Bodv of Woman
Hypothecated by
English Husband
Heroine of "‘His Mortgaged
Vi ife" Solves Problem by
Means Which Lcml Verve
and Zest to Story.
firs mortgaged m ire." by Bonne
.Melbuurnp Busch Oorrance. Philadrl
phim.
-■’Edward.’’ asked Grace with a.
iragdc look on her face, ‘ has our
espei lento been the obvious ;hing
because we were left alone in u
house? Don’t tell me the man to
whom l have been a wife foresaw
the course of events. 1 thought
your love and mine was sancti
fied. but now it seems degraded.’’
These are the wolds of the woman
in the triangle, whose body wras mort
gaged by her English husband, who
loved an American, but was penniless
und in doubt; with an inner triangle
of money, duty and desire.
She arrives at a solution to her
problems—different from the usual
run of sex novel.
Juteresung, light ami snappy ,s
"His Mortgaged Wife."
First Woman Press Agent
W rites Slor\ on Sirk Beil
"fttOHT OFF THE CHEST,'* by Nellie
He veil. tieorge it. Doran company.
New York.
This is tin* thrilling and true story
of Nellie Revell, newspaper woman
and daughter of a publisher, which
she wrote while she lay helpless in
her bed.
The introduction is written by
Irvin S. Cobb. Illustrations are by
Rube Goldberg. James Montgomery
Flagg. Grace G. Drayton. J. W. Me
Gurk. W. E. Hill, Clare Briggs, Tony
Sarg. T. A. Dorgan. Thornton Fisher,
Ed Hughes and other artists of na
tlonal fame.
It is I he story of Nellie Revell, her
self, the first woman press agent, and
her work in the literary field. s
Tributes to the author have been
written by Calvin Coolidge, George
M. Cohan. David Belaseo, Will
Rogers, Fannie Hurst and others
whose names ace familiar in the pub
lishing business.
Women of Bible
Made Characters
in Modern Child
Student and Teacher of Scrip
tures Elaborates on Lives
of Women of Bibli
cal Times.
"WOMEN OF THE BIBLE.' by Annie
Russell Marble. The Century company,
New York.
Lives of the' women of the Bible—
Miriam, Deborah, Esther and Judith;
Jezebel, Athaliah, Delilah and Hero
dias—are related in popular and ap
pealing fashion by the author in this
book, which is the result of many
years of Bible study and teaching.
Theft? characters, of both the old
and new testaments, are treated not
ns heroines or martyrs, hut just wom
en who helped to mould the ideals
of the present day.
The author’s style is easy. She
handles her characters with realism,
tinged with romanticism, bringing
them home to the modern day reader
Forced Marriage
Story Different
J
“The Sable Cloud"’ Presents
Old Problem in Unique
Manner.
'THE SABLE (y,l>UP." by Harriet V
Ortgen. The Penn Publishing company,
Philadelphia.
Louisa Lea's father fails in busi
tb
ness.
He seeks to protect himelf by forc
ing her to marry a man she docs not
love.
The story reveals her character
v.Tth “the sable cloud of this com
pulsory marriage'' hanging over
her.
Another girl Intervenes. Louisa is
saved and she is granted the happi
new that she desires.
The subject of compulsory mar
riages in these modern days is hard
ly unfamiliar to the reader of fic
tion. but in this book, the author pre
sents the problem a bit differently
and with entertaining effect.
with more elaboration than is given
them in the Bible.
Armor Against
Blows of Fate
Work of Famous Writers So
Characterized by Paul Jor
dan Smith in Essays.
“ON STRANGE AI-.TARS.” by Paul Jor
dan Smith. Albert & Charles Bold. New
York city. *
^yr ERE is a group of essays,”
I—I says the author, “having no
other use than to express
one man's reaction to certain things
that he has conceived to Vie beautiful,
to certain writers who have given to
him not only deep spiritual satisfac
tion, but a kind of armor against the
blows of fate."
"A course of reading in Anatole
France,” he states in his chapter on
that writer, “would In itself be an ex
cellent conclusion to college—perhaps
a good substitute.”
"Oscar Wilde lias given to the world
the fragrant memory of a beautiful
and generous personality,” he states
further on, and "Mark Twain was a
robust soul, jocund, Rabelaisian and
clean.”
lie also offere appreciations of
James Branch Cabell. Ambrose Bierce.
Casanova, Thomas Hardy, rtabelaie,
Samuel Butler, Valter 1'ater and
Havelock Ellis.
Bird Writes of His
Psychic Adventures
•JIY PSYCHIC ADVENTURES," by J.
Mai- nlm Bird. Scientific American
Publishing company. New York.
The problem of psychic research is
dealt with in this book by Mr. Bird,
who i« the associate editor of the
Scientific American.
He discusses the subjective phe
nomena and the hypothesis of telelp
athy: physical mediums and physi
cal phenomena: the Scientific Ameri
can and psychic research: mediums
and other folk of psychic note; his
first seance and various sittings with
notable mediums and clairvoyants.
.The book Is not technical and the
subject is so bandied as to be readily
read by a layman, but it has not the
force to convince one who denies he
is a skeptic, but who admits lie has
doubts. Q
The book is illustrated with a*"psy
chic photograph" of Mr. Bird.
Father Love Is
Painted in Book.
The Love Child9
Stun of Life of Immigrant
Family Feelingly Told
by Bertha Pearl
Moore.
"THE LOVES CHILD.” by Bertha Tear!
Moore. Thomas Seltzer, New York,
Yekel was an old world, unprac
tical. poetic man, baffled and made
dumb by the nonunderstanding of his
family.
Annie was the one of Yekel'* daugh
ters, w ho was kin to him in spirit.
Their efforts to break through the
long reticence of misunderstanding
and express their love form the Ijasi-s
for this novel of an Immigrant fam
ily .
An excellent book for the student
of immigration problems to read is
' The Love Child.” for Mrs. Moore
has painted the trial and tribulations
of such a family with unerring shill
and In entertaining fashion. Iftr fhwt
book, "Sarah and Her Daughter."
was a story of mother love; this a.
story of father love.
A Tale~of T
Fair Harvard
"111(111 m jtm.IX," by Joseph Hu«
I I,»nd Houghton, Mifflin company
Cambridge. .
HE had everything his own
way. And then he went to
Harvard.
He accepted things’as hia birth
right and heritage. But at Har
vard one must earn what one re
celves.
And he was “kicked out.”
Stung to the quick, his trie,
character, until then hidden by the
silly veneer of so-called eociet;
came to the fore. He went "out
on his own." got a job in th«
mines, made good and came back
to win the girl he loved.
Further difficulties.
An exceptional delineation of
character development and a trii,
ute to the name of "Fair Harvard
Is "High Hurdles."
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