New Britain herald., 1920-12-24
Neu Books at Neu Britain
 Institute

DAME SCHOOL OF EXPERIENCE,
 by s. M. Brothers.
 The new volume, the fsst in four years. contains some of his best and most characteristic work, mingled wit, wisdom and whimsicality Publish er's Weekly.
 LETTERS OF A JAPANESE PRIN- CESS by Raden Adjeng Kartini. Translated from the Dutch. 'kartini is thoroughly Javanese in shielding all that is beautiful in native culture. but her spirit is no more alienor fantastic than Susan B. Anthony's. Sometimes she even seems to have too much of distinctly familiar sentiment and rhetoric. But one for gets this shortcoming in admiring her as one of hunanity's vanguard."-New Republic.
 OUR WOMEN. CHAPTERS ON THE
 SEX DISCORD, by Arnold Bennett.
 He is not always sensible when he IS serious, and inc is not always funny when he seeks to be humorous.
 
 a glib and facile writer to toy with theme upon which he can play end lessly. and at the end be no nearer his goal than he was at the begin ning."-Boston Transcript
 Though fresh enough in style and not philistine in precepts, Our Women is as conventional as 'Godey's lady's book" Springfield Republican. POETS IN THE NURSERY, by
 Charles Powell
 Mother Goose furnishes the sub- jects and twenty we'll known American and English poets are parodied.' John Drinkwater's introduction leads us to expect work of high dis tinction, and though we find traces of burlesque now and then. our expec- tations are realized Springfield Re- publican.
 PRIMER OF SOCIALISM. by Thomas
 Kirkup and E. R. Pease.
 Aims to give in brief and simple form a clear and impartial account of Socialism. The last six chap ters have been rewritten. They bring the work closely up-t date" Mr. Kirkup wrote TOT the Encyclope- dia Britannica. PROFITS. WAGES AND PRICES. by
 David Friday, professor. of po-
 litical economy, University of
 Michigan. .t ''The object of the book is to assem- ble the available facts and statistics in such a way as to set them in orderly relation one to another and to discloSe their casual interdepen- dence. ."-ABook Review Digest. '-The book is uncommonly readable and interesting -. and offers 8 hope that tho new theory will be couched in terms that everybody can understand. Republic. "a. I sALTBUsH BILL. J. P. and other
 verses. by A. B. Paterson. Major Paterson, the Australian poet is a good sport who has grown up among the places he describes ."-Publisher's note.
 He is a cheery poet, with a san- guine outlook on life. and a robust sense of humor. His love of the bush, his appreciation of Australian man. hood, and his keen sense of the ridicu- lous are always apparent" - Leader (Melbourne).
 
 the poems written about dogs. SONGS OF HORSES, one of the most
 colorful of anthologies. As a book to read aloud it could scarcely be matched."-N..Y Evening Post.
 Both compiled by Robert Frothing- ham.
 SONGS OF THE TRAIL. Poems of the
 far-West and cattle trail, by H.
 H. Enibbs.
 THREE TANERNS, a book of poems,
 by Edwin A. Robinson.
 The book like those which have gone before. is lasting. Vt is the sort of work that one may turn back to again and again for the intellectual stimulus that is there."--Literary Review.
 Fiction. ALASKA MANS LUCK, by Hjalmar