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their relations to the one figure which
after all dominates the book, Grandma
Wentworth. There is none more charm
ing than delightful Nancy Ainslcc, and
her romance with John Knight, "Cyn-
thia's son. is pleasant reading. This is
the chronicle Of small town, an epic
theme in miniature; love, courage, doubt
despair, Jealousy. anguish-the gamut
Of human passion Is here, and yet the
book Is optimistic in the extreme and
there is not II word to which the most
puritanical person could object We
think it will find its place among the
very best of its particular type Of nc-
ton. We rejoice to Y it has no OBJ
1ectionable child in its pages--no in
rant phenomenon who goes about med
ding in the affairs Of It's bctters and
elders, giving them sage advice that
makes one long TO administer fitting
punishment. This is book for holt
day, cure for blues. charming and
delightful but no less real "slcc Of
life" c. c. O.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
In a Western Town

GRIN VALLEY. BY Katherine rloynolds
1,ro 1J,ron.lsplsce IN color. Emo. I'D. 2s7. Little
colortul picture of life in small
town in the West, so the author tells
us-a town within committing distance
OF Chicago and the Art Institute. At
ter all, IN spite of the excellent "local
color" human nature is much the same
,he world over. 1t was written, we
learn from the Introductory note. 40
cure a heartache, to ease a very real
and bad case of Inconsistencies" at a
time when the author was far from
her beloved Middle Western prairics, in
fact, when she was in South America
Perhaps that accounts for it's most
prominent fault. an override alization
Of both the setting and the characters
And yet, when is home so delightful as
IN fancy and memory? There are many
characters, all very we'll done and vcry
human. They are revealed mainly in
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Domestic Economy
TO Make, TO Manage and to
Renovaie the Home

MANUAL OF HOME MAKING Comnfed nv
Martha van HcnNraer. Flora Rose ana Helen
anon, Of ne Department OF Home EconOmics
~" loFk College OF Agriculture Cornell I'nl
ncsity. ]llustrDicI Small Syo, Dp xA GGI
lhc Macmillan COMPANY
IlE HusINESS OF HOME MANAGEMrNr. pv
,,anI,E. ,m@IE r"luson $50 rp JlO Aobcr. NJ Nc
olrNAGlNG y q o.r,AN ANp ,d ,mdESoyArlySg At HOME BY
BOOK CO.. Wlmeitc nj ''1''''''
rJj,Ms2NML j,y 2chiL. liYGiENE AID HOME NURSING
s'o' World Book Company
TIE FOOD CRISIS AND AMERIcANlsM py
Wnilam sun. l@mo. ~. Viii. 1855. Tho Mac
milan Company
1t would be difficult to commend too
highly the compondious work on home
making which has been prepared by
members Of the department of home
economies at Cornell University. It's
scope is all but universal, comprising
the choice of ground, planning, build
ing and furnishing the house, clothing
and feeding the family and caring for
the sick. There is an opulent array Of
those practical formulas and recipes
which are SO often wanted and-unlcss
this book is at hand-are too often
with difficulty found. The authorship
of the book bespeaks it's authority; its
contents speak for themselves in lucid
lty OF style and directness of interest
and of service. AS q textbook in
classes in domestic science it would be
invaluable, while for reading and ref
erence by practical housekeepers,
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
with tears behind Comedy's rrtnninu mask
And smiles over Tragedy,e bloody s1qord
Real Stories of Real PcopIc

GOOD SPORTS. BY Olive Higgins rrouy. lgmo.
pp 25s Frederick A. Stokes Go.
The, short stories here collatcd have
douDtless been much enjoyed by the
readers of magazines, who will be plnd
to have them in this permanent form
for the rcreading which they deserve.
Mrs. Prouty has fine gift OF realism ;
by which we mean not Photographic
reproduction of all the unpleasant
things of life, but the portrayal of pco-
pie who appeal to us as real and vitality
human, in scenes and doines which
also impress us an entirely natural.
Wlthal, she makes these stories every
bit as fascinating as the most morbid
fermentations of dsordered mind
could be to the devotees of that sort
OF stuff. 1t is comfort to have people
write so cleanly, so lucidiy, so nat
urally, and to make wholesome tales
Of human life as interesting as life it.
self should always be.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
I'm Northern Wilds
The True Tricks and Manners
of Their Denizeus

