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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10

FRANCOIS WILLOW. His Life and Times. ~
~. Dc We're stscpoole l2ino. XIV @oS Il. J..
Putnsin's Sons.
Villon's poems we long have known.
Some shadowy traditions of Villon him
self have long been familiar. But OF
the real man probably less is common
" known than concerning any other
poet Of anything like comparable rank
in that or later times. He existed, he
wrote imperishable poems, he was i'm
plicated in various picturesque mel
dents, real or legendary, and then ne
disappeared. That is all.
1t was a grateful task for Mr.. STAG
poole to undertake to visualize for US
this elusive genius, and IN IT ne mas
admirably succeeded. There is no pre-
tence of startling disclosures from
original sources hitherto unknown.
There is a careful study of the France
of that period, and of the Ballads ana
Testaments in which Villon revealed
himself TO a greater degree than most
poets have done in their writings. The
result is a biography keyed in the very
spirit of its subject; picturesque, ro-
mantle. vigorous. and with at least n
touch Of Vagabondia. The whole gamut
is run, from gutter to palace and back
again; from petty criminality to tax
ing a university degree. and through II
alt he is the lester, the mocker, with
an aching heart beneath the cynlcism
and with real tears behind the merriest
mask.
However tortured in his checkered
life. and whatever the unravelled mys-
terry of his death, Villon is postum
ously happy in his biographer, though
of an alien land.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10
"Deutschtum'

GERNANIsM FROM WITHIN b. A D Ne
L4rgu. syO. ID. l. 3C5. B.. J.. Dutton & CO.
To be q second Augustan Rome, mis-
tress of all the world. That. in this
authors conception, has long been the
German ambition. and the present war
is simply a elimination of those de-
signs. Mr. McLaren has diligently
studied Germany from within in both
peace and war. and he gives US the
impression of having got pretty close
TO the heart of things. There Is no
rancor in his writing. All is calm,
quiet, restrained, and therefore the
more convincing. World politics, the
internal situation in the empire. the
personality Of the Emperor as war lord,
the character and culture of the Ger
man people and the lesson TO the world
in spiritual and intellectual life which
the present crisis presents are the
themes.
II is a volume which the thoughtless
will not read, and which the thoughtful
will scarcely fail 10 read through when
once they have begun IL.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10
The. Pinch of War

SHORT RATIONS An American woman m Ger.
many. lel'-l9lG. b Madeleine Z4bhske Doty.
I.l'sirstei Win photographs i-mo. ID. NV -.
This explains the U-boats. The
pinch of war is upon the Fatherland.
They that sow the wind shall reap the
whirlwind; wherefore they that starve
cities shall have their empire starved.
In 1901 German armies exulted in
the famine which they imposed upon
Strasburg and Metz and Paris, and
when the old men and women and chill
dren sought 20 escape to where they
could get food and leave only the SOL
diers 10 starye, they drove them back
with bayonets and bullets into the
administration cities to die. And now
the whole German Empire is on short
rations.
Those who have read Miss Doty's
vivid and vital letters in The Tribune
will know what TO expect in this vol
ume, which expands upon the same
theme and illustrates it with some
striking photographs and facsimiles.
There are some interesting suggestions
of a slumberng revolt, especially in
Bavaria, against the tyranny of Prus-
sianism. There is also a passage which
is not pleasant American reading,
about the inability or unwillingness -
or something of an American Lega-
tion to give an American traveller aid,
when the British Legation was prompt
and efficient in doing so. All through
il is a good "human document in
tensely human and intensely feminine
which is not always altogether diff
ferent from manly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10
looks AND AUTHORS--NEVS REVIEWS AND CON1N1EN

spiration OF Paula and Eustochium;
wonder-women. truly. they; and we
must be grateful TO DR.. Zahm for Civ
ing US picture of them Of nervous
vitality, of exquisite sweetness and
of convincing truth.
The other is Dante. the gigantic
figure who linked the Medieval with
the age of the Renaissance. whose in
SEPARATION was Beatrice Portinari. Her
picture is more objective than sub
jective. We see her reflected in Dante's
writings more than in her own real
life, and with the Characteristic i'm
personality of that age he seems to try
10 conceal her rather than to reveal
her. SO potent an inspiration could
not be concealed. of course; yet is the
vision of her so shadowy that there has
arisen cult OF doubling whether she
ever really had corp0real existence
To refutation Of this aberrant per-
versity, which we can compare only
with the Baconian lunacy, DR. Zahm de-
votes some of his keenest and most de
lightful passages. II is volume of
rare delights, of which il would be I'M
grateful TO speak without enthusiasm.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10
Masters of Space

