n the right. If the democracy does succeed, the Bar-
ories of international law as they are expounded oness can only see the Russians being transformed
by the jurists, as they are formulated in the Ger- into unimaginative cogs in a dreary industrial
man military code, and as they have been applied machine.
in practice during the present war. These the- There are also chapters on “The Military
ories embrace such doctrines as that might makes Party," "The Russian Court," "The German
right, that in war the end justifies the means,
Influence in Russia," "America and Russia," and
that the rights of belligerents are older than those so on-chapters filled with evidence of the
of neutrals and must take precedence, that the author's perspicacity and journalistic ability.
employment of all means that will contribute to There is not a little social and political gossip,
the attainment of the object of the war is too: stories, more or less scandalous, touching
permissible, and so on. All these and similar many people in high places. Among other word
ideas the author condemns, and he justly remarks pictures is one of the monk, Gregory Rasputin.
that it is the glory of the human race from its
The Baroness sees him as simple peasant, ab-
earliest origins to have striven to restrict as far solutely patriotic and religious, a "Russian Billy
as possible the uncontrolled sway of violence and Sunday" who brought peace and self-confidence
brute force.
to the czar and czarina when they most needed
As violence and terrorism in war are a part it. She admits that he loved the things of the
of the German military code, so imperialism is flesh, but that does not spoil him in her eyes.
one of its dominating political ambitions. On Taken as a whole, these impressions of Russia
the pretense that Germany must have "a place by a Russian are necessarily more authoritative
in the sun” the pan-German propagandists are than those of a foreigner. Nevertheless we hope
advocating the forcible absorption of all terri- that her fears that her people are unready for
tories belonging to other nations, and this move- self-government are baseless.
ment M. Dampierre examines in detail.
A large part of his book is devoted to a study The Life of THE GRASSHOPPER. By
of the German policy of spoliation and terrorism J. Henri Fabre. Dodd, Mead; $1.50.
in Belgium and France, and on the basis of evi-
When a man has been called the Homer of
dence gathered from German sources, especially
his subject, it would seem either that the last
from diaries kept by German soldiers in accord-
word of praise has been said, or that the man
ance with the field-service regulations, M. Dam- is in need of resuscitation. There is something
pierre convicts the Germans of numerous atroci-
narcotic, as well as glorious, about the word
ties which their government has repeatedly de- Homer and the revivifying touch cannot be
nied. Facsimile reproductions of extracts from wholly out of place. J. Henri Fabre, author
many of these incriminating diaries are pub-
of the famous and popular volumes on the lives
lished by the author and their authenticity would
of insects, is as alive and interesting as George
seem to be beyond question.
M. Cohan. An attentive reader of any one of
Fabre's books will be nothing less than awed by
RUSSIA OF YESTERDAY AND TOMORROW. the tireless observation which is the background
By Baroness Souiny. Century; $2.
of his simple narrative. He thought it but
We have here an absolutely recent picture of pleasure to sit through whole days and nights
Russia, in which we see the great mass of igno-
waiting for some indifferent bug to perform one
rant peasants, the pleasure-loving nobles, the of its functions. And he was little short of a
timid czar, and the intriguing politicians. Most
genius when it came to experimentation, when
the need came for a device or trick to catch his
interesting is the author's reaction to the revolu-
pets at their singing or mating. In reporting
tion. She makes it very plain that she has little
what he had at last seen, he was again unusual:
faith in the lasting powers of the democracy.
he reported with the hand of the common per-
She asserts that the people are too ignorant to
son, he took almost extreme care to choose the
understand what a democracy really is. They everyday word, and the ludicrous aspect thus
see it as a government that will give them more
thrown upon Latin terminology is one of the
cows and chickens and absolute freedom. They joys of his books. Fabre was above all a plain
do not realize that they will still have to submit human being; his studies had made him what all
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won.
a
shipful in the face of the mystery of life; and a God working by the easy method of direct fiat
he could not resist a kindly dig now and then and command; a God seeking only from men
in the ribs of the pedagogues and pedants. To the idle flattery of lip homage and temple wor-
give any idea of the charm of his work, of his ship and moved and swayed in action by the
infusion of the human into his record, of his selfish prayers of men; a God arnate in but
own personality as it is delightfully shown in his one human form and dying but one death for
pages, would be impossible in a brief review. the emancipation of the race
will not
His is one of those books that can only be grate- fit, and cannot anyhow be made to fit, in the
fully recommended.
presence of this unspeakable cosmic struggle by
which alone the thought of a larger life has been
Do We NEED A NEW IDEA OF GOD. By
"The only God-thought, I believe, that
Edmund H. Reeman. Jacobs; $1.
can fit our needs and the facts of our knowledge
The war, productive of so much reactionary of the great cosmic struggle is the thought of a
opinion in certain directions, opens up liberal God dying a thousand deaths daily and pouring
thought and statement in others. Theology at out His life's blood unceasingly in continuous
present feels its liberating influence. Many struggle—the God, in a word, of a mighty eter-
pious people have watched with growing wonder nal urge and effort and of the struggle itself,
the devastating course of three years of terrific with Whom our highest relationships and com-
world-strife without a single clear manifestation munion, if to such we are to attain at all, must be
of God's intervention; and they are now well
those of comrades and fellow-workers in the
prepared for such a book as Mr. Reeman's. The building of a universe and in the translation into
author suggests his purpose in the first words
ethical values of physical forces.” The new “At-
of the preface as "a reinterpretation of life and a
one-ment" is easily imagined from the following:
restatement of religious faith in the light of “Human history, indeed, as I read it, is the
democratic outreach and impulse." This sounds story of a long and painful outreach toward good-
commonplace enough and many disappointing ness on the part of men, and not at all the story
and boresome books have begun with similar high of a long continued and wilful rebellion against
enterprise. But this book makes good. "There God.”
are
many who feel that the great dem- On the whole a most tactful and satisfactory
ocratic uprising of the world cannot be without book!
its effect upon our thought of God, and who are
finding it increasingly difficult to reconcile the The Prince Of Parthia: A Tragedy.
oligarchic and monarchial elements that predom- By Thomas Godfrey. Edited with an In-
inate in our common God-ideas with modern troduction by Archibald Henderson. Little,
democratic urge and impulse." The key to this
pragmatic statement is "democratic," and it also
It seems strange that while so many early
suggests the striking difference between this book American writings of less importance have been
and the most prominent current pronouncement reprinted, the first tragedy written by an Amer-
on the same subject-H. G. Wells's "God the ican should heretofore have been available only
Invisible King." Both books are good on the in the original edition of 1765. At last an at-
destructive side, with the balance decidedly in tractive reprint appears on the occasion of the
favor of Wells. Constructively, however, the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the first stage
British writer seems, in comparison, vague, tru- representation of the play in Philadelphia. Pro-
istic, naïve, and dogmatic. Though a socialist, fessor Archibald Henderson, of the University of
Mr. Wells still conceives God as the archaic North Carolina, furnishes an extended introduc-
head of a monarchy of men's souls; the purpose tion. Thomas Godfrey, the author of "The
of Mr. Reeman is mainly to combat that con- Prince of Parthia," is usually associated with his
ception. The chapters "God and Democracy” native city of Philadelphia, but his new editor
and “The Nature of the Life Force” contain
stresses the fact that the play was written at
much of the important argument and most of the Wilmington, N. C.-a city, as the reader is more
finest eloquence. Both writers conceive of God
than once reminded, “noted afar for its lavish
as finite, holding up men's hands and being held hospitality and the polite learning of its inhabi-
up by them, but Mr. Wells is vague in differen-
tants.'
tiating God from the Life Force and maintain-
Notwithstanding the reputation of the elder
ing his personality, while Mr. Reeman is per- Godfrey as a mathematician and that of the
fectly clear in identifying the two and in giving younger as a poet, biographical information re-
the doctrine of Divine Immanence a modern garding either is meagre. The picture of the
pragmatic meaning. "A God in an easy chair, or father in Franklin's “Autobiography,” the
upon a monarch's throne; a God in a distant 'memoir of the son by his fellow-poet, Nathaniel
heaven and with a court and retinue of angels; Evans, and the references in the life of Provost
Brown.
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William Smith are fairly well known. Profes- estimated Shakespeare's debt to his predecessors.
sor Henderson has made careful search in more It is not the sort of debt, however, that detracts
obscure places, and is able to add some data from his greatness; on the other hand, it tends
regarding Godfrey's life, and especially regarding to increase our admiration for the manner in
the performance of the play. Authenticated facts which he transmutes the base metal of popular
are, however, less numerous than inferences, and games and customs and characters into the pure
it is evident that to a professor of pure mathe- gold of his plays. Miss Spens finds many traces
matics "doubtless" in the statement of a con- of folk-plays—survivals of early religious rites
clusion means something far different from “Q. —in Shakespeare. The fool, for example, is not
E. D.” When a real nugget is found, the most merely a courtly appendage; he is in origin the
is made of it. It is an interesting, if not an old year, and in his death at the hands of his
important bit of information, that in 1760 the sons, as in the Revesby sword-play, we "see
name of the poet appears in a list of delinquents dimly the story of the decay and death and re-
who did not work out their road tax as required birth of life in man and beast and dumb na-
by law. But was it necessary to add: “Thomas ture." In the second part, Miss Spens shows
Godfrey, like many of us, cared more for poems how the ancient scapegoat passes into the hero-
than for picks, for spondees than for spontoons. sufferer (@dipus), who in turn passes into the
Perhaps,” etc., etc.? It would have been more man-god, and finally into the Senecan human
profitable if the editor had developed farther monstrosity, whom the divine mania, descending
his few excellent comments on the young drama- on him, enables to perform superhuman deeds.
tist's literary relationships.
Shakespeare, though rejecting the superhuman,
Godfrey was in no sense a great poet, not deals essentially, in Hamlet, Lear, Julius Cæsar,
even a poet of great promise; but he was re- Coriolanus, and Macbeth, with the same con-
markable for the number and the variety of the ception of honor, the performance of a deed
English masters whom he was able, at the age which shall make the hero equal to the gods.
of twenty-three, to echo in a way that showed Thus it may be said that essentially the revenge
appreciation if not originality. It is still worth plot had its origin in those dim ages of the past
while to inquire how far this feeling for the truer when there was no difference known between
English poetry was common in the Philadelphia the human and the divine, when Jahve walked
and the Wilmington of his day, and how far he in the garden, and Prometheus stole fire from
was, notwithstanding his few advantages and his
heaven.
early death, an individual prophet of better
things in the literary development of his section THE LIFE OF LAZARILLO DE TORMES.
of the country. Many known facts go to show Translated by Louis How. Mitchell Ken-
that his real importance in the history of nerly; $1.50.
eighteenth-century American literature has not The story of Lazarillo's experiences with his
been adequately recognized.
many masters and his piquant satire of society
in sixteenth century Spain is too famous to need
AN ESSAY ON SHAKESPEARE'S RELATION
a summary. “Great secrets, Lord, are those that
TO TRADITION. By Janet Spens. Black- thou makest and people are ignorant of! Who
well.
will not be deceived by that fair appearance and
Dr. Spens has given us a stimulating and decent cape and coat?" It is the intention of
suggestive treatment of a subject too little un- the author to reveal those secrets and expose
derstood. Her book is a distinct contribution the torn lining of that decent cape. He accom-
to the group of works dealing with the evolution plishes his task in the most picturesque language,
of literature. We are now grown accustomed and one wonders whether the charm this first
to the idea of evolution in literary types; we of Spanish picaresque romances continues to hold
know the steps by which the Greek drama was for translators is not often as much in its diffi-
evolved out of the worship of Dionysus and the culty as in its intrinsic merit. Mr. How has
English out of certain parts of the church serv- attempted a literal version; he goes so far as
ice; but we had not thought it necessary to go a frequently to sacrifice smooth English in his ef-
step further and admit the evolution of the stuff fort to keep the construction of the original.
or content of literature. Indeed, supposing orig- The result is occasionally a racy bit of phrasing,
inality to be a great and shining virtue, we have but too often the reader misses the craftsmanship
insisted on the ugliness of the sin of plagiarism of the anonymous author. The notes, by Mr.
and have felt rather perplexed, not to say shocked, Charles P. Wagner, will be of interest to
at the way Chaucer and Shakespeare and Milton serious students of Spanish. Some of the latter
helped themselves to the great “common store-. will doubtless wish to quarrel with Mr. How
house of nature." Now along comes Miss Spens over a few of his renderings. It would seem
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even if they cannot be translated. For instance, thought the project foolish, he decided to extend
on page 36, Mr. How makes Lazarillo say of his road to the Pacific. The connection was
his second master: “to make use of my dodges made and, presto, an empire was built. Of the
I had no chance, because I had nowhere to make transportation feature of that empire Mr. Hill
him jump," thus alluding to the young scamp's was the master. The world is now at war. One
vengeance on the blind beggar. This may be of the parties to this war is fighting for democ-
accepted as one meaning, but the Spanish phrase racy. When the future historian comes to write
is por no tener en que dalle salto and signifies of democracy-building, let us hope that he will
also “because he had nothing of which I could be able to tell of the democratization of industry,
rob him.” The art of translation is more diffi- as well as of war and politics.
cult than is commonly realized and Mr. How's
version, though creditable, is not the final one. RAILROAD VALUATION. By Homer Bews
Vanderblue. Houghton Mifflin; $1.50.
The Life of JAMES J. Hill. By Joseph The reader of this book leaves the volume with
Gilpin Pyle. Doubleday, Page; $5.
a feeling of inevitable depression. Dr. Vander-
Empire-building, whether it be done by an blue has made the economics of transportation
Alexander, a Cæsar, a Napoleon, or a modern his special study, and his thesis for the doctorate,
captain of industry, is an attractive field for his- of which the present work is a revised version,
torical writers. It is only in recent years, how- is particularly concerned with the problem of
ever, that the captains of industry are coming to
finding a satisfactory basis for ascertaining a
their own. Some of these captains have combined fair method of finding the valuation of a road,
industry and politics, leaving out war. Among which valuation is to serve as a basis for deter-
the comparatively recent additions to historical mining a just return for services rendered. The
literature based on modern empire-building may book is depressing because Dr. Vanderblue makes
be mentioned the life of Lord Strathcona and the reader wonder just how far we have pro-
the autobiography of Sir George Reid. To this gressed since the Interstate Commerce Com-
list Mr. Pyle now adds his "Life of James J. mission undertook to work out a rule for
Hill.” All three men came directly or indi- determining reasonable rates; and since 1913
rectly out of the British Isles. The first two how much good has really been done by the
continued to build for the mother country, the
Commission in its assigned task of making a
first in Canada, the second in Australia. The physical valuation of the railroads of the coun-
third was born in Canada, but crossed into the try—a valuation to include such items as orig-
United States and figured largely in the build-
inal cost, cost of reproduction anew, cost of
ing of the great Northwest. His chief inter- reproduction less depreciation, and also intangi-
est was in fuel and transportation. In both, bles, such as "going value, good will; and fran-
he generally had the business acumen to see just
chise value.” Dr. Vanderblue says: “But the
a little farther than anybody else. This is par- statute commits Congress to no theory of val-
ticularly true of the connection between coal and
uation. The entire burden of weighing the
railroads. In the early days when the roads were elements of value is thrown upon the Commis-
cording wood along the Mississippi, Mr. Hill sion.” “Railroad Valuation" is a discussion of
was cataloguing the quality and quantity of coal these theories of valuation and the elements of
in Minnesota. In the '70's when some railroad valuation. In successive chapters replacement
builders needed the best coal deposits of Iowa, value, the unimpaired investment, depreciation,
they were, says Mr. Pyle, "amazed to find 2300
land values, and intangibles are treated in a
acres of valuable coal lands in one county under thorough fashion.
lease by James J. Hill.” While Mr. Hill was It is to be noted in passing that this book
monopolizing the coal lands, others were com-
deals perforce with many legal problems of the
bining the railroads. In 1870 the Northern
past, and Dr. Vanderblue covers these phases
Pacific began buying up other lines. Separate or- in a clear and praiseworthy manner.
The un-
ganizations were maintained, but the directorates
fortunate point is that the entire work appears
were identical, not simply interlocking. This colorless. It is a pity that Dr. Vanderblue has
was the day of high financing. Company No. 1 not given a more individual treatment embody-
would make a contract with itself as Companying his own ideas on a subject so much in the
No. 2 and then issue bonds, the proceeds of which public mind.
mind. The present work is rather on
for building often amounted to less than 50 per the order of a summary of what has been accom-
cent. Then came the panic of 1873, after which plished, but as such it should help many a ris-
Mr. Hill bought up the bankrupt roads and ing economist and public official to avoid the
finally decided to make railroading, not fuel, his "circles” in the reasoning of some of our com-
major business. At a time when other men missioners and justices.
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LETTERS OF ARTHUR GEORGE HEATH. scription of the misery suffered by innocent
With Memoir by Gilbert Murray. Long- people, misery which one only touches when one
mans; $1.25.
has heard it with all dignity from their own
Nothing forces upon one more strongly the lips, and of the fine courage and liberal hopes
wantonness and the waste of war than the con- of these men and women, leaves a profound
templation of the innumerable young lives of impression on the mind. One of the chief vir-
promise cut off on battle-field and in hospital
tues of Miss Skinnider's simple recital is that it
during the past three years. No more lovable makes the Irish revolutionists live for us, espe-
or gifted personality is to be found in this mel- cially their executed leaders, so that the Irish
ancholy list than Arthur George Heath, Fellow question presents itself as an essentially human
of New College, Oxford, and Lieutenant in the problem, and the rights of small nations changes
Royal West Kent Regiment, who fell on the from a battle cry to a demand for constructive
eighth of October, 1915, his twenty-eighth birth- thought.
day. Distinguished for his scholarship and his
proficiency in music, he was loved for his noble PHILISTINE AND GENIUS. By Boris Sidis.
qualities of heart and character, and both ad- Badger; $1.
mired and loved for the high courage with which Dr. Sidis's little book first appeared in 1911.
he animated the men under his command. The The present issue is not much changed except
last person one would have selected for a mili- for the addition of a preface in which the author
tary career, he applied for a commission a few appears unduly impressed by the fact that he had
days after the declaration of war, and threw predicted the Great War at that time (in com-
himself whole-heartedly into the necessarily ab- pany with perhaps five hundred other writers of
horrent task, to carry it through or to die at his the last two decades), and a chapter on “Pre-
post. Gentleness and humor, forgetfulness of cocity in Children.” The arraignment of the
self and thoughtfulness for those at home, with American “system” of education is now so well
a scholar's studiousness and earnestness, mark known, and the main points in the indictment
these letters from the field, mostly to the writer's have been so long admitted that one finds it a
mother, now collected and prefaced with a little difficult to warm to what seems like the
warmly appreciative memoir by Professor Gil- spectre of some antediluvian monster. In 1911
bert Murray, fellow Oxonian and fellow col- it had more novelty.
legian of Heath's. And so the book takes its
To-day reading that “our whole educational
place beside similar memorials of Dixon Scott system is vicious' sounds like Mr. Britling's be-
and Rupert Brooke and scores of others, as a lated discovery of a God that thousands of
sad reminder of high possibilities of achievement pragmatists have known for a generation. Page
sacrificed without a murmur, and also of high after about "mandarin-schoolmasters,
actualities of achievement in a great cause. "goody-goody schoolma'ams," "pettifogging offi-
cials," "blind college owls,” and “philistine peda-
Doing My BIT FOR IRELAND. By Mar- gogs” grows tiresome, partly because these
garet Skinnider. Century; $1.
expressions have become truistic, but mainly be-
It is one thing to read about the Great War; cause the author's fundamental assumption is
it is quite another to plunge into a fight having silly; namely, that school and college exist to
all the qualities of drama-excitement, irony, and develop genius. This cannot have any truth in
beauty, which the world war seems to lack. a democracy. Perhaps if Dr. Sidis had taken
Perhaps these things are the peculiar product of the trouble to define genius, he would have suc-
revolutions, of conflicts between a small op- ceeded better. It is surprising that a scientific
pressed group and a large powerful group, or man could produce so unscientific a book; no-
between a great inarticulate mass and a sophis- where is there the slightest evidence to support
ticated minority. When one reads Margaret the unceasing flow of invective against the bogey
Skinnider's account of the heroic labors of the of our "system.” What he wants is no system
Irish leaders, the pluck of the girl dispatch-bear- but inspired parental instruction instead, which
ers, of whom Miss Skinnider was one of the might work well enough in a few enlightened
cleverest, and of the bitter end which these hot households.
nationalists met at England's hands, one recalls The one thing of positive value in a book full
the unhappy stories of another revolution, trust- of negative invective is this: "The cultivation of
ing that if the Irish have suffered defeats like the power of habit-disintegration is what consti-
the Russians they may more quickly realize Rus- tutes the proper education of man's genius." This
sia's victory. For Miss Skinnider's brief story is good, but even here you must know before-
of Easter Week and its subsequent stupid hand what the author means—he gives no help.
tragedy is not so much an indictment of England This lack of definiteness and evidence gives the
as a revelation of Irish potentialities. Her de- whole an air of mediæval ipse dixit.
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GRAPES OF WRATH. By Boyd Cable. Bergengren's burlesque “In the Chair” as the
Dutton; $1.50.
"Atlantic" is from the "Saturday Evening Post,"
Boyd Cable and Ian Hay have given us a and although Owen Wister's “Reminiscence with
large part of our knowledge of what lies behind Postscript” and Meredith Nicholson's "The
the meagre official reports of the war,—of the Provincial American" have their likenesses, there
daily humor and hardship and achievement of is still that subtle difference which makes the
the average British Tommy in the trenches. essay an everlasting joy. Cornelia A. P. Comer's
"Grapes of Wrath,” Mr. Cable's latest contri- "Intensive Living," Zephine Humphrey's “The
bution, describes in general terms the Somme Passing of Indoors," Lucy Elliot Keeler's "The
battle and more particularly the adventures of Contented Heart,” and Margaret Sherwood's
four modern musketeers, whose point of view “The Other Side” are distinctly made to fit the
is that of the average infantry, private. "The Atlantic outline; and there are those who con-
wust of this blinkin' show is that nobody seems sider Agnes Repplier the very essence of that
to know nothin' and the same people seem to
conservatism which the "Atlantic Monthly" has
care just about the same amount about anythin',” so consistently upheld. The preface says that the
says Billy Simson, describing the most common editors aimed to have this volume “constitute a
feeling of the soldier in the trenches. When he kind of Atlantic Anthology, preserving the mag-
helps capture a trench, he frequently does not azine's favor and character and offering, as it
know whether the enemy is before him or behind were, a sample of what it aims to be.” This is
him, whether he is in comparative safety or in accomplished.
great danger, where he is, or why he has done
what he has done. Often the sentiment that
MENTAL CONFLICTS AND MISCONDUCT.
inspires him to fight is no loftier than that of By William Healy. Little, Brown; $2.50.
Pug, who, having received a slight wound which The thesis of this volume is well sustained.
entitled him to a week at the Base, ran back to It proceeds upon the case method. It sets forth
join his company in the capture of a difficult that the provocations to social misconduct in
piece of trench, and when remonstrated with unstable personalities are mental repressions,
in emphatic and picturesque terms, explained: shocks, and difficulties of adjustment. There is
"All the time I've bin out 'ere I've never 'ad a a mechanism at work which links cause and
chance to see the inside of a German trench: effect, and discloses the sources of what, for lack
an' now there was a fust class chance to git into
of analysis, is called crime. The deepest emo-
one, an' a chance maybe of pickin' up a 'elmet
tional disturbances are those of sex. The achieve-
for a soo-veneer, I thought I'd be a fool not to
take it. I want a blinkin' 'elmet-see-and
ment of sexual poise is the critical phase of
wot's more, I'm goin' to git one.”
maturing, and by that token is fraught with mis-
The men do not love war, but they make the
chance. Of the forms of evidence supplied by
best of it. And when a man "stops one,”
Dr. Healy, the most typical and convincing is
he has known all the time he should some day
the association of sex shock or delinquency with
do, he accepts his fate just as all the rest of stealing. It is hopeful that at times, even com-
that strange life is taken, with unquestioning monly, with the recognition of the source of the
resignation.
trouble and its acknowledgment, relief sets in.
The unsettlements of adolescence, masking their
THE ATLANTIC CLASSICS. The Atlantic
true source in the irritations and perversions of
Monthly Co.; $1.25.
sex, lead to wayward and irregular periods of
Among the many and various impressions re- behavior in the most normal, and in the sus-
ceived from the essays in this volume there is one ceptible or neurotic take the more severe form
that is general and uniform: consciously or oth- of anti-social transgressions. It is the illustra-
erwise the most popular contributors to the “At- tion of this theme in the concrete that con-
lantic Monthly," for so they are named in the stitutes the high value of this volume. The
short preface, follow what might be called the detailed study differentiates types of cases and
Atlantic outline. Just what or where are the shows the difficulties of diagnosis. The book
sources of this impression is difficult to say, so forms a notable contribution to the group of
difficult that the reader hesitates to express his writings, mostly of American origin, distincti
feeling. But the feeling is none the less definite of the applied psychology of crime. It is char-
and it grows so persistent before the essays are acteristic that the American genius, sensing the
finished that to leave it unexpressed is critical practical value of principles enunciated by others,
pain. This is not at all to say that the essays is peculiarly fertile in bringing the study to a
are monotonous, nor that they are alike; Dallas valuable issue in an important phase of social
Lore Sharp's “Turtle Eggs for Agassiz,” with insight and control. In this movement Dr. Healy
its originality and movement, is as far from Ralph is recognized as a distinguished leader.
