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KAISER'S AGENT
DENIES PLOTS
AGAINST U. S.
False Construction Placed
on Letters by Cranks,
Dr. Albert Says.
NEVER FOMENTED
MUNITIONS STRIKES
Asserts Government Has Known
for Months of Plans to Buy
\\-.r Material Here.
?)r ;. F. Albert*Imperial
f-ier? < ouncilolr, who has
o? cfice at 45 ??roadway, is.oud a
tjmjmm ? rday denying the
'nan intrigue that
?a:, , ftjinot I im atid
other G?** '"' reprsieiif-fiff'W in
He dtnounccd as
false the ces'ruction placed on
?0CU" en from him that
\it gov< S? engaged in
?jauni ikos and inciting
trfr. ? .iiitious attacks
against the government of the
1'nitcd States. His statement in
fullfoUon-s:
By HEINRICH F. ALBERT.
Imperial (ifrman Frivy Councillor.
In i.(?- si the ??-.de publicity that has
been fiver, the documents and memo?
randa thai were stolen from me and
the wholly false and unwarranted de
-}??:: re sought to be drawn
from them a- evidenced by news com?
ments and editorials, I have concluded
? public and to the
-*,???.( as well as to myself
. ? .-. br ef summary of the
fact?
? that all sorts of wild
?n' ?? s. proposal? and
lid b? addressed from
?verv - quarter to one hold
? sition in which I am
S3 an accredited agent of one
Mom engaged in this
world-wide war. That is
the character of most of the "docu
were contained in the port
' hst was abstracted from me.
Cites Mi-I.ane Letter.
?red letter from a Mr. Mc
Lar.e to the effect that Mr. McLane
l plan fvir precipitating a strike :
of automobile workers" and that "a -
could he brought about in the
?Mitions factories of Detroit, Cleve- j
lar.d and Cincinnati for about J?^,
000" is a fair illustration of the worth?
less sort of "junk" on which the rep
re-er.' y country are charged
with i against tlie industrial
peace of this Community and are sought
tc it held up to public reprobation.
Lett ruments of this sort1
?en w.th whom we have,
r communications and ;
whose very idenl -y ii unknown to us
sre paraded under blinding headlines !
' ey constituted evidence of
? th us or were ;
.-h we wore cognizant or :
: .r-ible.
'? i uggested that the
n was ever paid to
r lfiter of like i rr. p o 11
cei *.- was ever
: upon any
i ? ? ' - upon that
??" and that alone that
I one of our leading metropoli
? ally indulges in the
I Cl arj-e
??lilt? '1 agent of a
? nt of "buying strike?
irmoil," inciting sedi
i:?i\? rnment and or
.
It seems that every crank who
8
. or disreputrble pro
?l r power to make his ririieu
ous ' - ' : charging
mt x\ -,. ... .,, country
etion and hospitality 1 en?
joy and deeply appreciate, and which
in no way abused or infringed.
I have, however, lived here long
?rough to have learned that although
your people are at times disposed to
jump ? '-?inclusions on insuf
ficien* -here is too much of
. r play among them to
: ming your final judg- |
? ai '? ' y false and ;
when your attention
leta. It is because of
bet I take the liberty
the flimsy and unreli
i-haracter of these publications
of the implied accusations on
which they are based.
I nder Four Heads.
Th? . ranged under four
heads:
1. It is said that the documents in?
die*:?? . ..-man government has
th? purchase of muni?
tions fs ,| war tfiaerials, whil#
?t the um? tune it or its ally has been
iniistini: upon and supporting a propa?
lada in favor of an embargo by this "
counT r the exportation of
-*r*a a? -ion. This is charged ,
,0 b? t- tent attitude and as ;
tvid?ncr of bad faith.
thai it is capable of no such ,
construction and that the two positions
?ft- eatin ? -,.x, although In
Point of fact there haa been as yet no
Purchase marie, contracted for or ar?
ranged of any munition or other fac?
tory and none is in contemplation.
ta Germany and Austria-Hun
*?rv had hoped that there would be
,Ucti ?n embargo, and have been ex?
pecting that the action of Great Brit
control of the seas
?r-ir.st neutral countries and in de
g neutral commerce in violation
itional law would result in
? sals of that character, we
jjk*?*e ?till considered it our right and
??y, whilst (.?teat Britain continues
'?? Piracy on the high seas, to en
favor to protect ourselves against this
'?urse of international brigandage bv
?topping the exportation of war ma
t?fisls to the Allies wherever it can be
?jeomphshtd, whether by our purchfse
.} '?'tones or of war materials, even
"oui/h We are not in a position at this
' rr.t- to make further use of them in
mU own <!. ',
' am unable to understand on what
_, V, our ac,ion ,n 'h?t direction
???Idlb? the subject of criticism. If
? fad the means and the opportunity
J? would buy every munitions factory
?..,.. nile<* s,i'tes. if in that way wt
??uid keep nututions from the enemy.
