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Out.

Grubbs 7 suppose you believe. with the rest
OF the country. that old General Prosperity has
returned.
S'uhhs--ph. doubtless: but whom tho general
called OIL me, it must have been at {, time when
! was not at home.
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The FcSsir,irt Snys,

Acion always brings reaction The cheers
now heard in Wall Street are pretty certain to
be followed by the blcatns of the shorn lambs
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Out or Character.
Hey. diddle, diddle,
The cat and tho fiddle.
MY. my, what a curious thing:
The King of fair Greece
Stands boldly for peace
you'd scarce expect that OF King.
THE TATTLER
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he hmiablc gentlemen who are af,ar ma
scaiP OF Secretary McAdoo may wake no some
'ne morning to learn thcy have lost ,hc,r
own hair '0'' '"ci'
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Iloul,tful Tsrussc

Doubtful Praise.
MI. l.owbrow--ilont YOU think Miss Svcc.
'htIs la very attractive Young womano
NiSs HiEhbrow-Oh. very. She is indcnd
exactly like the center OF MISUNDERSTANDING
nothing in HERSELF and attracting everything 10
her. - '''''H ~
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Ills IiRlrnninI

Shc-t could die dancing
ic--Wel'' don't feel that way about it: but
looking at some of the folks who chi! age In III,
paSiinc nearly die laughing
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TO the end OF March 33 900 English woman
lad registered themselves for snnciaI Won
CUT! simultaneously, Sylvia Pankhurs,
wants all thcSc women TO be paid as much
as men There's always bug in the pre-.
serves. gents!
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German tailor in Mt Vernon, y. Y.
from constant reading OF war news became
suddenly dcranged, and was found in the
woodS ON his knees, praying loudly for death
10 take MN. There is an ideal soldier The
Naiser needs million men who are lust that
anxious TO pass on: and during the next few
months ii would be easy TO accommodate
them. But why go crazy?
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British Journalists object TO Americans
scoopns them One noted London odi,or
e%cIa'med 1T never occurred TO me that a
hhs would see bally reporter you know"
no'S OF things never occurred to some Eng
lisn editors
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Entered Jnnunr. -, 1905. ut Fiichmond. Va. ~,
tccorh-cinSs mnttcr vrIcr act OF Con;:rrss Of
STnrch - 1870.
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UtSDRoOil, STORY - nHo0SS, NC.
Special AdrcrtisinE Representatives.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-12
THE BROCKLEBANK RIDDLE.

THE BRoCkLEBANk RIDDLE. BY Hubert
Wales. l2mo. PIP S29. The Century COMPANY
Nh. Wales's venture into the occult
is deservedly beginning to attract at
tention. 1t has the real thrill of the
story of mystery, it turns the theory OF
metempsychosis TO compelling use as
fiction. and its excursions into theoso-
ply are not prolonged or unnecessarily
abstruse. Brocklebank succumbs TO
heart failure while climbing Mont
Blanc in company with his wife and
his partner; his body is incinerated in
the lattcr's presence; his ashes, in their
casket. are carried back to England by
the widow. And yet, when the part
ner enters their Offices on the morning
after his return, there is Brockle-
bank at his desk transacting business,
giving orders to scared, horrlfied
staff of clerks. II is not a momentary
apparition at all. Brocklebank
has come back TO stay; he is the same
boistercusly cheerful materialist as OF
old. He does not even care enough
to solve the mystery of the week that
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-12
EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY
An Annotated Catalogue Of
Five Hundred Volumes.

