FLAMES OF THE BLUE RIDGE. A hero who knows the bright lights of Broadway lands in a mountain moonshining district with the appropriate name of Dismal Gap and-he lands in the mud. A redhaired mountain favorite proceeds to pull him out of the Dismal Gap bog and later on succeeds in rescuing him once more this time the spiritual mire into which he had fallen. All this meant much sacrifice on the part of the little daughter of the moonshiners, but it was very much worth while, so thought the principals in this lively tale by Ethel and James Dorrance. (Macaulay.)

THE LAW OF THE GUN. The Wild West, the conflict of strong natures, and adventure moving on adventure with cinema-like swiftness, all are suggested in this new book of Ridgwell Cullum's. A young medical student, who forsakes the scalpel for the branding iron, is the hero. The mystery revolves about the location of some rich copper deposits. A triangular love affair of which a beautiful girl named "Pat" is the apex, a murder, and the stealing of the plans of the mine are elements in this dramatic romance. (Jacobs.)

THE HARBOR ROAD. Sara Ware Bassett has put the tang of the salt air and the spirit of New Englandism into this story of a brother and sister and their pretty niece in the setting of a Cape Code village. When the family exchequer runs low, Deborah, the sister, decides to take some summer boarders, and the unforseen complications resulting from the venture make up a tale in which there is a glimpse of old Boston and its traditions, and a broader glimpse of the sea with its white ships and bordering dunes. Thru the unravelling of a lover's tangle and the kind iness of loyal friends Nate, the brother, wins back all he holds dearest on earth. (Penn.)

GREAT MODERN AMERICAN STORIES. William Dean Howells, the dean of American letters, with the perspective of a long life of familiarity with the literature of the world and especially of American literature, has collected in one volume the short stories of America which he considers worthy of remembrance and perpetuation. Unswayed by popular opinion. aloof from temporary admiration, Mr. Howells here sets the seal of his preference and in an introduction to the volume gives the distilled judgment of a life of writing. The book is an addition to the Modern Stories Series, in which have already appeared "Great Modern English Stories" and "Great Modern French Stories." (Boni & L.)

LITTLE MISS MUFFET. If you would care to know the sort of young person who is as young as Peter Pan, as modern as a cubist and as feminine as Mother Eve-then meet Miss Muffet. joyous creation of Elizabeth Kirby.

She is the daughter of an English vicar who wants to see life and be something besides an old maid in a stupid English parsonage. So off she goes to London to be a journalist, and tho she turns out to be a very poor journalist, she has "experiences" and meets the leading literary lights of the big city-which after all is infinitely more exciting than writing copy for a newspaper. (Moffat, Y.)

WAIFS AND STRAYS. The title to the contrary notwithstanding, the dozen short stories in this volume are sure to find a comfortable home and a place of honor on the bookshelves of all lovers of O. Henry. Whoever heard of an O. Henry story going begging these days anyway? In this case the book is especially attractive, since, in addition to stories never before published in a popular edition, it includes reminiscences and anecdotes which bring the author very close to us. Stephen Leacock, William Lyon Phelps. Arthur Page. Vachel Lindsay and Christopher Morley are among its contributors. (Doubleday.)

GABRIELLE OF THE LAGOON. S. A. Safoni-Middleton sends his English sailor hero to a fairy lagoon in the South Sea Islands, there to be fascinated by the eerie beauty and child-like innocence of a white girl with a faint strain of native blood which links her with the fate of a handsome Rajah. At length the girl's primitive blood helps to place her in a perilous situation which stimulates her English lover to an heroic effort to save her. (Lippincott.)

THE SINISTER REVEL. Against a fashionable background of Newport and Lenox, Cannes and Deauville, Lillian Barrett sketches a picture of a reckless, brilliant, pleasure-loving society, in which Craig Van Dam moves as the central figure. Rich and fond of a good time, he is weak, allowing himself to be dragged thru every kind of dissipation, because in a world of muddled perversities, it is somewhat expected of him. The excess of his money leads to disaster and involves the dozen or more characters of the book in a story of restlessness and tragedy-the tragedy of wasted powers, squandered energies and battered idealism. (Knopf.)

ANNA KARENINA.. Tolstoi's famous clas sic is now issued in the Rittenhouse Classics. in a translation by Constance Garnett, a complete and literal version of the Russian original. Thin opaque paper prevents the volume from being bu ky. The type is of generous size and there is adequate space between the lines. Helen Mason Grose has made eight full page illustrations reflecting the spirit of the times. (Jacobs.)

MISS EMELINE'S KITH AND KIN. Miss Emeline was a New England spinster of sixty summers who would as soon have gone to church with a dirty face as to have left a single drop of moisture on her precious sink or to have hung up her dish cloth elsewhere than on the hereditary nail. Winifred Arnold capitally portrays this type, a combination of grim acidity and real kindliness, and makes of Miss Emeline's dealings with her kith and kin a diverting tale. (Revell.)

RINEHART NOVELS IN THE POPULAR COPYRIGHT EDITION. The reading public has been demanding more detective and mystery stories during the present year than during all the five years previous. Jaded by the war and overwork, it is turning to the fascination and stimulus that the detective story offers. Mary Roberts Rinehart has won a very enviable position as the weaver of intriguing and absorbing detective and mystery stories. Two of her successes in this line were "The Circular Stair Case," the story of a crime committed on the circular stair case at "Sunny Side," and "The Man in Lower Ten," a baffling mystery story of a man who was found dead in a Pullman car berth. But the detective story is only one of the types of fiction in which Mrs. Rinehart excels. Her love stories are equally popular. The "Amazing Interlude," the appealing tale of an ingenuous small town girl who went to France to establish a soup kitchen and thereby entered on a new and romantic phase of her existence, was

"HOW DID YOU EVER THINK OF CATCHING HIM THAT WAY?"

