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chapter on the German re-
fers to the unwilling of the statue at
Utica of Gen. Won Steuben, where
Prof. Munsterberg delivered an ad-
dress. 1t was in this connection that
Prof. Munsterberg thus referred to the
possible political effects of the present
prevalence of anti-German feeling:
ut was as II the German-American
convincing goal common to all in order
to be filed with that enthusiasm which
secures strength. The lightning of the
European thunderstorm has suddenly
shown them their true duty. The policy
of this country which they love with
their whole hearts must be one of sin
cere friendship not only with England,
but also with Germany. They will
break down this anti-German agita-
ton; they will punish every effort to
inject hatred of Germany into the
veins of the American political body.
Their national German-American Allf-
ance with two and a half million vot-
ers as members, their Intellectual lead
ers and their economic captains OF
commerce and industry, their farmers
and their workingmen, old and young.
men and women, first generation and
second and third. every religious sect,
north Germans and south Germans.
Austrians and Swiss-they will be
united and will show a crushing power
of which the reckless torchbearers OF
German hatred did not dream"
PrO1. MunSterDefS paints OIdCk pic.
ture of the future of the world II Ger
many loses in this war-and he admits
that only a miracle can prevent her
defeat. He sees Russia ultimately the
conqueror of all Europe and the bar
barrie influence of Asia spread eventual
ly throughout all the world. In his
view. Germany is now making fight
of civilization against barbarism and
he regards with sadness the spectacle
of England and France aligning them
ca1ry 4, al ~H>
liberation of the best that German cul-
ture has produced.
THE HUMAN SIDE OF PLANTS. By
Royal Dixon. New York: Fred
erick A Stokes Company.
This is a most readable book. The
author takes pains to say what he has
to say about this branch of natural his
tory in an entertaining manner. And
he has no end of interesting things to
say about the plants that behave In the
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Family Ice Machines.

An Ice machine has recently been put
upon the market which is designed for
FAMILY use. Small quantities of ice
may De frozen in about three minutes
with the device, while from six to
eight pounds may be made within the
course of an hour. The machine is
not over costly, and it represents a
noble independence of the iceman. an
irritation in the severe heat of July
and August which often adds the last
iota of encouragement
Moreover, the machine can be used
for freezing other things than water.
1t is operated by hand power, and. SO.
with little diligence, may be used any
hour of the day or night. With such
an apparatus in the house, there is no
necessity of missing the cracked ice on
ones early morning return. Nor is there
longer occasion. for serving butter
with spoon at the breakfast table.
The machine works upon the princi-
pie that water freezes when rapidly
evaporated in vacuum with sulphuric
avid to absorb the vapor. It's success
depends upon the perfection of the
vacuum and upon the thorough agita-
ton OF the absorbing fluid The sui
phurlc acid does not come in contact
with the water or with the articles be-
Ing frozen or chilled. The cost of
operation is said to be slights Fruit,
beverages and foods generally may be
chilled quickly In the device.
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MISS GRACE E. McK1NsrRY o
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Some men are too polite to be truth
full.
The thread of many a discourse is
merely yarn.
Disappointment in love saves many a
man from paying alimony.
You can't judge a woman's DISPOSE
ton by her telephone voice.
After children grow up their parents
often prove disappointment.
Some women can't lose the married
look, even after they become widows.
Many a politician with wheels thinks
he is the whole political machine.
In most cases the milk of human
kindness yields more buttermilk than
butter.
If a man gets a chance to praise
himself he usually makes a noise like
megaphone.
Some peoples idea of bargain is a
50-cent article marked down to 49-
that may be worth 40.
There are lots of good people on
earth, and there are a lot more about
six feet below the crust.
One can Judge a woman's wardrobe
by the clothes she takes with her on
a two-day visit; they are the best she
has.
up to high degree Of popularity with
his neighbors by taking up his resi-
dence on an uninhabited island in mid
ocean.
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Characterization, well modelled and
good in color.
Miss McKinstry studied first in the
Art Institute of Chicago, then in Paris
at the leading academies. She has
Travelled much and studied with ex-
cellent masters, and her work is virile
and assured. Some of Miss McKinstry's
portraits hang in places not only of
prominence, but distinction, and among
her sitters have been those conspicuous
in public life. But Miss McKinstry has
done more than this-she has consist
emily and persistently for years bent
her talents and her influence to the up
building of a love of art in the west
She is a member of the state art COM
mission of Minnesota, which has really
accomplished wonders. and she writes
and lectures on art, giving generously
from her own store of knowledge and
experience. Miss McKinstry has with
her several of her water colors paint
ed abroad; figure studies done in Hol-
land in the broad attractive style OF
the modern Dutch water colorists.