( annot See Inronslsten? >.
^e should, however, still earnestly
rge and insist, as we do, that it is un
?? ?V r'''u>r<' us to protect ourselves
**?, k Way lf '* were P<??*ible to do so.
?a.?, w l?, not* a"d that >',jur Kovern
y- "?hould protect its commerce with
. ?nd ?should not p?rmit its citizens
? ?e made the chief instruments of
the wholesale ?laughter that is now de?
vastating Europe. If there is any?
thing in the nature of had faith or in?
consistency in that attitude 1 confesa
to being too obtuse to be able to ap?
preciate it.
As further evidencing the utter
worthles?nes? and misleading character
of the publications of which I com?
plain, I beg herewith to quote from an
officiai document tiled by the Herman
Embassy with the State 1-cpartnnin?
on June 13. I91B, from which you will
note that, ao far from our then con?
templated purchases of war materials
having been secretly conducted, our in?
tentions were fully explained to the
State Department, accompanied by the
offer to resell to the 1'nitcd States
government "any or all of the ma?
terials purchased":
"If the German government, during
the course of the war, should consider
it advisable to purchase arms, am?
munition or other war material in the
I'nited States, it could do so for no
other purpose than to prevent it from
falling into the hands of the Allies.
her enemies. The nuht of Germany to
effect such purchases could not be.
questioned. Such purchases could not
form a danger to the I'nited States,
but would to some extent serve as a
limitation upon .he casualties of war,
thus serving humanity; such pur?
chases would furthermore serve the
particular interests of the I'nited
Stutcs.
"For it must be remembered that if
the German povernment should ever
consider it advisable to purchase war
materials in the 1'nitcd States, it would
de so knowinc that delivery in Ger?
many could not he secured and that no
use of the purchased material could be
hoped for during the war.
"1*. will readily be understood, there?
fore, that the German government
would at any time be willing and. in?
deed, glad to sell and transfer to the
United States government any or all of
the material it had purchased. In?
stead of depriving this country of any
part of her resources, purchases by
Germany would insure the retention
within this country of any material it
might purchase.
Would Save German Lire*.
"From the German point of view,
purchases at this time by the German
government of war material manu?
factured in the United States, while it
would involve the sacrifice of large
sums of money, would be justified alone
by the consideration of the human ef?
fects such purchases might accomplish
in the saving of the lives of the tier
man soldiers, whom, in the hands of
the Allies, this war material would ,
wound and slay."
This statement was prompted by the |
simultaneous appearance at the time of j
articles in leading newspapers in vari- |
ous parts of the country that were al?
most identical in language, in which
they refer to an alleged "German plot
to get possession of the plants making
war materials in order to embarrass
the I'nited States in the prosecution of
its policies."
The articles were evidently part of
the inspired press campaign to em?
barrass the German government in Its
relations with your government, and ?
were, of course, mischievous fabrica?
tions.
The criticisms directed against our '
negotiations looking to the prevention ;
of ?xnorts of liquid chlorine to the !
Allies by buying the product seem -
strangely out of place, having regard :
to the fact that the British govern
mer.* has from the beginning of the
war concluded contracts in this coun?
try whereby:
(a) Every American manufacture.
of rubber goods and of woollen goods '
has been compelled as a condition of
securing the crude rubber or raw wool
required in his business to sell h i s> en?
tire product through a British agencv.
and has been prevented from supply- I
ing any part of it to Germany or Aus- I
tria-Hungarv or from dealing with anv
neutral nation except through the Brit?
ish agency.
Copper Treated Likewise.
?hi The copper producers of the
country have been required to deal
with their output of copper in like
manner.
(e) The great packing industries of
America have likewise been compelled
to withhold their product from neutral
countries as well as from the enemies
cf Great Britain, except to the extent
to which Great Britain, through its
own agents, may permit such sales.
id) Ffforts in the same direction are
now being made to tie up the entire
cotton crop.
I-oes "The World" rogard this course
of action on the part of Great Britain
as "the meddling by a pretended friend?
ly government with the domestic af?
fairs of the United States"?
It would be difficult to conceive of
mo'e high handed practices or more1
flagrant violations of the spirit and
of your anti-trust .Mrs than are
embodied in these arrangement'. Yet
the German government endeav
ors to m cure control of the output of
? .-le factory, its entirely legitimate
action is widely denounced as amour'
<> a propaganda "involving the
. :lie complications of
the Kuropran war."
