davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Imperial Valley press., 1914-05-20

The Panama Canal, the greatest engineer
ing achievement Of the worlds history, cosS
more than
S4OO,OOO,OOO
1t links the two greatest oceans, and be-
comes the most important factor in peace and
war. So where is the red-blooded inhabitant
of this globe that does not feel vitally inter-
ested in it? Truly it is the wonder of this pro-
gressive age!
Imperial Valley press., 1914-05-20

ae writer international subjects and author Of many
spent months in Panama and the Canal Zone in the prep
collected at first hands the complete history of the great
torca data concerning Panama which has before
human interest story of this beautiful land and its people
Columbus tried to find natural waterway from the Allan
the present time.
graphers made the hundreds Of beautiful views with
y page of this exhaustive book is illustrated.
E. Read made the sixteen sumptuous watercoor studies
e latest color process specially made paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-05-20

Art plates reproduced
from water-color stud
les abound throughout
the entire magnificent
volume.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
OF CURRENT FICTION
Mr. Hutchinsons The Clean Heart Ralph D. Paine:
American Solders-A Neighborhood Story-Other
New Novels and Some Short Stories.

GERS corps, but also from civilian So
ciety, the world over, even with us. Mr..
Paine has written n simple romance of
the love Of a gentleman sergeant in
the United States Marine Corps for his
colonePs niece, md he administers Sc
ciGl justice in way to warm the hear
of the romantically inclined but what
makes his story worth while 10 men
are the sketches of real soldiers on
both sides of the wall which it con-
tains. lie makes US like officers and
privates alike, the mutual appreciation
OF courage and efficiency, the loyalty of
the men to those who lead them well.
Colonel Wickerson is a capital study
of the martinez in barracks who be-
comes a fighter in the field and the
friend of the lighting men under his
orders-and Sergeant Kendall is the
type of non-commissiOncd officer on
whom both men and officers rely in the
hour OF need. There is some capital
fighting i'm Nicaragua, and passing
hit at political interference in our
army and navy establishments; a COM
plant, also, of our indifference to the
heroisms of little wars. which in Eng
land find their chroniclers and bring
rewards to their participants. At tie
present moment. when the horrors of
the great conflict in Europe over
shadow all else. this story deserves
attention. Il reminds us that the mill
tary caste has standards of its own
which. carried into civil life. would be
Of genuine value.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03

THE CLEAN HEART. by \. s. NJ
Hutchinson. Frontisuiece by Il. VI. eros
h'. l2mo. pr. i"' Boston. Little
Brown Go.
Mr.. Hutchinson begins his new novel
with three chapters remarkable for
their merit as Il picture of a literary
worker driven by the success whose
slave re is until the break comes. 6nd
his overworked brain calls halt. The
world envies him; it sees only the
achievement. OF its cost, its torture,
its increasing burden it knows moth
ing. Then Wriford, editor of d London
weekly whose every line bears the
impress of his pen, and a successful
novelist as well, takes to the open
road after semi-conscious effort at
suicide; and his adventures begin.
He encou tiers tramp, a happy-go-
I lucky sea up. who, besides helping him
to regll his health and his sanity,
begins % awaken IN him what he al
ways, and vanly, has sought from
others. For this story has serious
meaning. There are episodes here as
, fresh and enjoyable as any that Mr..
, Hutchinson has invented, but, TO some
readers at least, II may seem that
there is here an overabundance of a
very good thing. and that this over
abundance bears evidence of hard
work. Ii is "rOUlH," as the French
/ have it, especially when one remembers
the ineXhaustible. bubbling spontaneitJ
of the humOr Of that perennial de-
light, Once Aboard the Luggcr."
Then comes the second episode,
yvbnep bnr,fu. - tho. SON, o,,b.t nicLap-
sian Essie. the daughter Of a no less
/ Dickensian master plumber and his
wife. She completes the education of
+ Wriford begun by PuddleboX. the
tramp-the education which he vainly
besought Brida, the actress, to under
take, but in way so cropping and un-
/ comprehendlng that naturally she
could not understand his need 1t is
for this purpose alone, of illuminating
/ Wriford's benighted state, that she Is
/ introduced; thereafter she is some
what cavalicrly dismissed.
Wriford, then, won success az the
cost OF the joys Of life. He had no
/ time for love. He could ask for it in
muddled way. but IL was not mis- to
give. lie supported his brothers chill
/ dren, their aunt, their grandparents
| part Of his Success-but without affec-
I ton. HIS conception of happiness
( dwindled 70 craving for rest and
comfort after the days task - a
chance to gather new strength for the
/ achievement of more work; he thought
! only Of himself. amid all the service
| he gave. And so he went forth. un-
! knowing. to learn his first lesson from
the loyal friendship of a dlsreputable
tramp, and to find happiness at last in
! the eyes and the laughter and the
! confident love of girl of whose fit
/ ness to be his mate the reader is not
convinced in the end. And il took two
/ tragedies to open his eyes. The story,
one thinks. will find many delighted
readers, bu. il is not the book which
one had the right TO expect after
The Happy Warrior" 1t is not the
story which Mr.. Hutchinson may give
/ us some day.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
4 MYSTERIOUS ISLAND.

