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New-York tribune., 1911-11-11
SEALED LIPS.
THE SUBSTITUTE PRISONER. BY
Max MARGIN. illustrated. l2mo, PIP.
30t AIoffat Yard x Co.


Max MARGIN. Illustrated. limo, PIP.
30i. Moffat. Yard Co.
Murdered men in fiction are terribly
inconsiderate. They always breathe
their last in circumstances clearly point
ing TO the physical impossibility of their
having been got at" by any human
creature from the moment Of their last
appearance alive TO the discovery or
their dissolution. In the case OF Mr.
Herbert Whitmore, who dies in the
fourth chapter OF THE Substitute Pris-
oner." the victim Of a dreadful crime is
not only thus neglectful Of the conven-
ience of the police. but he has so ar
ranged things in his last hours as TO
make confusion worse confounded. There
are several persons in the book who
murder with the greatest ease, but by
some hocus- pocus their lips are sealed.
II does not matter If one fCure or an
other in the group is actually accused OF
the crime. That only makes him or her
the more secretive. obviously Mr. Mar
rim has written puzzling tale. 1t Is, In
fact, puzzling enough to persuade the
reader to go on to the end. On the other
hand. the story in its length and breadth
is not particularly clever. There Is
something commonplace about it. We
arc puzzled, but somehow miss the enter
tainment which belongs to the really
good story of this kind. There is lit
tie less of the atmosphere OF veritable
life than we have a right to expect even
in the average sensational novel.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11
DARTMOOR AGAIN.
THE BEACON. Ey Eden Phllpotts. J.
Do. 80. The John Lane Company.

THE BEACON. Ey Eden Phillpotts. l2mq
PIP 80. Tie John Lane Company.
Mr.. Phillpotts has been reproached
with overindulgence in the description
OF the rugged landscape of the corner Of
England which he has made his own in
fiction. but it's beauties and stern gran
deur ever renew their impressiveness rs
he unfods them time and again before
our eyes. More to the point is the OBJ
servation that he is showing an in
creased inclination TO deal again and
again with certain situations in life, ap-
preaching them from different points Of
view. as he approaches his chosen set
ting. 1t is thus in his new story. Once
more he traces to final tragedy the ca
rcer of the strong, aspiring woman who.
between a weak man and a masterful
one. chooses him who she thinks, needs
her most, the man who prefers the valley
to the heights of the Beacon i'm their
cCurting days, thus symbOlizinG the fate
IL. common that is to be theirs. And
the strong man bides his time until the
ton. The end is tragedy. the tragedy OF
many an earlier tale of Mr.. PhiIlpotts's s
Dartmoor people. That this repetition OF
background and the essence of plot leads
also to a repetition Of fundamental char
acter traits is unavoidable and yet the
sombre imprcssivcness of environment
and the dramatic power Of plot and
characters Of the new tale are unde-
niabe. Mr.. Phillpotts remains an ad-
mirabe artist in the maturity of his
poVcre
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11
Literary .NesOs ana Criticism
Forty Years in the Life of an
American Soldier.

SERVING THE REPUBLIC; Memoirs oil
the Civil and Military Life OF Nelson
4. Miles. Lieutenant General. United
States Army. Illustrated, SNo. Pr. Si"'
Harper & Bros
An autobiography only so far as his
professional life is concerned, General
Miess book is record Of events, not or
people. He draws no new portraits Of
long and distinguished career brought
him in contact practically the only eX-
ception to this rule being his brief de-
scriptions and characterizations of the
Indian chiefs whom he met and de-
fcated His great contemporaries Of the
Civil War appear in his pages only as
planners of campaigns and winners II
les-ocCasonally as losers-matters
OF strategy and tactics, of aims, results
and consequences being tersely discussed
for the benefit of the layman. He has
not attempted, wisely one thinks to add
one more TO the many brief general his
tories of the Civil War. but has, again
wisely, gone minutely into his Indian
campaigns. a definitely closed chapter OF
our history for whose ultimate writing
II is well TO gather all the material, all
the "reminiscences of the participants
than can be made available. 1t is owing
no doubt, TO this preoccupation with
events rather than with persons that
General Miles tells the story OF the
Spanish war without once mentioning
the name CT the deeds of its most pictu-
rescue parsonage in. the field on our
side. He briefly refers to the armies
Of Europe as he had opportunity TO
Judge them toward the end Of his' SER
vice. and throughout he devotes ample
space to the development and interests
of our army, which he has always had
at heart.
Nelson Appleton Miles was born at
Westminster, Mass. on August ), 1883
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11
|EIARPERS'
|H n zoe ka ~
The
Iron Woman
By Margaret Deland

When a book has been out a
month or so it is customary to ad-
vertise it by printing the kind
things that critics have said. But
THE Iron Woman" presents new
problem. The food of praise is
already beyond all usual bounds.
In fact, it is difficult to quote what
the great critics say and still keep
within the bounds of self-restraint.
Mrs. Deland pictures youth-dewy,
virginia. youth-in all its tender
ness, its foolish obstinacy, and gen
erous impulsiveness, with truthful
idealism. Not only the novel of
the year, but the book of many
years"
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11
Tales from India.
BOOKS OF THE WEEK.
ART.

