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Hi WAY OF THE
WICKED,
EYES
Mr.. Locke's Artistic Achievement-Mrs Bacons
Bright and Original Idea.
An Adventuresome Youth Before the Mast-An Emo
tional Girl in a Paris Studio.
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War From Many Sides.

other friend who is dead. When he
undertakes to follow 1t up with another
novel Of his own he finds that he
cannot write; this worries him to his
death. but he asserts before dying that
he has finished his book. Tbs Journal
list. without the wife's knowledge. uses
himself. She abuses him while he Is
writing and after the book Is pub
lished and suspects that he has be-
trayed her husband. whose memory
she worships. Luckily the Albanian
gets into a scrape and in getting her
out Of II the journalist finds himself
embarked with her on a prepos.erous
sea voyage. which keeps him out Of
the way. The widow meanwhile in.
vestigates: she discovers her late hus-
bands duplicity and the journalists
love for her. The whole business Is
handled brilliantly: provoked as the
reader will be at the girls obtuseness
and p~ertinacity he will feel sorry fol-
her and will like her In the end.
When the journalist returns and tho
widow offers to marry him he discovers
that he does not love her: that II was
only his first ideal Of her that he
wanted. He marries instead the fair
and sturdy Albanian, whom he has
been quixotically protecting from the
beginning. Farce. comedy and tragedy
have been blended with perfect art by
Mr.. Locke in this tale: his people are
very human in spite of their absurd
tiles. The reader will not regret max.
ing their acquaintance.
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PATRICIA AND THE SHOCK
ING BOOK SHE WROTE

The conversation Of the heroine and
her brother In the opening chapter OF
Edith Henrietta Fowler's story OF PA
tricia" &c. p. Putnam's Sons) Is ome
what surprising. "Oh, Fitz. doesn't II
seem awful, somehow" The scene
IL a house Of mourning. Watson. the
butler, has Just made the usual mid
day announcement. Fttz seeks the
meaning Of Patricia's question. What
seems awful? The answer OF Patricia
is a very succinct and clear explana-
ton: THAT luncheon should be served,
as Watson puts It. when father has
only Just died. Not even n hour
ago yet"
But was not Watson's announcement
proper. and was not luncheon proper?
The story comes to a consideration
Of that point. Patricia says that
luncheon sounds heartless and hor-
rid. whereupon Fitz says: "If sand
witches and weak sherry and water on
a tray would jar less upon your frame
OF mind. old girl, by all mnans have
them. but I am going down to lunch
IltIc Iditlild 'Ndffo W NC
and undecided. She Jumps up and
takes her brothers arm. She vii
stand with her brother. His view Is
her own. There shall be entire and
even eager accord. "Of course!" She
says. 80 am l." She, like Fltz. will
go down to lunch.
Patricia expresses herself frankly
regarding natural behavior and artin'
cial behavior In circumstances 81
mourning. IT am so glad you are
ordinary, Fitz,' she says, after thu
decision to partake OF luncheon a.
usual. II feel as II | wanted ordinari
ness more than anything else Jus
now. Oh, ] do hope there Will he {
leg OF mutton for lunch or something
| there Is no mystery about, DO you re
member, Aunt Lucy always says tina
she thinks It so dreadful when peopl'
are going to be hanged to put In TIT
papers that they ate a good hreakfas
she should have only dry toast ant
tea II she were going to be hanged
But do you know I don't agree wit
her. I should have bacon-Just dull
homclike, ordinary, cheerful bacon"
FitZ spoke up. 81 should hav
curry or devilled kidneys" he said
His orphaned sister demonstrate
gently: "Oh, Fitz! Don't make m
laugh. Watson would think It so aw
full II we laughed at lunch" Patrici
inherited something of the free an
hold spirit Of her distinguished father
also something OF his brilliant literar
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A

AZ clever and entertaining q book
a. ". ]. Locke has yet written Is
"Jaffery" (John Lane Company, q
pitiful and dramatic tragedy told in a
tone Of light comedy, which neverthe-
less does not Jar. surely an artistic
feat. Tho narrator Is an amiable,
hnicky dabbler in literature with
aesthetic tastes and a fondness for
good living. who Is we'll off and does
not have to work. He has a charming
and sensible wife and a nice little girl.
