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An English Woman on
the Side Lines During the Great War
Husband a German Prince
rmany From the Inside Described in Her
Book
i j^^OR most of un during the war
\4 ? there existed but two species of
Kf human beings ? pro-German*
and anti-Germans. There was
,,o i? talk of neutra!?, but down in our
a*j? a we knew it to be a negligible
?a)h ?s?, invented to s':;e:d t'-'.e hypocrites
'Kut n?w that the white heat of anger
[|ijB faded to a smouldering smudpe.
, a,-? .-an look about and discover here
?nd there an individual actually dc
? servil.? a separate classification.
Sn-i: a person is Evelyn Princess
r. She is the English wife of a
i man aristocrat, Prince Bl?cher, a
? descendant of "Vorw?rts," the
laaous marshal of Waterloo. She was
lifting in England with her husband
i (hen the war broke out and immedi
i tely left with him for Berlin, going
?? ambassador's contingent. They
. p- 81 "? -'- "?' the four and a half years
at *?hp Hotel Esplanade, where they had
an ?opportunity to meet nearly every
an: of note.
Brothers With the Allies
s her husband was not a mili?
to man, owing to his long re'
'.r " ngland, all o? his friends ?,v.? rela
. were intimately connected with
tV ?er?an political or military world.
0' 'er own family four brothe.s anc
1' : bi aw were fighting foi
t Allies. One of her brothers Was
I i et Ypres !n 1914, another per
T ? ?fitly disabled .
?.- memoirs, An English Wife 1>
' form an odd mixture
c ? ": ~r.se of the
G m?an nation and a;.- ? ngln.c
J er own peo] her with a
remain loya to hot:!
let ntries,
f there could be any unprejudiced
o\ tuons on the war issues, we
ti Ink It 1 at ? in this
testimony, written undei f groa'
er. of? n by a wi man who had 1 0 reason
to favor one side more than . e other
As a matte 1 ..'r & II that
she bus written if t 1 rily in?
teresting ai >?> different view?
point from that has pre-.
been e: pre srly, >ve :' :
doubly j n
Pra>in? lor the Whistle
She is In & spectator
at a football game who has wagered]
every ta rig on a
cheers are for the d? feni e tcai
a cons:
whistle
anythii g
In J
wrote:
"I beai erervth'ng, and sometimes ;
?grow Quite dased at the manifold and j
contra:
hear e
nothir.? at all, 1
folded hands :a a Btate ol
spair."
in t ?* does '
considf . eli
but sit ? s tak?
ln,., an ai? work among I
th ? pr
do vn a a
'hing ?she h? saw,
opinions kept I
background Thus we learn mar?.'
si ? ? rnal struggle in Ger- '
i "Mo*'* _ !* an a r
Thompson of (;;.ii>
State Univers
What's On
The Worker's Mind
By
One H??o Pot On
trails To Find Out
Whiting Williams
Mr. WilMarns left his position
personnel director of the
yd;.- mpany
Cleveland, ?*??
othes, disguised his name, and
?tar e
The greater pan 0i the text of
m his
iary. He
1 if was in . : unes, iic
\nd he
was there a' a laborer, as one o?
ib "hands." Hi*, story is im
ortant ro all who aim to be in
d on the labo *er's pr
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many daring the war, the snhmarine
question, the ambiguous position of the
Kaiser and the gradual growth of the
social revolution.
When her own opinions are pro?
jected thero are some unexpected de
] velopments. In February, 1917, after
j diplomatic relations between America
i and G?rmany had been broken off,
i Princess Bl?cher wrote:
Called Mr. Gerard Tactless
"Mr. Gerard, the Ambassador, will
' be regretted by few. He was a mar
i of disagreeable, tactless manners ant
: managed to offend every one. In fact
: he was net the person to have beei
chosen to act as negotiator betweei
i two hostile powers at such a critica
period of the world's history. Mrs
: Gerard, his wife, on the contrary, wll
be regretted by ell of n?. With he
quiet tact and patience she endeavorei
, to gloss over the many breaches o
good manners committed by her incor
rigible husband."
