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of this man makes great story.
Worked out in its full detail and in its
many ramif1cations, it makes also an
important and significant chapter on
certain phases of our economic and po-
litica1 history.
WITH THE FRENCH In France and
SaIOnikf. BY Richard Harding
Davis. author of with the Allies"
etc. Illustrated. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons
This is the story of Richard Hard
ing Davis second trip to the front with
the allies. 1t was written originally in
the form Of letters from France and
Greece, Serbia and England. 1t covers
events in these regions from October,
1915. to February. 1916. Here are ex-
periences in Verdun. Amiens. Arras,
British front in the Balkans. Mr..
Davis came out of this tour of study
and observation with more than pic
lures of ruined places and waging bat
ties. Beside these he brings certain
instance, that success
would come more swiftly were all tho
fighting concentrated in Europe. The
scattering of the allies. according to
his mind, weakens the main attack and
delays the final victory. England is
at present. supporting armies ali over
the world-in Egypt, Mesopotamia.
East Africa. Saloniki-armies that
should be at the front in Europe. What
ever dissenting opinions he may hold
on other matters. he is unalterably of
one mind with the rest of the world
as to the glorious bearing of France in
this world crisis. Scenes and Incl
dents. wherein the human element out
weighs all else. follow one another here
in swift succession. each set out in the
,1o 4 - I, h &c,
writer has for many years had so COM
pletely at his command. Mr.. Davis
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On Hamlet.

~HE late Richard Harding Davis
was once talking about the decay
Of American letters.
I'VE have no great writer's any more"
he said, because great writing is
frowned down on by publishers and
critics alike.
1.-The publisher and the critic, when
confronted with a piece of great writ
ing, act exactly like the tin-can editor
when he came to criticise a perform
ance of Hamlet.
LIN this piece. the editor began,
there is too much Ginning. The au-
thor is behind the times. and forgets
that what the people want nowadays
is thrilling situations. brilliant de-
tective work and pretty girls In the
hands of an up-to-date playwright a
sleuth would have been put on the trail
Of Hams uncle. and the old man would
have been hunted down In a way to lift
the gallery gods right out of their
boots. The moral of the piece is not
good. The scene where Hamlet sasses
to the rising generation. Our advice
lot more sentiment and a spice of va
riety business in his next piece In the
play scene there was chance for bare
foot and art dances that was entirely
overlooked. Try again, Bill!"
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MHILADELPHIA is peculiarly rich
W in treasures of art The John G

is peculiarly rich
W in treasures of art. The John G.
johnson collection is one of the
collection is likewise of exceptional
Importance: These are both well
known, but quite recently a third bril-
liant private collection has come to
attention. This is the splendid collec-
ton of English pictures owned by
John H. McFadden and lately lent
by him to the Pennsylvania Academy
of the Fine Arts.
Mr.. McFadden, it seems. has been
collecting for more than thirty years,
during which time he has secured and
the highest order which have not be-
fore been publicly exhibited in this
country. He is the only American col
lector who confines his collecting to
English pictures of the eighteenth cen
fury school.
The McFadden collection is hung in
the main gallery at the academy, and
presents in the aggregate a display
which could not be equaled outside of
England. nor in England for that mat
ter, with ease.
GalnSDOrOuSn Is Represented ny MS
portrait of Lady Rodney and land
scape, both very typical. The portrait,
indeed, is Gainsborough at his best
distinguished, elegant yet withal win
ming, not too stately nor too lovely,
but full of feminine charm-a fluent
piece of painting. The landscape also
is fully representative-an admirable
compositions real English landscape
-delightful in color and decorative in
effect indicating the artists feeling
of beauty in nature.
There are two works by Constable In
the collection.one a broad view over
open country to the sea. which is pecu-
liarly charming. spacious in suggestion,
breezy and colorful; such a landscape
a is seldom painted even in this day of
excellent landscape painting.
Raeburn, who was one of the great
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dedicates this volume of war expert
once to "the memory Of Justus Miles
Formap," and we find ourselves reading
this record, too. in a full memory OF
the author of Gallagher" and THE Bar
Sinister" and many another beloved
story.
