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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23

There is a note OF WEAKNESS IN these
unpublished pages at times, for the
worlds burden was heavy upon her,
and she was i'll and in need of rest;
but her indomitable courage and humor
fash out at intervals.
There is no need TO attempt any more
elaborate study Of her character; she
has put heZelf into all Of her books,
and YOU cannot read them without
growing intimately aware Of her eager,
Joyous. resolute personality. NO lack
of time. strength or money" she said
in her younger years, shall prevent
me from doing anything that | want
to do; ard 1t never did. She ma!
well have been thinking OF herself
when she made Hubert Malincourt say
in "They Who Question" with
woman the difficulty always is to re-
strain her ardor and 20 make her re-
member her weakness" For her, as
for Selah Harrison. "to the end, life
was a stern warfare; when it was a
question Of fulfilling what she con-
ceived TO be her duty. she could not
restrain her ardor and would not re-
member her weakness, and so II came
that she gave herself unsparingly and
died for her country as surely as any
colder who has fallen in battle.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23

OLGA BARDEL.
OLGA BARDEI. BY stacy Aumouisr limo. %
3C7. The Century Company.
Mr.. Aumonier was introduced to the
American reading public year ago by
& short story OF his, "The Friends"
published in "The Century Magazine"
which at once attracted the notice il
deserved, and bespoke for this first
novel of his the attention which it, in
its turn, fully repays. Olga Bardel is a
genius-a pianiste like "Tante"-but,
unlike that capricious artist, her
genius does not lead her 10 arrogant,
regardless self-indulgence. II is baf-
fed, but not killed. by life, which,
through many appointments and dis
illusions, leads her TO serenity of soul.
The woman is the book-an excep-
tional woman less in her talent than
in the evolution of her womanhood. It
is into this that her temperament. i'm
peded. denied, turns; and there, too, its
full blooming is retarded. Only IN her
late maturity does il come into its own.
Wherefore the portrait which Braille
finally paints Of her, after many years
Of intermittent effort, becomes IA
nous as The Mother"
Olga Bardel is found in the slums.
She is exploited as a child phenomenon,
every artistic nerve in her little body
in revolt against the meretrcious
bravura her teacher insists upon 70
attract the multitude. She is rescued
from the harpies, her true career be-
gins and then she marries a composer,
a dllettante. snob whose family looks
down upon her. Children interrupt her
career; she drifts, meanwhile rediscov-
erinG her lost family, her brother, who
is thief and racetrack follower; her
sister, a kept woman first, then a
woman Of the streets Life is bludgeon-
ing her She submits, bewildered. miss
ing happiness, losing her nus band, who
runs after another love. And when.
free, she deliberately sets about taking
what she has missed it has been wait
ing for her patiently and faithfully il
eludes her by a mere accident. Where
upon she pays the loyeless price OF the
future Of her children.
The study of this woman is q con-
sistent piece of work. She Is not OF
those who take and conquer, but OF the
many who give and humbly expect in
vain. A plaything Of life, patient, gen
tie, she passes through its fulness with
out being permitted 20 have her share
OF its joys. And at the end, serene, the
author leaves her facing that climax OF
the century the departure Of her son
for the front. The book holds the
readers interest increasingly. 1t
broadens and widens and reaches
greater depths as Olga Bardel proceeds
through the vale to her lonely height.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
THE MORE EXCELLENT WAY.

