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An Acute Case of
Critical Influenza
By SERESSAC.

ATELY, in rereading Joseph Con-
IL RAIDS Lord Jim, the writer became
suddenly aware Of tragedy being enacted
in the critical wings Of his consciousness.
He had reached page 12O when this I'M
easiness among the Secret Service cells Of
the brain began. His mind could no
longer concentrate on Jim's narrative.
Those endless quotation marks and dashes
became fused into leering earicature.
Something was petering out in his Liter
airy Hall of Fame.
He ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. He crum-
pied up against the lamp post of his wits.
Could Conrad be counterfeit the most
perfectly struck off counterfeit in English
literature; counterfeit that had passed
without question through the hands of the
two greatest literary Sleuths of the Eng
lsh speaking world-James Huneker and
Arthur Symons?
And to this question, hardly whispered
into the ear of his Critical Faculty, there
came back sibilant ehuckle from the
latter, a kind Of inferential pat on the
brain. In that high laboratory of the
skull, where the devils of negation manu-
facture Sainte-Beuves. Nordaus, Broun-
ellis, Paul Elmore Mores and the o'her
Wallets and undertakers of regulations,
there seemed to be taking place a rout
of the glceful, critical Furies Another vic
tim for the guillotine! Another famous
head to sneeze in the sawdust of oblivion!
And who would be next-Grorge MnO-ef
He put the venomous iconoc'astic crew
back under the matches, gathered up the
skirts of his Conradian enthusiasm-and
began TO think.
Reedy said somewhere that Conrad left
him cold, he couldn't see him." Here was
something enormously In favor Of the
great Anglo Polish writes. The Mississippi
Valley mind is etrrnally philistine-and
be who runs may Reedy.
But it will not down-this feeling that
"there is something wrong somewhere" in
Conrad. Haven't Won felt it f-come. own
mp. Spill your suspicion gently; make
clean breast of the whole thing. You have
been dazed, hallucinated. 'whplmed With
words. dashes, quotations. psychological
palimpsesting and thrilled by the ghosts of
Poe and Dostoievsky, who are PLAYING a
trick on us through the ouiia board of
Conrad's brain.
Recall Charles Dickens's studio of sobs,
where You watched the vast machinery,
chemical apparatus and arrangement of
tear squeezers to produce Little Nell ct al.
1t was q tragic moment when. quite
youth, you peeped over that transom. And
the writer-wo is him-has since that
fatal rereading Of Lord Jim been through
the foundries and the Thrill. the looms Of
the Moral Crisis and the dark cellars where
the Sinister Hints grow like fungi on the
walls, piloted by the greatest "movie" d.
rector Of literature extant to-day-,Joseph
Conrad
He is losing his Illusions, although the
sense of Tremendous Reality in Hardy,
Dostoievsky, Turgenieff. Tolstoi and VIC
tor Hugo still remains. Is Joseph Con-
rad, after all, only a great wardrobe mis-
tress, the master scene shifter and prop
srty man? Is he only table Taper, and,
with Chesterton and Moore, one or the
three Fox sisters of English literature7
The attention of Literary Alienists is
respectfully invited.
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4 NEW novel by Vicente Blasco
"A Ibanez, author Of The -Four Horse
men Of the apocalypse, is in preparation
for publication by E. P. Dutton & Co.
It is called Mare Nostram Our Seal and
has to do with German submarines in the
Mediterranean. Charlotte Brewster Jor-
dan, translator of The -Four Horsemen,
is at work on the Spaniard's new novel;
but the translation may take several
months to complete.
1t is good news that 4. C. McClurg &
Co. Of Chicago are to publish new edi-
ton Of Changers Inder to Poetry and
REGULATIONS, an invaluable guide to the
whereabouts of 10000 pieces. The revised
edition will list "poems from Chaueer to
Vaehel Lindsay"
The Cleveland Plain Dealer has good
story:
A young girl came into the library in
quest of book. She couldn't remember
the name of it, but it was STORY of
young man who was brought up by the
monks. The librarian tried her with The
Cloister and the Hearth, The Monks Of
Maiabar, Fnar Tuck and Monastery
Bells. Then he eross-examined her and
found out she wanted Tarsan Of the Apes.
J. K. Huysmans's En- Route, translated
by C. Kegan Paul, is being published in
an American edition by E. P. Dutton &
Co. In this book Huysmans shows a man
who, having passed through the most ter
rible Ordeals of unbelief, has been sud
denly converted to faith but has not re-
formed his life. En- Ronte is the story Of
this mans struggle; incidentally it con-
tains essays on church music, on archi-
lecture and other arts, on monasticism, or
lives of the saints and on mysticism.
A "sartin sure good book" will be The
amenities of Book-Collectimg and Kin
dred affections, by A. Edward Newton Of
uuducipuid. IL ID HloSti( Ills ca hCAOOo
in hunting rare books here and abroad,
some of which are familiar to readers Of
the atlantic Monthly; but there are chap
tiers on authors, collectors and booksellers.
The illustrations are all from books in
Mr.. Newtons collection; and his collection
of DR.. johnson is particularly fine. The
Atlantic Monthly Press will publish his
book.
The Funk & Wagnalls Company is pub
fishing Expressive English, by James c.
Fernald; Nerve Control and How to Gain
1t, by Fl. Addington Bruce; Kno,c;ng In
sects Through Stores, by Floyd Brallier;
Wit, Wisdom and Foibles Of the Great,
by Charles A. Shriner, and The Unsoand
Mind and the Lar, by George W. Jacoby.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-03

