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See London First
Is Cry to Londoners
THE TOWER OP LONDON. By Walter
George Bell. With eleven drawings
by Hanslip Fletcher. John Lane Company.
IN offering the public a concise
guidebook to the Tower of London
Walter George Bell admits in
a preface that his purpose is a simple
one, to endeavor to interest Londoners
jn their own possession. '
''The misfortune for Londoners," lie
writes, "is that the Tower is in London,
where they have no time for seeing
it?not, as it should be, in some
tastness of Wales, or remote in Cornwall,
or perched upon a mountain in
the Lake District. Then every London
visitor on holiday would hasten to
go over it. When I have pressed any
one casually met to say when he was
last at the Tower of London the reply
has been: 'Ah!?-well now?yes, it
must be quite fifteen years; but I mean |
to go.' My own effort will have served
its end ir it sends him there.
Probably only a few American tourists
visiting London have failed to inspect
the musty old Tower, and it is
safe to. assume that only an insignificant
minority of those who visit London
in the future will pass by rhe
relic of old England without giving it
a thorough inspection. Yet these same
Americans in their own home country
will pass Grant's Tomb day after day
without casting an eye toward the
monument. The nearest they ever
ome to the Statue of Liberty is ihe
upper deck of a passing ferry, and the
Aquarium is just a place down below
Wall street.
The world over.v sightseeing in one's
<>wn home town Is considered bourgeois
amusement.
SO it ts wen to commenu .wr. i?*n iui
his avowed intention and to note that
his few chapters about the Tower have
the merit of being brief and interesting.
Several pen and ink sketches by
Hanslip l-'letcher supplement the text
admirably.
TORREY FORD, i
Romance of Cattle
on the Hoof and Off
A RANCHMAN'S RECOLLECTIONS. ,
By Frank S. Hastings. Illustrated
from photographs and sketches. Chi- ]
cago: The Breeders' Gazette.
IN the autumn of 1870 Frank 3.
Hastings, perched on the top rail
of the fence which surrounded J
the Hastings homestead in Leavenworth,
Kan., saw for the first time a
herd of Texas cattle. They were pastured
in his favorite playground, and
respect for their fearsome defensive
ind offensive equipment for a time
kept the ten-year-old boy from his4
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customary pleasures. But a Ktinsan,
young: or old in those days soon j
learned to know cattle, and the next j
spring, when the cows dropped their
calves and the butcher came to get
the raw material of veal, young
Hastings, a crack shot with the revolver.
found paying employment in
the execution of the calves as their
purchasers selected them, ^hen came
a long, dry summer, and with it came
to Kansas Texas fever, which cattle
men will never forget.
Frank Hastings is now the superintendent
of the S. M. S. Ranch, . in
Texas, with its headquarters in Stamford,
Jones county, one of the show >
places of the cattle industry, ihe site i
of a breeding industry whidh touches I
intimately the food supply of every
part of the country. Ih the years that
have lightly touched him since he
first saw long horns ho has been a
salesman for the packers and the
manager of the great Swenson interests
whose feeders?calves bred on
the range to be shipped to the corn
country and there fattened for mar- !
ket?have exercised a profound influ- j
once on the meat industry here and J |
abroad. '
The book before us is made up of a j
series of articles by him. In which
the development of litis industry is
recorded by a man who hits lived with
it fronr the beginning of its modem
development?Swift made the refrig- !
erator ear practicable in 1876?to its j
present stupendous size. There are i
men now living who scarcely know
salted meat except- by name; when
Hastings was a boy all moats except
that of creatures locally killed and |
promptly cooked were salted. In the I
early days, the livers, hearts and many
other portions of slaughtered beasts
weie waste, to be given to anybody
who would carry them a Way. Now
only the squeal of the pig is lost in ,
the abattoir. The lale of this amazing j
development, which has profoundly af- j '
footed the course dl commerce, manu- j
facturing and politics, is given In Mr. |
Hastings's pages in fact, figure and i
anecdote. The romance of greatj
achievemt lit, the humor of the range,
the eccentricities of cowboys and i '
packing magnates are here interwoven '
to instruct and amuse the reader who '
wants first hand knowledge of a great
and typical American achievement?
the creation of an international food
service.
