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New-York tribune., 1918-12-14

Of juvenile readers and students of
his career, in the name OF the Repub-
lie let us have it.
Mr. Hagedorn has written we'll
meaning, sympathetic and spirited
sketch, or series of sketches, of Colo
mel Roosevelt's career, the reading of
which is to be commended to all young
Americans. 1t is instructive, illuminat-
ing, inspiring, and it's faults, from
which it is by no means free, are not
such as will do harm Perhaps the
chief fault is lack of proportion. Some
features and episodes are unduly ex-
plotted, presumably because it is sup
posed that they especially appeal to
boys, while others arc minimized for
the opposite reason. Again, there are
places too violently partisan. Thus
the account of the Panama Canal cpl
sode is, to put it mildly, not impartial.
1t is scarcely right to say that "Colon1-
bia was under the dictatorship of an
adventurer named Marroquin," and we
must regret the omission of any ref
erence' to the reasons for the "elimina-
ton of the Nicaragua route" and the
notorious German intrigues.
The faults Of the book are, however,
lost before the great array of merits
and the intense and vital human inter
est which pervades the whole. 1t is
not at all piece of hero worship, but
it is the record of an heroic career.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
For the Little Ones

II is not the "ghQul- haunted wood
land of Weir" of Poe's nonsense jim
gle of which Anna Mcclure Sholl has
written in her "Faery Tales of Weir"
but a place of beauty and charm and
dreamy romance, where every evening
brought forth new tale and every
tale wove the spell of new enchant-
ment. Katharine Pyle has made a lovely
colored frontispiece and numerous black
and white illustrations for a thor
oughly attractive volume. (Svo pp. 172.
e. P. Dutton & Co..
In "Mothers Nursery Tales" we
have what should prove genuine clas-
sic. 1t contains three dozen or more of
"The Sleeping Beauty" "Jack and the
Bean Stalk Beauty and the Beast"
"Jack the Giant-Killer," and Little
Red Riding Hood" retold with all their
ancient charm and some added inter
est, by Katharine Pyle; with a num-
ber of colored plates and many black
and white illustrations which have sell
dom been equalled by any artist for
sheer loveliness and for sympathetic
Interpretation of the spirit Of the
tales. 1t is book that will be treas
ure in the nursery and that will COM
mand an honored place on the library
tor & Co..
Another classic for the nursery and
for the library, too, is "The Book of
Elves Elves and Fairies by Frances Jenkins
Olcott. 1t contains scores of the fin
est of fairy tales, many of them by
famous writers, classified in groups
and representing the literature Of
many lands and the folklore of many
places. Milo Winter has contributed
some colored plates of exquisite
beauty, and there is also an analytical
index which will be of great service
to story-tellers and to all readers. The
child, the child's elders and the lover
of literature and art will all alike be
enchanted with the volume. (Svo, PIP.
Xxx, 43O. Houghton Miifin Company)
"The Moving House," by Pauline
Bradford Mackie. is a fairy tale of a
somewhat unusual kind, telling of a
house in which dwclt little girl all
alone, and which went rambling about
the world on all sorts of bewildering
journeys, bringing it's occupant into
contact with ell sorts of interest
ing people and animals. Charles Ohm
stead Bassett has written some Incl
contributes q colored frontispiece and
capital plates in black and white
(Svo. PIP. $50. Small, Maynard & Co..
The perennial worth Of our old
nursery classics is again attested in
the appearance of Little Red Riding
Hood and Other Fairy Tales" pictured
in colors and in black and white by
Lillian Causey. The eight tales are
all familiar and are ali of the best
quality, though somewhat scantily told
By the way, the inclusion of "Cin-
derella" suggests to us that it would
be interesting for somebody in re-
telling that famous romance to take ur
the problem of the alleged "glass'
slipper and settle, once for all, whether
1T was of glass or, as some wise men
hold, of fur. (Small 4to, PIP. 8S. The
Penn Publishing Company
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14

Grosset & Dunlap have issued a pop
ular priced edition of j. W. Gerard's
"My Four Years in Germany"
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
An Animated Museum
The Mysteries of Olden Times
Made to Live Again

