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TTTE BROOXTXX DATTT EACTr. XEW YOTCTC. SATTTJD AY, JANUARY 2H, 1918. SPANISH NOVELS LIVELIER THAN RUSSIAN LINCOLN STORIES A YANKEE IN THE TRENCHES Gi thench pictuiies. Brilliant Spanish Novels; Stories by Baroja and Ibanez; Other More Familiar Tales George Eliot and Thomas Hardy Great Novelists Contrasted; A Study by Lina Wright Berle of its own people who do not conform to its own narrow rules.

I'ntil that is done, however, we'll have to get along as best we can with books like Larry Evans' "His Own Home Town." ill. K. Fly Company, i In this novel Air. Evans pictures, with Mime a sleepy, complacent small city, (irmly convinced of the greatness and true worth of its best people. He makes an engaging character of the black sheep member of the town's best family.

The black sheep, east out in disgrace, wins success in the nation's metropolis, as black sheep usually do in novels. The manner in which he comes back, unmasks the hypocrites of the town and, in fact. cbangs the attitude of the entire population of the place toward himself and other black sheep is interestingly told. -t SECRETS OF THE SUBMARINE moral purpose. Hardy has very little, if any.

Kven his Sue Bridehead is good "because she is sexually irresponsible. The flexuous Toss, as Hardy calls her, tho finely-drawn figure, is only a drifting person. It is hardly possible lo doubt his insight of weak field (poetic painter). Winslow Homer. Alexander H.

Wyant, Dwight W. Tryon and J. Francis Murphy. A Man Crippled by Moods. "Just.

Outside" is a less fitting title for Stacy Aumonier's latest book than "Moods" would have been. The hero, Arthur Gaffyn. was known as "Moods" at school and the nick- i J'l jj Points for the Young Sailor Before He Enters the Service. The technical side of the submarine presented in simple language and the things the prospective submarine sailor wants to know about the undersea craft make valuable the book by Marley F. Hay.

entitled "Stcrets of the i Uodd, Alead New York.) Kquipiiient, armament and practical operation are treated with what appears to be expert knowledge. Hti shows us how Germany was the last of the powers to take up the submarine and then only under lie pressure of actual war when she realized that the rest of her fleet was no good. Cermany's submarine arm of the service was discredited by her own experts up to the declaration of war. It takes from twenty-two to twenty-four months to build a submarine, because so few men can get inside of one to do the work not more than twenty to thirty at a time. Like plumbers making fittings in a tight coiner, the men work heavily handicapped.

The suggestion has been made that we build submarines to carry as much as 5,000 tons of food at a time to England and France. Based on our speed at building steel and wooden ships, how long would it take us? An interesting book in which Jules Verne fiction becomes stern fact. Chapman's Memories of Lincoln; A Book Based on Acquaintance; Alfred A. Knopf of New York has afforded diversion ami relief to novel readers by extending the translations In his Borzoi series to Twentieth Cen tury Spain. Spain is not only at the other end of Kurope from Russia whose gloomy and slowly moving if powerful fiction has been imposed upon us in great volume within the last two or three years, but in temperament and character as well, and its Action, Judging by the two ex amplcs now availablo in translation, has the speed and a good deal of the romantic feeling of Ala ice Ilcwlett'9 medieval Italian tales.

The two novelists with whom Mr. Knopf has his good work are realists and revolutionists, like the Russians, but their realism is true to the character of a mercurial and romantic people, who cannot bear to harp on one string torever. the result is two novels which may be read with unfailing delight, because they reveal the life of unfamiliar people and above all because they tell their stories swiftly and well. These two novelists are Blasco Ibanez and Pio Baroja. both representatives of the literary revival in Spain which has come about since our Spanish war, and botn uevoiea to writing provincial novels, the only sort possible in Spain because the life of the separate provinces is still as distinct and sharply marked by local customs and dialects as was that of New England and the South before our Civil War Baroja appears to be the finer and more varied workman of the two.

His story "The City of the Discreet" deals with Cordova and it makes you know the city and the people as no mere tourist's visit could do. The hero is the loft-handed descendant of a titled family, sent to Kngland to school, who returns at I'O with English ideas smeared over his native Spanish temperament. He wants to be distinguished, or at least talked about, and he wants to live without work. He thinks he is an epicurean and is ready to take the shortest cut to these ends. He plans to marry a relative on his father's side of the family and is shaken to find that he is really in love with the girl when she marries a rich man introduced by the family to save its falling fortunes.

