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" Medical Chaos and Crime

By Norman Barnesby NJ D. Published by
Mitchell Kennerly, New York Price 81.
in Medical Chaos and Crime" Nor
man Barnesby. NJ D.. has brought
forth an indictment against the medi-
cal profession which should make
somebody sit up and take notice. OF
course il IS the general public which
IS most interested. but il is hardly
likely that any great excitement can
be expected from them Almost every
thing else has been muckraked. so il is
only fair that the medicos should come
in for their share. but the long suffer
ing public is by this time too hlase to
give more than passing interest TO
any new exposures
Doctor Barnesby's attitude is clearly
shown IN the following quotation from
his chapter. The Reign Of Graft:
Il fearlessly assert that the leading
surgeons and practitioners of the cit
ios are no longer the men of exalted
aim and scrupuious honor that for
merly ennobled the profession. A val
liant minority are employing the Won
derful agents that modern science has
given as 10 true humanitarian ends, but
10 the majority they have become but
the instruments of self-aggrandize-
menL'
The author proceeds TO make good
lis case in IA chapters. assigning the
cause Of most Of the deteriora ton in
the profession TO the medical code OF
ethics and TO the insufficient education
~ beginners. Regarding ethics he
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Books Received

'The Teddysee." by Wallace Irwin B. VI.
Huebsch, New York.
'.Theosophy,' by Rudolph steiner. Rand Nc
Sally company, New York.
The Lure of Life" By oliver Opp-Dyke- Sher-
man. French Co.. Boston
Cactus and Pine By shariot NJ Hall. Sher-
man, French & Co., Boston.
.Diek Randall" by EiIery H. Clark. Bo5bs-
Merrill company, indianapolis.
Life OF Japan" By Masuji Miyakawa. Neale
publishing company, New York.
ssIdylls OF Greece BIZ Howard " Sutherland.
Desmond FitzGerald, New York.
"Anti-Matrimony. by Percy McKaye Frsder-
lex A. stokes company, New York.
The Lady OF the Lake. by Sir Walter Scott.
Bobbs-Merrill company, Indianapolis.
'sunshine Annie" by Joseph Scribner Gates.
BOohs- Merrill company. indianapolis
The Vicar OF the Marshes" by Clinton Scol-
lard. sherman. French ( Co.. Boston
The Bainbridge Mystery hy George Tyler
Pratt. sherman. French Co.. Boston
1.-The Garden OF Gray Ledge by Charlotte ".
HazlewooG- Sherman, French 6 Co, Boston
..rhe Sowing OF Swords" BY Elizabeth A..
Meriwether- Neaie publishing company New
York.
Life and Times Of Cecil John Rhodes" q
Sir Lewis MichelL Mitchell kennerieys New
York.
..The Revelations Of Present Experience" By
Edmund Montgomery sherman, French & Co..
Bosten-
The Live Dolls Party Days" By Joseph
scribner Gates. bobbs- Merrill company, IN
dlanapoils.
''The Married Life Of the Frederic CAROLS
By JeEsee Lynch Williams. Charles Serbner's
Sons, New York
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he Eagles Feather"

By Emily Post author of saThe Title Market
Published by Dodd, Mead Co., New York.
1t will be remembered that readers
of The Title Market" predicted a bril-
liant future for Emily Post. it's author
Three other novels from her pen were
wen done, but could not approach that
one. Now comes THE Eagles Feather
and 1t will be read and discussed by
many. and with many emotions The
authors title is adapted from Byrons
lines:
"Lo. the struck eagle, stretched upon
the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to
soar again;
View'd his own feather on the fatal
dart,
And winged the shaft that quivered in
his heart"
The scene of the story is set in Paris
most of the time. with a trip or two to
Poland Italy and other places. The
principal characters are OF the literary
and artistic set; not Bohemian set
exactly, but quite successful and smart
people The hero is the great Jau Plot
rovoski, the most successful dramatist
OF the day. He has produced many sue
cessful plays, and the public has
crowned him with laurels over and over
again. but he knows, and one of his
friends, a great sculptor. knows too.
that he has missed 1t each time. That
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SsThe Black Cross Glove"
By James Luby; Published by B. y. Huebs

