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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-03
LITERARY CRITICISM
AND BOOK NEWS
MIR. Henry James at Seventy on Life Seen at
Seventh. Finck Discusses food and
Flavor. '-Everyman Encyclopedia.

being. in his opinion. the only real
thing He speaks Of seeing the Whole
content of memory and affection IN
each enacted and recovered moment
as who should say. in the vivid image
and the very scene but he also speaks
of this Vividness of memory as a
draw back" unde- which he struggles.
Drawback or not, il is soon clear That
he is resolved to make the best OF
bad bargain From the moment IL IS
a question of projecting picture ne
says. no particle that counts for mem
DRY or is appreciate 10 the spirit can
be too tiny. and that experience, IN the
name of which one speaks, is all com
pact of them and shining with them.
lie remembers his "incipient sense OF
persons and things his first stirred
observant and imaginative reactions
descriptions and categories, and
speaks of himself as now reconsttut-
ing the history of my fostered imagi-
nation" p, this time we know how
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-03
GASTR0NOMY
The Wisdom, Pleasures and
Profit of Good Cooking.

FOOD AND FLAVOR. a Gastronomic
Guide to Health and Good Living. BY
Henry r. Finck. illustrated by Charles
Chapman. Svo, pp. xviii. 6Si. The Cen
fury Company
This is not merely a cookbook.
though the compilation Of really good
ranges all the way from the physiology
and the psychology--of good eating
to the honor in which the competent
cook should be held. He protests
against our embalmed foodstuffs, their
flavor killed by preservatives. reveals
some more horrible details OF the In
dustry visits France. Germany Aus
tria. Italy and England i'm search II
their savory cooking, and, after having
shown us our ungastronomic hades,
ends up with the riches that nature
has bestowed upon us, with the uses
We make of them. and with the pos
sibilities of favors still undreamt of
to be created for us by men like Bur-
bank
IT is not the sense of taste. but of
smell, according to Mr. Finck, to which
we owe the most dclectable pleasures of
the table:
With the exception Of sweet, sour, salt
and bitter. all our countless gastronomic
delights come TO us through the sense
Of smell. . The emphasis lies on the
word orhdiinq. IL Is considered breach
OF etiquette TO smell OF things at the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-03

out fishing to-day. They'd have NAG ~, 10
iuck ~ tbev did" That girl must ia :
led a trying kind or Ire bu, suh-
anv good feeling would. or course, once
NIT 10 any amount OF nmstrv of her
rather than paralyze the industry Vi ~"
neighbors.
Ped hair does not, however, interfere
with ones getting married. Inc a."
thor SAYS. Il suppose that the iai'ii''"'
itv NJ married life in some way breaks
the force of the evil spirit. other"i'e'
7 do not see how man with reu-
haired wife would ever succeed III 40
ing anything"
The Irish servant is not neglecteu III
this book. The chapter. wit ana hu
NOR" which treats of irish "bulls' 10
hilarious. The bulls of lrishmeh' we
are told. may more justly be regarded
as examples Of abnormal mehtai
thickness than as evidence OF hopeless
mental confusion. From speech py
Sir BOYLE Roche. the famous maker VI
tbis kind of blunder. denounclnS 'he
French Revolution in the lrish tiou'e
of Commons. there is this piece OIL Ell
ergetic imaginative nimbiehess'
II we once permitted the Viilaii, h',,'
French Masons to NEEDLE with the U.t
tresses and walls of our anclen. To- cV stav.
tuition. they would never STOP not ,io1,
sir I'M they brought the founda.,o, III
s Stones tumbling down about the ears ,so OF
,he marion There, Mr.. Speaker. II THESE
Gallican villains should invade US be err,
,tis on that very table. maybe these non
,.S al, ~ ,nen,bers might see their own des-
tinies wing in heaps on top of one an
other. Here. perhaps, sir, the murder no'i1
marshal-law-men. Marseillois, VIII ond
break in, cut US TO m'nce inea.' 10
fable 10 stare us in the face.
Perhaps we need not go further IN
our review.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-03
AN OLD FRIEND.

