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'N this "Fathers and Sons Week" I pledge myself to you, my son, that I shall not forget you in my devotion to business, that I shall interest myself more than before in the things that interest you, that I shall be in truth your best chum; that, as such, I shall seek in every way to bring joy into your life and shield you from false friends who bring but sorrow; that in their place I shall strive to bring you new friends, true friends; that I shall, in particular, and right NOW, bring into our home a friend that will bring you, on each visit, the entertainment you are entitled to, the information you should have and the inspiration you need-this dependable, clean friend of half a million other boys, The American Boy magazine. I want you to grow up knowing what these other boys know in this world's reconstruction period-these other boys who are finding out in this magazine, in their spare time as boys, things of importance which they never will have time to find out when they become men and are rushed with their work, as Dad is now.

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THE NEW BOOKS

This department will include descriptive notes, with or without brief comments, about books received by The Outlook. Many of the important books will have more extended and critical treatment later FICTION

Buck. By Charles D. Stewart. Illustrated. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $1.60. Mr. Stewart will be remembered as the author of "The Fugitive Blacksmith," a story which won the praise of discriminating readers of fiction some years ago by its firmness and originality. Here he tells of a go-ahead cheerful Western chap who takes hold of things with vim, has adventures which are amazing as well as amusing, and in the end makes himself felt as a member of the community.

Common Cause. By Samuel Hopkins Adams. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $1.60.

In this story Mr. Adams returns to a subject which he has already treated cleverly in another novel-that is, the struggle of an honest, conscientious young newspaper man against the insidious influence of men and parties who try to use his newspaper for partisan or corrupt purposes and against the pressure of advertisers who are accustomed to demand "reading notices" or to influence editorial opinion by their purchase of space, and, finally, in this case, against subtle and dangerous German propaganda. Mr. Adams is a trained newspaper man, "knows the game," as the phrase goes, and has himself fought against injurious newspaper practices. Apart from this element, "Common Cause" is a lively and interesting novel, and includes a charmiing love story.

David and Jonathan. By E. Temple Thur

ston G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. $1.50. Mr. Thurston shows his fineness of touch by treating an old fiction theme in a new manner. Stories of men and women shipwrecked together on desert islands have been common enough from Charles Reade's "Foul Play" to this time. But here the real interest is not so much in the adventures that befell the two men, both gentlemen of culture and feeling, and the attractive young woman here thrown together; the interest is rather in the psychology of the jealousy which inevitably arose between the men, and of the way in which it was checked and fought by their sense of right and the influence of their true friendship for one another. In every way the book is an admirable piece of work.

Man Nobody Knew (The). By Holworthy Hall. Illustrated. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. $1.50.

A pleasant and readable but not excessively important novel, which is correctly described 66 as not a war story, but an afterthe-war story." The hero enlists in the Foreign Legion, is wounded, returns home, but conceals his identity and spreads the rumor that he is dead. His new life furnishes complications which Mr. Hall knows how to employ cleverly for the entertainment of the reader.

Tin Cowrie Dass. By Henry Milner Rideout. Duffield & Co., New York. $1.25.

A tale of India which seizes the reader's attention on the first page and holds it to the very end. Not since Kipling's earlier tales of India has a short story in this field shown stronger workmanship. Its incidents are exciting and the manner of their narration is tense and fascinating.

Web (The). By Frederic Arnold Kummer. The
Century Company, New York. $1.50.
A capital plot story based, it is said, on
actual work carried out by the Secret Ser-

The New Books (Continued)

vice authorities of Great Britain. We do not understand this to mean that the thrilling incidents described actually took place, but that legitimate fictitious use has been

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German fleet off the coast of South America.

ESSAYS AND CRITICISM

Abraham Lincoln as a Man of Letters. By Luther Emerson Robinson, A.M. The Reilly & Britton Company, Chicago. $1.50.

Articles have been written (one appeared in this journal some years ago) on Lincoln as a writer and master of English. So far as we know, this is the first book to study Lincoln in the capacity of a man of letters. The study is interesting and the analysis closely reasoned and convincing.

Self and Self-Management. By Arnold Bennett. The George H. Doran Company, New York. $1.

Mr. Bennett's book production is something astonishing. Almost at the same moment we have an enormous novel from his pen, "The Roll-Call," and this little book, which is a collection of social treatises that Mr. Bennett in a sub-title calls "Essays About Existing." The talks are acute and original both in substance and expression.

WAR BOOKS

British Navy in Battle (The). By Arthur H. Pollen. Illustrated. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City. $2.50.

Mr. Pollen has long been recognized as perhaps England's best expert writer of naval affairs. In this book he tells of the marvelous skill and foresight with which Great Britain's naval force was used to sweep Germany from the sea and to hold her navy penned up where it did her no good.

Great Peace (The). By H. H. Powers. The
Macmillan Company, New York. $2.25.
Mr. Powers's previous volumes, "Amer-

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The Selection of a Banker (Continued) veloped at the expense of the advisory; but it is not sufficient for us that we want a good bond, or a safe bond, and one which we can sell again.

Is this question of security and marketability in its entirety one that we should expect our banker to determine? He plays an important part, to be sure, but we must do our share. It is for us to realize what kind of safety we most require. Are we buying with the expectation of a profit and to be able to sell again, or do we expect only that at maturity the principal will be paid, or are we seeking an investment that, if circumstances compel, we may sell at a small loss, if any?

These and other matters are for the investor himself to determine. What type of security should he choose-Government bonds, municipals, preferred stocks? A man who is paying the super-income tax selects a different type of investment from the man of small means. The successful man of middle age can properly take a business man's risk, which should be out of the question for the man with a small salary and a dependent family or for an aged widow who must live upon the income from her investments.

After a prospective investor has properly

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analyzed his own particular investment needs, then, and only then, should he seek the advice of his banker. All of this has a direct bearing upon the type of banker one should select. Perhaps one banking house deals in only one type of security-real estate mortgages, preferred stocks, or public utilities. Possibly we may find that the offerings made by a curb house, or a specialist in Standard Oils or independent oils, appeal to us. Which type of investment should we seek? Having selected the type, we may proceed to the banker, keeping in mind the fact that the market for securities will exist to-morrow as well as to-day. If the one selection we have in mind is so unusually attractive that to-morrow we may find not one more bond, not another share available, or that it has advanced in price beyond our reach, we shall have other opportunities probably equally meritorious in which to invest our funds. Many investors give little heed to this most vital question.

A New England manufacturer who was accustomed, with thrifty intent, to purchase for his children one share of New Haven stock from time to time gave this advice to his son when the latter started on his business career: "Remember, my son, two things-first, that the stock market will be open every business day at ten o'clock, and, secondly, that Erie Railroad common will never pay a dividend."

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