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New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
A Iraeedy in Eden

lotion. l2,no. pp. 395 Dodd Mead d Co. pub
liShed today)
This is tragedy in Eden. We all
have known and loved the good Pottc-
rat. We have laughed with him. and
at him. We have felt our hearts grow
warmer under the influence OF his gen
erous companionship. And we had
fondly hoped for him a tranquil and
beautiful completion OF his idyllic
career. But it was not TO be. The war
came. The iniquty and the horror OF
the thing invaded the Eden Of his life,
maddened him with righteous indigna-
ton, and finally stole away his life it
self 1t is 4 unique study that Mr..
Vallotton has given us, in the psychol
ogy of human loving kindness brought
into conflict with internal cruelty and
wicknedness; though with a master
touch akin to genius he gives Us no
impression of such study or OF
psychology, but merely of the telling
OF an intensely interesting story and
the vivid reproduction of intensely
sympathetic scenes Of actual life. II
is a work OF a delightful kind, and OF
kind in which French literature eX-
cells that of all other lands; and it is
one of the best of that kind that we
have been privileged to read since
we'll. since Daudet gave us the mmor-
tai Tartarin; to whom Potterat is at
once paradoXically but truly, Il COM
panion and an antithesis.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
Some Recent Fiction
Tales of East and Wcst-France.
Spain and Hawaii

ellis Own Home Town." by Larry
Evans ILLUSTRATED, l2mo. PIP. 3l9. the
II. X. Fly Company, is a tale of every
day life in what we may call, for laci.
OF better term, a provincial commu-
nifty in one of the Middle Eastern
states. The narrative is interesting,
the characters end their speech ana
acts are portrayed with fidelity anI
with good degree Of individual differ
entlatlon, and there is strong appeal
to human interest, particularly the
woman who fills the part of "lcadiny
lady"
"West Is West" by Eugene Manlovc
Rhodes ILLUSTRATED, 12mo, DID, 3O4, the
II. X. Fly Company, deals with ro-
nance, humor. adventure. violence and
all the mingled drama Of elemental life
and It's passions in the great South
west. The tale is crowded with action
and is rich with "loca color" applied
with a practised hand. avoiding ex-
travagancc and giving throughout the
impression Of true transcript Of
actual life.
"Almctta of C;abriePs Run by
Louise S. Murdock illustrated, 12mc.
PIP. 21d, the Meridian Press), is a
homely romance of the Cumberland
Mountains. in which there is welcome
design to portray the better rather than
the worse qualities of the hill folk. We
should enjoy it more if the dialec.
were a tri1e less pervasive and pro-
nounced; but. at least, there is an 40
sence Of the offensive clements of the
mountain vocabulary.
"a Nest Of Spies" by Pierre Sou
vcstrc and Marcel Allain 12mo, pp. 3322
Brcntano's), is another of the exciting
"Fantomas Detective Tales" in which
the formidable outlaw is serving as a
German spy, and although Juve detects
and exposes him, he makes his escape,
so as to assure us at least one more
story after the present. 1t is thrilling,
and no less plausible and lifclike than
its predecessors in this entertaining
Series
"The Cabin" by Y. Btaco Ibanez,
translated by Francis IIaffkine Snow
and Beatrice NJ. Mekota 12mo. PIP. 2SS,
Alfred A. Knopf), is a novel of modern
Spain. which is of much interest from
two points Of view. Simply as tale
it is we'll constructed and we'll told, and
therefore we'll worth the reading. AS
picture of social conditions and Of the
struggle of the individual against The
social wrongs which 'sin against the
strength of youth it is of exceptional
value; perhaps the moro 50 because it
neither seeks to exploit nor to conceal
its instructive mission.
"The Elamingos Nest,' BY Roger
Sprague (12mo, PIP. 369. Ledercr, Street
{; Zeus, Berkeley, Cali, is a romance
OF Hawaiian life and adventure. in
which conspiracies. aeroplanes, dun
geons and torture chambers, heroes and
villains and all the figures and stage
properties of the most thrilling and
tlamboyant melodrama are brought nto
frecst play. OF course. there is love
story, which eliminates in happiness,
with "El Captain" for wedding
march,
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
Hero and Heroine

