Scout Drive
To Start With
Big Round-Up
Rally at Hippodrome To-!
morrow Night Will Begin
Nation-wide Campaign for
Membership ofd ,000,000
Gty Is Well Organized
Twenty Thousand Solicitors
Under 27 Team Cap?
tains to Make Canvass
Father Knickerbocker will have a*
opportunity to become a Boy Scout
leader to-morrow evening at the big
pest mass meeting ever held at the
Hippodrome.
Scout Week, ?proclaimed by the Pres?
ident and long awaited by the Ameri?
can boy in every city, town and hamlet
in the United States, will officially open
to-morrow. The real opening of the
campaign to show'tho nation just what
the Scout movement means will take
place in the churches in the morning,
where sermons will be preached in
which the story of scouting vrtll be told
by Catholics, Protestants antf-Jews.
But the drive for associate member?
ships, 1,000,000 of which are to be ob?
tained before next Saturday nisrht, will
not begin until the- evening masa meet?
ing. Every adult in New York will be
given an opportunity to become an as?
sociate member of the Boy Scouts of
America cither on Sunday or during the
following six days. A minimum fee of
$1 is required for membership, but
many generous supporters of the move?
ment have multiplied":that figure to dig?
nified proportions.
Notable .Men on Programme
''Big Bill" Edwards, chairman of the
Greater Now York Committee, will act
as chairman. William G. McAdoo, head
of the National Citizens' Committee,
will follow him on the programme, af?
ter which addresses, will be delivered
by Major General O'Ryan, Father
Duffy, Dr. Joseph Silverman and Royal
S. C'opeland. Grand opera stars will
also be on the programme.
Elsie Jams will take charge of the ,
stage when "Big Bill" Edwards con?
cludes his ?part of the programme. With
the aid of Ed Wynn, she will canvass
the theatre for men whvo are eligible
for associate membership in the Scouts.
The Scouts themselves will play an
important part in the programme.
They will erect tents on the stage, show
wigwagging, semaphoring, feats of
woodcraft and numerous other accom?
plishments that make them the envy
of the uninitiated boy.
The Hippodrome meeting will be the
opening gun of the thoroughly or?
ganized campaign to cover every block
of every borough of the Greater City.
Monday evening team captains will
hold a i:nal banquet at the Commodore
Hotel. More than 2,000 team captains
have announced their intention of be
ing present.
City Thoroughly Organized
Manhattan is organized down to the
iast apartment house, according to the
Statement of officials at Scout head
quarters, 200 Fifth Avenue, yesterday
afternoon. One of the most important
branches of the Manhattan organiza?
tion will he the Rainbow Division,
which will have the responsibility of
holding meetings and obtaining all
available members in the city's indus- j
trial, market and financial centres.
Already more than 100,000 mombers i
have been guaranted by the business ;
and professional men who have par- t
ticipated in the preliminary meetings
of committees. The quota for New
York is 325,000. Many of the can?
vassers predict that that figure will
be doubled.
The organization in New York City
is more thorough in some respects
than was that of the Liberty loan
workers, many of whom have trans?
ferred their energies to the Boy Scout
movement in recognition of - the aid
given the loan body by the boys.
Manhattan has been divided into,
twenty-seven districts. In each district
there will be a team captain, under
whom will be a number of lieutenants
in active charge of the various teams.
All told, there will be upward of 20,
000 solicitors.
Another committee that will be em?
braced by the parent organization will
bo the house-to-house canvass com?
mittee. The firemen and the police
will a'.so aid in the work.
"We expect to go over the top," said
A B. Leach, chairman of the canvass
committee, "several days before the
campaign closes. Any man who can?
not see the merit of the Boy Scout
cause clear enough to feel that he can
invest at least ?1 in the boyhood ol
America ?3 the fellow we do not want.
And I cannot make that too clear."
Veil-Known Team Captains
The team captains are: Vincent As
tor, George F. Baker, jr., Otto T. Ban
nard, August Belmont, Cornelius N
Bliss, jr., William C. Breed, Willian
Ham lin Child?, Ix?wis L. Clarke, Georgi
B. Cortelyou, Clarkson Cowl, Paul Cra
vath, S. R. Bertron, Henry P. Davison
Joseph I'. Day, Cleveland H. Dodgt
General T. Coleman DoPont, Willian
C. Durant, Guy Emerson, Sigmun>
Lisher, James A. FarrelJ, William Foj
Michael Friedsam, Harvey Gibson, Ber
nard F. Gimbel, Marcus Goodbodj
.Simon Guggenheim, Edward S. Hark
?itan, Vf. Averell Harr?man, Pcreival ?
Hill, Ernest Iselin, Otto H. Kahn, Clai
ence H. Mackay, Edgar L. Marstor
Emerson McMilHn, Burton R. Newtoi
Major Herbert Parsons, George V\
Perkins, Herbert I.. Pratt, Frank Prei
brvy, Seward Vronn<:r, Percy It. Pyn<
?ohn Harsen Rhoades, Lieutenant Co
onel Theodore Roosevelt, Allan J
Rysn, Charles D. Ssbin, Mortimer 1
Kebiff, Charles M. .Schwab, Charlo? J
Htone, i'fTcy ft, Straus, Rodman Warn
maker, Morgan J. O'Brien, Hurry Payn
Whitney, Francis EL Kisson, C. L. Ben
heimer, John G Agar, Harold Vandei
bilt, Allen B. Forbes, John McE. Bo*
man, George A. Caston, Francis J
' ?ZiSsV,Walter Jennings, Dr. William I
Niche!?, Howard Borden, Charit
Wimpfheimer, Frank A. Vanderllpan
Charles Hayden.
