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The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1918-08-14
Steam TrawIer Right Out
side of Boston is Shot At
by German.
SEVEN LOST WITH TANKER
Seventy Thousand Barrels
of Oil From TampicO
Also Lost.

NEW YORK, Aug IA German sub
marines are approaching the yaa
gates Of New York harbOr and they
sunk the oil tanker Frederick x. kei.
logg, off the Ambrose Channel last
night. Thirty-nye members OF the
crew brought here reported that seven
others are missing. These survivors
we're picked up by an American steam.
ship.
NEW YORK, Aug IA. - The Fred
erick II. Kellogg, the latest victim Of
German submarine warfare on the
American coast, was a new tank ship
Of 27,lg7 tons, owned by the Pan.
American Petroleum and Transport
company Of Los Angeles. She was
l95 feet long with beam Of 81 feet
and was built at Oakland, Cal, last
year. The tanker was commanded by
Capt. White and was bound from Tam
pico, Mexico, for Boston. The ship
was valued at more than $l,5OOOOO
Her cargo consisted of approximately
10000 barrels of oil.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
WOrkmen's Compensation

woRIIMEN's COMPENSATION AND INsUR-
ANCE. BY Durand Ualsey Van Doren. Royal
svo. PIP. 1892. Moffat Yard & Co.
There have been few developments of
the economic organism more marked
and more significant than that of sys-
TENS Of insurance against and COM
pensation for the accidents, diseases
and other disabilities incidental upon
industrial occupations. Within the
memory Of men not yet old such sys-
TENS were practically unknown, and
the earliest proposals of them were
greeted with incredulity and derision;
yet now they are approximating uni
versal prevalence, with a general recog-
milton of their justice and beneticence.
In this volume, which isSthe David A..
Wells prize essay for 1917 at Will
Jams College, Mr.. Van Doren gives a
comprehensive and perspicuous survey
of the subject, in its social, legal and
economic aspects, such as must be of
much practical value not alone to
students and publicists, but also to
practical men of affairs, both employ
ers and employees.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
Folk-Sociology
"A Fascinating Study of the
Common PEOPLE"

nj N,Ail-Ef OF DEMOCRACY. Bv Mcrcdith
Mlchnlson Illustrated by Waller ri,t1n sro
Pp' -es. Charles Scribncrs Sons ~
1t is far cry from "rhe Madness of
Way one of the most intoxicatjnglv
Joyous fantasies ever woven Nv tr;ci sv
fuck' to "The Valley of Dcmocracv y
notably serious and thoughtful studw
OK Ihe American mind. character and
.endencles in the Middle West. Yet
Lhe same nirble wit and facile nen
nave spanned the great gulf and have
achleved at either end Of the snan an
equal triumph. When we sneak Of tho
present volume as serious we do not.
o' course, mean solemn, melancholy or
depressing. There is not a touch of
mat spirit in Nh Nicholson's pages.
we mean that his book is inspired with
an earnest purpose and that he brings
TO the accomplishment of that purpose
d ntt'ng equipment Of information and
of Judgment. -
For the rest. it is AS cminentlv read
able as his inimitdble idyl of spr;ng.
Inc scenes are picturesque, the narra-
t'ves are vivacious. even the statistics
are invested with vital significance. and
the loglc,-always implied and not svl-
ioglstlcally tabulated-is impregnahlc.
we nave seen no more informing and
convincing analysis and exposition of
tne social, economic and political life
OF that vast and unsurpassedly impor-
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
Praise of the President;
Public Affairs of Note
BY Willis Fletcher Johnson