Between them they tell the story of his
friend, q newspaper man. perhaps a
trife too big and too obstreperous.
who has in tow an equally large but
beautiful Albanian girl brought up In
the Chicago stockyards. They all have
a good deal of trouble in making the
young woman. with her combination
Of Balkan ferocity and American indie
pendence, conform TO the conventions
OF London society. Meanwhile the
Journalist Is smitten by a pretty but
narrow minded girl who Is about to
marry his friend, a successful novelist,
whom she adores.
1t turns u that the novelist, who
II a delightful idler, has passed of
as his own the story written by an
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A MARRIAGE.

One bright and original idea con.
sistently carried out excuses a number
Of improbabilities in Josephine Das-
kan Bacon's open Market (Apple.
tons). The heroine Is a %penniless girl
verging on thirty. with the highest
social relations, who a spent her
youth in tending an invalid relative,
at whose death she hopes to be free
to live for herself. The relative fails
to mention her in her will. A lawyer
tempts her with a story Of the crippled
son of an Adirondack guide to whom a
large fortune has been left. She offers
to marry him, so as to protect him. let
him see the world and nurse him in
veturn for her own freedom from de-
pendence. He has eve seen a
woman before and agrees to the plan.
The conscientious I'M in which
she undertakes the part of Provi-
dence is very entertaining: 1t extends
even into penetrating the mysteries Of
male apparel. After attending to his
Clothes and his appearance she tackles
his MIND and takes him to Bermuda
to complete his education. AS that
goes on she Is panied to hnd that
others have more influence than she
and that he develops powers OF in
i~tiative.. In spite Of her society career
she seems to be as innocent Of any feel
ing Of attraction toward the other sex
as he is. So that when he is straight
ened out, as we felt sure he would
be, the process Of finding ~ that she
Is in love with her nominal hus.
band is rather complex and not wholly
pleasing. They find out hat they care
for each other satisfactorily in the end
The author suggests further melodra'
matte complications. but fortunately
abstains from carrying them out.
The girl Is the whole story, hel
operate lover Is used merely as 6
foil for her. though now and then tn
author gives him a chance. The clevel
chatter about New York society PEG
pie ia bright enough but by no mean
uncommon. and the same 10 true o
the foreign excrescences. There ar
plenty Of absurdities which must b.
accepted to bring about the situation
That. however. 10 interesting; tn
woman's confidence that she can moul,
the helpless mars destiny, her cap
able. painstaking effort and the awak
ening to tho fact that she Is helples
in the presence of other factors an
Of the mans own Will IL honest an
human psychology that Justties tn
author.
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WAR BOOKS.

THE War From This Side" 10 the
title OF a book Of editorials from the
Philadelphia North American. pub
ished by the ]. b. Llppincott Company
OF Philadelphia. These editorials. which
are presented in chronological order,
cover the first sever months of tRe
European war. from the time Of the
Austrian ultimatum to Serbia to the
,bombardment of the forts of the OAR
danelles by the ships Of the Allies. %.
to quote the dates Of the editorials,
from July 20, 1914. to March s. 1915.
The book will be useful al a survey
OF the historical backgrounds OF the
great war and as an Interpretation OF
the Issues involved from an Ameri-
cans point OF View.
One Of the editorials asks the Ques-
ton: Are Americans preJudiced?"
and says that the ultimate test Of ra-
c!al harmony Is intermarriage, add
ing:
Prejudice which 10 not invoked
against tho sacred union OF wedlock Is
on-existent. And there has yet to be
cited a case wherein the marriage OF
an American to a German met such
criticism as Is frequently visited upon
alliances with other races, The inter
mingling OF the native born and Ger
man elements OF the population Ia sc
complete and cordial that the com
plant We have noted refutes ITSELF
The writer admits, however, that
there Is In this country a deep and
lasting prejudice against the system
Of government In Germany and the
philosophy It proclaims. He deplores
the fact that those who assail Amer
lean public opinion as prejudiced will
not permit It to d~ifYerentiate between
the German people and the German
system. The editorial says:
"Undeviatingly friendly toward ths
Germans, so many OF whom are theil
loyal fellow citizens and proved friends
Americans do condemn with implac'
able hostility this undemocratic doc
trine, and the provocative, imperial
istic militarism which II has produced
and which It champions. They des
pise the theatrical falsehood OF
divinely endowed absolutism."
