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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24
The Plight Of Jewry

THE chosen s.,I, PEOPLE F. sizing y Nyolrs
&c $40. pp. 253. J. y. TApptncst Company
One who has probed the heart of
modernist Jewry is here interpreting
the plight rather than the opportunity
of race, and at the same time bring
ing under focus more than one ethical
perplexity to which the human spirit
has fallen heir. An attractive, genial
minded, justice loving youth Of twenty
four becomes rabbi OF an uptown
church in Baltimore, whose ritual is
based on frank rationalism. Between
the members of the wealthy congrega-
ton and the poor Russian Jews Of the
Ghetto there was the social interval
that only organized charity could at
tempt to bridge. The chief concern
Of this well controlled narrative is with
the sangulne young minister's en-
counter with trades dispute. his disll-
lusionment and his compulsion to set
his deliverances in a lower key. I'D
rather you'd be happy than be able to
see things straight" says a Gentle girl
who had engaged his affection. you
were never born to do both A tren-
chant character is drawn in David Cor
don, a Mephistopheles OF a lawyer, who
half succeeds in showing that in his
own way he also can be doing Gods
work" The author has an almost un-
canny gift of piercing to the marrow
of human motives, and there is in his
writings an incalculable element pro-
phetic of greater things TO come.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24
The Navies of the World

JAMES FIGHTING SHIPS: 1915 Al Encyclo-
psdis ~ the Nayies ~ tho World. Roio. I'D.
l63. tt9. Sampson Low. Marston 90
This unrivalled work, now in its nine
teenth year of issue, presents graphic
record of the war. There are detailed
lists of vessels lost during the war by
the British, French. German and other
navies, with pictures Of most OF them
excepting the British. There are also
lists of ships of all navies, with all
possible details OF construction, speed,
armament. etc. and pictures. including
photographs. silhouettcs, sections. deck
plans and what not. But of british
ships, under the prohibition Of the
defence of the Realm" act, not sin
gle picture or plan of any kind is
given. Information Of German vessels
is of course incomplete, but it is much
fuller than might have been expected,
and it includes photographs Of num-
Der Of submarines in French and Brit
ish harbors, made after their capture.
The American navy occupies great
space, but even that Of the smallest
power is not sighted. The navy Of
Hayti is treated just az seriously as
that Of Great Britain or of the
United States. II il book Of marvel
lous research and utility, for refer
ence. and of unsurpassed interest AS an
illustrated and pictorial exposition OF
the sea power Of the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24
A Child and Some Grown-Ups

THE MIDDLE PASTURE. By Msthilde Blbrc
with Illustrations by Frances Porer Pratt and
Christine Tucse curiH. limo. pp. s2i small
Maynard n Go.
It is not an easy thing TO tell story
after the manner of child, particu-
larly when the story relates essentially
TO the interests and doings of grcwn-up
folk. That is the task to which the
writer Of this book addressed herself
and which she has performed uncom-
monty we'll The story is told by a
harum -scarum "fapper," who conceives
it to be her mission TO compose family
feuds, regulate courtships and ger
orally be the guardian Of the social and
domestic welfare of the community.
There are all kinds of childish FRANKS
and adventures, at times verglng upon
the tragic, but all invariably natural
and instinct with the true spirit Of
childhood, and related just as such a
child would relate them.
The story centres about a tract OF
pasture land lying between two estates,
the ownership of which is in dispute
between the two branches Of the fam
lily. 1t is the favorite playground Of
Beatrice who tells the story and her
loyal brother and pal" Billy, and be-
comes the stage Of the whole drama,
which eliminates in the discovery of
valuable mine, and also Of long lost
will disposing of the land, the settle
ment Of the family feud and happiness
all around. There is a wealth of incl
dent and action, of sentiment and hu-
NOR. and of the other elements which
compose a thoroughly enjoyable story.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24
OOKS: AUTHORS: PUBIISE1ERS~NEWS: REVIEWS COMMENT

what chance is there Of peace? We are
thrown back 10 Bismarck's declaration,
that the issues of the day are 10 be
settled not by debates and parlia-
mentary DEGREES, but by blood and iron.
This lucid and convincing volume
makes that clear. and Mr.. Mcclure has
rendered an invaluable service TO the
world in putting the work forward at
this time. 1t is calm, orderly, mex
orable exposition of the truth as he
discovered it. with chapter and verse
of innumerable authorities on both
sides for confederation. 1t is of espe-
cal service to Mr.. McClure's own coun-
trymen, for il exhibits TO them in Nv
ing lneaments the savage interna-
tional beast with which they are now
called upon TO do battle, to protect
their wives and daughters from being
raished unto death by licentious SOL
diery and their homeland from being
transformed into that abomination Of
desolation which now exists where once
were the fairest towns Of Belgium and
France. All else sinks into insgnif-
canoe before the one transcendent is
sue. II is the gross beast of Prussian-
ism against the soul and the civiliza-
ton of the world.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24
Bravo, AuroraI

