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THE SUNDAY TKIMJInE: bLciuvii i In Oz Again BOOKSTAND THEIR MAKERS NEW AITIIOR CARRIES ON TRADITIONS LAID DOWN BY I-FRANK BAWL KARUMPO is an Elegant Elephant. And the history of. Kaburupo's au.ntu i.i Oz with the new A( IDPOIN'T. Joseph Auslander, in The North -American Review. Such is the pure sha cutting of the air To crying beauty that the seagulls know; And such the white tcth and rebellious hair Of every undertow.

Lovely as steel, lonelier thnn all pride. Hard, glittering, trenchant, bitterly is the laughter of each ebbing tide, The mewing of each gull. Minneapolis Author Hears Wilhelm Tells Rabbit Who Was Afraid of No Person Had to Run From This Tipes of Pan' in Lonng rnnco loiupauore ot rumpercuns, a real Prince Charming, is a book fully IIKia, VI VUVM families; the Oz stories. 1 don't know what happened to L. IN THK SKY GARDEN.

Ity Stephen Mjian Ilird. "Like a tool vapor failing The voice of Death in calling: 'In nay d.m land is Peace, By Lethe-languid fountains In my mist-shrouded mountains All care and clamors cease." The collected verse of the young West Point cadet who in a fit of despondency probably took his own life. Selected and arranged with a biographical sketch by Charles Wharton Stork, Yale university president. rank Bat .1, but I suspect that rar from being unallve. Princess Ozma has spirited hiin away to the Emerald City, where, on cloudv davs.

hA can toast hla Other Nations toes by the big grate fire in the palace 1 or in hin Most Mairnlficpnt Rtnrlv hm can at leisure pore over the books of magic and write the history of Little DorotLv.the Scarecrow and all the nth. ITALY, CHINA. RI SSIY AND THE JEWS HAVE CHAMPIONS AND EXPLAINERS. "Modern Italy." By Tommaso Tit-tonl. The Macmillan company, 64-66 Fifth avenue.

New York. Love Legend .1 VJ I. i.f rtn l.H-- ta The Fascist! are not mentioned in goes out to bhare in the high adventures of our wonderful people. At any rate Ruth Thompson by frequent fk.ta tct tha Ivmoi-nlrt r-ftv oml this book of Italy; but one finds a discussion of what Italy has contributed to modern literature, art. International law and econom.

theory. Tho book haps, who knows, by radio or some other magic gets the news from then and tells us all about it. Right at the very beginning of the' vf appears fair-minded and authoritative to a reader who has no special is havi- a birthdav naxtv. and FOnt OIKLS LKAKN THAT FAIRY PKI.MKS AUK HARD TO COME BY. N-OWADAVS when so many enthusiastic persons Insist upon' sharing their discoveries with you In nov-elB, It is reptful to come upon so purposeful and unargumentatlve a tale as The Love Legend.

Sophisticated book that it is, it is most satisfying In that it permits the reader to feel that he has a few Items of informa.ion of his own. It Is humanely and refreshingly free from revelations. There are no paths to violent exclamation points. There are no carefully casual snocks. Yet the book Is unusual, lnconociastic and un "The International Development of strango things happen in oz ana partic- China." By Sun Yat-sen.

O. P. Putnam'- Sons, 2 Forty-fifth street west, New York, right on the dinner table, blows up like i a oHailf ft ilrn n.Tlinn tVn 1U.M1U A plain, matter of fact statement of at thf nartv Iiava nlr-kprl thmnnplvpH the changes made in China since the first republic was formed there. The up, Pompadoro learna by means of a Mrs. Henrietta Jewett Keith Is the Minneapolis of "Pipes of Pan," a book of nature appreciations and fanciful sketches of life In Loring park.

1.7. 1 6vjucn uvuiauvu lulu a former president of the republic of southern China tells why his part of the country formed a separate government. uuitur vwucu uiwaya lens mo iruui. that unless he marries tho Proper Phi- failingly honest. The absence of these inflammable bits usually related to "studies" is due, certainly, to Wood cess in se.n days Pumperdink and all the people in It will disappear.

Tha King tries to make him marry the ward Boyd's refusal to be quarrelsome. She doesn't stalk her Ciay-footed gods; If she encounters one, as she occasion' most terrible old Princess Faleero, who S1KMOIKS OF FOB.MFR KAISFu AUK MIX OF HISTORIC IMS-CKKPANUKS. HnrlE KAISER'S MEMOIKS" Is I in the literary vorld only as a disappointment. It has boen reviewed far and wide, Rnd for th6 moat part the reviewers have used the book a an occasion to iterate their opinions of Wilhelm Hohensollern. The obvious reason for this is the pa-trlotijtn jof tho reviewers.

