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The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-26
Help for Those Who Have Stomach
Trouble.

After doctoring for about twelve
years for q bad stomach trouble, and
spending nearly five hundred dollars for
medicine and doctors fees, I purchased
my wife one box Of Chamberlain 8 Tab
lets, which did her so much good that
she continued to use them and they
have done her more good than all of
the medicine I bought before.-Samuel
Boyer, Folsom, Iowa.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-26
FIFTY THOUSAND NEGROES
CALLED.

Washingtn, d. c., July 23.-Fifty
thousand Negro registrants qualified
for general military service were called
to the eolors today by Provost Marshal
General Crowder. They win entrain
between August l and 5, and will
come from forty-one states and the
District Of Columbia.
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-26
Jewish Armies conseripted

On the approach of IN enemy the
Jewish army was recruited by con-
scription made from the tribes under
the direction Of mustcrmaster, By
whom also the officers were appointed.
The army was divided into thousands
and hundreds under their respective
captains plumbers 81; 20 III; Numbers
2:A; IL Chronicles 2j:5: 20 :J2).
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-26
Where the Real DANCER lies.

A Boston physician has sounded the
warning that there is more or less dan
ger in wearing clothes. There may be,
but the most danger lies In the path
Of man who attempts to trip mer.
rily through this life clad in filtered
sunshine and q two days growth Of
viii skers '0~ "Ss' sg'-
The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-07-26
GEORGE KING BECOMES MEMBER
OF FACULTY OF THE PINEY
WOODS COUNTRY LIFE
SCHOOL,

The third son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter
King Of Burlington, Iowa, who recently
graduated with honors from the Burling-
ton, Iowa, High school is now in Mis-
sissippi. Principal Laurence G. Jones,
who has been on the lookout for pri-
vate secretary, became very much in
tcrcsted III this progressive young man.,
New-York tribune., 1918-10-19
On the High Trail
Deeds Of an American Aviator
of the Lafayette Squadron
co, GET EN-, BY William A. Welman. II
lustraied. l"mo. pp xiv 254. rlo Pag

co. GET EN-, By William A; wellmsn. II
lustraied Emo. pp. xiv. 2a rllo Page
Company.
We have had many thrilling and in
forming books about the exploits Of
airmen in the war, of Guynemcr and
Richthofen and other "aces," but We
are not sure that any of them out
ranks this wonderful volume in inter-
est, while we arc quite sure that none
surpasses it in literary charm. Mr.
Weiman spent year in the service,
ranking as marechal dcs 1ogis in the
Lafayette Flying Corps. He vas, we
understand. the only American flying
over Pershing's Rainbow Division in
its first big attack upon tho Huns,
and there he did valiant service as
commander of the lowest division Of
French flying planes. He was en-
gagged in many conflicts, defensive and
alrpancs and thus won the Croix de
Guerre, and was finally shot down
from height os $500 metres, receiv-
ing wounds which caused his honor
able discharge.
Obviously, such a career gave ma
terlal for noteworthy book. and he
has utilized it with brilliancy and
power. Note his account of the su-
preme service already referred to:
We all knew that the day was an
preaching but not that it was at
hand, until a quarter of an hour be-
fore the time when we were to 20
up TOR our afternoon police work,
At 3:45 Captain Azire came up to
mo and said: "Wcllman,
at ! o'clock there is to be an attack
on the German lines, and the Amer
can troops are going to take part.
You arc to fly IS leader OF the low
est patrol at 1000 metres. am
giving you eight other machines,
anu your own second patrol will be
just above you. These arc
your orders: Under no conditions
Will You allow An enemy's machine
TO fly over the French and American
lines! If they attack, and your ma
chine gun jams, ram your opponentl
You VIII start in five minutes.''
saiuted and he turned quickly away
In five minutes. then, he was lead.
ing his squadron through the skies:
High above the sky was the cloud
less pale blue of earlv snrincNai-
most the color Of the uniform
wore. In its mystical TRANSPARENCY
1t faded away into an infinite which
made tbs little things Of cloth, wood
ana wire seem puny, insignificant
rtheless, the void above nv hid
was no" almost back with them, fly
ing in files and circing like focks
of migratory birds, eight q thousand
metres over NE. eight more another
thousand up, and so, IN and up, until
! could see the topmost group near
ly three miles in altitude, mere black
specks against the blue.
He begine the book with the opinion
That peace without victory or any
peace. short of a complete and crush
ing victory for America and her allies.
would spell world catastrophe" and
he ends it with Owe need, not hun
dreds, nor thousands, but tens Of thou
sands Of airplanes, trained aviators
and mechanicians at the front, and
need them there Immediately. Wake
up America. and stretch your. wings.
the wings Of Victory!"
New-York tribune., 1918-10-19
Beasts Almost Human
Their Camouflage.7 Their Indus
try and Their Habits

