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THE SUN, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1916.
LATE NEWS FROM THE WRITING AND PUBLISHING WORLD
THE FLORENTINE
ADVENTURES OF A
WESTERN FAMILY
Mr. Whitman Tells a Big and Honest Story of Lov
able People -Walter Hale's Interesting War Book.
What Happened to an Irish Volunteer - Life with the
Ambulance Corps - Davis's Last War Book.
John Reed's Exciting Adventures in the East Ex
periences of a Probation Officer-Other Subjects.
Western I'miill? In I'lnrrncr.
must have lukcn courage fur
ephen Whitman have written
i luUren nf lluftc (The Century Com
.in(, though lie niiiy hnve counted
,.n his countrymen's not recognising
their own iortr;ilts. ZennsvHIe- may
hu nmutement to linllntutpnli. us
that new Alliens docs to lloaton and
the Hull dors to Kuropeans. but the
difference Is merely of degree: the
childish self-eontldcncc. the willing
ness to nccept phrases for real undcr
etandlng. tho nsaumptlon that art calls
for no effort, are found In nil. Paying
no herd to metropolitan display and
frivolity with Its suburban accessories
Mr. Whitman describes American cul
ture as It la found throughout the
land, genially, humorously. pityingly
but relentlessly and brings It face to
face with what llurope lias to offer.
He tells the adventures of an nmlii
Me, shiftless philosopher In a small
Ohio town, who hns acquired a smat
tering of nearly everything and has
r.ever been able to stick to anything
Ion. He has three daughters named
lifter the three Graces, all with red
l.alr and the attendant optimism. One
ihlnks she lias a voice, another scrib
bles, the third daubs with iKiInt: the
father hns dabbled In all the arts,
besides Invention, literature and phi
losophy. An unexpected legacy enables
firm to gratify their ambitions, They
art for Kurope, more innocent of the
ways of the world than a stage coun
tryman, the girls full of ambition and
lomnntlc Ideas, but Providence Is kind
ti them and keeps them out of mis
chief till they land In a respectable
inarding houe In Florence. There Is
humor enough as well as truth In the
way they misunderstand foreign con
dltlons and people, mistakes that are
constantly made not only by Amerl
tans travelling1 with n party but by
thoso too who spend months In one
I'lace.
The good heartedness. innocence anil
Ignorance of the family will keep the
reader on tenterhooks. The father
talks freely about his affairs, gives the
'mpresMon that he Is rich, is sought
bv some swindlers, puts himself In the
way of others and is ou'y saved from
ir.n by the timely Interposition of n
friend. Of him, of his philosophy, and
i f ins variegated intellectual pursuits
we have a siilticieney. The eldest
daughter with the voice consults
a t
trillions teacher: he tells her the truth,
.iNi what to do, but she naturally
Knows better so she loses- what voice
.t" had. She also believes that she
has a talent for managing, as she has
tin her own family
, ; she Is surprised
ork on everybody. (
itlMttng an unror-,
whom she Intends ,
'hat it does not wo
ji cmtmp in u)nuuii; mi utnx.ti -
...a i i i . , i. , ,
."K..s...ui... w m.iii mii r" i
'oturn into a illplomat. In his dem- ,
. nstration that Ohio methods may not
succeed in the wider world Mr. W h.t-j
nan makes this girl rather too haul
nd mercenary.
The second girl . the writer; she
!e-s good looking than her sisters I
i ntf. hum, i.iuii iicii'i .Tin OToriirr, i
r time on impossibly ambitious and
'hrulous literary efforts, encouraged ,
' Mrr father, till a sensible friend
OUT TODAY
With the Spring Breezes
and Apple BlossoniH Comes
, WILLIAM J. LOCKE'S
I VIVACIOUS ROMANCE
Xiviette
I A tale of love amidst apple bloi
oms, April ihoweri and glorious
muhine.
'! A rlramatic love itory ol two
brother! nnd one girl, showing
how jealousy is the destroyer and
love the restorer of the happiness
of hearth and home.
lour lllitHtrntioiiH in Full Color
nn i: hl stetsos rit.i WFonu
Cloth. 12mo. $1.00 Net
AT ALL BOOKSELLERS
JOHN LANE CO., NEW YORK
RICHARD HARDING DAVIS
ho written a stirring record oi his second
to the front in his new book, the final
proofs o( which he revised just before his
death.
With the French
In France and Salonika
T'a AVir York Tlmn ssysi
"A serins of Tlvld pictures that oonvey
to the nwlnr. dearly and brUllanlly. not,
unir the outward aapouss of the region.
