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honor: regarding It's growth Of tradi-
tions; surveying the gradual extension
Of its curriculum; glimpsing the various
college publications. and the life OF the
different organizations, cOnvivial and
otherwise. concluding in the clubs Of
day which do in varying degrees
provide an education in worldltness'
and thus coming at length back again
t. the prospect Of college life lit
erary. social and athletic. 1t the present
timc-"a beautiful world in which there
are no penaltics'-and a consideration
Of the "pcrils" OF a college career.
The writer is eloquent in eulogy OF
President Eliot's genius, to which it is
due that Harvard owes teaching
staff inferior 10 none in the English
speaking world" He records many
facts perhaps not popularity known,
such as that George Washington was
the first person 10 receive the degree Of
LII. u. from Harvard. And in the
quaint lore of Harvard's story he Is
delightful, indeed.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-01
MASEFIELD PROSE
Sketches of Old Pirates and
Yarns of the Salt Sea.

A MAINSAIL HAUL. BY John. MaSe-
field. l2mo. PIP. VII, 100. The Macml-
Ian Company.
Once upon n time Mr.. Edmund Gosse,
the late Andrew Lang and number or
other gentlemen acquainted with what
what in the writing line were having
hard time of il in finding anything both
new and entertaining TO read. Just tneh
a lad named Stevenson up and printed
thing called Treasure Island when
set them all by the ears. II had
grand fresh smack to il. Everybody
read IL as fast as a cat can eat saF-
dimes. You see, il was delighttul 10
find something fresh like that. II had
a flavor. YOU know, most uncommon.
Now, on another occasion a fellow
named Kipling got up some perfectly
ripping stun aboL. 'ndia and British
soldiers and all that kind of thing.
This certainly made folks sit up. There
hadn't been anything like it at all
around before. Now here along comes
a man, Masefcld. concerning whom
some rumors of his being a poet have
reached us, with a little book of yarns
Of the sea, OF the salt. salt sea. The
ancient sailor in fiction is as Old
almost as story. And yet these tales
are as fresh in effect as the morning
breeze. We should say that II none
had heard before of this Maseiield
these trifles would attract considerable
attention There is distinction in them
in every line. Their vigor and sincerity
and intimate knowledge Of the ways OF
the sea go without saying. Hovers
over them a spirit OF romance and OF
poetry, both rough and musical, wn!ch
many are not fain to admit in the
authors more ambitious stories In
verse. And there is in them "A queer,
quaint fancy and much spry humor.
The contents of this volume. oroba-
bly, Of pot boiler origin, have been re-
printed from English newspapers and
magazines. Several of the sketches
are historical papers, and have to DO
with notable ones who roved as pirates
ito seek their desperate fortunes" with
Captain John Ward. who shares with
bartholomew Roberts the throne Of
New-York tribune., 1913-11-01
SOME READABLE NOVELS
The Garden Without Wals'-Compton Mackenzie's
Sinister Street Under Another Name-Cood
New Stories by Old Favorites

joys and sorrows and imagnings and
terrors, with fancies and dreams,
world of slow, unwilling. uncompre-
hending progress along irksome paths
laid down by grown-up guides who
cannot grasp the deepest, the hidden
through public school to the portals Of
oxford
Plot there is next to none in this
long and interesting chronicle beyond
the curious social position Of this boy
and his sister, unknown to them.
caused by the legal but defen-
sible relation of their mother TO their
father-a position not revealed TO the
boy until the end Of the book. which,
ii is announced, Is but the beginning OF
second one, TO be published next
spring, wherein the author will take
his young hero through the university.
and bid him farewell at the beginning
Of the third period of his life. That the
author Of -Christophe' may nave
had something to do with the planning
Of the elaborate scope of this work,
which might easily grow into trilogy.
is hardly to be doubted. Whether
Michael Fane's later life will prove as
well worth recording as was that Of
the German composer remains still to
be seen. Thus far we have learned to
know him as an average, not an excep-
tional how
New-York tribune., 1913-11-01
IS NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS." A

IA WRITE ME; get you sny book ever
published on any subject The most expert
book finder extant. When in England call and
see my so 600 rare books. BAKERS GREAT
BOOK SHOP. John Bright Ct. Birmingham.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-01
THE NEW WOMANR00D
A Study of Woman's Position,
Past and Present.

