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Russia's Most Quoted Author

Norman Hapgood, in Leslie's.
 Who. would you guess, is the most | auoted author in all French Hterature' Not Moliere, not Hontaigne, not Ha- belais No. it is the writer Of faples' Ia Eontaine. And who is the most ouotea author in Russia? It is not the greatest, Pushkin, nor is it Tolstoi' TUT geneE Dostoievsky, or any Of those generally referred to in this country. II is the writer of fables, Krylov. In Eng fish we have no writer of fables of high rank hut some years ago it was estl-
 mated that in the House of Commons
 the book referred to most, after the Bible and ahead of Shakespeare, was |"Alice in Wonderland" If in the next decade or two the Unit ed States is to compete with Germany in influence in Russia, Americans must learn Russian. Not otherwise can we get near to those scarcely known masses. Americans who do take up the language should count surely among l their books the fables of Krylov. Fables always tell us much about a nation, land when Russian literature is as well known as English, French and German, lit will be realized that Krylov IS the foremost fabulist since La Fontaine. Ills fables are heard constantly in whatever classes read, and they are acted in ithe popular theatre at Petrograd. Some
 ,of them refer to distinct persons and
 iepisodes in Russian history, but most of
 them have the broad human applicabili-
 ity that is the soul of the fable, as
 lof it's cousin, the parable. Not few
 illustrate these Russian qualities to oui
 lattention by the war. I give a few ex-
 amples.
 l Trishka's coat was out at elbows
 lWhy worry? He cut off the ends of tht sleeves and mended the elbows. Thel
 he was laughed at for the shortness Q , ibis sleeves. He made them. longer agall 7 iwith pieces cut from the tujl of his coat "So., says Krylov. "haveO1 seen man , lembarrass ssed people set their aair , straight
 , "The Quartte" tells of musical en . Iterprise of the Monkey, the Goat. tn a Ass, and the Bear They acquired tn = necessary instruments. They worke = lhard. There was noise but no musi' e The Monkey said the difficulty was l '. their positions. They tried variou s ways, ending by sitting in a row, wit ' Inc improvement. Finally, they calle f; lon the Nightingale for advice. "fo e Jack ear and intelligence" she sai d "You may place yourselves just as yc u like, but you will never become mt e. sicians."
 M A monkey, becoming Weah-slg ghteu " his age, obtained possession or ma
 a dozen spectacles, as he had heal 'h men say that by them nearness or sig 10 could be offset, He turned them tn $, way and that put them on top Of h ts head. smelt them. licked them, appli D. them to his tail. What fools, to said at length, "are they who listen
 the nonsense of men. There's no use n,-- spectacles.'
 II A certain serious-minded cook we ! ,s of to celebrate the anniversary ol as friends death. He left his cat m !
 Kitchen to guard his food from mn
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x- OMETtMES think that certain peo- N pie are favored too much-that the proverbial "silver spoon witu ls-~ same of them is solid" silver while ,yith others it is just triple plate: some women are endowed with beauty, grace talent and charm, while others-weh' m rena;nded of my beloved Edna Ferher who knows fife like she knows an open book-like some people know the blole- from Genesis to the Revelations, ana Who made one of her iuimitable characters Sadie Corn bv name, the dean Of the IfotA Maenifidue's floor clerks in her story ''The Tlooller-Ub-the Back, say to Julia of "the lady s-maid-staff,' pretty and Ser-up-the-back,' poor thing:
 Julia, girl ever since the world be- gan, there's been the 'hoolxers' and the hooked, and there always Will pe' | was born a hooker; so were you llnie was when used to cry out against It. but shucks. I know better now. wouldn't change places; being a hooker gives you an all round experience ike ol mankind: the hooked only get taint view: they see only faces and arms ana chests. but the 'hookers'-they see the nccks, the shoulder blades and the backs of this world as well as faces It mighty broadening, being hooker It the Fhookers' that keep this old world together, Julia, and fastened up right.
 Yes, I say, I am reminded of the HOOK erss and the "Hooked'' for they involve the same principle of the attractive and the unattractive classes; there are and al ways will be beautiful, attractive womef and the other kind there always will p' the women who are envied and the wom en who envy; all of which has to do witt the pretty subject of my story, Mrs Sld ney J. yann, the talented organs round at the Bijou.
