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Horns story was written. Perhaps, as in
Trader Horns case, imagination has embel-
ished the facts, but what of it? No one u
going to use Jan Welzls book as q guide book,
and it is splendid yarn.
E. w. SCRIPPS BY Negley D. Cochran, New
York: Harcourt, Brace & Co.
AVER so years Of newspaper work, with ever
~ growing success, was the record Of e. w.
Scripps when he died on his yacht of the
African coast in 1925. He was at the time
controlling stockholder Of Is daily news
papers throughout the United States 80
Mr.. Cochran tells US, and was also controlling
stockholder Of a worldwide press association
as well as newspaper feature service,
both his creations. This biography has
something Of an official nature, for 1t
has been checked by members Of the
Scripps family and by business associates
Of Mr.. Scripps Its aim Is to make known
the real E. w. Scripps and his principles of
journalism to the thousands of people engaged
in carrying on the many institutions and enter
prises he created and founded and to all who
are interested in studying the mind of great
journalist, profound philosopher and at once q
great master and great public servant" The
good fortune Of his life belied supersttution, for
he was the thirteenth child Of his parents, farm
people Of Illinois. The successful career Of his
grandfather as editor and publisher In London
probably furnished the inspiration Of E. WIS
life. It was in California that Scripps began
forging his chain Of newspapers, in 1898. From
then his journalistic accomplishment was
amazing in its rapidity and originality. His
interest in art, science, philanthropy, politics,
education and public service was active and
constructive. What he did in all these fields
l. &-IL h. ,~1n- oI~- L. t.
making the personality Of Scripps live through
his pages.
THE ADVANCES OF HARRIET. BY Phyllis
Bottome. Boston: Houghton, Mifhin Co.
HARRIET is a very vivacious English girl who
] has no old-fashioned ideas regarding man,
the seeker, and woman, the sought. BY listening
at a crack under the door when Lady Sybil calls
ON her mother, she learns that Lady Sybn does
not wish her to marry her son Cyprian. "As If
believed In marrfage!" Harriet said to herself
wrathfully. Stupid old owl! . But must
say it's rather ghastly of Cyprian not to want
to marry me! I'll pay him out for that!" Har-
riet is only II, and previous to this she has left
school because Of "a little unpleasantness with
the headmistress about Henry the Eighth. It
was nothing to do with the wives, either only
the Reformation part" After the episode with
the squires son, unwelcome to both maternal
parents Harriet IS transferred to the care Of her
half-sister Anne in Paris. Anne Is Of quite
different temperament from Harriet, serious,
self-restrained but she has no luck in taking
care Of Harriet In fact without any artifices
whatever, she wins the love of the one man
Harriet wants for a husband. Pierre wishes q
settled sort of woman for q wife and con-
siders Harriet brazenly vulgar So Harriet is
obliged to take second best, and at the end of
the story is debating whether to play around
with the young men Of Montparnasse or settle
yit hor cto~I
might find in THE Advances of Harriet" q moral
In favor Of the woman Of dignity and reticence
but Phyllis Bottome does not deal in morals; she
is interested IN psychological complexities and
their results In conduct
LOST LAUGHTER. BY Mateel Howe Farnham.
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co.
DELLA comes casually and debonairly to her
= brothers home in Staunton, Mo-, in the
Autumn OF 1907, bringing with her Hughie her
19-month-old son, whose fathers identity Is
unknown. The Price family are not overioyed
to see her and are even less pleased when thew
learn that she intends to leave the child with
tnem because circumstances have made 1t i'm
possible for me to keep him any longer" Lost
Laughter" has divided interest: the growing
up OF Hugh In the conservative family of his rela-
tives who are thoroughly ashamed of him and
practice all sorts of subterfuges to conceal his
Parentaee, at the same time that they feel
toward him species Of clan loyalty; and the
wild extravagances and frequently shifted asso
Citations OF Bella, when once she is rid of the
encumbrance of her child. It is hard to sympa-
thize whole-heartedly with the imposed-u
family. because they get so many disapproving
thrills from the behavior of Bella that their Mis-
souri, small town life is enlivened and perhaps
they remain the debtors. Hugh too is a gamer
oy his mothers callous desertion of him, for he
receives virtuous upbringing and never misses
the maternal devotion which should have been
his. There is much melodrama in connection
with Bella's New York hat shop, her French