Proyraon&e at Wanamaker**
A Boy Fwnt programme will \
five? in Wonamakfr'sAuditoriom aei
Monday, Tner.day and Wednesday, at
o'clock la ta? afternoon, to stimulai
Skin-nay, otherwise Johnnie Carr, has just persuaded Cartoonist
Briggs to become a Boy Scout. William G. McAdoo is handing the proper ;
credentials to Briggs.
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' 'Skimnay 9 ' Comes to Life ;
Makes Briggs a Boy Scout
_
Hero of'Boyhood Pictures Captures His Creator
and Cartoonist Agrees to Help McAdoo
in , Campaign for Million New Members j
"Skin-nay," tttat most boyish of boys, ?
known heretofore only through the |
agency of Brigjrs's cartoons in The i
Tribune and the1 lens of the movie cam- \
era, has come to^life to aid his friends,
the Boy Scouts.
Yesterday he tuirned the tables on his
creator, Clare Briggs, by walking into
The Tribune office unannounced and :
telling the. cartoonist just what he ex- |
pected him to do. Moreover, he made
him do it just as'effectively as Briggs
has been accnstonred to making "Skin
nay" behave.
"We scouts have ^got a drive on, you
know, Mr. Briggs," began "Skin-nay,"
"Yep," answered Briggs, absent
mindedly adding a few wags to the tail
of "Skin-nay's" much pictured dog.
"An' we're expecting you to help,"
added the boy.
"I'll do that, too," responded the car?
toonist.
"But not only with money. You've
got to become a scout yourself an' be
a master, drill us 'n ever'thing," per?
sisted the visitor.
"Oh, say now??"
BriggS'Had to "Make Good"
Just what Briggs intended to say no?
body knows, because "Skin-nay" had,
meanwhile, produced his creator's hat
and coat and was holding them for him.
"I'll show you where to begin," said
"Skin-may."
Thene was nothdng else to do, so
Briggs abandoned, his drawing board
and fol?owed the youth for whose fic?
titious being he was responsible.
Briggs! was remtiniscently whistling,
"I made you what you are to-day," as
"Skin-nay.," now complete master of the
situation, led the way into the Equit?
able Buibding and up to the twenty
fifth floor, where he found William G.
McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treas
interest in the campaign. A drive will j
be inaugurated in the various depart- i
ments of the store, as well as among
the shopp<?rs. A number of special
features have been arranged, and scout- ;
ing will be demonstrated from all its |
various angles, giving a thorough and
complete grasp of the wide variety of
activities in which the boys are en?
gaged. There will be drills, wigwag?
ging, semaphoring, first aid treatment
and talks by the boys themselves.
How the Scouts are cared for when up
in the mountains will be shown in
detail.
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Turkish Slaughter
Wipes Out a Third
Of Armenian Race
Old or Young Not Spared,
Says Relief Commission;
People Hope U. S. Gets
League Mandate for Them
ROME, June 6 (By The Associated
? Press).?"Out of the Armenian nation
' of three million people at the outbreak
' of the war one million were massa
icred; the condition of the remainder is
I most appalling. Turkey, by her inhu
I man treatment of these defenceless un
I fortunatcs, has lost the right to be
j intrusted with the power to rule."
So declared Bishop H. H. Fout, of
j Indianapolis, who has arrived in Rome
' on his way to the United States from
the Near East, where ho has been dl
j recting the work of one section of the
American Commission for Relief.
Bishop Fout, who belongs to the
, United Brethren Church, is accom?
panied by seventeen other members of
: bis commission.
"The people of Armenia, Syria and
Turkey are most eager that the United
! States shall have the league of na
| tions mandate for their countries,"
I said Bishop Fout. "These people," he
j added, "are crying out for the United
I States. America is their first choice
'with Great Britain second.
"There ?3 plenty of mute evidence
i in the hundreds of thousands of skele?
tons scattered throughout the Turkish
; Empire that the Turk? sought to ex
j terminate the Armenians by systematic
? massacre. The Armenians were driven
j like herded cattle from one locality to
another until they were exhausted by
tortures of unbelievable character. In
| addition, the Turks sought to wipe out
?the clergy of Armenia. Only'eight out
, of forty-four bishops survived, while
only 10 per cent of the clergy is living
to-day."
Starvation Widespread
The Rev. Paul F. B. Chappell, of
Nashville, Tenn., told of what he had
?pen In travelling from Port Said to
Aleppo. "Poverty is most profound,
although the prospects for th? next
I harvest are good," ho said. "Even at
ury, now head of the Boy Scout drive !
committee.
"I've brought a new member?and a
good one," said "Skin-nay."
Mr. McAdoo recognized both visitors
and produced a scout registration
blank. Meanwhile the news that
Briggs bad been captured by "Skin
nay" got about, and photographers and
reporters soon were on the scene to
watch the former Treasury official and
the famous cartoonist?both movie
men now, by the way?as they com?
pleted the ?signing.
"I'm glad to see that you know what
organization to come into," paid Mr.
McAdoo to Mr. Brigps.
"And I congratulate you on your
upward step from the Treasury De?
partment into Boy Scout work," said
Mr. Briggs to Mr. McAdoo.
