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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24
bodybuilding Thrift

THRIFT. BY Bolton Hall. I2rno. pp. 2i7 D. W.
IlIcbsch.
The reader Of spendthrft tendencies
and he is the only one who needs TO
read such book. because a penurious
person needs no admonitions to save
will find very little that is practical
in Bolton Halls latest book. II is full
Of sweeping generalizations which the
author makes no attempt TO prove. The
first part of the book contains some
ancient material which Mr.. Hall en-
deavors 10 make sound original and
startling by stating it from a new
angle. Bernard Shaw is about the
only living author who can succeed at
that feat without being detected, and
occasionally he gets caught.
Some of the statements in the book
are dangerously misleading. o.
course. 1t is a mistake to quote prices
on commodities the costs of which are
constantly fuctuating, but if Mr.. Hall
will tell US where in New York we can
buy foodstuffs at the prices he names
we shall be tempted to start forth at
once and stock up not only for our
selves but for our friends and rela-
tlves. His statement, at pays TO
oSNiS' iabhei IMAM W 10 W the store,
has q nice swing to its wording, but
it is certainly not intended for the
multitudes who dwell in steam heated
apartments, with no place to hoard
eatables except tiny. we'll warmed cup
boards. We can picture the dismay
of the too eagerly thrifty housewife
when some bright morning she opens
her cupboard and surveys the nicely
sprouted winter potato crop which her
basket will contain. The chapter on
investments in Land" is a chameleon
which changes into diatribe on un-
lust methods of taxing improved land.
The part of the book which deals with
Intensive Cultivation" passes lightly
over the problems Of transportation
and marketing, which. however, give
considerable concern to the practical
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24
The Temper of MIR. Chesterton

UTOPIA OF UsURERs and oher fssays. b.
Gilbert X. Chcs;suon. lsno. ~. ?li. Boni &
LIyeTi6ht
A SHORT HISTORY OF ENGLAND. Pr Gilbert
X ChesnrOu. l2mo pp. 2st. John lane Com
p1ny.
Mr.. Chesterton is always interesting,
even when he is in bad temper, as he
surely is in the essays before US.
Doubtless there is some provccation.
Everything is not yet for the best pos
sible, in the best possible of worlds.
But will Mr.. Chesterton, the areh-rebel
OF society, attain his point by going a.
things hammer and tongs? He will at
tract attention, of course; he always
does that. But we are not sure that
he will produce conviction. The trouble
is that he is so fond of paradoxes and
other rhetorical tricks that people hesi-
tate TO take him seriously; ard when
he bangs away with his biggest ham
mer they are inclined TO smile and say,
"0h, he's doing that just to make a
noise"
His history is not really history at
all, but his interpretation of and COM
ments upon history, which are thor
oughly Chestertonian and often quite
delightful, as when he says that "thc
French Revolution was n riot that
broke up the very formal funeral Of
Christianity and was followed by va
rious other complications, including the
corpse coming to life" OF course, we
cannot always agree with him. He
would be inconsolably unhappy if we
could. But we cannot help being in
terested in him.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24
Davis: Rodin: Raemaekers-
Chesterton: Hunnish Piracy

Tho narents n president confidence IN
their bows making good" There arc
words Of admonition and advice, OF
conrse: not of the coddling kind. but
straightforward. manly and womaniy'
One Of the mothers letters, IN partic-
ular. is wonderfully reminiscent OF the
inspiring editorials which she used to
write for The Tribune; her tone u
her son being just that which she TOOK
toward the multitudinous audience
which she addressed through our col,
umns. As for the sons tone TOWARD
them, nothing could be more admirabie,
than it's fine blending Of familiarity ana
respect, of modesty and yet Of SELL
confidence.
The closing pages Of the volure1
are filed with letters 10 his wlie' anu
thew are marked throughout with thP
very tone which the most ardent lover
would employ in the tenderest mlss!veS
Of his wooing. They are true loVeciet
ters. every one; and they add the maj
touch of sentiment 70 one of the most
fascinating and in all respects most
creditable collections OF personal Iet-
tors which we remember TO nave reao'
There is much frank speaking IN many
of them. and there are many Things
which were never expected to be madc
nublic. But we cannot regret thaI
single line was ever written, or was
nrinted. The correspondence forms
splendid epilogue TO his voluminouS
contributions to American hteTaturs
and a noble disclosure Of his own IN"
innate self as every inch man.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24
A Writer and a Man

