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LATE NEWS FROM THE WRITING AND PUBLISHING WORLD
THE SUN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1915.
H. S. CHAMBERLAIN'S
WAGNER APPEARS
NEW PUBLICATIONS
A Model School Book That Would Bear Imitation
An Authoritative Work on Rugs.
Pictures of British Art Treasures, of Old Concord,
of California Homes, and of Farmhouses.
Liberal Offering of Literature for Youth; Legends,
Instruction, Biography, Classics.
Knlliton Micwail t'hamberlaln has
fr years ruen an ardent follower of
RlcMrd Wagner. 8 ardont has ho
pa. n tnnt otic mlgtll lUPPOM It waa ha
Thorn BeTOaVTd Shaw had in mind
ahi-ii he christened one of hla most
uniisiiiK books 'Tim I'erfoet Wm
ni r.if ." Mr, Chwnbaflaln RIM a pori
ferous UK 0 Wanner. It waa heavy
p in n senses thun one and yet llarht
In Value, for Its fundaments! tenet waa
that the klnK could do no wrong. It
contained some, Interesting JuKtrllnK
,i:i fact and dates. As a human
document It threw more light on the
personality of Chambtrlaln than on
Ihi.i "( WllMFi
Mr. rii.unl'crluin is still mentally
dwi lllng In the period when the genius
of lUyreuih and hi artistic doctrines
mere In sore need of advocacy. He la
not satisfied that the battle for ac
ceptance I over. He offers ue another
work "Tne Wagnerian Drama" (John
ljine Company) i neither so fat nor so
Mighty as the I'ioRraphy. hut quite as
dull. We are Instructed at the outset
that the purpose of this new work Is
U ln..re a better appreciation of
Wagner as dramatic poet.
A readme of the volume shows us
th.n t lie author holds that despite the
immense popularity of Wagner's
dram IS the true art of the man still
remains undiscovered. We are still
fit rdinf h.m as a composer of music
for operatic text.-, whereas he was the
creator of the "word-ton drama," an
art Work in Which the poem waa de
vel i pod from ideas rUted only for
tin.- .i! express:. ,n and for which the
ne i.um of communication was an or
sjanlc union of music and text simul
taneous, y conceived, or at anv rata ln
npsble of separation hy cold, critical
analysis, The creaUon of this method
of expression was the achievement of
Wagner the dramatic poet, who should
nf be regarded as a common com-
V"s- r.
Mr. Chamberlain's thesis may pre-
lenl hi illusion of novelty to those
who are not rYnaTnttr scholars; to th..ae
le are it haa nothing new to offer.
No old soldier In the Wagnerian army i
has at this late data to learn the
mtui and purpose of the master's
- - ih," si different in its con
si. . r. oral ;:s aims from the older
tnd mor nventlonal recitative of
opt r,. Nor has . anything to learn
about 'he artistic ideals upon which,
a.i si i founded his drama of hu-
manlt) freed fr. m conventions.
Indeed It becomes strikingly obvious j
:: m the ! winning of Mr. Chamber- 1
. tmi that the author himself
hai nothing t. give. His pen is con
busy transcribing passages;
Wagner's prose works, and Mr. j
PI imberlatn'a office appears to be a
inn Bg, or rather halting, com men -tarj
n them. Bo deeply has he im-
n. i his soul in the preachments of j
h.s n ister that he lias developed an
English its which reads like Ashton ;
Ellis's translation of the Wagnerian
gospels. Those Who can patiently read
11 - ' irl li i- English and absorb edi
flcation therefrom are models of de
VOl i :. But m these days when Wag
Bel - thi most popular of all German
inifir? such mortification of the
spirit a superfluous. The years do
n ' seem to he altered Mr. Chamber-
lain He perfectly preserves his pris
inlon of ponderosity of style with
imponJ. rabillty of matter.
NEW ORLEANS.