"Hrh the author vUltod. but alao the
Umitlng spirit of Individual, and ooni
iimnltlm. In all of Mr. I)svla's eorrefpond-
no, h baa ilono noShiua mora MToctlre
t'Hri this, nothing Mat ran more quicaiT
rrrt ami niore surlily
y h
old tba raadsr a
attsnUon," A'w York Timtt.
ItluHrtUd. $1.99 JVt,
CHARLES SCRlMfEM rf?f
. mfnmmiF ......... .....
puts her on the right trnck and she be
gins to write as she should. Hers is the
real loe story. She falls In love with
an Italian olllcer who Is n gentleman
and he with her: Just as they are to
bo married he Is killed In the per
formance of his duty; this brings out
the strength of the girl's character.
This trngic episode Is told simply and
very effectively
It Is the youngest and prettiest
daughter who Is the heroine. If any
one Is. Her ambition Is for art nnd
It takes some painful experience for
her to discover that she has no talent:
but more than for nrt she N on the
watch for love, nnd her Innocence of
nny conventions or proprieties w
nmardng In nn American gill. She
picks up a good looking oung man
on tne sunnier and has n moonlight
duet with him, then she keeps dream- .
lng of him. till ho turns up In Plor-
on..o Them i, tiirt. vi..io,,iu. viiih'
....j
Her. gets her Into a compromising
situation and barks out. The girl's
love fancies crumble, she Is hi.mil-
lated In her own eves, till the richl
man comes nnd mnkes everything ,
rlgnt. Hy that time the family is ,
ready to return to Zenavll!c. There War In Serbia" by It. A. Ilelss, "1S1E-
ore many Interesting people beldcs 1915" by Charles Selgnobos, "Pan
these and much that Is very pleasant (iermnnlsm" by Charles Andter, "tier- 1
nbout Horence.
Through it nil Mr Whitman never
let? us forget how lovable and good
these people are and how high their
ido.iLs, any more t.ian he conceals the I
absurd contrast between their aspira-
tlons and their accomplishment, or 1
their pitiful belief that they cm do a
thing- merely because they want to.
regardless of special talent or labor
lous preparation.
It Is a big nnd hon
est story.
W K DUUAa.
Anllrr Hnlr'a Kxprrlrmrs.
An nnnsimllv Interesting a.oont of
experiences along the French front " riVnl- While he believes firmly In
I that of Walter Hale In Hu Motor to the principle and mot of his cases
the Firing Line (The Century Com- nre uch as Justify probation, he gives
pany) because he limits himself to , with perfect r.ilrne many where pro
what he saw and his training is that button failed. The book begins with
of the artist who knows how to use
his eyes. He had no need to worry
about news which could neither be ob
tained nor sent. He had the advan
tage of having seen a good part of the
! country In time of neare and so being
.,i,in ,., -,.. Aerunti.. ..if.txA- ..e tt,
essential dumnge done to great ,
churches nnd other buildings: pictures i
more eloquent than words. Those ,
taken by the camera are like count-
lei other photographs. The directness ,
nnd lmplicty wlll, whicli he tells hlsftts pi
Hlofy KlVP mark(lf cllttruli The I is han,
fnn r on he ,0l,OKrauhy wIt aM , persons
Krout,y U)0,p who are ,rylnK , fol. cal. Tl
a fine
rtln.,.ar. ,ua i,,.nPrnnhv will ntf. ,
"-' m.t
Broa,y those who are trying to fol-
,ow lp Kh1(f Ul0 reports that!
arp nl,,m.ed to ap,icnr. though it is
ft avmiin.s view of matters that the
experts on both sides know moro 1
thoroughly the Information Is of the
Fort thnt the censorship would have,
sl,pj,rcss,f.,i
in reports made at the
if I
(jjuj,
I'nfrlrU l.ie:iU'
What happened to a volunteer In
the trenches Is related by Patrick Mac
lilll, nn author of mark In realistic
fiction, In The lied Horizon ((ieorge H.
Iiornn Company). He enlisted in tho
Itoyol Irish, has been wounded and Is
now back at the front. He describes
the experiences of himself nnd his
comrades In the training camp, In the
trenches and In battle, dth careful
avoidance, of proper names that the
censorship might object to; ho shows
what life Is to the soldiers in all its
sordid details nnd drawn vivid pic
tures of his companions nnd their way
of thinking. He never forgets the
literary touch.
Arthur filenaan'a Ksperlrnera.
Sketches of life with the ambulance
corps will be found In Arthur tJleason
and Helen Huyes lileason H UoMCH
iti. I'eniiirv i Vim on n v I . Tho
i,iir,uli,, oui,,f ti, r.or.
... ,.i,.
nuna Is emphasized by Mr. Ilooscvelt a
I 4 ....itit.ii 1 1 Tim fndtlmnnt1 nf linf II
authors to the noble behavior of the
women Is fine reading. In the other
i sketches Mr. Glrason appeals to the
feellngx by dwelling on the horrors of
war, but ho also gives vivid pictures
of Paris and other places In war time.