By James Luby. Published by B. ~ Huebsch.
New York Price $1.20.
The scene of this tale is the little
village OF winnesook, with its Glove
and cross Glove. a sort OF deep cleft In
the mountains back of the town. which
has q curious bearing on the lives OF
some of the Inhabitants. The legendary
origin of the cross Glove is explained
in this fashion: The spirit or demon OF
the mountain, away back in prehistoric
ages. had fallen in love with an Indian
maiden and, disguised as a young war
rior, wooed and almost won her. Young
Winnesook, of her own tribe. loved her
and one evening in the dusk she mis-
took him for her spirit lover and gave
him her heart beyond recall. They were
obliged to fee from the wrath OF the
demon. who. in his pursuit, flung his
tomahawk at them. The weapon missed
them, but cleft the mountain on both
sides 1000 feet in depth, creating the
Black Cross Glove. Furthermore. the
tomahawk in falling pinned the demon
himself to the earth and he is COM
PEELED to remain a prisoner In the
gloomy depths of his own creation until
some woman comes of her own accord
and gives him the love of her soul.
An entirely new variety OF country
folk is introduced to the reader. The
author appears to be entering pro-
test against mawkishly pure and re-
fined, the artificial and idyllie character
which is what we are usually treated
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something is lacking. and that some
day it will be discovered. The secret
is. he can not write about women When
the scenes in his plays bring in women,
his sympathetic touch is gone, and they
might as well be wood for all the
humanity there is in them.
Jau meets a woman. Vera. duchesse
de Marsin. a rich widow. patron OF arts
and a very interesting character. He
and she become great friends. and see
each other almost every day. The
friendship of a sudden becomes love.
and both are -4rown into misery, for
Jau has made a marriage years before
to please his family, and being
Catholic is bound. He could not endur
his wife after a few weeks and they
have not met in years, but the tie Is
there just the same. and both he and
Vera are in despair
1t is hardly fair TO tell the story.
for it is worked out so we'll in the
book; but happy though Vera and Jau
become for a while, tragedy IS the
road he must travel before he makes
success of his writing.
The book is filed with vivid deScrip-
tiOns of places and people, and contains
some fine character drawing. 1t is un-
doubtedly clever and brilliant, but II is
very much to be doubted IL II Is very
healthy reading. 1t is exciting and
nerve racking from cover to cover and
holds the interest throughout.
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motherly lap and some old cherry trees
(not too much trimmed) to coax the
birds. 1t mustn't be away back in the
owl woods. on the never r-dug- -out-in-
winter, only-one- -mail-a-day r. f. d.
route, nor packed into a stuffy made
TO order rabbit warren OF a suburb,
where people can shake hands out Of
the side windows and, where cabbage
boiled in house havors the soup stock
OF the whole row"
The Princess (she has several other
nicknames) finds what she wants in the
same suburb where the wise and all
knowing Barbara lives, and finds it
very comforting to ask questions and
get advice from her friends. Flower
Hat has hundreds of things to trouble
and worry her-neighbors, chickens,
polluted we'll water, dogs and the null
titude of things which the urban
dweller thinks are of no Importance
OF course, there is a man in the story.
and it appears to be pretty well estab
lished that he has been married. sepa-
rated from his wife and child and is
generally to be stunned.
The comedy ending of the tale is
charming, the reading throughout is
delightful and no lover of garden Will
pass the book unnoticed.
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to In fiction. We see instead some
very real people and the interest In
them takes strong hold upon US at
once.
The hero is Stephen Birmingham.
young New York painter. who has been
left a fortune and so has no incentive
to work other than his natural and real
love of painting He has an interest
ing and very magnetic personality and
his attraction for the other sex makes
complications in the plot.
The two women characters occupy an
almost equally important place. The
ultra refined, sweet and innocent city
bred girl and the coarse and uneducat-
ed, primitive and weird country girl
both have a powerful influence in
Eltringham's life. The strange country
girl has a streak OF mysticism about
her which makes the cOuntry-Npeople
shake their heads and shun her. She
is in love with the mythical spirit sf
the mountain, WinnesOok, and though
she Is anxious TO go 20 New York and
become an actress. she can not bring
herself TO leave the mountain and her
lover.
The story is well written throughout
and holds the interest firmly from oe-
ginning to end. There is a tragic cli-
max. but an epilogue which is in no
sense an anti-climax solves several
things for the reader and leaves him
in a comfortable state OF mind. The
book is entertaining and well worth
reading
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speaks thus: "One physician, for In
stance, must not question the practice
OF another toward a patient, no matter
if a life is at stake; yet they may dis
credit one another among the profess
sion upon the merest quibble OF ETH
quette. The result is that rancor and
Jealousy find their outlet in trumpedup
charges of 'unethical procedure and
the letter Of the code is applied as
vigorously as if the offense were a
crime of the first ana gnituQe.
Let a fresh arrival from college
transgress one of these official rules
and the older practitioners can ruin
his reputation. A more punctilious
young man may be guilty of the gross
professional proprieties as interpreted
by the local society he receives the
utmost consideration from his asso-
ciates."
Doctor Barnesby pays his respects to
educational methods in the United
States, but there is no new exposure
here. for IL is generally admitted In
and out of the profession that medi-
cal schools are much in need of i'm
provement and many reforms have al
ready taken place.
The charges in general are no doubt
substantially true, but like most re-
formers. this author lays too much
stress on a few isolated instances,
seeming to forget that the ethical"
quack has always existed; that great
improvements have taken place in the
profession since the days of Doctor
Sangradosof OF Gil Bias.
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Notes and Gossip of Books and Their Authors