cute was the President. But of this
power he had been robbed. and he
was now reduced to the level of a
SSonstltutional S, monarch who reigned
put dld not rule. The GOV
ernmcnt OF England is the Prime
mtnisler. His function is to
originate policies and to carry them
OUT through his majority in Parlia-
nlen,. Mr.. Wilson believed
enat 'ne PRESIDENT ought properly to
occupy the same relation to the
country and to his party.
ihe President Of the United
states" Mr.. Wilson writes, "was in
'enoed by the makers of the Con-
stitutlon to DC a reformed and stand
ardized King, after the Whig model"
That may be-wc think it is--an ac
curate statement of Mr.. Wilson's
views; and Mr.. Low, in his profound
admlratlon of the President, may share
them. But that the one, in his knowl-
cage OF the American Constitutional
system. and the other, in his familiarity
WIN the essentially different British
system, should both thus play ducks
and brakes with facts and ioric is
nothing short of amazing.
The spirit Of almost passionate
adulatlon OF an idol pervades the whole
or TINS exceptionally studied and elo
qucnt book. In his extraordinary ex-
h1Itah9n no to neutrality was "perhaps
the sole instance when Mr.. Wilson's
Judgment was in error" At all other
times he was infallible and impeccable.
Ana even IN that one single and soli-
tary lapse he erred no more than Lin
coin. Naturally, there is similarly
passionate condemnation of all Who
have had the tcmerity to differ from
the Presidents policy, with special
anlmosity against Colonel Roosevelt,
Perhaps the climax is reached in the
astounding assumption that for the
President to have made timely prep-
aration for war, after the European
nations became involved, would have
meant that "Congress and the country
would have given the President carte
blanche in money and legislation
asking neither accounting for the
money expended nor explanation of the
policy he intended to pursue And
since Congress did not and would not
do that-a thing which no Congress
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
More Fun

SUCH NONSENSE. An anthology by CAROLYN
Wells. illustrated. Sgo pp 2i5 tseo-ge il
Do!an Company 49,
Unlike some of Friend Briggs's char
acters to perpetrate another portman-
teau word Carolyn Wells is always
putting joy into life, and here She is
doing it again. Herself richly endowed
with an exceptionally spontaneous.
deft and nimblc wit, she keenly appre
ciates the wit Of others, and is able
often to do one of the most difficult
things in the world, namely, to cap a
climax by giving fresh point to an al
ready pointed and brilliant witticism.
In this fascinating volume she has col
ected great number of the most
witty and humorous compositions in
our literature, from Edward Lear to
Franklin P. Adams, and from Tom
Hood to Don Marquis, adding to each
an apt comment or repartee of her
own. We should be amazed at the mum
ber of really funny pieces which she
has collected if we were not already
bewidered at her own astounding YER
satlity in adding an appropriate tag
to each one. She has also secured ir
resistibly funny illustrations in color
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21

morning after the performance. "The
Twentieth Century Theatre" ought to
be a good handbook on the theatre for
high school students.
Mr.. Hamilton in the second volume
of his series gives a sympathetic
sketch of the career Of Mr.. Pinero, but
we cannot but feel that he gives too
much weight to the genius Of this par
ticular English playwright. The two
plays the book contains are attrac-
lively printed.
"The Fourteenth of july and "Dan-
ton" are splendid pieces of literature
and admirable historical documents.
They are filled with poetry and the
characters live, but their form and
length render them impossible of any
successful theatrical presentation. Mr..
ROLAND wrote them for his peoples
theatre, but they are really suitable
only for the study.
The plays of Alexander Ostovsky
are no doubt suitable to the Russian
stage, but to the Western mind they
are certainly caviare. A reading of
them brings to us forcefully the lines ::
For East is East and West is West
and never the two shall meet"
These two volumes of one-act plays
written and presented at Harvard
under the direction of Professor
George P. Baker, give an admirable
idea of the talent developed by that
enthusiastic lover of the theatre
While mono of them evolves the vision
of genius. nearly all Of them show a
given observation Of the surface of
life, many of them are whimsical and
IN some of them there is even imagina-
ton. & v
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
Dramatic
Books For and About the
Theatre

