Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1922-06-13

THE executive editor of the New
L York World asked Francis Hackett
If he could write a history of Ireland
in three days. Hack
EFT replied that he
An Irishn.dn might be able tn do IT
on Ireland in three weeks. He
was ordered to do 1t.
The result IL THE
Story Of the Irish Nation Century
Company, which originally appeared
in sections in the World. 1t took Mr.,
his narrative. IT is evident that he
consulted lot OF books. digested his
material as we'll as he could in the time
at his disposal and then arranged It in
chronological order. Mr.. Hackett him
self would doubtless be the first TO ad-
nit that better histories Of Ireland have
been written. And the seeker after n
complete and rounded narrative would
lay down the book with disappoint-
men: Mr.. Hackett is an admirable
essayist, but he has not the qualihea
tions necessary to write an impartial
history OF Ireland. He is an 1rishman
md the spoliation of Ireland arouses
his Indignation and excites his interest
to such IN extent that he finds it i'm
possible to tell both sides Of the story.
His book is an exhibition VI the wrongs
Of Ireland AS such it will please all
the Irish patriots. Perhaps that is the
end for which 1t was written.
..rrOMORROw We Diet" by Nina
i Wilcox Putnam George W. Doran
Company, Is a book the slenderness
Of which is sym
bolical ope for its
Bright Book readers endowed with
on Dieting overmuch Of this.
too. too solid flesh.
1T tells how to be Just
right" physically. Written in the
authors piauant style. the book TELLS OF
her adventures In testing all the adYcr-
tised reducing remedies aud her own
sane treatment OF obesity and such like
worries.
s.TElE Health Care Of the Baby by
l. Louis Fischer. MD. Funk 4
Wngnalls co.., should find many
readers.
This handbook for
Care of mothers and nurses. is
the Baby by q practitioner and
instructor atathe VIE
lard Parker and Rfv-;
crsidc Hospitals, New York sj.yJast
fGntOrlum ana the New f'i i0rk p0kt.-s,
graduate Medical School and 1iospital5
For this new edition of his already gem
orally accepted standard on its subject
the author has rewritten much of the
text and the volume is literally a COM
pendium Of information in its field.
CAMUEL. MERWIN has written
y .bout the nm tn date American girl
and has not titzgeralded her into
happer. The heroine
of "Goldie Green"
Coidis Not (Bobbs- Merrill Com
Flapper pany) is anything but
.. , =. a da msel who has
..'a' not ing under her
bobbed thatch and behind her talcum
powder. Goldie is an alert, smart (if
you like. in every sense). more than
average American girls, who just lifts
herself to success in love and business
by her own boOtstraps, tugged upward
with her family--the heart bowed ,down
daddy. the hossy and indolent mother.
the two brothers, each with foibles and
failings. She.is what She herself wolilG
call "wisened' to the world and the
men who prOwl about 1t. Yet her slang
her brusbness. her briskness are not
Offensive The reader feels that here ii
a typical American girl OF the period OF
certain stratum Of life.
Mr.. Merwin has written lightly. but
there II much depth yundsr his amusing
sentences and ~ done bslievabls