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NOTES ON NEW FICTION
that one forgets for the moment that the letters
deal with Prussia rather than with Germany,
"Christine," by Alice Cholmondeley (Mac-
millan ; $1.50), purports to be a series of letters
with Junkers and their deluded adherents rather
written by a young Englishwoman studying mu-
than with the thousands of disappointed liberals
sic in Berlin during the Summer of 1914. Their who will play their part in building a sounder
authenticity is attested by the author's mother, Europe.
who publishes them, she says, "just as they came Mrs. Kathleen Norris has an uncomfortable
to me, leaving out nothing," because the three way of making you feel that the problem is the
years that have passed since Christine's brief ad- important thing in her books, whereas it is not
venture and tragic death have "been more full her contribution to the discussion of divorce, and
of actions on Germany's part difficult to explain of women's rights or duties or temptations, that
except in one way and impossible to excuse”; gives her her claim to recognition. These she
and she felt that “these letters, giving a picture discusses competently and conventionally; they
of the state of mind of the German public im- are her title, her literary tag. Just which one
mediately before the war, and written by some is responsible for the birth of “Martie the Un-
one who went there enthusiastically ready to conquered" (Doubleday, Page; $1.35) is of no
like everything and everybody, may have a cer- consequence; whereas her handling of character
tain value in helping to put together a small
and her power of rendering the details of village
corner of the great picture of Germany which life are worthy of attention. The picture of
it will be necessary to keep clear and naked be- Malcolm Monroe's household, dominated by the
fore us
if the world is to be saved."
suspicions of a petty tyrant, is an excellent bit
The publisher's announcement regarding the of domestic comedy. Bonestell's drugstore,
alteration of some names further emphasizes the where the young folk of Monroe gather for
genuineness of these letters, as do their small pink sodas; the library steps where they meet
personal touches and occasional irrelevancies to and shyly depart on Sunday afternoon walks;
the progress of the story. The doubt as to their the drab existence of New York boarding houses
legitimacy comes when one reads the initial one, and flats; the dull reality of the mediocre actor's
which, like all first letters in epistolary novels, days and nights, these scenes and this youth
retails to the ostensible recipient all the facts the
are part of our American life and they are
reader needs to know. And as one reads on, the sketched with a skill that is really notable.
natural development of events, the study of the
If you are one of those people who can de-
actions and reactions of different classes of Ger-
tect a periscope in a drifting lobster-pot, and un-
mans to war and then to the war, no less than
mask the treachery of a whole wireless system in
a
the fluency of the style, seem to indicate that a roof-garden clothes-reel, you will enjoy “My
“Christine” is a clever, interesting, but fabri- Country," by George Rothwell Brown (Small,
cated, narrative.
Maynard ; $1.35). For not only are we allowed
This curiosity about its authoritativeness is submarines, and collapsible wireless stations, and
largely due to its being a fresh indictment against code telegrams, and great Danes, and German
Germany, the more terrible because it is written lieutenants, and disguises, but Washington itself
by a young woman whose personal charm and stands "hands up!" while we go through official
musical genius should have brought her any- pockets. It is unfortunate that the author should
thing but the disagreeable and disconcerting have allowed the conspirators to escape so easily,
treatment which she received at the hands of her and we must hope that the final allegiance of
fellow-boarders, her casual acquaintances, and Frieda will be a lasting one, considering her
the Junker relatives of her Prussian fiancé. The achievements, but the story is a thrilling one and
picture of a whole people, fighting-mad, organ- offers a serious idea or two besides.
izing for war, bellowing for war, rejoicing over Strange that the English, steeped in ancestry
war, as boys organize and shout for and exult and civilization, should write so far more poign-
over a boat-race, remains somewhat incredible. antly of the hold upon man of the primitive
Christine believes that “the world is to be and the things of earth, than we, the pioneers.
saved" only if Germany is "beaten
Mary Webb is one of these more sympathetic
beaten, so punished
that she will be English. In “Gone to Earth” (Dutton; $1.50)
jerked by main force into line with modern life she writes of her corner of the Welsh moun-
taught that the world is too grown up
tains with a very real understanding of the
now to put up with the smashings and destruc- country folk, and also, alas, with unmistakable
tions of a greedy and brutal child.” One closes sentimentality.
sentimentality. This is the more regrettable in
the book with the hopeless feeling that the only that her earlier novel was free from false emo-
way out is the crushing of the German people. tionalism and exaggerated pathos. “Gone to
It is a tribute to the persuasiveness of "Christine" Earth” suffers from both these faults.
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CASUAL COMMENT
not only hinder their success but actually betray
them; for without such thinking peace will see a
THE PUBLISHER OF THE DIAL wishes to
return to a world of mutual distrust, suspicion,
reiterate the policy which he is seeking to follow
and hatred.
in the present crisis. From his own experience
Is this war to have been in vain? Is all the
he understands how difficult it is not to give
human anguish to be wasted? It is for us here
oneself over to complete hatred and loathing in
at home to determine. We can continue “straf-
the presence of Prussian barbarism. Neverthe-
ing" the enemy.
We can plunge deeper into
less, it is his firm conviction that the winning of
mob hysteria and the insanity of cowardly bit-
a permanent peace does not lie through the emo-
terness. Or we can rise above the present tragedy
tional indulgence of hate. Indeed the desire
and see the ultimate solution. That solution,
for revenge and punishment, reasonable as it
which now begins to assume the aspect of a
seems to be, is actually treacherous to the ideals
vast stride forward in the spiritual and social
now at stake in this war for democracy.
life of the world, is an intellectual solution, which
If anyone has the privilege of hatred at this
can only be attained by the impartial, dispas-
time, it is those men who have voluntarily put
sionate analysis of the philosophic mind. Only
aside the continued assurance of health and well- so can the creative work of democracy be carried
being, and have taken up the business of pre-
forward out of the confusions and clamor of
paring themselves in the Officers' Camps for
battle to permanent and enduring peace.
participation in the war. Yet there was no trace
of this hysteria; instead, the camps were charac-
terized by a superb feeling of consecration to a THE MEMORIAL HOTEL may be accepted as a
duty which loomed bigger than personal welfare commemorative novelty, though hostelries bearing
or comfort. If, then, these men who are about the names of families locally prominent are to be
to engage in the actual terrors and hazards of found in many of our large cities. Yet a hotel
war are above the hysteria of hatred, is it for reared to the memory of a literary man and
those who remain securely at home to yield to named for him may be taken as unique. A syn-
an easy emotionalism?
dicate of North Carolina capitalists has arranged
However the war started it has now clearly to erect at Greensboro, in that state, a seven-
resolved itself into a war "to deliver the free story edifice to be known as the O. Henry Hotel.
peoples of the world from the menace and the The idea commends itself. Memorial statues
actual power of a vast military establishment and memorial libraries are alike commonplace.
controlled by an irresponsible government." The The South may need statues, and it may need
President has stated again and again that “this libraries still more; but it needs good hotels more
power is not the German people."
than either. It is fitting enough that a roof for
Unless each one of us resists the easy and attracting and harboring the various phases of
popular inclination to hatred, passion will blur life should be spread in memory of a man whose
our national vision and the purpose of the war
writings reveal so much interest in the miscella-
will be defeated.
neous characteristics of our humankind as it
We are fighting for a liberalized world, one runs; and it is likely enough that O. Henry's
in which democracy is safe and practical. Peace spirit, if still cognizant of mundane affairs, will
can be made only upon that basis. It is not pos-
take pleasure in the ebb and flow of the human
sible to consider dealing with the Prussian mili-
tide through the big and hospitable caravan-
tary government, but it is necessary that we deal
serai that is to bear his name. When will there
with the liberalized German people. The Ger-
be a Whitcomb Riley Hotel for Indianapolis, a
man people have in actuality suffered as much
Bailey Aldrich Hotel for "Rivermouth"?
from Prussianism as have the Allies. But it
must be perceived that Prussianism is a habit
TOWARD WHAT IS JOHN GALSWORTHY
of mind rather than a concrete institution or
group of people, and as such its ultimate defeat
HEADED? In his earlier days the social interest
will be on the plane of the intellect rather than
engaged predominantly his attention, as witness
of brute force.
"The Man of Property," "The Country House,"
It is therefore the duty of every one of us
“The Patrician," and such plays as “Justice"
behind the firing line to rise above blind, unrea-
and "The Silver Box." Latterly the social in-
soning, indiscriminate emotionalism and perceive terest seems to have become subordinated to the
that the real issue of the war is an intellec-
sexual interest. The change first became mark-
tual issue. It is necessary that military force edly noticeable in "The Dark Flower,” and it is
be met with military force; that is being done by still more so in his latest novel, "Beyond.” Is it
our men at the front. But unless we back them his taste and purpose to enter yet farther into
up with clear, constructive thinking, we shall the saffron penumbra of sex, and if so, why? The


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as
novel fully justifies itself when, like a bas-relief, rise and which if the end of the war appears
it deals with many figures in their general rela- even remotely in sight is likely to fall, owners
tions and connections; no imperative need to are urged to sell without delay. "We offer full
limit oneself to a small group isolated and han-
market value for these metals," says the foundry
dled intensively "in the round." Does Gals- advertising, “and would use them for the manu-
worthy, as a fictionist past his youthful strength, facture of shrapnel bullets.” Per contra, there
select the sexual line as the line of least resistance is a caution from another quarter against allow-
-as the course able to yield the maximum effect ing old films to get out of the country and to
with the minimum expenditure of effort? Or has reach Germany, where the material could be
he, in the latter stages of his career, come to feel, used in the manufacture of munitions. Thus in
with Hardy, that the fundamental, elemental re- these days of general depletion all sorts of scraps
lation between man and woman is the only rela- and leavings are coming to have their value.
tion which, in the end, profoundly matters? It
is well to remember that, while man and woman
may be but man and woman when envisaging
BOOKSELLING AS A STUDY is receiving in-
each other, there are many other phases of human
creased attention in various parts of the world.
relationship involved, and that the novel may
The Leipzig Book Trade Institute offers a pro-
detach and specialize to the detriment of its essen-
fessional course of one year, under the patronage
tially social nature and to the partial negation
of the Saxon Ministry of Instruction, at Dres-
of its possibilities and even of its duties. den. Eligible students are those who have had
some practical experience or who can present a
one-year certificate of Voluntariat—such unpaid
Must THE READING WORLD FORM AN ANTI- service with a publishing or bookselling house
LOVE-LETTER ASSOCIATION ? Shall we go on al-
was common,
a few years back, among
lowing ourselves full liberty to consume in print
young Germans in London. The French have
the amatory effusions of distinguished men lately
a Book Trade Instruction Course under the
dead? Shall we make no stand against the ready auspices of the Paris Cercle de la Librairie. This
coöperative enterprise of survivors and publish-
course runs for two years and seems to lay less
ers? A disquieting report is in circulation that
a collection of letters written by James Whit-
stress than the other.on literature and literary
comb Riley to a woman he was once engaged to
history and more on the actual manufacture of
marry may soon be issued in print. The period
the book: at least the course in literature (French
covered is none too recent,-being from 1877 to
literature alone) comes in the last half of the
1885,--but the death of the poet is; and his let-
In fact, the French booksellers
ters, written “at the rate of three per week" seem to have arranged an attack in force on
(such is the commercial intimation as to the bulk Leipzig, whose extraordinary position in the
of the material), may impinge rather unpleas- book world is well known: from this town, says
antly upon the sensibilities of a surviving circle Hachette, thirteen thousand booksellers obtain
of relatives and friends and may even prejudice their wares, and one of its firms has a stock of
a fame recently consolidated and consecrated by 30,000,000 volumes. In our own country this
death. This sort of thing is becoming too fre-
educational movement was first taken up in Phil-
quent, and is being carried too far. How many adelphia, where the William Penn Evening High
will join in a solemn, decorous oath not to read School has lately completed, with thirty-six stu-
these letters if they are published ?
dents, its first annual course in bookselling and
library training. None of its graduates, it is re-
THE EFFECT OF THE WAR ON PRINTING-
ported, have had any difficulty in securing posi-
OFFICES AND TYPE-FOUNDRIES may be felt in an
tions. A similar course, more or less directly
urgent advertisement which appears in an Eng- influenced by Mr. Huebsch, is arranged for the
lish booksellers' organ: “A Duty," it cries in Julia Richman High School, in New York. This
big black-face. There is a scarcity of lead, it
is described as a forty-week course: a twenty
seems; the supply is insufficient to keep shrapnel- weeks' survey of American literature from the
bullet manufacturers and other munition-makers bookseller's standpoint, and with reference to
at full pressure. Many publishers and printers demands in a bookstore; it also includes classifica-
have under their control stocks of old type, old tion, cataloguing, and indexing. Then, a twenty
stereotypes, old electrotypes, and so on, which weeks' study of the purely trade side of book-
they are hesitating to discard, or which they find selling-store-organization, advertising, card-cata-
difficulty in releasing owing to shortage of labor. loguing of customers, and such-like details. It
As the Ministry of Munitions controls lead and appears that book-buying, after the return of
practically fixes the price, which is unlikely to peace, may have its own comforts and amenities.
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NOTES FOR BIBLIOPHILES
The Mosher Books
[Inquiries or contributions to this department should be ad-
dressed to John E. Robinson, the Editor, who will be
pleased to render to readers such services as are possible.)
A rare piece of Americana has been obtained by
Charles F. Heartman, of 36 Lexington Avenue,
New York. It is entitled “The Isle of Pines, or a
Late Discovery of a fourth Island in Terra Aus-
tralis, Incognito, being a True Relation of Certain
English persons who, in the dayes of Queen Eliz-
abeth, making a voyage to the East India, were
cast away and wracked upon the Island." It is a
small quarto of nine pages, is without place, and
was printed by "S. G. for Allen Banks, 1668.”
"S. G.” was Samuel Green, a printer at Cam-
bridge, Massachusetts. His partner, Marmaduke
Johnson, was fined by the General Court for print-
ing this book without permission. He appealed to
the Governor and the General Council, by whom
the fine was remitted.
This edition was a lost book until it turned up
at the sale by Sotheby's, in London, on July 30, of
Bishop White Kennett's collection of Americana.
Bishop Kennett was deeply interested in mission-
ary work in America and other lands. He pub-
lished a catalogue of his American books, the
earliest, or one of the earliest, on record. His
signature is on the title-page of this work, which
adds to its interest and value. It was described in
the Sotheby catalogue as without frontispiece,
which was one of the reasons why it sold cheaply.
The Cambridge edition, however, appears to have
had no frontispiece. Mr. Heartman, aware of the
value of the book, instructed his London agent, Mr.
Steevens, to obtain it for him if possible from the
buyer. This was done.
The catalogue attributed the work to Henry
Neville. It has also been attributed to George
Pine and to Cornelius van Sloettes. There is
nothing in it about America. It is a romance after
the fashion of Swift and Defoe and Baron Münch-
hausen. It enjoyed_some popularity and was
printed in America, England, Holland, and Ger-
many. It consisted originally of nine pages, but
was extended to thirty-one pages in later editions.
A copy of one of these editions, dated the same
year and printed in England, is in the John Carter
Brown library. Mr. Heartman believes that the
book is worth $2000. He will consult with the
book-auction firms and may put it in a sale if
they think as he does about it. Otherwise he will
issue a reprint of it and probably present the orig-
inal to Harvard University.
The American Art Association, of New York, has
not yet decided on its plans for 1917-18. The
opening sale will not be held before November.
The war conditions will govern its actions. The
engagement of American troops on the European
battlefields and any heavy loss among them would
necessarily affect auction prices greatly.
William Howard Samson, late vice-president of
the Anderson Auction Company, who died recently,
had a library of Americana and books relating to
Lake George, New York. This library has been
consigned to the Anderson Company and will be
among the first sales of the season.
New Announcements for October 1917
Garlands and Wayfarings
By WILLIAM ASPENWALL BRADLEY
500 copies. Post 8vo on Italian hand-made
paper, Ancona boards, $1.50 net.
25 copies on Japan vellum, $4.00 net.
One of the younger group of American
authors whose first volume of verse here
makes its appearance in a most attractive
format.
Dreams
By OLIVE SCHREINER
500 copies. F'cap quarto, Van Gelder paper,
old-style boards, gold stamped, $2.50 net.
25 copies on Japan vellum, $5.00 net.
The only beautiful edition of this enduring
book of prose symbolism ever issued in
America.
By Bendemeer's Stream:
A Book of Lyrics
By THOMAS MOORE
500 copies. F'cap quarto, Van Gelder paper,
old-style green boards, $1.50 net.
25 copies on Japan vellum, $4.00 net.
A selection of old favorites—"broken airs
you once loved”-or might come to love if
from now on you knew them.
Two New “Lyra Americana" Volumes:
IV
Lyrics from a Library
By CLINTON SCOLLARD
450 copies. F'cap 8vo, decorated boards,
$1.00 net. 25 copies on Japan vellum, $2.00
net.
An alluring little volume that has been
inaccessible for some time is now revised by
its author and finds a fitting place in Lyra
Americana.
V
The Voice in the Silence
By THOMAS S. JONES, JR.
450 copies. F'cap 8vo, decorated boards,
$1.00 net. 25 copies on Japan vellum, $2.00
net. A fourth and augmented edition which,
with The Rose Jar, presents the poetry of
Mr. Jones in its final revision. To this vol-
ume James Lane Allen has contributed an
exquisite appreciation.
Previous issues:
1—The Rose Jar. By Thomas S. Jones, Jr.
II-A Handful of Lavender. By Lizette
Woodworth Reese.
III–The Flower from the Ashes and Other
Verse. By Edith M. Thomas.
THOMAS BIRD MOSHER
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PRESIDENT WILSON'S
Reply to the Pope's
PEACE MESSAGE
Says that the civilized peoples of the
world cannot trust the German Goy-
ernment.
Have you read
Saint Séductre
by Exile X
The duplicity and deceit—the depths of
moral degradation to which the ruling
class of Germany has sunk have never
been so clearly set forth as in this mas-
terly portrayal of the Teutonic Peril.
Introduction by
RICHARD WILMER ROWAN
Read It Now
It is prophetic
At your booksellers $1.25 or by mail
$1.35 postpaid
Liberty Publishing
Publishing Association
110 W. 40th St., New York City
.
The catalogue of the Church library of Ameri-
cana, now owned by Henry E. Huntington, is of
great interest and value to collectors. Most of the
copies were destroyed by fire at the bindery.
Charles F. Heartman was anxious to obtain a
copy. He wrote to Mr. Huntington in an effort
to obtain a copy from him. Mr. Huntington
replied that he had only one copy, for which he had
paid $900. Mr. Heartman has since obtained a
copy from George D. Smith for $500. He values it
at $1500.
Patrick F. Madigan, of New York, has pur-
chased the original drawings made by Howard
Pyle for "The Wonder Clock” and “Pepper and
Salt," published by Harper & Brothers. The col-
lection consists of one hundred drawings considered
by American artists as the best pen and ink work
that Pyle did. Mr. Madigan has sold to John L.
Clawson, the Buffalo collector, the following letter
of William Penn:
Pall Mall
my birthday, 14th. of 8th mo. 1709.
James Logan,
Lov'g ffriend:
This comes by David Britnell, to whom I would
have thee justly kinde in reference to a small piece
of land he has bought here for a childe of his not
so fitt for town business
and now know that
I have thine of ye 12th mo, 2nd, 3rd, & 4th, two of
each of the last months and for answear, I vallue
not coots nor ye disappointment of Coll. Nichson w'ch
Ranier, Att. Genll. of New York has complained of,
but hope to weather them. Only ye assemblys not
giving Govr. Gookin anything after the hundreds it
cost me to get a Governor of my own approved by
ye Queen and to prevent a Queens Governor ousting
me, it is to barbarous, I can very uneasily put it up.
Sampson killed more Philistians at his death than
in his life, let you have a care of provoking me to
farr. They are a pack of vile brutish Spirits. Why
will not the best of friends, and mine, stand and put
by the numskulls yt D.L. governs.
And I cannot
think my selfe sincerely used, if this is not done and
if they will not assist my affaires there, I must think .
my paines and charge ill bestowed here for frd's
administration and interest in Govermt for the glory
of Coll. Quarry, ask parson Evans, and now yt I
have writt to the Lt. Governor to desolve ye present
councill (if not well without it), and make him first
a new one, and am not angry with him, only yt per-
son, thou so much recommended tould me, he made
it an article agst him yet yt he was too indulgent
to my frds, and Government. See ye Governours
letter by way of Bristoll, A Pinck goes thence directly.
Mitchell is a great undertaker and has prevailed
with ye Lords of Carolina for land for 600 Palatines,
by ye help of ye Swiss Lords who make him agent,
also ye Queen has graunted to ye Swiss Lords a tract
of land upon ye branches of Potomac, and is seeking
ten or 20000 acrs of me. Hele want for ye lands
a thousand bushells of flour not fine but midling,
and pay here for ye Palatines in Carolina. They
are just now goeing, are on board, wch pray take
notice of, since so plain and easy an opportunity of
returns hither. My son Aubrey is in so great a rage,
saying thou hast not pay'd in 1500 lbs of ye 2000
Ibs and ye rest should not be long after, and indeed
he wants extremely, wherefore, pray mind yt matter.
He says thou tellest his attorneys, I have ordered
thee to pay you nothing. I told him and her, it was
ab't the interest of wch was Pay'd to his attorneys,
nor indeed will l. Pray let Capt. Finney be in some
post, tell Coll. Gook of it, and to show respect to
“If you dare to face the human heart as it
really is,” says C. D. M. in the Boston
Transcript, "do not miss
LIMEHOUSE
NIGHTS
By
Thomas Burke
These remarkable stories of love and
life and death in one of the strangest
corners of the earth have captured the
enthusiasm of readers in England and
America.
H. G. Wells says: “Nor have I seen
anywhere anything like adequate praise
for the romantic force and beauty of Mr.
Thomas Burke's 'Limehouse Nights.'
"A work of Genius,” says Clement K.
Shorter. "Kipling has written nothing
more powerful," declared the Liverpool
Post. "A book of Life.”—The Boston
Herald.
First Edition exhausted on publication.
Second Edition in preparation. $1.50 net
ROBERT M. McBRIDE & co., New York


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THREE VITAL WAR BOOKS
The Only First-hand Account of the Russian
Revolution Published So Far in America
The Rebirth of Russia
By ISAAC F. MARCOSSON
Author of "The War After the War," etc.
28 Illustrations.
Cloth, Net, $1.25
This is the first authentic account of the
Russian Revolution—the greatest event in
world history since the French Revolution.
Mr. Marcosson was in Petrograd during the
whole drama of reconstruction, and enjoyed
personal acquaintance with the men who
made the astounding upheaval possible. His
character-study of Kerensky is a brilliant
analysis of the “Russian Lloyd George."
Locke's Greatest Success
Jos. Growden, for I hear they behave well, and
remember me to all yt have deserved well from
me, and ye rest I wish better. What would the
fools be at? Would they have me law breaking
here instead of there by abusing their authority ?
Through whom
had they it? How long
would D.L.G.J. & Jos. Wil &c., have lived in England
before they had been members of assembley and
justices of peace ? Have they forgot their low cir-
cumstances? I have not! In short, if they will not
maintaine a Government, and settle a lasting sallery
on me or my Dept. and so encourage a chief justice
and an attorney Genll. with a decent allowance, I
will take it shall be done by act of Parliament here,
and I will resifne upon yt condition for one. Also
know that a good chief should so brow-beat ye quack
lawyers, yt our primitive law of every man telling
his own grievance, or by his frd, without ffees, should
be renewed again, and without it we cannot hope it
for all wise men press yt as the most capitall thing
to a quiet Govermt. to suffer no lawyers in it. Ffor-
got not the good and now poor widdow Harrison of
Dublin, frds write me again and again. I admire
thou hast never sent me ffurs, creatures, birds, &c.,
I writt for that is as gratfull to ye people I have
obligations too, as greater things.
Thy head is too full of (thou thinkest) greater
things. By Coll. G's letter I perceive thou intendest
over with us, which I shall be glad to see you, tho'
it were but for 2 months time. But then I hope thou
wilt put my affaires in good hands. It seems ye
quantity of flour to be sent to the Palatines at Caro-
lina, is 100 barrels of ordinary Aour, but let it be
wheaten four. If we had 1000 quarters of four here,
it would be a noble cargoe, wheat being 10 and 11
shillings a bushell in this town, and then returns
may be in our growth, to an high advantage, praye
mind this.
I hope Pennsberry is upon a good bottom & at
least 150 if not more acres are not cleared, if not
200, and some marsh for good meddow. W. Wat-
son, makes heavy complaint of thee and L. Lacker.
You look upon all as your own & seem as if you
were never to be called upon. But take little notice
of it for I think to write a few lines perhaps. I
fear I shall not be able to finde D. L's remonstrance,
but will endevour it; for I am but just come from
ye West of England to town, and my papers are
partly in town, and partly in Reading where in our
way to Bristoll we sojourned 4 or 5 months, for
our childrens sake at school. Tho I know not now the
use to be made of it here; he being in such consid-
eration with some there. Pray give my love to J. N.
& ffamily. He has sent several letters to ffrds at
Bristoll as well as here, but none to me, which I
admire a little at. I admire thou hast not my orders
abt. Coll. G's money, pray faile not to do it, as be-
fore. I writt two letters to thee on yt. acct. as also
abt. Ch. Jones and Robert. My poor wife is
collicall, but at times hearty, and so now, & my 5
pretty children were two days ago hearty and well.
So is my poor son P. and his, as also my son's daugh-
ter Aubrey. Which ends this at present (unless I
have more time) from
Thy assured ffriend
Wm. Penn.
The Red Planet
By WILLIAM J. LOCKE
Author of "The Wonderful Year,” etc.
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Of the contributors to the present issue, Amy
Wellington is a young New York journalist and
critic who is now at work on a biographical and
critical study of Charlotte Perkins Gilman. She
was formerly associated with “Current Opinion."
Walter E. Weyl, who reviews Mr. Brailsford's
important book, has himself published within the
year a notable study of international organization
for peace, "American World Politics.” Mr. Weyl
was formerly statistical expert on internal com-
merce for the federal treasury bureau of sta-
tistics. He is the author of “The New Democ-
racy,” and other books.
W. G. Tinckom-Fernandez was born in India
and studied there and in Europe. He was grad-
uated from Harvard in 1910 and has since made
his home in America. He writes chiefly on various
phases of Oriental life and letters.
L. L. Bernard is professor of sociology at the
University of Missouri. He is the author of “The
Transition to an Objective Standard of Social
Control,” “The Teaching of Sociology in the United
States," and other works.
J. De Lancey Ferguson is a teacher of English
at Heidelberg University, in Ohio.
B. I. Kinne is a member of the Romance De-
partment at the University of Wisconsin.
Ruth McIntire is a writer and social worker
whose home is in Boston.
He was just back from the trenches.
She was just back from New York-
cynical, worldly, openly materialis-
tic, bitterly resentful of his influence
over the sleepy little Southern town ...
The Heart's Kingdom
By Maria Thompson Daviess
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of deep spiritual force is difficult
of attainment. But Miss Daviess has
done this and the result is a novel of
splendid power and insight, with a
heart-warming love story.
The Heart's K’ingdom is a graphic,
stirring portrayal of the spiritual un-
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It is vital. It has to do with the
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Illustrated. $1.35 net.
