The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-09-17

are the real thing In devising ways
OF smusing themselves, and nie
staid portraits Of colonial digni
taries look down upon . lot OF
frivolous proceedings. Naturally
they Say" nothing. but apparently
:hey do a deal of thinking. for on a
stormy night after a weird story, the
traditional ghost comes forth-only
n isn't q ghost at all. just r. s.. the
cnore boy.
Gertrude Fosher Scott. Lothrop
Lee & Shepard. Boston. $1,000.
Polly Comes to Woodbine," and
polly Is little blind girl from an
orphan asylum taken by Q farmer
and his wife to help with the
chores" around the house. They
do not know that she 10 blind until
she gets there, and the farmers
wife is for sending her back at once.
but Polly. all unconsciously. winds
her little self around their hearts
and the idea of giving her up be-
comes quite out Of the question.
Like other blind people, Polly IL IN
usually knowing with her fingers
and can smell and hear things that
no one else knows about. She Is
old for her years, but that is be-
cause she had been brought up In an
orphan asylum. where there are no
mamas to shield little girls from
cares and troubles. Uncle Jethro."
the farmer, Is an old dear. and
Aunt Miranda" from being a pep
perry person. becomes sweet and
lovable. Best of all, In the end,
Polly is made TO Sec
BY George Ethelbert Walsh.
I.othrop, Lee & Shepard, Boston.
$1.l0.
Some one, an author of note we
are told, has written an autobiog-
raphy OF one year of her life (frOm
seventeen to eighteen), and called
it Me" II is tragic from the begin.
ming. when the young girl leaves her
bono in Quebec TO seek her fortunes
in the West Indies, to the last chap
ter. where she Is aided by Lolly TO
run away from the man who had
poisoned all the faith in her young
soul.
The whole terrible story Is true,
and its tragedy lies In the impossi-
billy of young. unguarded girl be-
ing other than prey for the men
OF the world at large. In spite Of
occasional soarings into the realms
Of 'ofty disinterestedness. they, one
and all, fall by the wayside before
The end. Through fine pride and
staGnch pluck. Nora escapes with
out physical or moral harm in the
accepted sense. but her ideals are
withered, her wings are broken and
the beauty of life Is gone.
This is what girls are up against
when they leave the protection OF
home and trust themselves to the
Hi'lNN anu NhA'ohs VI Nht "V'ANi
and il would be we'll for all of them
To read this book. There are some
Illuminating chapters on the Y. w.
c. a., and also on the Chicago stock
Yards, Mhe,a a girl is secretly label
ed good" bad, "a worker" "a
frost" and a peach" During the
first week she was there. Nora was
invited out by "a different men. this
being the only available way OF get
ting acquainted.
In the end Lolfy, the good bad
girl, commits suicide. having, as she
says, "cashed in all her checks"
No literary style is attempted in
this book. and nothing could be
more convincing than the absence
OF all effort for effect. II Is
graphic picture of conditions as they
exist all around us today. 1t Is an
intense story and, without any pre-
meditation on the part OF the author,
a deer study in sociology
The Century Co, New York, 81 30.
For sale Macauley Bros, Detroit.