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of beauty and succeeding generations
of ignorance and indifference have COW
cred with coats Of plaster and paint.
His friend. the man of leisure, accom-
panies him. Thither. also. comes the
man from South Africa who belieyes
himself TO be the rightful heir TO the
castle. Where are the papers that Will
disprove his claim? They disappeared
according TO the family tradition, al
most at the moment they were signed
several generations ago. A victorian
plot. indeed, but a pleasant, smliing;
wholesome story. Il need not be added
that more than one gracious woman
not to mention a gossipy village dame
and an Irish priest attached TO the
castle chapel, play their parts IN the
DEVELOPMENT and solution OF events.
As 10 the painter, he is the philosopher
of the plot. Karma is his explanation
Of the appearance of the claimant from
afar after many years. He does not
insist: this is not theosophlcal mover.
lie merely gives touch of mystery. n
minor novel. good for desultory sum
mer reading. worth noting for the love
illness of its pictures Of the English
countryside.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-27
Introductory chapter, where one nigh

Introductory chapter, where one might
lnis is pity, considering that the
critical analyses are excellent-far
better than the biographical back
grounds TO which she gives so much
space. These are vivid enough, and
very carefully got up"-that is just
the trouble. Miss Lowell has many
qualifications for her task: enthusiasm,
Intelligence, wide reading knowledge of
French literature, and, what is more
rare, and due TO her own practised
gifts. very unusual knowledge Of the
technique of poetry. But she admit
tedly lacks that frst-hand immersion,
that personal saturation with French
life which one recognizes in Gosse.s
French Prohles" and Arthur Symonss
work on the Symbolistes. Gosse is an
objective critic, Symons creative or
appreciative one. but neither is in any
sense Snowman. II is curious to
note that Miss Lowell, in spite of her
sympathy, her iconoclasm, her imaglsm,
remains a somewhat superior and con
troversial Bostonian. with tendency
to lecture" her Bostonian audience.
II is when she forgets this audience,
its lack of understanding of the Latin
Temperament, its stolid conservatism,
and talks over its head of what most
absorbs herself the technical side OF
the poets work that we enjoy her
most. Then she is delightfully."- and
suggestivclv frst-hand. Such passages
as the following criticism of YER
haeren's poem, "Londres,' are treasure
trove:
Sec how long and slow the ca
&c ha baa
make the poem knock and hum like
the Westminster bells he mentions.
II almost seems as though Big
Ben must have been striking when
he wrote the poem. This inter-
mixture Of sound with pure paint
ing is one of Verhaeren's most re-
markable traits. In the next poem,
lie Moulin" we have another SOM
| bre landscape, but the whole move
ment is different; from the first
line we are conscious Of sound,
I but il is no longer the insistent
beating which underlies "Londres";
it is sort of sliding. a faint,
rushing noise. 1t is this
presence of sounds in his verse,
quite apart from the cOnnotation
of his words, which gives Yer
haeren's work its strange, magic
/ reality, and makes it practically
impossible to translate.
Verhaeren should probably be con
/ sidered quite apart from his present
tragic significance as the genius of his
oppressed country biggest figure
of the six. He has always, however
been less a great French poet than a
great Belgian poet, for many of hi.
characteristics grandeur OF
mind" his "fery activity" his nebu-
lops redundancy, his cosmic conscious
ness, are not Latin at all, but Flemish
or Teutonic. Yet the concrete, pic
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-27
THE HOUSE OF WAR.
TIE HOUSE or WAR By Mamsduke Pickths
l2mo. pp. 3O'. DurieId s Co.

