davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-04-04
.PPLETON SOCIAL HOUR

p Friday evening, April 6, Lieut..
h, Of Delaware College, will ad-
$ the club. Do not fail to come
bring your friends. The last
|t,ne Of the club on Friday, March
waS well attended. The program
PwS.
horus, the club; reading of minu-
Secretary, Miss Ida Peterson;
F. reading, Miss Ida Kimble;
fus, the cub; recitation, John T.
is: solo, Cecil Hedrick; solo,
fornia and You," Georgia Peter
recitation, Mrs. A. VanOveren;
"EcoLomy in Dress" Mrs. H. R.
IT,; 500, when the Black Sheep
(lrnS to the Fold" Miss Mabelle
fr>"n; patriotic address, Rev. A.
Nvcrcn; chorus, "We'll Rally
Pnd the Flag" club.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-04-04
Fear Check On Sunday Sprees

" lmington saloon keepers are anx-
ousiy awaiting Governor Townsend's
ction upo2 the ''bottle law" repeating
'ct passed by the Legislature. A
moving argument for the repeater was
the check it would put upon Sunday
drunkenness due to Saturday night
purchases of bottles of liquor which
erved to prolong weekend sprees.
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-04-04

The recent bazaar held in Whining
ton by the 1rish-American Association
for the Irish Relief fund will net up
wards of S14 ,000
Newark post. (Newark, Del.) 1910-1969, 1917-04-04

Wilmington's police during March
made 666 arrests of which 234 were
for drunkenness.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19

A Biography Of Swinburne-
Strong New Works of Fiction

dead. Yet the memory of the passion
ate loves and hates which marked his
environment is still too strong and
vivid. as Mr.. Gosse's lucid pages remind
us, to make possible a final critical
Judgment upon him.
But it is time for a biography, and
this, the first written Of him, finely
supplies the want. Mr.. Gosse has en-
ployed his eight years with diligence.
discretion and devotion, and the result
is one of the most satisfactory works
Of the kind that we have seen for years
For the reason already suggested, the.
author concerns himself chiefly with
the human side OF his subject, the per-
sonallty of that enfant terrible of the
Victorian MUSES., and his picturesque
and tempestuous relationships. And il
is an opulent theme. Swinburne's life
was not rich in great objective events.
but 1t was plethoric with illuminative
and characteristic incidents, of which
MT. Gosse presents fascinating array.
Since 1t is biography and not a, crit
lcai estimate, 1t is well that the violent
seif-contradictlons and the savage con-
troversies which marked the poets
career are passed over somewhat light
ly, though of course they are not
ignored. The deplorable quarrel with
Furnivall is recalled, in which the two
scholars rallied at each other like fish
wives and dubbed each other respec-
lively "Pigsbrook" and "Brothelsdyke. :"
We are reminded, too, of Swinburne's
early adulation Of Whitman AS the
author of "the most lovely and won
derful thing | have read for years and
years. and his later description Of
Whitman's Muse as "a drunken apple
woman, indecently sprawling in the
slush and garbage of the gutter amid
the rotten refuse of her overturned
fruit-stall"; the latter attributed.
doubtless with justice, to the malign
influence Of Theodore Watts over the
poet. There were similar reversals of
opinion concerning others, notably
Tennyson and, perhaps above all, Byron.
English literature contains few sounder
pieces of criticism or more eloquent
passages of prose than the noble essay
on Byron which Swinburne wrote in
1865; and it contains no more insane
diatribe or more savage lampoon than
those which the same poet wrote on the
same subject a few years later.
Mr.. Gosse voices a wish which has
doubtless arisen in innumersble minds
IN these last three years, that Swim
burne could have lived to lash with
scorpions and asperse with vitriol the
German Emperor, whom politically he
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
From Mourning to Morning

GOOD MORNING. ROsAMONDr' By Constance
Skinner. illustrated By Thomas Foglry. limo.
pp 3s4 Doubleday, Page Co.
Fifteen and quarter flaws could
be picked in this book. If we were so
minded. But what's the use? A rose
is rose, even though some OF its
petals are Of irregular size or shape.
When a book is so full of hearty,
wholesome humor and introduces us to
so completely lovable woman as Ros-
almond it would seem like sacrilege
or crouch to dwell upon the fact that
some of the things in it really could
not have happened. or to refer TO the
Gardeners Calendar to remind the
author that it is at least unusual for
dshlias to bloom when cherries are
ripe.
It is the story Of charming young
widow who is grievously oppressed by
the old retainers of her late spouse
and by her stodgy and priggish neigh
bors, who devote much of their lives
to watching the changes in her mourn
ing garb and in planning for her sec
ond marriage. In the end, of course,
she defies their conventionalities and
finds happiness in the realization OF
romance. 1t is the triumphant revolt
of youth against Mrs. Grundy. and with
all It's fauts we love it enough to give
IL a second reading.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
Things Worse than War

