THE v OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1916. - . - . v ,,( u.x
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But love and 1 had the wit
to win;
We drew a circle that took
He drew a circle that shut
tne out.
Heretic, rebel, i thing to
,- flout.
him in.
Edwin Markham.
NEWS OF NEW BOOKS, "WRITERS AND MAGAZINE0.
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NEWEST ENGINEERING
WORK NOW AVAILABLE
AT PORTLAND LIBRARY
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Work of General Interest Ed
ited by Technical Experts
and Professional Designers
"The Cyclopedia of Engineering:,"
edited by Louis Dcrr,'' Chicago, Ameri
can Technical society, 1916, 7 v., has
been added to the technical depart
ment of the public library.
This la a general reference work on
steam boilers and pumps, steam, sta
tionary, locomotive, and marine en
gines, steam turbines, gas and oil
engines, producers, elevators, heating
and ventilation, compressed air refrig
eration, types and management' of dy
namo-electric machinery, power sta
tions, etc. The editor, with the assist
anew of a large corps of engineers.
technical experts and designers of the
highest professional standing, has
made this a thoroughly technical
work, yet easily comprehensible by the
practical worker who lacks technical
training.
A new book on posters has Just
been aded to the art collection. It Is
by Cji M. Price and has many illustra
tion of the modern work of all coun
tries.
The Antlnque Greek dance, by Mau
rice Emmanuel, probably the most
complete study of the subject that has
ever been made. Is another new book
Just added to the collection. Through
the klndnes of a friend of the library,
there Is on exhibit In the reference
room a collection of six Imperial Chi
ncse decrees, one of
given to the library.
which has been
They are written
upon silk brocade In both Chinese and
Mongolian and are stamped with tho
Imperial seal. They are of different
perlodq from 1650 to the middle of the
eighteenth century. Besides their in
terest as examples of the decrees,
they are valuable specimens of tex
tilo design.
Are ou Interested In the ''Silent
drama?" Have you any plots for a
scenario? Should you lle to see your
Ideas worked out "on the screen?"
"How to Write for the 'Movies,' " by
.Parsons; "Photo-play; How to Write,
How to Sell," by Nelson; Ball's "Pho
to-play Scenarios," "Art of the Photo
play;" Dean's "Playwrlting for Mo
tion Pictures." Dench's "Making the
Movies;" Dlmick's "Photo-play Mak
ing;" Esenweln's "Writing the Photo
play;" Fantus' "How to Write a Mov
ing Picture Play;" Lindsay's "Art of
the Moving Picture;" Radinoff's "Pho
'toplay wrlght's Handy Textbook;"
Ross's "Scenario Writing," are a few
of many books on the subject to be
found In the circulation department of
tti-s public library.
Father O'Hara will speak In room A
of the Central library on Monday, No
vember 27, on "The City's Housing
Problem." This Is the eighth lecture
In the courno on problems of real es
tate development and management.
At the North Portland branch li
brary, 190 Kast Killingsworth avenue,
on Tuesday evening, November 28, lr.
1-oster will give an illustrated lecture
on "Literary Landmarks of Kngland."
"How and Why Boy fcScout Activities
Educate," will be the Bubject of the
nlntli lecture In tho course on. Boy
scouts and scouting, to be given in
room II of the Central library on Wed
nesday evening, November 29, by
Joseph K. Hart, assistant professor of
education, Reed college.
Mrs. Mable Holmes Parsons will
meet her class In the Short Story hour
in room H on Saturday evening, De
cember 2, at 7:45.
University of Oregon classes In
architecture, clay modeling, free hand
drawing, descriptive geometry and
(raphlc statics a.e meeting weekly in
he north gallery of the public library.
Harold Bindloss
Writes of Border
Jolnatone of th Border. By Harold Blndloni.
Frederick A. Stoke Company, New York.
l.a3 net.
Andrew Johnstone and his American-!'
comrade Whitney leave the Canadian
wilds to visit relatives In Scotland.