BODY AND sPIRITs An Inquiry into
the subconseiOus. By John D:
Quackenbos, A. NJ. NJ. D., author of
"Hypnotism in Mental and Moral
Culture" etc. New York: Harper
& Bros
This book is a record Of experience.
Twelve thousand experiments with the
subconscious mind acting in ameliora-
tive ways upon the conscious existence
stand as the foundation of this work
and shape its purpose. This purpose
is to emphasize the Importance Of this
agency in the treatment Of mental and
moral maladies. It's further object is
to interpret the function of the sugges-
ZIONIST in the field of psychotherapy.
where already much is being done in
the control of disease. in the training
of the will and in the transformation
Of character. AS basis for this study
the writer discusses the subliminal self
to the conscious life through the
agency of suggestion. While the study
is bent directly upon the curative pow
ers of the subconscious mind brought
into direct and active relation with
whatever arrangement Of mind or body
may exist. it contains very much of in
formation and suggestion for the man
or woman of sound mind and body,
demonstrating that health and long
life are the gift of the subIiminal: that
through its energfzing influence the
higher sensibilities of morality and
spirituality are also nurtured and de-
veloped. Those who have already
opened up their minds to the POSSIBLE
tiles Of a new world of mental phe-
nomena will find this book to be in the
nature of a stepping stone in their
search for further information and
broader suggestion.
sHAkEsPEARE's THEATER. BY Ash
ley H. Thorndike, Phi. D., L. H D..
professor of English in Columbia
University. Illustrated. New York:
The Macmillan Company.
The old. sifted for its essentials, and
the new, gathered from late discoveries
and revised interpretations, come to-
gether here in a finely organized sur
vey of the theater as it looked. and
acted. and reacted in the time of Shake
stage was in a state Of transition, some
thing in between the medieval and the
modern conception of the drama. The
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writer places Shakespeare's theater In
this changing front, describing the
London of that time, noting the erec-
ton of the first playhouse. picturing
relations existing between tho house.
the stage. the play. the actors and the
audience itself. He describes the court
theater of Elisabeth. with the court
theaters also of James I and Charles I.
giving the leading companies in each
essential body Of information to stu
dents Of the modern stage, as It is also
in itself, an interesting and inform
ing summary of the drama in the Pc
Rod with which it has to do.
THE CENTENNIAL HISTORY OF THE
AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY. BY
Henry Otis Dwight. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
Mr.. Dwight here reviews the work
of the American Bible Society for the
century lying between 1916 and 1916.
The chronicle opens with the origin of
the society in New York city just a
hundred years ago. Using the under
lying purpose Of the organization as
the standard by which to measure its
century Of effort, the writer traces its
growth, stage by stage. up to its pres
emit maturity of far-reaching influence
and recognized efficiency in many lines
Of religious and social service. BY vir-
tue of the sharply defined character of
these various stages of development.
the study separates logically into sep
arate divisions of consideration. Each
Of these sets out in full detail the spe
cial features that mark the progress
of the institution at the period under
review. Exclusively concerned as the
study is with the history of the Ameri-
can Bible Socirety. it. nevertheless. in
tracing the ramifications of this sub
ject. throws many a sidelight on gen
eral matters of Importance that belong
to the century under consideration.
Names of the men prominent in this
enterprise appear here. each illuminat-
ed by the nature and extent Of the
service contributed by him to this
cause. A frontispiece gives the picture
of the first president of the society,
Elias Boudinot. as later there is given.
also. that of James Wood. it's presi-
dent in 1916. together with a view of
the Bible House. in Astor place, New
York city. Mr.. Dwight's treatment of
this subject, together with the gener-
ally historic flavor of the theme itself.
is calculated to make the book one of
interest to the general reader as well
as one of distinct value to the special
student.
THE CONQUEST OF VIRGINIA.: The
Forest PrimevaI. An Account Based
ON Original Documents of the Indi-
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masters Of portrature. is represented
by no less than seven examples which
go far toward demonstrating his Won
derful skill both as an Interpreter OF
personality and as painter There is
something in Raeburn's works which
is to be found in the work of no other
artist. To be sure. the people he paint
ed were for the most part Scotch, but it
in his sitters which found its way into
his canvases and gives them distinc-
ton.
