Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1918-06-05
AMONG THE new BOOKS.
Lillian Wright.

AMUNU I'LL NEW DUUAO.
Lillian Wright.
From HENRY HOLT & CON-
PANY, New York, comes REKIND-
LED FIRES by JOSEPH AN
THONY, published last month at
$1.4O. Readers have come to ex-
pect original books from this house
and this novel is an entire departure
hemian, Stanislav Kabransky, in
heriting all the Old World traits
and instincts, evolves a latent spark
of ambition. The reader grows up
with him through laborious grind
of all kinds of manual labor, during
I long days, followed by longer hours
of patient, dogged study III oolng ms
regular schoo. work after hours. The
pitting Of bohemian wits against
| German clements is of course pop
ular feature. That wonderful ability
of the forelg n-born for tireless, in
exha stible work and study is very
stroI... y brought out; the indomita-
! BILE faculty o. ul4y doing year
after year distasteful work, is shown
in his peddling cheap cigars all
through his college course. This
book most clearly shows the most
peasant immigrant, the slow dawn
ing of ambition and the unafraid, in
defatigable pursuit of it's attainment.
There is much of humor in the story,
more of common sense, and respect
for the ardent socialist, who by study,
by experience, changes ldealism into
sense, and engages in business. and
politics, with his university training,
and energies logical, practical
American citizen and a professor of
philosophy. l do not recall a book
more plainly showing the alien point
of view, making inexplicable customs
seem rational, certainly no novel has
so well shown the metamOrphosls OF
subject races into staunch, loyal,
dominant Americans.
From BOBBS- MERRILL COM
PANY, Indianapolis, is an advance
copy of OVER HERE l$1;5O) the
story of a war bride, by ETHEL M.
KELLEY, which is the first novel of
American women's war problems. A
fluffy, pleasure-seeking, eighteen
year-old society bud precipitately
falls irrevocably in love with Sc
date young American, who feels the
call of country far above all else. On
the surface the story runs along a
Joyous frivolous pace. Yet, beneath,
all the great problems of the war are
presented. First and foremost is
sudden blooming into noble, self-sac.
rificing womanhood of the kid"
bride, how she quickly develops the
highest qualities of devoted wife,
widow and mother, experiencing ex-
actly what tens Of thousands OF other
Young American women are endur-
Ill &c
ly poking fun at the brides mother
motoring smartly to collect Red
Cross funds, the expensive knitting
bags of the ladies, who do not com
plete\a sweater in a year. The tai
lacy of the pacifsts' propaganda IS
brought out in startling clearness.
But the main, serious thought is that
American women are at last reallZ-
ing we must make all (even the su-
preme) sacrifice to win Our War,
which is "a thing we've got to get
through with before we can be safe
and comfortable again." Then Life
is a struggle for life. Remove the
struggle and you have a static, a
nonresident world" 1t is shock
to recall in the past 5000 years, but
500 have been free from wars. Real
ly this little story is great book,
bringing poignantly to each woman
the urge of supreme endeavor or
sacrifice. 1t should be read by
every American woman and will
kindle and keep alive the fires of
woman's love, woman's labor, Wom-
ans sacrifice Now women have in
dependence which they have sought
for centuries, how will they use the
opportunities There is a beautiful,
symbolic frontispiece by C. D. Glib
son and a War Bride flag for tail
cover, designed by Miss Kelley-a
star in a wedding ring on field of
blue and red.
PHYSICAL CULTURE PUB
LISTING COMPANY, New York,
are having great call these days for
MCFADDEN'S ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF PHYSICAL CULTURE, publish
ed in five volumes at $500 which
covers normal life time and more
especially indicates the diet and ex-
ercises which are corrective Of most
of life's ills. Prospective soldiers
here find all (and more) the setting
up drills, diets and sanitation taught
in camps, and very especially those
who stay at home, and under new
conditions, find it imperative to be
10000 efficient" find here plain di-
rections how to get and keep we'll.
There are profuse illustrations. The
fine charts are alone worth the price
of the set. The most valuable thing
is the simplicity and sense of the di-
rections which Mr.. MacFadden veri-
fies in his own most arduous life and
has successfully taught for score of
years to thousands in every state in
the union. Now, if ever, one cannot
afford to be other than we'll, strong
and active, in other words, we MUST
be the normal beings we were Gre
ated if ever freedom and liberty
comes to us and the whole world as
we'll.