TIE MORE EXCELLENT WAY. BerE tho De
isrmnarys Episodes n ne 'T 81 If By.sy
ismo. rp a. c = Putnsm's sons.
Nr Bradv's text in this new story Of
his il the divorce evil, but in the de-
velopment Of characters and plot INC
novelist largely utilities the arguments
~ the moralist. This is good sensa-
tional fiction; the case Of Chrlssey
Selden proves nothing beyond the fact
that only through trial and uncertainty
could she come to know her own heart.
The dilemma which confronts her - OF
her own conscious and unconscious
making. II is true-but one of ITS horns
is removed. not by her own decision,
hut bv fate, whose proxy the author
holds and exercises The woman VINO
discovers that she loves her husband
after she has decided 20 claim her free
dom. after she has actually obtained
her divorce, Is no newcomer IN hctloh'
hut the way in which she changes her
mind in this instance, or, az least,
learns 10 know the real state of ner
feelings. is decidedly Mr.. Brady's own.
Chrissev de Selden marries the man
she does not love after the man she
does love has insulted her. The story
frankly faces the element OF sex. linen
comes the recoil. followed by period
in which she gives herself no time 20
think. in which she whips herself along
on the road she has chosen-and finally
the awakening through tragedy.
There is duel in Italy, and In Der
muda there is an Anglican priest who
does not require confession but, vel
comes it; there is woman with the
Reno habit. and there is the struggle
over the possession Of the woman be
tween two men, which ranges all me
way from physical encounter 20 tght
in the stock market. 1t is good sensa-
tional fiction, indeed. but it IS not
logical argument against divorce.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
VIEWS AND REVIEWS
OF CURRENT FICTION
A New Realist; Marion Hamilton Carter-Emerson
uoughs Romance Of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
Sir Gilbert Parker's Greater Canada

Transformation she sees where she her
self has failed, her own aloofness in
love as well as in conduct.
There Is plot. Il grows out Of en-
vironment and character, its catas-
trophe out of the clash between her
own inhexible standards. unsoftened by
experience, and her mothers tolerant
knowledge OF local ways and conditions,
turned into intolerance when II is her
slack son who Is the victim. The
woman who abandons herself" she
says, deserves 10 be abandoned"
Throughout, the INTERPOLATION and
interaction Of character and environ
ment are traced and developed in incl
dental, cumulative touches. The author
has worked out her psychological anal
Uses IN her study before putting pen TO
paper But occasionally her heroine
rejecting in the hard won privacy of
her evenings upon the magnitude Of
her task. reaches generalization that
are startlingly clear:
This is the subtle virus of every
democracy proclsiming men free
and equal and laying II down that
there is but one class for all: the
ideal remains perpetually outside,
challenging. and the common herd
has nothing 20 meet it with but the
claim Of brute rights" that would
drag everything to its ow.. dead
level of mediocrity. To scorn SUI
periority and yet himself remain
scorn-exempt for his own short
eomings is the proletarisn's ideal"
of society and his panaces for its
existent ills from which he thinks
himself suffering" Acknowledge
his right" TO be taken everywhere
on his own terms and the Golden
Age is here.
The book is written with a sureness
Of touch. a command Of craftsmanship
that is rare in beginner.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
"How 10 Develop Your Personality"

This book, published By John D. Ken
derdine. of this city. has an introduc-
tion BY Sir Herbert Beerbohm-Tree and
a preface By Francis Trevelyan Miller
Its author, Claire Tree Major. is a
graduate of the London Academy OF
Dramatic Art. principal Of the school
OF dramatic art OF the Comstock Con-
servatory Of Music, and the head Of q
school OF allied arts established by the
Washington Square Players.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
Russian Literature.

The Macmillan Company issues q
notably tasteful eight-page circular OF
its TRANSACTIONS from the Russian and
its books on Russian subjects. The
circular is printed on yellow paper,
stamped front and back with the i'm
perisl eagle. The most important new
announcement il contains is a new and
cheaper edition of Constance Garnetts
translation Of the works OF Turgenev,
in fifteen volumes. Miss Garnett's Eng
lish version Of Dostoievsky, also pub
lished by the Macmillans, has placed
her in the front rank of the masters Of
that most difficult art, the correct
translation Of Russian into English Of
literary quality. The period Of bad
TRANSACTIONS of the Russian masters,
often at second hand, is happily past.
The hasty TRANSACTIONS of their success
sors, now being thrown upon the mar
ket, often leave much 70 be desired.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
Lloyd George.

