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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-04
BELLES-LETTRES, POETRY
Shakespeariana, the Reviving
Essay, Our Young Poets.

That great humorist. William Dean
Howells. goes holidaying at the Shake
speare festival at Stratford- on Avon in
More Strange Than True" and, OF
course, falls in with the shade o.
Shakespeare, whom he finds "a vari-
cusly charming fellow" Together they
witness the pageant and other cele-
brations, and Of course. Mr.. Howells is
put in possession Of facts for which
Shakespeare biographers and Bacon
cipher disputants have long searched
in vain. This promising fantasy of
the seen and unseen" is announced by
Harper & Bros. In serious vein is
the late Professor Masson's Shake
speare Personally" Dutton e. Coz, the
book being composed of q series Of
lectures delivered by this most sympa-
thetic Shakespearian scholar at Edin-
burgh University. OF the Elizabethan
period, too, is a covetable facsimile re-
production, unfortunately in a limited
edition, Of the anonymous Common
Conditions" This reprint is from the
only known copy Of the first edition OF
the play 1870 in the library OF the
Elizabethan Club in New Haven. II
will bear the imprint of the Yale Uni
versity Press.
A timely translation Of De Vogues
THE Russian Novel; comes from the
George II. Doran Company; no less
timely study Of Joseph Conrad" by
Richard Curle, from Doubleday. Page
& Co. In THE Stout Book" Edmund
Lester Pearson will give us a series OF
humorous talks on bookish things (The
Macmillan Company; AT the Sign Of
the Van" by Michael Monahan, author
OF Adventures in Life and Letters"
(Altchell Kennerley), will contain
papers on Roosevelt, o. Henry, Renan,
Tolstoy and Carlyle, and his Nova
Hibcrnia' lsame publisher) essays on
Yeats and Synge. Thomas Moore and
Sheridan, great Irishmen living and
dead. VarSe Thompson is the author
Of a volume OF French Portraits"
(Kennerlcy).
Mrs. G. w Earle, the author OF Pot
pourrl i'm n Surrey Garden" has collab-
Grated with Miss Ethel Case in book
OF "Potpourri Mixed by Two" (Dutton).
Professor Richard Buron's Little Es-
saws in Literature and Life" CThe Cen
fury Company has already appeared
I .,o.IIoa Aberrrofnbie'g "SpcguIatiNc
Dialogues" (kennerley) are between
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-04

Tho publishers fall season, last year.
merged into winter season whose
activities continued vigorously through
January and February of the present
year. Many Of the works thus issued
between seasons were undoubtedly be-
lated fall books but, on the other hand
the present spring season began in
scattering way long before the date
usually set for it, while at the same
time IL appears TO be likely that it viii
be carried well into early summer
These be matters that do not greatly
concern the average reader Of books or
the lover of literature. wherefore 1t
would be superlluous to attempt TO
draw conclusions from them here, even
n they could be found. IT would seem,
however, that the policy Of fewer books
and better ones announced last fall
has been practically neutralized, guam
titatively at least. by this continued
publishing during the months usually
devoted 10 their selling rather than
their manufacture.
The output this spring will be slightly
smaller I'm numbers than that Of the
same season last year. So far as gen
eral observations are concerned on the
Niect of the different departments of
literature, it may be said, first Of all, that
after last years deluge OF biographies,
the number Of new works of this kind
while of necessity much reduced, is still
very large; that there is no sign what
ever OF q systematic reduction of the
number of new novels-the announce
ments OF new books by leading novelists
alone suffice to provide good reading
rough the entire summer; that the
'gious revival is apparently very real
ar as the increased output Of re-
is books can be taken as evidence:
in the field of politics, sociology
economics. including the woman
ion. quality and not quantity has
nIistakably been the watchword; that
Ie public interest of the moment In
ne Panama Canal the Mexican situa-
on. the future of the Philippines, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-04

