The Washington times., 1922-10-15
We USED TO READ
THIS KIND BACK
OF THE BARN
''The Return Of Blue Pete Has
All the Thrills Of the Litsra-
ture Of Our Boyhood.

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A STORY Of adventure in the
Northwest Of the fiction
writer's Imagination peculiarly
adaptable for . movie thriller by
reason for the hair-raising exploits
with which We are asked to cred.
It It's haifbreed hero. These IN
clude q plunge down . 15o-foot
cliff, on which he starts by div
Ing through the closed window OF
an overhanging shack-the win
dow suffering the only resultant
injuries. OF course. Pete had the
advantage OF O practice canter
over the same distance, having
scaled. q few minutes previously.
an equally high railroad trestle to
reach the shack from which he
made such startling departure.
It was the appearance OF Boy
Mahon. Of the Royal Mounted.
that caused Petss stellar aero.
batic ambulstion-Boy Mahon.
Pete's best friend. but erstwhile
nemisis when duty had called and
the horsethiefs trail led him to
the haifbreed. OF course. neither
Pete nor his white wife. q cousin
OF Mrs. Boy Mahon. was 4 horse
thief-the stolen horses anyhow.
are only incidental to the story, .
story OF he-men fighting the tre-
mendous forces Of nature to link
the steel rods Of transportation
across a mighty gorge that civili-
zation might enter q wilderness.
Not the least of the obstacles
with which nature had confronted
these doughty doers OF epic deeds
was occasioned by her perverse
choice Of southern Europe az q
breeding ground for construction
camp laborers, regardless Of the
fact that almost any 100 per
cent American" of Nordic stock
could tell her that surnames hav-
ing such suffixes al SKI" or
WITCH" and the like invariably
stamp the bearer as an I. w. w..
q bolshevist. or a subscriber to
some equally reprehensible eco
nomic or political theory. But the
same 100 per cent American"
can take consolation and the au-
thor's word for II that nature has
offset her blunder to some extent
by depriving its creatures Of the
slightest attribute Of courage. and
thus made II comparatively, easy
for Blue Pete. Boy Mahon and
one or two Of their friends to an
initiate o small army and save
the trestle.
THE RADIO PATHFINDER.
BY Richard II. Ranger. New
York: Doubleday. Page q Co.
THIS is q radio book which
gives scientific instruction in
q pleasant. sprightly style not
overburdened with theory and
technical terminology. Through
the symbol Of King Electron.
who controls the destinies Of
billions upon billions of elec.
tronic subjects, that in turn con.
troll the action Of the radio cir.
cult, Mr.. Ranger covers the en-.
tire subject Of radio - applied
to broadcasting and transmits
sion. The line drawings by
Thomas q. Monroe are Q unique
style Of illustrat:nn and offer
pictorial explanations that are
easily understood. In answering
the How and why" Of radio.
Mr.. Ranger explains what radio
broadcasting Is, what happens at
the transmission station, what
happens at the receiving station.
how sound travels from the
transmitting station to the re-
ceiving station, what equipment
one should start with. how to
put up an aerial, what regula-
lions must be observed, and what
are the various parts Of the set
and how they work. There IL
also . chapter ON broadcasting
history.
A MINISTER OF GRACE. BY
Margaret widdemer. New York:
Harcourt, Brace q Co.
THE poet has turned her at.
tention to the short story.
and has turned out q creditable
job. All the stories in this book
are of the smoothly reading. con-
ventional type familiar to readers
Of the popular magazines. We
have read far worse.
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