French Of Roman holland by Barrett H. Clark
l2mo pp lag Henry Holt & Go.
THE TWENTIETH CENTURY TIlEEATRE -, by
milan Company.
TIP Soc'A t, rIAys or ..h AnrnTm roN,i"G wING
aud critical preface to each play by CLAYTON
Ilanton. vrlumc H. 'ThS Gay n,,ru I"m. 9u,x, ra
THE FOURTEENTH or JULY and DANToN.
By Romain ROLAND. Authorized translation with
a preface by Barrett H. Clark. limo. pp 236.
Henry Holt Il Go.
from thc Kussan edited ny George Rapail
Noycs. l2mo pp. 3o5. Charles scribncr's Sons.
PLAYS or THE HARVARD DRAMATIC CLUB.
l2mo. pp. 90. Bronano'a.
PLAYS OF THE II WORKSHOPS l9mo. pp
llo. Brentanos.
Mr. Hollands S "The People Theatre
is an carly work Of the eminent French
novelist and critic. 1t is full ot youth
full enthusiasm for democratic artistic
ideals and despisal Of the current
bourgeois drama. Despite the authors
denial quoted in the preface maturity
has brought MANY changes III hrs
idcals-it is doubtful whether MIR. Rol-
land now believes so whole heartediy
in the possibility OF & great popular
drama. where the audiences shall OK
tend into the thousands. What the
young ROLAND here says in somewhat
sophomore fashion. the mature Roi-
land has said supechiy in the pages
of Jean Christopher
Professor Phelps will scarcely add
to his reputation through his latest
book, though it contains some ad-
mrabe observations on the present
state of the theatre. Professor Phelps
says that in the last thirty years there
have been more good plays written in
English than during any similar period
since the death OF Shakespeare. He
makes appeals for stock company and
simple scenery; he believes in the
Drama League and in the genius of
Stephen Phillips; he considers Louis
Calvert one of the greatest of living
actors, and he contends that dramatic
criticism ought never to appear on the
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
Some Books ON Music

Kshss" toward % a smo o'mnA p1 s5 SlSonn Atsd Ry A
TlD MERRY Go-RouND. BY Car, Van yecb-
ten limo, pp 3l3. Alfred A. Knopf
THD LURE or MUSIC. BY oln Downes: por-
,sai,s n. by Chase Emerson. l2mo. pp. 353. Harper
ON LISTENING TO MUSIC BY r. Markham
lee lee l2mo, pp. l5o Kesan. Paul. Trench. Tub
TIE EAIu!ER FRENCH MUSICIANS. 1891
Trench. Trubner * Co.
FAGG aGar'nt TO FACE WITH GREAT MUSICIANS BY
Godo"sly limo pp 247. Boi & Liyereht
Miss Howard's book is refresh
ingly simple and spontaneous record of
an American singers life in Enrone
and especially in Germany, and what
used to be Gcrmany-Metz. The book
Is un5urdened with the artistic tenn
permanent, IS human and we'll written.
1t should be read after a course in the
current hction of the operati: life. 1t
Will bring the reader back to life.
The Merry Co Round" is collection
OF essays, mostly on music Some are
joolish, others infantlle, others mildly
agreeable. One little sketch. however.
- really delightful. 1t is entitled eau
Bal Musette,'' and while it is distinctly
George Moore. it is in all but the stye,
Whlch, TOO, is not bad, excellent George
Moore. Mr.. Van Techter would do we'll
to leave the world of ideas alone; he
lives truly only in the world of SEN
sation.
Mr. Dowres has written a book of
sketches, excellent in themselves, Of
the various popular composers. with
the records OF their compositions man
u1actured by a popular photographic
company
"On Listening to Music" is an ex-
cellent handbook for the budding con-
cert and opera goer, and "The Earlier
French Musicians" succinct studies of
the great Gallic composers, from Lully
and Rameau to Cherubini and Borel-
oieu.
Mr.: 1saacson's book is made UP Of
popular lectures on great musicians.
both creative and interpretive. They
arc partly in the form of imaginative
conversations and ougnt to prove of
interest to the beginner in the world
cf music. G. Y
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
CITY Tides