A model hool book that should be
'n. iated In every largo City has been
prepan d by Emma C, Rlchey and Kve-
i K Keen in "The New Orleans
B (Tht L Graham Company, New
Orli ins), The authori start with the
Ides that it Is the duty of the public
la to teach their children all they
lut city they live In, They
begin With the history and geography;
ssarl v they must ten a good deal
! lilt tha settlement and about
' ill ma at first, but they have done
their task with great discretion and
in . I to the story of the city itself.
They desi r.be the city, the buildings.
nld ar.'i new; the men of prominence,
tils Institutions, They provide an
I p ctures and maps. Then
they Ml about what Is done in the
city ah ut tha industries, the com
n, : transportation, public activities,
at lo , explaining what the children
" ing on before their eyes, and
Ida w.th a clear explanation
' t the r ! ; . 1 1 n of the city government
In all its departments.
1 a sl ry ..f New tirleans Is doubt-
re picturesque and interesting
idert than thai of most Amer
m cities Not one, however, is lack
in this kind ..f material; history
'' la if great interest to those on the
and activities that arouse the
id's ( ii u-iity. Information about
these, things may be stigmatised as
purel; Utilitarian, but it is more 1m
portant to the child and far more
likely to roust its Intellectual energies
The Story of
Canada Blackie
By ANNE P. L. FIELD
IntriKluiilun by TBOtaSS Moll Osborne
A truly wonderful, as well as
I woiidt-rfully true, story is this,
irui is it not only to the facts in
the case, but to the deepest facts
o) the human soul. His letters
here reveal in quick flashes the
Verj heart of prison reform.
imii. si .is) net. AU Beeksteree.
I r, ntTTON CO..
Ml rtftsl ., Mew Tes
than the driblets of scientific Informa
tion with which It la the fashion to
encumber the school curriculum.
ILLUSTRATED BOOKS.
Prom its llrst appearance fifteen
years ago John Kimherly Ifumford'a
"Oriental Ilugs" tChnrles Ncrilmc r's
Sons) has been accepted as (he most
authoritative work on tho subject, it
Is now Issued in a fourth edition at n
reduced price, but with no Impairment
In the beautiful colored plates, he
cause the mechanical improvements In
the Intervening years have made
cheaper production possible. In his
introduction Mr. Mumford deplores
again that the manufacture of art
rugs will soon he a thing of tho past
In the Orient; the war was extirpating
tho makers when he wrote and the
ravages in tho producing countries
have multiplied since, but the chief
factor, the commercializing of the in
dustry and the turning out of the
set patterns called for by Western
fashion had begun long before. The
handsome quarto volume with Its re
markable pictures brings the knowl
edge of tho history, the significance,
the modes of weaving, the sources and
the author's experience with rtelantal
ruirs within the reach if all ah I
mire them.
A miscellaneous collection of beau- I
tiful pictures arranged In no panic-
ular order and each accompanied by
a page of descriptive text, has been 1
edited by C. H. Collins Badter under
the title "The Art Treasures of tlreat j
Hritaln" (J. M. Ient and .Sons; K. P.
Iutton and Company), Th- lame
quarto size of the page allows full
justice to be done to the plcturee,
which are of famous paintlmrs, an
cient and modern, of sculpture, of
drawings by old masters, together
with splendid colored representations
of porcelain. All the objects were
fully worthy of reproduction. The
title suggests somehow the need of
preserving such records of art In i
view of the ruthless destruction in
Helgium and France.
Llterafy and historical pilgrims are!
led very entertainingly and instruct
ively around "Old Concord" (Little.!
Hrown and '"ompanyj by Allan
French, who draws on a large fund
of anecdote In addition to the knowl
edge preserved in I Ks. The tw.nK 1
is adorned with charming drawings by I
Lester G. Hornby, who conveys fully
the poetic side of each famous site. It
is an admirable memorial of a town
dear to every American, made before it
haa been transformed Completely by
modern improvement.