THE HUMAN SIDE OF ANIMALS. By, Royal
Dixon. With two illustrations IN color and 80 IN
black and white. SVo. pp. AL. 25". Frederick
A. Stokes Co.
1t is always possible TO exaggeratc
the doings OF animals, as, for example,
the sayings Of parrots. Yet there is
no question that some Of them in their
ingenuity and their almost human in
telligence and more than human in
stinct, defy exagge ration. M-. Dixon
has treated this fascinating subject
with more than ordinary discretion and
is not likely to be denounced as a
nature faker. He has observed much
of the ways Of animals and has learned
much from others, and the great mass
OF interesting matter thus obtained he
has moulded into fascinating form.
There s, perhaps, some incongruity
in speaking of the tricks and manners
of beasts as their human side, because
they very largely arc quite different
from anything that human beings do.
Of course some Of them immeasur-
ably surpass the utmost skill of man,
We can never hope to rival wild
creatures III their ecnseg OF sight,
smell, hearing and touch, or in what
We may call the sense OF direction and
locality. So their instinct seems to us
tc be something apart from the in
telligence Of man. in some respects
surprising it and in others falling
hopelessly below it, And this view is
confirmed by perusal of Mr.. Dixon's
most entertaining book.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-19
"Sancta Simplicitas.'
A Thing of Beauty and Il Joy
Forever

SIMPLE SOULS. BY John Hastings Tur-
ner. fcmo, pp. 313. Charles Scrtoner'. {.
Sons.
This book might be Disposed of very
briefy--in "a single phrase. On the
other hand. columns might be written
about It. There is scarcely q thing in
It that is not practically impossible
whimsically, Enthusiastically, absurdly i'm
notwithstanding to the utilitarian
wisdom of this world. There is not a
thing in it that IS not delightful, de-
licious and indescribably precious.
Not in many 8 year have VIC read q
romance so flled OF every page with
irresistible humor, with illuminating
philosophy, with human nature wear
ing motley, yet as starkly revealed as
Adam in Eden. There is not an en-
sirely rational person in it, and yet
there Is. not one who is not true to life.
1t is al extravaganza, tour de
force, about duke and shop girl
and other interesting personagcs in
Belgravia and in Bermondsev. con
ceived in genius and brought forth
With technical skill which makes US
gasp with Wondernent and render de-
vout thanksgivings that this marvel
New-York tribune., 1918-10-19
Notes Chiefly Personal
About Interesting Doings in the
World of Letters

L. Phillips Oppenheim is engaged in
special war work for the Allies. He
mas written more than sixty novels.
Philip Goodman will publish "Songs
Of Of, the World War;" by Edward S. Van
James W. Foley, newspaper man, is
about to publish Friendly Rhymes"
through E. P. Dutton & Co.
Rudyard Kipling's "The Eyes of
ASIA will be published this month by
doubleday, Page e. CO.
VIII n. Harbens new novel. uThe
Hills of Refuge" is issuing from the
press of Harper & Bros
Tommy kehoe. author Of "The Fight
ing Mascot" (Dodd, Mead d. Cos. and
.he Youngest boy in the British army,
mas been making Liberty Loan speeches
IN large private schools i'll this city.
president. G. Stanley Hall of Clark
University has written an introduction
TO-, 70 Mrs; Alice Minnie Hertz Heniger's
The Kingdom Of the Child" which e.
r. Dutton & CO. are publishing.
Eugene dc Scheckling, whose "Recol-
!!ections Of Russian Diplomat" is to
be published by the Macmillan Com
pany next week, was for many wears in
the diplomatic service at Petrograd and
Tor some time secretary of the Russian
Embassy at Berlin.
"The First Time After" a chanter of
Dorothy Cantield's Home Fires in
France" (Henry Holt & Co.., has been
translated into French and put into a
volume OF selections of modern prose.
to be used in French government high
schools.
Professor Whitehead, author of
Dawson Black: Retail Merchant" pub
lished by the Page Company, tells an
interesting story of his start in the
business world. He was born in Bir-
mingham. England, and die not leave
his native town until he read a small
advertisement calling for d clerk in a
nardware store in another part of Eng
land. When he arrived there he found
large number Of applicants had lined
up. lhey were turned down in order
and when his turn came he found that
ne had lost lot Of his confidence.
however, he answered the proprietors
questions as best he could, and felt
that he was making a good impression
until ne was asked: "At what hotel did
you register" He thought fast and re-
membered that almost every English
town. boasts King George Hotel, SO
George, sir sGood." repied M d's the Ans eng
ployer, call the leading statesmen stop
at that hotel. You can have the lob
and start right away" His mistakes
and struggles in this small store added
to experience gained in later years.
which fitted him for his position as
professor OF business administration at
Boston University, furnish much of
the material for his new book.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-19
Brave Boys at Sea