Mr. Hastings writes with the suroness
and skill of a man who knows
something, tells It, and stops when
he is through. The qualities of thor
ougnness ami nuniKiiuui ivuiuima uim
lia.vo made him conspicuous among: ,
successful modern ranch managers
make his hook clear, concise, inter- |
esting
John Taintor Foote, author of "The
Dumbbell of Brookfleld," "The Look
of Eagles" (Appleton) and other anl- l
mal stories which ha\*> won superla- i
tivc praise, is a proud father. It is 1
announced that Master John Taintor 1
Foote, Jr., is now among those pres- |
ent, and probably giving no indlea- I
tions of being a dumbbell.
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as real to ine as long as i live ,
the flesh. My hat is off to
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)nce Aboard the Lugger
e Clean Heart, ore also well 11
er bool(j are sold
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The Indian's H
THE DRAMA OP THE FOREST. By
Arthur Heming. Doubledgy, Page tt !
Co.
THE northern wilds defy civili- |
zation. Romance and adven- ]
ture will always be found j
there. Ilowevor, this life of the Tndian
and the trapper is too stern to have
many chroniclers. The South Seas
o?t^n lie ThoeePoeo Vf,. '
Homing lias performed valuable set*- I
vice. He knows the region very thor- !
oughly. He has traveled in the North |
conntrv at various seasons for over '
Hn \ -
' Illustration from "The
thirty years. He has, however, not
attempted to give his full experience
In chronological order.
What Mr. Homing does is to take a
typical year in the life of an Indian
family in the North country. Every
Incident he records is from his own
experience. However, he hinds It into
x single narative. This is a device
lie has probably learned from his painting.
for an artist always feels free to
select from all the scenes he has witnessed
to make a typical landscape.
He takes some year In the nineties for
his sample of the life of the woods.
He describes the three hunting sea
son? ol Ihe year, rail, winter and
spring.
Mr. Hemlng describes a group'of Indians
whom he accompanies. Oohoo-hoo,
the owl, the head of the
group. Is as line a picture as even
fleorge Borrow has drawn. He is one
r>l the most noted hunters. He holds
to the old ways and believes that
white people are fools In comparison
with the fndlan. He was master of all
branches of woodcraft. At the same
time he showed unusual resource at
bargaining. He wns a very kind husband.
father and grandfather. On this
trip he was accompanied by his sonin-law.
AmilO.
Mr. Heming destroys many false
Ideas about the forest. It is not as
rdiaotle as we think. Travel for its
>wn sake Is a highly sophisticated
nablt. Kach beast, whether a vegetarian
or a meat eater, lives in a certain
district. Somo wander more
widely than others, that is all. A moose
nay live in a small valley, and a
wolverine range fifty miles in all directions.
The Indians of tTTe North
lo not wander very widely or at will.
Rach tribe has Its own hunting ground
Within the tribal limits every family
bus its own space marked off, and
these boundaries are as jealously
guarded as the tilled fields of the j
white man. The Indians are very
-areful not to trespass.
The Indians have a feeling of real
friendship for the animals. Before
nhootlng A hear, or other beast the
Indian nlfwys apologizes. Not to do
so is unltmrky. The Indians believe
that the s<Juls of children enter into
birds. White children are transmigrated
into birds with harsh, unpleasant
voices.
Mr. Homing became almost as closo |
a student of animals as the Indian. |
He found that they all had the fear of
man Ha regarded most of the stories
The Boot
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By EDWARD
"A Good Hoet'x Made o.t V
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Despair not, yearner, if you
The tricks of the poetic
If you will listen, I will gl
You how to put the dop
A sonnet is a pome of four
Of five iambic feet (tht
They come in various mode
That I will not describe
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II.
A triolet's a snatch
Of melody, like this
It travels with dispatch.
Unless there is a catch.
And then it's wise to scratch
Out anything remiss.
A triolet's a snatch
Of melody, like this!
III.
A couplet is a coupla lines,
An art in which Pope (Alec)
shines.
IV.
Two beats unaccented and one
that you stress?
The result is a foot anapestic,
no less!
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HERALD, SUNDAY, Jl
UTDOOR BOC
unting Seasons of
ferocious man slaying beasts as ri
legends. He only found one instance 14
ftf ! 1 wrrflf Ivillinfr a miin Thfl wolf ill ^
question was mad, and no more typical a
of his species than a dog with rabies. S
Mr. Heming also scouts at the notion
that the bear is dangerous. He lias b
two good bear stories in his book, tl
However, they are reported as merely
yarns of Billy Brass, the local Ana- B
nias. He continually reminds us that n
the human beasts of prej^ in large
cities are more dangerous. j F
Mr. Hcming alsMliscounis all tales si
of human lawlessness in this region, tl
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Drama of the Horest." ,'
He blames the movies for a very dls- j'
torted impression of this region. He (
says that there are fvwer crimes of
violence In the woods than hi civllisa- ^
tion. The men who carry the mall
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pacaois mrougn vast nisiunces ui ^
lonely wilderness are unarmed. The
standard of honesty is unusually high.