NoMADS OF THE NORTH Rv James Oliver Chr
wood Illustrated by Charles livingston Bull
I-uo rp dls. Doubleday. Page & Co
Men in the wilderness are supposed
often to act like brutes. Contrariwise
brutes may be supposed sometimes to
act Ike men. There are at any rate
certain primal passions which are sub
stantlally common to men and animals
or to men and other animals" as
Charles Reade would say. One of the
finest features of Kiping's immortal
Jungle Book" is the intense and char
acterls-lc humanity of the animals.
which, through the marvel of mimi
table genius, does not in the least in
terfere with their wild beast nature.
Thus to portray the creature of the for
est and flood is supreme triumph
OF lettered artistry.
We shall hope to avoid the proven
nia! odium of comparison if we sugee st
that what kipling has done for tropic
Junglcs Mr.. Curwood is doing for the
peopled solitudes Of the Arctic lands.
by that We do not mean to imply the
slightest approach TO imitation. We do
rot suppose that Mr. Curwood owes TO
kipling 30 much as the suggestion of
his writings But the later writer has
precisely the same faculty as the
former. not borrowed but original, of
humanlMng tho forest denizens while
at the same time leaving them thor
ouehly wild, and thus investing them
with sympathetic interest which
could not possibly otherwise be gained
For. mastery Of speech and graphic
descriptive power, MIR. Curwood wins
highest praise. Such passages as that
telling Of tho battle Of Miki with the
"oi1 pack, and that OF Mispoon's slay-
Ing or the renegade, Mahecpun. arc
epic, Homcric TO those who know not
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

whether novices or experts, it must be
no less highly priced.
Mrs. Pattson's book Is fine vindica-
tion of the silly aspcrsion upon
women's clubs, that they initiate
against domesticity. Mrs. Pattison was
president Of the New Jersey State Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs, and the book
is largely the outcome of club discus
sions, experiences and inspiration. 1t
is instinct with tho truost spirit OF do
mcstiCity, and calculated to mako the
reader take n higher and better view
Of tho duties and labors Of household
life.
The volume before us on cleaning
and rcnovnting is an encyclopaedia COM
pilation Of practical recipes and drcc-
tons for cleansing everything about
the house, from the carpet on the floor
to the jewels on my ladys hand. 1t is
PLAIN, simple, explicit and authorita-
tive, and should be of immense practi-
ca service to every housckeepcr and
indeed, to an innumcrabIc multitude
who do not keep house, but who wish
to keep their rooms and their clothing
Tree from stains.
Miss Lippitt, a practical nurse of sue
cess1ul experience, has prepared an ox-
cellcnt manual for either school or
homo use, giving full and explicit diroc-
tlons for the care of the person in
health and illness, suited to both the
professional and the amateur nurse.
Mr.. Stull, man of long experience
and comprehensive observation of
Western farming and transportation
discusses in an authoritative manner
the problems Of American agriculture
as related to the food supply of the
nation, paying special attention to the
errors that have been made in legisla-
ton, through apprehension of
actual needs and conditions. The vol
umc. IS full of information and sug-
gestlons of most timely value.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Adventures in New York
Surprising in Wonder and Ro-
nance Those of the Wilds

TIFF MAN WHO COULDN'T SLEEP Ry Arthur
Ss'p mo pp s Tho rSBBscS noBbs Me w sE snaDp
There are moro things in heaven
and earth, Horatio," observed tho
Prince OF Denmark, than are dreamed
Of in your philosophy" SO we may
truly say that there are moro advcn-
lures 70 be had, romantic, daring, won-
derful, in the very heart OF the great
metropolis than in the far-off wilder
ncsses of the savage world. 1t is of
such adventures that our present ro-
mancer writes, with an assured veri-
tism which proves our proposition. For
these adventures are most wonderful
and thrilling, and yet there is not one
Of them OF which we are prepared to
say that it could not happen in New
York or which indeed seems incongru-
GUS with the multifarious opportun-
tiles and vicissitudes of the city.
Besides the enhancing interest of
the tale, or tales, too, we must be
profoundly grateful for the medium
of their expression. Mr.. Stringer knows
how TO write. He respects the laws
and principles OF earth's noblest Ian
guage, and uses it at once with respect
and with familiarity, and therefore
with facility and a correctness which
unhappiy few of mis- contemporaries
rival. There is a beautiful restraint
in his narrative, which makes even
the most extraordinary passages seem
indubitable, and there is a pervasive
humor. subtle but irresistible which
reminds us-sparing the odium of COM
parisons-of Stockton, and of Stock
ton at his best. lc is q book of al
most infinite charm, which will hold
the reader spell-bound at his first
reading, and will fill him with CRATE
ful delight when he reads it again.
and again.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Blind, Yet Seeing
A Charmingly Human Tale of
Youth and Love
DA"T u. BY EIcanor u, Porter With illustrations
The Houghton aiinun Company ''' ''''