Then he prints a scandalous paper, dashes into a revolutionary movement and has as lively a time as one of Maurice Hewlett's swashbucklering heroes. There is, however, a closing touch of nobility in his refusal to marry the younger sister of the girl who disappointed him. This girl is intensely romantic, has loved the hero since childhood, but insists that she will many no one but a man of truth, honor and high ideals. Because he knows that he is none of these things although the girl does not know, and could have been persuaded to anything the hero turns away at the last page, leaving one of the unhappy and indefinite endings which are supposed to be unpopular with our story readers. There is.

however, such a variety of sharply drawn characters, such a sue cession of unexpected incident and ,7, adventure i Jhatthe reader" wil! be held to that last page regard ess or nB AHQ meae nt character of the people involved in them and are not strung together to make lively reading. "The City of the Discreet" is a work of art because it tells a lexical story and all its parts hold together (irmly. But it has the fascination of the wildest storv of adventure. The combination the two qualities is unusual in our. Cabin witaIs I ist member of the totter, a i tighter of duels and a evil of a fe ow generally ending a nocl- and a lectu er or, tore in South America H's siot The Cabin, however, deals with none of ihese things, but with the foitunes of a group of small farmers on the out- skirts of the city of Valencia One of these has been robbed of hi land 1 death, with the result that, no one in that retrinn will till the land or live In iiiuiu-j imvi the Cabin.

The one grows up to weeds and the other falls to ruin. Finally the sons of the money lender And a hard working farmer in a distant district who knows nothing of the history of tho farm and who is induced to come and take it by the offer of two years use rent free. It is the struggle ot nc.se vo. and innocent folk wittt tne lie- This year will occur the anniversary of George Eliot's birth, and it Is probable that much will be written about It, about her the novelist who has shown her right to be reckoned among the great Interpreters of human nature by her analysis of home-loving I women. Lina Wright Kerle is among the first to do so with a book, "George Eliot and Thomas Hardv, a Contrast" i Kennedy)-.

tivun a. DCI 13 lias BL'IKCICU an opposite to George Eliot calculated to make her essays all the more poignant and interesting. She begins by declaring that philosophy and music are not half as powerful instruments to preserve the "flowers of the spirit of our Inward world" as literature. But we can imagine certain philosophers replying to her that if the salvation of our youths and girls for the greater things in life depends on modern literature their case is practically hopeless. To our young generation there Is very little worth studying in the works of either Eliot or Hardy, especially the latter; intellectuality, however, always turns sooner or later to George Eliot, even if many of that kind ot readers find more of the real flower of human nature In "Pollyanna" or "Rebecca." George Eliot's sane and orderly view of life is shown in lights that cannot be turned off.

If George Eliot's works are not absorbing the thought of novel readers these days it is none the less true that no writer since her writing days has touched so delicately and so beautifully the adjustment of women to society, and no one has shown this fact in essays, up to the present time, more convincingly than the author of this contrast. The point of view from the time of Eliot to Hardy changed wonderfully, although the years were few, and the gulf between them is wide and deep. Mrs. Berle describes Hardy as the romantic, decadent. George Eliot has a SPINCARN ON CRITICISM A Few Essays on the Unity of Genius and Taste Offered as a Relief From War.

J. E. Spingarn's "Creative Criticism; Essays on the Unity of Genius and Taste" (Henry Holt New Yorkl covers various forms of creative criti cism. "Kill the dog: he is a reviewer." said Goethe. Splngarn proceeds to review and he has merited the praise of Thomas HaiMy, the pessimist.

He vindicates the critic by reminding us that "some of the sparks that were beaten out ot the anvil of controversy have become fixed stars." Every critic seems to feel the need of setting up a defense like this. Hardened book reviewers never stop to explain that they fill a need in telling what is inside a book. Splngarn is deeply read. His knowledge of books, of philosophy and history fortifies him with countless sustaining props. Every page is brilliant in allusion and each sentence is combed out.