Surely, no lessoning mind can bei
misled by such manifest evidences of
blind partisanship, unfairness and in?
sincerity. I doubt whether the world
has ever witnessed a publicity cam?
paign or a secret service bureau ap?
proaching the dimensions, influence and
efficiency of that which is maintained
?ti this country by our enemies.
Never Fomented .Strike.
2. In answer to the inference based
on certain of the letters that I or any
ont connected with the German gov?
ernment has been concerned in fo?
menting or ei.couraging strikes in
factories manufacturing war materials,
I have only to say that there is no
bas;s for any such assertion or in- r
sir.uation.
No such transaction or negotiation j
as is suggested by the above mentioned
letter from Mr. Dencken to Mr. Marlosv
or bv the Mcl.ape letter ever occurred.
^hile it is true, as above stated,
that all sorts of offers and proposals
wete and are being constantly made to
me ias they are doubtless being made I
to the representatives of the Allies in
this country) ur.on that and every other
conceivable subject by people unknown
to us, whom We never took the trouble
to answer or investigate and to whose
pr; posais we paid not the slightest at?
tention, no such transaction as has been
sought to be adduced from the one- !
siui.l correspondence that has been
printed ever took place.
Our only offence, on the face of
thou letters, is. that of having per-:
mitted unknown people to write Tetters
to us and of having tucked away the
letters instead of consigning them to ?
th.' waste basket.
1-or months past the newspaper.? have ,
been filled with inspired romances of
our attempts tt foment labor troubles,
whi.h I am glad of the opportunity to
set at rest. It is quite on a par with
the baseless and ridiculous assertion
that "the large transactions of Ger?
many suggest a weekly expenditure of
$2,C?O,000." These sensational false?
hoods follow one another so thick and
fast that it is impossible to deny them
if '?re were disposed to do so.
3. As to "The Fatherland":
No agent o.- representative of the <
German government has or ever had.
directly or ?ndiiectly, any control over
or voice in the organization, promulga- -
tion. publication, management, policy
or affairs of "The Fatherland." The
paper was in existence, and had, 1 ain
tolr a wide circulation as a publica?
tion of avoweuly pro-German sympa?
thies, long before I'r. Dernburg or lor
any of us came to this country.
Forbade At tacks on Wilson.
It so happens that the transaction
referred to in Mr. Viereck's letter of
July 1, 1915 i which was entirely legit?
imate and unobjectionable), was nevei
carried out, for the reaaon that Mr.
Viereck refused U subscribe to the
conditions set forth in that letter.
I explained to him that we were not
in sympathy with his attacks upon the |
adminiatratlon, and especially upon the
President, and that we would lend no
substantial support to the publication,
notwithstanding any claim to which it
might otherwise be entitled because
of its pro-German attitude, unless we
could have a sufficient, control over
its editorial policy to prevent such
attacks. I did this notwithstanding
our desire to assist a publication that
would place the merits of the German
point of view before the American
public.
Mr. Viereck declined to permit his
policies to be in any way influenced
by our wishes, and much that he has
said in his paper has been against
our vigorous and persistent protest.
4. A? to the so-called German In?
formation Service and the alleged
newspaper propaganda: ,
It is not true that an effort has at
any time been secretly made to influ
? nee American public opinion. The ex?
istence of the German Information
Service was publicly announced to all
the leading newspapers of the country
upon its inauguration in October last,
and has become well known to the
public ever' since. It was founded for
the purpose, as then stated, of coun?
teracting the partisan news service
that up to that ture had been coming
via Kngland, in wh'ch the happenings
of the war and the conditions in Eu?
ropean countries were being grossly
misrepresented, to the injury of Ger?
many.
The embassy, which has a natural
and legitimate interest that reliable
information regarding Germany should
be made available to the press of thu.
e? untry, has always openly assisted
that service by g.ving it access to
authentic news items and official re?
ports.
Germany Seeks U. S. Support.
Germany is and has been avowedly
and anxiously seeking, and will con?
tinue to seek, for its cause the moral
support of America and of the other
neutral countries of the world.
It believes in the justice of its cause
and will have no effort untried to
place the merits of its cause before
the world -notwithstanding the stu?
pendous obstacles it will be required
to overcome in order to secure a fair
bearing at the bar of enlightened pub?
lic opinion. With every means of
cnble and almost every other form
of communication in the hands of it?
enemies, with all the powerful finan?
cial interests of the country arrayed
against it, with a press bureau un?
equalled in the annals of history for
efficiency and imagination working
night and day, year in and year out,
manufacturing the most revolting tales
cf atrocities to poison the publfCmind,
I fail to see inything reprehensible in
the desire of Germany to get its case
before the people whose friendship it
has had in the past and whose good
opinion and sympathetic interest it
is anxious to retai.".