FROM "MISS EMELINE'S KITH AND KIN" BY WINIFRED ARNOLD

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one of the best sellers of 1918. Then there are "The Street of Seven Stars," a love story which has been successfully screened, "K" a tale of love and jealously enacted in the setting of a hospital, and "When A Man Marries." All of these are now issued in the Popular Copyright edition. (Grosset & D.)

JURGEN. "In the old days lived a pawnbroker named Jurgen; but what his wife called him was often very much worse than that. She was a high-spirited woman with no especial gift for silence." This is the way which James Branch Cabell chooses to introduce his latest character of fiction. It is the beginning of a swaggering, light-hearted tale devoted to the wanderings of a poet pawnbroker in his search for justice and rationality. Not a fairy tale altho much of it is "impossible," the book is an odd mixture of extravaganza, satire and mocking parable. from which the perceptive reader can learn much of the author's philosophy regarding man's eternal search for the unattainable. (McBride.)

JENNY BE GOOD by Wilbur Finley Fauley. Jenny lived in respectable poverty with her grandmother who was continually harping upon fine lineage and the disgrace Jenny's mother had brought upon the family by her marriage to a foreign fisherman. Jenny, however, in her girlish dreams, fancied that her father might have been a nobleman in disguise. And Jenny wa's destined for a far different career from that of weaving at the carpet loom in her grandmother's cottage. Yet while fate carriedher to the life of a musician in the city her ultimate happiness was found in the little village of her birth. (Britton.)

THE RIDIN' KID FROM POWDER RIVER. "Overland Red" and "Sundown Slim" have made for Henry Herbert Knibbs. a distinct place among the novelist who write of western life. Pete, the hero of his new book, is a cow-boy of courage, honesty and shrewdness whose varied experiences in store-keeping, sheep-tending, rough-riding and gun play, win him the sympathy and attention of the reader. The story will appeal to all who enjoy a rough and tumble tale that never gets east of the Rockies. (Houghton M.)

THE INVADER'S SON. Combining the adventures of war with politics, intrigue and the rush for fortune, William Antony Kennedy has written a novel which has an unusual twist in the plot. The author takes a leap forward and steps twenty-five years ahead into the future life of a war baby. It is this offspring of the Great War-the son of a French mother and a German father-who holds the center of interest thru the major part of the story. (Sully.)

in love with a woman unhappily married to a brutal husband. In the spirit of knight errantry he rescues her, but with the triumph of his love his faith gives way. The novel is an absorbing study of the clash of ideals with a great passion. (Bobbs-Merrill.)

PAID OUT. To lose the key of one's safe is at all times matter for annoyance. How much more so when the safe contains the mouldering body of a murdered man! Suck is the predicament of the "leading man" of J. Percival Bessell's psychologica detective story. A guilty conscience; remorse for the betrayal of a friendship; existence under the shadow of a crime; constant and unceasing dodging of a nemesis; the black dread of neverending apprehension. Mr. Bissell depicts them all in the course of his tale. A wonderful diamond of scintillating colors makes part of the mystery of this story of a crime and its consequences. (Macaulay.)

search of hidden treas ure. and when she describes Aunt Jane 88 looking like a little dumpling that had got into a sausage wrapping by mistake, one quite agrees, as the head of a treasure-seeking expedition, Aunt Jane is enough to shake the strongest intellect. If you like a rattling good yarn based on an event that never has hap pened, never will happen. but everybody daydreams may some time happen, try this tale of mingled fun and adventure. (Bobbs-Merrill.)

THE FORTIETH DOOR. Mary Hastings Bradley, author of "The Wine of Astonishment," has laid her story of mystery in a land of strange witching beauty and romance-Egypt, the Egypt of pre-war days. The novel concerns itself with the extraordinary adventures into which Jack Ryder, excavator in Egyptian ruins, is led by his love for Aimee, supposedly the daughter of Twefik Pasha. How Ryder solves the mystery of Aimee's birth and rescues her from harem life is part of the climax. (Appleton.)

HANDS

OFF. Beulab Marie Dix began to write novels and plays before she was out of college and she has been at it ever since. Her new story of adventure has to do with a young man who goes to Mexico, where he falls among thieves who rob him and leave him on the streets. He is thrown into jail and ultimately taken out and carried to a ranch as a leased laborer under the Mexican system. This is but the beginning of his exciting experiences, which begin to take on a pleasant turn when he meets an American girl. (Macmillan.)

WITH SOUL ON FIRE. A young soldier returns from the war "with soul on fire," possessed of a new faith in himself and with a deeper appreciation of the meaning of life. His spiritual struggles, his attempts at bettering the conditions of his fellow human beings and his final conquest, all combine to make the plot for John Herman Randall's first novel. (Brentano's.)

SPANISH DOUBLOONS. Miss Virginia Harding, the heroine who tells the story for the author Camilla Kenyon. gets into action as a result of her Aunt Jane's wild determination to finance and accompany the adventurers in