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THE FRESNO MORNING REPUBLICAN SUNDAY AUGUST 14 1921 LIFE EDUCATION BOOK PAGE THOUGHT LITERATURE THE tj SAMOVAR GIRL IS TALE OF Captain Frederick Moore author of "The) CARSON'S NEW BOOK DELIGHTS MIS READERS EDITED BY CHARLES HOWARD SHINN MAN AND THE COSMOS Mathematics Applied to Great Problems of Existence Robed Gale Barson a Californian author of "Bill's Mistake" a book which is a delight to Samovar Girl" a tale of an American's return to her Siberian home CALIFORNIA the younger readers i iil-r 1 f- hi- 7 i i 1 I-Mll 111! i In-- i 11 A -nrm i I scientific in tpirit and method for then and only then wifl they advance like the natural mathematical atwi teHuto-I loci'd feieiic-p conformity 'o the i fundamental exponential law of the titne-bhfdiig nature of man then and 4 aiai-r vaalaa Ijmi iiii 11 A II IK -f Hi- In vs Hj 1 illtilil'i tall aaiaa: III I j1Ni laUlOMl VfMll i i lJ jt ui cjiH' 111'' (lie mi (l Mlr ISot'l i 1 1 '(' I'! mnst "I' II'" MliiV iii i MH'I ru illlll t'ilnT IIHlilhllUn ihvO-ls a rimin Mid' (if Unit Do our readers remember Frederick Moore's talo of a California grirl Eleanor Glen don of California who runs her own steamships in th Chinese seas? That was "The Kailor Girl" novel and now Capt Moore the welt-known author tells ua in "The Samovar Girl" about the return of an American to his birth-land Siberia and of what then happens Capt Moore knows that of which he writes and he has told a dramatic story of peasants convicts exiles revolutionists 'ossaeks and through all the struggling ideals of almost voiceless Siberia 'The Samovar Oirl" which Apple-ton publishes begins with "the music of chains" in the "Valley of Despair" at Chita when ten-year old Peter son of Peter Gorekin the old-boot-maker a "free convict" mad5 boots for the officers of the Tsar Comes the Governor with his little daughter Katerin she who Krow ip to become in after years of revolution "The Samovar Girl" She his grown up is a brave resourceful woman saves hT father now old General Kirsakoff from Zoragoff's Cos-sat 1 ea i I Pe ter now Pe Gordon a lieutenant in the Intelliar- wi'ii in In Vz" iiMlirm iit aatadv en 1IIIII1N then only by tho equal pace of piogren1 in all cardinal matters the equilibrium cf sorjd institutions will remain stable anil SHi'ial cataclysms cease" Subsi-ipient chapters are upon "Wealth" tli Kra" "Survival of the Fittest" "FIements of tJower'' tho "Manhood of Humanity" Then comes a "Conclusion" and three "Appendices" which emphasize tho main thesis oi the book We think there can be no doubt of the value of his expression of the that human being "are creators" and heirs of alt the ages Th root of the whole matter is our capacity for "accumulating racial experience" that is our "time-binding force" Much to the point is quotation from Br Keyser's "Humrn Worth of Rigorous Thinking" Of cur human Past he says "It Is permanent It can he counted on It is nearly eternal as the lace of man Out of that past we have come Into it wo are constantly returning Meanwhile it is of the utmost importance to our lives It contains tho roots of all we are and of all wo have of wisdom of science of philosophy of art of jurisprudence of customs and in-simmons It contains the rceords or Several years ago wo read and reviewed tho books of that well-known mathematician Dr Cassjus 1 Keyser of Columbia and especially his "If'i-lii'ui Worth of HiKomus Thinking" which is one of the most important volumes of the hint deiaife Xow we have from Button (fc Co ti in book to some degree inspired by and related io Jjr KevHers lino of armnuftit It 'lut'tes hugely from Ir Keyser and still follows its own path to Us own conclusions and it may well prove to bo of epoch making importance This took ih entiihrl "Manhood of Humanity" Jt iinfoins "the science and Art of Human Knghieerhie" The author is Count Alfred Korzyeakf ho dedicates it to "the quick and the dead" and he gives us a new conception that of jMaii stated in terms of lime Dr lieyt-er calls it "a momentous contribution to the best thought of those troubled years" Says the author in his preface explaining hiH iiciciitlfiu-mathomatical Point of view: "It is obvious that to he able to speak about the great affairs of Man his spiritual moral physical pconomin social or political status it must first be ascertained what Man what is his real miture j'nl what arc the basic laws of his itaturp If we succeed in finding the laws of human nature all the rest will ln a compai ativetv easy task the ethii nl social economic and political status uf Man should in in accord with the iaws of his nature tin civiJiation will be a human a permanent ami peaoi nil not