This alarminjr indictment of a ma
wl se public career has received note
ing but praise up to the present m<
ment loses some of its force when on
turns over a few pages and reads
"Ludendorff Is regretted by few." W
j are Inclined to put down this hab
] of neglecting to regret people as on
of the princess's pet hobbies and thin
no more of it; though as a mere ma
t r of curiosity it might be inter?s
know at just which dinner pari
.Mr. Gerard appeared in a dinner coi
i have assumed fu
'? . tig arcs?.
One chapter of Princess Bl?cher
experiences provides convincing ev
dcr.ee that war censors of all natloi
from a common stock. At 01
the princess was hailed before
court of investigation, accused of ant
German inclinations. She was ba
ished from Berlin and not reinstat?
. r I and had threatened
al to the Emperor. The who
'.ion turned on a letter writt?
to a cousin in a German prison cam
The vigilant censor had captured ti
startling extracts:
A Suspicions Letter
"1. The Tennis Cub Is now op
again, and we sometimes go there
the afternoon; but it is not aniusi
as it was iast year, as every one seei
in low spirits and has no energy
keenness for anything.
"2. When the happy day of peace i
rives, what a lot of new nephews a
nieces you on?? ? will have to be i
ced to when we meet again
nd."
After four months of pondering o-*
the i: eaning of the extracts the cen?
.- findings:
"1 The writer evidently means
convey to her cousin that the Gerrr
depressed about the ultim,
of the war.
"2. The. writer Beems to ba disc
a with living in Germany and
Co back end live in Engli
on as Bhe possibly can, and see
? that she would like peace
any price, so that that moment sho
arrive for her."
being banished from Berllr
not quite our idea of capital puni
ment.
Orange and Green
Struggle of Ulster and Sinn
Fein in Form of Fiction
I r*"TT^HE fjuarrel? in Ireland over the
question of independence have
inspired many books and essaya
in ?be fields of history and economics,
have not given cuuso foi treat?
ment :? fiction, although the average
reader prefers to studj contemporary
national movements through the lenses
I of the nove!. Coner Galway, in To
the Dawn (Stokes), has essayed,
marked success, a presentation of
? n F?i i sida of the recent up
. beavala in Ireland. We indorse this
I nove! as a singularly fair and graphic
ding of the racial, religious and
al feuds that culminated in the
t decade's riot of unrest in
er and Dublin.
Dympna D nne ., while a young
? i in a braw! between
Orangemen and Nationalists and is
saved by the boy Scumas Gallagher,
who becomes her lover and the hero
of the story. He ia one of the interior
of plotters who are striving to
drive Southern and Western Ireland
into armed revolt. As a foil the author
gives us the tine, clean-spirited Sydney
Hamilton, Protestant and Unionist,
who r.'.so love? Dympna. Her love
tes between the two, to find rest
during the hectic hours of the lat-e np
g i". Dublin which was crushed
out in gunfire. She realizes that her
? and her fiery xeal for Ireland
e.nd liberty forbid any serious thought
of Sydney.
We have shown merely ? thread of
the plot of Toward the Dawn. As an
interpretation of the craving of the
mass of the Catholic Irish for freedom,
: this novel is a pronounced success,
for it is surprisingly devoid of rancor
and the paragraph of the bigot. We
question the f-tatement that many an
Dish "Nationalist with merely un ?le?
rn? ntary school education" can give an
?? ! Unionist "pointa on lnter
. law." It would app-ear to us
that the broad view of state alTairs
.. to be found In the mind not obsesaed
by the questions and vexations of a
restricted problem so Isolated ft* the
Irish struggle of to-day. However.
with Ha poetic and "mildly peleinie ar?
gument tor the establishment of an
Irlah republic. Toward the Dawn
'.? an advoca*? in fiction with sharply
defined values.
VELYN, Princess Bl?cher, the English wife of the great
grandson of the famous marshal of Waterloo, spent the
period of the war in Berlin and has published her recollec?
tions of that trying time
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Notes of Books
And of Authors
THAT would most young writers
not give to be trained by such
a master as J n G vori
?one's reading directed, one's id ,
cussed and one's writing criticized by
one of the finest of living stylists!
