The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1923-02-16

rOlcy Aduho gnu SooSPA ~ ~.
coins Regular Army Man" are both
poems which should be known by
more of our Americans-in-the-m
in our schools and homes. have
chosen this book (Scribner, $500 as
a gift to my young godson, whose
father was an army man.
BY the way, this is one Of the score
of similarly illustrated classics for
young readers, which include: The
Children's Bible, arranged by Henry
A. Sherman and Chas. Foster Kent;
Jane Fosters Scottish Chiefs; Charles
Kingsleys Westward Ho; Grim's
Fairy Tales; J. Fennimore Cooper's
The Last of the Monicans; The Mys-
terious Island by Jules Verne; Sidney
I.anier's The Boys King Arthur; four
of Robert Louis Stevenson's fascinat-
ing books-The Black Arrow. Kidnap-
ped, Treasure Island and that charm
ing collection Of poems, The Child's
Garden Of Verse; Kate Douglas Wig
gin and Nora Archibald Smith, kinder
garten authorities, have edited the
best known tales from The Arabian
Nights: Frank r.. Stockton's Queens
Museum (fanciful tales); Eugene
Fields Poems of Childhood: two of
Frances Hodgson Burnett's best sto-
ries. Little Lord Fauntleroy, and The
Little Princess; Kenneth Grahame's
The Wind in the Willows; Hans Brin-
ker, or the Silver Skates by Mary
Mapes Dodge; and Norah Brooks The
Boy Emigrants. These alone would
make a very fair library for child.
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OF course we all acknowledge that
Arnold Bennett is exceedingly clever
in the matter of depicting PERSONAL
ties, making interesting "somebodies"
out Of mere every day "nobodies", let
ting you understand the mental pro-
cess Of the folk with whom ais stories
deal. His latest. Lillian" (Doran, $2)
is Of nice, smooth, round peg in
hard, square, uncompromising hole.
Well, perhaps / ought not to use the
word "uncompromising", for If ever
a young woman was compromised.
Lillian was-and she found herself in
considerable of a hole, too. That is
to be expected when a beautiful but
penniless typist goes off to live in
luxury at Monte Carlo with a man to
whom she is not married. But Lillian
never had to pay for aer silken lux
uries, though she had child. Her
seducer. old enough to be her father,
rises from a sick bed when he learns
her condition, then conveniently dies,
after willing her a comfortable for
ltune and an establishment in London
mansion, servants, and a profitable
business concern. She returns tc
London and his we'll trained servants
transfer to her the respect and devo-
ton they had for him, and she awaits
her time In a place Of dignity, beauty
and comfort. From Victorian stand
ards 1t Is not a moral story-but II
certainly interesting In Benefits way
OF telling it. You are always waiting
for something to drop on her, which
does not fall. When she loses hel
; position as typist, she spends all he
money on pretty clothes, and gets tn,
man in the case. Retribution Is non
existent in Lilians case.
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Another luxury loving young womal
lis Alice Duer Miller's heronie Il
"Manslaughter" (Grossett & Dunlap
e Ionly she got hers" The law Of com
Ipensation worked in her case to tn
!, lextent of two years in prison and tn
Temporary destruction of the man sh
s lloved. Lydia was an exceedingl
Ispoiled heiress In New York, used t
t, all sort of refined cruelties and in
Justices toward all who opposed he
n whims and fancies. But she met he
e ,ous young district attorney. Whe
If she speeded her car and killed mote
Is cycle cop, he went into cou
n against her and obtained conviction
t. then went off and nearly drank hin
a self to death, because he loved h
8. against his Judgment and will. A
in through her prison experience 81
W Rugged the thought Of the revenge 81
D. would nave on his public career whit
80 lshe was free. Her money had alwa
of bought anything she wanted, exec
a. her release when he opposed it. 81
eu hated him fiercely-or-loved hir
in The two are not SO far apart Sae &C
ID Inowledged that her prison experien
It. taught her the consequences of b
tie Town character. And in the end, wo
-? out by her fierce emotions, she ga
RI up her fight against him, and he h
IL her.
m
ct THE new year leaps from the blat
Ii" bone of the old
,es Into a gala night of maniforl