Descriptions of a dozen country
mansions of very rich mn are con
tained In Porter (iurnett's "Stately
Homes of California." i Little. Brown
and Company), with colored and plain
illustrations. The selection seems to
have been made) In accordance with
the prominence of the possessor
rather than the artistic merits of the
dwelling, and the pictures, While they
THE INSANITY OF THE
GERMAN LIEUTENANT
A book of short
Btrlndberi bears
stories by August 1
i a title the name I
of the first, "The Cerman Lieutenant"
(A. C. McClurg and Company. Chi
rago). Here is a tulo that rends queerly
enough in the light of what is sjolni
on tO-day. In the story the war with
France In 1870 is going on. and this
Herman lieutenant, newly married, is
writing a letter to his wife. He de-
scribes in his loiter certain unpleasant
minor Incidents of war. The other day
I li vineyard was destroyed as a matter
of military necessity. The vines with
I their load of half ripe grapes were torn
I up and tied In bundles to be piled to
gether us barriers of defence The
great stems dripped with the juices of
the crushed fruit, 'it was said thai
the vines were forty years old. Thus
we destroyed the work of forty years
in un hour " Again, a great field of
ripening corn was torn to shn-.is and
trampled out In the rage of battle.
'Do you think, my dear wife, that one
can sleep quietly at night after such
dOlngS?" The lieutenant was a sensi-
tlve and imaginative man.
Worse was In store for him. Three
frano-tlreurs hud been caught b the
soldiers of his command. They were
brave men. i he lieutenant .if- m
as he
wroto could hear them playing billiards
in the next room, l'raiic-tireurs. as
Is well known, had especial reason to
dread the I'russian military polloy r
"frtghtfulneSS." The lieutenant grew
nervous. He stopped writing the letter
to his wife. He ordered bottles of wine
to be sent to the prisoners. A gallop-
inr courier arrived with the expected
order from the commanding general.
In two hours the prisoners were to ne
shot without trial.
The UeUtsmant rode away to escape
the scene. His night did not serve
him. He went Insane. The story
strongly pictures all this matter. To
read Is to feel the llesh creep. When
tho lieutenant recovered he went to
Switzerland to live. In thnt beautiful
und peaeeful country he was one of a
group who discussed war philosophi
cally during the dinner hour. Would
there ever be an end of war? A rocket
soared into the aky In the direction of
Geneva. The serving maid handed a
telegram to the Knglish meml-er of the
group. The rocket on attaining Its
greatest height exploded nnd resolved
itself Into a white cloud shaped like a
flag. A second explosion occurred
It was within the cloud, and on the
white flag appeared a red cross. As a
waiter set a trayful of brimming
champagne glasses on the tuble the
Englishman read aloud his telegram,
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AUTHOR OP
HIS HARVEST
are tine, do not always show what the i
house looks like.
Kxamples of more moderate taste!
wll. bo found In abundance In Mary
if, Northand'i "Remodelled farm-i
houses" i Little, Hrnwii and Company).
which describes the "Improvements" i
murte in twenty-two SPOClAa Instances.
Whether arcMttctntxal purists win p-i
prove of these modifications or not is !
an open question, l'mm tho picture. ,
we should itVincy that the owner s ,
taste alone was the criterion 1n some
InatanosS ; in many others the resu'ts i
are encouraging for the "return to the
'and
etitl.UM.u-ts.
FOUT delightful fairy tales by Oacaf
Wilde appear In a holiday edition un-
der the title
A House of Pome-
lirentano's). With sixteen colored
plates by Jessie M. King. The illus
trations are decidedly eccentric In
composition and coloring, in the
baCkgTounda, the drawing and the
tints the artist follows in the track
of Mr IHi'.ac and Mr. lUu kham, and i
wh re shs leaves that work alone It is
effective and charming. Into many of !
the plcturee, be waver, she injo-ts
figures of eooetttjic form and violent
splotches of inharmonious color, a
tribute. We suppose, to some of the i
now schools of painting.
Th pretty colored pictures with
Which Helen Stratton illustrates Jean!