Will Persevere in Open.
This effort it has made in the open,
and in this it will persevere, notwith?
standing the discouragements put in
its way by this ln'.est attempt to dis?
tort its motives and to attribue malign
purposes to legitimate and praisewor
tny undertakings. For every dollar
thiit it has expended in advancing that
praiseworthy object it is safe to say
that thousands of dollars have been
expended by our enemies in subsidiz?
ing tiie sources of information by
means of garbled censored cable re?
ports and by the many subterranean
channels that ate open to them,
through their control of the * news,
their vast expenditures and the far
reaching financial interests that are
behind them.
It is because we are frankly solici?
tous for the good opinion of your peo?
ple and resentful of these baseless at?
tacks upon our in'cgnty and the use
we have made nf American hospitality
that I have taken the liberty of tres?
passing to this ex.ent upon public at?
tention.
KEPPLER DENIES
HE IS GERMAN TOOL
Labor Leader Not "World's"
Mysterious "K," Inciter of Mu?
nitions Strikes, He Declares.
Dm Trlt'Uite r.iir?iu.)
Washington, Aug. li). A positive de?
nial that he is the mysterious "K"
who is referred to in "The New York
World" charges as a labor leader used
by the Germen propaganda in bringing
BDOUt strikes to tie up munitions fac?
tories or otherwise hamper the move?
ment of munitions to the Allies, was
made to-day to the executive board of
the International Association of Ma?
chinists by Vice-President ?I. J. Keppler.
Keppler came to Washington especially
to expls n I ? the board hil a'titudc
on the proposed national strike in mu
nitioni plants and on the charge.- that
"K," who it was thought m ght be
Keppler, had been in touch with Ger?
man agents.
Keppler told the board that he had
no idea who "K" was. Ho said that
he had never been approached by any
agent of any foreign government with
a plan to bring about a strike in a
munitions plant to hamper shipments
of munitions. No labor leader of his
acquaintance had been so approached.
Strikes of machinists in tour cities
in New York and New Kngland for the
eight hour day, higher wages and bet?
ter working conditions were approved
by the board in the event that the de?
mands of the men should not be
granted. President Johnson declined
to name the cities or plants, preferring
that the negotiations should be con?
ducted secretly.
Keppler urged a nation-wide fight
for the eight hour law and better
wapes, Baying the campaign should be
concentrated on plants owners of which
were members of the National Metal
Trades Association. Conditions in those
plants, hfe sad, were worse than in
others.
Reports of concessions by employers
in Bridgeport, the scene of the recent
munitions strike, pleased members of
the board. Several concerns, including
a corset factory employing 3,000
women, have granted the eight hour
day._
LLOYD GEORGE NOW
RUNS 535 FACTORIES
Takes Over 190 More Establish?
ments for the Production of
War Munitions.
London, Aug. 19. -David Lloyd
George, Minister of Munitions, an?
nounced to-day that hi? department
had taken over 190 more establish?
ments for the production of war mu?
nitions.
The total number of these plants
now under the control of the ministry
Is 535.
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BOORS AND AUTHORS-REVIEWS AN ft COMMENT
LITERARY CRITICISM
AND BOOK NEWS
John Galsworthy's New Novel, Its Timeliness,
Significance and Workmanship?The
Salon and English Letters.
THE FRFaFalaANI)**..
Till* I HIKl.ANDM Bt J?hn CUlm-ot-lh?. l"?
| l?p III ? l.arle? Sirtbi.-r'? <*?i'?.
There is a grim, an impressive tim?
j liness about this study of the Land an
, its disinherited children in Englani
l The war is not eren mentioned in il
; puges, and yet the whole book is s
! annroach to, and an interpretation <
J the conditions which it has brought t
light. The Freelanris are four broth
ers?John, the oldest, an official in th
Homo Office; Stanley, the head of
treat manufacturing establishmen
: both extremely correct, good form an
| trt servative to the backbone, uneasil
i conscious of the unrest in the realn
! lut determinedly clinging to traditior
to the old ways. The third brothel
i Felix, is a novelist, with radical in
i ciinations and inherited inhibitions o
class and conformity at war withi:
him; while, finally, the fourth brothei
! Tod, has escaped the mould of Englisl
i education of his clnss by expulsioi
I from public school for a prank. II
? ha? gone back to the land, the friend o
i the peasant, but, above all, a lover o
! rature and the simple life. It is hi
I v ife who is the real revolutionary, ii
i constant revolt against the medieval
| ism of the English land system?i
: benevolent despotism often abused witl
I the best of intentions. Her children, i
boy and a girl, follow in her footsteps
j young firebrands in arms against th?