There ure many Illustrations from
photographs.
It, H, llavls'a Last Vlalt.
The record of the last visit tn the
scene of war made by the late Ilichard
Harding Davis Is contained In With
the h'reneh hi France and Salonlva
(Charles Scrlbner's Sons). In the pref
ace, signed the day he died, lie ex
presses strongly his view that tho
United States should take the side of
the Allies and likewise his opinion
that the war operations of France and
Kngland In the Balkan peninsula ore
a mistake. Ue.sldca the trip tn Greece,
to Hulonlca and to the front of the
operations In thnt district Mr. OavU
evlslled the main fighting line on the
French border nnd had a glimpse of
Kngland. His chapter on the ways to
help will be useful to many readers.
The book la Illustrated.
Jobn Rresl In the Kast.
Meeting with the usual fate of war
correspondents In not getting what he
was after, John Heed makes tho best
of It by telllna- of what ho actually
found In The War in Eastern Europe
(Charles Scrlbner's Sons). Ho started
in from Baionlca. made his way
through Macedonia and Serbia, ,saw
something of Bulgaria, Rumania and
Constantinople and worked his way
Into Russia with the retreating army,
He had plant? of exclUng experiences
and wan sroornpanled throughout by
Sbiaaalafuat RnblstaoB.' who draws the
'fcttftte ftotwe JsK tMa lWefc Botkl
STEPHEN
WHITMAN
author, of children of hope"
- -
got out of the country Just before the
Herman drive Into the Balkans began.
Jt Is n good story of ml venture, with
plenty of Information about the people
who are doing the lighting In the Kast.
I'rrnrh I'nmphli'ts.
The latest additions to the valuable
I'auv.i d'llhtolrc series ( Herger-I.e-i
vraiilt, Paris) aio the continuation of.
the official record. "I.es Communions
oillclels. Novembre et I Vcembre. 1 0 1 Ii,"
,. .further Instalment of "Volx Amerl-
Calni." nnd two monographs, "Ui
Prosperite Kconomlquc de 1'Alle-
.. i... ,, ...... i
Ultimo- I'J IfilftlOIl V lllllMI IIUU t
Dernier.. Massacres de I'Armenle" bv I
Herbert Adams Gibbons.
To ,i,e series of Kindle and Doeu.
,.. s... .. i t.-..ii..
tlon (Arm.ind Colin, Paris) have been
added "How Aiistrla-Hungarv Waged i
many Above AH" by K. Ditrkhelm and
"(ierman Theory nnd Practice of War" I
by K. I.-nise and Charles Andlrr. I
wrr-.-.T ,r-..r, '
lvnov-c,L.tINi2.tJUo.
Helping Hand.
The true stories told In One More
I ('inner by Lewis K, Macltrayne nnd
.lames P. Hamey (Small, Maynard
land Company, Hnston), even though
they are much condensed, are more
I Interestln
than the majority of the
I In fle.Inn Thev nr. it,. v.
' plots U"1
.., .. i .i i
' I',-, IMNI,HP1I oil,, ri III
(.Massachusetts with manv cases f
various types with which 'he has ,,nd
a statement of the law regarding pro
bation that holds In Massachusetts.
In describing the different forms of
crime with the causes that ustiall
If ml to them there Is no mawkish ren-
tlmental.ty such as accompanies com-
niotll the lirlsoo reform movement . 1
the circumstances are examined prac- j
tu-nlly and sensibly, the one question
considered being "what nre the
chance,, of reform" The authors
'"ane a une .-now ing lor uie .Miussacmi- i
iuiiii.iL.ioii sjMem so long as u
handled by humane and sensible
Demons itlli! IMS iK'COnie ineChaM
i'i. rue one wno lias written It has
-
"1(1 of characterlr.atlon which
makes live men of the examples and;L(.ar 'it0I,'.l, and Juliet," '"OlTieilo'
the ofTlclals who dealt with them. ,, ..Tne Tempest" by F. Hyat
The ( harm nf Maine.
L It l not the Maine of the sa coast
'THE FIJNNY TRAGIC
AGE OF
It took Month Tarklngton, of course,
t set really before ti. the agonies and
ecstasies nf "Seventeen" that funny
tragic age which change, so utterly
with the viewpoint of years. We who
are oM can smile nt poor William, who,
passing swiftly from a mlsogynlstlc
state of "Olrls could nil die. I wouldn't
notice," to rapturous, behind locked doors
musing :
"Oh, eyes !" he whispered softly, In
that cool privacy anil shelter from the
world, Ob, eyes of blue
ti. mirror nt , .lreuKiiu- t.il.le sent
him the rellectlon of hi. own eyrs, which
were also blue; and he gazed upon them
twI nrwi lest nf III. lointr. flip U'llflo
, i,0 hiH ,r0ail and buttir nnd applo
, sauce ami sugar. Tliu. watching him-
, seir eat, lie rnntinueii to siare nreainuy
i at the mirror until the bread and butter
land apple sauce and sugar hid dlsap.
penred, whereupon lie rose and np.
