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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-10
AMONG THE N0RSEMEN
A Book of Travel III Denmark,
Sweden and Norway.

THE CHARM or SCANDINAVIA. By
Francis r. ClArk and sydney \. Clark
Illustrated. $40, PIP. $40. Boston. Little.
Brown & GO.
This book consists of series Of
chatty letters, not burdened with dry
statistics, but conveying easily some
general information concerning the
three northern kingdoms, their peoples,
daily life, institutions and general
state Of simple wellbeing in true de-
mocracy. The authors make eXcur
sions into history, and chat little OF
Scandinavian literature and Scandi-
navian art, the latter. rs they justly
observe, still decidedly in its early
stages. But most of all do they wax
enthusiastic over the atmosphere of
peaceful comfort in these countries
which makes travel there a pleasure,
and over the picturesqueness OF their
cities and the grandeur Of their
scenery. Finland is included in their
survey, which is only as it should be,
since that country was civilized by
Sweden, and still maintains its civil
ization under the increasing pressure
Of Russianization.
Interspersed with observations on
political life, the status of women,
the remarkable records Of Scandina-
Wan education and the Gothenburg
system are bits of quaint information
concerning, for instance. the Swedish
system of unified cattle" in the king
dom's statistics. The milch COW is the
unit ard all other animals the null
tiples. horse Is equal to COW and
third; e. sheep is reckoned as a tenth
of a COW; a goat is the twelfth OF a
COW, a pig one-fourth and reindeer
one-ffth. Every man and woman IN
Sweden possesses, according to this
statistical standard, one COW, or three
quarters of horse. ten sheep, twelve
goats. four pigs. or five and half REIN
deer. Sweden, by the way, one OF the
"little" states of Europe, is as large as
Germany. The maelstrom. made IA
nous by our poets, is "a feeble little
stream" which a minnow could swim.
And as for Hamlet's grave at Elsinore,
"Butlin says Of his first visit to Den
mark that, on inquiring for 1t, he was
told-the time being autumn-that II
was not usually built up before the
spring, in time for English and Ameri-
can tourists to carry it away In
chopped- off morsels during the sum-
mer." The illustrations are excellent.
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the printed page. to the stage. inece
10 an ingenious plot with an abundance
- rapid action and plenty OF nigniy
amusing dialogue, which would listen
nn vol 10 borrow from the lingo OF
a. tbea.re) as il reads. A Brush
nnbIeman is engaged to marry an Amer
;can beiress. At the New York once
~ Iiovds he takes out love insur-
,nce a policy Of $4,000, this sum 10
no Maid TO him in case the young iany
changes her mind within two weeks.
Of course. he agrees to do everything
in his mower TO further the wedding
which is to take place in FLORIDA, "A
member Of the office staff is told on 10
see to it that he keeps his part OF '.e
contract. And now things begin "
whirl. All kinds of complications are
niled upon each other, and througn
tbem moves a company o. eccentric
cbaracters that keeps the fun gong
There is. first of all, the noblemans
ALLEGED older brother, managed by
successful advertising mana MUSTER,
and there are the family DIAMONDS
hrought over by the prospective Drlde-
groom. and there is the novelist VINO
makes a better living by providing
vociotv leader with witty conVersa-
lion. and there are two newspaper men,
and a champion crook, and there Is inc
Gckle heiress. 1t all is furiously fast
fun. and it is clever, too, in siahsy
fippant, irresponsible way.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-10
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
OF CURRENT FICTION
An Interesting New American Novelist--Romance and
Derring-Do in Seventeenth Century Holland
Mrs de Sencourt and Nietzsche