CITY TIDES BY Archie Austin Coates. l2mo DID,
XVIII. l92. The George II. Doran Company
We can think of few surer talents
among young American poets than that
or Mr. coates III his more epigrammatic
vein. Our readers may not remember
Mr.. Coates by name, but we are conf
dent they have not forgotten his two
delectable series of Coming Tower"
fame-"A Magazine Publishing Office"
and "a Resume of Ladies'" Every one
has a favorite, but we have never
faltered in our loyalty to "Varick, the
Advertising Manager" from the first
named sequence. Because it perfectly
carves in marble an utterly American
god, we quote at length:
Bully for you. old top say in my genial tones;
Life is very genial for me
| am sparkling and gay to all men, it's well to
They like you for it. and they will help you ont
some time on The strength of 1t.
| am what they call enthusiastic
My Interest is infectious: that's personality
have very strong personality [ make men fall
naturally into step with me.
! believe IN laughter lots of It.
believe in geniality and Good stur'' shouted
Ard slapping Of shoulders. and-ah, havs you seen
smile?
Nv best persuasive smile?
My Smilc Is almost good my persOnality
Almost rs valuable. Il often think of those old
In Chicago, before learned how to smie)
Now II all gets me grea; deal. all could want
in Life:
have everything In Tifc-everything,
Which shows must be genial
This is Spoon River with a quality
all its own--distinctly more light and
shade, for one thing. Mr.. Coates must
keep on with his epigrams. They are
good to read and they are exceedingly
good for America.
The volume is considerable one, and
we are not as sure of Mr. Coates in his
more emotional veins. Youth hampers
him here more than in his satire. But
it is all good stuff, well worth the do
ing, and Mr. Coates has ample time to
play with his talents as he will--even
to letting a brother poet, Mr.. Charles
Hanson Towne, do his best to ruin this
particular volume with chatty intro
duction. Such we'll meant pats on the
back are always fatuous-see Varick
above on geniality and Good stuff
shouted out-and in Mr. Coates's case
absolutely unnecessary.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
True Though Minor Poetry

THE DRUMS IN OUR STREET BY Mary Caro-
lyn Davies l2no pp. Isl. The Macmillan
Company.
1t is slender talent that Miss
Davies has, but a very genuine one.
Her success is an excellent illustration
of how far a small voice. unforced and
true, will carry. When it comes to
creating, our only source is our in
most self. Will and conscious effort
fail pitifully VIII can direct a mind
and body and achieve slow growth.
Will can criticiss after the words are
written. But for the writing the poet
should be as free and unconscious of
self as child absorbed in play That
is the note of Miss Davies's verse. 1t
is often immature and slight it is al
ways authentic She never forces her
emotion. She never writes beyond her
knowledge The result in such work
as "Tn Our Street. and "a War Wed
ding is poignant and true poetry.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
The Incense Burner
AR. Maurice Lows Apprecia-
lion of Woodrow Wilson

soonnow WILSON, AN INTERPRETATION.
wa Maurice Low. Svo. pp. y 2al. Little.
Rrowu X Co.
There are st once an advantage and
disadvantage to Mr.. Low III being
Rriton. in writing this study of the
"haracter and career of President Will
en~' Gu" There is an advantage, of which
So takes full benefit. in thus being inn
mmeer.iallv me dissociated from the major
american political parties. He shows
~ HAS in either direction. Republi-
snrs ard Democrats are as one to him.
And indeed in that there is peculiar
tsEc,tv not only Of lmpartiality but
slso Of sympathy with his theme. since,
srcording to his own explicit and en-
~hatic showing, Mr.. Wilson also is a
man without Il party. being it is true
IN name Democrat and yet being in
tart Hamiitonian and therefore dia-
metrically opposed to the fundamental
nrinciple Of Democracy.
There is also grave disadvan-
tage from which he suffers in that he
tsles British rather than an Ameri-
ran view of the functions Of an Ameri-
can President. In thus also ne is in
close sympathy with his subject; and
in it he shares, strangely enough, the
singular error which Mr.. Wilson has
made. partly in confusing the King
with the Prime Minister and partly
in striving to draw an exact analogy
between q Prime Minister entirely re-
sponsible TO Parliament and Presi-
dent practically not at all responsible
70 Congress. We are not sure whether
It's the more strange for Mr.. Low or
fer Mr.. Wilson to make this error;
but that they have both made it is con-
spcuously apparent in this book.
Thus:
In political system so peculiar as
that of the United States, clearly
the one person who was intended to
have both power and possibility,
who should have not only the right
to plan but also the duty to exc
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
Miss WiddemeY.'s Poems

