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carefully demonstrated mathematically.
Numerous questions and answers, to-
gether with practical examples. worked
out in every detail, make it unusually
valuable not only to the skilled work
man, but to all those who have not had
the advantage OF a thorough course
upon the subject in technical school
(Price, seal leather 81 50; cloth, N-)
Pamela Congreve," by Frances
Aymar Mathews is not a book 20 be
read in any place outside of a summer
hammock. Under the severely book
ish glow of a library lamp Pamela
Congreve' would shrivel into painful
lnslgnitcance. For II has to do with
Dukes and Lords, small clothes and
powder puffs and all of those stereO-
typed properties OF the gay-life-in-old-
London kind of a tale. Pamela is the
daughter of a smuggler and fisherman
who early makes vow to bring TO
grim justice the man who WIS .re-
sponsible for her fathers death From
barmafd in a country inn Pamela rises
TO the dizzy heights Of reigning queen
at Covent Garden Theater in London.
with all the gay milOrds and frilled
tops Of the city at her shoe buckles.
Lots of joys for Pamela. but does she
bring to justice the wicked lord, her
fathers murderer Read. the book and
see-but don't read it out OF ham,
mock or a steamer chair at best.
(Dodd, Mead & Co, New York; il
lustrated; price 81 50.)
Anne Virginia Culbertson has added
TO the rich lore of Joel Chandler Har-
ris Uncle Remus" stories by her vol
ume, 'At the Big House" Her book
is doubly interesting from the fact
that many of the stories therein in
cOrpOrated are, according to the auth
Or's preface, Of direct Southern Indian
extraction. 1t seems that Br'er Rabbit
was quite the idOliZed trickster Of the
Cherokees as of the negroes and the
stories of his ''goings on" that come
from Indian sources have everything
in common with Uncle Remus' S"
standard stock. Miss CulbertsOn's 3
tales are told in an inimitable negro
dialect, impregnated with quaint turns,
with homely wisdom and with rich and
racy humor. Some are narrated by
Aunt Nancy, a typical ''fOh-
nanny. Others, gathered from the
Southern Indians. are put into the
mouth of Aunt 'PhrOny, who has Creek
blood in her veins. The picture Of the
old plantation house, the songs, half
weird and half cOmical, crOoned by
mingled with the unnatural, the tales
which make the animaI-folk almost
human creatures with more than hu-
man intelligence-all this means many
a happy half-hOur for children and
grown-ups alike. z. Warde Blaisdell
has made thirty-twO most ludicrous
Illustrations for the book. Of which six
CBobbs-Merril Company. Indian
apOlis)
In by Snare of Love" Arthur W.
Marchmont has turned out another OF
his semi-annuaI productions in the
breathless. reckless fiction line. The
story has to do with a young Ameri-
can who obtains a concession for a
small province in Turkey, hoping
there 10 establish an industrial COM
munity which may be the leavening
spot for a possible regeneration OF the
whole country. H obtains his con-
cession all right and everything is
working smoothly when the hero
blunders into the inevitable snare OF
love that is set for the sons of Adam.
He becomes the catspaw. for a parcel
of low-browed revolutionists. incurs
the wrathful revenge Of the Sultan
and leaves the novel in a fine red halo
of martyrdOm. This is a good story
for those who like the typical March
mont story.
(Frederick A. Stokes Company.
New York; price 81 SOD
'Sundial Notices." a quaint little
book Of antiquarian interest compiled
by Alfred H. Hyatt. contains the
chiseled saws of over a hundred Of
these ancient garden clocks from all
lands. Latin. French and English in
scriptions. craven upon old moss
grown tablets these hundreds Of years,
are here brought together into an
Overfiowing beaker OF charged wisdom.
Reading them, one is startled into the
realization OF the fact that Carpe
Diem. preached from sundials for
centuries. has as strong a call for US
people of electric clocks as it did for
our forefathers Of the stone hOrOlOgues-
(Scott Thaw Company, New York;
price SD
The Foolish Dictionary" by Gideon
Wurdz," is one Of the brightest little
humor books that has appeared in
many day Surprising in its play
upon words and its inimitable applica-
tion of slang to pseudo-seriOus uses.
this rarely brilliant little potpOurrt
of satire, wit and humOr cOnceals a
laugh in nearly every page Witness
only this single example:
HOOK: To soak what we least
need. In Germany they generally
'sHock the Kaiser"
CRobinson-Luce Company. Boston;
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