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"CROWDS''


BY Gerald Stanley Lee. Doublepage &
Co. New York
Crowds, by Gerald Stanley Lee,
means business.
In fact, it is business, and by a good
many people has been called the inter-
probation of the inspiration behind tho
efficiency movement. BY others it has
been compared to the nlmitable writings
of c. X. Chesterson. But Crowds" is
as distinctly American as Chesterton is
distinctly English
In q previous note the general dedica-
ton of Crowds was given The vol
ume. however is made up of five books
as follows: Crowds and Machines"
Letting the Crowd Be Good" Letting
the Crowd BE Beautiful Crowds and
Heroes" and Good News and Hard
Work. each with separate dedication
as follows: ! Christopher Columbus. III
Abraham Lincoln, III Wilbur Wright
and William Marconi, ~ Walt Whitman,
V To Anybody.
The dedication Of book H. which is
brief enough, to allow of quotation, is
Interesting:
.'They stay not in their hold
These stokers
Shopping to hell
To lind ship.
Below the ocean floors.
Before their awful doors
Bathsd in flame
hear their human lives
Drip-drip
Through the lolling aisles of comrades
In and out of sleep.
Troops of faces
TO and fro of happy feet,
They haunt my eyes.
Their murky faces beckon me
From the spaces of the GOODNESS fof the
sea
Their fitful bodies away against the
skies
Mr.. Lee will be remembered as the
author OF Inspired Mllionaires,'' which
took England by storm year or so ago
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When Kings Collect

King George recently declared that
some OF the happiest hours OF his life
have been due to his hobby of stamp coll
lecting. He has one of the three finest
collections In the world. But most Of the
sovereigns of Europe have their pet coll
lections. too, says Pearson's Weekly
The speciality of the King of Greece
who so recently met a terrible death az
the hands of a nassassin. was door ham
dies, ordinary and otherwise. He boast
ed of having sample of every make
know nto civilization When he visited
England last he left behind him trail
of handleess doors
The kaiser's pet hobby is the collecting
of ties. He is said to have over 5000
stored and cataloged, ranging from cot
ton ones in PUPPIES and yellows that
would startle a plough-boy to the cost
hestrspeclmens OF embroidered cravats
Fhe late King Edward was very proud
OF his collection Of walking sticks, of
which he had hundreds Two Of the most
interesting were made. one from pile
that had centuries ago supported old Lon
don bridge, the other from the famous
Boscobel oak. up which the prince who
was afterwards Charles H. once hid from
cromwells soldiers.
Queen Alexandra is the most expert
photographed among ROYALTIES She has
some 10000 photographs of her own taxi
ms. carefully described and numbered
AS most people remember. she published
book of views some years ago
King Alfonso has two collections, ons
of trophies of his career a 5 a sportsman.
the other-surely the grisliest collection
on record-belng mementoes of attempts
made upon his life. one item IL piece
OF skin from horse killed by the bomb
hurled at the Spanish king on his wedding
day, an other a bullet that Just misses
his head and shattered the glass screen
of his motor.
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eorrsIDE THE AK j.