Events along the wild coast of the
Nprth sea offer an unexpected task of
daring. Mysterious lights and strange
comings and goings alonr the Solway
shore, ships sunk and submarines in
hiding give Andrew a task, to serve his
country. He knows the coast like his
hand and no storm is wild enough to
keep him from navigating the treach
erous Inlets and Islands in search of
the spies operating there.
The tale is told in Bindloss' usual
pleasing style.
Aided by Whitney's keen American
mind Andrew tracks the enemy with
unexpected and remarkable conse
quences. Tacoma Eliminates
. Its Branch Libraries
Tacotna, WaRh., Nov. 25. (L P.)
As the result of the cut made by the
city council in the 1917 library budget
the Tacoma library board hns solved
Its retrenchment problem by unani
mously voting to close both the feouth
Tacoma and McKlnley Hill branches
for one year beginning January 1.
The board decided to operate only
Hi main building at Twelfth street
nd Tacoma avenue, such scattered de
livery stations In the outlying dis
tricts as are willing to circulate books
i ineir own expense, ana tne one
downtown station.
onQO
Every Niqhf
For Constipation
Heddacnejhdicjestioiute.
I21G2ANE03ETH
tjil IP ILL.
B ." SafVaha Sine .
"THE GREEN ALLEYS" IS
PHILLP0TTS, NEW STORY
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Eden Phillpotts.
Tho Grsn Alleys. Bt Eden rhllipottn. Thv
ilni mllLan Lxmiimuy. New Yolk. (1.50 lie I.
Guess what the "Green Alleys" are
Wrong. They're the alleys between the vines
in a hop-field. Not an Oregon field,
to be sure, but a Kentish, English
field, where Eden Phillpotts lays tho
action of an Interesting, entertaining
novel of still more interesting and en
tertaining characters. The war enters
into it a bit, too.
The story has to do in the main
with two brothers, one of them born
out of wedlock, a man among men, the
other, showy, but not worth very
much. Both fell in love with the same
girl, whose father is partlculorly narrow-minded,
and so the story develops.
JACK LONDON
It would be a splendid thing If, as a
Run Francisco Spiritualist suggests.
Jack london comes back and tells of
what he sees on the other side. But
mnybe he won't come back if he can.
If. may be a land of enchantment too
it underfill to leave, a paradise even
for him whose Ideals of the hereafter
were at least not orthodox.
It has been said that Iondon be
lieved In no hereafter. Rather, it was
to him not an altogether uncharted
land. The fundamental Idea of one of
his latest novels, "The Star Kover." is
the supremacy of mind over matter.
He tells of what came of an attempt
on the part of his hero to free himself
from things mundane, of the wonderful
adventures of this "star rover," of
the strange people and the stranger
lands he saw.
Who can tell now of Jack London's
own peregrinations along the Milky
Way?
London was born in San Fran'clsco
in 1876. When he was 11 years old he
lift the ranch in the Livermore valley
where he had spent his early boyhood.
In Oakland the public library gave
him his first glimpse of the world of
alventure and romance.
This world appealed to him. He
left home he said himself that he did
not run away and Joined the oyster
pirates. Tiring of piracy, he lolned
the fish patrol, and was looked to for
the arrest of those who had been his
former companions. "Tales of the
I'tsh Patrol" are narratives of his ex
periences along; the California coast.
Wherever he -went he worked, and at
hard labor, as a longshoreman and a
shovelcr; from early until late each
U&y In a Jute mill. And always he
was storing away story material for
future use.
London found It hard to break Into
the literary game. A prine offered by
the San Francisco Call for the best
descriptive article opened the way to
h s first success. At the suggestion
of his mother he entered the contest.
offering an account of a typhoon off
the coast of Japan, and he won the
prise away from college students and
professional writers.
Then he walked from California to
Maine. Later In his efforts to secure
a university education he worked as a
Janitor and in a laundry.
All this time he was writing, too,
and his stories were being returned.
Came then the call of the north
the Klondike and after a year there,
when scurvy drove him home, "The
Call of the Wild." His fame followed.