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. announce the pub-
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tunes of Richard Mahoney."
A one-act dramatization of an O. Henry story
-“The Gift of the Magi”—will be given imme-
diate production by Klaw & Erlanger.
Messrs. Robert M. McBride & Co. announce
a critical study of a dozen or so of the more im-
portant modern Belgian writers, by G. Turquet
Milne.
The Macmillan Co. announce a new novel by
H. G. Wells—"The Soul of a Bishop.” The
Bishop is the Mr. Britling of the Church of
England.
Amateur golfers will find solace and amusement
in Holworthy Hall's “Dormie One and Other
Golf Stories,” which is now announced by the
Century Co.
A plan for the democratization of business is
presented in “Civilized Commercialism,” by_Er-
nest G. Stevens. The book is published by E. P.
Dutton & Co.
E. Phillips Oppenheim's latest novel, “The
Cinema Murder” (Little, Brown & Co.), is about
to be published in England under the title of "The
Other Romilly."
In "God and Mr. Wells" (Alfred A. Knopf),
William Archer throws some light on Mr. Wells's
gospel and outlines his own position on spiritual
problems of the day.
"You Are the Hope of the World,” by Hermann
Hagedorn (Macmillan) is a challenge to the youth
of the nation. It carries with it the commendation
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George Lansbury's "Your Part in Poverty," pub-
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The ideas for books which Robert Louis Steven-
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Hallie Erminie Rives (Mrs. Post Wheeler), au-
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where her husband is secretary of the American
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President Wilson's war messages, published by
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Winston Churchill's new novel, “The Dwelling
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THE UNCONQUERED
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"The books and speeches of James M. Beck and our present-day duties
should be studied by every real American.”—THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
The Evidence in the Case
"I regard it as the most able and comprehensive of the many papers produced by this terrible war
and you have placed the world under great obligation by your work.”—John W. FOSTER, Formerly Sec-
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"It seems to me in every respect a most able and admirable statement of the case. A masterly
analysis of the diplomatic records. I have read it with great admiration."-ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR,
Formerly Prime Minister of England.
Part or all of this book has been printed in SEVEN LANGUAGES
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(By mail $1.35.)
The War and Humanity
3d Edition. Revised and Enlarged
“Mr. Beck's volume was a classic the moment it appeared. We know of no more logical and lucid
discussion of the essential facts and problems of the great war, nor any more truly consistently and
even vigorously American in its spirit.”-N. Y. Tribune.
"One of the most virile and convincing books that the great war has produced in any country of
the world.”—N. Y. Sun.
12°. 400 pages. $1.50 net. (By mail $1.60.)
OTHER BOOKS OF INTEREST
Published by Putnams
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The first volume is an earnest
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War Efficiency
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household efficiency. Both vol-
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Frank Landon
Life and Times of "Justice has at last been granted
an early American patriot.
Humphreys
David Humphreys The subject of this detailed biz
2 vols. Illus. $7.50
ography was so close a friend
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biography. It is a history of
the times as well as
a life-
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Bruce Bairnsfather
Fragments from
France
A great collection of the pic-
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have made the British Empire
rock with laughter, and even
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“Billy" Sunday
Great Love Stories
of the Bible
Books have been written about
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points its lessons through Sun-
day's own and inimitable man-
ner of expression.
Elizabeth Champney
The Romance of
Old Japan
A beautiful book by the author
of “Romance of the French
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trated by paintings, photo-
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Gustav Kobbe
The Complete
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Stories of the opera, together
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volume is sumptuously illus-
trated.
Capt. R.C. Richardson
West Point
An intimate picture of the Na-
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contains a foreword by General
Hugh L. Scott.
Frank E. Lutz
Joe Stefansson
Field Book of
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AMERICAN PATRIOTIC PROSE AND VERSE - Selected and Edited by Ruth Davis
Stevens and David B. Stevens, Ph.D.
The selections are arranged chronologically, and they are accompanied by biographical notes
and interesting data regarding the circumstances under which the pieces were composed. Here
in a measure may be found the glorious record of our national life. $1.25.
THE STANDARD CONCERT GUIDE - by George P. Upton
A collection and analysis of standard instrumental and vocal works in the concert room reper-
tory. This volume is a revision of two “Standard” Books by Mr. Upton, viz., "The Standard
Concert Guide,” and “The Standard Concert Repertory,” brought down to date and united for
convenience, in one volume. Numerous portraits. $2.00.
JAPANESE ART MOTIVES - by Maude Rex Allen
It is to provide an answer to the most obvious questions in regard to the significance of Jap-
anese art designs or motives that this work, which is at once a study, a history, and a guide,
has been written. For the art student and art lover it is invaluable, and for the visitor to the
temple treasures of Old Japan it is a vade mecum. Illustrated. $3.00.
THE ARCTIC STOWAWAYS - by Dillon Wallace
Written by a man who knows what boys want and need in a story. He knows they want ad-
venture: that they love fair play and admire manliness; and he realizes they need moral in-
struction. Illustrated by Frank E. Schoonover. $1.25.
THE PIXIE OUT-DOORS-by Laura Rountree Smith
Author of "The Bunny Books," "The Pixie in the House,” etc.
This is the second volume of The Pixie Series which bids fair to rival in popularity the
author's well-known "Bunny" books. Illustrations by Clara Powers Wilson. $1.25.
WITH THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC — by Byron A. Dunn
Author of "The Young Kentuckians Series," and "The Young Missourians Series.”
A continuation of the adventures of the two young heroes of “The Boy Scouts of the Shenan-
doah,” as they enter another stage of the Civil War. The book is designed to teach the youth
of America, at this critical time, patriotism, true bravery and heroism. Illustrated by J. Al-
len St. John. $1.25.
THE GIST OF AUCTION BRIDGE - by Charles Emmet Coffin
A concise guide to the scientific game with suggestions for good form.
It is a clear, concise, and comprehensive manual of the game according to the system used by
expert players, presenting the tables of bids, leads, and plays, in the most convenient and con-
densed form. $1.00.
THE HORSE - by Henry C. Merwin
His Breeding, Care, and Treatment in Health and Disease.
While this is primarily a helpful book for horse owners, it will prove of interest to all who
have known at close range, this, the most useful of all the quadrupeds that labor for man.
Illustrated. $1.50.
EVENINGS WITH GREAT AUTHORS— by Sherwin Cody
Vol. 1. How AND WHAT TO READ; SHAKESPEARE, LINCOLN.
Vol. II. Scott, Dickens, THACKERAY.
Great authors are for the people. The books they wrote were not bought because they were
great literature, but because they gave an insight into life, rested the heart, and lightened the
burden of daily living.
Mr. Cody pleasantly introduces us to great authors and their books, giving a little taste here
and there of the enjoyment to be found. He is one of the ablest of guides. Price per vol-
ume, $1.00.
THE SAND DUNES OF INDIANA- by E. Stillman Bailey
The sand dunes of Indiana lying within a few miles of a mighty city are one of the wonder
places of America. With camera and pen Dr. Bailey tells the story of the dunes, what they
are, how to get to them, and what to see when there. His book is both a guide and an inter-
pretation. Illustrated. $1.75.
STATISTICS – by W. B. Bailey, Ph.D., and John Cummings
It contains much valuable information concerning how to gather, tabulate and rightly inter-
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THE DEVIL'S OWN— by Randall Parrish
The river gamblers of the old Mississippi steam boat days were as a class "bad men” in all
that the term implies, and it is one of these picturesque rascals that gives the title to this
latest yarn by one of the most popular story-tellers of his age.
The time is at the outbreak of the Black Hawk War, which forms part of the background
of the story. The movement is rapid throughout and the stirring adventures by forest and
stream of the character are told in Parrish's own inimitable style. Illustrated by the Kin-
neys. $1.40.
THE VENGEANCE OF JEFFERSON GAWNE - by Charles Alden Seltzer
A story of the Southwest, in the days of the big cattle ranges. It goes back to the time when
the Gun was the court of final appeal, when men hated fiercely and loved with passionate ar-
dor. It tells how the law came to a cow-town, dominated by a cattle thief and rustler, how
one man, by sheer force of personality, succeeded in awakening that instinctive desire for law
and order possessed individually and collectively by even crude communities. Illustrated by
P. V. E. Ivory. $1.35.
THE MESSIAH OF THE CYLINDER — by Victor Rousseau
A startingly original and powerful novel different from anything ever published. Mr. Rous-
seau has his very vital characters play out their drama in a world gripped by a perverted
and tyrannous socialism without either religion or freedom. A book that will be talked about.
Pictures by J. C. Coll. Price $1.35.
BY THE WORLD FORGOT-by Cyrus Townsend Brady
A romance beginning in New York and ending in the South Pacific. A scion of a prominent
New York family, groom-to-be in a “marriage of convenience,” is shanghaied aboard a sail-
ing vessel by his business partner, who is in love with his prospective bride. The story of
the unfortunate victim's awful experiences until and after he reaches a lonely island in the
South Seas, inhabited by the descendants of some Dutch settlers, completely cut off from the
rest of the world, and the finding there of his heart's desire in a maiden of the forgotten
island, are highly absorbing, entertaining and exciting. Frontispiece by Clarence F. Under-
wood. $1.40.
A PRINCESS OF MARS — by Edgar Rice Burroughs
An absorbing tale of adventure and romance forty-three million miles from Earth. It is hardly
too much to say it is the boldest piece of imaginative fiction in this generation. Only the man
who created Tarzan, the Ape Man, could write so bold a story. Illustrated by Frank E.
Schoonover. $1.35.
A SON OF THE CITY -- by Herman Gastrell Seely
A most realistic story and study of boy life, the perusal of which will give many a reader the
feeling that he is living his own school days over again.
John Fletcher and his chums are just boys, healthy young animals, irresponsible and carefree,
preferring to play rather than study. Their pranks, escapades, physical encounters, battles on
the playground, home life, and all the things which make boy life so interesting, are related
in a way that has not been matched since Mark Twain wrote his immortal books of boy
life. Illustrated by Fred J. Arting. $1.35.
CUDDY'S BABY (New Edition) - by Margaret Hill McCarter.
The spirit of the brave West, as tempered by the Prince of Peace, colors, and permeates
every page of this wondrously beautiful human story; by a writer to whom is given the rare
talent of combining perfect literary art with intense emotional expression. Illustrated by J.
Allen St. John. Oblong, Aexible binding, boxed, 60 cents. In ooze calf, boxed, $1.50.
TERSE VERSE - by Walt Mason
Humor that fairly sparkles, shrewd wisdom which one appreciates and assimilates, together
with a rare knowledge and understanding of human nature, characterize the prose poems of
this “Smiling philosopher with a gift of song,” as he has been called. Illustrated and dec-
orated. $1.30. In ooze calf, boxed, $1.75.
GOLDEN SONGS OF THE GOLDEN STATE - Compiled by Marguerite Wilkinson
An anthology of poems that sing and celebrate the traditions, the life and the native beauty of
one of the greatest commonwealths in the Union.
The book was designed especially for gift purposes and so it is very pleasingly decorated. $1.50.
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A STUDENT IN ARMS Socce Serieties By DONALD HANKEY Each net, $1.50
Two books, written from the trenches, about soldier life that carry a splendid message of
reassurance and consolation for every one who is sending husband, brother, son, lover or friend
to the front. They are packed full of the things we all, whether we are of those who go or those
who stay, want to know and they are the noblest books that have come out of the war. The best
possible gift for a lad bound for France.
war
GRAPES OF WRATH
By BOYD CABLE
Net, $1.50
Based on the fighting of the great Somme Battle,
it tells what four chums in an infantry company,
one of them a Kentuckian, saw and did. A vivid
and thrilling narrative that makes you see, hear,
smell and taste the very battle, by the author of
"Action Front," "Between the Lines" and "Doing
Their Bit."
THE COMING DEMOCRACY
By HERMANN FERNAU
Net, $2.00
Author of "Because I Am a German."
In this new book a native German shows that the
was the inevitable outcome of the policies of
the German government and pleads with his fellow
Germans to oust the dynasty, the imperial govern-
ment and all its imperial ambitions and purposes and
make of Germany a democratic nation that will live
in peace, harmony and justice with the other democ-
racies of the world.
New York Tribune says: “We commend the book
to every serious reader as one of the foremost books
of universal and permanent value thus far inspired
by the great war.'
RUSSIAN MEMORIES
By MADAM OLGA NOVIKOFF Net, $3.50
English people give to Madam Novikoff much
of the credit for the better feeling and the diplo-
matic understanding between England and Russia
that finally supplanted the ill feeling and suspicions
of former years. Her book was written since the
outbreak of the present war and is filled with anec-
dotes and reminiscences of her long life.
Boston Transcript says: "It is a sincere analysis
of the relations between Russia and England as she
has observed them during the last fifty years. And
the personality shown in her writing is one of great
intelligence and charm."
ON THE THRESHOLD OF
THE UNSEEN
By SIR WILLIAM F. BARRETT
Net, $2.50
New and remarkable evidence on Survival After
Death obtained independently of any professional
mediums.
The London Times says: “Essential to a proper
understanding of physical research either by those
who want to believe or by those who want to dis-
believe in actual communications from the departed."
MEMORIES DISCREET AND
INDISCREET
By A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE Net, $5.00
The author has met most of the distinguished men
and women of her time; kings, statesmen, soldiers,
men of letters, empire-makers, musicians, revolution-
ists-in fact, a cosmopolitan crowd. In her book
will be found many good stories of celebrities, anec-
dotes of travel and sport, of the field and the bou-
doir, which will ensure a large public for her recol-
lections.
The DEVONSHIRE HOUSE CIRCLE
By HUGH STOKES. Fully illustrated. Net, $5.00
Devonshire House is the most historic palace in
Mayfair. Its hospitable doors have opened to gen-
eration after generation of English society and its
passport is almost equal to a royal patent of nobil-
ity. "The Devonshire House Circle" deals with the
reign of the fifth Duke and his beautiful Duchess,
the incomparable Georgina. The period covered is
roughly the last quarter of the 18th Century.
As a
leader of London society the exploits of Georgina,
Duchess of Devonshire, have never been rivalled. In
this volume the courtyard in Piccadilly is once more
crowded with the life and bustle of chariots, sedans,
footmen, grandees and link-boys.
RUSSIAN COURT MEMOIRS
1914-1916
Net, $5.00
The book, which affords a curious glimpse into
Russian life, is written_anonymously by a member
of the court circle at Petrograd which was dashed
from its high place by the Revolution. He is an
ardent Russian, but as loyal to the tradition of
royalty as to his country, and therefore the view he
gives of the former royal family and the members
of the court circle is the other side of the shield
from that which has usually been presented by
Russian writers.
A SOLDIER'S MEMORIES IN
PEACE AND WAR
By MAJ. GEN. SIR GEORGE YOUNGHUSBAND
Net, $5.00
Detroit Press says: "It is so fascinating a narra-
tive and set forth with such vivacity and humor that
it is laid down with genuine regret at the end of 350
octavo pages.'
Received the Prize of the Academie Goncourt of Paris for the Best Book of the Year
UNDER FIRE (Le Feu) The Story of a Squad
From the French of HENRI BARBUSSE
Net, $1.50
The intimate story, written with masterly literary skill, of a French infantry squad. As he
describes the daily life of the men the author turns inside out their minds and souls.
Frank Moore Colby, in the Bookman for September, 1917, says: “There is much more than
the life of a squad in this brilliant and varied narrative which records or divines wide areas
of experience.
"It is not a chronicle, still less a diary, but combines pictures of men in masses, and of indi-
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One of the Greatest Successes of the Hour – An Anonymous Book
Net, $1.50
HELEN OF FOUR GATES
The author of this extraordinary “first book" is referred to as one of the most remarkable writers
of recent years.
A woman who has spent twenty of her thirty years in an English cotton mill has written a
novel of such passion power and uncanny gripping quality that leading critics in England and
America are comparing it to the fiction of Poe and the Brontë sisters.
New York Times says:-"An Ex-Mill girl has brought a new note to current fiction, a note that
excels in sheer emotional power, in beauty of tone in imagination any voice that is now telling
stories to the English speaking peoples.”
New York Worlă says:—“There are in print few pictures more impressive than those drawn by
this unknown author."
THE JOYFUL YEARS
By F. T. WAWN
Net, $1.50
A story of youth and love, ideals and friendship,
patriotism and sacrifice as fresh and beautiful and
inspiring as a spring morning. If you are young
it will make you glad and happy. If you are get-
ting elderly it will lift off half your years.
THE ROYAL OUTLAW
By CHARLES B. HUDSON
Net, $1.50
David the Outlaw, soon to be King of Israel, leads
his fighting men through desperate adventures,
breathless perils, valiant deeds. A stirring tale of
action and adventure, it follows the Biblical outline
and vividly pictures the scenes and customs of the
time.
DAY AND NIGHT STORIES
By ALGERNON BLACKWOOD
Net, $1.50
Author of "Julius Le Vallon," "The Wave," "Ten
Minute Stories."
Mr. Blackwood is the master of the mystical and
in this new volume of short stories is found some
of his best work.
Boston Transcript :-“In this rampant era of hard
and sordid fiction it is good to have a story-teller
like Mr. Blackwood who is able and content to tread
the unbeaten path."
MY WIFE
By EDWARD BURKE
Net, $1.50
The work of a new humorist who treats the mod-
ern conventional family life in a breezy spirit of
burlesque and exhibits the foibles and affectations of
the "lord and master" of the house in a manner that
suggests Jerome K. Jerome, but with a more refined
and subtle humor.
TWO SUMMERS in the ICEWILDS
OF EASTERN KAKORAM
By FANNY BULLOCK WORKMAN and
WILLIAM HUNTER WORKMAN Net, $8.00
Adventure of the most thrilling kind is found in
the account by those two veteran-and inveterate-
explorers. Mr. and Mrs. Workman had already won
many laurels by reason of their important explora-
tions and fearless adventurings in the high altitudes
of the Himalayas and the books they have written
about their work. This new volume, which is copi-
ously illustrated with 140 illustrations from photo-
graphs by the authors and has also several maps,
adds to their fame as explorers, observers, authors
and seekers after unusual and perilous adventure.
Their explorations covered nineteen hundred square
miles of mountain and glacier at altitudes of from
15,000 to 20,000 feet. They spent the summers of
1911 and 1912 in these awful wastes of ice and rock
and the account of their experiences makes a wonder-
tale of human effort and achievement.
THE BOOK OF THE WEST INDIES
By HYATT VERRILL
Net, $2.50
A full, detailed and accurate account in very read-
able and charming narrative, of the manifold at-
tractions and peculiarities of the West Indies. A
concise and reliable handbook that tells all that any-
body, tourist, stay-at-home, investor, student, wants
to know about the Islands. Copiously illustrated.
In Press.
THE HILL TOWNS OF FRANCE
By EUGENIE M. FRYER
Net, $2.50
The first complete account ever written of the hill-
towns of France whose influence over French his-
tory, picturesque situations, fascinating stories and
present day importance invest them with great in-
terest. Many beautiful illustrations. In Press.
THE HAPPIFATS and the GROUCH
STORY AND PICTURES BY KATE JORDAN
Net, $1.50
Sure to bring delight to the heart and smiles to
the face of any small person. No frowns or tears
could last a minute before the infectious good nature
of these fat, beaming jolly babies, busy with no
end of good times. In Press.
WILLIAM, BY THE GRACE of GOD
By MARJORIE BOWEN
Net, $1.50
The William of this stirring historical romance is
"William the Silent." Miss Bowen, who has
no
living equal in the art of creating historical at-
mosphere, has drawn her hero with dignity and
charm and made live again the heroes and states-
men who created after years of suffering and struggle
the Dutch Republic.
EAT AND GROW THIN CALENDAR
By VANCE THOMPSON
Net, $1.00
An artistic calendar giving dietary advice and daily menus for reducing Aesh based on the fa-
mous “Mahdah" menus and Vance Thompson's popular book “Eat and Grow Thin” of which a
hundred and thirty thousand copies have been sold. In Press.
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Towards the Goal
By Mrs. Humphry Ward
"The author enjoyed last spring exceptional op-
portunities of observing and writing about some of
the most important features of the British military
situation, and she here gives the results in a series
of chapters of singular lucidity and vividness."-
New York Tribune.
"The book is the work of a distinguished writer,
who has put into her pages all her skill and all her
patriotism."-New York Herald.
$1.25 net
On the Right of the
British Line
By Captain Gilbert Nobbs, Late L.R.B.
This is the simple, direct narrative by a young
English officer of his brief but intense experience
at the front in the battle of the Somme, in which
he was blinded and captured, and of his life in
German hospitals and prison camps until released
unfit for service. No other book gives any
such realization of an officer's duties and responsi-
bilities in the field and in battle, nor is there any
such a picture of life as a German prisoner of war.
$1.25 net
as
A World in Ferment
laterpretations of the War for a New World
By Nicholas Murray Butler
That breadth of vision which has made the author
a leader in the efforts to establish law as a substi-
tute for war characterizes these cogent discussions
of the present situation. Especially enlightening
are President Butler's definitions of the part America
must play and of the significance, from the view-
point of the "International Mind," of the part Ger-
many is playing.
$1.25 net
My War Diary
By Madame Waddington
Madame Waddington, who, as all readers know,
has described with rare vividness almost every phase
of the brilliant social and political life she has taken
part in, could not fail when she turned to the years
of the war to make a chronicle of almost unique
interest. To her real genius for writing the memoirs
of her time she adds here the intense feeling of a
Frenchwoman-as her marriage and long life in
France have virtually made her-of a mother and
the head of a home.
$1.50 net
Mankind: Racial Values and
the Racial Prospect
By Seth K. Humphrey
Confessions of a Caricaturist
By Oliver Herford
This untechnical study, based upon the accepted
principles of the action of heredity and environment,
bears directly upon many of the pressing questions
of the day and of the moment-such, for instance, as
that of immigration, and even by strong implica-
tion upon that of conscription. But only incidentally ;
it is, in fact, a broad study of racial values as they
have affected and as they will affect civilization
and human progress according to their relation and
combination.
$1.50 net
Many of Mr. Herford's inimitable caricatures and
pictures are here collected with verse accompani.
ments.
There are “Rudyard Kipling," "George Ber-
nard Shaw" (who is discovered crowning with laurel
a diffident-looking bust of himself), "Arnold Ben-
nett," "G. K. Chesterton," "George Ade" (which
Mr. Herford believes should be “Georgeade," and
the name of a summer drink), and others in charac-
teristic poses.
75 cents net
Unicorns
The Origins of the
Triple Alliance
By A. C. Coolidge
covers
By James Huneker
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The New Poets of France
Although I am impatient to come to the perfectly pure and detached work of Mal-
contemporary poets, who give expression ſarmé, among others. The result of that
to the soul of the young men who are my period was to leave some admirable
comrades, I shall first review rapidly the poems, like "L'Après-Midi d'un Faune"
recent past.
It is indispensable to say or Rimbaud's "Bateau Ivre," which are
from whom we descend, who were our still the possession of but few admirers.
elders and our masters. Another reason Another result was the conquest of new
for calling attention to some important forms in poetry. These poets did not ac-
figures of the last period is that their value cept the formal laws of versification; they
has not yet been fully recognized, and discovered and adopted new ones. And
American readers will find an immense the new exigencies of modern verse are
benefit in herborizing in this partly untrod- perhaps more strict than the old uniform
den garden.
rules of metre and rhyme. Free verse
It is difficult for you to realize how little (the name is far from happy) introduced
success depends upon merit, in France less into poetry many possibilities and nuances
than anywhere else. One explanation of that the regular Alexandrine verse did
this lies in the fact that talent being abun- not afford. Irregular verse is of course
dant, success could only consecrate it when nothing new, since_it is said to have de-
it was joined with some social or commer- scended from La Fontaine and from the
cial cleverness. But a better reason was versets of the Bible. Now poetry is being
the extreme division of the public into appreciated according to the qualities of
little classes who did not easily adopt one lyrism rather than to the degree of obedi-
another's admirations; a man who was ence to fixed material rules.
known and silently admired by the best Let us rapidly recall to mind the names
might remain all his life unrecognized ex- of Henri de Régnier and of Francis
cept by two hundred people, sometimes Viele-Griffin (who is an American by
fewer.
birth) as being the initiators of these re-
The consequence was that for a time forms. Jean Moréas stood faithful to
the true artists refused to compete for strict metrical tradition. In the first rank
popularity and made a system, a doctrine, of those who had influence and were fol-
of their isolation. Thus, instead of be-
Thus, instead of be- lowed by disciples, stands Francis Jammes,
ing recognized after their death, like most who has some of Virgil's blood running
of the great artists, they become known in his simple and harmonious poems.
only after the passage of a generation of Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles has
disciples. Now we can perceive rather more pride and also more anxiety, but she
clearly what were the characteristics of is near to Jammes, whom she deeply ad-
the best schools of 1890, which are to-day mires, in many aspects of her work. She
a part of France's classical past. First, is a great, noble, restless soul, with an
they cared extremely for a perfect, orig. extraordinary power of projecting mag-
inal, rare form. They despised easy
nificence around her. A decidedly power-
sources of inspiration. They looked for ful influence on present French literature
an art that was entirely sufficient to itself, is Paul Claudel's. His genius is so strong
that regarded life as ugly and poor. Art and so new that a long preparation is nec-
was a reaction against life and an evasion essary to approach and define him. Six
of it. A revenge against it. This is almost
years ago, he was known only to a few
exactly the principle of Poe, for whom score. To-day he is famous. Other im-
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But we
immediate elders are Paul Fort, author Alphonse Daudet's little son when he
of the many “Ballades Françaises,'' saw Ivan Turgenev coming into his fa-
André Suarès, André Spire, and Henri ther's house, arm in arm with Gustave
Ghéon. Each of these deserves a long Flaubert: “But all your friends are
appreciation, which cannot find place here, giants, then?”
but an enumeration of the influences acting These giants who dictate the rhythm of
upon us could not omit their names. our literary life have opened to the
Charles Péguy has a place among the world's poetry a new field; and what a
poets, owing to his “Mystères," the first field! That of modern life. They sang
being a deeply beautiful study of Joan of of the cities and the industrial work and
Arc's childhood and vocation. The two the physical effort. Their teaching is the
masters whose influence I regard as the one that will be demanded by the men
most decisive on the inspiration and work returned from the war—a teaching of
of the young are André Gide and Emile strength, fervor, and simplicity.