THE TRUTH ABOUT WOMAN. BY G..
Gasquoine Hartley Mrs Walter NJ.
Gallicham. Svo, PIP. xiv, PIP. 4Oi b. +.
Dutton q Co
Not free from man, but free with
man" is the goal to which Mrs. CALI
chan points in this serious and ex-
haustive work, which begins at the
very beginning, with the origin Of the
sexes. Perhaps. indeed, the author de-
votes a greater part of her many
pages to biology than is really neces-
sary in a popular discussion of present
and future; perhaps, also, peeps into
the beehive and the ants nest, not to
mention the deadly ways of the female
spider with her mate, are interesting
rather than of direct bearing on the
problem Of the human species. Through
prehistory, so far as that has been de-
through totemism and cXog-
amy. matrarchy and the establishment
New-York tribune., 1913-11-01

English piracy; with captain Robert
Knox. concerning whom 1T is sad that
the comparatively colorless SellIIrk
should have robbed him Of much credit
properly his" and with such Ike char
actcrs whom nothing would serve bat
the wide Ocean to wake in Ihe
rest are simply yarns. The best of
them. in which there is something oi
the whimscy OF Middleton's Ghost
Ship" are told as man To man, IN
literary adaptation Of the sailors lingo,
and with the earmarks of the idiO-
syncrasies Of the humble scaman's
mind. So, tale reeking Of sea super
stition winds up. IT'S a solemn gospel
truth, that story Is"
New-York tribune., 1913-11-01
literary CRITICISM
AND BOOK NEWS
Leisurely Travel: Mr.. Howells in the Land OF
Cervantes -Womans Past and Future
Iohn Maseheld's Prose-Harvard.

Throughout we have passed III
friendly review Spanish scenery, archl-
lecture Of cathedrals and palaces
Moorish remains, tombs, bull rings
markets. museums. converts, sculpl-
ures. Spanish streetcars, picturesque
street scenes. beGgars and guides
hordes of small boys, gypsies ana
donkeys. and countless hotels. we
have not so much sought the guide
books objects of interest, which are
seldom the objects of human interest.
Above all. we have thought of all that
we ever read about Spain in tction ana
the history books And, too, OF some
things which we have not read. says
Mr.. Howolls of the cid: AS matter
of fact. | have never read the poem 10
this day. though ! have often tried, ana
I doubt if its author ever intended II 10
he read" BY the way we have had an
abundant amount of mild sport we
observe miniature dramas among pCo-
pie about us all the while; we slack our
thirst OF curiosity with sips Of conVer-
sation with divers and sundry: we joke
about bad breakfasts. and the curious
phenomenon in Spain Of the best hotels
sending the worst omnibus to the sta
ton. "as who should say. Good wine
needs no bush
From hearsay and reasonable sur
mise" Mr. Howells learned that he had
come from the EsCorial in the Queens
special train bringing her and her chi!-
dren from their autumn sojourn at La
Grania, and at he had been for an
hour a notable feature Of the royal
party without knowing it. and Of
course without getting the least good
OF it," The reader, however. gets much
good of it in his description of the
Queen of Spain descending from the
train, wearing a long black satin cloak
and a large black hat, very blond and
beautiful beyond the report Of hcr
two pretty boys" her ladies and the
E-atlemen assembled to receive them
mounted to their motors and 'whirred
away like so man, persons of historic
pageant: not least impressive, The
court attendants filed stage drawn
by six mules and clattered after is a
very colorful picture. 1t was so that
Mr.. Howels saw the King:
Attended by as small troop of cav
airy as j suppose a king ever has with
| him, he came driving by i'm the street
where ] was walking. AS he sat i'm his
open carriage he looked very amiabie
and handsOmer than most Of tho pictures
make him. He semed 10 be gazing at
me- and when ne bowed ! could do no
! less than return his salutation. As ]
/ glanced round to see if people near me
were impressed By orr exchange Of CIV
/ iltes, ] perceived an elderly officer next
me- He was smiling, as ! was, and l
! think he was i'm the deluson that the
| kings bow, which ! had 50 promptly
returned, was intended for him.
| We have placed much emphasis
upon the personal side of these souve-
Mrs of Spanish travel, perhaps some
what TO the neglect of Spanish scenes;
but, as we have several times said the
charm of the book first and last is
/ that Of a volume of memoirs of lively
minded and cultivated old gentleman
with a rare essayical literary style.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-01

of patriarchy the author takes US;
through the alternating periods Of the
preponderance OF the man or the
woman in domestic and social life, ac-
cordng to the state of their civiliza-
tion and the requirements Of their en-
vironment, she approaches the status
Of her sex in the countries of classical
antiquity, vaulting thence across many
centuries to Ike up the here and now.
But throughout, she holds, woman
even when apparently enslaved, has
been the predominant partner. She re-
peatedly quotes SNaw's Man and SUI
perman" as souil VI doctrine. Female
and male created He them" is her YER
sion of the text. Free selection in mar
riage unhampered by material or So
cial considerations, determined by love
alone, is, according to her, the true
franchise Of women. And she seems 10
assume that romantic love can be re-
lied upon as an infallible guide to the
right choice of partner.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-01
THE MIDDlEMAN.