In fun' The first chapter dm ribeg the "Method and rror-pMHcs of Approach to a New Concept of Life" In succeeding chap niiliily ilii I liiir infhinr I I n- Iiik lj ait uas iir aral- hi an al! In in a Tiaa is ri'l aaia liis ijuu Ma lal i mi )L it I Hi" I-H Wllfll i C'li-ii Til i'll" Aalaaaa is i i'iur a I' ll Vli iiiU a ln a i' ft I "I'l HiH lii'l iill'l liH rnv 'j- I i iiilili I W'M Hi 111 I''- li 'i ic-iPR Division of the American Army 1 is on his way to Vladivostok He coming back to land of his for-' lorn a nd among other I things In- hopes to find and kill the 4 rains of all the experiments that man has made during a quarter or a half luiliion '-ai's in the art of living in thih World" Our author's point of precludes 'If 1 I I man who was the en use of his father'n death Instead of that as tho story develops we discover that Peter in going to marry his enemy's lovely and aristocratic "The Samovar Girl" III 'I 'I I'- ll'll'l" rTliiin L- il 'III I "lie jjjl Pi I'll III i il I'- 'If Chatauqua in I' ll 'li' ii-li i Hl'Ul ill lilK iKlk" II VITV in" Thr Hi- r-ii- i in n- jr ters are discussed the "Childhood of Humanity' itml the "Classes of Life" Then comes the question "What is Man?" Tho a uthor'a answer to this rests upon tho statement that while all animals are but "space-binders" "human beings arc characterized by their creative power By tho power to make the past live in the present and the present for the future by their capacity to bind lime -human bdngs are time-binders These concepts aro bardc and impersonal arrived at mathematically they arc mathematically correc "It dues not matter at all how the first man tho first time-hinder was pro JS Verld Peace Dr ii rlbu of Ne wa ik Ne Jersey is a distinguished author editor lecturer and clergyman of th Methodist Episcopal church but he has not done anything that will reach a larger audience than his "Story of Chataumia" which Putnam issues in a well-illustrated large octavo volume of 4J! pages He knows th subject because he was one of the leaders of this great organization Does anyone have to be told what Chatauqua means to America? Here a remark of Dr William Harris or ii '''I 1' iiinl uhii'ii ni-i nii'l wuilii ili-i duced the fact remains that ho was sonnwhere somehow produced To the supernatural He says that: "Man is neither an angel nor a miraculous mixture of angel and beast we know at length and we can teach that throughout the centuries these monstrous misconceptions have made countless millions mourn and that they are doing- no today "We ran teach tho world that what is characteristic of tho human class of thai which makes us human Is the power to create spiritual and material wealth to beget tho light cf reasoned understanding to produce civilization it is the unique capacity of man for binding time uniting past present Mid future In a single growing reality charged at once with the surviving creations of the dead with the productive labor of the living with the rights and hopes of the yet unborn" Let us try to tell our readers what all this means The book declares that we must have a sciendic management of all human affairs we must fully develop "tile entirely patural civilization-producing energies of humanity" each one of us must livo and work for the progress of tho race "The Science and Art of Human of world reconstruction means Just as much to Count Korzycski as "Salvaging the World" does to Wells or "Tho Creative Workman'' to Robert Wolf or "Heredity and Knvlronmen" to Prof Conklim of Princeton or "Principles of Industrial Philosophy" to Walter Polakov Much as our author objects to "supernal urisms" ho presents nevertheless a religion of humanity based upon "nature's universal tongue" ma' hematics know anything tnat is today of fundamental Interest ahoui man we have to THE BEST STORIES FOR THE LIBRARY Seven New Tales of Truth and Wonder Best Books of the Week in Permanent Value analyze man in three co-ordinates in 'hive capacities namely his chemistry iiis activities lu space and especially bis activities in time whereas in (he study of animal 8 wo have to consider only two factors: their chemistry and their activities in space" If one accepts this mathematical concept of the human race tlure is no escape from Count KorzyefiUi's conclusion to this chapter that: "The world will have uninterrupted peaceful progress when and only when the so-called social the life-regulating 'Eci- nces' nf ethics taw philosophy economics religion politics and government an tech notorized when and when only they are made genuinely 'I'll I Ill I'l ItlVr IIH' Mil" I'limi I i -iimr "i i ins in- I )y iv! it-rs On" mu: liinw -ir unulli-r "iip jiII K'iwliiiavin a llnil In-- 