Verhaeren. Them I shall but mention in did not wait for the war to read and
this article, because I suppose them to be admire them. The universe seems to be
known already, and because their influ- wider since their voices praised its vari-
ence on the artists I know has been so ous parts, countries, creatures, construc-
multiform and so subtle that it would be tions, details.
We are no more the
vain to try to indicate it in a rapid analysis. men we were before we read “Song of
Readers must themselves open "Nourri- Myself.”
tures Terrestres,” “La Porte Etroite, Let me quote from one of the best
“Prétextes,” “Nouveaux Prétextes,” etc.,
poems of
of Charles Vildrac's “Livre
and turn to the books of the great Belgian d'Amour" (Nouvelle Revue Française)
who died last year in so tragic a manner. as translated by Miss Elizabeth Eyre:
French literature of to-day shows the
The Conquerors.
marks of one American influence which
may well be called decisive. Walt Whit-
Behold the cavalier without a horse,-but
whoever sees him pass will know him for a Knight
man's blood runs in the veins of the
young
Behold the pilgrim with neither staff nor brevi-
writers of France. We first knew “Leaves
ary,—but whoever sees him pass will know that
of Grass" in the translation of Léon he is more than a crusader
Bazalgette, which was published in the
Behold the chief who does not command, but
"Mercure de France"; then we read it
whoever listens to him will know him for a captain.
in English. Shall I call our young poets Behold the conqueror without an army,—but the
disciples of his ? Whitman would smile only conqueror-he who knows how to talk with
at this. The old master, whom they never
everybody, both men and women; and can make
saw but can imagine, never cared for dis-
good tears shine in their eyes again, and can give
back to them the clear laughter of children.
ciples in the narrow sense of that word.
His best weapons are his friendly eyes, his
Maybe they know little of him and mis- thoughtful and surprising kindnesses,—it is the
understand him-still they understand him
his voice gives help to his words, it is the way his
spirit dances like a torch.
well enough not to call themselves dis-
ciples! Some of our writers used a verse He is prodigal and bare as a tree in the spring,
very similar to his. But his influence on his heart is warm as a greenhouse in winter; and
a few poets is little compared with his one abandons oneself to whatever he says,-again
influence on the mentality of the young
it is he who, when he takes, gives.
He will come wherever you are. He will not sit
in general. It is more vital than the dis-
down beside you as do those to whom the half of
covery of a new resource in rhythm or in your face and but one of your shoulders are enough.
melody. It is a matter of immensely re-
But he will sit down opposite you, his knees
touching your knees, your hands within reach
newed inspiration that is one of the
of his hands, and his eyes bearing upon your eyes,
treasures of our times. His voice and
forcing them to uncover.
Verhaeren's answer each other, as did And you will say: Where have I seen him before?
Columbia's star and France's in the poem
As in singing under a vault one discovers the
single note which makes the whole vibrate and
written in 1871 by your prophet of
become its warm voice.
Democracy. I remember the word of
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beautiful voice that it imprisons, of which you had Or our cities will remain in ashes, and our dead
no suspicion,--your best voice, your only voice.
unburied!
He will love you in your own way, with the
presents you would have chosen, with his bluntness, We find ourselves at the edge of the fresh ridge
with his laughter, his humility or his pity; he will The seed that we hold is very different
love you as much as it is necessary to soften you
and win you.
America, let our generation be the piers of a bridge
You will wonder: What does he expect from Stretching itself between the various nations.
me? What will he ask of me to-morrow? And Let our hands grasp each other
you will be troubled, never suspecting that really, Let us stand firm
without knowing it himself, he expects from you And be worthy of this Earth, which men, until now,
the reason for his existence; that you are neces- Did but divide between themselves in a bloody
sary to him as the words one speaks, the ears
fashion,
that receive them, as beautiful things to the eyes
that surround them.
I salute you, well-populated cities of America,
For conquest is his great desire; like heroes and And my heart goes to you
like women, he loves to feel himself fondled by Leaping with hope.
the scattered thoughts of men, which, from a great
distance, lean towards him as benumbed fingers
There are many names which I would
stretch towards a fire.
give: Saintléger Léger, who wrote the
strange and splendid “Eloges”; Léon-Paul
And then will other conquerors unexpectedly Fargue, whose power over words is magic;
arise, and as there have been a hundred con- René Arcos; François Porché with "Le
querors, so now must one become a hundred times
Dessous du Masque"; Georges Duhamel
a lover, a hundred times beloved.
And those that have been conquered a
with several books of poems and dramas,
hundred times will also turn to conquer.
—these are among the chief figures of our
And the time will come in the country, the time time. But let me turn to Henri Franck,
of the great conquest, when people with this long- who died at 23, before the war, leaving
ing will leave the thresholds of their doors, to go
the one to meet the other.
that long, unfinished poem, “La Danse
And the time will come in this country, when
devant l'Arche," and who would lead our
history will be made of nothing but choruses of troop to-day if he was still among us. The
songs, but dances hand in hand, but one combat first part of the poem ended with this
and one victory!
affirmation of enthusiasm before the Uni-
Vildrac belongs to the group of the Unani- verse. I quote from a translation by Miss
mists, whose chief was Jules Romains. Virginia Hale:
They looked for inspiration not so much Adolescent runner with unwearied heart
in individual feelings and passions, as in I shall reach the clearing where one comes upon
the life and movement of collectivities.
God.
In “La Vie Unanime,” by Romains (Mer-
One day I shall know the thing I so strongly desire,
And my spirit will be multiplied and stretched
cure de France), we find verses which with the waiting;
perhaps most absolutely formulate this For nothing exists in earth or heaven
creed. I wish to quote a fragment of an That the determination of my seeking wisdom may
unpublished chant "To America," which not know.
was written in 1917 by a very young poet,
One day I shall find the divine current,
And with the feel of its powerful flow against my
Mireille Havet:
back,
Glorious cities of America,
A joyous bather abandoning myself to the sweep
Tumultuous cities, and well populated,
of the stream,
Cities rich with the future which will cover us all, On this glorious bed, between the superb banks of
I salute you, to-day, from my little corner in France, the Universe laden with houses and fruits,
From my corner of a city in France,
Supple of body, light of heart, swift of spirit,
From the corner of my table.
In the turbulent water of life I shall swim with
power and pleasure.
Ah, never was it graver to be young
And in the last part, reaching a higher
Graver to be impatient
With that conquering desire which comes from losing his power or fervor, he can say:
point of knowledge and wisdom, without
the pride to be the last ones
The last of all, when the others were living Truth is enthusiasm without hope,
The first, now that we are alone!
Ardor unquenchable,
And the words shall come from us
Joy that mounts straight up into the black sky,
Or eternally remain silent
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The high happiness of feeling keenly one's existence, the day when I shall try to give to a few
Of being alive!
in Paris an idea of the movement and
The fragments I have chosen to quote rhythm of "The Congo” or “General
are not the most perfect I could have Booth,” by Vachel Lindsay. Lindsay's
found, but the ones which seemed to me muse essentially belongs to Springfield,
to give the sense of our next tendencies in Illinois, and knows no other shores, but
poetry; and I find many of the same char- that is precisely why we shall be glad to
acteristics in the living American poets welcome her, with her bright cheeks and
whom I read. There is no reason why well-knit muscles and her surprise to find
France should not give cordial recogni-
herself among us. This is not mere curi-
tion to poets like E. L. Masters, E. A. osity or dilettantism. What we really love
Robinson, Miss Lowell, Vachel Lindsay,
will become a part of us, as Poe and
Witter Bynner, Ridgely Torrence, and
Whitman did in the past.
others. I am strangely impatient to see
PIERRE DE LANUX.
Henry James: A Rhapsody of Youth
:
I have wondered how it feels to “have the Roman atmosphere. Very soon I
read Henry James for the last twenty-five sensed an inappropriateness in the fusion;
years." During the short time I have felt how it was loaded with tragedy from
been reading him I have seen critiques, the beginning. I wondered what James
favorable and otherwise, that have ap- would do; I felt there was nothing one
peared about him, contributed I suppose could do to save Daisy Miller from her- .
by those superior souls who “have read self and her mother. A lurking feeling
him for the last twenty-five years.". None whispered the author would find a way.
a
of them states the point of view of youth Reflection came afterward, and ration-
fresh in the experience of knowing Henry ality, arguing that an artist finds in his art
James, and I propose therefore to say a stinging moral whip; and that, as leader
what is in my heart of his books—by way of the Opposition, he cannot belie his con-
of variety, to express one or two of the science. Thus torn between impatience
primitive motifs of the rhapsody which that things should be so, and exasperation
has been strumming in my mind.
at James's cold impersonality in present-
One afternoon I was in college at the ing the situation, I read through the story.
(
,
time) I was listening to the talk of a so- And when Daisy Miller was dead; when
cial dowager, who said, to point a bit of I could reflect, I knew that underlying
gossip, that a certain girl whom I knew James's artistic impersonality was
,
was a "type of American like Daisy_Mil- strongly diffusive element of morality;
ler." Within the week I read “Daisy that, although he was thoroughly an art-
Miller." That was my first experience ist, whether or not he intended he had re-
reading James. Since then I have read vealed a delicate New Englander's ideal
him much; and I find that his people are of moral beauty.
so real to me, so sentiently or so spiritually I finished the book in the evening at the
alive, that in writing about them I am library. I confess I had been weeping.
bound to speak of them as one speaks of I was sadly depressed about Daisy Miller,
the living—of those who can answer our and all simple, inexperienced American
criticism, or be embarrassed by our praise. girls—with trainings which equipped them
I had not gone far into "Daisy Miller" to meet only American men with safety,
before the girl herself was clearly visible and with fools for mothers. I decided to
before me, a picture of American grace walk, and not go home to dinner. I was
and loveliness. I had recently been to Eu- in no mood to meet the raillery of a crowd
I
rope and this experience furnished me a of undergraduate students.
lens through which to view with greater With reverence I felt I had come upon
clearness her effervescent, ardent person-
a great writer.
Here was a man who
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through her glaring, superficial faults into I did not read James again for a long
the depths of her very soul, where he time, until a "charter Jacobite” friend
found, if not pure gold, at least very beau- asked me to read "The Portrait of a
tifully colored pebbles, and sparkling, Lady''; writing that she considered Isabel
variegated sands. By the magic of his Archer's one of the most poignant spirit-
imagination he presented her faithfully, ual histories in all literature, and Ralph
vividly, for the reader. Indeed it was be- Touchett the most interesting man in fic-
cause he looked at her, into her, and all tion. With extra enthusiasm I began the
around her that he could write the truth; book. But alas, after fifty pages I put it
but to write the truth with added touches down. I looked upon myself reproach-
of beauty—that I thought was the marvel- fully, but I couldn't go on. I wasn't intol-
ous performance. Daisy Miller, reveal- erant; I was impervious. Thus I looked
ing as she did the crude manners of the at the book for a year, until at length,
nouveau riche, was portrayed as a very piqued by defeat, I began again. This
much alive, beautiful, and in her way aspir- time it was all very different. I had ar-
ing girl; she reflected in spite of her sorry ranged my reading finally so as to "save"
social trappings a soul pure, frank, good, the book—so many pages before going to
delightful. These were the values which sleep.
interested me, which carried me away There was a breath in the story of spir-
from the present, from myself, and let itual adventure, of eternal discovery in
me see only one set of immediate circum- characters complex and unfathomable,
stances—Daisy Miller's fatal stepping which gave the book its charm for me,
through a social fog over a parapet to and made the reading my daily reparation.
inevitable destruction.
Ralph Touchett grew to be a friend. That
There, James seemed to say, after the is, I attached him.
is, I attached him. I should have told
story had been written, that is life. Look him the sacredest things of my life. I had
at it carefully; in this particular case view the vivifying sensation that he would have
it with sympathy; but let us never be the responded to my affection, that it would
least bit sentimental about it. I grant that have been mutual. But this is both debat-
it is tragedy; but—there you are.
able and personal. Touchett is the kind
I was deeply impressed. Life, which of man to whom the phrase "a fine fel-
had seemed troubled to me before, was, if low” (ordinarily so vapid in meaning) in
anything, more troubled. And yet from its proper signification most fittingly ap-
that experience came a thoughtful fatal- plies. He is genial, tolerant, high-minded.
ism which transferred me from the excited I was captivated by Isabel from the mo-
individuals who were seeing life, not at
ment I found her sitting in the gloomy
all steadily, but much as one sees his fel- library of her father's Albany house. Í
low-passengers on a ship in a rough gale watched her with keen interest, with pleas-
-over to the quieter people who, in spite ure, eventually with amazement. For I
of their apparent indifference, were nev-
saw into the deep, the covered life of a
ertheless more profound, more subtle,
woman-the
essence which is usually
more human than their stormy-souled hidden from vulgar inspection—and I was
brethren who were charging up and down fascinated. It was so evident that I
the field of life. Henry James became scarcely needed to be told that “Suffering,
for me par excellence one of these quieter with Isabel, was an active condition; it
souls. There was a new vista, really; and was not a chill, a stupor, a despair, it was
if there were quiet fields and peaceful a passion of thought, of speculation, of
scenes, and apparently superficial people response to every pressure.
who dared to criticize life (without- for Isabel, but I did not dare to pity her.
oh unpardonable interference !—"giving At each spiritual revelation in her hard
something in return for that which they experience I was as shocked as Isabel her-
took away”), there was, I found, a keener self; I felt painfully embarrassed to find
criticism, a better charity, a wider knowl- myself seeing her given first one torturing
edge of the world's humanity.
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left, stealthily, without letting her know unendurable than death. And when she
I had been a witness. To see her soul in did return, after Ralph's death-giving
pain was more than I could bear at times. up happiness for an idea—I who had been
I felt toward Isabel at the next meeting carried to a climax of anxiety, felt myself
exactly as I should feel in actual life; that dashed by her inevitable action to a help-
I knew her better and was therefore priv- less, inert will. I could only murmur:
ileged, regardless of my embarrassment, There is nothing I can do; there you are!
to apprise her of my attitude of deeper From these "growing pains of a Jacob-
affection and sympathy—with as little ex- ite" I suffer more than my accusers. When
hibition of feeling as possible—not at all one has thought deeply about, has felt in-
if I couldn't manage it without being tensely with, Ralph Touchett, with Chris-
clumsy. The pity of it all was that I could topher Newman, with Strether (especially
do absolutely nothing to relieve her life with Strether), there is opened a reser-
of a part of its bitterness. Her pride voir of enthusiasm from which the ten-
closed all avenues through which sympa dency is to pour forth streams of
thetic offerings might travel. It was ter- volubility. But this kind of speaking is
rible. I could only say again and again dangerous; its current should be directed
to myself: that is life.
through the channels of artists no less
The tragedy of Isabel's condition was skilful, really, than Henry James himself.
awful because her “crime" consisted, Masters are very hard to find, however;
James says, of this: "She had a certain and it is quite as true of letters as of life
way of looking at life which he [Osmond, that "what the great will do the less will
her husband] took as a personal offence.”
prattle of."
JOHN ANGUS BURRELL.
Saddest of all because there is a touch
of the heroic about it-was the fact that
her way of looking at life was the fine, the
Fatigues
just, the moral way.
Isabel "could see
that he was ineffably ashamed of her The weariness of this dirt and labour, of this
she simply believed that he hated her
dirty, melting sky!
he was not violent," and so "of course it For hours we have carried great bundles of hay
was not a physical suffering; for physical
from barge to truck, and from truck to
suffering there might have been a remedy.
train.
The weariness of this dirt and labour!
Finally Isabel meets her spiritual crisis
But look! Last June those heavy dried bales
--the peak of her load; she is called to
waved and glittered on the fields of Eng-
England to see Ralph Touchett, her land!
cousin, who is dying. I suffered until Cinque-foil and clover, buttercups, fennel, thistle
I knew whether she would go; and when and rue-daisy and ragged robin, wild rose
she told Osmond her news, and the cruel
from the hedge, shepherd's purse, and
devil, with measured meanness, spoke to
long sweet nodding stalks of grass!
her as if she had been ignoble, I trem-
Heart of me, heart of me, be not sick and faint,
though fingers and arms and head ache;
bled. But I had to listen while he spewed
you bear the gift of the glittering
forth venomous words from his poison-
meadows of England. Here are bundles
ous, egotistical character. At length Is-
from Somerset, from Wales, from Here-
abel left the room; she had not said
ford, Worcester, Gloucester-names we
she would not go; I felt a vicarious ela-
must love, scented with summer peace.
tion at her spiritual victory. I wanted Handle them bravely, meadow-sweet, sorrel, lush
to get her out of the house away from
flag and arid knap-weed, flowers of marsh
further indignity and affront; to start her
and cliff, handle them bravely!
Dear crushed flowers! and you, yet fragrant
for London—hoping, praying she would
grasses, I stoop and kiss you furtively.
never come back to Italy.
No one sees.
From the very first, though, there was
Dear gentle perished sisters, speak, whisper and
a vague impression of Isabel's soul which
move, tell me you will dance and whisper
terrified me with the conviction that she
in the wind next June, upon my grave.
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The Mind of Germany
on earth. Thine is the kingdom, the German land;
may we, by aid of Thy steel-clad hand, achieve the
power and the glory.
HURRAH AND HALLELUJAH. The Teaching of Thou who dwellest high above Cherubim, Seraphim
Germany's Poets, Prophets, and Preachers. A
and Zeppelins in Thy Heaven, Thou who art en-
Documentation by T. P. Bang. Translated from
throned as a God of thunder in the midst of light-
the Danish by Jessie Bröchner. (George H. ning from the clouds, and lightning from sword and
Doran Co.; $1.)
cannon, send thunder, lightning, hail and tempest
Gems (?) OF GERMAN THOUGHT. Compiled by hurtling upon our enemy, bestow upon us his banners,
William Archer. (Doubleday, Page & Co.; hurl him down into the dark burial-pits.—Dietrich
$1.25.)
Vorwerk, “Hurrah and Hallelujah."
"Hurrah and Hallelujah" is the name of a But the deepest and most thought-inspiring result
of the war is the “German God.” Not the national
book of war poems from the inspired pen of a Ger-
God, such as the lower nations worship, but "our
man pastor, Konsistorialrat Dietrich Vorwerk. God," who is not ashamed of belonging to us, the pe-
"I find,” says Dr. Bang, who is a Danish clergy- culiar acquirement of our heart. Max Lenz has al-
ready testified to the revelation of the "German God"
man of distinction and good sense, “in this com-
and Luther's hymn, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott,"
bination something so absolutely characteristic of merely expresses the same idea in other words.—Re-
the German spirit that I have adopted it as the
port of an address by a German theological professor,
in the Berliner "Lokalanzeiger."
title for this book.” No one, however, who reads We could draw many instructive parallels; we
the book can be satisfied with the title. The ex-
could say that as Jesus was treated, so also have the
German people been treated.
cerpts, citations, and summaries of which it
They envy us our freedom, our power to do our
consists suggest something more intense than work in peace, to excel in virtue of ability, to fulfil
"hurrah” and more sinister than "hallelujah.'
our appointed task for the good of the world and
humanity, to heal the world by the German nature,
For "hurrah” goes with exuberant vitality, grat- to become a blessing to the people of the earth. Wher-
ulatory good will, a certain openness of spirit, ever the German spirit obtains supremacy, there free-
and a certain tolerance. "Hallelujah" utters, at
dom also prevails. And have not our enemies to fall
back upon lies and venomous calumnies in the en-
worst, the piety of the Salvation Army. But the
deavor to justify their assault in the world's eyes and
feeling for which "hurrah” stands here is not
their own? Does this not prove that the truth, too, is
exuberant vitality, nor good will, nor openness,
with us? Truth and freedom, those two great bless-
ings, are in our Gospel promised by the Lord Him-
nor tolerance; it is fierce passion, persecuting mis- self.
sionary passion, grandiose, egomaniac, blind. The
Here we
come upon the old intimate kinship be-
tween the essence of Christianity and of Germanism.
feeling for which "hallelujah" stands is not piety,
Because of their close spiritual relationship, therefore,
not gladness in the bounty of God; it is the iden- Christianity must find its fairest flower in the German
tification of German being with divine being, of
mind.-H. Francke, a pastor in Liegnitz.
My friends, when England, “Christian” England,
German purpose with divine purpose, the glori- akin to us in blood, was so shameless in her naked
fication not of God, but of Germany. The mild- egoism, that she by her declaration of war would
rather hand us over to Muscovites and semi-Asiatics
est statement of “Hurrah and Hallelujah" is the
than contend with us, in honest peaceful rivalry, for
oft-quoted couplet by Geibel:
the palm of Kultur, it struck a hard blow to our soul,
Und es mag am deutschen Wesen
and all our wrath and pride rose up against this de-
Einmal noch die Welt genesen.
generate cousin. . . London is the hearth and the heart
of this terrible world-war, there sit the ministers who
With this sentiment of grandeur goes another have precipitated Europe into misery, there is the
feeling, which seems to be its complement, but
witch's caldron, in which fresh misery is ever brew-
which "hurrah" and "hallelujah" do not sug-
ing for the peoples of Europe, already bleeding from
a thousand wounds. To attack London is to attack a
gest at all. This other feeling is of persecution den of murderers.-Karl König, “Six War Sermons."
by unworthy enemies, enemies who not only
Against us stands the world's greatest sham of a
nation, whom, with German good nature, we have
cause but are the disease of the world, and as much too long called the "English cousin,” the Car-
such must be extirpated by the healing might of thaginians of the North Sea, in whom we trusted
Germany-England the jealous and hypocrit-
that blood would have proved thicker than water:
the Judas among the nations, who this time, for a
ical, France the degenerate, Russia the barbarous, change, betrays Germanism for thirty pieces of silver.
all to be purified by German force and healed by Against us stands sensual France, the harlot amongst
the peoples (die Dirne unter den Völkern), to be
German Kultur. Thus:
bought for any prurient excitement, shameless, un-
blushing, impudent, and cowardly (!), with her worth-
HURRAH AND HALLELUJAH
less myrmidons. Against us stands Russia, inwardly,
Though the warrior's bread be scanty, do Thou indeed, rotten, mouldering, masking its diseases under
work daily death and tenfold woe unto the enemy; outbursts of brutality, but capable of employing any
Forgive in merciful long-suffering each bullet and means, devoid of all feeling—not dangerous of her-
each blow which misses its mark! Lead us not into self, but becoming a menace when leagued with oth-
the temptation of letting our wrath be too tame in ers, like a beast raging from the fever of wounds,
carrying out Thy divine judgment! Deliver us and deceitful, never to be trusted.
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God may surround us with His protection, like a cov- ducing classes, the clergy are the most admirably
ering wall, because our defeat would also mean the passive and inert. For this state their preoccu-
defeat of His Son in humanity.
What a difference is there between armies, one of
pation with the infallibilities of religion is partly
which carries its God in its heart, whilst the others responsible, but only partly. A non-producing
think they can conquer by the weight of their num-
bers, by cunning tricks of devilish cruelty, by shame-
class obviously must reënforce the sources of its
less contempt for the provisions of international living if it is to go on living: doctrine, conse-
law (!).-Pastor Joh. Rump, lic. Dr., of Berlin.
quently, which appears in sermons is doctrine
GEMS (?) OF GERMAN THOUGHT
become completely commonplace, doctrine ac-
It has been said that it is un-German to wish to be cepted and acceptable. Sermons, hence, are pos-
only German. That again is a consequence of our
spiritual wealth. We understand all foreign nations; sessed of evidentiality which cannot accrue to
none of them understands us, and none of them can philosophies like Nietzsche's, or histories like
understand us.
Treitschke's, or real-politik like Bernhardi's.
No nation in the world can give us anything worth
mentioning in the field of science or technology, art
The sermons of a people utter the set mind of a
or literature, which we would have any trouble in people.
doing without. Let us reflect on the inexhaustible
wealth of the German character, which contains in
We have, then, in these citations, the mind of
itself everything of real value that the Kultur of man Germany. Prior to and until the time of their
can produce.-Professor W. Sombart, H. U. H.
collection, it had been an unusually single mind,
The efforts directed towards the abolition of war
must not only be termed foolish, but absolutely im-
with the inflexibility of outlook and of feeling
moral, and must be stigmatized as unworthy of the that is associated with abnormality. Indeed, the
human race. . . The weak nation is to have the same
two sentiments of which it is conspicuously com-
right to live as the powerful and vigorous nation!
The whole idea represents a presumptuous encroach- posed define, in the individual, what is known
ment on the natural laws of development.-General
as paranoia, and men and women who suffer
v. Bernhardi, G. N. W.
Our German Kultur has, in its unique depth, some-
from paranoia are classed among the criminally
thing shrinking and severe (Sprödes and Herbes), it insane. The disease is incurable.
does not obtrude itself, or readily yield itself up; it
But that a whole people should bear the stig-
must be earnestly sought after and lovingly assimi-
lated from within. This love was lacking in our
mata of an incurable criminality is, of course,
neighbors; wherefore they easily came to look upon absurd. That Germany was not always so, that
us with the eyes of hatred.-Professor R. Eucken, I. M.
We desire, and must desire . a world-empire of
there is a Germany of gemüthlichkeit, learning,
Teutonic (germanisch) stock, under the hegemony of science, poetry, and democratic aspiration, and
the German people. In order to secure this we must- that that Germany is the original and lasting
(a) Gradually Germanize the Scandinavian and
Dutch Teutonic States, denationalizing them in the
Germany, everybody whom the war has not
weaker signification of the term.
turned paranoiac on his own account, will not
(b). Break up the predominantly un-Teutonic peo-
ples into their component parts, in order to take to
only concede but assert. If the President's words
ourselves the Teutonic element and Germanize it, are to be taken at their face value, it is for the
while we reject the un-Teutonic element.-J. L. sake of this Germany, which so many of us
Reimer, E. P. D.