BY Adelaide Holt. The John Lane Com
pany, New York
iOutside the Ark by Adelaide Holt.
Is an attraetively told tale. with many
outstanding features Hugh InsSip, a
prominent man of letters. marries a young
wife, whom he does not understand. be-
cause she is continually posing and never
her nautral self She Is also Jealous of
the beautiful but inca pacitated actress
Margaret Stair, for whom InslSp Is writ
ing play, and makes use of an ingenious
and shady trick to spy upon her husband $
motives. But Iris, the young wife. Is nor
entirely malignant character. for her
frail beauty and helplessness make a ten
der appeal for sympathy. The scene of
the novel changes at times from the bpb
of London life to the peaceful quiet of a
country vicarage, where the father Of
Iris, charming scholar, let's fall honeyed
words of wisdom and advice. or gently
chides his overzealous curate. The author
has a strong sense of humor as well as a
great power OF dramatic presentment
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She was interrupted by a little school
teacher who recited at great length
about how she had been pursued on Il
ship coming home one summer by a
person whose attention she did not care
to encourage
She related about how he got seat
opposite her at table and insisted upon
carrying on a conversation with her
She told about how he trailed after her
on deck, and how, when he wasn't say
ing anything, she could feel his dread
ful eyes just osling and staring at her.
This started things off like Fourth
of July skyrocket.
Then
First one woman and then another con-
tributed her story. all dealing with the
fatal charm of her own personality and
how it had at one time or another made
her the target of some pursuing, evil vii
lain.
One even told how one winter she
didn't dare go to church because every
Sunday at a certain corner the same man
stood to watch her go by.
She didn't know positively, but she
he was off in the dark somewhere
watching, the house in which she lived
Just here the man paused to explain
to me that he could no longer resist the
impulses of peepng out on the piazza
Carefully screened by a blind. he peered
through to have a look on the beauties
SO prosecuted.
Up to this time he had not suspected
that his sisters uninspired bridge friends
fitted into such romantic adventures
At the identical moment one of the
women turned to girl who was hidden
from his view and said
Now. Jennie. you've been working for
the past five years-ever since you left
school. You must have had experiences
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and his present book. which will be pub
lished simultaneously in that country,
has attracted much attention there as
1t has here.
Mr.. Lee is an American. and lives in
good old rock-ribbed New England. In
speaking of his book he recently said: II
admit that The Crowd would be the bet
ter title in the sense that 1t has defi-
mite meaning that everybody would un-
derstand at once.
ION the other hand. what my book is
for is to give the word new meaning
and not derogatory one. and l am not
writing about the crowd at ALL
THE BLOSSOM SHOP"
"A STORY OF THE SOUTH" BY Isla
May Mullins. Illustrated by John Goss.
l.. c. Page & Co.. Boston.
rhe Blossom Shop by lsa May Null
Inns, Is one of those exquisltely simple
and appealing stories of mother love
and sacrifice for little blind daughter.
written in delightful vein, combining hui
NOR and pathos. The reader will love lit
tie blind Eugene (the child had received
the name of her dead father and will
rejoice with the brave young mother,
the heroine of the story. when the child $
sight Is restored. There is a time for
rejoicing, too, when lost will Is found.
bringing wealth and release from all
worries, and the young mother is free to
accept the love and protection that in her
sorrow she had denied herself Southern
types are amusinsly contrasted with
those of the north; and the simple lam
guage and fine sentiment of the story
will charm readers of all ages.
THE CREEPING TIDES
B,' Kate Jordan With frontispiece nv
Lucius wolcott Hitchcock. Little,
Brown & Co, Boston.
Kate Jordan. whose new book. THE
Creeping Tides tells story of Green
wich Village, New York city. was her
self brought up In the neighborhood close
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BY Harold MacGrath Illustrated by
Andre Castaigne and Arthur Will
liam Brown. The Bobbs, Merrill Com
pany, Indianapolis
A. novel full of fine romantic color
with the glamor of the far east running
throught it and just touch of oriental
mysticism to add zest to the adven-
lures of the hero and the heroine Par
rot and Co. is story to charm any
reader who is looking for happy.
thrilling, breezy tale that is destined
to amuse and satisfy.
Harold MacGrath has written many
romances that have been accorded a
high place among the fiction produc-
tions of the last quarter of century
but In none does he carry the reader
completely away with him and en-
tertain as splendidly as in this, his lat
est novel.
Parrot & co. is pure romance-it is
a tale of the seven seas. Mr.. MacG-ath
has felt the fascination of the orient
and his excellent powers of observation
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DRUNKENNESS MORPHINE AND ALL
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Happy at
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FRECKLE-FACE
Sun and Wind Bring Out Ugly Spots,
How to Remove Easily