The summer of 1902 Jack London
l'ved In the slums of Ixndon, Kng
land, gathering material for "The Peo
ple of the Abyss. There was the
cruise of the Snark; adventures In
Hawaii: home life and sudden death at
CJlen Ellen itx "The Valley of the
Moon."
Always, In his writings and his sym
pathles he was for the downtrodden.
Perhaps in the hereafter there is no un
oer dog, but if there is, Jack London Is
for him.
Second to Bible in Popularity.
The Louis Rhead illustrated edition
of "The Arabian Nights," which was
brought out a few weeks ago. Is the
latest addition to th book which, next
to the Bible, is the most popular In
the world. For more than two cen
turies now these oriental tales have
been known to European readers. They
were translated by a Frenchman. Gal
lond (1646-1715). from the Arabic. It
It not known when these tales, that in
their oral form go back Into the mists
of ths past, wers first put into print
ing. Tagore Is Dramatized.
Dispatches from Berlin have told re
cently of ths successful production
thers of Tagore'a "Chitra," This little
play, dealing with the feminist move
ment In India, has been produced in
this country, too, and has also been
Included in the Bolpur edition of Ta
gcre's works. Just Issued. . -
Mr. Wells Has War
For Theme Again
Kr. Britling BM It HUM, by IT. G.
Well. Tbe Maciutllan Company. New
York. $1.50 set.
Ur. Wells Is the logical conclusion
of those 'who have been loking to the
European conflict to produce a real
novel of the war or of the war's cur
rent effects and results. A close ob
server of the movements ,f society;
Imaginative and speculative, the theme
haj given him rnllmlted resources.
In his new novel, it Is , quite agreed
among readers, he has scored a bulls
eye. "Mr. Brltllng Sees It Through,"
however, is not really a war novel, as
that term is commonly and I arrowly
used, but It Is a war novel in the big,
broad sense.
"Mr. Brltllng Sees It Through" does
not describe conditions at the front.
does not present the horrors of blood
shed and carnage, does not tell of the
suffering of soldiers or of life in the
trenches, but, rather, seeks to show
the real significance of the war, to
make clear through a story of drama
tic Interest tbe changes wrought by
the war throughout civilization.
To sum It up, the story explains
what the war means spiritually. If
such a phrase may be used In this
connection, to those who are in the
midst of it.
The scene Is laid in Matching Easy,
an Essex county village, which is
meant to typify the old Kngland. Into
Its calm, unruffled surface comes the
news of the outbreak of hostilities.
Mr. Brltllng watches its effect; he fol
lows closely the later developments;
he sees the old give way to the new.
He is living during a great transition;
he is part of it and he Is clever
enough to discern that fact. The new
Matching Easy, differing socially and
economically from the old, typifies
again the new England, the new
Europe,
All of this philosophy, this world
observation, this sure thinking about
big and vital matters of the day, are
revealed In a story concerned with the
real affairs of real people young men
and young women and the romance of
their lives and kind humorous whole
some older folk with their amusing
and often significant philosophy.
It Would Be Fun to
Know What Dickens
Thought of Wallula
Because of a sandstorm, and
ifr probably for no other reason,
Charles Dickens. English novel-
iit 1st, was greeted by a fairly -at
good sized audience when he
lectured at Wallula. Or., in
1875. The incident is recalled
by Captain Charles E. Price.
It seems tlrat there was no
He particular interest in the lec-
ture in Wallula, but a number
1 of travelers on their way to -
Walla Walla couldn't get to
their destination- because tho
little engine on the old Baker
road couldn't buck the sand-
drifts off the eight-pound rails
as fast as the wind blew them
on.
To pass the enforced time at
Wallula they went to hear Dick-
ens, who appeared in the din-
ing room of the old Weston
hotel, which had been a store
of the Hudson Bay company.
Next day on the steamer
"New Tenlno" Dickens was &
id passenger, and Mr. Price re-
Ht members that the novelist said He
He some remarkable descriptive in
He things about the climate and
He prospects of Wallula remarks
He not printable perhaps, but Hi
He nevertheless expressive.
