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creator of Nick Carter, the latter of
whom was our favorite, and Sans. It
makes the very easiest reading there is.
The hero is the criminal, Fantomas,
and remarkable thing about the stories
Is that you almost never see him, except
for fleeting moments in the numerous dis
guises and lightning changes that are
his stock in crime. In A ROYAL Prisoner.
the new yarn, he is now the MARQUIS,
now (having slid down pole to the first
floor and donned calico dress) Mime.
la Concierge, now a hussar at the court
of esseWeimar, now Ouaouaoua the
Primitive Man; pronounce this Wahwah-
wah and try it on your sophomore son
from college
But the adventures aren't chronieled
from his point of view, nor from that Of
Juve the great detective-who Sam would
have said was no great of detective
either, in which we should have svmpa-
thized with Sam-nor from that of Fam
dor the journalist, the DIR. Watson OF
the cast, so far as it has one. Interest
skips around among the three, with plen-
ty of mistakes of identity and things on
each and every page.
And action-ob, Boy! Looka here
This now Fatimas or whatever the guys
name is, he shuts up the Rink of Hess
Weemur in a subtureen chamber under
meath fountain, and this Fandor he
lets him out and takes his place TO Law
for Fatimas. and Fandor he can't get ont
again, and he starts to dig out with a
bottle, and busts gas main right over
the. subway, and just then a subway
train comes along with Fatimas in place
of the engineer and this cheese detective
Juve on board, and the gas explodes.
Blooie and So
Aw, well, whadya want for seven
francsf
The Fantomas books would be hot stuff
for movies, and such, we suspect. WAS
the original function of their plots. Rut
as detective stories-at $40 per
A ROYAL PRISONER BY PrERRy Son.
vEsTRE AND MARCEL. ALLAN. Brentano r
$l.40.
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punished one OF his own officers for not
properly attending to the necessities Of
the other prisoners. ANY American can
honestly admire Commander Merger Of
the German navy as a man of very DIFF
ferent character from the pirates who
shell small boats at sea with their sub
marines guns.
But Lieut.. Rose, who was put in charge
of the Igotz Mendi after the Wolf cap
tured that Spanish steamship in the re-
gion Of the Cape Of Good Hope, was a
man of different kidney. lie was a
plain German hog and led the prisoners
who had been transferred TO that ship a
hard time of it. From November, 1917.
until February Of this year the Spanish
vessel spent all her time making the long
run up the Atlantic Ocean and making
two attempts to 60 around to the north
ward Of Iceland, and finally giving up
and running down toward Germany along
the Norway coast, coming TO grief, so far
as the Germans were concerned, on tie
coast of Denmark, where the American,
British and other prisoners found land
Of deliverance
If this plain seaman's talc-unques-
tiOnably one of the best sea tales of the
war-teaches any lesson it is that if all
German naval officers were of the calibre
of Commander Merger that nation would
have no such black blotS on its record as
are furnished by the action of her subma-
'rine commanders.
TEN MONTHS IN 4 GERMAN RAIDER
BY CAPT. JOHN STANLEY CAMERON.
George II. Doran Company. $l.25.
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A New Fantomas Story

ME Fantomas tales, which now num-
Il Der five, are positively the busiest
detective stories that ever found their
way into clothbound 12mo volumes and
were sold for the American equivalent
OF seven francs a throw. Compared with
these, Lecoq's classic slcuthngs are
slower than mud, ard so are Roulcta
biIlc's, for that matter We do remember
getting as much action for a nickel in
our boyhood and reading the same in the
barn. Or possibly We borrowed it ofrn
Sam, the African stable boy, an amateur
of this class of fiction whose taste has
not been equalled since Darwin died
The style Of the Fantomas series is that
cataclysmic machine gun tattoo of tcrse
one sentence paragraphs occasionally af-
fected by Victor Hugo, regularly by such
masters as Arthur Brisbane and the
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drews in particular had felt able to let
himself 60 more when setting down his
lively first hand impressions.