MARK By Frances Newlbold NGes
Illustrated. limo, PIP. 2oS. EdVard
j. Globe.
Tribune readers know this sorry,
which was originally published il its
Sunday magazine. 1t will please hem
TO see it now in book form. The writer
of this review is a grave man, bit he
laughed anew as he reread the gay
scenes of this book. The central idea
of the story is perhaps an old on, but
it is worked" here with good eal Of
bubble A quite incredibly unsohistl-
Gated, godlike, pagan young gentleman,
who grew" as Priscilla say, IN
Australia. Gordon Markham Spencer,
"Praxiteles' Hermes in white fan
nels." mixes things up generally, ma to
the readers hilarity. i'm English ociety
by a naive habit Of telling TN pure
truth. The tale begins as the most
lighthearted Of social satires, nd in
its frivolous. irresponsible way lures
one on from page to page. Prisilla is
a delectable young lady. The tudied
polish of the artificial conversation OF
the group of members of clever
ooterie here portrayed reminds ore, just
a bit, Of The Importance of Being
Earnest" The cast includes tW, can
not somehow keep out Of our Mid the
notion that this novel is a play) some
fine old performers. The Mehisto-
phelean Lord Charters, whose literary
nom dc plume is Godfrey Winter is a
reincarnation again of one of the most
distinguished figures Of romance lie
may not be as fine as the Marquis Of
Stevne. but he is of the same sch@l-a
bad lot. The infamous, tisreSs en-
chantress. Jacqueline. is a type every
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-03

thetically mentioned by Sainte- Beuve;
the youthful Coquelin, banking even
then on the value of his nose-these
and other fondly remembered contem-
poraries are sketched ever so lightly
and yet with touch making them. III
some Undesirable way. Significant.
They appear. we repeat, not for their
own sake. but just as forming part Of
the stuff Of the authors mind. and IN
that role they have not only weight
but charm.
II Is. first and last, for it's charm, in
deed. that this book will be read, ana
we make the remark with a fun sense
Of the fact that Mr. james is not on
the present occasion amy more thah CD
anv other at all easy reading. Nay
there are moments when he is merely
dull. when we marvel at the selt-ceh-
tired mood which could lure him INTO
writing at such length. and with sucn
portentous care. about matters OF
really sublime inconsequence. Occur
edlv the reader must have pauehre
and meet him half way. But the
charm is there for the readers re-
ward. the charm which only a BOY
hood authenticate colored by NINA
and imagination could have, ana IL
gains much. unquestionably, from the
simple. well bred background ProNiueu
NV an earlier New York. Moreover u
ono grows. as we have said. little
FESTIVE now and then before the Diahd
unfolding of so much psycholoslCai
minutia. one is sustained by what can
only lac described as a kind of loyalty
to so fine type of the literary con-
science.
There was task TO he done. a phase
Of development to I've exposed. MI
lanes could not scamp the Work De-
cause he happened to be himsell 'he
subject under dissection. And pelhs
himself. II was perhaps only in the nat
ure of things that he should not nave
escaped the cardinal error of judgment
disclosed in this performance. 1t was
settled at his birth that he should never
know the meaning of the words as
simple as a child" and accordingly II
has been with the most perfect goou
faith that he has clothed his small
Boy" in a garment almost unbeheVapiy
incongruous. What does 1t matter
since he has written with such maSnlh-
cent sincerity? We end, as we pesa"
not much richer in autobiographicai
lore. as that is commonly UNDERSTOOD
but once more saluting with admiration
and respect a devoted artist
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-03
WAR AND HUMOR.

WAR, or What Happens When One
Loves ones Enemy. BY John Luther
I.ons. illustra lions I'm color by \. {.
Wyeth. Emo. PIP. 81. Indianapolis:
The Bobbs Merrill Company.
The author Of Madame Butterfly
has given us in this new story sort
Of idyl Of the American Civil War. Fan
tasy. sentiment and quaint humor clothe
this tale OF the turmoil and tragedy of
the days of our nations great crisis.
The Joys, loves patriotism, the daring,
the doubts and distrusts Of the people
Of a Maryland village i'm those days OF
strife are recounted by the kindly old
German. stephen Nonnor. with a
quaint simplicity that stirs the sym
pathies. War" he says. makes fun
ny things To happen" All of war Is
not-what the celebrated remark says.
Mr.. Long has felt the poetry OF war.
Companies of young men in their bright
zouave uniforms, under gay flags. and
with band playing The Girl | Left
Behind Me-" marching away To Faith
war, too, as well as pictures of things
dark and grim. But Mr.. Longs story
is plenty dramatic also. Some OF
these same boys return home gaunt
and worn and ragged, some with m
empty sleeve, some not at all. Neigh
borhoods. and houses. are divided
against themselves. and brother rises
against brother. This Is the story of
peace loving. fighting old Vonnor. who
said many things Just in fun, as you
can see" and OF his two stalwart sons.
Jonathan and David. lust Jon and
Dave--sometimes David and Goliath"
of rebel woman, Evelyn. and of the
wreck war made OF their lives and
rustic home. II would be better Il
parts Of the story had been curtailed,
and occasionally it Is over sentimental,
but 1t is a story with "A flavor that
will linger In the memory.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-03

