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"THE CLEAN HEART."
By A. 6. M. Hutchinson, with frontis
piece by R. M. Crosby. Little, Brown
J & Co., publishers, Boston.
Remembering the enthusiasm aroused
! by Mr. Hutchinson’s previous novel,
"The Happy Warrior,” it is safe to
predict that an eager welcome awaits
his new book, whose title is taken from
the familiar verse in the Psalms, "Cre
| ate in me a clean heart, O God, and re
new a right spirit within me." Its hero
Is a novelist, self-centered, seeking hap
piness In the wrong direction, who loses
his mental balance through overwork
and worry, and In a desperate moment
throws himself Into the Thames. He Is
| rescued, however, and takes refuge in
flight from London, gradually to re
gain his sanity through association
with with one Mr. Puddlebox, a jolly
old vagabond who is Wriford’s com- j
j panion on many mad and humorous ad-1
ventures, and who has learnecL the
secrdt of life long before it dawms on
his friend. When their rambles come to
i an unfortunate end, Wriford becomes
assistant master in a school kept by a
j drunkard In a country town. In this
new life he loges in the family of a
plumber, whose daughter Essie is un
doubtedly the most lovable heroine that
her cerator has yet portrayed; but it
j must not be Imagined that this gives
j the ke£ to the solution of the story. On
| the contrary it, will be found that the
probable way out is not the one Mr.
Hutchinson takes. The plot is unusual.
| there is rich humor, and the charm of
the characters is what one has been led
to expect of this talented author. Jolly
| old Mr. Puddlebox is especially well
depicted.
There were some readers who would
have liked "The Happy Warrior" to
have ended happily; in "The Clean
Heart" their wishes will be fully met,
for the climax leaves the hero In pos
session of the prime secret of felicity.
Those who have read the story pre
vious to Its publication assert that it
j is Mr. Hutoehinsori’s finest achievement.
"THE TEETH OF THE TIGER."
By Maurice Leblanc. Translated by Alex
ander Telxeira DeMattos. Illustrated
) by Gordon Grant. Doubleday, Page
I A Co., publishers. Garden City, N. Y.
1 These are the circumstances In which
Arsene Lupin finds himself In Maurice
Leban's clever story. "The Teeth of the
Tiger." A father and his son have been
mysteriously murdered almost before
i his eyes, one police inspector is dead—
killed by a poison—while another has
been shot with Arsene Lupin standing
by. To crown all, there has been treach
ery In his own household and there is
only one clue to the whole afTalr—the
"teeth of the tiger."
For all his disguise Arsene Lupin is
still the master mind of detectives and
Is finally able to clean up the case
Involving the lives of a dozen people
and 100 million francs.
••THE PLACE BEYOND THE WINDS.”
By Harriet T. Comstock. Illustrated by
Harry Spafltord Porter. Doubleday.
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GEN. CHARLES KING
Author of “The True Ulysses S.
Grant”
Pago A: Co., publishers, Garden City,
N. Y.
From the day when Richard, lying
prone upon the grass, beholds Priscilla
in the quaint, childish dance to "the
graven image." Harriet T. Comstock in
"The Place Beyond the Winds,” holds us
wrapt in this winsome story of a moun
tain girl and her home folk. Charming
heroines all are Mrs. Comstock’s "Joyce”
and “Cynthia," in her earlier books, but
Priscilla is finer, if anything, and a
more splendid future opens out before
her. The story is big with elemental
purpose; running beneath it there is the
great theme of human development, of a
soul finding itself. To Priscilla the lure
comes when she is but a child, and de
spite parental tyranny she follow's Its
lead without faltering. Throughout her
struggle Anton Farwell is her staunch
helper and in this character of the school
master Mrs. Comstock has given us a
most human and appealing figure.
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"LIBERTY"
"A STATEMENT OF THE BRITISH
CASE.”
By Arnold Bennett. George H. Doran
Co., publishers, New York.
If Britain loses in the great European
war, America will be the next to risk
death at the hands of German bureau
cracy, believes Arnold Bennett. The Ger
man general staff has plans for the bom
bardment of American ports ready. In
case of need. And if Britain loses she
will lose everything—all the noble beauty
for which her fine old stock stands.
So believes Bennett, so he frankly and
urgently declares in this book.
Behind this declaration is not only the
weight of his fame as novelist, play
writer, essayist, but also his known repu
tation as an unprejudiced thinker and ob
server.
