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Parker Rushes Into Irish Politics but Backs Out Hastily
Mixes Sinn Fein and Romance
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Sir Gilbert Parker, Finding Himself Involved,
Changes the Scene
IN NO DEFENSE (J. B. Llppincott)
Sir Gilbert Parker has written a
book that a good many people
will read on a long train journey,
when they can find nothing else to do.
A good many other people will start
it hopefully and find it impossible to
go through with the task to the end.
No Defense starts out to be a story
of Ireland and switches off to become
a story of an Irishman with an Irish
girl concerned in it, and a number of
other things touched on from time to
time. Reading it, one gets the impres?
sion that Sir Gilbert is immensely in?
terested in the Irish question, as every
Englishman must be. Apparently ho
has studied the history of Ireland to
some extent and in his studies he saw
the remarkable likeness between the
Veland of the end of the eighteenth
?entury and the Ireland?of the begin?
ning of the twentieth century. He
?eemcd to seo a great opportunity to
write a story about the Ireland of a
century and a quarter ago and draw a
lesson from a picture of those times
for Irishmen, and, possibly, English?
men, of to-day. But when ho started
to write the story he did not know just
where his enthusiasms were going to
lead him. Perhaps as he worked he
found tho logic of events leading in the
wrong direction; the lesson his story
would draw would not be the lesson
he wanted to draw.
Change In Character
One does not know Sir Gilbert's con?
victions on the Irish question. He has
never been a great figure in the House
of Commons. He has attended the ses?
sions and voted, but be has never stood
out In debate and never Influenced pol?
icies. One sees in No Defense, how?
over, that he had not got very far
along in the story before he found that
he was soon to be forced into saying
that England had done Ireland a great
injustice a hundred-odd years ago. And
so he throttled his enthusiasms and
switched his book from a political
treatise to a romantic novel. The book
suffered by the change. It had to be
loaded down with improbabilities and
made to carry the burden of a villnin
for whose villainy no reason is Indi?
cated. It must also sustain the weight
,>t a heroine who cannot be accepted an
human.
Dyck Calhoun, the hero, emerges Into
Johnniekellyisms
Johnnie Bemoans the De?
parture of his Only Male
Teacher
"Boon there will be nothing but
skirts and there all sour only Miss
Bouck and she oughtcr get married
?oon like all the good lookers does
then the poor kids ull have to look
at sum face like a dry prune all day
long aint it felrce."
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I view in Ireland in the last decade of
the eighteenth century and very soon
! encounters Sheila Llyn, the heroine,
a girl of seventeen years, whom he
sees three times in about as many
weeks. There la eome excellent de?
scription of the state of Ireland at
that time. The comparison with the
Ireland of to-day Is obvious. Dyck
seems destined to play an important
part in Irish affairs. But the shadow
of the death of the Irish Parliament
begins to fall over the book. That
/
N HIS latest novel, No Defense, Sir Gilbert Parker goes
to Ireland of 100 years ago for his plot
is where Sir Gilbert seems to have
awakened to where his political treatise
was leading, and he did not have the ,
courage to face the logic. It might
have forced him over to the Opposi?
tion benches in the House of Com?
mons.
The Hero Goes to Prison
At any rate. Sheila's father is mur?
dered and Dyck is convicted of the
crime and sentenced to four years
in prison. It happens that Sheila's
father was a traitor, that her mother
had divorced him years before, that
his name was Boyne and that Sheila
i had been brought up in the belief
I that he was dead. But Dyck, who is
? innocent, goes to prison that Sheila
I may be spared the knowledge of the
I kind of man her father was. One
perceives that Dyck is in love with
i Sheila, though ignorance on that point
i might have boen excused, as he had
been drinking and gambling and play- '
ing at loose ends in Dublin for * year
previous to the murder without ever
! seeing Sheila or hearing from her.
I However, the murder eliminates the
Irish problem from the book, which
henceforth is a romantic novel and
mighty hard to believe. Dyck comes
out of prisor and goes to England.
