The Washington herald., 1917-11-04
Book Reviews.
Letters In war-time),

Carry On Getters In War-time), D,
by Lieut.. COningsby Dawson, au-
thor, The Garden Without Walls"
The Raft" New York: John Lane
Company. Frontispiece. cloth. Price.
Sl.00 net.
To those Americans who are pre-
pairing to take their place at the
front, and to those fathers and
mothers who must stay at home and
wait, this little volume bears a fine,
and inspiring message. In it is
expressed a spirit which should an
innate US as nation, enunciate
very clearly and very simply.
No book of the war brings the
magnificent heroism of the young
men at the front home more vlvidly
than these letters quite unconscious
ly do. No novel that Lieut.. Daw-
son has yet written equals in inten-
sity and splendOr the tale told so
simply day by day, in these letters
to his beloved people at home.
Utopia of Usurers, by Gilbert n.
ChestertOn, author of "Heretics." "
Tremendous Trifies." New York:
Boni Liveright. publishers. Cloth,
l2mo. 2l7 PIP. Price. sl.25 net.
In his new book, Utopia of
Usurers." We have the old Chester
ton at his sbest-whimsically philos-
optical, original to a marked de-
gree, humorous and satirical, yet
animated by a profound purpose.
We have come to regard Utopias as
the specific property of poets and
dreamers and vague idealists. We
have read of the projected paradises
of artists and of so-called vision
aries. But it has not occurred to
US that despised millionaires and
hardheaded business men may also
have Utopias. equipped and run in
accord with the dictates of com
merce and practically.
1t is this new point of view to
which ChestertOn treats US In his
latest volume of essays
A Daughter of the Morning, by
Zona Gale. illustrated by W. b.
King. Indianapolis: The BObbs-
Merrill Company. Bound in cloth.
Price. s1.40 net.
How Cosma Wakely, who "shrinks
from marriage" is spiritually born
again, how she meets the tempta-
tions of fashion and wealth when
her great beauty brings her recog-
| milton and good offer of marriage,
how she throws in her sympathies
with the factory girls and feels as
if she had been sitting on the edge
OF things all her life and had just
jumped over in. how she wins her
way through the university, serves
as John Emger's private secretary.
how she goes back to find common
interests in her brothers labor
problems, and promises to marry
the man who has awakened her
soul, constitute the story-one OF
unfiagging interest.
Gods Minute. A book of SG5 daily
prayers by 365 of the most eminent
evangelical clergymen and laymen
in the English-speaking world
Philadelphia: The Vir Publishing
Company. Purple cloth, gold top.
Price, 80 cents net.
Lord teach us to pray" one OF
| the early disciples asked the Mas
| ter. and that prayer is now being
repeated by millions of anxious
souls in these perplexIng and dis
tressing times. To all such. this
book will come as benediction.
Each prayer is sixty seconds long
and arranged in calendar form. Any
one reading one of the snort pray
ers every morning, earnestly and
quietly, cannot but be the better
for it during the day. 1t not only
has value as a prayer book, but
1t is a mirror, unconsciously re-
vealing the deep spiritual character
of each of these many contributors.
1t would make a particularly ad-
mirable gift to any soldier or sailor
boy to be read in the trenches or
camp, or on the deck of the boat
as 1t plows through the dangerous
seas.
The Blue streak, by Jack Hines.
New York: George H. Doran and
Company.
Lovers of dogs will enjoy these
stories of the splendid descendants
of the gray timber wolr of the
Yukon, and Of their owners. Every
one OF them is full of adventure,
the almost human animals and their
intrepid masters vying with each
other in courage and resourceful-
ness in the wilds of Alaska. This
Aims to be a Dog County" is full
OF humor. Scar Face" is a delight
full story of a race for life across
Puget Sound. Black Wolf Skin"
tell7 of the undoing of fur thief,
andffSuno saves the life OF her
master, Murray Sheehan. displaying