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by Phillpotts is laid in Devonshire, Eng \
land, where the two great industries of
the community flower nursery and
the oyster fisheries on the coast-form |
the background of the story The PEG
pie smack of the soil and their natural '
surroundings influence and color their
very souls. A tragedy is the inevitable
result of evil doing in one case and of
mistaken devotion in crisis in the
other.
The Crystal Age, William Dudson.
"a dream of newer and cleaner
civilization: one of the most beautiful
Of all imaginary Utopias. The author
takes the reader with him into a land
where money has no value, where the
domestic animals have developed new
forms of usefulness, where the very
idea of city is unknown-a land of
perfect loneliness and of perfect hap
piness.' (From New York Times Re
| View.)
| Ell Supreme Z. White.
| "El supreme is a vigorous novel |
of great historical value which portrays
/ Paraguay under DR.. Jose Rodriguez de
Francia, the famous Dictator who ruled
| Paraguay from 1S13-1S40. The author
! tells US that Franeia s individuality
was so bewildering and peculiar that
any one reading of him for the first
time is likely to imagine him as in
vented bodily-but that he is portrayed
just as history and legend depicted him
and that the minor characters in the
story are also historical. He. also says
that he has presented faithfully the pc
riod when for three brief years after
Paraguay became independent, her
strange colony of Spanish aristocrats
isolated amid wildcrnesses of their af
fluent Arcadia, with their exotic social
atmosphere, gaudy attire and exquisite
manners, plotted and schemed to over
throw the long suffering, stern and i'm
placable despot who was to exterminate
them. This book is terrifying at first
sight, but very interesting and easy to
read.)
| His Family, f. Poole.
A A story of modern life in New York
city. The father is the central figure
) and his family consists of three daugh-
tiers. The eldest daughter is married:
she sacrifices every one and every thing
for what she considers to be the good
q of her children. The second daughter
is working out her theories of educa-
n tion as principal Of a school in the tene
ment districts: the third leads 9,tInere
Q butterfly existence. Despite the ia
ther S deep love for his daughters, h.
: finds his position exceedingly difficult
=. but 10y sympathetic observation come,
to understand and to be understood b,
the younger generation
: In the Wilderness, Robert Kitchens.
II A psychological novel dealing wit
two types of women-one the mothe
type, the other the perverse creatur
of unhridled sensuality.
Il Lydia Of the Pines, Honore Willsie.
Il A story laid in the primitive middl
II West; the central theme is the injustic
u Of the White man toward the Indian.
Mistress Anne, Temple Bailey
The little teacher of the Crossroad
finds her quiet world changed by tn
IL coming of two men, one brilliant do,
Ii, tor who left his fine opportunities in tn
K city to carry on the work begun by hi
y grandfather years ago in that commun
Fl, tv, the other a novelist. They bot
nj become aspirants for her favor and th
e. better man wins.
The Road to Understanding, Eleanc
ed Porter.
rs The story of the courtship and ma
:, riage of a wealthy, cultured young ma
wv to poor uneducated country girl; the
estrangement and final reconciliation
Petunia, Mrs Wemyss
q Petunia is the so-called drab herein
~, of fiction. She makes her appearan,
as an heiress with restrictions-sh 70
nd numerous sisters-in-law are very for
:" of her and engage in a vigorous scare
for rich husband for Petunia. At la
ras Petunia gets an aunt to beg them off al
id leave her in peace. Then she compE
Ct, with the terms of the W. II and is cha
- nd py."
zen The following are e.ective stories
The Clique of Gold, i. Gaboriau.
Other People S Money, L. Gaboriau.
The Cinema Murder, f. P Oppenheil
ire The following are translations fro
I'm the French and from the German:
Sister Philomela, E. and j. de Go
- court.
for Rene Mauperin, E. and j. de Go
ms court.
lily, Castle Hohenwald, Countess Gesel