Hoppner is represented by a single
example, portrait of his wife. who
was the daughter Of Phoebe Wright. a
Philadelphia whose sculpture in wax
is recorded by dorado Taft as the first
work in the round produced in this
country. The portrait shows Mrs. Hopp-
ner in a broad shade hat tied with rib
bons under her chin.
Reynolds is represented by two por-
traits--a delightful child portrait,
Master Bunbury" the son of the
caricaturist, and Edmund Burke.
There are six Romneys. among which
is brilliantly clever sketch Of Lady
Hamilton. as well as a most interesting
likeness of John Wesley.
An excellent portrait, II tradition is
to be trusted, is shown of Sir Walter
Scott. by Watson Gordon. and of special
note as particularly typical of the
eighteenth century school of painting
is a picture by Harlow Of Mrs. We'd
dell and children"
Hogarth is represented by two inter-
esting figure compositions, Converse
ton pieces" they have been called
typical English interiors showing small
groups of well-to-do people amiably
engaged in social matters. There is no
moral, no satire, and the strength of
the artist as such and no more is
plainly manifested. Both are famous
paintings with well known pedigrees
and they give a remarkably vivid pic
ture, not only of the life of HoRart &
time. but Of the interior of "Wanstead
House." then one of the finest mansions
in England
Other masters Of this school are
equally well represented. There are
works by Crome and Morland; by David
Cox and Wilson, and, finally, by Turner
The last Is represented by a picture Of
the Burning of the House of ParIia-
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would take away or spoil all those
good things that God had given"
Hence the Indians worship of the devil.
Another INQUIRY by another old writer
Of the dead" They believed that they
go to Ma hom-ny. that lives beyond the
SUM- who sends them Ito plentiful
country. But II they have been naughty.
then He sends them to poor, barren
country''-which gives a fair idea of
purgatory from a tribal point of view.
Many reproductions from old prints and
maps. depicting the customs and man.
ners Of the Virginia Indians, include
a frontispiece. distant View Of the
Pamunkey Reservation
SUSAN CLEGG AND HER LOVE AZ
FAIRS. BY Anne Warner. author of
1.-THE Rejuvenation Of Aunt Mary
etc. With frontispiece by H. NJ.
Brett. Boston: Little, Brown &
Co.
In this account Of the life adventures
of dear. gabby Susan. Jathrop Lathrop
returns, after long and mysterious
absence, heralded by dream which Miss
CIegg relates with fertility of mag
nation that would have made Schehere-
zade gasp. Jathrop. the supposedly
no-account son of his placid, rocker
bound mother, has made a fortune in
the klondike and comes back in style
with servant boy named Hop Loo.
whom Susan mistakes for his heather
Chinese bride. Grandma Mullins and
other lovably humorous neighbors who
mingled in former chronicles of Susan
Clegg's affairs are on hand to be gall
vaniZed into fresh shocks of excite
ment which she unreservedly generates
from incidents which most people would
pass by as tame. Jathrop also supplies
daily spasms of admiration by reason
of princely generosity that extends
to all the old friends of his mother
and even reaches up to the putting of
steeple on the church. Mrs. Lathrop.
with solitaire earrings and an apothe-
osised rocker of old gold plush, can
sway back and forth to her souls con-
tent on the fine porch of her rebuilt
house. and it is pleasant in saying a
last goodbye to Susan to leave her
in the attainment of what she herself
would call her choicest ambition in life.
For she is no longer Clegg. Mr.. Ket-
tlewell. A little old millionaire comes
visiting to Jathrop's mother, and Susan
makes the cranberry sauce for dinner.
He tells her a week later that his
mouth hadn't stopped watering yet"
and though he is bald and wears APP
pliqued teeth and carries bullet in
his leg. Susan wouldn't have him
changed the least mite" And so she
is married-at last. Also. they are
happy-and those who know tell us
that happiness is the most beautiful
thing in life.
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But this. coupled with Mr.. Burgess
artistry in the use of English, consti-
tutes the unmistakabie attraction of
this book of essays.