1' Hi ll only liy Illy linn ''llbllr" in I'll 111" ihiiIi-h cii'i a I'i riii-uii'! ii'i ul' lm niul'' Aiiiuii- ill' Iiniiis wiii-li ari' ri'-1 (his in- i'-iv ii '--i mi- Rv "Th' l-mi'iii- a il 1 i t'-'l la anil i i' ni t'' Ik "Th" I1)- I 1 'in not iiiiar rr I'visl: in lino llnui A il llarlliii-r'iiille 1 a ul fin i- 1 1 1 I'ia-fs TTm Ai'Kln- a 'ii' ill i iH ili' ll lins just i I- n-i Irani Tlaanaii Sf-tzi nl' i Vi i a iuvi rn i iaial in i-i-iit 1' ai I on- I i r-i'ij-l nai i wili' ll ml I Aim i'a an Minn'1 anil "Tn" KtiK- i i Commissioner of Education: i "Think ot one hundred thousand I persons of mature ago following up a welt-selected course of reading for years in science and literature kind-: Hug their torches at a central flame Think of the millions of friends and neighbors of this hundred thousand made to hear of the new idpas and i of the Inspirations that result to the workers!" Our one-time Cal ifomian Prof Al- bert Cook of Yale once said this: "As nearly as I can formulate it I the Chatauqua Idea is something like this: A fraternal ent husiastic methodical sustained attempt to enrich elevate and inspire the individual life in Its entirety by an appeal to ths This Ufk lias tiiniuht much that is v- itml v-urili-wiiilo in tin realms of I i '-t 'ti i-'unii' one llio n-vi--w-T how it mjliln lu it i mv'u novels in i'l vi'ik jiikI Id ep tiin Ints scparato in his Ihoiililr-- Tiiit 1 1 entire-ly in huw mf rrjids Ktnry -tiilri-s If-i'ii ti rn'klu nu''il or nvrv ihin ii ol" iTim in ii i-iiiuii' niliL of rapid r-n-jn a work 'I'lii? is juwt 11 i- hw many Jim? nevs or pii ratrapli etui thf trainod mind "laki- ARE WE SAFE? i Ma'inci- fa ta tin i wife "I imr I iii' iaiin liia! liil'lan nr' iv- 1" fny Hi'': 11" a I'm-- AIIT'i'il (ianli- in i i a Klaik'i" on" ally Knows i'lri'i! tlh limit Ju oil: of lit1 o-fiiL i toeing ih" Aih i only liis io liri( a hrmk jisaiik'-t Jiis forohi-'ad to ab- Thoughtful Book on American Destiny t-IHir "I' ill" iivs who i 'linn Arites assays umii-r i "A la'aa if ill" Plow" il" Ha- mu-t tali mail of livilli -V i is liaa li clni'i '1 oval- lii'l'" I I nth aiil' aii'l niala-i frii'llils I-aa-'ii'iil "'ll' I'" ii i nl Ina lire "I'll ami 1 'rnli at-i Kin i tin i i liis ini' ly I'H'li III IV 1 'aa rii illl Ji'lUlll'l" II Several of the more thoughtful books published by the famous old firm of Scribner's raise large human istmcs One was Lot hrop Stoddard's "The ftiaing Tide of 'olor'' another was Madison Grant's "Passing of the Great Jiacn" a third was Br Conkliu's "Direction of Human Involution" a fourth was Humphrey's "Tho Kacial Prospect" The fifth which we take up in fuller detail is By Prof William Mo-Dougjdl of 3 larvard a well-known leader in Psychology anil his study of racial conditions is entitled: "Is America Safe for Democracy Br McDougall raises the Fame tremendous question which Br Stanley Hall puts to ns in that amazing study of his called "Atlantis" which appears In his "Recreations of a Psychologist" He has written a book of immense and immediate importance to nil men and women In fact we may call it the latest utterance of scientific eugenics What do our readers say to these ii-' inniimi'i'i 'i'l li iH SI "HI'' mili-1 f' lina in Ala 1 I Hi" Irloh I'" 111 Ml" I'iliyii'-'ll Ilill 'I" IH'V'T K'-anii-i- inm: sill- nan-'vi" ii a Hi" ti Hrian I vi la" v'''i'lil wll" I a il i nl' fla' I'i'ili'lioil curiosity hope illness and ambition of those who would otherwise be debarred from the greatest opportunities of culture and spiritual advancement To this end all uplifting and stimulating forces whether secular or religious are made to conspire in their impact upon tho person whose weal is sought Can we wonder that 'hatauqua is a sacred and blessed name lo multitudes of Americans?" The truth is that the Chatauqun Institution which Ivowis Miller and John Vincent founded some fifty years ago has become one of the most powerful of educative forces in the whole world It was tho late Theodore Roosevelt who once declared that "Chatauipia is the moat American thing in America" It is and the reason can be found in its uteadfast adherence to high ideals Our author tells us: "In its plans from first to last there was a unique blending of religion education and recreation No one of these three elements has been permitted to override the other two and neither has been sacrificed to win popularity although on the other side popular features have beea sought for within just limits "It has shown the progressive spirit while firm in its principles open to new ideas -willing to listen to both sides of every question It has sought to attract and to benefit aU classes in the community not setting the poor against the