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New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
The Spirit of Youth in War

HIS FATHER By Curtis Wheeler wv With r" nar. ao
trait l6mo. d. ia The Bobbs Merrill Com
pany. ~
In no respect has the literature of this
war been more noteworthy than in that
of the songs and the visions and the
high words of youth. 1t has been
marked with the clear voices of Brooke
and Seeger and others, singing blithely
in the very face of death, and of Peat
and Empey and their comrades, telling
with irrepressible spirit of their ad-
ventures before the very gates of hell.
Among such we to-day welcome an
other voice, Of an American lad with
the culture Of Yale and the training of
Plattsburg, telling straight from the
heart of his observations, impressions
and experiences all the way from home
to the battlefront. The letters, to his
father, are most intimate and uncon-
ventional, and were never intended for
publication, fact which makes them
the more welcome for that purpose
The little volume is instinct with the
highest and noblest inspiration OF
youth, such as must appeal to every
parent who has a son in the service
and to every son who goes abroad to
battle with the Beast.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18

in New York, lots of them. They are
the stuff of which much of New York
society is made. And we are not sure
that any one-we make no exceptions
now-has ever set forth those phases
OF society with more fidelity to truth
or more felicity of style.
There may, indeed, be specks in the
amber, if not whole flies. Chief among
these is certain impossibility in de-
tails. Thus at the very beginning, hav-
ing some acquaintance with the scales
of distances in parlor cars, we must
doubt if quite so many people. could be
seated close enough to the two girls
as to be able so intimately to observe
them; and we are pretty sure that just
the appearance OF one Of the girls as
she stood up could not have made
glances turn from all down the car"
This criticism may seem to verge upon
finicality, yet We protest that by his
own microscopic attention to detail, as
in what we might call the physiological
psychology of the wedding night Mr..
Poole himself has challenged it. Such
considerations apart, however. he has
written book of which American liter
ature may we'll be proud.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
The Ouija Board Again

HOPE TRUEBLooD. By Patience Worth. Com
%punlsssa by SssDs1 through = yss Mrs John ufn EdSa
We have no mind to dictate a sol1-
ton of the mystery which envelops
Patience Worth" Ostensibly she is
a disembodied spirit, who writes books
through the medium of Mrs. Curran.
There are those who will suspect trick
cry, while others will accept the mar
vellous story as true. All we have to
say on that phase of the subject is
that whether in the body or in the
spirit, the author of the present volume
is singularly. gifted with Imagination,
patience Worth" is really a disem-
bodied spirit, debating through a
planchette Of ouiji board, we must
hope that she will continue thus to
manifest her genius. If she is merely
a mask for some living writer we
must regret that such device was
thought necessary for exploiting one
whose ability is ample to stand on it's
own merits.
"Hope Trueblood" is much superior
to "The Sorry Tale" partly because
it is written in good English and not
in jargon which was, as Haywood
puts it, neither fish nor flesh, nor
good red herring" and partly because
it displays far greater ingenuity of
Imagination. 1t is tale of the last
century, Of English life, centering in
a girl who suffered the suspicion of
illegitimate paternity. The psychologi-
cal analysis, and invention of the
occult. and the dramatic power dis
played in the narrative of the girls
long quest Of a name, are extraordi-
nary, and stamp it as work approx
mating absolute genous.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Juvenilia
Books Of Various Kinds for All
Sorts of Children

Virginia Olcott's "Patriotic Plays for
Young People," illustrated, contains
nine little dramas, in prose and verse,
on patriotic themes, with stage direc-
tlons, ETC., ready for use. (Dodd, Mead
& Co..
Albert W. Tolman's "Jim Squirting,
Fisherman" illustrated, is a rafting
story Of three boys as deep sea fisher
men off the coast of Maine, which all
boys, and many grown-ups, too, will
enjoy. (Harper & Bros.)
Margaret Lavington has written and
Helen Urquhart has illustrate
"Cackles and Lays" book of poultry
yard rhymes for children. (The John
Lane Company.)
Helen Ward Banks "Polly's Garden y
illustrated, is a child's story of idyllic
symbolism. (The Macmillan Company. }
Gertrude Slaughter's "The Children
in Old Paris" illustrated. transcript
of notes from their mothers journal
is a work of exquisite charm for either
children or adults. (The Macmillan
Company
Frances Nimmo Greene's "Americs
First" illustrated by 7. de Thulstrup
contains three capital stories of boyish
patriotism. (Charles Scribners Sons
Joslyn Gray's "Kathleen's Probation.
illustrated. is delightful girls story
OF school, college and patriotism
(Charles Scribner's Sons.)
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
mother whose only son is in the army

