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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-01
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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1915-02-01
c0EoNIAL HEIGHTsl
CoFFNFAN ADDITION

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SSx60 feet, just across from
Carr avenue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23

A MANS CODE. By W b VI Ferguson Illus
tratons by A. l. Bausfather limo. pp. So5
The G W. Dillingham; Company
A star shortstop is the hero OF this
clever story He is accused Of robbing
his team of the championship, bribery
is charged and practically proved, he
is expelled from the Big League, and,
under an assumed name, tries 70 start
life anew in the South. His wild throw
in the ninth was, indeed, inexplicable,
objectionable; all he could say was
that it was the error of which he had
been afraid all that afternoon that
the fear of it had become an obsession,
and that for that very reason ne had
made it, a psychological explanation
which failed, of course, 10 satisfy his
manager and owner But that is only
the beginning. He has been framed
up, but by whom, and why? His ac-
cuser is the greatest baseball authority
on the New York press, a man beyond
suspicion, and, with allowance for the
differences in their ages, a former col
lege mate of his. The dsgraced base
ball player obeys the mans code, has
always obeyed it; his enemy does not.
Hence not only ostracism, but danger
of sudden death The plot keeps one
interested to the end.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
LOST SHEEP.

LOST SHEEP By We're Short l2mo. pp si2
The John Lane Company.
The facts of this story are Of more
Importance than is its fiction. To be
sure, the plot is romantic enough. but
it is the picture of the daily life OF the
French Foreign Legion. in garrison and
on campaign, that makes the book
worth while. No halo is thrown around
these mercenaries here-the author
laughs at Ouida's fanciful Under Two
Flags" They are shown a. they are,
men of desperate physical courage,
ruled with an iron hand. The hero is
a British cavalry officer whom gambling
has sent to this last refuge of the ad-
venturers of the earth. Mr.. Shortt
evidently knows the legion and its dis
cipline we'll; there is certain brutal
realism in his reports of the tales these
men tell, and of the quality of the
lingo they use-a peculiar, coarse sort
of argot. And, not without purpose,
he chronicles bestial cruelties prac-
tised by French non-commissioned off,
GERS in the punishment battalions"
that surpasS tne WORST ol "uaI mas
been told of the Prussian drill-ser-
geant As for the story, that leads us
into the camp of the Senussi, the mys-
terious Mahometan sect which is CIV
ing good cause for uneasiness to 9TH
ers besides the French in Africa. OF
course, there is a woman, and, further
more, there is African magic, and
there are marvellous escapes. But II
is the DICTIONARIES and their daily life
that give the book its value to US.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23

ending itself. The people from New
York-the novelist in search Of plot,
but disguised as a high school teacher;
the millionaire's stepdaughter. IN
search of career, and seeking its be-
ginnings in the very high school in
that same Pennsylvania township; the
illustrator arriving in the nick Of time
it is all Of a simplicity that is actu-
ally daring. What is more, it is sue
cessful, for the sophisticated reader
accepts it for the sake of pathetic, gen.
erous, lovable Martha, the Cinderella
of a stepmother who has in fullest
measure the avarice and callowness Of
the peasant stock from which she
springs, and of a father whom this
woman controls. The book is really
readable the dialect again fills US with
wonder; and, incidentally, we become
acquainted with the Pennsylvania
Dutch opinion of George Rarnard's
"nekked" statuary for the Harrisburg
State House.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23

of print since its appearance, in 1880,
and is now in its sixteenth edition.
Here, indeed, is anonymity seriously
meant and therefore successfully
maintained. Guesses at the authorship
of the book have been numerous, but
of late the search has been abandoned,
and no wonder. 1t is believed that
only two people in this country know
the name of the author, Mr.. Henry
Holt, the head of the publishing
house, and Mr.. Vogelus, its treasurer,
who has been connected with it for
more than fifty years.
The author Of Democracy" in order
to avoid any leakage of his identity,
had the plates made in London and
sent them over here for publication
On its first appearance it caused
sensation here so great that an English
shilling edition was got out.
All this apropos of the correspond
ence called forth by a reference to
the book in these columns late last
month
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
TWO SINNERS.