A MONG the artists represented In the
annual exhibition of the Berkshire
artists held in the Stockbridge Casino
early in September was Mrs. Mar
Earet 8. Zimmele Of Washington. who
showed two small figure paintings. one
of which, little girl, was specially
pleasing.
xHISS MARGARET HAWLEY, for
1vl merly of Washington, held an ex-
hibition of her miniatures in Onteora
this summer, which not only attracted
much attention, but calledq forth hign
commentator from the arttst-resioehls
of that exclusive summer colony.
EVERETT L. WARNER has been in
l. Labrador this summer, where he
found an abundance of fine. paintable
themes. LEILA MECHLIN.
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TRAVELETTE
Tx.
BY NIKSAH.

The devil once dined at Leipsic with
jolly band Of students. Goethe de-
scribes the party in his Faust" and
every American who has read the WON
derful German epic and who visits
Leipsic goes to the famous cellar wine
room and spends an evening at the
devils table. The walls of the cellar
wear the dunish gray of age. Roughly
finished and lighted by restful. glim-
mering yellow flames. this place would
be a charming one to meet and enter
tain his darkness and to listen to the
sprightly satanic persif1age which
Goethe has faithfully recorded.
Germans used to call Leipsic their
Little Paris" and they gilded the
ows' balls, partitioned of the restau-
rants and banked the aisles with fra
grant flowers. imported the Paris arti-
Gle of vaudeville, started cabarets all
over the place and emotionalized their
language. There is considerable good
music with the Leipsic night life. And
the students Of the famous university
there are still able to make their pres
ence felt among the other half million
Of Inhabitants.
Leipsic is the center of the German
among the largest, II not the largest,
book market in the world. There are
signs that, while other German indus
tries have halted. the Leipsic book pro-
duction co. steadily on. Several orr
ders recently placed with Leipsic deal
ers by Americans have been reported
filled.
While BURBERRY cake is a modest,
unexalted thing. 1t is. nevertheless, one
Of the features OF Little Paris" and
all who have spent a few coffee hours
in the proper season at the Weisser
Hirsch, juts around the corner from the
old Bayrische Bahnhof. will often taste
that cake again in their langourous day
dreams. Yes. altogether the luscious
loneliness Of BURBERRY cake, as served
in this cafe with music and coffee,
thickly coated with the spicy fruit, the
juice staining the feathery cake down
to it's brown facing. and the whole
wearing a rich garment of whipped
cream. is the Romans mo more be-
yond" for Leipsic-
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household science. Pratt Institute.
and Jessie A. Long, Instructor IN
cookery, Pratt Institute. New York:
Harper & Brothers.
THE NAN WITH THE DOUBLE
aEARr. By Muriel Iine MRS.
Lane Company.
NORMAN Hinsdale Pitman, author OF
The Lady Elect" ETC. Illustrated
by Liu Hsins-Pu. New York:
Fleming H. Revell Company.
ACROSS THE RANGE and Other
stories: By James Otis. author OF
yopy Iyier etc. Illustrated. New
PERSONALITY PLUS, Some Expers-
snee. Of Emma McChesney anA Her
son Jock. BY Edna Ferber, author
OF Dawn OHara." etc. Illustrated
py James Montgomery F1agg. New
iork: Frederick A. Stokes Com
TILE WiL MERRY CHRISTMAS. By
Minifred Arnold. author of Mig
bassetts Matrimony Bureau" II.
iustrated. New York: Fleming II.
Reven Company.
GOLDEN DEEDS ON THE FIELD m.
hONon. BY Annah Robinson Wat.
son. author of Some Notable Fami-
The Macmillan Company.
ARIZONA A Romance of II. Cr.~
Southwest. By Augustus Thomas.
Made into a book from the play Of
me same name by Cyrus Townsend
Brady. Illustrated. New York:
Dodd. Mead & Co.
THE SPIRIT OF LIFE, A poon NJ
Essays. By Mowry Saben. New
York: Mitchell Kennerley.
EARTH TRIUMPHANT and Other
New York: The Macmillan Com
pany.
MEN AROUND THE KAIsER-Hs
Walkers of Modern Germany By
Frederic William VILE. Illustrated
WIN portraits. Indianapolis: Bobbs-
Merrill Company.
LICHENs FROM THE TEMPLE. Bv
robert Restalrig Logan. New
york: G. p. Putnam's Sons
The Erec sfR PS;Ssr LADY Ny, BY, BY Mary
by Neysa McMein. Indianapoiis:
Bobbs-Merrill Company.
