The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-11
BY WALTER d. HICKMAN

"a war LIN Ds HlIGhMAN
Lave been asked several times
recently to name book that
rejects Italy through the eyes of
children. Tt seems that many people
are planning to go TO Europe this
spring and summer 70 as to take
advantage Of the special tourist
rates being offered.
have found such a book which
was published some time ago by
Houghton Mifflin Company under
the title of where 1t All Comes
True in italy and Switzerland" by
two children, Betty and Mary Clara
Laughlin with the help of their
aunt, Clara E. Laughlin.
To me this book and others in
the series is unique, because the
experiences of the children in italy
and Switzerland have been fully
recorded as we'll as the adult who
Travelled vita him.
This book really makes these two
countries a marvellous and wonder
ful playground for children of all
ages.
You can judge the method of
treatment by the titles of some of
the chapters which are Naples and
Its Story Places" out Where Virgil
Lived" Where Horatius Kept the
Bridge" Castles on the Way From
Rome to Florence" Our Picnic. "
"Shakespeare's Stories Begin to
Come True" and many others.
Many times when 1 want to break
away from the beaten path of travel
books, pick up books of this series
and re-read them in part.
Have received a number of inter-
esting books from Ray Long and
Richard r. Smith, New York. This
new publishing house is rapidly get
ting noted for publishing some
corking good reading. Among the
new books have received from
this firm are Many Mansions" by
Henry G. Rowland; Girl on the
Make" by Achmed Abdullah and
Faith Baldwin, which is corking
good reading along modern lines;
Shrine of Fair Women" by Ann
Pinchot, novel showing what may
go on in fashionable shops, and
other k 'okS.
Wha IS one of the best of the
modern detective stories 1 have read
lately? Answer, Miss Pinkerton. !"
by Mary Roberts Reinhart, in which
a nurse becomes a detective. Pub
lished by Farrar & Reinhart.
n
Sim n & Schuster have just pub
lished THE History of the Russian
Revolution" by Leon Trotsky, the
man who led the revolution. Trans
lated by Max Eastman from the
original Russian.
f rold Bell Wright must be very
happy because he wrote his latest,
The Devils Highway" with the
''o'oDnA4OC Va lllo oOll, VIII WHITES
under the pen name of John Lebar
published by D. Appleton e. Co.
THE winner of this weeks book
4 review is Robert Robbins, 1850
Union street, who is 10 years old.
He reviewed "Backf1re," by Daniel
Chase.
AS soon as Robbins gets in touch
with this department he will have
the choice of one of several good
books.
His review is as follows:
Chan Mathers. %. and embued with an
vlll-SuflerS an accident which changes his
whole life. He finds after a long illness
that he is incurabv lame. To him life
was not worth living. To exist was futile.
VIII stone. Chan,S SagaciouS uncle. sends
him to a Jaalam farm, hoping that there
come his nferiority complex. Immediately
uNon his arrival al the peaceful village. he
becomes hopeleSSlv involved in a LIQUOR
running gang, and finds that affairs at
Jaalam. ike still water. run deep.
Molly Bowditch. a sensible Young girl.
meets Chan and seeing and understand
ing his illusions tries to help him. Chan.
however. works out his own salvation and
IN his encounter with crime. rivalry and
murder sustained by Molly's friendship
and love finds himself and happiness.
You Will read this book from cover to
cover in one sitting that is YOU will If
YOU enjoy action-and who doesn't?