davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Another Scarlet Letter
A Living Present Overcoming a
Dead Past.

THE BROKEN GATE by Emerson HOush. Illus
tratsd by 81 Leone Bracker limo W. $40
ID. Appleton 70.
1t is an ancient story, with interest
as perennial as its theme. She had
sinned, once, through love and passion,
in her youth. Then, for more than
score Of years, she had led blameless
and noble life. Her son, for whom she
lived, was kept in ignorance OF his
origin. and the neighbors were Kept IN
ignorance Of bis existence. But on the
day of his homecoming from college
TIE full knowledge of beth came to
him and TO them: and his tilial resent
ment of their vile assaults upon her
precipi;sted a crisis of battle, murder
and sudden death" At the end, she
and he are justly triumphant over the
bcstial mob.
This is scarcely so much as skele-
ton Of the story, but il would be unfair
to the reader to undertake 10 tell more.
For every word of il should be care
July and nppreciatively read, without
being told in advance what 1t Is all
about. 1t Is worth it. The plot Is
cf absorbing interest. The character
drawing il admirable. The scenes ana
climaxes ar, intensely dramatic. The
gCtlOn Is COueItnL anu NNPN
The hUmor is spontaneous and perVa-
sive. The sentiment and pathos are
sane and soul-touching. There are
heroism, in men and women, and utter
cowardice; ambition, and abnegation;
generosity and meanness; love and
late; ali the passions of humanity;
whelmed and mingled in comedy-tra-
gcdy of life. not as it should be or as
Il is imagined. but rs il really is.
Mr.. Hough has done good work be-
fore, but none to equal this. Nor have
many Of his contemporaries rivalled
The Broken Gate" in the essential Gle
men.s Of n work Of fiction whose sur
nassing bower and beauty make all
canonica! chatter about realism and
romanticism seem futile as the piping
Of the wind. II ia rot realism. II IS
not romance. II is no: fiction. save IN
a conventional sense. II is human LIE.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Real Life Re-Lived
Mr.. Garland's Vivid and Vital
Autobiography

A son or THE MIDDLE BORDER. BY Hamlin
Garland WIKI illustrations BY Alge haIurr
S'cp'ieus. l2mo. pp 80. The Ma.mil"n tom
psny
I'm serving as his own Boswell Mr.
Garland again demonstrates the cor
rectncss of Byron's' most hackneyed
epigram. His truth is stranger than his
fiction; stranger, and more interesting.
He has written US many realistic ro-
mances. if the phrase be permissible,
of American life. largely, no doubt,
from observation. but also with the
frecst possible field of imagination and
invention, and they have been OF fas-
cinating interest. But not one of them
has ever rivallcd in this latter quail
tvs supremest exposition this PLAIN
tale of the "main travelled roads Of
his own life, from infancy 10 man
hood. We note that Mr.. Howe!lS,
keen and kindly critic and a most
sympathetic guide, philosopher ana
friend 20 Mr.. Garland for many years,
has commented upon this volume IN
most eulogistic terms. To ms doing
so a peculiar interest and significance
are attached. For Mr.. Howells him
self recently published volume OF ms
own autobiography, in which ne dld
for himse much of what Mr.. Garland
does for himself in this work. We
are sure that neither OF the two emil
nent authors will take umbrage at our
bracketing the two volumes together
as each the worthy companion OF the
other: TO which we should hesitate 10
add. from recent American literature
a third.
Mr.. Garland's story of his young LIE
concerns itself with an innumerable
multiplicity OF common, everyday de-
tails, bu: not one of them seems super
Huous or dull or devoid OF human In
terest. We could wish. as we have
observed in connection with other OF
his writings, that Mr. Garland had
richer sense of humor But at least
he is not antipathetic 10 humor. and
is not obsessed with owlish solemnlty.
With sentiment and romance he Is FAR
more copiously endowed than some
ultra-realists-who suffer from the
strange delusion that reality and SEN
timent cannot co-exist-would concede;
as note his appreciation Of one OF the
greatest expositors OF romance and
sentiment that the world has ever
known. Il was mis- first sight and hear
ing of Edwin Booth in Hamlet:
| waited with awe as well
as eaCerness. and when the curtain.
rising upon the court scene, discoy--
cred the pale. handsome face and
graceful form Of the noble Dane
and the sound of his voice that
magic. velvet voice Aoated TO my
a.r nsithnr lima nor Apaea
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Books About Health
Including Mentality, Diet and
Home Nursing