ADVENTURES AND LETTERS or. RICHARD
WaRnlNG DAVIS kilted hy his bro,haf.
Charlie. Belmont Davis Illustrated. $40. Up
eli. Charles Scribners Sons
The editor is fortunate in his sub
iect and the subject is fortunate IN bis
editor. Also. we may add, Richard
Harding Davis was, and his fame ~
fortunate in his correspondence. 30
often letters published after dean
form an anti-climaX TO writer's WORK,
or make disclosures which we woulc
rather have had Lett unmade. Not so
in the present case. These letters are
so thoroughly characteristic OF DAVIS
in his varying moods. but always at
the best OF them, that they enhance
our estimate of his genius as a writer
and of his red-blooded, whole-hearted
manliness as man; wherefore we.
with the countless multitude OF those
who have been delighted with his many
writings, are grateful indeed for the
putting forth of them IN this attrac-
tive form and with so much OF discreet,
restrained and tasteful comment and
connecting narrative. 60,
There is something inexpressibly
winning in the early correspondence be
tween Davis and his parents, IN hls col
lege days and in the years immediate
ly afterward, when he was making his
first essays as story writer. 1t eN-
hibits an unaffected, intimate comrade..
ship on both sides, and on the side al
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24
Brieux and Society

BRIEUx AND CONTEMPORARY FRENCH so
GETTY BY William j. Sche!fey. l2no. %. l.
456. G.. T. PuiEam's sons
The unpretentiousness of scholarship
gets a fresh exemplification in this
handbook, wherein Professor Scheifey
provides not only an introduction to VI.
Brieux and all his works, but also a
reflection of literary opinion in France
upon the social concerns to which the
dramatist's plays are devoted. 1t might
seem like a rude sort of praise-and
from a reviewer feeling low in his
mind-to remark the absence of pom
pous solemnity in the authors deport-
ment. sympathy, Mr.. Scheifiey thinks,
should form the basis Of literary c-it!-
cism. For, according TO Henri Bor-
deaux, "comprendre est le refet de
Greer" and only a sympathetic APP
preach can enable the critic 20 WITTY
an authors creation sufficiently TO un-
derstand it. Now, we would not wish
to contradict Mr. Scheifey; only, we
don't see how, at this rate, he will ever
attain to such complete detachment
from earth and heaven as marks the
pedant born.
il was through an inhrmity of the
flesh that VI. Brieux became known in
America to that important entity, the
general public. The play, Damaged
Goods" was chiefly a medical preach
ment, not to call it pathological night
mare, and il advertised its creators
apostclical inclinations without doing
justice TO his dramatic insight and
technical skill as they have been recog-
nized in France these many years. II
the didacticism Of some plays needs
excusing. this is not TO object TO thesis
drama, for in expounding social aspira-
tions and judgments VI. Brieux is in the
line of well established French tradi-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24
ROOKS= AUTHORS: PUBL SHERS~NEWS: REVIEWS CONINEN

farmer. The chapters on "Nationai
Waste" Community Waste and
Dumping Refuse" are among the best
in the book.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24
Auguste Rodin
A Timely Memorial Of the Man
and His Works

ROBIN The Man and HIS At: Win iearss : rO '9
Ills Noe Book Complied BY Judith Ciadsl no
by lanes luneker Illustrated with Photograph.
Folio. Do xiv. 957. Tho Century Company.
As if with some unconscious premoni-
ton of his impending dissolution, this
splendid volume appeared Just niue
while before the death of the man
whom il concerns, and thus 1t forms a
timely and appropriate memorial OF
him. It comprises biography OF him.
sufficiently detailed and replete with
incidents and characterizations to give
the reader sympathetic acquaintance
with the personality of the man,
knowledge Of his sources Of inspiration
and of his methods of study and labor,
and also some vision Of the develop
ment Of the artist, from stage to stage,
to the elimination of his imperial
genius. This revelation of him is made
by the author with commendable taste
and judgment; with appreciative rev.
erence for his art in its Hottest at
tainments, and yet with critical percep-
tions of his shortcomings, and happily
without indulgence in that indiscrimi-
nate and fulsome eulogy which Is the
too common fault of many biographer,
OF inc great.
The copious excerpts from Robins
own note book are doubly felicitous, in
that they are not scrappy and discon-
nected, but form a coherent and sus-
tanned whole and are written in mas
terly style, which is at once authori-
tative to the artist and eXquisitely
lucid and ineligible to the laymar,
who knows nothing Of technique, but is
merely capable of receiving and per-
ceiving impressions of beauty. Not the
least charm Of them is their unaffected
modesty and simplicity. He does not
"affect the god" nor pretend TO have
mastered all Of art and nature. To
him the book Of nature was volumi-
nous tome, Of which he himself had
read only a few pages; and he was
quite willing to concede that there were
other pages just as important, which
others had read to no less purpose than
he. Indeed, his most eloquent periods
are tributes to artists before whose
genius he bowed in reverence. Thus.
contemplating some Of those shrines Of
faith and art which Hunnish bestiality
has delighted to befoul and to destroy,
he exclaims:
Truly the Gothic master builders
were the familiar friends Of the
sublime. From what source did
these men spring! From what minds
did those ideas arise! God has
shared his power with some Of his
sons.
Mr.. Huneker's introduction is partly
deft criticism and partly rapt eulo-
GUM, and altogether eloquent and in
spring. The profusion of plates are
fine examples of halftone; full Of color,
life and spirit. The paper and print
of the volume are a joy TO the most
exacting and fastidious eye.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24
The Hun Portrayed