SKIPPER IoHN or TIE N1MBUS By Raymond
Mcfarland. With rrontispiece in color by Anton
QUO Fischer. l2rno, pp. @o4 Tho Macnnill al
Company.
You may regard this book from any
Of three points of view. 1t is tale Of
adventure on sea and shore, chiefly on
sea. 1t is picture of life, character r
and conduct among Down East" fish.
ermen. 1t is study of an individual
character Of singlar strength of soul,
mind and body, all three. From any
OF these three points OF view it is a
composition of exceptional merit. II
we were inclined to draw comparisons,
we might say that it is to be bracketed d
along with Kipling's "Captains Cour-
ageous." Certainly not since that
memorable volume have we met with a
Down East" fishing story that more
favorably impressed US than this. There
is not false note in it, nor an uncer-
tain bit of drawing. 1t is in sense a
boys book, since it begins with the
boyhood of its hero and of the narrator
and extends only so far as their early
manhood. But it will be as interesting
TO men and women as to readers in
their teens
New-York tribune., 1918-10-19
Life's Comedy Enacted in
Fiction Of Fine Quality
BY Willis Fletcher Johnson

has happened in our day. Open Il
anywhere, at random:
AT ten-thirty this morning left
Henry overfeedng lizard; at
eleven-twenty-iive he introduced u
girl to me as the futur ire Duchess of
Wynninghame. The girl re-
marked that she would look a-er
hell of guy as Duchess, and
announced it as her intention to
lavish her affection upon Henry
until the cows come home. Their
they went away together to cine
matograph performance"
Or try it again, somewhere else:
Again. according to her quaint
habit. she sent mad little prayer
flying up to God. 20 Cod" she
breathed, swatch over me at dinner,
and see I do the right thing with
the knives and forks and things"
Only the very best of US can make
q request like that and know that
they will not laugh in heaven.
What are you going to do with q
book like that? What did Keats dc
when he read Chapman's Homer
Well, read it, and read it again, and
keep it carefully for many future re,
readings; and, please, be just little
grateful to the present reviewer fol
directing your attention to one of the
authentic masterpieces Of this years
Srtiou
New-York tribune., 1918-10-19
Book News and Notes
Concerning New Books and New
Editions =

"Why We Went to War; by Chris
tian Gauss, which is to be published
shortly by the Scribners, gives a de-
tailed history Of the beginning of the
world war, based on an examination of
the latest evidence, such as the writ
ings Of Muhlon and Lichnowsky. Be-
ginning with the fundamental antago-
nism" between German and American
thought, Professor Gauss goes on to
all those developments in the course
Of the war which eliminated in our
participation. An appendix contains
all of the documents Of the world war
necessary to complete understanding
Of it.
The Society for Promoting Christian
knowledge, Of London, has made ar
rangements by which the more i'm
portant of its recent books may be OBJ
trained through the Macmillan Com
pany. The society occupies a foremost
position among Theological publishers
in England, and its works are certain
to find many interested readers here.
Among some of the important issues
which are now obtainable here MAY be
mentioned particularly "Christus Con
solator" and Christ and Sorrow" bv
II. c. G. Moule, D. D., Bishop of Dur
ham, and "God and the World" and
Christ and the Church." by Arthur
". Robinson.
The John Lane compsny is issuing
Best in Life," Stephen Leacock's "sun-
shine. Sketches" W. J. Dawson's "The
War Eagle" and Lawrence J. Burpee's
Among the Canadian Alps"
A book that will help young folk to
,t,,t ,,;,x L.
the way from ancient Egypt to colonial
pennsylvania, is Anna Curtis Chand-
ler's Magic Pictures of Long Ago"
illustrated from the treasures of the
metropolitan Museum of New York
and other great collections as we'll as
with photographs Of some Of the
scenes or buildings that figure in these
clear, straightforward tales, that have
held groups OF hundreds Of children
spellbound when their author told
them at the Metropolitan Museum. A
side issue, perhaps not thought of bv
the author, is that its young readers
may find this book of great use in
helping them make costumes and some
times scenery, too, for the tableaux
and playlets so dear to youngsters.
The book is published by Henry Holt
& Co.
Laurence La Tourette briggs has
written in Heroes Of Aviation,n an
nounced for early publication By Little,
Brown & Co., the thrilling stories of
the careers Of the most famous Allied
aviators, together with chapters deal
ing with the rapid development Of
aerial warfare. More absorbing than
Jules Verne or any other imaginative
writer could have produced are the
vivid accounts Of the battles in the air
OF world renowned fiers. The com
piete story OF the American Laiayette
.Escadrille. which included Kiffin Rock
we'll, Norman Prince, James McCou-
nell Victor Chapman, Bert Hall, Cap
tain William Thaw and Major Lufbery.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-19
Patty Gets Married
But We May Hope That is Not
the End of the Story.

