Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-07-25
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AMHRlcAis MARITIME PROGRESS.
Marine News. New York.
! In this splendidly conceived, beau
| tifully Illustrated and handsomely
bound volume. there is presented a
American Merchant Marine, together
with brief biographies of men and
companies representative of the ship
| ping world.
AS the publishers state in their
| forcword. an achievement so brilliant
as the redevelopment of the American
Merchant Marine is at once both COM
forti4g to the nation as a world power
and historical. In this volume is rep
resented an imperishable record OF
the temperance of the United States
as n shipping nation. 1t was fitting.
therefore, that the Marine News, in
its position as Americans greatest
marine publication. should undertake
to weave the fabric recording tho as
tendency OF Americas shipping to
heights greater than ever fondly an
ticIpatcd: In carrying out this Iaud-
able undertaking. The Marine News
mas achieved great success in pre-
sentinS record of surprising value.
CHILDREN IN THE MIST. BY
George Madden Martin. d. Appleton
n Co., New York
Children in The Mist" are the
negroes whom the white man brought
here. The tales here gathered TO.
gcthcr present chronological con-
tinuity, covering the time from the
emancipation of the negro down to
the present. In the spirit of SYM
patty, Mrs. Martin portrays all the
black mans virtues and his limita-
tons Crcdulous, mystified, baflied
and exploited. discouraged and en-
FILTERED. these hapiess people. chill
dren who after fifty-siX years of free
dom. still see as in glass, darkly
As stories. alone, these tales are dis
tinctly above the average from tho
sta ndpoint both of literature and en-
tertainmcnt.
Literary Gossip.
Probably not many of the thousands
Of readers who have enjoyed "The
Portygee" and the other famous Cape
Cod novels OF Joseph c. Lincoln,
know i%at the author won his first
literary recognition rs n writer OF
humorous and homely verse. There
Is. nevertheless, steadily growing
demand for Lincoln's book Of verse,
Cape Cod Ballads" and the Appletons
announce that the eighth edition Is
now being printed.
AS the fall Juvenile season ap-
proachcs. Appletons, the leading pub
Usher, OF books for boys, announce
these various printings OF old favor
lies: the sixth printing of Ralph
Captain of the Crew" the seven
teenth printing of Molly Elliot Sea-
wells Decatur and Somers, the
Book of stars" the sixth printing OF
Cole &; Ernsts First Aid for BOYS"
the tenth printing OF Joseph a. AIT
shelers Scouts of the Valley"
The publishing house Of d. Apple
envlabie scoop When ' immedia 1eIs
on the death of the Empress Eugcnic
they announced the publication OF her
memoirs The firm has had the
mh nan,,s for the last ten years. but
contained in the book. Eugene re-
quested that 1t be withheld from the
public until her death. 1t is written
ny Comte Fleury. who was for more
IMAM twenty years an intimate MEM
Der OF the Empress encourage. But,
In fact. the book in part may be
considered autobioEraphical. since it
contains many of the ideas and be-
her own point of view. Many mem
bers OF her courts have read these
pages and stamped them with their
approval, They contain a glowing
court of the Second Empire and it's
most romantic figure. the impcrious
and powerful Eugene.
DR.. G. Stanley Halls important
york entitled Morale, THO Supreme
be published by d. Appleton & Co.
next week. IN the book a working
standard of life is applied to every
sphere of human activity. The an
alysis includes the application of the
standard OF morale to the social, econ
omic. political. educational and re-
liglous field. This standard is. in DR..
Halls estimation. the criterion by
which to measure every human in
stitution.
The title OF the forthcoming book
by Frederick OBrien, author of
White Shadows in the South Seas"
Among South Sea isles" to Mystic
Atolls OF the South Seas" Mr.. OBrien
is at work on the volume now, in
California. at the same time giving
n helping hand TO the men who arc
making White Shadows in the South
Seas into play and Il motion pic
ture film.
Mac of Placid" is the title of n
novel 10 he published early in Au-
gust by the Century Co, the author
being L. NJ. Longstrcth. who may be
called IA mountain fan. His first two
books. The Catslills" and The