Sy Incus wolce' ichcoc "sn lsmo, ,us5''lSo pp $50
Tho Aoushton Minin Company.
The unfaiing and triumphant quail
lty OF Mrs. Porter's stories is their in
tense and vital humanity. By that we
40 not mean exploitation of the du-
bious and wayward passions which
some "realists" portray in their sen.
problem propaganda. Her realism" is
OF far more truly real character than
that: She portrays the actual passions
of the daily life of everyday men and
women; which are immeasurably more
interesting and edifying than the
others. Her characters are sympathetic
to US, because we feel that they are
men and women of like passions with
ourselves.
In the fine work before us we have
the story of boy who becomes blind;
VINO M suners mental martyrdom; but
who at last finds happiness, even in
his irremediable affiiction. by bravelv
making himself blessing to others.
Ihere also grows up from childhood
an eXqulsltely tender romance between
him and his neighbor's daughter, which
eliminates In scene of unsurpassed
beauty and truth. Of course, there is
nothing in such a tale to appeal to
those to whom problem" always means
morbid discussion of sexuality and to
whom romance" is synonymous with
violation of the Seventh Command
ment. But to people of normal minds
ana hearts, to whom true manhood and
womanhood and their pure relation
ships are the finest and most interest
ing things In the world, this will prove
to be a volume of surprising charm.
And happily such people are the grea,
majority of the world
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
A Cottage i'm q CanyOn

THE EDGE or TIE WORLD BY Edith Biinn.
illustrated by Norma l. Virgin 12mo. pp 301.
BritOn Publishing Company.
There may be something little fan
tastic In the picturing of an elderly New
England woman conducting a sort Of
waysido rest cottage in the depths Of II
Rocky Mountain canyon and making
herself mother TO miscellaneous
children and ministering angel to
everybody who comes along, and there
will be those who will say that much
Of the speech and action in the book
are marked with an artifciality lilac
cording with the unconventional nature
which forms thc setting Of the whole
moving scene. But at lcnst Miss Blinn
has invested her characters with some
very loyablc human traits, and she com
pels US to follow the story Of their
doings with unhagging interest. And
interest in "A genuine, heart-to- heart
love story is perennial.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Temperamental Romance
The Story of a You'll, With the
Vices of Genius

pp si3. Henry Holt & Co. '''-'''
The eccentricities-eup 70,
vices-of genius have long been q
tavorite theme of romance and of con.
troversy. People have speculated ant
argued upon the questions whether
wees are more pardonable in men anc
women of genius than in ordinary folk
and whether certain degree Of &C.
centricity is inseparable from and es-
sentlal to genius. Of course, this is
chiefly rubbish. The fact is that most
OF the real geniuses of the world have
been las other mortals' ls'-normal. self
controlled, practical men and women OF
atfalrs-and in nine cases out of ten
the eccentricites and vices of alleged
genluses have been either assumed anC
affected for the sake Of self~advertise-
ment or have been practised with the
deliberate purpose of making genius an
excuse for them.
The volume before US is study of a
vicious and offensive musical genius
He is overendowed with Temperament 3
and this makes him sometimes almost
angelic, but far more often entirely
bestial. The tale begins with his boy
1sh ambitions and dreams of writing q
grand opera, and ends with his death
- VIC opcia HouSc dt Vue clliudA OF lne
first performance Of his work. There
can be no question of the immense
cleverness Of the work, chiefly in its
analysis Of the wayward musicians s
character and conduct The vagaries
of Temperament" now and then be
come a little tedious, though generally
the narrative is sufficiently brisk and
nervous to hold interested attention
AS a problem novel, the problems be-
ing artistic as well as sexual, it merits
hiph rank
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Gaining Worldly Wisdom

RECKONING ROADS, BY Jeanne Judson H.
lusttated l2mo. pp. $50. nodd Mead & Co.
The story is by no means new, of a
beautiful young woman who tries liv-
ing apart from her husband, to get on
by herself in the great city with which
she is unacquanted and who gets into
all sorts of perils and embarrassments.
There is always possibility, how
ever, of telling an old story in new
way and with new accessories, and
this Miss Judson has admirably sue
ceeded in doing. If the book is some
what lacking in deep, dark and des-
perate villains, and the iniquities of
the city are not as lurid as the aver
age melodrama makes them, so much
the better and so much the more cause
for gratitude for a really lifelike,
sympathetic and delightful story. We
are told that it is the authors first
novel. We shall look and hone fol
many more from her really gifted and
finely promising pen.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Pleasant Dreams

