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ton George H. Doran company.
Sally Mimic is the heroine of this
latest novel by Mr.. Swinnerton.
Born on the wrong side of London,
into a poor family of the Cochney
speaking type, of a drunken father
and more or less invalid mother,
| Sally early determines that her
own life will be spent under vastly
different conditions. But at the age
of sixteen, she has done nothing
to further her vague ambitions, and
her days, apart from the hours
spent in a small dressmaking place,
are filled with dreams about the
boys" and in acute observations OF
those of the male sex. Being rath-
er plain, she was able to observe
and learn much, herself being unob-
served. And this knowledge she
stores up, until the time when she
can use men to further her own
desires. Suddenly, Sally is thrown
almost on her own, by the sudden
death of her father, the result OF
an accident in a drunken brawl.
Sally and Mrs. Mimic are Obliged
to nave into even smaller and more
disagreeable quarters, and the COM
bined salaries" of the two are not
even sufficient to prevent them
from being continually undeTfed. !
Sally is now dominated by ambi- |
tons for an infinite personal sue
cess. She is quick and keen, and |
utterly INSCRIPTIONS in the meth !
DDS of attaining her ends. By her |
own efforts she attains position |
in a prominent dressmaking estab-
lishment on the west side, and |
from then on everything is easy. |
At eighteen she finds within her |
grasp her life's ambition-powcr
and wealth-love only standing in
the way of their realization. Sally,
selfish, determined, eager to have |
all, is suddenly confronted with
the unaIterable fact that a given .
cause produces a given result. IN
conscientious in the extreme, she is
yet unable to escape the conse-
quences of her own actions. The
character is ruthlessly and yet SYM
pathetically drawn, but there is a
morbid tinge throughout the story
that is at times decidedly unpleas
at
"Silver Fields" by Rowland E.
Robinson CHoughton, Miffiin Coz.
Rowland E Robinson's post
+ umous book, Silver Fields" re-
Gently published by Houghton Mif-
fin company twenty years after the
authors death, was written when
Mr.. Robinson was blind. He was
enabled to do his writing by an in
genious device which consisted OF
a metal sheet provided with creases.
Upon this he placed his paper and
following easily the crea SEES,
which served both to keep his lines
straight and to place them proper
ly. Besides being an author, he was
an artist of some ability.
= THE Tanganyika Territory" by
F. S. Joelson Cd. Appleton and COM
pany).
Where is the Tanganyika terri
tory and what is it? is the question
of many people these days when I
their attention is caught and their
stirred by the thrilling i
tales appearing in the press about (
Mrs Dalzieps return from re-
markable hunting expedition in the
territory. Her ac-
count of the astonishing beauty of
the country, the richness of vege-
-atiOn, and the great variety, guam
,ity and fearlessness of the game
i contains" of elephants playing !
in narrow ravine, squirting water I
rom a stream over one another like
5choolboys in a swimming pool"
has Influenced many people into {
cooking IN this same territory and
has drawn attention to a new book !
which portrays this very region and /
he inhabitants thereof with keen
1t is called THE i
Tanganyika Territory" by F. S.
Ioelson (Appleton).
1.-THE Book of jeremiah (Nich-I
'las L. Brown.
Few books in the Old Testament e
an equal the Book of jeremiah in I
'oetic power and majesty. Mich L
las l.. Brown has recently publish t
d beautiful volume of The Book l.