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Putnam patriot., 1922-09-15

the results. The proceeds are to be used 10 remodel the convent and make an appropriate home for the Rev. Sisters of Holy Gross, who have been instFueting the children of the parish for the past 10 years.
Putnam patriot., 1922-09-15

Electric light bulbs are now being manufactured with q perfectly smooth surface without the exposed tip. The tip at one time was necessary as the air was exhausted al this point through tube which was pinched of, causing the tip. This tip was the bulbs weakest point and easily broken of
Putnam patriot., 1922-09-15
Thomp.on W. C. T. U.

The Thompson woman's Christian Temperance Union will hold a meet ing Thursday. Sept Fist. at 2 o'clock, standard time. with Mrs Beda Sand strom Hostesses. Mrs. Beda Sand strom and Mrs. Minnie Bixby. May there be a good attendance.
Putnam patriot., 1922-09-15
Improvement Society Elect.

Al the annual meeting Of the Vii. lage Improvement Society last Mon day evening, the following officers were elected:
 President. Mr. Vinton Dart; first vice president. Mir Frank Decker second vice president. Mir. Loui. Ream: treasurer. Miss Edith Sheldon secretary. Mir. K. 4. Dunuing. fnan. cial secretary. Miss Frances Elliott.
Putnam patriot., 1922-09-15
THOMPSON TOWN TOPICS

town who desires to become a member can do so by sending her name, either in writing or by telephone. to Mrs Nilfred Mills of WilseHslIle There are no club dues.
Putnam patriot., 1922-09-15

Putnam merchants believe that Patriot publicity pays.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08

PETERS ADVENTURES IN MEADOW
LAND. BY Florence Smith Vincent.
Published BY Frederick A. Stokes Co. 81.
TITLE PETER saves an oak tree
from the axe. lie had called il
IL his Wishing Tree, and many
happy hour had ne passed beneath its
branches. When he prolongs its lease
Of life by begging his father to spare
it, the tree whispers to him through
its leaves and tells him how to be-
come tiny and enter on a friendly
footing with the small folks of the
forest. No sooner said than done. and
Peter shrinks to dimensions that per-
nit him to minsle with world he
never had dreamed OF, although he
had looked down upon it from the
stature Of youngster.
And SO Peter enters into the family
and forest life Of many insects and
diminutive animals. He goes to an
orchestral concert with arasshoppcr,
visits old man spider in his wcb, which
he climbs with cautious feet, Is ush-
cred into the august presence OF the
Queen Bee and is put on trial by the
bees, who make hero Of him after a
conflict with a snail. And 80 on,
through a series of adventures with
beetles. caterpillars, hornets and
wasps, the boy gradually learns the
ways and habits of the citizens Of tho
world that lies around US everywhere,
in fold and rnrert AroD IN nu- hoyroc
AS stepping stone to the works of
Fabre and other students Of animate
nature, this book is an admirable one
to put in the hands Of children, for it
is accurate in its natural history and
woven together around thread of un-
folding interest for the young boy or
girl
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
From Bayonet to Baton
In Life Of British Soldier
Career of Field Marshal Robertson Is an Ab
sorbing Story of Pluck and
Progress

objected to this division Of responsi-
bility. The Prime Minister was un-
moved by his arguments, and abruptly
dismissed him.
Tho Executive Council" scheme
broke down when Haig refused to con-
tribute any British divisions TO the
strategic reserve" Then came the St.
Quentin disaster; after it the British
government was glad to consent to
Foch's appointment as gcneralissimo.
The Field Marshal says that he
wasn't opposed to the CREATION Of a
generalissimo. But he holds that up
TO tho winter of 1918 no Allied COM
mander had appeared who seemed to
measure up to the requirements Of such
post Foch's appointment saved the
situation in France. It remcdied very
late persistent and costly error in
Allied military policy. 1t is, therefore,
regrettable that the author didn't deal
more fully and critically with the
events leading up to the actual unfit
cation Of command. That achievement
so long dclayed-was, on the Allied
side, one Of the great milcstoncs of
the war
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
McCrae's HYMN