MODERN READERS CHAUCER-The
complete POetical Works Of Goef.
frey Chaucer. Now first put into
modern English. By John S. p. Tat
tons ah Sy fe Wsrw MasKase ei,a Iliu,sra.
York: The Macmillan Company.
INDIAN SCOUT TALKLA Guild. for
Boy Scouts and Camp Fire Girls
BY Charles A. Eastman, author of
Wigwam Evenings" ETC. Boston:
Little. Brown & Co.
THE WINDS OF DEAHA School
story. By Latta Griswold. author
OF "Deering of Deal" etc. Illus
trated by George Harper. New
York: The Macmillan Company.
THE CONGO and Other Poems, BY
Nachel Lindsay. Introduction by
Harriet Monroe. editor of Poetry"
New York: The Macmillan Company.
THE RANCH AT THE WOLVERINE.
By B. M. Bower. author of Good
Indian. etc. Frontispiece by Doug
las Duer. Boston: Little. Brown q
Co.
INCREASING YOUR MENTAL EFF.
FICIENCY. By Edward Hunting
ton Williams. NJ D.. formerly assoc
ciate professor of pathology in the
State University of Iowa, etc. Au-
thor of The Question of Alcohol"
etc. illustrated. New York: Hearst'a
International Library Company.
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BOOKS RECEIVED.

GRANNIs OF THE FIFTH-A story ..
st. Timothy's. By Arthur Stahwooo
Pier. With illustrations boseoh'
Houghton Mifflin Co.
THE MAN AND THE MOMENT. By
Elinor Glyn, author Of The Reason
Why" etc. Illustrated by X. r.
James. New York: D. Appleton q
Co.
A GUIDE TO GOOD ENGLISH. BY
Robert Palfrey Utter. Phi. D.. asso-
ciate professor of Enghsn IN All
herst College. New York: harper
& Brothers.
MARMADUKE OF TENNESSEE. BY
Edward Cummings. illustrated oy
Frank E. Schoonover. chicago: A.
C. McClurg & Co.
THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW. By
Myrtle Glenn Roberts. San Fran
cisco: Paul Elder & Co.
HARVARD HEALTH TALKS THE
CARE OF THE SKIN. Some Conn
mon Diseases OF the Skin ana the
Simplest Measures by which to
Avoid Them. By Charles James
White. NJ. D. Cambridge: Harvard
University Press.
HASHIMURA TOGO. Domestic Scien-
list. BY Wallace Irwin. Illustrated
by Strothmann. New York: Hearst's
International Library Company.
HOW TO COOK AND WHY. BY Eliza
beth Condit. assistant supervisor in
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degree in which the narrative emphasizes
the natural, human features of this Incl
dent marks the degree, also. of the power
and charm of the little story. The four
days journey from Nazareth to Jerusa-
lem is used to show the happy, open
nature of the boy. his joy in everything
about him, his zest of life The scenes
through which the little caravan passes,
the things that befall it along the way.
make a vivid background, across which
the bright figure of the boy moves. 1t
is tender little story throughout and
one that is calculated to win a plying
sympathy.
THE HANDS OF ESAU. By Margaret
Deland. author of "Old Chester
Tales" etc. illustrated. New York
Harper Brothers.
AS it's title implies. this story turns
upon a deception. And one must ac-
knowledge that if deception is ever
justifiable it was in this case. Per-
haps young Tom Vail ought to have
told the girl he loved that his father
had been a criminal serving his term.
He did not tell her, and the girl gave
him up, not on account of the fact, but
on account of his failure to tell her
what she already knew. Toms mother
had concealed this bitter truth from
her son. bringing him up to revere his
ldlucT by 5IlcST dCClu6HI
Tom came upon the stunning fact. To
keep it hidden as it had been kept hid
den for so many years was his in
stinctfve desire. He simply could not
tell this thing to any one, least of all
the beautiful girl whom he was to
marry. The girl reasoned. faulty,
one thinks. that having deceived her
about this he would deceive her also
about other things. At any rate, she
turned him away. One hopes that he
ultimately found more sensible and
sympathetic woman. to be his wife.
Mrs. Deland tells this story with the
fresh charm and fine distinction that
mark all of her work.
WILD MUSTARD, A Seven DAYS
Chronicle. By William Jasper
Nicolls. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippin-
colt.
In the short span of single week
the unrest of Anne Forest in the old
farmhouse, her yearning ito be some
thing" passed quite beyond control.