TIE HOUSE or WAR. By Msrmaduke Pickthau
l2mo. pp. SOs. Dured S Co.
Mr.. Pickthall wrote this story of Asia
Minor under Turkish rule in the days
before the war, when new massacres
were not looked for. They are Gu
rous comment on his unmistakable
preference for the Muslims a prefer
ence, by the way, which has always
been shared by those who have come
10 know the rulers of the Near East
and their assorted subjects we'll The
Orthodox Christians of the region are a
sorry lot as Mr.. Pickthall describes
them, dishonest, treacherous. scheming:
and they hate "Cadulik" and "Brudes-
dant" - schismatics even more than
they hate the followers of Mohammed,
One of them Che has lived in America)
has an ingenious scheme for converting
Mohammedans and then securing them
against persecution by shipping them TO
this country for exploitation as cheap
labor. And a whole village of them is
banded together to rob an Englishwom-
an Of wealth who is filed with mission
airy zeal. In fact, Mr. Pickthall is as Bit
terly opposed to religious propaganda
as is the sensible British Consul. who is
on the best Of terms with the Turkish
Governor. a polished, patient gentle
man with a sinister reputation for
atrocities in the past. But the inexpe-
rienced Englishwomsn refuses 10 listen
to counsel and appeals. Wherefore she
gets into a snarl that threatens those
international complications with which
we have long been familiar. Mr. Pick
thall writes with the authority Of first
hand knowledge. His book is good fc-
ton, and it is packed with pictures of
life and manners and customs and
habits OF thought and action which give
il real informative value.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-27
CRITICISM
AND BOOK NEWS
Amy LOWELL Study of Modern Mood in French
Poetry Symbolism and Vers Libre-
Frank H. Simonds at Verdun.

NAL. austere. declamatory. On the
Fronchman the effect Of Racine and
Cornelle is quite other. He has the
alexandrine, as he says, in his blood
II runs through his literature as quiet
" and naturally "a the Seine flows
through his fertile. level fields. MISS
Lowell blames Americans for not read
ing and approaching her SIX poets:
this is scarcely fair, considering the
determined opposition that Ucrs hbre
met and still meets in France itself.
lt is even now the Rostands. not the
Nerhaerens or the Paul Forts, who are
cnjoyed there by everybody and rec
ognlzed by the Academy. Nevertheless,
it is the Nerhaerens and the Forts. we
quite agree with Miss Lowell. who
have made an important original CON
tribution TO modern French literature.
There is no question at alive have
heard Professor Lanson himself say as
much from the platform Of the Sor-
bonne-that the revolutionary move
ment which began some thirty years
ago. and which has been going on with
increasing vigor outside the Academy
ever since, has added deep springs Of
freshness, charm, spontaneity and va
riety TO the pure waters Of French
poetry.
With the originators OF the modern
movement, Verlaine, Msllarme, Rim
baud, Laforgue and the rest. Miss Low
ellis book does not deal; nor does she
devote a chapter, as we wish she had
70 its younger French representatives.
| Verhaeren. with whom she begins, is a
man Of sixty-one; Albert Samain, had
( he lived. would now be fifty-eight, and
Remy de Gourmont, who died last sum
mer. was born in the same year. Henri
de Regnier has passed fifty, and Fran
els Jammes and Paul Fort. the mod
ems" of the group, are both well over
| forty. In short, the critic has plunged
| into the new poetic tide at its height.
We commend her choice of subjects,
but as she was writing--we quote her
preface-"for the student, the poet
seeking new inspiration, the reader en-
deavoring to understand a new poetic
idiom," il became necessary for her
to make clear both what the revolu-
tionaries were revolving against and
what they were revolving for. An an
slysis of French classic metres. to-
gether with a short historical account
of the Romantics, the Parnassians. and
the Decadents, was essential TO al
understanding of GERS hbre and the
Symbolistes. Miss Lowell realized
this, but-perhaps for fear of boring
us--she has scattered her informing
facts broadcast through her volume, in
stead of stating them in a preface or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-27
ADAMS GARDEN.