TIE s..g TIN sma sohDpn g By TsmoG .sa nasy Ss
Thisis sweet, simple, charming
story of a girl who dreams dreams and
fashions them into realities and of q
man who bears the stigma of being a
Stacker because of his obligations to
a father whose failing is drink. No
more delightful, delicate, light thing
of it's sort has been written for many
day. 1t deserves to take its place
among innocuous, charming, optimistic
best sellers. Jean Mckenzie, a delight
full young girl, whose life has been
spent under the most carefully guarded
surroundings, watched over by an ador-
ing father, fashions Lovely Dreams -
the most alluring green ducks and pink
pussies, purple cows and soft white
elephants because that is the way
children sec them in their fancios,' y
for the shop of a friend. And among
those fascinating surroundings she
meets General Drake and then his son
Derry. How she rescues the General
from the claws Of an adventures, who
has dsigns on Jeans father, which she
relinquishes for more wealthy prey;
how she loves and marries Derry and
helps him reclaim his father from an
insidious but no less dangerous enc
my: how she wins the old mans heart
hs well as that of the younger man;
how she mnrries Derry and sends him
to fight for his country, ali go to make
up an interesting story which is no less
pleasing because IL Is sweet and clean
This 10 not great book, but it is none
the less "A pleasant and interesting
diversion when ono turns from the
muck Of the so-called sex fiction.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Wartime Canada

IN ORCHARD GLEN. Dy Marian Keith l2mo
pp, ga. George II. Dorau Company.
The perfume Of apple blossoms and
Of garden flowers haunts every page
and We hear the voices Of children at
play and the sound of pipes and
Scottish phrases as VIC live with the
author in rural Ontario, when the call
of the great war is in the land. With
a singularly deft and convincing touch
the author reveals at once how far re-
moved was Orchard Glen from the
battlefront and how close after all was
their contact. The spirit Of youth
dominates it all, tho youth that is
hcalthful and true and filled with
promise of nobility with girl and
boy attachment ripening into the love
of manhood and womanhood. Few
romances of the war, at long range, are
more completely instinct with real
humanity, its humor and pathos and
heroism, than this.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

to feel, as few other such tales have
made us feel, that society" in the
town on the plains or among the noun
tains is animated by the same ambi-
tions, jealousies, kindnesses, mean
nesses, and all the rest, that are found
in it In the big city by the sea; and
that in business competition on the
ranges tho same passions find play that
move mci in metropolitan marts.
1t Is clean, vivid, vital story of Il
brave girls fight against adverse cir
cumstenccs, for name, for business
success, and for that love without which
life is incomplete. The whole narrative
~ tense with interest and throbbing
with human sympathy. 1t il written in
n style Of singular strength, beauty
tion Of scenes, whether of human as-
and charm; tho conversation being so
llfclke that we seem to be hearing in
stead of reading it, while the dcscrip-
tions or Of natures phases and the
strife or the clements arc master
pieces of composition and color. 1t is
book TO be most seriously considered
among the best fiction Of the year.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
A Girl on the Range
Her Gallant Fight for Fortune,
Name and Love
TIE FIGHTING SIIEPiiERDESS BY CarolIn
Lockhart. With coored fronlLspiece by Nj Icon.

THE TIGHTfNG SiIEPiiERDESS BY Caroline
I1ockhart With coored frontspiece by NJ Leone
bracker. l2mo. pp 373. Small Maynard & Co
Amid the innumerable company of
tales of life on the Far Western plains
and ranges there is much variety, and
there is inevitably also much sameness.
Yet now and then there comes to our
delighted attention work of striking
originality, containing interesting char
acters whom we have never met before
and leading them through scenes and
incidents which are as novel as they
are exciting. Such is the volume be-
fore US. 1t gives us views Of Western
life, both in small towns and on the
open ranges, hitherto unknown to US,
but suffused and instinct with con-
vincing truth. That truth is, of course,
the truth of human nature. We are made
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Practical housekeeping

