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New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
A Great Love Tale
The Fine Art Of the Castles at
Its Finest

eoSr. BY Ass Sv snd Ess c. With
pp S9e. d. Appleton & Co.
jingle about profit and Art" the con-
clusion of which was that "a play may
be rational, cleanly and honest, and yet
you may say. 1T is Art" For "play"
read book" and you have an apt and
true comment upon the superb work
before US. For here we have a love
story that is rational as life itself, as
pure as the prayers of a child, as hon
est as the day; and yet it attains a
perfection of dramatic and narrative
art which its accomplished authors in
their former successful works have
never surpassed, if indeed equalled, and
writers of our time even approximate.
We have called it love tale. 1t is.
1t contains some of the keenest social
analysis and most brilliant satire that
we have seen in many day; touching
pathos, irresistible humor, dramatic
other elements of fascination. But be-
fore and all through and after all clse
it is tho story of pure love between q
man and q woman, who in the end "are
married and live happily ever after"
What? No sex problem? No eternal
triangle? No Illicit commerce. No
musk and patchouli reeking strength"
No, my gaping and incredulous won
derlings, not SO much as suggestion
of any of these things; yet great
passion which makes all the amours Of
your Phrynes seem petty as tho buzz
ing Of gnats, and an art which makes
your brothel romances seem prentice
bungling. A golden year may bring US
other works as great; we expect it to
bring US mono greater than "Minni-
plen
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
One Year of War and Others

OUR FIRST YEAR IN THE GREAT WAR By
Francis vinton Greene. With portrait. 12mo.
PIP. vii. l27. G. p Putnams Sons
The essays on various phases of the
war which Major General Greene has
here compiled are written in the spirit
both of military expert and of a ju-
dicious historian. They deal not so
much with the military operations Of
the war as with tactics, censorship,
transportation, the personal equation
in high places, the prospects of peace
and the reorganization of, affairs after
the war. On all such themes the au-
thor writes with authority and with a
clarity of presentation which will con-
vince most readers and will please all.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
A Romance Of Trade
Learning Business and Making
Good in a Retail Shop

DAWSON BLACK: RETAIL MERCHANT. BY
Harold Whitehead. Illustrated by John Goss-
sYo pp xiii S57. Tho Page Company.
Talking shop" is seldom romantic,
particularly if be a commonplace retail
shop. Yet the man who knows can on
occasion invest even such theme with
fascination; and Mr. Whitehead is a
man who knows. He doubly knows: He
knows all about retail shopkeeping, and
he knows how to construct and to tell
an interesting story.
From either of the two points Of
view thus suggested, then. his book is
to be heartily commended. Simply as a
story, love story, it is more than ordi--
narily interesting, and will be read
with plea.ure by multitudes who
neither know nor care anything about
the conduct of retail shops. The hero
is a real, live man, in his blunders and
folies as we'll as in his achievements,
with a strong appeal to the fellow
feeling of all real, live men. On the
other hand, as keen analysis of busi-
ness methods in retail shopkeeping. the
volume might we'll serve as textbook
in a business college. 1t may, be read
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
Airy Navies'
In War and Peace, But Chiefly
in the Great Wa

Asm nlustr.ted. 12mo. pp. xiii. 2s7 Tho
houghton Mtfhin Company.
ABOVE THE BATTLE. BY CAPTAIN Vivian Dy,k.
12mo pp. 1923. d. Appleton & Co.
KNIGHTS OF THE AIR. BY Lieutenant Bennett
a. tor Moter sc Illustrated l2mo. pp. 24a. D. Apple
WINGED WARFARE. BY Major W. A. Bishop.
Doran Company. -1
AIRCRAFT = RIT1r IN VAR. VAR AND COMMERCE; By ".
George Il. Doran Company.
Captain Hall writes in a chatty and
entertaining but most informing way
about his own actual experiences and
observations in the Lafayette Squad
ron and Lafayette Flying Corps of the
aerial service. There
are no finer chapters in the story of
the war than those which tell of the
daring deeds of young American avia-
tors who served under the French flag
before their government gave them a
| chance to serve under their own, and
Captain Halls contributions thereto
are of admirable quality.
Captain Drake relates some true
stories Of aerial adventure which make
imagination seem dull and tame; and
ne tells them in way which makes
the nerves tingle and the throat choke
and the eyes grow moist and dim. One
In particular, ARTILLERY Controls, .
challenges Kipling himself in graphic
vitality; and IA Night Stunt" is not
far behind it.
Lieutenant Molter tells not so much
Of actual hghtings in the air as of
the way in which men prepare for that
arduous service, how the machines are
| equipped and how the marvellous work
=, is done. Filled with technical infor-
nation, the book is non-technical and
singularly popular and interesting in
style.
Major Bishop gives spirited accounts
of many daring adventures in the war
in observation and in fighting, chiefly
the latter. He seems to have been
possessed of an almost divine rage
against the Huns and an untiring zeal
in destroying them; qualities which
are reflected all through his book and
which fill it with red blood.
Mr.. Berry has written singularly
comprehensive and suggestive book
concerning the use of the aeroplane in
peace as we'll as in war. in which
he discusses not only the effect of the
aeroplane upon the war but also the
influence Of the war upon the aero
plane. To some his visions of the fut-
ure may seem extravagant; but after
what has been realized in this war
| he is rash who considers anything i'm
/ possible
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
Another Anthology
With Some Features Of Unusual
Interest
AMERICAN POETRY. Edited by Percy II. Boyn-
ton Syo pp. xiv. I'll Charles Scrbner's Sons.