ADAMS GARDEN. Novel. By Nina WILCOX r
Putnam. ColO,ed fronthpiece by H. Weston az
Tor. lemo. 70. 1928. Philadelphia: J. h LIP
pincoit CO.
Adam has reached the end of his
career OF dissipation. In less than
four years he has squandered the fort
une left him by his father. There stu
remains a further competence to be
turned over TO him on his twenty-fifth
birthday, but, under secret clause OF
the will, he has forfeited 1t. SO he bids
Broadway an hilarious all-night fare
we'll, and then starts with the dawn TO
seek his fortune. He buys hand
organ from a weary Italian, trudges up
town with il, but, growing tired or THIS
first attempt to earn livelihood, seeks
to sell IL TO a junkman, one OF the rev
remaining squatters in the region
beyond Columbia Heights. The junk
man makes him welcome. then, while
he is asleep, absconds with the organ,
making over his shanty and all 1t con-
tains TO Adam in a paper which he
leaves behind. This is the fantastic
beginning of whimsical, Arabian
Nights sort Of tale of modern New
York. How Adam becomes horticult-
urist, how his cousin. the aviatrlN, the
broken-down przehghter. the catnip
man, the Twenty eighth Street florists.
the policeman, Pearl, the woman OF the
streets; the gunmsn and many others
drift into his life, and how he uncon-
sciously fulfls the secret clause IN the
will, finds a wife and foils his false
relative, il all told with that convinc-
ing air of seriousness which makes
fanciful stories of this sort most tell
ing in the reading.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-27
| SPY.


SPY. By Natalie sumner Lincoln. illustrated By
Charles l.. Nrenn. limo. ~. $50. ID. Appleton
d Co.
Secret agents! Washington is full
of them in Miss Lincoln's story. Their
Vaccinations, their plots and plans
stretch from Mexico across the CONT
nent to Canada, and have their stations
in every seaport of ours whence NUM-
tions and war supplies are shipped TO
the Allies. There are wireless install
latons Of which our Secret Service
knows nothing, chauffeur of German
ancestry, French maid, leader Of
Washington society and her daughter,
an American lawyer, Senator, an in
vcntor- is the heart of the plot
ting-and the mysterious man without
foreign accent, but with a foreign
name Miss Lincoln has woven all the
exposures, all the prosecutions, all the
accusations, all the rumors of German
plots into her story and made IL as
timely as il is ingenious and engross-
ing. There is a prologue which links
London 10 the Belgian battlefelds. and
in which we have a glimpse of the head
of the Imperial Intelligence Service.
Here the author gives Us the first of
her false clews. She plays the game, In
that the chief plotter is IN the picture
from the very first, but her denoue-
ment is almost too much Of a surprise
20 the reader. On the way thither there
is something doing" on every page.
This is the best planned and developed
Of Miss Lincoln's mystery stories thus
far
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-27
THEY SHALL NOT PASS"
Frank n. Simonds's Interpreta'
tion of the Spirit of Verdun.

"Tbev shall not passl General
PataIn. the defender Of Verdun in the
early days Of the battle, Is credited
with the creation Of the phrase, when
sum, up the spirit Of the French troops
battling there. Frank II. Simonds has
seized upon these already historic
winged words as the title of his little
book on the gigantic struggle just IS
sued by Doubleday, Page e. Go. IL IS
based upon his articles printed IN Inc
Tribune Immediately upon his return
from the front. Indeed, some of these
papers were written at Verdun itself.
"The Gettysburg Of the European war,
/ Mr.. Simonds calls it, and he proceeds
to elaborate the parallel between the
two battles:
Our own Gettysburg was the
final bid for decision Of South
which had long been victorious on
the battlefield, which still pos
sessed the armies that seemed the
better organized and the generals
whose campaigns had been won
dsrfully successful. But it was the
bid for decision Of Confederacy
which was outnumbered in men, IN
resources, in the ultimate powers
of endurance, and was already be-
ginning to feel the growing pinch
both in numbers and credit.
IL is not too much to say that the
victory has been the most imme-
diately inspiring thing in French
national life since the disaster at
Sedan and that it has reused ma
tional confidence, hope, faith, as
nothing else since the present con-
4 hct began.
In this sense rather than in the
military sense Verdun was decis-
i've battle and its consequences OF
farresching character.
Verdun, Mr.. Simonds point, out, has
been battle with a psychological, not
q strategical, purpose. Jofre was
ready TO abandon the fortress because
II was of no military Importance TO his
plans or those of the Allies, but politi-
cal considerations decided him to make
the stand. A retreat might have
brought about the fall OF the BRAND
ministry. Some there be who even hold
that it would have resulted in panicky
appointment Of Committee of Public
Safety. And undoubtedly the seeming
defeat would have had a depressing
influence on the French people, even
as seeming victory, properly cele-
bratsd and inflated, would have had an
incalculable heartening effect in Ger
many.
But beside his analysis Of the STRAIT
egy and politics involved and his inter
probation Of the heroism of the battle
Mr.. Simonds gives us in his little vol
; ume an insight of the soul of France
of the iron determination, the single
ness of devotion carved on the faces OF
Ter soldiers as they marched out to
meet the Kaiser's legions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-27
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
OF CURRENT FICTION
A Modern Woman's Development-A Story OF oecre
Agents in Washington-Nr Williams Kematlng
Time"-Other Novels, American and English.
REMATING TINE.