No Chance for Artist
After which Mr. McAdoo took all
the joy out of life?for Briggs, at
least?by asking for money. Briggs
produced a yellow bill that may have
been a twenty. Nobody embarrassed
him by asking him how much his mem?
bership cost him. Reporters and pho?
tographers, however, paid only $1 each
for the memberships they assumed by
reason of their presence at this func?
tion.
For the benefit of those who do not
know him, it may be explained that
"Skin-nay" has been brought to life
by Johnnie Carr, the fourteen-year-old
boy who, because of his possession of
all the characteristics of the Briggs
cartoon boy, is playing the part of
Skin-nay in the Briggs movies. Johnnie
has been a scout for a long time. He
is certain that Scout Week will pro?
duce many more than the 1,000,000
adult associate members desired.
present the people fall dead in the ;
streets from the effects of Turkish ;
treatment. The Turks could not invade
Syria as they invaded Armenia, but
they were successful in preventing
food from going to Syria. Starvation
is widespread throughout the region.
"Colonel Hawker, the British com- ;
mander at Beirut, told me he thought '?
it would be found that only 30 per |
cent of the Armenians are living when j
I final accounts are taken.
"The Turkish plan was to take all I
! the able-bodied men from the com- <?
1 munity and tie them up. Then they ?
? would torture them by cutting their 1
? flesh and burning the wounds. Finally,
they would cut off their heads in the !
i presence of the wives and children j
of the victims. The old men, women ;
and children were herded together and
driven from place to place."
A large number of photographs taken ?
in Armenia, showing piles of skulls !
and skeletons and pictures of deformed !
children and tortured women, were !
shown by the Rev. Samuel T. Bartlett, ?
of Toronto, Canada, a member of the j
? committee who penetrated into Eastern ?
! Turkey.
Tale of Butchery
"At Ourfa," Mr. Bartlett said: "I
saw a deep well filled with skulls of 1
I Armenians. There must have been i
j several thousand of them. At Malatee i
there is a pit containing thousands of j
i skeletons.
"The Turks took all the babic3 in the i
? town and threw them into the river i
i until it overflowed its banks. They j
led out the priests, put red-hot iron ;
! shoes on their feet, tied them to wag- j
i ons and forced them to walk long dis
? tances. The finger and toe nails of
j the priests were pulled out, and 'the
priests finally were compelled to say
i the rites over the dead while the Turks
looked oft and laughed and mocked.
' At other places they pulled' out the
, beards of the priests and tortured
them until they fell dead from ex?
haustion."
Little Girl Killed by
L. I. Train at Crossing
I Hurrying Home From Com?
munion to Get Ready to
Go to School
Eight hundred children of the League
of the Sacred Heart, who had just
received communion at the Church of
the Holy Sacrament in East New York,
? were scattering to their homes yester
1 day morning to preparo for school.
j Mary Morris, aged eleven, of 976 Glen
i more Avenue, was in great haste. She
j had to meet a test for promotion at
i the parochial school, and Father Crow
1 ley had told her he expected to see
her pass with n high mark.
When she arrived at the Euelid
Atlantie Avenue crossing of the. Long
: Island Kail road the gates wero down,
! but the keeper, Henry Feigelman, not?
ing her impatience, raised the gate a
! little. Mary ran under it, hesitated
n moment, then dnshed on, and train
i No. 1?5K! ?truck her, hurling the little
body ncventy-fivc foot.
When Father Crowley nrrived she
was dead, and Feigelmjin, in the cus?
tody of a policeman, wns weeping
I wildly.
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War Books
THE WEB. By Emerson Hough. Pub?
lished by the Rellly & Lea Company,
Chicago. 511 pp. Price, $2.
Hough's book, which he terms "a
revelation of patriotism," is the au?
thorized story of the American Pro?
tective League, and tells how 250,000
American business men became detec?
tives to help win the war. The league ;
was made up of volunteers organized !
with the approval and operated under
the direction of the United States De- j
partment of Justice, Bureau of In- j
vestigation.
THE FLEDGLING. By Charles Bernard
Nordhoff. Published by Houghton Mif
flin Company. 2^1 pp. Price, $1.26.
Letters from an airman, describing
his adventures in the skies with a
sparkling exhilaration and vivid pictur
ination.
IN THE WHIRLPOOL OF WAR. By Isa?
belle Rimbaud. Transinted from the
French by Archibald Williams. Pub?
lished by T. Fisher I'n'.vln, London.
250 pp.
An unflsuolly interesting description,
in diary form, of the flight, by road, of
a French lady and her invalid husband
from Roche, in the Ardennes, to Paris,
at the time when the Germans were
advancing to the Marne.
Poetry
WAR VERSE. Edited by Frank Foxcroft.
Published by Thomas Y. Crowell Com?
pany. :>73 pp. Pi ice, $1.26.
The seventh printing of more than
200 poems written by men and women
whose "?Perse grew out of impressions
they gained while under fire.
BALLADES OF OEDE FRANCE, AT.SATE
AND HOLLAND. By Frank Horridge.
Published by E, P. Button Company.
Ill pp.
Mr. Ilorridge has gathered up the
very subtlest of the countries' rarest
old ballads vintage and included them
in his collection.
History and Government
THE OXFORD HISTORY OF INDTA. By
Vincent A. Smith. Published by the
Clarendon Press, Oxford. H16 pp.