Not his the ranting of a petty jingoist
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“THE WITCH”
By Mary Johnston. Frontpiece by N. O.
Wyeth. Houghton Mifflin Co., publish
ers, No. 4 Park Row, Boston.
In this important new novel, “The
Witch.” Miss Johnston goes back, as her
thousands of readers will find to their de
light. to the field of some of her earlier
successes—the spacious days of Queen
Elizabeth.
The story opens in the death chamber
of the great Queen, and with that uncanny
power of historic resurrection of which
Miss Johnston Is master, the reader is
made to feel the great issues that are
hanging in the balance—issues of thought
and faith within England itself, issues of
Imperialistic destiny in the great countries
overseas which the dying queen’s sailor
adventurers have discovered and ex
ploited.
The two chief characters of the book
are Joan Heron, a beautiful girl of strong,
original nature and independent mind, and
Dr. Aderhold. who, like nearly all stu
dents of medicine in hls age, was a
thinker In advance of his time, and there
fore fn the event Inevitably suspected of
atheism and sorcery. As the plot de
velops. not only Is Aderhold suspected of
unholy practices In thfe black art, but
Joan Is accused of withcraft. They are
arrested and tried together. Never has
Miss Johnston done more magnificent
work than in her absorbing account of
this typical “witch persecution.” At the
end of the trial, Joan and Aderhold are
sentenced to death, but they escape, and,
after many adventures on the road, take
ship for Virginia, Joan disguised as a
boy, the traveling companion of the
physician. As the voyage progresses,
however, her sex and identity are sus
pected, and, the sailors ascribing to her
withcraft the bad weather which attends
the voyage, she and Aderhold are cast
adrift in an open boat. This catastrophe,
however, is not the end of the story, and
in the Bahamas and later in Virginia, it
conies to its final impressive ending.
As a historic picture of the days of
Queen Elizabeth, the story has never been
surpassed. It is written in Miss John
ston’s richest vein of Imaginative com
prehension of times past, and all the char
acters are strong and vital. The growth
of the love between Aderhold and Joan
is one of the most appealing episodes of
this nature to be found In any of Miss
Johnston’s books, but perhaps the Impres
sion that will live longest In the reader's
memory is that of the marvelous Eliza
bethan world of adventure, controversy,
passion, and vital personality.
“PERSONALITY PLUS.”
By Edna Ferber. Illustrated by James
Montgomery Flagg. Frederick A. Stokes
& Co., publishers. New York.
Edna Ferber, in “Personality Plus” tells
of Jock McChesney, just out of college,
serene in hls English fitting suit and the
perfection of his shirt, tie, collar and
scarf pin. Jock went looking for a job
with an advertising agency. He had
visions of a $90,000 salary. It was rather
a good joke that the first thing they did
was to make him pose as model for a
clothing ad.
But although Jock was “snappy” and
cocksure to a high degree, he had traces
of his mother’s grit and common sense.
They saved him. Her advice at critical
moments, if it wasn’t rejected, saved him,
too. There was always something fenny
about the hard bumps he got, and some
thing a little touching about his tri
umphs. For we can't help looking at him
through the eyes of Emma McChesney,
who, although she was an up-to-date busi
ness woman and secretary of the Feath
erolom Petticoat company, also was old
fashioned enough to be a mother.
One would think Edna Ferber had been
president of several advertising agencies
after reading her version of the advertis
ing lingo and seeing how she understands
moder^ business. No buslnes man can
fall to grin at young McChesney's predic
aments, or to rejoice at hls final “making
good.” And no woman can read without
a suspicious mistiness of the eyes that
final chapter Wi which Emma gives up
Jock to the Chicago office and the girl.
"THE HON. PERCIVAL"
By Alice Regan Rice. Pictures by Cros
by. The Century Co., publishers
“The Honorable Percival,” the hero
of the story by that name by Alice He
fa,V , Ce’ an extremely correct and
fastidious young Englishman, who has
been jilted—to his great amazement—by
a quite correct and proper English fian
cee. For solace he Is taking a trip around
the world, unutterably bored, and pre
senting a front of icy indifference to
every fellow traveler.
Enter on the Pacific liner at San Fran
cisco. the prettiest, wildest bit of Amer
ican mischief who ever dared all the con
ventions and played havoc with hearts
She Is Bobby, the captain's daughter;
and the Honorable Percival, for all hls
disapproval of her, wakes up. Thinks
happen fast on a Pacific liner, and
Bobby doesn't lose a mordent. You think
you know how It la going to end aa you
enjoy the comedy; but you don't.