But back of the obvious iH the real reason, which is that the hook as a book affords the reviewer but scant opportunity to say anyhing about it. It Is a pot boiler pure and simple. From tht purely literary' os distin. fulfilled from the historical point of view, It has some merit. The kaiser tells his story, such as It Is, in a slrn-! pie, plain fashion without any of the' ponderous eloquence and involved Teu-oniclHms characteristic of his previous His sojourn at Doorn has at loast tAught him literary humility, but those who look to "The Kaiser's Memoirs' for any startling revelations concerning tho "World war will dle appoint-d.

Comparatively is said about the war. The kuiser makes none but a general defense of himself this issue, and thus adds nothing te.whal has already been said la his favor. Begins With ItiHiiiurtk's Time. Tha volume begins back In the days Then the former kaiser was the crown prince and HlsmarcK the ruling figure in Prussia and later In the German empire. Tho succeeding chapters constitute a sketchy outline of the history Germany down to tho conclusion vf the iW'orld war.

Caprlvi, Hoheniohe, Von Buelow, Helhrnaun Hollweg stalk across the pages In rather vaguo and Indefinite outline, except when they poise in 'the effulgenco of Wllhelm. Clustered around tnem are lnconseiiuen-tlal figures In recent German history, wnose bearing on the events which led up to thj world tragedy is not v.sibie. There Is some tlttlu tattle and backsuilr gossip and some sldellghis 04 tne former life that are not without Interest, but are wholiy out of place In the apologia of a man Vfno flan Us accusal of the greatest crime In all times. Tho trivialities of tne tormer kaiser's existence, his comings and goings, may serve some pur ptju-t ivO f) 2wij years hence when the historians Lgin to sineit tne dross and puaions out of thai period of history which Is now- contemporary with us, but today tiiey are aepi-ecaled the tuil extent of the paper mark. Wllhelm does, however, take up several sensational Incidents In his career.

Ho aU-wilvti himself from all blamo for the Krueger telegram. The Agadir incl dent he tells us was created against fet advice and against his wish. On tho whole, he would have us believe that he led a blameless life and has made the victim -f the most devilish conspiracy in history. Innumerable IluK-repancie. has a funny nose and no teeth at all.

So the Elega.it Elephant steals away-with Pompadore In the night time to go to the Emerald City and find the Proper Print who may be Ozma her "The Russian Immgirant." Jerome Davis. The Macmiilan company, 64-66 Fifth avenue, New York. Jane Addams says: "Those of us who in any way are trying to understand and to relieve the hard lot of the newly arrived Immigrant are placed under permanent obligation to Jerome Davis for his careful and sympathetic study. The people in ved grow constantly more human and vivid." "Truth About the Jews, Told by a Gentile." By Walter Hurt, Horton 441 Dearborn street, Chicago, 111. self.

strange adventures with the Curious Co" -is, with the City of the ally does, sne tumbles It with finality. She doesn't return to abuse the poor thing. It is temptation to shirk the work at hand for a moment to complain that there are too few writers like Woodward Boyd. Too few are as gentle, as'courte-ou's. Even In her most devastating moments author Is utterly patient, almost forgiving.

This she proves when she describes the silly rush to art of "the harmless little I. W. of the Chicago Latin quarter. She is fortunately able to realize that things were ngurcneaas or iNumoer feopie wno uve in Arithmetic book houses, and wltii the Sea of Soup, and bow they helped to rescue Ozma aiifl all our friends from a most terrible predicament leads the story right up to the place where Pompadore finds his Proper Princess, who used to be a Wooden Doll but This is distinguished by lack of the desire to be brilliantly clever and epi This is what happens to folks that boast The rabbit defied an die animals in the forest, but a big wolf heard him, and you'd better believe that rabbit made tracks. The story is- in a book by Main Siberiak, which is published by E.

E. Dutton New York, and illustrated by Boris Artsybasheff, son of the famous Russian novelist. Light- minded Moments intthe Kiefaiy Editor's life WE TOOK "The Stag Cook Book. A Man's Cook Book for Men" with us the other night hop ing It' would put us to sleep. Instead it made us so hungry that1 we rose at three o'clock in tne morn ing and tried several of the We.

ate what we cooked because they were conspicuously good recipes, albeit a tnno vague. After that we slept the sleep of a gorged boa constrictor and were two nours late to tho office the nextmorn-ing. Ci Mac Sheridan went to the trouble of prodding all the famous men Into coming across with their favorite recipes. (And of persuading George II. Ixiran to publlsn tne completed voiume.