 Mrs. yann's fairy godmother was yer. generous godmother, for she bestowed up on this sweet woman, not one, but man of the attributes we all long to possess she gave her beauty, charm, and unusua ability. plus, which has proven, not oni st valuable asset to her but she has giN ea pleasure to hundreds of others by he beautiful accomplishments which, afte all. is the greatest thing in the world to be able to give happiness to other
 Mrs Vann, like hundreds of women America today-is 'lleeping the hon fires burning for her soldier husban' pr. Yam offered his services to his coul try many months ago and today
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-M4 FOUR YEARS IN GERMANY Bv James W. Gerard. Illustrated. Gros-
 -sett & Dunlap, publishers New 1ork.
 America is still nation or homes The ideals which were established Tn ;hese homes are the ideals which have moved her to draw her Sword against the German menace. A father, or son, or a brother. from many an American home is now over there in the battle pit or braving the peril of the seas. and those who are left be- hind have trenches of their own 10 hold
 The book which can do more to boi- ster up and sustain this splrh 10 sec if through. is Gerard's book, My Fou' Wears in Germany" whose great mas sion is to warn and inform American public opinion, which is made up oi every man, woman and child in Amerl- ca. of the lurking treacherg of Ger ,naEy-formerly when the honor of our
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a. ,,ho ,,ust be able to play and play f s,ort natice. the most classical num- I,srs as well as the lightest and most nopular music.
 "It may be of interest Mrs. vann aoid tto you to know that the Loew sSnatrea of which the Bijou is one, ',.ointain a. musical director in New YorK \ nity, who arranges and classifies the mu- sico1 scores for every picture presented sa theee theatres This music is sent , t1n various organists direct from New Work, twice week, when the picture ls changed; it therefore requires good mu- steamship and ability as 'slght feaoei to handle the music.
 oralxing these scores prepared bS our New York musical director, MT. ernest I,uz.' Mrs. Vann continued, m tbn Iieht of a--well--say--sor of mus | ica1 nalnristry way--the idea he intehcS | to convey is that of an accompanl- ment to the pictures; the music pelns the only means of speaking Tor the | actor Tn this way there must be es- l tahlfshed between the audience ana the picture a sense of rhythm for each ecnre: this plainly proves that the l audience would miss the music were l if not there; but in order to produce tbis effect there must be a compieIs and perfect harmony and blending wlth l the nicture of the music, so that a | hardly aware is produced by the 1 music.
 "No initiative mechanical orchestral | effect" Mrs Vann said, "can ever re- nlace the human performers or SlVe fhe results just as it is, physical m
 possibility for one performer With only two hands to reproduce the tone
 color. shading and embellishment oi
 an ensemble of musicians.
 And right here let me say a. wore
 in behalf of the Bijou orchestra, Mrs
 vann continued, which is composed ol six splendid, capable musicians, unael
 the direction of MT. Robert Percy
 nroves the statement conclusively tha | [ have just made. The comradeshll and courtesy which these clever musl
 clans have extended to me as the new
 comer.' so to speak, among them a
 the Biiou in this particular kind
 work has encouraged and helped m
 greatly: the fact that we all work har
 morjously together like one big ram
 ily makes my work joy and pleas | ure to me every hour that ] play.
 ''The love of music and my lnteres
 in it." said Mrs Vann, dates from m
 early childhood days; have aiwa9
 played and have loved always piah } 1 work and frequently use the piano Ill g stead of the organ at the Bijou; m n1easant introduction to musical ell
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somewhere in France rendering aid to the wounded and maimed soldiers
 .
 In the meantime, Mrs. vann, whose musical talents had been confinSd at- most entirely to club and church work' found herself alone-with little to u- vert herewith but one thought in hef baart and mind. and that was her sol dier husband so many many miles away | So being one of the great army or stay at-hotpes"-those at noble women who nave | given their all to their countryside oe- eided sine would engage in some sort or activity and she naturally chose her mu- sical talents as the medium
 Soto make a long story short as the brornides would say-Mrs. Vann se- oured the very nice position she has been filling for several months, organist at the Riiou theatre, where she resaies nun dreds of people each day with her brli- liant manipulation of the keys Of the DIE organ. .,,o Have you ever tried to visualize the woman who starts out to do things TOT herself? The woman whose life has been led within the narrow confines of her home and social circle? We'll, 1t isn't m easy thing to do; to be suddenly l thrust forward-out into a great seetn- 1 ing. hustling, bustling world to make vour own way along with the others | men and women who have always done | those things. It is a big order put clever Mrs. Vann, with her fairy god mothers gifts, has filled it with credil to herself and to her friends and many | admirers. , | | was anxious to know just now the l situation has resolved itself in the case of pretty Mrs. Vann and how the tran, 1 sition from church organist 10 that O. movie organist had been accompiisneu and impressed her, so one day recehuS
 we chatted about her work and the items
 of interest she had discovered between
 them, and among other things, she sala
 "Church music and playing Tor the
 movies are so entirely different that II is almost impossible to make com harrison; in the former the organist can . 1 follow all the rules ever laid down ps | John Sebastian Bach, while in the lat ter the organist must be so versatil' : that he can adapt himself to the mos sudden and immediate changes.