ALBRIGHT DURER: HIS ENGRAVINGs ANp
WOODCUTS illustrated. l2mo. pp 10
lxy. (The Frederick A. stokes Company
The text gives a brief biographical ske.saa
OF the artist, an account OF his WORK. sn'
a short survey OF the development ~ eh
craving, with some account of the Narlous
processes There Is photography ana
complete chronological list OF Durer eh-
cravings and woodcuts We have also -
ceiyed Andrea Mantegna and the ltai,a"
Pre- -Raphaelite EngrRvers' and John va
phael smith and the Great Mezzotinters ..
the Time OF Reynolds In the same sew, se,ss
Of the Great Engravers," edited by Arthur
NJ. Hind.
LITTLE BOOKS ABOUT OLD ENGLISH FIh-
NITURE by J. T. Blake and A. r. ~
vcrs Hopkins Volume L. Tudor 10 s,ua" %
Volume II. The Period OF Queen A,s ,sS
Illustrated. l2mo. pp. xi, i24 vln' '''
Crhe Frederick A. Stokes Company
guide to the collector Of modeiase
means, Offering suggestions and intofina,slon, ,,
The first volume deals with the period isSrs mo,s
early times to James IL: the secon1 CO., a.
the time from William ana Ma''
George /.
CEILINGS AND THEIR DECORATIONS IN NJ
and Archaeology. BY Guy Cadogan H" Ssi
cry. Illustrated l2mo, pp' NV
tThe Frederick \. Stokes Company
The first volume In series deyc,su ~
House Decoration" this book urea" a.
the evolution OF roof and ceslins' Hoi"
Hest times to the present day
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11
Adrian
Savage
By Lucas Malet

This new novel reveals the
author of "Sir Richard Calmady'
at the height of her power. Savage
is a distinguished young man OF
letters, the son of an English father
and a French mother. He is ar
IDENTIFY in love with a young and be-
witching Frenchwoman. An Eng
lish girl, lacking beauty and charm
awakens Adrian's innate chivalry,
and Savage is placed in the awk-
ward position of declining a ladys
unspoken love.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11

sary." She is described as giving the
impression of a woman Of less than
middle age; she has a mass of short
curling hair and frank smile. AS for
her theory Of novel writing, she declares
that she should not care TO work unless
high ideal Of life before the readers who
follow their adventures.
The Cause of Depressons.
Mr. G. c. Hulps book on Industrial
Depressions," which is coming from the
Stokes press, was read in manuscript by
MIR. James j. Hill, who made these COM
ments upon it: You strike bedrock in
making the desire for gain, and not any
abstract or theoretical cause, the ulti-
mate explanation Of industrial operations
and their changes Equally true is the
prescription of publicity, with the care
full adjustment of demand and supply, as
sons."
Bargains.
found in old book boxes, Mr. c. X.
Shorter reminds his readers Of the case
of Shelley's Address to the Irish Peo-
Pile" 1t was a little pamphlet, copies Of
from the windows of house in Dublin.
The price of this pamphlet was a penny;
the last uncut copy in the market sold
for $3.50 (Sl.250). The paragrapher con-
tends that there are plenty Of bargains
still to be picked up.
Oh, Indeed!
The state of American literature seems
parlous In the eyes of some English
writers. For example, the London
Globe" says. apropos of mistaken re-
port that one OF Mr.. Hardy's manu-
would not be a bad idea If American
millionaires were to turn their attention
to the authors of the United States. II
they were To set better standard Of
taste there might be more hope for
American literature, which in these days
uoes not count TOT much.
Poor Mrs. Pott.
Mrs. Pott, still pursuing her Baconian
craze. has published revised edition of
her book on Francis Bacon and His
Secret Society" Mr. Andrew Lang in
the course of a little fun with the vol
ume says that sample Of the lady's
logic Is worth mention:
In the Duke OF Northumberland ar
chlVes there is IA paper book'--a collection
or various pieces. on the cover Is list
OF the contents. which are very various
We ilnd (sOme OF them are no longer I'm
the book THE Concl lslon OF I.eycesters
commonwealth" The Speeches OF Six
Counsellors to the Prince OF Purpoole,"
Something of Mr. Francis Bacons about
the Queens Majesty" "Essaes by the
same Author" Richard H." Richard
III" "Asmund and Cornelia," "A play
called the Isle OF Dogs" According TO
Mrs. Pott. II is "a startling but undeniable
fact that the two Shakespeare plays are
found enumerated with other PLAYS not
known, In list of Bacon's works among
his papers" The list Is not merely a list
of Bacons works. two pieces only by him
are In that part of the list which contains
the titles OF pieces that have dropped out
of the paper book. On the same page OF
paper someb body has written quantity OF
scrbbles; the names of Shakespeare and
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11
Jennie
Gerhardt
By Theodore Dresser