The author has gathered in one vol?
ume a compendius up-to-dato history
of India as a whole, based on the re?
sults of modern research and extending
from the earliest times to the end of
1911.
A NEW MUNICIPAL PROGRAM. Edited
by Clinton Ronera Woodruff. Published
by D. Appleton ?& Co. 392 pp. Pice, $2.25.
The book consists of a series of
chapters on the different sides of city
government, each of which is the result
of special study and investigation on
the part of the expert who contributed
it. The book takes up in detail the
model city charter, civil service and
efficiency, municipal home ruler" the
short ballot principle, administrative
organization, the city council, thd fran?
chise policy, financial provisions, city
planning and business management.
Essay
THE BRITISH EMPIRE AND A LEAGUE
OF PEACE. Together with an Analysis
of F?deral Government, Itn Function
and Its Method. By George Burton
Adams. Published by G. P. Putnam's
Sons. 155 pp. Price, $1.
The book comprises two essays, the
first of which shows how, in the au?
thor's opinion, an alliance of ideals and
common standards is now in existence
between America and England, and
that very little needs to be done to
secure for it effective form. The essay
on federalism does not attempt a com?
prehensive discussion of the subject,
but explains in a practical way the
method of operation of the federal
system of government.
VERGIL AND THE ENGLISH POETS.
By Elizabeth Nitchie. Published by the
Columbia University Press. 251 pp.
The author has attempted to show
the connection between the literature
of Greece and Rome and that of Eng?
land. Believing that Vergil has exerted
more influence upon the literature of
England than any other Roman poet
Miss Nitchie has written a detailed dis?
cussion of the subject.
Religion and Ethics
RELIGION AND CULTURE. By Frederick
Schlelter. Published by the Columbia
University Press. ?.'OK pp. Price, $2.
A presentation of religion written
frcm the new critical standpoint of
American ethnology.
FAITH IN FETTERS. By the-Rev. T. P..
R. Stebblng. Published by T. Fisher Un- I
win. London. 228 pp
A clergyman of the Church of Eng- I
land, imbued with the traditional ortho
odoxy, the author of this book made I
a patient analysis of the arguments
between the exponents of religion and i
science, and in his book appeals to the
national church to take a stand against I
ignorance and prejudice and for sin?
cerity and truth.
THE 11 k; her powers of mind ANP
SPIRIT. By Ralph Waldo Trine Pub?
lished by I ?odd, Mend & Co. 2-10 pp.
Pi Ice, $1.60.
Mr. Trine attempts in his book to |
lead his renders to strike a right bal- I
anee in their daily living between
things of the spirit and of the flesh.
CHRIST AS A TEACHER. By John TV.
Wayland. Published by The Stratford
Company. TO pages. Price $1.00.
Mr. Wayland depicts Christ as a
teacher who loved His teaching and
was a master of His subject. His
book was written for the purpose of
imbuing all present-day teachers with
the sacredness of their calling.
Spiritualism
! THE MEETING OF THE SPHERES: Or,
Letter? from Dr. Coulter. By Charlotte
O. Herblnc. Published by Brentanos.
317 j>p. Price, $3.
Remarkable messages from the dead
; to tho living. An interesting hook to
j those looking for constructive and
helpful pieces of psychic literature.
Juvenile
i woodcraft noYs at sunset
ISLAND. By Lillian Elizabeth Roy and
M. )?'. Hnlslngtr.n. Published by George
II. I>oran Company. 269 pages. Price
$1.60.
The Woodcraft hoys spend their va
: cation on an island in Penobscot Bay,
'and the book is an adventure story
] sure to appeal to young folk who like
? hunting, fishing, camping, swimming
! and the other delights of a summer
' in the woods.
AM, ROUND OCR HOUSE. By Rupert
s. Holland Published by George \V.
Jacobs & Co. Ts pages. Price $1 25.
A hook of verse for children. This
j little volume interprets in rhythm and
rhyme the familiar objects of house
and garden.
THE BATTLE OF THE NATIONS. IJy
Frederic Arnold Kummer. Illustrated
Published by Th.- Century Company.
?28 pages. Prie.. $2,
By u civil engineer nnd student, of
military affairs, as well as ft writer
of note, this history of tho grcnt war
has been written for the special bene?
fit, of young folks. The book is nkil
I fully and brilliantly written,
ose Present
' Miscellaneous
OPPORTUNITIES IN CHEMISTRY. By. \
Ellwood' Hendrlek. Published by Har- j
per & Bros. 102 pages. Price , a cents. -
A manual embodying the possibili?
ties which chemistry offers, together
with practical advice on how to make j
a success of it.
THI.' NATURALIST IN A BOARDING;
SCHOOL. Bv William Atphonso Mur- [
rill Published by the author. Price
$1 50.
This book embodies essays on bodily
and mental health, character training
and quotations from well known au?
thors.
HOW TO STUDY THE BEST SHORT
STORIES. By Blanche Coiton Williams.
Published by Small, Maynard & Co.
Price $1.50.
. This book is designed for writers
and other students of the short story
who wish to use in their work the an?
nual volume of best short stories of
the year, compiled by Edward J.
O'Brien.
AN ETHIOPIAN SAGA. By Richmond
Haigh. Published by Henry Holt & Co. |
Pp. 207. Price $1.30.
Original in style and subject, this .|
entertaining book by a man himself a !