TWO SINNERS BY Mrs David G. Richie
l2mo. Pr. 33s. +. P. Dutton Co.
This is a clever English minor novel,
worth recommending for summer read
ing. II is not Eight" in the accepted
meaning of the word as it is applied
to current fiction; on the contrary, it
deals seriously with a situation which,
though far from new, apparently con-
tinues to hold possibilities. The story
is curiously reminiscent of the work of
a long line of popular English women
novelists in both subject and treat
ment. The attitude toward life of
nearly every one of its characters is
the familiar "genteel" one of the Brit
ish upper middle-class as depicted in
all this earlier fction--a helpless dig
nifty in the face of poverty, which can
not stoop to work. There are here
three sisters barely existing upon the
pittance left them by their father. The
oldest has lost her chance Of marriage
their only possible career IN lie
they are convinced bringing up the
other two. The youngest, utterly un'
fit for even this career, starts TO ruin
a Young scientists life with her shall
lowness and inefficiency. The third
the heroine of the book, makes up hel
mind TO marry a man she does not love
for the sake of his wealth, but finds
that she lacks the courage to go
through with it. At this point the real
story begins. 1t is all aloof from the
modern spirit of woman, but, within
the limitations of outlook thus laio
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
John GaIsworthy.

the cheerful "blurb" on the slip-covers,
but the best of the modern writer's
Shaw's "Cashel Byron" for instance;
Alphonse Daudet's Kings in Exile"
w. Clark Russell's almost forgotten sea
stories, Robert W. Chambers's I'm the
Quarter" Mr.. Harrison's "Queed,"
Hugh Walpole's wooden Horse"-his
first novel Mrs. w. X. Clifford's Love
Letters Of Worldly Woman'-we Sc
lect at random from the first forty
volumes issued. And there is Gissing,
for whose books people are beginning
10 advertise in the English book trade
papers, "The House of Cobwebs" and
"The Private Papers OF Henry Rye
croft" to begin with. Then we have
w. PETIT Ridge, and bit Of Dickens,
and Mrs. Bclloc Lowndes, and "Quo
Nadis."
Not all fiction. however. There are
other companionable books here, u. >.
Streets 1.-THE Ghosts of Piccadilly," for
instance, and that English Thoreaui
Richard Jeiferies. Austin Dobson's
Eighteenth Century Studies" demands
mention, and the Gentle Elijah, but why
20 on? The new series should make
its way to popularity among US as rap
idly as Everyman's Library, whose sue
cess is, no doubt, responsible for this
new undertaking. Thin but opaque
paper, clear type, simple cloth covers, a
method of sewing and binding as flexi-
Bile as that of the French yellow backs
these are, indeed, mpanionable vol
umes, inside and out, for the wayfarer
and the stay-at-home, and they may
be had at remarkably low price
(Dutton.)
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
THE HOUSE OF MANY MIRRORS.

THE HOUSE OF MANY MIRRORS.
THE HOUSE OF MANY MIRRORS. BY Violet
Hunt limo. pp AS. Bretano's.
Morbid, but intensely interesting"
is the phrase which best describes this
ably written novel. 1t has atmosphere,
not only in its descriptions of Lon
don social set and its members, but in
a stronger sense as well; and its char
acters are convincingly drawn. An out
line Of the plot cannot suggest the
quality of the story, yet II must suf-
fee, together with the suggestion, al
ready made, that the book is decidedly
we'll worth reading. The House of
Many Mirrors forms part of an inheri-
lance around which cluster the expec'
tations, the intrigues, the suspicious,
the uncharitablenes Of three groups OF
possible heirs of the lonely, cynical old
man who has it in his free giving. He
has quarrelled with them all; he keeps
them all in suspense; only one of them
has he seemingly excluded from the
succession. This man is a di!ettante,
an dlCIlNtIl " iiuOub NIltlbSp a NNAASN~Ni
of antiques, amiable, brilliant, unprac-
teal. 1t is his wife who covets the
inheritance for him. Older than he,
with a life interest in the estate Of
her first husband, she knows that at
her death he will be penniless, and she
knows that she will predecease him.
Hence the deception by which she
sends him away to make his peace
with the crotchety old man a plot
whose self-sacrifce has in it the ele-
ment of the morbidity already referred
to. This is a mere skeleton of the plot.
1t is in the manner in which it is devel-
oped and filed out that lies the de-
cided merit of the story, which one is
inclined to consider its authors best
thus far.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
THE DRAMA.