Ho also quotes the pleasant old story about the cook w10 was acquitted by a jury of French epicures because he executed a patron who had had the impudence to salt his soup Many famous men are represented. Irvin Cobb whose touching little essay "Kat.ng in Seven Languages" revealed wuere ne stood 011 the food question even if his readers had never been able to suspect It before. His simple contribution to this jook is: "Hog grammatic at the expense of truth and humanity, as in the case of Belloc and really is tha Dearest One of Suntoi Mountain. So Pumperdink is saved. Chesterton.

It is surprisingly under standing and appreciative. There is throughout Kabumpo in On a wonderful quality of imagination, a simply and attractively told. drama cf high adventure that leaves "Speaking of the Turks." By Mufty not a single dull moment, combined Zade K. 2ia Bey. Dutiield ill with a charming sense of humor "The Chinese Kitten." By Edna A.

Brown. Lothrop, Lee Shepard Boston. Nineteenth street east, New York. slightly tinged with satire that brings? It into the class of master fairy books Always it is profoundly logical as where, happening before she undertook tho Job of writing, and that things will eventually find their places without improper noisiness. To be, sure, the "members who yearn" will read of themselves a bit self-consciously, but surely they wili agree that they have fared comparatively well.

Optimistic Mother. The "love legend" is the matrimonial beacon of four sisters Dizzy, Sari, Ward and Anita four sisters whose mother Is aggressively aiert to the truth that they must marry "well." Tiresome optimist that she Is, she instructs her daughters to believe, that out of some vaguo beautiful place will come riding, in all due time, the necessary number of magnificent husbands. Bhe is the good moiner, Mrs. Harris is, This Turkish author is the son of the Turkish ambassador to the United States and Is married to an American the Candle People set pr 'ore's hair girl; he naturally sees his country and Kabumpo's tall on fire because they know they must, be wicks, and whpra fttzain thA Drill jtIaa nut tk thm through rose-colored spectacles. "Manchuria, Land of Opportunity, is a tentative suitor to Dizzy.

He is described In a sentence so eloquent that it cannot seem capable of being improved "I'm a dub," Jim confesses to Dizzy, "but I certainly am an admirer of anybody with brains." Indeed, there are inn i-rable things which move one to compare "The Love Legend," with 'Babbitt," It would be no more than honest, however, to briefly call it a gentle, superior "Babbitt." (Woodward Boyd Is a St. Paul woman, wife of Thomas Boyd, literary editor of tho St. Paul Daily News. She is a daughter of puncan Smith, who at one time conducted an editorial column in Tiie Tribune. The author is herself a newspaper woman, having worked the Chicago Daily News and the Chicago Journal as well as for Twin Cities newspapers.) Wood Creatures.

"Don't you dare hit By South Manchuria Railway, New Prince Pompa because he's going to be York. marneo. The test after all of a real book for "Chile Today and Tomorrow." By Nica for very little girls. i. IRISH WISP.

We don't believe In little girls who go off away from their more or less cruel guardians and set up housekeeping for themselves. That Is as a general rule, but Katharine Adams set a spell upon us so that it never once seemed queer that the little Irish girl in "Wisp" should have her fairy abode in the tenement hole in the wall where she independently invited her special cronies. In fact, we were so magicked that we were actually sorry when tho developments of the plot took her away from that little nook end put her into a E. Elliott. The Macmiilan company, smugly satisfied with thus having used children is how they respond to It, and in 0 laboratory two small boys have listened with wide eves for hours on Jowls and turnip trreens, Paducan ti4-6ti Fifth avenue, New York.

Clear, readable and full. end to Kabumpo in o. and for months will be la vine at the st ranee adven style." Ttie unfortunate editor had toiher imagination to be dutiful to her hunt up the recipe. children, and certain that these children it Ic hard 3arthelrn of movie fame wi" be grateful for these rail comforts, grows lyrical over his spiced grapes! Alas tor Poor legend. From the and talks about Xfw England I triumph of the durable Ward's common- A MYSTERY STORY FOR GIRLS.

tures thev have heard in this history of histories. It has its own white Augusta Huiell Seaman has a way of writing mystery stories whicn can hold IVllheim tiya scant attention to the I iai houses set far back from the road I acquisition 01 a nusoand it falls, United States in his Mc-molrs. but when 'among tall trees with hollyhocks and'bru'8e1 Bnd ridiculous, almost into ob-he deigns to notice us, it is to casually rose geraniums and old fashioned pinks Hvion. But it doesn't disappear. Ward r.t,int out that veara ecu we ntere.l in the jrarden." reverences it, grimly, hopefully, and magic.

is a book of enchantment. "Kabumpo in Oz," by Ruth Plumly Thorn on, founded on and continuing the famous Oi stories by L. Frank; the interests of older sister and mother almost as well as the girls tor whom "The Love Legend," By Woodward Boyd, Charles Scrlbner's Sons, Fifth she writes. "The Mystery at Number con. even as she records failure after diB- into an offensive and di-iennive alliance' John Talnto Foote, novel If Six" is a story of Florida with the Seminole Indians in the background and uh i.