When he gets sufficiently hungry in
? the streets of London he enlists In
i the navy just in time to take a lead
; ing part In the mutiny of the Nore.
) Never having been at sea, he sails
| the ship he is on across the Atlantic
I and arrives in the Caribbean just in
? time to save the British fleet, which is
about to be defeated by the French.
As a reward, the crew of the ship is
pardoned and Dyck Is sentenced to
life on the island of Jamaica, where
ha becomes a wealthy planter and
leoding citizen and saves the Island ,
from a black rebellion.
Sheila wrote to Dyck when he was
accused of murder, but the chivalrous
youth did not answer the letter. She
emigrated to America. Later she in?
herited her uncle's cotton plantation in j
Virginia and hundreds of slaves and re- !
fused numerous offers of marriage, be?
cause she was resolved to remain true
to Dyck. She learned that he was the
richest man in Jamaica and sought him
down there. Dyck at last had to 'tell
her that Erris Boyne was her father
and nobody knew who had killed the
late traitor. Eventually this was cleared
! up, and Dyck, who had been desperately
in love with Sheila all tl?e time, ac
\ cepted her offer of marriage.
Sir Gilbert Parker has done many
; things better than No Defense. His
reputation will rest on his other books
| and not on this one.
War and Revolution in Siberia
A British Officer's Exciting Story of His
Experiences
EVER since the intervention of
the Allied powers in the sum?
mer of 1918 Siberia has been u
hotbed of civil war and inter?
national intrigue. British and French,
Americans and Japanese have pursued
divergent and sometimes contradictory
policies. It is largely due to the lack
of coordination in the Allied etTort
that the government of Admiral Kol
chal; fell and the larger part of Siberia
parsed under the Bolshevik rule again
during the winter of 1019-1920.
Wilth the "Die Hards" in Siberia,
by Colonel John Ward (Doran), is a
graphic story of intervention in Siberia
1 from the British standpoint. The auj
thor'a nationalist bias is very evident.
I Ho Is not sparing in his criticism of
' the conduct of the other powers. He
accuses the Americans of culpable len?
iency in their dealings with the Bol
1 sheviki. On the other hand, he con
j demns the Japanese as too brutal, lie
; suspects the French of a desire t(
! cheat the British out of their propei
share of influence upon tho^ workings
of the Omsk government.
Colonel Ward was ordered to proceed
? to Siberia with his regiment in July.
' 1918. He participated in several skir?
mishes with Red bands in the eastern
provinces, but his ultimate functions
I were diplomatic rather than military.
He gave his full moral support to Kol
chak's assumption of power in Novem?
ber and praise? the late Admiral con?
sistently throughout the book. The
author seems to have specialized in
building up Russian morale. He is
| firmly convinced that one of his
' speeches contributed materially to the
! resurrection of the Russian national
. soul. He says:
"I called attention to the entire ab
' senco of a Russian flag from Vladivo
; r.tok to Irkutsk, and asked, 'Is this the
i country of the once great and mighty
, Russia, that p. stranger travels over
i without knowing what country it is?'
I I suggested that, though we had twepty
| revolutions, I could never imagine
? Englishmen being ashamed of the Eng
! Hah flag or afraid to call themselves
Englishmen. The translation of my
1 remarks ended in a wonderful ovation
I and I thought the band would never
play anything else but the national
anthem, which it repeated again and
. again. My list of telegrams and mes?
sages of every kind and character from
? every part of Russia and the outside
world, together with constant repeti
, tion of the speech in the press, indi
i cates plainly that from this day began
the resurrection of the Russian soul."
Encouraged by this brilliant initial
success, Colonel Ward, with the ap?
proval of Admiral Kolchak, traveled
up and down the trans-Siberian rail?
road, addressing audiences of work?
men and instructing them in the prin?
ciple of orderly government. In the
eourso of one of these trips be became
involved in a free-for-all fight with
some truculent Serbians, which he de?
scribes with considerable vigor.
The author speaks with ?nthusiaant
lof the beauty of Siberian scenery, es
I pecially about Lake Baikal. On the
i other hand his impression of the po
I litical and economic condition of the
' country is very bad. Despite all Kol
chak's efforts order was not restored.
