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?OO: S A:??'0 a,,, ;,,i?OaS
REVIEWS AND COMMENT
_-_?-?- ?s
LITERARY CRITICISM
AND BOOK NEWS
/ ^Somerset Maugham's Remarkable First
Novel Mr. Chambers's Facile Workman?
ship Mrs. Rinehart's New Story.
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?T Valk Of l V"ok '^P'*4'?,!,<,!, on<
?**. j is that of three
ira r- J* ? n the
r? ?s one a?
- av, moro, who? the
? j. , pe? for a
.-. for
?- tu-ike
?son?
. In mere
which the
? mind, since
'??ve '? ' ' ? *-"? ***^? 'n?
alienee **J?
. ... . Komain
?:;. , . touch of
, ndont mo
??? v - roves himself as
talent, a
? ? '?
the method
.
: ?t a titan
manipulation of
wor or peace.
. he is of the
? ?s of them.
-. -'or, in the
? ntermit
rref,arat .on for
I, ta?? - " " t'!l,i in ':*
? a i.> y to the
tut
, doubtful wia
... on? from
|pa him but
nim
:? other -
: ? '
enliial ' ''!" !lnp of
? ? . - edioto
ent. We l<
; ounft physic an
rrid'T.,' - ;'rovc
^ peat ,i'ore
not
all
.-..ach
Mr Hau ?m do no1 enter upon nti
? ditory
intro
? ms, ?n
,-(???1 couple, whom their
Iders. H r s ei p
all, the decidme
? - ? arly years,
tn .. : sensitiveness, it
?rT,, ? upon himself under
.?ho.xi. Mr. Maugham
. ?JJ *, ; BOSOal OS the ,-hapine
Lock of ?
Ht on? moment, the most potent ol
thaac influences.
Philip Cart) re*ii?od to enter the
Church; h? :nnl businesa in s char?
tered accountant's ofsee, and found
that it woul.] not do. He studied arl
in Parie, bat gave |* tip when he dis?
covered that at the best his work woul.I
be scoot,d rate. And. Anally, he turned
io medicine, hia studies lnt?rmpt?d by
"d of grinding poverty whan ha
earned a precarioua Hiring a? lloor
?ralker, window dresser and designer in
a drygoo.is ih?p, Util, hia stnnll patri?
mony exhausted but with hi? diploma
in hi? pocket, he relinquishes his
visions of travel to far countries as a
ship's doctor, to make his ill-advised
but honorable propoaal of marna.-.?- on
of a country practice in
?'r: th? way to this tlrst mile?
stone he has had n tepid atTaT with
a governs??, and has been loved by u
rharming woman whom lie deserted to
follow an ignoble infatuation.
It is m its stud.is of the innumera?
ble minor characters which people the
i ero'a environment that tho book is
tlonally s-ucccssful. They give it
te variety, the ?ambiance of life,
,ie a? tin- revealing human docu?
ment which it undoubtedly is. The
boy's guardians, the fussy, ?elfish, in?
effective curate and hia humbie wife,
longing r'.r aifection, are drawn with
rare insight, and. in the case of the
woman's obscurs tragedy, with beauti?
ful sympathy. The pages devoted to
the Latin Quarter are, after nil that
has bren written about it, fresh and
'ing, and the young man's ex?
periences among thij disinherited in
London once more convey that warn?
ing to Kng'and which hitherto it has
not heeded. An outdoor doctor of a
i! in the world city's slums sees
all there is of misery and ?utTering
and sin.
The book deserves serious attention.
It is more than hkely to command it.
Ii. turning from the drama to the novel
Mr. Maugham has added to the list of
the young Lnglish novelists one more
writer who is to be reckon??! with now
and hereafter.
ATHALIK.
ATHAI.IK: P? Pohert 44- Chamher?. Iilti?tr?t|nn*
rank Cralg lCtno. m>. *p4. ?' *
a < a
Mr. Chambers knows his large public
his market thoroughly. He gives it
the glamour of life it craves beauty
? ce, romance as rosy as ft
can be made, "society." wealth beyond
the dreams of avarice, clubs and
cabarets, triala and tribulations, and.
in the end, all for 'ove and the worl 1
well lost. It is a chrht' with which
many are working, but none other 10
(successfully as he. And, withal, there
shines in these carefully and lavishly
mounted tale? of his an occasional
f the talent of his richly pr*ts>
leginnlngS. It is so here. The
SV. SOMERSET MAUOHaiM. ROBBBT W. CHAMBERS. MARY KOHKKTS RINKHART.