j injustice involved in the system. Thei
, there is the mother of all the Free
I lands, a gentlewoman of the old school
j loving and lovable, irr movable in hei
fe.ith in the social, political and relig
ious upper class tradition, understand
la** nothing of the rnreft. only con
VlfiCed that it cannot be good form foi
members of her family to champior
I the enuse of the peasant against theii
j neighbors anil friends. Her son Felix';
wife takes nothing seriously except hei
1 husband and her own verses; Mrs. Stan
! ley Freeland entertains politieo-eco
| nomic week-end parties, at which the
j Lind question is comfortably and
? fiitilely discussed amid much good
cheer. She aims at the House of Com
, mon.? and a peerage. And finally, there
! is Lady Mallory, who -?victs a laborei
? on her husband's estate because he, a
v idower with three young children,
would marry his deceased wife's sister.
; Lady Mallory has the extreme convie
1 tion of her Church on the subject,
| whatever the law may say. And is it
I tot her right, as well as her duty, to
look after the morals of the villagers?
The man must go, and no farmer on
her husband's lands must give him
wr rk.
The book is admirably well planned
I for its purpose three generations face
to face with the Land, from Hodge's
hovel to the Mallory manor house, from
the blackened, barren site of Stanley's
factory to his stately country* seat
the Land "dedicate to the week-end,"
with "that fellow Tod" and his family
a constant clement of revolt among the
submissive peasantry. And with Felix,
the sociological novelist of London, and
his daughter, active in charitable work
in its slums, to link together the prob*
lems of the submerged in city and
covntry.
What is the measure of Mr. Gals?
worthy's influence among his own peo?
ple it were hard to tell. Certain it is
that it should be great and deep. He
himself evidently doubts it, however.
It is to indicate this doubt, among
other reasons, that he has made Felix
Freeland a novelist like himself. The
conservative week-end parties tolerate
the man's radical speeches for tha: rea
son alone. He is a writing fellow and
need not be taken seriously. His irony
il beyond them. Yet only he of them
all perceives that all their well-meant
planning for a regenerated peasantry
is futile because they persistently seen
to make the omelet without breaking
?ven one of their own landlordy, priv?
ileged eggs.
And so Tryst, who would marry his
deceased wife's sister, is evicted and
must leave the neighborhood in search
of sustenance for himself and his three
children and the woman - because the
farmers under the Mallory control are
forbidden to employ him. There is a
revolt violence instigated by the fire?
brand children of Tod; the press
press writes sapiently of the agrarian
unrest and its stern suppression; John
Freeland, at the Home Office, thinks of
the constabulary force available in the
district. And he and Stanley send for
? Felix to reason with Tod. It is such
extremely bad form to have the family
! mixed up in this disgraceful affair!
Mr. Galsworthy is a thinker who
gives others rich food for thought.
His very moderation, the careful sup?
pression of his own feelings, makes
! his message, his most serious message
to his own class, all the more impres
s.ve. But he is also and always an
artist. The characters in this novel of
his, significant though they be as types,
never cease to be individuals. And ;
: through his picture of the English
Land and the people on it there is ?
woven a delicate, a searching study of I
i a young girl's awakening to the per?
plexities of life and the wonders of
lov?.
The Land?it has always been Mr.
Galsworthy's chosen subject in his nov?
els as in some of his plays, the passing
of an old regime without understand?
ing preparation for an inevitable new
order of things. But in none of these
earlier books of his is Mr. Galsworthy
so searchingly serious, so direct and
nnmistakable in* his warnings as in
"The Freelands." It is his best book
to Hate; ripest also in it.i beautiful
artistry.
THE SALON IN ENGLAND
A Chapter of Eighteenth-Cen?
tury Literary History.
Till. SAfaON AVT) ENGLISH ..KTTKItS. <'h?p'-r?
? on tile Int-rrrlitlnn? nf Mlrrttur? ml Saclctj
In ?lie A*?? nf J.iflirami Ity fli?im,,j I. ?
TlTikir. Illiiairitnl 5?o. tip li. ;!!>?, Th? Mat?
ml.lan r.iir.pai.j.
ButTon's fsmiliar epigram upon style
might be paraphrased for application
to the Salon. The Salon is the people
who compose it. Whenever and where
ever there exist people possessing the
culture and the temperament of the
Salon, the Salon will exist. Without
them, artificial attempts to create it
must be doomed to failure. The varia?
tions of the human factor, of course,
cause variations in the character of the
Salon. There were marked differences
between that of Italy and that of
France, and between each of these and
that of England. But the central feat?
ure was common to them all. It was
the borderland between society and lit?
erature. Some have described the
Salon as fashionable society playing at
intellectuality, and others as scholars
aping and striving to enter fashionable
society. Both definitions aro wrong.
