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3 BELASCO AND THE THEATER OF OUR OWN TIME-GOOD NOVELS THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. SATURDAY, DECEMBER, 28, 1918. FRENCH AND SPANISH PLEASANT ESSAYS What Makes Insanity at Law? Definitions and Distinctions Made by Dr. George W.

Jacoby William Winter's Life of Belasco; History of the Recent Stage; Actors, Managers, the Trust limits for school texts by the liininn-lion of minor episodes only, and it remains a. wonderful picture of the French paysun. The notes are quit': I numerous, and the first eight exercises Ideal largely witii the various modes and tenses of the regular verbs; the remaining exercises pri sint a dnll on the most important Irregular verbs, and a table of both kinds of verbs is a. bled to the exercises. A French-English vocabulary ends the little work, which was prepared by Victor E.

Francois, an officer of L'Aciidcmie Fran-, i-aise and associate professor of French at the College of the City of New York, land Jacob (ireenberg, A.M., Instructor In French at Stuyvesant High School of this city. The book is illustrated. atrical history and It is well to have them in a permanent nnd accessible form like this. One of Mr. Winter's valuable con cation, would be usefully put.

on his guard by reading this volume. Thero are four common results of the alcoholic disturbance augmented physical activity, increase of self-confidence, a tendency to farcical joking and a predominance of the baser instincts. All are among the "signs." All drunkards are "degenerate, feeble Three Notable Works Prepared for Students of Those Languages. Three very useful little hooks, for I hose who speak the French and the Spanish languages, nnd also for such as are only students of them, are pub. lished by Allyn Bacon of this city and Boston.

"L'l Keino Comentarios de los Incas" Koyal Commentaries on the is arranged from tho text of Prince Oarcilaso de la Visa's "Bos Comentarios Itoalcs de los Incus." Oarcilaso de la Vega was tho son of the Conquistador Curciltiso de la Vega, who was one of the companions of I'izurro, and the Im a Princess Isabel Yupanqul Ntista, and was born In l.VW. His was a mixture of wiiite and Indian blood. He was carefully educated and afier a lifetime of fighting and faithful public service his remarkable memory enabled him to depict with striking accuracy the details of the confused times through which he had passed. His famous history of the Inca Umpire was written in his old age, whe ho had failed to secure restitution of his mother's patrimony. It is used in the book under review without many changes in essentials, and was edited (with vocabulary and notes) by James Hardin, of the department of romance languages at the University of Virginia, whose chapter, Lit Cludad del 'u-o, he took from the Chronicle of Cicza de leon, as mure satisfactory than that of the Inra.

The Iwoli is illustrated with half-tones and map. 'Spoken Spanish," another of those educationally useful little books, is a conversational leader and composition, by lCdith J. Itiounliull, of tho North Centra! High School of Spokane, Wash. Thirteen dialogues comprise the' Spanish te.sl, and that is followed by a list of idioms with their English meaning, some composition exercises in English, and a Spanish-English vocabulary. "Sans Kamille," Hector Mulct's classic, is the story in the French book.

It has been shortened within the usual George Moore's "Sister Teresa," Out of Print, Now Republished; minded, hysteric, paretic and senile, I according to the study of inebriety, There is a chronic alcoholic insani-1 1 y- known as Korsakoff's psychosis. (The victim is quiet and outwardly composed, but this is often mere apathy, which may be interrupted by I lachrymose behavior or causeless I ideas of diminishing health; the pow-. er for acquiring new knowledge is checked, and defects of memory aro pronounced; the subject loses every consideration of the (light of time; forgetfulncss becomes a frequent I cause of misery; he has an answer for every question, but the reply he gives I often bears the impress of ronfabu-ilation; he can tell the most wonder-! ful fish stories and he thinks every-: body believes him. These are symptoms of the chronic alcoholic delirium known as Korsakoff's. And it is a characteristic of all chronic alcoholics that they never recognize their own 'deplorable state.

They are. convinced of their own importance, exaggeratedly self-satislicd and ran never comprehend why their relatives should condemn them. Dr. Jacoby docs not think hypnosis should be dismissed 'from consideration; but Instead should be treated as something that 'may be made clear. Not only tho scientist and medical practitioner, but those who are Interested in the medicolegal aspect of crime, and the sociologist, will find this volume a mofct valuable assistance and authority.

more amenable to control through the instinctive mainspring of action. It is a human, sympathetic effort toward belter understanding of people in their capacity as manual workers. THE CHURCH IN THE WAR. "What are the Churches doing in tho Great War?" is not altogether an obsolete question, but any book that answers it is apt to be considered, somewhat late. What is probably inoro interesting to the great body of Christians is what are the churches doing now that the war is practically over? "The Church and the Great War'" (Revell) is the Rev.