("Of Unman llemlagr Qe 'f II Portn Com-! i"A*ht',i?-'i D Arolrt.m * Co ) I ("K" Hou?hU,ti MltTIln Comrsu'* I
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opening chapters of this book, their
Bcene ?aid in a dilapidated Lone Island
hantera* and fishermen's um. uro eopl
tal; t1 b central idea, that of elslrvey?
anee, ?s an excellent one. nn.l put to
ingenious use; but the m?'metit the
heroine and her sisters reach New
York, and she, now a Straggling Sten?
I tgrapl.or, meets the Tuiry pince, wh-l
loves her without knowing ;! and re
| spect? her greatly, Mr. Chambers re
I members his audience and gives it what
I it wants all the way from the grinding
! poverty and the du/./.ling temptati
I self-supporting youne wonion to a mar
| riage m London gnced by the pr?
i of minor royalty an.l the peerage; with,
I as the outcome of it all, a choice be?
1 tiveen allegiance to the laws of man
nnd the law of love. Wherefore it la
Bofo to prctlict that the story ivill he is
welcome aa any of its predeceasor?,
even though the author, relying too
much i.jion hi? facile dexterity and the
loyalty of his readers, ha here si 1
there dragged out the narrative and
the dialogue) to unpardonable lengths,
K.
! K By Mary Rfber;? Rlnrhirt With llbiilri
Dmu 12r.o. ft?. 410. Boston: Tho Bought,m
41 "Ob ? raatpaaty
This is a neighborhood story. Ils
action is laid entirely in The Street of
1 a small mid-Western town. <?f tho
rest of the place we ?ram nothing; we
only leave this humble thoroughfare's
length to 4-,-it the hospital, whore, in?
deed, the elimos ia reached, and once
or twee i??' motor out to u roadhouse.
The Street, then, is the world in little
for the characters of the story and its
readers, ri. comes from afar to live
there, a man of mystery, with a past
behind him of which we are only told
at lir^t that he is a famous surgeon
who has suddenly given up ft career
of international fame. The daughter
of the house in wh;ch he rooms would
be a nurse and now the tale is off, i
with it? ingeniously interlaced am
confused motive? of Invr-, jealous.', in
fattiHtioii and dark revenge; of th.
poping after light in the labyrinth o
life by inexperienced youth and baffle?
maturity; of simpler sorrows and wor
riea and aspirations grouped nroum
them. The my?t< ry accompanying th?
central one of K.'? abandonment of hii
work is of the operating room a grialj
invention, if, indeed, it be not bas?e
on grislier fact The book is intensclj
i? sd iblc from ? te lasl : it?
characters, both major and minor, ar?
most sympathetically dra4vn.
THE Ni'KSE'S STORY.
Till* NTHSK'S ST'HIV la Whirl, H-a kj Meet,
llema- Bj A ' 10' ' '-all lllil.lr.,- I t,j
M 1 .< me B:. krr I .'m. . ;.
M.-rri;: Companj
This story of an American nurse in
the French *ield hoi fitali ind. after?
ward, in the hospitals of the German
prison camps is, as the sub-title .-.li?
mits, compounded o? fact and fiction,
So far as the fiction is concerned, that
ia somewhat conventional, but it Mires
its purpose, which is the presentation
of a series of pictures of fighting and
its harvest of wounded and ?lead. The
nurse, then meets an English-Indian
officer on the steamer to Liverpool,
finds him again in the field severely
wounded, nurses him faithfully and. in
Captivity, saves his life by pretending
to s,rve the enemy as a spy. Of the
author's sympathies there can be no
doubt. If all the virtues of manhood
at war are not on one side, certainly
all villanies and atrocities are on the
other- looting, wanton destruction, the
killing of th? wounded, the mistreat?
ment of women. And yet, the chief
malefactor of them all, a murderoui
maniac and worse when a wounde?l
priaoner, turns out to be a gentleman
and a prince when met again in his
own country. The author is admirably
fa.r in her descriptions of the care
given by the hate?! German? to their
wounde?! enemies. In one of their hos?
pital?, ?he tells us, the chief bac'eriol
ogi-.t was a woman; and she learned
that, of all the warring nation?, th?
Hussions une the most humane rifle
ammunition. The bullet is Blim nose.l
and BpOOdy, and usually disinfects the
wound iii BOssiag through, so that gan
erene and other infections, from this
source are nlmost unknown. There is
plenty of senaational adventore to sat?
isfy the lover of tiction; and many of
the author's facts are worth knowing.
She herself, it should he added, has
been a nurse at the front.
PAU FIRST.
PAi.s first ?. B???net ?>' Let? tad Caa
i. lerj II? Fral,.-l? Prrry |;i||itt I too, | [, 111.
I!tr.?t .4 .
