New Britain herald., 1921-10-28

IN -o1N E MAN 5 LIFE, by A. B. Paine. This life story of Theodore N. Vail, the curiously modest man who by his faith in the telephone and tele- graph built up one of the greatest ! institutions in. the world and made ne1ghbors of hundred million people, reads like romance. MT. Paine was personally associated with MT. Valle during his latter years and he has preserved to us the intimate human aspect as we'll as the story of achievement of this great Ameri- can.
 LETTERS TO ISABEL by Lord
 Shaw of Dunfermline. A series of autobiographical let ters which mirror the times from the point of view of very eminent Scotchman who has played a part in the affairs of his country both far reaching and important.
 MAKE YOUR OWN HATS, by Gene
 Allen Martin.
 
 ONE1ACT PLAYS, by Alice Brown.
 Plays of the rich, homely human themes which Miss Brown knows so well HOW to V1tal1Ze.
 
 PICTURE OF MODERN SPAIN, by
 A. J. B. Trend.
 "A valuable and scholarly inter pretation/ of present-day political and social conditions in Spain and of con temporary Spanish literature One of the most readable of recent books on it's subject by an author who is equally at home in discussing the politics. the novel, the drama or the Emusic of Spain."-Outlook ROOSEVELT, HAPPY WARRIOR, by
 Bradley Gilman.
 The book, while very personal and informal in style, is keenly analytical of Roosevelts wonderful character. It abounds in new anecdotes, inci- dents and "reminiscences but in the main this interesting material is used Ito throw light upon the inner life, the aims and motives, of this great Am erican. ROWING EAST AND ROWING WEST,
 by Edward Verrall Lucas.
 MT. Lucas is an observant and ap- preciative traveller and in his works has disclosed his possession of a mind open for enjoyment and vision swift to seize significant details. In this volume he has roved to India, Japan and America revealing in these dis tant journeyings the shrewdness and the geniality he displayed in his rambles nearer home. He is accu- rate in the epigraph which he has wrested from Wordsworth and what r |, in tranquility" Y. Times. SIX SHORT PLAYS, by John Gals
 worthy.
 TURNS ABOUT TOWN, by Robert
 Cortes Holiday.
 Turns. About Town" could not be more happily named. Keen and piquant as it is in every line. of ill., humor there is not trace. WORKINGa NORTH FROM PATA-
 COMA. by Harry A. Franck.
 Tn this book, the authors talents as narrator are especially evident: the descriptions of the countries of South America through which he travelled and of their people are min- ute and entertaining. The book is one that will inform and entertain its readers to a degree hardly ex- ceeded by any other book in South America. ."-Outlook.
 Fiction. CARTER AND OTHER PEOPLE, by
 Don Marquis. Short stories, each slice of life, l that put Don Marquis in the front rank of short story writers. CHILD OF THE ALPS, by M. sy
 monds.
 The daughter of the famous histor- l ian and critic John symonds, writes this fascinating romance of the Alps and of Italy. She pictures skillfully | the intense power of environment interest in a beautiful and beauty loving heroine DANGEROUS AGES, by R. Macaulay.
 The author gives us one of the most breath-taking episodes in mod ern nctlon, one that almost ends in smash: smash, however, from which emerges happiness for the woman WiiO oSCo IIOW IO SlcCT her course to a true goal along the route of the minimum danger
 OF ERIC LANE, by Stephen McKenna.
 MT. McKenna's is style which gains by familiarity and his grasp of the complexity of life and it's strange qualities, together with his power for fearless characterization, have never revealed him more truly than in this latest book. Whatever else we may feel about her Babs Weave is be- witching and unforgetta ."-Boston Transcript.
 THE FOG. by W. D. Policy.
 This is an honest picture of life in a New England town. The story | has romance; it has laughter and l pathos and tragedy; it is a slice, too | true, almost to be classed as fiction. but raised to the interesting level of | D0INCC 0E THE DTIE