COMRADES Ey Mary Dilloa With four Illus
ira'ions hy X NJ HrlnkerhoS l2mo. pp "eG.
The Century Company tFucllshcd to-day)
A story told in the first person is
highly effective il il is we'll done. but
it is generally much more difficult to
do it we'll than one in the third person;
and it is particularly difficult when the
author thus impcrsonatcs a charactcr +
of the opposite sex Addressing her
self to this douhly difficult task. Mrs.
Dillon has attained an cnvlablc meas
urc Of success. She writes in the first
pcrson without a trace of, scl!-cXplOita-
'ion on the part Of the imaginary mar
rator. and she makes her hero. with
whom she Identifies herself, as thor
ouehly manly n man as the heroine is
' womanly woman.
War and with the period Immediately
preceding it, and the scene is largely
laid in Germany The characters are
German, French. English. Polish, Ru-
manian and American. and they are
clearly differentiated, consistent and
instinct with real life. The Incidents
arc humorous, dramatic. tragic, but
always quite natural; and the plot. at
every point interesting. invariably i'm
presses Tie reader as a transcript from
actual experience. Indeed, We have
read few novels of the war more
marked throughout with that restraint,
Judgment and sweet reasonabencS $
which make for conviction of reality.
and few with any moro perfectly sus-
tanned appeal to human sympathy and
I'M
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
Book News
Authors and Publishers and
Their Works

The George II. Doran Company last
week moved into new quarters at 2iA
Madison Avenue. at the corner Of
Thirty-e ighth Street.
The Century Company announces
Donald Thompson in Russia: the Let
ters Of free lance photogra pher from
the fighting front and from Petrograd
during the revolution.
L. 2. Dutton & Co. have in hand a
memoir of Thomas Woolner by his
daughter, Amy Woolner; Last Words
on Great Issues" by John Bea.tic
Crozier, and "a Fighting Fool" a novel
by Dan Coolidge.
G. p. putnam's Sons Will issue this
month Arthur Guy Empey's "First
Call" Ethel NJ. Dcll's new novel.
"Creatheart," will appear in May.
Doubleday, Page g. Co. have in hand
for spring publication "The Enlisted
Wife," by Grace S. Richmond; a COM
panion piece to The Whistling
Mother"
Harper & Bros. publish this week
National Progress: 19O7-1917," By
Frederick Austin Ogg; new volume in
"The American Nation.' the fine his
torical series edited by Albert Bushnell
Hart, and "Principlcs Of American
Diplomacy by John Bassctt Moore
Little. Brown & Co.'S forthcoming
fiction includes "The Pawns Count by
e. Phillips Oppenheim; Sunshine Beg
gars." by Sidney Mccall; The Hope
Chest" by Mark Lee Luther; The
ston: The Biography Of Million Dol
lars by George Kibbe Turner. and
Mrs. Mardens Ordeal" by James
Hay, ir.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19

O'Clock tomorrow morning in the Sec
ond Presbyterian Church. Central Park
west and Ninety-sixth Street. At the
night service DR.. Anent will give an
illustrated lecture on "Tho Battle
Front of Flanders"
West End Presbyterian Church will
observe Rcd Cross Sunday tomorrow.
with Captain a. Wells Ingram, a sur
vlvor of the torpedocd Arabic, the
speaker of the morning service, aud the
Rev. Or. A. Edwin Keigwin, the pastor.
preaching on Edith Cavel" Mt night.
Another word picture Of the war zona
Will he painted at the evening services
OF the Grace Methodist Episcopal
Church. 14ith Street. near Columbus
Avenue, by Captain II. A. Pearson. of
toronto. member OF the Canadian
tNpedittcAarS Forces, who is on fur
Tough rs tho result of shell shock and
gas attack.
Conditions existing in Russia during
the revolnton~will be described at the
Iwenty-third Street \. NJ. G. A. to-mor-
row afternoon. at o'clock, by Captain
Arthur Rudd. who as special assistant
to the American Ambassador to Rus
Sia passed through it.
"Ihe Movement for Democracy in
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19

