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habitants. They bear the hall-mark of the folk-tale in every sentence; the style is simplicity itself, exactly what is necessary for the setting forth of a folk-tale. The illustrations, thirty-two, in color, are by George Sheringham.

"Benton of the Royal Mounted", by Sergeant Ralph S. Kendall of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, is the story of "Benton", embodying the author's personal experience of bygone life in the "Old Force". It is founded on facts, and is alive with stirring adventure.

Maria Thompson Daviess, author of "The Golden Bird", was born in the blue-grass region of Kentucky and later became an adopted Tennessean. After her early school days in the South and a course at Wellesley College, Miss Daviess began the study of art in Nashville and subsequently went abroad. She worked in Paris schools of art and went on sketching tours in Holland, Italy, England, and Germany. Several of her miniatures were hung on the line at a Paris salon. Returning to America Miss Daviess opened a studio in Nashville. Her first literary work was some short-stories some short-stories which were inspired by her art student experience abroad. Miss Daviess's first novel, "Selina Sue", was accepted and since that time she has been able to find few minutes for art work. Quite a number of Miss Daviess's books and stories have been dramatized and filmed, and in a number of instances the author has been herself the successful dramatist and scenario writer. Miss Daviess is, in addition, an experienced farmer and authority on domestic science.

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Among the essays of Winifred Kirkland collected under the title, "The Joys of Being a Woman", is one that admirably anticipates her book "The New Death". The essay, called "Difficulties in Doing Without Eternity", written before America's entrance into war, is a satirical study of the logical conclusions of a belief in materialism. "It hardly seems worth while", it says, "to be overfond of relative or friend whom a breath of wind may snuff out like a flame. Why should beings more brittle than beetles go about loving each other as if they were gods?"

"Sketches In Duneland", by Earl H. Reed, continues the stories of the old derelicts living along the beach on the wild coasts of Lake Michigan. There are fourteen illustrations by the author.

Some months ago an officer on leave from the Western Front brought to England a document of peculiar and poignant interest. It was the loveautobiography of an unknown fighter which had been discovered in an abandoned dugout. Beyond the fact that "he" was an Artillery subaltern and that "she" was an American Red Cross worker with the French Armies, there was no clue to the author of the confession or to the identity of the girl to whom it was addressed. And whether he has been killed, wounded or captured no one knows.

These papers, torn and mudstained, were brought to Mr. John Lane, who once before, in the case of "The Ms. in a Red Box", was able to discover a missing author. Mr. Lane at once decided to publish this confession, not only on account of its touching revelation of the heart of this unknown soldier, but in the hope that it may reach and comfort the girl for whom it was intended.

A facsimile page of the manuscript has been included as a frontispiece to the volume, with the hope that it may lead to the unknown soldier's identification.

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"We have read now in books", says Mr. Walpole, "accounts of the policy of the Tsar, the first magnificence of Kerensky and his later weakness, the disintegration in the army, the speeches and opinions of Lenine, Trotsky, and the rest, but what we have not read as yet are the things that the man who sells pies in Ellisseieff's, the provision-shop in the Nevsky, thought of it; how the ladies who collected tickets on the trams looked at the changing manners and customs of their passengers; what the boys who ran up and down the switch-back railway on the farther side of the Neva said when they saw a famous general shovelling the snow for a rouble an hour. I do not say that Miss Buchanan has actually informed us of those particular things, but I do say that she has given us a picture of human, private life under the pressure of vast historical events that is precious and permanent in its value."

Mary Carolyn Davies, author of "The Drums In Our Street", first wrote verse as a means of increasing the circulation of her high school magazine. The board of high school editors was finding it extremely difficult to interest the students in their

publication. Miss Davies, who was then only in the first year of high school, hit upon a scheme which saved the day. She went from room to room writing rhymes on the blackboard.

"I suppose this was the beginning of my discovery of the power of words and rhyme", Miss Davies says, "though before that, when I was a child, I used to print by hand a newspaper for our dolls, using the wrap

ping paper that came around the S. G. Hanson, the author of

groceries, and writing part in rhyme and part in prose. I still have some copies of that doll's newspaper, and I can well believe the theory set forth recently by an English writer that the reader is at the writer's end of the pen', when I remember the thrill that came to me from editing daily for those uncomplaining

a dolls."

Miss Grace A. Turkington's new book, "My Country", has for its aim ideal citizenship, true patriotism, and an understanding love of country. From storylike incidents and illustrations the author, in simple and interesting style, gives the child an outline of our governmental system. The child's viewpoint prevails throughout.

