whose bag, on overturning, proves to be full of false whiskers. These false whiskers of conspiracy do not actually figure in the story after spilling out upon the floor of the car, but around their existence hangs a tale of mystery, moonshine, and merriment. By a coincidence growing out of his name, Adam is drawn into a conspiratorial house party, of which the girls are also members, at Runner Hall. Here everything's either at sixes or at sevens most of the time. Fantastic plots thicken and love finds more than one way. "Adam in Moonshine" is the frothiest kind of reading; the froth of a gay humor, shot with beauty. Adam's adventures will revive the old hopes, dormant in the breast of every traveler, that something similar will happen to him. THE EMPRESS MIGHT-HAVE-BEEN. By Octave Aubrey. Translated from the French by H. G. Dwight. Harper & Brothers, New York. $2.50. The possibilities for historical romance in the life of Napoleon are limitless, and M. Aubrey has made the most of them. How close the beautiful Countess Marie Valevska came to being Empress of the French is a fascinating story. If he occasionally strains over a historical gnat and sometimes swallows whole camels, history's loss is romance's gain. A translator's note explains intentional misspelling of the Countess's name. Marie Valevska was swept from a secluded life with her elderly husband into the seething center of the French Court on the wave of Napoleon's passion for her and his promised favor to her country. The wave departed in a few happy ripples, while Marie Valevska lived in the Rue du Houssaye on her lover's left hand. The young Polish girl was too fine to survive in the hotbed of Court intrigue. She was caught in the vicious undertow of political machinations. The pitiful spectacle of Josephine de Beauharnais going down to divorce is less tragic than the fate of this gentle girl whose honor was indeed curiously rooted in dishonor. Events proved that of all the women who played for Napoleon's favor, Marie Valevska alone loved the man of many maps disinterestedly. Their short love life was idyllic, and the author has drawn an endearing Napoleon deeply in love, beset by a carping Josephine and greedy courtiers. Paradoxically, it was the sinister Fouché, Minister of Police, the first to befriend Marie Valevska in Paris, who finally turned his coat and legislated against her. She retired to Poland, where her baby was born, while Napoleon was married in splendor to Marie Louise, Archduchess of Austria. THE STRONGER GOD. By Eric Waring. Brentano's, New York. $2. Galloping horses, flashing steel, love and battle, and a marvelous young Austrian baroness who successfully masquerades for ten years in her brother's place as a lieutenant in a Uhlan regiment; until, indeed, on the last page she is ready to throw over Mars and Bellona and surrender to the strongest god, who is, of course, Cupid. The wildest of wild romance. Morrow. $2.50. FOREVER FREE: A NOVEL OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN. By Honoré Willsie William Morrow & Co., New York. Lincoln novels have usually kept the great man discreetly in the background. Here he has the chief acting and speaking part. Mrs. Morrow has made an earnest attempt to show the whole man as he really was, and her daring is justified. At least, whether this is "the real Lincoln" or not, it is a man, and not an effigy. The story-teller has taken special pains to make us see him in his family life, and especially at the husband of Mary Lincoln, who becomes a far more engaging figure in Let us show you how, at a cost surprisingly low, you can visit all or as many of these wonderlands as you choose. Union Pacific travel experts have visited all of these regions and will be glad to assist you in planning all details of your Western vacation and show you how to get the most for your travel dollar. Remember-Union Pacific serves the West more completely than any other route. Fill in and mail coupon today and we will quickly and cheerfully this picture than she has been in the accepted legend. STORE OF LADIES. By Louis Golding. Alfred A. Knopf, New York. $2.50. A pugilist is the hero of the extremely modern "Store of Ladies." His code is anything but rigid, and as for the ladies who beset and besiege and bedevil him generally, their conduct, that of his muchtried Emma alone excepted, is of the va riety which used to be dismissed with a meaningful "the less said the better." Mr. Golding's distasteful cleverness does, not carry conviction that "the more said the better" is an improvement. PHILOPENA. By Henry Kitchell Webster. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indanapolis. $2. This tale, serially published under the title "Masquerade," is an ingenious yarn about twin sisters who change places so successfully as to deceive the husband of the married one. THE SILVER CORD. By George Agnew Chamberlain. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. A mystery yarn built on the physical rebirth of a deformed fugitive from the law and his return to the scene of his alleged crime, where, unrecognized and under a new name, he succeeds in disproving the charge and rewinning the maiden of his heart. A fairly good product of mechanical romance, no more. THE LINGERING FAUN. tin. York. By Mabel Wood MarThe Frederick A. Stokes Company, New $2. An uncommonly well written and imaginative tale of Paris at the time of the Peace Conference. The heroine, or principal woman, is a beautiful American, wife of an exiled and impoverished Russian prince. The chief male figure is an envoy from the Near East, a magnificent personage, supposed to be Arab or Turk, but really a nameless son of Russia or Poland. AURELIUS SMITH-DETECTIVE. By R. T. M. Scott. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $2. Aurelius Smith is a most admirable detective a fast worker, clever, resourceful, sure, with that real distinction of personality that a story-book sleuth should, but so seldom does, have. In "Secret Service Smith" we have enjoyed Mr. Smith's reassuring company through the world of crime before, but never more delightedly than as R. T. M. Scott has reintroduced him here. The flood of detective stories makes it all the clearer that to write one of them with real power is not the easiest task, but from "When Thieves Follow" to "Kicking a Giraffe on the Nose" the adventures in the present volume spread a fascinating, altogether satisfactory trail for the reader. Congratulations to him on the pleasure ahead, and to the able author for his skill. UNQUENCHABLE FIRE. By Joan Sutherland. Harper & Brothers, New York. $2. Neither psychological subtlety nor distinction of style mark Joan Sutherland's treatment of a theme inevitably recalling Edith Wharton's once hotly discussed novel "The Fruit of the Tree." But we do not think "The Fruit of the Tree" ever grew and flourished on the movie screen, and that is where we feel pretty sure that "Unquenchable Fire" will in due time blaze and be blazoned. It has a perfect movie title to begin with, and the author's curious oversight in providing three interesting sisters and marrying off only one of them could be easily set right. The self-sacrificing Robert might console himself with Sally by hastening her growing up a trifle, and Doris could be handed over to Wolfgang with capital opportunities for introducing a comedy courtship. Travel AMONG THE DANES. By Edgar Wallace Knight, Professor of Education, University of North Carolina. The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N. C. $2. Professor Knight writes sketchily, as became a series of newspaper articles now welded into a book, of the interesting peninsula that helps form the Skagerack. He gives glimpses of education and economics that might well merit elaborate treatment from his capable pen. Surely the manner in which thin soil and chilly climate have been compelled to produce the richest farming country in the world is worthy of being told to our own wastrels, who fail to get on under much more favorable conditions. In Denmark the farmer is on top, thanks to education and co-operation. He lives in comfort and his pockets are full, even if his cattle have to be stallfed nearly three-fourths of the year. Life is agreeable, and Professor Knight found no melancholy Danes. Certainly, Denmark has solved the most difficult of all problems-that of procuring prosperity from the land. The University of North Carolina has done much in publishing this book. It will do more by sending Professor Knight back to write a comprehensive study. IN BORNEO JUNGLES: AMONG THE DYAK HEAD-HUNTERS. By William O. Krohn. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. $5. The author, an overworked psycopathic physician, took his trip to Borneo as a rest cure and returned refreshed and full of enthusiasms for the world's third largest island, if we do not consider Australia a continent. Incidentally, he collected for the Field Museum of Chicago. The book is cheery and interesting, without notable adventures or striking incidents. His most important discovery was that there are no bald-headed Dyaks. MALLORCA THE MAGNIFICENT. By Nina Larrey Duryea. The Century Company, New York. $3. The sun The virtues claimed for this largest of the Balearic Islands by Mrs. Duryea are of such a high order as to class it among the Islands of the Blessed. "A benign plenty pervades all conditions of life. gives heat; the kindly earth and sea provide food bounteously; beauty is a common heritage." Among Mallorcans, honesty is a paramount quality. Small lies, sharp shifts in dealings, haggling, and wrong change are unheard of. The quaint notice posted in Palma trams might well be copied in our own: "Code No. 9. It is forbidden