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New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
The Rise Of Rome
From the Founding Of the City
to the Death of Caesar

rsrrsro and co5rads Bsrsaaalio II Ss'e'o Two !olo
Grown svo. Dp. vii. $40 C, P. Pu.nam's sons.
Professor Ferrero and his co-laborer
have performed a useful task in con-
densing within hand compass the VOL
luminous history of ancient Rome. It
is in a much greater degree than the
history of any other country the his
tory of the world. 1t is SO vast in
scope as to strike the average reader
with despair. We know not what Mr..
Bo1n thought of it under the spell Of
Mr., Wegg's lucid recitals, but we know
that several of the great histories Of
Rome have been sealed books to all
but few, because of their portentous
voluminousness. But here we have the
history of that marvellous seven hun
dred years from Romulus to Caesar
told in volume which you may hold
IN your hand or carry in your pocket,
and told with sufficient fulness for all
save student investigators. and with a
charm of style which attracts the atten-
'tion and holds unhagging interest
1t is pleasant to observe that the his
torian's sense Of proportion acts in
coordination with the ascertainment of
kings is disposed Of in a single brief
mensely mportant-indeed, the book
points out that it was much more i'm
portant than is commonly supposed.
but because so little is positively
known about it. There are legends
enough, but they are not history, and
this work does not concern itself with
prolx repititions of and speculations
upon them. But of the later centuries
knowledge steadily increases, and
therefore this history grows fuller of
detail with each succeeding chapter.
1t is one of the best pieces Of his
torical writing that we have seen for
many year and we shall await the
appearance of the second volume as
the completion of what will probably
long rank as the standard history Of
Rome. We must say, too, word for
George Chrystal, who translated the
book from the Italian. His work is so
superbly done that we are never re-
minded that it is a translation, but
read on and on as though it were an
original composition Of graceful and
classic English.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
With Pen and Press
What the Authors and Publishers
Are Doing

Burton E. Stevenson has been sent
abroad by the government to distribute
books to the soldiers. His enlarged
Home Book of Verses" of more than
400 pages, will be published by Henry
Holt & Co. next week.
]. D. Mcbride. Of the Hog Island
shipyards, has written "A Handbook of
Practical Shipbuilding" which the D.
Van Nostrand Company will publish.
DR.. Newell Dwight Hills is publish
ing through the F. H. Revell Company
another book on the deviltry and per-
idy of the Germans.
Harper G. Bros. announce that
they will publish Immediately "Sylvia
Scarlett," by Compton Mackenzie;
Songs from the Trenches" edited by
Herbert Adams Gibbons; "My Lorraine
Journal" by Edith O'Shaughnessy;
Lands End" by Wilbur Daniel Steele;
Young Alaskans in the Far North"
by Emerson Hough; and an education,
al edition Of Far from the Maddng
Crowd" by Thomas Hardy.
Richard Dehan's new novel. "That
from the press Of G. P. Putnam's
Sons.
A new series Of little books is being
otoi ECU NY f. Z LUTON O. Co' VI "HlcN
they have ready the first two numbers
One of these contains three of the
most admired chapters from Donald
Hankey's Student in Arms" and the
other several famous descriptions from
| Wythe Williams's book on France at
war.
Charles Scribner's Sons will publish
next Friday new edition Of "The
French in the Heart of America" by
John Finley; new edition Of Heart
of Europe" by Ralph Adams Cram; and
the following Wednesday, August 28,
will publish Lovers of louisiana" by
George w. Cable; "On Furlough," by
Florence Olmstead; Admirable Crich-
ton" and Quality Street." by j. NJ.
Barrie; Psychology and the Days
Work., BY Edgar James Swift, and a
lustrated by George varian.
The Macmillan Company has done a
good thing In republishing at reduced
price Paul H. B. d'Estournelles de Con-
Problems"
Tales" edited and illustrated by Kath-
crime Pyle, is among the beautiful
books for children promised for the
fall-in time for next Christmas-by
E. P. Dutton & Co.
William Dean Howells's Through
the Eye Of a Needle" is to be done in
Braille in England.
The Rev. David J. Burrell Is pub
fishing through the F. H. Revell Com
pany volume Of addresses under the
title of "The Laughter Of God" We
are reminded Of philosopher whom
we know who purposes to write g
serious essay on HAS God q Sense OF
Humor?"
Imperial England" by Cecil F. La
velle and Charles E. Payne, an his
torical Interpretation Of the British
Empire. will be published by the Mac.
milan Company on August 81. They
will publish on the same date John
MI ,etieid,s "The War and the Future
G. P. Putnam's Sons will presently
publish "The Texan" cattle country
romance. by James r. Hendryx; Danny
the Detective" by v. C. Barclay; Lads
Who Dared" by Raymond Comstock;
and "In Flanders Fields and Other
Poems," by John McCrae.
The George Banta Publishing Com
pany is publishing THE Law Of War:
Between Belligerents," by Percy Bord-
we'll, professor. of constitutional law In
the University Of Missouri
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17