rich nor the rich against the poor giving a welcome to scholars of every view and to churches of every doctrine "It has remained unshaken in itg loyalty tn the Christian religion and penetrated through and through with the Christian spirit without flying tho flag or wearing- the badge of'any one denomination of Christians" i in ill" v-- i--i'- I'liy-i hi -rl limn I opening sentences? YA'e have at Inst the story of "The Founding of Xcw England" which makes accessible all the new materials and is by James Truslow Adams with the Atlantic Monthly Press as publishers Nothing could improve upon this combination "We do not wonder that Worthington Kord critic and historian who rend 1 ho book in rnanuf-cript calls it the best book yet written upon Xcw England The author ra a I from Yale in ll'OO During the war he served as a captain on the era 1 a and was attached to the American Peace Commission in Paris Of her Pirns in this book he says: "I have simply tried to learn what these people who came to America were like why did they come and what did they do? What were really their political and religious ideas what were their relations with the outside world into which willingly or unwillingly they had of necessity to enter? In doing this I have no more local prejudice thVi if I had been treating a colony of Athens instead of England We cannot understand the past if we lie about it make pretty traditions or epics of a false patriotism" In this truth seeking spirit all Bryce have written Tho resulting volume of 4ii2 pages contains 13 maps and illustrations has 17 chapters beginning with "The American Background" "Slaking out Claims" "Tho Race for Empire" "Some Aspects of Puritanism" and (chapter Ei) "The First Permanent Settlement" There are careful footnotes and a sufficient index The cost of this hook is only four dollars the price of a couple of the cheap sensational novels written for a few-hours' light reading! Tho Xew England experiment in working out its main ideas "of a democratic church polity and voluntary covenant as tho only basis for a civil government has had as far-reaching results as anything in human history Tho lives and the acts of such leaders as John Win-thrup and the steps by which this church state this "Hible-Commonwealth'' began to discipline persecute banish and even execute those who differed from its doctrines have been told and retold in myriad forms but never until now so clearly HeJie is the 1 loser Willaims case tho Vano Wheelwrights and Ann Hutchinson cases Whn Mrs Hutchinson was brought to trial Mr Adams tll8 us: "Who asked what law had been broken tho court answered 'the fifth commandment' which enjoined her to honor her father and mother whorenw she had brought reproach upon the 'fathers of tho commonwealth' "When tho trial was over nnd the sentence given that she should be 'banished from out nf our jurisdiction as being a woman not fit for our society' she said 'I desire to know wherefore I am banished' 'say no more' answered the governor 'the court knows wherefore and is satisfied- It is no wonder thnt our author comments as follows upon this "It was evident now that no voice could ho raised in criticism of any acts of the civil cr ecclesiastical authorities and that tho minds and lives of the ten thousand or more come wholly under tho control of i lil liii-lmi'l hi invi'lvi'l Ainli Am-ri- a ir laiiinn an lh-mahlv auinal l-'i Wt ml II" sivivt II'- V- in ma'i'Ts i "laa l'a ini i' "in: H1 lllc 1 ci "-a 1 l' am iruilifiil it't'iii'i linn TI only vy Ui" n-fl' a w'l'l'l is "As I watch the American nation speeding gaily "with invincible optimism down the road to destruction I seem to he contemplating the greatest tragedy in the history of mankind Other nations have declined and passed away and their places have been filled the torch of civilization lias been caught up and carried forward by new nations We soon reach the persecutions in which in New Haven the "tongues of Quakeresses" were bored "with a red hot iron" (page 26S and a little later us we are told: "Six Quakers wero banished on pain of death and four months later the children of two of them Daniel and Provided Potithwiek were ordered sold into bondage in Virginia or the West Indies by the County Treasurer to pay the accumulated fines imposed upon them for not attending1 a Puritan chun-h No ship's captain however sufficiently hardened in the religion of Xew England could be found to share in tho guilt of this transaction" Next came the esse of Mary Dyer and others other Quakers who had returned to Massachusetts facing certain death tin PK-a) Mr Adams says: "Sentence was pronounced on the eighteenth day of October and the execution took place