He gives us a long quotation from Carlyle, who was educated in Germany as Meredith was, and In reading it we can see the Justice of the criticism of Professor Phelps, who attributes the Involved style of Carlyle and Meredith to their early stammering over German words. It may be that the Ger- mans were the first to understand criticism to be "expression," but there is mighty little evidence anywhere that the Germans ever understood the soul of Shakespeare. The chapter on "Connoisseurship" is elevating. It is an invitation to Join the ranks of those who aspire to an understanding and appreciation of the beautiful. FROM JOB TO JOB A Fascinating Bit of Vagabondage by a Man Who Went Around the World.

This book was published originally in the Wide World Magazine. The author, Alfred C. B. Fletcher, has selected a good title, "From Job to Job Around the World." (Dodd, Mead New York.) Mr. Fletcher was one three years.

He left San Fran cisco with only in gold and earned his way through Hawaii, Japan, Korea, China, the Philippines, Ceylon, India, Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Europe, England, Norway, Spitzbergen, Sweden and then across the Atlantic to the United States. In this instance travel was not a fool's paradise: it was a liberal education and furnished a volume of experiences that will last the writer throughout life and gladden old age. Any man with tho lust of a tramp prlhter In his blood will enjoy tnis volume. What Fletcher saw In China is funny. It is too bad Mark Twain did not extend his "Tramp Abroad," or his "Innocents Abroad" to China.

Americans who have witnessed "The Yellow Jacket," a Chinese nlav e-iven in the Chinese manner, missed this I characters; neither is it possible to ignore his ability to reproduce the psychology of abnormal sex development. George lliiot is more delicate. In another direction Mrs. Berle notes that the straight-living men of either Kliot or Hardy are few. One is tempted to make the friendly suggestion that perhaps novelists were indifferent to them or found them as little puzzling as poor conundrums.

The psychological novel has received some hard knocks in its time, and it must be admitted that if all novels were of that intellectual kind many ot them might be poor sellers and literature much of a loser. Human interest needs and demands more variety, which, in the opinion of many of the strongest supporters of the best books in fiction, is the spice of the novelist's feast. Hardy's books sometimes became the rage because of their bold outrage on sex delicacy. Robert Chambers' "Barbarians" is probably more widely read bv thoughtful people than any of his other books because of its novelty of invention and dramatic force. Mrs.

Humphry Ward swept the field of literature because she trankly preached. Benson captured the reading world owing to his daring exploits into the very heart of a certain part of British high society But none of them offered anything equal In fidelity of portraiture to George Eliot's Romola, who is the ideal woman, a type "toward which all women are turning," says Mrs. Berle. The writer of this contrast analyzes the characters of both Eliot and Hardy with consummate skill and values those novelists' works with charming frankness. er book deserves a place on the critical shelf of any library.

sort of thing common in real Chinese theaters: Most Interesting among the leaturee ot the theaters were the conveniences furnished by the proprietors for their patron There was a continual shower ot wet towels hurled through tho air over the heads of the people by a man on the stage to boys atatloned in various parts of the theater. One of these moistened rags was passed along each row of Beats and the pereplrlng occupants swabbed oft their faces and naked bodies. The towels were tossed and caught with ease while the play proceeded week in and week out, plot piling upon plot. The author is a practical joker. To the ntieue of a.

Chinaman, who would not reform his headgear, he tied an empty Standard Oil can. It takes a rollicking youngster to get the good out of such an experience. WHERE THE WORLD IS OLD An American Woman Pioneering in China. "Pioneering Where the World Is Old" (Henry Holt by Alice Tisdale, with a number of illustrations from photographs by the author, is the record of a man and his wife sent lo the far end ot China on business, their adventures, hardships and dangers. Tho record was taken from Mrs.

Tisdale's notebook, beginning on the day of 1904 when they stood on the "crumbling grass-grown top of the great Wall of China." At her feet, in the moonlight, lay the old walled city of Shankaikwan; not far above her a temple of the sons of the land clung to the mountainside, while higher and higher above the heads of herself and her husband rose the sound of temple hells. Then began her adventures Into the wilds ot untamed Manchuria. What she underwent to follow her husband reads like an almost un-cqualed experience anywhere except in the days ot hostile American Indians on the sun-baked desert. Bandits and blackmailing Chinamen were often met. and her facilities to travel in a native Chinese cart made many other discomforts no doubt feel like real pleasures, and the Chinese "boy" of their outfit like a real "little'' gentleman.