mother whose only son is in the army
in France.
Harper & Brothers have just pub
lished new book by Montagu Glass,
entitled, worrying Won't VIM" In it
we have Potash and Perlmutter in war
time.
E. P. Dutton & Co. will publish next
week Charles Norris's new novel, Salt
or, the Education of Griffith Adams"
The story deals with the happy-go-
lucky method in the rearing of chill
dren in American families and with the
frequent lack Of efficient result in
methods Of education.
f. P. Dutton G. Co. will publish early
in June book by Miss Helen j. Ferris,
which will be heartily welcomed by
those who organize and direct the ener-
gies and activities Of young women and
girls. Miss Ferris has had a great deal
of experience in that work and has col
lected mass of material relating to
the organizing of clubs and societies.
During the last week Mr.. Joseph
Pennell has received congratulations
on his Autographs of "War Work in
America" from two most important
sources. One, President Wilson writes
him: "They (the lithographs) are re-
markably interesting and remarkably
fine" The other, the French Am
bassador in Washington, NJ. Jusse-
rand. has informed Mr.. Pennell
that the French government purposes
to show set of these prints in the
Luxembourg. These are the litho-
graphs which the United States gov
eminent authorized Mr.. Pennell to
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
A Pretty rig s Progress
MIR. Poole's Portrayal of Excess
i've Idealism
HIS SECOND WIFE. BY Ernest Poole l2mo
PIP 3O2 The Macmillan Company.

PIP. So2 The Macmillan Company.
Ethel was prig. There is no deny
ing that. She was pretty prig, a
beautiful prig, if you will; she was a
charming, fascinating, most ador-
able prlg; but not even superlative
charm could conceal her essential prig-
gishness. This quality was chiefly, it
her interpretive self analyses, criti-
cisms and what not. Really, at times
we wonder why she did not shake her
self or box her own ears and tell her
self to shut up! 1t would have served
her jolly we'll right! And such was the
degree of her priggishness that, while
we ourselves vastly prefer idealism to
materialism, we must confess to far
greater. love for materialistic Amy, who
was Joe's first wife, than for idealistic
Ethel, his second; and we cannot help
thinking that it was her posthumous
influence which saved the situation and
saved Ethel herself, after all, in spite
of Ethels resentment of it.
But whatever may be the relative
merits of the two, there can be no
question of the merit of Mr.. Poole's
portrayal of them. Never yet has he,
and seldom has any American writer,
done better work. There is not a char
acter in the book that is not instinct
with life, or that does not strongly
appeal to human sympathy. We should
like to have known every one of them,
and we should have liked every one
of them after we had known them.
Though, come to think of it, we do
know them. They all live right here
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Joanna Contra Mundum

JOAN OF ARC BY c. NJ Stevens Illustrated
Large l2mo pp s52. The Cupples & Leon Com
pany.
We are never likely to hear too much
of the Maid of Orleans. The long
annals Of knightly heroism, of .virtuous
womanhood. of religious faith, all three
in one, contain no finer name. 1t was
daring thing to say, yet we shall
not take exception to Andrew Lang's
saying it, that such being as she was
beyond the creative power of Spenser
and the Imaginative genius of Shake
speare. But If history and poetry and
art stand abashed at the futility of
doing full justice to her fame, there
is still no REASON why all who are thus
inclined should not do what they can
to put and to keep her memory in all
possible fulness in the hearts and
minds of all who care for that which
is brave and pure and holy.
The author of this book has done a
worthy and most timely work. No
new light is shed upon the character
or the career of Joan, but there is
welcome and profitable exposition of
two features which are just now of
singular interest. One is the all but
divine heroism with which in the last
event the Maid stood alone with God
against the world, and the other is
the significance of her life to America
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Three Generations in Love