a few days later On the petition of her son Mary Dyer had been reprieved and was once more banished but with a fiendish ingenuity of crudity she was not to know of it nnd was to be led to the gallows with a ropo about her neck and tn wait while the two men were being hung As thev were led to execution the three walked hand in hand 'Are you not ashamed to walk between two young asked the Puritan marshal with characteristic coarseness 'It is an hour of the greatest joy I can enjoy in this world' answered the pure hearted woman 'No eye can see no car can hear no tongue can speak no heart can understand the sweet incomes and refreshing of the spirit of the Lord hhich I now enjoy' After tht others had died her hands and legs were bound her face covered and the rope adjusted around her neck At that moment her reprieve was announced ber She refused to accent her life but was taken to Rhode Island by her family The 'owing spiimT however she returned and told the General Court that she was to bear witness against the unlust law which this time was allowed to take its course" In other words she was executed! Rut out of those martvrdoms out of the fact that the grim New England conscience came at last to realize that in free speech in tolerance of other people's opinions "lies the one hope for the advancement of the race" All honor to little Rhode Island and to the martyred Quakers The theocracy was broken the human mind set free This delightful narrative gives both sides and nil the facts und shows how the foundations of town meetings of public schools nd of liberal churches were laid Closes its story with Robert Ca'ef's rightly famous book against witchcraft delusion (published in 17oo which book completeh- discredited Cotton and Increase Mather and the rest of the frenzied witch-hunters A new era had begun AVisely says Mr Adams in conclusion: "It was usual in an earlier and less critical day to trace all of New England's greatness and of her noble contributions to our common American life to the same little group of leaders who wero supposed to have dune nil because they much Life is not so simple ts" that and in tho founding of New Englind and the development of her Hhr'ies! we must find place for English kings and statesmen for colonial liberals and martyrs as well as for Pilgrim Father and Puritan Priest" emerging from the shadow lands of the title Ho is discussing tho revolutions the "cycles" of human civilization und calls it "tho parobola of peoples" for as he adds: "The course of tho rise and fall of a people tends to resemble the trajeeujo of a stone thrown obliquely upward from tho hand a long ascending curve an almost flat summit and a steep decline" Ho discusses Prof Flinders Pe trio's theory that a biological blending of two races initiates a new civilization-cyclu which usually lasts about lHu'j years Rut as our author points out our main concern is "to maintain If possible that ascending curve" The point he makes is "that tho great condition of the decline of any civilization Is tho inadequacy of the qualities of the people who are the bearers of it" From this point as the author goes on to develop his thesis one finds the interest and the importance of the book increases pace by pace sentence hy sentence His conclusions cannot fail to startle tho average reader Turn to pages 1H6-1! and rend what he says about one of the learned professions (and applies to all alike) "Our civilization by reason of its increasing complexity is making constantly increasing demands upon the qualities of its hearers: the qualities of those bearers are diminished or deteriorating rather than Improving" But we find in the third appendix his plan for the preservation and improvement of tho best racial qualities lie tells us: "Our aim in general must be to favor increase of the birth-rate among the intrinsically better part of the population and its decrease among the inferior part Morn explicitly It may be stated as follows: Human qualities both mental and physical are hereditary and human stock is capable of being improved hy training and education by good environmental influences very slowly only If at all and probably not at nil Human beings fur from being born with equal potentialities of moral and intellectual development inherit these in very different degrees If tho present tendency can bo reversed and tho birth rate of the superior half be maintained at a higher rate than that of the inferior half then even though the difference be but slight the American people may face the future with a well-proundod hope that they are building up the greatest nation and the most glorious civilization that the world has ever seen a nation