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Anne became suffragette, went to the
city. made speeches, took part in a toll
some and disastrous hike" in demon
stration of the serious and high quality
of the cause" and, when the seventh
day rolled around. returned gladly to
the farm, the promised wife of a young
man who all the time thought Anne
could do better than to be a suffra-
gette. This story has a realistic ap-
pearance. 1t has some humor. a good
deal of sense. and now and then a
touch Of the pathetic. It's pictures of
a quiet home life border upon the ideal
ture and 1t is more than likely that he
overemphasizes both the beauty of the
quiet life and the ugliness of public life
for women. Wild mustard is vicious
weed that spreads and spreads from
small beginnings. until it overruns
and uproots the wholesome growths of
meadow and field. And under this sin
lister symbolism lies the story of Anne.s
little excursion into the realm of wom-
ans rights.
THE WAR AND AMERICA. By Hugo
Munsterberg. New York: D. APP
pleton & Co.
Immediately upon the outbreak of the
war. in Europe Prof. Munsterberg be-
gan the publication of series of let
ters and interviews on the subject of
the responsibility for the war and it's
AiAoi al dSPCSISs Will Tic view OIL OIL
setting and checking the general out
burst of anti-German sentiment in this
country. He has since collated these
papers and added much new matter to
them, and the result is the present vol
ume, which should be read by those
who wish to inform themselves on all
aspects of the great international
struggle. Prof Munsterberg writes
from frankly pro-German viewpoint,
contending that Germany is not re-
sponsible for this war and that it's po-
sition Is one of highest morality in
both it's inception and its conduct. He
considers first the question Of which of
the nations was the aggressor and then
passes to the anti-German sentiment in
this country. paralleling the state
ments Of President Wilson as the
spokesman for what Prof. Munster
berg styles the fair play party and
Charles W. Eliot, former president of
Harvard, whom he cites as the leader
of the anti-German party. A brief
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the Metropolitan Museum and reading
uninterruptedly. Mr.. Brooke has been
in Virginia. as has also Miss Critcher.
Miss Perrie went abroad in June, and
but for discomfort on her homeward
voyage had a rarely delightful summer
in Italy. From Paris. where they stop
ped first after landing. she and her
travelling companions went directly to
Milan, and from there to Rome, where
they spent at least a fortnight. From
Rome they went to Sorrento, Amalf.
der the pleasantest and most pictur-
esQue circumstances. Then, returning
to Rome. they made a tour, never to be
forgotten. of the hill towns. ending
manned some weeks before returning
home. 1t was while thehe and shortly
after their arrival that war was de-
clared. and a state of panic ensue d.
News was scarce, rumors numerous and
terrible. 1t seemed wise to hasten to
Florence and seek advice. The Ameri-
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normal story. summed and aired, one
ahat comes readily under the name OF
wholesome"
The .Woodneys are busy family
Everybody works, including father.
He Is the blind preacher in the village
church. Mace. the daughter, teaches
country school Robert. the son,
works as a farm hand, seeing visions
summer harvestings. The mother is
writing novel in the between whites
Of no end of household doings. The
Woodneys are as poor as the mice that
scuttle about the old church. But.
happily for the story. their pleasures
lie outside the markets. Their heri-
tage of joy is all out-of-doors. stepped
now in the gold of everybody's sun
light. or now grayed by the clouds and
polished by the rains that are every
genial humor play II spy with the
workaday affairs Of this delightful and
enviable family.
The author of this bright picture OF
American home life is nero. FOR,
out of bodily disabilities of a nature
to cause him to rebel in the very words
Of Job himself, Mr.. Ellis. in unconquer-
able vein of high optimism. writes 70,
mances that are all made of hope ana
Irresistible good cheer.
OH! JAMES! BY H. M. Edginton. With
illustrations by Gustavus c: W1d-
ney. Boston: Little. Brown & Co.
James should have postponed his first
birthday until the coming OF the mil
lennium, an atmosphere era better
adapted to his moral altitude than the
arth-groveling world Of today. 1t
wasn't his fault, of course, for he has
no fault, which is his only trouble
According to this remarkable hero, all
people are naturally pure and charm
ing-only they don't know it. And it
is his mission to enlighten them.
which elysiumlike motive PUSHES him
into an orgy of benevolences that pro-
vides the reader with as many hilarious
situations as there are pages in the
book. Mr.. James Bright is fabulously
rich, with more money forever rolling
in. In his belief that money should be
put in circulation he signs book full
of checks and invites his wife to Guido
the Queen of Sheba in the matter of
dress. But Mrs. Bright retains the
economies cf past frugal days; makes
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THE HUMAN SIDE OF PLANTS. BY
Royal Dixon. New York: Fred
erick Stokes Comnanv
Boston, who has a large summer school
of landscape and marine painting.

