New Britain herald., 1922-01-06
Mew Books at he Institute
THE CRAFT OF FICTION by Percy

coilpdribon m uethll or the WofK or representative novels by noted writer's including Tolstoy. Flambert Balzac Dickens. and Henry James"
 THE CRUISE OF THE DREAM
 SHIP by Ralph Stock.
 Ralph Stock bubbles with mirth all the way from Devon to the South Sea Islands, in his secondhand cutter throughout an amazing voyage half way round the world. He catches the spirit of quaint ports, ocean reaches and exotic atmospheres."
 FIFTY YEARS A JOURNALIST by
 M E. Stone,
 "Reminiscences of MT. Stone, under the title Fifty years a Journalist, might well convey the mistaken i'm pression that the author of this charming anecdotal autobiography is now an old man living solely in the memories of the past. It is true that Melville Stone was born in Illinois in 1S4S. In due time he became the most widely known parsonage in American journalism and his "reminiscences, covering half a century, bring back many forgotten things and are withal exceedingly entertaining" Review of Reviews.
 LIFE AND LETTERS OF HENRY
 LEE HUTCHINSON by Bliss Perry.
 Major Henry Lee Higginson, founder and for nearly forty years, sustainer of the Boston symphony orchestra. was one of the notable fig ures of his generation. In this very very human record of his friends life, Bliss Pery has drawn freely upon Ma ior Higginson's diaries and letters from his early days as a music stu- dent in Europe, through his period of service in the Civil War and his later business experience"
 MEMORIES AND NOTES OF PER-
 SONS AND PLACES by Sidney
 Covin.
 Tn the midst of many autobiogra- phies Sir Sidney Colvin takes high place because of a personal quality that is intimate without being egotis- tical and because of it's unpretentious manner as series of impressions of the scenes and people about him, in which he plays the part of the on locker. Moreover 1t contains much that is new and permanently valuable in it's contribution to the biographical records of it's time." Boston Trans cript
 THE MIND HEALER by Ralph Dur
 and.
 '"This is delightful comedy, tend ! Ing now and then towards farce, but always handled with deftness and | kept just within bounds. The texture of Mir. Durand's style is also above the ordinary The humor of the book is genuine and also clean, and the DOT trayal of the cratic doctor is a char acter sketch of some subtlety." Liter ary Review. NEW MASTERS OF BALTIC by Ar
 thur Ruhl
 ''The four republics on the eastern | Baltic. Finland, Esthonia, Latvia and Lithuania which owe their inde- pendence to the World War and the Russian revolution, having each had i a social revolution of its own, ale now settling down to steady gov ernment The author, who has had unusual opportunities for observing in these countries the revolutions which established their independence, sketches the events of their transi- ton period, the dominant personali- ties which helped to shape these events and the characteristics of the governments which are forming" OF ALL THINGS by Robert Bench
 ley.
 Robert Benchly is an American humorist and it is truthful to say that he has only to write one or two more books as good as Of All Things to take the place that Artemus Ward and George Ade held in their own days. His book has an amusing preface and contains some twenty or more essays, from The Social Life of the Newt to "A Romance in Encyclopedia Land." Independent.
 A SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE
 AMERICAN NEGRO by Benja- min Griffith Brawley.
 Besides being a history of the ne- gro problem in the United States the book includes a history and study of the republic of Liberia. Since in other books on the negro political and military features have been emphasized this volume at tempts to present their history from the social point of view, to study the actual life of the negro people in it. self and in connection with that of the nation"
 THE WANDERING JEW by Ernest
 Temple Thurston
 "This play has been performed with success in London and New York; 1t has a decided theatrical value as pictorial and romantic melodrama. On the whole it is better written than most pieces of its class and exhibits cleverness of invention and in one or two places flashes of dramatic imagin- aton.' Literary Review. { WHITE HEADED BOY bysLennox l
 Robinson.
 "By shifting from country-fok to [ small town people, MT. Lennox Robin ( son has achieved a delightful variant I of Irish comedy. The whiteheaded boy is comedy in the first place and Irish I unpretentious, gay, I spirit piece of entertainment at the ex- S pense of the human race" New Re- 8 public.