If our area of colonization does not coincide with
Americans have known and loved and received
our political boundaries, the healthy egoism of our benefits from, no less than for the sake of Bel-
race commands us to place our frontier-posts in for- gium and Serbia and the other small nationali-
eign territory, as we have done at Metz.-Professor
E. Hasse, D. G.
ties, that we are trying to “make the world safe
The sentiment of grandeur and the sentiment
for democracy" by force of arms. Forty years
”
of persecution areas these quotations, chosen this Germany has been repressed. The social
practically at random, show—the ruling passions history of Germany during these forty years may
in the material of both Dr. Bang's and Mr. Arch- be summed up in the word verboten. And pro-
er's books. I have spoken of Dr. Bang's only, be-
hibitions were not only impersonal and legal;
cause Mr. Archer's has in its title a very obvious they were personal and social. . The spontanei-
and natural animus. His quotations, however, ties of men were forced under on all sides; an
are more than confirmed even by the material omnipresent and thoroughgoing police system
Dr. Bang handles with such courteous objectivity. held them down in the daily life of labor and
But Dr. Bang's book possesses a significance citizenship; an equally omnipresent and arrogant
which Mr. Archer's does not, because it devotes military and land-holding caste clamped them
itself so largely to the sermons of the clergy. down in the daily life of personal contacts and
The sermon, particularly in those countries which social play. Precedence and etiquette replaced
boast established churches, is the last entrench- friendliness and good manners. Resentments ac-
ment of the commonplace. Of all the non-pro- cumulated, but could not be expressed.


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The life of the German people began to alter. health and the possibility of the German achieve-
The repressed spontaneities had to find some out- ment of whatever mission the Germans may
let; the accumulated resentments clamored for claim, rests simply and entirely on the elimina-
utterance. The life and letters of Germany, with tion of the agency of repression that has so
her stupendous number of children suicides, her distorted the mind of Germany. The real Ger-
barbarous attitude toward women, her misprision many is democratic Germany, the Germany of
of the foreigner, her elaboration of eroticism, the free individual. It exists, although it exists
and her worship of the superman, are the effect. in the shadow. Freedom will show it clear.
Resentment that you could not express against Until Germany has been democratized, terms of
your “betters," you vented upon your “inferi- peace are scraps of paper, and for the same reason
ors”; spontaneities you could not use in free cre- that agreements with abnormal individuals are
ative action in your communities of friends you scraps of paper.
H. M. Kallen.
gratified by compensatory formulations in your
art and your philosophy. As the pressure of the
militaristic machinery grew heavier, this became
Retrospective Romance
more and more the case. The tribalism of
Treitschke, the ruthlessness of Nietzsche, the
RUSSIA IN 1916. By Stephen Graham. (Mac-
imperialism of Bernhardi, became compensatory millan Co.; $1.25.)
liberations in idea for restrictions and repressions
White Nights. By Arthur Ruhl. (Charles
Scribner's Sons; $2.)
in fact. Furthermore, the engine of repression,
In the old days,--and perhaps the custom is
the State, with the Kaiser and his staff as its
symbol, was a thing, after all, not completely ing to their refractory offspring the hard and
still extant,-parents were in the habit of apply-
alien. There took place, consequently, a change
in the German mind which the psychologists call
chastening rod, and with each application they
would
"projection." By this change repressive instru-
assure the prostrate but incredulous
ments are often made identical with the things
youngsters that the beating hurt them, the par-
they repress. The gods, for example, are pro-
ents, more than it did the children and that it
,
jections of this sort; they stand both for all that
was for the good of the youthful soul. In the
old days, too, men were piously burned and tor-
man has the inner wish to be and for the circum-
tured for the good of their souls. And so pow-
stances that do not permit the being; they do and
erful is the effect of repetition, in manners as
enjoy all things that man might and would if
he could. The State became the god of Ger-
well as in studies, that, at one period in the
evolution of civilization, men of saintly character
many. What in countries with free institutions,
became firmly convinced that the royal road to
like England, or France, or the United States,
salvation led through the trials of martyrdom.
the individual might achieve in himself was pro-
Some of us, in these days of grace, have come
jected upon the State, through which he thus ex-
to doubt the efficacy of the rod and the regener-
ercised his spontaneous powers—vicariously. On
the other hand, the evil that the State wrought ating power of suffering. The Diabolonian spirit
is abroad. Patience and long-suffering have be-
was projected outward, to the enemies of the
State-and England and France particularly
come cardinal vices and lead straight away from
were credited with motives as surprising to them
heaven. Men who, not many years ago, experi-
as the world's judgment of Germany is unin- enced the knout in dumb resignation have grown
telligible to Germans. When, furthermore, the so proud that they refuse to bear a coddling
rulers of Germany proceeded to turn these com- bureaucracy. And strange to say, they find in
pensatory sentiments into the dynamic of their these rejections the road to salvation. They rebel
political programme, the war, with its atrocities, in the name of idealism, of regeneration, of a
mendaciousness, and unintelligence, became in- finer, truer life; they have not changed their
evitable.
faith or transferred their loyalty. Theirs is the
How far the German people have been disillu- old hope of man, reborn. Some call them rebels,
sioned in the course of it, no one can say. So but they are unwavering in their allegiance.
much, however, is certain. The President's de- The Russians as a people have long been
mand for internal changes as a preliminary con- known for their humility and submissiveness
dition for the discussion of peace, is absolutely (smirenie) and for their forbearance and long-
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in these virtues of the terrible meek. And land help to throw into relief the manners and
Stephen Graham's heart goes out to the mystic customs of a foreign people.
and unworldly strain in the Russians. For him Nowhere does a premonitory sound of coming
Holy Russia is a living fact, as he himself says. events disturb the silence of the white nights.
He fears that Russia will some day become "a No threatening cloud tells of the approaching
non-Christian democracy like France.” And in storm. It is not the hush of expectancy. Russia,
one place he writes:
though at war, is at peace with itself. And yet
If Russia were merely Sturmer, Protopopof, Gorky,
this is Russia “on the eve,” as Turgenev said.
Rubenstein (the finance manipulator), Reinbot (who A few brief months, and Russia felt the shock
organized the police graft in Moscow), Rasputin (the
of the vast upheaval.
debauched Siberian), Sukhomlinof (who is at rest in
the fortress of Peter and Paul), Masoyedof (who Present-day Russia is almost as enigmatic and
was hanged for betraying Russia), Azef, Milyukof, puzzling as was the Russia of yesterday. The
Kerensky, Count Benckendorf, etc., etc., how little
interest she would have for us!
Revolution has lost its simplicity. To our
Heaven protect a people from those who love
anxious vision it appears huge, stumbling, in-
them for being rather interesting! It is so diffi- choate, and unaimed. Some have the graver fear
, .
cult to be heroic, odd, mediæval, and bizarre in
that conditions in Russia are hopelessly and irre-
this workaday world. And all to please the fancy mediably anarchic. But we must recognize the
of a few alien pilgrims who seek the balm of
fact that a painless consummation of a people's
Gilead in a crass and material age !
freedom is impossible. In time of war sensi-
Mr. Graham's book, a volume of short
bilities become acute and fears intensified. In
sketches, was written before the Revolution.
addition to the sharper apprehensions of war-
To-day one can believe whole-heartedly in Holy time, there is our nearness in time to profound
Russia as a living fact. Freedom will make Rus-
and as yet uncrystallized events. In his “His-
sia holy, as many Russians and lovers of Russia
tory of the Revolution of 1905," Khrustalyev-
knew all along. There is no mistaking the out-
Nosar, president, in those days, of the Petrograd
spoken desire of the people to found a Christian
Council of Workingmen's Deputies, writes:
democracy. The high, spiritual feat (podvig)
“Mass movements are like gigantic frescoes.
of patience, love, and prayer will still be dearer
Seen from near, the outlines of the picture dis-
to the Russian heart than the podvig of battle
appear, the colors are fused into a number of
and struggle. But, for the complete liturgy of
separate, screaming spots; the creative idea of
life, battle and struggle cannot be renounced.
the artist is lost. . . Only at a distance does
Fascinating glimpses of Russia on the eve of
the fresco return to life and speak of the force
revolution are given in Mr. Ruhl's delightful
and power of artistic genius. It is in the same way
work, “White Nights.” Mr. Ruhl is perhaps
that we must proceed to an estimate of a mass
the best equipped, in sympathetic understanding, movement.” We are far from having a long
charm of style, and intellectual preparation, of and untroubled perspective. But surely, some
the American journalists now in Russia. These of our present fears are no more than horrible im-
things far outvalue knowledge of the language. aginings. It is true that in Russia to-day, so much
The writer takes us with him on his journey to
is at stake for the world's democracy that a soft,
Russia, stopping on the way to introduce us to easy sense of security is dangerous. There are
Ellen Key, then on to the white nights of Petro- many forces striving, openly or by devious ways,
grad, and from there to the turmoil of the war to undo the first accomplishment of the Revo-
on the Russian battle front. We return inland, lution. Among the enemies of a democratic Rus-
to Moscow, and are initiated into the mysteries sia are many self-styled "friends" of the Russian
of the Moscow Art Theatre. Hastening back people, who would rescue them from “the grave
to Petrograd we visit the Taurida Palace, where menace” of republicanism. We in America must
the Duma sat, and we meet the prominent depu-
remember that the Russian Revolution is the first
ties, some of whom have since become world
great victory, in the war which is now our war,
figures. The final stages of the pleasant journey
for the Allies and for the world. It is a victory
of discovery take the reader down Gorky's river,
the Volga, to the industrial sections of the
so tremendous and inspiring that we, who have
seen it come about in our own day, cannot fore-
country, and into Rumania. Throughout the
trip Mr. Ruhl keeps America in mind, and his
see its full sweep or compass its immeasurable
effects.
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ter.
a
Psychoanalysis as a Pathfinder
of the main lines of psychological theory set forth
by Freud by no means necessitates an unreserved
The PSYCHOANALYTIC METHOD. By Oskar Pfis- adherence to such incidental concomitants as his
Authorized translation by Charles Rock-
apparently one-sided interpretation of sexual per-
well Payne. (Moffat, Yard & Co./ $4.)
versions or his general conception of the com-
The Freudian psychology has travelled a course
pound nature of the sexual instinct. At the least,
that might have been predicted with tolerable
certainty. At first received with mingled de-
very radical shiftings of emphasis are certain to
rision and disgust, it has now attained a position
emerge. An analogous development has char-
acterized the history of the theory of organic
not only of virtual security but, one is almost
evolution. Only recently has the original Dar-
tempted to say unfortunately, of very genuine
winian bias toward an overemphasis of the fac-
and widespread popularity. Whitmanesque po-
tor of natural selection yielded to the proper eval-
ets sing pæans to Jung's libido, one of the
uation of other factors. The inertia of impetus
metaphysical offshoots of the psychoanalytic
movement
, while half-baked doctors fearlessly given by the founder of a radical scientific depar-
disentangle homosexual "complexes" at the end
ture is, indeed, one of the most humiliating,
one of the most ironically human, things about
of a first half-hour's consultation with hysterical
the history of science. So far there seems to be
patients. Those who are profoundly convinced
of the epoch-making importance of the psycho-
a disposition on the part of psychoanalysts to
accept the whole Freudian programme at prac-
logical mechanisms revealed by Freud and, even
tically its face value. What criticism there is
more, of the extraordinary suggestiveness of
within the ranks is chiefly on matters of rela-
numerous lines of inquiry opened up by psycho, tively minor import. Even the Jung sedition,
analysis, without, at the same time, being blind
of which so much is made, consists of hardly
to criticisms that need to be made of certain
more, it would seem, than a tendency to gener-
aspects of psychoanalytic theory, can only hope
alize and carry further some of the more doubt-
and pray that this not altogether healthy over-
ful elements of Freud's theoretical groundwork.
popularity of the subject prove no hindrance to
I refer particularly to Jung's handling of sym-
the study of the perplexing problems with which
the Freudian psychology bristles
. What is sorely his reckless application of the principles of indi-
bolization as an interpretative principle and to
needed at the present time, or will be before
vidual psychoanalysis to cultural phenomena.
many years, is a thoroughly objective probing into
We shall be disappointed if we tuul to Pfis-
the new psychology with a special view to seeking
ter's extensive treatise in the hope of finding
out the paths of reconciliation with the older
such a critical and reconciliatory survey of psy-
orthodox psychology of conscious states and to
choanalytic research. It does not advance the
the rigorous elimination of all aspects of Freudian
theory that seem dispensable or ill-substantiated. subject very perceptibly in the direction indi-
cated. There is, to be sure, a fair amount of
The present militant attitude of the psycho-
critical comment en passant on particular Freud-
analysts toward their skeptical schoolmasters is
ian positions, but the whole is mainly a summary,
naturally but a passing phase. The opposed
and a very convenient and useful one, of the typ-
schools of psychological interpretation will have
ical psychoanalytic interpretations. The greater
to meet each other half way and effect a common
part of the book deals with the analysis and
modus vivendi.
mechanism of repression, constant use being
For the present it is obvious that the personal made of case material. The latter portion deals
bias of the brilliant founder of psychoanalysis has with the application as a practical technique of
given the Freudian psychology more than one the theory developed in detail in the preceding
twist that is not altogether necessitated by its in-
pages.
What particularly distinguishes "The
valuable kernel—the proof of the existence in the Psychoanalytic Method” is the emphasis placed
unconscious mind of emotionally toned "com- upon the usefulness and future possibilities of
plexes," repressed trends that are directly elabo- psychoanalysis for peda
psychoanalysis for pedagogic purposes, curative
rated out of the instinctive life and that leak out and prophylactic. We learn, for instance, that
into consciousness in a large number of superfi- lack of success in the business of teaching is to
cially dissimilar psychic phenomena, for example, no inconsiderable degree due to the presence of
dreams, automatic and compulsive reactions, neu- powerful repressions in teachers themselves. May.
rotic symptoms.
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shall have had the obstructive cobwebs cleared the two types of psychologic inquiry are not in
out of their unconscious by psychoanalytic exam- any true sense opposed to each other. They
ination, we shall be able to bid welcome to an merely attack their subject-matter from distinct
educational régime that with conscious intelli- viewpoints. They will, each of them, in the
gence frames a pedagogical technique bearing a long run be found to be indispensable and mu-
genuine relation to the life problems of its sub- tually reconcilable.
jects?
The second point of capital importance that
The book, while nowhere rising to the bril- we must set down to the credit of psychoanalysis
liance of some of the Freudian writings them- is the light it has thrown on the nature and
selves, is probably the most careful and inclusive functioning of the unconscious. To psychoanaly-
presentation yet published in English of the re- sis the unconscious is not merely a negative deus
sults attained and the theories elaborated by ex machina which does convenient service in the
Freud and his followers. It excels in this respect explanation of memory and in the positing of a
such works as Brill's “Psychanalysis” and Hitsch- continuity of personality. It is a very real and
mann's "Freud's Theories of the Neuroses." Un- active domain from which are worked the strings
fortunately, Dr. Payne's translation can claim that move about the puppets of the conscious self.
only a moderate measure of success. The over- The naïve assumption of a self-contained con-
literalness of the renderings has given numerous
sciousness whose motivation is safely interpret-
passages an irksome awkwardness and, occasion- able in terms of conscious data alone has been
ally, obscurity. One needs sometimes to trans- exposed by the Freudian psychology as a huge
late back to the German to arrive at the intended fallacy.
nuance of meaning.
One of the most interesting and promising
Let us turn, now, to the theoretical structure vistas that have been opened up, though I find
reared by the psychoanalysts. We are entitled
it but little stressed by the psychoanalysts
to ask: Leaving all questions of analytic detail themselves, is the quantitative consideration of
and technique to one side, what are some of the emotion and will. I am not referring to the
basic contributions of the Freudian school to measuring of reactions under controlled experi-
psychologic thinking? First and foremost, I mental conditions. When psychoanalysis tells us
should say, is the new spirit of attitude and that the emotion belonging to a certain trend
method that psychoanalysis has introduced into is not always discharged in consciousness but
the study of the mind. The orthodox psychology, may in part be inhibited in the unconscious or
for all its disavowal of the older faculty-mon- transferred to other reactions, we are evidently
gering, has never really succeeded in grasping confronted by certain quantitative implications.
the vast network of individual mental phenomena It seems difficult to avoid the inference of a cer-
as a single growth rooting in the most primitive tain specific, theoretically measurable, sum of
type of mental life we know of, the instinctive emotion or volitional impulse which can be di-
life. It would be too much to say that psycho- vided up and distributed in a great variety of
analysis has succeeded in reconstructing the order ways.
The elaboration of the concepts that fol-
of differentiation of mental phenomena, but it low on the heels of this hypothesis has been but
has taken a more patient attitude toward the begun. It would not be surprising if this glim-
actual dynamics of the individual mind and is mer of a quantitative understanding of mental
thus in a better position to ferret out gradually functioning blossomed out in time to an exact-
the development of the fundamental instincts ness of comprehension of psychological processes
into the higher forms of mentality. Psycho- such as we have hardly an inkling of at present.
analysis takes hold of chunks of mental life as Among the more readily defined and generally
they present themselves in experience; it does not recognized insights that we owe, directly or indi-
abstract driblets of mental experience for the rectly, to Freud are the genetic analysis and the
purpose of classifying them and examining them treatment of the neuroses, to a much smaller
under the microscope. In brief, the older psy- extent also of the psychoses (forms of insanity);
chology is an anatomy of mind, sometimes re- the frequency and radical importance of symbol-
fined; psychoanalysis is an entering wedge toward formation in the unconscious mind, understand-
a physiology of mind, generally quite crude for ing of which is sure to prove indispensable for
the present. From the clear recognition of this an approach to the deeper problems of religion
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dreams; the basic importance of the psychic sex- without through appearance, but from within
ual constitution, not merely in its proper func- through sympathy. Man faces the world as
tional sphere, but also in connections that seem body, with its hungers and thirsts; as mind, with
unrelated; the far-reaching importance of infan- its craving to find out reason in things; as per-
tile psychic experiences in adult life and the son, with its needs of love. As the mind does
ever-present tendency to regression to them; and not eat bread, leaving that to the body, so the
the general light thrown on the problem of men- person does not subsist on abstract facts, leaving
tal determinism. Many other points might be those to the mind. “It is the highest in man,-
enumerated, some clearly defined, others contro- this personal man. And it has personal relations
versial. Indeed, there has scarcely ever been a of its own with the great world, and comes to
new road opened in science that so spontaneously it for something to satisfy personality.” And
and fruitfully branched out into tributary trails. here, urges Tagore, science and logic give place
It is true that hardly anything is known of the to the creative impulse, that is to say, to art.
psychoanalytic problems and solutions with abso- "When a feeling has been aroused in our hearts
lutely satisfying clarity. Yet it takes no bold which is far in excess of the amount that can
man to assert that enough has been glimpsed to be absorbed by the object which has produced it,
promise perhaps the greatest fructification that it comes back to us and makes us conscious of
the study of the mind has yet experienced. ourselves by its return waves.” This conscious-
EDWARD SAPIR. ness of self, or personality, requires an outpour
of expression, and thus art arises. Art is the
display resulting from the consciousness of the
The Darkness of Mystical Light wealth of personality, Consequently, in artistic
creation man reveals himself rather than his ob-
PERSONALITY. By Rabindranath Tagore. (Mac-
jects. Moreover, he reveals another world. As
millan Co.; $1.35.)
science arrives at a world of facts, forces, and
There is a world which science knows nothing laws, so art, through its creations, discloses a
about and of whose existence intellect is igno- world of personality. For the consciousness of
rant. It must be known immediately if at all; the inexhaustible abundance of personality which
it must be tasted, savored. Intellect gives us gives rise to art is awareness of a more than self;
only knowledge about, and that is why it fails it is awareness of the infinite in the personal man.
to reveal the more vital, the more real world "In art the person in us is sending its answers
familiar to those who know the ineffable joy of to the Supreme Person, who reveals Himself to
direct, warm contact with the reality which lies us in a world of endless beauty across the light-
within and beyond what the blurring senses and less world of facts."
the nibbling intellect disclose. The poverty of This "World of Personality” is reserved for
occidental life, the failure of western civiliza- separate discussion in the second chapter. I have
tion, the restlessness of modern man and woman, to confess that I make nothing of it. There are
-all these are due to our infatuation with the some pleasant passages and now and then a bit
clothes of the world and our disdain of the living of penetrating criticism of occidental life, but
personality within. After some such fashion ar-
for the most part metaphor steps on the heels
gues Rabindranath Tagore.
of metaphor, ex cathedra assertions elbow one
There is, of course, nothing startling or new another, lame analogies hobble on supported by
in this appraisal of human intelligence. The his- the arm of occultism, and what I fear is beauti-
tory of speculation is full of it. If there is any- ful verbiage is offered as profound wisdom
thing novel about Tagore, it is to be found in backed by the authority of Isha Upanishat.
the way he attempts the liquidation of the bank- Words appear to have just meaning enough to
rupt West by drawing upon the spiritual riches enable the author to employ them in the demon-
of the East. And there, too, is the difficulty. stration that they have no true meaning at all,
Although Tagore would lead us from the wrong and reason is reliable only when disproving its
philosophy of life to the right, and although he reliability. Formal definition is frowned upon,
uses language as a medium, he refuses to define but snap definitions abound, and while scientific
his terms. To define, he tells us, is to abstract and analysis and rigorous logic are asserted to be
to kill. One must sense, taste, experience the avenues of error, analysis and logic are not dis-
truth or miss it quite. Real knowledge is not from pensed with. How could they be in an argu-


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ment aiming to show us wherein and why man- trary, the life of the senses, of the intellect, of
kind is going astray and whither lie the happy the spirit are so many planes of coöperating en-
isles? No; analysis and logic remain, but become deavor in man's effort to create a world in which
irresponsible. In this regard Tagore is true to he can feel at home out of the world which has
the mystical type. There is a willingness, con- been given him, and which is foreign and oppres-
sciously or unconsciously, to make use of intel- sive. There is no break between the struggle
lectual instrumentalities, but a refusal to accept for food, the craving for knowledge, the longing
the responsibility which goes with their use. As for union with the Universal One. Each leads
an example of how differently the thing may be through conflict with obstacles to a consciousness
done, one turns to Samuel Butler's argument of self,—the two former to a consciousness of
for the same thesis in his “God the Known and self as desiring things other than they are; the
God the Unknown." Starting, as does Tagore, latter (that is why it is the second birth), to a
from the refusal of the human being to be psy- consciousness of self as striving to desire what
chically alone in the universe, Butler avowedly should be desired. We thus find a defence
accepts the advantages and risks of intelligence instead of a denunciation of science, and the mys-
and proceeds logically to prove that the universe tical experience of union with the Supreme Per-
is a person.
Butler's little volume should be
son is not isolated and insulated from all other
read with Tagore's "The World of Personality.” experiences, but is the crowning success of an
But as long as Tagore writes such vital, color- unbroken, though differentiated, creative effort
ful English as he does in places even in this reaching from the struggle of animals to adjust
chapter, he will be read, whatever faults he may themselves to their physical environment to man's
be guilty of. This for a sample:
consciousness of the Person in the world.
From the beginning of his history man has been The discussion of “The Second Birth” repre-
feeling the touch of personality in all creation, and
sents the climax of the book. Three other chap-
trying to give it names and forms, weaving it in
legends round his life and the life of his races, offer- ters follow: an interesting one on the author's
ing it worship and establishing relations with it school in Bengal, established for the purpose of
through countless forms of ceremonials. This feeling educating youth toward rather than away from
of the touch of personality has given the centrifugal
impulse in man's heart to break out in a ceaseless the life of the spirit; another, evidently intended
flow of reaction, in songs and pictures and poems, in for disciples, entitled "Meditation"; and the
images and temples and festivities. This has been
the centripetal force which attracted men into groups
last, “On Woman.” The present age, this last
and clans and communal organizations. And while chapter teaches, is a masculine age, an age of
man tills his soil and spins his cloths, mates and
economics, politics, and their consequent mili-
rears his children, toils for wealth and fights for
power he does not forget to proclaim in languages tarism. The absurdity of this type of civiliza-
of solemn rhythm, in mysterious symbols, in structures tion, thinks Tagore, has become evident even
of majestic stone that in the heart of his world he
has met the Immortal Person. In the sorrow of to man, and there is hope that the lost social
death, and suffering of despair, when trust has been balance will be restored by putting the full
betrayed and love desecrated, when existence be-
comes tasteless and unmeaning, man standing upon
weight of woman into the creation of the human
the ruins of his hopes stretches his hands to the world. Not, however, by encouraging the fem-
heavens to feel the touch of the Person across his
inist movement, which is a symbol of vacuity and
darkened world.
If the same man who wrote the second chapter
unrest, but by making possible the free play of
wrote the third, Tagore is a striking case of dual
woman's superior socializing power. And this
personality. For the chapter entitled “The Sec-
is to be secured through the passive quality which
ond Birth” is not only clear and coherent where
"has given woman that large and deep placidity
the preceding chapter is muddled and topsy-
which is so necessary for the healing and nour-
turvy, but is a well-sustained study in place of ishing and storing of life.” Tagore deplores the
a hodgepodge of dubious, more or less related,
western woman's loss of interest in the common
observations. "The Second Birth" is written by things of life, and says, if I understand him, with
a man who has experienced, observed, and more breadth of outlook to be sure, but with the
thought,—and not in average measure.
And it same finality, what was asserted long ago by a
makes sense, although the topic is profound. member of the race which is just now without
Moreover, it appears to differ in doctrine from the bounds of our sympathetic imagination : “Die
what precedes. The senses and the intellect are
voman's blace is on der sthove."
no longer in such utter disgrace. On the con-
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>
The Imagists
I asked:
can he from his portals of ebony
carved with grapes,
SOME IMAGIST Poets, 1917. (Houghton Mifflin
turn toward the earth?
Co.; 75 cts.)
The "blasphemy" of this last inquiry was re-
The Imagists come forward once more with
buked; the god could and did.
their annual Anthology, and the publishers place The war is heard throughout the present vol-
a proper—perhaps a necessary—typographical
ume: in Aldington's "Field Manæuvres," in
emphasis on the date. The little group remains
Fletcher's "Armies," a sombre yet vivid thing,
the same, whether in composition or in spirit: and in Flint's concern with "Searchlight" and
early rebels are still in the outer darkness, and
"Zeppelins." From the latter:
no new converts have been admitted. Nor is
What is that behind the trees?-
the offering of 1917 very different from that of A fame-colored circle of light that glows
1916. Here they all are, very much like them-
and grows brighter and dimmer by turns.
Is it an airship on fire?
selves: the two A's, Richard Aldington and his
It turns on, and moves nearer, slowly;
wife ("H. D."); the two F's, Fletcher and
it swings clear of the trees-
Flint; and the two L's, D. H. Lawrence and
the moon!
Amy Lowell. Three are English; three are
Mr. Flint, to a degree not shared by all his
American; and if three, instead of two, were group, has a consciousness of human relationships
women, the symmetry, in all ways, had been com-
and some concern for expressing them; in his
plete.