THE DUKE OF OBLIVION. by John
pr.d Scott. Frontlspiccc IN color 10y ~
Weston TAYLOR. l2mc. Pr. "'l f''i'"-
dclphia: j. T.. Lippincott company
Cruising in the Caribbean, one might
conceivably happen upon an uncnarted
island. This is what happens to
Yachting party in this book. once
ashore, however, the explorers, among
whom there are two women, discover
that thew cannot return to the yacht.
They are captives Of the Duke of obi
Won. the fourth ruler of his line on
the island, whose little colony OF Eng
Iish men and women has had no com
munication with the outer world since
the end Of the eighteenth century. The
duke has never heard of steam or cleo
tricity or any of the other modern IN
ventions, including automatic pistols.
On the other hand, he is remarkably IN
accord with ultra -modern ideas on the
subject Of eugencs. After four gen.
erations. his family and his subjects
are beginning to show the effects OF
too much intermarrying- cousins with
c0usins-and so the party from the
outer world must remain to supply the
needed new blood. His grace is de-
cidedly autocratic, and begins to ar
range marriages. II should be added
that he has two nieces of his own, who
begin TO show great interest in their
visitors and what they have 10 tell.
Problem: How is the party is escape
from the island, which can only be
approached through a natural tunnel?
This question the author solves in his
well-known slashing, hard fighting
manner, distributing love affairs as he
goes along.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
FRIENDLY FOLKS.
LOOKING AFTER SANDY \ Simple Ru-
nance. BY Margaret Turnbu'l. l2mo. pp.
so Harper Bros

LOOKING AFTER SANDY \ Simple Ro-
nance. BY Margaret Turnbu'l. l2mo, ID.
$40 Harper Bros
Sandy is a workhouse child, and ere
many pages are turned the reader is
looking after her along with the char
acters Of this appealingly human ro-
nance of everyday life. The child
hood pages of the story are real;
Sandy is a real child in her timidties
and her sudden belligerencies under
persecution, in her sober matter-of-
factness and her world Of make be-
lieve, for she is of Scotch blood and
has the Scotch temperament. Her quest
of new home after her first friend
dies is a genuine bit of child life in its
pathoS, its forlornnesS, its desperate
courage and trustful faith. No wonder
everybody looks after Sandy, even
when she has grown up and believes
that she is looking after herself. That
she writes play is only natural, since
the author herself has done that very
thing; hence, no doubt, the reality Of
this episode and what came of it, so
different from the usual romance of a
first success with never a difficulty TO
overcome. Another interest of the
story lies in its excellent picture OF
the life and the ways of a small Ameri-
can town.. native still TO the core, not
withstanding its growing foreign set
Element. Sandy is not heroine" be
u understood, but an average girl
among average people. and our average
Is high IN klndliness and helpfulness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
MAGAZINE STORIES.

THE CHARMED LIFE or MISS AUSTIN.
by Samuel Merwiu Forty illustrations By
L. NJ crosby. l2mo, pp. 313. The Century
Company.
MIR Merwin, We have been told by
those having knowledge of such mat
ters, knows his China-what he uses
Of it in his Internationally we'll.
10 certainly furnishes an interesting
setting for the adventures of the dis
tant connection of Daisy Miller his
Miss Austin isa young American girl
who holds that American girls can go
anywhere alone, even in China. That
she gets back to her uncle and aunt
at the hotel after each and every one
Of her experiences decidedly disprOves
he theory, at least so far as China Is
concerned, but, of course, she does not
see it in that light, which is fortunate
for the reader, because otherwise she
would have stayed demurely with her
guardians after the very first of her
cscapades, in which she acted as sec
ond to champion found by chance IN
a prize-ring improvised in a Shanghai
opium den.
This, by the way, is decidedly one
of the best stories in the book, IN
which Mr.. Merwin proves his interest
in. his knowledge Of and his ability 20
give rafting description of fight.
Having learned nothing, Miss Austin
shortly afterward proceeds to purchase
Pekingese dog, this time not alone,
but in the wrong company, which Is
even worse. There are nine of these
adventurous tales, and all of them are
decidedly above the average of current
magazine fiction.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
CRITICISM
AND BOOK NEWS
Printed Plays and Book About the Modern
English Drama-Frankhn +. Adams S
Verse-A New Book on Japan.