THORLEY WEIR. BY e. F. Benson.
l2mo pp 346 Philadelphia: The ]. B.
Lppincott Company.
Mr.. Benson may always be relied
upon for sterling workmanship. Thor
ley Weir" is no exception to this rule
In the drawing Of character, in the
deft handling and proportion Of de-
scription, narrative and dialogue II is
admirably well done throughout, and
last, but not least, 1t tells a capital
story. It's hero is a young painter, its
heroine the girl he loves, but the per-
sonages that accompany and aid and
obstruct them on their way along the
New-York tribune., 1913-11-01
GOOD WORK.


THE GARDEN WITHOUT WALLS. BY
Coninesby Dawson. l2mo, pp. VII f'l'
Henry Holt d Co.
Mr.. Dawson has written, in 'The tiar-
den without Walls novel or much
dignity, of richness, beauty and power.
His theme is simple and ancient-the
vain rebellion of human Soul against
the bounds of convention. But some
how, as others may have done we goI
= wholly mistaken notion OF the char-
acter of his story from the wording
,r . preliminary announcement. Doubt
less il was the unfortunate Woru
pagan" which recent use has maze
ridiculous to common sense A repcl
whose puritan conscience was at war
with his pagan imagination gave US
sad .hunch" that this was some sort
of dccadent- 8sthete business. 80 IL
WAS with considerable surprise that IN
our introduction t, this rebel we ois-
covered one Of the truest and most de-
ligbtful of small boys that we nave
found in books. Dante Cardover, VINO
begins his story from his birth some
what in the David Coppertield' man.
ner. we meet living with his father In
a suburban London house with high
walled garden, beyond which he may
not go. He bares us his childish heart
deliciousy, dreaming Of magic carpet
which will take him to some yonder
land. His family are rich in interest.
His father, literary drudge whose
ceaseless toll suggests the figure OF
George Gissing, has made romantic
marriage with a noble lady, who, as
little Dante understands it, is away
How little Dante discovers servant
and the gardener kissing, which he
does not understand, but regards as
something silly and beautiful; how
he receives from this servant fairy
legend which is his first lesson in SEX
ology, and how he makes his first dash
for freedom in company with his child
hood friend Ruthita, is a charming
story. The Borroyian Romany people
Of the book and the picturesque Thack-
eraian English nobility are very con-
vincing. And Dante's uncle, the
spufier." is a blood relation to Mr..
Micawber. Dante goes to school and
TO oxford, and sojourns in Italy,
France and America. The authors
situations and settings are all vividly
presented. He has travelled and read,
observed, felt, dreamed and reflected
And he has looked into his heart and
written OF what the years have gar
nered there. Three strongly contrasted
heroines in turn engage the hero's
thirst for the love Of woman. And in
the end after breaking many bounds
imaginatively, he comes to understand,
what any but a pagan imagination
would have imagined long ago, that
without walls there is no garden, but a
wilderness.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-01

THE STORY OF HARVARD. By Ar
thur StanwoOd Tier, Harvard, 80
With l6 illustrations from drawings
by Vernon Howe Bailey. Svo. PIP. K,
256. Boston: Little. Brown az Co
A man may write "A story and call 1t,
quite correctly for the purpose Of desig
mating its character, say, The History
OF Tom Jones" or he may write sort
OF history and happily entitle 1t, say.
THE Story OF Harvard" This exceed
ingly pleasant account of Harvard is
exactly that sort Of history which gives
what we mean when we say "the story"
of a thing. The author has culled much
OF his material, naturally enough, from
more formal works, and much from
quaint picturesque. naive, or lively
sources, old diaries, letters and remi-
nscences, which throw d bright and
frequently a humorous light on the
manners and customs Of faculty and
students at different periods. A Har-
ward graduate himself, he begins with
a view of Harvard to-day as 1t would
seem to an old grad" of twenty years
ago, now revisiting his college for the
first time. Freshman dormitories,"
and many another thing, are new wrin-
kles to him. He revisits the scenes for
which he had particular affection. to
find them much changed. And he spec
ulates on the obvious disparity in the
way Of living imposed on some officers
of the college and that enjoyed by some
Of the undergraduates. And then our
author. very much as though he were
musing on, on the steps of Divinity.
with all this somehow happily and well
digested in his head. passes back to the
story of the founding of Harvard Col
lege, originally and primarily a divin
fly school. and to consideration OF the
stern souls who built up New England.
So his ruminations move down
through the early history vi the college,
picturing its ancient ways and customs,
it's early rigorous discipline, the able
men who have presided over it, some
not so able. others who have been its
disnterested patrons. and those who
have gone out from it to fame and
New-York tribune., 1913-11-01
THE NEW MACkUlAY.