AMERICAN ME- s POETRY. Edited by Percy Fl. Boyn-
Among the many collections of Amer
lean poetry this one of Professor
Boynton's deserves high rank for sew
eral reasons. 1t is comprehensive in
scope, from Anne Bradstreet to Rich
ard Hovey and William Vaughn Moody.
1t is generally judicious in it's selec-
tions. 1t contains a numerous group Of
those Civil War poems which are an
important part of American history,
but which are not always easy to find
1t has some excellent critical COM
mcnts. 1t is admirably indexed, by au
thors, by titles, by topics. and by first
lines And it gives as often as posi-
Bile, which is most of the time, the
places and dates of the first publica-
tions of poems.
This last named feature is Of special
and curious interest. We are reminded
by it that Poe's "Annabel Lee" first
appeared in The Tribune in 1849; that
some of Longfellow's and Lowell's best
pieces were in "Putnam's Monthly" and
"The Knickerbocker Magazine e"-period-
icals long since discontinued and al
most forgotten; but, oh, what good
stuff they did contain! Of course,
many fine poems are credited to "The
North American Review" and "The At
lantic Monthly" while others first saw
light in various "annuals" of the
friendships Offering" type, which are
commonly spoken of as banal beyond
terms, yet which are here seen to have
contained much matter of merit.
Some of the poems are in versions
not familiar to most readers, and the
question arises whether they are cor
rect. Note, for example, Joaquin Mil
ler's masterpiece of balladry, exit
Carson's Ride" We really cannot ac-
cept it as an authentic text. 1t is
credited, with query, to "The Oxford
Magazine" but it reads to us like a
garbled abridgement. Certainly we
have for many years been familiar
with another and radically different
version, much longer than this and
with an entirely different ending. In
fact, we must regard this as an
abridged, garbled and emasculated
abortion. which, if he had ever seen it,
would have reused Cincinnatus Heine
Miller to picturesqueness, fuency and
Protean variety of objurgation that
would have merited an anthology all
for itself! No, the thing is a wretched d
blot upon a generally most praise
worthy book, which we must beg Pro-
fessor Boynton to correct in the next
edition,
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
For the Housewife

SAVE 1T FOR WINTER By Frederick Frys
hocK"eli Illustrated emo. pp. 2os The
MARY EILZABETU'S WAR TINE RECIPES Ry
Mary Elizabeth. illustrated. l2mo. ID. l64 Tho
Frederick A. Stokes Company
Mr.. Rockwell tells in an eminently
practical and helpful wav how to grow.
prepare and preserve fruits and vege-
tables for future use-storing, driving.
canning, picking. preserving, etc. 1t IS
book of special timeliness just now.
though its value will be by 10 means
limited TO the period OF wartime con-
servacion.
MARY Elizabeth" gives a big and
varied collection of recipes of all kinds.
from bread and solid meals TO des,
serts, candies and fancy (temperancel
drinks. They are war time recipes. but
most of them will be uncommonly good
at any time.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27


and sorting of the supplies that were
sent to the "A. f. F. w." but she was
also indefatigable in her work in the
hospitals and at the Care du Nord. To
quote her account of her work there
Christmas Day: "We decorated each
door where there is an iron bar with
bunch of mistletoe and French flag.
1t was the prettiest thing you ever
saw, and it made eight hundred men
so happy. and it gave the train such
a festive appearance Mrs. Churchill
describes the adoption of "flleuil"
from the trenches and what it entails,
and her letters on the relief work in
the evacuated districts about Noyon
are particularly interesting and should
prompt all who read this little book
to strain all their nerve and financ,a'
power to give what they possibly can
spare to the carrying out of the won
derful work being done by the
A. F. F. w
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
The Making of an Officer

