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The Winslow mail., 1918-02-01
Notice to Our Customers.

In conformity to the regula-
tions of the food administrator,
no pork or pork products will be
sold over our counters on Tues
days and Saturdays. Please gov
ern yourself accordingly.
WinsloW Market.
The Winslow mail., 1918-02-01

The patriotic mothers of this
country are willing to give their
sons to fight for their country,
but they are not enthusiastic to
offer them as martyrs to die in
camps from preventable diseases
and gross inattention and incom-
netencv.
The Winslow mail., 1918-02-01
Friday, February l, 1918.
The Secretary of War.

President Wilson has made the
mistake of all politicians when
he injects his personality into
the debate in Congress on the
question of creating a board of
munitions and war council, and
insisting there must be no inter-
ference in the present arrange
ments of leaving all this to the
war department, and Secretary
Baker. The passage of these
important measures is in no wise
reflection on Mr.. Baker, except
insofar as he may have a con-
sciousness of his shortcomings
in the work that has been put
upon him by the entrance of the
United States into the war.
In times of peace the position
of Secretary of War in the Presi-
dents cabinet, is little more than
a social position in the official
family, with most of the work
being done by assistants and
military aids. Mr.. Baker was a
successful attorney in Ohio when
he was called to the portfolio on
the resignation of Mr.. Garrison,
who was not a pacifst in those
days before the November elec-
tions in 1916, when everything
about the administration centered
on the shibboleth to keep us out
of war;" Mr.. Baker was emf
nently qualified by education and
pacific sentiments to fill the posi-
tion Of Secretary when he as
sumed the place, at a time when
the whole country was given to
understand that this country
was not going to engage in war,
and his only duties was to add
lustre to official life in Washing
ton, and be an advisor to the
President. Since that day con-
ditions have changed-we are in
the war to the limit of the ma
tons power, and the war depart
ment is the vital center on which
the success of our arms depend,
and Mr.. Baker finds himself in
efficient and lacking in military
knowledge so essential to put
the fighting forces in a condition
of preparedness. It is conceded
he has done the best he could
with such knowledge as he pos
sesses, but this is not the time to
be training a Secretary of War
as to his duties, and the only
sensible and speedy way out of
the dilemma is to divide the
responsibility by creating a war
council and munitions board.
This will relieve Mr.. Baker of all
the duties with which he is in no
wise familiar or competent to
discharge, and still leave him in
his official position with all it's
social prestige, and as a learned
and polished member of the ad-
ministration family.
In this crisis President Wilson
should be seeking all the assist
ance of men of experience he can
get to help bring this war to a
successful and speedy close, and
it is no time to inject politics
into the game by insisting that
his appointees, however inefi-
cient, must be continued in pow
er and control.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26

a M. MAJ AND A WOMAN. By Dale Dr.nomond
Company 0 u''iSnH' :
Criticism Of this book must be direct
ca not SO much at the book itself as at
us suo-tltic and the inscription on its
JACKET, which seem to Indicate the ~.
thor,s conception Of it's purport. We
life" and "the story of your life and
mlne.N This imputation, with all re-
spect to the author, we denv. II ;s q
S,vory or monster. of lusus nature.
We have no doubt that such jrde scr;b-
aD!e comblnatious OF shrew. fool and
potentlal criminal as the "heroine" OF
TINS book, who tells her shamefullv
Shameless story in the first person, do
now and then exist So do Jszebel and
Goner1l. But we object to their identi-
ncatlon with average womannood,
We have not read of character
more utterly devoid of even the alight.
est claim to human sympathy than
this; and in thai fact lies the weak
ness of the book--apart from certain
crudltles or style which should easily
pc corrected. The mark is overshot. 4
story might have been written on the
same theme. more moderate in tone.
commanding human sympathy and snr,
gestlng reflection upon an :nterestinr
and important problem of domestic and
social life. AS it is, we have simnjv
the portrayal of a freak as rsrc az sb .
is revolving '''~
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Another Book of Snobs
Revealing the Often Suspected
Pathos of Snobbcry

i2mo, Up soS Tho John Lane Company.
One of the supreme masters of Eng
lsh fiction has for all time pictured
and pilloried the snob as n snob in his
most obvious snobbishncss, making
him, as he is, humorous, ridiculous and
offensive. Yet there are other phases,
perhaps there, too. portrayed, but little
noted by the general reader amid the
greater exploitation of the more OBJ
vious. All life is suffused with pathos,
and in the frailtics and foibles Of man
kind that element is intensified. We
shall not say that it reaches its great
est intensity in snobbishness, yet, in
deed. it falls little short of it. for few
things could be more lamentable than
10 aspire to tho best and in the very
act of so doing to fall toward the
worst, which is precisely what the snob
does.
The book before US tells an enter
tanning story of "high" and would be
high society. with much infectious hu-
NOR, brilliant satire and not a few
touches of fine heroism. II is largely
about snobs, and they arc snobbish
snobs. surely enough, at whom we
laugh and whom we must despise. Yet
the writer's deft analysis--we had al
most said issection-reveals to US the
essential pathos of their snobbery and
amply lustities the title. The story in
wolves the war. but it wears an air of
comparative originality by portrayng
society" at the canteen, phase of war
work not so much exploited as most
others. 1t is all very delightful read
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
John Muir in the Northwest