Or. Alvah II. Doty, formerly Health
Officer of this port, has written ID. APP
nleton & Co, a compact but compen-
dious and authoritative treatise on
Good Health-How 20 Get II, How TO
Keen IT," which provides instructive
reading for the intelligent layman on
the whole range of human hygiene.
DIR. Roger I. Lee, professor of hygiene
in Harvard University, has written
Little. Brown & CO.. scholarly yet
popular treatise on Health and DIS,
ease. Their Determ inlng FACTORS:
which should be Of value TO tne phyN-
clan and the layman alike; chiefly as
Guide TO the avoidance and prevention
of disease.
Dr Frederick Lyman Wells, of Nc
Loan Hospital, Waverley, Mass, has
written ID. Appleton & CO.. in Mental
Adjustments" the profitable results OF
extended observations in psychopatho!-
ogy, bearing upon the latlonship oe-
tSeen mental and physical sanity.
DR. Robert S. Carroll, Of the High
land Hospital, Asheyille, y. C., con-
tributes The Macmillan Company
practical and helpful vol ume on Inc
Mastery Of Nervousness written in
sympathetic vein.
Claus Seltz in his Direct, Method
Physical Development" R. F. Fenno &
coz gives practical and simple diree-
,;ons with Illustrations, for calisthenic
ga 10y bvgienic exercise without the need
Of a gymnasium or teacher.
NJ Richard W. Mueller's Hygiene OF
the Face and Cosmetic Guide II. r,
button & Coz Is calculated 20 MAKE
e.ch woman her own beauty doctor -
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01

continuation into Reconstruction days.
1t concerns two brothers, the one a
typical slave holding aristocrat OF the
old school and rampant seceSsionist,
the other democratlcally inclined
abo!i.ionist and unionist; and also the
daughter Of the latter, who fully sym
pathizes with her father, and the son
OF a neigh5or who belongs TO the arts
tocratic pro-slavery faction, but is at
times capable oF rising superior to its
dctation. Politics, business and ro-
nance are all inextrcably interviewer
in a story, the conception Of which Is
better than its execution. Mr.. Harden,
particularly in the early part Of the
book, inclInes too much toward de-
tailed relation of commonplace and in
significant details in a prosaic and
matter of fact fashion. We could wish
for more touches Of humor TO Tighten
the too pervasivc gloom, sordidness and
almost tragedy of the narrative, when
would not have been in the least incon-
gruous or incompatible with the Sc
rious purport of the work.
Nevertheless it is a story which will
command and hold the attention and
which will give the average reader a
more Just and vital conception than
he has had before of the state of mind
which ushered in the greatest civil
conflict in our history. How it will be
received by some of those who have
not altogether outgrOwn the passions
and prejudiccs Of that strife it will be
interesting to observe. We rather ex-
pect that both sides will at least al
feet to take un,brage at Mr.. Harben's
portraiture of them; more's the pity,
since, in our earnest conviction, he
has made that portraiture more than
ordinarily true 10 Life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01

and each man, too and provides a
varied array of prescriptions for To-
tions, ointments. etc. for the skin.
DR.. Isaac A. Abt. Of the Northwestern
University Medical School, in The
Babys Food" W. B. Saunders Com
pany) gives a comprehensive array OF
recipes of all kinds for healthful dishes
for infants and young children.
DR.. r. L. Alsaker in How to Live on
Three Meals a Day" Frank L. Morri-
SOM gives useful suggestions concern
ing the coordination Of the customary
three meals with hygiene and domestic
finance.
Dr. Eugene Lyman Fisk, medical di.
rector OF the Life Extension institute,
has prepared in Alcohol, It's Relation
TO Human Efficiency and Longevity
Funk & Wagnalls Company, a par
ticularly interesting and timely study
OF what is just now one Of the gres,
sanitary and economic questions OF the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
The Husband Of His Wife

