn peoples, thnt Mufty-Znde K. Zia
Bey has written in "Speaking of the
Turks" (Dufflcld Company).
This Turk, the son of a former Turk
ish Ambassador te the Court of St.
James, appenrs rather in the role of a
protagonist than of n propagandist.
His little volume would be noteworthy
as a striking picture of Oriental life,
even with the accepted motive, one
which Zia Bey makes no effort te con
ceal. Ills argument is that the Turks
are net ns block as they have been
painted ; thnt much of the gqre of mas
sacres has been manufactured by self
seeking relief workers nnd thnt as far
as relief Itself gees, the Turks have
been permitted te suffer misery untold
without aid, even as compared te the
admitted tribulations of the Greeks nnd
Armenians.
Fer the Greeks, Armenians nnd
Levantines, Zia Bey has little or no
use. His premise is that the Turks
want te mnke progress, that thev are
grndually accepting "westernization,"
but thnt it must be grndual and net
enforced. However, little of political
argumentation mnrks the book and
there its' chief beauty lies.
The author unrratics his return te
Constantinople, after two j ears' ab
sence, with his bride, nn American girl
from New Orleans. He pictures the
beauty of Constantinople ns it was re
vealed te him and shown te her for
the first time. Te Stnmbeul, te Pera,
at Ercnkuey they go and the home life
of the high caste Turk is revealed.
The harem is shown, net as a place of
debauchery but as the real gatherinp
nlnee of the fumily clan.
The Turk Is certainly net lily white.
But he deserves a hearing and he hardly
could find a mere nersunslve or inter
esting minstrel than this author. Inci
dentally Zia Bey makes n plea for tome
American novelist of attainments te co
te Turkey, imbibe its atmosphere, learn
us customs ana men give us message
te this country, as Leti did in France.
DENHAM'S MEMOIRS
OF THE MEMORABLE
Sir James Denham, who hns been s
fortunate as te knew muny of .the great
of lils time, has written n book of recol
lections full of intimate gossip, which
he) calls "Memoirs of the Memorable"
(Geerge II. Dornn Company). Among
the men nbeut whom he writes are Dis
raeli, Gladstone, Swinsurne, Browning,
Kitchener, Sir Henry Inlng, the Em
press Eugenie and King Charles of Ru
mania. Ha Rnn aAmA rtmn fn TlAm n l.f
..... WV...U l.U.U ... V.UIT , Jill,
youth nnd he became acquainted there
mu v. v. oiery nna nis family. lie
knew the eons, Julinn nnd Walde, and
Walde, who paid a hundred pounds n
year irimue te tne engnnas for immu
nity en his hunting trips. Mulen were
used nH tnnnntu Stir .tnm.e ,Aliu i.
en ene of the trips he named his mule
uruwiuug "uccnuKp u was net nlways
and Walde's mule was named Swin
burne "because it frequently went
further than was discreet."
xnese quotations show tha spirit of
spirit which Is at once informed and
luiurum. aae doek is ene wnlch will
relax a tired mnn who wishes te listen
tn tfnsuin nhnlif rila AmiiulntiiMua t.
Englishman who has known a number of
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STEWART EDWARD WHITE
Whose latest novel is about what
invention does in the West
OLD FICTION FRIENDS
But Stewart Edward White Puts
Them in Nevel Situations
The author who attempts te ram a
remnnce down the threat of his reader
ns something portentous and gravely
Important has lest half the battle
before he Bpeils the first Inch of his
typewriter ribbon. Stewart Edward
White has a different Idea. His tongue
is in his cheek when be starts out and
ns he blithely unfolds his little story
he has his render galloping gaily along,
chuckling nt thev worthwhile humor,
recognizing friendly characters In
every chapter. And then, just when
every one is in n complacent mood Mr.
White turns the spigot of philosophy
but be gently thnt the stream of geed
advice docs net clog the creek of
enjoyment.
This is his treatment in "On Tip
Tee" (Deran), which is a slightly dif
ferent story, different in that it has
nil the time-tried attributes of the
erdlnarv remnnce the Beautiful Girl
the Here who can de no wrong
the Grouchy Parent the Villnin and
the Comedy Butler whose heart is
True as Geld. Net forgetting the
dogs, the Here Deg, nnd the snapping,
sniveling puppy, who turns out all right
in the end.
The Here comes te the rescue of the
Benutiful Heroine, her Dad and the
Villain in a California weeds. Mr.
Here proves te be the right mnn in
the right place nnd gets the party out
of lets of scrapes. He is an inventor
as well nnd has a chance te make
millions, but the general public; would
suffer. New what should he deV
Of course the reader knows nnd se
does Mr. White nnd it would be unfair
te the author te let any one In en his
secret when the proper way Is te take
"On Tip Tee," nnd spend an evening
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FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Beeks of Fact and Fiction for
Beys, Girls and Small
Children
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written a book of mere appeal for her
ginisn rentiers man "wne is Sylvia?
f Dmihlprtnv. Pnpn & On TIia ..,
opens up en the eighteenth birthday e'f
Sylvia, already endeared te manv
renders, and ill the fine things thnt can
nnppcn te n gin at mat age come Inte
Sylvia's life.
The author of "Paul nnd Rheda."
which had n distinct imlMdunlitv
among books for bejs nnd girls last
vcar, has repeated her excellent per
formance In "A Cerner in William"
(Dedd, Mead & Ce.). Fannie Kil Kil
beurne knows te the Inst fraction the
hopes and Ideals nnd Ideas of boys nnd
girls in their middle teens, nnd in this
story she will please heth genders, for
school, partlei, rivalries and pranks all
combine in a splendid narrative.
"Jeanne" (Penn Publishing Com
pany) is the Initial volume in n new
series bv Aliee Ress Culver, already n
senbened writer for girls. Her heroine
is n French girl living in the North of
France who le.-.t her home nnd family
when the enemy swept that territory.
Her experiences in getting te America
and the happiness she found in the
land of the free make a most readable
story.
Doleres McKenna has written an
other of her "WlddTe Wnddle" books
in ".Mr. Wlddle Waddle Brings the
Family" (Penn Publishing Company).
These boeKn are written ;n n ityle un
derstandable by children just learning
te read and tell their stores In inter
esting fashion. There are a number
of attractive illustrations In color.
"Th Ai?rntnrs nf THiri-leilv n.n"
(Little, Brown & Ce.) is the wondrous
tale of the merriest clown in all the
world nnd Ills adventures in clrciiBlntul.
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