Dr. Worth M. Tippy's book-answer to one of the questions. He was executive secretary of the Commission on the Church and Social Service and of the Joint Commission on War Production Communities. Among the few churches which he picks out as having done effective war work is Plymouth Church of Brooklyn, incidentally remarking that Dr.

Iliilis' sermons "have been printed weekly in The Brooklyn Eagle." EDUCATION THROUGH TORIES. It begins to be recognized that in story-telling is found the most universally effective means of impressing upon a new generation the lessons that have been learned by those who have gone before. That idea is the key to the introduction of Prof. Edward Porter St. John's "Stories and Story-Telling in Moral and Religious Education" (The Pilgrim Press, Huston).

His chapters may be read in a few hours. In these chapters he touches upon idealistic and realistic stories, some vital characteristics of good stories, some tricks of the story-teller's trade, and many other points, most interesting all of them, of his subject. After each chapter he gives a list of suggestions fur further study of it. PARDONED. Fidgy (luirsting into kitchen) my poor shattered nerves! forever dropping something akes a terrible racket.

It seems to run in our tamtam. My two brothers are the Fidgey Gracious! Where are ork Mrs. Oh. You're that Cook ly. ma' same.

Mrs. liiey Cook Up in the air dropping bombs press. on the Huns. Buffalo Ex- NEW PUBLICATIONS. Cash Paid for Books Highest prices paid for large or small collections of BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS or other literary property.

Cash down and prompt removal. NEW YORK'S LARGEST BOOKSTORE 42 Brosdway, N. Y. Phone 39C0 Broad riicic Carl Van Vechten Is a Free Lance on His Charger. "The Merry (Alfred A Knopf, New York), by Carl Van Vechten, is the free lance on his charger, and ho delivers some excellent spear thrusts.

Mr. Van Vechten baa improved wonderfully in style. In this book of bright essays ho has ceased to pose as the heavy philosopher. His articles have, most of them, appeared In weekly and monthly publications, but make up an interesting volume. On the topic of music and super-music, while tho author seems to have Herman composers principally on his mind, he treats the subject with a critical judgment that is instructive and in manner as sprightly and charming as an allegro.

His essay on Edgar ifciltus is acceptable because Saltus was I an American, but there is little about I him, except in this book, besides the i wonder why he seems to have been released from tho gallery of noted writers. Most of his books are out of print. In his pedantic way Saltus once wrote "Power consists in having a million bayonets behind you." It did not serve tho Kaiser toward victory to have the million bayonets. It looked as if the dictum of Napoleon was the most trustworthy, "Victory is always on the, side of tho biggest cannon," reading the metaphor to mean the largest number. Concerning singers the author wonders how many of the young ones know in what opera can be found "Di Tanti Palpiti." By the saino token, how many can tell the Italian name of the Coat Song in "La The author has not a very good opinion of American composers; to him they are men of straw.

But he is more just when he quotes from "music critics" such as the one who wrote that A. J. G. Is "recognized among scholars abroad as 0110 of the leading spirits of our in another case, "that Israfel is one of the very greatest lyrics in tho world's music, a masterpiece of absolute genuis," as nothing more than silly extravagance in critical expression. Even in "The Art of Music" we read the opinion that a certain American music "is psychologically subtle and spiritually rarifled; in colour it corresponds to the violet end of the spectrum." The English spelling suggests that it was not an American who wrote it.

But Mr. Van Vechten is unnecessarily troubled about such books as "Popular American Composers." He seems too alert to any chance to find fault with something American in music. Such books as the above make no pretence of a false nature as to their purpose. They are avowedly friendly, and not critical, publications. It reminds us of an Incident on a holiday in New York City: A number of boys, playing different musical instruments, were going through a street and making a noise that they supposed was the air, "The Cem of the Ocean," when a Cerman yelled at them to "go and learn how to play.

A young girl near him quietly spoke up, "They are not trying to play music, they are only trying to have some fun." ABOUT BOOKISH PEOPLE 3ome Charming Recollections by Lillian Whiting. Miss Lillian Whiting's "The Golden Iload" (Little, Brown Boston) a resume, of varied experiences, leither travel, biography nor criticism, nit something of each, and told in her ricautiful style. She calls her volume rambling. It ranges over many lands and includes much personal reminiscences of men and women who have cherished impressions on her mind, and that is why she calls her colume "ihe Golden Road." through a world that she has found beautiful a garden in bloom. Some years ago she was literary editor of the Boston Traveler, and she came to know the literary Boston of those days very well, and here her reminiscences afford a charming hour or two with memories of James Freeman Clarke.

