New Britain herald., 1916-01-06

the illustrator, from New York through the Berkshires to Lake Champlain, east to the White Noun. tains and down the coast from Port land to the sound. Places and scenes figure less importantly than the humorous incidents of the road.' A. L. A. Booklist.
 What ought I to do? by George
 Trumbull Ladd.
 "A thorough inquiry into the na- ture and kinds of virtue and the sanctions aims and values of the moral life. The Yale Review says: We find the same critical acumen, the same balanced judgment, the same masterly handling of material, the same manifest desire to be help full to those struggling with the per- plexities of the problem" as in the earlier book, what can I know" "A. l.. A. Booklist.
 Fiction.
 Anvil of chance, by G. Chittenden.
 ''The book bears the marks of youth, especially a certain rathe" conscious cleverness in the dialogue. But the central character is. drawn WILL Iodl IuSlSHI dld IuS SColy 10 thought-provoking. .'-Nation.
 
 Closed doors, by Montague.
 Appealing stories of children written out of intimate experience in a school for the blind and deaf. And because she has the power to see and construct and is in no mood to pho- tograph or to complain, she finds the essential drama of the human soul still bravely enacted behind blind eyes and deaf ears" ."-Dr. R. H. Ca bOt.'
 Co., citizens, by Mrs. Corra Harris.
 "A distinctly humorous tale burles- quing the situation in a sleepy sou- thern town when it's richest woman dies and leaves her fortune to the Co-Citizen's Foundation Fund, an as- sociation for the furtherance of the suffrage ause.'-Open Shelf, Cleve- land.
 H. R., by Edwin Lefevre.
 "Quite amusing and altogether ard entirely preposterous, the apotheosis of unique advertising. H. R. was bank clerk 'the trouble he was not in be- ing a bank clerk, but in being a clerk in bank that wanted him to be nothing but bank clerk."-A L. A. Booklist.
 Princess Cecilia, by E. H Davis.
 An entertaining novel with a com ic opera plot. Sam Riddle seeks ad- venture by taking orvice as poet laureate to sultan of a semi-inde- pendent Philippine isle. They both fall in love with the same girl and the sultan, spurned, plans revenge, but his plot is foiled after much ex citement, and all ends well. "A. L. A. Booklist.
 Rivit in grandfather's neck, by J. Ca
 bell.
 ''The title comes from Andersen's story of the China shepherdess and the chimney-sweep, and of the old holding Chinaman who was never able to nod again after he had been broken in two and rivited together. Then it's application to this story of the passing Southland that is not so easy. The rivet that holds the old South together seems to be 8 stiffnecked loyalty to it's best tradi- tions. Book Review Digest.
 Library Notes.
 The IS most popular novels, ac- cording to the Publishers Weekly are the following, arranged in order of popularity: Michael O'Halloran, by Stratton Porter; Dear Enemy, by Webster; Felix O'Day, by Smith: "K.'' by Rinehart; Beltane the Smith. by Farno1; Heart of the sunset, by Beach; Grey Dawn by White; Money master, by Parker; Far country, by Churchill; Story of Julia Page, by Norris; Research magnificent, by Wells; Fortunes of Garin, by John ston; Pollyanna grows up, by Porter; E1tham House, by Ward; Prudence of the Parsonage, by Hueston; MT. Bin gle, by McCutcheon; Rainbow Trail. by Grey.
 The best-selling books of non-fic- ton were: Life of John Hay, by Thayer; Eat and grow thin, by Thompson; I accuse! (Jaccuse,) ar anonymous; The Pentecost of calamity, by Mister; When a man comes 70 himself, by Wilson; My year of the great war, by Palmer; The Hilltop on the Marne, by Aldrich; Spoon River anthology, by Masters; France at war. by Kipling; Socialized Ger