Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-12-09
Remew Of New Books
SYNOPSIS OF VOLUMES RECEIVED AT PUBLIC
LIBRARY RECENTLY WITH NAMES OF
AUTHORS MANY Of H NEWEST BEST
READING BOOKS

She is Helped by mysterious stranger
who always appears when he 10 most
needed and who promptly falls in love
and woos her. Very sentimental. but
rather vivacious at times Published
IN the Delineator.
FarnoI. Jerrey-"Our Admirable
Betty" Lovabie characters in a lively
romance OF the time OF the Broad
highway.
Ferber. Edna-"Cheerful by Re-
quest" The twelve stories In her
latest collection are ove11lowing with a
superabundant humanity. and are
richly filed with all the elements that
go to make up both the humor and
pathos CT the daily existence OF hun
dreds upon thousands OF men and
women
Gaines. Ruth-"A Village in Pic
andy" An unusually interesting n
pathetic day-to-day story Of the work
OF a member of the Smith College unit
Ia u Picardy village. Her intimate
connection with all details from the
government reconstruction work TO
the village gossip, make the book en-
tertaining as well as informative.
Eighteen reproductions from Poul-
bots "Des Gosses et des ~Bonhommes,
make a vivid and irresistible running
commentary on the need for all recon-
struction work.
Grant. Reglnald-"S. o. s. Stand
To" h author gives an cou of
the work OF the artillery and of his
own service with tho unit known MS
the Sacrifice Battery" because of h
high percentage of losses. He is a
Canadian who went over with the first
division and his story covers three
Years. including records of the second
and third battles OF Ypres. rhe Som
me and Vimy Ridge. lie has given
little space to details OF amp life,
end other Items fully covered in other
hooks. hut has devote | himself 10 he
sctual fighting.
Gray, Joslyn-"Kathleen's Prooa-
ton" Kathleen Rawden. a leader in
her college set. pretty and selfish. Is
forced to give up her college course
because her father dies. She enters a
training school for nurses and during
her probation something happens
which changes her whole character.
Greene. T.. N.-The Devil to Pay"
A mysterious story. The stealing of
the funds of a bank result In a muir
der for which the paying teller is
hanged, but saved by the county ply
sician. The president of the bank be-
comes complicated with the theft n
is finally proved guilty after much de-
tectiVe work by a brother of the girl
whom he loves. The story is inter
estingly unfolde1 from the point of
view OF the brother.
Kelland. c. B.-"The Source" The
regeneration of E city bum" by his
work in what he feels to be the very
source OF Industry. the lumber
camp. Full of action. fight. and a con-
test t"i control OF 4 ceT;a II kind Of a
per used by the government. Also a
love story. Does not give the usual
picture OF camp life. Published in the
Saturday Evening Post.
King. Basil-"Abraham's Bosom"
A beautiful and comforting philosophy
OF faith in the hereafter. written con-
cretely. The sorry of a clergyman who
slips quietly AND naturally into the de-
t2chcd realm where old friends dis
cuss theories of life and death with
him, will be rather mere convincing
10 many readers Than abstract treatise
or the subject.
Locke. W ~ he Rough Road"
A story OF the rcnlaEing OF James
Narmadnkc Tre~or. otherwise Doe
gle from an tx itnSitC and a molly
coddle TO a fine specimen of trench
Tommy. There are incidental elimps-
es of the wars devastating effects on
a French household, and OF the con-
trast between antebellum ideas in a
staid English community and the mill
tant ideas OF war time. Has a pretty