()ad)' lh(i ,,,rMH,IIR table , Htui.
if. ...
He assumed as repulsive an expres
sion as be could command, at the same
time making the kingly gesture of one
who repels unwelcome attentions, ana
It Is beyond doubt that he was thus act.
lng a little scene nf Indifference. Other
symbolic dramas followed, though an oh.
server might have been puzzled for a
key to some of them. One. however,
would have proved easily Intelligible:
his expression having altered to a look
of pity and contrition, he turned from
the mlrror.find walking slowly to a chair
across the Y'xim, used his right hand In
a peculiar manner, seeming to stroke the
air at a point about ten Indies nbova
the back of the ehnlr. 'There, there,
little girl.' he said In n low, gentle voice,
I didn't know you cared !'
"Then, with a rather abrupt dismissal
of this theme, ho returned to the mirror
and, after a questioning scrutiny, nodded
mleninly. forming with his lips the words.
The real thing the real thing at last1'
He meant that, after many Imitations
had Imposed upon him, Love the real
thing had come to him In the end. And
as he turned away lie murmured, "And
even her name unknown !'
"William, seated upon a stool at her
feet, gazed up nt Ibo amber head, di
vinely fcplashed by tho rain of moonlight.
Tho lire with which she spoke stirred
him as few things had ever stirred him.
He knew she had Just revealed a side of
herself which she reserved for only tho
chosen few who were capable of under
standing her, and be fell Into a hushed
rupture. It seemed to him that thore
was a sarredness about this moment, nnd
he sought vaguely for something to say
that would live up to It and not be out
of keeping. Then, like an Inspiration,
there came Into his head some words he
had read that day nnd thought beautiful.
He had found them beneath an Illustra
tion In a magazine, and he spoke them
almost Instinctively.
" 'It was wonderful of you to say that
to me.' he said. ,'! ahall, never fore HI'
a t-
"William's grarlty becaase
E
BEULAH MARIE DlX. AUTHOR.
Or THE uATTLE OFUEORQE
jPAURELLA" (DUFFIELP)
nor the woods and lakes that sports
men resort to that llosallnd Hlchards
describes In A Sorthern Countrtitlde
(Henry Holt and Company), one of the
most delightful Inioks that has come
,n ""r ""l ' , i r i
count ry town at the head of naUga-
, ....II .(..,. ... n..,..i1,,,ru1 I
"u" u".." . :L '1 rJVv. "j
town wi n jusi a loucn o w.e ecu. ..u
,ne " " pe0U' .Wn ' .
nroillM It. seen wnn very Kinui) e,e-
It Is a vision of the New Knglnnd that
once was the vision that elderly ex
iles carried away with them, which
they will hnve to seek In out of the
way places like this, now that the for
eign Invasion has come. The author
has disguised the names, but the beau
tiful photographs are of real scenes
It 1 a restful picture for those who
can enjoy the pure country, free of
summer visitors or the excitement of I
sport, and can appreciate the men and ,
women tint Maine still grows.
The Waninn Qnrstlon.
Accepting the painful fact that
women und men are constituted dlf-
f'rently, Annie Kiley IMIe In , Tif
'''' fi ffpiinr (The author. New iork)
d!souses ratlonallv the various uues-
-
tlons that trouble the women agitators.
She llkew-ise demonstrates that most of
the "wrongs" must be regulated by the
women themselves regardless of the
vote. She has rend a great deal on
both sides of these matters, for which
we commiserate her: h la oppoaed
to the suffragists and prefera that they
should not have the vote. Her con-
i tentlon that the vote will make little
difference In the matters about which
women complain seems tincontrovert-
' Ible.
."haLraiM-nre In RalTaln.
A jterary club In nuffalo celebrates
tll(. Hhakejipeare tercentenary by the
publication of a very pretty volume of
shal.eaprme Htuillei (The Literary
cnU ItufTalo). These Include a
i...... ,i.,ri,
t.'..lr..,- IF VlVml.
I (II a. ill 111 I'J tttllii- aa t.tt'tn QIP.
i!r:,VInn i.. viohols and nat.era on
Hamlet." "As You Like It." "King
Hyatt
r'mlth. n Shakespeare scholar. Tho
hook Is a credit to the Literary Clinic
i anil to Huffalo nllke.
