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Official Book of the German Atrocities. F3o79-
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Perris, G. II. The Campaign of 1914 in France
Problems Of REIMBURSEMENT After the War.
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Sunday. william. The Meaning OF the War for
Germany and Great Britain. f3173-Sa54m.
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Stoweli, E c. The Diplomacy Of the War of
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Thomson. F. A. Stamp Milling and cyandng.
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Macleod, s. J. The Housekeeper's Handbook Of
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Chambers. Mrs: NJ. d. II. Guide to Laundry
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Larned, Mrs L. H. One Hundred Picnic Sug-
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water colors. scarcely less mastery. by

water colors, scarcely less mastery, by
Sargent.
A n exhibition of water colors, pastels
"a and works in black and white is
being held in the Art Club of Phladel-
phia. This comprises 146 works by
well known artists. Special attention
is being attracted by two paintings in
the collection by Felicie Waldo Howell
of this city, who, though working now
in Philadelphia, received her training
here in the Corcoran School, where a
very short time ago she was student.
Both of these are city pictures, one of
the market place in little town on
Martha's Vineyard. and the other of a
tenement street in Philadelphia. Miss
Howell spent the summer at Edgar
town, Martha's Vineyard, working I'M
der Mr.. Smell, who speaks in the high
est terms of her exceptional talent.
A special feature of this exhibition is
group of Autographs by Joseph Pen
nell of the Panama-Pacific exposition,
showing the several buildings in their
extraordinary architectural beauty. en-
HANGED by ttreir charming setting and
environment. This is something which
no photograph can justly interpret.
e VERETT L. WARNER, who, though
ne may no" reside In New YORK,
is counted among the Washington ar
lists, and has many friends in this city,
is holding exhibition of his paintings
forty in number-at the Detroit Mu-
scum of Art. The following notice is
given of this exhibition in the current
number of the bulletin of the Detroit
museum:
Everett L. Warner, an associate of
the National Academy of Design, has
won many distinctions because of his
success In his chosen field. His color
is startling in its brilliancy and vibra
ton: his shadows are luminous and are
expressed in terms of pure pigment. In
their quality of craftsmanship and ar
rangement his pictures are always
above the commonplace. His training
at the Art Students League, in Wash
ington and New York, and the Julian
Academy, in Paris, has been thorough.
He is represented in the permanent col
lections of a number of the museums
of this country. and his most recent
award, of which there is a considerable
list, is a silver medal from the Panama
Pacific exposition
Mr.. Warner spent the summer at
Lyme, Conn.
TT HE Detroit Museum of Art, of which
Charles Moore, chairman of the
federal art commission, is director, has
recently acquired several notable paint
ings and works in sculpture. Among
the latter is Amor Caritas," a bronze
relief, by Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
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strongest appeal to them are those of
the classic drama of all nations-love,
war, revenge, treason, sins against the
gods. self-immolation. The adaptations
made by this writer are calculated to
meet the single purpose of placing
these ancient dramas in touch with the
readers current mode of thought and
comprehension. They maintain the
spirit Of the original. An Introductory
chapter sketches the development of
the Japanese drama, emphasizing in
particular the period to which the
plays reproduced in this volume belong.
The whole opens a new and Interesting
vista, through which one gets a clear
and intimate view of one side of Japa-
nese life.
Pain. New York: Frederick A
Stokes Company.
Within the loose limits set by lone
kind and another" person Is able to
gather up pretty much any thing or
everything. And that is what Mr.. Pain
has done-just simply picked up any
touch of human nature, any incident of
human interest, any example of humor
or vagary or whim that he saw along
the way. Each and all of these pick
ngs-up he has looked upon from a new
angle and dealt with in a fresh and
individual manner. The result of this
original treatment is DOCK OF ener-
getic short stories, some of them plain
ly humorous and some of them not put
out in anything like a playful vein.
Together they make a clever comment
on this and that Of modern life and
present it to the reader in the clipped
and outstanding phrase of the best of
journalistic writers.
GEORGE WASHINGTON: Farmer.
Being an Account of His Home
Life and Agricultural Activities By
Paul Leland Haworth, author of
The Path of Glory etc. With
many illustrations facsimiles of pri-
vate papers and a map of Washing
tons estate, drawn by himself In
dianapolis: The Bibbs- Merrill Com
pany.
For the average Imagination which