The new edition in six volumes OF
Macaulay's History of England Is to
have no fewer than nine hundred illus
trations, thus emulating the illustrated
of Green's Short History.
Forty Of these pictures will be in color.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-01

THE GARDEN WITHOUT WALLS' ioy 6y
Coningsby Dawson. l2mo' pp' We f'i'
Henry Holt & co.
New-York tribune., 1913-11-01
HARVARD'S STORY
A Pleasant Account of It's His
tory and It's Life To day.

THE STORY OF HARVARD. By Ar
thur StanwoOd Fier. Harvard. 80
With Is illustrations from drawings
by Vernon Howe Bailey. Syo. PIP. K,
256. Boston: Little. Brown a. Co.
Evening journal., 1913-07-22

Conn, has been visiting his cousin,
Mrs. Theodore Wire.-Mrs. Walter
Singles and son. Gordon, recently re-
turned from a visit with relatives near
Philadelphia H. Van Heckie,
former resident here. but now of Phil
adlephia, was a recent visitor here
Major and Mrs. Joseph p. Tracey have
returned from a visit 10 Governors
Island y. " Ryan Carty. a for
mer resident here. but now living in
Wilmington. has been spending a few
DAYS here-John W. Spicer was a Wis
itor in Philadelphia on Thursday. -
Miss Katherine O'Neill. of Baltimore.
who has been visiting Mrs. John
Meade, has returned 10 her home 49,
Walter Joplin has been visiting his
mother here Mrs Theodore Wise
was "A visitor in Wilmington on Saur-
day.-Roland Patterson has been vis-
iiing his parents Mr. and Mrs vii
liam r. Patterson. here. William y.
Stanley was a visitor in PHILADELPHIA
on THURSDAY. Mrs Cornwall. her
daughter Hazel. and Miss Ruth Brady
were visitors In Wilmington on Sat
urday Mrs James A. Cook. of Ciav-
ton Del. has been visiting Mrs Reu
ben Warren az the Robinson House. .-
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry r Crosby. Of Bal
tmore. Md, were visitors here on
Saturday Mrs. George W. Patterson
Jr- and Mrs John Farmer were Wis
itorg in Wilmington on Saturday-Ed
ward Neeh, of Chester, Pa. spent the
weekend here with his parents -
Captain and Mrs Lynn s Edward.
We're visitors in Wilmington on Sat.
urday. Miss Tibbie BOYD and Mis-.
Eileen Boyd Of Newark, Del. wer,
recent visitors here.-Miss Mar,
Cress, of Baltimore has been spend
ing two weeks here with Mr.. and Mrs
Clement Evert.-Miss Lewis. OF For
Mott, n. j. and Miss Mildred Safrancl
of Fort DUPONT, were visitors in vii
mington on Saturday.
Holiday of New Castle spent tn
weekend here with his mother
Lieutenant and Mrs Allison p. Dean
were visitors in Wilmington on Satur
day Mrs. Frank A. Edwards. fron
lBerne, Switzerland. has been visitin
her daughter and son-in-law. Captai
b and Mrs Frank W. Clark-Captai
! Eugene Cullison spent the week-en
! here with his family.-Mrs. o. 7
! Nichols who has been in hospital
Baltimore, returned here Thursday
{ Sergeant and Mrs. Samuel Bonsc
b were Wilmington visitors on SatuI
D day-John Cook visited his son-in-la'
p and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Acker. d
d Fort Mott, on Saturday, and Mr.
y William j. Foster, OF Chester Pa
were visitors here on Sunday. Maic
IS and Mrs. Joseph p. Tracey were Wis
a itors in Wilmington on Saturday
" William Weaver was a visitor here O
d Sunday. Mrs. Merrill was a visitor
J. Wilmington on Saturday -Charl,
ONein spent the weekend with h
p. parents here
Evening journal., 1913-07-22
PORT Ply PERSONALS.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL
PORT PENN, Del. July % Mrs.
Elsie Fisher has been taken %
the Delaware Hospital. Wilmington
for treatment She has been attended
by DR. Frank Belville.-Mrs. Vary
Faunce has returned home after @
visit with her sister. Mrs. Bender. AZ
New Clarence Webb and
family. of Philadelphia, were recent
visitors with his father. George Webb
Mrs E. T. Zacheris is the guest OF
relatives near Wilmington. Miss
Mildred Kamislie, of Camden, n. j..
is the guest of Mrs. Anna McMunn
Mrs. Ada Lingo of Philadelphia. is
visiting her grandmother, Mrs. Dol
bow Miss Alice Saxton of Camden
\ J.. was "a recent visitor with Mrs
Walter Yearsley.
Evening journal., 1913-07-22
CECILTON yIsaTORS.