IN FLANDERS FIELDS. Ey IAeutena Mt
Colonel John McCrae. NJ. D. Illuminated
by Ernest Clegg. late OF the Bedford
shire Regiment, British Expeditionary
Force. Published by William Edwin
Eudge. New York.
\ MONG the poems inspired By the
"A late war not one achieved the
fame justly given to McCrae'a In
Flanders Fields" Tho simple beauty
Of its thought and tho purity Of its
diction gave it recognition by the
lover of the fine thing in literature
and by the people of the mass, who al
most unerringly sense truo values
when they meet them. This edition of
the poem. superbly illuminated BIZ
Ernest Clcgg, is>limitcd to 500 copies
In it ono finds brief biography Of Nc
Crac, his poem and four colored plates,
illustrating lines of the verse. A loose
leaf, also illuminated, is printed in a
way that fits it for use as dedica-
tion of the little book to any one whom
the purchaser desires to honor. We
have not seen anything more beautiful
in the field of tribute to those who fell
in Flanders or in France. The edition
should be exhausted speedily.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Ireland as the Source
OF English Civilization
Also the Savior OF. European Light and
Learning for Centuries After the Fall
of the Roman Empire

history. We can scarcely suppose that
writer's have felt the closing words Of
Robert Emmct's last speech to be an
inhibition against their undertaking a
real history Of Ireland, though if any
did the now impending advent Of that
country among the nations OF the
world might be held to fu;ill Emmets
condition and to remove the injunc-
tion.
1t is, however, Mr.. Fit1patrick's
scholarly work that is under present
consideration and not the books which
others have written or-more particu-
larl5'-failcd to writes 1t may be de-
scr!bed in brief as thesis aiming to
prove that upon the fall OF the Roman
Empire Ireland, which had never been
part Of that empire but had devel-
oped independently high degree Of
civilization, became the chief conser-
vator Of European learning and culture,
and that following the Roman with
drawal it was the Irish who introduced
civilization and Christianity into Eng
land, and during the entire so-callcd
Anglo-Saxon era we're the dominating
moral, religious, intellectual and polit-
ical force throughout practically all
parts Of the British Isles. Now that is
"a prodigious proposition, which even
Mr.. Fitzpatrick will scarcely expect the
world to accept as fully proved on the
strength of single book, even one as
carefully written and as rich in ref
erences to old authorities as his.
Indeed, some of his statements indi-
cate that instead OF seeking the golden
mean Of truth Mr.. Fitzpatrick has per-
mtted his zeal for Ireland to carry
him almost as far to one side as the
most erroneous of the historians whom
he dcnounces went toward the other
There can be no doubt that some Eng
lish and other historians have seri-
ously erred in minimizing if not ignor-
the first dozen centuries Of our era.
On the other hand, we must wonder
if it is judicious to say that to this
day "Bede has remained the decentest
Of English historians" that "thcre is
no more beautiful book in the world
than the Book Of kells,'" that "the
early medieval CLOSES cxtant in the
Irish tongue exceed the contemporary
scholia i'll all the living languages west
of Constantinople put together" and
that-on the authority Of Prussian-
the efforts of ireland in the seventh
and up to the tenth century to spread
her learning among the German and
Romance peoples formed 1.-THE actual
foundations Of present Continental civ
ilization."
Recognizing, however, the correct
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
A Jewish War Chaplain

A JEWISH CHAPLAIN IN FRANCE. by
Rabbi Lee j. Levinser. Published by
the Macmillan Company. sl.7s.
GONE Of the noblest episodes of the
~ war are recalled in this story of
a Jewish army chaplain's work in
France. The author emphasizes the
steadfast courage which the men of
many crecds and races to whom he
ministered almost invariably displayed
in tho face Of death and the merging
of all scctarian differences in the con-
ception Of common faith and COM
mon ideal. Cyrus Adler, president of
Dropsie College, in Philadelphia, writes
a foreword to tho book.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
The Church and Labor

WORK. WEALTH AND WAGES BY Jo-
seph Husslen. Published by Matre &
MYTH the premise that the Church
w is the stabilizer Of tho State, DR..
Husslcin develops his argument for an
active effort by Christian men to study
the difficult problems Of capital and
labor, with the spirit Of Christ ever in
mind. The questions arising from the
conditions of men at work are not
really economic ones. They arc rclig-
ious, for they contain all the phases of
mans relations with his neighbors and
with the world at large. This Is sound
sense and the chapters of this book
will find Endorsement by men Of all
sects. A concise, reliable presentation
Of topics which control the interest of
all thoughtful men.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
An Unusual TRIANGLE

IHD ISLAND. by Rertha Eunkle Pub
Hehed by the Century Company. $1.75
A RATHER unusual triangular situa-
tion comes about in this story
Mr.. Darlington, respectable corpora
tion lawyer, finds that his son, a Yale
student, Is in love with beautiful
dancer. He visits the girl ard comes
away impressed by her pluck and inno-
cence. The upshot Of the matter is
that the boy marrics another girl, while
tho lawyer and the dancer, conscious
Of their mutual love, forego their hap
piness from sense OF duty to the law
ycr's wife. The war lends a background
of service and sacrifice to what is
otherwise an engaging romance.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
A Camp Fire Girl