.t-pop. THE MAGNIFICENT b. Gertrude
Hall. svo ID i37. The Century Company
"Plcased to meet YOU" Mrs. Helen
Aurora Hawthorne; bouncing Betsey
that YOU are, exuberant lady as ever
came under the fell clutch OF too sudden
wealth. Forgive the inquisitiveness'
hut did YOU ever. in an earlier incarna-
ton. follow the circus? As Miss Ger,
trude Hall informs US, you were derived
from the sand hills OF Cape Cod, mn
i.hed your education in East Boston,
strove and suffered in Colorado, ana
then, your day having dawned, you
made YOUR cheerful Eruption into tne
nstonished Anglo-American circles OF
Florence. What grand villa II was
in which you and your school-ma am
companion installed yourselves, re-
cardless"! How near you came TO de-
moralizing the poor with your squan-
dering bounty! How highly you d.
verted your compatriots by frequent
lapses. from what you called their per-
nickety way of talking into sheer
United States, And that young artist,
on the way TO becoming a morbid ana
pedantic ass, how fortunate for nm
flat YOU ever came to town, And your
reverent regard for plain horse-sense'
with a sanative good humor and ma,
tive piety that came TO the proof ana
did not preach. Then your love story
as Miss Hall has told it, or as her
Cockney tenor would sing 1t, "Ihere
was a Lady loved Swine" But, Au-
rora the fix you got into served you
iolly we'll right. "Well, here's pretty
howdydo! II every time refuse him
he's going off like this TO stay away for
dow. and DAYS, what am going to do 2
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24
The Ruck Of the City
HER OWN SORT AND OTHERS b. Charts
Belmont DAVIS. Illustrated. Emo. pp 33c
Charles Scribncr's Son6

HER OWN SORT AND OTHERS b. Charts
Belmont DAVIS. Illustrated. Emo. pp 33c
Charles seribner's Som.
Mr.. Davis has given US In this hand
some volume some stories OF I'M
doubted power and fascination, with
many genuine touches OF human In
terest. They are not lacking in dra-
matte elements, and in parts there is
wistful pathos all but irresistible.
But it is on the whole a painful picture
OF metropolitan life which they pre-
sent. Amid all the splendor and gay
ETY. the skeleton at the feast cannot
be hidden. Says the master-figure in
the strongest OF the tales:
This town poisons you. Some of
us live through it, and some of US
don't, but we all die with it in our
systems. And the worst of it is that
it isn't confined TO New York-this
town ought to be segregated, but you
can't segregate il. It's the fountain
head for the rotten books and the
filthy plays and the stories of the
gay life and the Great White Way,
and the romances of fortunes made
overnight on the stock market; and
the rotten plays and the tales OF
Broadway and Wall Street are sent
scurrying over the country like bad
blood chasing through the veins Of
some great fine brute Of an animal.
It's an octopus, tell you, an octo-
pus, and its dirty tentacles stretch
to every village in America.
Said by New Yorker Of New York,
who shall refute it? But it does not
leave a pleasant taste in the mouth Of
the reader.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24

ySCLAND's WORLD EMPIRE. Some Reflection,
I'poD rs CroSth and Poig. BY Alfred npt
Granger l2mo. pp. T. 3e3. The Opon Court
Publishing Company
Mr.. Granger is neither Anglomsnisc
nor Anglophobe. and his book is in no
sense propagandist in purport. It aims
to present an impartial, dispassionate
account of the ways and means by
which England has created and main
tanned her vast empire, especially IN
her dealings with minor and subject
peoples. and to draw therefrom lessons
Of practical value to the United states
in solving the problems with which it
is confronted.
some Of the authors assumptions
probably will be challenged: The so
called twill of Peter the Great has
moi the authenticity with which he
seems to credit it, but was sheer in
yention, long after Peters death. IL
would have been we'll to explain more
fully the origin Of the famous teie.
,,ram TO Paul Kruger at the time or
The Jameson Raid. which he says con,
fdcntlv that the German Emperor dld
not write. and also to tell how 1t was
that Delcasse and Grey prevented,
friendship between Germany ana
France. in 1911. Statements so inter,
esting as these deserve more detailed
treatment.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24
Lies Comedy and Tragedy
Portrayed in Current Fiction