Mrs. Tisdale and lief husband had military escorts who were not of much use. hut the mule drivers and others of that ilk were a pesi. At times, however, the author found "the Manchurian sunshine, that glorious, godlike portion, falling like wine over boundless stretches." In fact, the author and her husband traveled like a pair buoyed up by the joy of living, with one or two exceptions. At least once at the frontier they were disturbed by the evil phantom of solitude, and "God-forsaken" days followed.

Later they became pioneer settlers, and what ihey called home wns worse than no home. That search for comfort was like trying to guess a safe combination. After many days they jrot back to Peking. Mrs. Tisdale has written for American lovers of adventure, to make familiar to them the primitive and elemental The Literary Art of it trench Captain Outlines 'lummy Atkins.

The French are delineators. In short, sharp sentences, they turn out the portrait of a man so that you can feel the very presence of the one who is unconscious, that he is the victim. In "Comrades in Arms," by Captain Philippe Millet (George H. Doran Company, New York), there Is a living, breathing riicrtir rxf kinrllv Rnff. lish general that puts you right in the Kenerai uugout.

Kipling could not have done it better; certainly not better for the understanding of American readers. We get from Captain Alillet the French view of the English fighting forces without affectation. A CANADIAN SOLDIER His Letters Home Give Glimpses of the War. In very attractive conversational style a most Intimate insight into the everyday life of a Boldier at the front is presented in "Letters of a Canadian Stretcher Bearer," published by Little, Brown Company. The letters, which were written by K.

A. L. to his wife in Ottawa, relate his experiences from the day he sailed with the Canadian expeditionary Forces until he was oeui oacK to "Blighty" In an Knglish hospital, covering a period of three years. The letters tell not only the big events of the war, but relate the little incidental matters that are personal to each soldier doing his bit and which touch the very heart of patriotic performance. The volume is filled with human interest and is enjoyable from cover to cover; not like most war stories, secondhand or the result of interviews with some one who has been "there" but straight from the pen or pencil of one who has been filled with the thrill of battle and who had not the faintest thought of neeing his letters published.

H. A. L. showed a remarkable sense of humor In his descriptions both in the training camps 'close up," and on the firing line. The correspondence is so simple, so human and appealing, delightfully genuine and vivid, that the reader is actually impelled to go back over the whole "batch" of letters to repeat the enjoyment and the excitement of following the footsteps of R.

A. L. from his arrival in France to his return to Epgland. The letters throb with affection for the wife of the writer and the regular inquiry after "Blllie," his little daughter, express the feeling of every true soldier who fights on fearlessly, courageously, with a sense of duty to his country and a keen devotion to his family. Few stories of the war carry the reader bo close to real war events, big and small, as R.

A. letters. DISCCSSCS BOOK OF DANIEL. I)f. R.

D. Wilson Defends Historical Statements in It. Students of Old Testament history will find much to interest them in Dr. Robert Dick Wilson's "Studies In the Book of Daniel." (Putnam.) In this work Dr. Wilson answers in a painstaking and scholarly manner objections mado to historical statements in the book.

The reader will be im pressed with the writer's evident un tlerstanding of his subject, the fact that the objections and the arguments with which he answers them are clear ly stated, and with the logical char acter of the conclusions he draws. From a layman's viewpoint, Dr. Wil son seems to have made a very strong case. Dr. Wilson expects to follow this volume with two others dealing With tho authenticity of the Book of Dan iel.

The second will discuss objections made to the book on the ground of philological assumptions based on the nature of the Hebrew and Aramaic in which it Is written. The th'rd will deal with Daniel's relation to the canon of the Old Testament in determining the data of the book. The series should, and doubtless will, receive much attention from students. Laymen will find Dr. Wilson's treatment of tho subject clear and interest- DEWEY SCHOOL GRADUATION The Dewey School No.

136, Fourth avenue and Fortieth street, of which Warren M. Van Name Is principal, held its graduation exercises last night. The entertainment was provided by the boys and girls of the graduating classes for their parents and friends, who filled the auditorium. Four scenes from the Life of Abraham Lincoln were presented by these pupils: Charles Englehardt, Joseph B. Gazza, William J.

Ross, James E. J. Sheehan, Arthur O. Nelson, Herman H. Haeger, Harold M.

Unneberg, Samuel G. Napoli, Rolf Nielson, B.iarne W. Bergman, Howard H. Ol-sen, Anthony T. Pozansky, Jennie F.