,ovr Play IN Three Acts ny, John
4 ls.ssrc,tiy. i2mo.. pp. Sd ChA''es scriohef
SOS SORROWS o. BELGIUM A PLAY in SIX
raB SUM- c,-s-A Andrvyev. Authorized trans
sT1e D., Gerrsr Bernstein. l2no., pp. VII. lS@.
y. Msc-' a. COMPANY.
y ,oNuIY WAY. lNTERMEZZo. COUNTESS
IT III IN Three PLAYS cv Arthur Schnit1lef.
VII - f-o-, he German. with an introduc-
frtnsL'S,,,s,i~ Rt--kmar The Modern Drama Sc
q. le~, m 1'M S25. Mitchell Kennerley.
u, Calsworthy's new play is for the
80, rather than the stage-s plea for
~. lave that forgives everything re-
~ Of self The love is that OF an
Es.,;.b eura,e for the wife who has
s.'s.-tsd him for smother man; his
ling sacrifice is that, at her own
&c he will not divorce her be-
49, the publicity Of the scandal
sa ruin the career Of her lover, a
voune medical man. He will al
~ her 10 live with him quietly and
~ rs,ected in new environment.
-. ,sctorv. IN the person of its mis-
80, demands, in the name OF Church
- morality Of the manor house
~ ,h,t he apply for q divorce; the viii
,,..,s assembled at the local pub,
'I;o. that he should bash in the other
80. face. and see to it, by the meth
dds applied by them in such cases that
y, wife shall thereafter love him
s.j,bfully. And they agree with their
h..,srs that the only alternative is d.
ro-,e So they treat him to a kissing
end booing serenade at the end OF
srs,;ne service. The curste. driven to
,hs end Of his power of endurance, IS
accidentally preserved from suicide
frding compan,onshlp and solace IN q
,o,rowjng widower, just beresved.
This curate, then, is an embodiment
a, an ideal, rather than s man. Inc
deal must be left TO the judgment OF
ne reader or spectator, but the quail
~ Of the man fails TO win our sym
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
THE CURSE OF CASTLE EAGLE.

THE CURSE OF CASTLE EAGLE.
THE CURSE OF CASTLE EAGLE By Ksthsrin-
lyman. l2mo. pp. go. Durield d Co.
Miss lyman frankly carries on the
tradition established by the Duchess.
It is pleasant tradition, of well-bred
people, of pretty manners and pretty
faces, of happiness in the face OF pow
erty, and of most fortunate eIdings in
love, marriage and a GRACEFUL measure
of the wherewithal. Miss Tynan's
Irish gentlefolk, like those of her
model, are lovable people, and so are
the retainers that live with them. The
curse of Castle Eagle was laid upon
the head of it's house centuries ago,
when his dogs killed poor herb-wom-
an who was reputed to be a witch.
With her dying gasp she tried to bless
the race of the man who had tried TO
save her-and now a far distant de-
scendant of his enters Castle Eagle as
companion to its mistress. The curse
has come true from generation to gen.
Grafton through the years. Will
the daughter of the man who had tried
to save lift il from the descendant OF
him who had killed? The old retainers
think so. It is all very pretty, rather
graceful, and decidedly thin of texture
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
"DEMOCRACY'
The Continued Secret Of It's
Authorship.

The most widely known American
case of anonymous authorship long
maintained is that of "The Bread
winners" but the name Of the late
John Hay had been connected with
that novel for many years before the
official acknowledgment of the correct
ness of the ascription was made.
An even more interesting instance
of anonymity is that of the author
ship of Democracy" a novel of social
and political life at Washington pub
Hshed thirty-fve years ago by Messrs.
Henry Holt & Co. The story is just
as we'll worth reading to-day as 1t
was at the time Of its first appear
ance. a fact that seems to be fully APP
preciated by the American reading
public, for, as the Messrs. Holt an
nounce, the book has never been out
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
THE PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH.