and we'll balanced, more than OF tn'
well-made play. 1t only establishes an
tecedent conditions and ends the mo-
ment the real problem is reached ION
nays "The Other Danger has IN 1uil
MEASURE the weakness of so many
other contemporary French problem
PLAYS, that Of establishing arbitrarily
q condition of affairs not likely TO De
encountered in real life. In other
words. il is essentially theatrical. AND
one knows that the solution presented
by the author is not the one that VIII
hold.
Mr. Howe is radical with trcn"
chant pen. One takes him to be
young man. he is SO iconoclastic in his
verdicts. so cocksuro Of his opinions.
Il is all very easy, and very youthful
to dismiss Pinero as theatrlcal
tradesman, working to keep the thea,
tres open and the box Offices flled, ana
to treat Henry Arthur Jones with even
less consideration. Their day may be
passing-no doubt it is; young enthu-
siasm and cocksureness may look Tor
ward, not back; but the fact remains
that the man who wrote The second
Mrs. Tanqueray" and Iris" marked the
beginning of new period IN the ms
tory of the English drama, even though
the impulse came from the Continent;
and if Mrs. Danes Defence" is, in the
last analysis. undoubtedly triumph or
mastery of technique and little more,
Henry Arthur Jones has given us
pace Mr.. Howe--what falls little snort
of a masterpiece in Michael and HIS
Lost Angel" And, really, was it nee
essary 70 refer to William Archer as
"a critic of the period"-the period be-
ing that of Pinero's beginnings, thlr-
~ wears ago? And will Barrie's "Ad-
mirable Crichton" keeps its theatre
open in a hundred years? One
doubts it. especially with the anti
climax of its last act.
Our cfitic becomes more tolerant,
more reasonable when he approaches
"les jeunes." One doubts whether HUI
bert Henry Davies is quite so impor-
tant yet as Mr.. Howe makes him out
to be; in fact, he has failed to develop
as once he promised to 90. But he Is
still young, and there is still hope
much hope. The chapter on st. John
Hankin. and especially that OH Gran
Vile Barker, are worth while; and the
analysis Of the drama of John Gals
worthy neatly lays its finger on his
shortcomings as well as on his merits.
Oscar Wilde, somewhat eXtravagantly
praised. though justly judged, and the
inevitable Shaw complete this gallery
Of DOrtraits
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
THE DRAMA.

PLAYS. Uy John Galswor,hy. The Fugl-
live. THE pigeon" The Mob" l2mo. PIP.
IS. SO. -. Charles Scribner's sons.
THREE MODERN PLAYS FROM THE
FRENCH. With a preface 10y IiaS1o on
Hamilton and articles on the three frehCn
authors by barrett. r. CiayN l2mo' PIP. ~
90. Henry Holt &'o
DRAMATIC PORTRAITS by L. =. Howe.
Svo. ~. is. .6f Mitchell KonnerieN'
The drama Of John Galsworthy. IN
some respects the most significant ana
certainly the most promising now being
written in England, continues TO be
published in this country IN two edl-
tions. one Of which gives us each play
separately. while the other collects a
certain number of them in larger vol
umes. usually three at a time. The
first of the plays collected in this third
series CT the larger edition, "The Fugl-
tive" has already appeared separately,
and was reviewed in these columns at
the time Of its publication. To- the
praise then given it. there remains only
10 be added now an expression OF re-
greet that. in the present state OF the
pubGc taste in our theatres, TINS
drama has no more chance of success
with us than had, say, Pnero's "Inun-
derbolt." All the more reason, then'
TO thank the publishers for the oppor-
tunity of reading this admirable piece
of dramatic writing. The Plgeon. we
have seen here in New York, and II,
too. has already appeared separately.
There remains, then, Mr.. Galswortny
latest play. The Mob" A play OF an
idea. this, a great idea, but not play
of action, dramatic though II be IN
places. And it has a most undramauc
ending. 4 view of the statue erected
10 the memory OF a statesman whom
his countrymen prosecuted IN his me
time for his convictions boldly upheld
this is not of the drama, it Is not
even of the theatre, at least not yet.
It is for students of the drama that
Barrett II. Clark has translated Henri
Iavedau's lie Prince dAurec' and
Jules Lemaitre's Pardon" and Char
lotte Tenney David, Maurice Donnays
..Tbe Other Danger" Truth TO tell,
none of these PLAYS is of vital signlh-
canoe 20 us. OF Of great value as drama.
Lavedan's study of a nobility which,
in a republic, has lost its functions,
even to a large extent that OF soldier
ing. and which in consequence IS rap
idly deteriorating in idleness, folly and
extravaganza, IS rather far removed
from our own social interests. Nor Is
the subject itself inherently dramatic.
Rather does one turn to Gyp's tales in
dialogue. i'm which this topic is con-
stantlv 70 the fore, for its trenchant
treatment. As for The Pardon that,
showing pronounced traces of foreign
Influences is AZ the same time a rather
artificial example of the well-planned
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
J4E TOMB Or MUT5lHi7O
AZ kyoTo (fR0mTHS.
SPELL Of JAPAN !, THE
PAGE COZ

