The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-28

GIRLS"
George H. Doran company, publishers.
New York.
! The third revised edition of 1.-THE Camp
Fire Girls for 1919 is now on the book
counters and by its publication 10000 men,
bers of this organization will be inter-
ested, not to speak of the thousands of
others who are Indirectly interested in
the work.
The Camp Fire Girls, organized and in
corporated in New York in March, 1912,
now has membership of 60,010 girls. It's
| branch clubs or camp fires, with from six
to 20 girls In each, number 1900 and are
found in every state In the union, and in
Alaska, Panama, Canada Scotland, the
Philippines, Japan and Siam.
Since January, 1913. new members have
| been added at the rate of 1000 month In
! June and July 10000 girls Joined the or
| ganization.
The Camp Fire Girls was organized ito
| perpetuate the spiritual ideals of the
| home under the new conditions of
| cial community The specific ways by
| which it aims at this large result is to
| show that the common things of daily life
are the chief means of beauty, romance
and adventures; to aid In the forming of
habits making for health and yi,sor, the
out-of-door habit and the out-of-door
| spirit; to devise. ways of measuring and
creating standards of woman:s work; to
give girls the opportunity to learn how
| to keep STEP, to learn team work
| through doing it; to help girls and women
| to serve the community, the larger home,
| in the same ways that they always served
the individual home to give status and
| social recognition to the knowledge of the
mother and thus restore the intimate Pc
lationship of mothers and daughters to
| each other; to develop a sympathetic un-
derstanding of economic relationship with
which women come in contact"
Membership is open to girls of 12 years
and oyer. Younger girls may become
| blue Birds an auxiliary organization.
THE Camp Fire Girls Manual" is pub
lished in it's new and revised form by the
| George III. Doran company. DR.. Luther II.
| Gulick, president of the organization,
| aided by his committee, superntended
the work of revision, which was made
| necessary by the enormous growth of the
| order and the consequent changes which
were made necessary in many details of
| administration.
| Each local camp fire of course desires
| to conduct itself in accordance with the
| latest rules. DIR. Gulick says: "The Man
ual should be owned. if possible, by eacn
| girl. She needs to study the honors and
to get the spirit. The book is as neces-
sary to a Camp Fire Girl as a may is to
a pilot To have extracts made from the
| book for the use of the girls has proven
| to be undesirable, for each girl should
know most of what is in the book. The
pictures. the count. the nature of the or
| ganization, are each of them important to
| the girls"
The new revised Manual gives the latest
! information about the organization of To-
| cal Camp Fires, answers the questions
| about the repetition of credits in the
! "honors" granted by the order, and con-
tans the new and enlarged list of bus
mess honors.' The pictures included in
| the book We're carefully examined by the
governing committee to make sure that
4 they were in keeping with the ideals of the
order. The whole manual is an essential
to each girl who joins a Camp Fire.
| PRESCOTT OF SASKATCHEWAN
/ BY Harold Blindless.. With coloreds from
tispiece by IL. Herbert Dunton Fred
erick A. Stokes company, publishers,
New York.
| In Prescott of Saskatchewan" Harold
Blindless has told virile story of the
last frontier and the plot the author gives
his readers manifests far more strength
and originality than in his previous
| works. against the background of the
| great outdoors, described with his usual
mastery.
| To save the reputation of a scapegrace
| friend, Jack Prescott impersonates Cyrip
Jernyngham to the latters visitors. Jer-
| nynham disappears and the evidence
points strongly to murder, and to Pres
| colt as his murderer. Watched by the po-
| lice and confronted by the family of the
missing man, Jacks only chance to clear
himself lies in producing his supposed vic
| tim. He therefore eludes those watching
| him and makes an adventurous Journey
! to the northern wilderness, following the
trail from one mountain range to another
now in a little railroad camp, now in a
i,,afx -, to.,4 L.
| now in a belt of timber that stretches
| down to the creek of gold The courage
and faith of a beautiful girl hearten him
| on his long search The whole is a we'll
| knit and absorbing tale.
THE HAND OF THE MIGHTY
! BY Vaughn kester. With photogravure
| portrait and biographical memoirs by
the authors brother, Paul Kester The
Bobbs-Merrill company, Indianapolis
Since the appearance of 1.-The ProdigaI
Judge, Vaughn Kesters masterpiece the
American reading public has continued to
| camor for more of this brilliant author S
work. In answer to this demand '"The
Just and the Unjust" was published TT
| met with the heartiest approval of the
literary critics of the country and was
| given high place among the fiction pro-
| ductions of recent years.
| The public insisted a revival of Kes-
ter, and his publishers thereupon began a
| systematic republication of all of the all
! thor's earlier stories. "The Fortunes OF
| the Bandrays,' one of his earlier books.
was the first to find it's way into a new
| edition. This was followed by the publi-
| cation of new edition of John o. James,
/ town. another of the earlier books Still
| the public was not satisfied Did Kester
leave no other manuscripts, was ques-
| ton raised everywhere
| The question was forwarded to Pan,
Kester, the playwright, brother of the
novelist, and after a thorough search at
| the old Kester home at Mt Vernon the
| manuscripts of several short stories were
brought to light.
! These are now presented in book form
| under the title 1.-THE Hand of the Mightv :,
| and represent the last of Vaughn Kester' $
i works
| All of those striking qualities which
| have made Vaughn Kester's novels so
dear to the hearts of all readers of fic-
| tion are likewise found in this collection
of short stories published under this ssit-
ring title. The splendid fancy and feel
| ing. the remarkable Interpretation of
| character, and the strength of plot and
purpose which characterize the author S
longer productions stamp this fiction with
| the mark of high genius The delicate hu
NOR. the gentle pathos, the tender. senti
ment, the gripping interest and trutlff,,l-
| ness to life of his novels are all reflected
| in these short stories and cause them TO
stand out as rare examples of the mar
| rator's art
Presenting a wide variety of subpects.
each treated in an original and individ.
| ual manner thew a re hound -t<, Ar5 :. I,...1-