The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-01-26
BY ALICE LINDSEY WEBB.
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b Bacon's essays on studies" he
Is: Some books are to be tasted,
ers to be swallowed, and some few
kbe chewed and digested: that Is,
he books are to be read only in
IT'S, others are to be read but not
tiously, and some few to read who'll
and with diligence and attention.
me books also may be read by dep
and extracts made of them by
Aers."
Fisher Ames, Jr., wrote OF American
a Cross work in France; Blackwell
the work in Italy; and Low we have
hn van Schaick, Jr., doing a like
Twice for the Red Cross in Belgium
/ his new book, "A Little Corner
ver Conquered" macmillan. so.
van Schick, who was 1t. Col. in
8 U. S. army (assimilated rank),
Is eminently fitted for the task OF
cording the extent and methods or
h relief work in Belgium. Before he
ent over as A. r. G. Commissioner
| Belgium he already knew the terri
ry through his work in 1915 with.
e Rockefeller Foundation War Re-
81 Commission The book is dedicat-
to his wife, who worked with him
both occasions.
FIVE are past the period when peo-
e do not want to read anything more
bout the war" he says, in introduce
bn. There are indications of the
Aginning of a period bound to come
hen every detail of that stupendous
(ruggle will be read with deepening
Aterest and truer perspective.
fnat he and his fellows did with the
honey (nearly five million dollars)
nd supplies sent by American men
bid women to help prevent the exter-
Aination of a brave and industrious
alton, is told in an orderly yet inter-
Sting manner. There are direct trans
Ations from the stories told him by
flemish of their treatment by the Ger
han soldiers. and others told by Red
ROSS workers of the things they saw
q Ypres, Fumes, Poperinghe and
ther shelled towns. The hospitals
md the difficulties under which they
torked, the care of refugees, the per-
'bnal labors of the king and queen
be splendid cooperation of the Quak.
|rs, all are given in brief but telling
brm, illustrated by good photographs
md maps.
THE great sense of human brother
Hood" says Mr.. van Schaick, which
Eas felt so deeply amid the horrors o
ar, binding all classes together, ma!
Yet rule in days Of peace. Red Cross
means at least one step That way"
~ $50
EAST of Suez" is tragic drama
lust published by w. Somerset Maug
Nam, (Doran, $125) hung on the dis
Trust of the Eurasian which, you ma.
fecall, was one of the sinister thread
woven through John Paris "Kimono.
(The three chief characters in the pla
hre a girl-half Chinese, half English
her young husband, Harry, in tn
British Mercantile service; and hi
dearest friend George, her lover. !
|the embassy. Incidentally there is he
old Chinese mothe
|who sold her, when she was littl
|more than terrified child, ga wea
|tny Chinaman whose appetite wa
|piqued by the girls trembling loatl
hing of his touch. How the girl break
Edown Georges determined resistent
land is the cause of his betrayal of h
chum; the stealthy pursuit of the gi
/ by the Chinese, the double suicide
the end. the frantic husband beatir
at the gate for admittance-is a
rather narrowing, but artistical
done. With the Oriental background
Picking, it should stage well.
80
"Couse no woman 'spects mu'
manners from her husband, says N
randy, discoursing on domesticity
! Dorothy Dix's jolly book of philos
| plies, Miranda Exhorts" (Penn).
/ have laughed till the tears roll
down my cheeks at her wise, ia
droll way of setting forth human II
/ ilties and tribulations. There Is mu