Langs "A Hook of Myths" (T. C, and,
K. C. Jack; ti. V. Putnam's Sons) are I
much more conventional In every way. :
The author deals chiefly with the fu- j
miliar tales of the tl.eek mythology, I
but llnds room also for the Norse
and other Teutonic myths and at the
end for the newly resurrc-ted Irish I
legends
.
BOOKS FOR THE YOUNG. J
The fall bonk season has opened
with an unusually Liberal offering of
literature for youth on the part of the
publishers, all children from those
beginning to read to those ready to
enli-r College being provided fur. We
will begin with the anthologies and
collection!. Retnarkalbly good taste is
shown In Th.. Golden Btalrcaae" (T.
c and B. C. ark; o. p. Putnam's
Smis) by Louey Chlsholm, with pretty
colored pictures by T. Dibdln fpo r.er.
The editor haa p. eked out the poems
that will appeal to children or that
settled the Alabama question. The
champaens was in good time, but the
world bus not since followed scrupu-
loualy the good example.
Another of the Strln llwrg stories
here tells of a noble youth who found
himself suddenly Impoverished, Prom
his splendid home he fared forth Into a
very strange world. He wore "his only
but handsome velvet Jacket and his
only pu.r of breeches of nr:Uint
doth." His few gold coins he counted
and tucked away in hla bosom He
had a hors.- wlien he (.tarted, but he
did not kei p t long. His llrst night
OUt he slept under a wild apple tree.
For hS breakfnel he hud some of the
wild npples and the sap from a birch
tie... This, however, was treepaaa, li
might have suffered a penalty if the
owner of the land, discovering that be
was noble and unaware that lie was
impoverished, bad not accounted the
youth'a depredations as a lark or n
joke The landowner was qune merry
and jocose about the matter; felt him-
self honored really. So easily are we
deceived.
Ttl(, pgptrienoes of th s youth When
h ,,,,, ,,, (Mty W(irv a niK,ln,lirp
, u w,)s qUMreal of Cities, shelti-ring
, ,, M),,s, ,.M , ,., rv ,,f inhabitants
What the youth Suffered when he went
to the
ptfbilo bath was
enough to
place as it
upon the
midst of It
,.ruM)l any
spirit. HuCh a
was:
merest
We may venture
glimpse I "in the
stood an enormous walled fireplace in
whl h ii great (ire was bunting; round
It up to the roof ran WOOden galli-res
where men sat -some beating each
other with rods, others drinking beer,
flreat stalwart women with lucked up
skirts poureil Jugs of water on the
tin place, vhleh at once sent out
clouds of steam These the bathers
allowed to envelop them, amid loud
shrieks and laughter. One caught
glimpses of naked bodies, matted
beards an! shining eyes. And what
Isslies! They seemed to Sten like a
number of wild beasts with hairy
breasts and limbs, who dd not need
clothing, and those who, while they
waited for their luirli, danoed before
the tire reminded him of fairy tales
of distant lands where men walked
with their heads under their arms and
with one eyo In their foreheads."
They turned in their toes and were
altogether unpleasant. The youth was
not fitted to endure life. In such g dis
torted and monstrous world. He
drowned himself. "Over-Reftnewent"
Is the title of this disturbing tale.
Of the five oi h,-r storioM in the hook
one. "TPiit I -ant Shot," Is a story of the
Thirty Years War. It la sufficiently
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EMILE VERM AEREN
AUTHOR or
BELGIUM'S AGONY
(Hotmtrojv Mmw)
they ought to know, the Collection will
attract older readers as well.
