Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-14
New Books,
- In ReWeMEzM
M. Lepine.

Nj. Lepine.
/ A brochure has been written by an
appreciatiye French man as a tribute
to the life and services of M. Lepine,
late the project of the Paris police.
! As the readers of the Evening Star
dispatches will recall, M. Lepine has
! just retired at the age of 81, after
having served the Paris public for
| twenty years. 1t is not too much to
say that he is known to every man,
woman and child in the Franch capt.
tai, both by sight and as the project
of the street" 1t Is tradition in
Paris that he never slept His ap-
| pearance at the head of a Service
d'ordre." uttering quietly his formula,
| ''Circulez, messieurs, circulez" the
move on" of the Paris guar
dams of the peace, has been always
, the signal for shouts of approval from
/ the mob, who, in spite of the attacks
of the Socialist press and deputies,
has ever regarded him as popular
hero and credit to. all Paris. AL
i ways quietly attired, usually wearing
/ an overcoat de rigueur and a soft
hat, NJ Lepine had the appearance
of a very reputable bourgeois. But
when one glanced more observantly
at him one could not fail to be struck
by the keenness of his eyes and the
determination of his mien. His ac-
complishment of Service d'ordre"
was always quietly but effectively
1 done. Sometimes he employed per-
suasive words, but when these failed
there came with prompt, decisive ut
terance, the "Balayez-moi cal" and
the manifestants, strikers, Socialists,
Apaches, what you will, disappeared
like chaff before the wind. 1t must
be added that the order, as the mob
we'll understood, was always ready
to be enforced by overwhelming force
But NJ. Lepine had made SO many
public appearances, in such varying
roles as the director of a pageant,
as the master of ceremonies for the
reception of royal parsonage, as the
calming force in revolutionary
emeutes, as the director of safety at
a fire or ''sinistre," that Paris really
regarded him as the all-sufficient,
omnlscient agent Of public safety.
To recount the life of M. Lepine Is
times in Paris, at least Upon the
historic occasion of the visit of the
Tsar to Paris no man, perhaps, was
more prominent than M. Lepine, GER
tainly not the President of the French
Republic; and SO 1t has been nearly
from the beginning of M. Lepine's
career as project. He was the equal
of the great police agent of Napoleon,
and IL Dumas had been his contem-
porary doubtless his character and
achievements would have won for
him Immortality in one of the ro-
mances of that unparalleled master.
M. Lepine was beloved of his men,
and when some unfortunate agent
met death in the pursuance of his
duty he never failed to attend the
aimpressionnantes funerailles," and
at the grave his voice was al
ways heard in an address of eulogy
for the dead and of reminder of the
call of duty to the living. The willie
Lumiere' will, indeed, feel the loss
of M. Lepine.
Novel of "Greenwich Village"
The latest book of Kate Jordan.
1.-THE Creeping Tides is story, as
the advertisement of the cover says
of Greenwich Village" a part OF
New York, which is full of memories
but its houses and haunts are fast
giving place to the warehouse and the
skyscraper. Not long ago when one
+ rounded the curve ate the lower END
4 / of Ninth avenue, when Journeying or
the "L' road and first began to notice
the grateful odor of coffee coming
1 from the close-packed bags in the
storehouses one looked for the
shabby, pitifully pretentious houses
that were once the homes of people
of wealth Few of these are left
\ Solid, well-buiit loft buildings havs
4 crowded them out and the life of thu
4 great city has forgotten them ant
those who inhabited them. But Kat
Jordan was reared in the neighbor
hood and she has chosen the localit,
as the scene of her book; and, lik'
q this sombre, secluded purlieu of TIL
s metropolis, it has a sad tone. 1t tell
4 of suffering and it has no compensat
4 ing touch of brightness or humor Il
4 relieve its pathos.
4 Then, too. the author attempts VIVA
i would be an impossible task, almost
81 in actual life She tries to make
hero out of an officer of the Britisl
q army cashiered for alleged cowardic
q In the face of the enemy. In the move
81 this same officer Is credited wit
s. valor worthy Of recognition and
= medal of honor in the Philippines
u Invalided, he is found living 4
: Greenwich vallaas. There he meet