"SEVENTEEN"
.more profound. 'Don't you think lov
more profound, 'Don t you think love la
a sarred thing?
"'Don't you think love, ts sacred ? ha
repeated In the deepest tone of which his
vocal cord, were capable.
" 'Kss.' said Miss Prntt.
"7 do!' William was emphatic.
think love Is the most sarred thing there
Is. I don t mean some kinds of love. I
mean rent love. You take some kinds of
people, I don't believe they ever know
whnt real love means. They fait about
It mabe, but they don't understand It.
I,ove Is something nobody can under-
stand unless they feel It and and If
!'"( 0'n t unuersiann n mry oon t reel
, t I""4 wl,n"
" 'Kss."
, " 'I.ove,' William continued, his voice
illftlng ami thriving to the great theme
me in mimeming nooooy ran ever nave
but one time In their lives, nnd If they
' don't have it then, why prnh'ly they never
Wlll.'
"One nfteiiinon, having locked tils
WRITER AND WIFE
HELEN
UAVBS!
6LEASON
Arthur Gleason, who was a lied
Cross worker with the Hector Mhinro
Ambulance Corps working with the
first line of the Belgian army, In his
new book "Golden Lads" (Century)
tjlves eyewitness accounts of atrocities
suffered by Um Belgians. Mr, Oleaaon
Is the only America, wtvose testimony
baa bees iMwpomtatl la ths JsVom.
m flKsBsleHssl sssssB sssssssssssssB 1st4sMsfsHil
jisssssssssssssssssHBsssssssBsHnKHVSH sflssmjflP Isssssssssssssssfl sVOVPM
'GERALD
5TANLCV
.LEE .AUTHOR. OFWE"
(DOUBLEDAY. PAGE)
door to ferine himself against Intrusion the stupendous slaughter in Kurope. a
on the part of his mother or Jane. Will- slaughter Hint would seem to be one of
lam seated himself at his writing table the periodicities of the world, since It
and from a drawer therein took a small I the composite expression of the Indl
cardbonrd box which he uncovered, pine- vldual male's desire to tight somebody
lng the contents In'vlew before him upon I Just so often what In comparison with
the table. (How meagre, how chilling a this monstrous crime would be the or
word Is 'contents'!) In the box were: fence of making way with one obnoxious
.... ' husband?"
A failed rot. Th ,., imtirnti-il bv the onenlng line
Kevinl other Cided rot dlntnteirnttd
Into leaven
I
four leaf clorr." i
Three withered
A white rlbhon mill filntl)- melllnc of
U'.let
A mll llr hve huekle.
A Urge pearl hutton.
A email pesrl button !
A tnrtolM. shell hairpin. '
A rro section from the heel'of mall,
Upper i
A sirlmry remnnni. probably once n .
Improvised .wreath of daje
Kour or nv withered dandelion
. ... . . . .. .
uxner anea eiei9iion, oi a nature now
lndl.tlngulah.ble.
"William gaxed reverentlv upon this
junk of prec'ous souvenirs, then from
the Inner pocket of his cont tie brought
forth, warm nnd crumpled, a lumpish
aromatic and not quite dad. though
cluster of red irnmriliirn linsoms. still
naturally, after three hours of su-h In-'
tlmate conanenient. they wore nn n-,
mlstakablo look of suffering With I
obsened in bin, since thatI.eous day '
In his rtfth year w hen he tried to mend i
his
broken doll. William laid the gera-
nliim blossoms In the cardlioard
among me ooianicai anil oiner relics.
Ills rent e even ahn.,1 the
treasures mean to htm.
t. ves-t nf wnn . , v..i t..t.,..i
tumultuously the summer long, whenever
his eyes beheld those pickets of the
i-arcners lence, nui now u ouiuiu ail lis
previous rlotlngs. He was forced to open
hi. mouth and gasp for breath, so deep
. . . ... . .. ..
was his draught of that young wine, husband, as aiiotner migni a " r
romsnre. Yonder-somewhere In the I ake or a mad dog or Ilia If one could
breath taking radiance danced hi. queen
with sll he: court nbout her. Queen and
court, thought William, and nothing I's.
exorbitant could hae expressed his feel- -enini - "" -;
Inc. Kor seventeen need- only some'!'"" tn link- w0,'"f " "l' L '
paper lantern, and fiddle and a pretty , tt"e'he bc ",, ,'r,nl";,f,
glrl-and Versailles is all there- rope about? All Kurope lad tall e d for
The moment was so rich that William
crossed the street with a slower step
HI. mood changed, nn exaltation hnd
,wne upon him. though he was never for
nn Instant unaware of the tragedy (
beneath all thl. worldU- show and.