Btcriea and poems relating to the
Nativity and Christmas time are con
tained In "Christmas In Legend and
Story." by Eiva B. Smith and Alice I
Haaettlne ( Lothrop, Lee and siiep.ird
Company, Boston), lllustrafad with re
productions of famous pl tures. The
editors huve shown admirable Judg
ment in their selections, Curl itty
should attract readers to "Little
Verses and llig Nam. s ' (George H
Doran Company), a hook published for
a benevolent purpose, The edit r baa
Induced a great many well kn n peo
ple, most of wli m have achieved dis
tinction in other lines, to try their
hauJs at verse. Some have clung to
prose, some have c mtrlhuted i turea,
and Some, being professional p ets.
have turned In their own wares, Gen
erals, financiers, sock ty women, stsire
folk are In the list ami the President
sends a note. Unchanged by tb m-
ing of war or the passing of yi irs
"Chatterbox" for IMS f Hows In the
wake of its thlrtyseven predecessors,
with Its well kn'jwn and popular mis
cellany of verse, prose and pictures
(Dana Kstes and Company, Boston)
Built on the same lines, but for chil
dren of m re tender years, is "Saal
fletd's Annual" iThe Baalfleld Publish
ing Company! Akron. Oh i).
Instructive Information is
plied by a variety of books,
directly or partly disguised
story. An account of many
sating spots is given by Eve
Tomlinson in "Places Young
sup- .
either I
by a !
Inter
rett T.I
Aim rl-1
cans Want
The interest
to Know" i Applet 'tis).
in many of these s his- i
torlcal, while In others the practical
and the plcturesqus prevail. An ex-
Calient manual of ornithology. "The
-i,o,ir,.M n,.k of lur.is." bv o.he
Thome Miller, appears In a new re
vised edition (Houghton, Mifflin Com-
pany). the two parts In one volume,
with beautiful Illustrations, plu.n and
colored. The directions for making
"Home Made Toys for Qirls and
Bo.vs," by A. N'ccly Hull (Lothr P. Lee
and Bhepard Company), deal not onl)
with the simpler manipulations of
cardboard and paper, but With ingeni
ous mechanical and electrical contriv
ances. Combine. I With the tale of a
boy who makes good, Sara Ware
Bassett In "Tha Btory of Leather"
(The Bsnn Publishing Oompany), de
scribes the processes of preparing nnd
tanning learner, wnus tne siory p.m
of Caroline French Bentons "Ths
Pun of Cooking" (The Century Com
pany) is interrupted at trsqueni in
tervals by the detailed recipes for
the dishes the children malic.
Two Pennsylvania worthies are the
itesl additions to the excellent Juve
nile biographical series issue a u tne
Macmlllans: "Benjamin franklin,'
by B, Lawrence puaiey, is an ade
quate account of the sage, philoso
pher and statesman as normal Atm r-
leans
enos
pert
Penn"
look upon him. with no rerer-
to his peccadilloes, while liu
Sargent Holland's William
describes both an Interestlna
utility and a unique experiment
perse
in
ntti
olanlsatlon. To tha voluminous
mpt to describe the life of cliil-
dren
in every land Luna May limes
adds an Interesting "Our Little Boer
cousin" (The l'age Company, Bos
ton), fiftieth Of the series. The sup
plementary series about children In
the past, which threatens to be nearly
as long, is enlarged by Clara
trovsky WlnslOW's "Our LlttlS Cartha
ginian Cousin of Long Ago" and Bva
Icen Stein's "Our Little Norman
Cousin of Long Ago" (The Page
Company), both describing important
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in holiday dress. Mary Mapss Podge's It is u little hard that the snlmosl
"Hans Brlnkar's skates" (Charles I ties of the present war should rcuot on
Scribuer's Sons) has been Illustrated I the character of the unlucky Attlla.
with admirable colored pictures which bad us it is. Whether Bdwerd Hutton
reproduoe the real 1 1 . liund by Qeorga would have written "Attlla and ths
Wharton l'dwards. The large octuvo j Huns" (R, P, Dutton and Company)
will be a Welcome gift to any boy or I In QUleter tunes may be doubtful, m
girl. The squally familiar "Heidi" by
Johanna spyri has been Illustrated
prettily In color by Maria L Kirk
iJ. H. LinninOOtt Company). The new
I.ipplnrott Company)
translation Is by Klpsabeth 1'. Stork,
livery healthy boy will be ,Uul to
read the legends and animal tales of
ETHEL HUESTON
AUTHOR OF
''prudence or the parsonage'
(BO BBS -MeXAlL)
the American alx.i Iglneje t hs I Frank It.
