The Washington herald., 1913-04-27

Promise Of America--Will 1t Be Full
filled?" and what of the FutureT are
illuminating and charged with the
American spirit Of hopeful idealism.
While scholarly and comprehensive in
It's scope, this book is essentially an in
vestigation for practical thinkers who
want light on all aspects of the sub
ject. DR.. Warne has not only given
years Of study to the immigration and
allied Industrial problems. but he has
also come into everyday touch with
many phases of the numerous questions.
involved. Ever since his study OF the
effects of immigration, in causing the
great anthracite miners strikes, he has
continued his observations. AS a resi-
dent of the University Settlement on the
East Side of New York he came into
personal contact with the different races
and types of immigrants to be found in
that cosmopolitan quarter. And here he
devoted a year to a careful study Of the
methods and standards of the living Of
the foreign born. He has also investi-
gated conditions at the European
sources of immigration. 30 that he is
well qualified to discuss the conditions
and motives Of the immigrant In all
their phases
In this country he has held a number
Of Offices which required a detailed
knowledge and gave opportunity for
fuller study of this problem. DIR.
Warne's conclusions. therefore, are not
superficial opinion, but have been ar
rived at after fourteen years of study
and investigation, and are supported by
an array Of facts.
THE QUARRY: BY John A. Moroso. Boston-Lit-
tie, Brown < Co. Price. SIS.
h<a1 hx,a MT nj
whose realistic short stories of crime
and detection have been appearing in
many Of the leading magazines.
Taking for his hero a country boy seek
ing work in New York, Mr.. Moroso vivid
ly depicts the innocent young mans ar
rest for the murder Of the night watch
man of bank: his treatment by the po-
lice: his trial and conviction on circum-
stantial evidences Sentenced to Sing Sing
for life, he becomes a model prisoner.
His existence there. his escape. the pur-
narrates so realistically that one Is really
held spellbound.
The author manifestly possesses an init
mate knowledge of police methods and
prison system and this serves as a back
ground for a most engrossing life story.
His men and women are truly human:
Mike Tiernay. the New York police de-
tective, relentless in the search for his
quarry Is a masterpiece of character de-
lineation. while Bill, the burglar. is a
constant delight. Few American novel;
lists have started with a story as big and
as powerful as this. Mr.. Moroso pre-
sents a realistic picture, etched wildly
i'm every detail. OF course. Mr.. Moroso,
who is a resident of New Jersey, served
for years as a police reporter on a New
York daily. Otherwise he never would
have accumulated the intimate knowl-
edge of the Mulberry street machinery,
the details of the Bertillon system. which
no outsider ever gets to know, or the
characteristics of the Irish-American po-
lice officer, whose relentless bloodhound"
sleuthing never lets up on quarry"
No other writer, no matter how YER
satile or capable. could have written such
a story so wildly realistic. Nor Is Bill,
the cellmate. an unusual creation. There
are many such Bills behind prison walls!
The denouement Is worthy of the plot
The fugitive convict tracked by Mike, the
bloodhound" to his new home. where as
inventor of valuable cotton spinning ma
chinery he had won fortune, wife and
fame. and knowing that, while otherwise
his looks have changed so as to make him
unacceptable, the fiDgermarks Of the
Bertillon records would surely do for
him. deliberately puts his hands into a
revolving combing machine, the teeth
of which crush his f1ngers-yet could have
spared himself the entire ordeal. for the
real murderer had been at last unearthed
by Bill the burglar, and had confessed.
WAR. By John Luther Long Illustrated. Indian
apolis-The Bohbs-Merrin Company. Price, N-D.
1t is a decade since John Luther Long
wrote his Madame Butterfly" that ten
der beautiful Oriental story of love and
suffering. and this spring he has pub
lished another story of love-this time