The Washington herald., 1921-03-05


ginal heroine. According to the pub
Usher the novel is the literary event
of the season in England where it
was published about a month ago
and has already gone through three
large editions.
A book which should appeal par
ticularly to ex-service men whose
waf-time Experiences have made
them discontented with ONCE work.
is Opportunities Out-of-Doors," by
Edward Owen Dssn, which the Har-
p-rs published on January l3. The
rewards and requirements OF such
fascinating professions as forestry.
landscape gardening. and tree surg
cry are explained in a way which,
while IT perhaps does not promise
great wealth. will nevertheless
sorely tempt the reader with taste
for the outdoors which his work
does not permit him to indulge. The
book should be a great help to the
man who. feeling that in an off1ce
he Is a square peg in a round hole
is seeking more congenial occupa-
tion.
Poe: How to Know Him." by Or.
G. Alphonso Smith. head of the De-
partment Of English in the United
States Naval Academy and author
Of the o. Henry Biography. will he
published soon. by the Bobbs-
Merrill, Company. The author was
the Poe professor of English at the
University of Virginia before going
TO the Naval Academy, and con-
Quoted a Poe Seminar at the Univer-
sfty of Berlin duriaE his incumbency
Of the Roosevelt Exchange Profess
sorship in Germany. g.
A new novel by Albert Psyson
Terhune. to be called The Man in
the Dark" Is announced for publi-
cation soon by E. p, Dutton & Co.
In response to the popular de-
mand for the publication of novels
in paper bindings In the French
style, Frederick A. Stokes Company
is making an interesting experiment
in bringing out Gertrude Atherton's
new novel The Sisters-in-Law" in
both cloth and paper bound editions.
This Is Mrs. Atherton's first full
length. characteristic novel since
the war began.
E. p. Dutton AGO. will initiate
this month q new series OF occult
books under the general title sacred
'occultism Series" Some half doz-
en- volumes are in readiness or pre-
paration to appear at Intervals.
They are all the work of f. Milton
willis. FELLOW Of the Theosopbical
Society. and the first to be published
within three or four weeks, will be
called Recurring arth-Lives-How
and Why" with the subtitle, RE-
incarnation Described and Explain
ed"
Friends Of the late Mrs. Humphrey
Ward. in England, have appointed
4 committee from among themselves
TO raise funds for a memorial to
the author of Robert Elsmere,"
The Marriage of william Ashe,"
The Testing of Diana Mallory" and
other novels OF English life. Mrs,
Ward devoted many years OF en-
thusiastic and ungrtdging labor to
social work. particularly the well
fare Of children, and it has been de-
cided to apply the funds to the
lurtherance OF this work. In "A
Writer'S s.Recoilections." published
In this country by Harper and
Brothers, Mrs. Ward tells Of her
early surroundings. Sthe writing Of
her novels, and Of the friendships
which she enjoyed all her life with
the great literary figures Of. the
The Century. Company reports
that DR.. Slosaon's Creative Chemis-
try" has been reprinted'again,b being
now In its sixty-fourth thousand.
That q book on chemistry. not, a
text In any strict sense and there
fore not subjected to the huge or
ders originating in state adop-
tions" and the like. should need as
many printinss as Congress has had
sessions ID certainly notable. Evil
IDENTIFY a book on chemistry 10 actu-
ally being. read by that legendary
person. the average man, s
Hugh walpole not long ago made
an interesting annoupcement Of .
: iist Of some .tWenty-odd novelists