STEEL sG5 TRAILS LIS BY John Muir Illustrated svo.
p2, 3S2 Tho Flouglton MlfiIm Company
rms posthumous book will not dis
a,ppont lovers of John Muirs work. He
draws vivid pictures OF the once So
called New Northwest. The volume in
cludes a thrilling recital of the authors
adventures during a stormy night spent
on the summit of Mount Shasta. His
observations Of the dead towns of
Nevada and of the Indian life of the
regions he visited will live long as per-
1ect specimens Of descriptive writing
One OF the most interesting chantcrs
IS called "Thc Forests of Washington"
and no lover of nature can a!iotu 20
MISS "Nevada Forests Muir wrote
lovingly Of the country he knew so we'll;
ne wrote, too, with the easy pen of a
man who has the descriptive glrt and
VINO writes of scenes which are knit
cloce into the pattern Of his own life.
IN steep Trails" the author has given
US very delightful and very inter
estng book for those who live to read
Of regions which they have traversed
or to which they long to so. either in
person or in fancy.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
A Man in the Wilds

THE PEACE OF ROARING RIVER. By Csory.
v;n Scnalcl illustrated. I2lno 3D. 3l3 Sm,H
Maynard & Co. ' 'Dia4
OF the multitude of romanccs Of the
Canadian wildernesses of the Hudson
Bay region and the great Northwest.
some, perhaps most. seem to be written
FOR the sake of adventure. This was
written for the sake of character. II
does contain some adventure, hut
scarcely more than enough for a short
story. But it contains severs! cbarac-
ters, any one of which is big enough
and fine enough to fill a whole yolum.
by itself. We have seen none finer
than Hugh Ennis. while Stefan and
Papineaus are thoroughly DELIGHTFUL.
The heroine, Madge Nelson. is entjrelv
womanly, in her weaknesses as ven az
in her strength, and even the misruid-
ed and malignant Sophia makes some
appeal to sympathy. There are pas
sages in which the author is proljx
and tries to tell at nterminable length
what his actoHs should themselves sat
forth OF what should be left 70 the
readers imagination. But despite this
fault it is thoroughly enjoyable ro-
nance; absorbingiy interesting in the
reading and inspiring to high thoughts
in pleasant remembrance.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Oldtime Economics

TIE coIcNda IArEh Rs. CAp Ry Amelia Z. Barr WITH
PIP $50. ID. Appleton & Co.
We have had SO many novels deal
ing with present-day economics and
ocio-ndustrial problems that there *
all the charm of novelty, as we'll as
much informative reminder, in onv
whlch tells of such things as they werc
three. generations ago. There have
been few more notable or characteristics
badges of industry than the paper can.
which is still much worn in England.
cHough now seldom in America. and it
was happy thought. OF the veteran ro-
mancer TO make it the token of her
story Of Reform Bill days. The ded;-
cation of the book to Mr.. Gompers was
a fe!icitous thought. and we have no
doubt that he end all labor reformers
viii find not only entertainment and in
terest but practical profit in the pages
which Mrs. Barr has written with much
Of the freshness and spontaneity of
perennial youth, though with the sim
cerity and earnest purpose of maturer r
age.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Another Trollope?
Archibald Marshall and One of
His E.ulogists

RICHARD EAIDocK. Ny Archibald Marshall
l2mo. 20. ilt. Dodd. Mead Il Co.
AHCulBM.n MARSHALL. rs William Lyon
fhcrs lHno. m. u. nodd. Mead Co.
Professor phelps who is ono OF our
sancst and most authoritative critics
OF English literature, has ikcncd Mr.
Marshal to Anthony Trollopc. and in
the httlc volume before us, which is
IN effect critical literary biography
OF the novelist, he observes that it was
IN "Richard Baldock" that he revealed
his power. "Richard Baldock" is in
deed, one of Mr.. Marshall's early
works, having been first published in
England twelve years ago. but not in
America until now. though some Of his
later works have prccened it here. We
may not nunaturally nor uniustly look
to this volume for tho rcscmblanccs to
Irollope which, Professor Phelps has
dscerncd.
We find them They arc clear and
unmistakablo. They are probably un-
conscious; certainly. We should say,
unintcntionai. I rollopc had no caveat
upon his particular realm of fiction
that could prevent another from enter
ing it, without suspicion of imitation
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Rupert Brooke
Revealed in His Intimate Writ
ings in a Memoir by Friend