Bolshevik raiders constantly interfered
with the operation of the railroad. In
i Omsk itself murders were almost a
di'ily occurrence. In Colonel Ward's
?tpinion English intervention was of
', great value in saving -Russia from a
! reversion to autocracy. In this connec
, tion he sayst
"The great thing here Just now Is Jo
I fix some point behind which the pen?
dulum shall not be allowed to swing
toward reaction. The workmen are
' sick of strife, and would gladly go
' straight back to the old r?gime as an
easy way of escape from Bolshevism.
i This is the danger from which English
diplomacy ha3 and is trying to guard
the Russian people, If possible."
Hindu Leaders
?Sketches of Some Notable
Personalities
_
THE careers of eleven Hindu po- i
litical and intellectual leaders)
are described by D. N. Banner-!
jea in India's Nation Builders (Ilren- ]
tano's). The author first discusses the ?
work and personality of the famous
author, Rabindranath Tagorc. Paying a
wann tribute to Tagore's literary gen
?us and idealism, Mr. Bannerjea la
monts tho poet's confusion of thought)
upon political issues.
Lajpat Rai, who spent several years
of exile in this country, is one of the
figures in the book. Mr. Bannerjea rep
resents Rai 83 a rather harmless and ,
pacific individual, who was elevated to
the rank of a martyr by the injudicious :
persecution to which he was subjected
by the British government. Deeply
versed in Eastern and Western philo-j
sophical ideas, he is entitled to a place j
among the spiritual leaders of modern
India.
A strongly religious element is to be'
found in the characters of almost all ?
these men, who have played prominent
r?les in building- up the life of the new;
India. Nearly all have come into con-'
flict with some phase of British rule, j
But not one is an advocate of violent:
revolution. They possess the bound
less patience of the Orient, and seem!
willing to wait indefinitely for the
fruition of their dreams.
Most of the books that are written
about India empha3?*e problems rather
than personalities. Mr. Bannerjea has j
contributed materially to the average I
foreigner's understanding of India's
struggles and aspirations by these sym?
pathetic' sketches of her leaders.
Fourth Edition of Miss Lalo Bett
Zona Gale's new Hovel, Hies Lulu
Bett, has gone l&Jo its foHjcth edition.
Notes of Books
And of Authors
THE International Psycho-Analyt?
ical Press of London arid Vienna
announces the opening ol its New
York offices at 19 East Forty-eighth
Street. A quarterly Journal, The In?
ternational Journal of PsychorAnalysis,
directed by Professor Sigmund Freud
end edited by Ernest Jones, M. A., will
be brought out by the pew organiza?
tion.
The International Psycho-Analytical
\ library, consisting of books by au?
thorities on psycho-analysis, will be
i part of the new organization's activi
; ties. Three new books are announced
! as being now in the press.
The International Journal of Psyeho
I Analysis takes the place for English
speaking readers of the Internationale
Zeitschrift f?r Psycho-Analyse and
Imago, which are published in German
onlv. An arrangement has been made
whereby all the contents of these will
be freely available for the English
journal. Resides original articles, ab
ftlfncts and reviews it will contain the
reports of the International Psycho
Analytical Association, of which it is,
together with the Zeitschrift and Imago,
the official organ.
The three books announced are Ad?
dresses on Fsycho-Analysis, by Dr.
J. J. Putnam; Psycho-Analysis and War !
Neuroses, a symposium, by Dia. Karl
Abraham (Berlin), S. Ferenczl (Buda?
pest, Ernest Jones (London), Ernst !
Simmel (Berlin), with an introduction :
by Professor Sigmund Freud (Vienna),
and Th% P3ycho-Analytic Study of tho
Family, by J. C Fl?gel, B. A.
In Sea and Jungle
H. M. Tomlinson's The Sea and the
Jungle, which enjoyed a considerable j
success when it was first published in
this colintry, some seven or eight years j
ago, by E. P. Dutton & Co., was tem?
porarily unobtainable during the war.
