The sun., 1918-08-18


tain books that Reilly & Britton, Chicago,
are publishing: Diet ssd Health ~ith
Key to the Calonies, BY Lulu Hunt
Peters, "is q scream. Il has q chance to
catch ON as did Eat and Gror This. DR..
Peters has written a funny SCIENTIFIC
book" Blue Stors and Gold is %for every
home that flies service flag. The author,
DIR. William E. Barton, is Bruce Barton's
father, and has three sons in the army"
Think, by Col William @. Hunter, merits
attention Ss.ause his earlier book, Pep,
was q hit Pep came out in July, 1914,
and on February 26, 1913, the eighth edi-
ton was published.
The formal announcement of the change
Of ownership of the Bookmas appears
over George 81. Doran's genius-hke sig
nature. It is most exeellently worded,
but doesn't tell you what the Bookman
is going to contain. Says Mr.. Doran:
with the issue of September, 1918, be-
ginning . new volume (No. XLVIID,
the Bookma. becomes the property of
George Il Doran Company, publishers,
PA Madison avenue, New York.
"This change in ownership, it is hoped,
will begin new era Of usefulness fsr the
BookmaA The publishers hold them
selves only as trustees for the great body
Of intelligent readers, buyers Of books
and builders Of libraries throughout
America.
"The announced and only purpose of
the Bookn0n is to cultivate and foster
the art Of reading-to minister to the
mind Of the reader by directing attention
to the best in current literature, including
that great number Of publications whose
genuine service is the proffering Of reere-
alton and amusement The Bookssan will
not, even in any remote sense, b the
organ or Spokesman for any one publish
ing house or for any group Of publishers.
"While not for moment Designating
the great background of the worlds lit
erature, the Bookmdn will Be edited for
men and women of to-day, looking for
ward always to the new structure Of
social and intellectual life Nah h even
now emerging from these years of SD
preme test
"Great epochs produce great men and
great thinking. There is every reason Why
this greatest Of all epochs in the worlds
history should produce its own great lit
erature. There is to be restatement Of
the individual, the community, the ma
tiond md the International outlook. In
the immediate present and IN the near fu-
ture our literature must deal largely with
problems of readjustment and reconstruc-
ton. This nation has definitely emerged
into the company of the world. Hence
forth no intellectual life, whether of Eng
land, France, Russia, Latin Europe or
Latin America, can be foreign to us.
"The Bookman will be jealous to rem
der its service in presenting the literature
Of the coming age to its readers. In its
policy the magazine intends to be sufi-
GENTLY flexible to enable it to present in
diligently the direction of thought as ex-
pressed in the great centres of America
and Europe"
As we understand bulletin from the
Century Company, Palmer Cox first hit
upon the idea of the Brownies in an eff
fort to bring his fisherman's luck up to
the mark. For summers and summers
Cox has gone fishing on Bronze Lake,
Quebec, not far from his home, now
known as Brownie Castle, at CRANKY. The
fish got to know him afar off and grad
ually it became impossible for Cox to
show catch and the neighbors had to
rcty wholly on the circumstantial evidence
Of what he said he had caught. So Cox
took to Disgusting himself, and in that
way evolved the Brownies, Of whom he
was the first And-yes, certainly. Co1's
new book is The Brownies and Prince
Florimcl