This is great book. Floyd
Dell in Chicago Post. Best Amer
lean novel except 'Huckleberry
Finn" H. c. Mencken in The
Smart Set. George Moore might
have done it, but no other writer in
English. New York Herald. 1T
is art."-Kansas City ourn
Without hesitation apply the cpl
thet eat."-Edwin L. Shuman in
Chicago Record-Herald.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11
The
Ne'er-do-welI
By Rex Beach

Lots of 60, and a clean story
from start to finish. Helena
Record. Rex Beach's best book.
Will do more to make the
public appreciate the magnihcence
of the Canal work than anything
hitherto published" San Fran
cisco Bulletin. This story is a
corker. In incident, action, sur
prise, character drawing, and dia-
logue it is a genuine "toar de
force. "-Philadelphia Telegraph.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11
BIOGRAPHY.

THE PuI.ANTuRoPfC WORK or JOSEPH
INE SHAW LOWELL Containing .,her
graphical sketch OF Her lie lose,",a sp sra
With a Selection OF Her Public faprlsa sor
Private Letters Collected and Aridnsen -
Publication by william Rhinelander s,T" s,T"s
art. illustrated. svo. pp. SV as
Macmillan Company .,,
MADAME DE BRINNILLlERs ASp MIN
TIMES. lGSO 1919 By Hugh stokes a,,ssn
a frontispiece i'm photogravure and h'.rs trss
other Illustrations evo pp' XIV ''i' ~
John Iare Company 49,. -
4 study of French society m the ui,,s u,,ss
the N,routse with an account OF the ctins'
With which she Was charged, her u'a" ~
fence and execution. o
THE WIFE or GENERAL BoNAPAKIE *
Joseph Turquan. translates "0"
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11

clcfechan. Perheps the scots OF Amer
lea may like to aid in these projects.
The Burns cottage at Al.oway continues
to he fsycrite shrine for literary pill
grims. In the year ended September 80
il was visited by i3.1i7.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11
CARLYLE MEMORIALS.

The plan for the erection Of Carlyle
memorial statue in Edinburgh has halted
for lack Of a final $1,000. The same sum
is wanted for the completion of the pur-
chase fund of the Carlyle house at Ec-
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11

English minor fiction which has brought
so much pleasure to thousands Of read
ers and which has Of late years been Ill
but submerged by other wares, loudly
cried In the marketpace.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11
Under
Western Eyes
BY Joseph Conrad

Long after the author is gone
those who care for remarkable lit
erarv craftsmanship will be reading
this tremendous, terrific, gaunt, re-
IentIess novel of Russian tempera-
ment of inevitable tragedy--a story
of grim fascination.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.

\ biography Of William Makepeace
Thackeray is announced. II is, however,
not the novelist-who has already suf
fered considerably from biogra piers. in
spite Of his request to be let alone-who
is being dealt with this time 1t Is his
grandfather, after whom he was named
The look is said 10 give an entertaining
description of life in India just after the
episode of the Black Hole of Calcutta. in
the middle of the eighteenth century.
Mr. Locke's New Novel.
stella, an invalid orphan living with
an uncle and aunt. is the heroine of Mr.
w. J. Lockes new novel Under the
, title of stella Maris" ("Star Of the
sea'). the story will he printed in The
Century next year. The opening chap
ters will appear in the January number
William James in France.
VI. Emile Boutrouxs book on William
James, translated by Mr. a. Henderson.
is coming Immediately from the house of
Longmans, Green & Co This firm is
also bringing out the Memoirs and Let
ters" of Sir Robert Morier "A work i'm
which the events that went to make up
the history OF Germany from 1888 TO
1896 are discussed from the point OF view
OF one having inside knowledge.
The Author Of "The Rosary"
THE Rosary" is a novel which has had
prodigious success in this country ld
I'm England 1t has been thought that
the author was an American, but this is
mistake. She Is very much an Eng
iish woman, the wife of clergyman i'm
| liertfordshr.. She Is tho mother of
eight children, one Of whom is a parson
IN the Australian bush. Mrs. Barclay.
attempt the writing OF novels until t o
years ago, when she produced "The Ro-
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11