Small, Maynard & Co. have received
safely the manuscript Of a new book by
Mildred Aldrich, author of A Hilltop on
the Asvne, although the French regula-
tons did not permit the TRANSMISSION Of
the photographs which it was hoped to
use in illustrating it. The censor could
hardly object to the manuscript, since the
letters composing it had already been per-
mitted to come to America. Miss Aldrieh's
book will have the title The Peak of the
Load, which is explained in what may be
the worlds longest subtitle, The Waiting
Months on the Hilltop From the Entrance
of the Stars and Stripes to the Second
Victory on the Name.
Occasional Addresses, by ex-Premier
Asquith Of Great Britain, which the Mac
milan Company is publishing, contains
speeches on all sorts Of subjects criti-
cism, biography, education, the English
bar and the Bible.
Agnes C. Laut's Pathfnders Of the
West, describing the adventures Of Raids
son, LIE Verendrye, Lewis and Clark and
other explorers, is being reprinted.
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] En,pey Goes Ouer Again! n
TALES from a DUGOUT
By ARTHUR GUY EMPE
Author of "Over the Top"

~HE book is made up Of group of battle
~ front sketches and short-stories. They
are fiction founded on the experiences Of the
author a, the front during critical time of the
war; as such, they reproduce, not real names
and dates, which are important chiefly in direc-
tories and records, but that tremendous reality,
the spirit of the men who are engaged in this
modern crusade against the Hun. In the book
the reader feels the invincble Allied will to win,
the unconquerable gaiety and good humor Of
vast bodies of men fighting and working to-
gether, the thrills Of physical contests on scale
never before Known to the world
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-03

The time elapsed since the author has returned
more accurate perspective than he could have
had while the disturbances Of war were still
rackme him. He sees it all more as whole
now; and he has had time to think through. and
to feel through. many an idea. many picture
that before were but blurred and flying fragments
from time Of cataclysm. As an author MIR.
Empey has deepened and melIowed; his humoe
has grown richer. and his amazing vitality is a.
fresh and exhilarating as ever. Tales from a
Dugout il As cheering as bulletin of victory.
Empey has gone over again.,
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-02
SERGEANT CAUSES CAPTURE
OF THIRTY PRISONERS

An e r C a y FORCES ON THE
AISNlI FRONT, Saturday. August al
Thirty prisoners We're accounted for
by Sergeant S. b. Lcschinsky. of Mil
waukee, in the capture OF Juvigny by
the AmericanssA. An command OF FOUR
the town WHILE the. encirclinE move
ment was going on In general way
he knew his whereabouts. but not that
of the outfit TO which he belonged
The sergeant was entirely ou3 of con-
tact with his own forces and believed
himself to be within the German lines,
az in fact he was.
A turn in the road brought the de-
tachment face 10 lace with two Ger
man officers, captains, who apparently
were as greatly surprised as were the
sergeant and his men. He ordered them
to halt and they did
A minute later marching detach-
ment of thirty Germans appeared. who.
on seeing the officers had been taken
prisoner. unhes!tatingiy surrendered.
The Germans officers questioned the
authority of their captor to take them
and they resisted.
The sergeant and his own men
made their way back TO headGuarteTE
with thirty prisoners. trhe two Of
ficers presumably were shot.)
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-02
PRESIDENT RANKS
LABOR WITH ARMY
fContinued From Eirst parn