out OF the pleasure of seeing the work
actually done, and too often is forced
to be content with merely being told
that miles upon miles of the railroad
were completed. But this early sense
OF unrcality is more than offset by the
vivid descriptions near the end of the
story. Benton, the construction camp,
conJure up for us an unforgetta bic
picture from romantic past. Like a
mushroom it had arisen, and like a
dust storm on the desert wind it had
roared away, bearing it's freight Of
labor, of passion and of evil" While it
existed it held all the emotions Of the
human heart-hatc, love, lust, greed,
revenge. Nealc, the engineer, is at his
best when he swings the sledge and
hears the sUuleU of the steel ring out.
Defeated. as he thought, in the thing
he cherished most-love-he found
refuge in work, and as one of the day
laborors he became part of the
scene. an atom in the great whole.
Then we actually hear the slow, steady,
rhythmic motions Of labor, and the
building of the Union Pacific Railroad
is an actuality: The story of Allie Lee
is less convincing; we rebel at the per-
And the old Sioux chief is truly mag
niticent in his austerity, in his accept
ance Of the incvitable bitterness, "som-
bra as death, seeing in this railroad
train, creeping, fading into the ruddy
sunset. symbol Of the destiny Of the
Indian = vanishing - vanishing - van
ishing"-
To write story like "The L. P.
Trail" is real achievement 1t places
Mr.. Grey among the authors who know
that we have a history which is trc-
mendously worth the telling in fiction
and who have the insight and the
'owcr to make the past a living reality.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
Cabin Fever y
And How Bud and Marie Were
Cured Of a Deadly Ailment

cAHlN FEVER. ~ 3. NJ Bower. With frontl.
Little Erown & &c.
Mr.. Bowers stories have always
been interesting, though moro than
once we have observed regrcttabe flaws
in them; and the present work is no
exception to the rule. But it marks a
decided advance in the quality OF his
work, an advance so great that We are
inclined to pass very lightly over its
faults and to dwell with something lit
tie shor. of enthusiasm upon its en-
gaging merits.
The theme is not, it is true, striking-
iy original A royal good follow, a rough
diamond. marires Il girl whose worst
feature is her mother. The cares of
housekeeping, of maternity, the change
from the foot-frcc life of a bachelor
10 the comparative confinement Of
Bcnedick the married man, and above
all, of course, the malign obsession of
the mother-inlaw, wear the nerves Of
both to n frazzlc. In a fit Of temper
Marie goes home to her mother and
Bud takes to the road After numer-
Gus experiences, humorous and pa
thetic, ludicrous and all but tragic,
they both find themselves" are re-
married there had been a divorce
and live happily ever after.
II is a good, clean, wholesome,
human interest story. told in the sim
plest imaginable fashion. and, there
fore. most effectively. The author has
a fine sense of humor. rresistibly n
fectious, and a tender element Of
pathos. The dramatic Workmanship Of
the tale is admirable. and amid all tho
greatly varying scenes the intcrcs.
never for a moment flags. Not least
of all, there is never for moment,
either, a touch of that eXaggcration to
which writers of Western frontier
stories all too often are prone. If Mr..
Bower can maintain the standard OF.
this work, his place in American liter
ature will be secure, and it will be en-
via blo
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19

