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may have TO be discarded as wrong in
twenty Years when we learn more"
He is right there" said DR.. McFabre.
Il knew that is what you would think
You see. Ames, there Is something more
than a mere story in Kipling. But IL
were asked to select the most beautiful
and moving of the fourteen stories in
the volume I would choose Swept and
Garnished,' which tells Of a German
woman who always kept her house in
Berlin swept and garnished for the
Masters coming. When the story opens
she Is in bed with a feverish cold for
which she has taken a dose of asperin
She Is slightly deliiious. As she lies on
her pillow child enters the room walks
about curiously inspecting everything on
the dressing table, passes behind the bed
and goes out. The maid, who had gone
to the drug store for more medicine,
comes in and the woman rebukes her
for leaving the door open to let the child
in. But the door had not been left open
The maid goes into another room. Then
half a dozen little children enter holding
one anothers hands. They walk about
looking at things and the woman orders
them out but they tell her their parents
told them to come to Berlin and wait
for them. The larger children sit on
sofa, and as they lift the littlest one up
he cries with pain. The woman sees
blood dripping from his wounds. In ter
ror she orders them away again. But
the little Belgian ghosts calmly keep
their seats. They told us to wait for
them here is their answer. cannot
help thinking that thousands of con.
scientious German women have been
seeing the slaughtered Belgian children
in their dreams al these terrible years
and have felt that their efforts to keep
their hearths swept and garnshed have
failed when such CHASTITY litter strews
the floor"
"kipling is one of the few great men
writing today" was the comment that
came from DR.. McFabre's chair And
The Lady who came in the room while
| was talking remarked:
Doesn't he make the Belgian horrors
seem real."
GEORGE w. DOUGLAS.
A DIVERSITY OF CREATURES. BY Rudyard
ktpling Garden city: Doubleday. Page &
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-12
Things Worth Knowing

When Pope said that the proper study
or mankind is man, all save n few specialists
who were interested In other natural prod
u1s. such as birds and butterbies, flowers
and trees, believed him. In the years since
the Twickenham poet wrote we have dis
covered that there are other things worth
knowing. The world is a much more in
teresting place TO those who have learned
something about the plants and the flying
things than 1t Is To those Indifferent to such
matters. A walk in the field is just a walk
I'm the field TO the uninstructed. But il one
has the most elementary knowledge of
birds and butterflies. of wild flowers and
trees, n walk becomes q visit TO a museum
full of specimens of the greatest beauty.
The popularity of nature books in recent
years indicates that an increasing number
OF persons are finding entertainment in
studying growing and flying things. Double
day, Page Co, who publish series OF
elaborate books on outdoor ubjects. have
this spring issued four handhooks in what
they call n Worthwhile Series that are
Condensations of the larger volumes for the
benefit OF beginners, one is about birds. by
Neltje Blanchen, which needs no commcn-
dation to those familiar with this woman's
larger books. Another is about butterflies
by Clarence NJ Weed. an expert on the
subject They are both excellent introduce
tions to a wider knowledge,
The books on the botanical side are like
arrangement permits brief but highly in
formative Introductory matter concerning
the form. habit and classification of trees
and flowers and detailed description of the
principal American varieties. Nellie
Blanchan's well-known Natures Garden"
has been condensed admirably by Asa Don
Dickinson. and the specimens described by
families. Miss Rogers's book has been
adapted from her standard work on trees
with the grouping fixed by habitat and other
characteristics.
BIRDS WORTH KNOWING Selected hy the
author from the writings Of Nellie Blanchan
with forty-eight Illustrations in color 81 80
BtTTERFIIES WORTH KNOWING. By Clar-
enCe VI. Weed II. Sc. Illustrated ny forty
eight plates. thirty-two in color. s160.
FLOWERS WORTH KNOWING. Adap pied by
Asa Don Dickinson from Natures Garden, /"
by Nellie Blanchan, Forty-eight llustra ions
in color. 81 go.
TREES WORTH KNOWING. BY Julia Ellen
Rogers. with forty-eight Illustrations six
teen being in color. S1GO Garden CITY;
Doubleday, Page d Co.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-12
MARIE CONWAY OEMLER