A miner could leave gold in his cabin ^
and on his return it would be un- (j
touched.
Mr. Homing has much to say about j
love in the wilds. His most Idyllic 1'
passages tell how Little Pine wooed
Neyhlu. the granddaughter of Oo-hoohoo.
They were married by the Indian ( '
custom, and a few months later they j s
were married by a white clergy matt, j
when the family Teturned to the trad- J
ing post.
Mr. Homing also told the romance c<
of a white girl named Athabasca, the Sl
daughter of a free trader named Spear.
When Mr. Homing first met Spear the I
latter was impressed by him and said J
that he ought to come and live in o
Spearhead, the coming metropolis of ti
the region. When Homing said he was F
an artist, Spenr replied: "Well, we I
need an artist very badly. You'll have "
the field all to yourself in Spearhead. E
Besides, your pictures of the fur trade S
and pioneer life would eventually be- t<
come historical and bring you no end c
of wealth. You had better come. Bet- j E
ter decide right away, or some other < N
artist chap will get ahead of you." E
When Mr. Homing arrived at Spear- ! P
head he found It was only the trader's ' E
shack. He was introduced to Atha- V
basea, "sixteen years of age, tall, slen- ci
der and graceful, a brunette with lnrge i ?
soft eyes and long flowing wavy hair, i ?
She wore a simple little print dress ?
that was becomingly short in the skirt. J
a pair of black stockings and low, | P
beaded moccasins. J admired her ap- 1 H
pearimce, imii rogrouea ner snyness. a
for she was almost as bashful as I ?
was. She bowed and blushed?so did I
I?and while her parents talked to ! 1
me she sat demurely silent on the sofa.. 11
Occasionally T caught from -her with 1
pleasant embarrassment n shy but j m
fleeting glance."
Mr. and Mrs. Spear then commenced )
to tell all the things they would do for j|
son-in-law and Anally Mr. Homing g
caught an inkling that he was him- J
self cast for this part. For some rea- ;
son or other he did not accept the role
of Benedick, but he was happy to re- i
Cord that the fair Athabasca did And a !
worthy helpmate.
JOSEPH GOULD.
c Factory
? ANTHONY.
Veil cut Born," Ben .lonson.
do not know
al profession,
adly show
e in your possession.
fnnn linnu
l/tc 11 IIUCO
;y should have rhyme too),
la and designs
(I lack the time to>.
V.
An ode i should call (you're
apprised
From Webster I'm stealing): *
A brief poem that'* characterized
By exalted feeling.
e.
Oh my!
I love the sky!
(To be continued)
* *
IN BUCKEL S BOOKSHOP.
> "I'm glad you're doing It at last, Mr.
Flick," eta Id Mr. Buoket. "I've boon
trying to t?ot you to do It for t month."
Trying to got mo to do olint?"
I asked Mr. Flick, who was running
^NUAKY 8, 1922.
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hrough a stack of books and making
ot at ions on the paper Jackets.
"To mark tho prices on those books,"
epliod Mr. Bucket. "When the pubstier
doesn't put the price on a book
re ought to. A customer should be
ble to tell tho price of a book at a
lance."
"I'm not marking prices on these
ooks." said Mr. Flick. "I'm changing
iie titles. I don't like 'em."
"Changing the titles?" asked Mr.
:uckel in astonishment. "What's the
latter with the present ones?"
"Too long and clumsy, sir," said Mr.
'lick, calmly working away. "I'm ;
are you'll agree I'm doing a wise
ling. It's time some one rebelled
gainst the unwieldy titles that pubshers
put on books. Here Is a book
ailed 'Successful Family Life on a
ioderate Income,' by M. H. Abel (LipIncott).
I have changed the title to
low to Live on $20 a Week.' Isn't'
lat better? And here is a book called ,
listory of the Public Poor Relief |
i Massachusetts,' by R. W. Kelso;
Houghton, Mifflin). The title is now
felping the Masses in Mass." That's
mch sprlghtlier."
"You aren't joking, are you?" asked
ir. Bucket Jncr/?dulously.
"No," said Mr. Flick, serenely chang- j
ig additional titles. "I am simply in- |
ituting a much needed reform. When
get through, publishers will stop putng
impossible titles on books."
