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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10
ANOTHER LADY PEGGY.

MY LADY PEGGY LEAVES TONN.
By Frances Aymar Mathews. FRONTS
piece. Emo, PIP xii. 372 Moffat, Yard
4 60.
\ gallant story, this, Of the modern
Lady Peggy" high-bred English girl
of to-day, who is the descendant of
the heroine of Miss Mathews's earlier
story. Lady Peggy Goes to Town.
She is a very fetching" person. with
her maiden aunt Miss Pamela Bur
goync her ladyship departs from the
Plaza, stealing mischievously off with
out a word. and thereby leaving smart
New York distracted and shrouded
i'm gloom. Some gloomy gentlemen
Sought further distraction in games
Of chance. some in decanters, some i'm
the society Of ladies who were also
fair. while three of them quilted town,
in search of my Lady Peggy herself
She had rugged up scheme which she
expected To produce a kind OF opera
comiquc. II does this and more.
Representing DtTStil as a NOuHb lhoN
and assuming the name of a former
admirer who, she understood, was
killed in the Philippines, the Lady
Peggy de Bohun finds that the comedy
takes on grim aspect when Kent
Gratiot. hunted as a spy. turns up at
the military barracks near where she
has gone and claims her as his Wife
a series OF unexpected and exciting adj
ventures follows. In one chapter Lady
Peggy finds herself confronted with
two simultaneous proposals. two pis-
tolls and a marriage ceremony:
You're dead mani Hammond cried
out Justify.
THAT / swear I'll never be- Lady
Peggy I'm trousers sang back.
Everything ends beautifully. The
book is written with light literary
touch and has plenty of go
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10
MUSIC AND MATRIM0NY
The Music of Love and the Love
of Matrimony.

COMPOSERS IN LOVE AND MAR
RAGE. by j. Cuthbert Hadden. With
phOtogravure frontispiece and twenty
four other illustrations. Svo, ~. 2sI
Charles Scribner's Sons
If our memory serves rs correctly.
we once heard it stated that all the
world loves lover. At any rate. we
have remarked that making books for
the trade" about the "loves" of the
great is a handsomely paying bust
ness. Mr.. Noel Williams. for instance.
has been sufficiently diligent in this
business to permit him. We should
imagine TO stand before kings Of lux
ury An ingredient appetiZing TO the
students of love for whom many of
the volumes upon this subject are 20
industriously prepared is toucn of
scandal. The great themselves usual
ly are very obliging in the matter of
supplying piquant copy" and with
much kindness to light biographers
often conduct themselves as wickedly
as some readers could desire. Mr..
Hadden has not seasoned his volume
richly i'm this respect He seems TO ad-
mire domesticity: and while he has
considerable lightness of touch, he de-
cidedly neglects indelicacy His pur-
pose is TO present the various compos-
ers dealt with in a peculiarly human,
as opposed 10 purely professional,
aspect. and TO gather within one cover
a body Of information which he con-
siders is not TO be found In the formal
and more technical biographies or
composers written by musical experts.
He is curious TO see how the genius
behaves himself in love and wedlock.
"A French cynic has said il is one OF
the surest signs of genius for man to
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10
FRENCH COTTONWOOD.
THE FEAR or LIVING. BY Henry
Bordeaux. Authorized English version
by Ruth Helen Davis. l2mo. PIP. "si.
T. T. Dutton * Co.

THE FEAR or III 49, ~ 49,
BordeauN. Authorized English version
by Ruth Helen Davis. Emo. PIP. "ei'
r. =. Dutton q co.
This novel. published in France IN
1907. has since been crowned by the
French Academy and has passed
through many editions. II is protest.
as the title sufficiently indicates, against
that suppression of the individual that
fear Of independence in the face OF ira
ditions and the powers that be- when
may be traced i'm all the relations OF
French life: i'm the fear of young men
and young women To take their fate
and happiness into their own hands III
stead Of tamely submitting To the suit
able" marriages arranged for them. in
the Willingness OF French youth To be
supported by its parents. and later by
the state; in the desire To 1--we softly,
pleasantly. avoiding all struggle for
existence as the Anglo Saxon knows
il: in the dread If public opinion that
makes towards Vt the servants OF the
state. in the lack Of energy that, 2c-
cordinc to VI. Bordeaux prevails, and
undermines the strength Of the nation.
Truth 10 tell, NJ. BordeauX's introduce
ton to his novel IS more interesting To
us than is the novel itself. NJ. Rene
Donnie lauds it in review reprinted
from the journal des Debats,' and
welcomes 1t as n wholesome reaction
from French naturalism To realism.
That simple realism. dealing with life
in it's normal averages. is no novelty to
rs We have had IT with us these many
wears. Which does not prevent the
book from being sympathetic, wei
written story Of the common lot rs
French life shapes ii when the preva-
lent fear II living is submitted to
without revolt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10
NEW NOVELS, GRAVE AND LlCHl
A Romance of Greenwich VIlage-M. Henri Bordeaux
on Contemporary French Life and Character
Adventure and Adventures