Edward Everett Hale, Phillips Brooks others. Miss Whiting represented her paper at the Concord School of Philosophy, whose evening sessions were held in Hillside Chapel, the room lighted only by stray gleams of moonlight. Louisa Alcott fled the town when the philosophers arrived. It was about that time Jiat Henry James pointed out that a novel, in his opinion, was a novel as a pudding was a pudding, and William Dean Howells applied the match of Controversy to the statement I- declaring that the art of fiction had become a finer one than in the days of I'hackeray and Dickens. The author's reminiscences of Venice and Florence, where she met famous people of the literary and art world, are among her most interesting.

In Rome she met the Vedders and Charles Walter Stetson and his wife, and Franklin Simmons, the artist. A summer tour through Canada, wilh a visit to Alberta, with its noted Jasper Park, and in the latter Mount Edith Cavel! named by the Dominion in honor of the brave girl who died the death of a martyr at Ihe ham of the brutal Germans in the World War. ends her "rambles." The book is illustrated. ERNEST POOLE ON RUSSIA He Studied the Peasants at First Hand and Pictures Them. There is something more under- llillll USlUll IlllOlIt the KUS- sion peasants, the kind that compose the Soviets of today, in Ernest Poole "The Village" Maoininan I.

air. ooie paid a visit to the eseiaic oi an oiu Russian friend, whose home was a rough log hut in the north of Russia and' with the mind ef a student of character ho ranged the neighborhood in conipnnv with his friend, and acquainted himself with the life of the peasants and their political views. In his observations he included the vagabond, tho storekeeper, the priest, the doctor and the school teacher. That the Russian peasant is a stupid beef is not new. but in this book it is nil the more evident, although the author makes no literary attempt to describe him ns such.

The younger peasants are the worse, as young peop.e are alwavs so, bv reason of their more active reasoning, in any community. In this book is recorded the tact that a prince having used money intrusted to him in a manner no 1 lecsing to the depositors, a wise man among the latter advised pea-c until an investigation of the prince's nceoucls had been made, a kind of work Ihe peasants themselves were unable to do. One young hothead precipitated trouble by yelling: "You fellows know too much of accounts. You lire merchants. We want none of your tricks.

Now it is revolution." They cooled off only nfter rn si-lug river and marching up a long hill mile in the ruin. They could not have told a three from a naught, but of revolution, ever the strongest svmptom of Die insanity of illiteracy, they were full. The soldi. -rs from the towns were ahas looking for trouble. The soldiers that have been at the front and conic homo on leave are stea.lv crowd, said a merchant to the author, tint the fellows who have been loafing In towns are nothing but hums and robbers.

In this hook we are shown, lu vivid col ors, the real, ihe Ignorant, the nnrca soiling, the rc olotictia ry Russian. I eiount. A discussion of the degrees of responsibility in law that may bo assigned to persons classified under the different categories of insanity is carried on by Dr. George Washington Jacoby, the famous neurologist, in "The Unsound Mind and the Law" (Funk Wagnalls New York). Dr.

Jacoby accomplishes his learned exposition of his subject at length and notes all the types of mental abnormality, opening with a careful examination of the general relation between jurisprudence and the treatment and restraint of those suffering from mental disorders. From this early stage of alllictions. often unsuspected, and the more violent evidences of the mental impairment, he proceeds in dctiil with the various methods of diagnosis and discrimination between different types. In the mere matter of illusions and delusions, some very sane people, or at least so considered, will be shocked to find themselves classified as psychoses. After reading this work, one begins to feel that, absolute sanity is very rare.

or. as the expert alienist, Dr. John Shaw of Brooklyn, used to say. w'e are nil craszy more or less. Dr.

Jacoby lias not much fiith in "lucid intervals." If mental disease has begun it will take its course, whether short periods of apparent mental health are interspersed or not. Hysteria is not a spe'eific disease of women; it occurs in men as well, and for that reason it is proposed to replace the term hysteria witli "psy-chogeny." Hysteria may develop in individuals who are strong mentally as well as in the feeble-minded and in those whii are morally defective. The man who thinks alcoholic insanity is exhibited only in unchecked intoxi SPIRITUAL TRUTHS. "Tho Essential Mysticism," by Stan-wood Cobb (The Four Seas Company), is a short semi-religious work, Intro- ducing a number uf new theories in the realm of thought cults, and contains a wealth of matter for those who would keep well informed upon such subjects. The author intentions are to show the business man the essentials of spiritual truth as it is applicable to his every-day business life, and, like all works of this kind, it abounds in comparisons, principles we aro familiar with, used lo illustrate those which always leave room for doubt, or, at least, for very deep study.