There is here true bit Of feminine
psychology, for this woman. who had
deeply felt the impossibility Of con
tlrung to be the wife of the man
whom She had ceased to love, is ready
to conclude loyeless marriage with
another. And mere begins the climax
OF the plot which must be left unrc-
yealed. Pierre's theory of the legal
invalidity of divorce where love per-
slsts, by analogy with the theory of
the spiritual invalidity of marriage
where love is lacking Is an ingenious
argument. though there is certainly
room for more than one opinion as to
the quality of its logic.
Throughout one happens upon de-
lPhtful bits of observation, sometimes
clever, occasionally wise. "Most men
Of my generation totally lack audac-
ity," says Pierre. They have impu-
dence instead. For example. doubt
If Laurie kissed Barbara in The Bronx
Park, which would have been au-
dacity; yet he called her old Sox' at
Sherry's, which is impudence." And
he adds: 81 noticed that Laurie knew
the head waiter. No young man of
his income has any business knowing
mead walters" Again, having lost his
friend, Mrs. AXtell, in the course of
a shopping expedition in Fifth avenue,
Pierre tells US: "She said that she
had stopped at the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company to cash "a check.
did not ask her how the Farmers
Loan and Trust Company happened
to be open at half-past four. never
say things to women they cannot deny.
| said, instead, How about the East
mans p"
Being a rich man. an owner of tene-
ment property, Pierre does not escape
the assaults of those uncomfortable re-
Elections which are the result of our
growing realization of individual re-
sponsibility for collective wrongs. and
again his viewpoint is his own. As for
the women of the rich, he pities them
in their helpless parasitism:
Theirs Is only a gamblers lux
ury. They never know where the
end is. A quarrel, an illness, n
prettier face-one of hundred
such little happenings may take it
away in a week. How can they be
ever truly happy on such fral
foundations? Yes, have the deep
est sympathy with the protests of
these sisters and wives of the rich,
and | can perfectly understand how
they feel that society is unjustly a
man-deyised organization. The
complaints of the humber sisters
seem to me quite artificial by com
parisOn.
Here is newcomer who deserves
the encouragement of a first success,
for our own sake as we'll as for his
and that of our fiction. Be it said n
conclusion that Mr.. Venables draws the
charm of femininity with graceful APP
probation.
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NEW POINTS OF VIEW.

PIERRE NINTON Tho Adventures ~ "A
Supcrfuous husband. ~ Edward o..
Ncnablcs. Emo. pp. .JG. Charles Scrib-
ner'S Sons.
This first novel by new man de-
serves attention. 1t Is clever, its re-
markable verbal dexterity sharpens the
meaning of its original point of view,
and, if the plot be far from novel, its
climax certainly serves TO give the
story the dramatic quality which, more
than once. the reader fears that the
author has missed. lie has knack of
suggesting character by synthesis while
sparing us the analysis-the "psychol-
ogy"-and he succeeds in a similar
way in impressing environment upon
his pages without overlooking them
with detail. The book has its faults,
of course, the faults of all except an
occasional beginner, but one willingly
| overlooks them for the sake of what
one gets. An author who thus opens
his story is likely to be increasingly
worth our while:
What vast difference there is
between an empty teacup and an
emptied teacup. To have no longer
| any place in the tray of things,
to be "A little soiled by use, and,
with a little of the sweetness of
the past in the depths of you, to
belong only to the out-of-the way,
is, as ] see it, to be an emptied
/ teacup. And ] can think of nothing
else | so closely resemble at this
hour
Pierre Vinton is the emptied cup
placed on the tray below the tea table
| by his wife, who has divorced him.
| He has behaved like gentleman"
| through 1t all; he has given her back
her freedom, though he still loves her.
"Marcella was tired of you" explains
his friend, Mrs. AXteli. The rector of
st. Stephens, who had married them,
/ declares that their marriage lacked
/ spirituality, and Mrs. Mallory insists
! that 1t all came about because they
/ had no children. But. Pierre points
out, not to her, but to the reader, Mar
celia wanted no children, land TO me
that settled the question. | thought
she ought TO have control of the mat
/ ter because she would have to have the
children" His distant French cousin,
| Philippe de Meilhac, offered the Gallo
/ point OF view in an epigram:
"A husband" said he. ais
womans nearest approach TO a
good friend, perhaps. He is the
precipitate in her cup of life when
the liquor of love has boiled away.
That would sound better in
French" he added.
Then say it in French" | adj
vised. at sounds like a cooking
recipe in English"
Pierre has been a model husband.
and yet has failed to make his wife
happy. What is wrong? lie gives
up the search for an explanation, if
not solution, and seeks other inter
ests-he even thinks Of second mar
riage, for he tries hard to follow the
/ usual course of the emptied teacup,
| which is 10 become an empty one
/ again. Now, he is rich. Marcella is
/ poor, and she has refused alimony.
/ She cannot support herself, wherefore
second marriage, and again a rich
one, becomes imperative for her.
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CHILD OF THE SERVICE.