But these two American engineers
must have the chief credit for placing
an effective navy beneath the surface
of the sea, just as American inven-
tors have the credit for making prac-
tical "the nations airy navies"
Mr.. Lake tells plain, straightfor-
ward tale in this book about the ear
lier attempts at submerged navigation,
about Mr.. Hollands work in that direc-
tion and about his own devices. Natu-
rally, he pays most attention to the
use of the submarine in war, but he
does not ignore it's immense potential
utility in peace. His volume goes into
technicalities sufficiently to be inform
ing to the professional engineer and
navigator, but not enough to repel the
lay reader, who will find the narrative
and descriptions Of fascinating inter
est. A multitude of admirable illus
trations add to the value of this impor-
tant and authoritative work.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Sergeant Swanson
The Norsk Nightingale Sings of
the Great War

SONGS OF SERGEANT SWANSON By william
F. Kirk. lsmo. PIP so. Small. Maynard & Co o.
The Norsk Nightingale is the worthy
successor of Miles O'Reilly and Hans
Breitmann. He was delightful in his
earlier singing; he is irresistible in his
war song. Note, for example, the bal
lad of "The Gas Mask:
Old Yohnson-his first name ban Yohn-
Skol talk lax blazes, off and on.
Yohn ban a private. Ay got notion
He talk too much to get promotion.
He know how long to very day
Dis var ban going to last, he say.
He know, he say, yust to a dot
How many guns desc Yermans got.
He says "Ay'm onto desc har Dutch
Dey can't fool me. Ay know tn much!"
The oder fallers all feel bum
Ven dey see old Yohn johnson come.
And yust so sune as he see Yohn
Each faller put his gas mask on
Dey keep desc gas masks on guide and
tight
Till Yohn skol tai the gang guide night
Dey say "Yohn Yohnson he ban ass
And all his talk ban yust lax gas!"
Ay tenk q gas mask work lax peach
Ven Congressman ban making speech!
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Married Salamanders
Sans Taste, Sans Sense, Sans
Soul, Sans Everything


FiRTuOus WIVES. By Owen Johnson With
IiustratIons ., by G. II. Tars. 12mo, pp. s52.
Never, not even in his unsurpassed
Lawrenceville stories. has Mr.. John
son written with finer skill than in
this volume. And never, not even in
his odious and noisome "Salamanders. :"
has he depicted for our delectation a
more offensive set of shallow fools
and potentially lascivious beasts. One
man half way appeals to our sympathy.
and then spoils it all with hopeless fail
u.lre ure at the end. Another, the presumptive
hero of the. book, has lucid mo-
ment on the last page, but on every
other page from the beginning Is an
absolute ass. the fit victim of the
harpy who clutches him, and who
might have served as suggestion for
hlpllng's "Vampire." His wife. the
heroine" is a feather headed fool. and
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Among the Toile1s

ONE OF THEM. BY Elizabeth Hasanovit1 12mo
pp. 1893. The Houghton Minun Company.
The authof describes this as "Chap-
ters from a Passionate Autobiography
but she needs to define the adjective
The narrative is passionate only with
the passion for the right to live and to
be treated justly. 1t is the story Of an
immigrant girl, Russian Jew, seeking
to make an honest living in the shops
of New York. AS such it is one of the
most thoroughly convincing that we
have read, because Of it's simple
straightforwardness and its lack of ex-
aggeration and overwrought emotions
and scenes. 1t bears on every page the
impress of moderation, Of self-restraint
and of TRUTH
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
49,


she and most of the other female fig-
ures are simply married editions of Mr..
Johnson's "Salamander," with the in
creased otfensiveness which their mar
ried estate makes possible. One woman
is among them, and her womanliness is
the one redeeming touch in the whole
scene.
1t is high tribute to Mr.. Johnson's
art to say that he succeeds in making
even such creatures interesting. He
makes curious contradiction in the
opening scene. He suggests that women
are in the habit of choosing things
with their hands, and he now and then
overworks some of the stock phrases of
the day. But on the whole ne has pro
duced an exceptionally we'll written
and brilliant story, concerning which
we can only regret that it is not about
more attractive people.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Long Island
Its Political, Social and Personal
History