DICTIONARY CATALOGUE OF THE FIRST
ioj VOLUMES or ENERYMAN'S LIBRARY
Arranged and annotated by Isabel VI. Cooper
End Msrgaret \. McN1ly. lomo ~. i.J. l.. 4.
Duton * Co.
One of the compilers of this little
reference book is an instructor in
library science; the other is chief of
the loan department of the Newark
Public Library It's aim is to be of as
sistance to Librarians who hourly re-
ceive requests for something to read
and are expected to be always ready
with an answer. The annotations are
taken from innumerable sources, from
introductions by well-known critics and
students from May Sinclair's, for in
stance, to the works of George Elliott
from reviews and biographies, with,
here and there, an exceptional bit, like
Justin McCarthy's apt Characterization
of Lorna Doone" as "the best novel
of the second class produced in Eng
land in our day." or Macaulay's con-
demnation of Hard Times" as "sullen
socialism" and Ruskin's appreciation of
it as entirely right in the main drift"
TIN oughout there are condensed but
clear synopses of plot, particularly
helpful in the case of such neglected, if
not forgotten, authors as Peacock.
The dictionary is divided into three
sections: Fiction, English, American
and foreign; non-fction, prose and
poetry, biography, history, ranging
from Sir Thomas More to William Nor
ris, from Plutarch to Motley, from
Sophocles to Sheridan. from Chaucer
to WORDSWORTH; and children's books,
for it should not be forgotten that
Everyman's Library caters to Every
mans children as well with the favo-
rites of their own literature.
This little volume gives one a far
better survey of the amazing scope of
the undert king than a list of the
700-odd books already issued can
possibly do. In fact, it is in itself
not the least interesting item on that
list, as helpful to the general reader as
it will be to the Librarians for whom it
is primarily intended. Everyman's
Library has become a popular institu-
ton of the Englishspeaking world, the
best solution Sver offered it of the
problem of home Libraries at a cost
within the reach of all.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-12
1.-THE LIE"
Henry Arthur Jones's Latest
Drama.

TIL LIE Play in Forr Acls By HenD
Arthur Jones The Margaret Ellington Edition.
Illustrated l2mo. pp. ITO The George H.
Dofan Company.
Mr.. Jones's play has been one of the
few solid successes Of the disastrous
dramatic season now closing. II is an
effective play, lacking in originality,
composed of tried material, theatrical,
but put together with consummate
craftsmanship; and it proves to be as
telling in Thea reading as it was on the
stage. The author prefaces his WORK
with an enthusiastic dedication to Mar
garet Ellington, the star. He sugge4 3
that when France finds the rising new
actress who promises to succeed Sarah
Bernhard, she shall call her the
French Margaret Ellington" And Miss
Illington's portrait on the slip cover OF
the book bears an affectionate and
grateful autograph inscription to the
author. The illustrations are from
photographs of the stage production.
Only one fault can be found with
the printed play-an omission FAR 100
common in the published drama OF the
hour. Neither the place and time OF
its first production nor the original
cast are given.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-12
MEXICO.
Two Books on the Subject OF
Current Interest.

CARRANZA AND MEXICO. BY Carlo de Fornaro.
With chapters by Colonel /; {. Enriquez, Charlie
Ferguson and VI e. Holland Illustrated. l-ihu''
ID 9ie Mitchell kennerlcy.
HISTORY or MEXICO Being Popular Hls,oiy
of the Mexican People from the Earliest Irlml,
live Cirilization 10 the Present Time. By Hubert
iamo 20 VII 5sl. The Bancroft COMPANY
The tenor Of Mr.. De Fornaro's book
Is indicated by its opeainC pages. Inc
title proclaims it TO be about Gar
rama and Mexico, the man before and
above the country; and the dedication
is to President Wilson. "who discovered
real Mexico to the Americans. II IS
in fact. piece of ardent and some
what indiscriminating special pleadlng
for Venustiano Carranza and his DO
ings. and. in a less degree. for Presl-
dent Wilson's Mexican policy. In tins
is involved, not unnaturally, an antipa-
thy little short of savage against Por-
hrio Diaz. Huerta. Villa and other
Mexicans. and something that we can
not avoid regarding as grave injustice
TO and INSTRUMENTATION OF the Tart
administration.
The attitude of the author toward
Americans in general, always excepting
Mr.. Wilson. is indeed far from compli-
mentarv. There NAV be some ground
for his charges Of sordid American in
fuencc in Mexican politics and mill
tarv operations, though not nearly as
much as he would make to appear. We
are not prepared 10 concede as much.
however, for his violent and insulting
reflections upon the action of our gov
eminent in preventing the use OF
American border territory as base
for insurgent operations against the
Mexican government. The imputation
that the administrations of Roosevelt
and Taft "persecuted" Mexican patriots
under orders" from the Mexican Am
bassador is simply intolerable. and the
making of it seriously COMPROMISES
the value Of the book. Nor can we ac-
cent Mr. De Fornaro as omniscient,
and with him condemn all Americans
excepting President Wilson as hope
/ lessly ignorant concerning Mexican af-
! fairs. Doubtless three or four years
of residence and newspaper work in
| Mexico have endowed him with a vast
and varied store of knowledge Yet
we must humbly venture to hope that
keen and observant American men of
affairs. living in Mexico and engaging
| intimately in its business and social
life for three or four times as long as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-12
A SILENT WITNESS.