"groped blndly for support" Because
gray and black shadows enwound her;
the chimes of thousand distant bel
fries struck faint and thin, but with
infinite confusion. upon her. ears. Ana
goodness gracious. she fell close be-
side and beneath the little table. the
legs Of which terminated in knuckled
claws OF brass" Now, all this was be-
cause the aristocratic Gordon was so
jealous of the Englishman. Captain
Jolce. So he ordered his valet TO get
together his shooting things. and went
away off in the Canadian woods TO
pout. But. land sakes. Dorothy was
only fooling him. She didn't love the
Captain i'm the least, and it all comes
ont in the end as nice as can be for
everybody. Heaven, maybe only
knows why these two should have been
born.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10

marry foolishly" Now. ii might be
h Id that what frequently seems to the
man who is not a genius "A very fool
ish marriage is not so much so for the
genius himself. one mans meat is an
other mans poison. Perhaps, in the
interest OF his fortunes, it would DE
foolish for a junior clerk to wed ms
housekeeper's cook A man Of remark
able. Overbearing and erratic m!nd
might find union with such helpmate
the most compatible and useful ar
rangement for him. La Rochefoucauld.
however is reputed TO be wiser than
we land, alas, all women are not good
cooks; he observes that Love often
makes a fool of the cleverest man.
And again: 1T belongs only TO great
men to possess great defects" And,
indeed. in Mr.. Hadden's tolerant pages
there is some corroboratiOn of these
statements.
The author has pleasant turn Of
phrase. He calls his tale one "of mus
&c anu IildlTlIlOUNs nv NhdpN'i vi
Bach is headed The Prolific Parent
AS a specimen OF Mr.. Hadden's treat
ment of his subjects may be quoted
his saving concerning Johann Sebas-
tian Bach: "He has been called the
father Of music The designation may
be debatable. but there is 10 question
about his having been the father of
family of twenty" Inilammable bache-
lors will sympathize with the young
Mozart where he states that he has
never been in the habit of taking any
charge of his linen. and he thinks moth
ing more desirable for him than
wife. The music Of love, however,
more often than love Of matrimony Is
the tune of these pages. You remem-
Der the synonym" coined by the wit,
celebrated as a philosopher, Nietzsche,
for Franz List: List. or the Art or
Running After Women" Mr.. Hadden
might have said in one of several
places in his book Women. or the
Art of Running After Composers
This volume is not characterized by
German profundity of workmanship,
but il contains a collection of anecdotes
and is a rather chatty affair.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10
ANOTHER HIGH ROAD.

TIE ROAD OF LIVING MEN. BY VIII
Lexington comfort. F'rontispiecc by NJ.
Leone Brackert. l2mo. PIP. ~. Phlla-
delphia: The J. T. Lippincott Company.
To the average reader Mr.. Comfort
must appear 10 be a novelist divided
against himself Interested in the Dor
derand of the mystery of life, con-
stantly preoccupied with the psychic
and the subconscious and their phe-
nomena. a believer in reincarnation, he
is. at the same time. "A writer Of rat
Ting adventure. 1t is his combination
of these two elements which undouot-
edly gives him his special audience,
but which also must keep from him
larger doubling public. THE Road Of
Living Men" illustrates his divided-or
doubled-interest 10 perfection, and is
therefore fully representative Of his
work. Here is a visible world of ac-
ton. or danger and courage, linked 10
semi visible world of the spirit ana
the emotions. The hero and heroine
pass through the Boxer rebellion in the
interior of China. and there is rous-
ing closing episode at mining camp
on the frontiers of Peru and Ecuador.
a mo mans land" of untold riches,
which an American pirate financier has
seized and holds by force of arms. No
better tale of ingenious daring. OF
lighting and hidden retreat, con-
structed by prehistoric builders. could
he desired. AS for the emotional life
of the leading characters. that rises
above invention and Imagination To
poetic. mystic fancy. An interesting
who are in sympathy with Mr. Com
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10
ENGLISH LIFE.