A mistake exactly similar lost to Steven
son Tin The South Seas) one of the oppor.
tunities of his life; consequently the au-
thors Of Camps and Trails in China, who
are literary amateurs, have done no worss
than go astray in the best professional
company. But the palm for juicy writ
ing among our younger naturalists r.
mains with C. William Beebe.
Pretty Soft. in a Way!
The strongest effect made upon the re-
porter by the Andrews narrative is pri-
waite and personal, not to say sinful, envy.
Here are two young persons, either Of
them sufficiently endowed with good looks
according to the snapshots of them, and
snapshots never fatter) to have posed for
the cover of summer fiction number.
The husband is zoologist, the wife .
trained expert photographer, and both are
distinguished enough in their lines " be
sent off together around the world, doubt
less at huge expense, by great museum,
and they have whole year Of the best
fun there is, and actually get paid for it.
This revises ones naughty estimates Of
Gouverneur Morris's most beatific yarns.
A last stern comment is necessary, how
ever. The reporter has no quarrel with
the pretty custom Of quoting poetry on q
fyleaf at the beginning of book, and he
has no particular quarrel with Robert
Service. But to have chosen Service for
book on the Far East, book that deals
with tigers and visits Rangoon!
CAMPS AND TRAILS IN CHINA. By
Roy CHAPMAN ANDREWS AND YvErTs
BoRUP ANDREWS. d. Appleton & Co. 50.
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We are afraid this is said out of consid-
Grafton for the stockings rather than for
their owner
There is one thing we wish she had mt
said, but what's done can't be undone
Look about you at your neighbors," she
asserts, Gin the homes, the classrooms, the
Office, the clubs. You can invariably tell
the woman who battles frequently and
the one who does not" The looking about
smaeks somehow of unkindness, particu-
larly in the homes, and besides this we are
conscious of the fear that other readers of
the book, less clever than Miss Picken
supposes them, may be looking about
There will be no escape from them.
We are grateful for q merciful breadth
of view regarding cosmetics instead of
the severe attitude assumed by most peo-
pie who undertake advice in this direction
Miss PIcken even allows that shaving the
eyebrows is sometimes effective, and she
is kind TO the lip stick. But she adds
that more permanent results may be OBJ
tanned in the way of eyebrows from rub
bling vaseline sparingly and gently into
them each night. Just as We were plan
ming little pleasure with the razor!
Elaborate color charts will be found, to
which You refer in order to determine
what colors become you, and there is an
other chart which tells you what sort of
costume TO wear on every conceivable oc-
easion. Again we feel that these lose their
chief value through the fact that the
women who need such guides, or rather
who would follow them, won't be able
TO buy the book. But there ere the
"nouveaux richie" we hadn't thought of
thcm-the book will be n godsend there,
and it will make very nice gift for
woman who can afford Injuries in these
days to make one who can't
THE SECRETS OF DISTINCTIVE
DRESS. BY MARY BROOKS picker.
Woman 5 Institute of Domestic Arts and
Sciences. 50.
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"The Secrets of
Distinctive Dress"
THE SECRETS OF DISTINCTITE

HE SECRETS OF DISTINCTIVE
DRESS are contained in a large
and prettily bound book which has for its
frontispiece a picture of the author in eve
ming dress. You must be sure 10 notice this.
as otherwise it might be mistaken for a
suggestion of how to dress rather than
Miss Mary Brooks Pieken, who so kindly
points the way 70 establishing the person
atty through distinctive effects of COS
tune.
The sad fact is that those who would
be helped by the numerous hints as TO
keeping clean, buying durable clothing
and washing it out over night, stufIing
the shoes with newspapers TO keep them
IN shape and a thousand other such
things won't he able TO afford 81 for the
book, however humble and in need of ad-
wee they be, while those who can afford
II wont need it.
1t contains elements of tragedy, as no
one Will deny who reads what must be
done by hard working women to retain
their positions. The author does add,
be it said to her credit, that the evening
washing of stockings need not include
hard rubbing on boards, but after all
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BY HARRY ESTY DOUNcE.