glamour It was the last night of the
divine visit, to-morrow the town would '
lie desolate, a hollow .hell In the dust,
without her Mls Pratt would be gone
gone utterly gone away on the train ! j
Hut to-night was Ju-t beginning and to-1
11 ri he would dunce with her. he nvmlil
: , . , :
dance and dance with her-he would,
dance and dance like mad He and she.
poetic and fated pair, would dance on
nnd on' They would be Intoxicated by I
k lIKl.t III, llhlll.-, llimril. (li,
the music, Nny, the flowers might
droop, tre tights might go out, the
must.' cease and dawn come she id he
would dance reckey on on on'
v. . 1 1 . iiMi,,u ........... n .1
A sense of p!cturesiuenes his own
Plcturesoueness made him walk lather
theatrically as he passed the groups
mimlile onfnKers outsnie tne picket
fence. Many or these turned to stare at
the belated guest, and William was un-
rnnHi-lnns neither nf thrtr Inn pRt:it,
nor his own quality aa a patrU-lan man.
about town In almoRt perfectly fitting 1
evening dres.. A faint, cold smile wa. '
allowed to appear upon his lips and " I
frngment from a atory he had read came
momentarily 10 nis mino. - -
Through the gaping crowds the young'
Augustan noble wn. born down from
the Palatine, scornful In his Jewelled
litter.
tl SI -.-t-M TI'Mtl-ao. ft,...
squalid i vea nenmn mm ana lussed to
the festal gateway.
A Xrrr tlnatnts Writer.
Olive lliggln. Prouty. whose novel
"Tlie Mtin neei pmuislieii,
ts a young Mnssa.dili.ell. writer After
'The Fifth Wheel" Is Ju.t published
public sohool education she
hn.Ywo
irookllne
thiough Smith College, married
children and now live. In llrooklln
"The Fifth Wheel," like her earlier
"Hobble, Oenehil Manager" eelilies
about Boston, and U laid In CamlulilKe.
HOME FROM WAR
ar.thu'c Gleason
port nnd whoeei reports have been
Utlopled by the French Government for
use In writing 1U future official history
of the war.
Mrs. Qleaeon, the only woman so far
decorated by the Belgian King for gal
lantry under fire, contributes a chap
ter on "How War Beems to a Woman"
to her husband's book.
MRS. ATHERTON TELLS WHY
SHE WROTE A MURDER STORY
The War Stimulated Her So That it Was Impossible to Write
Any Other Kind of Story Do People React
to War with Lowering of Moral
Standards?
In these da when we hear so much
hIkiuI the vahie of war for stimulating
the nobler qualities of human character
It Is Interesting to note an opposing
I motive touched on by Oertrude Atherton
! In her ucrlinonlously discussed novel
Mrs, Halfome." which Is tile nrst hook
to show the psychological reactions of
the war In this country, i
Mrs. tialfame, a highly respectame
leader of small town society, fashion- .
able according to Its standards, secretly ,
hating her husband, sat at the Friday
Club listening to a lecture on ins r.u-
loiean War crsus Woman," And as
the lesiilt of much provoratlon and
subconscious dilfHng she began to argue
to herself, "What does man's civilisa
tion amount to nny way? Compared with
, .. , ool. ., afame decided to
murder her husband,
nM ir, Atherton mean that women.
nnrt ,. ,o0. instead of being stirred to
la atrengthenlng of virtue, react to the
,vnr wm, a lowering of moral stand-
Brdi" The question was put to her and
j,hH nssvrted that there was some truth
n the Inference.
"The first lesson that war teaches,"
fhe Fald. "Is that there Is nothing so
rlieap as human life. However horn-
fled one may be at the outbreak of war,
the reading of Its brutalities, Its stupen.
. ,. .Inli,. un.l mellll.
nous ion--: us mui .i.e..'" ,
day after day. month afer month. In-
due an Inevitable callounneas. Also, a
tremendous event of that sort nes-
sarlly stimulates writers of Imagination
In one way or another. It stimulated me
H.ilfame.' It would have
o w ruf .n
'"en quite Impossible for me at that
!' have s.u aown ana wnuen iu
ol,fr.or,"f "'f i-u.n,d our
,' ""r he UZl a"
Ion,, bu for a time '
JJ"' ,,' ..: "'J ' .i..iin ,.n .hn,
"r" 11 "a"'?' " ' V" i nn will
.i.niiAaaa wnvMnn wnnia
had Ix-wi her strong point", sat there In
, . . i r.it.rntlon of the
I wholesale killings In Kurope: men up to
ti,..ir Urn.,. in hlood killing, killing, klll-
viuu ,-.. - - -
nig. A day lost which rould not count Its
ileml In thousand.. Millions of men en-
gaged dally In this obscene game. Joking
. when not grimu pickihk ui "
i """'.
wiping out a trench at a time. So li
shouldn't she kill one highly offetisHe
1 ,....ii.i.. i,t, I.I. t'lins in tie none ol
' t him- in snort, ins woman ' '"-
' " hhhu.i i,.t..u
i had her antl-.Mlal moment.
