Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-28
INTERNATIONAL SPY
BROUGHT TO BOOK
K BY HIS PUBLISHERS
/. T. T. Lincoln Tells All About
It in Memoir Issued Day He
Disappeared From United
States Marshal
OTHER BOOKS OF THE DAY

Following the inspired footsteps Of Karl
Arngaard Graves, the Kaisers own Most
Personal of Personal Spies, Ignatius
Timotheus Tribich Lincoln, International
spy tells how the work is done, In his
revelations, published (by Robert NJ. Nc
Bride q Coz on the very day Mr. Lincoln
cruelty disappeared. II Is rumored that
before his exit Mr. Lincoln telephoned
his publishers. BE that as 1t may be, the
copy sent to the reviewer is literally be-
sprent with errors and Is In manila
cover.
Mr. Lincoln was certainly a spy. He
started In at the behest OF a member or
the British governing class, who opposed
the ant-German attitude of the majority
He "snooped" about in Belgium ana IN
Paris and his faculty for asking ques-
tlons was a great help to him. whenever
he Is at a loss in the present work he
asks a question in italics. After he mad
become a member of Parliament (and
this may DE what he refers to as perse-
cutlon in England) he became an out-and-
out German spy, tried to blow up part OF
the British navy, and finally skipped the
country.
The good faith of Mr. Lincoln Cborn at
Paks. Hungary. Of Jewish parents, later |
ordained as a minister In the Anglican |
church, can be Judged by his naive asser-
tion that the conference at Algeciras ana |
the Agadir affair were attempts OF the
KAISER TO SnOOln uONl Nllt e'h''''S "
Europe and to arrange a German-B British
entente. His impartiality may he judged
from his references to pan-SlaVists ana
hysterical chauvinists Cof Russia ana
France) as opposed to the altruistlc pohcy
of Germany, which hoped that England
and Russia would come into conflict IN the
Far East" His accuracy is generally OF
a piece with his reference to Sir Klch-
ard (D Borden, and his strategic vision Is
superb. He talks of italy being bound 10
throw 10000 men against Germany via
Austria! He discusses the Open Door in
China without reference to John Hay.
But there is deal of truth in the
book maugre all the nonsense, and all of
II is vastly entertaining. But there Is
some Lincoln green in the authors eye.
Two types of humor, which aren't so |
far apart as one would expect them TO |
be, are neatly matched in A. a. Mines |
'cHappy Dogs" George II. Doran Com |
pany) and the "AIoonbeams From the |
Larger Lunacy," of Stephen Leacock |
John Lane). The latter is made up of !
many pieces, some of which, we believe, |
appeared in American prints. Mr.. Lea
cock Is the author of the great farce, BE |
hind the Beyond" and his work Is ac-
cepted as real American humor. Mr..
Mines Is the "a. A. NJ of Punch, ini-
tials over which have appeared some OF
the lightest and gayest of all prose writ
editorial cares and poetic fances. Here
In America we are not supposed to find |
Punch funny. The fact is that Mr.. Lea
cock, whom we do find intensely amusing,
has much the same faculty as Mr.. Milne. |
Both are given to the quaint and fantas- |
tic both are devoted to human beings. |
Mr. Mines child stories are the high |
lights of the book. Mr.. Leacock eNcels in |
burlesque. Both books are thoroughly |
fine and one regrets that Mr. Simeon
hnnl fttet Nt,ft 70 yyNaly
trilogy of Canadian, English and Amer
lean humor-all by masters.
If you can't go walking yourself this |
year from n barrack town in France TO |
the gates OF Rome. you can at least lay |
your plans and choose your companion. |
BY right of eminent domain you should |
choose Hilaire Belloc, one of the wittiest, |
the pleasantest, the most learned and the |
least extensively learned, of men. He |
has written book, 1.-THE Path to Rome |
&c. p. Putnams Sons), describing just |
such a journey in the wild, foolish, joyous
Rabelaissian style he affects. He discusses |
with you the etymology of words and |
the advantages of inns and small towns.
and goes off into long (and fascinating) |
speculations about everything, and draws
you quaint pictures and enters into
medieval disputations between Auctor
ChimselD and Lector yourself. Ii is "A
well-printed. well-illustrated, well-worth-
reading book.
For a quick reaction from the crafty
pages of /. 7. T. Lincoln nothing could
be better than Hall Caine's Drama of
800 Days" NippincotD. Living today, we
are inclined to fancy the first year of the
war the most pregnant of all history. Mr.
Caine devotes himself to reiteratlon of
this fancy. He has lurid pen pictures Of
the "doddering'' Emperor of Austria and
of the ''snobbish" Crown Prince, and of
the last moment in Downing street when
war was automatically declared by the
nonarrival of a message from Wilhelm
strasse and he thinks a great deal about
liberty. The book tells nothing new, yet
1t refreshes memories of evil days and
there are bits of information which the
casual reader, who Is the best reader, is
not likely to find elsewhere All done in
the hectic style OF the author of The