Ask ten people who is the most in
teresting Englishman living to-day, and
eight OF them will answer, Lloyd
George Mr.. Asquith may have more
political stability, Sir Edward Grey
may have keener intellect, but there
is no other figure in British public life
so brilliant. so battling as that Of the
new War Secretary. Hitherto known
as a Radical, friend Of the working
man and the socialist, he has swung so
far toward conservatism during the
war that people are asking il he is 20
be 4 second Chamberlain. The riddle
Of his personality and his political po-
sition is discussed in an article entitled
Lloyd George, Conservative ~ by 5.
X Radcliffe, Secretary of the Sociology
cal Society OF London, in the October
Century"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
Hisnanic Society Publications.

G. P. Putnsm's Sons have been APP
pointed as publishing agents IN this
country and England Of the Hispanic
Society of America. The publications
thus far issued By the society comprise
about a hundred titles. The most i'm
portant OF them all is the authoritative
Spanish edition Of Don Quixote,' IN
seven volumes, three Of which have al
ready been issued.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
Still Another English Trilogy.

Alfred A. Knopf announces for the
fall Pointed Roofs" by Dorothy Rich
ardson, the first of three novels de-
voted 70 the progress Of an English
girl through the most interesting
period of her life The book will have
an introduction by J. D. Beresford, the
author Of the Jacob Stahl" trilogy.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
Theodore Watts-Dunton.

The Life and Letters of Theodore
Watts-Dunton," by Thomas Hake snC
Arthur Compton Rickett, IS among the
October announcements Of q. 2. Put
mans Sons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
In a French Garden.

Mildred Aldrich, the author OF the
successful "A Hilltop on the Marine"
has written a second volume Of her ex-
periences Of the war, Told IN a French
Garden. August, 1914" which Small,
Maynard & Co., of Boston, announce
for early issue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
PUBLISHERS NEWS
AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
J. Ranken Towse's Sixty Years
of the Theatre"

The name Of J. Ranken Tovse, for
more than forty years The New York
Evening Posts dramatic critic, will be
written large in the history OF the
American drama and the American
stage. He has been. he is to-day, far
more than a chronicler and critic OF
their development and tendencies; he
has been steadfastly and consistently
a formative influence toward higher
aims. standards and achievements, an
champion Of the. true
relationship between the art OF the
drama and life. One welcomes, there
fore. his book Of "reminiscences, Sixty
Years Of the Theatre" just issued by
the Funk e. Wagnalls Company, IN a
handsomely illustrated volume. Mr.:
Towse is among the fortunate few OF
US who never reach the age where one
ceases 70 move onward with the times,
where the enchantment which distance
lends TO the past obscures the vision
of the present. He is as alertly IN IN
tellectual touch with the moderns, the
even, as with the
classics. An "Old Critic" he calls him
self in his subtitle. Old he is in ex-
perience and fulness Of knowledge -
but young in his unhagging interest
and championship of true art.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23

"A Little Book OF Friends; DR.. Ber-
nard Glucck's Studies in Forensic
Psychiatry,' and the following books
for boys and girls: Fairy Operettas,
by Laura Z. Richards; "a Boys Book
OF Mechanical Models" BY william b.
Stout, and Mother Goose Children"
by Eta Austin Blaisdell and Mary
Frances Blaisdell.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
Efficiency in Our Schools.

The World Book Company, Of Yon-
kers, y. Y, begins the publication Of
an Educational Survey Series with
school Organization and Administra-
ton a study based on the Salt Lake
City school survey, by Ellwood P. Cub
berley, Phi. D., and others; and Some
Problems in City School Administra-
tion." by George D. Strayer. Pm. d.,
work based on the survey Of the school
system Of Butte, Mont.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
Popular Biography.

From Charles Scribner's Sons come
popular editions Of Archdeacon Stucks
"Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog
Sled" Admiral Dewey's "Autooiogra-
ply" Mrs. John A. Logan's "Reminls-
rences of a Soldiers Wife" and Mrs.
Burton Harrison's "Recollectlons Grave
and Cav" with its pictures Of the Old
South. Richmond in wartime, Paris in
the last DAYS OF the Third Empire, and
New York under the Tweed regime.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
OLGA BARDEL.

one Of the best Sir Gilbert has written
in several years.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
MARK Rutherford

Older novel readers will remember
with pleasure, the moment 10 Is re
called 20 their minds. the once de-
servedly popular Autobiography and
Deliverance Of Mark Rutherford" II
they care to refresh their memories of
his trials and tribulations. they may
do 20 in a new edition OF the book
brought out by Dodd, Mead & Co.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
Books of the Week.

