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contract in his own behalf; but if he had no blanket he was a man without a country; he was a tramp, a pariah.

"You can't very well complain of the tyranny of social usages, can you, when lines are drawn as fine as that in the desert?..." The book is full of such quaint philosophy, worded in cultured and colorful slang.

Discussing May in a fit of jealous depression, one of her other lovers, the righteous Syd, declares, "I will say one thing. . . . I found out... that, with all her good qualities, she isn't one of these women who keep their lips sacred for the man they are to marry.'

"I don't want to appear cynical, old man,' I thrust in, 'but haven't all those women taken the veil?""

A novel of adventure, living characters, and a story with a new viewpoint, refreshing sparkle, and a fascinating combination of youthful cynicism and idealism. That describes The Canyon of the Fools.

Clarence Budington Kelland has gone back to the elemental for his new novel, Conflict-to a lumber region with its primitive people who still believe in the power of their fists. Hence there is a genuine rugged quality in Conflict which goes "under the skin" deep. Dorcas Remalie, a New York débutante, is summoned to this wild country by her uncle, a wealthy old hypocrite who seeks to save her soul by breaking her will. The elemental things which come to her as the forceful mystery story unfolds make a woman of her. They slough off the social coating which covers her, changing her from a spoiled and helpless butterfly into a fitting mate for the woodman Mr. Kelland has chosen for her.

Those who delighted in the shrewd humor of Scattergood Baines will find a welcome resemblance to him in Uncle Orrin, who declares:

"Drive a bus long enough and everythin' 'll happen to you. Been a-drivin' this here trip to the station fer forty year, and never missed a train. Fact. Got my eddication

that way-listenin' to the talk of travelin' men and sich. Sca'sely ever a trip I don't pick up somethin' wuth knowin'. . . . Feller can't drive forty year like I've druv without learnin' somethin' about everything."

There is a woodsy tang to Conflict which is due to the author's love of the forest and to his ability to make of it a real, living thing. Every thread of the plot is interwoven into the very warp of the forest. Dorcas's ancestors had all been of the forest, and forest blood, diluted, it is true, flowed through her veins so that she felt its call. Circumstances turn her affections toward a young lumberjack; she finds her sole consolation in the friendly woods, and there is a spectacular climax which has to do with getting some logs down the river through a secret sluice.

The forest stands clean and big and fragrant while the conflict rages about it-the conflict between Dorcas Remalie and her new life, the conflict between mystery and class prejudice and young love, between a brooding housekeeper and a sinister hypocrite, between rival sawmills.

There is the forest contrast of light and shade in the characters themselves. Evil is evil and good is good. The reader is not puzzled as to the characters' standing. They are all primitive folk who waste little time in self-analysis. Consequently the story is left to move along in swift and breathless fashion.

Nor does Mr. Kelland halt by the wayside for psychological dissertation. "One never knows one's potentialities until emergency demands their use," he does pause to philosophize when his society heroine is suddenly confronted with the necessity of saving herself from death. "Self-preservation was a matter she had never been required to consider. Her own safety had been a matter of course; the inviolability of her life had been a matter of such certainty as never to have entered her thoughts. . . . Now, suddenly, with a shock of paralyzing force, she found her life not inviolate. She found it threatened, and herself called upon to preserve it with such resources as dwelt within herself. . .

...

It is this testing of the modern girl (in the latest parlance, called the flapper) by placing her in conflict with the most primitive events, which gives Mr. Kelland's new novel a big theme and makes it a big story. Conflict will be a treat to those who like "red-blooded" fiction. THEODORE BROOKES.

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MAXIMS AND

EPIGRAMS

56 Wisdom of Ingersoll.
106 Aphorisms. Geo. Sand.
168 Epigrams. O. Wilde.
59 Epigrams of Wit.

35 Maxims. Rochefoucauld.
154 Epigrams of Ibsen.
197 Witticisms. De Sevigne.
180 Epigrams. G. B. Shaw.
155 Maxims. Napoleon.
113 Proverbs of England.
114 Proverbs of France.
115 Proverbs of Japan.
116 Proverbs of China.
117 Proverbs of Italy.
118 Proverbs of Russia.
119 Proverbs of Ireland.
120 Proverbs of Spain.
121 Proverbs of Arabia.
181 Epigrams. Thoreau.
228 Aphorisms. Huxley.

PHILOSOPHY AND
RELIGION

62 Schopenhauer's Essays.
94 Trial and Death of Socrates.

65 Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
44 Aesop's Fables.

165 Discovery of the Future. H. G.
Wells.

110 How to Develop a Magnetic Per-
sonality.

111 How to Attract Friends.

112 How to Be a Leader of Others.
140 Biology and Spiritual Philosophy
Tichenor

SERIES OF DEBATES

11 Debate on Religion.
39 Did Jesus Ever Live?

130 Controversy on Christianity. In-
gersoll and Gladstone.

43 Marriage and Divorce. Horace
Greeley and Robert Owen.
208 Debate on Birth Control. Mrs.
Sanger and Winter Russell.
129 Rome or Reason. Ingersoll and
Manning.

122 Spiritualism. Conan Doyle and
McCabe.

171 Has Life Meaning?

206 Capitalism vs. Socialism. Selig-
man and Nearing.

13 Is Free Will a Fact or a Fallacy?
234 McNeil-Sinclair Debate on So-
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141 Would Practice of Christ's Teach-
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Nearing and Ward.

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192 Book of Synonyms.

25 Rhyming Dictionary.
78 How to Be an Orator.

82 Common Faults in Writing Eng-
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127 What Expectant Mothers Should
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81 Care of the Baby.
136 Child Training.
137 Home Nursing.

14 What Every Girl Should Know.
Mrs. Sanger.

34 Case for Birth Control.

91 Manhood: Facts of Life Presented
to Men.

83 Marriage: Past, Present

Future. Besant.

74 On Threshold of Sex.

98 How to Love.

172 Evolution of Love. Key.
203 Rights of Women.

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and

209 Aspects of Birth Control. Medi-
cal, Moral, Sociological.

143 Pope Leo on Socialism.

152 Foundations of Labor Movement.
Phillips.

30 What Life Means to Me. Jack
London.

93 How to Live 100 Years.
167 Plutarch on Health.

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