Lindermann rapasvti In "Indian Why
Stories" I diaries Scrlbner's Sons),
which Charles M. llussell illustrates
well In color. In the framework of a
hoofs saving hla town from destruction
by telling tabs to the savage con
queror Abbia Far wall Brown in "K!s
infrt..n Town'' f Houghton M.lttin Com
pany) sets several etitortainlng stories
of adventure. There are colored pic-
tures. A pathetic little story of suf
fering, rather toe cruel for children, is
"When Hanrvah Var Bight Var Old"
i f 'redenck A. Btokes Company), The
ilramatic Instim ts of small children
are catered to by I.nurn V. Richards
In The Pig p.r ther Play Hook" (Lit
tle, Brown and Company), in which
the mural is as glaring ;if the play is
short in each Instance, and by lor
othy Cleather in "A Handy Booh of
Plays f,.r Olrls" (The BaaJfleld Pub
llahlng Company), Intended for some
what older and more aophlsgtcated
girls.
FOR VERY LITTLE ONES.
Animal stor.is predominate in the
modern nursery tales, and there is no
harm in that unless the Juvenile ap
petite is satiated. Thornton w Bur
gess haa entered Into the spirit a.- Well
.is thu manner of the B'rer Rabbit
stories and always succeeds In being
i entertaining. In the .-oi of stories en
titled "Mother Weal Wind's Why
I stories" (Little, Brown and Company)
Harrison Oulv's amusing Illustrations
..re cil..re,l. In thnt called ' Tommy
indth. Wishing Btone" they are plain;
! in both little books Mr. Burgess's ani
mals are always interesting and are
tiiso moral enough to please parents.
The real advent ures of real elephants
In captivity are described by Paul
Waltt in The Adventures f Mollis,
Waddle an 1 Tony'1 (Little, Brown
and Company), the elephants, as we
are informed) being now denies ns of
Boston,
For the nursery us for the school
room certain names are fully descrip
tive, the children knowing thai they
v-ill hear further nr.d slmllai
of established favorites. Thi:
Gdith It Davidson supplies "Th
j tuklns Bunnies' Christmas
(Houghton Mifflin Company
tales
year
ami
i i.ira is, Atwood provides the pictures
while Mary PTanoea Blntsdell contin
ues with "Bunny Rabbit's Diary"
(Little, Brown and Company), with
(leorge P, Kin's illustrations. Iii .1 i.
sephine Boribner Oates'a "Nunette
(Joes to Vlsll Her Urnndmuther"
' rauuaiuun Miuun company! me ac-
toni "M "''.vs Instead of live
animals. Beasts of many kinds ngatn
sTO through extraordinary nd vent ures
in "The Strange story of Mr. Hoc und
Mr. Hear (The Century Company)
(iruce (i. Drayton tells In verse and
with pencil of the performances of
a chicken In "Chloky-Cheep" (Dutfield
ami Company), a volume ot eccentric
shape,
So far as e cun judge, "The To
Shop Book," by Ada Van Stone Har
ris and Lillian McLean Waldo (Chnrles
Berlbner's Bona), is a subtle allure
ment to learning to read. Ths colored
pictures are charming and such as
will appeal to children i the text,
mainly monosyllabic, thai accompanies
them deals wholly with the pictures and
Is mads up oi sentences thai repeat
simple words. Alter a time u branches
out into simple verses and other bits
that may be learned by heart. It
should prove an effective, as it is
beautiful. Instrument of Instruction.
"The Scissors Hook." by William Irid
ium i p Putnam's Hons), is a pic
ture album thai calls for the co
operation of old and young It shows
tint queer shapes that can be in id.
by cutting Into a folded sirip of paper
and is accompanied by Jingles, An
other form of Juvenile decorative nrl
Is provided for in "A Child's Stump
Hook of Old Verses" (Duffleld and
Company), the stamps being dlmin
UtiVO colored
Wlllcox Smith,
fill Hnd artistic
ptotur
They
by
Jessie
beaut l-
ire t.
to lie put to such
uses.