and most picturesque American slang.
One cannot refrain from a last quota
ton:
AID PYRRHAM.
Who is the arrowcollar kid
You're playing in the grot with
For whom the zippy Leghorn lid?
Whom do you do the trOt with?
Ha! Get me gigglinG while | think
How smooth appears the ocean
To him, the unsuspecting gink-
But oh! that wavy motion!
| weep for them that are not joe,
That think you sweet and clever.
Spear it from one who's In the know;
I'm off your lay forever.
Mr.. Adams certainly helps to make
this world of ours a cheerier place to
live in. He aims to make 1t better
Mace as well
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03

frat employed. but in the present IN,
otorco we are at least spared that
most hackneyed of all its motifs the
iovo Of the loyal daughter of one side
for soldier Of the other. The MAJ, man
and the woman in this story are Doth
sontherners. pledged to the oon Con. a.
eracy. The author does not a.t i.hn" do 40
draw history in his fiction, neither 90
" ,ba historic figures of the Confeder-
a acv play prominent parts in his plot.
S one sees sees them only from afar, for, the
hero. colonel of Confederate yolun-
t teer cavalry regiment, is mostly EN-.
gagged in raiding far from the great
battlefields, though he visits Mcn-
mond and is preSent; at Te ~ f aOui =.
vile, and thence escapes in one OF the
best written episodes of the book.
And at one time he is with Stuarts
raiders.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
A CONFEDERATE CAyALRYMAN

SfARMADUKE OF TENNESSEE. Gy Ed
ward Cummings. illustrated by Frank f.
Schooner. 'mo. pPr 81, Chicago: A e..
McClLrg & Co.
Mr.. Cummings tells good story of
love and war after the manner made
familiar to US long ago by his many
predecessors. The formula of the his
torical romance of the Civil War has.
indeed, varied but little since it was
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
REAL SOLDIERS

THE WALL BETWEEN. By Ralph II.
Paine. Illustrations boy Aouzo Kimball.
l2mo. Up. 80 Charles SCribner's sons.
The wall is that which divides the
enlisted man and the commits
stoned officer not only from the Off
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
BOOKS AND AUTHORS
Current Talk of Things Pres.
ent and to Come.

EX-President Taft's new book, The
Antitrust Act and the Supreme Court
Harper 4 Bros.) discusses in all its
bearings the Sherman antitrust law
the proposed amendments to 1t, the
effect OF it's decisions upon business In
the past and its probable influence IN
the future. He emphasizes the neces-
sity of an Independent judiciary to up
hold popular government and explains
the decisions of the Supreme Court
in the cases of the AddystOne Pipe Com
pany, the American Sugar Refining
Company, the meat packers trust, the
Standard Oil trust, the American To-
bacco trust and others. The proposed
amendments to the antitrust law are
to be looked upon, he firmly believes,
as class legislation. He corrects pOpu-
lar errors in regard to the effect of the
DEGREES in the antitrust cases, and con-
cludes with the conviction that IF the
law interpreted by the Supreme Court
remains on the statute book it Will
continue to free business from its real
burdens"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03

From Dublin to Chicago" arr. an
nounced by the George II. Doran Com
pany for publication this month. They
are said 10 be very pleasant impress
sions indeed. Dean Hannay, IT will be
remembered, came to this country last
fall in connection with the production
of his Irish comedy, General Regan."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
Mrs. Burnett's Lost Prince"

The central figure of Mrs. Burnett's
new story, THE Lost Prince which is
to appear irst as serial in "1he st.
Nicholas Magazine" belongs to coun.
try which, like the mythical land Of
Zenda. may not be found in any atlas.
In this country there is legend that
five hundred years ago. while ruthless
and unpopular king was in power, his
son. youth OF noblest qualities and
much loved by his people, mysteriously
disappeared. a new dynasty coming TO
the throne upon his fathers death. The
common people cherish the belief that
descendant of the lost prince will re-
appear and become their greatest ruler.
Around this legend Mrs. Burnett has
woven her story.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
HUM0R AND PARODY
A Third Collection Of Mr.,
Adams's Verse.