THE TRAIL, BOOK. BY Mary Austin. Illustrated
by Milo Winter. svo. pp xii 800. Hougnton
Mifflin Company.
Gautier gave life and voice to mum
mics; Kipling invested with speech the
creatures of the Jungle; and here we
have book of marked originality, in
genuity and power standing midway
between them by causing the mounted
specimens" Of natural history
museum to resume life and speech and
to tell strange tales of the ancient days.
Such work must obviously be writ
ten with much knowledge and with dis
creton if it is to avoid being absurd
or else being a mere fairy extrava-
ganza. Happily, Mary Austin brought
to it the essential gifts in abundant
measure, and the result is what we
have already described it.
The Mastodon tells of the pre- -gla-
cial era; Indians relate romances Of the
Iroquois Trail ard of the Mound Build
ers; the Pelican and the Condor have
thrilling stories of the days of the Con-
quistadors, and others contribute to
the weird yet lifelike symposium The
author has told the stories in fascinat-
ing style, simply as wonder stories, and
she has also invested them with
wealth Of information and instruction.
1t is juvenile book of an unusual
kind, and Of unusual merit
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
The Boy Who Had Vision
The Twofold Apocalypse of the
Marine

.u,r MARINE. Nv Edith Wharton lsmo. pp 1873
D. Appleton n 60.
II is small book. You may read it
,,rough in a single brief sitting But
that will not be the end of it for you.
you vii think about it. You will read
!, again. You will continue to think
sbout it. And presently you will re-
slize, with gratitude. that it has be-
come part of your mental and spirit
nal furnishing. That is because while
= is small box it is a great book
il is a great book; one of the really
Great books of the war
That it is written with grace and
mower is matte of course. since Mrs
Wharton wrote it. That is the way
she writes That it work of singular
spiritual eXaltation should be equally
matter of course. in view of the eheme
1t is the greatest theme that Mrs.
Wharton has ever assayed. and one of
essaved. Logically, therefore, we should
snd in it this admirable author at her
hest, and that is precisely what we do
find.
It is the story of a Boy who had
Vision He had Vision when the first
Miracle of the Marne was wrought. He
cherished it through the succeeding
wears. when he was packed off to school.
in land which was "buzzing with war
charities, yet apparently unaware of
the yar"-Mrs. Wharton was surely in
spired when she wrote those phrases!
At the last it became a Vision Tri-
umphant when it reused him to break
sll bonds and rush into the Second
Glory of the Marne.
is called q novel. 1t is an epic.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14

"If Great Wives and Mothers were
volume Of social scandals and saIa-
wives, it might rank among the best
sellers Of the week. Often and often,
unto utter weariness of spirit, have we
had volumes forced upon us whose sole
excuse for existence was the exploita-
ti0n of the weaknesses and wckednesses
of womanknd, giIded in high life and
squalid in the slums, from Messaiina
and Lola Montez and the Pompadour to
the unnamed harpies or piteous victims
of the Barbary Coast. Strange, and
more than passing strange. that whiIo
the most abandoned man resents as an
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
Varied Juvenilia

Both for and about children is Kate
Upson Clark's new volume, "Ieachlng
the Child Patriotism" 1t discusses
the important subject from many
points OF view, including those of work,
of health and of morals and religion;
always sanely and profitably. Parents
and teachers will find it full of valu-
able suggestion and guidance, and chill
dren in mid-teens will be assisted by
it to educate themselves. with from
tispiece. 12mo, PIP. ITS. The Page
Company
"Carita," by Lucy M. Blanchard, is a
patriotic book in the form OF an enter
tanning story of Mexican girl and
how she became good American. The
narrative is interesting and the local
color" is true to life. The volume is
illustrated by John Goss. (12mo, PIP.
3O3. The Page Company
A volume of historic information, of
civic instruction and of patriotic. IN
Sara Cone Bryant. 1t is intended to
be read by the children themselves, or
to be read to them by their elders.
illustrated Small 4to, PIP. l5s
Houghton Miffiin Company
"The French Twins" by Lucy Fitch
Perkins, illustrated by herself, is
tale of children's experiences in war
time in France, giving in the form OF OF
interesting narrative much information
about the country and the war, and
realistic view of the battle scourgeed
regions. (Small Alto. PIP. 2o2. Hough-
ton Mifflin Company.
"Home Life Around the World" by
George A. Mirick, with Illustrations
from photographs by Burton Holmes, is
an instructive and entertaining little
book, suited to children scarcely In
or just entering their teens, giving
vivid views of the home life Of chill
dren and their occupations in other 4n
lands than ours. (12mo, PIP. l59
Houghton Mifflin Company
"Three Sides of Paradise Green" BY
Augusta Huiell Seaman, is delightful
Franco-American mystery story fo1 o,
girls, eliminating in the early part Of
ne Great War. 1t is charmingly illus
trated by c. M. Relyea. (12mo, PIP. 275
The Century Company
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
The Exodus
Sir Rider Haggard's Romance
of the PharaOhs