WHO LAUGHS LAST BY Ashton Hill
lers Emo, PIP. V, al. q. !. Putnam 5
Sons
one of the entertaining things in
this entertaining world Is the study OF
language. There recently fell in our
way copy of "A journal devoted 10
the moving picture business. 1t was
delightful. II was written in lam
guage absolutely new under the sun.
We learned with pleasure that, among
other things. the many friends o. Mr..
So-and-So. who had appeared in so
many fascinating reels would regret
his retirement from the screen.
There is. too, for instance. the remark
able language of baseball, and there
used to be, before one went upstairs
guage of the sea. And visiting FOR
eigners from England have sometimes
said that they rather fancied the
United States language. Well, this
conscientiously wrought and artistic
novel of the present English well-to-do
classes. English sport and English
business exhibits in profusion an Eng
lish language that no American ever
could learn to speak gracefully and
with fluency. And if the English spoh
on i'm our own land to-day is some
thing far other than that the early
masters Of the tongue dipped from
the crystal springs at its source. it
would no more, we believe. give John
Milton start" than the gorgeous
vehicle for his thoughts employed 10y
Mr.. Wilbraham de Savigny Conyers
Winterbourne Chilly" To his friends).
sub-lieutenant, when the story opens,
in the East Wessex Regiment. or the
like parap hernalia for expression of
his family, friends and enemies. Read
ers Of good novels are acquainted with
Mr.. Killers, and will not be disap-
pointed In. this study. Lovers of trash
will be bored with the story OF Billy,
who innocently too innocently, we
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10
VERY LIGHT.

TWO SHALL BE BORN BY Theodore
Goodridge Roberts. illustrated. l2mo,
ID 30 Casscll & Co
Goodness knows what David West
lcy's house will do when it grows up.
"A tax; was summoned" Mr.. Wesley
Jumped in and gave the address Of his
own house, grotesque tower of place
which. though only thirty years old.
bulged upon the thoroughfare with
Moorish doorways and Gothic windows.
Norman battlements and Roman
porches." The reader, however, is not
permitted to observe much further the
actions Of this entertaining house in
it's early 30's. There occurs what
the author describes as 'rumpus."
Dorothy Gordon calls ii a "spat." Well,
anyway. Captain Walter Joice's face
event white as the marble of the clock
above the fireplace" Dorothy's face
event white as paper" Also, she
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10

life lies? The writer says: while the
youthful experiences of a writer are
unknown or imperfectly understood we
cannot hope to appreciate justly either
his mature work or himself. In TINS
study no striking new theory is put
forward and not many fresh details are
added. The material here. rendered
more generally available than here
tofore. is drawn from the letters
George Eliot wrote in early life, and
from those of her later years in which
she refers to her youthful aspirations
and experiences; from the books she
read in youth and the books she after
ward wrote. and from available ex-
ternal sources.
The England of .S10-the year in
which George Eliot was born-is
sketched: the Midland scenery and the
intellectual and religious atmosphere OF
the day. We glimpse Robert Evans in
his daily life and in his household, and
follow the development of his daugh-
ter Marion from a sensitive passionate
child into pious. interpretive maiden.
We follow this girl through her early
admiration for Sir Walter Scott, her
school days. housekeeping and studies
10 her first stages of free thinking, ana
observe the influences moulding her re-
markable character. George Eliots
work in London as reviewer and
essavist is dealt with at length. Then
comes the love story that Is an integral
part of the history of English lit
erature. Through her long APP
premiership to literature hope faded
and languished until the energy or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10
IN GREENWICH VILLAGE.