HISTORY OF LONG ISLAND. By Benjamin F.
Thompson. Illustrated Third edition. greatly
enlarged, with a biography Of the author By
53S. $40. ST. Robert II. Dodd.
Thompson's History Of Long Island
has long boen esteemed as standard
and authoritative work It's first edition
appeared nearly eighty years ago, and
was rich with first hand information
from living witnesses long since
passed away. 1t was rich in personala
and in the lore Of Indian and Colonial
days. Happily, instead of being for
gotten the work has been kept living
through revision, enlargement, bring
ing down to date, and publication Of
new editions.
The present edition, in three big oc-
tavo volumes, is a capital piece Of
bookma aking. with a wealth of historic
information about Long Island as q
whole, about its various communities,
and about its representative citizens. 1t
has a profusion of illustrations of ex-
ceptional interest, from the quaint
Autographs Of fourscore years ago to
fine photographs of to-day.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
A Ballplayer at the Front

FROM BASEBALL TO BOCHES BY H. C Wit
wer. Illustrated by F. r. GrIger and Arthur
nard & Co.
Letters, in nine innings. from an
American baseball player to his pal,
about his experiences in the war. 1t is
full Of characteristic humor, yet also
Of serious observation and food for
thought. 1t is one thing to write a
book thus, in the breezy colloquialism
-euphemism for slang-of the day; 1t
Us wra Another Il ro and h vastly harder ar xs hng
the user of such talk would naturally
occupy. Both these things. however,
Mr.. Witwer does excellently we'll, and
thus produces a book which will be
read with much delight and with no
little profit
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Submerged Navies
The Story of the Submarine in
War and Peace

THE SUBMARINE IN WAR AND PEACE b.
SIMON Lake With II illustrations and chart
Svo. Dp. XII. aoa. j. B. Lppincots Company.
With German submarines prowline
about the entrance to New York har-
Dor and destroying vessels along the
nlelghborlng coast, THERE'S peculiar
tlmeliness in this fine volume by one
of the chief inventors of that style of
craft, and by the very one whose plans,
stolen by emissares of "Kultur,"
served as the basis of construction
of the Hun Uboats so dear to the
Tirpitzian heart. There were, of course,
submarine inventors before Lake and
Holland, and there were submarine
boats in actual operation many years
before Verne wrote his unmatched
romance Of Captin Memo and the "Nau-
titus" romance which inspired Mr..
Lake to undertake the invention with
which his name is identified. (Happily,
by the way, Verne lived to see his
scientific vision practically realized.)
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Southern Neighbors
AFine History of Spanish-Amer-
lean Independence

sHN RISE OF THE SPANISH AMERICAN RE-
PuBIICS By William Spence Robertson.
It was a felicitous thought of DR.
Robertson's to tell the story Of the
achievement Of Spanish American in
dependence by telling primarily the
stories Of the lives of some of its chief
leaders. That is partly because the
personal phases Of those mems careers
we're picturesque and romantic and
therefore make entertaining reading
and y-chiefy-because the Span
ish- Am sican resolutions were far more
than NEST others. due to individual
rather than popular initiative. Our
own revolution had great individual
leaders, but after all it was the people
themselves, trained in town meetings
to participation in public affairs, who
Effected it. Even Washington. Adams
and Jefferson were merely their repre-
sentatives. The people of Spanish
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Bohemian Paris

COLOR STUDIES IN PARIS BY Arthur symons.
& Co.
1t is the color of life, in kaleido-
scopic hues, that Mr.. Symons has
studied and portrayed with his sympa-
thetic grace in these poems and prose
sketches scattered through a quarter
Of a century. There are few men
more in touch with the City Of Light
than he, and none more gifted in power
of apt expression of it's protean
charms. Montmartre and Vincennes,
Hugo and Verlaine. Yvette Guilbert and
Odilon Reron-every personal and
picturesque phase Is touched upon
with unfailing felicity in volume
which svery lover Of Paris must love.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Among the Fiction Writers
Book News and MISCELLANY

cies, murders and what not else tha.
prevails at Petrograd in those strenu-
Gus days. The figures of Catherine and
some of her contemporaries are con-
s!de-ably idealized, which is WELL We
should scarcely tolerate an entirely
truthful portraiture of the sovereign
whom Byron characterized in famous
eplgram. Yet there is an air of veri-
slmilitude which satisfies, if it does not
entirely convince the reader.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Fighting and Love Making