“Dusk,” particularly, and in his "Soldiers," ad-
If poetry, in general, exacts the union of the dressed apparently to Aldington.
,
intense (or concentrated) and of the sensuous;
As “H. D.,” though of the New World, is
if Imagist poetry, in particular, demands a short always consistently anthological, and as Amy
Lowell is represented here solely by a series of
succession of brief, clean-cut pictures, with unifi-
cation and humanization either permeating it or
Japanese pieces (already made familiar by
secured somehow before the end, then Richard
"Poetry"), the American note is struck by John
Gould Fletcher alone. Two noteworthy things
Aldington's “Inarticulate Grief” may be taken
as a nearly perfect paradigm. Here is a sketch
of his must be mentioned—the "Lincoln," in
of it-nine lines of its eighteen:
which a method that, to many, will still seem
alien is applied with picturesqueness and pathos
Let the sea beat its thin torn hands
In anguish against the shore;
to a theme conspicuously indigenous; and his
Let it
“Blackberry Harvest,” a Bacchic revel with
shriek out its agony
Across waste sands and marshes;
berry-picking children upon, it may be, the hill-
Let it sob and scream and laugh
sides of the poet's native Arkansas:
In a sharp fury,
And there wells up a drunken impulse of
With white salt tears
autumn,
Wet on its writhen face;
To Aing myself into the tangle;
For the sea is the cry of our sorrow.
To find myself a faun again, freed from the restraint
"H. D." keeps to the Greeks—Adonis, Pyg- of houses,
malion, Eurydice. Her sands
staccato
With red-stained face a-leering
Out of the dense, deep web of interlacing thorn:
through the reader's mental fingers; golden, per- A girdle of scarlet berries slung carelessly over my
haps, but yet sands. Some sweat of the reader's shoulder,
mind is required to produce the moisture for
A crown of glistening purple berries gleaming in my
hair.
remoulding all this yellow dryness into the form
D. H. Lawrence is represented by a single
which it may have possessed in the mind of its
rather long and elaborate poem, “Terra Nuova,”
creator. Perhaps no one of “H. D.'s" four elab-
which might be vulgarly translated, “The New
orate pieces quite equals “The Shrine," of last
Deal.” Here, like some of the others, he passes
year's volume—a poem which (on a second or
through the smoke of war; and here, as in his
third reading) declares itself a kind of criterion
"Erinnyes," of last year, he is concerned with
for the Compleat Imagist. Here are lines from
war's havoc. He ends as “dead,” “trodden to
"The God," whose face is dark,
nought," and then, with
set beneath heavy locks,
circled with stiff ivy-fruit,
every vestige gone—then I am here,
discovered, setting my foot on another world. .
clear,
cut with great hammer-stroke,
Mr. Lawrence is inexhaustibly vigorous; but
brow, nose and mouth,
mysterious and far distant
there must be pardon for those who, with the
from my sense.
best will in the world, still find him turbid,
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whether in his nature or in his art, and who How often this admirable character appears in
patiently await the clarifying of both.
English society I, as a not much travelled Amer-
Miss Lowell closes the book with a score of ican, do not know. But we have met him fre-
net little pieces from the world of prints and quently in the finer English novels, romantic and
lacquer; "Patterns," of 1916, has no successor, realistic. Henry Esmond is a good sport; the
no peer. The last and longest of these, “The scene in which he denounces the prince is a classic
Camellia Tree of Matsue,” gives still another exhibition of the English sportsmanlike attitude
treatment to a theme now well known and pop- toward a fellow, a Frenchman, who has not
ular in America, whether in poetry or on the played the game fairly. Such unlike individuals
stage: the tree-trunk inhabited by a human crea- as Trollope's Duke, Meredith's Evan Harring-
ture who perishes when the tree itself is at- ton (who, you remember the point of the story,
tacked.
is not technically a gentleman), and Nevil Beau-
The present volume is without introduction. champ, are all true to the type. Mr. Gals-
Presumably the days of apologia and propaganda worthy's Patrician is a perfect specimen.
are past.
HENRY B. FULLER. "Beyond" is a study of two good sports, father
and daughter, who love intensely, suffer greatly,
and bear their loss with fine fortitude. The
English Sports and Foreign story is a tragedy of sex, two tragedies indeed,
Temperaments
cruelly moving and relentless, touched with some-
what the same color that makes “The Dark
Flower" so sombrely glowing. It is a greater
BEYOND. By John Galsworthy. (Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons; $1.50.)
story than "The Dark Flower," and so is "The
Mr. Galsworthy is an intellectual aristocrat Patrician,” because the characters are stronger,
who has rebelled against his own class and yet their natures contain many forces besides sexual
presents it with self-evident justice and authority. passion. Those who see in the story only a sen-
He has drawn the iniquities of the lords of the sational appeal to our sexual emotions miss the
earth, sometimes with bitter keenness, sometimes theme.
with sad gravity. And among those lords he has "Che faro senza- ?” That is the motive.
found a type which has always commanded the What shall I do when I have lost ? Take the
respect of Englishmen and Americans and is the blow with an unbowed head, pull through, and
justification of the class. This type is the good live for the other things and the other people
sport.
that make up life. It is the gospel according to
The good sport is different from the gentle- Browning. Stake everything and pocket your
He is better and stronger,-including the losses without whimpering. Stoicism is an old
gentleman and something more. For a gentle- philosophy, often enough repeated in abstract
man may be undeniably a fine gentleman and terms. The novelist here has shown real people,
yet have too delicate nerves or be physically ill dominated by passion, terribly hurt by it, then
or timid or socially shy. The good sport is all dominant over their sorrow, and not so small as
there. He may be narrow-minded and not deeply to indulge in regrets. It is a superb piece of
educated, but he has a kind of mental courage; work, so honestly and manfully conceived that
and he takes physical courage for granted. He I felt a momentary desire to assassinate the “lit-
may be a Philistine, indifferent to the arts, but erary editor" of a Boston newspaper who ex-
he has good bearing, social grace, and cultivated pressed the piously prudish hope that in this
speech. He makes an excellent leader of soldiers. book Mr. Galsworthy had sung his "swan song"
He maintains a calm manner in difficult circum-
stances and keeps a stiff upper lip under the buf- If the English novelist finds among his own
fetings and sorrows of life. He is capable of countrymen models of steady-headed, sound-
deep passion, which goes with strong physique, hearted, thoroughbred heroes who are, however,
and if necessary he conceals it with perfect self- human, passionate, liable to taste the Heaven and
discipline. As a matter of course he is honest, the Hell of illicit relations (and so shock lit-
true to his word, and tries to be just in his treat- erary editors who ought to be in a nunnery)—
ment of equals and inferiors. He is not a snob, if the English novelist feels that a man like Win-
because-well, because he is just too good a sport ton in "Beyond" is English to the backbone,
to be a snob.
why does the novelist always have to go abroad
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na-
are.
for the contrasting, irresponsible "artistic tem- of course. What would have happened if the
perament”? Is the country that produced aunt had been named Carlotta and the niece,
Byron and Swinburne not regarded by its own Constance? How does the title of Meredith's
novelists as capable of producing erratic geniuses? novel sound if we change it to "Mabel of the
I suppose Svengali had to be, or pretend to be, Crossways"? This is not a play with names.
a Pole, and the pianist in Arnold Bennett's "Sa- It is a play with the romance which is around
cred and Profane Love" had to be the same sort names and with the habit of English novelists
of mongrel (Scotch and Danish plus a Spanish of ascribing romantic ideas and ethical irregu-
stepfather!), and Galsworthy's "fiddler fellow,' larities to foreign-sounding names, even when
whose music snares Gyp, had to be a Swede. the names designate persons of pure or prepon-
That England is not prolific of musicians is a derant English stock.
matter of fact, and it is true that musicians, Is the reason for this that the nations find in
because of their art, are plausible perturbers of other nations villainies and indecencies unknown
English girls and dramatic foils to unmusical at home, and also romance unknown at home?
Englishmen. But, aside from the enchantments Is it possible that villainies and indecencies and
of music and the supposed wildness of musicians, romance go together because we all like them
the Englishman seems to regard erotic vivacity but do not dare indulge them at home? Do
and romance as extra-English, continental, even we not assimilate to ourselves and our
Scotch or Irish, but not English.
tion all the respectable virtues and impute to for-
When Mr. Galsworthy wishes to give to Major eigners things that are not quite nice and proper, ,
Winton's daughter a little more of the artistic even when for some of the things that are not
and romantic than appears in her equally peccant nice and proper we have a secret liking? We
but four-fourths English father, he provides her suspect our neighbors, dare not be as they are,
with an Italian maternal grandmother. That, or, assuming superiority, would not be as they
added to difference of sex, accounts for anything One aspect of this idea is gently satirized
in Gyp that is not in her sire. (And Gyp is in "Beauchamp's Career"; the misgivings which
perfectly her father's daughter—a rare thing in Beauchamp's love affair causes in the hearts of
fiction, as Stevenson said of Roderick Hudson his good English relatives are partly due to the
and his mother.) Another added foreign touch fact that Renée is a Frenchwoman.
which makes Gyp understandable to English- I do not know (for one person cannot know
men-among whom prevails the greater than the the literature of all the nations) how far con-
great commandments: "Really, you know, it isn't tinental novelists show a corresponding feeling
done!"-is her name. A girl whose name is Gyp of contempt, or suspicion, or romantic strange-
can defy English society, whereas a girl named ness, for each other and for England. There
Anne or Ruth (as a much bolder girl might be
is a story by Maupassant, the name of which I
named) would be simply smothered.
forget, which turns on a Frenchman's detesta-
I do not mean to be Aippant in discussing this tion of all things English; that, of course, is not
point or any point connected with such a sincere Maupassant's attitude but the attitude he as-
book as “Beyond." This apparently trivial ques- scribes to his character. A Spaniard told me
tion goes to the heart of international issues,
that in his national literature there is no trace
which are terribly vexed just now. Mr. Gals-
of such hostility to the English as English liter-
worthy calls her Gyp, which to my mind sug-
ature betrays toward the Spaniard. Is it too
gests a Frenchwoman (is it not the nom de
much to hope that after the war we may begin to
guerre of a modern French novelist?). Would
rid ourselves of the superstitions of national su-
Gyp have done what she did if her name had
been Lydia? Or did her parents name her Gyp
periority, and at the same time to discover and
prize the fine shades of difference which arise
because they subconsciously selected the name
from and give value to independent national de-
appropriate to the kind of character they were
transmitting?
velopment? Not only may our state of mind im-
Mr. Bennett's heroine in "Sacred and Profane
prove; the English have already learned that
Frenchmen, Belgians, and Poles can be good
Love” is named Carlotta. Did you ever know
sports: but the facts of national life may im-
an English girl or an American girl of New
England stock named Gypor Carlotta ? Car-
prove; perhaps in time England may have musi-
lotta's nice, respectable aunt is named Constance,
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Discipline
organized ineffectiveness of life as he knew it
came into the mind of the McGregor boy." And
MARCHING Men. By Sherwood Anderson. (John on the next page, the boy reflects: "If I could
Lane Co.; $1.50.)
form the men of this place into an army I would
It is a curious, mixed, provocative, and occa- lead them to the mouth of the old Shumway cut
sionally exasperating book, this second novel of
and push them in..." McGregor is then a lad
Mr. Anderson's; but it is also interesting of fourteen or so, living in Coal Creek, Pennsyl-
chiefly, to my mind, as the exhibition of a tem-
vania. I daresay there are bespectacled little
perament and the setting forth of a point of view
monsters with a premature appetite for political
that is highly idiosyncratic. Naturally all brief philosophy who might muse so; but a boy simply
characterizations are unfair, but I suppose
bursting with vigor, a boy like "Cracked" Mc-
“Marching Men” might be described as a pæan Gregor's son; no, no! The love of order has
to order and (quite incidentally, I hope) a naked
always seemed to me to be distinctly a middle-
and somewhat febrile celebration of force. It is,
aged virtue, associated with flagging vitality and
in fact, too insistently, too stridently and re-
the inability to absorb shocks. By this failure
morselessly dedicated to the main theme to make
of the retrospective imagination, we are early
a wholly satisfactory novel. Nevertheless, it
warned to expect no nuances in Mr. Anderson's
seems to me only natural that a book celebrating book, and so we are prepared for other reflections
order, even a little shrilly, should have grown
of this untaught miner's son.
out of all the clutter and confusion of Chicago,
Men of Coal Creek . . . listen to the voice of Mc-
and no doubt we should have had such a book
Gregor. I hate you . I hate you because you are
even if Mr. Wells hadn't long since set the weak and disorganized like cattle. I would like to
fashion.
come among you teaching the power of force. I would
like to slay you one by one, not with weapons but with
In the days following the World's Fair Chi- my naked fists. If they have made you work like rats
cago began to accustom itself to criticism-none buried in a hole they are right. It is the man's right
to do what he can. Get up and fight. Fight and I'll
too tolerantly at first. Mr. Herrick was able
get on the other side and you can fight me. I'll help
to raise the dust by his mild animadversions on drive you back into your holes.
the architectural peculiarities of Cottage Grove
An adolescent Nietzsche might conceivably have
Avenue. Such criticisms were easily dismissed as heated his brain with such fights, but McGregor
the morbidities of a sense refined, and possibly is throughout the foe of intellect. Why talk?
over-refined, by a prolonged familiarity with Babbling makes a man loose-jawed and flabby.
softer European surfaces, the vagaries, in short, "On and on through life we go, socialists, dream-
of a delicate ego. Mr. Anderson, on the con- ers, makers of laws, sellers of goods and believers
trary, although he studies the Chicago of the in suffrage for women and we continuously say
same period, has little to say of our æsthetic words, worn-out words, crooked words, words
lapses. No; what troubles him is our spiritual without power or pregnancy in them."
”
untidiness, our stupidity in the sphere of social When McGregor arrives in Chicago as
integration, our vast welter of meaningless and youth of eighteen or so, he is already filled with
frustrate lives. He is expressing, in other words, contempt for the talkers and there runs in his
what has become the conventionality of the mo- head the thought of marching men—a troop of
ment, but expressing it with a great deal of pas- soldiers that had put down a riot at Coal Creek.
sion and in a way that is distinctive enough to That vision is the nucleus of his whole philosophy
excite interest. It is worth noting that neither -the "goose-step” is the way to solidarity. And
our crudity nor our violence disturbs him. Force so he sets the workers of Chicago to marching.
indeed, far from repelling him, fascinates him Mr. Anderson's is surely the last word of anti-
with what I can only call a slightly pathological intellectualism; for the men who follow Mc-
fascination. His hero is a Berserker with a big Gregor do not know why they are marching or
fist, whose most potent argument is always a whither. Mr. Anderson doubtless took his cue
blow.
from the solidarity of the peoples at war, but he
There is a corresponding violence in Mr. forgets that if the leaders of those men are quite
Anderson's own method. He sets his theme, for as cynical as McGregor with regard to the think-
example, on the third page. "Standing in the ing-powers of their men, they are still careful to
doorway and looking up and down the bleak supply substitutes.
supply substitutes. They manufacture public
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holding forth the lure of ideals. So far as I am There is an insensitiveness here that reflects
able to see, McGregor offers the marchers no itself even in the words. Mr. Anderson's anti-
end beyond the manifestation of power—the intellectualism will allow him to leave nothing
power of the workers. Marching satisfies a deep to the reader; he can't trust us to understand,
disposition. Very well, let them march, and and therefore he shouts instead of whispering.
trust to luck that the collectivist mind will But I venture to doubt whether even a parish-
emerge. To present a programme would be ioner of the Reverend Bernard Shaw or a disciple
only to repeat the old intellectualist fallacy of of Professor Pearson really takes the great leap
the socialists and the organizers.
in quite that spirit.
The habit of thinking in terms of groups and
To offset such deficiencies, Mr. Anderson has
masses has rather blunted, I fancy, Mr. Ander-
the skill to make you feel the thick press of life
son's sense of the intimate and the personal.
in great cities. The background of that clut-
There are fugitive glints of tenderness here and tered, disorderly, and violent life of the old South
there, such as McGregor's attachment to the
Side, with its Red-Light district that was notor-
memory of his father or his yearning toward the
ious from Shanghai to St. Petersburg, is effec-
once despised miners who follow his mother's tively realized. Mr. Anderson knows how mixed
coffin up the hillside; but on the whole his emo-
was the whole network of influences that en-
tional life, even in the most intimate relations,
meshed the town, from highest to lowest, and
as those with the tuberculous girl, the plow- he shows very well the kind of civilization Chi-
manufacturer's daughter, and the little milliner cago had then achieved. His touch in the boule-
whom he finally marries, is disturbingly arid. vards seems to me less sure, but then I should
With a dim sense of his mission in life, Mc-
think the boulevards interest him very little, and
Gregor instinctively fears love. Women are re-
he will not mind having such an impression
morselessly possessive. And so McGregor sets recorded, especially since it is as far as possible
himself the problem of loving without yielding from being an expert one. But when all is said
to love. He rejects as contemptible the easy solu-
Mr. Anderson's book interested me chiefly as the
tion of the artistic barber, who prowls by night expression of a vigorous and sincere mind, a
and ogles by day. He often poses the problem, thoroughly individual mind, that stirs one to
but in the end he does not solve it: he marries argument and tempts one to forget the author's
the little milliner, who has become a habit and own contempt for the chattering animal that is
will not divert his attention, rather than the
GEORGE BERNARD DONLIN.
plow-manufacturer's daughter, who has awak-
ened his passion. You are left to infer, if you
like, that McGregor ends as he had begun by
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A first feeling of disappointment comes when
"Stop," she cried. “I do not want you. I would
ers, at page 38, that the recollections
never marry you now. You belong to her. You are
are finished. The disappointment is a compound
Edith's."
McGregor's voice became soft and quiet.
of surprise at their short length and mild anger
at their lack of interest. No comment can sur-
“Oh, I know," he said; “I know! I know! But I
want children. Look at Edith. Do you think she could
pass, no, nor equal, the certain effect of quota-
bear children to me?”.
tion. Here are two bits: “When he was at
A change came over Edith Carson. Her eyes hard- Brooke my mother and I went to see him after
ened and her shoulders straightened.
he was established there. He carried me off up
"That's for me to say,” she cried, springing forward to his own room, which he exhibited with great
and clutching his arm. "That is between me and God.
If you intend to marry me come now and do it. I was
glee, saying: 'Everything in this room is mine.'
not afraid to give you up and I'm not afraid that I
I immediately pointed to a very large family
shall die bearing children."
portrait of a lady and child, saying: 'Is that
And after the decision is made McGregor says: yours?' 'No—but everything else is.'” That is
One struggles to keep a thought in mind, to be im- quoted as an example, presumably, of Algernon's
personal, to see that life has a purpose outside his
early aptness at repartee. And this, “And what-
own purpose. You have perhaps made that struggle.
You see I'm making it now. I'm going to take Edith
ever his religious opinions were or were not,
and go back to work.
however much they had departed from those of
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our upbringing—as doubtless they did in later audience always in mind. The student of history
days—I never, in our years of unfettered and and government, as well as the student of law,
most familiar intercourse, remember him to have will gain little from the volume, although a few
said anything to shock or distress me, or any- comparisons of the advantages and disadvantages
thing that was undesirable for me, as a child or of the constitutional systems operating on the
girl, to hear,” gives us the comforting assurance two sides of the Great Lakes challenge attention.
that one of England's great poets never shocked Persons knowing nothing of the Canadian gov-
his female cousins. The remaining 218 pages ernment and desiring a brief, simple treatise on
are given to letters of little or no interest, which it, will find the little book useful. Generaliza-
contain no particularly valuable references to tions are indulged in with much freedom, and
people or events. The whole volume contains
some are open to question. It certainly is not
practically nothing that Mr. Gosse has not pre- true, for example, that the American power of
sented, in one way or another, in his recent biog- impeaching the President is “as dead as the royal
raphy of the poet.
veto” in England.
THROUGH RUSSIA IN WAR TIME. By C. THE EMANCIPATION OF THE AMERICAN
Fillingham Coxwell. Scribner's; $3.50.
City. By Walter Tallmadge Arndt. Duf-
Political Russia is of more vital interest than field; $1.50.
physical Russia; but at the moment when the A delightful book to read is this, both because
fate of that nation seems to centre in one city, of the ease with which the author expresses him-
it is not amiss to remember that Petrograd is self, even when dealing with matters of complex
one of the least representative cities of the new municipal finance, and because of his evident fa-
republic and that behind all its changes and its miliarity with the city as an industrial, social,
transitory emotions there lies the great mass of and political community. Home rule appears to
the Russian people, sturdy, industrious, and im- the author to be the first step toward a solution
movable. To consider them steadies one's sense
of the many problems of the modern city. Not
of proportion. Mr. Coxwell's book enables one
only is the achievement of this step necessary to
so to consider them, for he has had a rare op-
enable the city to direct its affairs in its own
portunity for observation, since he travelled in
interest, but it is indispensable to the training of
1915 from Petrograd to the Crimea, and back by
its citizens in moral self-direction. Concentra-
way of Tiflis, the Caspian, and the Volga, to
tion of business and political responsibility
Finland and Sweden. He has seen life in the
cities and in the tents of nomad peoples. Nor through commission government (or its equiva-
did an imperfect acquaintance with Russian de-
lent), the short ballot, separation of local from
ter him from undertaking any journey that prom-
national political issues, the substitution of inde-
ised returns in the matter of interest or of pendent for partisan tickets, an adequate and
amusement. The faithful recital of his experi- irreproachable civil service, the regulation and
ences in all these places forms a volume of un- curtailment of public-utility franchises, the ra-
usual interest in spite of a rather stilted manner, tionalization and standardization of the finance
and the fact that the examination of a passport methods of the city within the limits at least of
receives as much conscientious attention as a voy- solvency—these are some of the most important
age up the Volga or a visit to a Kalmuck village. reforms explained and urged. Such other more
The book is proof that the simple truth may be or less familiar topics as the initiative and refer-
interesting, but in general we are willing to as- endum, the recall, preferential primaries, and
sume this without proof.
reformed taxation are not forgotten. The view-
point of the author is decidedly sane and pro-
THE CONSTITUTION OF CANADA. By Wil-
gressive, and the book may be trusted to hold
liam R. Riddell. Yale University Press;
the interest of the average reader.
$1.25.
During the past academic year the lectures on
MUNICIPAL FUNCTIONS. By Herman G.
the Dodge Foundation at Yale University were
James. Appleton ; $2.
delivered by Judge Riddell, of the Supreme Court
of Ontario. The subject discussed was the con-
“Municipal Functions” is the twelfth number
stitutional system of Canada, and the four lec-
in the “National Municipal League Series." It is
tures have now been published. The brevity of popular in style, practical in aim but scientific
the book is such that only an outline of historical
in method, and will give the general reader an
development is possible; even "The Constitution excellent perspective of the modern problems of
in its Actual Workings” and “A Comparative city government. Among the most important
View” are set forth only on broad lines. Fur- chapters are two entitled “Public Morals” and
thermore, the subject is treated with a non-legal "Social Welfare." Here the author definitely


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'asserts the responsibility of the municipal govern- for self-expression other than war-that is easy
ment for better morals and greater welfare. He to forgive. But it is difficult to find justification
takes a liberal attitude toward Sunday amuse- for a presentation so sentimental, so inadequate,
ments. As regards the saloon and liquor prob- so not quite worth while, as this.
lem, he comes to the rather regrettable conclusion
that this issue should be decided locally. Ade- WOMEN OF BELGIUM. By Charlotte Kel-
quate provision must be made for suitable public logg, with an introduction by Herbert C.
recreation and in such a programme adults are Hoover. Funk & Wagnalls; $1.
not to be overlooked. He favors a board of Readers who delighted in the vivid pictures of
censorship which shall examine moving-picture Belgium given to us by Charlotte Kellogg in the
films before production, and thinks that in view
"Atlantic Monthly" under the title of "A Ci-
of the difficulties involved in controlling the com-
nema of the C. R. B.,” will be pleased to see
mercial dance halls, the city might experiment them reappear with the addition of new “reels.”
with municipal dance halls. He also urges vigor- Mrs. Kellogg, the only American woman mem-
ous action for the elimination of the social evil.
ber of the Committee for Relief in Belgium,
Better housing is discussed but unusual em-
worked in that country for several months
phasis is laid on the limitations of municipal among the French and Belgian women, and, at
action and on the necessity of fundamental social
the request of Mr. Herbert Hoover, she has
reform to meet the real need. Cities can do
written of their work.
much to lessen unemployment and to improve There are many angles of vision, of course,
working conditions, though they alone cannot
from which one may consider the conditions in
solve the problem, and there is need of better
Belgium, and Mrs. Kellogg has elected to put
free medical care and legal aid for the poor.
her emphasis, not upon the source of the Belgian
calamity, but rather upon the spiritual reaction
COMMUNITY DRAMA. By Percy Mackaye.
of the women to the set of circumstances imposed
Houghton Mifflin; 50 cts.
upon them. For, as Mr. Hoover says in his
There is a gap that is not to be bridged be- introduction to this volume, "At first the morale
tween the written and the spoken language. An of a whole people was crusht . .. but slowly
address set down in cold print, lacking the warm, and largely by the growth of the Relief Organi-
dramatic appeal furnished by the speaker, is zation and the demand it has made upon their
likely to prove an unsatisfying husk at best. At
exertion and their devotion, this morale has re-
the worst—and this is especially true of the in- covered to a fine flowering of national spirit and
timate and emotional, of the more informal, ad- stoical resolution.” The particular work of the
dress—its very form puts the reader on his guard women has consisted (to quote Mr. Hoover
against being cozened into accepting something again) in the "discrimination of the destitute
fraudulent.
from those who can pay, and the determination
It is rather hard to realize precisely what the of their needs."
value of such a book as Mr. Mackaye's may be. By the convincing method of telling of inci-
In its original form, as an address delivered be- dents of which she was a witness, Mrs. Kellogg
fore the American Civic Association, it may have has paid a great tribute to the women of Bel-
fulfilled its purpose of interpretation and sug- gium. For example, in describing the soup can-
gestion. Printed, it is too slight to be of much tines, she speaks of the women who had ladled
value to the student of sociology or of the drama, out soup for seven hundred days without inter-
nor specific enough to be of service to those in-
mission. She says, “That day, a woman who
terested in the practical aspects of the pageant or had not before served on the soupes offered her
community play, and too emotional—too senti- services to the seasoned workers. They were
mental-to carry conviction to the intellectually grateful, but smilingly advised her to go home,
aware.
fill her bath-tub with water, and ladle it out—to
Mr. Mackaye undoubtedly has something to repeat this the following day and the following,
say about community drama. His belief in its
His belief in its until finally she might return, ready to endure
revolutionary character is worth a hearing. His the work, and above all not to retard the 'Line'
suggestion that coöperative drama, in our military five unnecessary minutes! Two and a half years
training camps and in our towns and cities and have not dulled the tenderness of these women
rural communities, should prove a democratizing toward the wretched ones they serve." One
influence deserves consideration. If, in his very notes many touching expressions of devotion
real enthusiasm, he is over sanguine with regard toward the unfortunate: the conversion, for
to what community drama may be able to ac- instance, of the Antwerp Music Hall into a
complish in the way of helping to establish the sewing-room for those greatly in need of employ-
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time concert-hall comes twice a week to stand True, Mr. Chesterton is given credit for origin-
in the midst of the packing-cases behind his ac- ating the observation that Christianity has "not
customed footlights to sing to this audience been tried and found wanting, but found difficult
driven in by disaster and to teach them the beau- and never tried.” Though the words are Ches-
tiful Flemish folk-songs." For the Belgians set terton's, Oscar Wilde, and if one mistakes not,
great store by their astonishing sense of rhythm, Pascal before him, gave the idea currency. “The
and they still preserve their feeling for decorative Conversion of Militarism” is an excellent com-
effect.
mentary for our times on William James's sug-
The conditions which Mrs. Kellogg describes gestion of a “Moral Equivalent for War." Those
are new to most of us. The Belgian women have who years ago admired "Christianity and the
been even more heroic than we realized, and their Social Crisis”—as who did not?—will welcome
frugality, which she tells of at length, especially this book with the same satisfaction.
in regard to the use of foodstuffs—their ability
to "present variety from apparent uniformity"- BRAZIL TODAY AND TOMORROW.