,Lusucat'on' will be discussed at 8 D. M
os'ore the Public Forum of the Church
,r 9l the Ascension. Fifth Avenue and
@ aenth Street, by DR.. Henry II. Lnvillc.
president of the Teachers Union and
head of the department OF biology Ja-
malca High School; Mrs. Mabel L..
gees, brooklyn school teacher. and
samuel Schmalhauscn, former instruc-
,or OF English. De Witt Clinton High
School.
:, bishop Edward NJ. Parker of New
hampshire will deliver the sermon at
1he annual meeting Of the Anglican and
Eastern Association for Promoting In
tercommnnion between the Anglican
ana Eastern Orthodox Churches, which
opens at 1880 o'clock tomorrow after
noon Mt Trinity Church. The meeting
VIII be continued Sunday night, and on
Monday afternoon there will be Il pub
nc meeting at the Church of tho Re-
decmer, Pacific Street and Fourth Ave
nue., Brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19

gloat over the blood-curdling yclls of
the Sioux and tho hairbreadth escapes
of Allie Lee and declare that it,. all
more thrilling and melodramatic than
any "movic' one could ever expect to
sec. That is one way-a very super
fetal way Of cr.icising n book. It's
like being content with looking at the
back of an authors head. And yet.
critics have been known to do it Just
that way.
An old Indian woman, who lives in
Pennsylvania, also wrote to Mr.. Grey
not long ago, confcssing that unsil she
came across his novels she was book
weary, that she had found the white
mems books artificial OF his desert
stories she said:
"ln the desert you found your God.
You clothed him in the sun and the
silence. You heard his voice in the
wind-rcad his work in nature and
is not full grown-your God-bit by
bit you add to his glory. and MS smile
fills your soul with peace.
long to sec you attempt the big set
tings. They demand the mystical Ian
guagc Of the soul--you have 1t very
strong. You will write a book of liv
ing flame (when your God is full
grown. The dowry Of the Indian
blood promises you a brilliant future
if you foster it-and follow where it
leads. You will get the plot
for your story without mental effort
while en- route peculiar guidance will
accompany every step Of the way 1t
will be a strange story, written b. the
silence and by the soul
That is another type of criticism.
Ia al
of living flame" but something about
"rhc Z. p. Trail" something about Mr.
Grey himself. suggests that some day
not soon-the Indian woman's prophecy
may be fulfilled. The fact that he is
part Indian is revealed in the mystical
element in his work, in his passionate
love for the West.
A prospector once won't to Death
Valley, determined not to leave until
he had acquired a fortune. At the
end Of fiity-one years he had S500,OO0.
Having reached his goal, he set out to
enjoy life. He travelled TO New York
and through California and every
where, but the happiness he sought
eludcd him. AT last he returned to
Death Valley, content to die where he
had lived.
That's the kind Of hold the West has
on Mr.. Grey. and every book he writes
makes the outline of the picture he
wants to paint little clearer. "Thc
L. =. Trail" tells the story of the
building Of the Union Pacific Railroad,
of which Tobcrt Louis Stevenson said:
ut seems to me as if this railway were
The one typical achievement of the age
in which we live, as if it brought to.
gether into one plot all the ends of
the world and all the degrees OF social
rank, and offered to some great writer
the busiest, the most extended and the
most varied subject for an enduring
literary work. Ii it be romance, if it
be contrast, if it be hcroism that we
require. what was Troy to this 2" The
themc of "Thc U. =. Trail" is epic in
It's scope. and the treatment Mr.. Grey
mas given it is in harmony.
Through the first half of the book
the reader who wants to hear the
sound of the hammer and the sledges
in the building of the great road will
perhaps feel that he is being cheated
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
rench Realism
The Seamy as Well as the Glori-
Gus Side Of War