REMArGNG TIME By Jesse Lynch Williams. H.
Illustrations BY Henry Raleigh Emo. ~. III.
Charles Scribner's Sons.
Mr.. Willisms's satircal skit. with
its basis of common sense, attracted
sufficient attention at the time of its
publication in "Scrlbner's Magazine"
TO make a mere brief mention of its
appearance in book form sufficient.
The modern layman's greatest legal
puzzle is probably the prohibition laid
upon divorce by the law when a cou-
pie have become honestly convinced
that they cannot be happy together.
The laws answer, we believe. is that
there are three parties to a marriage
contract-the man, the woman and
the state and that the interests of
the third party are paramount. How
ever that may be, Mr.. Williams pre-
sents not only one but two cases of
mismating, and as each husband loves
the others wife, and Uice versa. COM
mon sense, the greatest happiness Of
the greatest number, prescrbes a
double divorce and a double remating.
IL is an ideal case in every possible
way, for whereas the one mismated
couple has all the money and the
other all the poverty, the new ar
rangement will distribute the wealth
more equitably. Another popularity
of our marriage laws: In order to be
able TO sue their husbands for deser-
ton the two wives must desert them
and go to live in Nevada for while.
Then there are the children. They
follow their mothers-hence they live
with each others fathers, to their
endless bewlderment. Later on it be-
comes a case of "your children and my
children and their children and our
children" A modern instance, indeed,
treated with purposeful lightness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-27
THE WISER FOLLY.

THE WISER FOLLY r. Iesns Moore. i2mo.
%. 35i. G. p. Putnams sons.
Victorian with modern touches may
we'll be the verdict on this romance OF
a wiser folly which renounces TO find
a higher good. The scene is rural
England in all the beauty OF its sum
mer dress; an old castle on a hill dom
mates the village. Thther comes the
artist 10 restore the mural paintings
Of the cid church, which Puritan hatred
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-27
THE SPINSTER.

THE sPINSTER b Sarah y. Cleshorn- lzmo'
~ g2s Henry Holt 90.
This book commands respect; it even
demands admiration for the delicacy
of its psychological analysis, the I'M
wavering consistency of its synthetic
DEVELOPMENT Of girls mind and soul.
Mr.. Howells will rejoice, one thinks,
in the minutie Of its realism, in its in
sight, the objectivity Of its interpreta-
ton. The subtitle describes 1t accu-
rately as "a novel wherein nineteenth
century girl finds her place in the
twentieth" which is the century OF the
feeling of individual responsibility for
collective social wrongs, of the press
ure toward economic independence and
the impulse to serve. The girl spends
her childhood in New England, from
whose soil and settlers she derives the
basic traits Of her character. THE
Puritans are popularity supposed to
have frowned on beauty" remar ks the
author carly in her pages, but whoever
has seen long, one-streeted, elm
erched, grass-swarded New England
village, with lingo Jones's own houses,
and Christopher Wren's own church
and town hall, will be unable 10 &C
quit our forefathers Of deep feeling
for the beautiful" IL Is the modern
city that frowns upon all beauty OF life
and living In its slums, as the girl feels
when first she visits it. Radcliffe, q
love affair that comes TO naught, at
tempts at literature, and finally the
cause of the masses-these are the out
ward signposts and results Of inner de-
velopment. The story quietly passes
in review two decades of vague unrest,
questioning and search on the way to
self-realization. IL is a serious study
for serious readers. May it find them!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-27
THE
RYWoNNE Err
A RAFFLING MYSTERY
THE TRAGEDY
OF AN
INpISCRETION