Fors, Elizabeth F. Fait, Gladys M. Shinton. Sheriff Daniel J. Griffin made the address to the graduates, who were: 8B Boys John W.

Allonen, Rocco P. Capece, Paul Ohlchlzola, Panquale J. Desiderlo, Anthony Deanosiio. Xavier P. Dl Capua, William It.

ftarvey, Joaeph H. tlazza. Herman H. Haeger, Harold U. Hall, Frederick Happ, Albert Johnaoti, John K.

Johnsjn, George L. Joronen, Harold E. Larscn. Everett J. Mc-i lurry, Samuel Meltzer, Arthur Nelson, Herbert Nelson.

John A. Nelson, mest T. Nelson. Waller L. Nelson, Rolf Nielson, Howard II.

Olsen, Anthony W. Paladlno, I.aurle W. Pesonen. Howard TV. Pollock, Frank P.

Sauuer, Cartnelo Scatteregia. Keligman, James JO. J. sheehan, Harold M. Unneberg, John P.

C. Wolantejus, Henry l'odice. 8B Mixed Ednard Anderson, Bjarne W. HcrKman, John Colombo, Charles Knglebardt, Edward A. Panner, George Goodwin, Carl J.

Jacobsen, Noel Kmpeiikoff, Howard I.yngved, Alex D. McKee, Samuel G. Napoll, Louis Parodi, Anthony T. Pozansky, Joseph A. Itereclrh, Theodore Romanowski, -William 3.

Hoss, Josephine Onlglarl, Bdlth Geldmacher, Frances Gnipskf. e'llel Hcllman. Minnie Hoffman, Anna Jirgensen, H. Elizabeth KJet-saa, Theresa MareHca, Coneetta Martorana, Messerpchmidt, Ethel Olsen, Violet olsen, Esther Krikowitz, Catherine Shebece, Teroslna Sirehin. fili Girls Klomniie E.

Anderson, Rose G. raructl, Mi.ry P. chleoskl, Martha H. Fal-k. nberg.

Elizabeth s. Fait. Jennie F. Fors, Helen B. Fursa.

Ida M. Hansen. Ellen F. C. llerlliiy.

Klorem-e s. Holmnerg, Hllma 8. Hol-iiinen. Katlierlne J. Johnson, Helen C.

KrausK. Aniande H. I.arsen, TSllen H. Lflreen, Catharine Ingeborg Madsen, Antolneita jrnllla. Freda M.

H. MeMrtens, E-inoa Pearl Nelson, Bertha D. oliiisnrg. Florence A. Olsen, Margaret Olsen, MuiBant B.

Poliio. Sophie 0. Posner. Tillle (', tjiianl, Vcronka A. Renrdon, Gudrtirid lioikilel.

Fa mile M. Knppala. Gladys M. H'-loil Slltanen, Ebba i Soderman, K. yaies.

ST. I'Aris f'lilTRCH KIJCHRE. Anoiher successful euchre and ditlicn wns hold Inqr eveninar nf Siaucli's Pavilion, Coney Island, under the auspices ot the Ladies Aid Soeif-ty or s. Paul's Lutheruri Evan-gelieal Church, West Fifth street mid Xeiiinno avenue, Coney Island. Many of Ihe congregation and their fi'itiins wi re present and prizes were provided fur non-players.

The officers of Hie society are: i'rfsirtont, Mrs. ecrcturv. Mrs. Charlotte Mar- rcasurer. Mrs.

Helen Garrus. OYSTKlt BAY VAMPS 'ivster liny. January 26 Mem bers of Atlantic Strainer No. 1 dined ine of the enmrjiuiv al. hcad- 't'itr Thursday evenifig.

The oc- mucked the first annearancc at U'illlfltTI Sk dman since he was Injured, oh Jan-lunry II. ai nre jn Cold fciprlng Harbor, lie is using crutches. The piece ile shdance nf the dinner was a roast I'iK. t-crved by Frederick Hill. The in charge ot the dinner aS t'luii'li's l.udlum, William Slurks.