KI1yrrJR IN CARTOONS, BY Louis RaemseEers
With Accompanying Note, v Well knosn Ensn'h
Writers. Folio Up els The Century COMPANY
Amid the multitudinous food OF 1T
erature and art poured forth nj the
nrovocation Of the great war there is
nothing more sure Of immortality than
rne cartoons of Louis Raemaekers. In
tenseiy impassioned as they are, they
have the supreme merit of truth.
Simple, sometimes almost crude, in de-
sign as they are. they tell each a whole
drama. Like "Punch's" famous Gen,
eral Fevrier" and dropping the Plot
tbev are epical. Some Of them, like
Germany and the Neutrals" and THE
Higher Pile" are unspeakably horrible
in suggestion, and had they been put
forward a year before the war as proph-
ecies of what would be they would have
been all but universally denounced as
the work of a mailman; yet nobody can
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24
H;storv Written From the Heart

WHAT HAPPENED TO ME-. By Lasalle Coroei!
Pickett illustrated syo. pp 800. hFen'Aho ,
Mrs. Pickett might perhaps be called
n hero-worshipper in her writings ABOUT
ho- husband, but that would not be Tor
her term of disparagement. apart
from the allowance which must prop,
erly be made for wifely affection ana
partially, there is ground for entnusl-
asm and something more IN dwelIlns
upon one of the knightliest figures IN
an army in which there were many OF
the bravest of the brave. But MRS:
Pickett, in this enhancing relation OF
her personal experiences IN the Civii
War, does not by any means conhne
herself 10 telling Of the man who per-
haps above all others was the Conted-
crate hero Of that wars greatest bat
tie. She has much to tell of other men,,
in blue as well as in gray, and what
she tells is full of the sweetest human
kindness. Note this account Of her in
terview with Lincoln, just after the
fall of Richmond:
The day after the fire there was a
rap ut our door. The servants had
ali run away. The city was full of
Northern troops, and my environ
ment had not taught me to love them.
With my baby on my arm ] answered
the knock, opened the door and
looked I'D at a tall. gaunt, sad-faced
man in ill-itting clothes. who asked
with the accent of the North:
as this George Pickett's place ?"
This is General Pickett's home,
sir" replied, "but he is not here"
az know that, ma'am; know where
George Pickett u.s." he answered, "but
Just wanted to see the place. Down
In old Quincy, H., where | used to
hear George Pickett whistle the
songs of Virginia in his bird-like
notes, have heard him describe his
home till in spirit / have been here
many time. ! have smelled the
multifora roses and the Lady Bank
shire roses and the golden cluster
roses and those great cabbage roses.
have seen the borders of hyaclnths
in the springtime and the lilies-of-
thc-valley blooming in the chimney
corner. the beds Of violets, the rows
Of beehives and the lily-beds that the
bees knew were theirs, had been
planted Just for them. have stood
under the nrbor and gathered those
strange green-looking grapes that are
like the Virginia aristocracy, growing
cach one on IT'S own individual stem.
think he called them scuppernongs.
have sat on that back porch and
listened 10 the music "a his sister
Virginia. CT whom he was so proud,
sang in that glorious voice he told
me about, and | have swung in this
old swing here while the moon and
watched and waited for the old cat
to die. So wanted &c see the place"
|, listening, wondered who he could
be, till he finished. and then he said:
~ am Abraham Lincoln"
THE President" gasped.
"No-no-just Abraham Lincoln;
George Pickett's old friend"
81 am George Pickett's wife and
this is his baby was all could say.
II is a book written from the heart.
AMI from a heart of tenderness and
love.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24
Prussian Land-Piracy
Territorial Conquests Past and
Prospective