SPEAKING OF PRUssIANs-." By Irwin e.
Cobb. l2mo. ~. so. George H. Dorn Company
The humorist has turned serious;
the pacfist has turned belligerent; and
he tells us why:
can shut my eyes and see the
German firing squad shooting two
Belgian civilians against q brick
wall. I can smell the odors of the
burning houses. Yes, and the smell
of the burning flesh Of the dead men
who were in those houses. .
Most of all, can see the eyes and
the faces Of German officers with
whom / spoke. And when I do this I
see their eyes shining with Joy and
their faces TRANSPORTED as though
by a splendid vision proud
and swollen with the thought that,
at every onward step. ruthlessness
and determination and being ready
had brought to them victory, con-
quest. spoils of war. And it
was then / promised myself, if I had
the luck to get back homo again, |
would in my humble way preach
preparedness for America.
Before, I was a neutral citizen OF a
neutral country. am not neutral
any more. | am an American.
What would any intelligent Ameri-
can do if a mad dog entered the
street where he lived, even though
that dog, before it went mad, had
been a kind and docile creature? And
what is he going to do in the exist
ing situation? The same answer
does for both questions. Because
there is only one answer.
If anyone was in doubt before as to
the answer, he surely cannot be after
reading Mr.. Cobb's eighty pages.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
America and the War
What We Are Doing and What
We Shall Have To Do

DIR FART IN THE GREAT WAR BY Arthur
olessoa with illustrations from photographs.
lgmo. Pr 33s. Frederick A Stokes Company.
Readers of The Tribune do not need
20 be told of Mr.. Gleason's fitness to
write about the great war and about
America share in it. His information,
Judgment, clarity of thought and lucid
XIV and force of expression are already
familiar TO them. In the present vol
ume he gives an account OF what our
countrymen-an women-have been
doing on and near the battle lines,
which must cause at once a thrill OIL
nride and a desire to see such work
multiplied until it shall be adequate TO
the need. He discusses the causes OF
such neutrality as does exist among
Americans. and analyses the minds and
souls of hyphenates. He retells, from
German sources, the hideous story OF
Hunnish deviltries in Belgium and
France. and depicts the fate of the
scourged and crucified peasantry with
touching sympathy. A single sentence
telling of German soldiers dealings
with a boy of three, whom they had
shot. tortured and mutilated:
Seeing that he was nearly dead, they
threw him into the fire and closed the
door"
But we cannot close the pages Of this
book until we have read it through;
and then we are moved as the Atheni-
ans were said to have been moved by
the speeches of Demosthenes, and we
wish to go forth to fight the barbarians
who have done these things, and to aid
our countrymen and our allies who
have long been bearing the burden and
heat of the day in the war Of human
ity against the blond beast.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
Diplomacy
In Shirt Sleeves and Also in
Court Dress

Byrnc l2mo pp. 3Oi Charles sctbner's sons
Two wonderments arise. The first is
| concerning the identity of the 'Law-
renee Byrne" who has written this ex-
ceptionally strong and brilliant story
The second is as TO why he or she-for
we are not at all sure that the author
is not a womar-though it necessary
to hide behind pen name. There are
no state secrets betrayed. There are
no specific portrayals of actual persons,
though the generic portrayal of types
is so vivid and lifelike that we are
glad that the volume comes 10 US with
pages already trimmed. We should be
half afraid to CIT them, lest they bleed.
There is no reason that we can per-
ceive why the author should not stand
revealed.
The theme is not particularly novel.
A supremely important diplomatic dis
patch gets into the wrong hands, and
the hand of the Ambassadors daughter
in marriage is demanded as the price
Of its return, or Of not using it against
the Ambassador and his government;
the girl insists upon sacrificing herself
for her fathers and her country's sake,
but at the last moment a desperately
strenuous act by the hitherto weak
and vain smother saves the situation,
the Ambassador triumphs, and the girl
is freed to marry the man whom she
loves.
That is a simple enough story. But
with what gripping fascination Law
renee Byrne" relates it! The plot is
cogent; the action is sustained and ex-
peditious; the interest is incessant and
cumulative; there is a profusion of
details, butrot one is superfuous the
characters. running a great gamut of
variety. are as clear cut as diamonds
and as lifelike AS life itself. There are
humor, wit, satire, pathos and dra-
matte intensity. Not once does the
author decline into exaggeration or
burlesqpe, depict an impossible charac-
ter, or define IN impossible situation,
nor could we wish for more uniformly
felicitous use OF terse, polished Eng
lish speech. In brief. it is book
which deserves to become a classic in
it's first of innumerable editions.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19

