Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-02
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Perry Elliott (the Reilly & Briton Co.
Chicago, is cIeverly told light fiction.
in which diverting farce blends with
a most engaging love story, mystery.
action. surprise and ripping comedy
There was reason why the young
English earl wanted to change places
with the burglar that night. and there
WAS method enough in :he laugha BILE
consequences when her ladyship was
taken in my the masquerade. but :he
girl--she was entirely unexpected
Read it II you like fiction with the .zest
OF rare humor and def;ness; 1t has a
sparkle OF plot and dialogue that you
vii: ENJOY.
Students of economic development
will find the three latest numbers of
Studies in History Economics and
Public Law" edited by the faculty Of
political science of Columbia Univer-
sity. and published by Longmans, Green
e. Co.. agents. very interesting and in
structive reading. No. !. Of Vol
LXNVI., by w. Scott Boyce. PHI. D.. dis
cusses Economic and Social Hi.tory Of
Chowan County, n. c.: No. 2, Of the
same volume. by Mabel Newcomer. PHI.
D.. deals deliberately with the subject
of Separation of State and Local Rev
enues in the United Statec" while No.
3, Vol. LXXIV.. by II. L. Hoagland. Phi.
D., treats on collective Bargaining in
the Lithographic Industry"
The publishers Of boy Of My Heart"
announce that they have received over
seventv-fvc different letters from
clergymcn in different parts of the
country. praising this sort of an Eng
liSh wife and mother. whose boy was
called to the front and killed 1t is
rather surprising that this book, as
yei comparatively little known to the
general public. should prove so valua-
BILE to ministers, The explanation is
probably to be found in it's value for
illustrative purposes. 1t is. perhaps.
the most moving thing Of the kind
published since the outbreak Of tho
war eff you never do another thing
in the world" wrote Dr. Frank Wake
Icy Gunsaulus, OF Central Church, Chi
cago, TO George H. Doran, the pub
Usher. you may set this down as the
truth. that the publication of the beck,
boy of My Heart" is enough to in
crease the Lords regard for you, and
my love OF you"
The Toronto Mail and Empire Of June
IL states that nearly 100 Indians re-
Gently left the Thunder Bay district
with the Fifty-second, Einety-fourth
and One Hundred and Forty-first Bat
talions. or the twenty who left with
the Fifty-second. under the late Lieu
tenant Colonel Hay. Of Quebec. five
have been killed and all but two have
been wounded. One thing which the
war Is giving us is an understanding
of and sympathy with those of other
races, languages and customs other
than our own. While II is building a
new spirit OF comradeship. 1t is slowly.
nut surely. breaking down the barriers
which have hitherto divided the races
ant nations of the earth. glorious
new company Of souls in arms has como
into being, company in which ma
tional barriers are practically unknown.
One man who has very real under
standing of the spirit Of the men in
arms is General Bramwell Booth, of
the Salvation Army in London. In his
foreword to Arthur e. Couplings new
book, Souls in Khaki" General Booth
says: THE overwhelming sense Of force