Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-24

of the Gods" n tale Of Julian the ApOs-
tate and "The Romance Of Leonardo
da Vinci." The three novels may be
read Independently. being connected
oniv bv strong underlying idea. The
present work Is not written to amuse
the young person: 1t is a book for men
and women. II is a simple and earnest
study of the most moving episode in the
life of the greatest of the Russian
princes. II is a sketch, vivid and true,
OF classes and conditions, OF court and
society. of peasant and wild religious
beliefs In Russia at the beginning of
the eighteenth century. She has not
materially changed since then. The
character Of the Romanof family. too,
IS singularly persistent; and In the
course of this novel. with Its single ter
rife scene, dull indeed will be the read
er who does not, step by step, discern
In the soul of the luclless Alexis the
very lineaments and countenance of
Nicholas II, the present occupant OF
the Russian throne.
peter and Alexis. BY Dmitri MereJ-
kowski. New York: G. p. Putnam's
Sons Los Angeles: c. c. Parker.
In "The Story of the Nations series
the Putnams have just issued 70. s.
Shuckburgh's Greece From the Hell
lenes to A. d. IA" It is a scholarly
textbook on the Greece of before Christ,
amply illustrated with maps and photo
graphs, and covers the subject in all
needful detail.
Greece. BY E. S. shuckburgh, Lift
d. New York: G. p. Putnam's Sons.
'The Joy of Life" by Lille Hamil-
ton French, is n charming philosophy,
illustrated with frequent pointed in
cidents. which will find many a re-
sponsive chord and soothe many an
hour at the close of a fretful day. AS
Pastor Wagner is the apostle of sim
plicity, so does Miss French plead for
q little "joyfulness:"
"Our worries, our misunderstand-
ings, tee annoyances that we cause
others and that others cause us, our
deep griefs and our blessings-these
are put before us in a way that cannot
fall to clear away the dust of daily
life from our minds and hearts and
leave us more courageous"
If the book has purpose 1t is
impossible to feel 1t while reading,
for Miss French is never obtrusive,
never choking us with a moral, but
always gracious, enlivening and nat
ural. One may liken the reading of
the book to a conversation with a de-
lightful friend.
French. New York: Frederick A.
Stokes company. Los Angeles: Stoll
e Thayer.
The remarkable development of the
motor car industry, the prevailing ex-
port and import conditions of the
market, the consequent immigration
of foreign chauffeurs, the ever increas-
ing International sport events, the
growing habit of motorists to make
pleasure tours in foreign lands, and
the frequency of technical motoring
terms in existing reference works, have
caused an urgent demand for a spe-
cial and practical automobile diction-
ary in the English, French and Ger
man languages, and in "Krausz's Auto
mobile Dictionary" the every demand
will be found to have been antici-
pated.
The great utility of such work for
the engineering, correspondence, sales
and other departments of motor car
factories, individual mechanics, sports
men, tourists and all owners in gener-
al, need hardly be pointed out; for no
matter how fiuently a linguist may
speak foreign language, it is rarely
that he has command of the terms EN-
ployed in sports and mechanics. The
automobile industry, it must be re-
membered, has given birth to a multi !
tude of new words and added new sig
nificance to hundreds of old ones. In |
addition it has been thought advisable
to include. aside from strictly techn |
cal terms, such other words as are
often employed in connection with au-
tomobiles and touring emergencies.
Krausz's Automobile Dictionary. By
Sigmund Krausz. New York: Fred |
erick A. Stokes Co. Los Angeles: Stoll
& 1hayer.
Brown of Moukden," by Herbert
Strang, is a sort of companion to his
'Kobo;" rather it is tale of the Rus
so-Japanese war from the Russian
side, as "Kobo' was from the japanese
point of view. 1t is a stirring story of
adventure. war and hairbreadth escapes
just the sane, healthy sort of talk
that boys like and in which many older
persons will find much to interest them
The book, besides, gives rather a good
idea of the war from the Russians
point of view, which is a thing not often
done.
lStrang, New York; G. p. Putnams
Sons. Los Angeles: C. C. Parker.
A very elaborate, emphatic, and,
from his point of view, unanswerable,
series of articles by ]. Ogden Armour,
in an eastern weekly, has been gathered
together and published under the title:
1.-THE Packers, the Private Car Lines
and the People" The series is Mr..
Armours answer for himself and the
beef trust of which he is so large a
part, to the attacks on that colossal
monopoly. At the time these articles
were written. much that is now known
was under cover. Such statements as
that mot a pound of unsound meat
goes into any food product; it would be
impossible" seem rather ridiculous in
view of what is now known about the
disposition of such stuff. Mr.. Armour's
first literary effort is a brave attempt
to stay the flood, but about as able as
would be a tin spoon to bail the ocean
Our "eyes have been opened" since he
wrote.
The Packers, the Private Car Lines
and the People. BY j. ogden Armour
Philadelphia; Henry Altemus Co. Los
Angeles: c. c. Parker.
"The Phantom of the Poles" by Will
liam Reed. is founded upon the theory
that the earth is hollow, with the open
ings at the northern and southern ex-
tremities. The author declares that
"when Lieutenant Greedy was behold
ing the mock sun at 100 degrees L., he
was looking into our sister world; and
when Nansen saw the square sun lined
with horizontal bars he was gazing
on what may be the future home of his