The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-04

Music Of Poland by Mrs. Marguerite
Walaux. with u preface by Emil
Mlynarski: and Poland as AN Undo
pendent Economic Unit" by Stan..-
law Posner. with a preface by Sidnc,
Webb.
Margaret Deland, who has Just Ief,
Boston for her Maine summer home
gives an enthusiastic report Of tho
money already collected by The An
.h.JY FCnd ~. the Allied Vvc1rsaes.
IN 80 date soc authors have senS n.
5 I.2O7. and n new batch of circulars
Is expected 10 round UP another group
Apropos Of the recent Cervan:sA
celebration. 1t Is interesting to recall
that william Dean Howel,s mars D.,
his boyish mind after reading Don
Qulxote" that some day he would read
IL in the original Spanish and would
also write the life Of It's author. And
no longer ago than in the introduction
to his Familiar Spanish Travels" Mr..
Howells said:
Though ] have never yet done
either. and probably never shall.
should not despair of doing both, II
I Ii, ed to lie a hundred"
Mr.. IIowells relates The pcnal,y
which the Spanish writer paid for liv-
ing in Il neighborhood of evil repu'e
One night. when n gentleman Wi.
stabbed in the street and Cervan,.s
was the first to reach the dying NAV.
he and his family were arrested
accessories before the fact. "Tho
man. says Mr.. Howells. whose rs-
nown has since filled the civiliacl
world fuller even ;han the name OF his
contemporary. Shakespeare 'thry died
on the same day.. was then 50 I'M.
known to the authorities Of Nalla-
dolio that he had great ado to estar.
lish the innocence OF himself and his
household"
An expression of the reaction
against the campaign for prepared
ness is Inviting War to Americi'
,Huebsch). by Allan l.. Benson. So.
cialist candidate for President. Il ls
not generally known that the Social.
lists select their nominee by ref"rcn-
dunn vote. The man who runs for
President Is the man whom the M.
jority of tie party members want. and
there IL no liberation Of a clique COZ.
trolling the party convention ma
ch!nery.
II is two years since the death Y
Joseph fels. who mad IA fortune ~
the manufacture Of soap and who ho.
came famous 10y abandoning mou""
making to attack the sources ~
monopoly and privilege. 4 biography
entitled Joseph FEELS: His Life Work"
by his widow. Mrs. Mary l'cls. Is To- 20
brought IN this month 10y Il w
Iiuebsch. The book deals with ~"
social. political! ana economic activ-
ties in England and America which
MIR, Fcls supported.
Books published this week by John
Lane Company include: IA Mo'rv
Banker i'm the Far East ,and South
America" by Walter II. Soun- a
personal narrative enlivened by diver.
linz stories and illustrated from i'A'-
t%ographs. domestic Life in Rama
MIA by Dorothea Kirke. letters =
description from an En-l,shwon'tr
who spent some years rs lady Sad, -
in the home If Il family in BUclAros.,
and "Tcp,-,in- and Supor-Z'plteiu-'
10y Il. i. lloarnc. who wds on" uf I'VE
frs, writers in England "i.'' 't1's
ago. to call attention IN tho Zoric''N
menace.
Rex Beach. whose new book r.
crimson Garlenia" was published W
the Harpcrs during the author "Trip
to Panama. has Just returned homo
y. Loving that the canal i not adj
uuately defended.
III !, fair sized BATH" cruiser. e"
says, SHOULD talk "a couple II Sn0's
at the forts defending the terminals
-. the canal =, would h' all off w.'I
the defeuces. The forts are sadly r-
adequate. :" far .s | could SOC, tho
could he destroyed 10y a squadron -
varships at SEA