This was the unusual and fortui ai
perience of Miss Dorothy East n, wl
The Golden Bird has just 1? n pi b
lished in this country. R]
was living in Dresden, p. al?
teen, when she first met Mr. Gals?
worthy. During an illi ess oi
became interested in the y? . ? ? ritei
and out of gratitude, she sent him, she
says, her first written impri
the life o? the German people. "He
began to encourage me, and 11 ni
my first Turgenev, which wan a big
step into the life of a new id<
plicity of language. Prom that I
on I read only the books he lenl i
and I ser.' him everything I wrote. My
visits later were 8nd are my gi ?
joy." When the war broke out Miss
Easton returned to England an
up her abode on an old farm in Kent,
so that her contact with and in
tion from Galsworthy became the
greater. When lier first book or
sketches. The Golden Bird, app
Galsworthy wrote the introduction.
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Book for French Rlir.d
One of the most interesting ever.;? of
the present literary season is the repro?
duction in braille type for the French
blind of Clarence Hawkes's Hitting the
Dark Trail, for which the publishers,
Henry Holt & Co., announce arrange?
ments have been made and in which un?
dertaking, it is said, Drieux, the i
of Damaged Goods, has taken particu?
lar interest. Hitting the Dark Trail is
the autobiography of Clarence Hi
who is himself blind. It has a
been published and widely read in bo; h
the United States and England. Of
even more interest than this e-,
least to Americans?is the repi rl
hi? publishers that Mr. Hawkes,
his blindness, is an enthusiastic ba
fan.
Mr. Stork on American Poetry
In his preface to Contemporary Verne
Anthology, Charles Wharton Stork, the
editor of the magazine and of this vol?
ume of poems selected from it in the
yoars 1916-'20, makes some
comments on modern American poetry.
"The fact is," he say.-., "tha
ways the bizarre and eccentric in con
rary art that is forced upon our
ion. The quiet, sincere painter,
er or writer has to make h?3 or
her way slowl; . Th is, while the imita?
ra of Whitman and various imported
'? a ram] ing on the Ameri
i, it migr ; wi i i be sup
that Poc, Longfellow, Whittier
and Emerson have had no successors.
. . . A peru il ? :' ?.'?'.is volume will,
think, s'aow that the older type of
rican ictry . being very earnestly
and su ' ? a - a : a day. It
de many important developments,
t the vitality of
generation, ? ithout losing the
of the earlier tradition. The
' poetry, as I may call
lis volume attempts to present,
is very prop? rly different from the work
he New England school. It
ilistic than Poe, less moraliz
; tnan I owell or Longfellow. Above
; is closer to life, more en
about the world of nature and
irrounds us. In this may bo
..era the more beneficial sido of Whit
I at the advance has
? abo i1 rather from the changing
: of the people than through any
ir or group of authors." The
which includes work by
Kilmer, Witter Bynner, Sara
Teasdale, Louis Untermeyer, Clement
Wood, Grace Hazard Conkling and many
others, has just been published by E. P.
Dutton & Co.
Quiet Summer for Frances Ste-rre-tt
"If you had only asked where I spent
the summer when I was in Alaska and
trailed the smiling Eskimo to Arctic
Siberia, or one of the summer? I was
in Europe, when I was trampled on by
a smuggler before he jumped from the
window o? a moving train!" is Frances
rrett'a exclamation in answer to
to where her summer had
bi : n passi 1. Even last winter she had
* ce of saving from a burn
ing h me the unfinished manuscript
of Nancy Goei to Town, just pub?
lished by D. Applcton & Co. But this
summer she say? she was not even nr
rested for violating parking laws! All
of which goes to indicate that her
summer in Minnesota has been one of
quiet preparation for the publication
of her new novel,
Henry Van Dyke's Poetry
Hei r_ V haB just gathered
ne* ete single
volume edition, I een published
WESTERN STORY WITH A WALLOP"!