nized position as a novelist She Is
the lover Of two good things-the ex-
hilaration of walking through rain and
mist over the Irish moors, and absolute
sincerity in writing
The late Julia Ward Howe willed all
her small estate to her relatives. Her
personal property, amounting to several
thousand dollars. was left in trust for
her two grandchildren. S. p. Hall and
Alice NJ. Richards. The remainder OF
the estate was bequeathed in equal
shares to her four children. Florence
NJ Hall. Henry n. Howe. Laura E.
Richards and Maude. Howe Elliott.
Frederic s. Isham. author Of The
Social Buccaneer." is about to take a
trip TO Kashmir and Afghanfstan- His
favorite novel is kim" and he wants
to see the Kim country.
Robert Alexander Wason. the humor-
list. author of The Steering Wheel" and
Happy Hawkins" ran for congress
from his Indiana district on the social
istic ticket He was not elected
Emerson Hough and Harold Mac
Grath agree that fishing is the noblest
sport of all
The drama in America viii be given
prominent place In the Century during
1911. There will be a paper by David
Belasco on The Theater and the Box
once" and a sketch by Nine. Maeter
linck on the performance OF "Pelleas
and Melisande," in which she and her
husband took part at their home. the
abbey of st. Wandrille. in France. Other
papers of much interest will include a
sketch OF Mrs. Fiske and what she has
accomplished for the American stage.
Everybody knows that authors take
many Of their characters from real life.
but 1t Is seldom that author and char
acters "own up" Owen Johnson, how
ever, lately attended a reunion of the
chief characters in his Lawrenceville
book, The Varmint" and had his pic
ture taken along with The Roman
Hickey" "Finnegan" and Turkey
Reiter."
William Winter. Americas veteran
dramatic critic, is preparing for publ
cation in The Century during 1911 a
group of six. articles TO be called
Shakespeare on the Stage" which will
set forth how the leading characters in
six OF the plays were presented by vari-
Gus actors. The group will include
Hamlet, Macbeth. Richard III, Othello,
Shylock and Henry VIII.
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-25
Volumes of Poetry for the HOLIDAYS

