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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11

Irving Crump (Dodd, Mead & CO.., is a
book for boys, explaining in interesting
fashion the duties, responsibilities and
authority Of policemen; filed with in
formation Of value to men as well as
boys.
"The Mission of Janice Day" is the
fourth of the "Do Something" books
by Helen Beecher Long, published by
Sully & Kleinteich, with the scene cast
on the Mexican frontier, and with
plenty Of action, adventure, humor and
romance.
Gold Must Be Tried by Fire" Mac
millans) is by Richard Aumerle Maher,
whose shepherd Of the North" is
pleasantly remembered. IL is a tale Of
much human interest, filled with strife
and trouble. but ending happily.
Turf for Golf Courses" (Macmil-
las) is popular scientific treatise By
Charles V. Piper, agrostologist, and
Russell A. Oakley, agropomist, OF tho
United States Department Of Agri-
culture,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11

resented offensive familiarities; but he
made himself the playmate of children
and they loved him; he was sparkling
story teller, he sang and danced and he
was thoroughly kindly man.
II is as. a lover and student OF nature
that MrN,Gleason presents Thoreau,
both in his own Introductory "apprecia-
ton" and in the exceptionally well
chosen selections from Thoreau's writ
ings. which make up most OF the
volume. But the best of the work is IN
the illustrations from Mr.. Gleason's
own photographs, with which the book
teens. OF these, or of the original
photographs, of which these engrav-
ings are exquisite reproductions, three
things are chiefly to be said. One Is
that they are particularly good photo
graphs, simply as photographs from
technical point of view; which is say
ing much, seeing that some OF them
presented unusual difficulties in taking.
The second is that they have the rare
and charming value of showing the
identical spots mentioned by Thoreau
in his writings, and also of showing
some of the ephemeral phenomena OF
the seasons from the identical points
of view from which he observed them.
The third is that, while Mr.. Gleason
modestly says that they were taken
with the sole purpose of correspond
ing with Thoreau's descriptions and
that artistic considerations were wholly
secondary, they practically all have
high artistic value. They could scarcely
have been more artistic in composition
had that, and not the other, been the
chief aim. The purport of that char
acterization is obvious. 1t is the high
est possible tribute to Thoreau's artis-
tic sense in his views of nature, and
also to the appreciative spirit and skill
of his pictorial interpreter.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11
Some War Books
For Both Combatants and Non
combatants

The Century Company has just issued
two manuals of inestimable value to
boys. One, "The Junior Plattsburg
Manual" By Captain +. B. Carey and
Captain o. o. Ellis, is for boys what
the same accomplished and authorta-
tive authors "Plattsburg Manual" Is
for men. Higher commentator could
not be given. The other. "The Boys
Camp Manual" is by Charles X. Taylor,
director of the boys camp near Platts-
burg, and has q cordially approving pre-
face by General Leonard Wood; facts
which abundantly indicate its worth.
Moffat, Yard & Co. publish Brit
aims Civilian Volunteers" by Thekla
Bowser; a most informing and inspir-
ing account of Red Cross and voluntary
aid detachments work in Great Britain
and Ireland and on the Continent. II
might be read with interest and profit
by every member of the American Red
Cross and National Special Aid Society
The George II. Doran Company pub
fishes in +. A. McKenzie's little "Amer-
leans at the Front" the best possible re-
ply to the German snarl, 1--WE hate the
Americans and everything that comes
from America"
The Houghton Mifiin Company prints
a tiny volume on "The Retreat from
Mons" which is anonymous, though by
an officer Of the British General staff
and with an introduction by Lord
French.
L. z. Dutton E. Co. add to their at.
tractive "Wayfarer's Librarys W. Fitz-
water Wray's across France in War
Time" most picturesque and vivid &C
count of an adventurous bicycle trip in
September, 1914, from st. Malo to Vitry
lie Francois. and thence to Senlis, to
Clermont. TO Paris, to Rouen and to
Havre.
A. c. McClurg & Co. publish little
volume of letters, "A Soldier of France
to His Mother" with an introduction by
Theodore Stanton, the veteran Ameri-
can journalist. The letters were writ
ten by young artist, who has not been
heard from since the battles in the
Ardennes, and they are filled with fine
fancy and flial affection.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11

witness, with a happy faculty for &C
curate and graphic record, must always
rank as an invaluable Original source
of information.
As a descriptive narrative Of the
great events of last spring at Petrograd
it grips the interest and stimulates the
imagination as not many current books
can do. But it goes beyond that. Mr..
Marcosson is not a merely superficial,
but a penetrating and philosophical,
observer and chronicler, and in this
book he has got far beneath the skin.
into the very heart of things, both Of
the causes which led TO the revolution
and Of the gigantic problems which now
confront degenerate Russia and which
must be solved before regeneration
natures into strong, confident national
manhood. 1t is volume which nobody
can afford to leave unread who wishes
TO understand what has happened, is
happening and is about to happen in
what was once, but is nevermore again
to be, the Land of the Great White
Car
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11
"Kultur in Domesticity
An Intimate View of German
Minds and Manners

