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New Fiction
The Alabaster Box, Mary Wilkins Free
man and f. Kingsley.
New Fiction

man and +. Kingsley
An entertaining story of how Lydia Orr ,
became the Lady Bountiful to the suspic-
ious jewellers in a New England village
which is suffering from the effects of a
financial depression caused by defaulting
banker, who is still hated although serving
long sentence in states prison The vii
lage is regenerated, the tangle of love
stories Strengthened, and the mystery OF
the girls identity solved at last
The setting of the story is Florence of a |
quarter of century ago. Aurora Is a
wealthy, uneducated, warm-hearted wom-
an, born and reared on Cape Cod. She
| is blissfully unware OF the existence OF
social amenities and has a remarkable
taste for the wrong things in art and lit
erature. She is 50 genuinely human and
lovable that she wins the affection of
the Anglo-Amercan colony, and the love
of fastidious, cultured artist in spite of
her shortcomings and the mystery of her
identity
A Diversity Of Creatures, Rudyard Kip
ling
I A collection of short stories and poems,
2 most Of which have appeared in magazines
during the years 1910 to 1917; the subjects
D range from the England OF to-day to north
ern and Chicago, A. d. 2O65. The Village
that voted that the Earth is Flat is very
funny and AS Easy as A b c. is both
, subtle and witty Although not equal to
4 his best work, yet the collection will
II prove interesting to people who enjoy good
Il short stories
s The Hiding Places, Allen French
:, \ very interesting mystery story laid
y in New England There are five secret
hiding places for FIVE treasure boxes Of
two New England farms belonging to til,
two branches of the same family The dis
n covery OF the third box starts a train o
II circumstances including mystery. Grim,
and love The real interest Of the stor,
= centers in the man who finds the thir,
. box, and the change in his life and chalac
=, ter thereafter
Our Next Door Neishbors. b X Man
ates.
Ptoemy Pythago7as, Emerald, Demet
II rius and Baby Diogenes are the five son
II Of the intellectual but grossly neglectfr
II Polydores. They are always dirty. hungry
II and mischievous: and are PRACTICAL
II brought M by the long suffering and chilC
II less couple living next door. Their adver
II lures make amusing reading.
/ The Shadow Line, Joseph Conrad
The shadow line" is that dimly fe
a boundary that separates the ,nresponsit,
- youth from his maturity Conrad calls til
Z a confesson-It is the story OF how Il
OF Young first mate crossed this line when
icy took command Of a sailing vessel on
N voyage from Bangkok to Singapore II
ng ship is becalmed for two weeks near Sial
OF the crew is stricken with fever, the NEE
cine chest has no quinne. and the mate
asst half crazed BY the haunting memory
Is his former captain buried at sea right
tho the path OF The outgoing ship.
on Sudden jim, Clarence B. Kelland
a. \ story Of the middle west in viii
die Sudden jim, the son OF Clothespin il
my, develops remarkable executive a
)ny business ability when he is left in char
QUE of the Mill when his father goes to c.
) fornia Sudden Jim needs all his wits
OFT thwart his INSCRIPTIONS rival in busin
The and love.
lils The Undertow, X Norris
ing The story OF young couple who st;
was life in a modest way; they become VI
7iu prosperous. buy a house in the fashiona
suburbs and enter society and gradua
drift apart 4 fire destroys their proper
and they are thus brought to realize h
far they had drifted from their youth
art Ideals - -