Plenty, to Be Sure.
The New York Times published the
other day an account of an interview
with His Excellency John Bonzano,
titular archbishop of Mitilene and
opostollc delegate to the United States.
Tho interviewer finally asked the
arostollc delegate to tell sometlng of
his opinion of modern American liter
ature as he had observed it during his
iUay of four years in this country. The
learned father looUed carefully down
Madison avenue for a moment and
tlien gave his verdict:
"Of tnodern American literature, I
would say that 1 am convinced that it
is plentiful."
It might well be added that one
trouble with our present-day writing
is that very few of those busied there
it: can express themselves with the
clearness, restraint and force of that
sentence! Collier's Weekly.
Ttirouali
BE THANKFLTj
For the sunshine that goes with the
shadow.
And the rainbow that follows the rain.
For daylight that comes after dark
ness. And for kindness that ease3 the pain.
For the memories of young days of
gladness.
And hopes for the long future's years.
For life than can be as we make it.
And for kisses that dry bitter tears.
BE THANKFUL.
This Vindicates the "Keg of Nails."
Seattle, Wash. Officers searching
for smuggled liquor drove axes into
the heads of 18 kegs labeled "spikes."
and found each keg to contain a
smaller keg of whiskev.
Bums and bombs are at times near
ly synonymous.
Truth, Justice and Gallantry.
A San Francisco Judge held that it
is extreme cruelty for a man to try to
write .a novel when he could be work
ing as a lather for $6 a day, and he
granted a divorce to Katherine Hem
eon from Frank R. Hemeon.
Hemeon did not appear to tell his
side of the story. "Mrs. Hemeon has
had three husbands before me," he
said, "and It would have been ungal
lant of me to have appeared In court,
and thereby to have deprived Mrs.
Hemeon of her favorite pastime.'
It's a hard game to get above the
Law if her name is Ruth.
The Passing Show.
Old expressman.
Officer .
Frank McOettigan.
Ths man with ths broom,
Hugh Hume. s
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List of B
ooks
Children listening to stories told hj Miss Beatrice Doty in the story-honr room of the J. K. Gill book store. The children are display,
ing a notable interest in the sessions and they are quick to respond to the stimulation of the imagination. Tbe undertaking is a
new one at the book store and the story-honr room is proving to be popular with the adult patrons of the store.
fifattritrrr-wm&iS : SmaftS-- 1 4BVitertia n nm iiii.aiMSaajia
In the pleasant story-hour room of
Gill's bookstore the possibility of de
veloping book-selling into an art is
being experimented upon the moving
idea being that the public will read the
best in literature if the best is pre
sented to them.
To declare that the maligned public's
taste and intellect Is in the right place
and that It will Joyfully accept "good"
literature and art and music if given
access to them is a laudable statement
and one which is always likely to
elicit approval; but commercial ven
tures based upon this optimistic faith
have not invariably proved profitable.
A bookseller may Tilgh-mlndedly re
solve to sell only books that are well
and sincerely written, but when his
customers come seeking Alger or
Henty or Elinor Glyn, and not know
ing Kipling or the "Arabian Nights"
or Riley's poems, refuse to recognize
them as substitutes then hlghmind
edness becomes somewhat too costly.
Kanaffers 8ek Solution.
This was tho difficulty met long
ago by managers of the company In
their effort to carry only books which
at least approached worthiness of the
name of literature a difficulty which
they struggled with until one of them.
John T. Hotehkiss, perceived that this
store of solid reputation could count
the future as well as the present its
own, and that so it would be worth
while now to put good books before
the reading children, who In 20 years
will be the buying parents of Port
land. Accordingly, with the cooperation
of Miss Jessie Millard, who has charge
of the children's department of the
city library, and the Pure Literature
committee of the Portland Parent
Teacher council, the present story
hour room was last year furnished
with all the best in children's books
that the store could command. Story
hours for children were arranged, and
Miss Beatrice Doty, who has had uni
versity training in work with children
was put In charge of the department
Ban On Boms Books.