not say that he takes himself too
seriously. or puts too much seriousness
in mis- stories, but that he has not
Harte's marvellous gift-as, indeed,
who has7-of infusing into even the
most pathetic and tragic narratives
that element of human humor which
does actually exist in real life and
which is essential for perfecting the
strongest appeal to human sympathy.
In the elements of the picturesque,
the dramatic, the heroic, MIR. Garland
excels most writers of Western tales.
He has learned the lesson Of restraint,
and has acquired senses of form and of
proportion and of perspective. He has
the gift of entering deeply into the
spirit of the various phases OF life
which he portrays and woman,
good and bad. cowboy, miner, tramp,
fugitive, forester; they are all subject
to his deft incantations. There is a
pure mountain and woodland atmos-
pherc all through his tales, manly
devotion TO that which is upright, hon
est, generous and free, and a scathing
hatred of all that is base, unjust or
despotic. To make this spirit dominant
and aggressive in every scene, and yet
never once seem to preach or morelize.
is admirable art and of such art in
this volume Mr.. Garland shows himself
a master.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24
Bonnie Prince Charlie

THE WOMAN ADvENTURER BIZ George
Cough. With color-d frontiSpiece. limo. ~.
go. G 4. Putnsrns Sons.
The days of Bonnie Prince Charlie"
have furnished inspiration and themes
for romances innumerable. Usually
they have been Of high-born cavaliers,
when they have celebrated the Jaco-
bean side; as, indeed. is not uniting.
Yet there were commoners on that
side, too, and il is well TO have now
and then a story Of their exploits.
So here is the tale OF 4 yeoman who
became an adventurer in "the AZ; a
Staffordshire farmer. who follows his
prince through perils and adventures
innumerable, and who also follows the
biddings Of love for fair Margaret, IN
which latter campaign he is as sue
cessful as he was bottles In the for
mer. IL is brave story. we'll told,
with less Of affectation and archaisms
than many others Of the same era, and
probably as true n. any as picture.
a moving picture, Of those days and
stirring scenes. We are told that II Is
the authors FIRST serious attempt;
which moves us 70 hope that he VIII
not nroye 20 be an author Of . single
book. A volume a. good as this should
be tho precursor OF other cnrchmenE
Of our literature.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24
The Supreme Issue Of the War
Set Forth with Compelling Force

utilized at home, TO send it into Ger
many" In other words, in an epigram,
Loot. This is unctuously and Doastiul-
~ dwelt upon and enlarged upon by
German authorities. who tell how pri-
vate property as we'll as public was
confscated. until the plunderers were
embarrassed by the volume of their
loot, which they had not storehouses
sufficient to contain. OF course, every
schoolhoy versed in even the rudiments
Of international law knows that such
action is as Illegal as-let us say
the poisoning Of wells or the ravishing
of women.
Germany. says Mr.. Mcclure, has
stripped the Belgian people of nearly
all their removable property. has
"Mexicanized the financial machinery
and currency Of Belgium" has put to
death thousands of Belgian civilians,
has deported hundreds OF thousands
Of Belgians into sayery in Germany
and is compelling hundreds of thou
sands OF Belgians to aid Germany IN
her war against Belgium. So says Mr..
Mcclure. But. he adds, these facts ere
subStantiated by German authorities,
and are accepted by Germany as well
as by England and France. Nothing
could be more convincing as to the
criminality Of Germany, in the eyes OF
international law.
Take another example of the proved
falsity of German statements con-
corning the war. The German Naval
staff i'm February of last year official
Is announced that its airships had
bombardcd Liverpool and Birkenhead,
causing great explosions and fires; and
the German Embassy at Washington
had reports Of vast destruction wrought
by that raid. "As soon as | reached
Liverpool" says Mr.. Mcclure, Il was
eager TO see for myself what had hap
pened. saw nothing, for nothing had
happened. No Zeppelin had ever come
near Liverpool, Birkenhead or Man
chester" The same testimony was
given by Swedish journalist who had
made a most thorough investigation
soon after the reported raid. Again, IN
July and August last, there were otil-
cial German reports of enormous de-
struction wrought in London by Yep
pelins. including the damage Of Thames
bridges, the burning Of docks and
warehouses, the blowing up and burn
ing OF whole blocks Of buildings IN the
heart of London, and the killing OF
thousands of people. This whole
statement" says Mr.. Mcclure, us pure
Imagination" SO with other stories OF
other raids: 81 made a thorough in
vestigation. ! found the English re-
ports accurate and the German reports
purely imaginative" Yet, "the Ger
man people absolutely believe these
fables
Obviously here is tremendous OBJ
stacle to peace. The German govern,
ment has on the one hand violated
every law of nations and Of humanity,
and on the other has perverted the
minds of the German people with les
making them believe that 1t is Ger
many that has been wronged and the
Allies that have committed atrocious
crimes, and deluding them with the
false belief that Germany is winning
in the air. on and under the sea, and
on the land With such state OF
mind prevailing in Germany, and with
the Allied nations knowing the truth,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24
Carland's Good Stories