However, the parallels are well drawn, showing the author to be well the master of his subject and his power of expression. In all, it is 144 pages of interesting, instructive reading for those who would pursue the subject of "Mysticism." THE V. M. C. A.

IN THE WAR. What the Y. M. C. A.

did in the war was in the cause of religion, as well as for clean morals, and, while its glorious service will to a considerable extent be credited to the military drive against the abominable, un-t hristian boehe, it really was one of the forceful I Instruments of organization that landed it as the religious and strongest ally of the soldier. "The Romance of the i Red Triangle" (l)oran Company, New i York), by Sir Arthur K. Yapp, K.B.E., tells most effectively of the English Y. M. C.

work in the places where the soldiers carried on. As a book of the war it is suspiciously, at first sight, tordv as camp or trench information, hut. In fact, it is the kind of volume that has a permanent value, and many will give it a prefi rred place on their book shelves; the disappointment will be that the American Y. M. C.

A. has not produced a companion work to go, by its side. GENERAL ACCOUNTING. "Principles of Accounting" (Macrnll-lan), by Prof. William A.

Patoii of the University of Michigan and Prof. Russell A. Stevenson of the University of Iowa, is a volume of nearly 7HI pages, and is intended primarily as a text for general accounting courses in colleges and universities. Anyone who wishes to understand the fundamentals of accounting will find it of considerable help. It does not stick to the terminology in common usage in business, but where the expression used in the book differs noticeably from current practice the conventional terminology is referred to.

THE WORKER AND HIS JOB. The professional man, the employer, manager and foreman, and the social worker will find "Instincts in Industry" (Houghton, Mitllin by Ordway Tend, an exceedingly useful, volume. "The way to encourage self-j respect In a man is to show him respect." is ono of the aphorisms found, in this work. As a general proposition the book aims to show, by a varied collection of fads, incidents and anec- dotes, that, human conduct tends to become not only more intelligible hut The DIET During and After The Old Reliable Round Package Tt-iNt. WIS Aj 5.

A ervice Are the three items which must be considered in placing ortlers for printing, arranged in the order of their importance. i PLAY SAKE Brooklyn Eagle 305 Washington Street INF AGfDAND; jU.VRtBS Quality Price I Very The REAL Made by the from carefully Used Endorsed Specify Others It miiBt have been somo curious freak of fortune which led the late William Winter to entertain the idea of writing a "Life of David Belasco." Winter was the champion of the classic; English drama and of the actors who presented it, and he was, above all, an accurate and painstaking historian of the stage. Belasco is a romantic emotionalist, who In his interviews subordinates accuracy to effect and as a producer he is a born lover of melodrama and the most skullful master of the appeal to the eyo that our Btage has known. The link between two such opposed points of view must have been fortuitous. But it was a lucky chance which threw these two opposites into partnership in the production of the handsome two volumes which Moffat, Yard the publishers of all Mr.

Winter's books, now send out. Mr. Winter had not finished the work when he died, but his son, Jefferson Winter, has done the editing not always as carefully as his father would have done it and supplied the missing details and comment. The work gives a history of our stase through a turbulent and much misrepresented feriod. It puts into permanent form he malodorous story of the Theatrical Syndicate In its long light with Belasco before peace was declared, and It throws much light upon the question, which was holly disputed during Belasco's rise to famo, how much he wrote of his own plays.

Like most of the most successful actors and producers, Belasco was a child of the theater. He tumbled into one as a program boy in Ban Francisco, began tu act in the humblest way and worked his way up through everything, acting, stage management, authorship and play production at a time in which many line actors played in San Francisco, but when management was uncertain and when the road companies with which Belasco sometimes worked wore of the most primitive sort. Belasco's work as a dramatist began by copying out parts for the actors because he wrote a legible hand, and presently he was putting tog-ether whole plays for their use out of anything which came to his hand, principally from the substance of old plays from the classic period, which any one was at liberty to cut up and pasto together again in any way that suited the needs of particular companies or actors. Belasco was early recognized as a dabster at this sort of thing, and the Ban Francisco managers relied on him to provide them with material. He did what successful dramatists havo done all tho way from Shakespeare to Boucicault, and by poets from the day of Homer according to Kipling: "What 'c thought 'e might require, 'e went and took the same as me." As Belasco played in nearly everything and with nearly everybody when San Francisco was a theatrical gold diggings, ho had a simply enormous list of situations and elfects in his head, ready to bo run into a new play at an hour's notice.

