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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Mis6t Illustrations
Suggesting That Book Worth
Illustrating Is Worth Reading

PLUMBER By Arthur Somers Roche with Nus
trauon. b. VIII Foster. Emo ~ So. ne
Boob Merrill COMPANY.
This ingenious tale was originally
published as a serial under the title OF
"A Scrap Of Paper" and engaged the
interested attention Of many readers.
We should think that it would be more
acceptable in a volume. for the reason
that its action is so expeditions that
the story suffers from being read IN
detached instalments at weekly inter-
walls. To get the best Of II, II needs 20
be read at sitting. IL contains much
intrigue and detective work, at times
of absorbing interest, and its ending
ia unexpected. though somewhat artl-
hcial and inflated.
But what we wish to comment upon
chiefly is the work of the illustrator
which is in most respects better done
than that Of the average illustrator o.
novels. but which contains glarng
example of a very common fault, which
makes many fiction pictures ridiculous.
That ia. that the pictures do not mt
the text which they are supposed TO
illustrate. Note the picture facing
page so of "Plunder" and the text on
page 81. A detective, successfully i'm
personating a titled English gentle
man. is calling upon a lady. The pict-
ure shows him seated and her stand
ing; a circumstance in itself enough TO
cause unfavorable reflections. But
when we turn to the text we find II
made plain that at the moment indi-
Gated in the picture he was still stand
ing. since it explicitly says that a few
moments later he sat down. Again. the
text says that the lady moment after
That indicated in the picture CRASHED
an easel to steady herself in her aglts-
ton. But the picture shows her al
ready grasping the easel. though in an
attitude which, instead of steadylng
her, would have been much more likely
TO disturb her equilibrium. The attl-
tudes OF both figures, therefore, con-
spicuously falsify the text.
Again, there is picture facing page
1863, illustrating 3 passage on page 1863.
A young man is talking intently to a
young woman. with no thought of any
thing or anybody else. Naturally, since
they are sweethearts, they would be
sitting near each other. and he would
be looking at her while he directly ad-
dressed her. But the artist has shown
them sitting far apart. and him star
ing intently at the opposite side Of the
room from her; and incidentally he
has represented her as seated in a
most awkward and uncomfortable atti-
tude, which no sane and normal young
woman would dream of taking in such
circumstances. In brief. both illustrs-
tons are egregious insists. We have
selected these pictures as objects OF a
criticism which is applicable to many,
because they are in all other respects
so meritorious that they can stand it
better than most others.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
}OOKS AUTHORS: PUBLSH4ERS~NEWS REVIEWS: COMMENTS

stinct with genuine human nature.
The mania of the invalid for making
presents results in SONS irreslstloly
fantastic complications duck blind
for a grand piano and vice verss-and
of course there are misunderstood
ings and cross purposes; but all comes
out happily at the end, when the IN
valid forgives the Morse girl and the
young doctor for falling in love with
each other right before her unsus-
pecting eyes.
We should greatly pity the reader
who did not thoroughly enjoy this
little book all the way through. And
though at times we must cry with
Solvei, ooh. Of what a nonsense! Of
what a silliness!" who wouldn't have
some nonsense and Stiffness in life
And with the same serene authority
we must also confess that some OF
these ideas here are OF great clever,
ness" What we most wish is that
there were more books of this kind
written, and fewer of-snother kind.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Announcements
Forthcoming Volumes and News
of the Book World