In the October-December "Unpopular Review" the old fallacy about "the wicked town and the moral country" is pretty thoroughly exploded. It is shown that the Godmade country often is not fit to live in until it has become man-made, and that the cities of the United States furnish far more than their proportion of taxes, soldiers and churchgoers while the rural districts lead them in homicides, suicides, divorces and congressmen, the last named repeatedly legislating in favor of the country and against the cities. In "The Wine-Bibber and the Pharisees" a writer calls the Women's Christian Temperance Union "a society engaged in inculcating the sinfulness of what Christ did . . . Prohibitionists are ashamed of Jesus", and elsewhere "The Pilgrims Progress' is not fit reading for Christians if the Prohibitionists are to establish moral standards."

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"Commercial Egg Farming", went into the work of work of egg farming in British Columbia, where he had been for several years engaged in general farming. He decided to go into the specialized business because he thought the labor necessary in general farming out of all proportion to the results obtained. At the end of several successful years, when he was producing and marketing for cash $100,000 worth of eggs yearly, the labor situation in British Columbia became acute and he sold his farm there and went to England, where he has since been equally successful. The book describes in compact form the methods that he has found produce the best results. It has been edited for American readers by William A. Lippincott, professor of poultry husbandry in the Kansas State Agricultural College, who says in his introduction that the principles set forth in the little volume are as true for America as for England and that study of it ought to benefit the poultry industry of this country.

Mrs. Katherine Taylor Craig, whose "The Fabric of Dreams" was published in the latter part of the summer, died of influenza in her home in New York a few weeks ago. Mrs. Craig was one of the most widely known students of occult matters in the United States.

"Lanterns in Gethsemane", a book of poems by Willard Wattles, a new poet, is now ready. Mr. Wattles, who is a Kansan, presents a sequence of poems that aims to interpret the essential truths of Christ's teaching in terms of modern life and thought.

BRIEF MENTION OF NEW BOOKS

Fiction

Skipper John of the Nimbus, by RAYMOND MCFARLAND [Macmillan, $1.50].

A story of Gloucester fishermen. Wilbur Crane's Handicap, by JOHN MAXWELL FORBES, illus. [Sully, $1.35].

The tale of an innocent man under prison sentence.

Six Feet Four, by JACKSON GREGORY [Dodd, Mead, $1.50].

A story of the Western mountains. Camilla, by ELIZABETH ROBINS [Dodd, Mead, $1.601.

A love-story dealing with England and America.

The Years for Rachel, by BERTA RUCK, illus. [Dodd, Mead, $1.50].

The story of a long engagement. The Soul of Susan Yellam, by HORACE ANNESLEY VACHELL [Doran, $1.50].

The story of an English vicarage in wartime.

The Girl He Left Behind, by HELEN BEECHER LONG, illus. [Sully, $1.35].

A tale of war and business.

Patty-Bride,

by CAROLYN WELLS,

[Dodd, Mead].

illus.

Another story of the "Patty" series. That Which Hath Wings, by RICHARD DEHAN [Putnam, $1.60].

A picture of society before and during the war.

There Was a King in Egypt, by NORMA LORIMER [Brentano's, $1.50].

An account of an Englishman's search for a king's treasure.

Richard Baldock, by ARCHIBALD MARSHALL [Dodd, Mead, $1.50].

A story of English country life. Willow, the Wisp, by ARCHIE P. MCKISHNIE [Houghton Mifflin, $1.35].

A tale of the Canadian woods.

The Lonely Stronghold, by MRS.
REYNOLDS [Doran, $1.35].

BAILLIE

The romance of an English girl in search of adventure.

Bruce of the Circle, A, by HAROLD TITUS, illus. [Small, Maynard, $1.35].

A ranch story of the Southwest. Something That Begins with "T", by KAY CLEAVER STRAHAN, illus. [Small, Maynard, $1.35].

The romance of a girl's personality and

career.

The Panama Plot, by ARTHUR B. REEVE [Harpers, $1.40].

A new Craig Kennedy detective story. The Island of Mystery, by G. A. BIRMINGHAM [Doran, $1.50].

A story about an island in the Aegean Sea.

The Blue Germ, by MARTIN SWAYNE [Doran, $1.50].

An account of two scientists' experiments with a germ.

Mrs. Marden's Ordeal, by JAMES HAY, JR. [Little, Brown, $1.50].

The story of a mysterious murder. Ransom! by ARTHUR SOMERS ROCHE [Doran, $1.35].