Fred Valentine, Warner. Horry Per-llne, mKl Frederick Hill. jA Vivid Story of the Fierce and Lighter Sides of War. Quite in tho class of Guy Kmpey's "Over the Top" indeed that young Brooklyn soldier-author has described it as "the most entertaining warbookthat I have read" is Corporal 11. Derby Holmes' "A Yankee in the Trenches" i Little, Brown Co I loll.

ics pictures war as it is, with all its griinness and its horrors, and relieves what would be a story too tragic to be endured by flashes of humor. He has been in tho very forefront of war, lighting with the "Tommies" I he enlisted before America went in), and has experienced all that can befall a soldier, save the last experience of all "going west." He has seen his comrades and officers fall all around him, and has fought with the bayonet, with bombs ami with the wonderful tanks has seen every phase of modern war ami lives to tell the tale and tell it well. Aside from Kmpey's book, there is no story of the war that this writer has seen more vivid and more pic-turesiiue than "A Yank. ee in th Trenches." It is a story that enables one to visualize all the tcnibleness of the great conflict, and at the same time pictures the lighter side of life In the zone of horrors. 11 is a book worth reading and worth keeping to reread, now that our own kin are so near being actual l'aeior in the greatest of wars.

I.AHOl'T SIMON BAH GI OK A. "Simon Son of Man" (Sherman, French Co.) is a effort by John I. Riegel and John H. Jordan to prove that Jesus Christ was not the Prince of Peace but a war lord, that, instead of being a religious teacher, he was the Simon Bar Gi'ora, mentioned by Josephus as the leader of Jewish insurrection. In stating their case they place great stress upon the possibility that early copyists made errors that changed the meaning of the Biblical narratives.

Good Anecdotes Lincoln in 1847. nlctliiinL' a. hov in total abstinence. From Dr. Cli an nul n's "liitest TJirht on Ahniham Lincoln.

White House reception, and stood waiting In line to shake handa with the President. When they got near him iff line Lincoln saw them, and, calling an aide, told him to take them to one of the small parlors, where he would see them as soon as he got through the hand-shaking. Much surprised, the old couple were led away. Presently Mr. Lincoln came In, and, greeting them with an outstretched hand and a warm amlle, called them by name.

"ho you mean to say," exclaimed the farmer, "that you remember me after all these years?" "I certainly do," said the President, and he went on to recall the day he had mowed around the furmer'a timothy field. "Yes. that's so." said the old man, still In astonishment. "I found the field mowed and the scythe leanlnp; up against the gatepost, but 1 have always wanted to ask you, Mr. President, what you did with the whetstone Lincoln smoothed his hair back from his brow a moment In deep thought, then bis face lighted up.

"Yes. I do remember now." he said. "I put the whetstone on top of the high gatepost." And when he got back to Illinois again the farmer found the whetstone on top of tiie gatepost, where it had lain for more than twenty-five years. will also give a program of special selections. Alvah E.

Nichols, baritone, and George II. Shackley, pianist, will assist in the mass singing. After the address Dr. Cadman will answer questions. A MAG FOR FISHKBMESI.

The February number of the American Angler is an issue to make the reader anxious to get away for some of the winter fishing it pictures so alluringly, and to long for the coming spring, when nature and the game laws will permit the pursuit of the wily trout in slrcama which are not far i away from the cily to require a vacation for their exploration. A sli iking feature of the number is the variily of climate and fishing cun-'JitMiis which ils articles cover and the beamy of iis illustrations. "Nature's Ail Gallery in llrilis'i Columbia" gives pictures of tbe or I western wilderness atliaelive enoinvh to set plans in motion for a summer vacation there, oilier describe lima; ,11 Southern CV.Iifi.niia ami in Ark-insas. North I Ceoivin and surf angling at Tger Ib iieii. wiMi pictures: of half a dozen of our local devotees' of the There ill-" also accounts of individual i xpr rietiee, told fishermen ho are nnii tirs of Hie sport, with advice for Ilie iioojiliiLe ami 1 lie; sports- iiiM! ex well.

The variety of the con- IcntM of 111,:: UlllKKSSillf, OX Well HlO! i.itori-d of ib: dividual articles, is a of surprise, and delight to an editor who knnw.i how dilllcuil it ia to achieve variety in a special and limited Held. CKF.IX'S YOilK George Creel, bend of the Committee on I'nhiie. Information, 's l0. "av0 a New York branch, with liendouar-lers in Ilie Printing Building. FiKhth avenue and ThUU tn" MviihitUan.

