Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1917-07-05
Books and Authors

Frederick Palmer. var correspondent
and author of MY Year OF the Great
War" and My Second Year OF the
War" has been appointed by Major
General PershinE to his star In the In
telligence department., where ne will
nave general charge of the army's re-
lations with tho American press. The
appointment carries the rank of major.
Mr.. Palmer's long experience at the
front at headquarters, was regarded
as making him particularly valuable
for the position.
Arthur 3. Reeve. whose new book
OF detective stories The Treasure
Train" was published a short while
ago.. said recently that he can never
allow his famous scientific detective.
Craig Kennedy. to get married. or the
many readers who follow his adven-
lures would lose interest In him.. This
ne has discovered from his CORE
s%pondence. Once he received q letter
from a man in Arizona. who had read
ono OF Reeves stories in which Craig
Kennedy was apparently growing fond
OF female society. begging him earn
estly not to let Kennedy "get mixed
up with women"
Marley r. Hay. submarine inventor.
has written a book on Secrets OF the
SUBMARINE, "nlCn bCOQ, Mead 6 Co.
will publish next month. He says that
the greatest service he has over given
to the United States was his failure
only two years before the war to con-
vince Admiral Won Tirpitz that Ger
many ought to have a submarine fleet"
Germany" he adds. was the last OF
the great powers to admit the desir-
ability OF or the necessity for sub
Marines, and that conclusion was only
reached under the pressure OF actua
war. when 1t was manifest that the
rest OF her feet was OF practically no
use Mr.. Hays book on submarines
Is said TO be the only one ON that sub
ject that has been written by a man
whose profession 1t is to design and
construct submarines and who is con-
stantiy in touch here and abroad with
every phase OF their development.
"The Elizabethan stag had no seen.
cry, but If we would understand
Shakespeare we must place him on
his stage with proper fittings around
him. says p. H. Ditchfeld in the pre-
face to his Tho England of Shakes
peare." To supply that stage setting
is the purpose OF this book, and he does
It by means Of a score of chapters in
which he takes up such subjects as
the London OF Shakespeare, mansions
and manor houses, the poor, rogues
dIu NdBdpOItub LIZ DltLd-
bethan costume. sports and pastimes.
the universities, the road and Travellers.
thus making a graphic. descriptive pic
ture OF each phase of life. The whole
book. which Is ready for publication by
l.. p. Dutton & Co., makes a vivid, in
teresting background 10 the reflection
that Shakespeare gives Of tho great
age in which he lived.
Rabindranath Tagore's new book is
entitled Personality" 1t is a volume
OF essays, several having served as
Sir Rabindranath's lectures on his re-
cent tour Of this country. What Is
Art" The World OF Personality" 1.-The
Second Birth MY School," "Afedita-
ton and Woman" these are the titles
OF the six sections. 1.-The secret of the
universe is personality" This Is the
idea with which the whole mental con-
tribution of the East Is filled. 1t Is the
idea which permeates this book. Sir
Rab~indranath with all great Eastern
artists has seen the soul Of things and
he believes in It. Writing with a dou-
BILE power Of racial and Individual ex-
perience he shows how man touches the
universal soul in The toy Of artistic
creation. communes with 1t in the rap
lures. OF meditation and merges with
1t through tho spiritual quickenins of
tho second birth. h volume 10 as re-
mgrkable for tho profoundness Of it's
religious might 40 Tor It's unassuminE
humanity. It 10 published BY the Mao
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