Life — October 28, 1920 — page 41: what you’re looking at

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h the -LIFE- The Latest Books (Continued from page 776) Liew). The stories here reprinted in- jade tales by Ben Ames Williams, Albert Payson Terhune, Melville Davisson Post, ‘annie Hurst, James Branch Cabell and ‘dna Ferber, and we think the only thing hat can safely be said about them is that ere they are for cach reader to dispute nging|(Upton Sinclair, Pasadena, California.) you rhere , just who 1d $0 est, e he ) the 4a exposé of American journalism as orrupt. It could have been made more nvincing; nevertheless all this smoke ceeds from a fire of some size. One rouble is that Sinclair doesn’t distinguish ween corruption and mere commercial- km, which, however philistine it may be, n't necessarily base. What is really eded is a book showing both black and hite, and the black should be black ex- and not weakened by doubtful The Origins of French Romanticism, M. B. Finch and E. Allison Peers. P. Dutton & Co.) A study by two aglish writers, beginning with Diderot hd Rousseau and going on to Chateau- ‘and and Millevoye. Of interest to spe- lists; lucidly and well written. It is reessary to read French, as none of the any quotations is translated. The Riddle of the Frozen Flame, by M. and T. W. Hanshew. (Doubleday, hge & Co.) Cleek of Scotland Yard in. He has to solve the apparently un- lated mysteries of gold losses from all DANDERINE” Hair Coming Out; Doubles Its Beauty and Thickness. few cents buys a bottle of F tion of “Danderine” you seldom ir or any dandruff, besides every lows new lif ny drug store, HL. $7.00 $8.00 $900 g $10.0 SHOES FOR MEN AND WOMEN YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY WEARING W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES e best known shoes in the world. They are sold in 107 W. L. Douglas stores, direct from the factory to you and $5.50 at only one profit, which guarantees to you the best shoes that can be produced, at the lowest possible cost. W.L. Douglas name and the retail price are stamped on the bottom of all shoes before they leave the factory, which is your protection against unreasonable profits. W.L.Douglas $9.00 and $10.00 shoes are abso- lutely the best shoe values for the money in this country. They are made of the best and finest leathers that money can buy. They combine quality, style, workmanship and wearing quali- ties equal toother makes selling at higher prices. They are the leaders in the fashion centers of America. The stamped price is W.L. Douglas personal guarantee that the shoes are always worth the price paid for them. The prices are the same everywhere; they cost no more in San Francisco than they do in New York. W. L. Douglas shoes are made by the highest paid, skilled shoemakers, under the direction and supervision of experienced men, all working with an honest determination to make the best shoes for the price that money can buy. W. L. Douglas shoes are for sale by over 9000 shoo dealers Desides our own stores. If your local dealer cannot suppl ou, take no other make. Order direct from factory. Sen lor booklet telling how to order shoes by mail, postage free. CAUTION.—Insist upon having W.L-Dor las shoes. The name and price is plainly stamped on the sole. Be careful to sce that it has not been changed or mutilated. (MUTATE Le mL English banks, strange fires in lonely Bertram Cope’s Year, by Henry B. vigor, brightness, more color | marshes, and a murder. Fuller, (Ralph Fletcher Seymour, Chi- Buffalo Bill's Life Story: An Auto- cago.) We understand that the theme of biography. (Cosmopolitan Book Corp.) this tale is “ the adamantine fac Good stuff for the boy of any age. toward cither love or friends A Critic in Pall Mall, by Oscar Wilde. not of its own seeking.” It (G. P. Putnam's Sons.) Short book re- views and miscellanies resurrected from London publications, but far more worth while than most things of the sort. They include notices of Henley’s poems, Walt Whitman, Walter Pater’s Jmaginary Por- traits, W. B. Yeats, George Sand; and they remind us how unusual was Wilde’s cquipment as a reviewer. You would ¢ scarcely expect to find Wilde praising age Out is moderately exciting, Bret Harte, would you? Yet he did, in emphatic words. Grant M. Overton. with a young college instructor who ap- peals variously to an elderly woman and man and to three young women, but when he leaves Churchton only one of the lot hears from him, and that in a merely polite letter. The book is certainly the year’s masterpiece of unimaginative real- ism; beside it, Virginia Woolf's The V’ comicbooks.com