THE TANG OF LIFE. BY Henry Herbert Knlbhs.
With illustrations by Boyd Smith. 12mo. pp.
s94. Tho Houghton Miffin Company
The tang of life is in wild adventure
in the great Southwest, where passions
rage high and free and men make love
to women and shoot their fellow men
with equal zest. Amid it all there are
loyalty, purity. chivalry and the fine
characteristics which are no stranger
in elemental than in the most sophisti-
Gated life. We have had much Of this
class of fiction in late years, but we
shall not complain of a surfeit so long
as works come to hand as interesting
and as we'll written as this.
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17

The Freedom Of the Seas

THE FREEDOM OF THE SEAS Bv c>sr,a
stewart Dawson. Emo. pp. l23. Monat ard
MIR. Dawson here complies and re-
prints number Of periodical articles
on the salient phases of the subject of
national or international rights at sea
IN peace and war. The discussion is
auth horltative and scholarly, but nom
technical and popular, and the little
volume is calculated to make clear to
the public mind the manner in which,
under hypocritical cry for the
freedom of the seas, Germany has in
fringed the rights of all free peoples
on the international highways of tn
world. The American Defence Society
has done a valuable service in pro-
curing its publication
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Catherine the Great

THE WHIRLWIND. By Edna Worthley Under
wood With colorcd frontspiece by William A..
Kirkpatrick l2mo. pp. 29S. Small. Maynard &
Co.
The close Of the reign Of Elizabeth
and the accession of Catherine the
Great provide the period and the scenes
of this powerful historical romance. 1t
is full of action, rich with color. and
aboupding il court intrigues, conspira-
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17

1.-THE Men on Deck" by Felix Riesen-
berg, and "The Why's and Wherefores
Of Navigation" by Gershom Bradford
3D., are treatses of particular timeli-
ness in these days Of the great ex-
panson of the American marine; pub
lished in 12mo by the D. Van Nostrand
Company
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
Brer Rabbit and Others

UNCLE RENfUS RETURNS. By Joel Chandler
Harris. With illustrations by A. B Frost and
J. N Conde i2mo. pp. 175. The Houghton
We should hate to soy how long ago
it was when we were first delight ted
with the story of the Tar Baby, and
we should hesitate to estimate how
often we have been delighted with the
other adventures of Brer Rabbit and
the rest in all the many years down
to this farewell sheaf Of tales from
Mr.. Harris's facile but never failing
pen. These latest are worthy of rank
with his earlier and best, than which
there could be no higher praise
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
ex,f?vGes arc held in the following
<o&iSIIAN SCIENCE ChUkCHR1

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Anr,.. on sunday, II A. H.. only.
s:rrs - sanfaJ evening seryices omitted q
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New-York tribune., 1918-08-17
DIVINE sf,frNc.

DIVINE scfESCE
SoCIETy or THE INNER LIFE
AsD UNITY CESTEn,
sfsx n WESrr I'D HT
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Ms ~ Lrsafss,| Informal fnsstiug. s:is r. ~.
NJ w's1t'sl. Mondsy Healing Meeting. = y. NJ
safs yerda,. "''"s"''H e'i'' fAHS on 'f''A
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slrst Church OF Divine Science
TpA1, u. YffE WALDORF. .AsTOHIA.
sn.nst W IOus ArHHAY. Paybyrs
~@sr Mrs, ~ Gf1hSELL ETOIBEH.
sahjees: "Asdisnt XlsrTy."
New-York tribune., 1918-08-17

The SUBMARINE IN WAR AND PEACE By
simon Lake With II illustrations and a chart
Svo. pp. XII soa ]. B. Lippincott Company
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
FLORENCE EASTON
TRIUMPHS IN "AIDA'
Her Associates in Opera Fes'
tival Also Attain New
Artistic Heights