THEY or THE HIGH TRAILS. BY Hsmln Gar
land Illustrated limo. pp XVI go h"pe'
d Bros.
Mr.. Garland has never done peter
work than in these ten tales OF west
ern life and adventure. Nor, with re"
exceptions, has any one ever done PEI
ter There are some exceptions, ths
chief Of them being suggested by Mr.:
Garland himself in the words OF one OF
his Characters, and by Mr.. Howells IN
the appreciative introduction which ne
mas written for the book, in their ref.
erences 10 Bret Harte. At the risk OF
mourning the odium of comparison
makers. we should say that the respect
in which Mr.. Garland chiefly falls shers
OF Harte is in that of humor. We would
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24
Neither Holmes nor Loring

TIE BRITISH CAMPAIGN ~ FRANCE AID
FLANDERS. 1914 BY Arthur Oman pogle
author Of The Great Bo%T War" etc. With
maps and plans. $40. pp nv. $40 George II.
DoTan Company.
II is perhaps unintentionally signih-
cant that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is
described in the title page of this hand
some volume as the "author of The
Great Boer War etc" Ninety-nine OF
every hundred readers of him think of
him as the creator of Sherlock Holmes
and Of Sir Nigel Loring, and as such
he will be remembered. OF course, It
might have seemed incongruous to offer
n record of fiction writing as the ere
dentials of serious historian. but
quite apart from that the omission of
those immortal names is logical. For
it is not the Conan Doyle of Sherlock
Holmes and "The White Company
that writes this history. Physically
the same, no doubt, and the same IN
purpose; but far other in execution.
Perhaps it is because the gifted ro-
mancer conceived it to be necessary to
divorce himself completely from his
style as romancer when he essayed
a serious history. With the intent OF
tlrat separation we can cordially sym
pathize. But its result we must lam
entably deplore. For that result is
a history which, while eminently dig
nifed and respectable, is sadly dull.
The dramatic touch is lacking. The
touch of humor is not there. Even
when an incident is recorded which
would have inspired a Motley or
Froude TO an immortal passage, it IS
done in little more than the spirit OF
an official bulletin. "Quainuy valor-
Gus, also, is the picture of Major Pow
ell leading his wing with a badly
sprained ankle and using cottage
chair for a crutch, upon which he sat
down between rushes." Valorous, in
deed; but could the consummate artist
of Sir Nigel give US even in three lines
no better picture than that?
However the name and the authority
of Sir Arthur invest the book with
interest; it provides a connected and
coherent chronicle Of the operations
along the British line in the west dur
ing the five months OF 1914; the maps
and plans are numerous and useful;
ard the work will fill a prominent
place among current war books, until
the defnitve history of the great con-
hict shall be written.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24
Why There Is War
! Whv There Must Be War
Until the Beast Is Slain