Here's a chance, Miss Freckle-face to
try remedy for freckles with the guar
antee Of a reliable dealer that 1t will not
cost you penny Unless it removes the
freckles; while II it does give you a clear
complexion the expense is trfilng.
Simply get an ounce OF othine-double
strength---from your druggist and
few applications should show you
how easy It Is to rid yourself of the
LONELY freckles and get G beautiful COM
plsxion. Rarely is more than one ounce
needed for the worst case.
Be sure to ask the druggist for the
double strength othine. as this is the
prescription sold uEder guarantee of
money back II 1t fails to remove freckles.
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to keep ON missing dreadful experiences
they were bound To come. sooner or
later.
Still another said that maybe men.
just by looking at Jennie. could tell
that they'd better not speak to her.
Some others sighted
Jennie's eyes flashed
And don't you think that men ever
speak to women on trains or boats?"
voice swas raised at concert pitch to
inquire.
Certainly they do" Jennie replied.
I've seen more men on boats and trains
speak to poor women and offer to help
with a sick baby or to get a physician
when needed than I've ever seen women
offering to help their fellow women
was on a train once In an awfully stuffy
little day coach, and ! saw a man dis
tinguished by every mark of gentle
man, walk the aisle all night with cry
ing baby. whose mother slept entirely
tired out and exhausted from nursing
the baby all day long. He had never
seen the woman before, and no one to
look at the awful creature-poor, wretch
ed, and sick-could say that anything but
the most humane feelings prompted him
in offering to help her"
The women were rather surprised.
THAT was only one of a dozen such
cases that have come under my observa-
ton" Jennie continued. "Drummers-,
the much maligned ones-are addicted to
sitting up with cases of croupy children
sometimes, in depot waiting rooms II the
poor family with the child can't be pre-
vailed upon to go to a hotel The noble
army of drummers. l think they should
be named that. And yet they are the
men who are usually alluded to as un-
derstanding the fan and handkerchief
| Irritation and whose reputation has been
| under cloud for years | wonder how
this ever came about Certainly not from
| any woman who knows what a homesiclS
| creature the average drummer is. Given
chance he beams and radiates If you
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"THE DREAM GIRL /.

BY Ethel Gertrude Hart. Illustrated by
Gordon Grant. Doubleday. Page & Co..
New York.
The Dream Girl wrote the most inti-
mate, delightful. fanciful letters that ever
peguiieo the weary hours of an invalid
MAX needed comforting Just then. The
injuries he had sustained when he saved
child from burning building were so
serious that 1t looked as If he never would
ne any better He hated people and he
mated violets- You have to read the book
to find out why. But he kept the violets
lhe Dream Girl' sent. though she said
burn them If YOU dare
When he got much better the letters
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lishman who is at heart an American.
He ewas American to the extent of let
ting his womenfolk manage him, until
at last he ediscovered that domesticity
was robbing him of his daring At
AZ the Old Adam in him revives, and
he starts out into the world to be spec
tacular. If his love for his family is
TO continue, he must astonish them
The story is an extraordinarily bril-
liant pience of work, picturing the sit
uation of a middle aged man who finds
that he is tending to live in rut
Mr.. Benefits hero gets out OF the rut
largely by the aid of an American. The
story includes a visit to New York in
which the hero sums up his vivid i'm
pfesslons in breath, II ends with the
return of the husband to the Five
ioWns, conquerer-no longer a cap
tive This is essential to Arnold Ben
nett, fun of life knowledge and Wig
orously light hearted
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BY DOLLY DALRYMPLE
The man could see her now.
LIE know HE rirl