Firnt of all, the render must be will?
ing to admit that there is honor and
loyalty among thieves a;nl thai is one
of the surprises of the d?nouement;
and, ia the leeond place, he mus: ac
.-. pt the ' sii lei ce of double? bo eloaely
resembling ?ach other that thev mav
be mistaken for each other by oven
those who know them best and that is
the second surprise of the ending of
this hook. Having accepted these
premises, the reader will enjoy him?
self thoroughly in the old Southern
manor house upon which two old jail
birds happen one nicht of their
long tramp. The old negro caret
recognise in the younger of the two
their master, who ha? boon travelling
abroad, and whoso loath by droi
has been reported. The Judge, bil
father's friend, welcomes him home
with but a moment's hesitation. Kven
the girl who WOS *o have married the
absent one has BO doubt. Only his
heir is suspicious, and no wonder, for
he has the proofs of his death in his
hnnd-?. It i- an enjoyable story, most
enjoyable of all in tbe sterling quality
of toe two trompo' comradery.
ERIE'S FLOOD LOSS
OVER SIX MILLIONS
Death List in Devastated
City May Mount to
Seventy-five.
*. The death list
rtiulting flood of Tuesday
tirht wa? ; lo twenty-si? late
ro-dty ? th I of two more
bodies.
Brcau?' i !tc ot debris
< along
for bodies is
: city officials
'
?j to be miss
ing, ?r.d - nley believes the
?ive.
in the city and
?o between $6,000,
100 ?nd $7,1 I ropa destroyed in
? slued at at least
L
Two r?prt of the State De
|*arta?i . arrived to-day to
Mils'. ? -es in handling
the asnil . Jeorea of per
? ? ; for typhoid,
tad oarni a ? e been
Usued.
A eomrnittee of i taken
tharge of the reli? f work, and two hu:i
??. the
Hood - tigate the
- made
affer
?rs to-m-,' ?- lost
their hold
A corry \ed to
the res
pany G,
'
? lawyer,
- irt die?
"tel their
trinke But? ( ampaiga Committee
re I
'
pet
Woman Suffrage Party.
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Women's Political I sioa Meetings.
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I ahofi Wl
4
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*,0L Edmund Johnson Dead.
tJaslaad. \\ .t . I olonel
l**und Johnson, n former United
I from
? i while u ?B
,y 'a the Civil War. Ik- leavei a
C*?' ???I s,"'s "'"' ''??*' d?tught?-r. A?
$T*y r'ol?llll Johl,?.:, bad t'cctl ?ta
e-l ?t Telcsguano, Chili, and Kiel,
??"??ny. Mis son, FFelix Johnson^
'?* United States Consul i*t King
?**? Ontario I
BILLY SUNDAY'S HELL
TOO WARM FOR DR. AKEI
Pastor Resigns San Francise
Post When Evangelist
Is Invited.
I By Telegraph to The Trlrmnr]
San Francisco, Aug. 5. "There is n
; such Christ, no such heaven and n
such hell as Billy Sunday pretends, an
I cannot compromise my position as
I minister of Jesua Christ." With thes
words l>r. (taries F. Aked tendere
his resignation to-day as vice-presider
of the Committee of One Hundred, 01
ed by the Federal Council of th
Churches of Chi ist, to preach in th
Tabernacle ?luring th.? Pane
ma Pacifie Exposition.
Wh? suggested in tl.
committee, said Dr. Aked, that Sunda
be brought to this city to help in th
paign, he vigorously opposed th
-?.I, but found himself in a "tin
of o ?'" among the eight or nin
ministers in the committee.
Dr. Aked is pastor of the First. Con
gregational Church of this city. In th
' known as the forme
r of ".lohn D. Rockefeller'
church" in Xew York.
BARRED FROM THE MAIL!
New Yorker Accused of Swin
dling Porto Rico Teachers.
. Mine Burrau 1
Washington, Aug. 5.---Holding out th.
prospect of getting noorly paid sehoo
teachers in Porto Rico positions t?
tench Spanish In American high schools
according to the PoatofBce Department
.(. II. Parodia, of Sun German, Port?
Rico, who la alleged to have operate?
under the names of "The Great Agency'
!t. 11. Marcel" in New York City
has been barred from the mails by i
iraud order.
According to W. H. LamiT, solicito!
of the Poatoffieo Department, Porodii
letters to teachers in Porto Ric?
stating that nine states had made th?
ng of Spanish in all their school:
obligatory; that 3,000 or 4,000 toucher:
were required for this, and that "Tht
Agency" ami "H. II. Barcel" hat
contracted to furnish the roqairod
teachers, whose salaries would varj
i a moi?th. Applicants
called on to send $_' each.
PERKINS ON JOB;
T. R. DIDN'T KNOW IT
Colonel Parries Questions on
Progressive Situation in
New York State.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt came to
town yesterday with nothing to add to
t? n ? -it upon his return from the
W'-.-t that he intended to stick to the
? bord and would forgive and
m innen oi the Pregi
Ii mi?is who hnd announced their
intention of enrolling with the Repub
arty.