,,,onopr Ry Maud Howard
THE eoNl Iir,,a.rated b. Maud ia. o,'
G,oohcns tsmo. pp. 36S Boston ''''''
10 & shepard 90.
urs Peterson is herself "ot the ser
v;ce" the wife Of naval mar - i;fn
w. 80 coursc. her knowledge OF the me
u 49, w. al Of the code which rules Cnc
"oOduct Of its officers. OF the StSi'uaiu -
,,I;ch they uphold. The Commooole -
WIKI nI,;id Of tho navy, brought up III az
cordance with this code of othcetS "nu
'.ontIomcn. and never does he IAN 70
go 70 the high demands OF mo
.,;,;nc There is great dignity III
~ storv which it will be wen Ior
,;,,;I;ons 70 consult-a point Oh Ho.'ol
Sa. Y,b;ch civilian life would pc an tno
Lo,,or But. in addition to her COM,
,.,,od If ber material. her understaIu-
;n1- CONGREGATION of it, her SymPd'"E
,,;S1b - the author handles an ADMIR-
.,biv wcu-trained pen. She mas INio
off of appeaiing TO our ~
Trhosc cnisodes. so well linked toge'hGI
into p larger story that OF All o''iS =.
son following in the footsteps o. 10
father and grandfather ana q no
mother's people before MN ma
quality: they ring true; tney are w
real thing. Furthermore, the oohiIiOe
dore is "A real boy, not compound VI
sentimentality and priggishness. ana
the strange world that is his eyer
changing from station to station, a. MS
fathers duties command from Leg
horn to the Philippines 0c-
casions for studies OF the IKE Oh me rne
service as the grown-ups 1--we II. ne
Commodore is always IN the picture,
hut he does not monopolize us lhteresii'
4 book of good literary quality "lth"i'
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defeat leading to another, she may
gradually sink to n secondary place
in the councils of Europe and OF
the world. But IL the
creative power which has shaped
this empire really dead? Is II
moribund, or sick at all, within us?
Even now, even in 1913, when
consider England and this vast and
complex fabric Of empire which
she has slowly reared, the cosmic
energy which everywhere seems to
animate the mass in its life, all
such comparisons with decaying
empires appear an irrevelance or
futility. Whatever be England's
fate, il will not be the fate OF
Venice or Bizantium. And as proof
of the validity of this impression
or condition | seem to discover
everywhere STRINGS as OF q new
life, to hear the tramp of armies
fired by a newer chivalry than that
of Crecy, and on the horizon to
discern the outline of fleets manned
by rs heroic resolve as were
those of Nelson or Rodney.
One cannot indict n nation. Yet
this is what Trelschkc ala, what berh-
hard, following in his footsteps, has
Professor Cramb knew
better. If, as he himself averred, i'm.
partial history is impossible, and
would be unreliable If it were not, he
certainly was a PHILOSOPHICAL historian.
His very recognition of the German
case and of its inevitableness, the very
frankness of his exposition of it, forms
in the parallel so boldly adopted by
him the strongest argument for the
British Empire vet presented. Com
nared with il. the appeals OF popular
English novclists with which we are
being inundated are as chat before the
wind, the cracking of thorns under a
pot. lie has stripped the issue of all
that befogs it: for Great Britain as for
Germany it was a question of dominion
or extinction. He foresaw the coming
of the hour. and warned his country
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-10
IN THE LOW COUNTRIES.