THE aE,.I HApPIEST A.' TIME OF THEIR LIVES. BY
lano pr. 1863. Tho Century Company.
1t isn't often that we have three
generations of lovers all together -
the grandfather, the daughter and her
husband and the granddaughter and
her lover Yet such is the combina-
ton which Mrs. Miller presents to us,
and they are all three so interesting
and charming that we scarcely know
how to form a preference among them
or to which of them to attribute the
circumstances which forms the title of
the book. Who of them are having in
these pages "the happiest time of their
llves?" A good case could be made
out for either of the three generations! !
1t is an exceptionally charming book
that Mrs. Miller has written, with a
somewhat less exaggerated and less
artificial portrayal Of New York So
clety-with a big, big S-than we arc
accustomed to see. Ease and fuency,
together with self-restraint, and above
all naturalness in both words and
actions, characterize every chapter of
the book, together with the unusual
but most pleasing circumstance that
there is no villain in the play, but
that every one of the principal char
acters is pretty thoroughly lovable.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Book News
Authors and Publishers and
Their Doings

j. Hartley Manners's play, "Out
There" which Dodd, Mead & Co. are
publishing this week, is coincident with
it's production for the benefit Of the
Red Cross. This play, with an all-star
cast, was selected from all other plays
of the war, by the Red Cross. to be
used as their official propaganda. the
opening performance being before
President Wilson in Washington, on
Tuesday, May Ia. 1t reached BROOKLYN
and New York this week, and now
makes tour of the principal cities of
the east.
The Macmillan Company have in
press for early publication a new book
by II. G. Wells, entitled, an the Fourth
Year: Anticipation of World Peace"
The first main division of the text is
devoted to consideration of The
League of Free Nations, with such
topics as The Way to Concrete Realiza-
ton. The League Must be Representa-
tive, The Necessary Powers of the
League, The Labor View of Middle
Africa, Getting the League Idea Clear
IN Relation to Imperialism, The War
Aims Of the Western Allies, The Future
of Monarchy and the Plain Necessity
for League. Under Democracy. Mr.
Wells considers The Recent Struggle
For Proportional Representation in
Great Britain and the Study and
Propaganda of Democracy.
"The End of the War;" new book Of
Walter Weyl, has been based upon the
assumption that the Allies can hold
their own and thus exert decisive in
fiuence upon peace and upon the diplo-
macy that leads to peace A few of the
topics the author takes up are: Elusive
Victory, Pacifists and Patriots, Spelling
the Enemy, Is Germany Incorrigible ;
Obstacles to Internationalism, At the
Peace Conference and After the Peace
Conference.
The Macmillan Company are publish
ing on May 81 Lessons in Personal
Efficiency" by Robert Grimshaw. the
subject being based upon how to make
the most of your opportunities and how
to achieve the fullest measure of de-
velopment.
"The Business of Finance ;" by Hart
ley Withers, is published by E. p. Dut-
ton G. Co. The author is an English
authority on financial affairs and has
written Of the principles and problems
of modern finance as they appear under
war conditions.
Della Thompson, editor of american
Motherhood" has written a book in
tended to reach and comfort and to
bring help to the thousands of mothers
whose hearts are worn out with the
struggle between Love Of Son and Love
of Country. The title Of this book is
my Boy in Khaki" and it is to be pub
lished Immediately by Harper & Broth
ers. It is the story Of an American
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
ales Of Mystery
Old and New. Tragic and
Humorous

humorous
Dodd. Mead & Co. have done fine
thing in publishing Great Ghost
Stories" selected by Joseph Lewis
French, containing dozen famous
tales by famous writer's. The first is
Bulwer-Lytton's Incompatible "The
House and the Brain" more commonly
known as "The Haunters and the
Haunted;" the last is Fitz-James
O'Brien's marvellous "What Was It?"
and midway is Theophile Gautier's i'm
mortal "Clarimonde." These are the
greatest three "ghost stories we
may thus call such masterpieces of i'm
aglnatlve genius-ever written in the
world, but the other nine in the book
are not unworthy to bear them COM
pany.
The George H. Doran Company pub
llshes "Ransom!' by Arthur Somers
Roche. mystery story Of a plot to
control the wealth of the world by
other means than those commonly en-
ployed by wizards of finance"
Charles Scribner's Sons publish "The
Greene, a romance of murder and its
penalty, and also of sentiment and love,
all enmeshed and enveloped in fascinat-
ing mystery.
Robert j. Shores publishes "The
Face Of the King" by James Roberts,
the latest of the long and entertaining
series of works by many writer's, be-
ginning with "The Prisoner of Zcnda,"
about imaginary lands in the Balkans
of elsewhere.
George Sully G. Co. publish Chester
K. Steele's "The Diamond Cross Mys-
terry" illustrated; detective story of
an unusual and decidedly interesting
kind.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Stephen Girard
A Founder Of American Com
merce and Finance