But the Duttons have now brought out
a new issue of the work which readers
will find to be possessed of just the
same undying charm which it held in
those days before the war. It is an ac?
count of a voyage taken by a London
newspaper man across the Atlantic and
far up the Amazon, told with a fasci?
nating combination of poetic imagina?
tion, keen observation, humor, and
good, interesting thinking.
More of Solomon Eagle
Books in General, Second Series, by
Solomon Eagle (J. C Squire, editor of]
Tho London Mercury), has just been j
published by Alfred A. Knopf. Among!
the many diversions offered by the au?
thor are Pidgin English for Germans,
The Humors of Hymnology, Russian
Wit, Mr. Lloyd George as a Vers Li
brist, Mr. H. G. Wells and Lord Ten?
nyson, and A Forgotten Caroline.
One of the Thirteen
The publishers, Harcourt, Brace &.
Howe, say that it is difficult to keep
Dr. Slosson's Easy Lessons in Ein?
stein in stock. Some one says there
were only thirteen people in the world;
who understood Einstein's theories, j
Dr. Slosson is evidently one of these
thirteen, and what is more, he can ex- !
plain the theories so that others can
understand them.
American Engineers in the War
The American Engineers in France,
by William Barclay Parsons, is being
published by D. Appleton & Co. This
work is tho definite history of the part
played by the American engineers in
the war. William Barclay Parsons, as
colonel of the 11th Railway Engineers,
A. E. F., was one of the most distin?
guished members of tho engineering
branch of the service and accomplished
much both in organization work in
this country and in the field in France.
Before the. war his work of building I
the New York subways and the Cape
Cod canal, as member of the board of
consulting engineers for the Panama
'Canal and as brigadier general and
chief of engineers of tho New York j
.State National Guard, had placed him
in the forefront of his profession.
Sea Power in Our History
Admiral Mahan?who practically In?
vented the term "soa power," and there- .
j by told Great Britain what she had for
j so many years been seeking without
I knowing it- -wroto many books, but his
death in the early days of the World
War cut him off from gathering into
one volume his ideas on the influence
' of sea power on American development.
To supply the deficiency and in gen?
eral harrnory with Mahan's teachings,
Professors Krafft and Norris, teachers
of naval history at the Naval Academy
at Annapolis, havo -written a book of
about 3fj0 pages, which gives compre?
hensively the part sea power ha3
played in America since the ships of
Columbus, sent by Spain, the great
sea power of tho time, discovered the
New World. The book is entitled Sea
Power in American History, and is
announced for publication by the Cen?
tury Company in September.
Negro Literature
The Upward Path is the title of a
collection of stories and poems by
negro writers which Harcourt, Brace j
& Howe ar? publishing. In order to
give colored children a chance to know
something of the literature and the j
aspirations of their own race, Myron T.
Pritchard, headmaster of the Everett
School, Boston, and Miss Mary White
Ovington, author of The Shadow,,
started to prepare this book. They |
found such a surprising mass of beau-1
tiful writings, poems, 6tories. and epi
sodes that the publishers decided to is- j
sue it as i book for readers of all ages j
and races. R. R. Moton, principal of !
Tuskegee Institute, has written an in- !
troduction.
A Memory of Sir Walter Scott
In John Murray III, which has just
been published by Alfred A. Knopf, John
Murray IV, the author, states that his
father was present at the famous din?
ner at which Sir Walter Scott first
publicly owned the authorship of the
Waverley ?ovala.
ABEL WOOD MARTIN, author of The Green God's Pa-1
v?ion, a romance of the Philippines, published by Stokes
Our Debt to France
Gallant Achievements of Lafayette, Rocham
beau and Their Companions Described
THE real tri-comcred history of
the struggle of three nations
?the United States, France
and England?from f/75 to
1783, is yet to be written. Fiske,
Fisher, Lodge and other Americans
have treated it from our angle of ap?
proach, and Trevelyan preeminently
from the British point of view. It is a
pleasure to receive and to read, as a
quite complete study of French par?
ticipation, Captain Joachim Merlant's
I Soldiers and Sailors of France in the
I American War for Independence
1 (Scribners). Merlant, professor of
French literature at the University of
Montpellier, was called to the colors in
August, 1914, was badly wounded in
1915, lectured in the United States dur?
ing 1916, completed the book which
we are reviewing in 1918, and died be?
fore its publication in the United
States.
