Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-07-28
MOLLA BJURSTEDT
WRITES OF TENNIS
international Champion Sup
plies Remarkably Good Book
for the Woman Player

Tennis for Women" n straightforward
description of the game for women, by
Miss Molla Bjurstedt, in collaboration with
Samuel Crowder doubleday. Page & Co,
New York;, is the best work of the Kind
that has appeared in years As she states
In her foreword. Miss Biurstedt does not
attempt to make a critical analysis, but
merely how she, holder of n host of ten
mis- titles. plays the game
Miss Bjurstedt says tennis for women
and tennis for men are essentially different
and proves conclusively from her own ex-
perience on the courts of Norway and the
United States that her play Is simply the
highest development of the womans game,
and Is not patterned after that played by
men.
In her Tennis For Women" Miss
Bjurstedt does not connne herself to actual
play, but touches on the questions of keep
ing in condition and maintaining 1t in a
way which insures ones always being at
top form for tournament play.
On the whole Tennis For Women" Is an
excellent work, both for the female begin
ner and the more experienced player.
The heroic mood engendered by present
international complications will receive
Mary Raymond Shpman Andrews little
volume of three short stories. "Old Glory"
(Charles Scribners Sons). with uncommon
pleasure. The colors wave with thrilling
erect through eaCn OF tne stories, ana lne
joyous spirit of "undluted Amercanism"
sweeps all before IT,
THE Colors." concerning n peculiarly in
consistent patriot who declares in his reck-
less youth that America Is a gigantic inter-
national joke" achieves his lifes ambition
when he Is an English baronet and later,
faced with completely in an attack on the
land of his birth, returns his allegiance
thereto, suggests a somewhat far-fetched
modern adaptation Of THE Man Without
Country"
"The Stranger Within the Gates" is
artlstically and dramatically presented. Its
Italian hero is humorous as we'll as tender
and figure successfully intended to inspire
sympathy and affection for the alien whose
loyalty to his new land is entirely untainted.
THE Star-spangled Banner is the
effective conclusion to the little volume,
leaving the reader with delightfully."- mixed
impression of tears and cheers.
Many OF the readers OF Edward A. Gray's
latest book. The Twelve" (Fleming d.
Revell Company, will gain from 1t brand
new realization of the everyday humanli-
ness OF the l2 apostles who had been with
Jesus" 1t is written in a delightfully."-
essaical style and presents In the simple
straightforward language that goes with
thorough organization OF material SYM
pathetic but acute analysis OF the divine
personalities Of those remarkable men, Mr..
Gray shows the development of their ind-
vidualities into greater and greater dis
tinctneSS as time went on-indtvidualites
that were not shaped into the sameness of
a mold by their association with the Man
OF Nazareth. but rather were rounded out
in conformity with their separate natures.
The book contains chapters on the apostles
in art and in literature
The Mexican revolution made" John
Reed. And. for a good many of u.s. Mr..
Reed did the same service to the Mexican
revolution. II that continental packing
town Of slaughter and slander which is eu.
phemistically known in certain literary cir,
cles "the present conflict" has failed
10 arrange any such mutually advantageous
deal with Mr.. Reed, the fault needn't be
blamed on that master-scapegoat, the