THE SINGLE STAR. BY Captain r. D. Grierson.
l2mo. pp. 80. Tho George H. Doran Company.
In the form of fiction, which might
the story of an English youth who en-
listed as rookie and rose to receive
a commission. The little book, by an
officer who knows his business, both as
soldier and writer, gives a most life
like account of camp life, and the ev-
eryday work of the soldier who is be-
ing trained for the realities Of war.
1t is doubtless a practical transcript
of the actual history Of innumerable
young men in England and in the
United States as we'll.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
A Call to Patriotism

YOU WHO CAN HELP. By Mary Smith Churchill.
Illustrated from photographs. l2no. pp. 296.
Small Maynard & Co.
This collection of letters of an Amer
lean army officers wife about her
work in Paris is unique in their sim
plicity of purpose, being the personal
letters of Mrs. Churchill TO her family
and lacking in any publicity quality.
Nevertheless, the author has written in
a most interesting and instructive way
O. her connection with the American
Fund for the French Wounded and of
the magnitude of the work these wom-
en- accomplish. Not only did Mrs.
Churchil's work include the packing
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27

lessor Miller seeks to tell briefly but
comprehcnsively of the development OF
social insurance in the United States
and of the changing attitude of the
American mind toward that type OF
legislation. The little volume is itself
full of information and suggestion
while in copious photography it pro
vides the reader with abundant refer
ences for most exhaustive study OF
the subject.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
Conan Doyle, F. V. Greene
War Books and Miscellany

himself therein. Intensely poignant
and s, convincing are his impressions of
the battletields of Flanders and of
France as he saw them; and he has the
gift of making his readers see them
with measure Of his own spiritual
vision.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
Battlefield Impressions

HIGH AFFAIRS. BY John O1enham- l2mo, %.
g. George H. Doran Company
Mr. Oxenham long ago made an as
sured place for himself as one of the
foremost spiritual interpreters Of the
great war, and in this volume of prose
and verse he abundantly maintains
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27

characters Of the book, the father. 1t
is true to life. We have known Just
such fanatics. Yet, we must question
the taste of such an exposition of a
fathers character by son, and also
ton which is shown. "He seemed more
like machine" says the boy of his
father; and it is as such that he
seems to regard him. That is some
times only too true to life. but we
cannot say that it is admirable or that
it adds to the human interest of the
book,
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27

"Militarism and Statetcraft" is Pro
lessor MuHroe Smiths scholarly study
of the conflicts between the military
and civil authorities of Germany in
Bismarck's day and at the present
time. (12mo. 6. 2. Putnam's Sonso
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
. orrying w on t Win
by Montague Glass

In It those two amusing
cronies discuss the present
war. Hooverizing the Over
head, Whether the Kaiser
Ever Had Mother, The
High Cost of Living, Lord
northcliAing versus Colonel
housing-these are a few of
the things they talk about
and they are funnier, clev-
erer, more humorous than
ever.
But they are serious, too
for through the fun, if
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27

you are wise, you viii be
able to see much that is
sound and sensible much
sane comment and whole
hearted patriotism.
1t is just the book for sol
diers and sailors. The bows
will laugh over it-they will
love it-they will ask for
more. So send a copy to that
boy of yours in camp to-day
but don't forget to get a
copy for yourself, too. $3.50
at all bookstores.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
Reincarnation
KARMA. BY Algerncn Blackwcod and Violet
Pearn. l2mo. PIP. 207. E. P. Dutton Co.

KARMA. By Algernon Blackwood and Violet
Pearn. 12mo. pp. 2o7 E. P. Dutton & Co.
The mysticism, the visions of rein
carnaton and the Psychological OBJ.
session which were noted in some of
Mr.. Blackwoods former works are
again exploited in this drama. A
woman is married to one man while
she loves another; and the conse-
quences areas usual. The expiation
of her fault leads the characters of
the play through four incarnations: in
ancient Egypt, classic Greece, medi-
eval Italy and modern England. 1t
is a play to be read rather than acted
but it is easy and interesting reading
Social Insurance !,
SOCIAL INSURANCE IN THE UNITED STA Es.
BY Gurdon Ransom Miller. l6mo. pp. Kill ~l36.
A. c. McClurg & Co.
In his latest addition to the excellent
National Social Science Series" Pro
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27

"Under the German Shells" by EN-
manuel Bourcier, 12mo, Charles Serb
ner's Sons, is an account of the expert
ence of an eminent French man of
letters as master of liaison at the
Marine. in Champagne, and at Verdun;
a work of singular verve and spirit;
vivid and poignant to degree.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
lheBattle of the Somme
Third Volume Of Sir Arthu,
ConanDoyl 8 War History