MARTHA OF THE MENNONITE COUNTRY By
Helen X. Martin. l2mo.. pp BIG Doubleday
Page Co.
The plot of Miss Martins new tale Of
the Pennsylvania Dutch is SO naively
simple that it positively captivated one
hardened reviewer. Everything ends
happily, and, what is more, the wicked
are adequately punished by the happy
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23

pied with Viennese triangles and the
ingenious patterns he can compose with
them. The subject long ago began to
pail upon US. as it has palled upon
the French. But certain it is that a
reading of these three plays will suf-
fee to give the student of the contem-
porary drama a thorough understand
ing of the work of Austria's best
known and cleverest playwright.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
THE WAYFARERS LIBRARY
A Companionable Series OF
Recent Light Literature.

That is what the publishers call it, and
with reason, for these are companion
able, convenient little volumes for the
traveller, and their contents are select
ed with understanding. "No classics,
none of the ancient standbys," continues
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
no, rs,,r., Ba,,nnlo, specially Wanted.
a .II.OUT- Of PRINT. BOOKS"

Aware NE; can get you any book ever
,ubush.d on any subject. The most expert
hook finder extant. When In England call and
nv 500 90 rare books. BAKERS GREAT
t,OoE SHOP. Iobn BRIGHT ST.. Birmingham
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
Washing

: lish. Among them are Gogols Tara
| Bulba," Leskov's THE Cathedral Staff,
/ the great Russian classic of clerical
/ life; Ropschin's picture of the revolu-
/ ton Of 1905, "As If II Had Never Hap
pened"; Neressayev's Memoirs of a
+ Physician" LermOntov's "A Hero Of Our
/ Times" and books by Bunin, KAN
/ husky, Brussov. Erastov and others.
/ The Russian drama will be represented
/ by Turgenev. Ostrovsky and Gogol. Mr..
Knopf also has in preparation a cheap
er edition of Prince Kropotkins Rus
sian Literature"
"Conants."
The late Charles A. Conant, author
of principles of Money and Banking"
who died in Havana on July 6, was
probably the only man of modern times
to have a coin called after him. Mr..
Conant was sent by our government
to study the financial conditions of the
Philippines and to report on perIecting
plan for new currency. His efforts
were so successful and so widely APP
preciated that for long time the new
standard coins were called "Conants"
to distinguish them from the old Span
ism money.
Professor Scott Nearing's Books.
The Macmillan Company is the pub
Usher of Professor Scott Meanings po-
litical, economical and social studies
Social Adjustment" Social Religion"
wages in the United States" and his
latest. Income: An Examination Of
the Returns for Services Rendered and
from Property Owned in the United
States"
The Study of German.
Correspondents OF the English week
lies are discussing the question
whether Englishmen shall or shall not
hereafter continue to study German.
In the Revue de rEnseignement les
Langues Vivantes" a famous French
man, Henri Lavedan, answers this same
question in the affirmative in an article
savagely entitled THE Cursed Tongue"
Il may be worth while TO notice in this
connection the announcement Of an
English work on "Attila and the Huns"
in which the author, Edward Hutton,
undertakes to prove that the Prussians
belong to the same Turanian stock.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
OF CURRENT FICTION
Some English Minor Novels of the Season-Viole Hunt
Mrs David C. Richie and Katharine lyman
The Foreign Legon-Other New Tales

down, ii presents, in the person Of the
heroine, an acute study Of femininity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23

THE NOTE BOOK OF AN ATTACHE. Seven
Months I'm the War Zone. BY Eric Fisher Wood.
With fifteen photographs nv the author aud FAC
smiles Of four Official documents. Syo pp. ii.
34j. The Century Company
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-07-23
A MANS CODE.

A MANS CODE. By ". B. VI Ferguson. Illus
trations by A l.. Barsfather limo. %. 5o5
The G. W. Dillingham; Company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
Doubtful Hopes.