4 NANhEE n THE TRENCHES Ey corporal
j; Derby Holmes. Illustrated from photographs.
l2mo. pp IA. Little. Brown q Co. published
to-day)
The writer Of this book is Bosto-
Man, who entered the English army and
served with great gallantry on the
Western front before Americas entry
into the war. His narrative is a true
one, of his own actual experiences
it must be true. rot merely because
he tells us so, but still more
because it bears in every line
q stamp of truth that no invcn-
ton nor imagination could simulate. It
gives us one Of the most realistic
views Of the war that we have seen
both the humor and the horror Of
1t, in all its dircctncss, crudity, brutal
ity and largely in the very phrases
Of the trench. Here is sample scene
The dead here were enough to
give you the horrors. They we're all
over the place and in all
states of mutilation and decomposi-
tion. There were arms and legs
sticking out Of the trench sides.
! think it was here that first got
the real meaning of that old quota
tion about the curse of dead mans
eye. With so many lying about,
there were always eyes staring at
you. Sometimes particularly wide
staring corpse would seem to follow
you with his gaze. Here and there
one would have scornful smile on
his lips. as though he were laugh
ing at the folly of the whole thing.
Yet after it all. invalided home. the
Lo !, l.
to it. Aud looking back on the awful
ness of the trenches and The agonics
of mind and body. "the sacrifice seems
to fade into insignificancc beside the
satisfaction OF having done a bit in
the great and just cause"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
Written With Hearts Blood

ON TIE FIELD OF HONOR BY Husues l., Roux
l2mo:. pp 2sl. Houghton NIlriin Company
(Published to-day)
We have had number Of very note
worthy books depicting mothcr-love in
war and its sublime self-sacriticc in
sending the son to the battle line, to
return like the Spartan, bearing his
shield or borne upon it. Here we have
a worthy companion piece in study
of fathcr-lovc in like circumstances
Every feeling of The father is dis
closed, as the son goes to war, as word
comes of his progress in arms, as word
comes of his being wounded slightly,
seriously. fatally-as the father spends
days by his side in the hospital which
he will never leave alive-as the end
comes-and afterward. 1t is one of
the most pathetic of books. and one Of
the most inspiring; written with a
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
A Budget Of New Volumes
Out Today and Next Week
R1 Eleicher IoL.aa>
By Willis Fletcher Johnson

ever. in this case so marked as often
to be incongruous. A work which in
motive and essence is an idyl il only
marred by the forced and artificial in
lection of labored epigrams. The semi
biographical lecture, too, which occu-
ples a considerable portion of the vol
umc, seems needIessly prolix, and
scarcely less cXtraneous than the dis
sertation on Waterloo in "Lcs Mscra-
blcs."
AIR. Aliens former writings, and par
ticularly his Kentucky CARDINAL" have
given him much vogue in numerous
constituency of admirers, and this lat
est offering will doubtless be widely
welcomed. But we fear that many
readers will wonder what it is all
about. and will apply to it Colcridgc's
epigram upon his own "Ancicnt Mari
,1ar"
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
Long, Long Thoughts

THE KENTUCKY WARBLER. Ey Jane, Lane
Allen. With lloatspeee In coiori. limo pp
49,. Doubleday. Page Il Co. 60 be published
January 70
The thoughts OF youth. We have been
the present case the saying is abun-
dantly fulfilled. They arc, indeed, so
long as to be at times tedious in the
vague and uncertain meandering which
they require to go very little dis
tancc. In this latest addition to his
aviary Mr.. Allen gives Us a psyche
logico- study Of a somewhat
abnormal boy, who is obsessed with the
desire to see and hear the bird known
as the Kentucky warbler. and he pre-
sents it in the style of strangely
mingled simplicity and sophistication
10 which his former writings have ac-
customed us. That mingling is, how
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
Gardner Left Over $5OO,OOO;
Wife Gets Bulk of Estate

SALEM. Mass, Jan. lS.-Thc will OF
Major Augustus =. Gardner, who died
this week at Camp Wheeler, Georgia, was
filed for probate here day The bulk
Of the estate is beQuathcd to his widow.
Mrs. Constance Ledge Gardner. and his
daughter, Mrs. Constance g. Mnot.
While its value WAS not revealed. tho
specific bcqucsts exceed 100000, in adj
dition to real estate in Washington and
the Gardner home at Hamilton.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19

rare skill which avoids seeming to
makes US feel every one of its tender
est throbbings; book which reveals
to us what the lives Of thousands of
French and British fathers have been
in these last three years, and what.
alas! thousands of American fathers
must experience IL the near years to
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
The u. P. Trail
Its Romance, Adventure and
Achievement