WSTACy AUMONIKft." Author of "Just Outside." name was well bestowed. Gaffyn was certainly a person of moods, and although he was just outside success throughout his career, the title of the novel seems an unwise choice. The story is that of a middle-class Englishman, and opens with his dis missal from Cullington school for the theft of a pearl-handled knife. He steals the knife as the result of a boyish "mood" or obsession while On a school outing: is detected and lg-nominously expelled, From that time on he becomes a drifter. He has brains, but no balance, and although he achieves some success as a dramatist and an author, he fails to "arrive." The story deals very frankly with his love affairs, and even in these he proves unstable.

Indeed, the whole scheme of the book seems to be an attempt to portray a life that is entirely selfish to picture a man who had brains enough to accomplish something really worth while, but who simply could not make up his mind to do it. The author made a real hit with "The Friends." but "Just tiutside seems to b.e in another class, and is not likely to be so well re ceived. Century Comnanv.) General Claxton, Lover and Hero. Judge C. II.

Hanford of Seattle, is the author of a ch.irminir iiinuMicai novel, "ueneral Claxton' (Neale). which has for its evident purpose, besides tracing the life of a Pioneer of the Far West and a hero iv, r. holdln(t up to ex- and backbiter: "The" lis he writes, "of the most unhappy mor tals, in hlla Higginson's sublime prayer for lonely souls, will bear i -tension to include Kven th slanderer, hated wherever known, A fritiiUIe.s.s wanderer, thankless for mercies shown "Whose malice Inward turns like the scorpion's stir.tr.s. AnJ General Edward Clark Claxton and J- among the" i IranTbut notiljI tm permanent lnjurv. tne punishment ma be sow but jt js certam tQ reach sooner or later.

To prove this seems principal objects of Hanford's book. For Genera however, the slander was at aillaMroa3 his peace of mfd njs halred yo re and' its pulpit. hlstt.ail ot a minister the tiosuel. lie became a wanderer In the sparsely populated Northwest of this country. He was a hardy pioneer of that section, and, determined to continue to lead a clean life, made a place for himself among good people, reaching the rank of major general in the Union Army during the Civil War and blessed with the return to him of the girl who had promised to be his wife, but had been separated from mm a father wll0 bad belleved in l'his reads tritely enough, but Judge Hanford presents (be common incidents in a very impressive manner, not unlike a splendid oration in the cause of American patriotism, the pioneer's fortitude in developing the wilderness and individual triumph in love over social wrongs.

It is a book that will keep ilie attention of the reader from the lirst to the last page of it. Nothing can lie finer than the author's picture of General Claxton's and that of his devoted wife in the final development of his story. The historical pan of the latter is no less intensely interesting, and will no doubt be appreciably informing to many readers. "The l'n-( lirlstian Jew." In his novel, evidently his first, "The Un-Christian Jew" (Neale), Lawrence Sterner discusses many subjects, each of which would of it- self be sullicient for one whole volume Russian American Social- ism, female employment, sweat shops, lack of hygiene and overwork in de partment stores, the brotherhood of man, sociology, business ideals, tho divine rights of Christianity, the cause and Insincerity of religion, and the orthodox and ins commercial "icuiuus nn unsuiiii oacKers The oook is oewnoi ring uy ns com- lJie.n. iie ideas are ad- vanced with undisguised bil lerness.

tiful and ui.coiimiiiii. Ilis slim-ply dix- tinctive ami en. lane, isiicuiiy UVable young heroine, micm-i a well-poised, Ivrolc figure In shocking scenes of revenge and murder against the Jews, s.iinl i oral influence over tin; beast who would min t0 injure her father, whom be accuses or causing the death of bis sn-ier. His hero is an impressive former rabbi who has become a bi ot herhfjod nf man advocate. The onlv fair mut-' that seems reasonable a iter ope I leading oi nis hook is lii.u itic- nnilun- means to uranu all religions au tyrannical and un-Clirislin man ueewuie imiwniti.

ne -a 1 will murder one another in Ilie of Cod and theology." In Ins Quality Town, a Utopia of virtue, thrift love and happiness, there is no politics, no ecclesiastics, no missionaries, no ministers of any I. A fine lin i anil His Town. if I iliiM) a. novelist Is a small eily (bat la sleepy, self-i-atisfied nor un-i if Hu Kti.i-Je toward ne, tiler termination of the neighborhood that lived to repent of his in-tllis land shall not be cultivated which, tj ha It Has Some Fleming H. Revell Company, New York, has Just Issued an interesting book, "Latest Light on Abraham Lincoln and War-Time Memories," by Ervin Chapman.