"When you get through you may
e out of a job." said Mr. Buckol
ternly. "Put that pencil down and
:op your nonsense."
"Very well, if you say so." said Mr.
lick ruefully, "but I really think you
light to support njo in this reform, i
ee how I have simplified these titles.1
. R. Driver's 'Critical and Exegetical
ommentary 011 the Book of .lob'
suiiuiivi ) tuts ufruim* rjtiny mib
i Job.' P. H. Vizetelly's "A Book of
Jom? find Idiotlsms in Epgli-di Speech
nd Literature' (Funk & Wagnalls)
a* been changed to 'Jazzing the
inglo-Saxa phone.' What nn improve-I
lent thnt is: 1 am going to an limit |
liese suggestions to the publishers,
'hen there is"
"Stop where you are!" cried Mr.
luckel. ^"Another word and you're
red!"
"Really, Ihcre are too many long
itlcs and"?begau Mr. Flick.
"Not another peep out of you!" ex- ;
laimed the irate proprietor of the
ookshop. "Bo good enough to get
tarted on your inventory."
A crestfallen Mr. Flick left for the
ack of the store
Mr. Bucket spent the next hour disoverlng
the following additional reults
of the Great Title Reformation:
Classical Associations of Places in
taly," by P. E. J^abin (Marshall
ones), had been changed to "Memries
of Old Italy"; "Vocational l^elaions.
Analysis and Classification of
erformance," by J. O. Hopwood
Badger), to "That Job of Yours''; j
Practical Word Drills and Practical
Ixerclses- for Students of Gregg
horthand," by M. I. Markett (Gregg),
> "Hints to the Oreggarlous"; "M?hanlcal
and Machine Drawing and
iesign." by C. L. Svensen (Van
'ostrand), to "In the Mechanical
(rawing Room": "From Nature's
roducts to Textile Fabrics" (U. P. C.
look Company) to "From Loom to
fearer"; "Moral and Social Slgniflince
of the Conception of Personal
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I
Ilict Pull
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By
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rO the Last A
stirring stor
?a feud waged
, forgiving factions wh
I ized its utter futility i
i too late. In the grip
1 less code of loyalty t
1 people, they fought
1 the Tonto Basin, c
1 doggedly to the last
1 through it all runs
thread of a clean ma
1 a pure woman.
1 Leading the Isb<
1 Lee Jorth and his bai
' rustlers was Jean Is!
the same time foui
| Harper & Broth
a
'
ity," by A. G. Heath (Oxford Univar>|
I sity), to "What Personality Means to '
I Us''; "Pacificism as the Unifying <
Thesis of All Social Reform," by C. i
Kuhiman (Badger), to "The Pacific ,
Reformers"; "Science and Common j
Sense, in Working with Men," by W.
D. Scott (Ronald), to "How to Handle '
'Em,'* and "Questions and Answers | <
Relating to Automobiles" (Henley) to <
"The Motorist's Catechism." 1
"I'm sorry you don't favor the Snap- }
pier Title Movement," said Mr. Flick, 1
coming from the back of the store,
"but you'll have to admit that some of '
the titles on books are needlessly j !
clumsy. Now, here is a book called i1
'Nervous Obsessions and Their Treat-! ?
ment,' by Dr. W. Stekker (Dodd', 3
Mead). How much be tter"?
"Get out of here!" cried Mr. Buckcl.
" 'fnrinc the Willies' would he." ner- 3
slsted Mr. Flick.
* *
"Some books are to be tasted, others
to be swallowed."?Bacon.
We have tasted Christopher .VloYley's
"Plum Pudding,'' but can't swallow
it. His "Chimneysmoke," however
we swallow?'that. is. inhale?
/with pleasure.
? . ? *
THOUGHTS ON' CHARLES G. XORRIS'S
"BRASS: A NOVEL
OF MARRIAGE."
A writer chap, of wisdom and esprit,
Whose name eludes me. made the
observation.
"Marriage and hanging go by destiny"
Who has the kindly fates' cooperation.
Gets a good mate and lives in happiness.
Who doesn't leads a quarrelsome
existence.
\%matrimony he declared a gut?
In which one needs a lucky star's
assistance.
And while I think the gentleman was
right.
I recommend a reading of another's4
Opinions on the subject- one who'd
light
The way to better mating of his
brothers. * :
For though I am no "better marriage"
farrI
like the drama that C. Norris
stages
And doff my hat to any one who can
Be entertaining for five hundred
pages 1
Coningsby Dawson is spending the
winter In Cannes, France, and whipping
a new novel, on which he has
been working steadily for almost a
year, into shape for spring publication.