The man could see her now.
lie knew the girl
Knew that she really attracts men,
men of all classes and conditions and
women as we'll, are her friends.
II these other uninteresting and hide
Gus women had found the world of men
wicked and ungalant lot. attractive. Jen-
ME must have had dreadful experiences
to relate
But
She merely laughed lightly
Con on-tell us" pleaded several of
the women at the same time. I'm
afraid" she said. that what [ might
tell YOU would prove duh and insipid
beside the marvellous experiences you
have had. No man--not a single soli-
tary one--in the whole five years that
II have been working, has treated me
with other than the most distinguished
consideration. | have never been in
suited or molested in any possible way.
No man, among all the men with whom
have worked has ever fallen in love
with me. I've Travelled all over this
country and the other-made midnight
trains in which l was the only woman,
and I've been travelling on all sorts and
conditions of boats from freight steam
ers TO the big ocean liners. MY work
has carried me out at night and
brought me home often early in the
mornins, yet ] can truthfully say that
never has there been a time when<I
did not feel protected and safe with
the men ] have met on my way"
A murmur of protest rang forth Il
this from the other women.
one declared that Jennies expe-
rienced We're entirely due to accident
Two others insisted that her people
ought not to allow her to run such
risks.
Another said that as young and
pretty as she was, she couldn't hope
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A Poor Substitute

From the Louisville Herald.
How did you enjoy your sojourn In
Englanc%'
- certainly missed baseball
They have no substitute for tbs
hport?"
None that suited me. A friendly chap
did offer to take me fox hunting"
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GETTY SBURG +"
BY Elsie Singmaster. Houshton, Milf
film and Company. Boston.

By Elsie Sngmaster Houghton, Milf
film and Company Boston.
Gettysburg means "battefield"- to
most of us. Yet before those terrible DAYS
In 1869, Gettysburg was thriving village.
and long before the field was set apart
as national memorial, the townspeople
were struggling to re-establish their auiet
homes ana resume their interrupted oc-
equations
There have been stories innumera BILE
written about the battle, but among them
all Miss Sinemasters new book, "Gettys-
burg, is unique, in that IT presents the
story from new point of view--the point
OF view of the townspeople across whose
lands the tide of battle swept. and whose
lives for half a century have been colored
by 1t. Miss Singmaster has lived all her
lie IN Gettysburg. ard she has combined
her intimate knowledge with her gift for
powerful narrative to tell not only of
soul-stirring events OF the actual fight
but also many incidents that grew from il
IN the 50 years aftermath. Her light
sure touch, misses nothing of pathos nor
Of humor and she has produced book
that is intimately human and absorbingly
interesting.
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THE OLD ADAM. Z"

BY Arnold Bennett George H. Doran
& Company. New York.
y Mr.. Arnold Benefits The Old Ad
am an adventure. American readers
WIN lind many traces OF his recent tour
IN the United States. He describes a
house in the Five Towns fitted nm Ia,
Enslishmen along the lines of Ameri-
can comfort As matter of fact this
Is e~eely what Mr. Bennett has done
FOR himself In new house which he
mas purchased near Colchester.
The Old Adam is the story of an Eng
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Who Never Talks of Home" and Par

Who Never Talks of Home.p and Par
rot q Co"
Cieverly the author gives the reader
peep behind the scenes. but Just at
the time that the latter feels he Is to
learn the secret in the life of the hero.
secret still veiled from the charac-
ters in the story, MacGrath leads him
away from the curtain. bewildered by
what he has seen and unable to guess
what finally will happen Thus the
element of suspense is sustained, the
reader kept constanely wondering how
1t all is going to turn out
Truly it is dashing, globe trottine.
romance, highly enjoyable. typically
original and absorbing from beginning
TO end. The characters who take the
leading parts are clearly delineated-
they live and breathe and move rapidly
before the readers gaze.
But beside the hero and heroine, with
ms usual tact and skill, MacGrath has
brought other long he remembered
ilsures into his narrative There are
the hero's native servant and his net
pafrot-Rajah, to whom he looks Cruz
soe-like for sympathy and consolation.
and who comes to play an important
part and add greatly to the excitement
before the tale is ended There is a
discredited gambler who longs 10 soc
again the dazzling lights of Broadway.
brutal but successful planter; an an
parently reserved. yet hearty and whole
souled' likable old British colonel All
OF them are real and true to life famil-
lar transplanted types of the for east
Dash and go characterize the action
which develops many predicaments. ex
citing thrills. much genuine, refreshine. @.
amusement, and romance that holds
the reader to every word so fascfnat-
lnSly mysterious viyidly pictorial and
delightfully."- original is the whole book
Parrot Go. is MacGrath at his hest
-MacGrath better than ever before.
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PARROT AND COMPANY.