rllE l. T.. TRAIL. BY Zanc Grey With fronts
ne,ro Emo. PIP. i0'. Harper d Bros. Grub
lished to-day.)
Some time ago a young girl in New
York wrote to Zane Grey and told him
she wanted to see him. She explained
that If he objected to being stared at
he might suggest some certain place
where he would be at certain hour,
and she would be happy if she might
only look at the back Of his head If
that girl reads Mr. Grey's latest book.
"Thc U. Z. Trail,' think how she will
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
u. S. Wants Serbia Restored.
Governor Mccall Tells Envovs

BOSTON. Jan. 1S.--ln extending the
state S welcome to the royel Serbian
mission, headed by DR.. Milcnko YES
mitch, Governor Mccall, speaking to-
DAY before joint session OF the Leg
lslature, declared that no immediate re-
suit of The war would bring greater
gratiilcatlon to the A.1crican people
than the restoration of the little king
doms of Belgium and Serbia, first TO be
invaded by the Gcrman foe.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
COMRADES
By Mary Dillon

Author Of "The Rose of Old St. Louis" etc.
A straightaway story full Of action.
color and romance. The Great War
is the background. The narrative be-
gins in Dresden. where the various
principal characters have gathered
for the opera. The war breaks, and
the reader follows the thrilling story
as it traces its scattered and alluring
people until finally they are gathered
together once more. 1t is all fiction.
but every deed of daring attributed
10 the hero has had lis counterpart
in the daily newspapers since August,
1914.
Illustrated. SIP.
THE CENTURY co.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
War To Be Feature
Of Sermon Topics

n, John Robertson. who recently re-
..d from eight months service with
Ne British troops in the war zone, will
,h on "The World War and the
. If the Guns by Night" at II
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
Ci)urthIGhfa Gf Reloueo Disrlple

Sath s'TRtl.T. NEAR MADISON AVE-
El.N. HENRY VI. BARBOUR, -. u. Rector
Services at 1:30. 10. II A. NJ. lRav. Dr
C"orgc William Douglass, A. L. NJ. CEcN.
John Acwort,.D
POPULAR NrspERs at 4. including harp
solo, Song without Words,' OberthorS;
organ solo, "Pastorale Religieuso." Kramer:
4uartctte. Tho shadows of the evening
hours. Nschol Instrumental ouartettc,
"Adoration." Fillipucci Full choir With
HARP. VIOLIN, CELLO and ORGAN at
ii and 4.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
JUST
OUTSIDE
Stacy Aunonier
,uthor of "Thc Friends" etc.

Author Of "Ihc Friends. etc.
Ret Uartc made himself with q sin
!. short story. SO did Mr.. Aumonier,
'ss;,h that astonishing piece of fiction
,sllcd "Thc Friends.' Not to become
.couaiutcd with Mr.. Aumonicr's work
:, to miss some Of the really best
.bings written in English today.
"yust Out>ide,' his latest novel, is q
;,scna;ing story of a man Of moods.
4 temperament, attempting to adjust
unset and his environment, taking
Mo account his hoyhood, his Young
msnhood. his work as an artist. his
avc affairs.
illustrated. Sl.35.
THE CENTURY co.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19

4 YANKEE IN THE TRENCHES I.v corporal
u. Derby Holmes Illustrated from Photographs
l2nlo. pp IA. Little. Brown q Co. nublishcl
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19
SOCIETY OF FRIENDS.
UNJ1AEIt,

RELIGIOUS SOCIETY or FRIENDS 1s--a!cet,ne,
TOR worship. IL 9. ni.. at 22l East 18th ST. Man.
haitian. and ITO Schennerhom 81. brooklyn.
New-York tribune., 1918-01-19

Hamilton Grange N2ATANr NnAn XMs4Nnu 4NR l'sTH ATH
II A. M.liey. William l. Chamberlain, d. ID.
=. M.--Kov w. w. Clark.