to say or do anything whatever which is contrary to good manners, morality, or the comfort of others." Mallorca (sometimes known as Majorca) bears the imprint of many civilizations. In the thirteenth century it was to Moorish Spain what Pompeii and Sicily were to Rome, a place of ease and delight, luxury and refined pleasures. Reminders of those days are still on every side. The author devotes a chapter to "The Palaces of Palma," describing with an eye for color interiors of palaces that would thrill the heart of a decorator or an antiquary. The Cathedral of Palma; the caves of Artá, on the eastern coast of Mallorca, where sixteen hundred Moors sought to escape from King Jaime I; the monastery of Lluch, perched on a mountain peak, where Doré drew his landscapes for his illustrations in Dante's "Purgatory," are landmarks of a glorious past. The book describes the picturesque island in its ancient and modern aspects and relates its splendid history. A chapter on "Housekeeping" details the ridiculously low prices of food, drink, and shelter for the visitor to Mallorca. Finance AN ADVENTURE IN CONSTRUCTIVE FINANCE. By Carter Glass. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, N. Y. $3. Secretary Glass amplifies his side of the controversy, roused by Colonel E. M. House's reminiscences, over the paternity of the Federal Reserve Banking System in this volume, which therefore makes an interesting addition to the literature of the Tours Camps Fishing, etc. Hotels Industries Farms Write name and address in margin NEW ENGLAND Homestead of the Nation Seattle Metropolis of The Pacific Northwest Woodrow Wilson era. The material has Biography THE HARVEST OF YEARS. By Luther Burbank with Wilbur Hale. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $4. The book reveals a philosopher-an un- THE GENTLEMAN FROM THE 22d. An Auto- This is the story of a Jewish immigrant THE FOREIGN A ROYAL ADVENTURE IN Artemus Ward in bidding farewell to a gentleman who was about to soar, "The soarer you get the better we will all like it." General Winfield Scott, "Old Fuss and Feathers," fits into the bird picture, but really it is asking too much to think of Mr. Hayes as a high flier. For those who like three cheers and a tiger whenever a familiar name is mentioned the volume will meet with favor. It is uncritical and exuberant. Essays THE OUTLINE OF SANITY. By Gilbert K. Chesterton. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. $2.50. A series of essays on social conditions in England. Mr. Chesterton considers the state of the nation, and finds it critical. The concentration of the population in city slums, with consequent depopulation of the countryside, he holds calls for drastic action and, like Bolton Hall in this country twenty years ago, he calls for a return to the land. Specifically, he would create a modern type of that bold peasantry whose decay Goldsmith mourned in the eighteenth century. To his own satisfaction he demonstrates that this newold rural class would preserve its cot and plot of ground as tenaciously as the French peasantry, deaf to the blandishments of land-greedy rich men and speculators. Another aim is to encourage the small merchant, who is being squeezed out of business by Mr. Woolworth and Mr. Selfridge. One method advocated is the boycotting of the big stores. He urges the breaking up of monopolies and trusts as well as concentrated capital. The sentiment of property is the bulwark against Bolshevismthe more property-owners, the fewer Communists. His ideas are too well bolstered by working examples to be regarded as utterly impractical, but it puts a strain on the imagination to think of England reverting to an agricultural state after a century and a half of industrialism. Nature PHEASANT JUNGLES. By William Beebe. G. P. Never let it be said that William Beebe has a distinguished style, that he is a master of prose, a Pater of the Partridges,' or anything like that; for he might come to believe it, and give up exploring and take to writing essays. Such things have happened. Let us grudgingly admit, therefore, that he has a certain facility of expression, and get on with the subject, which concerns two expeditions in 1910 and again in 1918 to Ceylon, Burma, and the Himalayas, to Sarawak and Borneo, to study pheasants, peacock, and jungle-fowl at the places where these birds originated. All this has been written, and very well written in "A Monograph of the Pheasants," four great brown folios, beautifully and elaborately illustrated, that cost a trifle less than, a baby grand piano, but are worth more to an ornithologist. For the benefit of those with narrower purse-strings, or who care less about tail-feather variations among sixteen sub-species of Impeyan, a part of all that has been condensed, rewritten, and is here laid before you. There is not very much about pheasants, but