SALT OF THE EARTH; BY I Mrs; A wati
SidRwick. l2mo, pp. slS. W. . "@''
& Co.
It is as q study of "Kultur" IN
personal department and domestic re-
lations, and as an exposition OF the
German mind, that this book is chiefly
to be priced As a story, in ineiden,
and action, it is interesting and wen
worth reading; as indeed have been
all the writings of its gifted autnor'
But in the special respect which we
have denoted il rises above the plane
of mere interest to that Of command
ING authority. The writer is an un-
challengeable mistress Of her theme.
She knows Germany and the Germans
by inheritance as well as by observa..
ton. as she showed us in some OF
her earlier writings; and she has CIV
en- US here an exposition and an IN,
terpretation of the German mind
such as we should have to go far
afield to find Appropriated, the ac-
curacy of which is self-conyincing:
eve are the most cultured nation
in the world" one Of them said one
day, and exploded in childish wrath
because Brenda laughed. why
should you laugh? What ! say is
true"
at may be-" conceded Brenda.
"But if it was, don't believe you'd
say So"
And he never saw the point; sense
of humor not being constituent Oh
"Kultur." Again:
Brenda was watching a pear that
Major Prassler was peeling for her:
She would much rather have peeled
it herself, but that his sense Of
chivalry would not allow, he said.
Every now and then he touched the
pear, and his hands, though not
exactly dirty, were not exactly clean.
The scope of the story is ample and
admirably designed for opportunity
for the portrayal Of character and
conduct. The heroine is a girl Of
German origin who has spent the best
part of her life in England and is Eng
lish at heart. But she marries, shortly
before the war, a cousin who is Ger
man officer and who has come to Eng
land as a spy. She returns to Ger
many with him and is there at the
outbreak Of the war. Then he takes
her back to England, he going in dis
guise as spy; and is detected
and put to death. So there is grim
tragedy as we'll as pervasive comedy
in a book which deserves to make its
mark in current literature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11
BOOKS: AUTHORS: PUBLlSF4ERS~NEWS: REVIEWS: COMMENT

ally, the Kaiser's ally, would make de-
mands that are not5ust. There
are people whose business 1t Is TO
think these high matters out for US,
and in their hands we can safely leave
them" "As if they were God" the
letter writer remarked. "Precisely,"
said the other.
There were some who knew better.
Her teacher, for example, who de-
clared that in Germany, everything
being forbidden, there is nothing left
but to sin" He went on to tell Of the
multitudes of school children, and even
younger infants, who committed sui
eide every year, driven to it by the
sheer cruelty of the way in which they
were overworked, fact exactly accord
ing with we'll known official statistics.
1--WE are mad" he said. at is in this
reign that we've gone mad, mad with
the obsession to get at all costs to the
top of the world. Who cares
if they kill themselves? So many
fewer ineficients, that's all. The state
considers that they are better dead"
Bear in mind that these letters were
not written with any thought Of pub
lication, but were just the intimate
messages of daughter to her mother,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11
Our Lady Of the Shows

CANADA THE sPELLBlNDER. by Lillian Whit
ms With many illustrations IN color and mono
chrome svo ID. L. 322. l.. r. Dutton Co.
Miss Whiting has long given much OF
her fine talents TO the portrayal of the
beauties of various lands of the earth (;
never to better advantage than in this
attractive volume. Whether her birth
almost on tho border line between the
United States and Canada endowed her
with special love for and appreciation
of the latter country we do not know
But we know that In this book she
shows not only a thorough knowledge
of Canada, but also an exceptionally
sympathetic spirit toward it.
Historical, descriptive, analytical
anecdotal, literary, her pages offer a
comprehensive cpitome of all that Can.
ada is and has, including in one chap
ter an anthology of Canadian poetry
The description Of scenery in the Ca
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11
Human War Documents