MOON OF ISRAEL. BY II. Rider Haggard. With
eoored frontispiece. l2mo. pp. 3o2. Longmans
Green X Co.
The magic creator of Allan Quater-
main and Umslopogaas has woven for
us many spells. Some have been his
torical, some have been purely i'm
aginative. Here he combines the two
qualities, selecting one of the most
august, dramatic. romantic themes in
the worlds richest-and most neg
lected-treasury of themes, and upon
groundwork OF historic fact erecting
an cdihce of dazzling and triumphant
time is that of the second Rameses
Meneptah and his successor; the
climax is the Exodus. Those are ele-
ments of drama worthy of the
mightiest of pens and surely calcu-
lated to bring forth the best that was
in the man who essayed to deal with
them.
They have done so. Never, we think,
has Sir Rider Haggard touched higher
standard than in this mighty romance.
Never has he given us more con-
vincing impression of versmilitude,
and never has his creative ingenuity
bSSii iiOiS IeiIilc anu IHOIe OpulcHI.
Nor has he, nor has any writer in our
time, sounded a more dramatic dia-
pason than in the telling of the over
throw of Pharaoh's host in the Red
Sea:
Then to the west on the sea there
arose mighty wave, whereof the
crest seemed to be as high as a
PYRAMID. 1t rolled forward with
curved and foamy head, and in the
hollow of it, for a moment, no more,
we saw the army of Egypt Yet in
that moment I seemed to see mighty
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14

of our complaining comes a book which
combines in the nth degree the char
acterlstics of both those classes and
does 1t so admirably that we humbly
and gratefully hope for more.
Three men dominate the book, and
they are men. One is a Texas cattle
man, half outlaw, but every inch a
man, so witty, so daring, so masterful
that we wonder why Mr.. Hcndryx does
not XIII him off as Shakespeare did
so they say-Mercutio, because he
could not longer keep the pace that he
had set. One is a precise, methodical,
conventional New Englander, likewise
every inch a man-after you get under
the veneer. One is a French-Indian
breed" with all the loyalty, resource
fulncss and humor of his tribe, and
every inch a man. The one woman
who figures greatly is scarcely up to
their standard, though she is charm
ing and very true to life. The plot is
simple, but natural and strong in its
appeal to curiosity; the action is Wig
orous and expeditions and there is a
fine vein Of manly and womanly senti-
ment running through it. By all odds
it is one of the best romances of the
cattle country that we have ever read,
and it is we'll worthy of a conspicuous
place among the really choice fiction of
the year
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
Roosevelt's Life for Boys:
Holiday Time J1venilia

tions of bird life and to reminders
and demonstrations of the indspensa-
BILE value of feathered creatures to
the economic welfare of the nation.
The narrative and descriptions are cal
culated to be of absorbing interest to
every healthy-minded boy There is
profusion of admirable Photographic IL
Illustrations, from government sources.
(Large 12mo. ,pp. xii, 356. Lothrop, Lee
& Shepard Co..
Don Hale Over There" by w. Girls
pin Sheppard, is, as it's title indicates,
the story of boys adventures in the
Great War, partly on the sea, partly
near the battle line in France and part
ly in the service Of the Red Cross. 1t
is spirited tale, giving a sufficiently
of the war. There are good illustra-
tions by H. A. Bodine, (G2mo, PIP. 1926.
The Penn Publishing Company.)
Jimmy in the Fighting Line" by
Charles Tenny Jackson, is red
blooded tale of the war in the trenches,
written with obvious knowledge of the
subject and therefore free from exag-
gerations-though come to think of
it, would exaggeration be possible? w.
w. Clarke illustrates it with number
of plates. (12mo, PIP. 315. D. Apple
ton e. Co..
Everett T. Tomlinson's Fighters
Young Americans Want to Know" con-
tains a number of stories of heroic
deeds in the Revolution and other
American wars, including the present;
not the doings which are already ia
miliar to the world in history books,
but others similarly meritorious and
quite as authentic, but not hitherto
exploited to such a degree. 1t is a
worth while" book. illustrated. 12mo,
PIP. 275. D. Appleton & co.,
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
A Boys Life of t. r.
Spirited Sketches of a More
Than Spirited Career