capable of assuming tho leadership of the world mid of securing tin reign of justice frpedom and kindness throughout every land" We lay down this book with regret and only wish that a copy might be in the hands of every teacher and every parent in this wide laud The- publishers Charles Scribners Sons have prrl all it-' kiiovl'li- in a ft-w minutes of coiit'i niritcd tliuii John Buchati Writes Tli--i'' ('(hiiis front lio! niNstir of ini-ji isi ii iv' tls Jiilni Jlui'haii who uroP' "ir tjuixiitfc" "l'r-'snr folin" rt-i iiTia nl 1c'' as is I liisloris i now ori of a mystie ifivfiiiiir'-tili' whieli mak-s the ivad-f-rn hrt-allt Ir-ihUm vlt Ii stirnrisr- i vrfnti of filinrt (nin Jo-Kt-th't liko the pi aria of a (jiuct'u nt i'k! it is a fpiritual-pron'n-ion a tlio'i'iui-rfiin'arnai win of a mlr li'lo of "Th- TMh of hr Inini liuchnn tl t-' ri 1 fuiward aii'l np'vnrd cmrsc of hu-in-'i rr--tiius from p'tuisvition to cfii- i tn in t'lTUnlitia via fhil-md Vrs vf: A nuirica W'hn inhrnls I ho ili int fir'- whr'ji nvl wlifn-1 dot' flame up Io v'nrm llif v-iTnlr- "Th-T1 is ii" v''ipii if j-pini" cue Tho iiinpl'T of this nov-I vnli 1 1 1 1- Jiirrn sun nf Tlmr- a I I Thoi-WJil'I'nii Hf A'iUinvr Th i cltiiiil'T "Th iOiiuli-hman" if ilu: brtiinilinus of l)C-lvt--a l-'rri''li nnl Saxons affr I hint -ins- tiiirl is "Th'i i of Vlaml-r-r'" Tito dji-s nf fourth "K-'S nf V'ni'Jl" In -'in in I-'' Inn of An a pr-i rs anrioily in th-: ftftli chapter (Tlie Jlaiil" TluiM 1 ho rtory of the s-yn of gi'JiiiiH rrtno'S on down I he to tho iniiil Iirrno iinin-'rs and Ihmks find tho Mnlhcr of lam-'ln and om- mnriv r-j ri-id-'Ut Tiits ftranct' nnd irspirin slory lMii t'-'iri'tlipr many fpi--0(lrs and per-ioH in a new vay One 'oiiid have lih-'l tn havo lifiinl John T'uchan read ii coid to Ilia ivife ly fhctr Cotfiwold fire tor il a new sort of a pir Tio poMeii rln1 whicli comi'S ti thf and ta'rvoH tn idiow tlo-ir fsti'-nti-d lull i cr this is I'nt or the Hno of hudily heritage cmphatizec i'j'nm Jiinrn to IiiK'olii Tliis honk conns from fitoro II Dora ii To pnm np in an old pay-ins IIlotl will tell" fsjvv Che'ov Tales 'onaiiiv that unpurpas-'acd translator th tin- K'tsRians has heen liiore of Ant "ii i 'hrlcov stories ini Virmlish The lnok 1-cfore us cali'Ml "Tli" Ilnrft-' Stealer and Other St uri s' M-oTjiains a number of he most jmpiiiar thii author's ivorkn 2-j 'in ah itK-lu-linr "An Aetor's Knd" rild Asf" "Minds in Kei-nit'iit" tint tht- f-oldit th" mrfd impr-sivo of all tli -so tales hi "Ward No whirh Is hasod ilium Oiekov'H cNpt rieneo in hdsi'itil This Is tho f-ocoiul utory in the look mid Ih" longest one mnu 11 tan pa'H The physiriau of th tal-- Antlmy yefiinitoh Knuhi tn th- town-hospi ta' finds it In i i-ribh1 rendition disnrihetl hy the Intt Imr witii iittfi- nnrt muiuotable i ra lv nss One thinkf: "1 'oor llns-sia ii nd it i infinitely now" Tins hook comes from VtaeMillau app' al are here once more told with a perfect eoinprehensiun of what the life of a reaL city too often has come he leaven help the nirls and boys who leave coiuilry homes in the great out-unor- and travel to sued) places as thtH strange tshahhy sinister London district of which Thoiuaa Lurkc tells mo vividly This is a Dorun book A Twisted Genius The poet and genius Stephen ByriT who is the principal character in A Herberts new novel "Thn Hour hy the River" is in pome way very attractivo t'ut in his relations to life and to others he pitiable creature No one knows this better than the author who writes for Punch under another name and who enlisted in IftH as an ordinary seaman hut became a commissioned officer was at fiallipopi etc Jfe published an'Mivr novel "The Secret Ha 1 1 le" in i'Xli also a volume of verse It is years since we have read a novel whose opening (' paes were as full of a charm and reality in every lino from "The Whittaliers are at Homo every AVednesday" to whero Ktephcn "looked up at his high old home" in "llaminr-rtoti C'hfse" (six miles from Charing Oros London hep ins the wild Ihe idiotic tragedy when this refined gentleman with wife and child whom he loves suddenly commits a crime of deepest dye The whole thins- in almost not ijui te "incredibly unexpected" The rest of the bonk is mainly devoted tu the irs' efforts to escape the conse-fjiieni nf his aet hic() plainly put as murder Jt is not if ten thn men with such a golden future as Stephen had so wreck i heir lives and those of their friends The tale is told with vast skill and at times satiric humor so that the honk lias had a wide circulation in Kntdand and America Alfred A Knope is the publisher 'John Rutland's Romance" Here ift Ktilt another of those tales of "London Town" which such hosts of Americans