MASTERS OF SPACE By Walter Ksllon Towers
Illustrated. lemo. %. sol. Harper Bros
The chief value of this volume is in
its simplicity and directness, and in
it's fairness Of spirit. 1t is devoted TO
the achievements Of FIVE great cleo
tricians who have done much TO ami
hilate time and space in human inter
course, namely, Morse and the tele-
graph, Thompson and the cable, Bell
and the telephone, Marconi and the
wireless telegraph, and Carly and the
wireless telephone. The five are well
selected. and this brief popular ac
count of them covers the history Of
electrical devices for purposes of com
munication.
There is always danger in writing
such a book of running into technical
ties which will confuse more than in
struct the average reader. and also OF
worshipping one hero TO the wronglng
Of others. This dual danger Mr.. Tow
ers avoids. The story of each inven-
ton is told in a manner quite compre-
hensible to those who have no teehni-
cal knowledge OF the subject, and while
the five men named are credited with
being the chief inventors Of the devices
associated with them, justice is done TO
others who labored on the same lines.
Wheatstone. Cooke and Henry receive
credit for their achievements in ad-
vance of Morse. and the Walls for their
simply invaluable aid to him. So in
the cases of the other four. There is,
of course, not room in a small volume
to enter into detailed discussion of
comparative merits; but nobody of real
Importance is sighted or fails to get
his due. 1t is a useful book for the lay
reader, young or old.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10
Dynamiting Indifference

SCARS AND STRIPES BY Porter Emerson ,a,.s
Browne Fnnntisplcce hY ietor Newell LIMO
Do Jos. Ge,rge II. Dorsn Company.
The book is dedicated to Theodore
Roosevelt. A copy Of it ought to be
sent 10 each Of the Copperhead Sen
ators. Perhaps it would make men OF
them. II it wouldn't, nothing short OF
special Divine dispensation would. FOR
a more tremendously rous,ng, awaken
ing book we have not seen. It dyna-
mites ind ference. 1t bids every Amer,
lean TO choose this day which he will
serve. America or Mammon. Readers
OF Mr.. Brownies occasional contri5u-
tions to The Tribune will understand
its tone and spirit.
But il il not merely an awakening
cry. a "barbaric yawp,' an ease-shat,
tering blast. There IS a graphic ana
dramatic art in it which is calculated
to inspire the envy even OF those who
worship art for arts sake. The piet-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10

Second and revised eiitiOn. I-hvi ~ 'AA'' ''N'
g. 7. Putnams sons
Mr.. Beck's volume was a classic inc
moment it appeared, and the lapse OF
time and the issuance of new and re-
viscd edition have served TO confirm II
in that estate. We know OF no more
logical and lucid discussion OF the es-
sentiaI facts and problems OF the great
war nor anv more truly, consistently
and even aggressively American IN IT'S
snirit We should be we'll content 70
let il stand. if there were no other 10
stand beside 10, as the authentic eN-
preston of the highest aspirations the
hroadest and most penetrating VISION.
and the most profound convictions OF
the American nation on matters Which
have never been surpassed ana nave
only twice been rivalled in vital inter
est in all our history.
Detailed review Of n work Which
happily is already so well known "
the public would be superhuous; put
single feature Of IT must be cited, 10
exemplify the sincerity ana courase
which animate IL throughout. In as
cusing the most recent phase OF ,n1
situation Mr.. Beck speaks OF the
President DthNf HAtoShb' ~
Of az an extraordinary document OF
strength and value, the weakness OF
which clay in the fact that with IN
credible tsctlessness President wilson
stated that this country would not CO
onerate with other nations in maintain
ing peace with justice unless, the pres
cnt war was permitted to end in peace
without victory" Yet this scathlng
L., ,,ar;,ed criticism of the inept re-
suit of the Presidents passion for
phrase-mongering is followed IN the
same chapter with the highest possible
commentator OF the Presidents mes
sage announcing the severance of rela-
tons with Germany. and the exhorta-
ton that "as he thus treads the path
of honor and dignity, all Americans OF
whatever party, race, section, creed or
encestrv. whether in the past his eulo--
sists or critics, should Loyalty stand
Behind their leader" A book instinct
with such a spirit is to be commendea
TO every American as a manual OIL
.otr,ntigm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10
Books About the Great War
From Various Points of View

knowledge, about the war. whether
great or small, there is none that
goes more directly TO the heart Of
things or that mere terribly sets
forth in all their native horror the
lies, the murders. the ravishings and
all the hideous orgy Of kultur than
does this little "Klokke Roland"
The translation into English has
been-with a few amazing exceptions
-uIcommonly well done, and the H.
Illustrations, especially the fac-simile
OF the famous scrap Of paper" Il
is book which students of the war
can scarcely afford 70 miss. both for
its actual contents and for its service
rs an authentic setting forth Of the
Scandinavian view, with which we
have not hitherto been sufficiently ac-
quainted. To every intelligent reader.
indeed, il is 10 be commended; though
Il will not conduce 70 pleasant dreams.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10
r,,.s Wonder Women