Merlant's work is In effect the
story of Lafayette and Rochambeau.
With these two men as the center, he
describes the whole circle of French
aid and participation in the revolu?
tion. The background of politics, es?
pecially international, is given, and we
receive new light on the peculiarly
epochal rivalries and fears of the na?
tions involved. It will pay all students
of the period treated to go over the
pages that tell clearly why the thirteen
states, especially New England,
dreaded the entry of France Into the
war, with memories of Louisburg, Ti
conderoga and Quebec still fresh in
mind. There was a definite split, re?
sulting in two factions, one at heart
hostile to France, and the other, with
Franklin at its head, keenly desirous
of securing French guns, ships and
men. Merlant takes his little dig al
Sam Adams and Richard Henry Lee
But tho splendid assistance of th<
French arms, culminating in Yorktown
erased all marks of opposition, al
though there were unhappy moment!
when the representatives of the threi
nations convened in Paris to decid?
terms of^peace.
There is a thread of romance run
ning through this book, the story o
Lafayette and his brother officers, i
thread that glows in its records o
action on land and sea. Especiall;
valuable to the student of the war an
the chapters that handle the Frencl
side of these episodes in a completenesi
that has not been found heretofore ii
the rank and file of histories. Thes<
chapters will do much to strengthei
the bonds between the United State
and France.
Merlant's errors are few, natural!;
on the side of American participation li
the conflict. For instance, he repeat
the mistake made by Chastellux in say
ing that Knox "was not a Boston book
heller" when the war opened In 177?
Knox maintained his "London Book
shop" in old Comhill, now Washingto
Fast Moving Nove
AN ECCENTRIC grandfather b?
queaths to the young ne'er-do
well heir only some slight dlrec
tions for finding a buried treasure
Recklessly setting out to search for it
the young man finds his legacy is
mine. Follows a fight for its poBsesslo
by the swindlers who have usurped I
rivalry in love, gun play, hard ridin
and much more. These are the familia
cards which Francis Lynde shuffles t
good advantage in A Girl, a Horse and
Dog, not hesitating to draw out of hi
sleeve an ace or two in the form <
coincidence whenever the occasion r?
quires it. There is plenty of pat
in A Girl, a Horse and a Dog (Scrit
ners), and it amply fills the cardini
requirement of Western fiction thi
something should happen every minut
-?
Oriental Wisdom In Vente
Arthur Guiterman's Chips of Jade
in train for early publication by E. '.
Duttod & Co. Mr. Guiterman has co
lected a great number of Chinei
proverbs, Hindu folksayings and bi
of common wisdom from other Orient
countries and has put them jute?. Eni
lish verse. Here is one of them:
"BMrtit Bailor?; Bevea want te steer.
Xbai Jnak won't came tm fort. X'fear."
Street, Boston., right down to 1775, and
went from it directly Into the service.
One suspects that our French historian,
of the military class of France, found
it hard to comprehend the ability in
the field of snch men as Knox and
Greene, whose knowledge was mainly
gained from M?ller on Artillery and
other foreign authorities on military
matters.
There Is a book yet to be written on
the wonder of the feat of the American
arms in the Revolution, when the few
men who had seen service, notably Lee
and Gates, proved so often to be rank
failures, and men like Washington and
his devoted little band, who knew prac?
tically nothing of strategy and tactics
from experience, developed suddenly
into able, reliant leaders. To return
to Merlant and his beok. Soldiers and
Sailors of France in the American War
for Independence cannot be overlooked
in the creation of a dependable library
en the war it covers.