THE ROAD TO PARADISE. BY Margaret Wild
demer. l2mo. pp. l24. Henry Holt & Co.
Miss Widdemer is at her best when
her heart is full and message of
chast tisement or prayer springs to her
lips A few of the war poems in this
volume are thus inspired and belong
with her best work. But the general
level of the volume is disappointing.
There is an increasing deftness Of
phrase, a completer mastery of rhythm;
but one misses the splendid eloquence
of "Factories." Even in her love songs
Miss Widdemer fails Of a personal note
save, perhaps, in "Warning." One
recalls "The Modern Woman to Her
Lover" with enthusiasm and searches
in vain for any working out of it's
theme and point of view.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
II bli s IN ers-N g w 8:

eyer eyer would have dreamed of doing
,he President was justified in his de-
lay to make ready for war In fact.
ne ne. acted precisely as Lincoln did in
Ihose who wish unfaltering advocacy
Sa every act and policy of the Presi-
dent, and glowing panegyric upon the
wisdom of his statcmanship. clothed
IN the choicest of phrases and the most
graceful, fluent and persuasive of lit
erary styles, will find them in Mr..
LOWS luminous pages. And perhaps
the special pleader should have his
place at least among contemporary his
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
Sociological Psychology

INSTINCTS IN INDUSTRY. BY Ordway Tead.
12mo. PIP xvi. 222. The Hougnton Mitilin
Company.
Mr.. Tead's book is written with so
much and so obvious carnestness and
sincerity that it seems pity not to
be able to hail it as an important con-
tribution to sociological and psycholog
ical philosophy. But, truth to tell, it
strikes us largely as the mere repeti-
ton Of undisputed things. 1t may be,
of course, that there are those who do
not realize the influence of parental
affection, Of sex attraction, of the de-
sire for property, of the taste for
amusement, and the like, in industry
az we'll as in the other walks of life;
but we are afraid that if there are
such they will never read this book.
while those who do realize 1t all will
have little need to read il.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21

tant region which we term the Middle
West; certainly none which more
strongly impressed US with a sense Of
fairness and impartiality and-perhaps
this is the best of all-which more
clearly demonstrated not an antago-
nism but natural and powerful bond
OF kinship and sympathy and commu-
nifty of interest and of destiny between
that region and the states of the At
lantic littora. 1t is hook of fasci-
mating interest and of the greatest pos
sible civic and patriotic value.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
Lyrics of Tragedy
THE SAD YEARS BY Dora Sgerson l6mo
i06. The George II. Doran Company.