,rs no PEACE By Samuel 5 Mcclure
SD xrit. as. H0ugh,on Mfhin Company.
n, whole book, from one point oil
i monstrously superfuous; while
:. smother. which is, after all, the
..,ieal and important one, every
|'.snd word and line is precious and
'g,,snsable. From the former, VIC
-. say that all obstacles to peace
- he summarized and epitomlzed IN
.word. Prussianism; which would be
..lv and comprehensively true.
,s,n the latter, We shall say that II IS
vi and again well and yet again
TT 10 have this copious and COM
.,nding volume of mordant definitions
- aqua forts etched portrayals OF
s-ssianism as il really Is.
yobodv, we assume, Will charge MI
y.rlure with anti-German bias. mere
:. on the contrary. been an inclina~
~ 10 suspect him of pro-German
'--astbies. We should ourselves regard
-1s distinctly open-minded and I'M
..,,ial. Certainly his efforts TO secure
I-,.hsnd information were earnest ana
..isfstieable, and his sources oil evl-
.,s,s were numerous and varied Ger
80 Austrian and Turkish, as we'll as
T-rlsh and French. II is impossible to
-,y;ne that he ARaS animated by any
80 hut a passionate desire to learn
10 report the truth. And what IS
.,st result? One Of the most wlther-
:. and damning indictments of the
gsrnish Beast that has ever appeared
nrint. To adapt the epigram oil
.-bttta-or was it Louis Blanc =
S,rssianism; that is the Enemy.
q, NAV pass over, for the present.
=. territorial questions. which are or
- he obstacles to peace. They are
-;sor: and they have been much dis
-.,d The spiritual obstacles are
..rnount. II is upon them that Mr..
y,Cure most dwells. and he does so
~ singular efficiency. Here rs the
.,rise logic Of the case: Each side
x,rres the other with almost unbe-
s.r,ble atrocities. Perhaps we may
.,v that each side believes the other
"A be guilty of them. Therefore there
vhite-hot hatred Of each for the
,h,r; a hatred such as Eternal Right
,nuess approves, when directed
,ninst an object so diabollcally deserV-
~ Of il. But-and here is the soul
rsreing elimination of it ably the
,,,,rches of impartial witnesses, ana
81, admissions of the Germans them
slr.s. condemned out of their own
,cutbs. the charges Of the Germans,
,,sirst the Allies are chiefly false, and
\. charges of the Allies against the
esrrsns are everlastingly true.
Take a few examples: Germany has
rovsted that her treatment OF civil
1. Belgium has been humane, benevo-
at and in accordance with interna-
ssn,l law. But Mr.. Mcclure quotes
- ,ninent German authority as de-
saring that the German administration
: Belgium and France has acted upon
Z. principle "to draw the most possi-
Il, from the conquered enemy coun-
IN: and everything which is superhu-
y, for the army, but which can be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24
Lessons in Empire-Building

YNCLAND's WORLD EMPIRE. scrns Rsn.ct,crs
Upon It's GrOsth and Po.iS. BY Alfred nc9t
Gamer l2mo. pp. T. 3e3. The Opon Cour
Publishing Company
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-24

and Jerome. 1t is equally an exposition
of the development of that elemental
and irreconcilable sntagonism between
the Czechs and Germans which for i've
hundred years has possessed and DOM
mated Bohemia and which we have seen
in our own day to rise to an intensity
of hatred such as perhaps never else
where has been surpassed, If even
ecualled, in inter-racial feuds. This
feature of the work gives it especial
timeliness, as throwing side-light,
though borrowed from the past, upon
the causes and circumstances of the
tragedy which now makes Eastern
Europe the stage Of its enactment.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-06
Wien eaffaloes Swept the Plains.

In pioneer days the railroads cross
ing the plains were often delayed for
many hours by huffaloes. In 1871 and
1872 trains on the Atchison, Topeka
and Sante Fe railroad were charged
by the enraged beasts cars were de-
rallied and overturned and the lives OF
train crews and passengers endangcr-
ed. Many tales of hairbreadth escapes
were related by small parties OF sol
diers, frontiersmen and emlgrants, and
it is possible that many an emigrant
wae NJ with fta occupants that left the
Missouri river and was never seen
agaia was overwhelmed 10y the hui1a
Toes rather than wiped ont of c2lsrcncc
ny the Indians, 10 whom all uncXplain
cd disappearance were attributed.
large buffalo bills weighed 1000
pounds or mole. and COWS weighed in
the neghborhood Of 100 pounds.
Herds numbering many thousands were
really irresistible and In stampede
carried Ill before thcni.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-03-06
aenainoton,s MIA Winter.

The Barre Times finds cause for
wonder in the statement from the
Bennington Blnner that there is not
much snow on the ground at the pres
ont time" Central Vermont, accord
ing to the Times. is covered with
snow to the depth OF from IS inches
to two feet on the level. while the
drifts are piled to a height of 10 or II
feet In the northern part OF the
state conditions are said TO be worse.
Brattleboro and surrounding towns
are by no means FREQ from snow, as
anyone who has had occasion to drive
through this section recently will
testify. but il one may judge by train
schedules the grip OF winter is much
less paralyzing here than it is 80 or
100 miles north As for Bennington.
it has boasted for years, and with
reason, about the comparative mild
ness OF its winters. -Brattleboro Re-
forneA