Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-08-25
A BOOK TALK.


Last year, just about August. there
was a book published called Prudence
of the PARSONAGE" by Ethel Henston.
Prudence was the oldest of five girls.
Her father was a Methodist preacher,
her mother had worn out her life trying
to keep things together while doing the
work Of a preachers wife as well as
that of the good woman in any home.
When finished the book said: We'll,
/ know just such a lovable family OF
girls and their father and mother. NO
body but one heartily in touch with
preachers home life could write such
book"
Imagine my pleasure, last week. when
1 was again permitted to meet Prudence
and her charming, lovable, fun-loving
sisters. In new book, of course, and
this time called prudence Says So.
And after you read the book you will
find yourself wondering about some
quaint bit of fun, some pithy expression,
or smiling broadly over some prank and
wondering where you heard it; then you
will remember Prudence Says So"
1 read the book then on sultry after
dinner periods, and after supper times I
read it aloud to The Farmer He has
on some occasions gone to sleep when
I've read to him, but sleep never touched
him while We were hearing about the
parsonage girls. Either of these books
can be bought for $l25, postage about
16 cents, and there's no nicer present
you can bestow on yourself or your
friend.
The Bobbs-Merrill company has given
the reading world some excellent books
this year, books that liven up the mind,
lift the ideals and act as a tonic on
humanity at this time of war and pes
thence. We need clean, light reading
just as much as we need the salads and
sweets mixed with our daily food. So
1 am going to tell you of a few that
you may order to while away the odd
hours when it's too hot to sew, or even
to lie down to rest, or these books may
be kept for the long evenings that are
surely coming to US.
Juliet Wilbor Tompkins has made a
host of friends among magazine readers
and when l say that she has portrayed
nothing finer than the truth, embodied
in THE Seed of the Righteous you will
know it is good story. There is just
bit of satire all the way-just the
right proportion to keep the story from
cloying-fig preserves are good, but a
touch of ginger improves their flavor,
and so does this sort of satire.
If you are ever inclined to be cross
when osme dear soul to whom you've
given some needed article of dress gives
1t away, or If some one comes to you
ASA hOAp AOI a Ac-cI-uO-W0ll. AFTER read
ing this story of The Seed of the Right
eous you will be more lenient in your
judgment. Then for the one who wants
a thriller" and a vivid picture of q
side of life not to be, found at Mount
Mark, nor at Dennis Cross Roads one
VIII get all the thrills and quit with a
clean conscience in Loot, by Arthur s.
Roches. 1t is most plausible and ex-
citing detective story. The price is
$1.25 without postage, and is the sort
of detective story to give the boy in
search of thrills.
This time last year a certain person
moved from the crowded haunts of hui
manity TO the more quiet, but just as
busy country, and there were all sorts
of ideas to be readjusted. About that
time Arthur Stringer wrote book called
THE Prairie Wife" 1t had vividness,
a reality and an individuality that ap-
pealed to the ex-city woman, for it
seemed a picture of what was really
going on in her home. So when Arthur
Strtnger wrote 1.-THE Door of Dread"
that individual read the book immediate
ly to see if THE Prairie Wife" was in
She was not; but Sadie wimple, a
woman that some of you would scorn,
was there and she teaches you If you
read the book that nobody must measure
tape line, nor expect to sound the depths
of soul by their own little line and
plummet. Coming right now when spies
are all over the United States, this story
of foreign agents and international spies
is very timely.
Then there are two more books that
want to mention. These also are from
the Bobbs-Merrill Publishing company
One is called 1.-THE Real Adventure"
by Henry Kitchell Webster. 1t is an
excellent novel, the sort that makes one
remember that there are two sides to
every question, and that one must not
expect ones partner in life to lose all
individuality when the name is changed,
by signing of the marriage register.
Sometimes it is the man, but more often.
the woman, in life's real adventure, that
has to give up or merge identity. This
book is we'll written and should be read
from beginning to end. 1t is not a dis
sertation, nor a novel that deals with
the underworld. It's a book for those
whose lives have been spent in sylvan
hooks to read as well as the couple
whose courtship may have progressed
at odd times in just such scenes as the
author paints.
But Gods Man takes you into the
deLS of the underworld of New York. 1t
is so real, so true to life that workers
in that great city can almost remem-
Der the folks written about. Do not
elias s the Door of Dread, Lost nor God S
Man as impossible. 1, who have lived in
many lands and have been 1T the back
and call of the friendless as well as the
men and women up against hard prop