man and moving, and has depicted its
development with power and brilliancy.
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ask him about his wife and children.
They are called gay. Well. maybe but
I've never seen one yet, whose highest
dream of happiness wasn't being able to
make it home for Sunday. Poor Emma
McChesney! II you've ever felt sorry for
a drummer, and she was the most remark
able female type; you remember her in
Edna Ferber's dandy story, Roast Beef
Medium drummer for Featherloom
Petticoats-wel she could tell YOU what
longing for home every drummer. male
and female. has in their heart She could
tell you that no man ever offered her
an insult, or treated her other than
though she were a lady,
"Ah, Jennie" one of the women said.
you are just girl still. in spite OF
yourself, and you Just don't know the
world of men and women about you"
We'll. whether / know it or not Pm
going on Just the same as IL ! did. Just
the same as I've been going on Jennie
flashed angrily. Believing the best of
men, knowing that IL | need them I have
only to say so and they are willing to
serve me- That makes me content No
man could ever misunderstood me. be-
cause | happen to understand them flrst.
a lady is recognized and respected by all
classes and conditions of men, wherever
she goes on the face of this green globe.
"Just here" the man said. as he was
telling me the story, 'T beat hasty re-
treat. Five minutes later, as / walked
out on the veranda innocently enough.
Just in time TO go home with Jennie. and
would you believe It, she didn't even al
lude to the conversation she'd had with
those women. I tried my level best to
work up TO the theme. to do something
to make her repeat it and ventlate her
views more fully, but not once would she
take the cue. 1t just goes to show what
queer things women will talk about. when
| the game is over and they're finishing
! up with refreshments"
stopped and he set out to find The
Dream Girl" who is after all very real.
OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED (REVIEWS
LATER.)
THE LONG WAY" BY Mary Inlay
Taylor. Little. Brown & Co.. Boston.
'HARPER'S BOOK FOR YOUNG
NATCRALISTS." BY A. Hyatt Verrlf.
illustrated. Harper Brothers, New York
THE DEBT ACCOUNT" BY Oliver
Onions. George II. Doran Company, New
York.
THE HILL OE VENUS" BY Nathan
Gallizier. Pictures by h. II. Garrett. l..
c. Page & Co. Boston.
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"THE OPENING DOOR. =

I'N JUSTUS Miles FOrman. Harner
Brothers, New York
\ new book from the pen Of Iustus
Miles Forman is always hailed with de-
light by a large reading public and in
hothins has he been happier than in
MS new story, The Opening Door,
1t is very we'll written and is inter
esting, and is another of those brill
liant chronicles of New York life in
which Mr.. Forman excells
The story takes up those questions
that are in the air. which every woman
must solve. as does the heroine when
the door or real life opens for her
But even these new forces cannot keen
loye-the Oldest force of all-ln me
background.
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'HARPER'S BOOK FOR YOUNG
NATURA1ISTS" BY A. Hyatt Verrlil.
illustrated. Harper Brothers, New York
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You are SO alone. and unprotected and
subjected to all Kinds of situations, in
which men are concerned.''
Jennie moved a bit closer.
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OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED REyIEws
LATER.)
THE LONG Way BY Mary Inlay
Taylor Little, Brown & Co., Boston.
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stopped and he set out to find The
Dream Girl" who is after all very real.
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Mos mems notion erbout
er IDEAL LUV AFFAIR is
one dat he had er lot NV
trouble gittin' INTO, an not
er bit Nv trouble gittin' OUT
Nv. Truf, Liz Honey.
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THE DEBT ACCOUNT" BY Oliver
Onions. George II. Doran Company, New
York.
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THE HILL oE VENUS" BY Nathan
Gallizer. Pictuyes. by h. II. Garrett. l..
c. Page & Co. Boston,