PEMRosD LoRRY. CAMP FIRE Girl.
by Isabel Hornibrook. Published b,
Little. Brown & Co. 3l.7s
DEMROSE LORRY, daughter Of e
great inventor who has made .
rocket to shoot to the moon, becomes
her discouraged fathers right hand
and comforter when he is in trouble
She is a wholesome youngster, and her
story is one that carries an honest les
son that cannot fail to be of service
An unusually good book for young girls
Its scenes in the mountains of western
Massachusetts are splendidly drawn.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
m Private to Field Marshal Erins Claim to Early Cuu

ness Of much Of Mr.. Fitzpatri
work, and the great credit due to Irish
scholarship and culture in carly ages,
three things stand out very clearly
suggesting the immutability Of human
nature, even among so mcrcurial n
people as the Irish. One is that many
centuries ago, as at present, tho Irish
had the spirit of wanderers and ad-
venturcrs, which impelled them to visit
and to settle in nearly all of the known
lands Of the world, and that then, as
now, they had a genius for participant
Ing actively in the affairs Of the coun-
tries to which they migrated, so as to
become leaders there. The second, in
fercntinl, rather than direct, is that
they lacked the genius of nati6naI
solidarity, but were divided in Ireland
itself into number Of petty Kingdoms
which were too often in conflict among
themselves. It is only on such basis
that we can explain the so complete
once so superior to all their neighbors,
a people, who, for two thousand years,
down to the sixteenth century, "had
probably the most fortunate history Of
any (sjc) country in Europc.'
The third point is-we might a.mos,
say, of course-the incompatibility ana
inveterato antagonism between the
Irish and the English. These feelings
are, we must remember, only collective
and not ut all individual As indivi-
duals, Irishmen and Englishmen have
generally got on we'll together often
manifestiny decided fondncgs for
especially in social, ecclesiastical ann
political organisms, they show toward
each other the provcrbiaI qualities OF
fire and water. 1t was, perhaps, IN
tipathy should be reflected in Mr.. Fi.z
patrick's book. But that can readily be
overlooked, in favor Of the many nc-
mirable qualities Of his writing, his
painstaking research and the lucidi.y
with which he places at public dis
posal many essential facts OF history
which hitherto have been largely IN
acce cessiblc to the average reader ana
therefore have remained largely un-
known. He has not uttered the lass
word On this important and fascinav-
ing historical theme, but he has w.
tered one to which the world must
listen and which will not be without its
lasting effect.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
A Silver Sixpence

TIE LUCK OF DENEWOOD. BY Emile
Benson Knipe and Alden Arthur Knipe.
Published by tho Century Company. $1.sc.
THE Knipcs, collaborating as author
- and illustrator, have produced an
other story that will rivet the attention
Of young readers. Beatrice de Sou
langc, a descendant Of suffering Peg
Travers, who appeared in a previous
Denewood story, comes to her American
cousins and finds that the spacious old
home has become school for girls. A
lost silver sixpence appears to be the
cause Of the family's financial trouble
and its discovery ends the blight on
all concerned. A clever story. one sure
to win approval.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
A Baronet's Memoirs
RNcoLLEcrloNs. BY s!r ch.ries

aEcoLLEcTloNs: BY Sir Charles ".
MacarA, Bart Published by Cassol 4
Co.. London and New York.
CIR CHARLES MACARA'S memoirs
cover = wide variety of themes,
but they usually return to some phase
Of the cotton industry, with which
the author has long been actively
identified He is proud Of his work as
pcacemaAer and describes in detail
the machinery for automatic settle
ment of wage disputes which he helped
to set up in the cotton trade. Sir
Charles has Travelled widely, and his
Impressions OF America aud various
continental countries, always set down
with entire frankness, are often very
interesting. The book contains two
portraits Of the author, one of them
autographed
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
A Shrewd Milliner

PAMELA POUNCE. By Agnes and Eyer
ton Castle Published b. u. Appleton
6. Co.
DROBABLY the last Of the Castle
- novels is before US in Pamela
Poancc." In it the authors went back
to the late years of the eighteenth
century, to the days OF "The 1ncom-
parable Bellairs," and again created q
story of manners and men, with Bath,
England, as center of the action Of
the plot. The heroine, a young and
pretty mi!lincr or maker OF hats for
women Of quality, gets tangled in a
skcin Of love and adventure that re-
quires all her audacity and good sense
in extrication. There Is much Of the
early Castle skill in realizing the pc
riod in this novel, and its treatment
of Pamela is always clever and col
ored with a dash that maintains in
tcreet.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
A Tale With Thrills