' J'ars ; , ; -"'","1' " .
war oi i.eriiMoj m." '"''''""'";,':
wnen wcrmanj. 01..... '"
, bei moment nau come anu 1 oai
success was assure,!. "i"o ',""'' ' 1 malned. fthe Is the author of several I
Kurope Into war. every other S.nle ln0Vfli of wh!rh s)mpson" la published '
unprepared. Hrltaln stumbled along ex- m Amerfa t,,. tn, Houghton Mifflin Com-!
actly ns she did Into the lioer war, uri- j,,,,, nniJ ieiHmv." "The Hose of
heeding all signs. A French woman torn, Vom)).. her lat(,ul )ovt1 ..Thf ,.,am.
me that her butter, being a reservist, was ,)v ., )lv )oin u.inp n,,,.,,,,.
c.illed Immediately to the colors, but w-as
sent Itoth He, Peach and Zane Ore have
him. Frances excuse was tnai socialism I
, .. n--n.m h,l tieil her hands but '
and s m. '"'"VJanie
what of that? These same socialists anu
syndicalists have fought since like th.'
best of Frenchmen awl they neter were ,
1 n .i f ncu nr nrains.
, 1. i,.ina
BCCUSru Ol mi ". u,
Cluh women are re
and broadly Intelligent rtay. The
not only rend. h "
trucied on current events. No doubt
th..v h.ie letlected that although they
mlL-ht have done no better than these
oflt,,,n of Kutope they could not well have
done worse
lln ou truly mean that the war In-
..a ... rit. -Mrs. Halfame'?"
stilred you to write 'Mrs.
' m.. ui,artnn nsUed.
m!ght have written it If there had ' Depn imng in i.asi urange. .1. where
,e,.n no war, but 1 doubt It," she replied. "he hns a small garden, and a house
..Tn. riLrmans certainly put me In a full of old Colonial furniture which must
munlerous frame of mind. There was,10 aghast at the lively typewriter in)
one - wanted to murder personally. her midst. ,
, b,des murder Is so unsafe, but II
n ,wnv, foun(1 ,h() imagination an
""Client substitute for lift. 80 I wrote'
I terrible story: which is to com. out In
Then I wrote quite a
wllll(, , wa, hovering the New York
e l.ir .liv naked m. to re. I
' port the earn,.,,, case.' I was ,00 de-
lighted at the opportunity to call their
attention to the fact that i Knew a.
I much nbout reporting an thing ns 1 did
j'jj",! writing a symphony, for not only
1 '' ".o ,,,,.,1 u- r. v ihs Imwlus!
I whs waiting for. but 1 should get the
technique of a trial at first band. n well
il. much IllClllClliai pschuiuk; i hi i .losepn IliiekUn HUhnp, iC'hsrles tcrth
the people In the foreground I should see ner's Snn,l
the life behind them, the details of thilr ,, Vmerl sn Puhllc lle.lih Proteetlon "
1 ....... 11. Ilenrj lllxhv lletnenwar l .Ths'
small town life. Hohbs-MerrlM Cnnpany. Indlsnspotls ) 1
"Many years ago I (nunter-Cirr-nt.." Agnes Reppller
which a murder happened. But '1'atlence I 1 Houston Mifflin Company 1
Sparhawk" was differently set. I wni .-f),, Pnmatlr Tlac kirnund of thu
gl.ul of the opportunity to be among the j Wsr churles xeymour, Ph. n. (Vale
people tlgurlng In the local drama, to fnlve rsliv Pre.. 1 1
Uiiain among them for a week. The j ,'eX",
brain of any experienced writer. 1 think, , ,'.. ..., .,
becomes a sort of maxnet which attracts j,,,, ."ceVnp'nv.) A W1"' (K r'
to It all the Information needed when ..Thni. ,,,. Wlllm John Hop.
In 11 highly specialised state. One can ' (n, nioiighimi Mifflin Compsny )
almost see and hear sights and sounds1 "My t..,y nf ihe Moor " John Oienhsm. '
In the atmosphere of a place Identified ( tinKtium, llre. n and Company I
with a storv. That is why 1 hae often "t'nder Hie Country sky " Or.re ..
I taken long Journey... Involving many
. il.ive, to lemaln perhaps a few hours.
