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New Fiction for Summer Reading
Alice and a Family, st. John G. Err

Alice and Family, st. John G. Err
vine.
A bright, entertaining story in which
Alice manages the family of a hapless,
Inewlymade widower, consisting of him
self, his motherless baby, his not over
clever big boy, and two or three more
children. Everybody has to 60 to work
but the baby, damages are collected
for an industrial injury to 'tFather,
newspaper shop is rented, everybody
hustles and prosperity follows. Alice s
master stroke is the marriage of her
own mother to the widower so that she
may have but one family to look after.
| A Clustered Romance, Florence Ohm
stead.
a charming, delightful story in which
the Catholic Sisters who conduct the
| home of The Little Sisters of the Poor
are not too sanity to have foibles, and
the old men and women are not too old
and meek to be contrary and hard to
manage. The gentleman pensioner, =
who is something of a mystery, and
| Althea, who is a frequent visitor, fur
nish the romance.
Contrary Mary, Temple Bailey.
| A love story with an old fashioned
flavor, in which Mary Ballard may not
appear to the reader to be so very con
trary as she seemed to her immediate
| family and to certain rich young man.
Hillsboro People, Dorothea Garfield
Eishe,
| collection of short stories in which
the people of Vermont village are
made real flesh and blood to us. Per-
haps no writer since Lowell has inter
preted the rural Yankee more sympa-
/ thetically.
lis Official Fiancee, Berta Ruck, pseud.
An entertaining story in which a
young man finds it necessary to en-
gage the services of one of his Office
girls as his official fancee Apparently
she is gentle and demure, but as the
story proceeds, it appears she has other
Qualities as well, much to the amusc-
ment of the reader and the amazcmcnt
of the young man
lJaffery, William Locke
| Jaffery Chayne is a war-correspond-
lent in the Balkans, Just arrived in
England from the wilds of half-civilized
Albania, where the sudden death of his
friend and comrade has left him with
the care of the widow, Liosha. Al
though q native Albanian, she has as a
| child lived in the Chicago stockyards
and was taken back to Albania by her
parents at the age of u, where she
grew up surrounded by an atmosphere
+, of murder and brigandage. Chayne
/ takes her to London and puts her in
1.-THE care of his elderly maiden sister.
, Euphemia OF course ructions follow
! and she suddenly arrives at the country
/ house of the friends with whom Jaf-
| ferry is staying, interrupting the usual
ihouse-party. He tells the story of Lilo
| sha s life and it arouses the pity of
these new English friends As the story
proceeds, Jafferys at-heartedness
LEADS him to conceal the perfidy of a
friend and to risk his own reputation
in the eyes of the woman he loves, but
| III the end the story works out to the
| happiness of all. 1t is all very Lock ish,
indeed, deiciously whimsical.
Mushroom Town, Oliver Onions
For the reader who likes a quiet
story. 1t tells how little Welsh fish
ing village is transformed into popu-
lar summer resort by an invasion of
fashionable English people.
Rim of the Desert, A. w. Anderson.
| story whose scenes are laid in the
State of Washington and in Alaska. The
writer attacks the coal conservation
policy, but the interest of the story
centers about a strong man who has
been great force in the development
of the country, and in his devoted love
for his best friend who has died from
exposure and hardships
kuggles of Red Gap, II. L. Wilson.
a very funny. account of the strup-
| giles of perfectly trained English man
servant to retain his place and at the