y
P4rrT- -BETpE Ey Csrol7n ws,. n;u.tra:sa t,
!. CO. 'A'"'''' LIMO ~ GUS poad' Aeaa
Somebody told US the other day tllst
Miss Wells, alias b1rs. Eoughton. had
written hundred books That must
mean about five a year since she got
out of kindergarten. And the beauty
of it is that after all that writing she
IS just as young as when she started.
We mean, of course, in the spirit OF
her books. 1t would he impertinent to
mention age in any other sense. In the
course Of this century OF books she has
written in many different veins, but the
invariable and universal charm, which
was in every one and yet was not alike
III any two, was and Is the spontaneous.
buoyant spirit of youth. DO YOU re-
member her Lincoln Dodd. who spelled
his name DO double d. with the final d
silent? He was-well, several years
ago. But his spirit is right here, in
Llttle Billec; and will be in some body
in every book she ever writes. And
If there were anything in the world
more beautiful and more precious than
the spirit of youth, we should thank
you for its name.
We have known Patty for some time.
For this is the sixteenth volume of
her chronicles. Think OF it! Sixteen
Patty books; each more winsome and
delightful than any other! And now she
is actually. married. Sometimes that
ends the romance, but we have what
the non-literary call a "hunch" that
it won't do SO in the case of Patty Fair
field Farnsworth. OF course, there's
that old saying about
Change the nanle and not IN, letter
cAaliso fot the worse snd not fer the better
But that's fool saying; where one
Of Carolyn Wells's heroines is con-
cerned
New-York tribune., 1918-10-19
Western Realism
Ny ANToNLA- BY Villa s. Gather. '
zla. Houghtcn AItflin Companv

ai AHIONLi BY Villa S. Gather lcmo nm
az Houshtcn Mtfrlin Company.
through the last few years we have
oeen treated to "realism" in its manv
forms, most of them brutal and gcn.
orally prurient The author of this III
Tie book gives us a new form OF the
ieallstlc art 1t is almost Russian in
Its simplicity, without the pathological
aspect which to some minds all foo
frequently dstorts the pages of the
Russian novelists. "Iy Antonia" ia 4
story Of the great Middle Western
prairies. The life Of the settlers ana
OF the Immigrants is given with that
fascinating verisimiltude which can
be gained only by s hand knowl-
edge of the facts and localities Witch
me IN, author weaves into the story.
= mere l, IS a story, and yet the publishers
OF OF TINS charming tale have stretched
:he truth when they call it fiction. It
Is section OF life, lifted from life and
"lulou' any ianciful dressing or apollo
g'es put between the covers Of book.
Ahtohla'S lite Is not romantic; it is
no more we'll rounded OF plotted than
yours or mine; perhaps not so we'll.
because her outlook was pitifully linn
lted. !he ending is wofully common
place, just as life is commonplace, and
yet her story and that of her family is
always interesting, for it is true. One
obtains from it real understanding
OK what this country means to the
s4lien who comes here with trust and
rope, seeking the good living denied
nm AT home. There is no propaganda
III ehe book and no prejudice.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-19