 r For instance" Mrs. Vann contlnueo
 "a recent score for picture Wnlch
 had to play included the Largo iron n The New World Symphony, ot Dvofah e a Jazz one-s&p, a movement iron ; l Tschaikowsky Fifth symphony, ana : Iibestraume of Liszt's. That show s the tremendous call on an organist apl
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cles in Birmingham came through our excellent organization, The MUSIC Study club, which is one of the most brilliant musical institutions nave even been connected with. The eh- couragement and up-lift work for music which has been accomplished by this club is little short of wonderful ana
 no club in the south stands more con
 spicuously for the best in every musi-
 cal endeavor than The Music Stuuy
 club At the present time am work-
 ing between the hours that l play ~
 tbe Riior (which is sort of relief
 work, as it were, to the orchestra
 alternating hour by hour) on the Ser
 Returning he saw the floor strewn with pie. and the cat purring behind bar rel eating chicken. "Ah, glutton! EVl, doerw he began. Are you not ashamed to be seen even by these walls! Wnat' an honorable cat' etc, through an im-
 passioned lecture While he delivered l his reproaches the cat at the rest oi the chicken.
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Look, Mother! If tongue IS coateu. pleA'A feverish and stomach sour, give
 "California Syrup of Figs.

Figs" for childrens ills; give a tea spoonfnl and in few hours all the foul waste, sour bile and fermenting food which is clogged in the bowels passes out of the system. and you have a we'll and playful child again All children love this harmless delicious fruit laxative,7 and it never fails to effect a good inside" cleansing. Di. rections for babies. children of al
 ages ard g-rown-u ups on bottle. Re member nane .'California '--Adv.
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saefher, Your chila isn't natui aily c,nrs and peeyish. See if tongue IS ratnd. this is a sure sign its little st,,rnach. liver and bowels need cleansing at once.
 when listless, pale, fe~erish, full ol ssoId breath bad, throat sore, doesn s,at. sleep or act naturally, has stom- s<sa, ache, diarrhoea, rerSember gen ,fe liver ard bowel cleansing should ssways be the first treatment given.
 Nothing equals '1alifornia Syrup CT
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lTlHuE BOOK SHELF
By THE BIBLIOPHILE

country was at stake, now while we are in a desperate but victorious con- flict against German autocracy. and later on, when the Hun begins to cast about for favorable terms of peaee.
 This book is the only one that can be
 written about this phase of our reia-
 tons with Germany. Other countries
 may deal with the same crisis, but no other man but Gerard will ever be able
 to say of personal Knowledge just what
 passed between Gerard and the Kaiser.
 Backed up by documents that Germany never intended to be made public, based upon knowledge that only MT. Gerard could possess, this picture of the Ger
 man government from the inside becomes historic of tremendous importance to every man and woman who would know the truth and stantd loyally behind our 1 government
 That a copy of this book should go 1 into every home is what Ambassador 1 Gerard and the publishers had in mind when they arranged for the issue of the new, special edition of My Four Years l in Germany y'-the most vital book of oui ti,nes-at very nominal price.
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Dads Consolation

A widower, while away from home on a business trip, met and married lady who. though famed for her goodness of heart. was spoken of, even by her friends as '''rlain."
