Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-01-04

1 treated with the skill and amplitude
that It's Importance deserves. DIR. Whit
| akcr'S book is said to be Il simple but
complete analysis of this difficult imam
| cial subject which makes foreign cX.
! change really clear. The volume VIII
1 doubtless provo OF great interest TO
| men who are taking up work with en-
| port and import houses or arc entering
the foreign departments nf banking In
| situations.
! Hugh Wajpolc who has been dis
! covering American writer's, has become
an enihusiastic admircr OF James
E ErMns CIbclI; In letter written TO
! "Cahcll is writer with style ~ IN
! iiVidunl and alive as Anatolc Frances.
1t is flexible, humorous. drama.ic.--
above all personal. That of itself in
| these days of sloppy and colorlc$s writ
| ing is enough 10 make cabeli i'm
! portart: but any man who can plan n
| book of 'Jurgcn'S' Kind OF so extensive
| Il scale and then carry IL through with
| on; making 1t laDored and tedious is
no small artist .Jur%cn' is surely a
book thn, should make Americans
| proud. am delighted with it's deli
| cacy ana good temper and tenderness.
it's fancy and its wit. II Americans
are looking for Il book TO show To Eu
| rope. here II is. | don, think they
have much 20 be ashamed OF when they
can produce Jurgcn.' Miss Gathers My
Nntonia and iierGcshcimer's Linda
condor in the same year. That no
tCahclD will secure his real and last
Ing fame is only II matter Of time: /;
Will bc II great shame If America docs
not see to ii that that time is short.
Eidcwcll Cullum, author Of The
Law of the Gun, aud Que Of the most
hoG ions "ovJ I IN ImEnmn foany,
West-whcrc he has laid the scene u.
most of his books. Bcrn advcniurcr
ana explorer. he drove Il steam donkey
engine FOR a time. was foreman TO
traction engine gang. bartender In :,
frontier town ow-punchcr and ranch
erin short knew tho life o. print
tive Montana and> Nevada al first hand.
Then he returned to England ana be-
gan 20 write those thrilling romanccs
Sia@S a. TIE AiLantic There Is no
doubt that Nae reader OF Ridsweli Gull
lum gets the looh and the tang and
the feel OF forest and plain and mining
c1np-and that is what most people
want IN a story--to be TRANSPORTED
into = different setting from their own
Ton in The Law of the Gun" is al
ways rapid. thrilling. cngrossing.
IS MANY, Years since we have had
z, long novel from the pen of Jerome
interest % Doad. Mead ~ Co.'S an
R %uGse' hsad to, OF caIv, new I9ok.Al
stand the new story liz OF more
serious nature than Mr. Jeromes carl
,er humorous stories and is OF un-
usual power and intensity
Harry +. Atwood, whose book, "I,acl,
10 the Republic is I'm its sixth edition.
IS now making u lecture tour through
ont the East addressing Rotary Clubs.
Chambers OF Commerce and yarious
civic organizations. Tie is considered
one OF Americas leading authorities
on The Constitution OF the United
states and in lectures. as in lack
l" the Republic" he makes n plea FOR
INC return 10 that document as the
n'sis Of the republican form Of gov
efnmcnt In this he believes. will be
!.und the antido;c Tor I:olsh.v. SIN.
Mr.. Atwood's pub ishcrs. Laird 81 Lee.
ne, CT ChicaGo, have Just issued an
other volume hv him. which is called
Keep God in American History" In
thiS llttie book Mr.. Atwood cites the
TACT ihat those who have been the
leaders in makin.E American history
nave been neither ashamed nor afraid