that the author tells too much him.
self, instead of letting the characters
tell it not in words, but in acts. Yet
seeing the number of current works of
fiction which 90 to the other extreme,
and which give a mere hotch-potch of
unrelated incidents with minimum
of analysis or delineation, we can
easily forgive Mr.. Poole his wordiness.
1t is in a gentle, sympathetic and quite
convincing manner that Roger Gale is
made to realize that. as his wife told
him, he will live again in his children
and their children, and the reader is
led irrcsistibly to suffer. to enjoy, to
hope and to triumph with him. 1t is
a good thing, amid the hurly-burly OF
tumultuous fiction, to have so thought
full if so placid study of real life.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19

hated with a perfect hatred and Of
whose present crimes against humanity
he seems almost 10 have had some pre-
science. He surely would have exulted
to give us another and still greater
"Strike, England, and strike home!"
Though that was not to be, enough was
given in that vein to designate Swim
burne as one of the true poets of free
dom, as well as the sensuous singer Of
"Laus Veneris" and the scarce equalled
classicist of "Atalanta in Calydon."
Concerning this last, Mr.. Gosse fittingly
pays tribute to "the inestimable recita-
tive around the dying body of Meleager,
with its violin-like, wailing harmonies,"
Who shall sock thee and bring
And restore thee thy day.
When the dove dipt her wing
And the won their way.
Where the narrowing Sy1nplegsdes whiten,d the
straits o. PropontiS with sprayY
These" says Mr.. Gosse. truly, gave
promise of magnificent music" But we
half wish that he had added that those
very lines stuck like a burr in Bret
Harte's mind until he had woven the
same matchless melody into
Then I looked up at Nye.
And he gazed upon me:
And he with sigh
And said. Can this be'
We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor'-and he went
for that heather Chnee.
However, we shall forgive Mr.. Gosse
for emitting that, for the sake of his
almost faultless performance of deli
cate and difficult task, in which he has
enriched our literature with a master
piece of biography.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
The Sequel to Saraievo

WAR. by Oliver Pcrry Chituori. Professor Of
hurOvcan History IN West virginia University
Emo pp III. ies. Thomas Y. Crcwel Company
II was well to put the adjective Elm
mediate" in the title of this book, for
it is solely with the relations of the
Balkans to the war that it is con-
cerned- In those relations the imme-
date causes of the war may be found,
though Of course TIE crime Of Sarajevo
was not cause at all, but at most a
mere pretext. But for succinct story
of the Balkans and their relations with
the Great Powers, of the occurrences
which linked those relations with the
war, and of the diplomatic transactions
which preceded the actual beginning Of
the war, the work is to be heartily
commended. 1t tells the whole story
with sufficient completeness, and with
an impartial accuracy which is vouched
for by the numerous references to Off
cial authority. 1t is volume that is
Of timely interest and that will be Of
permanent value.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
A Budget of Fiction
Tales About All Sorts and
Styles of Folk