 The man believed she would pc Kino mother to his two children, however, a,d as che was also possessed Of a fair snount of this worlds goods. he was not inclined to expect the beauty Of the al, in q tomato. After his marriage
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50 Versatile Music Tha Recent Score Sh9ped e %[g@ S
 From )D0raks NeU World Symphony Jazz One ot,
 From TschQkopskys Fth Symphony and L10esraume z@
MRS. SIDNEY J. YANN

lioz ''Mache Hongroise'' for two pianos which Mrs. Luke Hunt and are preparing for an early meeting ot The Music Study club
 q feel that one of the best educa- tional features connected with the moving pictures" Mrs. Vann said, "is the employment .ofN high-class and thorough musicians; all over the coun- try, from the big theatres in New York and throughout the east to San Fran cisco in the far away west, you will find the most prominent musicians of the day, playing for the moving pie lures, and doing the best work of their careers"
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he telegraphed to the eldest of his chiI-
 dren, a girl Of 15:
 Have won a prize. Am married. Will be home tomorrow. When the bride and bridegroom ar rived the children were watching at the door, and the sight of their future moth- CT made them gasp little. The second child, a boy, nudged hts sister, and whispered: "I say, Nell, that must be the conso- 1 lation prize that pas got"
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ant Dawson. is of English birth, but had come to America in his youLn or early manhood, had lived in New iolh' had chosen literature as his pfoles- sion, was the author of several movers. had won the attention or reauefs' oA magazine editors, and Of puplisneIs' D like him. also, young Waller was spend inc the summer of 1914 on the shore of
 an out of the way lake in British Colum- hia living the primitive life and aiter nateiy writing and enjoying hihseii' and there. also, the war finds nun. put unlike Lieutenant Dawson, MT. Waiiet does not immediately make ready to serve his country's need. he IS aH Engljshman, of sound body, ana mas ho intention of ever making an Aiiei i.al. .a.l. of himself. But, although his country lie in dire straits he remains in ana about New York city until the sinking
 of the Lusitania, finishing mover, ae-
 yeIopinr a love affair, and feeHhs sharned and indignant because this na- ton does not join the conflict
 1 The book is we'll written and hlghis interesting and entertaining
 TOWARDS MORNING.
 sBv Ida X. R. Wylie. The Johii Aane " l publishers, New York.
 uere is a book that ought to serve as
 la valuable reinforcement for the Worf lof the friends of German democracs lTt has long been a commonplace Una
 tbe first victims of the German sys
 ltem and those who have suffered mos
 from it. have been the German peopl
 themselves people who once had an'
 deserved a good reputation. But thi , iaxiom has been so often repeateu .ne ,el few people stop to think what it realI means Miss Wylie's novel shows us eA \ 7 actly that An Englishwoman, WIT. ling in the heat of war, she has Wrilte Ia story whose characters are all. Ser , lman. and which leaves the reader Iu
 of sadness and pity-not pity TOT tn
 lenemy as whole, to be sure, put DIV
 for the individuals in Germany toua :, lwho even after 70 years of dlscipln
 istiu find themselves hard to nt lh' . (procrustean kultur.
 | This is the story primarily or oi c who did not fit-of Helmut Felae, SC J. lof a minor municipal official in karl' '. ruhe, who when he was nttle pc $ ,couldnt see the necessity of study al - discipline when he would rather pla $ and dream in the forests, and who new h SO long as he lived could get himse 'e in harmony with the machine. Henn' e was weak, and so the machine pro, ls him; it made him do it's wlii' ye. r lcould never quite reconcile hlmseiI It the things he did for it, until al t Ie end under the stress of an exceptlo e al emotion he finally rallied ms cou ?. age and defied it, with the lneVitas ', consequence of "disobedience ln |. !" face of the enemy" There are oth
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THE WAR EAGLE.
 BY w. J. Dawson The John Lane So"
 publishers. New York
 "The War Eagle" by ". J. Dawson' groMp of persons, each of whom Is ar fected in turn by the war--the New York magazine director, the millionaire, the old Civil war veteran. the no.neI : whose son has enlisted, the priiian. youth, who finally surrenderS all " prospects in life at the imperiou us call U, duty. The plot is finely conceived ana excellently told.
 Some faint suggestions of the pre- War career of his son. Lieut.. Coninssps Dawson. can be discerned in MT. 'aw son's new novel and will increase tne interest of the story for the many au' n,irers of the younger mans Wal books. Garry On" The Glory of tho Trenches" and "out to Win. MT. paw sons hero, George Waller, like LAeuten-
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BOONE STOP.

By Homer croy. Harper Brothers, Pub
 fishers, New York.