A detective story dealing with a plot involving the national currency.

The Crack in the Bell, by PETER CLARK MACFARLANE, illus. [Doubleday Page, $1.40].

A story of love and politics in a great American city.

The Valley of the Giants, by PETER B. KYNE, illus. [Doubleday Page, $1.40].

A romance of the Redwoods.

The Merry Heart, by HELEN RAYMOND ABBOTT [Century, $1.40].

A tale of a New England girl. Mam'selle Jo, by HARRIET T. COMSTOCK, [Doubleday Page, $1.40].

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A novel of French-Canadian life. Firecracker Jane, by ALICE CALHOUN HAINES [Holt, $1.50].

A romance of the United States army on the Mexican border.

The Magnificent Ambersons, by BoOTH TARKINGTON, illus. [Doubleday Page].

A novel of family and town life through several generations.

Whispering Wires, by HENRY LEVERAGE [Moffat, Yard, $1.50].

A mystery story of the war.

Wolves of the Sea, by RANDALL PARRISH [McClurg, $1.40].

A tale of Spanish buccaneers.

The Gods of Mars, by EDGAR RICE BUR-
ROUGHS [McClurg, $1.35].

The adventures of a man in Mars.
MRS. HUMPHRY

Elizabeth's Campaign, by

WARD [Dodd, Mead, $1.50].

A story of English life today.

Children of the Dear Cotswolds, by L. ALLEN HARKER [Scribners, $1.50].

Twenty related stories of the Cotswold region.

Simple Souls, by JOHN HASTINGS TURNER [Scribners, $1.35].

The romance of a duke and a shop-girl. "Firebrand" Trevison, by CHARLES ALDEN SELTZER, illus. [McClurg, $1.40].

The story of a Western feud.

The Unknown Wrestler, by H. A. CODY [Doran, $1.50].

A story of love and adventure. The Glorious Hope, by JANE BURR [published by the author].

The story of a girl in search of a career. A Man and a Woman, by DALE DRUMMOND [Britton, $1.35.]

Revelations of a doctor's wife and a minister's wife.

The Spinners, by EDEN PHILLPOTTS [Macmillan, $1.60].

A mill story with the theme of a boy's hatred for his father.

Once on the Summer Range, by FRANCIS HILL [Macmillan, $1.50].

A tale of life on a Montana sheep ranch. The World to Live In, by W. CAREY WONDERLY [Moffat, Yard, $1.50].

The romance of a country girl in New York.

Heart's Haven, by CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM, illus. [Houghton Mifflin, $1.50].

The romance of a village beauty. The Peace of Roaring River, by GEORGE VAN SCHAICK, illus. [Small, Maynard, $1.50]. A story of the Canadian North. Out of the Silences, by MARY E. WALLER [Little, Brown, $1.50].

A romance of present-day Canada. Skyrider, by B. M. BOWER [Little, Brown, $1.40].

A narrative of ranch life.

The War-Workers, by E. M. DELAFIELD [Knopf, $1.50].

A satire on a certain type of woman war-worker.

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The Hills of Refuge, by WILL N. HARBEN [Harpers, $1.50].

The story of a young man's fight for business success and personal happiness. The Winds of Chance, by REX BEACH, illus. [Harpers, $1.50]. of the gold-rush days in

A romance Alaska.

The Close-Up, by MARGARET TURNBULL [Harpers, $1.501.

The adventures of a moving-picture actress.

Foes, by MARY JOHNSTON [Harpers, $1.50].
A tale of the Scottish moors.
Sketches in Duneland, by EARL H. REED,
illus. [Lane, $2.50].

Sketches of the Lake Michigan region. Everyman's Land, by C. N. AND A. M. WILLIAMSON, illus. [Doubleday Page, $1.40]

A novel dealing with famous cities of France.

The Eyes of Asia, by RUDYARD KIPLING [Doubleday Page, $1.00].

Letters written by an East Indian serving in France.

Waif-O-The-Sea, by CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY, illus. [McClurg, $1.40].

The romance of a Yankee's adventures aboard a whaler.

The Black Opal, by MAXWELL GRAY, illus. [Appleton, $1.50].

The story of a mysterious theft. Benton of the Royal Mounted, by RALPH S. KENDALL [Lane, $1.50].

A tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted
Police.
Gitanjali and Fruit Gathering, by RABIN-
DRANATH TAGORE, illus. [Macmillan, $2.50].
A volume containing two of the author's
books.

