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BOOK NEWS


"The Greater America" by Ralph D.
Paine, is a widely diversified but ex-
ceedingly we'll told series of sketches of
unusual, typical American scenes.
Their variety ranges from the 800" to
Bullfrog, from the last of the open
range to Alaska; from Pacific water
fronts to Dowie. Mr.. Paine seems to
have grasped admirably the vast
breadth not only of Americas terri
torial extent but of it's national life,
and he reflects in these pages it's unique
contrasts The new farmer, the mer-
chant marine, the farm and the mine
are all discussed, and real men and
their achievements are his themes
The book is admirable in spirit and
execution.
The Greater America. BY Ralph D.
Paine. New York: outing Pub. CO.
"a Winged victory" by Robert
Morris Lovett. is a conventional novel
with a well defined plot and a happy
ending. Being well told with sustained
interest it will please lovers of good
fiction generally.
A Winged Victory. By Robert Nor
ris Lovett. New York: Duffield S5 Co.
A well conceived situation lies at the
base of Katherine by e. T. Thurs
ton. Katherine Crichton, young, hand
some, full of fire and life, longing for
the romance that has never been hers,
suddenly learns that, as the insidious
physical result of an accident, she has
but two years more to live. She is un-
happily married, and determines that
in those two years she shall have what
she can of happiness and romance.
How near she comes to tragic disaster,
and how her husband unexpectedly
rises to height of romance and nobil-
ity, makes an absorbing tale.
Katherine. By r. Temple Thurston.
New York: Harper & Bros
When you read "Six Mad Men," by
Rix Taber, you will know that the men
described are real. Some of the events
are fiercely dramatic, but there is some
thing so natural about them that you
know they really happened. 1t is not
nice to think that Well-bred men will
go and get drunk when they are crazy
about a woman and she has rejected
them, but they do. 1t is not pleasant
to think of a murderer loose in society
but we hear of them every day in the
newspapers. The man who wrote this
book described what he saw, the busi-
ness men around him, the life he rubbed
against in politics. He has made an
interesting story, but it is also truth
full story of modern life.
Six Mad Men. BY RiX Faber. Chi
cago: The Old Greek Press.
Hugh Pendexter's character, "Tiber-
ius Smith," who has been wandering
through various magazines carrying
humor in his train, has at last found
settlement in a book bearing the same
name. This book has refreshing humor.
The adventures of Tiberius Smith, the
clever, eccentric, irresistible Snowman,
take the reader into out of the way
corners of the earth and, furnish
series of most unusual situations Few
books show such an endless succession
of cleverly dpoll expedients in racing
emergencies. The constant high spirits
is feature of this writing, and Iloer-
ius Smith" is an unfailing JOY,
Tiberius Smith. BY Hugh PendeXter.
New York: Harper & Bros
In "The Giants Strength" by Basil
King, the giant" is none less than
Americas richest man, Paul Tranord,
who has built up a great coal monopoly.
Among the many competitors whom
Trafford had forced to the wall in
earlier years was a mine owner named
Winship. Winship's son had grown up,
a poor portrait painter, and by chance
he meets at Monte Carlo Paula Traf-
ford the beautiful daughter of the man
who wrought his fathers ruin. Winship
engaged TO paint her portrait, and dur
ing the sittings at his Paris studio a
romance begins. The plot of the story
As only an excuse for the situations
and the vague impractieable financial
philosophy that it holds.
The Giants Strength. BY Basil King.
New York: Harper e Bros