White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1924-01-18
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Brand Whitlock has returned to his
craft of fiction writing. With his
years as minister to Belgium complet-
I'D and recorded in that famous book,
Belgium" he has completed the nov
I'll which was just started when the
invasion Of Belgium put an abrupt end
20 Mr.. Whitlock's work upon it. This
is ~. Hardin & Son." a novel of
American life, published by Appleton.
In it he tells the life story OF one
Paul Hardin from boyhood in the last
century down to full maturity at the
present time. The scene is Mr.. Whit
.ock's own Ohio, and the many char
acters who throng the books's pages
ire representative of all classes and
types found in the American small
own, each distinct and personal. 1t
s essentially an American story,
rooted in the soil of our developing
life, and, it will be found, revealing
The forces which are striving for
lscendency in our villages, our small
towns, our cities-one the undisci-
)lined pagan spirit, the other the dis
siplined Puritan devotion to duty.
That romantic and exceedingly in
teresting figure, Sir John Moore, is
the subject of a new biography, to be
published by Appleton This is "The
Life and Letters of Sir John Moore"
by Beatrice Brownrigg, with an intro
.duction by General Sir Aylmer Hal
dane. 1t is the record of the career
of man who was adored by every
class, whose fascinating figure stands
out against the misfortunes which
came to him. In almost every cam
paign in which he participated he
was wounded, and it was WlzBn barely
forty-eight that he fell, snatching an
amazing victory out of hazard and
failure. Moore had tremendous -ef--
feet on the British army no man, not
Cromwell, nor Marlborough, nor We'll
lington having set SO strong mark
for good upon it. To those whose
chief knowledge of this charming,
brilliant soldier is based upon VOLTS
famous lines on 1.-THE Burial Of Sir
John Moore at Corunna," the book
brings vivid picture Of one of his
tory's most attractive heroes.
Shakespeare and the Universities
is the title of the new book by that
distinguished English scholar, DR..
Frederick S. Boas. 1t will be pub
lished by Appleton. DIR. Boas has in
it discussed some interesting matters
concerning Elizabethan literature, the
subject of which this scholar special
ICES. In the book Gan important con-
tribution to knowledge Edmund
Gosse declares it to be in the London
Times), Dr. Boas presents most
readable study of the curious rela-
ton Of the great English universities
and the professional stage, of the his
tory of stage censorship lin the Eliza-s
bethan age and after, ana Of his dis
coyery of a hitherto unknown Eliza
bethan dramatist.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr, has pub
lished his first book and will receive
royalties at the regular rates. The
volume, entitled "The Personal Rela-
tion in Industry" has been issued by
Boni & Liveright. The publishers an
nounced that Mr.. Rockefeller's views
on labor were contained in the book
and that 20 years ago they would
have been considered socialistic"
The Rev S. Barring Gould, famous
author and composer of Onward
Christian Soldiers" died recently in
London. He would have been 80
years old on January %.