THE CREEPING TIDES. A Romance OF
an Old Neighborhood. BY Kate JORDAN
Frontispiece by Lucius Wolcot iltch-
cock 12mo. PIP. Sd. Boston: Litte'
Brown & Co.
Greenwich Village has lost much or
the picturesque importance 1t held IN
New York's fiction I'm the days OF
Henry Cuyler Bunner and Colonel
Carter Of Gainesville" 1t Is, as a
matter of fact. rapidly surrendering its
long maintained individuality 10 the
impcrious invasion of a world city
trade. The more welcome. then. tins
tale Of one of it's remaining hooks or
quiet and hiding. where two hunted
prescribed human beings find each
other. and find consolation as the
creeping tides Of discovery and expos
uro draw nearer and nearer TO their
weary feet Both are guilty yet gullt-
less. Both have paid the penalty OK
acted and more. but society never is
content with that. II must punish and
punish again TIL the end Of their days.
Hence their hidden existence in Green
wich Village. II would be unfair 10
author and reader to reveal more OF
plot that reaches from England TO
India and the Philippines. from Venice
and Newport 10 Fifth avenue. To tie
tho last threads ~ it's wool I'm an OBJ
scure New York street. under the
blackencd frcscoed ceilings. behind the
battered Domingo mahogany doors OF
a Knickcrbocker mansion long fallen
from its high estate.
There is romance a-plenty here; the
romance ~ maturity that has lived and
suffered. that knows life and its cost
and the value Of the rare boon Of hap
pincss. The story is not made 10 serve
as "A vehicle for topography or local
historic lore. Greenwich Village serves
only as a background, but no better
no other background could have been
found i'm New York for just the kind
of story this is.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10
A GARDEN IN SPAIN.

THE LIFE MASK. a Novel By 9 9.s
autbor of "'To NJ. l.. c." Emo, PIP. 3io.
The Frederick \. Stokes Company.
ITO NJ. l.. G," the reader will per-
haps remember. was the confession
of her past made by an American
actress to the man she would not
marry unless he knew the truth. He
learned il through her story. and, so
the tale was told, brought her happi-
ness by marrying her. This time Mrs
NJ. l.. c.. as we may call her, tells
fictional tale, an invention Of her own.
The scene is laid in Granada, within
sight of the Alhambra. The plot Is
fundamentally a repetition Of the moth
Of her autobiography. for ii hinges on
a hidden past, though one of diifer-
ent kind. since it is matter Of crime,
not morals. The heroine. like her au-
thor has conscientious scruples against
allowing a man TO give her his name
i'm ignorance Of dark cloud that fol-
lows her wherever she goes. threaten
ing certain social ostracism 10 wno-
ever links his fate with hers. But,
this being fiction. there is a possibil-
ity Of a happy ending. for behold,
knowing herself innocent the woman
finds the guilty one in a person near
and dear to her, the only friend left
10 her after the dark deed and its
legal consequences. The plot can be
outlined only in generalities, since the
readers interest in the book largely
depends upon his ignorance of it until
the proper moment is reached. For
the rest. this is good average novel
for feminine consumption.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10

onotber UveIier nature suddenly re-
vived it, the great effort was mace anu
the artist found her true WORK
Early full of self-distrust' quarty OIL
mind inherited the writer pele'es'
from, ber father. along with his love OF
good work and his general uprightness
of character. the future commanding
novelist came to that fatahstic we"
which has ever been the supporting
pbilosophy of conscious genius soreiy
tried. At about thirty-elght years Vi
age she wrote to an old friend:
am very happy-happy in the highest
hleeeino no can give us. the perfect love
and sympathy of nature tlat st YIN, ~
my own to healthful activity; iee'' w.,
that all the terrible pam nay. az.
through In past years. pa,u xiv from out
fects OF my own nature, party itoiri rona-
ward things, has probably Deen a 20,
ration for some special WORK tha' may
do before | die.
Tho nhenomenon of genius has been
defined in all sorts of ways-hard "o'A'
capacity to take pains. and so on Inc
thought has often been in our own
head that the handspring of TINS singu-
lar thing is sometimes to be iound III
that singularly rare impulse, deep
desire to make something for poster
ity. something to gladden. and chasten
human hearts in years 10 come. Az
any rate. George Eliot had such de-
sire profoundly. This CONSCIENTIOUS
studv follows the course of her earthly
and spiritual pilgrimage up to the Tune
Of the beginning of the production or
those novels she wrote which the world
does not as yet seem disposed willingly
to let die.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10

forts views and ideas. AS to the MIN
ing adventure. that is rousing good
material, the more so as it introduces
us to at least two well delineated SOL
diers of fortune.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10

think FORCES a check, is broken by MS
half-brother, Mr.. Samuel, the banker
but lives TO know love and to see some
body laugh last.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Present
and to Come.