By CHARLES ALDEN SELTZER
Atdlwr of 'The Ranchman,' 'Firebrand Trevi
son,' ' Tlie Vengeance of Jcffer;on Gatcne,' ' The
Range Boat.' ' T/ie Eo!s of the Lazy Y,' Etc.
THEY said Kane Lawler would
have trouble if he tried to take his
herd over the Tom Long Trail. And
he did?-plenty of it. But he came
back to town for more.
He fought the cattlemen's battle all
alone ? against the wiles of woman and
the treachery of man ?against an unseen
enemy, a mysterious, inscrutable force
that drew both him and an unprotected
girl into the clutch of terrible events.
Kane Lawler is, perhaps, the nerviest
of all Seltzer'? heroes. If you don't get
a thrill out of him you don't know a
regular man when you eee one.
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Growth of the American Marine
We Have Made a Century's Progress in Four
Years
A COMPREHENSIVE picture of
the development of the mer?
chant marine from its begin?
nings is given in America's
Maritime Progress, by Georg" Weiss,
published by the New York Marine
News Company.
The growth of the American trade
fleet under the laws enacted for its
protection by the founders of the Re?
public, its continuous decline following
the withdrawal of those laws to thi
low level reached just before the out?
break of the late war and its subse?
quent revival to the point where the
country now has 16,000,000 gro
of ships on its hands and the necessity
for finding a permanent place for then
in world trade are all discussed by the
author.
That place, according to Mr, Weiss
must be provided by Congress.
"The great coastline, the vast re
sources, the tremendous, industr
the constructive energies of the
States," he says, "should be, and poten
tially are, so f?ur superior to tho.se o
any other nation in the world I
is Imperative that our legislation o:
maritime affairs shall be so cor
ed as to give to this country Its right
ful place as the leading maritim- :.?<
tion, bar none, in the world.''
Onr Early Shipping History
In view of President Wilson's r<
fusal to serve the notice req red t
Congress upon competitive ma
nations of our determination to :
existing treaties so as to permit of 01
giving preference to our own
especial interest attaches to M
Weiss's pages relative to early Amer
can shipping history in which the e
feet of the ?application of these pri
clples at the beginnings of the Repu
lie is sketched. How alert the ear
American Congresses were to prote
and favor home shipping enterprise
he points out. is evidenced by trie fa
that between 1789 nial ? - J^ fifty la
were enacted for the purpose of pr
tecting ship construction and ship ow
ing in the United States.
Embodied in the law of July 4, 17;
was a clause allowing a discount
10 per cent, on tariff duties on all goc
imported in skips built and owned
American citizens. Provisions a
were made far a system of tonna
duties favorable to American vesse
Under these measures the Americ
shipping registered for foreign
grew from 123,000 gross tons to 411,(
tons in three years, and in the sa
period the proportion of Americ
trade carried in American bottom?
creased from 2.3 per cent to 64 ]
cent.
Beginning of the Decline
Following the War of 1812, 1 ?.<.a-.
Congress began withdrawing the pi
erential provisions in favor of Am?
can shipping, and the way was pa
for the decline of the' American m
chant marine wh ; continu
the beginning of the late war.
1810 there were 981,0 tons of A m
can vessels registered for fore
trade, and these carried 91.5 per c
of American imports and ???
1914, however, the tonnage growth i
resented only about 75,000 tons, w
the proportion of our carrying tr
being done in our own ships was
than 10 per cent.
In contrast with this picture of m
time decay, the progress n
the beginning of the lato war Eta
out in bold relief. The effects o?
I inadequate merchant marine upon the
! trade of the country are shown in the
withdrawal of foreign tonnage, upon
which wo were dependent at the be?
ginning of the war, and the conse?
quent piling up of goods for export.
at American ports without any ships
to carry them abroad.