V.ll.l.l., 1 .. nrlnelnils in,l witnesses
I "llehlnd the prlnclpam and witnesses
In the Carman trial I learned whnt a
I.nng Island community was line i got,
Its atmosphere. The newspaper men
and women were quite as Interesting
and suggestive, if not more so. I llxeil
in that ttlal for a week. I thought of
nothing else. I forgot the war df
rnutse I wrote my articles for the IVoild )
Then I went home and wrote the hook,
about half Its present length, Almost
iniiuedlately 1 caine down with a serious
Illness, and when 1 recoercd I tie-
wanted to a town more like the one'
1 1 1.. .1... u.npf llintl
I linn ill iiiiimi ,' "i"'.' -
neola. My doctor would not trust ine
to sro alone, as I had not even Peen
downtown, so he took me over himself
to a tmvn that Shall bn nameless, but
which I felt would answer my purpose,
-u... ... .i.i i.i.l
e Wilioru nmiui no i vunc, ,ur,, 11"
a livery rig and drove about for two
hours, nnd aa the driver was "an emi
nent cltlr.cn I had all the salient facts
of that town before I departed.
"That was all I needed after the lib
eral education of the trial, and of
course I tiad a general knowledge of
small towns to go on. I have made a
study of email towns. To me they are
Intensely Interesting, for they are the
world In little.
"When I rewrote the book I found It
much more Interesting work, refreshed
and rejuvenated, ns I was by my Illness,
and I developed several characters I
merely' had sketched In before, and In
troduced others. Although I do not sec
how that can Interest, anybody.
"No, I had no Intention of writing a
mystery story when I started out. but
when I found that the mystery could
be sustained 1 amused myself sustaining
It. .My deeper Interest was in analyzing
a woman capable of murder, the person
who committed the crime, nnd all the
otheis closely associated with It, and
denonnallzeil for the time being; also,
a I have said, the unconscious reactions
of a small community of that sort to the
,var.
Mrs. Atherton Is much amused that
Kngland should te so puzzled over "Mrs.
Halfanie." "Why," they ask In effect,
"ilruuld any American woman murder
her husband when alt she has to do Is
to take him to the divorce court? What
unnatural enueamlshness in a divorcing
nation!"
"It Is dffllcult to convince the Eng
llh," said Mrs. Atherton, "that there
aie seeral million people In tfio
Culled States who are undlvorcrd
or that any prejudice exists against the
cuttom, As a matter of fact we all
know that, save In very fashionable
Kioups or ultra Bohemian circles, there
Is Immense projudlce against divorce In
our country, and not only In old com
munities like Mrs. Ualfame's small town,
but In large cities. Even In California,
long supposed to be a sort of haven for
the matrimonial discontents, the divorced,
save In very' fashionable or very ad
vanced circles, are either cut or as hu
mlllatlngly pitied. Ancient prejudices
die hard. If Mrs. Bnlfame could murder
her buaband and 'get away with If she
could remain the leader of Elalnore
society : as a divorced woman ahe would
- - , . . .
simpl y bave been poor Enid
so. ue-
Inir stimulated up to a new pitch, she
decided on the abort circuit, but. like
the (ierman.. her plan, were upset bv
the unexpected Intrusion of a third
party"
NEWS OF AUTHORS
AND THEIR WORK
F.I.I NO It MmtPAOT,
Kllnnr Mordaunt Is an Kngllsh woman.
In 1698 she made a Journey to Mauritius,
returning to En r land three years later
with her health completely broken by
malaria. During this period of Invalid
ism she wrote a series of "Letters to Mr.
Nobody," which were finally Included in
"The Harden of Contentment." As her
health still remained uncertain she
started for Australia on a sailing ship
not fitted for passengers and without
either doctor or stewardess. She reached
Melbourne with 30 in her pocket and
set out to make a living, trying her hand
nt many Jobs, such as decorative paint
ing and metal work, and writing odds
and ends for newspapers ss opportunity
offered.
Some of her article, on "The Clilns-
man In AustraJH" were translated into
Chinese, anil her writhe succeeded H
that she was glen the edltorsh','1 of a
woman's magazine. After eight ear. of ,
Australian life Ulss Mordaunt returned
to :nKand where she has since re-'
P"1 ,nP romance 01 ine .Mexican noroer
Actlon-tlie former In
Heart of the minuet "
J ' "The ght of We.'teni
"'' l t'r In The IJrht of tern
iiinin
.vent. ,nH n.r.,,n... l.. 1l(,U ,..ll
BIU, ,,e character of the Mexican Oen-
American
heroine 1. said to have been Inspired by I
Villa hlmelf
IMIth Harnard Pelann. nhnee vpring I
novel is entltleil "When Carey Came to
'" was nnrn 111 uasnington nnd has
lived In all parts of this country Plnre
' her "marriage eight years ago, she has
imii"triitr-i, nags, nasi
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