The Washington times., 1921-12-25
BOOKS in BRIEF REVIEW

stories, information articles and
handicraft. Roll your favorite tale
Of adventure. your favorite funny
story, your favorite. book on out
door sport, and the best book yea
know on your hobby Of. wireless.
mechanics. or whatever It u. IN
into one. and you will have some
thing like the Boy Scouts Year
Book. The writer's are the best in
their fields, whether in literature
or in some speciality dear to tie
heart Of q boy. Theirs sSe names
to conjure with. The illustrations
by famous authors help . lot. too.
ID. Appleton and Company \
YEAR old Cappy Kicks, he who
swore 10 sublime,yf by the
holy pink.toed prophet" and ~
president-emeritus Of Blue Star
Navigation Company kept son-in-
law Matt Peasley ever on the alert,
to say nothing Of finding . strange
delight in leading the faithful Skin
ner q miserable existence. as i'm
mortalized by Peter b. Kyne, IL
back again in ''The 0o-Getter."
fresh from the presses Of the Cos
mopolitan Book Corporation. It's
a small book. tits true. and the
average reader can easily finish II
at one sitting. but, oh. how Kyns
has crowded action between its
covers.
And, while Cappy has q rather
prominent part in its telling, and
Matt and Skinner are forced into
the background. 1t has principally
to do with a new character, one
william e. Peck, who, while handi-
capped by war injuries. manages to
find for himself q place in the
,Ricks-P easley- Skinner organization
mite would fail to dislodse him.
True, the willy Cappy does not
make 1t easy for him to find his
place, the obstacles put in the way
were such as to cause the abject
surrender of any other than such
a resourceful character as Peck
proved to be.
The lesson resulting from the
degree conferred by Cappy. which
he terms tho order of the blue
vase" Is so inspiring and 20 OBJ
x,,,,. xhox a. a. oo< nuY,r k,S.A,lxx An
tertaining reading. but will un-
doubtedly be selected a. . text
book for sales and advertising man.
ayers and others having organin-
tons of men who to DO success
full must learn his mighty gospel Of
1T can de donev'
ALICE TURNER CURTIS has
written another of those de-
ightful stories for boys and girls
entitled "A Yankee Girl at Bull
Run" Mary Dean, the young hsso-
inc, is suspected of being a spy.
and how she IL finally cleared Of
suspicion win prove interesting to
youthful readers. The book Is pue-
lished by the Penn Publishing Co.,
IN "A Traveller in Little Things"
Dutton) w. H. Hudson makes
some interesting remarks on the re.
spective influences OF the bicycle
and the automobile on the feminist
movement. 1t 10 done in that charm
ingly desultory way in which he
jumps from one subject to another
as some suggestion of the moment
carries his thoughts on roundabout
paths temporarily away from his
theme.
The following quotation about
women and the bicycle and the au-
tomobile occurs in a chapter about
wasps that interfere with people at
table, beginning with an account
about how he fed some wasps with
banana and whiskey without the
least effect upon their behavior.
which leads him to conclude that
probably there il no moro steadier-
headed insect than the wasp" Then.
after another anecdote about wasps.
which includes a lady with a coun.
tenance bruised by a fall from .
bicycle, he goes on:
Here had intended telling
about other meetings with wasps,
but having touched on q subject
concerning which nothing Ia ever
said and volumes might be written
namely, the part played by the
bicycle in the emancipation Of
women-I will go on with 1t. That
they are not really emancipated
doesn't matter, since they move to-
ward that goal. and doubtless they
would have gone on at the same old
almost imperceptible rate for long
years but for the sudden impulse
impaired by the wheel.
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