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The Annals of Fleet Street, E. Beres
ford Chancellor
A fascinating account of the most |
famous thoroughfare of London. The |
author takes us through the streets lead !
ing north and south; we visit Temple
Bar and the Inns of Court and Chan
Gerry, the churches, the taverns and cof-
fee houses, lingering in the " Cheshire
Cheese to eat g Lark Pudding and
to drink a glass of musty ale to the
memory Of Or. Johnson. We are told
of the many famous men and women
who have been connected with Fleet
Street, of its splendid pageants, and
also of its darker doings: and are re
minded of the fact that printers ink
is the life blood of Fleet Street and the
accepted home Of those who gain liv-
| ing by the production Of books.
Concrete Houses and How They Were
Built, II. WhiFptey ed a.
Articles on the various types of con
crete houses and problems of their con
struetion with plans and details draw
ings, compiled from Concrete in re
Spouse to a demand greater than could
be met with copies of house-building
numbers of that magazine. (Subtitle.)
Delightful Dalmatia. Alice Lee Moque.
An account of a summer vacation,
IsPent in cruising down the eastern coast
Of the Adriatic Sea. The author gives
her impression of the land and IFS peo-
pie, and weaves into her narrative many
Of the quaint tales and marvellous le-
gcnds which are still believed through
cut Dalmatia. The Illustrations from
photographs add to the charm of the
book.
Famous Actor Families in America.
Montrose Moses.
y record of the famous families of
America and survey of the American
stage for one hundred years Mr.. Moses
includes in his famous actor families
only those "who have dominated in
their particular line, who have brought
Originality and clarity of vision to bear
upon their work, who have passed an
art down from generation to generation
who have done their best to preserve
the old and encourage the new, and
whose effort and accomplishment have
become crystallized into tradition
The families chosen for consideration
are the Booths, the Jcffersons, the
Sotherns, the Boucicaults, the Hacketts
; the Drews and Barrvmores, the Wal
lacks, the Davenports, the Hollands
and the Powers family.
Five Masters Of French Romance, Al
bert Leon Gueracd
Critical comment on the work Of Ana
tolc France, Pierre Lott, Paul Bourget
: Maurice Barres, and Romano ROLAND
Anatole France is characterized as
p master of style and the keenest of wits
: and a disciple of Foltaire and Renan
T Pierre Lott as a new Chateaubriand
dragging under many skies his incurabl
. ennui and his nameiess longings Bour
, get as chronicler Of society and a nor
t alist of undisputed orthodoxy: Barre
/, as a restless, paradoxical mind, passe
from the Cult of Self 70 the worship 0
national traditions: ROLAND, the new
conner, who attempts nothing less tina
d total synthesis Of modern Europea
culture.
o The Great Push; an Episode of tn
S Great War, Patrick MacGill
A vivid account Of the British offer
I sive of last year at Loos The autho
: has actually experienced trench warfar
a and his book was written on the seen
l. Of action and in the hospital at We,
i sailles where he was taken after he wa
J. wounded. He tells list how Tomm
A. Atkins feels wher called upon to max
a charge and we realize that the cha
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