,,rrs ~ the Rev A. Athm.
~ EsFy5ls,h'p i-no. ~ xvii -'-' d
SO ...,pal feminine" in a sense
'l,e .;sI with Blaze de Bury's. or
- ,,...',i55eting pages. We apply the 4,
Z. ''ss,SErfisediy. ior it IS q book
80 , aI Me reader spelloGund
- h9 200, mage 10 the last, both by
= BE- Be a .n5 I by its treatment Of it,
fyls iS.,bieets. I. would have been
ssgls :. So s,poil &c an with tawdry
sasy ~ md mawkish sentiment. But
ss sls' Committed no sucn crime
sS is opportunity. His taste -
e'I =. his style IS fawless. There
.'''' :. : CRYSTALLINE purity such as
~ r. associated with the three
80 DC &c women Of whom he writes
'''r0 .r,,n who inspired perhaps IN
~ ", measure than we commonly
i sis'' Two Of the greatest literary
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10
Written in Blood and Fire

VASE WITNESS. By johannes Josrserssn illu'
irstei. I2mo pp 2.7 Tho George H. DORA
Company.
Since such things were done. II was
well that the book was written; ana
since it was written. 1t was well thaI
Il should be not only circulated
throughout all Scandinavia but also
translated so that men of other lands
Tho whole world over could READ us
narrative of blood and fire and IN,
r,easurably worse. For this is a feariul
book-fcarful in the grim nakedness
Of its truth. in its awful portrayal OIL
Inc unnortrayable. Of all the volumes
thst have been written. TO our
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10

AZURE "The New Life By the Rev. Dr:
Samuel McComb, little volume good
for devotional reading not only IN
Lent. but all the year around.
Charles Scribner's Sons print Ste
phen Berrien Stanton's The hidden
Happiness a beautifully printed VOL
ume instinct with inspiring suggestion
and counsel.
The Open Court Publishing Com
many prints a revised and enlarged
edition OF DR.. Paul Carus's essays on
.The Dawn of a New Religious Era"
and cognate topics.
The Macmillan Company issues THE
Anostles' Greed To-Day" by the Rev.
DR.. Edward s. Drown, OF Cambridge.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10

ares of the destruction of a passenger
ship by a submarine and OF the killing
of children by Zeppelin bombs are
etched with verbal aqua FORTS and are
worthy of a place in the worlds Dest
gallery; and there are others no less
masterful: while the irony and satire
with which the author scourges rec
reants and poltroons. even in the high-
est places, are scorching and whitening
in their righteous fury. Yes, We wish
that the Copperhead Senator'S and some
other pacifsts would read 1t; as wei
as all the real men and women OF the
land.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10
Biographical Studies of
Notable Men and Women

masters and spiritual leaders the world
has ever known.
First, Jerome, that gigantic figure
who dominated the transition of the
world from paganism to Christianity,
and who left us in the Vulgate per
haps the greatest literary achieve
ment of its kind by any one man in
all the world. The English authorized
version was the five years work o.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10
American Squadron at Verdun, IN
which Mr.. Mcconnell Is sergeant-pilot'
fighting 10 help make good che indom :, ,

fighting TO help make good the IHuUI'' ,
table resolution, "They shall not pass
It is not often that more spirited ac-
ton is crowded into a few pages tnah
we find in this little book, or thaI
stories of almost incredible daring and
valor are more simply and yet more
thrillingly told. A capital idea OF the
practical working of battle aeroplane
is given, and there are sympathetic
references to the fate Of the gallant
Young Americans who have met death
in trying to do for France IN a SINAI,
way what Lafayette in a large way ala
for America
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10
In Airy Navies

FLYING FOR FRANCE. By James Il. Mcconnell.
illustrated. lsmo. ID. XIV. ~. Doubleday Page
A co.
Your hear the humming and drum
ming of the motors and feel the keen
rush of the upper air; you enter into
the spirit Of the aerial chase; for the
time being YOU are member Of the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10

forty-seven men. and of it one Of the
greatest authorities says, as its high
est praise. that in accuracy it chal-
lenges favorable comparison with the
Vuigate. And Jerome did the Vulgate
alone; or with only the aid and in
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10
The War and Humanity

THE WAR AND HUMANITY. rs James VI Rec
~ n Vyuh 'oregofd by Theodore Koorflelt.
second and revised edition l2mo ID 'IAi' "oV'
A. pufnam's sons.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10

Vol. 7. From the Beginnings 10 the
Cycles Of Romance.
Vol H. The End OF the Middle Ages.
Vol III. Renascence and Reformation.
Vol ". From Sir Thomas North 10
Michael Drayton.
Vol. '. The Flizabethan and the
Jacobean Drama. ].
Vol. VI. The Eiizsbethan and the
Jacobean Drama. ".
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-03-10
Visualizing a Shadow