Doubleday, Page & Co. report a
forthcoming second edition of Flying
for France
G.. p. Putnam's Sons announce for
April publication Gustav kobbe's AL ",
of.a-Sudden Carmen" Horatio W.
I Dresser's Handbook OF the New
/ Thought" Mrs. Lena Rogers Struthers,s
! "The Public School Nurse" and r. D.
Ruchanan's translation OF twenty-five
! Lections and the Sermon on the
| Mount" from an ancient Spanish Latlh
manuscript. .u -,
The Anderson Galleries will sell, on
April II and II, large number Oh
books by nineteenth century authors
American and foreign. from the IL
brary of James Carleton Young
The Page Company have Deen
compelled to postpone until some time
in the summer their publication Oh
George Wharton Jamess ARIZONA
The Wonderland on account OF MI
.Ts-ness prolonged illness from "nicn
- il Just recovering. a.,
Harper & Bros. will publish next
week Franz Dilnot's Lloyd George', y,
BJr5elte G.. Lewis's The ohenoer', >.
Fd,-ir Lefevre's To the Last fehhy
and tie T. rper Centennial hdltlon OF
"Crebhes Synonymes." They VIII also
mt 20 rr,ss for reprinting dozen or
more important works -, It'll,
Charles Scribner's Sons VIII publish
IN the near future novel entlteu
"Tbe American AMBASSADOR" by Law,
ronce p,rne" a pen name). which VIII
Give "a .esrless picture Of the workings
~ our state Department IN time OF
crisis" as Wei az presentation ol
life in an kme rican Embassy.
The Page Company will publish neNt
,r.at MARY Ellen Chase's virginia OF
tTL creek Valley" and Margaret H.
Piper's "The House on the hlii' inc
latter a novel for young people.
The Century Company ANNOUNCE. :,
for early publication "Slippy Mcuee'.
- Mario Conway Oemler, story OF
- receneration of a burglar with
much attendant romance. and me
I InuUH iorant and the Community By
Grace Abbott. for rex.
IL, apatter Meals for Less Money
oE 'I' Putnam's Sons April list in
clndes "The Fragrant Note book, ~
= Arthur Coan; "The Goyernmenat1 arr, o.
FngIsnd." by u. d. Wallace; ne
Nan in Evening Clothes oy 'onn
n oia" scott: Correct Carnage Tor
P'si,ess Men" BY II. Irving Hancock
nSno.r,b in silence" by susanna 90
IL. and chocolate Cake and BLACK
sand and other Plays
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Reasons for Being Careful

Oh. MARY. RE CAREFUL By Georr. Weston.
with illustrations by r. NJ. crosby. 4'mo' pp'
rs the j. b. Lpincot Company.
Mary was very careful: She was
careful to obey her aunts warnings
against the men, because TO get inter
ested in a man might lead to marrying
him, and to get married would be 10
forfeit the fortune which aunty mad
left her. She was also careful TO IN
vestigate the nature of the animals,
and find out if men were really as bad
and if married life was always as dls,
astrous as Aunt Myra had told her and
had tried to prove from her big scrap
book of clippings about the seamy side
of the world. Most of all, she investi-
gated the three tests to ascertain
whether the young man was pure In
heart. whether he was a tyrant and
whether his love was superior TO nis
annette. When at last she found one,
in spite Of herself, who satisfactorily
met the tests. she just wanted TO
know whether she would lose all of
the current years income as well as
the principal of the fortune; where
upon she found that Aunt Myra
hadn't been so hard after all. and that
she wouldn't lose cent OF the tort
unc. So, of course, he was running
away, so AS to prevent her losing IT,
but she called him back.
Mr.. Weston has made a really las
cinating story out Of it, invested with
genuine New England air; so charming
a tale, in fact, that we can't help WISH
ing that he had made more of 1t. Inc
Illustrations, too, are as dainty ana
sweet as Mary herself; and that's all
any pictures could deserve to have
said about them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
About New York

prnrP,s NEW YORK CITY. Guilds Boz -
Trayslle-s Compiled and edited By fuuoni
500 Henry Holt Go.
crrrnr TO THE NATURE TREASURED tF
TT,IV YORK CRY Prepared BY George y. bosr.
puhlished FOR the American MUSEUM O '"N- -
History By Charles Scribners 'Vls
We all make fun of Baedeker. and ~g
all min our peripatetic faith to him, Snd
we initiate his style when we write
other guide books. This last thing IS
done BIZ Mr.. Rider and his associates,
frankly and probably. 1t needs only
70 be said. then, that their emulation OF
Racdeker is successful. They have
done for New York what Baedeker has
done for 40 many other places and
lands and they have done 1t in man
nor that out Badekers Baedeker in good
qualities and that avoids most of the
errors of their great exemplar. the
hook deals with Yonkers, Newark ana
Jersey City. as well as with New York
and its minuteness of detail and upto-
dateness is suggested by such features
as its calling attention TO the birth
place Of Stephen Crane. Baedeker
himself could no further go.
The extent to which 1t IS possible 70
get near to natures heart" in the very
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Little Town, Little Folk