a great deal of Mr. Beebe's experiences while looking for them, hail-storms, head-hunters, singing tortoises, dancers, and devil men. It is a book that is hard to put aside. But it is not always a pleasant book. Mr. Beebe's method is to go to a likely spot in the jungle, and to sit there. To sit perfectly motionless for an hour, or two hours, while flies buzz around him, and mosquitoes sting him, slugs creep over him, and ants and various rarer parasites bite him. And, apart from these, the jungle pays no attention to him. Life goes on as though no human were within miles, May 25, 1927 and Mr. Beebe records it with remarkable fidelity, so faithfully that the reader cannot miss the cruelty and the fear that binds all nature in its waking moments. Even the human beings, the natives, cannot escape it. Day and night, always there is the fear of death, and it carves itself in their faces. Tender-hearted people should take their nature from the poets; the scientists make it rather sickening sometimes. They have also been known to make it exceedingly dull. Here is one who never does. "Pheasant Jungles" is a very good book. History A HISTORY OF THE PHARAOHS. Vol. II. From the Accession of Amenemhet I, of the Twelfth Dynasty, to the Death of Thutmosa III, of the Eighteenth Dynasty, 2111 to 1441 B.C. By Arthur Weigall. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $6. Late inspector of Egyptian antiquities, Mr. Weigall is an authority on the subject concerning which he writes with minute exactness. It is interesting to find "God's country" written in the hieroglyphics, and used in the grateful modern sense of those who have come home from foreign parts. Students will find the volume valuable and the ordinary reader will learn from it much that is worth knowing. VICTOR EMMANUEL II AND THE UNION OF ITALY. By C. S. Forester. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. $4. Not a great book; but admirable, lucid, well-written, and interesting. On the whole, the interpretations as to motives, causes, events, and results are just; the writer's very high estimation of the abilities and character of the first King of Italy (the Sardinian title is misleading) cannot be gainsaid. The several contributions of Cavour, Garibaldi, and Mazzini toward the unification of Italy are fairly presented in proper subordination to that of the great Savoyard. Enough detail is given to furnish out a background substantially helpful toward an understanding of Fascismo. Poetry JUST FROM GEORGIA. Poems by Frank L. Stanton, Edited by his Daughter, Mercelle Stanton Megahee. The Byrd Publishing Company, Atlanta, Ga. Poignant with pathos are these lines, never before published in book form. Mr. Stanton was deservedly one of our most popular versifiers. His daughter has performed both a labor of love and a literary service in editing these poems of deep feeling and heart appeal. Science THE ROMANCE OF THE ATOM. By Benjamin Harrow. Boni & Liveright, New York. $1.50. Hunting the atom in its lair is the most exciting of scientific sports. This book is a colloquial account of some of the keenest hunters, with light on their discoveries. The atom has been well located, but is yet too illusive to be effectively caged. When it is, all super-power will be in the hands of man. Mr. Harrow does not reveal as much romance as his title calls for, but he tells interesting things about men of science and what they have accomplished or are striving for. THE ANT PEOPLE. By Dr. Hans Heinz Ewers. Translated by Clifton Harby Levy. Dodd, Mead & Co., New York. $3. Dr. Ewers has provided in this volume a work of marvelously minute observation among the most interesting of all insect tribes. There is nothing casual about the book. We get the detailed story of ant life in each of its phases, told without pedantry and unburdened with scientific terms. Community co-operation, industry, social organization, and government are all portrayed with fascinating detail. Even the soul of the ant is analyzed and its mental processes are made clear. Readable and remarkable! Yokohama Japan, the flowery kingdom, offers the visitor a multitude of new and delightful experiences. See Yokohama, gateway to Tokyo, the capital. Kobe, Japan's great seaport, a fine modern city. Beautiful Nagasaki. Visit the lovely interior with its snowy mountains, waterfalls, charming gardens and unique architecture. Each season brings its own festival. Plan now to go. From Seattle an American Mail Liner sails every two weeks for Japan, China, Manila. From Los Angeles and San Francisco, From Boston and New York fortnight- You will enjoy the luxury and comfort of these great ships. American Mail Line 101 Bourse Bldg. . . Philadelphia, Pa. 110 S. Dearborn Street Chicago, Ill. 514 W. Sixth Street, Los Angeles, Calif. Detroit Dime Bank Building Robert Dollar Bldg., San Francisco, Calif. |