FRANCOIS WILLOW His Life and Timss rs
~. Dc We're stscpoole. l2tno. xiv. @5S. g. J.
Putnsin's Sons
Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-07-23
HUSBAND SWALLOWS
HER SILVER SPOONS
Which Naturally PeeeveS His
Better Hall.
~ international News serviee3

tby international News SrfVtCes1
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Martinsburg W Va evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1913-1920, 1917-07-23
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bj" Mr. Qunlan confessed he wal
unable % overcome hts appetite when
tempted. for Instance. by IA nice
n' ketplated screen door hook
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TO sT,P SPREAD

ABt4t nj The spread Of infnntile
naGaIA from Monongah at Fair.
mont md tearing another epidemic
like tbat et last year. ex-senator c.
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eteller institute. New York. who has
rnt IN George Draper there. Siren
NOUS Efforts viii be made to check
fhr pread of The disease.
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South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-30

sibilities till the book is done ?" sug-
gested Dick. Couldn't your moth
er manage TO keep you within
bounds
"Oh. mothers just as easy as she
can be mcnding us and darning w.
and planning meals and things. she
has a mothers helper TO help her
and still she never seems 10 have
time 10 breathe. And poor old faith
or said he was going 10 try TO get 4
fathers nelper'-tO mike his task
OF being our father easy. just as
mother does with her mothers
helper So fan he hasn't found any
one that wants the job"
What would this fathers helper
nave 10 do" asked Dick. ratrer
amused n the turn OF Madeleine's
conversation.
"Oh, I suppose he would have 10
help Bennett with his Greek and
spank Arthur. and he'd have 10
Gene 10 meals and see thai we wei Q
all there and maybe say grace. ard
sometimes Just happen in the draw
ing room when Minerals suftors
were there Minerals the sumner.
you know, and she has jus. coolies
OF suitors. and mother SAYS that
father ought 10 appear once in q
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-30

raise your high brOws.' l. Bob Nal
colin. haven't fallen yet. I've seen
lots of EN-, but
Say. but weren't you smitten on
Sue Sykes the doughnut singer in
the Ham and place up at col
lege? a fellow I met in Spokane
told me she was a college girl who
took that job for the sole purpose
OF studying men as a hungry variety
of brutes. He said she married a
very wealthy fellow that went TO
Yale after we left"
Bob didn't answer.
The train was rumbhng through
fields laden with golden grain. The
sun was setting now. Bob pulled out
a cigaret case and opening il. pass
ed IL 10 Bruce
Let's not talk about DANES any
more tonight, Bob found himself
saying.
But you haven't told me just why
YOU are going 10 New York" said
Bruce, as he prOpped his feet on a
comfortable looking stool.
Il ind my law practice so exact
ing-the cases are often so sordid-
that for mental recreation I have
been writing light, airy. moving pic
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-30

tone and her eyes grew round.
I'D forgotten about father" she
said. lie viii never let us do any
thing we want tC-we are great
trial 10 him, YOU know. and don't
know how in the world I can ever
be- married Il he doesn't consent. ]
Just couldn't elope"
Dick didn't Ike this intrusion OF
an o0iecting father-in-law IL was
much nicer hearing Madeleine's
guileless praise of his own many
manly virtues and good features. SO
nc tried 10 persuade her that the
father whom Re mad never seen
was not such a grun sort after all
and that il woulj be an easy matter
60 "brins him around"
You haven't any idea how strict
he is" Madeleine protested He
q professor OF psychology and tins
year he's trying 10 write his great
est book and-and, well. il is very
hard 70 be the father OF five daugh-
tiers and Arthur and Bennett and
write book or psychology. It's
hard 20 be the father OF five daugh-
ters anyhow. Re says. especially
when they are the kind o. daugh-
tiers that we are"
WHY can't lie shift the resnon-
South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-09-30

TO his big athletic arms. Then he in
troduced Bob TO Irene. Irene, in
turn, introduced both young men to
Virginia Carter.
Virginia Carter was a wonderful
looking creature. Tall. fair skinned,
With a wealth of golden hair, she
looked more like a Calendar Girl
than a real, live human being.
She was attired in a lustrous rob-
ms egg blue sport suit. Her hat. a
sport sailor of white chip straw.
was no less appropriate than her
white sport shoes.
Bob was indeed stunned when he
beheld smiling Virginia Carter.
There flashed through Bob's mind
a vision Of what might have been
had his father been less mercenary
How like Sue she was.
But ii didn't take Bob long 10 find
out that Virginia Carter was quite
unlike Sue.
Virginia Carter bespoke good
breeding in everything. Her English
was perfect. Her hands, Bob knew,
never touched anything coarser than
perhaps a bit of silken embroidery.
The four young people jumped in
to a taxi at Grand Central, and