"How about 'he Progressive situa?
tion in the state?" lie Colonel was
. ? a word." he replied. "I said all
'hat I shall Bay abo.it politics for the
preaenl when I returned from Cali?
fornia."
"Anything to say about George W.
, o i,g to Buffalo to-day to t'y
to keep the Erie Coooty orgonisatios
in line""
"<>h, boa Mi Perkins gone to Buf
. ?I the Colonel.
Colonel Rooaerell spent some time
i.t hi> offce with "The oMtropoliton
M ig?./ no." He h.id few caller-. Among
thorn were Joaeph liedill Pottoraon,
John T. McCutih-on and Douglas Rob
irs brother-io-law. He lunched
with Robert Bacon, former Ambassador
to France. Some one asked the Colonel
, what Mi. Bacon'? political affiliations
were.
t "I think he is a Pepuhlican," he re
I plied, "but he voted lor me. .Many of
I thaw did, you kno4v."
"UNLUCKY PEARL"
OVERPOWERS TKIE!
Baneful Charm, Owner'
Pursuer, Lures Taker
Into Police Net.
'By Telegraph tr. The TIBlMI? I
Chicago, Aug. 5. -Neil licDongal, th
young society crook who ?lippe
through the lingers of the polie? 10
I' wing his arrest for ?tealing Mrs. Mei
cvdir* Pnllenwidet**? "unhu-ky pearl,
was caught this afternoon as he stoo
at the Palmer House bar.
A feiv montlis ago he robbed a Sotltl
em woman of her jeweis and was ai
rested i.-i Kansaa City, uiu-r?- he ira
released, pending his trial, on .?lu.un
bail. lie fle.l, but was overtaken yes
terday.
Mrs. Mercedes Fullemvider occupie
ati apartment at the Hotel Imperial, a
Broadway and Thirty-rir?t Street. I.as
, night she related her si-ries of experi
' ft.ces since she owned the "unluck
pearl."
"My husband, James Allan F?llen
, wider, was a collector of preciou
stones. He was shot one night te:
years ago by a hurglar. The pearl WS
the most prized of his possession?. I
"as one of the largest ever brough
into this country and was per:
never kne4v exactly what it was woitl
"I kept it after his death, ami fou
years ago my home at Chicago wa
rifled by thieves and man;.' of th
choice-t gems in my husband'? collec
tion were stolen.
"Thi-n McDouga), who was srreste?
to-day, became active. I met him ao
dally and he paid attentions to m;
1 twenty year-old daughter.
"My anspiciona of him were v?rifie?
on March ~7. 1 returned to my Chicag?
home late at night end m>>t him in t h <
hallway. Me was w.th another youni
man I knew, and when I refused to de
liver my jewelry anil srn-an-.i-.i ti,,-;, .,:
taikeil me."
Mrs. Fallenwider exhibited ?omi
mark? on her neck, which she ?aid wen
received in tin- struggle. A ring eon
taining four diamonds, each threi
carats m weight, 44?,s stripped from oni
of hei Angers; a diamond esrring, ?hi
added, wa? ripped from one ear and at
, rf.it r was made to get the Other.
Then young McHougal, who is ?al?
to be twenty-three year? old, broke thi
chain about Mrs. Full? riwidei '
On which was the "unlucky pearl."
Mr.-. Fallenwider su,! she was cer
tain the man who robbed th? Ksnssi
City 4vi.man was Mci>ongal, as the Chi
cage police sent her n rl|0t<'graph of
him, 4\ hich she ?dentil. I.
The lociety crook, ?he added, has two
middle fingen missing from one hanJ,
which, ihe asid, clinched th? identiti
OFFERED HIS LIFE
TO PAY FOR THEFT
bmbeuler Would Have Given
Company His Life Insurance
i 1 eft v\ ii. Penniless.
i
Philadelphia, Aug. ."> The itory of
. ? -
?tTi-r to commit ?nicidc to that th?
Arm he robbed might collect hia life
. nd of the company's ?ndig
? lit 1 . tl of the offer bec.i lse of
the man' wif? and child was reveal, d
in Magistrate Pennock's otlice to-day,
when Walton Kickeraon wa? arraigned,
?
1 worth of jewelry from the
Equitable Loan r-'"?
Samuel Dicbert, president ,.l the
; company, teatified that Niekerson, in
making a full confession to him ?aid:
"I was up against it. I needed
took if no my a :f- could
I dress like other women. Now I ?m
[willing to take my medicine. I ?1
go to jail, if necessary, or else I
commit suicide and your firm can i
lect the insurance."
"We would not think of depriv
your young wife and baby of your !
Insurance, even if you do kill >o
self." was Mr. Diebert's r?
Nickerson WOS bold in $2,500 I
for court.