"Up *.o the time that war roused the
country to its maritime inferiority,"
say.; Mr. Weiss, "the majority in Con?
gre.-; s had acted with indifference to
the nation's need for a merchant ma?
inte. America had its own boundless
resources, it was argued, sufficient to
supply every reasonable want. There
was no need for foreign trade, except
i little, perhaps, in the exporting of a
surplus production in some line?, many
would ai'gue. Of course, there were
some lines like cotton, petroleum, cop?
per, tobacco, patented machines, meats
and grains, of which we had a practi?
cal monopoly, that had to be shipped
overseas. But the foreigner could dc
the carrying. In the face of condi?
tions such as these the chances of any
nal aid or encouragement
for an American merchant manne werf
nil. Of course, those familiar with
the economics ar.d basic principles o:
maritime commerce were not to b<
leterred by any temporary condition;
from their belief in and advocacy of i
strong American merchant marine, bu
their efforts to write it into law wen
met with a spirit of indifference unti
war was declared."
A Big Step Forward
With war came the renaissance of
1 American shipping. "America has
: stepped forward one hundred years in
the last four years," says Mr. Weiss.
To the recording of this progress a
great part of the book is devoted. Pro
: duction of ships plays a large part in
: the tolling. At the time of our entry
i into the conflict there were only 398
? shipwaya in the United States. Two
i years later t?tere were 1,122, and the
sum of more than three billions of dol
ad been devoted to the construe
n * American tonnage in the in?
tervening Iwo years.
In the seventeen chapters dealing
with the record of American shipping
i .such subjects as the growth of ma?
rine insurance, war's effect on freight
rates, the expansion of foreign com?
merce, the advent of the steam tur?
bine, the growing importance of oil
:' :<?:, the stimulus to inland water
' ways, the history of the Shipping Board
and the views of shipping experts on
? the situation are dealt with in detail.
A feature of the work Is the presen?
tation of sketches of men and enter?
prises representative of the shipping
i world.
The book is copiously illustrated and
; contains a well arranged index. Sta?
tistical tables are also presented deal?
ing with foreign trade and American
tonnage holdings and shipbuilding.
An Oriental Hero
India the Scene of Louis
Tracy's New Novel
THE SIRDAR'S SABRE, by Louis
Tracy (Edward J. Clode?, is full
of adventure from start to finish.
| The scene is laid in India, and the
hero is a redoubtable warrior named
, Mohammed Khan. Whenever a pecu
liarly difficult or mysterious crime
1 turns up the authorities call on' Mo
BLASCO IBAIVEZ' latest novel is now ready
Is there anything stronger than the appeal a woman has for a man?
Blasco Ibanez finds the self sufficiency of the
male routed all along the line. In his Alicia he has
concentrated all the resistless fascination of the
female cf the species as she was found in the old
Europe of the pre-war days. But how the lure of
sex may, in great crises, become a regenerator of
character is shown in this new volume which does
for the war's ideals what "The Four Horsemen of
the Apocalypse" did for war as a conflict of material
forces.
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The Four Horsemen Hie Shadow of j La Bodega
of the Apocalypse the Cathedral __,
w ornan
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YOUTH CHALLENGES
By Clarence Budington Kellarui
is the story of Ruth Frazer, labor leader's daughter, and of Bonbrigh!
Foote, VII.. her employer, who controlled the destinies of thousands of
her class. 1!- was wi ling to pise up everything for her; he had said
that her *??? e his law . it she were his wife?-could
she use. i.im to carry out the desire which was more than life to her?
How the yielded to the temptation, then had to pay a great pnce, and
how in the end the two came to a real understanding and a great love,
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hammed to clear up the case and call
the guilty parties to justice. As a re
? salt he passes through a series of
1 most exciting experiences unscathed.
There is an abundance of Eaatern
secrecy and intrigue in the novel. Poi
: son is a weapon freely employed, and
the prize of war is often a set of mar?
velous jewels. The author introduces
more than a, touch of the strange re?
ligious rites of India. A great bronze
idol with incense burning before its
shrine is a familiar figure in the laby
rinth of crime and intrigue through
which Mohammed cuts his way with
his invincible sabre.
The novel is really a collection of
short stories, each of which is based
upon one of Mohammed's exploits.