There is a list six pages long of the parts that Belasco played, including about everything in "Hamlet" except Ophelia and the Ghost, and a line of old women's parts, in which he was so successful that he had some trouble in breaking away from them. That experience made him the great craftsman he is. both us dramatist and roducer. But with Belasco, as in other cases of working over other men's ideas. 1 lie plagiarist is tho man who steals without improving; (lie genius is the man who makes a better use of the other fellows ideas than I heir originator could make.

The sources of Shakespeare's plays are quite as well known as those which Jlr. Winter took such pains to set down in the case of Belasco's earlier work, but nobody regards Shakespeare as a plagiarisl. As to Belasco's later works, wnten have given rise to several suits for purloining the ideas various unknown authors, Mr. Winter points out that Belasco won most of these and Intt-niales that the suits were simply "strikes," having no shadow of fou.i-dution. They were brought in the period when Belasco was Hghting the trust vigorously and wlien there was cheer and encouragement for any one wh" could "down" any of the independents.

The account of the light ine trust, in these volumes, however, is written from Mr. Winter's standpoint of bitter hostility to the syndicate and all of its works, the altitude from which Mr. Belasco and most of the actors once associated with him retired, but which the critic held to the end of his, days. The court records which Mr. Winter has quoted here at length In support of his contentions, are a matter of the THE ART OF VERSE Some Advice for Those Who Know Little of the Mechanics of Poetry.

it writing verse was a' mere mechanical effort Lt. C. E. Andrews' volume, "The Writing and Reading of Verso" (Appleton) would turn tho United Slates into a land of poets. Poets aro born, not made, but even those who arc gifted with tho power of arranging tho best words in the best order should possess a.

complete understanding of the fundamental principles of metrics and their application In the highest examples of verse. Poets have very different ideas of the proper formation of their lines. Their theories arc puzzling, and sometimes what is called poetry has neither rnyme nor reason. Lt. Andrews, himself a scholar and a poet, will be a wonderful help to those who are Inspired with the divino.

aflliitus, but have not. practiced putting their thoughts on paper. On tho other hand there are many so-called "readers" who mouth poetry as if they were chowlng gum, and to them and others who aro not sure of their emphasis tho book will bo a mino of golden knowledge. The volume Is sound, exceedingly companionable, and offers a liberal education to all to whom the writing and reading of verse appeal. PRAYERS OP EMINENT MEN.

"Young Men nnd Prayer" (Tho Pilgrim Press, Boston), by Thomas C. Richards, treats the subject of Christian prayer in an original manner. His book aims to open up to young men the attitude of eminent men of the past and present toward prayer. Abraham Lincoln at prayer, when Admiral Peary prayed, the praver of Honry M. Stanley, how Stonewall prayed aro aomo of the examples furnished by him.

Tho Rev. Mr. Rich-nrds, a well-known minister ot the Congregational denomination, wus nome years ago elected secretary-treasurer of tho John Brown Association. 1 cmneir officers. 1 Frederick A.

Agar has made a Rtndv or omclency for church ofllcers, which ho puts in black and white as "Church Ollleers, a Study in Efficiency," nnd la published by the Revell Company of this city. Dr. Agar Is fully C0'. potent to talk on the subject, In his broad outlook, n. genuine purlloipntioii by every man, woman nnd child, In the work of winning the world to Christ, he undertakes lo deal with Iho IniiniiiK of lay leaders for tho tasks of the Church.

tributions to the volume consists in his accurate placing of I he gn at men and women of the stage with whom Belasco came In contact; interpolations which make the book an authentic history of everything that Belasco touched In a period in which accuracy has been recklessly disregarded. In doing this work, however, the biographer has had to spend much time and space in correcting the misstatements of his subject. Unfortunately, Mr. Belasco authorized an article called "My Story," in one of tho popular magazines, and it has given Mr. Winter great trouble to straighten out some or Its misstatements.

Many of these corrections are amusing and supply an element of humor to a work which is likely to be dry except for students of the stage and Its people. For them the two volumes are a mine of riches. Although Mr. Winter lauus Belasco as tho greatest producer of his time, he by no means retracts the censure which as a critic he poured out on somo of the plays which his hero produced. Most objectionable of the lot to him were "Zaza," "The Kasiest Way" and "Du Barry." On the other hand, he regards "The Heart of Maryland" as a line and serious drama, although to most people it was merely a clever slage concoction devised to form a background for Mrs.