Hor stWTFERy Ey Lydia Ray Balder,,on. H.
lustrsIed s,o, ~. 55j. IAe Il. Lnpinoott
Company.
This latest of Lippncott's Home
Manuals is IL handbook of housekcep-
ing reduced-or expanded to an ex-
act science. The authors proposition
is that rule of thumb has been out
grown, and that housekeeping like
every other important occupation
needs to be systematized, in orderly
fashion; as a result of doing which
work Will be lesscned while effects
will be increased. There is probably
not one essential operation in all the
complex labor of housekeeping con-
cerning which definite and profitable
information is not given in this valu-
able volume
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Beware Dyspepsia
THIS FAMISH1NG WORLD ry Alfred W.
Cam sso. ~. 3S7. George H. Doran Comp

THIS TAMIsH1NG WORLD Hy Alfred W. Nc
Cam. s'o, I'D 9S7. George H. Doran Company.
Mcthinks our author doth protest
too much. We arc quite willing to
agree with him that over-polished rice
is not good for human food if eaten
IN considerable quantities, and we are
nothing short of enthusiastic in our
approval of his belief that stale eggs,
even though deodorized, are an abomi-
nation in pastry. We are also of
opinion with him that it is possible to
eat too much meat. We conf to
having known some officially certified
pure food products to be entirely
UNFIT for eating. Assuredly we are
with him heart and soul in his denun-
citation of diseased meat, slop milk and
similar atrocities.
Yet we arc unable to dissever our
selves from the belief that for many
centuries uncounted millions Of those
people of the world who were most
robust in both mind and body made
fine wheat flour, or articles made there
from, an important part of their daily
diet. Neither can we persuade our
selves that all people who eat refined
sugar in preference to muscovado are
on the way to dyspepsia or paresis 1t
may be that it is desirable to supple
ment these highly refined articles of
food with some of the chemical ele-
ments which have been removed from
them, taken in some other form That
it is surely not difficult to do. But the
proposition that the digestive saliva
tion of mankind depends upon the sub
titution Of brown bread for white and
of brown sugar for white, and so on
through the whole dietary, Is scarcely
to be maintained.
In spite, however, of too strident
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Contcnding Personalities
\ Conflict of Hercdiiy and En-.
virOnmenf in Kentucky

wY mo E nan0 pp o 'i Ths d.SSy E om T
pany.
Above all, the book is an appeal to
sympathy. We should have much SYM
pathy with Joan herself, for to have a
"New England conscience" and South
crn temperament at the same time is
surely a pretty trying experience. And
that is Joan's plight. The one she in
herited from her mother, the latter
from her father. Her mother is dead,
and her father has lost his fortune
but not his love Of easygoing leisure;
and she is in her fathers environment
in Kentucky.
There rises in her, then, the con-
flict between the two personalities,
which in time assumes the form of a
conflict between her interest in men
collectively, as friends and comrades
and her love for one man, individually,
as lover and husband. Simply study
of her alone, in such circumstances,
would contain possibilities of great
interest. But Mrs. Kelly gives us
much more than that. She does not
let Joan dominate the drama. There
arc other characters, scarcely less i'm
portant and significant, each of whom
is similarity studied. And generally
they are so invested with the limita-
tons and weaknesses, sometimes the
failures, Of humanity, SIS to make an
Irresistible appeal to sympathy.
The book contains exceptionally dis
tinct and consistent characterization,
keen analysis, implied rather than OBJ
trusively announced; humor, pathos,
dramatic effect in scenes and narrative,
and an unfailing vein of genuine hu-
manty. 1t marks an advance upon the
good work done in the authors former
novel, and is auspicious Of still finer
achievements yet to come.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29
Novels of Human INTEREST,"
Tales of Love and Adventure
By Willis Fletcher Johnson

the creatures OF the wild they bear a
revelation of what VIC know must be
the truth. To those Of us who have
seen the gray wolf and the ghostly
Arctic owl comes IL sense Of admiriny
wonder that this writer should have
been able to see so clearly what we
saw dimly, and to tell so masterfullv
what we had thought but could not
utter.
New-York tribune., 1919-03-29

Charles Scrbncr's Sons send US five
welcome reprints Of immortal classics.
"Treasure Island" (Stevenson) is an
octave Of BOG pages and numerous ex-
quisite colored plates. "From the
Earth to the Moon" and "Twenty Thou
sand Leagues Under the Sea" (Vernc)
and "With Wolfe in Canada" and
with Lee in Virginia" (Hcnty) are
duodccimos, also with admirable col
orcd plates. They are worthy members
Of the "Scribncr Series for Young
People," though we should pity any
grown-ups who could not enjoy them.