The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-01

five years in public life and as a his
torian. they command attention. The
book treats not only OF our Presidents
but of the Cabinet, the Supreme bench.
the Mayor of Washington the White
House. the essential issues OF our poll
tics. Presidential character and powers.
and contains a fund OF information for
the student Of our States economical
conditions as well as for the private
citizen who is interested in his country
and its institutions.
THE BOYS BOOK OF NEW INVENTIONS: BY
Harry z. Maule. Doubleday. Psgr Co, Garden
City. y. Y. q pages Of Illustrations Price, SEQ.
Boy readers win find all the latest and
greatest inventions described in The
Boys Book Of New Inventions" by
Harry Z. Maule. The history and a sim
ply told account OF the workings of all
these great inventions, from the aero
plane to Nikola Teslas scheme for the
wireless transmission OF power yet to
be projected, are found in this book :;
what boys are doing with aeroplanes
and how they can make models and
gliders; how the aeroplanc was invented
and what progress it has made; how the
wireless telegraph was invented. and
what boy wireless telegraphers are doing
with the marvellous art: how the NOV
present stage OF perfection, and some
OF the adventurous times in getting mo-
ton pictures, and great many other
such points are taken up in The Boy S
Book of New Inventions"
The many illustrations have been care
fully selected from thousands of photo
graphs with view to illustrating the
text and visualizing the machine and its
story to boy readers. Amateur aviators,
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electricins will find the book particu-
larry absorbing, as 1t, OF course, gives
a great many valuable hints for putting
to a practical test the scientific theories
that are making such tremendous
changes in the worlds history.
The reader OF The Boys Book of
New Inventions will also get a first
hand picture Of most of the individuals
who gave these inventions to the world,
as Mr.. MauIe gathered the majority of
his material by personal interviews with
the inventors and their associates.
SARA: AN AMERICAN ROMANCE OF THE
EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY: By Fran
ces Stocker Hopkins The Neale Publishing Com
pany, New York. Price. S-25
In Sara" Miss Hopkins has used for a
background the richest "fallow season"
in American history. She has proved
that she possesses rare insight into her
own genius and type. With a taste
and a restraint that recalls Jane Austin,
she has etched the country life of the
first decade of the nineteenth century,
in the rich Commonwealth of Pennsyl-
vania. and the social life of the proud,
elegant little city of Philadelphia.
Sara VanderpOel, daughter Of the
stately Magistrate Vanderpoel farmer.
magnate, and country gentleman. is such
a dear, practical, loyal, sparkling girl,
such a delicious country girl, and her
going to Philadelphia, with so many
quaint, sklmped. dainty. high-waisted
gowns, and making such a funny mis-
take about her English lover-it is
sweet love story. O..
Sincere direct, pure-toned, clear. SYM
pathetic, tactful-Mlss Hopkins work is
all this. This is her first story, hut an
accomplishment. The writer will have
to be reckoned among our future nov
elists.
TAME ANIMALS HAVE KNOWN: By William
J. hampton. The Neale Publishing Company,
New York Price. IS cents.
William ]. Lampton-he's colonel" in
private lIfe-is a Kentucky colonel.
Everybody reads hampton, on the prin-
caple that an honest laugh at the other
fellows foibles Is gooa for what ails
you, be il Indigestion, crouch, or a de-
preston in the stock market. His humor
is unfailing, his good nature always in
commission. In his latest phase as