Evening star., 1916-11-26

to attention. also, the modern methods
used by men to achieve success in
business methods equally applicable
to a woman's pursuit Of the business
life. The book is filled with infor
nation that cannot but be most useful
to hundreds Of women.
BLITHE MCBRIDE. By Beulah Marie
Dix. author OF "A Little Captive
Lad" etc. New York: The Macmil
Ian Company.
Boys as well as girls will enjoy this
story. Its heroine, young Biithe Nc
Bride. is a straight-thinking girl of
such brave and sturdy behavior as to
win a general attention and liking.
Miss Dix has gone back to the seven
teenth century for this heroine. bring
ing her over from London to Boston
town. runaway from the low and
vicious London life surrounding her.
Elithe is a bound" girl, her services
sold to family of Boston settlers till
she has reached the age of tWenty-one.
Her devotion to Mistress Winwood and
the baby daughter Of this beloved wom
an opens the way for Blithe's numerous
and trying adventures A Sojourn
among the Indians in pursuit of the
kidnapped child, the difficult dilemmas
presented by a rascally cousin come
from overseas. the petty persecution
Of silly and Jealous companion and a
shadowy but iattering mystery over
Blthe's nativity, serve here to lead the
reader from one absorbing point to an
other till to his relief, the girl set
ties permanently into a safe and quiet
home. The airs of an earlier day sus-
tain this romance Throughout and many
a realistic scene Of pioneer life in New
England adds greatly to it's picturesque
charm.
Courage and HerOism. Retold by
Penrhyn w. Coussens, author of
Poems Children Love" etc. Frontis-
piece by Maxfield Parrish. New
York: Duf!ield & Co.
These are courage stories to add to
Penrhyn Coussens' series of "Jewer'
books. designed for the profit and pleas
ure of boy and girl readers. Great and
self-forgetting courage under the men
ace of overwhelming danger Is the
single thread upon which these tales
are strung. With free hand the
writer has drawn upon all history for
those rare high moments when the
spirit of man surmounts the instructive
fears of the flesh. and stands forever.
thereafter. an embodied personal hero
ism, stirring our tmid lives toward the
ways that lead to doing and daring
here, saint and soldier and plain every
day man. Men out Of the far past and
those of the near present meet in a
timeless brotherhood of the dauntless
ones of the world. Nearest to us are
Paul Revere and Nathan Hale. patriots
of the revolution. From these the per-
spective reveals the Spartan 800, the
hero of Haariem. Horatius at the
bridge. the six brave burghers of Calais,
the Cid and Alphonso, Walter Raleigh,
Robin Hood and King Richard. Havelok
the Dane, st. Francis of Assist, David
and Jonathan. Daniel of the lions den,
and many another-to name them with
out any particular attention to the or
der of their appearance here. Each one
Of these tales is told in an economy Of
words and in single minded devotion to
its high point of interest and effect. In
very terse and vivid fashion each
brings to the reader one and another of
these famous persons or groups. Chill
dren will like the virile and dramatic
action of these tales. Moreover. these
are world stories. whose content be-
longs to both history and literature.
Youth is the best of all times to gather
as part Of their foundation for