In no one of its three great develop?
ments, in Italy, in France, in England,
did the Salon answer to either of them.
Nor will it do to assume that wher?
ever much learning exists the Salon is
possible; certainly not that wherever
there is no Salon there is no culture.
On the contrary, culture of the highest
and noblest character may abound with
entire unfitness for the Salon and in?
ability to organize and to maintain it.
We must doubt if Wordsworth or Ten?
nyson would greatly have shone, or
would have enjoyed shining, in a fash?
ionable social coterie, or if Nathaniel
Hawthorne or Matthew Arnolel would
have been in his best element in danc?
ing attendance upon blue-stockinged
ladies. On the other hand, people of
the finest intellectual gifts and accom?
plishments did find the atmosphere of
the Salon congenial and inspiring, and
because of that fact that institution
undoubtedly rendered valuable ser?
vices to both the intellectual and the
social worlds.
Professor Tinker's eminently read?
able volume deals chiefly with the Eng-,
lish Salon of Georgian days, which was
one of the most notable of all, and
which perhaps made a greater and
more permanent impress upon both
literature and society than any other.
There is just enough about the other
salons to enable us to trace the devel- ,
opment of the institution and to place i
this last of the great salons in its
proper perspective and setting. There i
is also enough for the correction of ]
various too prevalent errors. The ;
French name has perhaps been respon?
sible for the notion that the Salon was
pre-eminently a French institution;
when in fact it originated in the Italian ,
Renaissance, and its development in '
France was really of less consequence
than in either Italy or England, The
term "bluestocking," too, is often sup?
posed to Bars been translated from !
ttte French "bas bleu," and to have
been coined to describe women of lit-1
erary aspirations; when in fact it was
of English origin, and was at first ap?
plied to men. But the English Salon
was by no means altogether composed
of bluestockings, or the French of
pr?cieuses ridicules.
The English Salon in Johnson's time
is spoken of as an attempt to emulate
the literary world of Paris by bring?
ing men of letters and men of the |
world into closer relations and by mak- j
ing the things of the mind an avocation ,
of the drawing room. If is thus that
Professer Tinker describes it. There
was, however, a contrast between the
two salons in spirit, at least as marked
M that between the supreme Eliza
bethel salon under the Countess of i
Pembroke and the Countess of Bed- j
ford and the degenerate Stuart salon
of the Duchess of Mazarin and Mrs.
Behn. This latest English salon re?
sulted in a more enduring impression
upon both literature and society than
any other. To its effects we may at?
tribute very largely the high social
esteem in which men and women of let?
ters have ever since been held in Eng?
land, and also the noteworthy partici?
pation of social and political leaders
in literary work. It was, moreover,
unique in having given rise to, or at
least in having brought to perfection,
THE BOOK OF
(J'ACCUSE!)
By a German_Translated by Alexander Gray
Because a patriotic German, high is his Gov?
ernment's service, loved his Fatherland and
hated the madness of militarism he dared write
this indictment of the Imperial hypnotist.
Not merely a book?hut as great an event as
any battle. _____
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what we may term the literature of
society, the literature which aims
chiefly, if not solely, to depict and to
celebrate social life.
Of the supreme figure in that brill?
iant world, Professor Tinker has much
to say, and he says it with sympathetic
discrimination. It is, of course, chiefly I
with Johnson as a conversationalist j
that he deals:
In spite of the obvious faults of
Johnson's talk, it is difficult to
speak of it without a continuous
and perhaps offensive use of su?
perlatives. Age could not wither
Johnson. Instead of impairing his
memory, time enriched it. The
pomposity of his written work
never impeded his quickness of v.-it
in conversation. He was, to be
sure, fond of parading that pom?
posity of style for the amazement
and amusement of hi* hearers, and
it is scarcely true to say that he
u?ed one style in writing and an?
other in talking. It would be %
nearer the truth to say that as he
grew older he tended to introduce
more of the ease of his talk into
his written work. . . . But it
would be a mistake to infer that
Johnson was a sort of conversa?
tional head hunter, or the ourang
outang of the drawing room whom
Macaulay depicts, alternately howl?
ing and growling and rending his
associates in pieces before our ?
eyes. If we have any respect for
the consistent testimony of his
contemporaries we shall come to
realize that he talked somewhat
unwillingly. He had to be drawn
out. Nothing annoyed him more
than to be shown off.