IN A LITTLE TOWN. By Rupert Hughes with
fronuspiece l2mo. ID. 3S5 Harper Bros.
Experienced craftsman as he is, Mr..
Hughes is not exempt from faults both
in matter and in manner. We agree
heartily with him in his belief that
there is no essential difference be
tween big towns and little towns, save
in size. The same passions, virtues
and vices are to be found in both, and
in pretty nearly the same ratio. For
his purpose to treat the little town as
he would big one we have. therefore,
nothing but approval.
But it really does seem TO us that
in most of these dozen and more
stories he does not only the little town,
but also the whole world, injustice III
making the people generally so little
and so void of appeal to human SYM
pathy. There are few persons in any
of them. and in some there are none at
all, that any rational. self-respecting
person would care to know; or indeed
whom we should not greatly dislike TO
be compelled to know. We do not
question the accuracy of his portrayal
OF them. But we cannot persuade our
selves that the average small town, II
indeed any small town at all, is so
largely composed of such uninterestinG
and actually repellent people.
In manner, too, Mr.. Hughes shows a
tendency toward what we might call
scrappiness. Short sentences often lend
vivacity 20 a narrative or picturesque
ness TO a description. but it is not
we'll to overwork them. Many passages
in these tales would be improved by
being played legato instead of staccato.
Of course, this criticism, like the pre-
ceding. is not applicable to all that is
in the book. There are some engaging
characters, and some passages which
leave nothing to be desired in literary
form; and it is because of these latter
that we chiefly object to the others.
When at his best Mr.. Hughes is too
good to have his imperfections passed
ever without protest.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Paying the Price
Romance and Tragedy in the
Sim Fem Dublin Rebellion

.xenao WINDS. Be- s., John c IRVINE.
C,s.c no s;I. IL. Mscnillaa Company.
NJ, Eryine has written in this volume
..~b.blL the best Of all his works to
is.,s ard he has produced somethlps
uIieh will be much read and much Tis-
sn,,.d. pro and contra. The irish
srsstionj is generally acute, and is al
s..vs intensely controversial, and no
ssst dealing with IL, whether 1t be
wssnt for propaganda or for art, can
..e.ns debate. This one can stand such
.rSstment unafrsid. 1t is written IN
.niiosophic rather than n partisan spir-
!. "a II makes n strong appeal both TO
.,rrd sense and to human sympathy.
III. lesson of it is that 1t is not always
81. dancers who pay the. piper; IN
s,hs, words, that some mem set In mo-
49, IN, forces of intrigue and agita-
"a, which lead to war, and others have
"a nav the price by serving, suffering
~ n.rhaps dying in that war. The
sook wildly sets forth the mental and
.,;ritusl attitude of young lrishmen
.sy.rd the European war. and presents,
also. a striking Psychological study OF
An. circumstances and actors of the
kspless Irish rebellion:
Henry realized that there was re-
eminent everywhere against the
sinn Feiners. Behind one of the gates
~ the park. a Sim Feiner was lying,
lace downward in the hole he had
made 10 be 8 trench, and the crowd
climbed up the ratings TO cape at
Rim. A youth thrust his way through
the people and peered at the dead
man. and then he turned to the crowd
and said 70 them; Lets get the poor
ohsp out and bury himl" A girl
licked at him resentfully and hur-
yi.d 70 a towsled woman standing on
the kerb, and told her what the youth
had said, and instantly the woman
rushed at him and hit him about the
head and back. "No, yen not get him
cut" she yelled at him. "Let him lie
here an rot like the poor soldiers!"
"They forgot, the Sim Feiners,
that these women's husbands and
sons are at the 'FRONT.'" Henry
thought -.
II well written hook, with the in
t,ysst sustained from beginning to end;
though at times introspection and
talk overbslance action, and there are
some Rab.laisisn expressions which
might well be spared
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31

centre of the metropolis is strikingly
suggested by the admirable little hand
book which has come from the Scri6ner
press. We have often wondered how
many or how few New Workers are
familiar with the nature treasures
which are to be found in the Aquarium,
the Natural History Museum, the
Geological Park, the Botanical Garden
and the Brooklyn Museum, Botanic
Garden and Children's Museum, we
have known people from the truly
rural regions to come hither to study
nature. and we have known New YORK,
ers. born and bred, to be instructed
concerning their own city by sucn
visitors. To both classes this book IS
70 be much commended.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
A Happy Ending