Carter In her sensational beli swinging act, "Curfew shall not ring tonight." "Adrea" is another of tho forgotten pieces which Mr. Winter treats as a great tragic drama, and he gives to Belasco most of the credit for "Hearts of Oak," in which A. Heme toured the country for years before the day of "Shore Acres." in a word, this is a life crammed full of farts, but diversified by Mr. Winter's own ideas on subjects in regard to which ho was so often at variance with tho opinion of his time, it is none the less interesting or valuable for that, however. It is made more attractive by many portraits, not only of Belasco and his stars, hut of the older actors who crossed Belasco's orbit in his San Francisco days.

One of the few photographs of the late Charles l'Tohman is to be found nere, as wen as an account of his early close relations with Belasco and of the reconciliation of their later days. THE THEATER Prof. William Lyon Phelps Discusses Its Aims and Achievement. William Lyon Phelps, the noted scholar and writer, has for his latest contribution to the library "The Twen tieth Century Treater" (Maemillun), I some observations on the contempo rary English and American stage. He covers the field of his subject in a manner to be of universal interest.

The treatment is never technical, for which the general reader will be thankful. Stock companies is a subject thai has engaged public attention among people who really do not. know what really constitute a capable organization of that kind. Professor has a very clear Idea of what it should lie. The stock company of the Now Theater in this city in 11)08 and lHOil, he thinks, was the greatest this country ever possessed.

The old theatergoer of the palmer or Daly days will probably lift his eyebrows at this, but tho author is well within the limits of correct appreciation. Neither Daly nor Palmer hail really great, complete stock companies. Theirs were organized under the old economical plan of "leading man," "leading lady," "juveniles," and plays had to bo written or "adapted" to lit the company. Daly, being offered a play that he liked very much when ho was in the highest of his success, told the author he would "put the play on" if the author would "write in" a part for Miss Funny Davenport, who "could not be left out of a cast." Professor Phelps devotes chapters to the decay of evil tendencies in the modern theater, tho Drama Shakespeare and tho modern stage, actors and acting, the use of the Bible us dramatic material, and dramatic criticism. Of tho latter he speaks in a very friendly tone.

Such criticisms in most of our newspapers "do not reflect unything more than the average intelligence of an audience," and are sometimes as timid as they are undis-criminating. WOMEN CITIZENS Helen Ring Robinson Makes a Program for Them Between Eleptions. "Preparing Women for Citizenship," by Helen Ping Robinson Maemilla'n Company), is a bright, breezy little volume with so manv idea nt-M Ml II I tno wonder is how so much can be squeezed into so short Miss Robinson deals Willi the foibles of women with a heavy hand, but tempers even her criticism with a whimsical humor that takes nway the sting. The keynote of the book is "The State It Is We," and the statement, "It is what we do between elections that really counts," gives the story In a line. The author gives many definite duties of tho women citizens, covering local, Stato and national problems.

She plans out an "After-the-War Woman's Program" that has much of novelty una miicii ol common sense. The provisions aro radical, hut not bevond reasonable possibility. They aro 'well worth serious study by every voter. Regarding the place of men and women In the political Held, Miss lioli-lnson says that men and women together can enact better laws than either can do alone. She advocates women in olllclal positions, not as "the only woman Senator," but In siilllcienl numbers to make the woman's point of view count.

The chief work she designates as "The Three D's" Dependents, Defectives and I iclliiqiienls. In the caro of all of these she udvo-cntes the voice of women, even suggesting Ideas that outside of the mod-cul profession no one has had tile courage to seriously propose. FOODS FOR HEALTH. E. V.

McCollnm of the hni Hygiene and Public. Health of the Johns Hopkins University has pre pared "The Newer Knowledge of Nutrition (Mneinlllain as an aid to the proper use of foods for lr, preservi Hon of vllalliy and health, once more the rending public Is reminded bv someone of authority on i. iilinr'l I hut. Improper feeding Is serious imd may produce perniancni wea keiilni. of the power of resistance In disease.

lucre is no oouoi in uip professional niiiid of medical practicians that there ore diseases, like pellagra, which untile sequel of faulty illels, any more tlinii I here is doubt tluil molly, coddle wrapped up In l.lankets Is inoi'o likely lo he a victim of pneumonia Ihiiu the person who keeps as much us possible In the great nubble in all klndq of weather. This hook Is POEMS OF SOMJIEU LIFE. Richard Mansfield Id, who was killed in the war, was a son of the celebrated actor of that name, and he left behind him some poems that were born of a very active mind and a beautiful spirit. He was born at live. N.

