Life — June 29, 1916 — page 38: what you’re looking at

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: PRS SUSE SR SREE CECE PEER EEEE SHER EEE SREReRET ceEEeREE Summer-time is book-time for many people. They have more leisure and more inclination then*tg read books than in any other season of the year. The list below of notable books published this Spring by The Century Co. offers reading for every taste. FICTION Children of Hope By STEPHEN WHITMAN Author of “ Predestined,” “‘ The Isle of Life,” etc. A really distinguished piece of fiction. A novel with something of the glamour of “Trilby,” telling with humor and gaiety of three lovely Americans in Europe, their artistic ambitions, their love-stories, etc. 6 full- page pictures by Gruger. Price $1.40 net. Come Out of the Kitchen! By ALICE DUER MILLER Author of “Blue Arch,” etc. A modern romance with an unusually fresh plot, en- livened with al humor and brilliant satire, and done with an irresistible gusto. No more charming heroine has come out of the South than the author’s Jane-Ellen, cook and “pocket Venus.” 12 full-page illustrations by Paul Meylan. Price $1.25 net. A Cathedral Singer By JAMES LANE ALLEN Author of “A Kentucky Cardinal,” etc. A tender story of a mother’s love that will touch to tears thousands of readers who see the supreme beauty of motherhood and who put their trust in the great promises of the church. he first piece of literature written around the splendid Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City, and linking it to innumerable human lives and transfiguring it to human affection. Price $1.00 net. John Bogardus By GEORGE AGNEW CHAMBERLAIN Author of “ Home,” etc. The story of a young man who, having been given a scholar’s education but robbed of his youth, went wan- dering about the earth, finding adventure, love, and wisdom. “His book positively blushes The Chi- cago Herald. “It is so generously aliy Pictures by Benda, Price $1.35 net. Where the Path Breaks By “CAPTAIN CHARLES DE CRESPIGNY” A swiftly moving love-story, beginning on a battle- field in France and ending i in peace and happiness in the Far West of America. “A story,” says The New York Sun at will delight all who have any poetry left in them.” Frontispiece in colors. Price $1.30 net. For sale at all bookstores—and they all have telephones. NON-FICTION Golden Lads By Arthur Gleason, author of “ Young Hilda at the Wars,” etc. With an Introduction by Theodore Roosevelt, and a chapter, on “How War Seems to a Woman” by Helen Hayes Gleason. The only American eye-witness account of atrocities suffered by Bel- gium, and a thrilling report of how the young soldiers of France and Belgium met the German machine, 16 full-page illustrations. Price $1.30 net. America’s Foreign Relations By Willis Fletcher Johnson, author of “A Century of Ex- pansion,” etc. A history of the origin and development of our increasingly im- portant international relationships, and offering reasoned sugges- tions for our future in that fi Price for. the two volumes, boxed, $6.00 net. By Motor to the Firing Line By Walter Hale, author of “The Ideal Motor Tour in France,” etc, An artist’s impressions of the battlefields and the Allied forces in Northern and Eastern France. 42 illustrations, Price $1.50 net. The Writing on the Wall By Eric Fisher Wood, author of “The Note-Book of an Attaché.” A _semi-official book revealing the pitiful military weakness of the United States and the terrible need for military strength. 11 illustrations, Price $1.00 net. The Imperial Impulse By Samuel P. Orth, author of ‘‘Socialism and Democracy in’ Europe,” etc. Vivid character-sketches showing just the kind of nations Eng- land, France, Germany, Russia, and Belgium are. Price $1.20 net, The Story of the Submarine By Farnham Bishop, author of ‘Panama, Past and Present.” ‘An accurate but non-technical account of the development of the submarine from 1620 to 1916. 60 illustrations, Price $1.00 net. From Pillar to Post By John Kendrick Bangs, author of “The House-Boat on the Styx,” ete. Humorous reminiscences of a ten-year adventure on the lyceum platform. A book of funny stories, of wise and cheerful philoso- phy. 30 illustrations by John R. Neill. Price $1.60 net. The Harim and the Purdah By Elizabeth Cooper, author of “My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard.” Showing life in the women’s quarters of Egypt, India, Burmah, Japan, and China. 32 full-page illustrations. Price $3.00 net. The Most Interesting American By Julian Street, author of “Abroad at Home.” A vivid, brief character-sketch of Theodore Roosevelt, who says Tt places me in the light in which I wish my children to see me.” Price $0 cents net. Master Skylark By Edgar White Burrill. A five-act play reproducing the times of Shakespear: and intro- ducing him as one of the characters. Especially suitable for Ter- centenary celebrations. Jilustrations by Birch. Price $1.00 net. PETER J. CAREY, PRINTER