FlLIBUSTERS AND FINANCIERS. The
Story of william Walker and his
Associates. BY William o. Scroggs,
professor of sociology and econ
omics in the Louisiana State Uni
versity. New York: The Macmil
Ian Company.
During the ten years leading up to
the civil war the political phenomenon
of filibustering reached it's height.
From this point it suddenly declined.
The flibuster of that time was an adj
venturer who fitted out and conducted
an armed expedition from the United
States against other nations with which
this country was at peace. Usually the
filibuster was a pirate. Sometimes he
was a patriot of misguided views and
overzealous energy The author of this
story calls William Walker 1.-The great
est of American filibusters." That this
is fair estimate no one can doubt after
reading the remarkable enterprises of
this daring adventurer. Walker is rep
resented as an embodiment of some of
the important forces of the time in
which he was so actively engaged.
Som etimeS alone, or at best with but
a handful of followers: sometimes I'M
der the backing and secret support of
American capitalists, Walker pursued
his designs against Central America
and Cuba. There were other influences
falling into Walkers schemes, notably
that Of certain leaders in Central
America who were scheming to secure
a European protectorate as check to
possible ambitions of the United States
in their own direction. At the center
Of this turmoil of scheme and enter
prise is the picturesque and amazing
figure of William Walker. The career
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First Cup and Saucer.

THE cup and saucer is a modern In
vention unknown in the days OF
the sixteenth century. Bowls of vari-
Gus sizes graced the banquet boards
of King Hal and Queen Bess, but cups
came in only with the introduction Of
such drinks as tea and coffee.
The beverages of the sixteenth GEN.
fury were water. mead. sack and ale.
In the middle of the next century came
tea, and with it the Chinese or china"
teacup. Strangely enough. the men
who imported it from the orient did not
themselves understand the method OF
its use, or possibly the conservative
Britisher preferred to invent a style
of his own.
The Chinese put a pinch of tea into
d cup, filled with boiling water and
then inverted saucer over the re-
ceptacle within whose rim IL closely
fitted. The object was partly to re-
tain the heat, but chiefly to prevent
the escape of the fragrance of the herb
which Chinese olfactories found most
delicious. The infusion was permitted
to stand for five minutes. when it was
decanted into a second cup without
saucer and daintily slipped therefrom.
John Bull. however, emphatically de-
ciined to take his tea in Chinese fash
ion. He liked the appearance of the
ornamental ware upon his table, but
he insisted on placing the cup in the
saucer. like miniature flower pot, and
used it exclusively to drink from. pre-
pairing the beverage in n common in
stead of an individual receptacle.
In course of time England began the
manufacture of cups and saucers, and
pictures which have been preserved
from the days of the Stuarts show
big, f1aring cups. four inches across the
top, with saucers less than three in
ches in diameter. BY degrees one
dwindled and the other expanded. until
in the middle of the nineteenth century
the opposite extreme was reached, and
fashionable tea services had cups only
an inch and a half in diameter, accom-
panied by five-inch saucers.
The handle of the teacup came from
Mediterranean lands. Originally it was
made of thick and strong earthenware
and applied to heavy jars and lamps.
Its decorative possibilities popularized
it with Greek and Roman potters, who
extended its use to small amphors
and fla gons: but, as the word amphcr'
indicates. the handle double, like
that of the boullion-cup today. Single
and were probably applied to drink
ing cups about the time that coffee
came into vogue in southern Europe.
the beverage being taken almost at the
boiling point. so that some device for
lifting the cup without buring the An
gers was found desra bile.
Travelling slowly northward. the one-
handled coffee cup finally reached Great
Britain. where its merits were immedi-
ately recognized. 1t was not long be
fore handles were applied to drinking
utensils of every description.
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der the air as harmful as was once
supposed
A direct contradiction has been made
IN regard to the draft theory. which
was that people who remained in q
draft paid the penalty with pneumonia.
or. at least. cold. This was applied
IN overheated rooms. but observations
justify the belief that in such disease 5
as colds. bronchitis. pneumonia, etc.
play.