!IISIURY OF THE GREAT WAR BY Sir Ar
thur Conan Doyle. Vol III: Tho British Cam
psign in France and Flanders. 1916 With maps
DOran Company.
Sir Arthur suffers the frequent fate
of would-be definitive historians of
their own times. His estimates, how
ever intelligent and sincere, are not
always supported by subsequent events
Thus he inclines to the belief-happily
ne does not dogmatically declare-that
the Battle of the Somme was the turn
ing point of the war. "the decisive vic
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
w. ]. Locke, the Castles,-
Other Fiction Writers
BY Willis Fletcher Johnson

with interest and with profit by the
merchant by his clerk andy their
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
Where to Go to Church Tomorrow
PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL
CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE

CATHEDRAL OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE
Amsterdam Avenue and lllth Street.
. =. M-Ihe Holy Communion
Al a. M-Preacher, Bishop Parridge
4P. M-l'reacher. Bishop Partridse
Week day Service daily at 80 A. N
CHURCH OF THE TRANSPORTATION
East 29th st. DR.. UoUGHTON. Rector
eERNlChS: Z. 3. and 10 80 and o'clock
REFORMED
THE MIDDLE COLLEGIATE CHURCH.
20 Ave and 7th s.
Rev. EDGAR FRANKLIN ROMIG. Min,s,or
Rey PRESTON SEARLE. D. D..
will preach at II A. NJ ana p NJ
THE MARBLE COLLEGIATE CHURCH
5ill Ave. and 18th St
>, Rev DAVID JAS. 3JRRELL D. D.. Minister
Rev. David De Forest Burrell. d. D. will nreach
IL M.-"The Work of our Hands
T. M.-"More Stately Mausions.''
THE COLLEGIATE CHURCH OF ST. NICHOLAS
5th Ave and 4Sth St
Rev. MALCOLM JAS. MACLEOD. D. n. Minis,e-
Church closed during the month Of July. w.
TIE WEST END COLLEGIATE CHuRCu
West End Ave aud nth St
Rev. HENRY EVERTSON COBB ID u ,r,,,s.
Rev. THOMAS MCBRIDE NICHOLS wni r,
THE FORT WASHINGTON COIrEcrArr
Fort Washington Ave. and 1Slst St
Rsy. IRVING II. BERG. d D.. Ministc,
viii preach at II A NJ
Sunday School 9 55 A. NJ
All
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
'' Something Else Again YETI:

HATS what Abe himself would saw to Mawruss
about this book-for it's a brandnew Potash
and Perlmuer book-not play or a short story
but for the first me whole big book you can keep
and laugh and give your friends when they need
cheering up.
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
"A Prose Epic of Heroism"
The GLORY OF THE
TRENCHES

BY 1T. CONINGSBY DAWSON. author Of "car-v On -
"out TO "ln,' ETC. Frontspiece. Cloth. S1oo net
:. From beginning to end The Glory Trenches
IS q happy book It Is happy the author
has escaped % a. suffering or even horror but
ment-he has grasped something beyond those things
-Neo York
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27

SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FR1ENDs-Meetinrx
haitian and ITO schermerhorn at. Brooklyn. AZ 81
New-York tribune., 1918-07-27
GLORIOUS NEW BOOKS
Locke at His Best
THE ROUGH ROAD
A Romance of the Great War

ny WILLIAM j. LOCKE. author Red Planet
'The Wonderful Year" "Jafery.' Cloth $50 net
49,, The rough road over which "Dogsie" Trevor trsv-
eieo between the time when his write
a. history OF Wallpapers and his living
IN peacock-blue and ivory and the he
good Somewhere in is the theme Of locke
inspiring
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-09-14
SAND MEN TO FIGHT.
c. D. & P. CLAIM FOR
INCREASED RATES
OTTAWA WILL SEND REPRESEN-
TATlVES TIC HEARING BEFORE
UTILITIES COMMISSION MON.
DAY IN CHICAGO.