THE BOYS LIFE or THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
By Hermann lngedorn. Illustrated. l2mo. PIP. 1915.
Harper d Bros.
The question might, of course, be
raised whether boys Life of Theo-
dore Roosevelt was, per Sc, necessary
or desirable. That is not asking
whether boys should be made acquaint-
ed with his career, which, as Euclid
says, is absurd, but whether life of
him for adult readers is not quite
satisfactory for boys reading. His
whole career has been so direct, so
lucid, so simple in it's appeal to human
sentiment and patriotic interest that
any we'll written account of it for
adult readers should be no less under
standablc, appreciable and acceptable
to boys. However, if the writing and
publication of life specially meant
for boys will result in any increase
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14

scene phrase upon his mother, SO many
men of supposedly decent instincts
should gloat upon the prostitution of
womanhood in either fact or fiction.
But here is volume of another
kind. Here is a book which looks to
the light rather than to the darkness,
and to which virtue is more charming
than vice. 1t finds its themes in the
examples of noble wOmanhood, which
have after all. despite the cynic and the
scandal 'monger, so numerously adorned
and blessed the checkered history of
our race. These women, too, have been
in varied walks of life. All were types
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
Three Men
Also One Woman and Various
Lesser Persons

S'- q. j. Putnams Sons A"'' w.
Never again! A little while ago we
were tired, we thought, of the South
west and the Northwest, of the COWBOY
ana ana the miner, of the mclodramas Of
the cattle country and the romances of
the lands of furs and gold. Those two
classes OF fiction, we were about to saw.
were overwritten, overworked, over
done, and we should have a long, long
rest from them. But not again shall
we be guilty of such snap Judgment,
tor here upon the very heels and echo
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
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shapes fleeing landward along the
crest of the wave which shapes |
took to be the gods OF Egypt, pur-
sued by form of light and glory
mat Ina, drove them as with scourge
ihey came, they went, accompanied
by q sound of wailing, and the wave
There is, of course, an exquisite love
story running through the mighty
drama, and there are thousand
touches which make the Egyptians and
lsraelltles of thousands of years ago
selves. '''' oui
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
Mrs. Wharton, Rider Haggard,
Other Writers of Romances
BY Willis Fletcher johnson

but 1T is all screamingly amusing. as
everything from the creator of Hashi-
mura Togo should certainly be; and it
contains some shrewd social satire, AS
travesty upon the "smart set" it is
delicious. and if the portraiture of
BUDDY" seems little overdrawn it
winning.
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14
From the Desert I Come"

VENUS IN TIE EAST BY Wallace Irwin n
lusrated limo. pp. Sl4. George H. Doran
Company.
This is the story of the Boy of the
Golden West seeking his pictured in
amorata in the effete. Sophisticated
East, where he loses his fortune and
finds himself as helpless as a Tender
foot would he in Axe Greek. 1t is ex-
travagant, in parts quite impossible,
New-York tribune., 1918-12-14

of the nobility and purity of character
which even the dissolute and iicentious
man esteems and insists upon in the
women of his OWE household.
$50 we could wish--nay, we could
not help wishing-that such volumes as
this might far surpass the other kind in
wide reading and in popular favor. They
deserve to do so, on both planes. For
they are at least as interesting as the
others. There could be nothing more
promising for the future of the nation
and of the race than that men should
learn to prefer tho clean literature of
virtuous womanhocd above the reeking
propaganda of the stews"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-09
O'Neil Platform to
Go Out Thursday

Preparation of the platform upon
which Highway Commissioner j.
Denny O'Neil proposes to make his
contest for the Republican nominal
ton for Governor is under way at
the Capitol where the commissioner.
Clifford Pinchot and state officials are
embodying their ideas in drafts. The
platform Will be announced at the
meeting in O'Neil's home city of Nc
Keesport on Thursday night at which
the Governor and Pinchot will
speak.
Mr.. O'Neil arrived here to-day and
war councils will be held here to-
night and tomorrow. Much inter-
est was attached to-day to n visit
paid to Governor Brumbaugh by
Paul W. Houck, Secretary of In
ternal Affairs, who has prepared his
papers for denomination.
According to what was heard
about the Capitol to-day the Schuyl-
kill county Senatorial squabble has
been Strengthened out. Congressman
+. d. Heaton, of Ashland. will be
a candidate for the Senatorial seat of
Auditor General Charles A. Snyder
and John Reber. Pottsville, Snyder s
candidate. will run for Congress,
while Representative c. NJ. Palmer.
the Leib candidate, will be returned
TO the House.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-09
Rapid Progress Being Made
on Warehouse Construction