A SILENT WITNESS By r. Auv.n ~.
illustrated b. n. Westoa Tay.cr lsno '.f
Philadelphia The John {. Winston Co,,ss,.. =
There is nothing occult abou. i.
murder mystery which Mr.. TavI,s.
authority on medical jurisprudene. a
Thorndyke, unravels for US. Ths ~.
is most complicated, with a Ishv,,.s
Of mysteries leading in all diree,,.s.
all around il, the greatest puzzle -.
the persistent attempts to kill y,s,s
physician, who, having stumbled "a
the body Of a presumably nurS...j
man in lonely country lane N .
stormy night, returned with the ualo.
only TO discover that il had siss'
peared. And here the criminal ~.
the only mistake in an otherwise f,-s
lessly planned and executed mus,
Not a clew did he leave behind: 4,
whereas the young medico was IN rsf
ity utterly in the dark and not . -
ger 10 him, he believed him 10 h. =.
and returned to put him out Of h,
way as a possible witness. OF couss
science plays its part in the case: n,
nation and the chemical ANALYSIS !,
the ashes; finger prints and glc,,
worn as precaution, and LIQUID or
bonic acid gas, both as an instruur
Of destruction and as a preserystiv.
The story, taken altogether, is a, i
genious a piece of detective fiction :,
has come our way in some time. IA
enigmatic Mrs. Samway, with her sI,
luminous eyes, like chose Of sen,
lemurs or of a cat seen at dusk" n
serves special mention.
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of his own greater work on the same
subject, but. on the other hand, it does
serve widespread and indispensable
purpose. This is an opportune moment
for n new edition of it to be put for
ward, but we must regret that the OPP
portunity has been i'll improved. That
is because the added pages, purporting
to bring the narrative down to last
years date, are decidedly inadequate.
There is an almost complete hiatus be-
tween the second Inauguration of Diaz
in 1884 and the insurgency Of Madero
in 1910; and history, like nature, alb
hors a vacuum, particularly when 1t IN
wolves a quarter century of the most
important. significant and essential
part of the entire story. Without a
detailed and critical record of those
missing twenty-five or twenty-six years,
the somewhat scrappy and incoherent
chapter about Madero, Huerta, Villa
and the others is in the most essential
respect unintelligible.
Indeed, this added chapter is largely
more of blemish upon than an ell
richment of the book. IL contains many
facts, no doubt, but they are often so
expressed as TO be puZZling and all
but useless. Thus we are told that ION
the 9th of April" the outrage on the
flag at Tampico occurred; but there is
not a word in the book to indicate in
what year it was. Two pages further
on new paragraph and a new subject
are begun with a statement of what
occurred following the Baltimore con-
vention," without anywhere a hint as to
what the Baltimore convention was, or
which of several Baltimore conventions
is meant. Elsewhere there are para
graphs Of invective and other rhetoric,
sounding for all the world like excerpts
from stump speeches or from some hi
falutin' partisan editorial. In both mat
ter and manner the whole chapter is sug-
gestive of hasty and discriminating
newspaper work rather than of serious
history. It's excuse for being is that
it provides the pretext for the issue
of this new edition; as matter OF
fact, its ill-digested story Of four or
five years, separated from the rest by
a gap of twenty-five, adds nothing to
the substantial value of the original
work
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-12