THE public for naturalists' mar
u ratives of their tropical expedi-
tions seems 10 be large and may be as
sumed to include two kinds of people
those who occasionally yearn to chuck the
grind, buy tent and rifle and 60 see
on armadillo dillowing in his armor, and
those who loved The SUiss Family Robin
son when they were very young.
These are no times for tenting and
rifiing except in deadly earnest.
Not even beautiful new edition with
q preface by Mr.. Howells has restored
The SViss FGmily's eharm-lost long ago
upon discovery that the birds, beasts and
fruits of five continents, no less, were as
brazenly numerous around Tent House
as the supplies for every need that
stocked Mother Robinson's magic bag.
And yet a book like Camps and Trails in
China is mamma.
Where They Went From Here.
The author made halcyon year Of
Il. With Edmund Heller, that collector
Of mammals without whom no faunal
naturalist's party is complete, they were
the American Museums geological expe-
dition to China. They had special de-
signs on the little known mountainous
province Of Yun-nan, the Cloudy South,
which adjoins French Indo-China and
Burma and is crossed by the tropic of
Cancer and is tortuously grooved by the
mighty Yang-tse gorge.
They saw something Of Pekin toward
the end of that grand old political free
booter Yuan Shi-k'ai. They took in
land jaunts from Foochow-one to Yen
Ping, where the rebellion stopped them
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The Swiss Family Chinaman? Well, No

ant evening. He had a good time with
Camps and Trails, and picked up guam
tity Of solid information. Mr.. Andrews
brief outline of the politics of the Chinese
revolution is clear and helpful. One
CLEANS something of an idea Of the Chinese
peasant psychology as it affects a SYM
pathetic outsider; China's own word on
the subject remains to be spoken, and
always will. Mrs. Andrews's indignation
over the practice of foot binding is human
and Gkable.
And there is food for laughter, piece
Of beef proudly displayed by d Chinese
cook, with "Missie, this meat no belong
die-cow. Die-cow not SO handsome"
meaning that the critter had not died q
natural death; the plight Of Heller astride
stubborn cavorting paek-train pony,
shouting "This horse isn't under my man
agement" and the like. The hunting sto-
ries are as interesting as can be.
Too Much in One Book.
The principal reason why good book
is not considerably better seems to be that
the authors attempted too much and
wrought overconscientiously. They were
not sufficiently clear as to whom they were
writing for. The title, Comps and Trails
in China, surely appeals to the lay public;
but wherever Mr.. Andrews works in some
Of the wealth Of geological and ethnologi-
cal data which he amassed he does it with
\ scientists reserve and formality Of
statement.
At least two separate monographs, be-
sides the popular account, are implied be-
tween these covers, and the popular ac-
count would have benefited if the separa-
ton had gone further, and if Mr. An
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ana enriched their experience with thrills
and horrors, and one to Futsing to hunt a
famed blue tiger, which they didn't get,
although they heard him growl on sew
eral occasions.
Here Serow, Pretty Serow.
Then, by the way of the French Indo-
Chinese city of Hanoi, they proceeded to
Yun-nan, where they junketed about
among the mountain tribes and collected
sorrows and gorals and porcupines and
flying squirrels and mice and shrews and
apes and things, including a kind of deer
with tusks, no bigger than a fox-Mrs.
Andrews meanwhile photographing right
and left in black and white and colors,
and all hands working hard over movie
films prepared under many difficulties
At one Of their camps Mr.. Andrews in
fected scratch and but for the surgery
and the nursing of his wife, he SAYS, it
might have gone hard with him. Both
found time TO keep private journals in
addition to scientific memoranda.
They emerged southwark through
Burma, where they shot and ate of the
jungle fowls which are the aborigines be-
hind domestic poultry; they had look
about India and came home, ending
their gorgeous adventure with a natural
regret.