such personified abstracts as FAMINE
and Pestilence. War and Murder, Sci
ence and the World, Philosophy and an
Angel, after a good old literary tradi-
ton. Looking Westward" an essay
on the happiness Of old age, by Marion
Harland. IS a Scribner book. With It
may be ranged Newell Dwight Hills
idealistic STORY OF Ph@drus' cine
Macmillan Company. Mary. Il. wal
ler's From an Island Outpost Oittle,
Brown e. Coz is described as an auto
biographical fragment"
Louis Untermeyer IS young Ameri-
can poet with future before him. His
"Challenge," a collection Of his verse,
deserves attention (The Century Com
pany). ]. T.. Patterson's 1.-THE Seas
Anthology" from the earliest times TO
the middle Of the last century. curl
ously enough the first collection Of the
poetry of the deep to be made in Eng
lish, is another welcome addition 10
literature this spring (The George II.
Doran Company. a new volume OF
William Rose Benet's verse Is In prep
aration by the Yale University Press,
whose imprint will also appear on
the first collection OF the verse or
Brian Hooker. Coningsby Dawson, the
author of THE Garden Without
Walls" will try his pinions in Flor
onca on q Certain Night" (Henry Holt
& Coz. A new edition of the Poeti-
cal Works" Of Edward Dowden will in
clude much material not contained IN
that of 1876 (E. p. Dutton & Coz.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-04
THE DRAMA
Plays American and Foreign
Books About Plays.

Percy MacKaye'c "St. Louis: A Civic
Masque," written for the approaching
centenary celebration Of the city. will
be published Immediately by Double
day, Page G. Co. Three more volumes
are TO be added to the Modern Drama
Series (Mitchel Kennerley): 1.-THE
Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd," by D. II.
sany, an English dramatist as yet prac-
tically unknown TO the American pub
lie, and two plays by Leonld Andreyev.
This Russian dramatist will also be
represented by a volume Of his plays"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-04
HISTORY
National and Colonial-Napo-
Icons Downfall.

A chronicle and Interpretation OF ma
tionsl development, THE Rises OF the
People" by Professor Roland
q. Usher. Pm. d.. IL announced by the
Century Company. The Messrs. Serb
ner are about 10 issue Narratives of
Witchcraft" In Massachusetts, New
York. New Hampshire. Pennsylvania
and Virginia, In the original contem-
porary accounts. edited by Professor
George l.. Burr. and Narratives OF the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-04
pUBLISHERS' Spring ANNOUNCEMENTS
NEW LITERATURE
ON TIMELY TOPICS
Novel by Amelie Rives-Art for
Toursts-Socio-Econom Studes-Modern
and Classical Dancing

TO be issued by the Messrs. Scribncr
George Middleton's first full-length
drama, Nowadays is in the press %
Henry Holt & Co. " deals with the
conflicting demands made upon
mother by her conservative husband.
on the one hand. and her radical
daughter on tie other. From the
Messrs. Holt we are also TO have
Three Modern Plays from the French
Jules Lemaitre's The Pardon" Mau-
rice Donnay's The other Danger" an
Henri Lavedans prince dAurcc.
Rabindranath Tagore's THE Post Oi.
flce.' play of Death and the Child.
will be added by .he Macmillan Com
pany TO its translations OF his works.
From the Messrs. Scribner, again. is to
come q second series OF Bjornsons
plays in Mr.. Bjorkman's versions.
OF books on the drama we are ~
have, beside Arthur Ruhrs Second
Nights" (Scribner) and Clayton Hamil-
toms Studies in Stagecraft" 0oiU.
1.-The Continental Drama OF To-day"
book Of suggestions, questions, biog
raphies and bibliogra phies' for play
wrights and students. by Barrett ~
Clark Henry Hot & Coz; THE True
Adventures of q Play being an account
by Louis Shipman OF what happened
to his darcy OF the Guards" from
the moment the MS. left his hands
CKennerley). kard Hollis 'Gerhart
Hauptmann: His Life and Work" NC
Clurg) may be mentioned here-thc
translation Of this German dramatists
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-04
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

5 "A WHITE M, can get you sly book ever
rsslishsf on any subject Tie most sHpst
fs,>k fr6sr szt3nf When in England cen ana
f<e rny cCV CO., rsrs DDots BAEEWb paEA'
Dc0x GhcY Jobs EsiEht Of. Birmingham
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-04