THE BROKEN WALL Stories OF the
Mngllng Folk. BY Edward A. Steiner;
illustrated. The Fleming II. ReVeh
Company
New-York tribune., 1911-11-11
FICTION
Slackmail and Murder, Tragedy
and Comedy.
D BLAcKNAILING GENIUS.

THE YELLOW LETTER BY William
Johnston With illustrations by Alex
andcr POpini. l2mo. PIP. SOl Ihe
Eobbs- Merrill Company.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-08
MRS. DORA HAY
STABBED kERSEi,
IT IS ALLEGED
Noted Divorce Now Sought
by Virginia Police.
HAYS DEATH RECALLED

The name of the mysterious
woman who, on the morning of
July 4, stabbed Charles Harvey
Kersey, of this city, during poker
game at the Grand View Hotel,
Hampton, Va, was learned yester-
day from reliable sources, although
the authorities made every effort to
keep the name secret. According
to a dispatch from Hampton last
night, the guilty woman is Mrs.
Dora Hay, supposed to be the di-
vorced wife of a son of the late
Secretary of State John Hay.
MYSTERY IN DEATH.
Secretary Hay had two sons, Clarence
and Adelbert Stone Hay. 1t is sup
posed that the accused woman is a d.
vorced wife OF the latter, who was kill
ed June o, 1901, by falling out of the
third story window Of the New Haven
House, at New Haven, Conn. He was
not known to be married, but the ap-
pearance after his death OF a mysterious
woman, who tried to lay claim to his
estate as a widow. seems to point to the
fact that he was entangled in some way
with woman, probably Mrs. Dora Hay
Mr.. Hay was graduate of Yale, in
the class Of '9s. and on June Q, 1901, he
went to New Haven with the intention
Of attending the commencement exercises
Of the university. He went to a theater
with some friends on the night Of June
.. and the following morning was found
in front of the hotel, beneath his win
dow. from which It was supposed he had
fallen during the night. There was talk
of suicide, but the cause Of his death
was never definitely settled.
Mr.. Hay was for a time consul general
to Pretoria, capital of the Boer republic,
and only several days before his death
his name was selected as probable as
sistant secretary to President Mckinley
to succeed Maj. Pruden. He had two
sisters, Alice and Helen, and these were
married To two of his classmates. Helen
married Harry Payne Whitney and Alice,
on Septen Der 30. 1902. married James w.
Wadsworth, son of Representative Wads-
worth.
Prominent ms DIvorcee.
Mrs. Dorf. Hay is known as a promi-
nant 5ivorcee. After plunging a fork
into Kersey's neck, the woman escaped
With other members of the party in a
motor boat and disappeared among the
cnves of Chesapeake Bay. The author
itics are still securing the bay for them
Another woman in the gay party was
known as Mrs. Kersey," although 1t is
known that Kersey is unmarried.
Kersey is at Dixie Hospital, at Hamp-
ton. where 1t is reported there is now a
chance for his recovery. The fork stab
punctured an artery OF the neck and par
aIyzed his tongue. Kersey is a travelling
salesman for a New York firm, and is
we'll known in Washington. At one time
he was employed at the Land Office, max
ing surveys in the West.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-08
RUNAWAY'S DRIVER
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
Faints After Struggle with
Horse on Bridge.

After vainly striving to stop a run
away horse in Pennsylvania avenue
northwest, near the bridge that spans
Rock Creek, yesterday afternoon, about
3:15 o'clock, Albert McIllveen, thirty
six years old, of s25 New Jersey avenue
northwest, collapsed and was taken to
Emergency Hospital. suffering from
hysteria. After being treated he was
permitted to go to his home.
The horse took fright near Twenty
fourth street and dashed through Penn
sylvania avenue. When the horse
neared the bridge several wagons were
crossing, and the animal, in an attempt
to avoid these vehicles, tried to jump
over the rail. He succeeded in
getting his front feet over the rail.
The driver jumped from his seat and
got the horse back on the bridge. Then
McIllveen tainted and was taken to the
hospital
The Washington herald., 1911-07-08
COOLING BREEZES BRING
VITALITY TO NEW YORK