Of heaven, so scared the soul OF Slippy
MCGEE out of it's cankered house to mingle
with the singing creatures in an eternal
sprnGtme of happiness.
The metamorphosis Of the grub into the
burglar lfe's lesson. When one spring the
the important business of becoming a but
tertly Slippy and Father De Rance watched.
There came into Slippy's face another look.
and from his eyes shone more poignant
determination And as the graceful creature
released from the chrysaliS arose from the
open Bible on the pages Of which the trans
formation had taken place
"Parson," said the Butterfly Man, Par
SON. don't it beat hell?"
1T does. 1t does. OH Butterfly Man"
answered the priest, by the grace and
glory and wonder of God, it beats hell"
The book. by Marie Conway Oemler, is
the first of her productions, and if her
forthcoming works maintain in style hui
man interest and psychic impress the
precedent she has established, bookovers
may feel glad to welcome such an addition
to the field of American writer's
Miss Oemler has made excellent use of
southern sentiment in its flower and while
keeping the central figure, the crippled en-
burglar, in the limelight, has woven about
him tale where love, beauty, Villainy
and politics all figure to make the reforma-
tion of Slippy MCGEE a thing called blessed
SIIPPY MCGEE; Sometimes known as the But
terfy Man. My Marie Conway Oemier New
York. The Century Company. 80.
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How to Save the Pennies

A particularly helpful little book 10 the
young housekeeper in these days of the
steadily increasing II. C. Of L.. when the
need of intelligent discrimination in buying
cooking and serving is greater than ever
before. is Miss Green's Better Meals for
Less Money" The principles underlying
scientific cookery are here set forth so
clearly and concisely that even the most
inexperienced cook can understand and
grasp the essential facts Of dietetics.
The author says In her preface. Good
meals depend not so much upon expensive
material as upon care and good judgment in
the use of ordinary material. The time
worn boarding house jokes about prunes and
hash mean simply that these foods, in them
selves excellent are poorly prepared and
too frequently served"
General suggestions for economy are
given; the judicious substitution of less ex-
pensive foods, the use of left overs, along
with common ways of cooking food SOUPS
without meat, toothsome yet simple des-
serts, and in the back of the book is an
easily understood table Of weights and
measures, proper temperatures, caloric
values and the normal weights for men and
women. The author doesn't preach the tota |
elimination of "cakes and ae." but the
sort of sensible economy that the housewife
can readily practice.
BETTER MEALS FOR LESS MONEY BY Marv
Green. New York; Henry Holt Co. s1.25.
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Sociology and Thrills

A man who can write a story of such alb
sorbing interest that factory girls will sit
up o. nights to read ii and with such a solid
basis of sound social philosophy that those
engaged in the study of the industrial prob
lens of the times will be attracted to II, Is
as rare as he is welcome when we find him.
Such a man IL Richard Aumerle Maher. His
latest novel. Gold Must Be Tried by Fire"
is a story as thrilling as penny shocker."
1t moves with the rapidty Of a well-con-
structed melodrama, with climax at the
end of every act There is a fire on
steamboat, an automobile wreck strike,
with strike breakers and dynamite and a
burning mill. a typhoid epidemic, night
ride on a hand car, fight between an in
dependent manufacturer and a trust, an
elopement frustrated and two or three love
stories A lesser man would have been con-
tent with making story out Of these ma
terials. But Mr.. Maher uses them as a
setting for the beautiful unfolding Of the
character of an appealing young woman.
Daidie Grattan, an Irish mill girl,
is transformed from a wreckless, dissatis-
fed rebel against her surroundings into a
ministering angel She passes through the
fiery furnace and comes out pure gold.
Hence the title of the book She discovers
he great truth that people in need can be
helped most successfully by those who have
felt the same need and that hired philan-
thropists may find amusement in their work,
but are as a rule unable to get into SYM
pathetic relations with those whom they
would relieve The book breathes that spirit
of human brotherhood without which no
book has ever achieved success, 1t deserves
the popularity which is bound to come
to II.
GOLD MUST BE TRIED By FIRE. BY Richard
YORK The msc5sn anisa'ss So% Si
pany. 3l.So, Nf
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ELMER RUSSELL GREGOR
Expert writer on Indians and out
door life.