Century Company. From F. +. Sher-
THE Late Years of Michelangelo," by
Wilhelm II. Valentiner. illustrated in
p. otograyure and Ralph Albert
Blackjack" by Elliott Daingerfield.
Illustrated in color and photogravure.
This publisher also has in preparation
a small volume by Garrett Chatfield
Pier. on Temple Treasures of Japan"
It will be provided with 22o half-tones.
Z. p. Dutton & Co announce a trans
lation, in handy form, OF FurtwanSler
and Urlichss Greek and Roman
Sculpture" with sixty plates and
numerous illustrations inthe text. This
firm also has ready the third and fourth
volumes of Professor G.. Baldwin
Browns 1.-The Arts OF Early England"
dealing with Anglo Saxon Art and In
dustry in the Pagan Period" 1t is the
aim of Emma Louise Parry's 1.-THE Two
Great Art Periods" GA. c. McClurg &
Coz to make the masters and master
pieces OF art as familiar as are those
Of music and literature" The book be-
gins with Egypt and ends with the be-
ginning Of the eighteenth century.
An elaborate work on Decorative
Iron Work from the Eleventh to the
Eighteenth Century" by Charles b.
Foulkes, with numerous plates and
diagrams. is one of the new Dorsn pub
locations. George Wharton James's
guide to INDIAN Blankets and Their
Makers "a. c. McClurg & Coz was
announced in these columns a few
weeks ago.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-04
FICTION
Many New Novels by Popular
Authors-Some TRANSACTIONS.

The list Of new fiction teens with
well known names. There is Joseph
Conrad with Chance" Doubleday,
Page G. Coz, just published. II. G..
Wells's "The World Set Free" (E. p.
Dutton & Coz is the mature result OF
that gift OF looking into the future
which this author has cultivated for
many years. Sir Gilbert Parker is to
give us new tale OF Canada, You
Never Know Your Luck" and NJ.
birmingham THE Lost Tribes" both
announced by the George II. Doran
Company. which firm also has in press
a new story by Ellen Thorneycroft
Fowler, Her Ladyship's Conscience"
Booth Harrington. master in the field
of boy nature and boy life-of hoy
psychology-gives US "Penrod" Double
day. Page & Co... From the Messrs.
Harper Will come Arnold Benefits
new Five Towns story, The Price of
Love"
Amelis Rives's first long novel,
Worlds End" is promised by The Il.
A. Stokes Company, which announces,
also. a second volume Of short stories,
The Cost OF Wings" by Richard
Dehan, the author OF zone Braver
Thing" a novel OF possibilities and
some dangers is owen Johnson's The
SaIamander." a study Of modern girl
and her level-headed curiosity about
forbidden things. regardless Of appear
ances-a type far from unknown nova
days dhe Bobbs-Merrill Company.
\ posthumous story by the l3t@
Frank Norris. one OF our most pIouis-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-04-04

Continued on twelfth page.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-05-08
id greatly to our already beautiful

add greatly to our already beautiful
city.
Wauwatosa is to have Daily vaca-
tion Bible School this summer. to be
held at the First Congregational
church from July to August Is. The
school will be in session from $3.50 to
1880 when free instruction will be
given in hammock making, basketry,
sewing, singing and the Bible. There
will also be weekly special features,
such as games, excursions and stereop-
ticon views. All children from three
to thirseen will be welcome. Eight
such schools were conducted in Mil.
waukee last summer, with an enroll
ment Of i,594. This year there will be
twenty.
The Underwood Memorial Baptist
church voted some time ago TO improve
the grounas and buildings surrounding
the church. A committee appointment
called In landscape man for consulta-
tion and finally accepted plan that
calls for the expenditure of over $500.
During the last ten days the men have
been at work. the sheds have been re.
arranged. some taken down and re-
moved and fence erected TO protect
the main grounds. Shrubbery and
vines have been planted and grass seed
sown and without doubt the beautiful
park effect will make the church
grounds the most beautiful in Wauwa-
tosa If not the most beautiful church
grounds IN Milwaukee county. Most
OF the expense has been met by the
various organized classes in the church
school.
The two performances of The Muffin
Shop given May l and ., at the Congre-
gational church, was well attended
and very much annoyed by all. Much
praise and credit are due those who
faithfully conducted rehearsels and to
all who helped make The Muffin Shop
success. The first act introduced
many of the Mother Goose characters
from the Little Old Woman who lived
in the sl,oe, Jack Spratt and his wife,
to Little Tommy Tdcker and Jack
Horner. The second act showed the
Queens garden, where Mistress Mary
Mary appears with all her wonderful
Flower ladies, Jack Frost appeared and
was frightened away by the Sunbeams
after which lIumpty Dumpty falls into
the garden and has most distressing
time. IS i grand finale Three BiacI
Crows hover over the garden until the
end Of the festivities. All in all The
Muffin Shop was one big success.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-05-08
Underwood Memorial Baptist
Church Notes