TIE ANENGER. by Samuel Gordon The
Macaulcy Company. New York. $40.
4 IL. the dear Old figures Of English
melodrama appear in The Avenger,"
by Samuel Gordon. We have the
young Englshman in the colonies, VINO
learns from \ newspaper that hc is
heir to the title and estates OF Sir
jacques Bar1adiMc. The news comes
just as Clement Barradinc, Sir Jacques 3
eldest nephew, has struck down Will
Dallas, his rascally partner, who has
just done him in matter Of govern
lncnt contract for mealies in Cape Co..
ony. Mealies must be of consider
able value to set men to killing each
other. Only Clcment-later Sir Glenn
ent-had not killed Will Dallas. The
thoroughness of Dallas's rascality wa,
proved by his coming to life and fas-
tening himself upon the wealthy Sir
Clement. With this Great Shadow upon
his life, Sir Clement is in for rough
going. He has to pay a handsome
monetary tribute to Da!las's brother
who acts as fiscal agent in realizing
upon the crime that never was COM
mitted.
Sir Clement seeks refuge in good
works. Among those he benefits is a
slum girl, Sallie. who runs a circular
saw IN mahogany furniture factory
But when Sallie learns that her bene-
factor does not love her she takes up
with Curley, her prizehghtng ad-
mirer, who eventually is hanged for
murder. A book to warm the heart
If one likes familiar situations, stilted
conversations, London police inspect
ors and final chapter headed: run
tH Earth"
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
A New Tommy

ToMMYs CHANGE OF HEART BY
Thornton w. Burgess. Published by
Little Brown l. Co. 81
TNHIS is one Of the books in Burgess S
Wishing Stone Series. Little Tommy
goe. to his favcrlte stone in the wood
and wishes TO be a fox, a beaver, s
muskrat and q bear, in successive ami
nal incarnations. AS a result OF his
brief existences, he changes his atti-
tudc toward animals, for he realizes
how they are made to suffer at the
hands Of man. Burgess wcaves to-
sether in this useful little book much
accurate information and lessons Of
kindness.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08

AIN. Ky benedict l. ltHpAtliCn. Funk &
Wasnails Company. 81.
~ RlTlSH and, indeed, all Euro
pean history would seem to be
~ as much in need OF rewriting,
according to this volume. as
that Of the United States is bv some
current propagandists declared to be.
Between the two cases there are. how
ever, some radical differences. The
demand at present vociferously made
for new history of the United States
which shall be in the Colonial and
Revolutionary era less favorable to
Englend and shall much more exploit
the influence ard part of Ireland is
obviously an attempt at counter
blast against the previously made
and we'll founded complaints of anti
English Misrepresentation in q con-
siderable number of HISTORIES Mr..
Fitzpatrick,s work, on the other hand.
extreme as are many Of its statements,
bears few II any carmarks Of propa-
ganda, and may be regarded as a sim
cere attempt to define In its true light
the place Of Ireland in the history Of
England and Of Europe immediately
after the fall Of the Roman Empire
and during the carly part of the Middle
Ages.
Beyond question there is need OF
better histories Of Ireland before the
Norman conquest than those which
have thus far been available. Since
the appearance of OFlahcrty s
"OCygia," two and a half centuries
ago, many so-called histories Of Ireland
have been written and published, but
almost without exception down to the
middle OF the nineteenth century they
we're little more than undiscriminatinp
repctitions o. Che legends and trad-
tions with which Ireland is plcntifully
supplied. Although that island is one
of the richest countries OF the world
in m monuments of the past, and although
significant references to it have been
made by many geographers and histo-
rians, beginning with Nennius and
Strabo and Ptolemy, not until seventy
years ago was there any worthy at
tempt made to investigate its antiqui-
ties or to collect the materials from
which history could be prepared,
Such a work of collection was, how
ever, undertaken with much success by
j. ODonovan and +. O'Curry in the
1850's, and following that achievement
Sir John Rhys, J. B. Bury and John
MacNcill produced some excellent his
tories Of special men and special
epochs, though even they did not VEN
ture upon any comprehensive general
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08