Little. Brown Co. publish to-day
Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings," by
Annie Hamilton Donnell; Glover and
Blue Grass" By Eliza Calvert Hall;
"The Heritage OF the Sioux by b. VI.
Bower; The Worn Doorstep" By Mar
garet Sherwood; DR.. Charles A. East.
mans photographed volume From
the Deep Woods TO Civilization; Mar
garet Fullers biographical "A New
England Childhood" Edmund Clarence
Stedman); Harriet Prescott. SpoTords
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-09-23
PINCIS HOOD

PTNCUs HOOD. By Arthur Hodges. Illustrations
bv Freterc H. CrIger. l2ulo. ~. So Boston
Small. Maynard Co
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-05-30
TAKEN FROM EXCHANGES

A large number Of wood pulp fac
tcsies in the north of Sweden have
been forced to shut down on account
of the exorbitant freight rates prevail
ing.
ireland has s4.S6s land holders hav-
ing plots not exceeding an acre. 61.-
$50 who hold more than one acre and
not more than five acres; 1929 IN
der Is. and 136,05S not exceeding 30.
A transport workers battalion is
now being formed IN England from
dock workers enlisted IN certain units
OF the army for the purpose Of help
ing to relieve the congestion at the
docks. This battalion Is to be mobile,
and men detailed for work viii be
moved to places as occasion arises.
The favorite attire OF King George
OF England is shooting suit and soft
collar and shirt. He dislikes frock
coats.
With the idea OF resisting earth
quakes 8 hospital IN San Salvador has
been built OF pressed steel plates bolt
ed to o wrougrt iron frame.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-05-30
QUART Economies,

The most curious example of war
economy, as practiced in London, is
that two of the greatest London stores
have now dropped apostrophes in
their announcements and catalogues.
A large teashop firm issue advice for
economists by way of a notice on
their tea tables. One suggestion is
that if people who formerly took two
Jumps of sugar would now take only
one there would be a considerable
saving to the nation and assistance
in carrying on the war. Some of the
customers have acted on the advice.
but, fearful that they might embarrass
the firm by making their economy a
matter of profit to them, make a habit
of unblushingly pocketing the second
lump to be used at home. Empty tin
cess have now value, and one firm
has exchanged pound of their coffee
for one and half dozen coffee tins.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-05-30

Slowly he told her Of the verse his father had read
to both him and his brother when they had LETT
for the front She turned to the place and read it,
all the while bathing his flushed forehead. He
seemed relieved and talked much of his father
and brother Then he looked up at her and spoke
in a strange, strained voice as though something
almost too sacred for mention were being talked
Of Girl, you know cant-why, I'm married
just two days, and she'll never see me- Oh" he
groaned and shut his eyes.
She found, from the doctor, that no wounded
man could be removed from the hospital How
ever, she urged afectingly for the privilege OF
bearing the young soldier into her fathers home
that he consented, and sent two attendants to
carry him over.
On the spare bed he was placed and his bloody
clothing removed. Between the COOL clean sheets he
breathed easier and seemed by contrast to be in
veritabe comfort.
Once as Saome sat by the bedside of her first pa
tient she learned his name was Alexander Stew
art. Stewart, while she leaned across flaming
steadily, told in long, dragging breaths of his
brother. Henry and he had been inseparable all
their lives and had gone off together. Henry was
the finest man God had ever made, and he had
hoped they might be together when they came to
separate for the last time, but his head sank and
Salome said nothing. There was nothing for her
to say She ran out got pencil and paper and
wrote to Henry in Washington then to the timid
bride back at home, and to the father and mother
When she had finished Stewart asleep.
Salome returned to the hospital and labored on
The second day of Gettysburg was beginning to
send in it's terrible toll, and there was more and
more work to be done.
Her own home crowded, and her mother
still calm and wonderfully skillful, cooked and pre-
pared necessities and delicacies with magic ce
lerity.
She scarcely knew when the three days fight
was over, so intent she upon caring for her
patients, and steadily did they come in. AS
many as they could find room for were brought
into the Myers home. Fourteen were provided
for. For weeks the house was full, and neither
woman slept in bed.
On the sixth Of July young Stewart died. Sa-
lone was with him to the last, for he had been
her first patient, and she had held his head
tight against her when he had talked of his young
bride. But she had no time to weep. man in
the next room calling for water, and she
had merely time to close the dead mans eyes
and fold his hands across his chest But that
night she wrote long letters to the young widow
and to the brother in Washington. In a few
days the father came to claim the body, and he
thanked the girl as well as his grief would per
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-05-30
Winning Smile.