South African contains first-hand ma- \
terial which, like all sagas, does not
profess to be historic in the literal
sense, but is, nevertheless, a bit of
Ethiopian loro of great interest.
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PINTO BEN AND OTHER STORIES. By ]
William S. Hart and his sister Mary.
Published by the Brltton Publishing
Company. Pp. 95, Price $1. J
Prose and verso interpreting the |
West in terms of the authors' ac
quaintance with it. Those who enjoy
the popular moving picture star on the
screen may like his book.
HOW THESE FARMERS SUCCEEDED. .
Edited by John R. McMahon. Pub- .
Ilshed bv Henry Huit Ai Co. 261 pages.
Price $1.40.
The editor of this timely volume
has taken the foremost exponent of
crop raising, stock raising, or both, j
in each of sixteen leading agricultural i
states and presents working facts and
figures which in other lines would be
regarded as business secrets.
A Padre in France
Is a Joyful Book
A PADRE IN FRANCE. By G A. Blr- ;
mingham. Published by the George H.
Doran Company. Price SI.no.
He was a good sport, this padre, and
just tho kind they needed over there.
When he landed in France his first
bath came out of a tin cup? of water
drawn from the side of an engine. A
friendly young subaltern assisted in
his first purchase. "In this country
when you want soda water you tsay:
'0, gas us!'" And actually in answer
to this singular request a siphon was ?
forthcoming.
Camp conditions were fa:rly good
in the British expeditionary force, and
his soldier servant proved an expert
darner, having always mended his
wife's hose at home. Tho oil stove,
however, was a source of trouble, and
returning one cold and stormy night ;
the padre found the hut was full of
acrid smoke and black smuts. A chap- !
lain may not swear, but the tempta?
tion was great. Fortunately, one fa- >.
miliar with the Psalms has gained a I
certain command of language that can !
be used effectively and without, scan- !
dal, so tho situation was saved.
"A Padre in France" is full of wit ?
and humor, as might be expected of'
a book by the author of "General John I
Regan," but it also deals in serious
vein with many problems of the camp i
workers, both ecclesiastical and others. !
E. B. B.
I.ove and Intrigue
THE WICKED MARQUIS. Ry 13. Phillips
Oppenheim. Published by Little, Brown
,v in. 309 pages. Price $1.50.
Mr, Oppenheim has hailed the re?
turn of peace to the world by abandon- j
ing the type of story in which inter- i
national spies eternally foregather in ?
the most fashionable restaurants of j
London, and wandering backward .into"
the realm formerly inhabited by !
Charles Garvice.
There is not a s?iirIo spy, male or j
female, in "The Wicked Marquis," and I
few restaurants. The publishers make!
up for this latter omission by a :
frontispiece labelled, "Luncheon at 0-1
Grosvenor ?Square," and the illustrator
stresses the nobility of the characters
by picturing two of them chatting after
that luncheon, in full evening dress.
"The Wicked Marquis" is, oddly :
enough, about a wicked marquis who :
takes for his mistress the daughter of
the head gamekeeper. Tho gamekeeper J
swears vengeance, emigrates to Amer?
ica, puts his nephew through Harvard,
finances him until he becomes a multi- \
millionaire and then binds him with a |
mighty oath to aid in wreaking von- j
geance upon the house of Mandeleys, of
which the marquis is the head.
The progress of this revenge is the
motive poWer of the book. It is good
reading, and at. times departs from the j
well worn channels of such work. The
gamekeeper's daughter violates all j
rules of romantic procedure by re?
maining faithful to her lover for twen- j
ty years and then throwing him over|
for a respectable publisher, whom she |
marries.
One speech in the book deserves at
least semi-immortality. David Thain
is wooing the marquis's fair duughter, ?
and she repels him, thus:
"'You mistake mo for a railway'
system,' she mocked."
Hut apparently it wasn't an unpnr- i
donable blunder, for apoplexy carries '
off tho fiendish old gamekeeper, the
marquis makes a million dollars and
David Thain is on the verge of marry?
ing the daughter on the final page.
F. F. V.
Mystery and Romance
THE GOLDEN ROPE Rv .1. W. Brodle innea
Publish?! by John Lane, tho Iludlry IK-ad. all
paiiis. Price, $1.40.
This is the narrative of a sentimental
old artist of more than fifty years who
is commissioned to paint ft picture of a
haunted castle in Cornwall owned by a
fascinating creature, known to tho na?
tives of the regio i as the "fatal
countess."
There is a small nrmy of villains
trying to wrest from the handsome
countess possession of the castle.
None of these wretches is allowed to
speak a word in the book, and nil
come to violent ends. As for tho old
artist, he falls in love with the charm?
ing young woman who is the Sherlock
Holmes of the mystery story. This
girl's mother is a drug addict whose
"dope dreams" aid in exposing the
machinations of the plotters. The book
is light and trivial
Newspaper Novelist
Philip Gibbs's novel of newspaper
life in London, "The Street, of Adven?
ture," will shortly be brought out in
nn American edition by E. P. Dutton
&. Co. This book has heretofore ap?
peared In this country only in an im?
ported edition,
After Death, What?
Spiritualism Influences
Work of English Novelist
MISS FINGAL. By Mrs. W. K. Clifford.
Published by Charles Scribner's Sons.
312 pages. Price $1.50.
Mr3. Clifford's novel is, briefly, a
tedious delineation of the change
which comes to the life and character
of Aline Fingal through the influence
of Linda Allison?an influence which
becomes apparent, according to the
author and a few characters in the
book, after Linda's death.
