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.Shaw, an nid lady ot seventy-odd years, ia .w..ss L'A 1Cs. ,i-'utt.I Tecounts the events of lier life to a In *Better L'eft Unsaid," Dais,, youg nvelst -holia coe t bordPrincess of Pless. one of the miost for a few Weeks nin'lier cottage. Now bni tebiflity nd mfriedoahrichf Debby's love and frustration nmake an o èenbltadmridt aré abitarhine ttth zrnIà e-ý ian-d Powerful- Prussian prince.. tears, ' meof the youlig noveis.uand bher seventeen-yeéar-old granddaughter is Inerelv sufficiently interesting to inter- Zupt the main story and, detract f rom' te simple coherèece of the novel as aa whole., The main theme of th e book is color.fully tol1d. and. the entire action is described in four strongly' emotional incidents. SCHOOL. TRUNK SPECIALS 55&$3750 pages fromx the diar y of ber private nie over a period of twenty years, ifroîxi 1895 to 1914. While probably of 'litti *e -value, froîn the historical or pc- litical point of view, 'the exkcerpts ,îroni the diarv of. the Princess of -Pesgi'.e one:rnany intimate, pic- tures of a great -nuniber- of famlous personages oft pre-wajr Europe. '1-ere one meets-, at c lose quarters, Kaiser WNiihelm and the- Crourn Prince, King Edward and Queen jAl1exandra, King -George and Queen Mary, the Czar and Czarina, as weli as. endless u1nes of great and petty princes and. princesses and nobi - who formed the background of c 1ourt life, in 'Europe., before the w-ar -it seems as if the entire 'Almanach de Gotha" is bruh otfrin spection. rutfotfrin The wb,-hole book is replete 'with personal touches and incidents, thatý 'will enable 'the readéeo' asà mn a Pieasan.t ,bpur in the companyi of the social and politicai great. The Princess.of -Pless bas vritten -ber book with a deliigbtfui simpiicity, and charmn.. It, sboul d undoubtiedlyreceive a ready welc 'ome. 'for 'besides:beinig rnost 'entertaining, > t giVes, one an interesting picture of court life that has, to a large degree disappeared f rom -the scene. TRAVELJNG LIBRARY A traveling library called a "Biblio-. bus,",the first of its kind to bé seen in Franice, îs being sbown at the Colon- ial 'Exhibition in Paris. It is hoped that soon a nurnber of these yehicles wiIl be touring the country., Their 'objetc iW to arouse an interest in, literatUre among people in rural districts. NEW NOVELS A number of distinguishod new ones bave *ppeai..J in the past w..k, including NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY Alexander Joseph'Finberg. London-:;'-MOON.--By May - McX.-eer-and Cotswoid Gallery. Charlotte. Leclerer. New York: Far- The author of this book is the fore- rar & Rinehart., niost living 'authority on Turner, hav-- These are tales~ which they tell in the ing ini 1909 prepared the 'official in- lands of the Crescent Moon, where* vento'ry of the drawings in the Tur- poppies spring arnong the grains, where ner Bequest in the National .Gallery women weave and embroider in bright ýand having 1witten 'in this connec tion 1color the reflectionsi of -plants that grow a book on "rurneér's Sketchè's and aroiind ïteir doorsteps-'tales which they DrÉawings," ,which 15 the best general, tell over ail! the country where the work on this painter so far published. followers of Allah and of the Prophet Probably more nonsense'and misîn- Mohamnmed. spr ead, where the Cross and foratonhasben ritenaout, the. Crescent. dwe!t side b y side, and Turner than about any other artist, the Crescent ruled the Cross. so it Je a great relief to corne on Mr. T h epeo ugri h l Finbergs accurate- scholarship as wll Toth pope fHudayinthsd as bis commonsense point of view cm ad fmruigGr whicb shows' due- appreciation ofi as hordes of roving Tartars, and Turner's izreat, qualities as a pa interAn the ost f the Sultans., Magnificent. without either ignoring or1oAnret-e tales:' tell, of the fine faits phasizirg obious faults.Kecskemét and' of Szolnok, in the day hn tembling citizens could not The present book is particularty know when robbers would demand great .xaluable for thorse who are interestedispoils, in thebright days wben ail the in the wa(y hi wbjch a creat.ive artist world of East and West-met. under goes about his work, for it considers colýred tents in the market places. They in sorne detail the nianner in which teil of the sea-broken, coasts of Albania, Turner deait, with a, limited1 bit of> where the- windshoWl through unkniown subiet Inater.caves, and the firs on thé mountaitis As Turner in his exhibited works murmur plaintively in the night, and of was always trving to . make an im- ïthe jewel-robbers of the Golden Horn pression on a general Public often, and of the Seven Towers of Istamboul. sadly waniting in taste. there is per- J --of.. slaves, and Kalif s, and Grand haps in the case .of no other artist j Vizierswho were turned into storks by suchu a disparity betweeýn the cjualitv. potent nécromancies. of work done primfaril1y for his owfl The tales are as splendidlv wonderful use, or satisfact ion and, that done* forjath atlnybrlitilurtos the Public exhýibitio*n, and this d .is e st Carotingly brlalcltationst Daritv tended te increase toward the ; ch è « eerrcacuafdt ,nd of is life. For this resn edàzzl both the mind and eyes .0 a- are apt to find what appeals t, ms n hl.Teeaetls n 'nost at the Present day aniong bis wih lIfofatoapelo -norethsbten modest finished works or ainon-a s alcidenbtepeilyt lis rather,. briefi v executed sketcheshryfv adsvny and studies;. The. 'author Poin.ts out that, Turn'tr's work to be properx !BACK TO MONTPARNASSE.' By understood and aPprec'ated mnust hé Sisley Huddieston. Lippincott. considered in relation to the ideas, It is perhaps -time that someone. of his timfe, and neot sirnply be looked I should give us a definitive historv of at f rom the point of view of our time i Montpa.nasse since there are mnany - sigus of late that its day of,.glory is ~ITNA.By obe't . Cambrspassing lu-it as that of,,Iontmiartre, IA eoNA. ' ber . ..Ch mb rand the Quartier Latin .Passed yeàrs Thi isth nees aditin o tatago. There, are. few people better, Thisis he'nwes aditio t0h4tqualified to wri te this chronicle, for lng list of Cbamibers's historical jiOV- -'Anglo-Saxon readersz than. Mr. Sis*-, 'Is. whjch have graphically and au- ley Huddleston, wbo has lived in thentically depicted various outstand- Paris since Montparnasse began,* who mig epochs in American history f rom I has met everybody and been every- ,re-Revolutionary times onward. The where. and iwi...o um IMOU-fictin of the Clay. 1724 Ornon Avenue DUTCH DEST SELLER John O'London's Weekly says, of the Dutch "best seller,"' Ina Boudier-Kak- ker's novel "The Knock at tbe Door" (De Klop op de Deur), that "the book i$ still selling like bot cakes., For 'over a. year copiés have been turned out as- fast as. the presses could Pr'n them. Over ninety tbousand have already been u>l-anextraordinarytoal oaco- try like Holl - n new impressions are stili'ý called for." BIOGRAPHY GEORG.E WASHINGTON. Bv Wil- liam Roscoe Thayer. 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