ALTSCHULER PLAY;
ATSOUTHAMPTO
_*
Mrs. George VVarrington Cur
Gives Musical- Baby
Show at Colony.
!' 1,1. cr.\| tl t.-. T - I
hampton, L. I., Aug. ?. 'I
second of the musicals arranged
Mis? Juliana Catting 4vas held to-d
it the home of Mrs. George Warrir
ton Curtis. To-day's programme w
under the management of Miss Mart
Mnynan!. The music was by the Ri
sian Symphony Q?iartet of strine
instruments, conducted by Mod?
1 Altschult r, assisted by Mme. D?ni
Lyska, mezzo soprano.
The lnst of tho series of musici
' will be held at Suffolk Hunt Club
Thursday, Aug. 19, The list of pu
ronesses Include? Mrs. Willinm l>ou
las, Mrs. Louis T. Iloyt, Mrs. James
Brcese, Mi I Patterson, Mi
rge Barton French, Mrs.. Henry
Rogers, Mi-, Harry Whitney MeVIe
or, Mr? Luci? : II Tyng and Mi
William C. Gulliver.
Among others present were Mrs.
R. Wyckoff, Albert H. Boardman, Mr
Cornelias N. ni ins, Mrs. Sherwo?
AUlrich, Mrs. W. s.-ott Cameron, Mi
Stephen Peobody, Mrs. Archiba
Rogers, Mrs. or on D. Mann, Mrs. I
A. Bobbins, Mrs. J. B. Dilworth, Mr
Robert M. Thompson, Mrs. James !
Br?ese, Mr?. Edward Nan Ingoo at
Mrs. a. M. Tiere.
Mrs. Francis Burroll Hoffman wi
give a garden party on Pridoy sftO
for ?ardi?al Gibbons and o
Saturday society will attend the fel
champ?tre at the Catholic Church i
Bridgehampton, white the Cardini
will spe.ik.
Pi op.?rations are ander way for th
presi t.tatior. of "The Yellow Jacket
by the Coburn Players nt the Ai
Museum to-morrow night.
Members of the Methodist Chure
?r ve m bab) show to-day on the ground
of tho Hunting residence. Mrs. Pete
B. Wyckoff offered prizes in gold fo
the host babies in the three eloooei
The judges wore Miss Moh?n, matro
at the frtsh air home; Dr. K. Btoffor
McLean, Dr. Joseph 8. Wheelwright
Dr. ?I. S. Piekhard and Dr. John H
Nugent.
RICH SOUTHERNER HELD
AS A "MOONSHINER*
?Father-in-law of Huyler Ac
cused of Illicit Distilling.
' B] r tsar ; ?jaaaa. i
Aaheville, N. C, Aug. 5. -Alexandei
Porter, father-in-law of Coulter Hoy
1er, a Now York candy munufac'urei
and one of North Carolina's wealth ios!
men. was hold for the Federal court to?
day under bood of s.vio to answer th?
charge of operating an illicit distillery.
-.miss,oner T. I>. Shelton took this
action after We? Patton, alleged part
: Porter in the distillery, turned
evidence, i'itton declared that
he and tho Capitalist had entered \n'o
an agreement to manufacture "moon?
shine" liquor, Patton to operate the
distillery and Porter to dispose of *.ne
finished product. Patton declared that
, he turned a large quantity of spiril?
I over to Porter, who disposed of it, but
failed to divide the proceed?.
THREE NEAR DEAT1
TO SAVE SWIMME
Girl and Men Carried 0
by Undertow at Rock?
away Beach.
A small boy, Paul I.iberman, of '
i Fast Fifteenth Street, was swimmi
and diving in the surf at Sumtaerli
? ( oast. Rockaway Peach, ye-tenl
v.hen the undertow gripped him a
dragged him, struggling, far out !
yond the breakers He fought valiai
ly for a time, then eecam? exhausl
und began ci.l?ng for help.
Three friends of I.iberman *u?li
into the water to ?av? him. They wi
.lui.us Palmer and Rose (ir?
lo Fast Seventh Street, and Mor:
Hodkin, of 1624 First Avenue, Ma
batten,
1 i. ? back wash is especially stiff
Roekaway this year because the lea
has been carril1?I a4vay. The resell?
were caught in it themselves and ca
: ried out.
Th?ir cries for help summon
Thomns Wcstley, a life guard, wl
! with four others, succeeded in bringll
all, half drowned, to shore. Dr. Viet?
of Kocka44ay Peach Hospital, work.
! over them for more than an hour b
fore he revived them.
I Charles Schaffner, sixty years old,
MS ?Vest Forty-ninth Street, Manha
tan, was sailing about in a motor bo
when he lost his balance and fell in
the water. The craft continued I
cours-. Patrolman ('liarles Baldetna
44h?j was off duty, rowed out at
re ihi-d the man a.-; he was goiiit: don
for the last time.
