Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-23

component parts until the reader has
gained a clear conception of the vast
extent of the vital elements involved.
The Great War is a classic that will
endure with the memory of man.
The Beetle, by Richard Marsh
published by G.. P. Putnam's Sons
$3.50 metz
Mystery of hynotic influence, fam
tastic horrors and many tense situa-
tions are brought before the reader as
he goes on with the fascinating story
of this author.
1t is story, powerful in its grip
on the imagination, and yet does not
go to extremes. Centered around the
life of an English nobleman who has
done some things he might not have
done had he the opportunity to meet
the same situation again, the. skill
with which this is told is remarkable
1t is a book which will be much
more enjoyable if someone is near. If
read when alone, the mystery of THE
| Beetle may cause persons with vivid
imaginations to turn up the gas and
look twice to see that no hideous be-
| ing is in hiding somewhere in the
room. Yet with all its vague sugges-
tions of superhuman mental sugges-
ton and the shadows of strange hor-
rors, the story is sure to please, and
leaves at least part of the mystery un-
solved.
When the public is given a truly
American story of the knocks, bumps
and romance in the life of humor-
GUS lrishman, there can be no doubt
but that it will be received with COM
mendation.
In jerry by Arthur Stanwood Pier,
and published by Houghton Miffiin
n e he Do
given just such a story. From an iron
mill worker to district attorney in a
great city-this is the career of
Jerry.
Confronted with numerous obstacles
he only uses them to mount higher.
TWO murders and a suicide are
| brought into the book, but in such a
mastery way that the novel loses none
of its romance.
| Human nature of all kinds the
ward politician, life in police circles,
the courageous and unselfish action of
Jerry as an honest policeman-these
all tend to make the tale one of the
| finest in recent fiction.
| He was a schoolmaster in q little
British town. He wrote stories too
and one morning awoke to find HIM
self an accepted author. This school
master-author was John May Beth at
| War, but when Great Britain issued
her call to arms, the author straight
way changed his pen for a sword"
He is now Captain John Hay Beth and
writes under the nom de plume of Ian
! Hay. The, First Hundred Thousand"
by this author attained immense popu-
| larity and now he has written a little
book on Getting Together" published
under the double imprint of Double
| day, Page and Company, and Hough-
ton, Mifilin Company.
"You don't really think we are too
proud to fight, do you?" why can't
you Britishers be a bit kinder in your
attitude to us?" What DO you expect
to do about the submarine menace?"
These are few of the questions that
/ the average American" propounds to
the average Briton" in a conversation
that they have on the attitude of the
two countries toward one another.
\ Designed evidently to promote great
er understanding between the two
leading Anglo-Saxon nations of the
world and likewise to set forth in
| laconic phraseology the things for
which England fights Getting To-
gether" is written. Ian Hay was
wounded in battle and spent some
weeks in this country, during which
time he gained the impressions which
are set down in his book.
The White Queen of Okoyong, by
w. P. Livingstone, a beautiful young
folks version of the same authors
great missionary biography, THE Life
of Mary Scissor of Calabar," (Which
has taken the English speaking world
by storm as the greatest missionary
biography since the Life of Living
stone.)
Tho Boys Book of Canoeing and
Sailing, by Warren H. Miller, author
of THE Boys Book of Hunting and
Fishing Camp Craft" ETC., is an
other practical, attractive book in
which the editor of Field and
/ hnlinA Ixaf L..