MRS HOPES HUSBAND By Geie,t Burgess L
lusua,~l hy Henry Raleigh lttno. pp Ioi. Inc
Century Company
Mr.. Burgess has not fully improved
his opportunity. He has conceived
plot which. if not entirely original
as what plot is or can be in these
DAYS lis sufficiently so TO be refresh
ingly novel 20 the average reader, ana
he has developed it with much IN
genuity and has clothed it with
piouant incidents and sparkling con-
versation. The fault IS that he has
given it in places, especially at the be-
ginning. a touch of the farclcal, or
burlesque; perhaps an Involuntary re-
currence to the spirit of THE Purple
Cow" Thus, Mrs. Woodling, though
an ircorrigible tuft-hunter, must be
assumed to have been a woman of at
least ordinary social intelligence and
breeding, which surely would have
made it impossible for her to nitro
duce Lester Hope TO her guests liter
ally ms "Mrs. Hopes Husband More
over, il was quite unnecessary 70 IN
icct that solecism into the narrative.
The effect desired could have been
produced just as surely in an entirely
legitimate way.
Nevertheless, it is a delightful little
story, telling Of a clever man who was
temporarily eclipsed by his brilliant
wife; who confirmed her love for him.
self by means of cleverlv devised
correspondence over an assumed name,
and who presently himself produced
work. the outcome Of this very per-
sonal experience, which eclipsed even
his wife's book in popularity and
turned the tables by causing her to be
known as "Mr. Hopes Wife 1t is
blithe and mirthful, and ends most
happily; wherefore let us rejoice and
be glad for its appearance as an anti
dote to too many books of problems
and glooms.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Sane Views Of the War

FAITH. WAR AND POLICY Ry Gilbert Murray.
Emo. pp. xiv. .aj. The Houghton Minin Com
pauy,
We cannot agree with all the views
expressed by Mr.. Murray in the bakers
dozen of addresses and papers here
conveniently compiled and reprinted,
ranging in date from October. 1914, TO
March, 1917, hut we can heartily agree
with most of them and can regard
them all as sane and conspicuously
lucid. II is not for any strikingly
original propositions or arguments that
the book is most 10 be priced, but
rather for the very simple yet very
convincing manner in which Mr.. Muir
ray presents basic facts which arc
often obscurcd, distorted or forgotten.
For example. here is his treatment Of
the origin of the war:
There was dispute, a somewhat
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Italv and the War
90. =. She Entered 1t and How
She Is Waging 1t
.,.-rrr MO rrr GREAT WAR

INTEND MO TIE GREAT VAR
MY ITALi r-,,s'N Svo ~ So I've itahM
" lll. Trbt.Sins COMPANY.
v,p Ry Herhcrt vivian. luu'tra'eo
rlY ~ 20 T. T. button 4 90,
go w-vs on TIE ITALIAN FRONT Nv
S,N NoNIn,SS-, illustrated. Syc. 10. 300 p
p', ,.,r,T,yvtl. AND MODERN. n, = VI
IrNN VIZ n Aly. h. II Vernon no = -,
jlssSy.. T. Sy, b. sea The oxford Vn''oTSi'S
-
,,lv need. to make no apology =. for or
-, entrance into the great war war f nc, as
re ...tc in the Triple Alliance. Her
i,'o'55" ',, justification has already been
'saaa, -n.s5'iiest TO the world. Yet for
ntae u ne, reminder, for reference. and
-creIre ..;,c record. it is we'll to have
Fl oonPsndoo' Snsg IT. y yS2is% of of
W. italian relations from the time
ASST IT, Theresa TO the present, lis
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
An Encyclopedia of Infantry

COMPLETE UNITED STATES INFANTRY
GUIDE For OricerS and Non commissioned
O-cers Reprinted from Gorerumeu' Iuhlcs-
tons. Illustrated. $40. ~ 207i The J. b
Lpp.nco,t Company.
Complete" is well said. Certainly
we have no knowledge of any work on
the subject which better deserves the
description than this encyclopedia
compilation from more than two dozen
government publications. 1t seems to
contain everything that an officer of
infantry, from general to corporal,
needs to know, and to present it in
the most authoritative and perspicuous
form. The illustrations, partly repro
auctions of the official originals and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Announcements

