New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-02-17

its predecessor. For instance, in his
Year Book of the American Short
Story" which, as in the 1915 volume
occupies the second part, he presents
n list of the books Of short stories pun
lished during the year; also a BRIEF
critical analysis of the best fifty Amer
lean short stories of the year, with the
reason for his choice in each case;
critical essay on the literary tenden-
cies of the year, the magazine averages
always fascinating TO magazine reao
erS-a roll Of honor Of the best 1lU
American short stories for 1916, ana q
complex index TO the short stories IN
the seventy periodicals, each story with
its literary value indicated.
Children's Literature
The World Book Company, oil
Yonkers. announces that the HISTORY
of Children's Literature" planned and
beoun bv the late Charles II. Welsh
viii be completed by Walter Barnes
head of the English department Of the
State Normal School, Fairmont, ". va
A Painter-Novelist
Sir William Blake Richmond, the
English painter who did the decoration
Of St Pauls Cathedral in London, has
written s. novel, "The Silver Chain,
% no published by Cecil Palmer &
Harvard, London. Sir William, who Is
seventy-four years old, has been Slad2
nrofessor at oxford and president OF
The British Society of Miniature PANT
ers His frst pictures were exhloltea
ut the Royal Academy in 1860.
Heaton's Canadian Annual
Tho thirteenth edition of "Heaton's"
1efN has Just come from the press
Toronto: Heaton's Agency. AS here
tofore this year book contains com
nlete official directories of the Domih-
ion and Provincial governments. A new
feature of this section is the list OF
Canadians knighted or decorated az
the front. There are, further, postal
information; a shippers GUIDE giving
every banking town, with banks ana
railway connections, population, etc.'
commercial regulations and complete
customs tariff revised to date. IN the
last half of the book we find descrlp-
tions of every commercial town IN Gan
ada. with hotels in order OF merit IN
dustries, population and Industrial OPP
nortunities. and summary OF the re-
sources of the Dominion, covering agri-
culture. finance, fisheries, forests. fur
farming, mining, sport, water power
etc.
The Way We Do in the Army
Philip Curtiss, author of Between
Two Worlds" who was serving at the
border when the book was published.
saws that there is one way by which
YOU can invariably spot an army ON
Ger. When introducing himself any
one else on earth will say, MY name ~
Smith," but an army officer will always
put it, Smiths my name
Oppressed Natlonalities
an no country in the world are con-
seryatives in favor of q change IN the
status oil0," says Herbert Adams Glib
bons in "The New Map Of Africa.
"The class that has wealth in lands and
investments, the class that has social
prestige and privileges, and the class
that holds public Offices, stand together
to stand pat. | have been greatly
amused in reading glowing accounts OF
Kumanians of Transylvanla, Italians or
Trieste. Croatians of Agram and other
inhabitants of tCrre iTredente. VINO
burn to welcome delivering armies;
Personal observation on the ground
has taught me that in all the coun-
tries of whose nationalist and ire
dentist movements we hear so much
the prime movers and agitators are
college professors and professional
men and students. who have little or
nothing to risk or lose by a change o,
government. The peasants feel the, call
of blood only after they have been
worked upon and stirred up by priest,
and schoolmasters and paid official
agents. The landowners and manu-
facturers and business men rarely. al
low their heart to run away with their
head. They know which side their
bread is buttered on. They worship
the golden calf Of the status quo