Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-01-29


mine had always leased Cascy's sense
OF adventure. so he pursued this Will
-the-wisp fancy which led him To
cp'soucs both amntory and ludIcrous.
inc New York Times says: This 4,
one OF the clevorcst and most nmus-
ing OF NIL the many books that have
como from Is. NJ. bowers pen. 1t is a
rolltcking story. full of mirth and
laughter from beginning to end"
ADVENTURES IN CUBA. by Sec.
katary Hawkins. stewart Kidd Co.
Cincinnati.
This Is the story OF Scckatary INV
kins In Cuba; how he ACCOMPANIED his
friend Link. the skinny Guy" into
strange land to obtain posyes.ion
OF an Inheritance; how he found him
self In nest OF mystery out OF
which spranE many dangers through
which he had to pass: OF the ghostiy
happenings I'm the villa. and tho secret
OF the big picture: OF the great treas
nre OF the Cnzanova pirates and how
he searched for H.. of the finding OF
this vast hoard of riches. and what
became OF IL: and of the great hnppi-
ness that came at last to his friend
the skinny Guy" and how. when
the last word liz written. he comes
back once more To the good old United
States.
III you like real. honest good.
ness adventure story. let Seckatary
Hawkins tell 1t to you I'm his own
words that make the thirty-two chap
tcre in this book.
THROUGH TIE RUSSIAN REvo-
LUTON. BY Albert Rhys williams.
boni Liveright. New York,
yx-G
theorlst who writes OF what might
nave been happening on another con-
tincnt. He was in the mids; OF things
after the Gar fell. during kerensky's
regime. and when the Communists
took the power" There are books
on Lenin and Tro,sky. books on Rus
sian politics and theories Here we
have book OH the masses-for CEN
turtles chained In ignorance. soddencd
by vodka. dragooncd by the Cossacks.
Williams writes from the standpoint
OF run sympathy for the Bolshcvistic
system.
Into the vortex Of their revolution
you enter with the author. You see
the Sovicts created. the peasants
crowdinS around the torches. flaming
III the dark villages. the red banners
with Land 10 the Peasants" Fac
tories To the Workers." Peace TO All
the World" the rejection OF kcreneky.
On the night OF November I YOU
sec the Soviets seize the government.
the stormng OF the Winter Palace.
the looting. lusting mobs. the war
OF the Reds and Whitcs--On all sides
ruin and misery. But chaos is neces-
sary to the birth OF n star" says
Nietzsche. And out OF this Russian
chaos new system is born. Work.
order and discipline nre its slogans.
After visiting the Baltic fleet.
Mother" Nolga. and the stcppes.
comes the transSiberian hoid-up by
10000 Bolshcvists. dynamite presents
from the Red convicts and finally
Viadivostok. Here intervention
breaks like a thunderbolt, the Soviet
Is crushed. But living on her nerves
typhus and famine. Russia wins her
revolution.
Every chapter Is brilliant
achievement In dramatic writing"
Naturally so. Those were dramatic
days. days OF the barricade and high
adventure. As minds still glow over
the great deeds In the French Revo-
luton. so VIII they always thrill TO
those tremendous events in Russia,
crucial moments in the story OF man
Kind.
among the features that make this
classic are the famous Russian
posters in color. now for the first time
given to the public.
CRUISE TO THE ORIENT. By
Rev. Andrew W. Archibald, ID. u. The
Stratford Co. Boston.
sequel to the world war. whose
dramatic ending Is wildly sketched.
~ compact yet graphic portrayal OF
the wonders and antiquities OF Rome.
Athens. Cairo. Karnak or Old Thebes,
Constantinople and Jerusalem.
The volume not only contains clear
ly etched word pictures OF the places
visited. but II is also Illuminated with
siNty-four illustrations. including the
Pantheon and Parthenon, ST. Peters
and San Sophia, Athenian Stadium
and Pharaoh mummy. JaNa IIarbor,
the Bosporus. etc.