Boston. who has large summer school
Of landscape and marine painting.
MFRS. LAURA BARTLETT ME-
A'A CUTCHEN has been at Lyme,
Conn.,, studying with Mr.. Poore. and
brings back Interesting accounts of
that artists colony. Metcalrs May
Night" was painted at Lyme. picture
of Miss Grisswold's artists home:
the old church there many have paint
ed, but none better than Childe
Hassam.
MISS ALINE SOLOMONS has spent
the summer at Elberon, N. J. She
and Miss Perrie have taken for the
winter the large studio on the top floor
of the Art Students League building,
sos 18th street, previously occupied by
Miss Alice Reading. and last winter
by Mrs. Sawtelle. John Siebert will
occupy the studio which for SO many
years Miss Solomons and Miss Perrie
have shared.
MFRS. BUSH-BROWN returned this
A] week from England. where she
one of the very few whose plans were
not interfered with by the war. Mr..
Bush Brown was in Washington at
work in his studio during the greater
part of the season, going away. when
the heat had almost spent itself. for
complete rest and recreation. One of
the works upon which Mr.. Bush-Brown
was occupied this summer was a por-
trait bust of Champ Clark. Speaker of
the House of Representatives. This
portrait Mr.. Bush-Brown modelled first
in wax and later full size in clay. Both
the large and small busts are now in
his studio and will be found of much
interest. Each is expressive and both
have been declared excellent hkenesses.
nNE immediate effect of the war
~ has been to send to this country
some of the American artists who have
long resided in France. Among these
is Andrew OConnor, who is numbered
with the foremost of contemporary
sculptors and whose work is well
known in this city. Mr.. O'Connor has
been in Washington looking for
studio. Mr.. Bush-Brown has offered
him hospitality temporarily, and it may
be that he will establish himself here
pei II Is SuCu Ihat
should be attracted to Washington. and
if permanently established here would
do much to make Washington what it
logically ought to be-the art center
of America. 1t is rumored that Mr..
MacMonies may also spend the winter
here.
MISS GRACE E. McKINsTRY of
Faribault. Mimi. has for some
weeks been occupying Mrs. Bush
Browns studio, while painting a por-
trait of DR.. Lucien w. Clancy, well
known in scientific circleA The por-
trait Is a little less than a half length,
and shows DR.. CLANCY in his scholars
gown seated in an armchair. The face
is toward the observer and the express
sion very YiYacious. It Is an excelleut
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over gowns, wears last years hats and
scrapes the family ham bones. The
ops an over-sense of duty to women
young ones-and selects five pretty
girls who are to enjoy the luxuries
Mrs. Bright refuses. Unknown to the
others. and. of course. to Mrs. Bright.
James provides for each a fine estab-
lishment. which extends to motor cars
and yachts The world. not yet hav-
ing found out how good 1t is. accuses
James of the most awful intentions. but
he persists in trusting human nature
and lavishing fortunes on his young
proteges until. to quote the classics.
Mrs James catches on" The check
book is taken out and the economical
wife, who is also delightfully."- wise
woman, proceeds to rival Sheba's queen
with extravagances that near wreck
the fortune that had stood James be-
nevolences without strain. OF course.
there is a happy ending, because Mrs
Bright, knowing her "old James,"
knows. also. that apart from his mis-
placed generosity there is nothing to
forgive.
LITTLE WOMEN LETTERS FROM
THE HOUSE OF ALCOTT. Selected
by Jessie Bonstelle and Marion de
Forest. Boston: Little, Brown &
Co.
Those who, years ago, came to know
the Alcott family through the delight
full medium of Little Women" are the
ones who will most appreciate this
opportunity to renew that old ac-
quaintance. Here is sketch of Bron-
son Alcott's life. Here are extracts and
numerous letters. SO chosen as to re-
veal still further the home life of this
rare family, and to set out in informal
fashion the unusual qualities of one
and another of this household.
THE LOST BOY. By Henry Van DYKE.
author of 1.-The Story of the Other
Wise Man." etc. illustrated. New
York: Harper & Brothers.
This is the twelve-year-old boy. Jesus,
lost in the streets of Jerusalem, where
he had gone with his father and mother
to celebrate the great Jewish feast of
the Passover. Out of the gospel account
of this incident in the life of Christ DR..
Van Dyke has woven the broadly APP
pealing story of a lost child. And the