Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-09-17
Reviews Of New Books

sLeonie Of the Jungle.v by Joan
Conquest, author of Dessert Love-"
Frontisplece by @. w. Gage. New
York City; The Macaulay CO.. IS
IL West Thirty-vighth street. Price.
3l.76. net.
With thorough knowledge and un-
dcrstanding OF the strange and mys-
terious East, Its countries and Its
people. Its mystic legends and it's con-
tlnual thrill of the supernatural Joan
Conquest has strixingly Injected its
life and sentiment into "Leonie OF the
Jungle Leonie was weird and un-
canny little girl. born In India and
taken to England while very small
child. but she had inherited the fever
ish romance of the East with her
birth, and her childhood was crowded
with incidents and doings that marked
her as different from the children of
English birth and heredity. SO her
childhood and girlhood were stormy
and her young life was filled with up
heavals, especially due to misunder-
standings and lack OF sympathy and
trusted with her upbringing, for she
was an orphan.
Escaping by tragic stroke of fate
from life with man whom she did
not love- and married under compui-
sion while she loved another, Leonie
was able to follow her own life and
its inciinations, and the lure of the
last drew her unerringly to the land
of her birth. There she had romance
and adventure in startling succession
and OF much vehemence. She was
passionately loved by a Brahmin of
high caste, who determined 10 force
her by his will to give him her love,
and brought to his aid all the wonder
fui nominations and subtle influences
of his land. She struggled against her
apparently predestined fate, and IN
the end she was saved by the man she
really loved, and the thrilling story
ends happily.
Tragedy and humor, but above all,
I love, run through the book, from the
| first page to the last, bound with the
glow OF the Orient in moments of
tempest, hairbreadth escapes, and a
satisfactory ending.
Received OF the publishers.
aConquests OF Inyention.- BY Mary
Il. Parkman, author OF Heroes OF
Today" etc. New York City; The
Century Co, s5s Fourth avenue
Price. 81, net
This book presents epoch-making
chapters in the development of civili-
zation as the story of the conquests
of invention. The way in which man
met the challenge of nature on the
unexplored island of the world. solving
| the practical problema~of food, cloth.
ing, shelter, lighting. transportation
and communication. is given through
the drapatic stories OF great inven.
tors and their work.
Thus Cyrus Mccormick and hi,
rea6er tell OF the feeding OF millions
hargreaves, Arkwright and Cart
wright in England tell OF the passins
OF the spinning wheel and hand-loom
Eli Whitney gives to American cottor
It's place in the markets OF the worl,
and Elias Howe's sewing machin,
brings freedom from household drudg
cry.
The stories of Charles Goodyear
who made the wheels OF progress
rubber-tired, and Of Murdock an'
Edison who proved what artificia
light could do for civilization, are fol
lowed by the epic OF transportation
including sketches of James Watt
George Stephenson, Robert Fulton
George Westinghouse. Henry For
and the leaders in the conquest of tn
air-Langley and the Wrights. An
other section deals with communica
ton and the triumphs OF Morse
Thompson, Bell. Marconi and Carty
Brief synoptic chapters giving
birds eye view OF each epoch serv
as a general introduction &c the grou
, OF biographical narratives.
The book should be Of interest t
adult readers as well as to boys an
girls. The style is clear. simple an
straightforward.
Received of the publishers.