Cloth, net, ,i.7S
The mystery of sudden death
nurder and suicide. and one
woman the victim of them all
Was ever such a poser placed De-
fore Scotland Yard
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-27

Awake! by
William Freeman.
Possibly you have
wearied somewhat
of mere theori1ng
over preparedness.
W ell, here is the
book of facts done
in statement and in
chart in such trip-ham-
mer fashion as to jolt the
most phleematic. lN.' n'.,
"The Man Who Dined
with the Kaiser" has
written breezily of his
experiences in My Sc
cret Service. (N.,MsN For
that boy of yours buy
Warren Miller's Boys
Book of Hunting and
Fishing-written by an
expert man with the
heart and enthusiasm of a
boy. (Ns,a10 If you have
not read Frances Wilson
Huard's My Home in the
Field of Honour you have a
rare treat ahead-it stands
out from other books as a
diamond from other gems.
(NaA3s) Sam Blythe is at his
very best in A Western Wdrvick
"a presidential year book ex-
planning how it happens some
times. (Ns,siss) The Dark Forest
by Hugh Welpole-his novel Of
Russia--exhibits definite prog
rsss Of this unusually gifted
author. (Ns.$i.I)
AZ All Boekss{lsvs
1lwM@1
ASds.. GEORGE n. DORM COMPANY. Ne. Y-s
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-27

REMATING TINE. By Jesse Lynch Williams. II
Illustrations hy Henry Raleigh. l2mo ~. Ill
Charles Scribuer's Sons.
TaÌˆgliches Cincinnatier volksblatt. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1885-1919, 1916-03-14
Jnbpiitrt
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opm 0ortb Cincinnati Suiinef
Glnb.

Der g2ortb Cincinnati gurineB
Club bat in feiner seitrigen @erfamme
lung, bic in Der 0orb Cincinnati
5urnhaGe itattfanb, BAG prOiettirts
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9tefss gsfdab, na6bem 5err
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S6nelpertebrstOmmiifion, ben Wlits
gliebern ben gIan Der Ringbdbn eins
ge1enb burgeIegt uno Der tiift
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DlGne burh Qi9tbiloer illuitrirt bats
te. Serr S4Ott ermqbnte ndtiirli6
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ftimmen, bic i'm Srtersife biefer
S6neQOertebrsdnldee ben Stirtmees
bern selesentli6 Der Wcbl am 25.
4pril 5ur @utbeibung unterbreitet
fperben rpirb, unb Ieins MOrte fdnben
begeiiterten Wieberball.
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M6rber sum z ODE perur.
tteiIf.
Giinf srDse beatIHellmter.
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Sollen mad ben 9arba :
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.Oiss.' fiist Der aOrreTpOnbsnt bins
su, .ifrint Der Grunb su fein, mars
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DarbanIsn enifsrnt iporben iino.
General psrfbins in 60
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men.
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tisr tons.ntrirtsn sruppsn iibsrnsbs
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iu,irSe boIo aifeefiinoen. Wsan boifi
ba . SGiff ipisber beben uHb ausbei'
icrn All f6nnen. Die 2aoitHg, tuelfe
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fiibrt ipuroe. III gum Gooe i'm elet.
triiden Stlbl Derurtheilt luoroen.
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Ser Assal' Rptisen.

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fi9 Don fcugsm ihnerem Gie6fbum
10 nett. er5Dlt, bab er gsitern imFtane
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fir bic ,Sahlwidtn 51eunbe unb @ers
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9pbe parf, I'm 4lter bon 62 Ssabren
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frdntelte felt Jabren lntb su ieinen
i0rperli9en 2eiben trut geiitigs ume
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ten ua4 9pnsoiep eexn9t tperosn
anuBte. DDrt bate er Oersnngene mos
he einen S6iaganfdG unt fpurbe am
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gefiibrt. OR mar ipdbrenb Der gunssn
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ridt aepefen urb fpdter btfleibete er
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