accepts Washington as the deity of
American history superhuman who
will live forever in print, bronze and
stone-this book should serve as a re-
freshing shock because of it's reminder
that the father of his country was also
a man who lived close to the earth
and by it-both before and after he
had reaped his Immortality via the rev.
dictionary war. Washington's diary
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plosive shell cover an ellipse fifty yards
broad by ten yards long, or an area of
only 500 square yards, one-fifteenth the
area affected by shrapnel But whereas q
wooden screen has often proved suffi-
cient shelter against shrapnel bullets,
the splinters of a high-eXplosive shell
wreck everything near, and the mere
conclusion may be deadly to human
beings"
In addition to high explosive shell
and common shrapnel, there is a high
explosive shrapnel which combines or
compromises shell and shrapnel quail
ties. Soon after the opening of the
twentieth century the German field ar
tillery favored the employment of moth
ing but high explosive shell in their
field guns, and though no such startling
step as the complete abandonment Of
shrapnel was taken by the German
army, the allowance of high explosive
shell was made very large. 1t was
a bout this time that the krupp works
brought out a combination high eXplo-
sive shell and shrapnel which is now
being extensively used by German artil-
lery and also by the feldguns of the
other armies.
A writer on artillery thus describes
this form of projectile: The shell IS
in two parts The head contains a fuse
which may be set for either time or
percussion ignition and charge of
high explosive in a thick steel case.
Attached to this is a thin steel case
containing shrapnel bullets embedded
In trinitrotoluene and fired by the fuse
in the nose. When used as shrapnel
the fuse is set to explode by time; the
charge opens up the body of the shell
and releases the bullets with great
violence. The head with the high ex-
plosive flies forward and explodes on
striking the ground. If employed as
high explosive shell the fuse is set to
deronate on percussion or on striking
the target, when both the head and
body explode with much the effect of
an ordinary high explosive she'll"
The bursting charge of the British
shell is lyddite, which is formed prin-
cipally of picric acid melted with some
yaseline. and picric acid is Il coal tar
product which has various uses, one of
which is as a yellow dye. 1t is claimed
for picric acid that it is more power
full explosive than German 1T. N. T."
or trinitrotoluene, but it has one draw
back in that 1t forms compounds with
alkalis and some metals which are eX-
ceedingly explosive and can be det-
onated or set off almost by a scratch
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part is the report of the formal investi-
cation into the sinking of the Lusi-
tania by Lord Mersey's court. From
the findings of the Mersey commi ssion
Mr.. Lauriat takes diametrical eXcep-
tions in his comments upon the report.
The whole makes an interesting and
historically important volume bearing
upon the greatest tragedy of the war
THE HAPPY PHRASE; A Hand Book
of Expression for the Enrichment of
Conversation. Writing and Public
Speaking. Compiled and arranged
by Edwin Hamlin Carr. New York :
G. 2. Putnam'S Sons.
Here is a ready reference volume for
the cultivation of the personal vocab-
ulary-a compendium of opposite and
happy phrases culled from the works
of the most felicitous writer's of Eng
lish and thoroughly classified under
headings for convenience of reference
and research. A person who masters
this book will never be at loss for a
word on any occasion.
THROUGH COLLEGE ON NOTHING A
YEAR. BY Christian Gauss. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
Washington: Woodward & Lothrop.
Investiga tons of one sort and another
form a considerable and proper part of
of these Investigations are of the high
est value Many of them are more OBJ
scure in their bearings and results. If
the question under scrutiny has pith
and practicability If 1t is widespread
in its appeal and if the conclusions arc
cast in form to seize the eye and hold
the attention, then that investiga ton
is eminently worth while. The book
in hand makes clear illustration of
the high value that lies in the best of
this work In this case the matter put
up for examination is that of the
chances afforded students to pay their
own way through college with a con-
of some of the special meth
DDS fitted to secure this end. AS a rule,
In studies of this kind, the results are
mbodied in statistical tables or charts.
But no one reads statistics. Therefore
this writer narrows his Investigation
to the infinitely more interesting story
of d single student belonging to this
class of self-supporting college boys.
The account is wholly informal, just
face-to-face talk between two boys,
rather than between student and pro-
fessor. And this is a point that speaks
wonderfully well for the professor Out
of these talks about every side of col
lege life is set forth. from the stand
point of the student and not from that
of the faculty or board Of control. All
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-31

