Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1921-12-25

family has to move to the country.
Hero Rose learns that to help Is
everyono's duty. and that honest
work Is real pleasure.
MARGERY MORRIS IN THE PINE
WOODS. BY Violet Gordon Gray.
Tho Penn Publishing Co! Philadc!-
phin.
After n gloriously happy Christmar
party. Marg.ry becomes i'll and she
is sent to the pine Woods OF New
Jersey to rccupcrate. Many excit-
Ing things happen and Mnrgery finds
her time we'll filled while endeavor-
ing to teach tho meaning OF real
Americanisn to the little children
OF that out-of-the-way section.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF
JOHN AND BETTY. by Elisabeth
H. Cheney. The Penn Publishing
Company. Philadelphia.
John and Betty are healthy. active.
free-hearted children. who elect
themselves their mothers. guardian.
The little family Is forced to move
from It's lnrgc city house to a small
cottage In the country. Through all
the discomfort and hard work which
follows. John and Betty show that
they can really help their mother and
make things brighter for her. Bet
tvs triumph In the great horse race
and the warfare with the young
clergyman. Peter Wayland. are
among the most exciting OF their adj
ventures.
GRAY SQUIRREL. by Joseph
Wharton Lippincott. The Penn Pub
fishing Company. Philadelphia
There Is one and only one creature
OF the woods who IL able To be really
friendly with VS. and still survive. IT
Is the gray squirrel. This is the life
story OF an unusually large and
handsome one. Some OF the most in
teresting Incidents are shown in
photographs taken by the author
THE MAKING OF 4 MAN. Ry
Joseph II. Appel. Thomas Settler,
New York.
Here's the book you're looking
for-especially fathers and mothers
who have wanted TO write helpful
letters 10 their boys and girls away
at school The father did Just that
wrote To his son In story form and
in language and thought that "a boy
or girl Of IG 10 30 can comprehend,
answering the eternal "whys'-who
do have to go TO school. why do |
have TO study No hard. why do have
to do this. why cant l do that. etc.
etc. When concluded. the boy said:
why don't YOU publish the letters
in book fOrm--thcy viii help other
boys"
The author Is n business man--onc
OF the heads In one OF the leading
commercial houses OF the country.
His book offers II valuable guide 10
the growing generation in matters
pertaining to practical life and the
spiritual problems with which all
normal youth has To grapplc.
ESSAYS IN FREEDOM AND RE
BELLIoN. by Henry W. Nevinson.
Yale University Press, New Haven.
No volume could be more en-,
richinG revelation OF man who IS
Il humanitarian without censing 10
be hnmanist and without being n
sentimcntalIst. who IS also keen
humorist. Il broad and deep critic OF
letters rs well as OF life. and IN in
domitable LIBERAL: and who rs at
once prophet OF liberty and an !r-
rcconcilablc enemy OF license.
OLD TRAILS AND NEW RoR-
DERS. Ry Edward a. Steiner.
Fleming II. Revell Co. Chicago.
The first work by the greatest
living authority on the immigrant
since the war on the new old world
conditions is revelation Of life to-
day In the countries OF Europe from
which the ranks OF the immigrants
have been recruited in tho past.
This book Is the outcome OF re-
markablc tour OF Investigations In
which Professor Steiner visited fa-
milinr scenes. was admitted to gov
ernmcntal lcircles. and secured inter
views with prominent officials. II Is
iirst-hand report on the changed
and changing conditions in the coun-
tries visited. which included France,
Germany, Austria, CZccho -Slovakia,
Poland and Russia. which Professor
Ste!ner's intimate knowledge of
European affairs, as related 10 Amer
lean interests. renders authoritative
and informing.