The iaudation of Germany by Or
Sven Hedin, noticed In THE SUN som
time ago In the German edition, ha'
been translated into English by II. G
Do Walterstorff under the title wit
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the German Armies in h West
John Lane Company. II will be
valuable TO English readers by making
them acquainted with the views of an
intensely pro-German var correspond
ent who vas conducted officially
around to see whatever the authorities
thought desirable. In a special
preface he retorts on English critics
OF his book with the assurance that
he did not see a single instance OF Ill
treatment or cruelty to the enemy. a
statement that Is likely TO be true,
considering the distance from the
fighting line at which ne was kept.
The book has many illustrations.
A book hat will attract attention
and that opens a way for better
books tina, will follow It Is Air Craft
IN the Great War" by Claude Ora
name-white and Harry Harper "a.
G. McClurs and Company, Chicago).
II the nature of things II can only
zeal with rather ague generalities
because, on the one and, the expert
ence so far both with aeroplanes and
dirigibles has been rather limited. e7-
cept in certain lines. and because, on
the other hand. the detailed infnrma-
tion about construction. improvements.
comparative merits OF different makes
and even the exact description Of
a.rship exploits. which Is what tho
reader would like to have. csnnb
be expected to pass the censorship
while the war Is going IN.
An interesting collection OF facts
and explanations, which will be OF
great value when the question OF end
ing the war arises, has been made
by William English Walling in THE
Socialists and the War" GIenry Hot
and Company, He begins by QUOTING
from socialist leaders and publication:
To shnu, u.hnf thnlr a.lnMa ma aa 70.
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AVTAOR or
THE LIFE BOIlDE RS


infatuated with the captains daugh-
ter, and he himself makes love to
that young woman, whose behavior.
as he describes It, Is that OF a mink.
He seems to regard the conduct OF
the other sailors on the ship as also
being u~nladylike. Their actions are
turgid language.
The first half OF Mary Hastings
Bradley's The Splendid Chance" CAP
pletons) describes very pleasantly the
emotions Of a young American girl,
who INDUCES in a lively filtration on
shipboard before venturing on art
study In Paris. There she carries out
innocently the delightful American
idea Of living in a studio by herself
and OF frequenting student resorts
with other students of both sexes.
Her ship acquaintance visits her: the.
become engaged and GO about Paris
by themselves. A charming. II un-
truthful. dream OF what American
girls may do In Paris without harm
to themselves. This is followed. un-
fortunately, by the young woman's
war experiences. She seems able to
wander into regions Of disturbance
without trouble, and her services as
a nurse are accepted without ques-
ton. Havoc is wrought with feel
ings, as we'll as hers, which the All
thor does not pare.
Three more contributions to the
gospel OF going back to the land are
made by William Carleton In The
Red Geranium' tSmall, Maynard and
Company. In the first, after indulg-
ing in a vehement diatribe against the
evils to which women unsupported by
men are exposed and Directing
strongly to apartments that exclude
children. he tells how a with
out experience secured a small farm
on extraordinarily favorable terms and
made a living by raising flowers. The
moral OF the second seems to be that
a farmer cannot succeed unless he
does his work himself and ab1ures
help. The third tells OF the applica-
ton Of efficient methods to the milk
business. Life must be cheerful In ar
efficient community such a. he de-
scribes.
There Is apparently a step lower
for literature TO descend than thu
'novelization" Of plays: that Is thu
explanation of what the moving pic
lures mean. Three p%hotoplay libret'
tos which probably will be helpful 4
those who watch the pictures com
to us from Hearst's International Ii
brary Company. Runaway June b.
George Randolph Chester and Lilliar
Chester. presents a succession o
scenes so incoherent that they cal
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OTHER NEW FICTION.

Tho story Of an incautious. II ad-
venturous. youth who has shipped be-
fore the mast and found the life not
wholly agreeable, has been told before.
but not with the histrionic imagina-
ton and vocabulary employed by Rich
ard Matthews Hallet in THE Lady
Aft" (Small, Maynard and Company.
Boston,. Mystery and trouble are
suggested from the start. So far
as we can make out, tho anonymous
hero INDUCES In two or three neces-
AIRY fights, which establish his post
ton on shipboard; he learns his
duties. which are often unpleas-
n and sometimes dangerous: he dis
overs a stowaway on board, who Is
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color. they have added physical maps
and key maps and an index of names.
thereby supplying more Information
than the largest aliases afford, thirty
three maps for 80 cents.
The patriotic feelings Of Florence
l.. Barclay are exhibited in the in
genuous and sentimental incident she
relates in I'm Hoe + Vince" &C. y.
Putnam's sons. II is preceded and
followed 10y an address to the King
Of the Belgians.