the manifold relat ions of the students
appear. opening up the ways in which
this particular student caught on to
this or that way of making ends meet
in the business of earning his educa-
ton. A new light, too, is thrown upon
the activities and influence and general
humanness of the professors. All in
all. this is an absorbingly interesting
personal story. which has word for
the boy who is making his schooling
anywhere. whether within or without
the university proper.
author of Miriam etc New
York: Moffat. Yard & Co.
One cannot quite make out why these
keen-cut and dramatic little sketches
should be gathered up under the name
of Modern Women" That the outlook
here is upon life in it's ultra modern
aspect Is true. That the spirit is adj
versely critical also is patent. But
that the i'll effects of modern life spring
solely from the women of the present
not even the writer is able to show
here. Being possessed of cynical
twist, he naturally tries to do this,
and. having the matter in his own
hands. he makes better showing than
ventor of fiction does not have things
all his own way. There are certain
consistencies and harmonies that the
writer with any claim to competency
must observe. So. If it pleases him to
depict his women as shallow, selfish,
over-reaching, exacting, idle and the
rest of it, the men that share their for
tunes with this stamp of woman shade
off conspicuously from the profound,
big-hearted, unself1sh, tolerant men of
big plans and capable action that he no
doubt pictures them to be- These are
clever sketches, but they are not sat
tsfytng ones, because they are, in the
main. out Of drawing. They do not
bear even the impressionist's relation
to the truth.
TALES FROM OLD JAPANESE
DRAMAS By Asataro Miyamori, au-
thor of Representative Tales Of
Japan" etc. Illustrated. New York
G. P. Putnams Sons
The most important and influential of
the epic dramas of Japan are gathered
up in this volume. Since the classical
drama still maintains strong hold
upon the Japanese, and since the the
alter plays large part in the life of
this people, this book may be counted
as study of the Japanese people by
way of one of their chief recreations
and diversions. The subjects that make
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Manteau." the first study for the larger
work by the same title which now
hangs in the Church of Savenitum It
shows Saint Martin as a young cava-
lier dividing his cloak with two beg
CARS by the waySide. On account of
MIR. Gardens friendship for Mr. Whit
lock, American minister to Belgium he
has expressed wish that the painting
may be permanently placed in the To-
ledo Art Museum. Mr.. Whitlock having
come from Toledo and having been a
trustee of this museum. And the re-
quest will be granted. The painting is
at present stored in Brussels and will
not be brought to this country until
ocean transportation is a little less
hazardous. 1t will, upon its arrival. in
all proba ability be shown in Washing
ton and other cities
TT HE National Gallery has received
as a gift from the Chilean lega-
tioh in this city a painting by Alfredo
Helsby entitled Full Moon" This is
one of the paintings included in the
collection of works by this Chilean art
list which was exhibited last season in
the Hall of the Americas at the Pan
American Union. 1t is a very pleasing
nocturne and admirably renders the eff
feet of moonlight on a partially cloud
ed sky. 1t is atmospheric and lumin-
Gus.
X x
TFHE Andrews Memorial Association
u will hold a meeting at the Corcoran
School of Art the evening of November
3, at S o'clock. Richard f. Brooke, the
sculptor. is to execute for the association
a bronze memorial tablet commemorate
ing Mr.. Andrews years Of service as I1i-
rector of the Corcoran School The
tablet is to be placed appropriately in
the school The progress that has been
made in this work and toward carrying to
completion the plan will be reported at
the meeting next Wednesday evening
LEILA MECHLIN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-31
The Poet Stumped.