Stars of the current Grand Opera
Festival at the Academy of Music
climbed new heights of artistry last eve
ming in performance of Aida" which
was In some features superb. and in
nearly all others of notable excel.
lence. Florence Easton's presentation
OF the name part warrants comparison
with the finest Aidas of the last two
decades, with Nordica's. Gadskrs or
Emmy Destinn's. In lyric and dramatic
eioauence the portrait had moments Of
ineffable beauty.
Miss Easton is indisputably one Of
the most gifted artists Of the day. There
were unmistakable indications Of this
fact In her Saint Elizabeth and her
Santuzza. with which Phiadelphians
were previously acquainted. but the full
measure Of her powers was und sclosed
here until last night. The ferVid inten-
sity, the magnificent authority of both
her singing and acting in this finest
of all the Verdi feminine roles were
well nigh perfectly synchropized The
largest audience of this memorable sum-
'ner season was duly thrilled and prompt
to register its feelings in applause that
echoed of the days when the Academy
was one of the foremost operate instl-
tutions of the land.
with much of the particular stars cleo
trical fire. Riccardo Martin, not com
monty cast for heroic roles. sang the
music Of Rhadames with admirable free
dom and lustrous clarity of tone. Hstri-
onically, he was conventional. Few
tenors have caught the romantic spirit
of this role. Mr. Martin at least did not
struggle to attain what is beyond his
grasp. He perhaps Intentionally under
played an eNacting role and chiefly con-
fined his attention to really beautiful
vocaiism. His Celeste Aida" and his
share in the immortal Terra Addio"
duet were of potent charm. Alice Gentle.
one of the comeliest of Amerses. handled
,her somewhat light contralto with pol
ished technique and SenSed the tragic
force of the condemnation scene with
telling effectiveness. There was a ma
jestic and rch-voiced king in Henri
Scott. capable Ramfis in Henry Weldon
and an efficient Amonasro in Auguste
| Bouillez Viola Robertson appealingly y
chanted the haunting measures of the
high prestess
Under Josiah Zuro's magnetic baton
the ineXhaustable score cleaned with
color and throbbed with unstaled musical
emotion. An agreeable feature of the
| performance was the disclosure of the
exceedingly well-Dalnteu ltuSSel Snlitn
scenery belonging TO the Academy. These
settings. especially effective in mastery
of perspective, have decidedly more at
mosphere" than some of the modern
Milanese achievements which the Metro
politan has exploited
The ensembles We're in general well
managed. OF course. the horns Cracked
| in the triumphal scenes. Mr. Gattis
usually behave the same way. Familiar
as it is, the march" is one of the tricki-
est numbers in opera.
Italy's great victory was recognized in
a spirited performance of the Marcia
Reale" following the star Spangled
Banner" II. T. e.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
TO NURSE "OTHER BOYS"
Mother and Sister of Wounded
Soldier to Go Abroad

Ray w. Stauton. Moosic, Pa, has
fallen, seriously wounded, by shellfire in
the Disc sector in France. He is being
nursed by Miss Maud Cleveland, and his
sister and mother are preparing to go
to France and do as much for other
boys as Miss Cleveland Is doing for
him.
Stauton is twenty-three, six feet tall
and weighs close to 20O.' He was an
Erie Railroad fireman. and lived at 52S
,enter street, Moosic with his mother
before he enlisted in the artillery and
left for France last July IS.
Stauton's sister, Miss Helen Stanton.
IS studying nursing in the Moses Taylor
Hospital. Scranton, and his mother. Mrs
). ID. stanton. is making arrangements
TO go to- France as an ambulance driver.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
BEGIN WAR SAVINGS BOOM
Four.Minute.Men Start Pledge
Day Drive i'm Theatres

The drive for war savings stamps is
on.
Four-minute men are today visiting
esery theatre, every place of amusement
and are urging war savings pledges for
National Pledge Day next Friday.
The drive will continue until after
Friday-War Stamp Day. Speeches filled
with patriotism will be made daily and
thousands of pledge cards will be dis
tributed Nearly 100000 cards have
been asked for by Chairman Hodges
for distribution by the four-minute men
Five thousand volunteers are needed
to make the campaign success. leaders
of the drive assert. A call has been
issued for all who wish to aid in the
drive to report at war savings head
quarters, 1431 Walnut street, where they
will be given a supply of pledge cards
and war savings badges for those who
sign up.
The workers will be permitted to work
in any section of the city which they
desire.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-06-25
Bobby Hea,h's Song Review-Clobe

A Bobby Heaths Song Review was cas-
lily acclaimed headline honors On a good
bill at the Globe Mr.. Heath in this
offering is assisted by Mae Roberts. a
Jim Henry and versatile company of
shapely performers Many outbursts on
the part of the audience rewarded the
efforts of the capable actors to please.
The songs in this act are timely and
the production overfowed with comedy.
Second honors were carried off by a
musical comedy offering, '"rhe Fortune
Hunters" In, this act the stars are like
wise assisted by capable set of per-
formers Other acts which pleased were
Saxton and Farrell, Glenn and Jenkins,
Evelyn Cunningham, the Duquesne
Comedy Four and Regal and Mack.