Last Is a large quarto, the shape
of the old time picture boohs, of
ntorlee by ITisollIu Underwoodi en.
titled "When Christmas Homes
Around" tDutfleld and Company),
pleasant and SUitablS stories They
are Illustrated by six large and beau
tiful colored plotures by Jessie Wllloox
Smith, which It seems a pity to put
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timt case he would probably have
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which appear at every turn, In his
preface he settles the vexed OjUCStlon
of who the Huns were by guessing
that tho l'riiHstans are their descend
ant Ho winds up with the phrase:
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If we have the will, we may destroy.
nnce and for all. tha power of the
barbarians, who have attempted to
destroy elvllltatl n. not only under
AlatiC, Atllla und Totila. but under
Frederick of tlohenstaufen and
Luther." Nobody lias had i good word
for the Scourge of Ocd at any time,
for the Huns left no chronicles to tell
their side of the story; the tale told
In the chronicles t the peoples they
terrlAed is told very readably by Mr.
HUM 'n.
The authority of Frederick the
irr at's own account of the Seven
Years' War is by no m uns accepted;
the German Ueneral s:aff many years
ago riddled it respectfully but effect
Ively In u series of volumi which were
accessible to students before the prcs-
nt troubles. Vet it is upon the King's
bis k. intended for French consump
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"Frederick the Great and His Seven
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of their own m .iiths the ruthlessnes
and the iniquity of the Hohenaollerna.
It is rather surprising th.it u bo k
like Paul Leland Kaworth'a "George
Washington Parmer" iThe Bobbs
Merrill Company Indlanapolla) was
not written lone ago. Hut the patriot
and the soldier have so 1 ng obscured
the private man thnt the labors and
thoughts that occupied the larger
number of yens f Washington's life
have be. n passed over. This study of
Washington's Ufs at Mount Vernon,
i drawn from diaries, account t its.
memoirs and such material, will be a
necessary supplement to the accounts
..f the Washington of hist. ry. It is a
, good sample of the right kind of renl
ism and a very Interesting book
There Is a certain amount of .par
donable bragging about Canada's re-
sources In Agnes C. Laut's "The
Canadian C mmonwealth" (The
Bobbs-Merrlll Company) as well .as
I criticism of conditions ths author does
' rot like She gives a readable desciip
i lion . f the Canada of tin present day.
, a certain amount of history nnd f pol
itics, and discusses the chief problems
that the Canadians are trying 10 solve
She gives a good deal
mutter ,,f immigration.
,f space to Ihe
It is a book that
mi limns Intending 1 1 cross the hoi
i der would do w ii to read beforehand
WHY BERTHA RUNKLE CAN
PICTURE GARRISON LIFE.
Bertha RunWs'S name has heretofore
been associated almost entirely ith the
so-called historical novel, Her tew
siorv i o, to-day. and is set amid
Newport's society and among Amerlea's
soldiers In larrison life i ths rhlllp-
pines Newport's so.ieiy. winch occu
pies the Brst part of the book) la viewed
through the eyes of neither th snob nor
the rouekraker; II Is treated with so
phtstlcatsd good humor. Indsedi ths
author's unvlolenl humor, arlth I satiri
cal tliiv.ir. Is one of the constants ot the
novel Her picture of garrison life In
ivr Philippines is sympathetic and acou-
rate.
Mis II. h
known In real
urged to write
tieith.i Itiinkle is
life I hud Often been
B an army novel, tor is
ipt Louis H. Bash, sixth
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west, north snd south,
the Philippines, snd Is i"
sil fitted t" handle the
so pusslina to civilian
the wife of Cl
Infantry, shs
son life east,
as Well US 111
consequent s v
"local color"
writers since her marriage, m tact.
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daughter si the Presidio in Ban Fran
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