L. L.D. The book contains many reproductions from original paintings, photographs, and was completed, the author says, after fifty years' labor. The book is written in the most familiar style, from the standpoint of a man as author who was long the close personal friend. The volumes are full of the characteristics of Abraham Lincoln which only a close relationship would be able to discover, and for this reason all that is written is interesting and bound to hold the reader.

Dr. Chapman was the political friend of Arbaham Lincoln, and the story of the author on the stump in both his electoral campaigns has a touch about it which the ordinary stump speaker could not give and which he would not think worthy to preserve. Unusual illustrations are given, including portraits of Lincoln at different times in his life. The work is in two volumes. The introduction was written by Bishop John W.

Hamilton of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The Itev. Dr. The work is in two volumes. The introduction was written by Bishop John W.

Hamilton of tho Methodist Episcopal Church. The Rev. Dr. Charles Edward Locke, formerly a Brooklyn pastor, now of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Los Angeles, lias written the foreword, in which he says: "It is not a new Lincoln, but a true and real, indeed a living Lincoln, whom Dr. Chapman gives us in this work, a Lincoln of whose lineage and birth and personal appearance and religious belief and experience we 'have every reason to be proud.

And it is that incomparably great and gracious Lincoln whom the world must ever hereafter behold, admire and imitate. Dr. Chapman has placed a grateful posterity under everlusting obligation to him for his brilliant masterpiece." Considerable space is given to Mr. Lincoln's temperance views and work. He was a lifelong and consistent teetotaler, and frequently lectured on the Subject and interested himself in having young men and growing boys sign the pledge.

A long chapter of the book is given to anecdotes and stories by Abraham Lincoln. An interesting one describing his remarkable memory is as follows: In whim Lincoln wan a candidate for the Legislature, lie called on a certain farmer to awk fur hl.s nupport. He found him In the hiiyfleld, and was urging his call when the dinner bell sounded. The farmer invited him to dinner, but he declined politely and added: "If you will let me have the scythe while you are gone 1 will mow around the field a couple of times." When the farmer relumed he found three rows neatly mowed. Tlie ycythe lay against the gate post, but Lincoln had disappeared.

Nearly thirty years afterward the farmer and his wife, now grown old, were at a BOOKS AND AUTHORS JDr. Henry Van Dyke, former U. S. Minister to the Netherlands, and author of many books, has been commissioned a chaplain in the Naval Reserve. "Principles of American Diplo macy," uv -lohti tt Moore, formerly advisor lin- department of State, will be published shortly by Harpers.

A collection of essayi. on! contemporary subjects, and chiefly' of the war, by John II. ailie Cro.ier, i the well-known historian and politi-1 cal economist, ill be iwie.i by Dut- i ton's in a short time. The remarkable i ns' .1 sight represented in lie- Herman ae-I quisition of Helgoland, and the: Knglish blunder in the transfer, is one of tin pls of interest in a new bonk, "Naval Power in the Creaf War." Charles Clifford Hall. U.

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An unusual i. for tho men of the at the Bedford Branch, tomorrow afternoon S. Parkes Cadman will an a and talk upon the pioai- nic. i Stales has made In the pan Is to play in tho great world trnlo. Victor's Bund of fifteen pieces been secured, In addition to the uiiual Sunday afternoon program.

The Kdna White Trumpet Quartet, which lm lurniancu jnusiu b.v mu meu mooting every Sunday afternoon since the i i-nlng of these meetings in 1 makes the warn and woof of the prim but swift tale. Finally the neighbor- hood triumphs and the persecuted familv are driven forth, but it is the I fierceness and the incidents of the i struggle which give to the storv its compelling interest. Ibanez is a fierce realist and he does not balk at de- mils which an Knglish or an American novelist would have left out. There is a good deal of crime and violence In the storv. but there is not.

a touch of salaciousoess. If there are more contemporary Spanish novels as as these two they should be translated. Our public may be a little, slow in taking to them, but once thy become known a story like "The f'itv of the Discreet" is bound to sell widely. A Medical Story. Members of the anti-vivlseclion societies will not be pleased by the Shinine Heights," by I.

A. R. Wylie, I tieats of exneriments on dumb i animals In which Hanuman, a poor little monkev. dies from the effects. Old Dr.

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