Special TO THE EVENING JOURNAL
CECHTON, Md. July 22.-The in
FAINT son of Mr.. and Mrs. Merrett
Smith died last week. aged seven
months The interment was made in
the Ceciltor cemetery and Mrs.
John c. Stevens have been entertain
ing Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Beckman
and son Edward. Of Philadelphia
Miss Naomi Shockley. of Townsend,
has been a guest az the home of her
sister. Mrs. A. J. Watts.-Mrs. +. S.
Short has for a visitor her sister,
Mrs. John johnson, of Wyoming Del
Mrs John Benson, of Philadelphia
has been staying with her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas =. Jones.--Miss
Isabella Griffith and Miss Blanche
Brown. of Virginia, are spending the
summer here with their parents
Miss Annie Rickard. Of Philadelphia
Is the guest of relatives here.-Misi
Viola Bennett IS entertaining Misl
Edith Pierce, Of Philadelphia.
Evening journal., 1913-07-22
RED SCHOOL
TO BE- CENTRE
OF INTEREST
Will Be Discussed Before
Coming international
Hygiene Congress
2l1,OOO BUILDINGS
IN UNITED STATES

NEW YORK. July 22.--The Little
Red schoolhouse is TO occupy a place
OF honor on the program OF the
Fourth International Congress on
scnool Hygiene. according TO a
statement issued by the program
committee. which is composed of Drs.
Robert W. Lovett and David L.
Edsall Of Harvard; Dr. Luther n.
Gulick. OF New York and Or Thorn
as A. Storey, of the College OF the
CITY of New York, Secretary General
OF the Congress.
"The problems of the city schools
have received a great deal OF much
deserved attention" say the mem
bers of the committee in their an
nouncement Of the program. The
verv serious problems of the village
school and of the rural school have
received but little attention. The
study and the solution of these pro-
blems are OF obvious complexity and
importance. The committee is there
fore anxious to secure papers relat-
ing 20 rural school hygiene ana VII
lare school hygiene as well as to city
school hygiene"
In a report issued at Washington,
United States Commissioner OF
Education. philander p. ClaXton
calls attention to the subject OF the
Little Red school In the following
terms:
"Until very recently few careful stud
les of the rural schools have been made,
and we yet have little accurate inior-
nation about them and little knowledge
of the factors entering into the prob
lem Of their Improvement We do know
in q general way that their terms arc
short. their support inadequate, their
teachers poorly prepared their atteu'
dance irregular. their management unset
cntifc and wasteful of money. time, and
energy. their courses Of study il.adaptel
10 their nccds and the house In which
the children arc taught cheap and poorly
equipped aua3urnishcd That this Is
not ffue az al rural schools goes with.
out saving. hut it Is unfortunately true
ina large measure of most Of them.
In an there are some 2l2ooo little
rcd school houses On The United states
alone. according % the Washington re-
mort prepared hy a. C. Nonahan. Tn tins
report there is a picture Of one teachei
rural school house which is characterize,
as Fair type of about one half of th'
ol2 O000 one teacher rural schools Mos
of the original red paint seems 90 hnW
been washed of of these schools.
"a general IMPRESSION has been Great
cd saws Mr. Monahan, "that there eN
ist- an American school system whic
is sufficient and nation wide, with oQua
educational opportunities in an parts o
the country The impression is enron
eoDs. Il IS probably trne that the pull
br schools. both urban and rural. hay
Iade considerable progress. but th
-&narked progress has been confined Al
most wholly 20 the city and town. Th
majority of rural schools are housed il
uncomfortable buildings. unsuitable from
every standpoint, without proper furni
ture or facilities for heating, ventilot
inc and lighting; without adequate pro
visions for guarding the health and NOR
ais of the children and with compare
lively little equipdent for teaching