BY AND LARGE. BY Franklin p. Adams.
l2mo up. 1iS Doubleday, Page & co.
To shoot folly as it flies yet leave no
poison in the wound; TO be the laugh
ing philosopher of the passing hour
with all its foibles, its poses, its incon-
sistencies and lf-suficiences, its Of
fences, too, the injustices it inficts
and tolerates; to be serious for q tell
ing moment when seriousness is the
duty of all--this is the mission of +. 2.
A. in verse and prose. Our daily com
panion these last ten years at the
breakfast table, on the way TO work,
and under the lamp when the daily task
is done, he exercises an influence that
ranges as wide as its wholesOmeness is
great Conscious of our mission to
make the future better than the past
end the present, consistently working
toward that end. he strengthens our
faith that we shall attain it. He voices
the optimism that is our greatest ma
tional asset. There is purpose beneath
the lightness of his touch, and when
his Indignation flashes suddenly, we
respond, as we did, and do again now,
to his verses on the Triangle fire:
makes the vision red
This hellish truth of wiped-out youth,
this tale of needless dead!
No single name can bear the blame, 20
probe" We never so deep,
For the cost of living rises, but the cost
of life is cheap.
A moment later one happens upon
this delightfully."- good-natured and sym.
pathetic new turn given to an old and
familiar joke:
TO THE JUST GRADUATED.
Youth of the bounding ambition,
Out in the strenuous mob,
Shall you accept position?
Or will you hunt for job?
From extravagances in woman's dress
/ to the "nco-neoisms" and "neO-pseudo
isms" OF art and literature, from the
tired business mans ideal of entertain
ment,
Come, sing to me some lyric,
Some sinful and stupid lay;
The sort that the Western buyers
Applaud at a cabaret,
to the offences of our cooks and tn,
crimes of our janitors, from the use
of worry in the night watches to tn
abuses of New Haven Railroad tinanc
ing the verse swings, and it is Away
good verse, for Mr.. Adams is a finishe,
craftsman. He IS also a master Of tn
art of parody, ranging in these page
from Percey's "Reliques" to Swinburne'
swinging metre; and he turns his han
in prose TO the manner of William d
Morgan in a capital bit of work.
Horatians they are few and widel
dispersed nowadays-long ago recog
nized the genuine merit of his trans
lations of the Odes into the lates
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
THE HOUSE
OF DECEIT
ANONYMOUS

W " y ~ W y y y
Maurice SangSter went to Lon
don to set the Thames on fire.
He started upward by way of
church politics, and won for
wife the gentle Phoebe. He con-
tinued upward by way Of high
state politics, and then came
the splendid Ruth. A strong,
graceful story, with trimmings
of saline humor.
/ Just rCddy. S1.3J net.
Henry Holt and Co. . New W. 2 's8 st.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
A New Book by Cork.

Several years have passed without, a
book from Maxim Gorki's pen. but he
is about to break his long silence with
a volume of new short stories, Tales
of Two Countries" announced by B. ".
Huebsch. The scene OF more than half
of these twenty-five tales is laid in
Italy, the authors refuge during his
long exile. The remaining tales deal
with Russian life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
(, .II.OUT-OF.PSiNT- BOOKS .

n WRITE NE. can get you any cook ever
published on any subject. Tie most expert
book nuder eNtant. When IN England call and
sec nv 500 00V rare books. BAKERS GREAT
BOOK SHOP John Bright 81. Blrinnghatl.
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BERNHARDI-Germ and the Next War
80 ANY book furnished. Books bought.
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
.THEROSIE WORLD

"THE WHOLE THING is
MASTERY. 1t is full of
cerebration and full of art.
The character-studies are re-
markably fine. | found
every page interesting.
One of the best novels have
read in years. -
WIN. LYON PHELPS.
Professor Of English Lifera-
tire, Yale UniTersttr.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-03
MAID OF
THE mis-

DN JOIbt OhL4'llN't q, "a "a
Author Of Red NrafA' etc. 'lJ.A -
An exhilaratinc tale dealing ~l'a
a Singullrly delicate situation ID
perfectly delicate and idyllit nliF
ner. A hook to enjoy and Keep