Golden Bowl" in his suit case A a..
cialist and radical (though an arts.
tocrat, too, he is very sarcastic. NOR.
CHESS in epigrammatic remarks. H.
coolly quotes Bernard Shaw, the dedi
cation Of a drama named CAIN and
frightens the ladies whom he fasci.
mates by reminding them Of the say.
ings of Jesus. His oath is, by Jun,.
teri" He is one time discovered
thoughtfully poking in the sand with
his riding crop, and on another occa
sion slipping his wine" AS a type hs
is made complete by his discovering
behind the placid, inscrutable mask
of a woman's face a kirship to the
Mona Lisa.
The plot of this novel must be read
in the book to be believed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-03
THE MEXICAN BORDER.

DESERT sold. \ Romance Of ths
border BY Zane Grey. illustrated nv
Douglas Duer l2mo, PIP. 326. Harper 4
Bros.
We once Lnew a gentleman whose
profession was arms, but at the period
at which we found him he was at
some risk to his life. supporting him.
self by an implement sometimes said
TO be mghtier than the sword. The
leading feature of military play that
he had written, we gathered from hls
converse ton, was that at a certain
point all something or-other broke
loose. In Desert Gold" this some
thing r-other referred to by our
friend of heorty speech breaks loose
without UGH preliminary ado. Cow.
boys. Mexican rebels and bandits and
two expatriate gentlemen from the
East, are involved in a tall row in
a barroom on the Arizona Mexico Dor.
der. The occasion of the pandemonium
is the noble Spanish beauty Mercedes
Castaneda. refugee fleeing from
Mexico into the United States, sough,
by the peon bandit, Roja. and the be-
loved Of the Eastern American George
Thorne. Things fly thick and fast
throughout this romance of love and
adventure. And the readers visual.
cation Of recent doings down Mexico
way may be assisted by this story.
The pictures of ranch life. Of brushes
with raiders, ard Of gold seeking. hang
well together. The Western desert Is
portrayed with some, IL exaggerated,
poetic feeling. Persons wko object 10
the ponderous periods of DR.. johnson
need have no fear Of that In Desert
Gold" One OF the fayorite remarks
of the gentleman of whose picturesque
character we were reminded By this
book was: well, there you are" II
you like the thrilling thing in fiction.
unsicklied Ger by the pale cast Of
thought. of Desert Gold" this revew.
err would say: We'll, there you a'e."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-03
TWO ON AN ISLAND.

OFT of THE BLUE By r. Goreli
Barnes. l2mo, PIP 3il BongmahS'
Green & Co
It is an old old subject that Mt.
Barnes has chosen. but his treatment
of il makes il worth while TO thoSe
who care less for plot and SITUATION
than for n conyincingly natural stud!
Of the course Of character and the
emotions in exceptional circumstances
They are asst away on desert islanu
I'm the Indian Ocean. this man and TINS
woman. who lad begun to love each
other back there in England. with the
rights OF his wife between them, "a
wife who had made him neither happy
nor unhappy. merely vaguely disap-
pointed with life even as he had tai'ed
10 brin ito her existence what she
believed TO be her due. The woman Is
unmarried. but she is a daughter or Jur
day. who rinches not 10 look the Iac'S
of existence lave i'm the face, nor
To weigh the claims OF duty against
those OF happiness. Therefore these
two in world all their own discuss
freely the voice of true passion thal
would make their love whole. They
remain true to the ideal established
between them until their rescue by a
passing steamer. Then the author
furnishes the happy ending, having,
on the way thither, dealt with his sub
ject in a matter that. with all it's ma
turity of understanding. never trans
crosses. nor makes appeal TO the
groundings. \ meritorious piece or
work, which sounds again and again
the true poetic note of love.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-03
ClSCURSIVE MEMORIES.

A SMALL BOY AND OTHERS. by
Henry James Frontispiece. oVo' PP'
4l9. Charles Scribner's sons.
Mr.. James was born in New YORK on
April IL. 1913. He celebrates his sew
entieth birthday in the canonical iash-
ion. reviving old memories. but char-
acteristically, he gives to the world "a
book of "reminiscences the mere phySi-
cal bulk of which is curiously decep-
tive He is more than discreet IN TINS
volume: he is reticence itself l; IS
his form rather than his substance that
makes him seem to cover so much
ground in the picture of his boyhood'
Having a great deal to say, he never
theless tells MS comparatively little.
writing much in the vein of those long
prefaces for the New York edition ~
his novels and tales i'm which the
temptation to be autobiographical was
quite successfully balanced by the au-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-03
SOME NOVELS OF THE SEASON
DARK to the Primitive with Modern Views Of Life-Ar
Idv Of War and an lmpeached President
Other Fiction, Grave and Gay.