THE sW WFD1sH FAIRY BOOK BY Fra
erck n. Martens Stokes. $3.50
WIEN I WAS A GIRL Nv swfTzrp
LAND. ~ $. Louise Pattoson i,sta-
rop, Lee & Shepard. sl2s 'n-
THE PURITAN TWINS BY r,,,~v r,...
PAM si75 '''' CON-
A MERICANS are beginning to lear,
that there is vast trcasurv ~,
significant and beautiful fiction inv
children in the older nations os Euro,.
This book. beautifully illustrated
brings to our homes much of -.
Swedish folklore and legend suitabl.
TO the understanding Of the child. tn.
translation maintains the naive sic,-
piicity Of original texts. a book ts..
viii prove a gateway to new worl1
Of fancy for all young boys and gir,.
and even for those Of us who refus.
to grow old.
a daughter Of Switzerland long r.s.,.
dent in the United States tells Of h.,
early home among the mountains o.
hef native land. Girls from ten ~
sixteen will learn through the page,
OF her book why the Swiss love their
country so passionately and way thev
are as a people 80 brave, resourcesnl
and intelligent.
At this tine when the deeds o. Il.
Pilgrims and Puritans are being re,ived
in history and pageant, this book, tn.
to the life Of the days when caster,
Massachusetts was wilderness wit,
but few small villages, will Civ. chill.
drcn a very clear .lea Of methods ..
Colonial travel and ways Of neetp,
severe problems Of existence in tn.
seventeenth century. q wisely planned
and successful narrative.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
An Auto Family

THE SHELDON SIX. By Grace NJ. Rem
ick. Published by tho Penn Publishing
Company.
TNHE father Of the Sheldon girls
called his family The Sheldon Six.
Rose. his second daughter, is the ac-
celerator She loves excitement and
outdoor games, but does rot banker
for work in the home. When the fam
lily, through illness, is compelled to
move to the country, she takes hold
with will and shows that she can be-
come an aid. A story with sound
lesson for girls.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Guns and Girls
Plotting and Action Color
Western Storv

liam Patterson White Published by Lit.
tie. Brown & Co. t1.75.
II lilly W1NGO, good-naturcd and
- casytoing, rides into this story
with clatter Of hoofs and quick
gunplay. In fact, there are few pages
in this active tale of Western life that
are not punctuatcd with the click Of
triggers or the snap Of speech dis
tinctly brief but packed with meaning.
Billy, clean man, who knows the
truth when he sees it, Is established as
sheriff by a little group Of men de-
tcrmincd on controlling and shaping
him to their ncfarious purposes. 1t
doesn't take Billy long to SEQ just
where he stands, and his defiance Of
the men that would rule him is re-
freshingly outspoken.
The two or three girls that skip in
and out Of this story are not to be
considered mere accessories. Hazel
Walton, who saves Billy's lifo in q
sharp skrmish in tine hills. becomes
his accomplish for good, finds herself
loving him, and endures pretty nearly
ali possible dangers to save him and
hold him in place as a sheriff, fear
less and efficient
"The Rider of the Golden Bar" has
one marked feature Of excellence for
the reader who is cunning Tor stories
with all the snap Of tho adventurous
West. 1t keeps sprinting all the time.
builds up interest and is refrcshingly
human in its pcturing Of decidedly in
dependent gentlemen free with tho gun
and not afraid Of tho bottle.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Famous Pets

PIP. SQUEAK AND WILFRED By
'Uacie Dick Published ny Z. p. Cu.-
ton & CO. 81.
A PENGUIN, a rabbit and a puppy
figure in these amazing adv.n-
lures calculated to open wide the eyes
of youngsters. This little book has
made a hit with ali who have seen it,
for it combines pictures and text in a
wise mingling, one sure to arouse the
interest Of young children and mako
them laugh joyously.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
History of ENGLAND

SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND RE
vised edition by Charles Nj. Andrews.
Published by Allyn g. Bacon.
THlS new edition Of Professor An
drews's work carries the story OF
the English people through the World
War and down to the year 1920, with
an important supplementary chapter on
the government of the British Empire
at the present time.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Religious Talks

ScN ia y ~ NN'lAi~f1CE CHApEJS 81 IN( e
TIE WAR. BY Francis G.. Peabody
Published by Honshton, MiFlin Com
pany. &1.76.
DROFESSOR PEABODY is one OF the
most persuasive and inspiring
moral teachers OF our generation, and
this now volume of religious talks to
college boys is q worthy addition to
its predecessors in the College Chapel
series. He emphasizes and sums up
the contributions which the war made
to the spiritual life of our young men
heightened idealism, kcener percep-
ton Of the things in life which really
matter, higher conception of religion
rs an instrument Of social salvation.