Censorship in the sanctimonious
sense has not been practiced In the
stocking of this room. It Is only
vapid, ill-written. Insincere books that
have been banned.
Ten or twenty years ago well-regulated
children grew up on "Robinson
Crusoe," the "Arabian Nights, Swiss
Family Robinson," "Little Women,"
and "Alice iu Wonderland," all of them
Ttie
ETC a TL&EL-
SHOP JOURNAL.
Appreciation Is extended Mr. Jack
Seed, artist, for the well executed
heading above, and for the cunning
tailpiece below, even though it is only a
blind.
Mr. Billie Burke realizes hs can
never be mistaken for the actress of
the same name.
Mr. the Count, Wallin, on Wednes
day held an Informal musicale near
The Window.
Ding, Dong.
Mr. Freddio Bell, erstwhile night ed
itor, has been transferred to San Fran
cisco.
Four paydays before Christmas.
Hey! Mr. Titus, took.
Cottage Grove. Or. C. J. Hopper re
porta a crop of unusually large pota
toes on his farm on Mosby creek.
The Golden State did for President
Wilson what the Golden Special failed
to ao ror Mr. Hughes.
Life's Mysteries.
Alf Cridge.
V-I-R-I-A.
The "drys" have chased the "gin"
out or Virginia.
Things We'd' like to See.
Jess Willard learning to tat.
Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
All the fans know who you are,
Jerk and shiver little queen,
Flicker on the movie screen.
Bon sot.
Si
H our Room Book Selling Trial Being Made
sttacKX Kt
vjives tne j-iittie
Experts Have Been Placed in Charge of the Room and
the Experiments in the Bookselling Art Are Being
Keenly Watched by the Proprietors.
sparingly illustrated. If st all. Less
carefully-watched girls might follow
the attractively rich and weeping
Elsie Dinsmore and her multludinous
descendants from childhood to age,
while their brothers had only the often
ungrammatical adventures of noble
Henty heroes.
Now, however, from a glance at tbe
books gathered in this story-room it is
apparent that the range of a child's
reading may be as wide as his father's
or mother's. Fiction, poetry, biogra
phy, history, Bible stories, collections
of myths, books on music, art. nature
and handicraft, and books for the
story-teller lie on these low. friendly
shelves.
Old Books There, Too.
All the old books are there, too, but
illustrated with uniruafined splendor.
Maxfield Parrish and Rene Bull have
taken the Arabian Nights and made
its pages thrill with swarthy pirates
saiMng dark-blue seas in ships with
yellow sails. Slnbad sees pop-eyed
"fishes of 100 and 200 cubits long."
Cassim in All Baba's treasure-cave
racks his brain for the countersign
Story of Hunchback
Has Christmas Flavor
The Iattls Hunch Wk Zia. By Trtncm Hodg
son Burnett. Frederics A. biok compnj.
New Vork. 75 cent net.
Though not published as a holiday
offering Mrs. Burnett's heart-holding
little story is of timely mention on the
eve of the holidays. The tale of Zia
has to do with the birth el Christ, and
the healing of the hunchback by the
laying- on the baby Savior's hands. The
story in the reading creates an at
mosphere of peace and good will, and
is well worth an hour of a busy man's
time.
NEW BOOKS IN LIBRARY
Among the books recently added to
the Portland public library are the
following:
oeaaraz w ores.
Rovd Public Libraries and Liter-
arv Culture in Ancient Rome. 1915.
Springfield, Mass. City Library, lie-
cent Poetry. 1916.
Biography.
Calvin John Calvin: His Life. Let
ters and Work; by II. Y. Reyburn.
1914.
Fyvie Some Literary Eccentrics.
1906.
Morton David Morton, a Biog
raphy: by E. E, Hoss. 1916.
Books la Torsi in X.angrnage.
Amlcis Camilla; Pn Incontro: La
Casa Paterna: IAnello dl Diamanti.