The holiday season this year has
brought an unusual number of volumes
or poetry to the reviewing desk of
more or less merit and only few can
be given adequate notice. The publish
ers have exerted themselves to make
their output more than ever attractive
and some of the books are veritable
gems of art.
For beauty of workmanship the
books which carry away all prizes are
those from the press of Paul Elder &
Co. OF San Francisco. The Sonnets
From the Portuguese with Lyric Inter
lude." by Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
have been put into a book by this firm,
which can stand comparison with any.
These sonnets have been edited with
preface. notes and an appendix intro
ducing Robert Browning's related
poems. by Arthur Guiterman, and no
more complete edition of Mrs Brown
ing's greatest work has ever appeared.
The type is artistic and paper and bind
ing faultless. ($1.7s.)
'The Song of the Stone Wall' Is an
other remarkable literary work by
Helen Keller, the deaf and blind girl.
and surely the most wonderful woman
in the world. To Helen Keller "The
Song of the Stone WALL" as she walks
beside it in the beauty of the New
England open,
rs of the men who built the walls.
And of the God who made the stones
and the workers"
and what she reads she has set down
in blank verse, of such insight as comes
only to the chosen few of all ages, of
lofty thought, and rare imagery, of
nxn ct hao M. q. 1F
preston. The book is beautifully
made, with eight full page pictures of
the author and her comrade, the wall,
pictures conveying the JOY of the open
in most unusual degree. (The Century
Co., New York; s1.20.)
Later Poems" is the title of small
posthumous gathering of the work of
Father Tabb. Some OF the verse is
filled with a heart wringing pathos
impossible TO describe-especially those
which refer to the blindness which
crept over the beloved priest in his
last years. John Bannister Tabb was
a real poet, master of rhythm and
rhyme, and his ideas were expressed
with conciseness and in always per-
feet English. One entitled Fiat Lux"
is quoted:
give US this day our daily bread. and light;
-
Aud | at noon have been
'As trees that walked before me- Een today
From time to time there falls upon my way
A feather of the darkness. But again
1t passes; and amid the falling rain
OF tears / lift, Lord, mine eyes TO tliee
For, 10! seei
One more example of Father Tabb's
work is quoted to show his strength
and simplicity of style. This Is entitled
Going Blind:
Back TO the primal gloom
Where life began
AS TO my mothers womb
Must l. man,
Return:
Not TO be born again,
But TO remain;
And in the school Of darkness learn
What mean
THE things unseen"
(Mitchell Kennerly, New York s1.oo.)
Gale Young Rice has acquired so sure
a place among the poets of the day
that a little adverse criticism may not
hurt him. Song Surf is the rather
presumptuous title of his latest collec-
tion of poems, all of which have been
published in various places Mr.. Rice
has a good ear for rhyme and meter,
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Princess Flower Hat

by Mabel 0sgOod Wright. author of ssThe
Eercen OF q Commuters Wife, etc Pub-
lsheo by the Macmillan compapv New
YORK. Price 81 80.
One hardly needs TO explain who
Mabel osgood Wright is. for everybody
mas read the Barbara" stories either
IN magazine or book form. So when
Princess Flower Hat is announced
as Barbara book there is very little
10 say in a review notice. For the be-
nighted who are not acquainted with
Barbara and the garden of a COM
muter's wife, we would advise an in-
PRODUCTION. In this book. told by the
adorable Barbara herself. Princess
Flower Hat" is almost an old maid
She is 80 years old and has found no
interest in life worth speaking Of. She
goes out TO see Barbara one day and
tells OF her definite intention to lead
the simple life. She knows exactly
what she wants. too in the way Of a
suburban home.
7 must have a whole house, If only
four rooms, with its feet on the ground,
and enough space for IT 10 swing its
arms and express its own views In.
without either boxing its -neighbors'
cars or being overheard. A Jolly, fat.
ltle house, with deep porch like a
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Gale Young Rice has acquired so sure
place among the poets of the day
that a little adverse criticism may not
hurt him. Song Surf is the rather
presumptuous title of his latest collec-
tion of poems, all of which have been
published in various places. Mr.. Rice
has good ear for rhyme and meter,
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-25

Many OF the poems from this volume
fairly clarnors for quotation, but space
forbids The book is recommended to
all lovers of poetry and Will convert
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-25

~The Zodiac Birthday Book" is the
title Of Beatrice Baxter Ruys Christ
mas ofering. II is large volume,
showily printed and bound with deco
rations from signs Of the zodiac printed
The San Francisco call., 1910-12-25

by Mabel Osgood Wright. author of ssThe
sreen OF Commuters Wife" etc Pub
lsnec ~ the Macmillan company New
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02

a bushel onions. 40 per cent, and
cranberries, 25 per cent
Between bites Willie tries to decide
whether to take a double helping of
the rice pudding, tariff-taXed cents
a pound for the rice; sugar, taxed $40
cents a pound, and raisins 1-2 cents
a pound, or one helping of the pud-
ding and a piece of peach cobbler-
peaches tarff-taxed 25 per cent
When the hunger is finally APP
peased time can be taken, while
chewing the toothpick, taxed cents
per 1000 and an added 15 per cent on
their wholesale value, to gaze at the
flowers, taxed 25 per cent, which ma
bought at the corner florists, to make
this Sunday dinner a little different
from the weekday affairs.
While Willie and Lucy are calmly
munching their candy. taxed all the
way up to so per cent, pa makes for
his briar pipe, taxed 35 per cent, and
fills it with scrap tobacco, taxed So
cents pound. and ma cleans up the
table.
Oh, yes; to go back to the begin
ming of this Sunday dinner, the bless
ing pa asked on the tariff-taxed food
was not taxed in the Payne-Aldrich
bill.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02
1t Was q Mighty Good Dinner.