A miss of about four years, on her
way home by interurban a short time
ago, kept the passengers amused by
her cunning ways and mature CONVEX
sation Two man passengers sitting
near her engaged her in conversation
and one asked:
when you have money do you buy
candy?"
Sometimes" she replied.
IF I give you ten cents viii you
spent it for candy?"
Yes promptly. A dime was given
her.
The other man then said to her:
Now you talked that gentleman out
of ten cents" to which she demurely
returned:
Yes, but smiled at him 6rst."--
Indianapolis News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-05-30
Wind Imprisons Woman.

Imprisoned in a closet by the wind
slamming a door fast, Mrs. Mollie Cor
derry, who lives near Bridgeyille, Del,
had a narrow escape from death. and
when discovered was nearly overcome
by the shock.
Mrs. Cordery was cleaning the attic
and while she was looking in an old
closet a gust of wind slammed the
door and locked it from the outside.
There was no one but herself in the
house. and it was nearly an hour be-
fore Mrs. COrdery's screams happened
to be heard by a gang Of men who
were repairing the road. With all
the doors locked downstairs. Harry
Richards climbed to the second floor
and got through by a window. When
Mrs. Cordery was found she was in
a pitiable state. She is still serious
" i'll from the shock.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-05-30
Long Time In Transit.


On October 8, 1883, a clerk in the
employ OF New York steamship bro
ker mailed letter to the master of
the Swedish bark Superior at Mar
settles.
The letter was never delivered. But
IN the autumn of 1913 it was returned
to the steamship brokers' office,
stamped all over it's face. The best
explanation offered for its 30 years in
transit was that it had lain in the
Swedish consulate at Marseilles all
those years, and that during a house
cleaning was found and remailed.
In the post Office department Off
Gals tell of letter that was mailed
from there in 1852, addressed to Rob-
ert S. Mckay at New Orleans. The
letter followed Mr.. Mckay to Russia,
where he was consulate attach >. But
he had died there and had left in his
will provision that all his papers
should be locked up until his five-year-
old son and namesake attained his ma
jority.
When 1868 arrived the son was trav-
cling and exploring in Africa. A law
clerk, not knowing the provisions. of
the 1852 will, supposed the letter was
for the present Mr.. Mckay and start
ed it forth again. 1t rested in Cape
Town through errCr until the year
1871.
When it was started back to New
Orleans Mr.. Mckay had left for ex-
ploratiOn in Chile. Letter and adj
dressee finally got together in Louisi-
ana in 1874. And strange to say, mat
tiers of business Importance to the
father were still of business interest
to the son.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1916-05-30

A Pennsylvania inventors comoina-
ton billiard and pool table that can be
folded eompactly is featured by bed
made of heavy rubber instead OF slate.
Mai. Charles Young Of the United
States army, to whom the Spingarn
medal was recently awarded, is full
blooded negro.
Steam railroads III this country burn
is5. OOO. 600 tons Of coal a year.
President Ryan Of the Anaconda
Conner company estimates profits for
1918 at s16,000,000.
An American inventor has patent
ed a ufe-saving suit for aeronauts in
volving s. cushioned cap and back and
front pads for the body communicate
ing so that they can be blown up by
4 tube extending 20 the mouth Of the
aviator communicating pads being
provided on opposite sides Of the legs
and yielding, spring-supported shoes
being carried on the feet and the
center of gravity being well below the
waist. so that In falling the person
rtu fall feet foremost,