Frevtag Grar waiaemar; benaus
plel in Funf Acten.
Holzhauer. Comn. Pie Flotte.
Pere daldos Alta Tettauen.
Rutland Auf Neuen Wegen; Ro
man.
l.'ethal-Jaeckel Die Tochter des
.Talma
Valera and Alcala Gallano El Pa-
Jaro Verde.
SMorlDtion and Travel.
Fell Russian and Nomad; Tales of
the Kirshlz Stenpes. 1916.
Ryan Mv Years at the Austrian
Court. 1916.
vifitlAa.
Bates Geranium Lady.
Benson David Blaise.
Bonner Black Eagle Mystery.
Brebner Master Detective.
Brunkhurt Window in the Fence,
Runner stories: first aeries
Cabell Rivet in Grandfather's
Neck.
Parrish Carfrae's Comedy.
Townsend Hugh Graham; a Tale of
the Pioneers.
Whitman Children of Hope; a
novel.
Tin Arts.
Arensky "Pres de la Mer," six es
qulsses; op. 52.
Auer Camp Fires in the Yukon,
Beethoven Symphonlen; Klavierau
szug von Frans Liszt. V. 1. No. 1-6.
Chalkovoki Chant Sans Paroles, in
F; OP. 2. No. 3.
Dvorak In den Spinnstuben; Char
aKterstuck fur pianoforte; Op. 68;
No. 1.
Goldenwelser "Schau's Ibnen Ab;"
-Wenn Mir Liebe Gefshlt."
Haxlltt View of ths English Stage.
1906.
Hslisr- Ba m m 1 u n c Auserlesensr
vnes a v ery
"Ppen Sesa-ie;" genie of monstrous
bulk and frightful aspect" arlss to
confound Aladdin (who, by the way, is
here disclosed to be a Chinaman);
one brave artist has cast aside tradi
tion and has illustrated several un
slmplified plays of Shakespeare.
WiVi the aid of the pictured "urchins,
ouphes and fairies, green and white."
encircling the hapless Falstaff in the
greenwood, almost any child might be
led to read the "Merry Wives of Wind
sor" without feeling too greatly in
jured. XastructlTS Literature la Demand.
It is a distressing fact that from
most of the men and women who
enter the small withdrawing room of
beautiful and well-bound books. Miss
Doty is met with requests for "in
structive" literature. Kuch upright
parents should be led to "Robin Hood,"
to an illustrated edition of Palgrav's
"golden Treasury," or to Kenneth
Grahame's newly-edited "Cambridge
Book of Poetry for Children," and
there learn that imagination as well
as information has a place in a child's
sun at least.
Who Is He? This
Mysterious Z. Gray
Another literary bubble has burst on
Coos Bay. says the Marshfleld Record.
A story was printed recently about
Zane Gray, the author, being here and
sneaking away without letting himself
be known.
The story had many surmises con
nected with it. and it was thought
Mr. Gray" was here accumulating
local color for a novel. However. It
turns out that Z. Gray, who was reg
istered at the Chandler and occupied
room 218, was not Mr. Gray at all. but
a man, who for some reason, desired to
keep his real identity unknown. He
was formerly a resident of Travers
City, Mich., and while here encount
ered an old school mate of 15 to 18
years ago, who identified him.
The apparent Zane Gray asked the
old time school mate to not mention
his real name and so he kept on get
ting "local color." The Marshfleld man
who knew him was not Inclined to tell
much about the visitor, and is won
dering now whether he will return
here.
Werke fur das pianoforte. 2 v.
Henselt bammiung auserlesener
werke fur das pianoforte.
Juon Scherzo: Op. 1R No. 9.
Kellogg Teachers cottages. 1916.
Lynes Scenes from Alice In Won
derland; for the pianoforte; Op. f.0.
MacDowell Six Selected songs.
Meister des Liedes; 20 Ausgen
wahlle Lleder.
Ranske Voice and Nervs Control.
1915.
Schell. Ed. Hiawatha Entertain
ments. cl907.