"Mnri Km, to" -a iconcerung lauure, sne is silently, mtl Baum. Reilly Lee company, IOCS Michigan avenue south, Chicago, Hi. MALCOLM MACLEAN. WILLARD KEEFE. many.

He bases his convictions of the! ays, "is to be found in ancient cbaUnSn tha charm to "work." a very appealing little girl appearing Sari is the roost sensible. She suddenly and disappearing in a strange and thrill Ing manner. pproper home with love in it and everything. Read It yourself and see what happens to your own sense of sanitation and duties to orphans when it comes in contact with these Irish fairies. "Wisp." By Katharine Adams.

The MacmHllan company, 61-CG Fifth avenue, New York, "The Mystery at Number Six." By For Children wishes to marry a young Jewish pianist who, like herself, is studying art in the Latin quarter. Thus the decorout; lovo te.iets which Automobile engineers in France are planning tho construction of a 10-horse-power car with the speed and endurance of tho 30-horsepower. car bf a few years ago. Augusta' Huiell Seaman. The Century company, 353 Fourth avenue, New York.

Vi A mAthr Vi 11 trm VA I f.v-v.yw A V. 1 lit, (LI I cruelly abandoned. Hari's is the moat existence of this alliance uKn tho writ- plowed orchards during, the pastel Hips of two obsctiro individuals In the 1 phase of spring when apple tre blos-Cnitetl States. He is totally blind nl I zoom and bumble and the fact that such cJUancs are utterly i hum in a languid shower of pick and impossible. Here we have' the child-! white petals." like credulity, a willrngnecs to He, lazy thing.

Utii tho cook prepare that la most startling. One cannot view them only he tells her how. She fries man holding such imbecilities to be them in hot butter for 20 minutes. lacU at th, head of 7u.Wo.qqo of peo-' "During that minutes there will pie" without foreseeing that sooner or waft into the living room where you later he would bring them to grief. are making a pitiful pretense of reading It would be a simple matter to point th morning paper, an odor straight out Innumerable historical discrepancies from the kkehens of Heaven." 1 Sr "The Children's Biblo" translated and arranged by Henry A.

Sherman and Cliarles Foster Kent. Charles Scrib-ner's Sons, Fifth avenuo and Forty-eighth street. New York. This is a handsomo volume Ulu4- trtH rrniK nf nnlntini? hv. engrossing story, wistful, futilo and touched with indescribable pathos.

Dizzy is that curious thing that people call an Intellectual. Quietly snobbish, she has never regarded the legend as W'lillilllilaaajaaaaaaaaUaaaeaaeaa anything important, so it is with com piete inumerence tnai sne lorgets 11. Taylor, Tisaot, L'hermitte, and Dizzy is a stiange and absorbing con others. Tho language is slmpie but dignliied as one should expect from a Maurice Francis Egan gives careful directions f-r Welsh Rabbit which he says Is the "best It has trast to the beautiful Ward. In Ward's territory Dizzy is quite the outcast, her cleverness wasted while the feeble, wiles of her sister always stamp her the "popular" girl.

A TtNOAV An interesting touch. in tne Memoirs, in ract, a great many people, non-Germans and Germans, including Von Bcmstorfl are now engaged In that task, on the whole it would eem that this effort is not worth while. The Memoirs are tedious to alt except those who have pronounced curiosity iur historical gossip. The general reader would be bored by them, and if suffl-tientiy tenacious to read them through, would charge himself up with that much time lost. "The Kaiser's Memoirs" By Wilhelm llohcnzollern, G.

P. Putnam Hons, 2 Vorty-fifth street West, New York. Stop ovea Ssne Telling. Mrs. Boyd possesses that valuable power of telling a love' story sanely.

OTtftLL Yalo professor of Biblical literature. I "Tho ky Movies' by Gaylord Johnson. Tho Macmiilan company, 64-66 Fifth avenue, New York. Gaylord Johnson knows how to write about the stars so convincingly that even adults who are cynical about improving their minds read the book with delight. The illustrations are most unusual, and what is even more to the point they really illustrate and elucl-oate tho text.