TIE ROAD TO UNDERTAKING. BY h'es 90
Houshton. Mi1iin Company.
Give US. after all. a story with a
happy ending. 1t may be old-fashionedi
\ but IL is spiritually comfortable. There
are Of course. exceptions. The awful
I trasedv in which Daudet's "Sapho" Gull
inmates simply had to be. SO did that
of SCOTS Bride of Lammermoor." Ihey
were ordained of fate. But such things
are the exception. In the average, let
us have the knots untangled and the
tears dried "Pollyanna" is our best
everyday philosopher.
Mrs. Porter has given US mere an
other of her delightfully."- sympathetic
tales. There are MISUNDERSTANDING
and heartaches and bitter hstreds IN II,
"a there are in real life. But there are
also reconciliation, restored falth ana
love, and browning happiness, as also
there are in real life. Nor is there any
improbability in the device OF having
the estraneed husband and wife brought
together again by their daughter Such
things happen, and will happen, and
orc inst az natural" and realistic
as any of the gloomy and perverted
stuF that so often steals those adJec-
tives. 1t is a genuinely human and
Rut we wish that the artist who
rainted the dainty colored plates had
resd the text before she made the
nictures. II she had, she would not
have shown a man sitting snugly IN
his chair with his elbow on the table
nb.n he dleaped forward with a low
crv" II then he INSTANTLY fell back,
he must inevitably have tumbled the
chair over with him. Also, in another
nicture. when she "rsng the bell" the
ppiri would have put her fingers on the
nush button instead Of on the sill OF
the sidelight; there would have been
,ome indication of the lovely old brass
knocker" on the door; and-reaily, the
door should not have been set IN sucn
A preposterously impossible frame
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Better Begun Than Ended

TIE HORNETS NEST. BY Mrs. wilson Wood
row. With Illustrations by Paul stair. lZmo'
pp. 3l3. Little. Brown Co.
Like "musty Christopher" we must
"mingle blame with praise" Happily,
there is cause for more Of the latter
thsn of the former; for this is, as its
publishers announce it. an unusual
mystery story, and it is in the man
unusually good. 1t abounds IN mys-
terry, though the mystiiication is more
on the part Of the people in the book
than Of the reader; which is good lit
erarv and dramatic art, too seldom DIS
played. 1t is refreshingly novel, in
that it makes reference, by name, TO
we'll known people of this present day
and to actual places in New York, and
does so with entire accuracy. II IS
free from the melodramatic exaggera-
ton which mars many mystery stores
Its plot is chiehy-not entirely quite
rational and within the limits of pos
sibility. With a few exceptions II is
written in uncommonly good English.
though why did the author write OF
that subtle. narrowed gaze OF hers
and zone of those short laughs OF
hers" both on the same page? There
is no previous mention of those char-
acteristics which would warrant such
reference to them. II should have read
simply, "a subtle. narrowed gaze" and
"a short laugh"
The chief fault is in the ending. We
do not mean the very lest line, or the
last half dozen lines. which are really
superb, but the last chapter excepting
those last half dozen lines-the adjust
ment Of affairs among the belliGerents.
il seems to us good deal like peace
without victory" and that is something
we do not like, either in world war
or in a mystery story. We might take
exception, too, to the incident with
which the book opens, the improba-
bility of which is almost staggering;
though we can forgive it for the sake
of the delightful sequel. But alto
gether it's a fine story.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Lies Comedy and Tragedy
Interesting Miscellany Of the Day

the contrary. it is singularly re-
strained, straightforward tale, with no
problem and no plot. II is just the sim
pie story of a lovable young couple who
permit themselves insidiously to be led
on and on into greater expenditures than
they can we'll afford. and who are thus
brought TO the brink Of financial ruin
and the loss OF all domestic happiness.
A catastrophe saves them. and we as
eSme that they live happily and more
economically ever after. 1t is a pleas
ant little tale TO read, and il is worth
the reading
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31

girl, sweet, eirlish, unsophisticated;
who comes home from school 20 ma
her parents, and particularly her
mother. altogether sophisticated, self
ish. ambitious. and thinking of moth
ing but to "bring her OUT in the most
conventional manner. with wealth and
fashion counting for everything, and
heart and happiness quite ignored. The
girl revolts against the artificiality and
insincerity about her. and though for
time she despairs Of overcoming the
forces Of the socially elect, she in the
end wins the good fight and comes out
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31

nspoiled-though there must have
been some strenuous settlement after
the end Of the book.
The story is told with unfailing
vivacity, in the true spirit Of girlhood,
and its portrayal of the "swell set is
nearer the truth than that given by
many society novels" disclosing both
the nobility and the meanness Of char
acter which are to be found there as
well as pretty much everywhere else.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
The Saga Of Solvei

TIE sTINGY RECEIVER. BY Eleanor Hsllorsl
Abbott With Illustrations by Fanny Munsell
lsmo. pp. 1862. The Century Company.
This is the story of rich, sick
woman, a charming young Morse girl
and the young doctor. II Is whimsical,
sparkling with wit and fun and in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
XtrayaQance

tSpyHrow By Kathleen Norris With a ifontiS-
ysss iSna %. eis Doubleday. Page Go.
Extrs,sgance Is the theme, not the
sAsrsster. Of the book. For itself there
IA NOT one extravsgsnt word in it. On
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
The Terror on the Stage