Schumann Gesange der Fruhe; Op
13.
Shea Acting in Opera. cl9H5.
Weber Der Freischutx; Romantls-
che Oner In Drel Aufzugen.
Wright. Ed. Low Cost Suburban
Homes. U16.
History,
Brandt Anglo-S axon Supremacy
C1915.
Germany In the Nineteenth Century.
:v. 191Z-J5.
Tout Plaee of the Reign of Edward
II. in English History. 1914.
XAtsratnrs.
Bangs From Pillar to Post; Leaves
rrom a Lecturers woteoooK. laic.
Bascom Philosophy of Englisn Lit
erature. 1909. ,
Brooke Llthunia; a drama In on
act. 1915.
Carroll Heroes All; war and other
verses. 1915.
Drinkwater Poems of Lovs and
Earth. 1913.
Kollet Joseph Conrad. cl915.
Howe Criticism. 1914.
Maeterlinck Interior; a play. 1908.
Mordell Shifting of Literary Val
ues. 1912.
Palmer Marriage Cycle. 1915
Payne Quarter Century of English
Literature. 1880-1905. 1908.
Vlrglllus Maro Virgil, with an
English translation by II. R. Fair
clough. 1916.
msUcloa.
Kllbourne Great Commission. 1912.
Selene.
Hasluck, Ed. telescope Making.
1906. , . .
w iae inoice
The charm of the room itself gives
an added grace to the books it holds
Ceiling and shelves and tables and
chairs are low; there are flowered
hangings and a wide window seat.
LUtle Jessie Wilcox Smith girls smile
from the walls, and from a central
place James Whitcomb Riley looks gen
tly down. The room Is open to all
organizations that care to meet here,
and already the Sunday School Work
ers' Union and several parent-teacher
organizations and circles of the Port
land Psychology club have made it
their headquarters. Saturday after
noons at 2:30 and 3:30 Miss Doty
holds story-hourn for all children who
care to come. These are the story
subjects planned until Christina:
November 25, "The First Thanksglv
ing," incidents of the voyage of the
Mayflower. an American Indian
story; December 2, "The Jsckal and
the Alligator," a Hindu folk tale;
December 9, "Balder and the Mistle
toe," a Norse myth; December HJ,
Christmas 1-oik Tales ! rom Other
Lands."
IN THE NEW MAGAZINES
Scribner for December.
The Christmas December Scriber
contains nine short stories, among them
a beautiful little story of old age.
'Grandfather," by the. late James
Whitcomb Riley. The colored coviT
with its symbolical tree brilliant with
lights is a cheerful reminder of the
setson, and the number is profusely
illustrated.
It opens with Henry van Dyke s stir
ring poem, "War Music, ' an additional
strophe to his widely read and quoted
ode called "Music." The last stanza
in the measure of "The Star-Spangiea
Banner" voices the day of freedom for
all "the lands of the brave."
Rldgely Torrence s "Kye witness" is
a poem or nign spiriuai quauiy, m
expression of the very note and signif
icance of the Christmas season.
There ar. eight pages or pictures by
W. T. Benda. illustrating The Dance
of various nations, with descriptive
text by the artist. They are charming
In their decorative arrangement and in
the suggestion of the rhythmic mo
tion of the figures.
The eight other short stories of the
number Include Ellen Glasgow's "Ths
Shadowy Third," a story of mystery,
of the borderland between the real and
the unreal, the world of fact and the
world of the Imagination, of strange
psychological experiences.
There are many other articles, rea-
tures and pictures.
Century for December.
One of the leading features of the
December Century Is "The Future of
Poland," by Herbert Adams Olbbons.
author of "The New Map of Europe."
etc., the first of a series of articles
Dr. Gibbons is to contribute to the
Century during 1917 on the outstand
ing problems of reconstruction that
confront Europe as the war draws to
a close. Dr. Gibbons explains In the
present paper why he believes that one
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ers; "Hyphen-Bearers," by Newell
Martin; "Finance and Banking," by A,
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