"Whistling Jimps" by Edna Turpin. Very kindly she finds it unnecessary TICKETS for her characters to by hysterical, preferring to believe, doubtless, that there are girls who are not altogether dependent on the excellent Mrs. Elinor Clyn for the phrasing of their avowals of i i 11 1 AW fmicqmAoaj intGP ancr umrnn; Ml passion. The things which Mrs. Boyd people say have the unique ring of plausibility.

And these people never Science Outlined 'IS 330 DAvc OF aUNSHlNE CUEEJ jnEAftj I I are forced into what a bright gentle been eaten with gusto by Turks, and somo Englishmen. There have been Frenchmen who were too reserved, perhaps, in their praise of it, but then It must be remembered that Welsh rabbit is not sympathetic with the Calllc temperament. The French prefer timbales de frornage." Stephen Vincent Iienet confines himself strictly to the business in hand and offers "Zitelll's Macronl Stew" -with precise and very followable directions. Oliver Herford insists that fried elder berry blossoms are not only edible but delicious. Rex Beach gives an onion clam chowder.

Many famous people contribute their pet good thing to eat It is tho most fascinating cok book we have ever seen. Even though a feminist we admit it. freely. It provides entertainment ts well as for sustenance. And it is understandable, the onlly cook book we ever read In which we could understand every word and every process.

We shall close with John A. Moroso's recipe for "Spaghcttl-for-the-Gang" which he Inherited from his Pled montose grandfather. Says he: "A close of garlic goes 'well, if you have Wcp ancestry. Pale people use onions." IHI man has called bellbottomed amours. Further agility of the author's imagination is evidenced in several of her The Century company, 353 Fourth avenue, New l'ork.

A well written story aliout a boy with an uptilted nose. "Lamplight Tales" by. Taullne Car-ring ton Bouve. Grossot ft Dunlup, New York. Short stories about "real children" i1 characterizations.

In Sari, for instance. She makes Sari, without faintly emphasizing, her virtues, unforgotably amiable. And Jim Ho wells. Jim llowells tin rw 1 1 In the North FOR THE TOURIST By train or auto all roads lead to EI Paso where history and romance vie with a perfect climate and the hospitable people of a beautiful city In winning the hearts of visitors. At the crossing of six great railway systems and six transcontinental and Interstats motor roads.

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Wills succeeds pr-eminently, but he 13 by no means J)ftotent tn literary skill A man who can aet down the hablU and shortcomings of an earthworm In a manner that makes every word appetizing certainly has some claim to an artistic standing. It Is obviously much easier to write entertainingly about Julius Caesar or Napoleon than' it is about tha niy r.eiies of crystalixadon, but I'rotessr Thomson is aqual to all the difficulties of the iatter. In "The Outlina of Science" we have a compendium of man's knowledgo of tha fact of existence from tho spiral nebulae to the latest development of psychoanalysis. It is an' encyclopedic story, told with a simplicity of a Van Loon and yet, according to all scientific commentators, with an exactness of (act tellln that leaves the author Impregnable against all scientific assaults. It Is a work that can be read by the crada school boy or girl, or the grand-lather or grandmother.

Tha Illustrations alone -nearly a thousand In numbei constitute a veritable museum. If one did no more than look at the pictures and read the legends under he would have a talr start toward sclentiflo knowledge. "The Outline of Bcionco" is worthy of place In every home. "Outline of Hclence," by J. Arthur Thomson, a.

p. Putnam's Sons, 2 Forty-fifth street west, New York. THE SNOWS. "Carnac's Folly." By Gilbert Parker. J.

B. Llppincott Company, 227-231 (U Sixth street south, Philadelphia, Pa. A false marriage turns out to be real There is a wild melodramatlo quality in til. this tale which would do credit to Ber tha Clay. "The Man In the Twilight." By Ride well Cullurn.

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War between two pulp Industries In northern forests. "The Whelps of the Wolf." By George Marsh. Penn Publishing Company, Philadelphia, "The Skyline of Spruce." By Edison Marshall Little, Brown ft 34 Beacon street, Boston, "Where the Sun Swings By Barret Wlltoughby. P. Putnam's Sons, I Forty-fifth street west, Hsw York, "Joan of Arc c-Tthe North "Woods." By Holman Day.

Harper 4 Brothers, E'rankllti Square, New York. fM mm ITALY AT WAR. Salvatore A. Couilo tells what aacrl-flees were made la Italy by soldiers and villas population alike to win the war. aturally about the most Interesting chapter 4s that In which she author describes the ploturesque art warfare tm the Alps.

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