By L.
is full of suggestion for the patriotic housekeeper. G. Elliott. Macmillan; $2.25.
Long acquaintance with, and an intimate
THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF AN AMER- knowledge of, Brazilian affairs, industrial, finan-
ICAN CITIZEN. By Francis Greenwood Pea- cial, and commercial have equipped the author
body. Macmillan : $1.25.
of this work to write not only with fulness of
The homelessness of the American boy, the fact, but also with a perspective of values not
religion of the college student, the relation of often found in any encyclopædic compendium.
universities to the social conscience, American It is a handbook of information culled from
character, its debits and credits, the failure of reliable sources and illustrated with many ex-
pessimistic, institutional Christianity,—all these amples drawn from a rich experience of residence
topics suffer from the decrepitudes of age; but in and travel in this the largest of the American
Francis Greenwood Peabody's new book they re- republics. The author is interested primarily
ceive a very frank, comprehensive, whole-visioned in trade rather than in nature and man. He
treatment. Dr. Peabody was something like a portrays the history of this land to whose stocks
radical twenty years ago, and unlike many former not only the aborigines and the best strains of
radicals of the clergy, he is still at least a pro- the Portuguese and Spanish peoples have con-
gressive. “For one educated youth who is alien- tributed but also Germans, Italians, French,
ated from religion by the persuasions of science, Dutch, British, Russians, Syrians, and Japanese,
philosophy, or art, ten, we may be sure, are es- to say nothing of the large negro element
tranged by an irrational or impracticable teaching brought as slaves. The self-exiled Americans
of religion." "To do for others has seemed to who emigrated to Brazil at the close of our Civil
the tradition of the Church a superadded and War have all vanished. The rapid rise of
secondary effect of religion, rather than one of American trade and commerce has brought to
its essential and original factors." "Much Chris- this sister republic, however, an increasing con-
tian teaching is still in effect social pessimism.' tribution from our civilization. Lack of com-
These and much besides stamp the author as munication and diversity of climatic conditions
more than usually keen and genuine.
and agricultural interests tend to isolate the na-
Some patent defects that one grieves so often tional groups, with the result that there is less
to find in religious writers of prominence are an fusion of cultures and of sentiment in Brazil
over-reliance on pretty verbosities, a habit of glib than in our own melting-pot. The author's
mosaic of Biblical quotation designed to fit into analysis of these results of colonization is par-
modern problems (going back for its warrant to ticularly illuminating in view of the present
the infallibility of the scriptures), and a trait crisis in the provinces of the south, where Teu-
that naturally goes with the latter-an odd com- tonic influences predominate. The greater part
bination of sound and serious reflection with of the book deals with matters of transportation,
ramshackle logic. But there is plenty of meat industry, and finance, with internal and foreign
in this book. Chapter four, "The Universities commerce, and with the problems of the develop-
and the Social Conscience," is good reading de- ment of the vast and as yet almost untouched
spite the opening claim that the present genera- resources of this great empire. The author is
tion has "discovered the social conscience. This not blind to, nor oblivious of, the hazards which
is true only in the sense that the age of Elizabeth attend the utilization of such resources nor un-
discovered America. John Smith is no further appreciative of the qualities of enterprise, re-
from Columbus than the “present generation” sourcefulness, and skill demanded of those who
from the early socialists. Chapter five, giving seek to control nature in the tropics. One finds
its title to the book, is also extremely suggestive. here a very full account of railroad development
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in Brazil, of the coffee, rubber, matte, cotton, Porfirio Diaz. By David Hannay. Henry
tobacco, sugar, and cacao industries, and of the Holt; $2.
movements of trade and industrial developments The life of Porfirio Diaz is the latest addition
in Brazil in the last decade.
to the series, “Makers of the Nineteenth Cen-
tury.” The events of the last six years might
A SOLDIER OF FRANCE TO HIS MOTHER.
lead one to doubt whether Mexico is yet fully
Translated by Theodore Stanton. A. C. "made." But Mr. Hannay wisely cautions his
McClurg; $1.
readers to remember that Diaz or any other who
Mr. Stanton, in his Paris letter of some time would labor for the betterment of that country
ago to The Dial and in the introduction to his must inevitably find the average native a most
own admirable translation of these "Lettres d'un discouraging obstacle to progress.
His natural
Soldat,” has said with grace and judgment nearly characteristics,-mental inertness, a fondness for
all there is to say about this "picture of the in- pulque, and an attachment to community life, -
terior of a soul." It is composed of a series of three centuries of repression under the Spanish
letters and jottings sent from a sensitive young colonial system, and a century of exploitation at
artist-soldier to his mother during the period the hands of local caciques and military dicta-
from August 6, 1914 to April 6, 1915, upon tors, hardly prepared him for rapid acquisition
which latter day the author "disappeared." It of culture and material prosperity at the close
must be a source of great comfort to the mother of the nineteenth century. Neither were the re-
to feel that, after all, her son achieved in these sources of the country adequate to the task, nor
letters something like complete artistic expres- its physiography favorable for a united effort
sion of his noble nature, to know of the wide toward those desirable ends. But Diaz did his
recognition they have had in France, and to learn
best, and if he wrought more rapidly than wisely,
that now they are given in English to America, with more reliance upon force than upon persua-
which needs their lesson and their inspiration. sion, he at least afforded his country one gener-
They represent the reaction to the tedium
ation in which exploitation took a peaceful turn.
and horror of war of a mind trained in artistic
If this is the best that one can say for his rule,
and intellectual pursuits, unused to contact with
it is at least a welcome contrast to the half-cen-
the sordid side even of peaceful life. One might tury of anarchy that preceded it, or the six weary
suppose that such a man could reap only a sorry
harvest of despair from out the trench mud and
years of strife that have followed his exile.
cannon shock. But he contrives so to adapt him-
The story of Diaz's own life is a fascinating
self to his new surroundings that out of his
The steps by which the humble farrier's
experiences there rise Aights of spiritual song,
son became a law-student, the local political boss
renewed consecrations to a task difficult, even
of his district, the successful general, the astute
repugnant, and glorified visions of a steadfast national politician, the leader of a successful re-
faith in the ultimate good of things—war in- volt (apparently a necessary step in Latin Amer-
cluded.
ica), the chief magistrate of the Republic and
In the autumn months of 1914, the writer its acknowledged dictator, are told with sufficient
speaks oftenest of the companionship he finds in clearness, and with a grasp of fundamental causes
Nature. His words, as they paint the scenes of that makes the book doubly acceptable. One
pink and gold and blue that his brush could not misses the sickening eulogies of a decade ago,
catch, are the words of an artist ; his meditations, and also the bitter tirades of more recent times,
like those of Marcus Aurelius, to whom indeed
though the author is apparently familiar with
he has been compared, are assured and tranquil, both, and with contemporary life in Latin Amer-
transcending in their sustained fight all the roar
ica. Mr. Hannay is not sympathetic; neither is
of guns and the cries of wounded, even all self.
In February and March there comes a tempo-
he savagely critical. He does not seem to have
much hope of immediate betterment in Mexico,
rary depression. There is one haunting plaint
for the days and the way of life that he begins
nor does he unduly blame Diaz for not training
to see are no more. Then once more he mounts
a successor, when such an individual must prove
to more serene heights than he has known, where
an immediate rival and break down his work
he learns that total self-abnegation is the sure
in his own lifetime. If this actually happened,
way to knowledge. As M. Chevrillon says, in
despite his utmost efforts to forestall such a
the preface to the French edition, "What counts catastrophe; if his material creations largely fell
for him through these weary' weeks, what he loves into ruins along with the heavy-handed police
to recall afterwards, what he would ever find power that he exercised, it was because Diaz,
again and never lose are those supreme moments after all, was but a man, and not the super-
in which he felt self-forgetfulness because he had human being that imaginative writers formerly
felt the ineffable."
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NOTES ON NEW FICTION
those who have convinced themselves that noth-
ing is worth fighting for." Most of the youth
"Bromley Neighborhood," by Alice Brown
and ardor and high purpose of the world is being
(Macmillan; $1.50), is not a story of the war,
spent-gloriously, Miss Brown would have us
though, since it takes place in 1914, it must, as believe
in destruction.
its author explains, be colored by the Great War
"Bromley Neighborhood" will be recom-
"as all life will henceforth be colored forever-
mended as a "good" book. It is, too, a sincere
more.” It is the story of such a community as
may be found in New England and occasionally skill. But to the unbeliever, “Bromley Neigh-
and moving story, told with more than average
out of it-a community shut off from the rest
borhood" is a depressing document, offering
of the world as a result, not so much of geogra-
fresh proof that the day when wars shall cease
phy as of an essential insularity of spirit. All
is yet far off.
its passion was spent in its youth. In comfort-
It is not often that an American writer ven-
able middle age, warmed by pride of blood and
tures into what may be called native material.
pride of acres, it sits, if not oblivious of, at least
Doubtless too much imagination is required to
indifferent to, the world that roars outside. Au-
discern the elements of a good story in the com-
tomatically, individuals narrow themselves to its
monplace commercial life of every day, or it may
confines-grow old and mellow or old and tart
in the charmed circle they have drawn for them-
be that too much hard work is needed to hold
selves. Occasionally youth breaks away, but the
the reader's attention in a story about ordinary
community remains unchanged.
people. Elaine Sterne has ventured into this
field in "The Road of Ambition" (Britton Pub-
The lives of the little group of families that
compose the community called Bromley Neigh- lishing Company; $1.35) and has written the
borhood furnish Miss Brown with a theme that
sort of story which we are glad to have from
an American novelist. She has chosen to write
is almost epic. Her story is the story of a race
about a laborer in the steel mills, a man with
of men, not of individuals. She follows the
imagination and a passion for power. Such a
intertwined destinies of her characters with a
consciousness of the past in which they are so
story could have been written more effectively by
a man, but one is willing to pass over certain
firmly rooted, that is so vivid as to make the
feminisms in the discussion of business for the
story seem sometimes almost symbolic, if not
sake of the story itself, which is engrossing. To
scientific—a study in heredity. Halfway through
the credit of the author be it said that she has
the book, the war enters. America is not yet a
not depended on the trick of coincidence or
participant; but to all the characters in the book
that amount to anything, the war is already terials for plot and dénouement in the characters
chance to build a plot. She has found the ma-
“our” war.
What Miss Brown calls the spirit of her story, just as she has found her story in
of old New England incites them to a holy mili-
the life of American industry, and that is as it
tarism. They are ready, as their ancestors of
should be.
yore, to give all they have for freedom-for the
Those of us who know England have known
Right as they see it. And their new faith, which
takes them far beyond the narrow spiritual con-
since the start of the war that something fine
fines of their neighborhood, is bright enough to and enduring would come out of the throes of
furnish light for the unravelling of tangled per-
conflict, that somehow England would emerge
sonal problems. War does, after all, give indi- purged in spirit. Two books have been written
viduals a chance to save their souls.
thus far which indicate that this process is go-
Perhaps the men and women of Bromleying on. Both books should be read by everyone
Neighborhood are a little too consistent, even who wishes a sane analysis of the effects of the ·
for New England, where consistency is said to war upon individuals who have suffered actual
be so common a jewel as to pass unnoticed; experience, with some hint of the ultimate con-
perhaps Miss Brown is a shade unsympathetic sequence socially and nationally. These books
toward those characters in whom the spirit of
are Hugh Selincourt's "A Soldier of Life"
New England has shrunk and crystallized into
(Macmillan; $1.50) and Stephen McKenna's
something different. But on the whole, the
"Sonia: Between Two Worlds” (Doran;
people of Bromley Neighborhood are real people $1.50). Neither of these novels has any sug-
with reactions that are, on the whole, true-
gestion of Mr. Wells's pyrotechnic omniscience,
deadly true. In spite of the almost ecstatic hope both of them are characterized by a deep sense
of the book, indeed because of that hope, it leaves of human character and its reaction under Gar-
the unbeliever hopeless. People will not give gantuan crises. “A Soldier of Life" is a study
to peace the passion that they give to war. There of a man who has been invalided home, only to
are many neighborhoods whose only professed discover that the readjustment to the sweetly
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impossible. The spiritual contrast drives him to is so difficult—for an American writer, so relent-
the verge of insanity and it is in the working lessly difficult—as the expression of charm in
out of his understanding of the deeper signifi- personality. Mr. Merwin has given us his inter-
cance of life that he wins sanity and happiness, pretation of New York's bohemia; Miss Dal-
for he discovers that it is more wonderful to live rymple now gives us hers, and, to tell the truth,
than to kill and that life, if it be truly lived, it pleases us more. The two peripatetic, mutu-
demands as great discipline, as great sacrifice as ally adoring, ever-quarreling Irishmen, Kenny
does war. "Sonia” is less mystical in its interest,
and his son, belong to the romantic rather than
perhaps more typically British for that reason.
to the realistic world, but their wanderings and
It is an excellent example of those novels of
their ways gave us far greater delight than if
school and college life which only the English they had stepped straight out of the Village with
know how to write, perhaps because the English
the paint of their acquired personalities still wet.
are the only ones who know how to live that life.
Their personalities appear to be inbred. Their
But it is more than charming narration and de-
adventures are told with liveliness and sympathy.
lineation; it has a sense of the traits in British
character which make it survive. The very qual-
A thrilling story with a groundwork of com-
ities which appear in the public-school life, which mon sense! Such is the impression which re-
make gentlemen and sportsmen, are the qualities
mains after the pleasurable excitement of reading
which make soldiers and which later will make Burton E. Stevenson's "A King in Babylon"
citizens of a truly democratic society. Mr. Mc- (Small, Maynard; $1.50) has subsided. The
Kenna writes with charm and brilliance. His story concerns a moving-picture producer and his
name is new to America, but this novel will place determination to introduce imagination and art
him well forward in that group of younger nov- into his work. (Would to heaven that every
elists who before the war had started the foun- scenario-writer, producer, and actor in the coun-
dations of a new epoch in the English novel.
try would read the stinging criticism of their
No one will gainsay the publisher's statement wooden-headed efforts!) This producer used
on the jacket of "Saint Séductre” (by Exile X, genuine imagination in building a plot about
Liberty Publishing Association; $1.25) that it
Henley's lines,
is the duty of every true American to acquaint
I was a King in Babylon
himself thoroughly with each particular element
And you were a Christian Slave.
of the Teutonic peril. The purpose of this story
The production carried him and his company to
is to acquaint the American reader with a cer-
Egypt, where a suitable setting was found in a
tain element in Prussian officialism, and as such
it offers material which ought to be borne in
royal tomb practically excavated by an American
mind in whatever discussions of peace the future archæologist. It is at this point that the seem-
may see. The book was written in the white ingly supernatural enters into the tale, giving an
heat of intellectual conviction, rather than pas-
extraordinarily weird and gripping turn to the
sion. Terrible as is the picture of the sufferings story. But the author, and we hereby render him
of the prison camp, the emphasis is not put upon
our thanks, instead of yielding to the easy trick
physical tragedy so much as upon the chicanery
of invoking the supernatural in order to gain his
and deception of those officials whose best inter- effect, skilfully erects a framework of logical ex-
ests lie with the survival of Prussianism after the planation on which one may stand and enjoy the
war, even in the guise of democracy. Unfortu- spectacular climax without danger of doing his
nately the book is in the form of a dialogue and
intelligence injury.
the average reader is unwilling to concentrate It is not often that a reviewer finds himself
sufficiently to follow a narrative stripped bare of in a glow over an American novel, but such is
superfluous description or narration. But it is the present writer's experience with Stuart Mac-
well worth anyone's time to read these short, lean's “Alexis” (Appleton; $1.50). When a
terrible conversations which concern a prison- reviewer finds himself in this unwonted condi-
camp plot and its tragic culmination. To read tion, it is difficult to explain his feeling. It does
this book is to gain an idea of that terrible men- not suffice to say that this story has attractive
ace, Prussianism, which when all is said and subject-matter; many books are quite as attractive
done has made the German people themselves, in this respect as this story of a music critic who
as well as the Allies, suffer the atrocities of war. discovers in the son of his washerwoman some-
Leona Dalrymple in “Kenny" (Reilly & Brit- thing bordering on genius; nor is it enough to say
ton; $1.35) has written an American E. Temple the story is exceptionally well written, or that the
Thurston novel; and although the comparison characters are deftly drawn, or that there is a
between the two may not be wholly in her favor,
lot of splendid talk about music and musicians.
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a
haps best defined as a sense of human warmth.
CASUAL COMMENT
There is between the lines an indefinable quality
of ardor, of the eagerness and intensity of youth
THE DEATH OF HENRY E. LEGLER, head of
and youthful ambitions. One knows from the the Chicago Public Library, is not only a serious
start that the story will be a happy one and that
loss, but one that comes much too soon. Mr.
all will be well in the end. Fancy that the hero
Legler was only fifty-six-having been born of
is your own protégé. With what vivid pleas- Swiss-Italian parentage at Palermo, in 1861–
ure you would see him working out to success!
and should have remained a serviceable factor in
That is exactly the feeling inspired by this ex-
the higher life of the community for more years
cellent story of music, and those who have to
than the brief eight during which he served. But
do with real music.
he never spared himself in his work, and his work
“From Death to Life," by A. Apukhtin (R.
wore him out. He was a man of initiative and
Frank), is a charming fantasy from the brain of
of ideas: “Only start a thing and somehow it
a poet little known in America. It is the tale of
will go through" might have been his motto. He
a soul's wandering, from the moment of its
came to Chicago from journalistic and library
release from the body of a prince to the moment,
work in Wisconsin. His chief success here was
a few hours later, when it found breath in the
in the enlargement of library service through the
body of a child born to the favorite maid of the extension of the branch system: it was his aim
prince's wife. The extravagance of the central
to "carry the book to the people." His latest
idea in no way detracts from one's enjoyment
effort was to found the movement for supplying
of the piece. The prose is simple and direct-
our soldiers and sailors with libraries—a work
and the images are poetic. Franklin Booth sup-
which, initiated in Chicago, has been taken up
plies seven pen-and-ink drawings that help ma-
by the libraries and reading public all over the
terially to translate the spirit and delicacy of country. Mr. Legler was a finely sympathetic
the little story. The slender volume is Number personality, beloved by his staff and deserving
1 in a series of “Gems of Russian Literature,”
of high appreciation from a public faithfully and
which Mr. Frank intends to bring out.
intelligently served.
To those who have found war too gloriously
represented in fiction, to those who would like A SCENT FOR SOCIAL WRONGS has been in-
to know a few of the typical fighting men of the dulged once more, on a large scale, by Upton
eastern and western fronts, shorn of their civ- Sinclair. He is publishing a novel about the life,
ilized demeanor and expressing in action the the work, and the surroundings of the men,
purely elemental impulses, we recommend “The women, and children who live in the coal-mining
Fighting Men," by Alden Brooks (Scribner's; camps and earn their livelihood there. "King
$1.35). In these stories the Parisian of the Coal" is the book's rather journalistic title. If
Boulevards is shown rallying from his acquired this new book is as honestly and earnestly meant
inertia to the pitch of daring that has made his as “The Jungle,” one hopes it will not have the
country famous. The Russian peasant is por- same bad luck of being wrenched somewhat from
trayed with all his faults and not a few telling
its purpose.
“The Jungle," written to expose
virtues. The Belgian, the Prussian, and the human conditions "behind the yards," was taken
American of the Ambulance and the Foreign as a mere sensational disclosure of repellent man-
Legion are shown very much as one would expect ufacturing processes. For interest in the worker
them to appear.
Mr. Brooks has had the op- there was substituted an interest in the product.
portunity of knowing his men at first hand, and If the same ill luck again befalls, we shall have,
his imagination is as fertile as it is grim.
instead of the reform of serious social evils among
"Mrs. Hope's Husband," by Gelett Burgess
our newer citizenry, only a document on the pro-
(Century; $1), is a delightfully humorous com-
duction and distribution of our winter's fuel-a
edy of manners and character. We have always
burning question, to be sure, but not quite the
been led to believe that among the candidates for
same as the plaint of the becoming American
divine reward the wife of a genius stood high.
under unfair conditions in days of doubt and
We now perceive our mistake; her claim shrinks
to insignificance beside that of the husband of a
A BOOK OF Bible LOVE-STORIES, in the man-
famous woman. How he may mitigate his suf- ner and idiom of "Billy” Sunday, is on the way
ferings is one of the things that an acquaintance and seems calculated to arouse apprehensions.
with Mr. Hope has taught us.
But more espe-
Mr. Sunday has arranged a series of narratives
cially would we recommend this little book to which deal with Ruth, Esther, Rachel, Rebekah,
the flourishing Mrs. Hopes of the universe, who Delilah, and other heroines of Scripture. They
cannot, unaided, appreciate the pathetic condition
will doubtless have their own air. Well, other
of being a husband.
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and tempers. If we but concede that old tales very, that they are unlikely to forego the pride
must be retold for newer generations in the taste of life until the pinch of war becomes much
of the period, that old garments must be given more acute, and that a worldly journal of fash-
a new cut and hang for the mental shoulders and ion and society is not the vehicle for effective
limbs of the Latest Comers, and that novel col- protest against carrying the pomps and vanities
ors and timbres are justly demanded by the hu- of peace times into days of war.
man run-of-the-mine in its newest psychical
development—the rest is easy. But Ruth pre-
sented in the parlance of vaudeville or Esther
A PROTEST AGAINST THE HAPPY ENDING, as
squared to the taste of the bleachers—well, does well as against the servile editor who would
the prospect quite please?
bestow on such termination a value and conse-
quence hardly its due, may be found in the recent
publication of a volume of short stories. There
A SHEAF OF DIVORCE PAMPHLETS FROM ENG- are a dozen or more of them, by different au-
LAND helps to remind us of the crying need of thors; and their grim and gruesome character
one social reform in Britain and of the checks has made them, despite merit, impracticable for
and delays which the war is occasioning. The the magazines as now conducted. Therefore the
Divorce Law Reform Union still issues its leaf- authors now sally forth in company and ask a
lets and its annual reports. Its officers have been general verdict from the public itself. How-
asked why they have not, like so many bodies ever, the taste of the public in stories and in
dealing with controversial questions, accepted a
story-endings may be got more easily and more
truce and closed their doors during the great conclusively than from the printed book. A few
struggle. They reply that the chief opponents evenings among the films will make the point
of the Union, those who insist on taking the re- perfectly clear. We ask for the amiable and
ligious (or even the ecclesiastical) view of mar- the optimistic. Perhaps not one movie story in
riage, have increased their activities against the a hundred "ends badly"; our public will not
extension of the divorce laws; also, that many stand it. The final turn toward happiness-
of the domestic problems raised by the war are however foolish and illogical that turn, whatever
a direct result of the marriage and divorce laws violence it may do to likelihood or even to the
at present in force. The Union, despite the op- essential character of established works of fiction
position of such tories as Lord Hugh Cecil, will -must be accomplished somehow. Perhaps our
continue, then, to present marriage in a secular associated authors are but asking that, in a world
aspect, and to promote procedures which shall of clashing and cruel realities, we summon up
act to assimilate British laws to those of other enough fortitude to endure the logical and the
and more liberal countries, and which shall re- true.
sult in making divorce easier for the poor by
means of reduced costs and the establishment of
WHERE WILL THE CLOSE OF THE WAR LEAVE
local divorce courts.
BAEDEKER? The admirable guidebooks pub-
lished at Leipzig have long been among the most
agreeable and serviceable manifestations of the
A WAR CATECHISM IN A FASHION MAGAZINE German spirit. With peace declared, will the
could scarcely fail to arrest the attention. “Do Anglo-Saxons use them as docilely as before?
you believe in slavery?” the author begins ear- Possibly not. Word comes that a series of Eng-
nestly. “Do you think the Germans are wrong lish “Baedekers" is projected, to be "done" by
or right?" and, "If wrong, would you like to British editors formerly employed by the house
live under German rule?" he continues. Then, of Baedeker itself. Doubtless Mr. J. F. Muir-
further: "Is American blood more precious than head, the able author of "Baedeker's Handbook
French blood? If so, why?-Why have the for the United States,” will have an important
French women stopped dancing during the war? share in the new series. Its publishers have
-Have French women a better sense of the fit- acquired the rights to the travel-guides of Murray
ness of things than American women? If so, and of Macmillan. One trusts that the volumes
why?-If your men go to the war, what are of the new venture may be more like the Leipzig
you going to do besides let them go?" After
prototype and less in the fashion conceived by
some thirty questions of like tenor, one turns the London: to use Murray after having used
leaf and finds ...? A page of brides in full Baedeker was always a vexation. The first
bridal splendor. Opposite them "the advance issues of the new series will deal with London,
guard of the Paris openings." Close at hand Paris, Belgium, and Northern France. The two
"a continuance of straight skirts, perhaps a bit last, obviously, will be in great demand and will
longer and narrower.” Then pictures of "loose supplement the post-war tourist arrangements
coats of green velours de laine," and so on. One which are already being shaped by the French
judges that American women do believe in sla- government.