Ottawa will send representatives to
Chicago Monday morning to attend
a hearing before the Public Utilities
Commission ol the Chicago, Ottawa
& Peoria Railways petition for IN
creased rates on sand and gravel
The petition, which was filed before
the commission on February % last,
has been in pendency since that time.
Today at Springfield it was an
nounced the formal hearing on the
company's claim would be held at the
commissions headquarters in Chica
go Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
Four important cities tapped by the
c. o. & p. have organized their forces
for formidable fight against the
petition. They are La Sale, Ottawa,
Streator and Joliet.
The Ottawa Business Mems Associa-
ton, the Joliet Association of Com
merce, the Illinois Valley Manufactur.
ing Club of La Sale, and the Strea.
tor Commercial Club have all filed
protest against the proposed rate in
crease
In Ottawa, where the sand bust.
ness is one Of the principle indus.
tries, vital interest Is shown in the
petition. Representative Of the var.
ious pits in and about the city will
send to Chicago to participate in the
fight against the rate asked by the
interurban.
Notification that the meeting would
be held Monday in Chicago came in
the following telegram to the Free
Trader-Journal from its representa-.
tive in Springfield.
Springfield, Sept. 1.-THE Illinois
Public Utilities Commission set for
hearing today, at 10 o'clock Monday
morning, Sept. %, in Chicago, the ap
plication Of the Chicago, ottawa &
Peoria railway company for authority
to increase its rates on sand and gray
el. The petition was filed Feb 20
1918. The increase is opposed by the
Joliet association OF commerce, the
Illinois Valley manufacturers club OF
La Sale, the Ottawa Business Mems
,association the La Sale chamber OF
commerce and the Streator CONNER
| cial association.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-09-14
FIRE MARSHAL JOHN
G. gambler H0NOREO

State Fire Marshal John J. Gambler,
a former we'll known Ottawa man, was
given a peculiar honor at the annual
meeting Of the American Fire Mar
shals' Association, when he was re.
elected secretary Of the association.
This was the first time in the history
Of the organization secretary had
been elected to serve two terms in
that capacity. The association Is
composed of the fire marshals from
the United States, Canada and Mexi.
co.
Mr.. Gambler also read a paper on
Arson" that was one Of the finest
papers ever read before that body,
and since the convention six maya
zines have communicated with Mr.
Gambler trying to obtain that paper
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-09-14
21O SQUARE MILES OF
TERRITORY TAKEN
FROM ENEMY
$4,000 PRISONERS
ALL TOGETHER FRIDAY THE 18TH
AND GEN. PERSHlNG'S BIRTH
ANNIVERSARIES WERE BIG
DAYS FOR AMERICAN BRAVE
WARRIORS.

Paris, September IA (MidnighD -
Seventy villages and $50 square xii.
ometers (2l0 square miles, of terri
tory have been captured by the Amer
leans In their big drive which starte d
on Thursday between the Mouse and
Mosella rivers.
Not only has the St Mihie selient
been wiped out by the Americans but
tured a vast store of materials, includ-
ing an immense number OF machine
guns.
The allies did not attempt frontal
attack against the salient, but struck
a, the TANKS, delivering their main
pressure In an outtlanking movement.
A savage blow was struck against
the German positions lying between
the Mesello river and the Mant Sec,
especially against the high ground in
the Mont Sec districa, which dominat-
es the enemy positions.
Thus far 1890 German prisoners
have been counted, including an en-,
tire division that was bagged in the
st. Mihiel salient The French at one
point captured 1000 prisoners suffer.
ing not a single casualty in the oper-
alton.
The main allied forces is now hold.
Ing the line of Earbsuvlle, Thillot,
Hattonvlle, Xamese, Julny, Thieu
court and Visville 1t is believed
Bomb Railroad functions
Long range American guns are shell
ling important railway functions and
German concentration points far be
hind the enemy's new front
Gen. petain. one Of the French hero
es developed by the war, entered ST
Mihiel with General Pershing soon
after the Germans had left 1t was
found that the Germans had looted
two banks and had forced a contribu
ton OF 100000 francs. All of the
men between the ages l6 years and AZ
were carried off
The crack German Tenth division
on the st. Mihie front had Astro
Hungarian soldiers fighting alongside
OF It, Some of the prisoners taker
were from the Thirty-tifth Austro
Hungarian army.
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-09-14
MRS. LAVINA STEPHENS
PASSES TO REWARD

Mrs. Lavina Stephens, aged A years
wife OF George Stephens died last
evening at 80 o'clock at the family
home, 1869 Illinois avenue, after u
long illness. Mrs Stephens has been
In failing health for sometime and on
Tuesday of last week suffered from
q broken hip which resulted in the
immediate cause of her death.
The decedent was born in Kendall
county--44 years ago, and resided
there until twenty years ago, when
she came to Ottawa to make her home
Her marriage 20 Geo. Stephens took
place April 26th, 1894 in Kendall
county,
During her entire life she has been
an active member OF the Baptist
church.
Surviving she leaves her husband
and one daughter, Violet Eva Steph
ems.