1866 The George H. Doran company ''A''' w.
m There is no need of Katherine
Tynan's loyal and affectionate note of
introduction to make this volume
poignant, almost heartrending, in it's
appeal. The poems speak their own
tragedy. One need not have rated Mrs.
Clement Shorter q great poet to feel
in these her last writings the whole
of grief and strain begun by Easter
week, 1916, a martyr among fellow
martyrs, her friends consider.
1t was almost as an exile that Mrs.
Shorter wrote these pages in England.
With all her long English association,
the war found her centred upon her
islands tragedy and utterly cold to
any wider view of the battle. The title
means what it says. As she writes
Sick am and sorrowful; how can be well again
Here. where fog and darkness are. and big guns
Practising for evil sport2 If you speak humanity
Hatred into each face. and you to
pray
Only in her impassioned poems in
honor of her beloved Kathleen did Mrs.
Shorter win away from her bitter de-
spondency and write her best-the best
work of her life, we are inclined to
think. For instance:
THE SACRED FIRE
They set fire within their land that long was
ashes cold,
With splendid dreams they made it glow. threw in
their hearts OF gold
They saw thy slowly paling check and knew thy
falling breath.
They bdae thee live once more. hattleen, who vert
nigh 10 death
And who dare quench the sacred fire. and who dare
give them blame
sina, lie who draws too the glow shall break
into flame!
Ily lii n beacon in their land. built OF the souls
Of men,
To make thee warm more. Kathleen. to bid
thee live again.
Here, as poet of the Irish rebellion,
Mrs. Shorter rises to her full power
of intense and eloquent speech. If it
fails Of final appeal to the rest of the
world, it is simply because of its
strange, blind egoism that could see n
whole world at bay before Apollyon and
remain unstirred because of home
griefs.
"The Third Bubble Book" is a chill
drens book, with story by Ralph
Mayhew and Burgess Johnson and col
ored pictures by Rhoda Chase. and
three real records from the Columbia
Graphophone Company; published by
Harper g. Bros.
"The Seventh Continent" by Helen
S. Wright ILLUSTRATED, 8vo, PIP. 3S7;
Richard G.. Badger, IS an attractive
compendium of the history of Antarctic
exploration and discovery, from the
earliest voyagers to the latest.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21

"rhc Letters Of Thomasina Atkins" I"
addressed to "Peachie,' tell Of the ad-
ventures of young member of the
Woman's Auxiliary Army Corps in
France, doing her bit as simple SOL
dier--a story of true heroism. MISS
Mildred Aldrich contributes preface,
and the George H. Doran Company pub
fishes t.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
Poetry, Music, Drama;
Literary Miscellany

and in black and white from a number
OF we'll known artists, and has thus
completed volume which may be con-
fidently recommended as an infallible
cure for blue devils.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21

With her true and sensitive ear and
natural gift Of expression Miss Davies
can go just as fast and far as growth
in mind and emotions will carry her.
G. D
New-York tribune., 1918-12-21
Britons' War Poems

POEMS; BY Geofrey Dcamcr 12mo, pp. ss
Robert NJ. Mcbride & Co. "
THE OTHER SIDE BY Gilbert rranlau ,ouo
PIP. "A. Alfred A. kn0pf.
Both of these books of war poems
are by fighting Brtshers with a keen
son of Frank Dandy and already a
writer of promise. "The Other Side"
IS the would-be realist's view of war.
IN all its niuck and terror The Kip
llngesque ballad form is Mr.. Frankau's
IaVorlte medium and he handles it we'll.
he criticism to be made OF it is that
1t inevitably separates the reader from
the facts. Not all the crudity and Grass
ness of the poets bloody adjectives can
restore the reality subtracted by his
conventional metre of romantic war
With all his eye for sheer beauty
Mr. Dearmer brings us nearer to the
heart of trenches and death than all
Mr trankau's gore. Perhaps because
of his eye for beauty. Color blazes in
everything for Mr.. Dearmer no better
poetry has come out of Gallipoli than
his From w. Beach, His lines are
packed with keen, specific fact. And
beauty is over alias, indeed, he avows
IN perhaps his most striking, certainly
his most personal, poem, Keats Before
Action":
Now all is silent STILL and magic keen
YET thunder rolls above and star-shells falD,
ana; slowly pacing. rides e faery queen
Wlld eyed and singing to knight in thrall
Enough enougll-let lightning whip me bare
And leave me- naked in the howlng air
Ny body broken here and here and here
Beauty is truth. truth beauty--that is all
Tho very ali in ALL
Mr.. Dearmer has an odd weakness in
the making of last lines. AS in the
quoted poem, he usually fails of his
curtain. But good last lines are more
often trick than great poetry, and
Mr. Dearmer has far better things as
compensation.