Continued From First Pagc)
when everybody votes you have a
democracy-lhat is pretty well ex-
ploded.
This country, promise you. is be-
ginning TO understand that We may
have 100 per cent democracy in the
form or our political government and
despotic type In industry. II Is now
clear to understanding men and es-
pecially to those who work for living.
that TO attempt to control conditions
or ones life through the roundabout
way OF politician oratory and iegisia-
1iye ae,ion is futile. and that this
fashioned attempted substitute for
direct and common sense control
through the workshop must be thrown
ditles,
Political democracy is deiusion un-
less buiided upon and guaranteed by a
free and virilc Industrial democracy.
be!!eHe that the process OF dcmocra-
tization VIII continue until there will
remain not one. wage Garner in the
country deprived OF full voice in dc-
terminin5 the conditions OF his vote
and consequently his life"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-02
NEW AUSTRIAN PREMIER
Is SECOND Won HERTLING
Has AnnIoEonr Political Shading and
hduptability-WfllS Sail In
Germany's Wake.

AMSTERDAM. September 1.-The
new Austrian Premier, Baron Or. Max
Won Hussarsk- Heinlein is described by
the Nossischc lettings well-informcd
Vienna correspondent az IAN Austria n
Hert!ing without the latter's parlia-
incntary experience but with analogous
poHtical shading and hdaptability." He
Was appointed Premier July %.
Won Hussarek enters upon his task
under peculiarly difficult circun-
stances; 1t is generally expected that
ne VIII sail in, Germany's wake. 1T
could not be otherwise" German com
mentators put Ii. almost Overwhelmingly,
although so far he has not made any
binding dec'arati to the effect
Won fussarek's appointment is
largely attributed to clerical inf
iuenccs. He belonged to the late
Archduke Frfancis Ferdinands set
from which Emperor Charles already
has chosen several minister's 1t is
therefore expected he Will enjoy the
support OF Catholics.
10 place the country's internal
economic. situation on something like
a sound basis II such be possible, will
he HuSsarek's most difficult task
New taxation will be Immediately re-
CURED to meet the service Of three and
a ha'w miiliardS on wa debts and the
rcorganizat ton OF the disorganiZed food
istribution system VIII be equally i'm
parattvc. How he proposes to extract
further revenue from the tax ridden
popu !at!on is secret as yet not dis.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-02
THREE MESSAGES SHOW
SITUATION IS SERIOUS
Consul-General Poole Gives State De-
partmcnt Information
by Cable.
FLEE FROM CITY OF PETROGRAD
Members Of American Societies
Banks and Citizens Arc Leaving
While Affairs Arc Turned Over TO
Swedish Government.

WASHINGTON. September f.-rhb
State Department Saturday through the
American charge d'atfaircs at Stock
holm. received three messages from
Consul-General Poole at Moscow. all
OF which call attention to situation
increasing in seriousness.
The department was also informed
through the Swedish government that
on the evening of August &c train
left for Petrograd with the members
OF tho Italian military mission. CON
sisting OF seventy-one persons the
personnel OF the American consulate.
the Belgian CONSUL all the personnel
of the Y. NJ. c. az, and the Y. w. G. a.
and representatives of the American
Bank and other American citizens who
arc leaving Russia In all there were
ninety live Americans. Mr. Poole is
remaining at his post. although all the
American interests have been turned
over to the Swedish legation, 1t was
said.
Mr.. Poole's first message asked
whether request had been made for
free passage OF Americans through
Finland, and II not. that 1t be done.
His second message. dated August II.
said he was endeavoring 10 leave Mos
COW. either to the north or cast. in
order that the consulate general would
remain on Russian territory.
Owing to the insistence OF the Boil
shevik government. however. departure
seemed TO be the only possibility. he
reported.
Up to that time. American private
citizens had not been molestcd, MIR.
Poole said, but he added he was having
difficulty in arranging for their de-
parturc.
Mr.. Poole's last message. under date
Of August &c. told that a train had been
obtained through the efforts OF the
Swedish consul general;
A reference by Mr.. Poole TO the re-
fusal OF the Finnish government to
give safe conduct" to Americans leav-
ing Russia IL at variance with re-
port received some days ago by the
State Department, which contained as
surances that free passage would be
granted them.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-02
THIRD DISTRICT MEN
HONOR THEIR CAPTAIN
Prcaent Tx Mndc to officer T'ransferred
to First station With Express
ston of Esteem.