April 3, and died at San Antonio, Texas. August 3, 1918, i while he wus a student of the Avia-1 Hon Corps. His verses, "Courage" (Moffat, Yard were collected by his mother, and arranged for publication by his friends. Witter Byn- ner nnd Anna Hempstead iiranch, and I his teacher, Haniel Long. The poems I are principally of New London and lis countryside and the real people he loved, and of the war's irresistible call to his heart.

MOHAMMKHAV VIEWS. "Before Governors and Kings" (Houghton, Mifflin Co.) are words taken from Christ himself, so that it is not difficult to ten its subject at first sight of the book with that title. It is a religious tract by Clarence D. Ussher, and narrates tno experiences, conversational, llrsl, at a table around which sat Roman Catholic nriests and Turkish officers, and second, after the missionary had been sent from Har-Dool to Van. The story of these con versations has been told before scores of societies ot Episeoplanlans, Presbyterians and other Christian denominations, and also before Freethinkers.

Attractive Stories plans to carry her off to but at the last moment she backs out and he eventually linds himself on the way back to his home country. Chance wills It that Eve should again be a passenger on the same vessel, and tho natural consequence is a renewal of love pledges. Curtis does not dig a fortune from mother earth, but he wins a rich bride which is perhaps just as satisfying. A Well WritU-n Story. Dorothy Percival's heroine in "Foot steps" (John Lane lives to the marriageable egc before she finds her real happiness and then it comes to her unexpectedly and thousands of miles away from where she expected she would be.

Daphne Nugent is the girl who settles on one of the Canary i Islands with her father, a weakling. and there she has a somewhat checkered career, discovering in her young womanhood that her father has about completed negotiations for her marriage to a disreputable and brutal Spaniard, considerably her elder and the lust man in the world she would marry if she wore to have her own way about it. It is left to a young Yorkshircman, an engineer, to rescue her from her plight asd carry her off to his own country as his bride. It i is rarely one finds a prettier bit of descriptive writing than that which tells of the young woman's first glimpse of a real home as the bridegroom's elder brother drives the happy pair through a part of Yorkshire to the old farm house, where they temporarily are to make their home. A peep into this homo is almost as good us a summer vacation.

German Spies on the, Horder. "Tho Treasure Trail" (A. C. McClurg Co.) is a good story of the Southwest and Mexico which ends just as America enters the war with (lermany. Its author.

Marsh Eilis Ryan, has succeeded in painting tho German spies I in America at their worst. They are 1 pictured as well organized In the vloin-Mty of the horder, co-operating with certain Mexicans to embarrass 'the United States and bring on a war between the two republics. The plot Involves the poisoning of horses bought for the Allies and the seizure of extensive ranch property belonging to an American girl, yet a minor, whose guardian, a tool of the chief German conspirator, is murdered when the danger of his turning traitor to the plot, arises. Kit Rhodes, a happy-go-lucky eowpuncher on the trail of a gold mine in Mexico, stops off at the ranch, gets a. line, on the German foreman and eventually is enabled to save the ranch and bring about the complete defeat of Uncle Sam's enemies at home.

Not only does he accomplish thec two things, hut he strikes it rich in Mexico through his kindness to a young girl, who tells him the secret of a lost mission mine. ART IN STORY FORM. In "Famous Pictures of Real Animals," by Lorinda Munson Bryant (John Lane Coirjpuny), what is really a brief history of art is told in story form, using the sculptures and pictures of animals as illustrations. The slorv starts with the earliest known animal sculptures of Egypt in 400 I). C.

and carries through the various counuies and periods to our own statues and pictures in New York City. The stories of the mythological sciilpuiros are given, and the history of i specially famous groups like the "Bronze Horses of Venice." There is much of interest in the book und valuable information is presented in an it tractive form'. Eighty-nine illus-traiions add to the value of the volume. MERCHANDISING. The science of merchandising Is one of ihe most profound in economics and a book on the subject, "Merchandising" (Maemillaii), by a man who has given forty years of his life to the practical study of it, Archer Wall Douglas, becomes an important Incident 111 the literature of commerce.

It has an interest that is not matched by any study less vital to the welfare' of the human family. Science in the! abstract may be little better than puzzle to the average man, but in the form in which this one is presented by this writer it must be of I nest nnalile value to those for whom It is intended- students in economics and the general reader. Mr. Douglas is eliairiiiiin of the committee on stn-tlstlcs of the United States Chamber of 'oniinerce, and speaks wllh more than ordinary authority. II.

book explains the mystery of prolllable mail ll -faclui lug and sale. FRENCH THEItANS. "The Lutheran Church In Paris." from the General Council Publication Mouse of the denomination, is by the I lev. William Wuckernugc, D.D., LL.D., ml Is missionary as well as historical ind descriptive. It is chietly Intended is an Introduction of the French Lutherans to their brethren ill America.