In fact "Miss Fingal" is an attempt
on the part of a discursive English ex
positionist to make probable the theory
that the soul, or -driving force, or
character of one person can, after
death, enter the body or otherwise di?
rectly influence the thought and action
of another person with whom the dead
person once ha3 been congenial. And
it is all just about as clear and enter?
taining as that.
That Aline Fingal happens to be ?
very drab and lonely little person whc
lives on a small income until the deati
of a wealthy uncle endows her with i
fortune and two houses, makes it pos
sible for Mrs. Clifford to work towan
a future Aline of strong opinions, o
vibrant emotions, and an otherwis?
colorful personality. So we get, as ?
result, an exceedingly dingy individua
who, in the original, is real and in
teresting. That is, until she inherit
her fortune and overhears somebod
mention the unhappy divorce of on
Linda Allison. Because Linda is pin
ing away from a continued love o
husband, has two little children, an
onco lived in the Wavercombe cottag
Aline has inherited, that drab an
hitherto unemotional person indulge
in a sentimental and romantic attach
ment for her. The attachment grow
into a conviction that she must "d
something to help" Linda, and fro;
this point on the story becomes deadl
dull and obviously a narrative treati;
on tho desired probability of Alir
being what tho spiritualists term '
blend."
People wonder why, after Linda
death, Aline is so much like her. F
did we. For the two had met on
twice, and though "drawn" to eat
other, never had onco felt or act<
alike. We see Jimmie, the one whol
interesting person in the book, stud
ing the changed Aline with interest at
a bit of amazement. Bertha, his sistc
does the same. Even Dick, Lindz
husband, while insisting how devoted
attached he really was to his divorc
and now dead wife, draws Ali
into his arms and whispers: "I lo
you, you know I do?first woman a
last woman to me. I don't know w
I say that." In fact, Dick is rath
incoherent and the reader wholly
in the air by this time. But we thi
it is rather Mrs. Clifford's own dile
ma than any fault of Dick's. The ?
thor is trying to prove something i
provable. She is dealing with spiritu
istic phenomena of which she hers
apparently is none too sure, and 1
book becomes a discursive self-arj
ment.
In spite of her "blend" tendenc
and the "message" Linda left her, Al
is an interesting figure, who wins sy
pathy to herself owing to the i
natural things she is forced to ?
because an obsessed author insists ?
be the mouthpiece for voicing her
sessions. Mrs. Clifford is capable
creating real and interesting char
ters, and writes with a scrupulous ?
entertaining regard for intimate
tails; but in "Miss Fingal" she
chosen a theme' that is not hap]
adapted to narrative presentation.
X. 1\
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Pegasus a Bronche
West Moves A. N. Choyc
To Write Fresh Lyric
SONGS WHILE WANDERING. By
Newberry Choyce. Published by .
Lane Company. 134 pages. Price, $1.1
While serving as a lieutenant in
the Leicestershire Regiment, A. New
berry Choyce was severely wounded. ,
Shortly after his convalescence he
came to America and travelled through
our West, South and Middle West on
a lecture tour. It was during his trip
that the poems of this collection were
written, and they reflect none of the
usual lofty tolerance which English
writers show for a younger and differ?
ently charactered county from their
own.
Instead, Choyce's poems ring with
an honest enthusiasm for the States,
for its plains, .its mountains, its wa?
ters and its people. He sings a great
gratitude for tho surprises and keen
enjoyments he has found here, and in
his appreciation there is mingled r?v?
?rence for grandeurs America alone
could offer. In one poem, "Rocky
Mountains," he says.
From my small island home across the sea
Kind Fates have carried me.
And Cod hns Riven me
Permission that I come
Unto a western place
Where almost He allowed
His earth to touch His Heaven.
My heart is cowed
And I um stricken dumb.
For in a mist, of mighty majesty
T seem to see
The Master Mountain-Maker, face to face.
And now I wonder why
This punyness called "I"
Dare stand beneath His sky.
Put there is more of worth in
Choyce's collection than merely his ad?
miration for things American. His
verse itself is fresh and vivid, his Iov?
lyrics are marked by a tenderness anc
delicacy of expression above the or?
dinary. And throughout the collec
tion there, is a rhythmic witchery ol
phrase and thought that. unliki
Rupert Brooke's imagery, seems to b<
faughing itself at the poet's youthfu
philosophy, at the particular higl
lights which arrest, his vision, and thi
compelling optimism of his theme.
Yet Choyce is not mere youth, flout
ing its joy in a bruised world. J
startling maturity characterizes som
of. his verse. In "Judas" he picture
the bctrnyer-disciple repentant an>
finally forgiven, to he once more lov
ingly taken into his appointed plac
with the eleven who stand by Chris1
Tho poem is dramatically phrased an
tells a story of divine forgiveness wit
; masterly tenderness.
