Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-05-08
Books and Authors

Home Defense" I.caSucrs viii he
Interested in the announcement of
Rifles and Shotguns." George II.
Doran COZ new book by Warren
H. Miller. editor Of Field and Stream.
written primarily as readable text
book on shooting for big and fcathercd
game. The book also includes timely
information on the military rifle mill
tary shooting texts and the curriculum
OF the national life of the association.
u wonder III anybody in tho world
IS quite as unfair parent" oh
serves Edward Leigh Peil in -Four
Feet on a Fender which T.. r. Dutton
Company have ready for publication
We often hear that what our chill
dren need most is love. but ! know
many children who would be glad TO
get simple Justice The book is a
series OF intimate talks upon a great
variety OF subjects and 1t takes its title
from Oliver Wendell Holiness reply
TO the question rs TO whether or not
he could express his idea of happiness
in five words.
L. T. Dutton & Company have lust
published With b. =. Scout in CALI
poll" by L. Y. Pricstman, which is
composed OF letters written home by a
Scout master serving as q subaltcrn.
This is one Of the few really humorous
books the war has produced Despite
the shadow Of the inevitable tragedy
(the author was killed in action No.
vember 10, 1870 the book is full of
the cheericst kind OF fun: the ire
pressiblc outburst OF youth who was
blessed with the ability always to sec
the grotesque side OF life. The bool.
will teach YOU TO respect Tommy At
kins as a man aside from his
ability as soldier. The sudden
end OF this very lovable and much
alive personality is impressive in its
,,.s.
practice the Scouts Motto. For life
or death TO be Prepared" The frontis-
piece contains good likeness Of the
author.
f. p. button & Co have Just issued
from their press "Seen and Heard Be
fore and After 1914 by Mary and Jane
Findlater. The position which the
Misses Findlater achieved by their
many novels interpretative OF Scottish
life and character. renders this vol
ume of short stories of peculiar inter
est. In view OF the fact that half Of
the stories deal with the period just
before the war, and half with Scotland
AS affected by the outbreak of hostili-
ties. They show how the war has in
nuenced the thought and way Of life
even of dwellers in remote villages of
the Highlands: and the accomplished
and yet restrained artistry of the au-
thors was never more evident than in
these beautiful word pictures, In which,
though the canvas Is a limited ono,
such varied human nature Is made
to live for us in few severely per-
feet strokes
Many readers are unaware that Mrs.
BeIloc Lowndes and IIilliare Belloc are
sister and brother Both are now en-
gagged In writing the history of the
great war as fast as il is made. Be-
sides writing child's history. Mrs.
Belloc Lowndes Is recording the war
in fiction. Lila: a Part of Her Life"
(Doran). her eleventh and latest novel.
is electric with war adventure. 1t con-
tains a description of Zeppelin bonn
bardment which keeps close to fact
as newspaper account.
"Pcrhaps you will be Interested to
know that read your verse, out
Where the West Begins as an intro
ductory to my paper before the Mod
ern Language Association at Prince
ton" wrote Professor John \. LomaX
of the University of Texas. TO Arthur
Chapman. author of the poem which
Is now published in hook form, with
moro of Mr. Chapman's Western verse
(Houghton Mifnin Company. "My pa
per was entitled Poetry of the Cow
Camp and Cattle Trail and when
read your poem. although am not
n good reader. the audience broke into
enthusiastic hand-clapping. and the
rest Of my paper was easy because of
the start your poem gave me-" Mr..
LomaX has asked Mr.. Chapmans as
sistance In bringing together a rep
resentative collection OF the verso that
and his day.