 Boone stop1 is the uncommon title of a new novel sby new author' Homer Croy. MT. Croys humor is rapidly De- coming familiar to magazine readers and in "Boone Stop" which the Harpers are
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On the theory that chickens are bene. fited by exercise, q Nevada man has in- vented a drinking fountain elevated on a platform, to which fowls must fly to reach the water.
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One hundred and forty-nine persons in the government lighthouse service are entitled to retired pay under the recent pension legislation passed by Congress.
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VERSE AND WORDS By Norah Lee Hammond. Published py the author, No. 152 West Forty-nlntn street. New York City. In a small volume containing a dozen poems Norah Lee Hammond says In a 1 ''foreword:' By conforming to meter and torhl, poems of passion lost their ire anu l strength and become meaningless worus. 1 The poems that follow are on various suhiects. entitled as follows: Just As 1 Am ''Love's Death Will You Re l member?" Despair Farewell" he- demption" and "The Mistress 1 Perhaps "Redemption@ is the best or the collection:
 Altho I've said to you, farewell,
 Through sin I go to death.''
 In penitence I cry aloud
 With each faint, gasping breath.
 For my sinful weakness,
 Ii Now must atone go to Purgatory- II To suffer there alone In cleanliness my soul shall soar The day of my release, To meet you, in the promised iaiio ,i or Celestial love and Peace. yi OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED. thh' 3 VIEWS LATER.f
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"THE MONEY-MAKER,"

THE MONEI MIA
 By Irving R. Allen. Dodd, Mead X Co,
 publishers, New York.
 love story. by an efficient man. Sounds bit incongruous, doesn't it2 But you won't think so after you read The Money Maker" by Irving R. Allen, pub lished by Dodd. Mead & Co. The author before he joined Uncle Sam's forces, was efficiency expert who earned Tor tune every year. Many a big business man said his suggestions were worth their weight in gold. number of these valuable suggestions are found in Ihe { Money Maker used by the hero in his rapid rise to the topmost financial cir cles. And this doesn't mean that the | book is all business; not at all. Ihat l is only part of the career of this re- markable man. whose love story is most unusual and charming, and whose whole ! life is one of the most fascinating m recent fiction. 8fA
 There are a number of interesting char acters in Irving R. Aliens Ihe Mones- Maker" and they all have their own views of life-sonle of them so true that |
 we are loath to acknowledge them. ! eThere's mighty narrow dividing hne between the confidence man and the pro moter,'' says one crafty lawyer. Al 1 commerce is based on confidence. Both I classes specialize in putting conhoencse s in the hot-house and bringing it to Iui bloom over nlSnt Il Ho ~ 1 tween them is mainly a matter or de
 gree. The swindler hires a lawyer te
 get him out of jail and the promoter
 employs one to keep him out. one IS
 swindler because he gets money ane gives nothing in return; the other man '
 a financier because he gives N'st enoug' in return for the cash he receives lmake his operation legal. Ihe 90 @ man has 'victims'-the promoter mas !" tvestors. ,
 In just eighteen words the nero I .'The Money-M Maker made his proposa the third time he met 'the girl cel : ltainly that's up-to-date rapidity. An why not. For the author of this stor 7, Is Irving R. Allen, prominent eii ], s ciency expert, and surely be ougnt 70 have a practical, time-saving metnoo n carrying on even such delicate pusines ,s as courtship. . .., < Irving R Allen says that just tw ' qualifications are essential for ma ma |, to get in the big salary class. A first and most important, to oe ape
 influence men and women, to make lne
 do as you wish; the second-work, woi \ and then some more work What
 you think?
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m MOTHERS, Nothing else "vvors'' nasty bae the soar
 and constipation poison gently but so norougny o tns tte stomach liver bowels like harmless Cascarets. We children usually fight against xatves ana catas' sy E
 fascat Casas gipe the bowels never siesen Iae' @ h M fsarets contains for dose for children aReo one wear old upwards.
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ION FIrRLOUGHn

E The hero of this romance is Liea-
 tenant Wrexham of the Irish guards.
 from Mons to the Marne and fought
 through the Aisne when Tit was easier
 to fight than to run. with your men
 locking at YOU. you know" But then,
 inyalided to America. he met the
 charming Molly, in this little southern community where the story is placed, This love affair between an Ameri- can southern girl and the handsome, irresistible young officer, who makes it a point of honor to announce that he is mot a marrying man. is cleverly woven with another and less violent affair to form a novel of constant and contrasted incident and mood, which l charms and touches the reader