THE LAUGHING CAVALIER BY Baroness
orczy. i2mo. pp. 439. The George H.
Doran Company.
Probably the most popular historical
novelist of the hour, the baroness
Orczy must have increasing dlfhculty
in discovering episodes OF history no'
vet exploited to the utmost ny hea ~ W
Vulnerable predecessors. In Ihe
Laughing Cavalier" she deals WIN
such an episode, undoubtedly new 10
English fiction and English readers, al
though nearly forty years ago Dutch
novelist made it the subject OF an co
cellent novel. This episode IS the con
.niracv to murder Maurice OF orange
entered upon by Oldenbarneveits sons
after his execution at The Hague.
failed, the conspirators were deaiI WIN
in the cruel manner of justice or lne
period, and the great statesman
widow won fame that has not YET pc"
forgotten by her noble answer 10 MAJ
rice. to whom she made "A persona Sp
peal for clemency for her sons. 80
did not plead for mercy for your huS-
bard" said the Prince. Ana she or
svered: "He was innocent. one uoeo
not ast Grace for an innocent man; nc
i entitled TO justice. but my S0"'
are guilty, lUtItlDi' l. -.
our author has not utilized TINS IL
toric material, however. Instead, ame
tells the story of second conspiracy
If whose authenticity we cannot Juuse'
but whose head, Stoutenburg' IS w I
ouestionably an historical hgure, IL
managed to escape after tn, trus'T Ia
tion Of the first plot. in which, too ne
had been deeply implicated. Inc ld en-,
,;fcat;Cn of Frans Hals's "LaugnI,s
CayaIjer" with an ancestor OF u ne
scarlet Pimpernep is, of course, az az
;nyention of the author. according "
whom this earlier Blake OF Blahe"i -
, 49, Tho SON of one of the officers III
Icicoster's army sent to the Low .6, ooum,
,ries by Queen Elizabeth. ! ms b nnH'
"a of Of the blackguard-hero type WI q 1,,r
~bicb historical fiction could not h Jic
III For the rest, there Is an nD ?
t; ,or that forms an important, eiemen ~
IN both the authors plot ana Una. "a
her conspirators; Frans Halls pay; /"
nor4 and so does the Beresteyn la" ;,,y , ,
which. too. the great painter mas cane
mcrtalized on canvas. Ana 'ne oodless
ia HARLEM, of course. u - Eft
-. Is Ia sa~ that there is no lack OF swl I,,
ection. dark deeds, reckless or'''''
and romance of young love-
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the illustrator, and two literary experts
gave evidence. In their description
"Parleys Library" figures as a posi-
lively philanthropic enterprise designed
to afford to the youth Of both sexes
such an introduction to illustriOus
writer's as will engender fierce and ire
sistible desire to become more intl-
mately acquainted with the produc-
tons of these master spirits The
"reOriginations" are represented as
only possible with great expenditure Of
intellectual toll and money. The illus
TRAITOR receives considerable sums for
his work. while the hack himself claims
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are exposed-his egotism. II.
Jealousy, and the mean 49,, =. Nd
which IL leads him. For r. is
rivals, the one a man OF the w. icy y,
terested in his premises. bu, o.. n
ing his conclusions; the ok. '.'e
loves him sincerely, his ~, -
through affection far MAJ. a''''
through intellectual agreemss, II
It is all immeasurably sIso,
US, even from those OF us ~ ~,
our fiction seriously. In tn -
we speak much Of what is in,ri,.i :;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-10

to be retained at high salary. 1t is
even asserted that the "reoriglnatlons"
are improvements on the works OF Mr..
Dickens, and Ca still holder hightl that
Mr.. Dickens has himself been indebted
to "Parley's" for valuable hints in the
compilation of his novels. As for the
literary experts, they said just what
one would have expected of them. But
even their pontiiical utterances could
rot save the defence, and the vice
chancellor granted an injunction with
out even calling on Talfourd, who had
ADVISED the proceedings, and appeared
for Dickens.
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BOOKS AND AUTHORS REVIEWS an 00

ton Of the cease" is heavy DRAFT
upon our power Of acceptance. We get
The basis of the Nietzschean. philos-
onbvwthe theory Of the artificial pres
eryetion of the unfit by modern, civ
ilization, and Of the danger which
through mere strength OF numbers
they may come TO be to that civliiza-
ton and its progress unless they are
ruled by the strong, butt - hard
reading, nor do we come much nearer
to a human interest when the weak
nesses of this philosophical superman
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-10

.-uc COMMODORE. BY Maud H BarboI
THE: - Iir,,qtrated b. Maud I "a.
s,oobs s, temo, pp. 1858. Boston '0''"'''
- = shepard 90.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-10
ApUuOSOPHIC EPISODE.

THE ENCOUNTER. BY Ammo Douglas
Sodgwick CMrs. Basil de Selincout)'
limo, PIP 3S7. The Century Co.
Mrs. de S6lincourt has made an IN,
teresting experiment in this new novel
of hers. That it falls short of sue
cess. even as literary curiosity, IS
hardly to be wondered at. We are
here introduced to Nietzsche as lover,
and follow his courtship of an Ameri-
can Girl. a "free SOUL" who, at nine
teen, understands him better than any
other disciple he has ever had. This,
with all the authors careful prepare
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-10
\ LIVELY FARCE.

LOVE INSURANCE. BY Earl nerr Big
gers Illustrations by Frank Snapr Emo.
pr. 40. lniiIuLpOiis. The HObUs-M Merrill
co.
Mr. Biggers. it will be remembered.
is the author OF Seven Keys to Bald
Pate" His new story. one thinks. would
make as great hit il transferred from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