There is not much sophistication in
the stories, but there are no dull mo?
ments, either. The action is so swift,
the adventures are so startling, that
one is often reminded of Dutnas' Three
Musketeers. One would have to ko
far to see a better sword fight than
the one in which Mohammed van?
quishes the wild tribesman, Ali Bagh.
Then there is a cavalry charge in
which a horse's wisdom .saves a regi?
ment from destruction, and there is a
grout necklace which must be guarded
at the risk of men's lives, and?? But
.'? isn't fair to the book to describe
all its thrilling episode?. Mr. Tracy's
work should bo recommended without
reservation to ail ?overs of red-blood?
ed advwiture fiction.
Sacred Jewels
Plenty of Crime and Mys?
tery in This Story
THERE is plenty of old-fashioned
blood and thunder in William
Allison's novel, The Turnstile of
Night (Doubleday, Page). The first
scenes are laid in Thibet, in the holy
city of Lhassa, where a daring band of
adventurers steal priceless jewels from
an ancient festival while a great reli?
gious festival is going on.
The later developments of the plot
take place in England. As a result of
the operations of a daring band of
criminals there is a new crime or nr, s
tery in almost every chapter. Finally
the evil-doers are tracked down; and
an opportune suicide clears the path
for a happy ending. The story is
characterized by a spirit of swagger?
ing melodrama, well exemplified by the
following speech of the villain to the
heroine:
'Next to myself I care for you. But
even more than I love you, I love my?
self. You must take me for your hus?
band, Honour Brooke, or you have
done with this world, and must make
ready for the next."
The Wild West
Gunplay in William Patter?
son White's Novel
THE author who writes of (he
Wild West, with its accompani?
ment of cowbovs. CAttle-ruytier*.
hard riding ana quick shooting, ?? al?
ways sure of an audience. It seems
? romantic instincfs of the aver?
age American reader find their njost
satisfactory out'et in reading abotit the
stirring frontier customs of a bygone
peneration.
William Patterson White's Paradise
Bend l'Doubleday, Pagel has a-1 t??e
merits of the traditional Western story :
quick action, excitement, a touch cf
mystery, a dasn of romance?and ? for?
midable casualty list. How prominent
the latter feature is may be inferred
from the following enlightening bit of
diaiogue:
"Yeah," 6aid Loudon, "the air arennd
these parts does seem clearer a, lo*.
An' there ain't so many folks on the
street, either. '
"There won't be for a whi>," de?
clared Bill Lainey. "We buried twenty
three gents day before yesterday,
hanged twelve up the road a piece, am'
Scotty an' Jack Ritchie an' that crowd
rubbed out nine o' the beys that llW
oat o' the Happy Heart over by Dead
Horse Spring."
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Detective Tales
Legal Tangles Unravelled
by Criminologist
THE hero of Samuel Ly'.e; J>imi
nologist (Century) is an "rpert
criminal lawyer, who also pos?
sesses remarkable ability as a detec?
tive. He delights in taking up appar?
ently hopeless cases, confounding the
guilty or saving the innocent by his
quick perceptions and mastery of legal
technique. The author, who conceals
his identity behind the pseudonym cf
Arthur Crabb, ?3 evidently rery familiar
with courtroom procedure, and many of
his stories reach their climax in a trial
scene.
The first story, "A Pleasant Evening."
in which a murder mystery is solved, is
one of the most exciting in the book.
Mr. Crabb is inclined to avoid blood?
curdling episodes, but his stories ar?
always interesting through their eleTor
and ingenious construction. Samuel
Lyle's clients have abundant reason to
feel confidence in him. When he doo?
not save them without recourse to law
by his acumen as a eleuth he comes into
the courtroom and pleads their cases
with never failing skill and logic He
stands out as an original and welcome
new figure in our company of master
detectives.
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C| It is for high stakes that the men and
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they fling themselves into the game of life
with unconquerable zest. ]
IJ A good story, well told, with qu'ck action, clever
character drawing, and a steady tightening of in?
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The Dangerous j
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