Mrs. Andrews's part in their book is the
L Al
designated by her initials. There are also
a number Of extracts from her journal,
and these last are so particularly attrac-
tive, SO free from the constraint of pro-
spective publisher that one wishes the
journal might have been printed entire.
Before turning critical the reporter has
to thank his host and hostess for pleas
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A ROYAL PRISONER. BY PIERRE Sou
vEsrRE And MARCEL ALLAN. Brentano r
$l.40.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-25
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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-25
GIRL CUE
STARS IN
MATCHES

Ladies' night at the Bridgeport club
this city a chance to see how girls
can play pocket billiards. Miss Maude
and Miss Florence Flower of New
York, pupils of Maurice Daily, who are
here in the interest of the boWlers'
and billiard players ambulance fund
for the boys in France, will be at the
club at $3.50 p. m. and will play sew
eral games. They have created an ex-
cellent impression during their stay
in Bridgeport, both by their ability
with the cue and by their modest, I'M
assuming manner and willingness to
help in any way the movement to pro-
vide help for the wounded.
SpiedePs orchestra will be at the
club and there will be dancing after
the Billiards. Miss Florence Flower
is known as an expert dancer, and
she has agreed to give a short exhibit
ton in this art, also, provided only
that a partner of sufficient ability may
be found.
The girls continued their exhibi-
tions yesterday, at the Union parlors
in the afternoon; and at Connie Lew
is and the ALGONQUIN club in the ev-
ening They will be at Eckler's, on
Main street, at p. m. today and at
Sheridan's (Kinder's) on Broad street
at o'clock this evening.
The Elks will be the hosts of the
girls tomorrow evening at their final
engagement here. The Ellzs, who are
about to build big hospital in Bos-
ton to care for wounded soldiers, are
preparing to make the billiard ambu
lance affair big one tomorrow night.
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duced to a minimum. In cities like
Philadelphia, st. Louis, and Cincin-
natl, where the greatest number of
bleacher admissions have been re-
tanned, the club owners have found
it difficult task to cut down the al
lotment. A 25-cent admission to a
baseball game is a time honored in
stitution, and with the war tax boost
ing it up to 80 cents there are sure
to be violent protests from the fans
who have limited their investment to
rs cents per game for many years.
The way for the elimination of the
25-cent charge having been opened, it
is not likely that it will ever come
back, even after the termination of
the war. Club owners insist that the
high cost of parks and the high cost
of maintenance and the increased sal
aries of players make it impossible
to continue the game any longer with
the lowest priced tickets at Is cents.
So it is only a question of time before
the minimum at the major league
parks will be so cents.
The bleacher seats at baseball parks
have been growing constantly in pop
ularity among fans. once only the
superfans, the young men with the
high-powered voices, occupied the
sunny seats in the outfeld but the
| bleachers have never been as popular
in New York as in other cities.
It will be different in the future.
however, for many men who usually
go to the grand stand were forced to
| occupy bleacher seats at the world S
series games at the Polo Grounds last
fall, and they were so pleased with
witnessing the game from the outfield
! angle that it is doubtful if many OF
them will want to return to their
grand stand places again. The fact
is that many enthusiasts never be-
| lieved that they could get a good view
of the game from the outfield bleach
ers, and when they discovered thai
they could see just as we'll from the
cheaper seats. they Immediately be-
came converted and hereafter will &C.
cupy the bleachers
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-25
CHIEF PROVISIONS
OF new YORK'S
BOXING BILL

The main provisions of the boxing
measure introduced in the New York
Legislature follow:
License fees in Greater New York,
$4,000; elsewhere in state, $4,000.
Additional fee of 20 per cent. of
gross receipts to be devoted during
period Of war to training camp ac-
tivities.
Number Of clubs in Greater New
York limited to seven. Elsewhere
not more than three in any one city.
One commissioner, to be appointed
by the governor, with deputies to at
tend every bout held.
Clubs must be exclusively used for
purposes of boxing or athletics.
No one connected in any capacity
with the management of the club to
control or handle boxers.
Bouts to be limited to ten rounds
and gloves to be not less than four
ounces in weight.