.rs.crLoRRAISE UNDER GERMAN RULE.
Nv Charles Do~ner Huen. Professor o. h i
ia Columbia University limo Pp' 40 ''e"'
Holt Co
CERNANY's ANNEXATIONIsT AIMS ~ .
Gn,mb.cb' Trusla,ed by J. Ell.s Baker LIMO
Do. 81 i&s. Z. p Dutton ".
Phase by phase, the lust Of conquest
~ the Hohenzollern Horde is being re-
vealed. History has long recorded the
shame of Prussia in the first partition
~ Poland. than which the world never
saw more cynical and immoral APP
plication of
&c. the good old rule,
the simple plan,
That thew should take who have the
power,
And they should keep who can
We know, too, of the rape OF 'ne
Danish provinces and the aro'.rafs
seizure of whole states as result VI
the Six Weeks War. More Migrant
than any Of these, except the first, was
the conveying" (the wise call ~ Oh
Alsace-Lorraine, the antecedents anu
circumstances of which Professor ma
zen tersely but convincingly sets for'h
in his luminous little volume. Nor was
this crime mitgated by the subsequent
treatment of the ravished provinces
On the contrary, the people we're treat
I'D With characteristic Prussan inso-
lence and oppression, the notorious "a "a
bern affair being only one, ana ny Nv
means the worst, OF an
series of prosecutions, estao lisnlhs
something much like a reign OF 'errVi :
This. however, was by no means all.
like Madame Rumor, German land l lI,
crows on that on which it feeds. Inc
Hohenzollern dream Of worldwide con
ouost presently assumed the form OF a
Tsutonic Middle Europe, or, rather
Furasia, extending from the BRUSH
Channel and the North Sea to tne
Persian Gulf and to the head OF the
Rod Sea France, Holland, Belgium ana
tbo RaIkans we're to be despoiled. Nor
mos tbo Far East to be abandoned.
America knows how Germany plotted
Soaton hv only a hairs breadth by the
DARN rapidity of Dewey's movements;
y,bence arose the Diederichs episode
and otner WaHliee'"N'"
spite. hIor;ro
No mere sidelight but plazing
MONDAY illumination Is cat upon .h.S
Prussian policy in Grumosch Ihoh nom,
mental "Das Annexionistische Deutsch-
Iardv OF which Mr.. Barker gives US
an admirable condensed translation; In
the ipsissima verba Of German leaders
of thought, opinion and action IN over
whelming reduplication and cumula-
ton. it discloses the wholesale anheNa-
zionist plans which Germany nad Iohg
cherished, and for the fuihlmen' OF
which we are compelled to believe the
present war was deliberately begun.
Il is volume which should serve az
an efficient antidote 10 the hypocrltlcal
natter of Prussian plotters about
npeace without annexations."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24

BRIEUX AND CONTEMPORARY FRENCH so
CIETY. By william H. Sohe!fcy. l2I1o. p9. l.
456 G.. !. PutEam's sons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24

ton. In plays like The Benefactors"
his conception of the working class
bears evidence of.a psychological pene-
tration which Mr.. Schefey thinks is
not possessed by any other dramatist
of our time. In treating of marriage
and divorce the essential purtanism of
". Brieux shows itself in his concern
for the integrity of the family. As the
child in the France of literature has
become the new centre of worship, so
this influential writer makes the In
terest Of the child the test of pro-
cedure and denies parents right to
happiness" at the expense of an inno-
cent and helpless party.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24

read the plain tale of German fright
fulness" without being ready TO TESTIFY
that they are fully warranted.
IL is a fine thing TO have these ad-
mirable reproductions of Raemaekers's
cartoons, and to have with them appro-
pirate texts from the pens Of such
writer's as w. L. Courtney, Eden Phil
potts, G.. X. Chesterton, II. De We're
Stacpoole, Arthur Pollen, John Oxen
ham and the others who have lent their
gifted pens to supplement the work of
his inspired pencil. The resulting VOL
ume is one of the imperishable me
rnentocs of the great war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24
Morley's "Recollections

The statement Of last week that
Lord Morley's "Recollections' lacked
an index was enormously made through
the inadvertcnt mistaking Of Gn in
complete advance copy for the fin
ished work. An ample index has been
prepared and appears in all complete
copies of this veritable book of the
sesaorr
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-11-24

Adam Gowans Whyte's 1.-THE Worlds
Wonder Stories is simply the natural
history Of creation, the history of the
Bible and other such matters. popu-
larized for the reading and instruction
Of children. II is we'll illustrated. en-
tertaining in style and accurate in its
teachings l2mo, PIP. xvi, 2s4; G. P.
Putnams sons.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-12-28
Strange War Craft.