1t is reported that the portrait
Of Mr.. Henry James which Mr.. John
6. Sargent is about TO paint, will
eventually pass into the possession Of
the nation"-the British nation being
understood 1t will presumably go into
the National Portrait Gallery as
souvenir the life in England Of both
sitter and painter, souvenir TO the
purchase of which VI James's English
and Continental friends have contrib
uted. It may be that in days to come
the picture will be exhibited 10 that
famous New Zealander as the portrait
of British author.
Osler's Lectures at Yale.
The lectures on the evolution OF
modern medicine which Sir William
Osler is delivering at Yale will be pur
lished by he Yale University Press
richly illustrated volume.
Are Cheap Books Ruinous?
4 burning question is thrown a Tue
writer's and marketers Of books y the
English periodical. The IMPRINT
one who signs himself "A das'er
Printer" declares therein that tie null
tipIication of cheap books is running
author. printer. publisher AMI BOOK
seller alike. Work is being done all
over England. he says. at prices when
can't give a profit TO anybody con-
cerned. "A decent price he eXcaims'
for the printer. the papormaker 'he
blockmaker. the binder and the WORK
man may mean fewer books. Nhst
glorious prospect. Fewer books ana
more profits" Another phase OF me
subject might DE considered. "hy
not fewer publishing firms in England!
why crowd trade as soon as II ue-
gins to look profitable and so spoil
all around from the commercial point
OF view?
A Brocaded Atmosphere.
The novelist Gabrielle d'Annunzio mas
added an illustration TO the list Of a'-
thors' whimsical fancieS. IL appears
that when he goes travelling ne IT,
sists on taking about with him every
where n long piece Of very wonaerlu'
brocade Of the fifteenth century. lhs
he hangs round the walls Of his no'ei
rooms in order to create an atmos,
phere." He once had a magnihcen'
collection of Italian furniture OF u'
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
yeritable treasures OF art-but TINS 10
lost with all the rest Of his property
On Socialism.
The publication in the East OF MI
w. f.. Walling's book on The Large
Aspects OF Socialism" is balanced F"
the approaching publication IN san
Francisco of Mr.. r. F. Adams's VOL
ume. The Case Against Socialism,
1t is said that the basis of the author
attack on socialism is its alleged IN
A Princes Profits.
Not all authors are willng-or ao'e
to spend as benefcently as VIII wv
German Crown Prince the prohts '"
literary labors. He has receiver
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10
On Socialism.
The notification /
A Princes Profits.

Not all authors are willing-or ao'e
to spend as benefcently as VIII u'
German Crown Prince the proh's VI
literary labors. He has received .
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10

BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10
OsIer's Lectures at Yale.

The lectures on the evolution oil
modern medicine which Sir William
Osler is delivering at Yale will be put
lished by he Yale University Press u
richly illustrated volume.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-10

SIXTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS:
MORE PASSAGES BY THE WAY. by
Sir Henry Lucy. With a fronuspiece'
Svo. I'D. X. 39s. +. p. Dutton < 60.
Valdez daily prospector., 1913-09-04
Family Pride.

Luke, the butler, had an endear- ing affection for long words: Also he had a relative, Aunt Lindy, who was eighty-six years of age, and a grcat-aunt, Sally, who claimed more than ninety years. An octogenarlan and a nonagcnarian Luke had heard the folks "at de big house" call them. He was telling a visitor about his family.
 "Yas'm, ma'am; Aunt Lindy's eighty-six years op:" :,
 "rhat is very old indeed, Luke" the visitor commented. "And Sal ly's"-
 "Sally's mon dat, ma'am," Luke interrupted. "She's a nonentity, ma'am."-New York Post.
Valdez daily prospector., 1913-09-04
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION.

In the United States District
 Court for the Territory of
 Alaska, Third Division.
 Fred l.. Peck, plaintiff, vs. An- nie Peck, defendant.--No. 6I0.-- Summons for Publication.
 The President of the United States of America, greeting:
 To the abOve-named defend- ant, Annie Peck:
 You are hereby required to ap- pear in the District Court for the Territory of Alaska. Third divis- ion, within thirty (3O) days after the completion of the service of this summons upon you, and an- swer the complaint of the above named plaintiff, the original of said complaint is on file with the clerk of the above court, at Val deZ, Alaska, and unless you so appear and answer, the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in said cOm- plaint.
 This action is brought to se- cure divorce from the defend- ant upon the grounds of deser- tiOn and abandonment. and this summons is served upon you by publication thereof. pursuant to an order of the above Court, made and entered on the 27th day of June, 1913.
 Witness the Honorable Fred M. Brown, Judge of said Court, this 3Oth day of August, in the ydar of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirteen, and of our independence the one hun- dred and thirty seventh. ARTHUR LANG,
 (SealO Clerk.
 First pub. Aug. 30, 1913. Last pub. Oct. 6, 1913.