In the big shift which yesterday sent
captains. sergeants and patrolmen to
different necks OF the police woods,
those Of the department who were lett
In their old bailiwicks werc not un-
mindful of the goodness OF their shift
ing superiors and brothers; and In this
mindfulness the heart of the cop-that
thing which Is 30 seldom barred to
the public-showed itself for, what 1t
really ls. Most OF the fellows are
big. rough looking specimens OF the
race. but there Ii tenderness and love
underneath the broud bosoms.
This was shown In every instance
where the shifts were made. At all
OF the stations where the old captains
were leaving for now iields tho men
gathered to bid them farewell and good
luck and there were some touching
speeches Especially was this true of
the Third District--the South Side post
from which Captain MeMahop Is
there the fellows banded together and
bought preaents for the cap" for
Sergeant Goldsby and for Pntrolmnn
Relton. AT midnight Saturday, Ser
geant Moore. with the men gathered
about, presented these presents.
All OF the recipients made speeches.
OF npDreciation. but II was lett Tor
the captain TO deliver the masterpiece.
He smoke feelingly OF his regard for
the men who had worked under him
for the past year and thanked them
all for the fine service they had given
him.
some pair ai,i" Of gold cuff buttons. TO
Sergeant Goldsby they gave meer.
a pair OF cuff -buttons.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-02
f1,GNCH CAPTURE 1000
GERMAN PnISONRRS

PARIS. September In the region
north OF SCISSORS French troops last
night storlned the town OF Leury and
captured 1000 Germans. the French
War of!ice announced to-day
French troops have crossed the
sommc Canal at Epenancourt, seven
miles south OF Peronne. Rouy-le-Pe;it.
two. miles northeas, of Nesle has been
captured by the French. The text OF
the statement reads:
The actions continued during the
night. French infantry units crossed
the Somme Canal east OF Epenanc0urt.
Further south French troops captured
Rouy-le-Petn. We took $50 prisoners
In the region north OF scissors, the
French captured Leury and conquered
several centers OF resistance. which
were strongly held by the enemy. one
thousand prisoners remained in our
hands"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-02
ARiSTOCRACY NOW LOOMING
AMONG BOLSHEVIK OFFICERS
Commander OF Regiment Teils His
wife to Wear Feathers and
Act Like Indy,

pETRoGRAD. September L. The
Minskoye Slovo publishes the follow
ing letter alleged to have been writ
ten by squad companion" elected
by his fellows, commander Of a Boil
shevik regiment, to his wife in Rus
sian village:
my greatly respected wife, Agriplna
Ivanovna.-In the first lines Of my let
ter inform you that by the grace OF
God and the Will of my soldier COM
rades the blood OF the nobility Is now
flowing in my veins, because I am now
fnther-commander OF the whole regi-
ment and OF its war chest. 1 inclose
RS. 100, with which you must buy your
self an astrachan coat and a feather
which is worn on the head.
You are not to keep company with
the women OF the village, but you must
call on the officers wives. Do not rush
into their houses like o swine. but let
yourself be announced to lot them
know who you are. Your husband. and,
at present,
Commander of Regiment,
Thoma Terentyevich Krslo- oukhim.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-02
CONGRESS BEG&haI:: :;i;TR
MONTH OF ITS !i'G!ss|0N
War Revenue Bin rrinaipal Task
Ahead Of Both Br3oo,es
This Week.
TO ACT ON PRoHIB11> " SOON
Indications Point to Won ans Suf-
frago Legislation Being Disposed
or Prior to the Regular Fall Elec-
ton In November.
lry Associated Press