From the Boston Transcript.
(To write a line that ends with "squirm"
We tried, but twas no use).
The early bird may catch the worm.
Late husbands catch the deuce.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-31

MMISS BERTHA E. PERRIE spent the
4V4 summer at Provincetown, Cape
Cod, working with Charles w. Haw-
thorne. She has brought back with her
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this great sculptors works. The orig
ina1 was purchased some years ago by
the French government for the LuXem
bourg gallery. 1t is a very valuabL.
a ACQUISITION.
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explosive shell. Each nation has its
preference, and exercises it in the mat
ter of its shell. 1t is believed that the
high explosive shell was used first in
action in the war between the British
and Beers in 1S99-1902, when the British
naval ATS and six-inch guns fired pro-
jectiles charged with lyddite In that war
the British high explosive shells were
found very useful for destroying build
ings and attacking strong intrenchments,
though these were rarely constructed by
the Beers.
In the Russo-Japanese war, according to
the reports Of the British staff officers
with the Japanese army, the Japanese
| arrived at the conclusion that shrapnel
Is of little use against strong, deliberately
prepared infantry tntrenchments, and
produces but little effect against artillery
in gun pits For that reason they use
a mixture of high explosive and shrapnel,
and when Smelling strong infantry in
trenchments they use preponderating
number OF high explosive shells" The
proportion carried in the Japanese bat
teres was 80 per cent of high explosive
and 20 per cent of the shrapnel.
In the United States before the
present. war batteries carried so per
cent shrapnel and 20 per cent shell
The high explosive shell is made of
steel, both forged and bar stock" 1t
contains no bullets, but a charge of
high explosive-in the British army and
navy usually lyddite; in the French
army melinite, which is similar to lyd-
dite; in the Japanese army shimose,
which is a variant of lyddite: in the
German army and navy usually trini-
trotoluene.
A British ordnance authority, point
ing out that the effect of a shell is
much more local than the effect of a
shrapnel, has written:
cit is immensely destructive within a
very small area. The splinters of an
eighteen paunder feld-gun high ex-
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Why Explosive She'll Is Preferred
to Shrapm@l i'm European War

TT HE high explosive she'll is being
heard around the world, and 1t has
become, if not the decisive factor of the
war, at least a greater factor than be-
fore the war the generality of mill
tary men believed 1t would. Shells are
as old as gunpowder and cannon, or
very nearly so, and the high explosive
shell has been experimental with ever
since ordnance experts turned their
thoughts to explosives of higher eff
cheney than charcoal gunpowder. In
the early sos Capt Zalinski of the
American army was firing iron shells,
charged with a light weight of dyna-
mite, across the Golden Gate between
Fort point and Lime point at San Fran
cisco.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-31
BOOK REVIEWS.

FEIIxf O'DAy. BY F. Hopkinson
Smith, author of The Tides of
George Wright. New York: Charles
S<ribner's Sons. Washington: Bren-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-31
GRIDIRoN NIGHTS; Humorous and

tHIDIKON NIGHTS; HumOrOuN and
SatiricnI Views of Politics and
Statesmen rs Presented by the
Famous Dining Club. BY Arthur
wallace Dunn. With I25 iilustra-
tions. New York: Frederick A.
stokes Company.
Washington knows the Gridiron Club
well as an institution that has become
closely identified with the social and
political life of the United States, and
to large extent the country at large
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-02
HAVING TROUBLE
WITH TRACK RAISING
BURLINGTON Is EXPERIENCING
DIFFICULTY OF PECULIAR
. KIND NEAR vlLLISCA.

