The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-09-22

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BOOK CHAT
Ben Johnson says in Timber:
Nothing doth more invite a greedy
reader than an unlooked-for subject y
immagine Chinese villain named
Creeping Sin. Wouldn't that fairly
give you the shivers? And his accom-
pilce in crime was fearfully wicked
ola beggar woman named Old Scared
race. She stole little children and
held them for ransom: if they were
girls, sold them into the most shame
ful slavery In THE Bells of the Blue
Pagoda" by Jean Carter Cochran
Westminster Press, $l75) the chief
character Is Little Small Feet, daugh-
ter OF Lord Chang. Old Scar Face stole
her and abused her so shamefully that
she nearly died. She crawled away at
night, and kind farmer on the road
at dawn took her In his wheelbarrow
to the gates of the mission hospital,
where she was cared for She was
taken to America, trained as a doctor,
and went back to her native village to
heal the sick and help lift the wretch
ed poor from their ignorant. SUPER
stitious state. There are all sorts of
exciting adventures, risks, plots, and
! escapes that make the book thriller.
All through the vivid descriptions give
most accurate pictures of the life and
people Of that mysterious land across
the Pacific. The president of the
Woman's Board Of Foreign Missions
says the pictures it gives, of phases
or Chinese life not often shown, are
clear and correct. 1t is good
BOOK to give to young girls to
read as we'll as an interesting
story for any one who likes ex-
element and adventure. 1t is also
beautifully poetic in many of its pas
sages. Every chapter, by the way. is
introduced by an appropriate bit of
verse, most Of them by Alfred Noyes.
For instance:
But, cen as the moonlight air grew
sweet,
We heard the pad of stealthy feet
DIGGING us down the thin white
road,
And the song grew weary again and
harsh,
And the black trees dripped like the
fringe Of marsh,
And laugh crept out like shad-
owy toad;
And We knew 1t was neither ghoul
nor dim;
It was Creeping Sin! 1t was Creeping
Sin.
A German publisher, the same /
spoke of some time since, has sent ME
book announcement which, appro-
priately, is yellow. 1t tells of book
called Shall 1t Be Again." and is
blatently propaganda from our recent
enemy. For instance, it asserts that
our participation prolonged the war
unnecessarily and was crime
against democracy and permanent
peace" Now, that can hardly mean
that If the United States had not gone
into the fight, the Allies would have
won sooner So it must mean that, if
We had remained neutral as the Ger
mans had expected us to, they would
have won. How much of crime was
it to have defeated Prussianism? 1t is
as we'll we should be on our guard
against this sort of propaganda, and
have our eyes open. There must be
reason why they are willing to spend
perfectly good money on it. 1t costs to
publish book. Why do they do it?
l am reading Frederick's Pierce's
Our Unconscious Mind" DuttOn, $3.)
which is, as the name implies, study
in analytical psychology. / have not
yet gone far enough into it, but it
seems very clar and direct The author
thinks that the wave Of interest in
psychology that is going over the
world today (tnis is the fourth new
book on applied psychology I've read
this spring and summer) is direct
result of the stimulation of the minds
lowing researches in agriculture, med
icine, chemistry, and other branches
of human activity. And, really there
is no reason why we should not put
the same interest and effort into
study of the delicate machinery be-
hind human action that we have into
those other researches. Thirty CEN
turtles ago Egypt was think
ing about those things. We, the
youngsters of the world. have
Just gotten around to them. In his in
PRODUCTION Mr.. Pierce promises to tell
about Kidding the day of contention
and conflict" (what boon to the hen
pecked husband, and the brow-beaten
wife;) elimination of worry; growing
ADLER in the place OF growing old;
raising successful children (as i'm
portant to the children as to the par
ents;) "a new view Of the difficult
child replacing personal opinion
with exact knowledge in merchandise
ing, advertising, and selling; and
various other interesting topics. We
will talk more about them when l
have gone deeper into the book.
If you have read either "The Moon
Out of Reach" or THE Hermit of Far
End. both books by Margaret Pedler
which / have discussed recently in
this column, you will be interested. as
/ was, to learn of three more ro-
mances by Mrs. Pedler: 1.-The Lamp of
Fate" "The Splendid Folly" and The
House of Dreams Come-True". All are