CHRISTINE BY Alice Chomondeley. l2mo. pp.
2j0 The Macmillan Company.
This volume consists of exceedingly
intimate and informal letters, written
by young woman to her mother just
before and at the outbreak Of the war.
The mother was in England, her home,
and the daughter was in Germany,
whittier she had gone to study the vio-
lin. Simply as the spontaneous out
pourings Of sweet and giften girl, the
letters are full Of singular charm. AS a
picture Of German life and manners
they are admirable. Still more excel
lent are they as revelation Of the
German state Of mind during the weeks
preceding the war. Thus, when the
Sarajevo tragedy occurred, a reverend
pastor exclaimed: at is typical of the
world outside our Fstherland. Law
lessness and its companion, Sacrilege,
stalk abroad. Our rulers, whom God
has given us so that they shall guide
and lead US, and in return be rever-
emily taken care Of, are blasphemously
bombed" And a very distinguished
lady, when asked IL she thought that
Austria's ultimatum to Serbia was just,
replied: you cannot suppose that our
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11
The Right Use of Words

cRABB's ENGLISH sYNoNYsfEs. By George
Crabb. A. Centennial Edition. Revised and
ley, LII. d. limo. ID. viii. 76s. Harper Bros
"How many" exclsims DR.. Finley in
his introduction, olive in abject verbal
poverty, when the riches of the race
are within their reach!" 1t is a just
observation, and its justice and its
appositeness are powerfully revealed
TO us through inspection of such a
work as this. We recall hearing lady
of supposed education and culture
characterize n Philharmonic perform
ance of a Beethoven symphony as
elegant" and half an hour later apply
the same adjective to the ice cream
which she was eating. The fact is that
now, even more than in his day, there
are, as Crabb said hundred years ago,
those who seize every opportunity I'M
blushingly TO avow and zealously to
propagate opinions destructive of good
order" and who scof at those who are
careful in their use of words as sim
ical' and as "purists."
Both the beauty and the strength Of
language depend upon the proper
use of its words, and there is nothing
more destructive of them both than the
equivocal use of one word in the place
Of another, even though In q sense they
are synonymes. To what extent
Crabb's mastery work Is nowadays
read and studied, in schools and out,
we are not able to say. But we can
unhesitatingly declare that for the
sake of efficiency, if nothing more, in
current speech, there are few things
so much needed as that II should be
most diligently studied by all who
would make more use of their vernacu-
lar than beasts make Of their inarticu-
late mouthings.
1t is a worthy commemoration of the
centenary of singularly useful work
to publish this convenient and at
tractive edition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11
Announcements
Forthcoming Volumes and News
of the World of Books

The September list Of G. P. PutnamS
Sons will comprise "The Heart Of Her
Highness," a novel, by Clara Laughln.
"Unconquered," novel, by Maud
Diver; "A Field Book of Insects" by
Frank f. Lutz; "West Point by Rob
ert Charlwood Richardson; "BenjamiV
Franklin Self-Revealed," by w. CabeD
Bruce; THE Way of the Winepress," ,
novel, by W. Riley, and Fragment,
from France" volume of Bairnsfath
er's inimitable "Bystander" sketches.
E. P. Dutton g. Co. announce "The
Coming Democracy" by Hermann Fer
nau.
The Century Company announces
"The Notebook of an Intelligence OFF,
ccr." by Eric Fisher Wood.
d. Appleton g. Co. report as at ono.
forthcoming "The Broken Gate,' bV
Emerson Hough; "The Secret Witness
ny George Gibbs; Treasure and Trou-
tle Herewith by Geraldine Bonner;
"The Quest Of Ledgar Dunstan," by
Alfred T. Sheppard: Miss Dulcie from
Dixie" by Lulah Ragsdale. and "How
70 Fly" by A. Frederick Collins.
The Stratford Company will publish
en- inexpensive series of "ths worlds
-lassics:" of the first five four being
Russian tales and one = translation
from Plautus.
Doubleday, Page 4 Co. announce
for the early fall new book by
Franklin p. Adams, . new story OF
the wild by James Oliver Curwood
and "For France" volume contain.
ing contributions from Booth Tark'
ington, William d. Howells, Gouyer'
neur Morris, Julia Marlowe, Minnie
Maddern Fiske and others. They will
also publish "Parnassus on Wheels,
q new story by Christopher Morley.
Little, Brown & Co. announce fol
August 10 "Amarilly in Love-" by Belle
X. Maniates, and "The Lookout Man,
hv u NJ Rnwsr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11
Russian Regeneration