Artillery, the inventor Of an aerial
bomb and a bomb dropping apparatus
for aeronanes. His book deals with
warfare from strategy 70 field kitchens,
from Zeppelins TO submarines, from
BUSY Berthas" TO wireless. The book
is, however, of perhaps greatest pop
ular interest and usefulness in its eX-
posture of the many false reports and
wrong impressions spread by Jealous
but inexperienced war correspondents
and by official and unofficial news agen-
cies. Mr.. Won Dewitt gives credit
to the allied armies, but, in the
matter of preparedness, wakes PROBES
sionally enthusiastic over the German
war machine According to him, the
surprise Of the German big siege guns
and submarines is yet to be followed
by surprises in the matter of German
naval guns and German super-Zeppe-
Inns. He gives standing to the vague
stories current in the Fatherland of
disaster for the British navy from the
air as well as from below the waters.
"Only few special officers Of the Ger
man General Staff know anything
about these super-Zeppelins." There is
a super-submarine, but only very few
of them are in commission.
The author gives the real facts Of
the German attack in "closed forma-
ton" about which so much was said
at the beginning of the war; he ex-
plains the military reasons for the ad-
vance through level Belgium and the
strategic purpose of the retreat TO the
Aisne and the halt there; but most OF
all does he deal with the mechanical
means of modern warfare. 1t is on this
feature of the book that Mr.. Maxim
bases his Introductory warning to us
to prepare for national defence. With
out this mechanical equipment, he
points out, an army is but defence
less mob; in warfare, labor saving
machinery is also life saving ma
chinery."
Mr.. ven Dewitt possesses the rare
gift of capitalization" He describes
and explains remarkably well.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-12

he. did not emerge from that country
entirely void of information.
Despite its blemshes and follies,
however, the little volume contains
much of interest and of value to the
reader who is sufficiently informed to
be discriminating, as, despite the au-
thor's poor opinion of them, most read
ing Americans are. Most interesting
are some Of his reflections" such as
that ten years of a complete and prac-
teal rural school system would change
the whole social and political character
of the republic; that "a Mexican war
would be a war without heroes or glory
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-12
CRITICISM
AND BOOK NEWS
Frank H. Simondss Second Book on the Wal
Mexico Past and Present-A Guide
to Everyman's Library.
HE WORLD WAR.

THE WORLD W An.
THE GREAT WAR The socond Phase From nth III
ian 81 Antwerp 90 me Second Battle ~ lpies
nv Prank ~ Simo0ds With new MAYS l-No.
= ~ Mitchell Ncnncr.cl
MN THE GERMAN ARMIES II TIE WEST
~ sven Hcd.u Authorized translation ifon W.
Sacf.sh by G. De- Wa.trIstUf With lE
H.ustrationS and mai< >'c. ~ ~. A'-
The John Lane Company
WARS NV WEAPONS BY Baron HroN yo1
DesiO luuoducoD preface N huds'H Ma1l'1
Illustrated Nvo. pp aV. -s'. pc"o' Me4o
co
II may not be amiss TO state. at the
outset Of this review. that Mr.. 81
uonds's new book is not mere re-
print Of his war editorials in The Trib-
une. and the articles contributed by
him 70 various periodicals. Almost
without exception these chapters de-
scribine the military operations of the
second phase Of the world war are new;
il is only in dealing with their sec
ondary aspects and with diplomatic
DEVELOPMENTS that the author has drawn
uron this earlier material, co-ordinat-
ing and simplifying il in the retrospect
Tho resumption Of diplomatic activities
is. indeed. one Of the salient features
OF the second phase OF the struggle. Its
early months marked a momentary
cessation Of this form Of warfare, which
had been carried on through twenty
wears. during which the position Of the
prospective Allies grew steadily
stronger. while that Of Germany be-
came ever more precarious. Do what
they might, her diplomats could make
no breach in the ring that was closing
upon her. In the resumption Of this
djplomatic warfare Germany has 10
her credit the entrance Of Turkey upon
the struggle As a strategic diversion
in the Caucasus il proved 70 be Of
scarcely any Importance, but 1t closed
the Dardanelles at a time when Russia
stood badly in need Of ammunition.
Fer IL was that need, and not the eco
ncmic one Of the expectation Of her
wheat. which dictated the attempt TO
force the Strait, with hitherto disas-
trous results. both on the spot and
on the battlefelds Of Galicia and Po-
land. On the other hand, the Jehad
proclaimed by the Sultan at Germany 5
instigation has proved total failure.
The Holy War Of Islam can be pro-
claimed only against all Christianity,
not against some Christian powers IN
support Of others.
To the Allies credit stands the
greater success Of Italy's accession to
their ranks. a change in the Kingdoms
policy whose pros and cons Mr.. ST.
monds examines at length. Her
clamor for italia Irredenta," he points
o0t, is in reality one for scientific
frontier" the very claim by which
Moltke forced Alsace-Lorraine upon the
reluctant Bismarck. For the Trentino
has q large Germanic population, and
Dalmatia is predominantly Slavic. Nor
does the author omit to glance at that
perplexing problem of the future, the
possible ACKNOWLEDGMENT, through Italy
action, OF Germany by the accession of
Austria. with. beyond it, the need of
reconquering Trieste, her lung on the
Mediterranean" as Prince Buelow has
called il. The Balkan situation, as
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-12
EDGAR CHIRRUP.
EDGAR CrlRtUP. B. PegEy Webllnr. In,
pp. 362. q. J.. Putnam's sons.