II is a tale Of Indian life In America before
tho white men came. White otter, the
hero is a seventeen-year-oldy youth who has
won the warriors eagle feather He has
yet to win the crown of feathers which
will make him war chief. The story tells
how he achieved this distinction in series
of daring adventures. Mr., Gregor has
woven into the narrative a wealth of Indian
lore which ought TO delight any boy who
wants to play Indian in the way the Red
Men lived. The signs which identify the
different tribes are explained by a de-
scrption of the way they are given. We
are told OF the movements of the hands
which indicate fr,endliness, and the great
ceremonies are given with enough detail
for any group Of Intelligent boys to repro
duce in their own fashion. II is a great
Indian book.
WHITE OTTER, BY Elmer Russell Gregor.
$l.35. New York: D. Appleton Co
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FROM BURGLAR TO
BUTTERFLY MAN
The Magical Transformation
Wrought in Slippy McGee by
Contact With a Priest

when "Sippy MCGEE" irst.class burg
lar man, made his last getaway from the
bulls" II was not with the eClat that
characterized previous exploits Of n SINH
lar nature. In fact, Slippy blew in to
Appeboro, S. c., or rather rolled in. from
beneath freight train-lcaving part of one
leg on that side of the track farthest from
the town. Thus was sustained the reputa-
ton Of Dead Mans Crossin'" and ended
the criminal career of the grandest guy
that ever filled a safe with soup" or gave
smooth SPIEL to tho cops
And so, with the exception OF that chap
ter introducing the reader TO the charming
town of Appleboro. Father Armand Jean
De Rance tho Catholic priest, and other
interesting characters in the book, the story
opens.
Slippy. unable to understand anything but
the rigors Of his own hard trade and that
Of his perpetual adversares, the police is
unable to comprehend the gentle advances
of friendship from Father Dc Rance, The
latter having recognized from newspaper
descriptions the mangled man brought 10
the parish house as bright star in his
chosen profession. says as much. And
Slippys answer is:
For Gods sake, don't stand there star
ing like n bughouse owl. Well, what are
you going To do? Bawl for the bulls?
What put you wise?"
But the padre did no such thing and
from then follows the intellectual advance
ment and spiritual regeneration OF the
"slickcst crook in America" And what
happens to him? Just this
lie becomes butterfly chaser The
hands that had deftly sensed -. time lock
on bank vault tuned themselves to
handling the most delicate and beautiful of
the creatures.
And as scars the butterfly into the blue
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-12
Chivalry in Modern Dire

Take princess whose father and bro1I
have been killed in war. Take q wtc1
uncle who wants to marry her to prt11
of the country whose soldiers have klI(
her kinsmen. Make the princess have
kindly feeling toward the prince but ho|
for his country Have her fee from h)
TO keep a vow to her mother. Inject At th
point knight errant with the heart a
a virgin who finds the princess alone m =
forest, and proceeds to rescue her and ~
fall in love with her In the process, an
you have the materials for an old-fashono4
tale of chvalry such as Cervantes ridcuIo1
out of style by his roaring farce sometimo3
known as Don Quixote." Drop these char
acters into the heart of Tennessee moun@
tain country and let them work out their
complications and you will have th0
altogether delightful fantasy which Maria
Thompson Daviess has written under the
apt title of "Out of a Clear Sky
Miss Daviess has made her princess .
Belgian and the prince is a German The
father and brother have been killed by the
German soldiers who ravaged the little
neutral kingdom The princess has fed to
America with maid and her jewels,
whittier she has been pursued by her uncle
and the German. She escapes from New
York hotel only to find that her pursuero
are on the same train that is carrying her
away BY the connivance of her maid she
drops from the train at a water tower and
then the interesting complications begin.
The princess herself tells the story in quaint
Anglo-French, with a simplicity and Z
charm that will fascnate every eighteen.
year-old girl who reads II this summer
OUT or A CLEAR SKY. BY Maria Thompsou
Daviess. 81. New York: Harper Broa
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A New Barbour Book