White Nights and Other Stories, by FYODOR
DOSTOEVSKY [Macmillan, $1.50].

Stories translated from the Russian.

The Red One, by JACK LONDON [Macmillan, $1.40].

Four short stories.

Can Such Things Be? by AMBROSE BIERCE [Boni and Liveright, $1.50].

A collection of mystery stories. Tales of War, by LORD DUNSANY [Little, Brown, $1.25].

Stories based on actual experience. The Adventure of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons, by JAMES FRANCIS THIERRY [Neale]. A humorous detective story. Jimmie the Sixth, by FRANCES R. STERRETT, illus. [Appleton, $1.50].

The romance of a temperamental young

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The Fighting Mascot, by TOMMY KEHOE,
illus. [Dodd, Mead, $1.35].

The true story of a boy soldier.
Finding Themselves, by JULIA C. STIMSON,
M.A., R.N. [Macmillan, $1.25].

Letters of an American nurse from a
British hospital in France.
Winning and Wearing Shoulder Straps, by
CHARLES F. MARTIN [Macmillan, $1.00].

A study of the qualifications of a military leader.

A College Man in Khaki by WAINWRIGHT
MERRILL, edited with an introduction by
Charles H. Stearnes, illus. [Doran, $1.50].
Letters from an American in the British
artillery.

A Red Triangle Girl in France, ANONYMOUS
[Doran, $1.00].

Letters from a canteen worker in France.
Flame
Gas and
in Modern Warfare, by
MAJOR S. J. M. AULD [Doran, $1.351.
The experiences of a Chief Gas Officer.

Fighting the Boche Under Ground, by CAPT. H. D. TROUNCE, F.R.C., illus. and diagrams [Scribners, $1.50].

A record of mining and sapping activities.

Six Red Months in Russia, by LOUISE BRYANT, illus. [Doran, $2.00].

An account of Russia before and during the Proletarian Dictatorship.

Secretary Baker at the Front, by RALPH A.
HAYES, illus. [Century, $1.00].

An account of the War Secretary's journey, by his private secretary.

In Kultured Kaptivity, by IVAN ROSSITER [Bobbs-Merrill].

Experiences in German prison camps and hospitals.

Hate With a Will to Victory, by J. HARTLEY
MANNERS [Kennerley].

The

A plea for uncompromising punishment for Germany. the Kute, by FRANK BURNE BLACK [Putnam, $1.00]. Humorous observations on America and Canada in the war.

Chronicle of Kan-Uk

Do's and Don'ts for New Soldiers, by MAJOR M.R.C. [Macmillan, HARLOW BROOKS,

$1.00].

Guidance on various phases of army life. The Blot on the Kaiser's Scutcheon, by NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS [Revell, $1.00].

A supplement to the author's "German Atrocities".

What Is the German Nation Dying For? by
KRAUSE [Boni and Live-
KARL LUDWIG
right, $1.50].

A document written by a German in Germany.

The Near East from Within, ANONYMOUS, illus. with photographs [Funk and Wagnalls, $1.50].

A new popular-priced authorized edition. The Immediate Causes of the Great War, by OLIVER PERRY CHITWOOD [Crowell, $1.50]. A revised edition.

The German Secret Service in America, 19141918, by JOHN PRICE JONES and PAUL [Small, Maynard, HOLLISTER MERRICK $2.00]. of German plots

exposition An America.

in

Fred Mitchell's War Story, illus. [Knopf, $1.50].

The jockey's experiences in the war zone. A Nation Trained in Arms, by LIEUT.-GEN. VON FREYTAG-LORINGHOVEN [PutBARON nam, $1.25].

Revelations by a member of the German Imperial Staff.

The War in the Cradle of the World, by ELEANOR FRANKLIN EGAN, illus. [Harpers, $2.00].

An account of the war in Mesopotamia. Unknown Soldier [Lane, The Love of an $1.25.].

A personal diary, found in a dugout. The City of Trouble, by MERIEL BUCHANAN [Scribners, $1.35].

A study of Petrograd since the revolution.

Soldier Silhouettes on Our Front, by WILLIAM L. STIDGER, illus. [Scribners, $1.25].

The experiences of a Y. M. C. A. worker. A Poet of the Air: Letters of Jack Wright [Houghton Mifflin, $1.50].

Letters of a young aviator.

In the Soldier's Service, by MARY DEXTER [Houghton Mifflin, $1.50].

The war experiences of an

woman.

American

War Book of the University of Wisconsin [Univ. of Wisconsin].

Papers on the war by members of the faculty.

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