Little. Brown & Co. will publish next
week "Four Days" by Hetty Hemen-
way; "The Little Gods Laugh" by
Louise Maunsell Field; and oh, joy
a new edition of Lear's Nonsense
Books"
Doubleday, Page & Co. ANNOUNCE a
third printing Of Kathleen Norris
"Nartie the Unconquered," less than
two weeks after the first; and the book
deserves it. They also announce for
September IA ENCHANTED Hearts, a
fairy story of real life, by Darragn
Aldrich.
G.. P. Putnam's Sons announce ioi
davis first book. Great Love stores
Of the Bible and Their Lessons for To-
day" and "The Ten CommandmehtSs
and Their Application to the. Lives oil
Young Women" by Mrs Sunday
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
looks: AUTHORS PUBLISHERS~N NEWS: REVIEWS: COMMENT

partly remade, are admirable in both
design and execution. by no means
the least valuable feature is an elabor-
ate analytical index. by means of which
reference TO any topic or sub-topic is
readily made. The one possible objec-
tion 10 the book is its size, which
makes it more fitting for the library
than for the tent. Yet it ia really
made as small as possible, with thin
paper and small though emincntly
legible type. And, after all, you can
not put gallon of material into q
pint measure
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
Real Life in Fact and Fiction
Literary News and Miscellany

ing" for passing. and the like. The
punctuation, too, is slovenly, especially
in the misuse OF quotation marks and
question marks. These brutallties do
not affect the worth of Mr.. Vschelis
fine romance, but they do cause sur
prise in a book bearing the authorize
tive imprint of the Doran Company.
and they are so numerous and fragrant
a, to compel critical rebuke.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01

, AMSIioGRAPHs BOUGHT AND SOLD
VII n,Dy,1SAN. SCI FIFTH AVE. y Y G.
lRicys ~ y, hASE AND PAY HIGHEST CASH
rrRS ~ W ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH LIT
or TgP' al FAMOUS PEOPLE LETTERS
ClIjWf uuhEslDENTS or TIE L. r ESPE.
GRAPH n,ANILD CATALOGS FOR AUTO
AAIIJn AID RARE BOOK COLLECTORS
cIS ~, tNlk on REQUEST T. Il. biADI-
- w IIIIM ANE n Y q
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
MORE POWER TO YOU
Rx Bruce Rarfon

PreSent-day philosophy to read
cheering help tn the everyday and carving
forward the nations business with good for both them
anu II" SlO0
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01

world; the conclusion OF which is that
alcohol Is destructive force, wholly
evil IN It's effects upon the human body.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS."

ssbli,s,s LITE ME-; can get you any book ever
Npk (nA.oh any subject. The most expert
- ny az sntsnt When in England call and
&ox sueeV rare books. BAKERS GREAT
~As. John RTlxht A. IlTminrhaa
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
HEALTH FIRST
By Henry Dwight Chaplin, M. D..

of first aid Sublinated cornuop s.ps.
by an eminent New York physician how to keep life
and live long, with specialized advice for the Young middle aged
and the very old. Si "a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
THE FRIENDS
BY Stacy Aumonier

Including three examples of gripping fiction which Century
Co. recommends with the utmost confidence Mr. umonier is an
astonishing literary discovery of the past year. His discrm-
mauhS FAVOR mas Deen absolutely meteoc Illustrated SOO
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-01
MRS. HOPES HUSBAND
BY CeIett Burgess
The OTHER BROWN
By Adele luehrmann

Another fascinating mystery story b,
Case of Marie Dupont \ novel OF l.
and battling intrigue, and more exciting
last year.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-14

Ind; Kenneth Dixon, Bevier. Mo-;
Ulysses p. Claytor, Harriston and
houston s. Tyree, Buena Vista.
In Company X of the Three Hun
bred aud Seventeenth regiment, SER
geants who received their appoint
ments yesterday were Paul N. Rat
cliff. Marvin and Thomas d. Moran,
OF Bassett, Va. AS corporals the fol-
lowing received their warrants:
George r. Lucas, Dante; William d.
Godsey and Trigg G. Mcconnell,
Nickellsville; Jesse /. Edwards, Lone
Oak; Robert L. Cross, Kingsport,
Tenn; Martin r, Wright. Mountain
Valley; Robert A. Moore Spencer. and
L. p. Prilliman. Martinsville.
More Railroad Facilities.
To accommodate increasing receipts
of supplies Of all kinds at the camp,
additional spur tracks will be built
at once connecting the .ouartermas-
ter's warehouses at Camp Lee with
the City Point branch of the Norfolk
and Western railroad. This action
was decided on yesterday at con-
ference between Secretary w. M.
Martin of the Petersburg chamber
of commerce, Division Superintendent
e. A. Blake and Chief Engineer J. f.
crawford OF the railroad company
The additional trackage will amount
to two miles.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-14