-~.v rrrE AND TINES OF STEPHEN GIRARD.
" 1HARiNER AND MERCHANT ny ,,,.sn, John Tssh Bach
sssts Of Pennsylvania With Illustrations In
sor and deqeIetone Roysl Srn 1SS So,r,sns ess;'
The average American knows too
little of the founders of his countrys
nrsstness. Dazzled by the magnitude
= rresent-dav "big business" by fort
s,ss reckoned in hundreds of millions
sns bv public benefactions measured
~ tens CIR scores of millions, he for
rs4s that "brave men were living be-
ksrs Arameuron." The transactions
md md the gifts of an Astor, a Cooper,
Peabody, seem petty to him. Yet
rnder the Rule Of Three their doings
~s+e every whit as noteworthy as
,hose Of the men of our own day, and
\ NAV be that as pioneers and exem-
.,srs Il was they who made these later
possible. In this view Of the case we
ms. thank Professor McMaster and
hs nublishers for singularly well
sone timely and valuable contribution
IN American biographical and histor-
;cal literature.
Welcome. because it serves to cor
rsrt the mistaken estimates to which
we haze referred and to place in his
nroper proportions one of the truly
rreat figures Of our early history.
Stepheu Girard was indeed one of the
most important pioneers in three di-
rections of American achievement--in
shipping, in banking and in public
benefactions He was one of those,
and one of the foremost of those, who
sent the American flag on merchant
Sims to every quarter of the globe,
who made American financial credit
equal to any in the world and who vol
unfairly devoted great wealth to the
cultivation of the higher interests of the
people. Timely, because Stephen Girard
was very deeply concerned in those
commercial vicissitudes of this country
during the Napoleonic wars, which ulti-
mately involved US in a war and which
were so striklngly forerunners of the
events which preceded and partly pro-
yoked our entry into the present war.
and because in that earlier war he
e.;y loans" from failure. Valuable,
it is an important record of a great
is filled with intense interest, ro-
mantle, patriotic and what not.
Professor McMaster had access to
an abundance of material, including
scores of thousands of manuscripts,
and he has utilized it with discretion
as we'll as with diligence. The fluent
and eloquent narrative of the hsto-
rian is thickly interspersed with cita-
tions from Girard's letters and other
documents, making the work almost
photographed in tone and COM
pletely SO in authority. He has thus
produced fascinating story of his
subjects progress from the place of
4 cabin boy on French merchantmen
II that of the foremost merchant,
banker and public benefactor of his
time, and an invaluable contribution
to the history of the United States in
the most romantic, the most heroic
and perhaps the most critical epoch of
its career.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Russia in Revolution
Seen by a Clever American
Newspaper Woman

RUNAWAY RUSSIA. BY Florence Macleod Har
per. Illustrated with photographs. svu. do. IL.
32l. The Century Company.
This book is an account Of the Rus
sian Revolution as seen through the
eyes OF woman, trained newspaper
who went to Russia at
the very beginning of the trouble, See
ing the revolt of the people given over
to exaggerated socialism, rioting, and
the beginning of the Kerensky govern
ment until the end, escaping the Boil
sheviki and the tcrrors of the North
Sea, and finally reaching London Mrs.
Harper does not pretend to determine
the right and wrong of the revolution,
but merely tells the story of the things
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
A Night of Passions

NOCrURNE BY Frank Swnnerton With an in
PRODUCTION by II. G. Wells. 12mo. pp 250 The
Of Mr. Swinnerton's impressiouistic
skill there can be no question. Every
thing in his book is spontaneous, un-
studied, "hot i the mouth" Elemental
passions, scarcely bridled, are vividly
portrayed, sometimes with breath
catching intimacy. But the trouble is
that the impressions Of impressionism
if we may coin the phrase, are superb
ciai rather than radical; they are vivid
rather than enduring. "Nocturne" tells
of one strenuous night; but we cannot
help thinking that its Iongs were all
pretty much forgotten the next night
The book will titillate the emotions
for an hour or two spent in reading it.
but it will not live in memory, because
it contains nobody who is worth being
kept alive
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
Facts and Fiction of Life
Book News and Miscellany

affairs and becomes acquainted with
the girl in his house. Legally he can
nave her put out, but morally he can't;
and besides he becomes very much at
tached to her. She has never seen her
father. but simply knew him as an cx-
plorer in South America. After days
OF anxiety Armitage finds out that his
ex-agent is no other than the father of
the. girl in his house
Mr.. MacGrath has written a story
iull of humor and dramatic situations
that are not overdone, and the reader
is filled with sympathy for the girl of
the. story in her unhappy predicament
and glad that everything ends as it
should end. And, Of course, there is
plenty Of mystery and swift moving
action throughout the book to satisfy
the most critical of readers.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18

