Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-17
FINE NEW NOVEL
BY AUTHOR OF
"GOESTA BERLING''
Selma Lagerloef, Novel Prize
Winner, Again Awakens
the Moods of Her
4 Sweden
OTHER NEW FICTION

To many OF us Sweden Is simply a
place on the map. a land OF cold winters
and no summers, In which the people
paftake of the unreal Selma Bagerlof
brings this land of the unknown clearly
and really before our eyes. Jerusalem
doubleday Page & Co.. New York;, fol-
lcws closely in the wake of "Goesta Ber-
lin," of some, years ago. Miss Lagerlof
Is the artist to the finger tips painting
with romantic and poetic touch simple
pictures Of her own people, setting up
characters of every day life in the little
province Of Dalecarlla, and letting them
love, hate. suffer and sacrifice as all hu-
mans do. Her truths are real, and her
ideals those of simple folk and we all
know the ebb and flow of life as she
interprets IL and weaves about 1t an
aura Of weird charm. A true fairy tale
Of rare simplicity for grownups.
Readers who do not fight shy of the
epistolary type of fiction will find a ten
der, touching and very human story to
reward their perusal of he letters In
Living Up to Billy" (F. A. stokes Com
pany, New York; by Eliz: beth Cooper
The correspondence" consists of n series
of letters from Nan. chorus girl and
tango artist. to her sister Kate, who has
been sent up" for two years. leaving
Billy, her demure, lovable l:ddie. in Mans
care. The task of living UP to his large
wonders of reformation in Kate and bet
terment of character In Nan. giving a
very affecting but never lachrymose book
It substance and title.
Do you remember the amazing thrill"
you experienced when you first raced
through the magic pages of Under Two
Flags" and she" and Treasure ISL
and" and THE Three Musketeers" and
New Arabian Nights" and books like
that7 That thrill will be yours once more
when you read wings of Danger" by
Arthur A. Nelson (Robert NJ. Mcbride,
New York;.
Wings of Danger" is an adventure
story of that immortal old school, II is
a tale of the wild lands of unknown
Africa and of quest for a lost city.
There are brave men ap. lnty in its pages
and fair women, with the tang of high
adventure blowing like the wind through
the book There is Cecil Rhodes, mighty
figure. plotting in n chaotic and barren
land: De Roquemort the debonair cap
tain of the Black Company; Lord
Chalmes, who finds death an adventure
and host of others that the reader will
not soon forget
Every mother every church worker
every Individual who desires to bring
added happiness into the lives of Others
should read The Obsession of Victoria
Gracen," by Grace Livingston Hill Lutz.
tJ. B. Lippincott Company. Philadelphia
A new novel by the author of Marcia
Schuyler is always a treat for those of
us who want clean. uplifting fiction of
the sort that you can read with pleasure,
fecommend with sincerity and remember
with thankfulness.
Richmond Gracen, the disnnerted
grandson of an aristocratic and wealthy
Pennsylvania. is left an orphan after the
death of his mother, His father had come
to Chicago to marry the sister of n fore
man In the slaughter house: the match
had been more than old Mr.. Gracen could
swallow. and he left all his money to
his only daughter. Miss Victoria Gracen.
The story tells of Miss Gracens loneli-
ness in her great suburban house after
the death of her stern father; of hearing
of the death of young Richards mother.
the widow of her beloved brother Dick :
of her rescuing the boy from the sordid
atmosphere of her mothers family, who
were gross people and always taunted
him about his blue blood. and. finally, the |
result upon the boys nature of coming in |
contact with the charming, human per- |
sonality of his Aunt vie"