buy with eagerness and ad Willi joy Peyond a doubt the "American market" is the thing which makes or breaks the largest percentage of the writers of "mystery tales" Thin one however has some curiously new and perplexing lines of attack It has twin brothers who do not know of their relationship and arc as an old rancher who knew such a pair once remarked "perzactly alike" Hence ris some picturesque and amazing ing conseiUetie There is a problem of changed identies between one Fred Stormont and "John Rutland" But th- reader pnon discovers who is the real hero of the tale and which iw tht real heroine of tho two girls Incidentally he may be confirmed in the notion that real romance very seldom begins with advertisement in a newspaper plus correspondence and onesided photosniph Of course also the story has its tragedy and its "bad one" or if would nut be a modern novel The author of Ihis exciting talc Pen a I pfssell wrote another one "Paid Out" on unite as effective lines The American publisher is JMacauh "Torchlight" Not quite g'uie is the day of long epics in prose such as was Victor Hugo's "Les JliserableH" AVn now have "Torchlight" by Leonie Aminoff which Is but the beginning of a study of the times and character of Napoleon Honn parte In this he first volume we have the youthful hero shown in the wild times of the French Revolution which as the author says "ploughs a passage for his advance" Hhe also tells us that the book was mostly written "under the ancient roofs of Provender in the Black Prince's own chamber" which he occupied in 1346 on his way to join his father's standard The story begins with "the inaugural ceremony of affianced love a marquis whose entire title takes a line of print and the very-sure-nf-herself young woman Terezia whom Citoyen Talllen of the Reign of Terror calls "Witch of the "World" At the end of the volume when "the little general" is goine to come to a reception this amusing and amazing wretch "smiled a triumphant smile Her mind was full of new speculations" As for the young t'orsican Lieutenant Napoleon we get quite a glimpse of his genius beginning with a scene in a pawnbroker's ehop (chapter 27) There is little else about the young rnli a "II in- i-n'a winl'l I 1 Mat lownvl ail'li -I a Short Reviews 10 UV to any i-ltwi na- ih" i-ii'lin-inu- at" il- yrriil'' r- i w-nte a ity anil "II! llH'lli-'u I "'T'-1- I a tn' 'I i barbarism But if the American nation should go down whence may we expect a new birth of progress? Where shall we look for a virile stock fit to take up the tasks of world-leadership? It may be that the yellow millions of the Far East contain the potency of an Indefinite progress and stability That Is a vague a nd uncertain possibility Whatever that potency rnay he it behooves us the bearers of Western civilization to take most anxioiiH thought that wo may prevent if possible the declino and decay which have been the fate of all tho civilized nations of Europe and of the Near and Middle East" This book of 218 pages contains the substance of six lectures given at the Lowell Institute of Boston under the title "Anthropology and History or Tiie Influence of Anthropologic Constitution on tho Destinies of Mankind" These are followed by five appendices in which the author formulates certain possible remedies for our "present disastrous state of affairs" Of the discipline of the great war Dr McDousall tolls us: "Wo know now that civilization and culture even in their worst form-- no not necessarily pap the moral energies of men rather we know that trained intelligence and disciplined will can withstand the extreme horrors of war far better than the cruder more animal courage of the primitive hunter and warrior" The thesis of the whole book is far more important than is indicated by i-'as a in in- to 'I'm I' -rtm "A Short Manual of Forest Management" is issued by the Cambridge I'niverslty Press Kngland It cornea to us from the Macmillans contains 70 pages and is by Professor Jackson of the "School of Forestry Cambridge We do not know the price but probably about a dollar This book is a short and simple textbook of forest management It refers to such standard works as those of Maw and Sell lick and certainly states with much clearness the main principles of mensuration increment field work reports etc Two pagwe on "British Kstate Management" contain good suggestions for our American owners of timber lands wood lots country estates The book makes simplicity common-sense and economy its watchwords Ha ink "i If Hi Hi" ii' ''i nl 1 in i in ol til" I put nil readers In their debt by issue- ing Dr McBougall's views Readers will remember Henry Snyder Harrison's novel "Queed" Hin