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New Fiction
New Fiction

Adventures of Detective Barney, H.
O'Higgins.
Barney Cook, only 16, is the hero of
these amusing adventures. Do not en-
quire into their probability if you would
thoroughly enjoy them.
G. o. D., Natalie Lincoln.
detective story, laid in Washington
involving members of the diplomatic
circle. The mystery is sustained to the
end and in the unravelling of the mys-
terry two love stories are told.
The Far Country, Winston Churchill.
In this his latest study of present
day American life, we find Mr. Church
i'll still hopeful of our future as ma
ton, although we have trod a path
grossly material. We, as nation, have
wandered like the Prodigal Son into a
Far Country and like him have re-
Ipented and forsaken our grievous ways.
To many readers, the Far Country
shows most graphically the perils we
have escaped; and it is an explana
ton of the popular uprisings of these
last years in the commercial and polirl-
cal world. Although "only fiction =
/ it is the life story of numberless so
called successful men.
| The Honey Bee, S. Merwin.
A notable addition to the growing
Hist of feminist novels. The Honey Bee
! is a fine woman nearing middle age on
business trip to Paris. She is restless
herself in some chance acquaintance,
in q young dancer, in prize fighter, in
the baby of a friend who is dangerous
| " i'll, and in the man she has cared
for since she was a girl. Her many ex,
Iperiences with all sorts of people and
thies and understanding of life; she
solves her problem and comes out of it
all ''big woman
The Idyl of Twin Fires, w. P. Eaton.
\ story full of the heart and life of
the country. The teacher-farmer s love
lstory is told with much quiet humor
land woven with it is his numerous sue
Icessful and unsuccessful farming pro-
jects.
Loneliness, Hugh Benson.
Loneliness tells the story of woman
of brilliant promise as an opera sing
err, brought up in the Catholic faith
who suddenly loses her voice on the ev,
, of her marriage to Protestant. i
} is written to show how vital is the griI
of the Catholic faith on its votaries
J who often after long periods of appar
! ent indifference, when brought face [,
face with the real things in life, re
turn to their early allegiance.
J, Still Jim, Honoro Whsle.
3 Still Jim, a young engineer in tn
reclamation service, has survived
stiff New England training and in con
sequence has an uneompromising Pun
, itan conscience which keeps him fror
understanding the foreigners under hi
: control. He very slowly and painful
comes to an understanding of his worl
. helped by the woman he loves.
Shutdown Slim, H. ii. Knibbs.
! A story of the great South Yves
, where the blood runs hot and life
!, still untamed and picturesque. SUI
down Slim is tramp, queer, homely
. awkward, and the butt of all the joke
= of the Arizona ranch where he find
n refuge with his one friend, the VOL
r dog Chance. In the feud which arise
e between the cattle and the sheep mel
p Shutdown Slim, with his dog, plays til
n part of a man. When the story end
we leave him the head of a family an
n owner of a ranch
e Thankful s Inheritance, Joseph Lincoln
h Thankful S Inheritance is charaete
S, istic novel of Cape Cod in which til
q widow of a sea captain starts to taxi
summer boarders in ''Haunte
l. House" The venture ends in fnal
II eial deficit, but the ghost is unearthe
D. and the widow adds to her assets -
new husband, handy to have about IL
house.