The Washington herald., 1919-01-19
BOOKDOM

Hark, ye booklovers
Have you heard
From author friends
What a treat
Awaits you all
On Valentines evening
When this city's
Pen Women's League
Will hold here
An Authors Carnival
And Costumed Ball
Where all present
VIII doll up
As some character
From some book
They especially favor
Every popular author
Is now helping
To boost this
Local literary gathering
By sending books
All autographed up
So if you
Are d Bookdomitc
Stir yourself now
For this occasion.
How Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet. pre-
1icted the approximate length of Jack
London's life is told In her autobi.
osraphy, THE Worlds and t.
a very pleasant period OF Mrs. vii.
coN's life was the time when she tray.
eled extensively with her husband
Robert Wilcox. often meeting celeb,
rites and being entertained by them
She says:
One year we happened to be ir
Port Antonio when Jack London ar.
rlved there on his wedding trip with
his second wife. delightful CHAIRMAN
his real mate designed for him since
the beginning OF time.
In Jamaica 1 had looked at Jack
I'ondon's palm; and had told hin
that he must conserve his vitality
and not give such complete rein tc
his love OF adventure. or he would no,
live fifteen years. He lived eleven.
believe, after that"
The Dough Boys.
Mr.. Patrick MacGill gives US her,
a book OF universal quality. tn,
humor, the recounting of the glamo,
and grind OF military life, the sym.
pathetic pictures OF the mighty
Irish policeman in uniform, tht
plucky Cockney, and the American
boy who smuggles a book of poem:
into the trenches, have all a uni.
yersal appeal. standing as they dc
for more than just themselves.
The soldier-poet comes to MUD
Wallow" as his regiment nicknames
the war-ridden French village where
they must rot in inaction for
thinking he knows life. II
IS not long til he sees clearly that
he does not know it at all, and that
is the first step in his constructive
The day is to come when he and
his comrades shall find action, sud.
den and death-dealing action, bu,
when 1t comes 1t is a glorious, soul
satisfying struggle. The grumblinG
ceases by magic. and the only
thought is to stop the Hun who has
broken through to where his com
oany was working behind the lines
stop him with spades or picks, OF
pistols, anything.
In that supreme moment OF his
life the versifier becomes a poet
The boy u man. The book abound.
n humor and in pictured realism
The agony of forced marches, the
igure OF the regimental chaplain
4 British regiment returning from
The trenches and the look in their
'aces, the ruined towns of France
he brave people.
Mr.. MacGill has written the classic
If the service of the rear"
This book is from the press of the
George H. Doran Company.
The Winds of Chance.
Rex Beach, in his new novel, The
Winds of Chance" has gone back TO
he Alaskan claim he staked out for
himself some years ago and from
which he dug out the rich nuggets OF
The Spoilers THE Barrier" and
The Iron Trail" THE Winds OF
-hance'' shows that the pay streak
till yields the same high quality ore.
Among tho recitals of American
achievements in the developing of our
natural resources, the story of the
gold hunters in Alaska will always
'ascinate. Again the Argonauts set
tut in search of the Golden Fleece,
md even more than in the California
# 20 did they meet with strange
hangers in strang lands. Rex Beach
loes not have to get up" his facts
md background from old newspapers
or at secondhand. He was himself
IN Alaskan miner who experienced the
and thrill of the Yukon
hopes and disappointments, who has
constituted himself the recorder of
mighty men and mighty packs. of
ong marches and of grim staying
powers"
In THE Winds Of Chance" is an
outdoor world, of viriIe men who
iare much, not only for fortunes, but