The 49th annual session of the Mil
waukee Baptist Association is being
held this week in the Bay View Bap.
tist church, Milwaukee. Many of our
people are in attendance. On Wednes.
day evening the chorus choir of thirty
voices rendered the music for the con
vention, under the direction of Miss
Janet NJ. Smith.
On Wednesday tie Younger Young
Peoples Society held "A May Party
Sunday. May 10, win be observed as
Mothers Day. The pastor at 1890 win
preach on IA Tribute to Womanhood. .
Appropriate music will be rendered.
Invitations win be sent to many
mothers urging their attendance at
this service.
Sunday evening the pastor will
preach on "The Unknown God"
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-05-08

The following are the bids for per-
manent pavements received by the
Board of Public Works:
Butler Construction Co., concrete
s1.55, brick So. Is, sandstone $40.
Geo. Welch, concrete Sl,79, brick
50 26, sandstone S3.45.
Meigs and Moritz, concrete Sl4Cr
brick 81 06.
Schuette Construction Co., concrete
81. SO, asphalt S9.23, brick 81 "a, sand
stone $3.50.
Dean Construction Co., brick S2.25,
sandstone S3.35.
White Construction Co., asphalt 80 Is
brick So. 35.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-05-08

A. J. Wagner, proprietor of the
Wauwatosa Shoe Store, wishes to an
nounce, that he has fine line of Mems
shoes in all the newest shades of tan
and black. Snappy styles for spring
and summer. Mems and Boys outing
shoes, just the thing for warm weather
wear. Diamond Quality school shoes
for boys and girls. Must be worn to
be appreciated. Prices are right.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1914-05-08
ANNOUNCEMENT

wish to announce TO the people OF
Wauwatosa, that am in the Painting
and Decorating Business. am pre-
pared to show the finest line of Wall
Paper samples in the city. Let me as
sist you in making selection. All
work executed artistically.
III. u. PAPE, Decorator
24l Greenfield a We.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-04-15
SANITARY FOOD
ID
PACKAGES

The suggestion is made by a
writer in the Kansas City Star
that the public does not pay
enough attention to the way in
which flour, sugar and other
things are packed and handled.
The point is made that foods
which cannot be washed or clean
sed before using should be
bought only in packages that are
impervious to dust and germs.
There are many products
which do not receive proper pro-
lection in their sometimes cir
cumlocutory transit from the mill
or factory to the table of the con-
sumner. Flour, for instance, is
easily contaminated and it is
put up in a great variety of pack
ages. 1t is a product that is in
universal use. The fact that it
is baked or cooked, the writer in
the Star says, "does not elimi-
nate the dangers of impurity and
disease, nor does it lessen the re-
pulsivencss of dirt and pollu-
ton
The sanitary package has
come into great favor. 1t has
applied to almost every article of
food that is sold in modern gro
ceries. As a rule it increases the
cost of the product, but the GUS
toner pays sanitation tax, as it
might be called, most cheerfully.
Everybody wants pure food and
in response to the enlarging pop
ular demands in that direction
many of the manufacturers of
foor products are striving for
Clearly methods of handling and
shipment. The old-fashioned
grocer who sold practically all
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-04-15
NEW ELKS

Messrs. Harry w. Lockridge,
Richard P. Vim, Edward f.
Bogie, Chas. w. Howe, Robt.
NJ. Trimble, Jr. and William B.
Woodford were initiated into
the mysteries of the Benevolent
and Protective Order of Elks at
it's last meeting. This is one of
our cleanest and strongest or
CARNATIONS and realizing there
are many good men in our COM
munity who ought to be mem
bers, a special effort is to be
made the coming lodge year to
make this banner year for Mt.
Sterling Lodge No. 723.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-04-15
WATER AND TY-
PHoID FEVER

Where there is improvement
in city water supplies there is in
variably a notable decrease in
the number of cases of typhoid
fever.
The Washington Star says ty-
phoid has sharply declined in
that city since the installation of
a water filtration plant, and
such cases as appear can usually
be traced to out-of-town infec-
ton" The Star thinks that most
Of the typhoid fever now origi-
mating in the city could be trac-
ed to the use of well or spring
water, "for by no means are all
premises in the District yet con-
nected with the Potomac mains /;
and it is curious with what per-
sistency some people will cling
to an old pump and write letters
of complaint to newspapers and
District Officials when city au-
thorities order the condemnation
and destruction of that pump"
People are creatures of habit,
and it is hard for them to break
away from things to which they
have become habituated. The
time has been when the public
well or the town pump or the big
spring constituted a reasonably
safe source of water supply for
the town or village. 1t is even
conceivable that the pumps
which are still in evidence in
some parts of Louisville and
at other points in the State,
might at one time have furnish
ed wholesome water, for some
of the more very old, their his
tory running back perhaps, to a
period that is beyond the know
ledge of the oldest inhabitant.
But Louisville has progressed
from village days and village
ways, and the town pump no
longer has any excuse for exis-
tence.
In Louisville, as in Washing
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-04-15