II has portraits In half-tones of tic pi tic the church. Varied Dreams, that some poor souls look upon as part of their living hours, miraculous interventions, as if they were warnings from the dead, between prayer and folly, turned Evelyn Innes In "Sister Teresa" (Brentano's) from more than one misstep. When George Moore created her he was accused more than once of having dragged out of the consciousness of his genius an exaggerated reality, but it is at least a very beautiful dream. Evelyn is an opera singer, with success in full bloom, but she has tired of tho artificial life of the stage and of the stage doors loves. It is strange" indeed that such a beautiful creature, with success in the hullow of her hand, thinks of a convent rather than the reward always assured to a Patti, but novelists, many of them, are the slaves of romance, and Evelyn turns her mind not to the life of a contemplative Sister, but to that of beggars for the poor.

The Veni Creature sometimes relieves her weariness, but very oflen its mighty tones have not Ihe power to arouse her out of the contemplation of an old face or the ihrill of an old friend's voice. In matters of love she could resist once, twice, even three times, but she can always see if it means a return to the old life, and when it does she runs away from it and at the end of the lane is invariably the convent gate. In her eyes there is fixed the untamable light of genius, but strangely on her small mouth are all the signs of a thirst that no spiritual paradise seem able to allay. Ulick Dearie and Owen Asher are persistent, one gentle, tho other very worldly. Perhaps if these two could have exchanged those virtues she would not have kept her eyes so constantly on Ihe convent.

At all events they were lovers in her wonder world of to be or not to be. When she is tempted, and she is more than once, to return to tho world, the reader will find occasion for somo enchaining reflections. When she takes the white veil of the Little Sisters of the Poor she also takes the name of Sister Teresa. A Wlerd Romance. Waldron Baily dedicates a rather mediocre novel "When the Cock Crows" (Bedford Publishing to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Dan-cls, and lays the scenes down In the Daniels country, the Carolinas, The story covers the period of the Mexican border trouble nnd the first years of the world war, though it has not much lo do wilh cither and concerns tho kidnapping of a wealthy New York girl on her father's yacht by a drug crazed physician.

The yacht runs on a reef off the southern coast and is wrecked. The girl and the physician are rescued by an old fisherman and disappear almost as soon as their clothing gels dry. The pursuit of the kidnapper and his victim by tho girl's lover aided by the detectives, ends when the drug fiend lfas 'run out of morphine and can no longer keep himself nnd the girl under Its Influence. Tin- rescue is effected without niry frills and the doctor is sent on his way to reform, which lie does, so that the story leaves him doing wonderful surgical work on the battlefields of France. A Detective Story.

"The Strange Adventures of Bromley Rurncs," by Ceorge Barton, lias just been published by the Page Com- minv ne it iu i niiuK the ordinary run of detective stories. Barnes Is retired nllicer of the United Slates Secret Service, who is called upon by the President and various caiunei oincers lo in wart enemy spies, nnd to solve mysteries connected with the government. There are twelve of these stories more or lesn connected, and liariies nnd his assistant, Clancy! appear In all of them. Some ot theso are "The Stolen Message." "The Thirteenth Treaty," "The Bolted Dnnr" and "Tim 1 urn I Match Stick." They arc well whiten In a breezy style nnd wit limit being great literature- aro Interest ing. Romance in South Afrlcn, F.

E. Mills Young writes readable stories and llnds South Africa a good back ground for them. In "The Lnws of Chance" (John ane he takes a guild looking clerk of London who has no curt lily ties and starts him off lo Hie Colonics on the chance that lie win win wiiiiniiiiiK worm while from the lodiii'SH of Chance, linvld Curtis, the fortune hunter, runs Plump in'" Fate aboard the ship thai is cari'Mng him I'l'oni England. Miss Eva farcy Is the vision of loveliness who captures his heart, and when they Icav. the ship in South Africa he proposes.

She puts hliu off and he goes into the diamond mine coiintrv in search of wealth, Ho meets ii stranger who eiilrusts him Willi mysterious mission In England which will lirhiK thousands of pounds slci'-llni: lo both of them, Curtis Is followed by a pair of villains who, rot lilm of tlie secret papers entrusted le lilin lifter inurili ring Curtis' parlnei tin- venture. Curtis finds himself in i farm limine on (he veldt where lie pretty and abused wife of Hie brutish farmer wins Ii in sympathy. curl is Nutritious, Digestible Food-Prink, instantly prepared. ORIGIN AL Horlick process and selected materials. successfully over Vi cntury.

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