EDGAR CFIRRUP. B. Peggy wsbllnr- IN.
pp. 362. q. y. Putnams sons
Here is a good story, we'll told, viii
just a slight and lar from unpleaszs,
flavor of the Victorian manner. The
author makes no attempt at the DID.
ensian school which family stirred
in its beginnings some twenty ysu
ago. but occasionally she reminds "a
of him, as in the case Of that Unak
Heep successful 10 the last, M B<u-
lah. But then, Edgar Chirrups lie
started in Victorian days, for bis
biographer will tell US some day that
once Ruskin approvingly tapped hin
on the head in Kensington Gardens
when he was a child. Chirrup, be Il
understood, grew up 20 be the fore
most comedian of England Of bis day
not a heaven-stormlng genius, but
true artist in old English comedy a2l
new, and even in musical comedy fsy
the sake of the money squandersd b.
his worthless wife. This is not story
of stage life, but of the private lie
of an actor, with no more in il OF the
profession" than the subject requires
Chirrup-"Chirps" he came 70 BE
called by doting public-was the %,
of watchmaker's assistant. He btssr
his career s shop boy in an old eur
osity shop, kept by a Dickensian char
acter, with a Dickensian little niees
He got his first engagement througf
Dickensian young man enamored o.
acting. Come 70 think of it, he BAD
been helped into the world by Dlss.
ensian Mrs. 'Ardy, charwoman and NJ.
ternity nurse, who declared that he was
"a little Valentine"
"Chirps" played several seasons y
the United States. The Americans m
met were of the English fiction vsrisfy'
but not sufficiently so TO hurt our itei-
ings. Moreover, he had only little sl'ne
to make our acquaintance. but %
found his English wife among US, ssd
with her the unhappiness Of his hs'
and the plot of his story Altoge'neis
readable tale. quietly interestins' wa
a lovable heroine and a ikable ssso;
The author has gone TO a good 'sss|'
and profited by her study.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-12

for American arms; and, though in a
very different way, that "the Mexican
problem is like a sandbar in the path
of the American Ship of State" We
should be much entertained to hear the
authors harmonization of that last
with his enraptured eulogies Of the
course which the American Ship of
State has been pursuing for the last
two years. Does the sublimity of that
course consist in the fact that the ship
has run against the sandbar?
Mr.. Bancroft's popular history of
Mexico is well known and adequately
appreciated. II does not fill the place
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-12

has dropped out Of his life. Of ~.
he has no remembrance: his viz. 81
partner, the guides. the Swiss 49,.
who has declared him dead n,
that if they will Nothing has 80. =
in his robust spirits. his bus;..
s,ertness, his philosophy Of IN. ~
bodily he has changed in an alrss,. \
tangible way. and he has forgottss I.
to play golf and how to run his No.
car. His wife, his partner. his s...'
ates physically shrink from him W
has happened? !"
As this riddle makes the story a /.
it is, y would be unfair 10 both 49, -
and author to reveal its ,oi'sa
here. II is ingenious, it will or..sa
appeal to occultists and psychissS !
gearchers, but even a materials, !,
Brocklebank himself will feel ths ,s.s
of it as a mystery story OF exeent' -. =,
quality, and nothing more.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-12
HIS NGLISH WIFE.

HIS ENGLISH WIFE. By Rudolf strait ins
lated Nv A e. curtis. l-mo, pp $50 H'"s-"-
Green & Co.
This German novel, written ee'es
the war, derives new timeliness ifoa
its outbreak. The marriage OF an Els.
lish girl and a German ofieer ss.
the author an opportunity Of preseh'.
ing contrasts and making eompans0I'
that are of interest in the retrosp'es
Continued on page III