A new Ralph Henry Barbour school life
story is always an event in the youths
literary season. The grdiron. diamond, cin-
der track, dormitory pranks and the many
other elements which make schooldays de-
lightful memories in after years and days of
wholesome enjoyment in the immediate pres
ent are exploited by Mr.. Barbour. Winning
His Game" is his latest work. Loyalty, as
always, is the theme of his story. Dud
Baker never seems able to make a success
of anything he undertakes. His erratic dis
position causes the number of his friends
gradually to dwndle until Tommy Logan,
his roommate, is his only booster. How the
loyalty of Tommy to Dud enables the latter
to become the idol of the Grafton School is
cleverly led mp to stirring finale that will
please and delight even the grown-up boy.
WINNING HIS GAME. BY Ralph Henry Bar
hour Illustrated by Walt Lauderback. New
York: ID. Appleton and Company. Sl35
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fulfill his part of the pact with the rich and
doomed man. There is also fascinating
Duchessa The interest lies in the CO.
operation of Gray in the great scheme OF
Improvement and the interplay of differing
temperaments There is some but not a
preponderating love interest and good
deal of romantic feeling. The scenes are
laid on an English estate and in South
Africa, and in both locales the author has
apparently a good knowledge of background
and atmosphere. Those who have read
."rhe Peacock Feather" and THE Wiser
Folly" need not be told that Leslie Moore
ia the possessor Of a graceful style and
fine gift for narration.
ANTONY GRAY GARDENER. BY. Leslie
Moore. New York; @. r. Putnam's Sons
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-12
Economics Made Easy

In these times Of soaring prices con-
sideration of economics in some form is
forcing itself home upon nearly all of us
For this reason How the World Makes its
Living is particularly timely book all
though 1t treats of national rasr"r than in
dividual problems. Both the facts and the
PHILOSOPHERS of business are presented in a
style shorn of any confusing technicalties.
The economic activities are interpreted in
dhe light of evolution, and the goal toward
which this industrial and commercial evo-
luton is tending is shown to be a status
under which each person will receive benefit
from others in the measure that he con-
tributes to their benefit. The need for in
dustrial preparedness with the end of the
war is strongly emphasized
HOW THE WORLD MAKES ITS LIVING. BY
Logan Grant -McPherson. New York: The
Century Company. $500.
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YEARS

House, in that city, who grew into a prima
donna. The details of stage setting, stage
carpentry and the conduct of the singers
behind the scenes occupy the greater part
of the space in "All-of-a- Sudden Carmen"
the title which he has given to the story
In It's present form The story first APP
peared in the Ladies' Home Journal in
1902. under the title OF "A Child of the
opera House" Calve. Jean de ReZske,
Plancon and other wel-known opera singers
walked through the pages in thinly dis
guised names, and the baby which became
the pet OF Calve grew UP to sing Carmen
as the greatest Carmen of them all sang
It, The tale ran through five numbers OF
the magazine, filling ten of its large pages.
Mr.. kobbe has expanded II till 1t fills a
volume of 2IS pages OF large type. The
story suffers a. little by the dilution, but
the book will satisfy the curiosity OF those
who like to know what happens in that
mysterious region back of the proscenium
arch.
ALL.oF.AsuDDEN CARMEN. ny Gustav
kobbe. sl.35. New York; @. T. Putrams
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-12
Richard Garfield in Fiction