Villisca Aug. 81. Although the ex-
pert engineers employed by the Bur.
lington railroad were able, after sever
al years time and the expenditure Of
nearly 100000, to curb the Missouri
river at Folsom, south of Council Bluffs
where it would soon have swallowed up
the main line of the road, the engineers
have at last thrown up their hands.
They have called upon the geological
department at Washington to help
them solve puzzle that has developed
in the road bed near Villisca and has
caused the road as much
trouble as it had at Folsom.
For several months the company has
been put to great expense and delay
of trains by slides in two cuts and
while train load after train load of dirt
has been hauled away, the slides con-
tinue and today the steps of passen
ger cars passing through the cut in
the yellow clay and engines and Gar
wheels all bear evidence of the slides.
The dirt appears of spongy character
and will not stay back,
The Washington experts are called
upon to solve, if they can, a mysteri.
Gus upheaval of the track. Between
Stanton and Red Oak the tracks for
about an eighth of mile have bulged
upward four feet. Some mysterious
pressure keeps the earth rising and
the tracks have been lowered repeated.
ly, but the upheaval continues
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-02
CARTER ISSUES
A PROCLAMATION

Mayor Fred H. Carter has issued "a
proclamation for Labor Day urging the
employers to grant holiday to their
employees and for everyone to join IN
making the day big success. FOLLOW
ing Is the mayors proclamation:
Proclamation is hereby made to the
citizens of Ottumwa, Iowa that:
The Labor organizations. Retail
Merchants, and Commercial associa-
lions Of our city have united In an ell
fort to make Monday, September o.,
1918, a general holiday, day long to
be remembered by citizens and guests
as the occasion Of the most successful
celebration ever held within our city
limits.
Notice is hereby given that so far as
compatible with public safety, all the
offices Of the different city departments
will be closed the entire day; that al
employees shall cease labor upon the
above named day and are earnestly re-
ouested to join the members OF the
above named organizations in assisting
to retain Ottumwa's claim to the title
Of "The city where guests are always
welcome"
1 would also earnestly urge upon our
employers of labor to, so far as prac-
ticable. grant holiday to their en-
ployes that they may aid in making the
day a success in every particular, and
one long to be remembered with pleas
ure by one and all.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-02
ASK REV. BuSs|NG
To STAY LONGER

Rev. Isaac Bussing. pastor of the
Davis street Christian church received
a unanimous invitation from his con-
gregation, Sunday morning, to stay
with them for another year and at the
same time the members voted him
substantial increase in salary.
The official board of the church met
a week ago and took this action and
selected L. F. Hoffstetter to present
the matters to the assembled congre-
cation Sunday morning. The resolu-
lions drawn up by the board and &C
cepted without dissenting voice by the
congregation thanked the pastor for
his work during the past year and ex-
pressed gratitude for the solicited
condition of the affairs of the church
at the present time From November
%, 1914, when Rev. Bussing came, I'M
til August 1, 1915 the pastor has made
1913 personal calls. The church in
that time, without any special meet.
ings has received into membership,
11S people.
Beginning with next Sunday the reg
ular hours of the service will be re-
sumed, they having been shortened
during the summer. A big fall opening
Is being planned for next week.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-09-02
CHASED
BY COUNTY OFFICERS

Iowa City, Aug. 81. -Four young
automobiles were discovered in
Might on a country highway near here
by Chief of Police John w. Miller,
Sheriff Reed of Marengo, and other Of
ficers, who CHANGED to be passing on
the same road. The officers allege that
the members of the quartet are alleged
to be West Liberty men; drove forty
miles an hour or faster; cut across the
track almost directly in front Of the
other car; nearly plunged itno ditch:
and likewise imperiled the officers car.
The four were pursued, overtaken,
escaped were followed again, and fin
ally, after a third flight, were stopped
with leveled guns. Prosecution mere,
or in the West Liberty courts, the po-
lice say, will follow Names have been
withheld by the officers thus far. 1t is
alleged that booze" is responsible for
the dangerous drive