THE REBTRTTI OF RUSSIA BY Isaac p Mar
cossou. Illustrated. l2m0, ID. 20S. John Lane
Company.
Here we have another of the as yet
too few war books of serious and per-
manent value. We call it war book
because the Russian revolution is thus
far the most important by-product of
the war, and a history of the one with
out thorough consideration of the other
would be an abortion. There are, and
there will be. other histories of the
Russian revolution, voluminous and ex-
haustive. But this little work of Mr..
Marcosson's, embodying the personal
observations. at the moment and on the
spot, of particularly keen and alert
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11
The Man of Walden
The Humanity and Nature Love
Of Thoreau

HENRY THoREAU. AS RE1EMBERED By
YOUNG FRIEND. BY Edward Waldo Emerson.
illustrated. " mo. pp IL. l5Z. houshtoa MH-
fin Company.
THROUGH TIE YEAR WITH THoREAU. BY
Herbert w. Glenol. Illustrated 'o pp'
1x1iy 1856. Houghton. Miffin Company
They have called him the Sage OF
Walden, and the Recluse Of Walden,
and what not else suggestive OF a GER
tain remoteness from If not actual
alienation from human kind. Now it is
well TO consider him as a mana real,
live, red blooded, warm-hearted man,
who might take to himself the often
quoted saying of Terence. 1t is thus
that DR.. Emerson remembers him, look
ing back through the long perspective
of life, and it is thus that he portrays
him in a delightful little volume. He
had, it is true, q certain sternness, and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11
sARGENT'S HANDBOOK SERIES.

hNEHICtN FhIFNIE oOhOVNo' Ell
Third Edition Revised and Enlarged New Features.
/ A GuidebCok for Parents. Compendium for
Educators. -
An Annual Survey Of Education in the L. S. out
stds lie Public Schools and Colleges.
Z A cylticsi ard discriminating account u The Pr-
,Ato schools they ara written without fear or
favor Indispensable for Parents. Educator COL
. leye O~icials interested IN Secondary Education.
: LpTCATlONAL INFORMATION BUREAU sup
rer,ertlug the Handbook furnishes unprejudiccd. re-
. liable advice 10 parents. Write rs. No Zee
G72 pages, round corners. crimson silk cloth, gold
a HANDBooK OF NEW ENGLAND. 1917.
Descriptive Of Town and Country along the Routes
81 Automobile Travel. Humauized BSedeker. a
I Year Book a Gazetteer. a Guide Book. The only
book that presents New EnCland IS whole.
Introductory Chapters on Geology, Flora. Archi-
lecture etc. Directories and Appendices. New 1917
Edition enlarged and improved.
Nine hundred pages, With illustrations and maps.
Hound corners, crimson SILK cloth. gold stamped.
S. so Limp crimson leather. $500
Circulars and Sample PAGES on Request
Porter {. Sargent 90 Congress St. Boston. Msss.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11
Thoreau, Man and Naturalist
Mexico Miscellany

madam Rockies are fine, particularly
that of the splendid isolated pesSS
which has been named after Edith
CaveIl, the nurse who was brutaIiy
Belgium, and the illustrations, most s, o.
which are novel and most artisticaliy
executed, are worthy of the text which
they accompany.
1t is a delightful book for the stay
at-homs reader or for the traveliet
among the scenes which it describes !:
But,we wish Miss Whiting hadn !
called Canada a "spcllbinder,' at least
until our memory Of political campaign
slang had failed!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11
Mrs. Humphry Ward and r.;
Marcosson' Russia-War Books

British people when they became awake
to the nature of the crisis; and,
furthermore. every American must feel
stirred with the desire TO see his coun-
try now emulate Britain's achieve
ment" Yes; when the American peo-
pie, like the British become awake TO
the nature Of the crisis.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11
F.PRlNr.BOOA'

WRITE ME: can get you any es' 80. ~
published on any subject. Inc III all -
book finder eNtant. when In Englan,ss GSIk1
see my 500 600 rare books BAKER sSssSsnI
BOOK SHOP, John Bright Of. sif"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11
("Turning to HlM")
The Christian Universe is now an lnferno7is Re
zion hopeless failure?-War declared on
Good Friday-Ls Christ again "asleep
in the vessel of The Church,?