Cecilia Of the Pink Roses" by Kath-
arine Haviland TAYLOR, illustrated (the
George II. Doran Company, is a viva
cious and witty tale of little Irish girl
, of the tenements whose bricklaying
father becomes rich through an inven-
ton; who is sent to a fashionable
school, where she has a hard battle
with supercilious snobs; who has other
hard battles in society and in the fam
lily; but who finally wins OUT and is
happy ever after.
"The Rest House." by Isabel Clarke
(Benziger Brothers., tells OF daugh-
ter of a wealthy Protestant family who
disagrees with her parents and with
their plans for. her marriage, and be-
comesla devotee of the Roman Catholic
Church, where her purpose to give her.
self to religious service is interrupted
by happy romance and marriage.
"The Bracelet of Garnets, and Other
Stories" by Alexander Kuprin, trans
lated by Leo Pasvolsky, with an intro
duction by Professor William Lyon
Phelps Charles Scribner's Sons), is q
collection of short stories by one OF
the most characteristic of Russian writ.
ers. They are of unequal merit and OF
greatly varied style, as are the writ.
ings of most Russians to-day. Some OF
them are masterpieces. and some are
little more than rubbish; but the col.
lection as a whole is much to be priced
as a practical epitome of contemporary
Russian fiction.
"Seen and Heard Before and After
1914" by Mary and Jane Findlater u.
P. Dutton & Co.., is volume OF short
stories depicting life in Scotland just
before the war, and then telling Of the
effect of the war upon that life. Few
writer's have got closer to the Scottish
heart than these accomplished ladies,
and few volumes Of Scottish tales have
been more instinct than this with the
real air and blood Of the Highlands.
"Where Runs the River" by Henri
eta Leslie (E. p. Dutton & co.., IS
romance of the Welsh mountains, on
the old but perennially new theme OF
the ril Of life fow.nS down to the
brook. the river and the sea-and this
il the sea whose tides know no refiu-
ence. :,
(the Macmillan Company, is highly
imaginative tale of much power and
most unusual style, inspired by the war
and dealing with some Of its phases
and marked with fatalistic tragedy.
A second printing Of Theodore Watts
Dunton's novel, "Vesprie Towers has
been made by the John Lane Company:
Warwick Deeping's Martin Valiant
published by Robert N. Mcbride &
= "a q thrilling romance of old times
in England, and of a monastic hero
who found himself more man than
monk
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
Stories That Matter

NOTHING MATTERS By SIR Herbert Beerbohm
Tree. Small svo. pp viii. $50. Houshton MY
hin Company.
The contents contradict the title.
There are things that do matter, such
as the stories in this book. They make
much for the joy of life, and what can
matter more than that? And they mat
ter in several different ways. Sir Her
bert fulfils the saying of the melan-
choly philosopher of the woodland. ne
plays many parts-upon the stage ana
in this volume.
For these stories run pretty nearly
the whole gamut of human emotions.
In them he makes US thrill with senti-
ment. laugh with rich humor and grow
chill and creepy with fear. Perhaps
he is best when he is giving us grew
some horrors, and then he is very
good-which means very horrible-.in-
deed. There are touches OF grim fan
tasv which almost give US goosefesh to
read but their uncanny fascination
makes US read them all the way
through. Yet on the whole. it is a
Indy view which he takes OF human
;tv and the world would be better
worth living in il more Of its inmates
took the same view that he does.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19

and though he was really working for
her in his diamond mine, there is no
doubt that life there was decidedly de-
pressing. A side street in Wayback
Crossroads would have been a giddy
whirl compared with it. So it was only
natural for her to go to the city-or
what passes for city in South Africa
to renew her acquaintance with life.
We cannot, of course, approve her
getting a divorce from Ben. or her
mad, bad, sad, but sweet filtration.
She ought to have been spanked for IT:
But Ben ought to have been larruped
with light knobkerrie Cor driving her
to it. On the other hand, while Ben
was quite right in calling her the big
gest little fool he had ever heard Of,
She might we'll have replied that he
forgot himself However, in the end
it all comes out right, and they are
both happy; and happy, too, is the
reader who has had the joy Of reading
this capital story, told by capital
story teller
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19

born" and there is thus an authen-
ITCHY about her work that convinces
The reader Of its truthfulness to life.
When Nanny has spent night IN
a treetop in food time she declares:
81 low'd right den an dab futter
quit de Baptis' faif. Dah's too
much water in dat 1igion futter
suit me. / don't like no sch diluted
Tigion as dat an fum dis day on to
de eend I gwan to take my ''igion
lax my OIL manstan. Yo' pa, honey,
usen TO say wen he tuck his drinks:
Il don't take much nor many, but
wat | does take takes 'em straight
bedout'n a drap O. water An I'm
des dat-a-wav 'bou' my IigiOn. |
done seed water 'nuf dis time futterr
plum scken me wild fuidmunts an
iiouidmunts all de days Nv my life"
In this thoroughly enjoyable book
we get the darkey dialect and folklore
and humor and the mellow charm OF
old plantation days straight, bedout:n
drap O. water" And the effect is
most welcome.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
Iusus Poeticus
:, cos.e's Fine Biography Of
Swinburne