Warning of a Conservative
Former Secretary of the Treasury Sees Peril ig
Too Much Democracy
IN VANISHING LANDMARKS (pub?
lished by Laird & Lee, Chicago)
Leslie M. Shaw, a former Secre?
tary of the Treasury and ex-Gov?
ernor of Iowa, sounds a note of warn?
ing against the perils and evils of de?
mocracy.
The author is convinced that the
founders of the United States knew
what they were about wnen they de?
fined the American government as a
republic rather than a democracy.
I He emphasizes the distinction between
j representative government, the char?
acteristic of a republic, and direct gov?
ernment, the characteristic of a
democracy. He looks with severe dis?
favor upon such modern innovations
as direct primaries, direct election of
Senators, the initiative, referendum
and recall. Mr. Shaw's fundamental
principle is that the people always
need to be protected against them?
selves. He quotes with approval Col?
onel Henry Watterson's indictment of
mob rule:
"The people en matee constitute what
we call the mob. Mobs have rarely
been right?never, except when capably
led. It was the mob of Jerusalem
that did the unoffending Jesus of Naza?
reth to death. It was the mob in
Paris that made the Reign of Terror.
From that day to this mobs have sel?
dom been tempted, even had a chance
to go wrong, that they have not gone
wrong. 'The people' is a fetish. It
was the people misled who precipi?
tated the South into the madness of
secession and the ruin of a hopelessly
unequal war of sections. It was the
people, backing if not compelling the,
Kaiser, who committed hari-kari for ;
themselves and their empire in Ger- \
many. It is the people, leaderless,
who now are making havoc in Russia.
Throughout the length and breadth of !
Christendom, in all lands and ages,
the people, when turned loose, have
raised every inch of hell to the square
inch they were able to raise, often
upon the slightest pretext or no pre?
text at all."
The author cites several examples in
support of his skepticism about the vir?
tues of democracy. He declares that
the majority of the people unquestion?
ably favored free silver in the '90s
of the last century. He even asserts
that a referendum on the late war would
have resulted in a vote of 2 to 1
in favor of peace.
The author is strongly opposed to the
assumption of business functions by the
government. He insists that red tape
and political considerations will impair
the efficiency of any industry which is
taken over by the state. Moreover, he '
professes an ? almost mystical faith in .
the moral advantages of individual Inlt?,
ative as stimulated by the privat?
ownership of property. He speaks rn
peatedly of "the divinely implanted de?
sire for ownership." Contending thai
inequality of income Is the very bas!?
of civilization, he sets forth the ver?
serious consideration that "equality el
income would have left Queen Isabel ?
with no jewels to sell with which to pur
chase the Santa Maria."
Mr. Shaw believes that capital h most
unfairly treated under our present jys.
tern of government, and expresses the
apprehension thst we are drifting to?
ward a labor autocracy. He asserts that
no new railroad construction may ba
anticipated until thr-> practice cf "water?
ing" stock is resumed.
A Story of the South
September 30 is announced by the
Century Company as the date of the
publication of The Purple Height?, the
new novel by M'.rie Conway Oernlcr
author of Slippy McGee. The story
again is set in the South, a small river
town in South Carolina, it is said, and
concerns Stephen Dcvereaux Champ?
neys. This Is a tremendous name for
a ragged little boy whose mother ha?
just died of tco much work and too
little food in a tiny house by the
river, but It Is a1! his and about ail
he has; moreover, it is no more mag?
niflcent than the box's family otic?
was, nor is it more magr.lticent than
his mother's hopes for him. It is
Stephen Devereaux Champneys's prog?
ress toward the purple heights of his
dyiag mother's ambition that la the
theme of the novel.
BRETT YOUNG
1? a man who has brain ?n<l fe?l
lnp to m:ik? vivid any g.'-r.? h?
touches. Hugh W.-i'poi.. and nth?r?
place him a: the head or th?
younjji>r Krr.?Rh novelists frr th?
range and beauty of his writings.
The Crescent Moon
"1? a book that no on*. ?..? ?x
cept Joseph Conrad cou'.J hm?
written."? Life. >; oo
Marching Through
Tanga?
"Thrilling with fttn:o?r7ier?."?
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Poems 1916-1918
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