1T is our duty to kill as many Germans as pos
of revenge" 81 would sacrifice ten millions OF hVe
nrn;sh her enemies"-Press quotations of sermons
clergvmen in New York, England and elsewhere.
souled utterances with the following from THE He
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-08-11

TOWARDS THE GOAL. By Mrs, HumphU Wsd.
With Preface hyI/Theodore Hoose'e'I 4-n''
DID 2Sl Charles Scribucrs sons.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-09-05
Another Lincoln Story

When Lincoln was still an in
significant country lawyer he
had occasion to travel to a small
town to take charge of a case. 1t
was a drive of some IA miles
from the railroad station to the
town inn where he was to pass
the night. Wet and chilled to
the bone, he arrived at last, but
to his dismay, found only small
fire built in the crate, While
standing about it SO as to exclude
the heat from the traveller, were
the other lawyers interested in
the case.
AT length one of the group
turned to Lincoln.
Pretty cold, eho" he asked.
! YES" replied Lincoln, las
cold as II is hot in hades."
Ever been TO hades stranger?"
asked another.
"Yes," replied Lincoln.
solemnly.
This raised a faint smile
among the other lawyers.
What does it look like there?'
they asked
Very much like this" said
Lincoln, dryly. "All the LAWYERS
nearest the fire"
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-09-05
Price Of Wheat Fixed A,
$2.2O AS COMPROMISE

Washington, Aug. 30-TL1
price of No. l northern sprinr
wheat was fixed at S2.2Oa bushcl
at Chicago for the 1917 crop to-
day by the wheat fair price con-
mittee, headed by H. A. Garfield ,
whose findings reached after
three days deliberation, were
submitted to and approved BY
President Wilson. The an
nouncement was made from the
White House.
Labor representatives on the
committee voted first for S1S4
and the farmers for $3.50. After
long discussion the com promise
at $2.20 was approved unani-
mously.
Inc committee finally agreed
late this afternoon after several
days of voting. AT one time to-
day it looked as if it would be
unable to come to a conclusion.
but, just before six o'clock a
compromise was reached and
the last vote was unanimous.
On the base of s.. 20 at Chica-
go the food administration work.
ed out tonight differentials for
the various grades and classes
and for the several terminals.
The price fixed tonight is
twenty cents higher than that
named for the 1918 crop by
Congress in the food control bill.
The 81 price set by Congress
was taken into consideration by
the committee in considering a
fair valuation for this years
crop.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-09-05
Second Great Campaign to Be.
gin October l..

Washington. Aug. 31.-The
opening of the next liberty loan
campaign has bee set tentatively
by the treasury department for
October |.
Subscription books will close
November l unless the program
is altered. The amount, the in
terest rate, the denominations of
the bonds and other details will
Be announced after Congress
idisposes Of the pending bond
bill.
y Indications are that the next
offering will approximate $3,-
900, 100000. Whether it will be
advertised by the government
through paid newspaper space
is under consideration, but Sec
sretary McAdoo said tonight the
cost of such an undertaking
!svouid exceed the appropriation
now available for the purpose.
He added that there could be no
action until more light had been
reeeived as to the cost OF an ef-
.fective advertising campaign
iand until Congress had decided
what amount will be allowed
sfor advertising for future issues.
U1der the war revenue bill,
passed last April, 100000 was
a.aadel available for expenses of
floating S5,OOO,OOO.OoO in bonds
and $2,OOo,0O0,0O0 in short time
certificates of Indebtedness. 1t
rs reported that about half al
Il ready has been disbursed in con.
.riected with the floatation of the
100000 liberty bonds first
offered and the certificates of
Indebtedness put out in advance
loan.
In announcing the tentative
program for the second cam
paign Mr.. McAdoo appealed to
the liberty loan committee to
perfect their organization and
prepare for the next campaign
by getting in touch with the
varioGS federal reserve banks.
The Pageland journal. [volume] (Pageland, S.C.) 1911-1978, 1917-09-05
Only Dry Spot

Detroit Free Press
AdoIphus Busch, the million
alre brewer, told apropos of pro-
hlbltlOn, story at aSt. LOUIS
banquet.
Two drummerS," he began,
were taken dry in prohibition
town. They started accordingly
to look for a drink. On a cor
ner they saw policeman and
they decided to ask his advice.
Officer" they said, "is ii pos
Sible to get drink in this town."
"Thc officer led the two
drummerS up TO an imposing
church.
"'But surely they said in
shocked tones. we aren't going
tc get what we want here!'
"GentS said the officer,
solemnly. do YOU see that
church,
YES they answered.
"Well, gents said the officer
that's the only place in this State
where you can't get it."