New York, July 1.-THE benignant
breath of the sea renewed the waning
vitality OF the town to-day, and before
nightfalI folks began putting on their
coats again. From early morning until
late tonight the breezes were either
directly from the Atlantic or slantwise
across a cooling section Of It from the
southeast.
The mercury reached a maximum OF
81 degrees, at noon, which was only
one degree less than 1t registered on
the day before. Then II began TO fall
rapidly, going down 10 degrees IN two
hours.
The dark hours OF the morning were
very. hot, and men. women. and chill
dren, devitalized by the heat Of other
days and nights, succumbed; that is
why, although the coolness came, there
were deaths ana .prostrations.
Fifty-nine persons were overcome by
the heat In Manhattan, the Bronx, and
Richmond. There were no deaths In
these boroughs reported to the police
to-day due 20 heat.
Fifteen persons were prostrated by
the heat in Brooklyn. There was one
death.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-08
BORDWELL TO TRY
MCNAMARA CASES
Alleged Dynamiter Must
Answer Murder Charge.
Special To The Washington Herald.

Special TO The Washington Herald.
Los Angeles, Cal, July Judge wal
ter Bordwell, Of the Superior Court, de-
cided this afternoon that he has the
authority to try the cases preferred
against J. ]. Mcnamara, who is accused
Of murder by dynamiting. Counsel for
the Mcnamara brothers urged yesterday
that the court here has no Jurisdiction
over ]. J. Mcnamara They alleged that
the prisoner was not before the bar on
the warrant on which he was extradited
from Indiana, and that his extradition
was secured by fraud and misrepresen-
tation.
In overruling these allegations, Judge
Bordwell stated that the weight OF the
authority was against the contention that
an accused person must be tried upon the
charge on which his extradition was Sc
cured. In International extraditions such
a rule applies, the court said, but in in
terstate extradition a number Of Supreme
Court decisions held that the accused
did not necessarily have 10 be tried upon
the charge on which he was first arrested.
In commenting upon the alleged fraud
ulent manner in which Mcnamara was
brought here from Indianapolis, Judge
Bordwell stated that 1t was not within
his province to investigate this. He
stated that such accusations, IL true. were
disagreeable, but denied that he should
hold that the allegations warranted the
release Of the accused.
In commenting upon this District At
torney Fredericks stated to the court that
-
fraudulent representations knowingly,
and that the finding of the Indianapolis
court exonerated Assistant District At
torney Ford from the allegation Of kid
mapping and irregularity.
This afternoon Assistant Attorney Ford
began his reply to the attack which the
lawyers for the accused men have made
upon he grand jury indictments against
J. ]. Mcnamara. Ford, will continue to-
morrow, when the case will be concluded.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-08
AGED SPECULATOR
NEAR BREAKDOWN
James R. Keene Fears Ill.
ness Will Bring End.
special Cable to The Washington Herald.

Special Gable to The Washington Herald.
London, July flames R. Keene,
broken down mentally and physically, is
at the Carlton Hotel after stay of
several months in sanatorium in Italy.
A corps of doctors and nurses, in charge
of De Courcey Forbes, are constantly
within call of the aged financier, his
condition having reached the stage
where a fatal relapse is expected at any
moment His condition is said by his
physicians to be due to old age and strain
Of his active life.
1t is said that Mr.. Keene has ex-
pressed the hope that he will be able to
reach New York and there spend his few
remaining days. Mr.. Forbes sympathizes
with this desire, and will accompany the
patient hcme when he is able to under
take the voyage.
The Washington herald., 1911-07-08
OUR NAVAL BUDGET.
800, ,OOO.OOO to BE Spent Next Yea
to Make Peace Certain.

500, 100000 to BE Spent Next Year
to Make Peace Certain.
The naval programme for the fiscal
year ending in 1913 is calculated to make
the heart of Hobsonite glad. 1t pro-
vides for the expenditure Of one hundred
millions of good, hard, American dollars
Four monstrous battle ships and over a
score of destroyers and smaller war
craft are included in the list that will be
called for in OF .er that war can be
made impossible by having the nation
so strongly armed that no foreign zoe
will ever dare make so bold as to at
tack with hostile intent. Big guns for
the big ships, defenses and munitions of
all sorts will tend to render easy the ex-
pendture of one hundred millions of the
peoples money.
|. Mr.. Carnegie's peace fund looks in
significant when placed in comparison
with the expenditures that are being
made for war.