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making such an obvious story attractive.
She invests her characters with genuine
human quality, and they talk more like
real people than book people. The best
she can do in the way of villainess in
this charming story Is the housekeeper
for the bachelor Mr.. Bevan. who natur-
ally reSents the intrusion of q young girl
into the establishment, but whose adj
nirable qualities shine forth unmistak-
ably in an emergency. One lays this book
down with distinct regret that 1t is not
longer.
BERENICE. By f. Phillips Oppenheim.
author of 1.-The Lost Ambassador,
etc. Illustrated by Howard Chand-
Ter Christy and Howard Somerville.
Boston: Little, Brown & Co.
The admirers of Mr.. Oppenheim's nov
els will perhaps be disappointed in this,
his latest Offering. 1t is doubtful whether
il would be recognized as his If published
anonymously There is no mystery, no
lost ambassador, no secret emissary or
a foreign nation, no stealing or state Sc
crets, nothing of the Oppenheim school OF
fiction. 1t Is just a straight, simple tale
of artistic life in London. involving the
romantic fortunes of a man and woman
who are barred from matrimony by the
fact that the woman has a living naSDaho
from whom she is separated MT. open.
helm tells this story with rare restraint
for one who has so long dealt with the
more dramatic factors OF politics ana IN
trigue. 1t would have been more satlsiac-
tory had the black and white illustrations
with which the volume Is Hoeraily sup
piled been omitted.
COLUMBUS DREW; Something of His
Life and Ancestry, and Some OF HIS
Literary Work. Jacksonville: me
Drew Press.
There are many Westinghouse VINO
remember Columbus Drew as a young
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hood and early manhood. He was a
member of the staff of the old National
Intelligencer and later was one OF the
editors of the American. 1t was IN 1913
that he was induced to go to Florida 10
take editorial charge of the Republican
of Jacksonville, then the leading wing
journal of the state. He later estab-
lished a publishing establishment Whlch
became widely known. When FLORIDA Sc
coded Mr.. Drew. though opposed to the
dsmemberment of the Union. went with
his people and was soon called to a
place of responsibility in the Confederate
treasury at RICHMOND. where he served
during the greater part OF the war IL
was in that relationship that he estab-
lished reputation which later, during the
trying times of reconstruction, caused
the governor of the state, who though
of the same name was not related TO
Columbus Drew, to call him to the post
of controller, which Office he filled with
,
of literary as well as commercial and
political activity, and his daughter has
now gathered into a memorial volume a
number of his poems and extracts from
some of his prose papers, displaying his
fine taste and wide range Of thought in
an effective manner. Mr.. DrewS tenn
permanent was singularly calculated to
make friends for him and this fine spirit
of optimism and wholesome manliness
shows in his work. The volume, which
fS arfiStica1lv nronorod cnnCtittffoc q
fitting memorial to a man Of such notable
qualities and it will be read with interest
by those who still remember the part
he played in the early history Of the CAPT.
OF his son. julius Drew. indicating that
the fathers talents were passed in a
measure to the second generation.
THE AMERICAN YEAR BOOK, a Rec
ord of Events and Progress. 181O.>
Edited by 8. N. D. North. LII. D.. uh-
der direction of a supervisory board
representing National Learned So
cieties. New York: D. Appleton &
Co.
This is the first volume Of what is
projected as an annual series of con-
densed records of the years events. 1t
Is printed in convenient octave edition
and is compact compendium of current
history The work has been prepared
with the assistance of regularly desig-
mated representatives or members of
thirty-two national learned and technical
societies. 1t is thus the work of body
of experts, each reviewing his own spe-
cial field. This work is intended for the
needs Of writer's and searchers and covers
sweeping range of subjects from inter-
national statistics to science and religion.
Compacted into the least possible space
is the story of what the world has done
within the past twelve months. and it
f;1sav
of the year to be of immediate value
An exceptionally full index permits ready
access to every part Of the volume.