Dry air is commonly believed to he
injurious to mucous membranes and to
give rise TO "glandular enlargements'
and to nervousness. So far this is
backed by proof, though it is plau-
sihJe enough to merit serious consider
alton.
The problems in ventilation that are
purely mechanical have supporters VINO
advocate ventilation by means of spe-
clal DETECTING windows, open windows
or cloth screens, while others claim
that an elaborate system of ducts and
fans are essential to the best venti-
lation. In this connection arises the
question as to a method which is salts
factory and at tn. same time econom-
ical enough FOR practical purposes. sup
plying air from inlets that are local
and provided with heat coils, by fans
or gravity.
All these questions will depend some
what upon the conclusions drawn in
regard to recirculation of air Air
systematically recirculated is first
washed by means of spraying and then
used over again. Such air can be used
repeatedly provided it is washed fire.
Quently This method Of treating air
promises well.
The commission on ventilation, in or
der to do the most effectual and eff
Gent work, fitted up two rooms for
their experiments. In one Of these
rooms is the apparatus which controls
the ventilation in the second or OBJ
servation room. The apparatus room
Is slightly larger than the observation
ROOM. though neither is a large room,
the length Of each being fourteen feet
The apparatus room might suggest to
the mind OF an ancient torture cham
Der. so manifold and intricate is its
equipment of blowers, heaters, air
washers. humidffers. nozzles. coils,
eliminator plates, etc. After being sub
jected to various treatments from sew
eral of these machines, the air is pass
ed into the observation room through
four openings at different levels.
Two inches of cork insulate the OBJ
servation room. the cork being over
laid with plaster and painted. This
room il equipped with coils for cool
ing the air. a radiator for heating.
electric fans and an evaporating pan
which supplies moisture. Registers are
provided by which old air leaves the
by way of the roof. or is passed over a
suction. fan and sent back into the
room. The entire apparatus is fully
provided with delicate instruments.
which record accurately all essential
data.
As q rule four subjects are kept In
the observation room anywhere from
three and half to eight hours Z day.
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ans in That Portion Of the Continent
in Which Was Established the First
EnGlish Colony In America. By Con-
way Whittle Sans. B. L., author of
Sans on Attachment" etc. With
illustrations. New York: Put
mans Sons.
This work has for it's foundation the
chronicles of men familiar with condi-
lions at the time Of virginia's conquest
by England. While no review could
grasp it's historic value or narrative
skill. a mere winnowing of its 400
pages gives colorful glimpses of the
Indian life Of virginia's wilderness be-
fore the advent of white men and pro-
vides dramatically astonishing revela-
lions alike for the student and for his
less erudite brother. the casual reader,
Rins-and ends-with Pocahontas and
John Smith. To quote the records of
ancient observers. when a baby comes
into the world: The first thing they
do is to dip the child over head and
ears In cold water and then to bind it
naked to a convenient board; but they
always put cotton, wool, fur or some
other soft thing for the body to rest
easy on. In this posture they keep 1t
several months. till the bones begin to
harden, the joints to knit and the limbs
to grow strong Which accounts for
the stately erectness of the Fennimore
Cooper brave. in contrast to his slouchy
descendant born in the civilization of
todays far west. The Indian damsels
are extremely given to laugh, which
they do with a grace not to be resisted.
The excess of life and fire which they
never fail to have. makes them frolic-
some, but without any real imputation
to their innocence. However, this is
ground enough for the English. who are
not very nice in distinguishing betwixt
guile and harmless freedom to think
them incontinent." Another banner
score for civilization! A chapter on
funeral rites. which includes the en-
balming of kings, gives startling in
sight into the obsequies of the first
American. and is followed by an equal
ly interesting description of burial
mounds'-before they aged into anti
quarian finds. In a study of the re-
ligion of the forest primeval, which the
author. in common with all writer's, de-
clares to have been idolatrous, one old
time interviewer coaxed an Indian into
the admission that they believed God
was universally beneficent and that His
dwelling was in the heavens above
but that since the Giver of Good Things
showered them down promiscuously
upon all men without distinction and
did not trouble Himself with the i'm
pertinent affairs of men," it was nee
essary to pacfy the evil spirit or "he