his goods in bulk has gone the
way of all the cath. Clean fac
tories and sanitary groceries are
increasing number.
There remains, despite rapid
progress, much room for inn
provement in the handling Of
some of the most common arti-
cles of food. Wrapped bread is
still the exception instead of the
rule and while there may be flour
packages that are ideal from the
standpoint of cleanliness there
are many which are not. But
the purchasing public is getting
wiser in these matters all the
time and ultimately will insist
upon higher standards.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-04-15

ton, the city health department
has been condemning and des-
troying these old pumps for a
number of years in the interest
of the public welfare, but its ef-
forts in that direction have met
with foolish opposition, here and
there, of the same kind described
by the Washington paper. There
was less bad water in Louisville
and the country in general a
hundred years ago than there is
at the present time. A consid-
cradle element of the population,
however, does not seem to lhavc
taken account of the difference III
conditions.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-04-15
HEMP CROWDED
OUT BY TOBACCO

Kentucky once led all the
states of the Union in the pro-
duction of hemp. The states
primacy in hemp growing was as
well established at that time as
is its leadership in tobacco pro-
duction today.
According to a Lexington dis
patch Prof. Garman, of the State
Experiment Station, believes the
farmers are making a mistake in
so generally abandoning hemp
and giving so much attention to
the production of tobacco. He
insists that hemp is remunera-
tive crop when raised for the
seed alone. An acre of hemp
will produce from ten to twelve
bushels of seed, and hemp seed
is in ready demand at SIS BUSH
ell.
Growing tobacco, Prof. Gar
man says, is having a bad effect
on the Kentucky soils which al
ready are deficient in vegetable
matter, and in some places lack
ing in other desirable ingre-
dents. "The man who has the
nerve to withstand the general
tendency, to turn his back on to-
bacco and grow crops not grown
by everybody about him, ought
to make more money in the next
ten years than he can make from
tobacco, and by doing so will
certainly take less from his land
and find it in better condition at
the end"
Prof. Garman believes the
State could prohtably plant sew
eral times the present acreage
that is being devoted to hemp,
since our hemp growers are not
able to supply the demand for
seed by many thousands of bush
els. In recent years the acreage
of hemp has decreased in Cen
trail Kentucky every year. In
the meantime the acreage of to-
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-04-15
TO BUILD ROAD

At the meeting of the Nicho-
las County Fiscal Court Tues
day, $4,000 was appropriated
for the purpose of building a.
model road from the Bath county
line to Millersburg, via. Carlisle.
The appropriation is conditional.
and is to be binding in the event
the citizens residing along the
line of the proposed model road
will raise $4,000 to be used for
such work. The line of road pro-
posed for Improvement is four
teen miles in length and ira
verses the richest section Of
Nicholas county. The citizens
who are backing the movement
are inclined to the opinion that
the citizens residing along the
line will be enthusiastic about
the proposition and will con-
tribute their liberal support to
the project, which is the first
model road proposition the
county has ever undertaken
Carlisle Mercury.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-04-15
INJUNCTION SUIT FILED

Judge H. Clay Mckee has in.
stituted suit in the Montgomery
Circuit Court against Geo. w.
Anderson, Jr., seeking an injunc-
ton to prevent the defendant
from placing buggies along Bank
street and from washing vehicles
out on said street, same being, so
plaintiff alleges a nuisance. The
matter will be heard at the pre-
sent term of court. Judge Mckee
is a large property owner on
Bank street, where Mr.. Ander-
sons livery business is situated.
1t is said that the city authorities
have investigated the matter and
declined to take any action
against Mr. Anderson.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1914-04-15

While the Honorable William
Gustavis Bouic was making the
race for prosecuting attorney he
crossed four plowed fields to
shake hands with horny handed
farmers, and then got defeated.
Gentlemen of the jury, this polit
ical life is sure one Rocky Road
to Nowhere. You can tell the
world that.