latest one "Saint Teresa'1 comes from Houghton Mifflin Co al is the story of a fearless and very able modern woman who goes into "big business" This is Harrison's first book after his war work and long1 silence- Tiiiir-s Ik's iTl-kllov'S i i mis s-nt-' 'T'ihim Ml (-'('l' n-on him 111" tiimily Savs ti" Tin Clihnv lk of us is ly Inn I imw'ii Yosemite Again their rulers One man who with a group of people undertook to organize a church without having secured the permission of the magistrates and clergy was fined 20 pounds and imprisoned 'during the pleasure of the court' The A can tho Tow In otli-r v'iil'ls liial jaa-fin ni ini'i'S- I ofuil lroiiss io" 11-s wit hum livins J' Itnw imitirtilylhw Limehouse" People fow years acn Thonis Iurke opto he heard from ffe -wrote with iost onp-neltMi realism such hooks I ian'liomi- Xiirhlp" Niclua "(im and Aliinii' 1 1 had tin? tir-tvat in of a Swift a Knhelnisinii -ir his wnrd-etehins wcru as hit-anielinn'S ns anything' of Han-I lis opfo wero ponerriily of -ttit I'onirrs many-ytiloil London i of the riversiido ilcns and pur- Iraun with a ptrnKtii which 1-r in onr-'s memory for weeks If A'uhri'fin Ho iv hal leen horn mi in Shadwell or AVIiiio- he wuiilil Jirrhaps have Written "raineluiii' Nihta' Frances It Sterrett's new story In "Those Young Rebels" and the Ap-pletons publish it Its motive is tha eternal welfare between the ideal of the passing generation and tho one which advances with flying banners Htid loud drums Often very musing sometimes most tragic le the and one sees it daily io every sort of development apogee and the downfall of Robe-spiere "Torchlight' comes from Dutton's and will be continued as we venture to guess in two more volumes Another of the Dutton books is by one of our newer writers Ben Ames Williams who has the gift of the story teller His title is "Evered" and the story is of a man of deadliest temper who let his own wife be killed by a bull for the reason that he falsely believed her unfaithful to him Tho backgrounds of this frightful tragedy are in the miiBt of all the beauty of New England at its best and in tho love of two young thintf for each other It is a very powerful story 'nssi'iii 1-1 ist i us not "try tlm 011 I a i Inrr iad hniii i nrtir the oft fl i--us jt ru the I anl The full title of John Williams' new edition of a well-known famous hook now reissued and greatly enlarged is "Yosemite and its Hish Sierra" It is by far tho best book for visitors lo tako into the wonderful Valley but It is even more than this it marks a step forward in iho fuller comprehension of the relations of mountains to valleys back-regions to the most advertised camping rounds The Sierras are one and indivisible parka national forests private lands home of mountain-lovers miift really be considered together We must have more and better roads not merely Into Yosemite but up and out of and all ground it tranli'ithr" iiiy Tho Truths Tivn I'y" lalv us has "i frrallv vwl -j -s im V'VftlKOd 1 livn ther climb higher look over Into Nevada find tho Tioga Pass follow tho Muir and let following thousands see Yosemite and follow in their tracks John Williams San Francisco author and publisher was first known to us of the Pacific Coast by his "The Mountain That AVas God" and his superb edition of Theodore AVinthrop's "Canoe nnd Saddle" which also contained AVinthrop's western journals and letters Still another of Mr Williams' books bad a wide sale bis "Guardian of the Columbia" Mts liond AdaMts and Si Helens) But wo believe thai his study of "Yosemite nnd Its Hlirh Sierras" reaches a still larger number of readers and with its vast number of illustrations its well-wrought history and its deop enthusiasm for the region described will long remain the classic in its field The three editions of this book range in price according to the binding from tn $r00 The puhllsher is John illiams San Pram-isco I Wthrbaft ig new loat ion 2v: Pink of Italy Pblg I'twmc I'MiT-l -Viu-m-nuit irke'n in-w lmo Kate Pew -das Wiggin's story of "riebecca" is now being used In all the elementary school of London as a reader and a prize book We are told that it is a very popular innovation and that more llin fir American stories for young people are likely tu bo thus traiit-plaiucd 1 yi is i-aih'd "More h-qins with "The ii out Kame of "the dunili ImiMiai lfit 'dii-s ierUly tlrainatic IlnKnn ol' Mir nivr i fani elP pr i i 'ri DR MARTIN Has re-turned Office corner and Fresno streets i-AihcrtUcnent I with recreation centers auu summer camps evcywhete so that tourists will see the tannius Valley and will eu far- la lo nf Ton 'ell The givptc'-t scenes Missouri ml 1stw Ml wm-i lJ ll'Ulll in the book turn un the rise the 1.