With the completion of two more
buildings yesterday at the ordnance
depot field near Middletown, Major
William B. Gray, engineer in charge
of construction, to-day moved his
offices from the Franklin building to
his new quarters.
This change was made necessary
because of the work on the, other
side of the river at Marsh Run. 1t
is understood that office buildings
will be erected on the quartermas-
ter's depot site immediately, and
office forces placed there. Communi-
cation will be by telephone and mo-
torboats. it being the shorter route
than to this city, and from here to
New Cumberland.
Captain Harrie A. Douglass is in
full charge of the work at the Marsh
Run site. He had 100 men working
to-day. The necessary excavations
have been made for the tracks and
by this evening.
Wells Brothers. contractors in
charge of the construction of the
new warehouses for the aviation
squadron, have one big structure al
most completed, and good progress
has been made on the foundations
for the other buildings. The work
men are now getting good meals fur
niShed by the commissary depart
ment and have secured rooms in and
about Middletown. Some reside in
Harrisburg.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-09
WOMAN FILEA
CONGRESS PAPER
Mrs. Cora Bixler, of Lancaster
County, Is Candidate For So
cialist Nomination at Large

The first woman to enter a nomi-
mating petition for the May primary
filed papers to-day to run for the So
cialist nomination for Congress-at-
Large. She is Cora Bixler. of Ian
caster county. Charles Sehl. Phila-
delphia, filed papers to be candidate
for'the Socialist nomination for Gov
ernor.
Congressman Thomas S. Crago. of
waynesburg,, filed petition for Re-
publican denomination and General
Charles NJ. Clement. Sunbury, filed
for Republican nomination for Con-
gress-at-Large.
Congressional nominating petit
tions filed were Fletcher w. Sites,
Republican. Eighth; Henry w. Tenn
pie. Republican. Twenty-fourth; j.
Wilmer Fisher. Republican, Thir-
teenth: Francis A. March, Jr., Re-
publican. Twenty-siXth; John V.
Lesher. Democrat, Sixteenth; j. c.
Lowry. Republican, Twenty-third;
Henry Peter, Socialist, Twenty ninth
W. A. Prosser, Socialist, Thirty-tirst;
John W. Slayton, Socialist, Thirty
second.
A petition for w. Harry Baker,
secretary of the State Senate, to be
candidate for member of the Re-
publican State Committee. of which
he is secretary was filed from Dau-
phin county. He will succeed Frank
A. Smith, of Harrisburg. A petition
was also filed for A. l.. Etter, Mid
dletown, present state committee
man.
Representative A. r. s. Black
Democrat. Harrisburg. filed his pc
tition for denomination to-day.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-09
Hosts to Rabbi and Bride
Were MIR. and Mrs. Golberg

The party given to Rabbi Maran-
off and his bride Sunday night was
rendered by Mr.. and Mrs. David
Goldberg and was attended by men,
bers of the Chisuk Emuna congre-
cation. Among the guests present
we're: Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Sugar
man and daughter. Miss Beatrice.
Miss Sylvia Grad, granddaughter of
Mrs. Goldberg, who has been spend
ing the Easter holiday vacation here,
and who was one of the entertainers
Sunday night. Will leave this week
for home in Philadelphia, where
she will resume her musical course
and other studies. Miss Grad is a
pleasing vocalist.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-09
City to Raise $15O,O0O
in Red Cross Campaign

Red Cross chapter chairmen,
numbering nearly fifty from all parts
of Central Pennsylvania were in ses-
sion yesterday and last evening at
the Civic Club and it was announced
this morning that the big campaign
for more Red Cross funds will start
May 20, Harrisburg's individual quota
being estimated at s150,000. The
conference was highly successful in
that plans for better system in can
vassing were put forth and adopted.
A strong impetus for efficiency was
given by the talk of DIR. stockton
AXson, brother-in-law of President
Wilson and National Secretary of
the American Red Cross. He argued
for better organization, telling of
the results of that abroad in hand
ling cantonments. The same point
was emphasized by Edgar Munson,
of Williamsport
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-04-09
SMALLPOX CLOSES HOTEL.

The smallpox situation in Kittan-
ming is serious and the health
authorities are unable to predict
definitely what the outcome will be
There are six cases in Kittanning
one each in Rayburn township and
Applewold borough nearby. Addi-
tional cases are looked for. Two
hotels. the Central and the Citizens
have been closed and placed under
quarantine because hired held in
each instance had the disease. Per-
sons who reistered at these hotels
during the dangerous period will be
located through local health author
tiles and vaccinated.