Herman Fberhardt, twenty-one yea:
old, of 9,'?H SeneCS Avenue, Ridgewoo
Queens, is believed to have be?.
ili'.'.vned while bathing at Kockawu
Point. It is believed that he was leist
with cramps and went down without a
trading the others' attention. Hi.? bod
u .i ; not recovered.
Miss Catherine Ann, who occupies
cottage on the mea?lows near Cone
Island Creek, saw three small BO)
playir.g carelessly in a rowboar On
feli overboard. His companions irr
mediately beache?! the boat, and tie.
Mill Ann said that the body did n.
rise. Police of the Sheepahead Ha
station are looking for the fugitives.
The beach ?it Coney Island wa
?earthed last night for th.
Mi?- Freda Hamburg, or I'llrr.un ? th
I police are uncertain which Warn? ?
correct), who went bathing Wednesda
? while the ocean wsa itill turbulen
from the florin. Mrs. Reuben Cold
berg, who was rooming with the gir
at ?915 West Second Street, Cone;
: Island, reported her disappearance
She was about twenty-five years old
; and had gone to Coney Island for hei
vacation.
Joseph Jacob?, nineteen, of Whit?
i Pleins, wa? drowned in the Hudson to
( night. He dove off Kingsland Point
and never came to the surface. Th?i.?
is the second drowning off the Point
in three week :.
FETE FOR "JAR HARBOR
(Hi T->fr?ph to Tti? Trlbur.s. )
Bar Harbor. Me.. Aug. 5. - One of the
big event? here this month will be
the fashion fete, on the ?'th, at the
ming Club, f?-r the benefit of the
American Ambulance Corps. About
thirty women of the cottage colony
will pose as manikins.
Among those who will wear gown?
for charity are Mrs. John Jacob Astor,
Mrs Gouverneur Morris, Miss Phyllis
Kich. Mi? e? Margaret and Hann?h
Wright, Margaret Erhart, Susan Star?
gis, Frances Trevor, Mrs. Gerald Hol
man, Miss Josephine Gibson, Mrs. Jo?
seph Pulitzer jr. Mis? Frances Watte
and Miss Eleanor Lawrence. "Made in
America" gowns will be worn and the
? new autumn ityltM will be introducid
before th?y ?r? exhibited m New York. I
TRAVEL IN CHINA
The Fourth of the Official
Guides to Eastern Asia
CHINA An IMTI.-Ial l?'il?!? to Knfm All! Vol
IV lllu.tr.?'. I I'll.?,. H' an ?iv ?1? I'r.
i.ar-1 I?? 'I.. Imi'rrla! lapsaasa llotrn-.mriil
KallwiM. T.'Kl"
In IfOi liaron Goto, then Japanese
Minister of ? 'ommunications and pr??i
deht of the Importai Government Rail
1 ways, projected this serios of guide
! book? for the convenience of the Stood?
' ily Inerooslaj number of foreign tour
ists in the Far Ka?t. and th.- develop
ment of this aoarce of roveaue. The
first ro?ame, "Manchuria and ChOSOl-."
appeared in I'.HH; the second and third.
"Southwest Japan" and "Northeast
Japan." in the followi? g year, an?l now
we have "China," Ch.na proper, tnat
i?. Like the volume? that have pre
eeded it, this one is based on the
Baedeker moilel, in the ma*ter of
format as well as in that of arrange?
ment of the content?, but in addition
to map? it contain? >. number of illus?
trations and has a colored frontispiece.
These be troublesome times for ih"
guide-book mukers. Mr. Yusuko
! Turumi, the editor, informs us in the
preface that tho original inter., .on had
been to include in this volume a BTUido
to tho South Sea Islands, but, he con?
tinues, apart from considerations of
space, "there urc at present grave diffi?
culties in the way of obtaining up-to
date Information ooncerninir Oce?nica,
owing to the effects of tho Kuropean
war." And when he reached Ching
Tao the place was ?till under German
administration, n folTtnoto alone re- j
1 ferring to its passing into Japanese
I hands.
The introductory flsoterial giros not
only the usual information concerning
{?oosports and customs, currency, etc.,
, >ut also enters at some lei gt h in?
scriptions of Chinese life, religion,
trade and Industry, history, amo e
ments, art? ar.l literature.' There ;.r"
vocabularies and lista of tho usual
tourists' phrases in English, Cb
Russian and Japanese. An excellent
book of us kind, whose opening
are worth dipping into. On the ,?ub
? ???' of opium smoking, for instance, we
,-i-e told that "at present it is .!?
private, but it is unlikely that ihe
habit is any th.- ' lent." And
i when in Tientsin don't omit to sample
i its cuisine, and al?o the cuisines of
i Ningpo, ' anton and Shantung. Trov
? eliing expenses, apart from transports?