The lnst poem in the book, "M
Wandering Soul," expresses a man
: great contentment in the part allotte
; to him by the Master Guide, who plat
' his destiny from incarnation to ii
carnation, until at last he. mnn, shn
I have reached his long-promised go
! nnd stnnds once moro with God. Tl
poem is free from extravagance
! feeling, and by its lyric simpliei
convincingly points tho part played 1
| an Eternal Plan in Man's span of lit
1 N. M.
The Indigent Book Collector j
Many Chances for Cheap Bargains
in Small Second Hand Stores
By One of Them
A beggar, munching a slice of bread
outside a London restaurant, was
asked why he persisted in standing
so near the entrance. "Because this
'unk o' bread tastes better 'ere," .was
the reply. An odor of steak and onions
pervaded the atmosphere, and by the
force of his enthusiasm?his imagina
tion?he was enjoying the delectable
dish as much as its actual consumer, j
It is with much the same enjoyment
that the indigent bibliophile approaches
a Shakespeare folio or an Aldine San
nazaro in the auction room and walks
out hugging a minor rarity of a few
dollars' value.
To consider bibliomania, like gout,
a malady of the rich is unfair. In con
trast to the opulent rivalry of the auc?
tion room there are book-lovers who j
value books as works of art and ac?
quire them in a quiet, impecunious ?
manner. Even with a lack of appro- |
priate funds one can derive as much j
aesthetic pleasure itnd more spiritual '
excitement browsing in old book stores I
than the man who glances through an ;
auction catalogue and directs his agent
to buy for him. The expectation of ;
finding some treasure among a heap j
of scattered books marked 5 and 10 j
cents or higher is a perpetual stimu- ?
lant to the most timid collector. Here
is a hobby that is most ecstatic, creat?
ing as it does a sort of adventurous ?
aesthetic sensation. The genius of the
author, the beauty of the typography, '
the art of the illustrator and book
binder appeal to taste ami intellect",
alike. And in the case of first editions ?
one seems to be on a special plane of
intimacy with the author.
The auction room is hardly the place !
for the small collector to buy. Bidders
who are dealers and agents are not j
likely to let a good thing go for
nothing. There one is competing with '
collectors who can afford to, and do, |
buy the book they want at any price, j
Old book stores- -so-called junk shops,
where everything from a ball of string '
to a fantastic electrical machine is for j
sale?are happiest hunting grounds for j
the indigent bibliophile.
Old Hook Shops
It is interesting to note the differ?
ent scales of prices prevailing in the
second-hand book stores. Take the most [
ordinary book; go into half a dozen(
different shops, and you will find it
priced anywhere from 50 cents to $1.25,
according to what the bookdealer thinks
it will fetch. In New York there are
few proprietors of old book stores who
claim to be bibliographical experts.
What they have is a certain business ;
sense, and with the aid of "Book Prices |
Current" they manage to recognize
most of the valuable books that come I
into their hands. Not all, however.
Many books, especially if they are
foreign works, escape their attention.
In the same way that it is possible to ;
pick up valuable Americana in the
quaint little book stalls on the quais of ?
Paris?quite a number have been )
bought there for a few cents?it is pos- ;
sible to pick up minor French rarities I
in New York for very little money. On !
inquiring after French books, unless :
the shop specializes in them?most
of them do not?one is referred to a
stack of "rubbish" in a dark corner
or conducted into a cellar or back
room where all the stock that does not ?
seem readily salable is kept. At first |
Conrad and
CONRAD IN QUEST Of ms YOUTH ,
Leonard Merrlck. Introduction by Sir
J. M. Barrle. Dutton & Co. Limited
Edition. $2
By Virginia Tracy
The reviewer who, though he has ;
been reading "Conrad" more or less '
for the last eight years, picks up the
book in its new edition to verify a
point or so is soon- well, lost? Or
found? For he goes on reading not ,
less but more, he is led on step by step ,
through the familiar pleasure garden
by luxuriously discovering that all hi?
favorite flower beds are blooming with
as airy a sweetness as ever they did -
yes, even as they did before the war -
and that the turf has only an added .
freshness. Conrad is the happy hunting
ground of every person who has not
got what he wants, so that there seems I
little fear of its ever being lonesome.
It is born of "the quality that Shaw
finds so contemptible in Hamlet?feel- '
ing about life romantically and seeing
it realistically. The book has all the
qualities we are all apt to enjoy be?
fore publishers' advertisements?oh, i
publishers' advertisements only in gen?
eral!?bring us to a pass where we gag
at the mention of them: The tear in
the smile, the smile in the tear, the
melancholy of how queer a thing life ,
is and memories of past days; it re
turns these?saved from the advert'
ments?with a distinction, an underly?
ing reality which self-respecting peo- i
pie can onco more seize on their vin- !
tage is now the champagne of con?
noisseurs.
Thus arise?, probably, its reputa?
tion as a rainbow. Yet how heavy are
' the odds that "Conrad," like most books
which are easy to read, was hard to
write. So merry and so sad a book.
Packed so close in every line with wit,
the wonder is it doesn't weight them i
| instead of growing them little wings!
And then the light balance that saves
| the sentiment from melting away by a :
timely stiffening of genuine passion j
or strikes ironically through the web
of luxury it has just woven with nn al- ?
lure that is almost romance! So
1 wholly is it all moulded by the firm ?
temper, the fine serenity which Bnme
ksjienks of in his charmingly ardent
! preface. Surely these coma only from
l a. hard-won masterfulness In handling
that "genuine contnet with life"
which it is staggering to find B*rrie
himself attributing to Nferrick's more
1 serious books but not to "Conrad."
Some of us must feel thnt it is this
: genuino contact with lif??? which makes
I possible tho uniiretentiouHiu-ss with
i which is turned out th? remnrkabl?
anee all the yellow backs look alike ft
res closer scrutiny to guide one'to
first edition Villiers de Plsle Adam or
Holland paper copy of Mallarm?