.v or GrGERvoN CHARLES SWIM
~ ~ y, Tdmund Gc~s~ G n Illustrated.
ENn L ssS. The Macmillan Company.
- ,ine chapters which Mr.. Gosse
,..;,e not merely reconcile us to the
90 - the tenth which he contem-
' :. but did not write but also .O, make
30" -.,,ful for the omission. That is
: :. because he has not done the present
veil. On the contrary, it is be-
va '."., Ne has done it so excellently we'll
a : - convince US that the time is not
!, rip. for such tenth chapter as he
.,,o,sd to write, namely, one defn-
Nv estimating Swinburne's eompar-
az. plsee in literature. True, more
-, s;cht years have passed since his
90, and all his most important con-
-,n-aries. friends and foes alike, are
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
Armageddon

THE WORLD AT WAR By Geors Brsndes.
Translated by Catherine u. Groth. limo. pp. 2i9
Tie Macmillan Company.
The broad scholarship and impartial
vision of Dr. Brandes invest whatever
he may say upon public matters with
much interest and with a degree OF
authority not found in many other cur
rent writings. The essays which are
collected in this volume, therefore, are
timely and welcome additions to the
literature Of the war. They range in
date from 1881, when he had forebod-
ings Of Europe's future which the event
has worse than realized, down to few
months ago, and they are on variety
of topics relating to as many phases
of the war.
They are by no means all on one
side. He has much fault to find with
the Allies as well as with the Central
Powers. But they are all marked with
information and with deliberation of
thought, and with at least an unfail-
ing purpose TO be sincere and impair
tial. With all of his opinions and
judgments we cannot agree, but we
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
"Bcfo' the War

MISS LII TWEETTY. nv Louss CLARK Pymells
Illustrated l2mo pp 255. Harper a Bros
"Racy of the soil" is this folktale OF
plantation life in Alabama before the
Civil War. We have read many stories
of the South which had been written
at long range by those who traded
upon the profitable vogue of such lit
erature without them selves having
ever really known plantation life. But
Mrs. Pyrnelle was "to the manner
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
Revolt Against Boredom

GDDY MRS GooDYER BY Mrs. Horacc Trem-
lett. l2mo. pp. 3o7 John Lane Company.
Maudie was really not TO be blamed
for getting tired of Ben or of Ben's
environment. He was a good man, Of
course, but there was between them
what they used TO call in Chicago in
compatibility Of temperature. He loved
her truly and deeply, but he hadn't a
happy faculty of making her realize it;
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
Paternal Psychology

HIS FAMILY By finest Poole l2mo. ~. so
The Macmillan Company
A man past middle age. widower OF
conservative disposition. with three
dsugbters. one married and the others
readv to be. is an unusual hero Of no,
m nam. But Mr.. Poole has made him
interesting, and he gives US an inter
estinc study of his relationship; with
,be three girls and their husbands and
chi,dren and friends. There may be
more philosophy than action. more
nsvchology than incident. 1t may be
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
Important New Doran Books
THECERMAN
TERROR
IN BELGIUM
By Arnold Toynbee
Late FeIlev Of saliioi College.
0yfnyd

Late FeIietS Of BaIiiol College,
Oxford.
1t is high time that the Amer
lean people understood the
truth of German brutality in
Belgium. In this record the
reader marches with the Ger
man army from the frontier
to Liege, from Liege to Lou
vain, witnessing at every
stage of the journey exactly
what occurred-exactly as It
occurred. This is q book for
every doubling Thomas who
wants to know the facts"
With maps and photographs.
12mo Net Sl.UQ.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
Our Interest in the War
Some Timely Miscellany

must treat them all with respect. The
chief criticism of it is that they are
often too idealistic, and are also too
pessimistic. But, then, the outlook Of
Danish publicist upon this war could
scarcely be particularly optimistic.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
THE BATTLE
OF THE
SOMME
By John Buchan

Author of "Nelson's History Of
the War;" etc.
A wonderfully readable ac-
count of the Somme campaign.
of special value in its bearing
on the present offensive of the
Allies - its real object - the
gigantic preparatory moves
which led up to it--and many
other problems of interest to
every student of the war. Six
ty-seven maps and photographs
add the last touch to one OF
the few historical narratives
which are actually fascinating
TO read. limo. Net .Sl.00
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-05-19
A Portrait of Chicago

A humorous, .hrewd. but friendly
appreciation Of our great mlddle.we.t
metropolis. by Harrison Rhodes. With
seriie. Of drawings in color by How
ard Giles.