Medical examination for all con-
testants, none of whom shall be I'M
der eighteen years of age.
No Intoxicating liquors to be sold
or served in the club house or
grounds.
No license to be issued to any pro-
moter who has not been a resident
of the state. for at least one year.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-25

New''York, Jan. 25.-When the Of
ficialssof the internal revenue depart
mentS make their announcement from
Washington within few days on the
tax on baseball tickets, it will mark
the end of the 25-cent admission in
the major leagues. The famous two
bit'' ticket for the bleachers, which is
an institution as old as the game it.
self, will be no more. 1t is expected
that the new scale of prices to include
the war tax will eliminate the penny,
for the baseball committee in Wash
tngon last Monday explained to the
officials that if pennies were handled
at the turnstileS at the baseball parks,
hopeless confusion would result and it
would be an impossible task to handle
the big crowds which flock to the
parks-on Saturdays, holidays and on
double-header days.
y So the 25-cent admission has gone
! forever, and hereafter the lads who
! decorate the bleacher seats will have
! to pay 80 cents, and the lucent adj
missions will be IS cents. The handl-
/ ing of pennies was the thing which
! worried the club owners, so they have
! QSCAdGu ~ W. away WILL IL. IL was
calculated that it would require about
| $3.50 in pennies to make change on
! the 25=cent and 75-cent admissions on
a big day if the 10 per cent. war tax
were collected on the basis of the old
i prices. Consequently, it was deemed
I advisable to boost the price of the
bleacher and stand admissions and
thus do away with the pennies. The
club owners pointed out that it would
: be impossible to get pennies enough
to go around.
While the new scale of prices has
not been definitely decided upon, it is
/ very likely that it will be 80 cents, SIS
! cents, IS cents, $1.10 and $1.65.
o For many years. the baseball club
q owners have been trying to do away
( with the two Bit admission to the
bleachers. Each year the number of
25-cent seats has been cut down until
at. parks like the Polo Grounds and al
Ebbets Field the number has been re-
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-01-25
COFFEY STILL IN
LINE TO STAGE
COMEBACK

1t will be six years tomorrow night
since Jim Coffey, the Irish giant, be-
gan his ring career. The sixth an
niversary of Coffey's ring debut is al"
most coincident with his twenty-sev'
enth birthday, for the January of 1891
was nearing its close when Coffey
first opened his eyes upon the world
at Castelrea, Roscommon, Ireland. He
was christened James Joseph, and
grew up into big lad, working on
his fathers farm and wrestling with
the boys in the neighborhood. 1t
was in April, 1910, that Jim came to
America, landing in Boston, and he
Immediately hiked to Pawtucket,
where he had friends. There he
worked for a time, and later got
job as a teamster in Providence. FL
nally he came to New York and got
job as a motorman on a surface
line.
One cold night Jim's car was held
up by fire, and he engaged in con-
versation with a cop named Tom
Shaw The latter, a boxer and wres-
tier of note in New York police cir
cles, suggested that they pull off a
little wrestling match in the snow to
keep warm. In less than a minute
Shaw was lying fiat on his back. The
cop invited Coffey to come around to
the police gym, and there the Irish
man first donned the gloves. Jim
didn't know thing about boxing, but
when the bout was over Tom Shaw
had a great admiration for the mo-
torman and fractured rib.
Coffey decided to go in for the boz
| ing game, and was tutored by MAJ
Farrell Green as Coffey was, Billy
Newman thought well enough of him
to match him with Nick Muller. They
met at the New Polo club on Jan. 26,
1912. Coffey was wild, and once
| knocked both his opponent and the
referee down with one failing swing.
| In the sixth round Muller had
enough, and Coffey was wildly cheer
| ed by the fans. From that moment
| he had a big following and developed
rapidly, and even became a contend
err for Jess Wizards title,, but two
defeats by Frank Moran gave him a
set back. He still has time for :
| comeback, but he had better stage il
! quickly, or it will be too late.