'ifty cents will probably huy these two!
ittle gems; but not always. 'Should you
rchance carry any intellectual prop.
rties in the shape of a heard or* tor
iseshell glasses, the marked pr!ce 0j
he book may suddenly increase far b*.
yond the capacity of your price.
"Vere did you get dat hook?" tob
hear a voice demand. "Vait a min?
ute," it enjoins you. And a dec'ara
tion that "Fife dollars is de i-iA?
price," brings a sudden end to your
self-congratulation. Such book?ent?rt
are the b?te-noir of the bargain hunt?r
and their shops are to be avoided"; it
is impossible to do "business" trith
them. Another type of store is where
the books are marked with cr-edv
prices. They do little business with
big profits. You can spot them at once
by the lack of salesmen and the duftv
stock that lies there often for year?.
The ideal second hand book store it
that which bases its prices at cost pioa
a reasonable margin of profit as?
quickly disposes of its ttock, buyii?
library after library, in which rarities
and first editions are often found. You
will find such places on busy thor?
oughfares. There is an old established
book store opposite an oil established
French restaurant on an nld-eftab
lishcd street downtown where the
writer has more than once enjoyed th?
sensation of picking up a bargain.
Even when he has paid what he con?
sidered a price beyond his means, hi
has had the satisfaction of sp?mj a
duplicate sold nt auction f ^r more than
treble the money.
In browsing around "junk" shops oni
has to be quick in coming to a decision
Dealers make a regular round of these
places. Recently a Boccucco, ero of
the masterpieces of French bookmak
ing in the eighteenth century, lay
smothered in dust in a junk shop. A
book lover walked in. He had twenty
five cents in his pocket: 'twas Friday,
This tale is not one with a happy (aid?
ing. He did not go home with the
precious eight volume*. He paid a
quarter deposit on the $5 demanded
and went out to borrow the balance.
Returning in a short while, his quarter
was returned. A buyer from a well
known Fifth Avenue book, tore had io
the meantime walked in, planked down
$10 and marched off with the hooks,
Yet who will say that our friend had
not had his thrill. And of such thrills,
which are the spice of life, the ;irt of
book collecting is full, even for th' in?
digent.
About Bindings
A word about bindings. Second
hand purchases are usually ^n poor
condition and need rebinding. An in?
expensive way of doing tins .? to buy
your own leathers. Around C ty Hall
and Brooklyn Bridge then are several
merchants in scrap leather who can
provide you, for a few dollars, **i?U
pieces of levant and morocco large
enough to blind several i'wnos in full
leather and a number of i.'cr'r sizes
in three-quarter binding.-. A saving ?f
at least 50 per cent is effect? :- by doing
'this. K. A. G.
His Quest
?
variety in characteriz n tir !
mosphere; persor g pheres
we have .'ill known ;,::'i. but '? : i ? tfuple '
of glowing ( ? ? ? ted to <
know again i turn op here
as the tonic, the 'our nd Con- ?
rad's memories ? ; -b the
incidents in a B] -ood to (
he true save thn l< i ,- ?bori?
ously constructive ? -; o th nlring
with justice.
F'or the rest. Com - othe.?
are quite lovely, at . thi?
dato, nobody n?eeds to be t I hi? ?tory.
At any rate they must I I r th?
story of Com ad seek youth
is a story of happy - es. lila the
statue Zangwiil i human
figure with a n?. ? head.
Everybody gun '? head
would prove to '? k ? at' owl's,
a nymph's, ad? , id th?
arti.-f, would b< too easy a c' rpriff?.
What he unve i of s
human being, a! ?oned .
to just that . '.<' . - xqoi-?
?teiy expressive of 1 ? ?f-f
And everybody smiled, 'I knew it all
along! "
If there is an carea
to see unveiled th< real face ! -h??atri
cal life let him rea I Conrad'i four?
teenth chapter, the t and truest
rehearsal ever writti :. ? ^e
doesn't let him read it aru w. Than
he will care.
The Yellnir Lord
THE YKLI.myv !.. Rli ;:.- : '^rfaf
lon Comfort ? . ? " Oota
pauy, , ",
Books like this n nk ff
Jack London and ? ? c0'1 '?*
write th.-m so much b
A far-away Pacific land. ? r'
but worshipped Chine ? ?:&&" ,
three white men, two women ?** |
buried treasure mix them u< cna\?5 '
get adventure. This particular ??* I
ture by Mr. Comfort h&u flavor llj j
kick, though it cannot compare **?
the cocktails Jack London aed l
shake. Where London's stories?*
swift and smooth, this is often
h?!*
and tangled; where the mm
guage was smooth, this discipl? s **?T
is often labored. As a result, *"jj
story lacks the true thrill that 9
subject might provide. -
No comparisons with a P^J,
craft?man can hurt Mr. Couiiori. *'*
ever. He can find plenty of rc**^
for his South Sea tales who -*^
know Jack London, or hare ^'"S0*^,
him. ??any narsons will delirht ?n ^J
story of Bowdtteh, the modest tr,?5
groat strength, who flghta for fc ? '
and his love a^tinst ?he treachfSjJ
but reaptctable Jerry Coiaita. h'* rj
low Mrvant of the fellow Los I '".,
when peoplt no longer v. i , ''j.
they will wish to fee it on '''"/???T"
lu this sort of thing there i?^*** .