that formative period which is OF all
most interesting and most Significant
The compleNity of the theme is be-
wildering. There must be ingenious
plot and fluent, entertaining narrative.
There must be characteristic coliouuy
iilumlned with wit and humor. There
must be individual and collective de-
hneatlon of character and psychologi-
cal analysis. There must be sociology,
economies, politics, sentiment. We do
not say THAI every novel of American
llfe must contain all these clements;
put 1t is certain that the measure of
its greatness is determined by the ex-
tent and copiousneSs Of its comprehen-
sion of them.
Now every one of the elements which
we have indicated is unobtrusiyelv
conspicuous - to employ a logical
paradox - in " The Magnificent Am
PERSONS That is to say, we are CRATE
fully aware of their presence, yet
are not made to feel that any one of
I them is injected just for the sake of
exploiting it, or that any one over
shadows any other. They are all there
IN perfect harmony, because they be-
long there; like the clothes on q we'll
dressed man, or the furniture and pict-
ures III we'll furnished room. Nc
one is conspicuous above the others,
yet the absence of any one would leave
perceptlble void, and every one seems
to be inseparably joined to every other
one and thus to form congruous and
Integral part Of perfect whole. The
ffldellty of the scenes, the vitality of
the action, the logical conference of
all the parts and details are above
praise; and the reader reaches the
closing lines with the grateful impres
SION that both for realism and for
romance, for q Photographic transcrip.
OF actual life and for an unfettere,
flght of imaginative fancy, this is one
literature
New-York tribune., 1918-10-19
Harrington S Best
Also One of the Best by Any
Contemporary Novelist

THE MAGNIFICENT AAfBERsONs BY. Booth
Harrington. Nlustratsd by Arthur William
Brown. lsmo. pp, SIC. Doubleday. Page Co
If we say, as we unhesitatingly do,
that this is the best work that Mr.
Harrington has yet done, We do not
mean that its literary craftsmanship is
superior to that displayed in other
volumes from his pen. Beaucaire."
"Penrod," Seventeen" and others were
perhaps as perfect in conception and
elaboration. in style and finish. But
he has here essayed to treat much
more important theme than in any Of
those; and among books equally we'll
written, that which is OH the greatest
subject is tie greatest.
In fact. Mr.. Harrington has in this
work selected perhaps the greatest of
all themes TO which an American novel
list can address himself. That is, the
intimate life of the American people;
not the selected few Of the fashionable
world, or of the slums, but the widely
typical, average American people, in
the typical, average community, and i'll
New-York tribune., 1918-10-19
Connie Morgan Aeain.

CONNIE MORGAN WITH THE MOUNTED. By
James E. Hendr51. illustrated. 12ino pp. 2es
&. P. Putnams Sons
We have known Connie Morgan be-
fore, and we shall be glad to know him
again, through Mr.. Hendryx's recital.
For he is a clean. brave lad, and his
adventures have the true ring Some
of them are extraordinary, but they are
not extravagant, and they are always
intensely human, which means inter
esting and thrilling. This author knows
great lone lands of the Far Northwest
as few writers of the day know it, and
ne has the gift of making his readers
know it, not as something looked on
from afar, but as land In which they
live and move and have their being,
at grips with the characters Of his vivid
tales. Young and old, all who love ad-
venture in person or by uroxy, and all
who love brave manhood, must thor
oughly enjoy this book.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-19
Boys and Dogs

illustrated. lsrno. ID. so7. Henry Holt & Co.
This is book about boys, and about
dogs, for boys and also for their
elders. Under the guise of fiction il
is really an elaborate treatise on dogs
their different breeds and their char
acteristics. Every lover Of dogs will
find in it a. vast deal Of useful and
practical information. while every boy
who reads it will or should be inspired
with better appreciation of his four
footed friends and with more hu-
mane regard for them. A brief index
gives the reader ready reference to
the more instructive passages of the
book, and there is compendious cata-
logue of the various breeds Of dogs
and their characters.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-19
Henry Adams
A Psychological and Intellectual
Autobiography

THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS. An Au-
tobiography. Ato. pp. ytn. 0ls. The Houghton
Mifhin Company.
American and English literature has
during the last year or two been en-
riched with number of exceptionally
interesting and important biographies
and autobiographies. There have also
been published some Notable works OF
fiction stimulating biography and deal,
development of their chief characters.
deemed guilty of unfair or invidous
discrimination if we hail the present
stately and impressive volume AS sec
ond to no other in all the goodly CON-
pany. if not, indeed, ranking p,-in,Ms
inter pnres. There arc others equally
important from tho historical point Of
New-York tribune., 1918-10-19
A Beautiful Blue Bird"

THE BLUE BIRD. A FAIRY Play. By Alauree
Maetsflinck; 49,, Translated by -ilesandgr feixeira
de Mates. With twenty-tour illustrations Syc
pp. 2ll. Dodd, Mead d Co.
Here is an suspicious member Of the
advance guard of holiday gift book
ano something more - gift books and
standard classics ir enc. The munif-
cenco OF the publishers has given Mae
terlinck's exquisite fairy play sump-
tuous setting of paper and type and
two dozen admirable Photographic
an edition which might we'll be regard
cd as "defnitve' Nobody could wish
finer.