whose speed is less than that of a
submerged submarine have been very
large. There is possibility that
some ARTIFICIAL means of protecting
cargo carrying vessels may he found
practicable. In no other fields have
so many suggestions or so many
duplicate inventions been presented
to the board
THE detection and destruction Of
submarines is the most important
subject under consideration.
1T is generally conceded that the
destruction of submarine is COM
rarativeiy simple matter II she carr
be located. There Is important pro-
gress in this direction.
Consulting Board Busy.
The naval consulting board. COM
posed OF twenty -four distin guished
American scientists and inventors. OF
which Mr. Thomas A. Edison lis presi-
dent, is constantly at work on pro-
hlems of warfare and careful consi-
-darsssa..- ~ s1p@E- -t{.a-ssss F-@4+-s.f-.>s
any citizen and searching irvesti-
CATION made II the idea is promising.
It Is recognized that the seeming i'm
practical device of today may find ap-
plication tomorrow. and the endeaxor
Is to give due study to each separate
I idea and render full justice to the
inventor"
Captain william q. Smith. r. s. ",
Is Secretary Daniels aid for inventors
on duty with the consulting board
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-14
the unanimous consent OF its stock
holders.

the unanimous consent OF It's stock
holders.
Advocates Coordination.
Mr.. WarfielG proposed. in place OF
FEDERAL Incorporation, the enactment
OF laws co-ord!nating the work of state
com m issions with the interstate com
merce commission. These. he urged,
could provide for substantially every
thing the railroads could secure
through government incorporation.
State Richmond, chairman on legis-
lation. praised the Minnesota blue sky
law He declared it to be the best yet
passed by any state because II does
awav with initial examination of Sc
crrities and gives power 10 state of
hcfals to forbid the sale OF particular
securities after they have been In
vestigated.
Burnett Walker. chairman OF the
committee on taxation. said the two
matters OF chief concern relative TO
the federal income tax are deduction
and Information at the source" and
the matter Of tax free" covenants
Aeis.1- prohibited tn future earfsera, r.
mortgages
The committee concludes, he de-
clared. that as the law now stands
corporations In general will continue
20 pay for the bondholder the amount
OF tax subject TO deduction at the
source"
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-14
RICHMOND SOLDIERS
TO GIVE CONCERT

Consdera BILE interest will be arous-
ed by the announcement that several
hundred OF the 81 tn regiment OF the
national army at Camp Lee. compos-
ed very largely OF Richmond mon,
will come on November "a. bringing
with them their regfmental band An
open-air concert Is planned and will
probably be given in Monroe park.
Between selections the troops will
give sxhition drills. showing the rapid
progress they are making IN the mill
tary art.
On Thanksgiving night the drafted
men will give a big event at the City
Auditorium, In the nature of a bene-
At performance, and the best vaude-
Vile performers at Camp Lee are ex-
pected to contribute to the success OF
the entertainment.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1917-11-14
THREE THOUSAND STRIKERS
GO BACK TO THEIR WORK

Newark, ". j.. Nov .1s,--Three thou
sand strikers returned TO their work
today, following a four hour confer
snce called upon receipt OF directions
from the international officers of the
labor unions concerned. The orders
were recei we'd from Buffalo, Accom-
panying tho orders was the statement
that q committee Of the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor had been appointed to
confer with President Wilson upon
the questions at issue.
The strike was called in an effort
TO compel the Lackawanna Bridge
company TO employ only union labor.
Tho company has government con-
tracts involving 100000 and as
coo 900. Any interruption OF the work
threatened seriously TO hamper i'm
pcYtant shipbuilding plans of the gov
eminent. "A