House. the Senate and the people. The
effect of reality is almost uncanny'
The story deals with existing interna-
tional conditions. AS many excellent
clergymen are said to have searched
the Scriptures for the sentence, 'The
Lord tempers the wind TO the shorn
lamb" so we should not be surprised IL
some cautious people had by this time
got out old school histories OF the
United States and attempted to locate
David Israels.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-03

a companion "A girl whose locks even a
fashionable novelist would have heSlta'-
ed TO describe as auburn. Her head was
actually brilliant. My friend was amazed
to find herself suddenly caught by the
arm and dragged into the ditch at the
side of the road There she and her
comDanion crouched for some minutes
until the fishermen had got safely past
them. "If they'd seen me-" said the girl
i'm explana ton. they'd have had to turn
back again. They couldn't have gone
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-07-11
voc Crest
THE RESORT BEAUTIFUL
Always Cool! Always Clean!
Always Healthy!

WILDWOOD CREST stands alone in its rapid develop
ment. 1t faces the Atlantic Ocean, adjoins City of Wildwood
and has the Delaware Bay in its rear. til the new summer
resort and there is not a cooler or more healthful place in
all the states of the Union. There are no finer beaches or
sailing and fishing water anywhere.
Cement pavements and cutters, artesian water, gas and
electricity, sanitary sewage system approved by the State
Board of Health, hard graveed streets and telephone sys-
tens extend to every building site, and trolley cars run
throughout the resort.
1t is six years old, and in that time has multiplied nearly
eight hundred times in assessed valuation in the state rata
|bles, but the founders are selling ground at no more than
they received at the beginning, well knowing the effect of
and building on the land they retain. Hundreds
of cottages and mansions, hotels and places OF amusement,
are now ministering to the health, rest and pleasure Of many
thousands of people.
WILDWOOD CREST is the Coolest, Cleanest, Health
lest Summer Home Resort on the New Jersey Coast, where
all the conveniences of seashore summer life are to be had.
For further information address. LESLIE HALLEN. WILDWOOD EgwS as sREsr
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-07-11

Warsaw sound on June II to try con
illusions with the monitors Weehaw-
ken and Nahant, which had been order
ed to dispose of the ram.
Webb sought a fight at close quar-
tiers. The Atlanta grounded at 600
yards distance. and her engines could
not move her. The Weehawken
promptly engaged, striking her with
four shots out of Ave. The Atlanta
fred eight shots. but did not hit the
Weehawken, although she was within
300 yards Of her target. The FIRST
shot from the monitor knocked a hole
In the iron plating Of the ram and
wounded sixteen Confederate seamen.
leaving forty otbors PROSTATE and in
sensible from shock. Other shots
smashed the pilothouse and a port
shutter and wrenched the casemate
loose from the deck at one corner. To
a bis men Captain Webb surren-
dered-
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-07-11

treated to winchester. Finally. learn
ing from scouts that he was confront
ed by a Confederate corps. Milroy de
cided to retreat.
The road was now open for Lees
trains and artillery to march norti.
through the valley at win. Meanwhile
Longstreet's column passed on iron
gap to gap in the Blue Ridge on a lins
parallel to Ewell's rout. all the time
drawing nearer to the Potomac and
saving Eweil from attack In the rear.
Lively Work Of the Cavalry.
When Hooker discovered at last that
Lees troops were shifting camp and
drawing away from the old lines at
Fredericksburg he SEN his own cav
airy under General Alfred Pleasonton
on the back track toward Washington
"a guard his rear and the capital
from attack. Thus while Stuarts men
marched along Bull Run mountains on
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-07-11