< tion, should not ?? ?.?i |18 Mexican
nor diem In the treaty ports and towns
along the rsilrosdo,
FRENCH LITERATURE
A Forecast of Chances tc
Come aAfter the War.
Many inconrlosfve opinions ""?gard
ing the influence of the war opon th*
1 ?tenture of the immediate future hav.
ben printed here and in England. Th<
subject, an interesting one, since n?
bound? are set to the imagination, t?'
taken uo recently in France by M. Victor
Ciraud, who predicts, of course, a new
literature for his country, having th?
ardor and virility that fit a victorioud
nation.
Pessimism, he predicts, will disappear;
so will the ironic skepticism of an Ana?
tole France, the "culte du moi" and all
its eccentricities, and the scabrous
novel of "mccurs Parisiens." Franco
will return to her own classical liter?
ary tradition? and reject foreign in?
fluences, especially, of course, those of
Germany.
In historical literature, especially, the
scientific German spirit will no longer
be tolerated:
It had become the accented view
that history should be a science,
that is to say, a nomenclature of
facts and a juxtaposition of docu?
mentary texts, and accordingly its
writers kept heaping unreadable
books one on ton of the other. Iti
all likelihood this mania will pass
away, and we shall perceive, in the
light of contemporary events, that
history is a living thing, and that in
order to reproduce 'he full move?
ment of life, the resources of art,
and even those of philosophy, may
advantageously be adiled to the
exact knowledge of documentary
archives.
There will, of course, be an ov?i
proiluction of war novels and storie:),
conclude? M. Girsud.
French lyric poetry will revive. Great
epic poem?, he believes, are unsuited to
our times, but he foresees "epic frag?
ments," such as tho?e of Victor Hugo,
and a poetic dram?.
NEWS AND GOSSIP OF
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
A New Collection of American Humor?Robert Frost and
American Publishers?The Canadian Troopers
at the Front?Some Odd Titles.
Rudyard Kipling, who has already
j published on.? 4var story "Swept and
Garnished," in "The Century," last
January will contribute to the Sep.
er number of this magazine an?
other venture into the field, "Mary
l'ostgate."
Our Funniest Stories.
Harper <$r Hros. announce for early
. fall publication the nrst books of a
new series to be chIIcI "America'? Beat
Funny Stories." The first volume,
"Men and Things," will be issued in a.
few weeks, to be followed almost im?
mediately by a second one. "Men nnd
Things" contains some of the host
work of Mark Tivain, Bret Harte. Bill
Nye, F. Peter I'unne and about twenty
five other representative American hu
4 moriste.
Mure War Hook?.
The Mncmillan Company announce,
for this autumn an exhaustivo work on
"The Military I'npreparedness of the
, United States," by Frederic L. Huide
koper, ami an illustrated book on 'he'
war in Europe by Colonel Robert Mc
Cormick. "The Aerial History of the
War." by Claude Grahame-White and
t Harry Harper, is already in prepara -
i tion, but will not be completed, of
course, until the return of peace, when
?the George H. Doran Company will
publish it.
Dorothy Canlield's New Novel.
Since the publication of her first
book, "The Squirrel Cage," Dorothv
' Canfield has "counted" among the
1 younger American novelists. The an?
nouncement of a new novel from her
1 pen will therefore be of interest to a
large circle of readers. "The Bent
Twig," which, like ita predecessor,
.leal? with American life and its prob?
lems as they confront a young girl,
will be issued by Henry Holt & Co.
earlv in October.
Robert I'mst and Our Publisher?.
In his article on Robert Frost, in the
August "Atlantic Monthly" Edward
Gnrnett says that he has found no
answer to the query why "North of
Boston" was first issue.l bv an Eng?
lish and not by an American publisher.
Reviewers generally have ma?;.- much
of the '?lea that an American post
should first ivin recognition in Eng?
land. Mr. Frost's American pub;,
the Messrs Holt, have just received a
letter from Mr? Frost with a simple
explanation. Ho happened to be In
Englond when the i.ioa came to him of
collecting his poetry manusenn'
[ a volume. He did this, and with tho
manuscript in his pocket went up to
i London ami left it with a publisher,
, who promptly accepted it. "North of
Boston" was never regularly offered to
the Messrs. Holt; having seen an r'ng
lish copy, they set about procuring the
American rights.
Evolution and the State.
In his "Evolution and the War" (E.