"THE TRUE ULYSSES S. GRANT”
By Genera1 Charlea King. Twenty-eight
Illustrations. J. B. Llpplncott Co., pub
lishers, Philadelphia.
"The True Ulysses S. Grant,” by Gen
eral Charles King. Is the latest volume In
the well known "True Biographies and
Histories series. General Charlea King
thoroughly understands the military ge
nius of the great union commander, and
give* the reader Insight into those cam
paigns that are used as models of tac
tics In the army college* of Europe
Grant, the man, however, and Grant, the
President, are treated with the same re
gard for truth that characterises the
study of Grant, the general. It Is one of
the best biographies In a very notable
series.
Those of us who havs read General
Charles King's novels know him as one
of the beet of story .tellers, and In this
historical work upon hla hero he had the
opportunity of telling a fascinating and
true tale. The etory of the great "Sam”
Grant, the "old man" of a thousand cam
paigns, the calm, aalf-confldent, deter
mined, yet modest hero, of but one weak
ness. of but few faults, and of many
virtue* Is a tale worthy to be told by on*
of the very best of our prose writers.
What a series of parodoxes occur In
Grant's career! He was born in a cot
tage, yet he dined with most of the
crown heads of the world, he hated the
thought of entering the army, yet he
saved the nation In the most desperate
of her wars, for months Ignored by
Washington, by sheer force of accom
plishment, he arrived at the top. One
year had raised him from the twilight
of a western town to the triumph of
Donelson; two years had made him the
victor of Vicksburg, the hero of the army
of the west: three had set him In supremg
command and four had crushed the en
emy, had made the north and south the
nation once again. Then came those un
fortunate years as politician and Pres
ident; Grant was a soldier, never a poli
tician, but General King throws a new
light on some of the fine things that
were done during hls administration.
The character of this man Is not- suf
ficiently understood by hls present day
countrymen. More men know of hls ci
gar smoking than of hls sterling quali
ties, of hls tendency to drink than of
hls loyalty to friends. He was a typi
cal western American with aU of the
virtues and some of the faults that go
with such a type. Hla greatness and
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to accomplish things with his army. No
wonder that Lincoln wanted to ship to the
other unlog generals some of the same
brand of whisky upon which Grant was
accused of having got drunk. This book
la a distinct addition to American biog
raphy and the beat of It all la that It
can be read by every one with the
greatest enjoyment.
OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED—REVIEWS
LATBR
"THE WIFE OF SIR ISAAC HAR
MAN." By H. a. Wells. The MaoMfUan
Co., publishers. New York.
“ONE CLEAR CALL,” By Frances
i' fri iV fi^f* v-!h iJ*,v .V. ,.'
jvimmo oreene.. Charles Scribners' Sons,
publishers. New York.
“NIGHT WATCHES." By W. W. Ja
cobs. Illustrated by Stanley Davix.
Charles Scribner's Sons, publishers. New
York.
"GIDEON'S BAND.” By George W.
Cable. Illustrated by F. C. Yohn. Charles
Scribner’s Sons, publishers. New York.
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What Soldiers Carry
From London Answers.
Nearly all the soldiers belonging to Bu
| ropeaa analog have to carry about with
them In the field a kit which ranges In
weight from IS to 61 pounds.
The equipment that the different soldiers
carry about with them la very similar.
It generally comprises a rifle and bayonet,
with rags and ao on for keeping them
clean, an entrenching tool, and, of course,
a number of rounds of ammunition. Then
there are the various artlceli of clothing
with changes, and a flrst-ald outfit All
the soldiers with one exception carry a
knife, fork and spoon, water bottle, and
mesa tin. Ybe Russians, who are the ex
ception, carry a wooden spoon only, which
they keep In their boot*. There 1* also
a supply of food carried, and generally
or two reserve or emergency ration*
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Together with an overcoat, and the knap
•ack ond aimllar accoutrements, the load
to bo carried Is a considerable one. The
Russians carry most, the weight wonting
out ut 61 pounds, while the British,
French, and Germane come next In or
der, carrying weights. of 47, 44, and It
pounds respectively.
In the Auto Age
From thick.
Bov Orator—Caesar had his Bruton
Charles the First Ills Cromwell, and
George the,Third -••
Chairman ot the Meeting—Go on, my
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the make at (lisrgl's ear.
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