WASHINGTON, September Con
gress tomorrow begins 1.-THE tenth
month Of its present session. with the
new SS.20O.00o.o0o war reve nue bill as
the principal task ahead Of both Sem
ate and House. The national prohibit
tion bill pending in the fSenate. the
water-power-develop bill before
tho House and other mea Sures will be
given consideration. but both branches
expect to devote Themselves from now
on largely to the revenue legislation.
The revenue bill. which President
Wilson. in his message of May %. ask
enact is to be reported Ito-morrow by
the Ways and Means Committee for
The sssnnnE Of Honsa deba,s ,psrs
by the middle OF September is ex-
pected. and. t. expedite action In the
Senate: the finance Committee I soon
acts. and while the bill is before tho
Senate committee. another series 0t
Legislation demanding action.
.passage, Of the national prohibition
beverage sales July / next until after
demobiliz ton. is planned this week.
1t will be brought up again next Tues
holiday being arranged solely for me
mortal services In honor Of the late
Senator NewlandS. CT Nevada.
Woman suffrage advocates still are
pressing for an early vote on the res
olution pending in the Senate. but
several weeks, although it's disDoBi-
tion before the November election Ia
planned
Politics also promise soon to be given
much attention in both branches OF
Congress. with speeches for home and
national consumption as the election
period nears. Senator Sherman. OF
Illinois, Republican. has given notice
that he expects To speak next Tues
day on unofficial and personal govern
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-02
AMERICAN AVIATOR SAVES
COMRADE IN ADRlATlC
fBy Associated Press.


ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS, Fri
day, August 30.-One OF the first eX-
ploits of the American hydroairplane
pilots trained in Italy was that OF j.
II. hammond. Of Baltimore. who saved
Lieutenant Ludlow during a raid on
the Austrian naval base at Pola. While
Ludlow was dropping bombs his ma
chine was riddlcd by the Austrian fire
and he was compelled to alight on the
Adriatic three miles from Pola
When Hammond saw his plight he
Swooped TO Ludlows rescue, Drawing
the Austrian fire and the attacks or
five enemy airplapes.
Hammond hit the water near Lud-
lows machine, ran alongside. took
Ludlow aboard and slowed him undo r
the motor OF his one-seated plane He
then set Ludlow's machine on fire.
Meanwhile, the enemy ariators were
Keeping up steady fire. Hammond
off and got away safely, although pur.
sued halfway across the Adriatic.
Finally his machine gave out while
near the Italian coast and the two
Americans were forced TO swim ashore.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-02
AMERICAN TROOPS TAKE
JUV|GNY AFTER BATTLE
One Patrol Saves Itself From Cap-
turc by Using Gums Of Dis
ablcd Tank.
GERMAN BARRAGE UNAvA1LINti
U. s. Soldiers Prepare for Dash Tn
perceived by Eneiny-Krupp Shells
Fall Into Town After Its Cap
turC.

WITH THE AMERICANS NORTH
OF SCISSORS. August 81 (MidniEhO.-
our assault on Jurigny was 'sct for
o'clock yesterday AFTERNOON. CO.
inciding with the zero hour" for tho
preliminary bombardment lasted two
hours Our guns did somS terri ,hc
the Sarpetns Pha
with white fluff balls pierced by tho
red flashes of expl9ding shells wh i
The whole plateau as far as the
up. The enemy, realizing that an in
fantry attack was Imminent; laid down
bn 9ns most h of th slXnx
5ssad had been sSG II r9m the
unperceived by the. enemy, who was
plain in front Of him and upon the
Bots de Pomains, to The north, shower
p @s IONS eSpe e The" the Ame eS to
dchouch there.
Then our barrnge leaped to the cas-,
d ii; Who held held out t at Les Boyes and
at sundown Just as the German OBJ
seTyers. perehed. n on the ruins of the
yaway sens Sp 400 wna ro nS
mediately Krupp shells began falling
into JuSiSny, announcing the ran or
the town even before the runners ar
rived in the rear carrying the tidinEs
of this new victory.
One American patrol, finding itself
out of contact with the main body OF
our troops, being far ahead Of its oh
iectives. was nearly surrounded when
it discovered knocked-out tank
nearby The Amsriean s.; wrigGie e d
guns from the tank. as we'll as plenty
Of belts of cartridges. dragged them
position, standing off German
counterattack by sudden burst OF
for and which enfiladed the advancing
enemy groups
I'm the nighttime the America ms
again reached the tank and buried the
operator and chauffeur, both OF whom
had been shot through tho head.
Several other groups OF Americans
salvaged German machine guns and
ammunition when their cartridges ran
short.