MANY who read peter Sanders, Retired"
will note a striking similarity between the
hero of this entertaining story and certain
Individual in life, whose name appeared
frequently in the public prints not so many
years ago. Perhaps It is only coincidence
that In his vocation and his avocations the
fictitious Mr. Sanders should be so like the
real Mr.. Richard Canfield, late Of New York
and Saratoga Springs but 1t seems more
than likely that In drawing the character Of
his hero Mr.. Gerould had gained some in
spiration from the character as the world
knew of II, of the once-famous gambler,
who in his leisure moments was an art
connoisseur and collector and lover Of
beautiful things. II. in fact, Canfeld was
the basis for Sanders. 1t must be said that
the author In his development of the char
acter worked in the direction of idealism,
FOR Sanders, besides being picturesque, is in
every way sympathetic and appealing. At
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-12

any rate. he Is a brand-new creation In fic-
tion and as such Is entitled to respectful
consideration. A gambler who Is generous
Is not new figure. but n gambler who is
actually altruistic is quite out of the or
dinary and would not be at all convincing
were the character less cleverly developed
and managed
The story of Mr. Sanders is that of a
gaming house proprietor who has been
driven into exile by reform prosecuting
attorney. A scholarly gentleman and an
indefatigable book collector. he finds in his
new life, after certain season of boredom.
a JOY and delight that he was never able to
extract from the old. New interests are
found. new and true friends are gained,
and, as Mr.. Sanders tells his valet at the
end, he Is rather pleased with his nice new
suit"
PETER SANDERS. RETIRED. BY Gordon Hall
Gerould $3.50 New York! Charles Scrib-
ners Sons
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-12
KIPLING AND MARK TWAIN,
TWO GREAT MEN OF LETTERS
The Englishman, Famous at Twenty -two Has
Lost None Of His Cunning in the Intervening
Thirty Years-A New Volume of Stories

HAVE been reading Kiplings war
l stuff" young Cabot Ames remarked
A. his uncle. DR.. McFabre, across my
,,L~orv hearth, "and have come to the
Conclusion that he is a very much over
rated man
"Didnt they teach you in Harvard that
.. vas unsafe to generalize with insuffi'
,,en. data?" DR.. McFabre asked.
.r do remember something of that
bind" Ames admitted But 1t does not
snp,y here. 1t is not necessary to read
.verything that man has written In
,rder TO get. taste of his quality. The
ouality Of Kipling's war stun Is bad.
rbere are men on the regular staff of
dozen American newspapers who can
write better"
"I think you are pretty near the truth
IN YOUR last remark" said l. "Kipling
is like several other men of letters with
great gifts who have been tempted to
trv their hand at describing war condi-
,,ons only to discover that they have
never learned the trade of special news.
naper writer Success in that trade can
not be achieved unless the man possesses
peculiar gifts as distinct and classifiable
as those which bring success in fiction
writing or in the construction of plays"
"But YOU do not agree with my cock.
sure nephew that Kipling is overrated?"
This from DR.. McFabre.
"If Ames had read more of Kipling he
would think differently. Kiplng Is one
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Indian Lore for BOYS

The boys OF the present generation who
do not play Indian" are losing more than
they can gain by other forms Of amuse-
ment II gets them into the open, develops
their imagination and keeps alive the ro-
mantle history of the early life on this
continent Some day we may have Indian
play organized and made so attractive that
the Boy Scouts will have TO look to their
laurels. In tho meantime no father who
wants to interest his boys in Indians win
make a mistake II he puts in his hands
White otter" by Elmer Russell Gr-~Nr.
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Behind the Scenes

There is considerable innocent curiosity
about what goes on behind the stage setting
in a theatre or opera house. Gustave Kobbe.
through his long experience as musical
critic in New York, has acquired much in
formation on the subject He has strung
this on the slender thread of story OF
a supposedly imaginary founding left at
the stage door of the Metropolitan opera
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1917-05-12
A Death Sentence

A typical novel of the leisurely hammered
English type is offered by Leslie Moore in
Antony Gray, Gardener" The story is
one of a curious benevolence, The motive
figure is Nicholas Danver. an eccentric
recuse, who is sentenced to death in
scant twelvemonth by his physicians. He
decides to use the limited time at his dis
posal in good deeds. The scheme brings in
Antony Gray, who turns to agriculture to