There were plenty of prophecies OF
war by alarmists before war was de-
clared and their authors can now con-
graduate themselves on the accuracy
Of their guesses. one of these is Paul
Nergnet's France in Danger tE. Z.
button and Company. 10Y reprinted.
The author discovered a Pan-German
conspiracy In the fall OF 1913 and
proceeded to denounce II. His warn
Ing is based partly on facts and partly
on absurd suspicious and ~prejudices
which were good reason for leaving
It unheeded.
An English prophet OF evil. l.. ].
MaXse, is able proudly TO demonstrate
that he said so by %reprinting extracts
from the National Re1fetc extending
over fifteen years in Germany on the
Brain" (The National Review Office,
London). How much the ohsession of
hatred and danger, on both sides, con-
tr.bu,ed to the war future historians
may determine.
The observations OF Q war CORE
spondent who worked on the German
.SAA ~ th1 1t-a I-Jp.orl 4 cali I-ny nv.
recorded in Behind the Scenes ir
Warning Germany" Mcbride. Mas
and Company. He does not llmi
himself TO what ne saw himself. which
detracts from the value Of his reports
Another scheme for doing away will
war; comes from the home OF tn
!, Peace Tribunal In War Obviated b!
an International Police" Martini
: NijhoY. The Hague), n series OF es
/, says by various hands, chiefly Dutch
= To these are added expressions o
opinion by several noted men in poll
tics.
6 The latest batch OF pamphlets fror
Berger-Levrault. Paris. consists O
4 two combinations OF Les Com
. muniques Of1ciels" for the months c
= February and March: OF an additio
y to the series OF military honors, e.
y rOrdre du Jour; of a collection G
papers relating TO Switzerland. Il.
y Suisse ct Ia Guerre." and of n pamphle
by Paul Nerrier. LA Haine Allen
, ande." which is not appropriate in tn.
set of publications. Also in the ST
= OF Les Pourparlers Diplomatiques,
' the Austrian Red Book finds its pace
"Lebure Rouge Acknowledgements
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cards wal in general. and particularly
Of opinion made soon be-
fore the declaration. He text tells
now the socialists have acted In each
country regarding this war, which IL
:he valuable part OF the book. and
,nds more briefly with their views
concerning peace.
The desire to present . record Of the
ether side has led Adam L. Gowans
10 publish the translation Of extracts
from leading German newspapers for
the month OF December. 1914. in "A
Months German Newspapers" (Fred-
or!ck A. Stokes Company. This Will
enable the reader to compare the
statements made by one side with
those published by tho other. and
TO form some idea OF what the Ger
nan who are fighting feel.
The Impressions and opinions OF the
Rev. DR.. Newell Dwight Hills. pre-
Siously delivered to his n%eighbors in
Brooklyn, are preserved in Studies
of the Great War" (FNeming II. Reve!l
Company. Lectures delivered In
France viii he found in Les Nilles
Martyres" (Plon-Nourrit e. Com
pagnie. Paris). In which Andre Michel
tells Of Rheims. Scissors, Senlis an
.Arras and Mgr. Baudrillart Of Lou
vain. The articles by Thomas r
Millard on The Great war in the
Far East" In the china Press are
published in n new edition tThe Mer-
camille Printing Company, Shanghai
A fine example OF the use Of intel.
Iignupa In nI,bltgbIpp cham mans uyil
be found In the second part OF LAT.
las-lndex de Tous les Theatres de Is
Guerre CRerger-Levrault, Paris) which
takes in Prussia, Poland, Galicia ant
Hungary. The compilers have taker
the official large scale maps OF the
| frontier region and reproduced them II
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Other Books.

With much enthusiasm and "A GER
tain degree OF prec!Jslty NJ. ;. Balm
brigge undertakes to describe the sub
stance of Dantc's Divine Comedy TO
those who are unfamiliar with tho
poem or cannot understand 1t in "A
Walk in other Worlds with Dante
&c. +. Dutton and Company. The
author seems to have consulted the
more recent literature OH Dante. par
ticular,y what has appeared I'm Eng
land. and to he hampered somewhat
by the theories of commentators. Az
miration for Dante's poem is moro
than evident, about full comprehension
OF the human sid we are not so sure.
The book Is to be commenced without
| reserve for the service 1t may render
In making Dante known to those who
are ignorant OF him. II Is strange
that the author has overlooked in the
photography the one boo that has
lone similar service and with which
this must inevitably be compared.