P. I'utton & Co.) Dr. Chalmers
, Mitchell presents in a more or lesr
popular and topical form some of th?
insistent problems of biologv. and
hois in what waj th? so-called laws
of nature apply to and are illustrated
by "the war. Starting with the Ger?
man claim that "ihe natural law to
which all laws of nature can be re?
duced is the law of struggle." he noints
out that it is not maintained, as it is
merely an unsupported assumption to
apply to human beings what is ob
d i:i the animal world. He shows
that there is no congruity between the
facts of zoology and botany from
which the "Las of Struggle for Exist?
ence" was derived and the facts of
national existence to which the Ger?
mans propose to apply it. The argu?
ment throughout is enlivened bv a
large BlUount of facts and illustrations
from history, biography, etc.
The Canadian Contingent.
A number of books dealing with the
exploits of the Cana.I,an? at the front
???re ?n course of preparation. "With the
First ('anadian Contingent," profusely
illustrated, i? announced by Hodder &
Stoughtoa. It is the 4vork of the Misses
Plummer and Arnoldi, of the Canadian
Comforts Commission. Cassell & Co.
have just issued a popular volumj,
"The Battle Glory of Canada," com?
piled by A. B. Tucker, a London jour?
nalist, and McClelland, Goodchild &
Stewart have in preparation "The Red
Watch," by Colonel Currie, comm. nd
Ing officer of the 4*>th Highlanders of
Toronto. "The Bed Watch" is the
name given to the (Janadian Highland?
ers at the front.
D'Annunzio.
The Belgian poets and the new Rus?
sian novelists are having their day of
popularity in England just now. It is
not to be wondered at, therefore, that
a new edition of d'Annunzio'.?) novel?
has been issued in London. The Italian
may have better luck this time with
British public and the British crit?
ics than he had at the time of the
first appearance of these translations.
But, really, d'Annunzio is not for Ati
-tlo-Saxon?, Isast of all in his fiction.
American Literature.
A "History of American Literature
Sine- 1870" is announced for early pub
. by th? Century Company. The
author. Fred Lewis Patte!, professor of
English at the Pennsylvania Sta'e Coi.
lege, explains that he has taken the
1870 as his point of departure
because "it 4vas only then, with the con?
solidation of national sentiment fel?
lowing the Civil War, and with the
shifting of population throughout the
stag unoccupied spaces of our
' territory, that a really national liter
stura had Its beginning." The Century
Company also announces the second
n of Eric Fisaer Wood's capital
Prison Reform?How? When? Why?
THE STORY OF "CANADA BLACKIE"
By ANNE P. L. FIELD
With an Introduction by
Thomas Mott Osborne
Warden of Sing Sing Prison
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hi? felioo -??ri? ,n?-rs ami an organiser "i their welt,ir?, lb.?.- r?*markable
letters from the cimvi.'t hirasrll t.-li the story, full ?if direct inspiration to ail
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Early Fall Wnnounicment?.
Among the bo - n fo?
fall publication by the Yalr
Pre -1 ?re "A Cenan? ol S
I Folios," prepared by Henrietta i;..rtlett
and Alfred Pollard, ?>:' the Britl h Mu?
seum; "The Cereenl Qarden Journal."
by Heary F ? If? ?.-." ?dil I -. ?
E. Jensen, Ph. !>.: "The [Slew I
j and the Old Theology," by Prol
Ceeeiua J. Kaysor, of Colorable Ual
? ; "The Life and Tisses of Tea?
nysoti," by the 1..- K. Louns.
bury; "Municipal Citicenship," by
?? McAneny (the Deelge Lectai
"Leonardo da Vinci," n 0 ?
veld Siren, of the University of .
; holm; and ox-IVo? i ? i
leetun-s, "h'thics in Bei
Odd Titles.
Mary Hoberti Rinehsrt'a
, called "K" is reviewed in another col?
unin to-day. The "Of" in the title ?if
Mr. Mangham'a first novel
eldedly sn oddity. Dodd, Mead I
announce for tin month a
new .?tory by Howard ? enl O'Brien,
i the author of "New Men for Old,"
which is ealled "Thirty"; and from the
| Century Company we are to have ?he
? "flexible autobiography" of an anony?
mous woman novel.?r, laconical'-,
tied "Me." Such tifies usually run in
groups, for, be'iold, (ho Messrs. Tutnam
have in press a volume <"f detective
storiei by Anna Katharine Green, to
be called "Misaing: 1' , S."
Germany's
Point of
f View
By
EDMUND von MACH
Professor von Mach dis
rosstS the controversia! issues
of the war from the point of
.Tew of millions ol his fellow
.iti/ens ?no have not lost faith
m (jffitiiini, and with the aid
of s wealth of ?ci n inic data,
historical dorun ruts snd de
tive reasoninK endeavors
to show that tie right il on
..le sid?- of Germany.
"Germany's Point of View'
il a most informing volume
and should be read by every
?air-minded individual. Price
$1 50 st all bookstore?.
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stratoiH ar.d others
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