THE ARISTOCRAr. A Play. By Louis y. Parker.
Author o, "DEareli." Joseph and His Broth
req" "Pornsnder walk" etc. i2mo. pp iot.
John Lane Company.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-31
Not To Be Spoiled

BRINGING OUT BARBARA. By Ethel Train.
I2mo. Do. 239. Charles scribners Sons.
1t is the story, told in the first per
son. Of the experiences OF New York
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-12
entertainments AND
CUSTOMS OF LONG AGO

Early in tho fifteenth century. bur
lcsQucs OF great Extravaganza were
introduced into the castles Of 'h" mo-
bi!ity, and even at court, where tile
noble ladies ard lords were ma doubt
bored with the heretofore solemn cello.
bration Of the English ChratmaS.
These hUNoncTics were taiscn part I'm
by all tho r.ttinCrs in the household
and claboraN costumes we're provided,
some az them Of Oriental spIcndor In
the sixteenth century. however. these
plays bcCamc more refined and were
Known as "Iasuucs. from The mask.
still worn b. the performers. Thcy
resemble tn" private thcatricHlS or
drawing room plays Of the present
times.
our Pilgrim fathers countcnanc"d no
such lrivolitics ia their Christmas eel.
"hrati"ns These mnaducs were 40
doubt among The many worldly things
at which thcir honest. religious hearts
rohcll"n. Thcy spent their vcry fir.t
Christmas in their newly adop,cd caur-
try America lin lowing tho log. ia
build the first huus" in plymouth, Mass.
TO those vino have never expert.
snccd "a southern Christmas can hard
~ he told the spirit nf cheer aud un-
bounded hospitality which exists. c.tn
in these busy times. though thoy had
their inception In the days before the
civil War, when cv"rybody's la,cu-
string was on the outside and nobody
could do too much for his ucirhbor.
For days before Christmas. Southern
kitch"ns iccm"d Win n,arvc louY od0rp
Of mincc PICS. sausage. rtuiing. mcau.
iug hot punch and savory vnpeiubIor
Christmas "Ec was made merry ON iL.
plantations hy hrngrani, usually orig.
en- tTgi .f.sy..
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-12-12

10 SEND ont poetry in ballad form print
cd on sheet of paper and illustrated
| with some formal figure or picture at
the top. These YOU Will find in this
/ little Richmond place.
or course, there is nothing new un-
ger ire sun-you lave guessed It. The
rNew York shop has merely gone bacl;
TO %ery old mode OF printing poetry.
ana u Is certainly most attractive
way 1ou Will find most OF rour ia
vofite modern poets having their work
brought out in such manner from
,nis original place. ;he Sunwise Turn
Broadside.
=, The Dreamers and Other Poems. by
lheodosia Garrison. is one Of the
christmas books IN this shop. and "A
Garden o! Paris" by Elizabeth Wal
lace, story oC Paris before the wa
and holiday novels by Connincsby
lawson. who ieaped into fame WIKI
larry On The Ruba!yat OF Omar
NhaE%am" is found there. beuuti:ulIy
Illustrated by Willie Posany, III. Hun
E"Eian illustrator. who puts all the
potent Charm or the East in every
single picture that he paints, and the
omar calendar is done by the same
artist. Nursic's Little Rhine Book"
IS fascinating thing illustrated by
H. Wiiiehcek lie MAR. the Dutch Kate
Hreenaway One woman in the sno,,
turning the pages OF this book. said:
TOW charming! never saw Humr,y-
huinp'N sit on tho wall before lie
was always spilled in my books"
1t is of peculiar interest to Rich
,nonu people that Dugald Stewar.
Walkers Illustrations for stories for
Etsiures, have had such q wide err
cuiotion among holiday books They
are poems in color, and make wonder
inl illustrations for Helen Mackay's
iairE stories. which she claims merely
zen ABOUT the pictures. AT any rate
me Illustrations make you rea iize that
MI the things YOU have always be-
!ieHed about fairies are surely truc.
BESIDES all this. one likes TO know
that DuSaid Walker also won the first
prize IN an exhibition OF book plates
az Columbia University. over fiftv
other competitors.
GREAT GIFT OF WORLD
LITTLE RED CROSS SEALS
And now my Christmas story IS