The accounts in the daily papers are
not very clear as to the unique opera
ton" which is said to have cured "a VIC
tim of infantile paralysis" Some infor-
nation is given about the child and more
about her family; we are told that the
operation was "the only one Of its kind
ever successfully performed" and we are
duly provided with the name and address
of the performer But the point of chief
interest is left out or but vaguely limited
at in a passage intimating that the opera
ton involved resection Of the astragalus.
1t is perhaps safe to conjecture that It
had nothing to do with a cure, and that
the suggestion conveyed in such problem
atical headlines as "Infantile Paralysis
Hope" is slightly misleading. In the first
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
Volunteer Soldier the Best.

To the Editor of The Tribune.
| Sir: | was astonished this morning while
reading General Leonard Woods address de-
livered to the men now in camp of instruction
at Plattsburg n. Y. The general is positive
" wrong in the manner in which he speaks
of a volunteer army. Washington whipped
the trained army Of England with volunteers.
Grant whipped Lee with volunteers. | con-
slider one volunteer equal to three hirelings
who are forced into the service.
During the Civil War the men who volun-
teered had lot of trouble with the men
who were drafted into the service. Not only
had we to watch and fight the enemy in from;
of US, but we had to watch the drafted men
and make them do their duty. When Beau
regard and Longstreet charged our line at
Druye's Bluff several drafted men started
to run to the rear, and some of them were
shot by our own men as towards.
What we want TO do is to teach patriotism
in all our schools and colleges. We live in
the greatest and most liberal country under
the sun, and the safety and perpetuity of our
institutions depend on the American volun-
teer soldier. With a population of over
100, 100000 we should have no trouble plac-
ing an army of 100000 men in the field in
three or four months. 1t does not take long
to teach patriots how to fight. We don't want
to maintain large standing army in this
country that would be great tax on the
people Let US treat all nations fairly, and
try to get them to do what is right. If we
succeed in this, we will have been a blessing
to the world
Please publish this letter and oblige a
constant reader Of The Tribune.
PETER TWAMLEY.
Late Corporal, Company |, 4Sth Regiment,
n. Y. S. ",
Now York. Aug. II, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
A Skyscraper Postomce.

If Mr.. Newton, the acting Secretary or
the Treasury, is not crossed in his purpose
Chicago will have a skyscraper postoffice.
1t will cost less money than one which
spreads horizontally and there is no ques-
ton that in its general proportions it will
harmonic with the surrounding archi-
lecture of Chicagos business district
But what are we coming to if even our
public buildings are to stand on their tip
toes, straphangers, as it were, in the ccs-
mic conveyance? There was coterie of
citizens here who wanted New York's now
courthouse skyscraper to save the price
of an ample site. Oakland, Cal, has a
City Hall that must forever remain stand
ing. And next we shall hear, no doubt, of
public Libraries that compete for the up
Ger air with loft and office structures
looking down upon church steeples with
all the condescension Of the ultra modern
| for the archaic.
Of course New Workers, possessing a
postoffice which, however prone upon the
ground shrieks to high heaven with It's
Iuglness, are in somewhat delicate posi-
ton to be airing their preferences in these
matters. Fortunately the shape of their
new courthouse has been determined and
they already have their library. Both
spread literally. 1t was with their
library that Henry James, on his last visi.
to his recently renounced native land, ex-
pressed his heartfelt contentment if only
lit would continue to sit and sit and sit
Chicago no less than New York needs
here and there an oasis of architectural
repose to emphasize by contrast the ner-
vous energy radiating from her storm of
Iskyscrapers, Let Mr. Newton hold his
hand and Congress provide for the new
postofiice the price of seat, even though
it be a Pullman price.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-08-17
Misunderstood Biblical Doctrines

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: | was surprised to find the Anglo
Saxon name of John Medford signed to q
letter appealing for moral and physical cow
ardce in the peace panacea.
am mailing to the residence given a pam
phlet containing the address delivered on the
138th anniversary of the Battle of Fort
Washington by the Rev. William Montague
Geer, s. T. D., at st. Paul's Chapel New York
City, before the Fort Washington Chapter
of the Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton.
If there are any American citizens who
have any conscientious scrupes on the lines
Of misunderstood Biblical doctrines as TO our
duty to be prepared to defend our families
and our country from assassinations and
worse atrocities, | shall be happy to for
ward them copy of this patriotic address
T. HUGH BOORMAN.
New York, Aug. II, 1915.