The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-05-28
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Gently printed five short instruments of
this fascinating diary dealing with Mrs.
Sheridan's life and experience in Moscow
while she was making busts of Lenine
and Trotzky The book begins by telling
how she stole away from London without
telling any of her friends where she was
going how in Stockholm she lunched
with the Crown Prince of Sweden At the
palace-and her first impressions of Mos
COW. As a guest of the government She
naturally saw only the best side OF the
Soviet rule She tells of her reception III
London after her return and of her trip
to this country and her lectures here. An
unusually interesting and delightful book.
Our Family Affairs. f. Benson.
Another English book of great interest
is this intimate picture of the Benson
family. His brothers. Arthur Christopher
Benson and Father Robert Hugh Benson,
are well-known writers and his father
was an Archbishop of Canterbury. Many
interesting and amusing episodes are re-
corded, and the character studies are
made with unusual clarity and skill.
NiIliers. His five decades of adventure
Frederic Villiers. The autobiography
of famous English artist, war CORE
spondent and soldier of fortune. From
| the Paris Commune to the Battle of the
Somme from the Iron Duke to Charley
Chaplin. what a span of human expert
ence: Plevna. Tel-el-kebie, the khyber
| Pass. the storming of Alexandria how
strangely these celebrated names echo out
of the past. Yet Villiers writes Of the
4 part he played in these great affairs with
the quaint assumption that we are as ia
miliar with the main outlines as be is
l-FO0tner.
| Empress Eugene in EXile-Agnes
Carey. Delightful letters and diary
extracts written by an English girl during
the 10 months of 1856 that she spent at
| Farnsworth as secretary to the Empress.
| They tell, often quoting her own words,
interesting details OF the EmpresS'S daily
life. as well as more eyentful episodes
such as her fight from France and her
visit to her husband in foreign prison.
With interesting photographs" y. l..
\. BOOklist.
Across Monaghan PIains-Roy Chap
man Andrews. Mr.. Andrews has the
happy faculty of making his readers share
his adventures and enthusiasms." There
is no lack of either in this trip across
Northern China and Mongolia in behalf
of the American Museum of Natural His
tory. Mrs. Andrews accompanied the ex
ipcdition and it is from her photographs
that the book is illustrated.
Mystic Isles of the South SeaS-Ered
leTick O'Brien. \ very different part of
the world and a very different point of
view from the preceding is this equally
delightful account of Mr.. O'Brien's expe-
lriences among the Society Islands and es-
ipecially Tahiti. His visit to the AIarqu-
sas Islands as described in White Shad-
.ows in the South Seas occurred after
this. Seeking to know as much as possible
of the ancient history and customs of
, Tahitian people he spent most of his time
in the native villages. In one of them
seldom visited by white men he met the
| blood brother of Robert Louis Steven
son and learned from him many of the
ancient myths and religious customs. The
book is full of the vivid word, pictures Of
lpersOns and places that made White
| Shadows so fascinating.
The People of MexieO-Wallace Thomp-
son. Still another part of the world and
! far different conditions are described by
n former correspondent for the Mexican
Herald and Modern Mexico. 1t is a study
of the three classes Of people In Mexico
the white. the halrbrecd and the Indian
showing the resultant social structure. 1t
tells of the climate, government, education,
conditions of family and industrial life.
religion, sanitation, crime. 1t is well in
ldexed and will be u valuable book OF ref
erence.
The Truth About the Treaty-Andre
! Tardleu, with introduction by George
| Clemenceau. M. Tardieu. eminent
French statesman, former High Commits
iSioner to the United States Pleuipotcn-
tiary at the Peace Conference and Glenn
enceaus other self during the making of
/ the treaty. is one of the four or five men
| in the world who know what the Big Four
| thought and said and did in those mem
IOrable days at Versailles. lie is the first
of~theSe to tell fully what happened there
and his words are of the utmost interest
and Importance"
1t Nigh Rave Happened TO You-Con-
ingsby Dawson. All the power of the
trained novelist has gone into this small
book. With the poignancy of utter sim
plicity Mr.. Dawson shows us how Aus
tria and Poland are suffering. He doesn't
stop with the picture. lie has a great
deal TO say about the causes of the pres
ent situation and some remedies to sug-
gest.'
Careers for Observation-Disclosures Filene.
! Editor. a series of articles by women
engaged in almost every conceivable &C
( tlvlty; multigraphing, medical research
bookkeeping opera singing-to mention a
few Each report covers. where pGSSi-
bic, description of the occupation, quail
hcatIonS desirable for success. training
(often schools are named), advantages
and disadvantages. financial return. OPP
| portunities for advancement supply and
| demand. and suggested reading. By far
! the most practical and complete book in
its field. a. l.. \. Bo0kIist.
! Making Advertisements and Making
] Them Pay-Roy Sarles Durstine Every
/ thing in any way connected with adver-
| Using finds its place in this book. II is
written in a crisp. entertaining. agreeable
style and is well illustrated with different
types of advertisements
Basket Making-D. Collier. The yari-
ous~stages in the making of the heavier
reed or willow baskets is carefully ex-
planned and clearly Illustrated in this
little book published in England
Sporting Rifles and Rifle Shooting
John Caswel. ~ practical manual oil
rifles and rife shooting on target and
game by an authority qualified by military
experience by achievements on the range
and by success as a hunter of big game :" ]
\ valuable feature of the book is a series
of diagrams showing where to aim for
vital points on game
Tie Standard Postage Stamp Gaia
iogue. Published by the Scott Stamp and
Coin Company is "A descriptive list Of all
postage stamps ever issued by amy. gov /