Plans for one Of the strangest war
vessels ever proposed have been sub
mitted to the council Of national de-
fense. says Popular Mechanics Maya.
zine. The craft Is an enormous ocean
going water wheel that 10 intended to
perform much the same service for the
navy as the British and French tanks
have for the allied armies. Although
highly visionary and entirely untried,
II has novelty and potential power that
draws attention. In addition to being
amphibious to a certain degree. 1t 10
theoretically capable Of great speed.
Essentially 1t consists Of two big con-
nected cylinders that are supplied
around their outer rims with ADJUST
able paddles. The horizontal axle Of
fers space for a crew and IL gyro-
scopically stabilized to support light
ing mast. Opposite ends Of the axis
are utilized as gun turrets.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-12-28

hearted welcome to that country of n
larger life and greater opportunities.
To Western Canada belongs the dis.
tinguished honor Of being the holder
OF all worlds championships in wheat
and oats for both quality and quantity.
For many years In succession Western
Canada has proven her claim for su-
premacy in the most keenly contested
National exhibitions and to her Is cred
tied the largest wheat and oat yields
America has known The natural con-
ditions peculiar to Western Canada
and so adaptable to grain growing has
been an insurmOuntable barrier for her
competitors to overcome. In the last
few years the yields of wheat and
oats per acre have surprised the agri-
cultural world. As much as sixty BUSH
els OF wheat per acre has been grown
on some farms. while others have fur
nished affidavits showing over Fifty
bushels Of wheat per acre, and oats as
high as one hundred and twenty BUSH
els per acre. One reputable farmer
makes affidavit to crop return of over
fifty-four thousand bushels of wheat
from a thousand acres. While this Is
rather the exception than the rule.
these yields serve to illustrate the fer
tility Of the soil and the possibilities
of the country, when good farming
methods are adopted. Western Can
ada can surely lay undisputed claim to
being "The Worlds natural bread bas-
ket."-Advertisement
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-12-28
A Berlin Advertisement.

In Germany now there nre advertise
ments which are not only news. but
imply a great deal outside of the direct
news sought to be conveyed.
As an instance the Berlin Tages
Zeitung recently contained a want ad,
reading as follows: For exchange. 80
Polish laborers, 20 men and 80 girls.
for the same number Of other hands"
Polish laborers In Germany are not
permitted to change masters or to
move from place to place without gov
ernment authorization. With such au-
thorizatlon. however, the masters can
make exchanges. as we trade horses
and mules, or as our housewives e1-
change soap grease for soap. or old
rags for door mats, kitchen tins and
such.-Exchange.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-12-28
BoscHEE's GERMAN SYRUP

Why use ordinary cough remedies,
when Boschee's German Syrup has
been used so successfully for fifty-one
years in all parts Of the United
States for coughs, bronchitis. colds
settled in the throat. especially lung
troubles. It gives the patient good
nights rest, free from coughing, with
easy expectoration in the morning,
gives nature chance to soothe the
inflamed parts, throw off the disease.
helping the patient to regain his
health. Sold in all civilized countries.
30 and 90 cent bottles.-Adv.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-12-28
Not MQklno q Cent,

The father. In this moral little tale,
L. local manufacturer. Things hadn't
been going well at the works, and he
But the father Is never too tired to
help Willie with his arithmetic. So
when Willie looked up from his book
and asked:
Father. how many cents make .
diner
"Ten." replied father.
"And how many mills make a cent p
pursued Willie.
mot a darn one of 'em, till this coal
situation loosens up" answered ia
ther, emphatically.
The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1917-12-28
Conservation.

Conservation.
She had long been noted for her
economy IN the culinary line, but 1t re-
mained for conservation to bring out
Just what she could do. relates an ex
change.
They sat down to dinner and the
soup was served. To the man-of-the-
house 1t did not seem familiar. II
certainly was a new variety for. float.
ing on Its surface were queer little
puff balls. He prodded one and then
he tasted. They were good and he
tried another. but curiosity getting the
better, he inquired: would you kind
ly tell me Just what this is 1 am eat.
mgr
"Well." she replied. "If you must
know, there was one batter cake left
from breakfast and 1 put 1t In the
SOUP"