It is on the whole a vastly pleasinir
picture, or series of pictures, which the ,
author draws of the famous literary j
lights of London in the latter haif of.
the eighteenth century. There is no
attempt to praise everybody or to con?
ceal the absurdities which now. and
then appeared among?to employ a
John?onian simile?the little fishes
which tried to act like whales. But ;
there is so much that Is worthy of ad- (
miration in the record of those times
that the book is instinct with com?
mendation and inspiration, rather than
with criticism and depression. The
world was filled with tremendous deed
in statecraft and in war in that era,
with the Seven Years' War, the Amer?
ican Revolution ?and the French Revo?
lution. But amid ftiem all history
gives, and rightly gives, a conspicuous
place to the intellectual achievements
of the English Salon.
WAR AND ITS COST
A Sterling Little Volume on a
Big Subject.
TTIK PpUTlCAh Kii'M'MY Of Will H? I
V. Ihr.' .????. IP ?li. -7. I.-,:.-l"'. J M
lient A Sun. Lid.
The au'hor of this stu?ly is a pioneer
in the field, unduly modest about his
achievement, which, one hones and ex?
pects, will mark the beginning of a'
more systematic study of this branch
of economics, so strangely neglected
since the days of Adam Smith. The
author deals with his i bjtct under
three general heads, preparations for
war, the economics of war itself,
and the economic consequences. He
K?ves us enough of the history of the
transition from the professional sol?
dier to the nation under arms to es?
tablish a historical perspective, con?
siders at some length the economics of
the wars waged by Kngland in the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries,
and then proceeds to consider modern
conditions the financial burden of
armaments, the means of meeting war
expenses, whether by indemnities, war
loans and taxes, confiscation or paper
currency, the effects of war on capital
and labor, with, at the end, a discus-:
sion of the economic consequences, the
cost, the mobilization of assets, and
the prospects of the present struggle. I
I CURRENT FICTION
Anonymity?Zane Grey's New
Tale of Arizona.
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ME.
MK A rts-ok ?f tt-m-nibrui?-? 12ran. pp. 3J6.
Th?- Centtui f' aajaaw.
This story has already been referred
to several times in these columns in
(he course of its serial publication in
"The Century." It will not be ncccs
therefore, to deal with it at great
I-iTik-th now that it has been issued in
book-form. The story, then, is auto?
biographic, and tells the adventures
that befell a young girl during the
first year of her attempt to become
self-supporting. The daughter of an
Irish artist and a woman of unnamed
r.ationa'ity who had been a member of
a troupe of strolling acrobats, the
girl, at seventeen, left Quebec for Ja?
maica, where a place had been found
for her as the only reporter of a small
news sheet. From there she went to
N'ew York, then to Chicago, an inno?
cent, trusting and appallingly ignorant
?ittls creature, earning a precarious
livelihood by typewriting, always with
the literary goal before her, and will?
ing to let a mysterious man of breed?
ing ?nd means, with whom she became
infatuated, supply her needs in an in?
direct manner which she only faintly
realized. Attached to this man though
she was, she was not above flirtations,
and, according to her own confession,
at one time became engaged to three
admirers at once. Finally, her platonic
protector having become involved in an
unsavory divorce tangle, she fled to
New York with the manuscript of her
first novel, no doubt to achieve with it
her first success. She wrote this story
of her first year out in the world, we
are informed, in two weeks, while re?
covering from an illness. It is onlv
charitable to accept this statement as
an apology for the unevenness of the
narrative. Some of it is interesting;
the manner in which a mature woman
has remembered the shallowness of
her own girlhood is remarkable, but
the impression left by the book is not
a pleasant one. In fact, the real in?
terest of "Me" lies in what she does
not tell?her progress after her first
apprenticeship to life. One would like
to know her identity in order to be
able to read those successful novels
of hers in the light of these nahe con?
fessions, which, in their determination
to be honest, often grate upon the sen?
sibilities.
THE RAINBOW TKAIL.
TflK RAIN HOW TRAIIa. A R?iiar.i'e. B? Z?ri?
Off??. l:u.i>, pp. i'i. Itau-p-T & Uro?.
We know what to expect from Mr.
Grey, and we have learned to like it.
This is his third story of the Arizona
wilderness, but, though the scene re?
mains the same, his plot is new. It is
a romantic, a visionary quest upon
which his hero sets out hence the
title, although there is no pot of gold
at the end of it-, but sonn thing far bet?
ter. He is a tenderfoot and an outcast
for conscience's sake, within him the
making of a man. Navahoes, half
breeds, cowboys, traders, bad men and
good ride through these pages, revolvers
(lash, and the long arm of the Federal
law reaches across the continent into
a hidden village just beyond the bor?
der where Mormonism has sought,
refuge from prosecution. It is in this
settlement ot sealed wives that centre
the action, the adventure and the ro?
mance. One of the bad men in this
Story is a missionary to the Indians;
Mr. Grey does not approve of him, but
one concludes from his pages that the
nieu of Arizoni -?ho knew the Indian
have a prejudice against this class of
workers la general. His descriptions
of the desert are as glowing, as sensi?
tive, as in his earlier books, and his
studies of the Mormons, the older gen?
eration and the new, are interesting.