a chevron. between three escallops, ar gent, all within bordure engrailed of the last. The crest is stag's head erased, or, attired tnd duca;ly gorged gules. There is a Long Island family of the name of Bedell, although there is lt- tie data as to their origin in this country. and there was a Quaker family so called in Duchess county, New York, in the eighteenth century. They removed to Canada several generations ago.
 To F. " A.. who asks for information concerning the Amos family: In English nomenclature the surname Amos is de- rived from the personal name Amos. but since the American Amos family some times spelled their name Ames. 1t would seem as if the Amos Family were original ly of the Ames contingency. Tn Burke g Armory the following coat-of-arms is given for the Amos or Ames' family. showing that the confusion of these two Lanes exists in England, as well as in this country. Potent counterpotent gules and argent. q chevron. The crest is q square collegiate cap sable. The British surname Ames Is derived from Axmes. a town in the department of Orne, Nor mandy.
 The Kansas Amos family are descended from a James Ames of Maryland. He married in 1s10 Sarah Friend. widow of Philip Swinley, and had two children, born in Washington county, Maryland. The eldest of these children was Joshua Ames, who was born in 1872. He mar ried Julia Hay and settled in Spring field, III. Their son, George. born in 1S4l. was lawyer in Humboldt. Kan. and their. son. John, was prominent citizen of Springfield. Ill. The second son of James Amos of Maryland was Robert. also born in Washington county. Mary land His children also resided in Hum Boldt. Kan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
A CORNER IN ANCESTORS
THE SILL FAMILY
By FRANCES COWLES 4. by the Mcclure News paper Syndicate.)

The founder of the American Silis first settled in Cambridge, Mass. The family of Colonel David ,Jameson-the stnhl family in America-the MOsher family. the BedelI family, and the Amos family Tn America.
 The coat of arms of the Sill family here illustrated belongs originally to the Sill family. the head of which is seated in Stanley lodge, County North ampton, England. It is described in heraldic language as follows: Argent, a fess, engrailed sable, fretty or. in chief a lion passant, gules. Ire crest is a deInigriffin proper, collared argent The colors. argent, sable, or and gules are silver. black gold and red.
 The founder of the American family of Stills was John Sill, who with his wife, Johanna, and their son, John, came to this country in 1887 and set tied in Cambridge Mass. It seems likely. though there Is, no proof of the tradition, that the Sil1s lived in New castle upon-Tyne in the north of Eng land before they came to this country. The fact that in the early records of the Sills the name is spelled sometimes Echill and sometimes Syll. and the fact that there was tradition in the early \ days that the Sills had come to Eng
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26
HOY THE PLACE HAS CHANGED
Only the Barbers' Talk and Tools Seem
 Natural to Home Corners
From the Naw won't pras.

From the New York Press
 Where's the old blacksmith shop where picked the hot penny off the anvil?''
 "The blacksmith organized the Glue town Garage and Gasoline Corporation. sold the stock and went to Europe" Where's the old oaken bucket from which I slipped many a cool draught?'
 'The health department has 1t in a glass case as horrible exhibit Whats become of the little red school house?"
 Mrs. Van Coin bought 1t to use as a hospital for her Pomeranians." How about the common where we use to play one old cat?" "The Confederate league has bought it and we're going to have a game there as soon as we can get Hal Chase to jump to us"
 "The old tavern is the same. sup pose?' No: Billy went out of business rather than cater to the motorists taste for drinks with seven kinds of liquor and vegetables in them." "The postofhce? ?'' No much changed but Joe Gimp isn postmaster any more. This postcard craze drove him blind trying to keep up with his reading
 Isn't anything the same as it used to beY'
 "Yes. just one. When you go to get shaved you'll find that the barber's con versation and his razor are exactly tho same as they were when you went away"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-26

50 feet long. weighs 142 tons and firessa A
 projectile about six feet long The bro jectie weighs a ton and is discharged by 665 pounds of powder It requires eight
 men to carry the powder charge This gun has maximum range of 1 from 22 to 23 miles. or half the distance
 between New York City and West Point.
 The elevation permitted by it's carriage will enable the gun to fire a proiectile
 apout Il miles across the Pacific Ocean It | mas sufficient power. theoretically. to
 pierce two feet of the best armor at the
 muzzle. At Il miles the gun is calculated to pierce a 12-incb armor plate. or any.
 side armor afoat
 When shell leaves the gun it Is re- Volving around it's axis at about 4OO0 rev
 oiutions minute and develops pres
 sure Of 3S.000 pounds to the square inch. The pressure to the rear on the gun and forward on the projectile amounts to | = W0,0O0 pounds. The projectile's velocity of 2,25o feet a second gives a muzzle energy or more than S4.O00 foot tons--that is an
 energy capap:e of raising se tons one foot every second
 Army ordinance officers believe this gun will be atremendous instrument of peace
 when 1t Is in position on the Panama Canal.