When ma has the Sunday dinner
ready and rings the good old dinner
bell, tariff taxed As per cent, the
hungry tribe" hustles for the dining
room.
You and Willie and Lucy are seated
on chairs, taxed 35 per cent, facing a
table, also taxed 35 per cent, before
the last dong has faded away.
Then grasping knife and a fork,
both tariff-taxed 40 per cent, you care
fully gather up the napkin, taxed only
/ ga cents and an additional 80 per
cent if it is just ordinary linen. and
reminding Willie not to place his
dripping spoon, taxed not less than 40
per cent, on the clean table cloth,
taxed not to exceed cents a square
yard with an additional 80 per cent.
you start in.
Ma brings in the roast beef, taxed
l 1-2 cents a pound, or maybe it's
chicken, taxed cents a pound. in a
nice large platter, taxed SIS per cent,
which by the way is the Payne-Ald-
rich tax on all the dishes on the table.
Ma thinks that Willie and Lucy
should not drink coffee, so into their
IS per cent tariff-taxed cups she pours
some chocolate, taflI-tdXeu IL cent
a pound. and some cream which is al
so taxed cents a gallon in the tariff
bin because two of the monster dairy
concerns in the United States needed
protection against the pauper cows
Of Canada.
Maybe ma and you will take butter
milk and there's a tariff on that too
2 cents a gallon.
Then the real business of the hour
begins in earnest.
Scattered in tempting display over
the laden table, your rowing eye finds
bread taxed 25 per cent, through the
flour in it; butter taxed cents a
pound: beets, 25 per cent; beans, 12
cents a pound; pickles and sauce, 40
per cent; cabbage, cents a head;
honey, 20 per cent; potatoes, 25 cents
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02
MODERN OPEN AIR TREATMENT.

Time was when doctors used to
bleed weak Ind emaciated patients.
and thus make them weaker and
more emaciated. In those same good
old days consumptives We're kept In
close, unventlated rooms. and slowly
put to death by misdirected kindness.
And In that same era school chill
dren who lacked muscle and strength.
and We're less vigorous and healthy
than their fellows. We're coddled at
home and in school were kept near
the hot stoves and away from every
draft of fresh air. They breathed the
vitiated atmosphere of the ordinary
school room which had been breathed
over and over again by all the other
scholars in the same room. Every
avenue to good health was closed
against them and most of them died
What a change has taken place in
the past few years. Doctors rarely,
if ever. bleed patients now. Con-
sumptives are turned our of doors
away from heaters and stoves and
registers. and puny school children
are now taught in tents in warm
weather and in cold. with no fires ia
burn the oxygen out of the air and
no other walls than those of thin can
vas to protect them from drafts
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02
Stomach Troubles
Cured by VinOl
HERE IS PROOF

II suffered so long from stomach,
trouble and indigestion, that 1 lost
flesh rapidly VINOL cured me
after everything else had failed. It
strengthened my digestive organs
gave me hearty appetite, and I
can eat anything without the slight
est distress. l do not believe any
thing equals VINOL for stomach
trouble and indigestion" M
w. E. WAREHOUSE,
Portland, Me.
Mr.. Thos. G Wallace, of Detroit,
Mich, writes, 81 suffered for years
from a chronic stomach trouble.
VINOL entirely cured me after
everything else had failed"
1t is the curative medicinal ele-
ments of the Gods liver, combined
with the Strengthening properties
of tonic iron contained in VINOL,
which makes it so successful in re-
storing perfect digestion, and at
the same time building up the weak
ened rundown system.
Trya bottle of VINOL with the.
understanding that your money will
be returned if it does not help you.
FRIED L. JANDCK. Dr-sutst,