Like its predecessors, the story i.-,
"good stutF."
THE ?SEA-HAWK.
Till: SKA HAWK Hv lUf-fl eUiHtliil. Um...
w. M* PfeUadriShlS Th? 1. 11. Upptiuoti
;aii>'.
This is a good historical romance of
a not unfarriiiar pattern. No wonder
that Sir Oliver Trcssilien, who had won
wealth on the Spanish Mam and honor
in the destruction of the Armada,
turned -Mohammedan and pirate in the
Mediterranean, for in Protestant Eng?
land his own half-brother had betrayed
him, the woman he loved had believed
the accusation falsely brought against
him. and Catholic Spain had condemned
him, a heretic, to the galleys. Thus
he became Sakr-el-Har, the Moorish
hawk of the "ea. and harried the com
meres of Christianity, but always ran
tomed out of his own gains the Eng
lish captives he made. How he raidi !
the English coast, how he carried off
ths women who had failed him and the
brother who had sent him into slavery
all this, and much more, amidst con?
stant exploits at sea, is told in the
story, which sufficiently well maintains
the distant atmosphere of time and
place.
BLAKE'S POETRY.
In "Selections from the Symbolic
Poems of William Blake" (Yale Uni?
versity Press) Dr. Frederick Erastus
Pierce has gathered the best sections
from the uneven mass of Blake's pro?
phetic verse and ?arranged them as
nearly as possible in narrative se?
quence. These prophetic books contain
some profound thought, some passages
of rare poetic beauty, but they are so
obscured by fallacies, incoherent ar?
rangement and deliberately mystifying
language that Dr. Pierce's labor of
clarification is a real service to those
who, though interested, have hitherto
been repelled by the chaos of it all.
Leek m*drr thii Lamp
Menday, rftdm?taimf, ??met frajare/
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This sprint-time love is the
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I NEWS AND NOTES
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Current Talk of Things Pres?
ent and to Come.
"The Life of John Hay, Based on His
Diaries and Correspondence," by Will?
iam Roscoe Thayer, is announced by
the Houirhton MiiHin Company for Oc?
tober. The work will be in two octavo
volumes, illustrated.
Heine Translated.
A book worth watching for is "Heine:
Two Hundred Lyrics," translated by
Louis Untermeyer. The Century Com?
pany, which will publish the volume,
announces that Mr. Intermcyer has
been working on these translations for
ton years, and that he has succeeded in
preserving the meter and music as well
as the spirit of the originals.
John Trivenna's New Novel.
Alfred A. Knopf, a new publisher in
thii city, who h?a* already announced
for the fall a series of translations of
the modern Russians, will issue in Sep?
tember Mr. Trevenna.s new novel.
"Movie Church-Town," a romance of
Cornwall in the eighteenth century
partly based on Cornish folklore.
Gorki's Autobiography.
"My Childhood," Maxim Gorki's au?
tobiographical work, is to appear this
autumn in an English translation from
the press of the Century Company.
Richard Pryce Again.
The Houghton Mitllin Company will
publish early this winter a new book
by this brilliant English author, best
known, perhaps, for his clever "The
Successor." The n*w novel is called
"David Penstephen" and deals with the
price paid by David, as child and youth,
for the theories held and acted upon
by his father.
Scribner Announcements.
(In Messrs. Scribner'a list of booka
for early publication are s "Life of
Robert Louis Stevenson for Boy? and
(?iris," by Jacqueline Overton; a vol?
ume of short storie? by Richard Hard?
ing Davis, "Somewhere in France"; s
:ew novel of Westers life by Francis
I.ytnle, "The Real Man"; a new story
by Jeannette Lee. "Aunt Jane." and
"Socialized Germany," by Frederic C.
Howe, an attempt to portray the "re?
markable programme of constructive
statesmanship inaugurated by Bismarck
and extended by the present Kaiser,
which is largely responsible for Ger?
many's unparalleled commercial snd
industrial progress."
"Lippincott's Magazine."
This Philadelphia periodical ha? been
purchased by McBride, N'ast & Co., of
this city, and will hereafter be known
as "McBridc's Magazine." "Lippin?
cott's" won its greatest renown fully s
quarter of a century ago, with the pub?
lication of Am?lie Rives's "The Quick
or the Dead." About that time, too, if
memory bo not at fault, it became the
first ot the all-tiction magazines now so
common.
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ATHALIE
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