BY Capt. GEORGE L KILf1HR. Late Z. 5. ".
A I the opening of the third week In
"a June. 1868, the forerunners of
~ General r. q. Lees army OF In
vasion. consisting of 1900 cav
airy under General A. G.. jenkins, rode
into Chambersburg and made them
selves at home on Pennsylvania soil
The troopers in gray had galloped from
the banks of the Potomac river under
the cover of night. and their sudden
swoop into the heart of the Keystone
State was like a bolt from a clear sky
The last previous tidings which the
people of the north and the Washing
ton authorities had received concern
ing Lees Confederates placed them all
south of the Rappahannock river, with
General Joseph Hooker's army patrol
ling the north bank.
There had been Confederate raids
across the border before during the
war. even as far north as Chambers
burg, but all previous raiders had bur
ried back to Virginia soil. jenkins set
tied down, and bis GOODNESS in the pro
ceeding had an ominous look. Presi-
dent Lincoln called out a small army
of state militia to defend the cities Of
the north, and 1t soon t~ranspired that
the bold raiders had good backing close
at hand. One division of infantry from
the corps Of General r. s. Ewell cross
ed the Potomac from Virginia at WI
Transport, Md, and fastened north
ward In Jenkins path.
Lee Gets an Open Road North.
Ewell had marched his whole corps
from the Rappahannock, following a
sheltered route west of the Blue Ridge
mountains to keep his movement from
the sharp eyes Of Federal scouts. At
the same time the corps of General
James Longstreet advanced east Of the
Blue Ridge SO as to control the gaps
leading through it and thus guard
Ewell from surprise.
Longstreet's own movements We're
screened by a mask of troopers be
longing to General J.. u. B. Stuart's
cavalry, who secuted far to the east of
Longstreet's outposts along the slopes
of Bull Run mountains. Thus there
were three columns of Confederates
slowly forging their way to the north
this time fifty years ago.
The great highway from the Kappa
hammock region to the shores }of the
Potomac had not been left wholly I'M
guarded by Federals. Still an invasion
through it by Lees whole army had
not been provided for. General Il. II
Milroy was at Winchester with a large
force ~intrenched there and a strong
detachment at the neighboring post of
Martinsburg.
In order to cut Milroy Off from help
from the Federal line on the Potomac.
General J. d. Imboden's Confederate
cavalry passed around winchester and
Martinsburg and destroyed the Balti-
more and Ohio railroad in Milroy's
Q Milroy had previously been or
dered to retreat northward to Harpers
Ferry the moment he felt danger. but
he preferred to stand his ground
Ewell first threatened Martinsburg
and the Federal detachment there re
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-07-11

some haystacks. which were inclosed
by rail barbados. These sharpshoot
ers chung to the haystacks, pouring a
terrible fire upon Kilpatrick's squad
rons as they rode past or the flank to
attack the main Confederate position
farther down the road.
Fight Around the Haystacks.
In a short time Rosser's line was re
enforced by a full brigade, and Xii
patrick called for help from his divi-
sion commander. He saw that the
sharpshooters at the haystacks must
be dislodged or every attempt to ad
vance would be frustrated. Calling
up Major Twins battalion OF the Har
ris light. he said to the commander
"Go and take that p~ositionr
Two charges had already been beat
en- OF by the sharpshooters. The col
m dashed for the ~barricades. but
once there the horses would not leap
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-07-11

the west Pleasonton was tied by his
orders to a line east Of the range.
Cavalry is never idle when a cam
paign is brewing, and Federal scouts
riding past Aide gap on June IT took
a notion to see what lay the other side
of the hills. General Fitzhugh Lees
Confederate brigade happened to have
the same curiosity on the other side Of
the barrier at the same time.
A fight was opened almost on the
run between the Harris light cavalry
Of General Judson Kilpatrick's bri-
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-07-11
The War Fifty Years Ago

Mounted Forerunners of Lees Confederate Army
Swoop Down on a Pennsylvania Town---The North
Alarmed---President Lincoln Summons Militia to
the Field---Confederate Infantry Follows on Heels
of the Cavalry---The Shenandoah Valley a Pathway
For the ENTHUSIASTICALLY Fighting at the Gaps Of
Bull Run Mountains---Capture In Georgia Waters of
the Confederate Ironclad Ram Atlanta.
Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1913-07-11

GENERAL H ]. FITZPATRICK, o. s. A.
LEADER OF FEDERAL CAVALRY AT Aide.
gade and the Fifth Virginia under
Colonel T. s. Rosser. On nearing the
town Of Aide, which lies in front OF
the gap on the east. Fitzpatrick saw
the gray troopers In the distance ana
sent the Harris light On a gallon
through the streets to seize a low.
ridge over which the road ran. close
to the gap.
Rosser's line charged with drawn 'sa-
bers. driving the Harris light back to
Aide. Rosser then posted sharp
shooters along the main road behind
Arizona republican., 1913-06-28

FORREST BACk-Assistant United states. attorney returned yesterday morning from the north, where he investigated an Indian murder case.