Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-04-17

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General
MAsSs sss Ss YR Flax: E.nrg BY Has Ss'tf' cs Middle
writing by one Of the most important of tn.
.oung-r American rlaywrishts.
SCRAMBLED, EGGS. BY Lawton Mackail.
whimsicai humor by the manasirs editor
Gieyer foolins and keen satire such as ,s,ts the
woman's sphere Is the egg.
HOW TO SPEAK FRENCH LIKE THE
FRENCH BY Jeanne Marie Yersin.
Teaches by parallel TRANSACTIONS OF idioms'
WE MoDERNS. BY Edward Muir. New
York: Alfred Knopf
"A criticism OF the modern spirit & and a, a
the Greek In a conscious revival. The au-
thor Is young Scotchman, ana apparently
John Knox. judging by his desire for the
abr ndonment Of the view OF life as morat
force and It's acceptance as great adventure
and the pursuit OF beauty. .r
THE Rad RESULTS OF GOOD HABITS
AND OTHER LAPSES. by ]. Edgar
Park: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.
This collection OF quaintly conceived and
often perversely posed yiewpoints is an at
tempt TO sell n few sites in heaven to kin
dred souls with the author. to whom COM
pany Is more important than climate.
tioS SSEhOlsD AhITHMETIC. By hatnafl1e
con9rcScn"iSs rS"s' system sit of ari,hmetlca!
teaching hing on ma q novel plan. especially adaptsd
lens Is taken entirely from the realm Of
home economies. and there Is definite at
tempt to produce habits Of logical thinkins
and planning. A valuable textbook and
one which. on account OF It's various, tables.
should prove OF value to many housewives.
CHURCH AND STATE by REV. John
baptist church, New York, New YORK:
made tas, round of the founders" resorts N
on the Bowery and Broadway and the vari-
GUS way stations. such as bohemia. writes
Like Ancient Greece and Rome by immoral
Fiction
THE BRIDGE OF TIME. BY ". H. Warner.
New York: Scott & Seltzer, 49, 49,.
the Egypt of the Pharaohs to New York OF
today
WOMAN TRIUMPHANT. BY y. Blasfo
The story OF great artists life ana
career.
THIS SIDE OF PARADISE. BY F. scett
Eittseraid New York Charles scribner's .
The FIRST novel of a young Princeton tn.
dent aged twenty-three.
OH. YOU TEX! BY VIM, Mcleod Raino.
Boston: Hcught9n Mirlin Go. .,-.,,-
Another OF M-. Raine's western stories
that are thrilllnsly adventurous. but that
ring true.
THE VOICE OF THE PACK. by Edison
Marshall Boston; Little Brown Brow Z Co;
West to tho he home IS o. some frontier aTtestors
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peetsG e 1 s4 hsG aHS G.sis ss oT II
well-written novel.
A tale Of Of adventure In the china seas.
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ting a had name, and who goes on 70 lnves'
course. love for this is a spring novel.
diam polls: hobbs. Merrill cs; ...,., 49,,
sprits and much atmosphere and totally
different from the Henry caiverly sequsnce
q novels which has brought sucn popularity
TO the author.
HIS FRIEND AND HIS WIFE. by cosmo
Hamilton. Bostpn: Little Brown e. Co,
A typical novel OF the unholy triangle Of
ten in the charaeteristic rnapner OF the al,
thor OF The Blindness Of Virtue" and
SCANDAL" Deals with an infraetlon of the
moral code and .ts social consequences.
THE ROMANTIC WOMAN. by Mary Bor.
In nctional ise tho story OF 4 chicsao
heiress OF the insenue type who marries
into the British military aristocracy, 4
| contrast between crude. rrass Vigorous up
standing. and doing Chicago and the super
cultured and debllithted English upper class.
dom with hypefSNhetic senses. perverted
code of conduct. hnesse Of manners and tory
instincts.
TRIMMED WRIT RED. by wallace Irwin,
New York; George II. Doran Co.
A satire on rB iicallsm in politics and .he
arts and very refreshing story
TIME AND ETERNITY. by Gilbert Canaan.
New York; George II. Doran Co. -
| the heclic backgrorhds OF British bohemian n,
ism and pFeudo,At. Searching and poig gnant
and well up 20 the distinguished writer 5