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By "PUTTER PERKINS" WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JULY 7, 1923 17 TO THE HN OF THE="MONTH Reading Lamp ABOUT BOOKS AND THE PEOPLE WHO WRITE THEM An Able Article-Tract-Story "THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD" By Philip Gibbs Though the title page proclaims this book a novel, it is really a "three in one" affair. As a series of special articles on post-war conditions in England, Ireland, France, Germany and Russia. It is excellent as a tract urging a sympathetic understanding of the other fellows view- point, it is effective; and as a story it is absorbing enough to make the reader forget, for the time being at least, that he is being instructed and having his prejudice denatured. The tale concerns Bertram Pollard, who served as a British machine gun major, and his beautiful, cold-blooded wife, Joyce. Bertram, unlike Joyce, can- not regard rebellious ex-soldiers, Sinn Feiners, Germans and Bolsheviki as beasts. This difference of opinion pre- cipitates a break which sends Bertram off to the Continent, gathering material for articles for "The New World," and which results in complications between Joyce and handsome Kenneth Murless of the Foreign office. Bertram hurt by Joyce's coldness, rejects feminine con- solation proffered from two or three other sources, but, when it finally ap- pears that Joyce has accepted Kenneth, Bertram soon finds himself in love with Nadia, a superlatively noble girl whom he meets in Russia. Things happen quicky in the last few pages to bring about an ending which may, or may not, be regarded as a happy one. H. Beach Carpenter. Golfers Attention ! "SO THIS 1S GOLF' Harry Leon Wilson By Kenneth Brown Did you ever drive a perfectly topped ball, a true ground gripper, that dribbled a few yards from the tee and came to rest in a rut? And then did you take that beautiful form-fitted brassie and make a fierce lunge at the dashed thing only to lift the father of all divots with- out disturbing the ball's sweet rest? If so, did you then stride to the nearest tree and with perfect swing and stance pro- ceed to wrap the shaft of that choicest brassie around its trunk? Perhaps not, but there's many a time when you wanted to. This little book will sweeten the way for the great crowd of sub-golfers, who, as Harry Leon Wilson tell us, form 32% of the players; it will brighten their dark moments and encourage them to steal back to the game each time they have thrown it up in disgust. And it will give to the super-golfers that sense of superiority which is the greatest reward for having toiled upward (or is it down- ward?) out of the class of tyro. Whether you are sub, super or plain golfer, don't miss it. Here in "Putter Perkins" is the quint- essence of scientific golf. Poor Perkins was the dubbiest of the dubs, but he re- fused to let the game get the best of him. For a month he retired from the greens and worked out the problems in his laboratory, where he had just per- fected his wireless torpedo. When he re- appeared he had a curious outfit of clothes with a row of brilliant buttons on the waistcoat, and his form was uni- que. Buf what a game he could play! His ball took wings and flew, and always to the pin! And the marvelous part of it was that he did it all with his putter. His new technique carried him to a na- tional championship; but he was almost outdone when he played a match with a German who insisted on a trombone for an accompaniment. This is a book that no golfer should miss. It is one of the wittiest things ever written about the game. Ralph C. Taylor. The Drums of Death "SCISSORS" By Cecil Roberts John Dean is such a real person that we seem to live with him from the early days of childhood to the very last. When four he goes to live in Asia Minor and from his first night there the never ceas- ing rat-a-tat-tat of strange and unseen native drums calls to him. Then his days are spent with a Turkish boy of his own age and their friendship becomes so great as almost to hurt. At fourteen John returns to his native land--and from then on occurs a realistic account of English public school life in which his three friends Vernley, Marsh and Lindon stand out, most different and most inter- esting portrayals. Muriel, too, enters early in John's boyhood and thereafter dominates all his actions. The ancy of "Scissors," as he is affectionately known, wins him recognition; but how suddenly his familiar life is changed by the Great War! Friends are wounded and killed--love is lost--until, at last, like a destined motif from the past, the drums of the East call to him again. This time they win; but not before they unite in death the Turkish and English boyhood friends. 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