The central figure of his best known j
novels to date have been English, but j
the hero of this new story Is an Ameri- 1
can. Mr. Daw won wan born In Kng> 1
lund, his permanent home la In America
and he has traveled and lived In <
many parts of Kurope.
i
>lished!
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Tovel The A
Ul/ci thMa g
Grey's bi
new one
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niith/tf nf "Tllr
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fcr," "77ie Man of the Forest," et
lan is the madly in lo
y of a feud wh? h? w
I by two un- rated by an
' . . Here is a
o only real- fact that Za,
when it was supremely,
of a relent- quality thai
o their own Zane Grey's
the war of been embodi
lesperately, To the Last
f man: and Whether
the golden because you
n's love for lions of Zar?
for the liters
:1s against ing romantu
nd of cattle every- page,
bel, who at is now on s
nd himself are sold.
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South Sea Island
Fever Will Get You
FAERY LANDS OF THE SOUTH
SEAS. By James Norman Hall and
Charles Bernard NordhoIT. Illustrated
by George A. Plcken. Harper & Brothers.
NOTHEK book on the Soutl Sea
Inland*! Yes?but this one
1 happens to be worth any sis
tthcrs chosen at random. Tho ranlom
choices would probably be liable
;o classification as either too superficial
or too self-sufficient. "Faer>
Liands of the South Seas" is neither,
rho authors have not written their
ihapters during the rush of a Cook's
;our, nor have they lived so long in
Polynesia that they have forgotten t?>
a-rite for those who havo not shared
heir knowledge.
In consequence, of all delightful vxjepiences
vicariously enjoyed by tin
stay-at-home reader, are to be recomncnded
these voyaging of Nordhoff
uid Hall among the islands for two
rears after the war. The initial paru^
fraph of the hook promises much:
"I don't remember precisely when it
vas that Nordhoff and 1 first talked
?f this adventure. The idea had grown
jpon us. one might say, with the
gradual splendor of a tropical sun
lse. We were far removed from the
ropics -11 mm -time. m' wcie. in
act. in Paris and had behind us the
;reutest adventure we -shall ever
enow. On the Place de la Concord"
;nd along the Champs-Elysee stood
unls on rank of German cannon, stunt
enough now, but still menacing,
heir muzzles tilted skyward at thu;
millions slant one came tc know
10 well. Kor a month wc had seen
hem so, children perched astride them
in sunny afternoons, rolling pebbles
lown their smooth black throats; vetTana
In soiled and faded horizon blue,
vith the joy of this new quiet world
>11 their faces, opening breech-blocks,
examining mechanism with the skili
if long use at such employment; with
i kind of wondering hesitation In their
novemcnts, too, as though at aii.t
noinent they expected those sinister
nonsters in the fantastic colors of
iarlequln to spring to life agalr." . . .
It Is this sympathetic observation
\ hlch within a few short sentences
a-gins to bring into focus the shores
if Tahiti. Thenceforward there is
inrolled a continually changing pane
una of the South Sea Islands, colurul,
realistic, as seen by the two
writers, who separated In order thai
heir adventure might be more com
ilete. The experiences of each, theii
neetings with the many islanders,
lative and alien?the voyagings which
ay between the islands, and their fel
ow voyagers?the tales told them In
he scented tropical afternoons 01
nugic and of folklore?are Interwoven
vith the practical philosophies of the
uithors, who viewed each eplrode of
:heir adventures with humorous sympathy.
"Faory Lands of the South Seas" is
ruly a book for the weary, for th?
vorriod, for the overworked and for
he lazy. No Anglo-Saxon, it is safe
o say. will close the volume without
in envious sigh ut the final para
traph. Hall and Nordhoff, reunited
n Papeete after a year of their adventure.
arc discussing their future:
'"What are your plans?' I asked i
Our year in the South Sens Is up
iV'here are you golog now'."
" 'I have no plans,' he said, 'except
hut I doubt if 1 shall ever go North 1
[gain. I may be wrong, but I believe
've had enough of civilization to In si
ue the rest of my life. We are happy
lere. Why should we leave the
slands?'"
'"I fancy the South Seas have
lalmed the pair of us.'"
CORNELIA P. LATH UUP.
I :
merican people buy more g
million copies of Zane
?oks every year, and this
is the best of all. g
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as apparently sepa
impassable barrier. 4
situation based on f
ne Grey has handled i
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Man.
you read this book k I
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