Maria r. Rossetti's "A Shadow OF
Dante"
In the lectures entitled German
Philosophy and Politics Henry Holt
and Company Prof. John Dewey tries
to make ineligible to laymen the Gtn-
eral ideas OF the philosophers who
have Influenced German thought and
in some degree German political Ideas.
Kant. Fichte and Hegel. He is adj
mirably clear and has not despiscd the
assistance Of the one German who saw
clearly the essence of their beliefs and
expressed Il frankly. Heinrich Hcine
Though the author canno help allud-
, ing to present conditions. he has writ.
: ten a a n and readable book.
5 A chronicle OF what was going on II
Paris In life. politics, literature anc
. art during the first seven months q
1914 will be found in Jean Bernard!
: La Vie de Paris, 1914" (Alphons,
Lemerre. Paris). The record stopi
with the declaration of war.
The object OF the articles containec
: in Bohemia Under Hapsburg Mis-
! rule" (Flem!ng r. Revell Company
a edited by Thomas Capek. Is apparent.
\ TO make cut a case for the Czechs I,
1 the event that the settlement of tn
a European war involves markeU
changes on the map. The Czechs hay
= been dissatisfied and have made thei
: discomfort manifest in the Austrian
Parliament tver since the question q
race and language was taken u
seriously in peace congresses. In thi
little ook the achievements OF the Be
hemians In history. literature and ar
are related by various authors. as We
as the reasons for discomfort witt
q Austrian rule. No hint is given abou
the pronunciation of proper names
uEirh ara prnpern,Ia md Shn,,11 ha,.
been transliterated.
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II is the biography Of a corporation
lnwyer, who. after having made his pile.
looks back on his nefarious career
through the glasses of a Progressive
reformer, thai Winston Churchill re-
lates in "A Far Country" (Macmil-
lanai. AS he por;rays himself he Is
q singularly s~elf-centred person, des-
titute OF natural affection. with a snob-
Dish craving for worldly success ana
desire to hold the centre OF the stage.
There IL nothing human about MIN
sven In his relations with TOT
ne Is merely a mechanism for the as
play of Mr.. Churchill's political ideas
and sarcasm. IL his deeds a been
told without his own critical
he might have had some life. lik the
political boss who lives over a saloon
and reads Carlyle. or the big corpora
tion lawyer. or some of the n
olists and politicians. Reprehensible
though they may be they are some
thing like real people with whom we
can sympathize, whereas the narrator
the girl who acts as his Egeria and the
adealistic socialist, are mere machines
His puritanical home life is hardly
needed to account for the suppression
of the boys vague ideals. He goes TO
q somewhat misty Harvard. with
whose buildings Mr.. Churchill might
have familiarized himself. 30 long as
he was going 10 use names. the col
lege Is immaterial, for in any OF them
a boy who chooses to may be nobbi
and follow the social leaders. He is
taken up by a corporation lawyer
whom he admires, and as he is wholly
free from %scruples he advances rapidly,
He engineers through the Legislature
Q bill enabling big business to suppress
unfairly small Independent concerns
which gives Mr.. Churchill an oppor-
tunity to disclose corrupt methods
with much irony. There are severaI
k~r transactions Of the kind in which the
efforts of the worthy are brought &c
naught by the power of organization
There are also statements about the
problems which the nation will have
90 face in the future.
These matters are the substance Of
the story. As the narrator prospert
his aspirations become more common
place. He marries a young woman o.
ttllSf, WIN, Will All HlS Itdi lIiViius
deplores his actions while retaining
affection for him. He neglects hi
children. Then he entangles himsel
With a married woman, the friend o
his childhood. who has pursued
similar career in society. No eXplana
ton is ~vouchsafed for their waitin,
for advanced middle age in order 4
indulge their passion, when they hav
kept it under control throughout thei
lives. He decides 10 divorce his wifi
and marry the other. but an acciden
recalls her TO her duty and the failur
of a municipal campaign awakens 4
= him a sense Of his political and othe
misdeeds. He breaks down, return
to his family and starts life again. W
assume, on a reform basis.
We nave found little to interest u
IN Mr.. C~hurchill's hero; his ~psycholog
and personality are sacrificed to othe
considerations. The author, on tn
other hand. Is eloquent about tn
various grievances he picks out. tn
struggle between business efficienc
and democratic institutions and so o.
and the many people he brings In
examples are lifelike. perhaps becaus
he actually sees hem and does M
try to analyze them.