she actually saw and experienced. She
entered Russia through Siberia, and on
the way to Petrograd noticed the great
amount of food to be obtained at the
various stations, wondering why the
people should lay in such stock of
provisions as they neared the capital
But after being in the city for a few
days she thoroughly understood the
lavish buying of the Russians, as food
though there was plenty it through
out Russia and Siberia. In the eight
days the author spent in Petrograd
she saw the very heginning of the
revolution, caused by the women be-
cause they were unable to buy bread
even when they had the money to pay
for it, and consequently were beaten
by their husbands for not buying the
bread. The trouble began at the Troit-
masscd together. AS Mrs. Harper
says:
We stood there for half an hour or
more. The crowd kept growing un-
til it numbered about two hundred
people. Suddenly a few of the wom-
en- began to sing, but l could not
quite decide what it was. The sing
ing. grew in volume, and l said:
"ls it? Moves, it is the Mar
seillaise'!"
1t was queer Russian version
that one couldn't quite recognize at
first. The people there were of the
! same classes and were singing it for
the same reason as the French who
first sang it over hundred years
ago. The day of revolt had arrived.
The red flag of revolution was being
raised. Russia was to be watered
with blood. The reign of terror had
begun.
Mrs. Harper had several miraculous
escapes from being shot when follow.
ing the mobs, and the hotel where she
persuasion, she managed to get to the
front with Colonel Hurd, in charge of
the Russian Red Cross Hospital. He1
experiences at the front as a nurse
were far different from tie previous
ones, for, the revolution being declared
all order was abolished, the nurses a:
we'll as the soldiers refusing to ODE,
rules. Mrs. Harper returned from the
front at the time the Root delegation
frank way Of the failure of that com
mission. and why they failed. because
they saw no more of the condition O.
Russia than was intended for them tt
see. The account Of the Provisiona
Government and the spreading of Ger
man propaganda is intensely interest
ing, presenting an. account of state O
affairs which probably has never bee.
quite clear to any one not actually il
Petrograd during the cataclysm affect
ing all Russia. 1t was most fortunate
that the author should have been il
Russia at this time, especially as she il
an American, besides being we'll quail
fed to give a fearless anI unpreiu
diced impression of the general situa
tion. H. A. H.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18
About Men and Affairs
Books of Vital Interest
By Willis Fletcher Johnson

was L'ege that made them possible. It
WAS was Just that first brief hating Of the
hun, measured scarcely by SO much
a. as days. but merely by hours, that gave
time % Tor the swift defensive rally
wn,cn saved France, saved England,
s;.x, Saxso ehe world. SO we welcome this
little volume which refreshes memorv
OF what Liege meant and means, II Is
the diary of an American girl who was
at Liege during the first three months
OF the war, and who tells the story of
ner experiences, observations and re-
hections with noteworthy combina-
tlon OF simple .girlish colloauialisms. Of
realistic and dramatic description and
OF 'dealistic and spiritual vision. Such
BOOK IS splendidly worth while. and
been written. q
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18

"What Never Happened" by crop
shin" (12mo, PIP. 4aS; Alfred A.
Knopf), is romance of the terroristic
side of the Russian Revolution, written
by Boris Savinkoff, who was Kerensky's
Minister of War. which gives a some
what melodramatic but probably pretty
faithful account of actual occurrences
(12mo, pp. 431; Alfred A. Knopf), is
a fine example of South American IT.
erature, translated from the Spanish
by Mrs. Charles Whitman. 1t is So
cial satire on the manners of the new
rich and those who ape them by one
Of the foremost Chilian novelists OF
the last century.
New-York tribune., 1918-05-18

economic and commercial measures
should, and indeed must, be resorted
TO at the end OF this war to forefend us
against another such outbreak. Mr..
Houston, who has been among the
leaders in the practical investigation
and consideration of such proposals,
has written a most thoughtful and
convincing volume, commenting upon
and explaining the recommendations
OF the League to Enforce Peace and
the referenda of the Chamber of Com
merce. 1t will be read with much
profit by all who are interested in
looking beyond the war to the terms
and conditions Of the peace that is to
De and the ways and means of making
it enduring.