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The Fall Announcement List
In accordance with the custom of The DIAL
there is here presented the annual classified list
of books announced for fall and winter publi-
cation, exclusive of educational and text books,
which were announced in the Educational Num-
ber, August 30, and books relating to sports and
outdoor life, nature, health and hygiene, new
editions of standard works, and miscellaneous
books, which will be printed in the next issue.
Our list of juvenile books will be published in
the Juvenile Holiday issue, December 6. These
lists are compiled from data submitted by the
publishers.
BIOGRAPHY AND REMINISCENCES
The Middle Years, an autobiography by Henry James.
-Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis,
edited by his brother, Charles Belmont Davis, illus.
-The Life and Art of William Herritt Chase,
by Katharine Metcalf Roof, illus.—Thomas Gains-
borough, by William T. Whitley, illus., $5.-These
Many Years, by Brander Matthews, $3.—Twenty
Years at Court, from the correspondence of Hon.
Eleanor Stanley, edited by Mrs. Steuart Erskine,
illus., $4.50.-Reminiscences of a Literary Life, by
Charles MacFarlane, $3.50.—Portraits and Back-
grounds, by Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, $2.50.
-With Americans of Past and Present Days, by
J. J. Jusserand, eighth printing, $1.50.-Further
Pages of My Life, by the Right Reverend W. Boyd
Carpenter, $3.50.--My Story, Being the Memoirs
of Benedict Arnold, by Frederic J. Stimson, illus.,
$2. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
The House of Lyme, by Lady Newton, illus., $6.50.-
Algernon Charles Swinburne, by Mrs. Disney Leith,
illus., $2.-Memoirs of the Comte de Mercy Argen-
teau, translated and edited by George S. Hellman,
2 vols., illus., $10.—The Life and Works of Wessel
Gansfort, by Edward W. Miller, D. D., 2 vols.,
illus., $7.50.-Benjamin Franklin Self-Revealed, by
W. Cabell Bruce, 2 vols., illus., $6.-William Clai-
borne of Virginia, by John Herbert Claiborne, with
frontispiece, $2.50.—Pioneer Mothers of America,
by Harry Clinton Green and Mary Wolcott Green,
3' vols.,' illus., the set, $7.50.-Glimpses of the
Cosmos, a mental autobiography, by Lester F. Ward,
6 vols, per vol., $2.50.-West Point, by Robert Charl-
wood Richardson, Jr., with foreword by or-
General Hugh L. Scott, illus., $2.-Life at the U. S.
Naval Academy, by Ralph Earle, with introduction
by Franklin Roosevelt, illus., $2. (G. P. Putman's
Sons.)
The Life of John Fiske, by John Spencer Clark, illus.,
$7.50.—Henry Thoreau as Remembered by a Young
Friend, by Edward Waldo Emerson, illus., $1.25.-
Letters of John Holmes, selected by Alice Longfellow
and Mary Ware, illus., $2.50; large-paper, $3.50.-
Letters and Writings of James Greenleaf Croswell,
illus., $2.—Honest Abe, by Alonzo Rothschild, illus.,
$2.-Uncollected Letters of Abraham Lincoln,
brought together by Gilbert A. Tracy and Ida M.
Tarbell, with frontispiece, $2.50; large-paper, $5.-
Daniel Webster in England, The Journal of Har-
riette Story Paige, 1839, edited by Edward Gray,
illus., $4.50. (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
Life and Letters of Thomas Hodgkin, by Louise
Creighton, $5.50.—Selections from the Correspond-
ence of the First Lord Acton, edited by John Neville
Figgis and Reginald Vere Laurence, 2 vols., $5.-
Life and Letters of Maggie Benson, by Arthur C.
Benson.-Correspondence of John Henry Newman
with Keble and Others—1839 to 1845, edited at the
Birmingham Oratory:-Life of Mère Marie de Jésus,
illus.—Burrows of Michigan and the Republican
Party, by William Dana Orcutt, 2 vols., illus.-
Sir Henry Enfield Roscoe, by Sir Edward Thorpe,
with frontispiece, $2.50-A Doctor's Diary in
Damaraland, by H. F. B. Walker, illus., $2.10.-,
Letters of Arthur George Heath, with memoir by
Gilbert Murray, $1.25. (Longmans, Green, & Co.)
The Life and Letters of Edward Everett Hale, by
his son, Edward Everett Hale, Jr., illus., $5,-
Memoirs of Colonel John S. Mosby, edited by his
brother-in-law, Charles Wells Russell, illus., $3.-
Richard Strauss: The Man and His Works, by
Henry T. Finck, $2.50.—My Fifty Years in the
Navy, by Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark, U. S. N.,
illus., $2.50.—The Little Grandmother of the Rus-
sian Revolution, Reminiscences and Letters of
Madame Breshkovskaya, edited by Alice Stone
Blackwell, with frontispiece, $2. (Little, Brown &
Co.)
Recollections, by Viscount Morley, 2 vols., $7.50.—The
Life of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield,
Vol. V, by George Earl Buckle, illus., $3.—The Life
of Abraham Lincoln, by Ida M. Tarbell, illus., $5.-
The Life of Augustin Daly, by Joseph Francis Daly,
illus., $5.—The Life of Clara Barton, by Percy H.
Epler, new edition, $1.75.–Political Portraits, by
Charles Whibley.—Life of Lord Lister, by Sir Rick-
man J. Godlee, illus.—The Life and Work of
George Sylvester Morris, by R. M. Wenley, with
frontispiece. (The Macmillan Co.)
A Soldier's Memories, by Sir George Younghusband,
$5.—Through Life and Around the World, bv
Raymond Blathwayt, illus., $3.50.—The Devonshire
House Circle, by Hugh Stokes, illus., $3.50.-An
Admiral's Wife in the Making, by Lady Poore.-
Giordano Bruno, His Life, Thought and Martyr-
dom, by William Boulting.--A Great Russian Tone-
Poet-Scriabin, by Eaglefield Hull.-The Life and
Work of John Richardson Illingworth, edited by his
wife, illus.-Paul Jones, by Don C. Seitz.
(E. P.
Dutton & Co.)
A Naturalist of Souls, by Gamliel Bradford, $2.50.-
Life and Letters of Robert Collyer, by John Haynes
Holmes, 2 vols., illus., $5.-The Master of the
Hill: A Biography of John Meigs, by W. Russell
Bowie, with frontispiece, $3.- Joseph H. Choate, by
Theron G. Strong, illus., $3.-A Hawaiian Pioneer,
by W. R. Castle, Jr., illus., $2.50. (Dodd, Mead &
Co.)
Mark Twain's Letters, edited by Albert Bigelow Paine,
2 vols., uniform with trade edition of Mark Twain's
Works, $4; uniform with Library Edition of "Mark
Twain: A Biography," $5.—Years of My Youth, by
William Dean Howells, illus., $2.50.-Diplomatic
Days in Mexico, by Edith O'Shaughnessy, illus., $2.-
An American in the Making, by M. E. Ravage,
$1.50. (Harper & Brothers.)
In the World, by Maxim Gorky, $2.-Life, Art, and
Letters of George Inness, by George Inness, Jr.,
illus., $4.—Heroines of Service, by Mary R. Park-
man, illus., $1.35.—Heroes of Today, by Mary R.
Parkman, illus., $1.35. (The Century Co.)
Letters From Our Own Belgian Legation, by Hugh
Gibson, illus., $2.-A Personal Record, by Joseph
Conrad, $1.75.-A Green Tent in Flanders, by
Maud Mortimer, illus., $1.25. (Doubleday, Page &
Co.)
The Journal of Leo Tolstoi (1895-99), translated by
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The Reminiscences of Raphael Pumpelly, 2 vols.,
illus., $7.50.-Goethe, by Calvin Thomas, $2.-
Makers of the Nineteenth Century: Li Hung Chang,
by J. 0. P. Bland; Abdul Hamid, by Sir Edwin
Pears, edited by Basil Williams, with portrait, each,
$2. (Henry Holt & Co.)
To Mexico with Scott, letters of Capt. E. Kirby
Smith, edited by Emma Jerome Blackwood, with
frontispiece, $1.25. (Harvard University Press.)
Francis Joseph and His Court, by Herbert Vivian,
illus., $3.- The Life of John Wilkes, by Horace
Bleackley, illus., $5. (John Lane Co.)
Rubens, by Louis Hourticq, illus., $2.50.--Memories,
by Alma Newton, $1. (Duffield & Co.)
Strindberg the Man, by Gustaf Uddgren, translated
from the Swedish, by Axel J. Uppvall, with portrait,
$1.25. (The Four Seas Co.)
Life of Tolstoy, by Nathan H. Dole, $1. (Thomas
Y. Crowell Co. )
Karl Bitter: A Biography, by Ferdinand Schevill,
$2. (The University of Chicago Press.)
Jay Cooke, Financier of the Civil War, by Ellis P.
Oberholtzer, new edition, 2 vols., illus., $3. (George
W. Jacobs & Co.)
Audubon, the Naturalist, by Francis Hobart Herrick,
illus., $7.50. (D. Appleton & Co.)
Hugo Grotius, by Hamilton Vreeland, Jr., illus., $2.-
Ingram Bywater: An Oxford Scholar, by W. W.
Jackson. (Oxford University Press.)
The Journal of an Author, by Dostoevsky, $1.25.
(John W. Luce & Co.)
Jean Jaurés, by Margaret Pease, $1. (B. W. Huebsch.)
President Wilson From an English Point of View, with
portrait and maps, $2.-Life of William Penn., by
John W. Graham, $3. (Frederick A. Stokes Co.)
Starr King in California, by William Day Simonds,
$1.25. (Paul Elder & Co.)
From Romance to_Reality, by Henry C. Mabie, $2.
(The Standard Publishing Co.)
My Log, by Robert Barrie, illus., $2. (The Frank-
lin Press.)
From Bull Run to Appomattox, by Luther W. Hopkins,
illus., with maps, $1.35. (Published by the author.)
The Life of Rev. Walter Ellis Powers, by A. N.
White, $1. (Baptist Book Concern.)
James Monroe Buckley, by George P. Mains, $1.50.
(The Abingdon Press.)
HISTORY
The Syrian Trouble of 1860, by J. F. Scheltema.-
The Great Roll of the Pipe for the Twenty-sixth
Year of the Reign of King Henry the Third, A. D.
1241-1242 (Yale Historical Publications, Manu-
scripts and Edited Texts), prepared and edited by
Henry Lewin Cannon, boards, $5.-Writings on
American History, for the Years 1912, 1913, 1914,
and 1915, a bibliography, compiled by Grace Gard-
ner Griffin, per vol., $2.50.—The History of Legis-
lative Methods in the Period before 1825 (Yale
Historical Publications, Miscellany, Vol. V), by
Ralph V. Harlow, $2.25.—The Readjuster Movement
in Virginia (Yale Historical Publications, Mis-
cellany, Vol. IV), by Charles C. Pearson, with maps,
$2.50.—The Development of the British West Indies
(Yale Historical Publications, Studies, Vol. V), by
Frank Wesley Pitman, with map, $2.50. (The Yale
University Press.)
History of the Civil War, 1861-1865, by James Ford
Rhodes, with maps. A History of the United States
Since the Civil War, by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer,
Vol. I, $2.50.—The Writings of John Quincy Adams,
Vol. VII, edited by Worthington C. Ford, $3.50.-
A History of the Pacific Northwest, by Joseph
Schafer, new edition, $2.-Jewish Life in the Mid-
dle Ages, by Israel Abrahams, $1.75.-History of
Serbia, by Captain H. W. V. Temperley, $4.-
British Foreign Policy in Europe to the End of the
Nineteenth Century: A Rough Outline, by H. E.
Egerton.—Main Currents of European History, 1815-
1915, by F. J. C. Hearnshaw. (The Macmillan Co.)
The Virgin Islands of the United States of America,
by Luther K. Zabriskie, illus., $
4Denmark and
Sweden, with Iceland and Poland (Stories of the
Nations Series), by John Stefansson, illus., $1.50.-
France, England, and European Democracy, 1215-
1915, by Charles Cestre, $1.75.-A Short History of
Rome, by Guglielmo Ferrero, assisted by Corrado
Barbagallo, 2 vols., $2.–Old Roads from the Heart
of New York, by Sarah Comstock, illus., new edi-
tion, $2.50.—The Columbia River, by William Den-
nison Lyman, new edition, illus., $2. (G. P.
Putnam's Sons.)
A History of the Eastern Question, by J. A. R. Mar-
riott.-Italy: A History from Mediæval to Modern
Times, by E. Jamison, C. M. Ady, D. Vernon, and
C. Sanford Terry, with maps.-Japan: The Rise of
a Modern Power, by Robert P. Porter, illus.-
Russia: A History Down to Modern Times, by C.
Raymond Beazley, Nevill Forbes, and G. A. Birkett,
with maps.-Portugal: A History to Modern Times,
by George Young, with maps.-The Beginnings of
Overseas Enterprise, by Sir Charles P. Lucas.
(Oxford University Press.)
New York as an Eighteenth Century Municipality,
Part I, prior to 1731, by Arthur Everett Peterson;
Part II, 1731-1776, by George William Edwards,
illus., $5.-History of the Abbey of St. Alban, by
L. Rushbrook Williams.-Gaius Verres, by Frank
Hewitt Cowles, paper boards, $1.50. (Longmans,
Green, & Co.)
National Progress, 1907-1917 (Vol. XXVII in The
American Nation: A History, edited by Albert Bush-
nell Hart), by Frederic A. Ogg, with maps, $2.
(Harper & Brothers.)
The Romance of the Romanoffs, by Joseph McCabe,
illus., $2.50.—The Fight for the Republic in China,
by B. L. Putnam Weale, illus., $2.50. (Dodd, Mead
& Co.)
A Great Emperor. Charles V—1519-1558, by Christo-
pher Hare, illus., $3.50. (Charles Scribner's Sons.)
The Expansion of Europe, by Wilbur Cortez Abbott,
2 vols., illus., $5. (Henry Holt & Co.)
The Expansion of Europe, by Ramsay Muir, $2.-Sea
Power, by Archibald Hurd, 75 cts. (Houghton
Mifflin Co.)
The Great War, Vol. IV, by George H. Allen, Henry
C. Whitehead, and Admiral F. E: Chadwick, U. S.
N., per vol., $6. (George Barrie's Sons.)
Early Philadelphia: Its People, Life and Progress, by
Horace Mather Lippincott, illus., $6.-Colonial Vir-
ginia: Its People and Customs, by Mary Newton
Stanard, illus., $6.-Old Roads out of Philadelphia,
by John T. Faris, illus., $4. (J. B. Lippincott Co.)
Memorials of a Yorkshire Parish, by J. S. Fletcher,
. illus., $2.50.-A Short History of England, by G. K.
Chesterton. (John Lane Co.)
Geography and the World Power, by James Fair-
grieve. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
Palestine, by A. M. Hyamson, illus., $1.50. (Alfred
A. Knopf.)
The Tragedy of a Throne, by Hildegarde Ebenthal,
illus., $3.50. (Funk & Wagnalls Co.)
The History of Long Island, by Benjamin F. Thomp-
son, revised edition, edited by C. J. Werner, 3 vols.,
illus., $18. (Robert H. Dodd.)
Great Men and Events, 1844-1861, by Baker A. Jami-
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The Old First, by Frederick H. Cutler, $1.-History
of the Town of Wellesley, by Joseph and Ellen W.
Fiske, illus., $1. (The Pilgrim Press.)
Characters and Events of Roman History, by Gugl-
ielmo Ferrero, a translation, $2.50.—Life in Ancient
Athens, by T. G. Tucker, $1.25. (The Chautauqua
Press.)
American Presidents, by Thomas F. Moran, 75 cts.
(Thomas Y. Crowell Co.)"
Russia, History, Description and Politics, by Clara E.
Fanning. (H. W. Wilson Co.)
History of Greece and of the Greek People, Victor
Duruy, translated and edited by M. M. Ripley, 8
vols., illus., $40. (The Page Co.)
ESSAYS AND GENERAL LITERATURE
Visions and Beliefs in the West of Ireland, by Lady
Gregory, with two essays and notes by W. B.
Yeats, 2 vols., $3.50.--For the Right, essays and
addresses by members of the Fight-for-the-Right
movement, preface by Sir Francis Younghusband,
$1.50.—The Loeb Classical Library: Caesar's Gallic
War; Seneca's Epistles; Dio Cassius, Vol. IV, edited
by E. Capps, T. E. Page, and W. H. D. Rouse, cloth,
per vol., $1.50; leather, per vol., $2.—The Cam-
bridge History of American Literature, edited by
William Peterfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart Pratt
Sherman, and Carl Van Doren, 3 vols., per vol.,
$3.50.—The Publications of the Hispanic Society of
America: The Supernatural in Modern English
Fiction, by Dorothy Scarborough, $2.-Brieux and
Contemporary French Society, by William H. Scheif-
ley, $2.-Romance of Old Japan, by Elizabeth W.
Champney and Frère Champney, illus., $3.50.—Great
Love Stories of the Bible, by Rev. "Billy” Sunday,
illus., $1.50. (G. P. Putnam's Sons.)
Tendencies in Modern American Poetry, by Amy
Lowell, $2.50.—The English Poets, selections with
critical introductions by various writers, edited by
Thomas Humphry Ward.—The Heart of the Puri-
tan, by Elizabeth Deering Hanscom, $1.75.—The
Road and the Inn, by James John Hissey, illus.-
A History of the French Novel, by George Saints-
bury, Vol. I, from the beginning to 1800.—The
Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the
Round Table, abridged from Malory's Morte d'
Arthur, by Alfred W. Pollard, illustrated by
Arthur Rackham, cloth, $2.50.-Folk-Lore in the Old
Testament, by Sir G. G. Frazer, 2 vols. (The
Macmillan Co.)
Through the Year with Thoreau, by Herbert W.
Gleason, illus., $3.-Maxims of the Duke de la
Rochefoucauld, translated by John Heard, Jr., $4.-
Days Out, by Elizabeth Woodbridge, $1.25.-The Inn
of Disenchantment, by Lisa Ysaye, $1.25.-Random
Reflections of a Grandmother, by Mrs. R. Clipston
Sturgis, $1.-Domestic Service, by an Old Servant,
$1.- The Romance of Escapes, by Tighe Hopkins,
$3—A History of American Journalism, by James
Melvin Lee, illus., $2.50.—Enchanted Cigarettes,
by Stephen Chalmers, with frontispiece, 50
(Houghton Mifflin Co.)
Life and Literature, by Lafcadio Hearn, edited by
John Erskine, $3.50.- The Light Beyond, by Maurice
Maeterlinck, $2.-A Literary Pilgrim in England,
by Edward Thomas, illus., $2.50.—The Essays and
Plays of Maurice Maeterlinck, autograph edition;
The Essays, 10 vols., each, $6; the Plays, 9 vols.,
each, $6.—The American Contemporary Poet Series,
12 vols., edited by Louis V. Ledoux, William Stanley
Braithwaite, Odell Shepard, Richard Burton,
Edward J. O'Brien, and others, each, $1. (Dodd,
Mead & Co.)
The Spirit of Protest in Old French Literature, by
Mary Morton Wood.- Tirant le Blanc, by Joseph A.
Vaeth.—The Influence of Italy on the Career of
Alphonse de Lamartine, by Rev. Agide Pirazzini.-
The Early Life of Robert Southey, 1774-1803, by
William Haller.- The Rhythm of Prose, by Wil-
liam Morrison Patterson, new edition.—The Yeme-
nite Manuscript of Pesahim in the Library of Colum-
bia University, by Julius J. Price.—The Unmarried
Mother in German Literature, by Oscar Helmuth
Werner, paper, $1. (Columbia University Press.)
The Greek Genius and Its Influence, select essays and
extracts, edited by Lane Cooper, $3.50—The Un-
dying Spirit of France, by Maurice Barrès.—Early
Babylonian Letters from Larsa (Yale Oriental
Studies, Babylonian Texts, Vol. II), by Henry F.
Lutz, illus., $5.-Divers Proverbs, by Nathan Bailey,
illus., $1.—There's Pippins and Cheese to Come, by
Charles S. Brooks, illus. (The Yale University
Press.)
The Militia of Mercy's Gift Book, edited by the Mili-
tia of Mercy, illus., $2.-Canadian Wonder Tales, a
by Captain Cyrus Macmillan, illus., $3.—Christmas
and the Year Round, by Dr. Frank Crane, cloth,
$1; leather, $2.—What's Right with the World, by
John Lewis Griffiths, illus., $1.50.—The Maid with
Wings and Other Fantasies, Grave to Gay, by E. B.
Osborn, $1.50.-Interiora Rerum, by “Quivis," $1.25.
(John Lane Co.)
Luck and Cunning, by Samuel Butler.—Asgard and
the Gods, by Dr. W. Wagner, $2.-Epics and
Romances of the Middle Ages, by Dr. W. Wagner,
$2.—The Morte D'Arthur of Sir Thomas Malory,
An Introductory Study, by Vida D. Scudder.-
Spring of Joy, by Mary Webb.—My Little Town,
by Winifred Kirkland.—The House in Order, by
Louise Collier Willcox, 25 cts.-New and Old, by
Edith Sichel. (E. P. Dutton & Co.)
The Stratford Series of the World's Classics: Lazarus,
by Andreyev; The Gentleman from San Francisco,
by Bunin, translated by A. Yormolinsky; De Pro-
fundis, by Przybishevsky, translated by Luba Wies
and William Cohen; The Mostellaria of Plautus,
translated by H. T. Schnittkind; Tales of Tchekhof;
Russian Tales of the Present War. (The Stratford
Co.)
Some Modern Novelists, by Helen Thomas Follett and
Wilson Follett, with portraits, $1.50.—Main Ten-
dencies in Contemporary Literature, by Stuart P.
Sherman, $1.50. (Henry Holt & Co.)
The Moderns, by John Freeman, $1.75. (Thomas Y.
Crowell Co.)
The Essential Mysticism, by Stanwood Cobb, $1.-
Nowadays, by Lord Dunsany, $1. (The Four Seas
Co.)
Some Modern Belgian Writers, by G. Turquet Milnes,
$1. (Robert M. McBride & Co.)
The Celt and the World, by Shane Leslie, $1.25.
(Charles Scribner's Sons.)
A Book of Prefaces, edited by H. L. Mencken, $1.50.
(Alfred A. Knopf.)
The Assault on Humanism, by Paul Shorey, 60 cts.
(The Atlantic Co.)
Boys and Girls, by Anatole France, illus., new edition,
$2.25.-Our Children, by Anatole France, illus.,
$2.25.-An Anthology of American Humor in Prose,
new edition, illus., $1. (Duffield & Co.)
Spirit, Soul, and Flesh, by Ernest D. Burton, $2. (The
University of Chicago Press.)
The Peaceful Life, by Oscar Kuhns, $1.—The Other
Side of the Hill, by F. W. Boreham, $1.25. (The
Abingdon Press.)
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The Ladies of Dante's Lyrics, by Charles Hall Grand- memoir and introduction by Desmond Coke and a
gent, $1.35-Four Essays (Harvard Studies in portrait in photogravure, $1.25.-In Greek Seas,
Romance Languages, Vol. III), by Murray Anthony by 0. H. Hardy, $1.25.-Odes to Trifles and Other
Potter. (The Harvard University Press.)
Rhymes, by R. M. Eassie, $1.25. (John Lane Co.)
The Statesmanship of Wordsworth, by A. V. Dicey, Japanese Prints, by John Gould Fletcher, illus., $1.25.
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books and pamphlets in the United States relating
to inebriety. In the opening chapter on “Customs
based on Race Source or Population," Mr. Peeke
says:
The drinking habits of the Dutch colonists were
excessive. Tempered in their tastes somewhat by the
universal brewing and drinking of beer, they did not
use as much as the Puritans of New England, nor
drink as deeply as the Virginia planters, but the use
of liquor was universal. A libation was poured on
every transaction, at every happening of the com-
munity; in public as well as private life John Bar-
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that we earned this reputation because we strong drink or treat.
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assortment of the books of all publishers than is quoted as saying:
can be found on the shelves of any other book-
Our intercourse is perfectly familiar and unre-
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Pierre de Lanux is one of the brilliant group of
young writers that made the “Nouvelle Revue
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“Revue” for the first three years of its existence.
He has served as a war-correspondent in the Balk-
ans, and acted as chief of section in the French
Ambulance in Belgium and Salonica until invalided
home. He is now in America seeking to bring
about closer relations between the young writers
of America and those of his own country. He is
the author of "Imaginaires," a book of verse, and
a study of the problem of the southern Slavs.
Richard Aldington's poem was written in the
trenches. He is now at an officers' training camp
in England, preparing to return to the front.
Louis S. Friedland is associate editor of “The
Russian Review," and a member of the staff of the
“Viestnik Ameriki.”
M. C. Otto's work is well known to readers of
The Dial. He is a member of the department
of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin.
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Elia W. Peattie is represented on Houghton
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Sara Teasdale has compiled an anthology of love
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Edward Robeson Taylor, former mayor of San
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Messrs. Boni and Liveright will shortly pub-
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Abraham Cahan, whose novel “The Rise of Da-
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Mary Pickford is to be featured in the film ver-
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Florence L. Barclay, author of “The Rosary,”
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Vida D. Scudder, professor of English litera-
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Robert J. Shores announces for early publication
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Theodore Dreiser's first novel, “Sister Carrie,”
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Robert M. McBride & Co. announce a second
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volume of Mr. Burke's verse, entitled “London
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Lieutenant J. S. Smith's “Trench Warfare"
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within a week of publication. The author is an
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army and has since been almost continuously at
the front.
The Yale University Press is to issue in Oc-
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Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Maurice Hewlett, Cecil
Chesterton, Edgar Lee Masters, John Galsworthy,
Alfred Noyes, and Rabindranath Tagore are con-
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Four Days
The Story of a
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The Indian Drum
THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF
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BY HIS SON
EDWARD EVERETT HALE, Jr.
By
HETTY HEMENWAY
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Scandal
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The Mask
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Reminiscences and Letters of Madame Breshkovsky
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By LOUISE MAUNSELL FIELD
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