RtrEnr BROOKE. A Memoir. By Edward
Marsh l2no. pp. la1 'thc Jolr Lano Company.
Rupert Brooke has been counted tho
luckiest of mon, and certainly his
charm, his beauty, his friends and his
heroic death rounded out career and
snatched an hour Of golden glory sell
dom granted to mortals. There have
been few parallels to his flight as a
youthful Apollo across the English
sky.
Yet the inevitable reaction has al
ready set in and the fall promises to
be long. The excess of praise. the OK
travagant alteration which such a wise
master as Henry James and vet
Gran Of literature like George Ed
ward Woodberry laid at his grave
count to-day against Rupert Brooke,
the poet of the fading past, as new
hands pick up his volume and strange
eyes search in vain for the lines that
were to herald second Keats. What
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
a Book With a. Smile

MAKING LIFE WORTH WHILE Ey Dous;as
rs., IaiDahNs. Illustrated. l2mo pp. l57. Brltton
A book that makes or that helps in
any degree to make life worth while
Is itself conspicuously worth while,
and such is this little volume of this
popular comedians. 1t deals with the
everyday philosophy of life. and largely
with the mighty problems which the
spirit of imprognable and triumphant
optimism. But Mr.. Fairbanlss's phil
osophy is not the optimism of the su-
perticial cpicurean, who Is able to laugn
because he ignores the pain beneath
the surface. He takes account of the
deep inner feelings, but despite them
makes JOY triumphant. 1t els indeed
only thus that life is to be made really
worth while. and it is thus that Mr..
Fairbanks gives genuine aid and in
spiration toward that end.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
The Welsher
MIR. PhilIpotts's Powerful Prob
lem Romance
No

THE srlNNERs. Ry Eden Phllpo,ts l2mo
pp. 4'a Tho Macmillan Company.
Mr.. Phillpotts's latest so-callcd in-
dustrial romance might we'll have been
entitled "Thc Wclsher" rather than
"Thc Spinners." 1t is true that it
deals with life amid the industry
named, but that is merely an incidental
circumstance. The problem with which
the book is engaged and for the sake
of which it was written might as we'll
have been worked out in any other in
dustry, or indeed in none at all That.
however, is a minor consideration. A
setting for the grim tragedy was neces-
sary, and it might as we'll be among
any other folk.
The problems the thing, and grim
and tragic thing it is. A man cohabits
with woman and she bears him a son,
all under promise Of marriage. The
man comes into the possession of a
fortune. which opens to him career
Of social distinction and political
power. Then he refuses to fulfil his
promise Of marriage, because the
mother of his sou is not qualified to
adorn his new station in life. though
he tells himself The lie that it is be-
cause Of some philosophic "principles'
which he pretends to cherish, and he
plans to marry another woman. The
son, grown to young manhood. tries to
persuade him to keep his word, and
then failing in that murders HIM and
commits suicide.
The problem is tragic rather than
rrurient, and is developed and brought
tc its appalling climax with sincerity
Of purpose and with dramatic power
which has not been surpassed in any
former novel from Mr.. Phillpotts's pen.
1t will confirm him in the place which
lie has gradually been taking in the
romancers to which Wilkie Collins and
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Duties Of Citizens

TIE EVE OF ELECTION. Facts and Hints .or
Voters ,.sa New voo and old; By John B. Howe.
IT the giving Of the vote to women
has done nothing else-and, OF course,
we are not willing to concede that
statcment-it has stimulated an inter-
est Oh the part Of all sorts of women
and men-in the government of our
country which cannot fail to have a
great influence toward better politics.
or the many books which have been
written to satisfy the feminine desire
to know how things are run. we have
never seen better, clearer, more spe-
ciiic, and yet more simply, untechni-
cally written one, than that by Mr
Howe. He tells us not only Of the ma
chinery Of the government, but, what
is quite as essential, just what lies
back Of it, how the various amend
ments to the Constitution of the United
States came to be made and from what
necessity they arose. We are given a
careful and yet entertaining account
of the rise and fall of the various po-
litical parties, of the growth Of town
and city government, and a clear vision
or the duties of citizenship and how to
exercise them.
Many passages are worthy of quota
tion, but one in the Introduction to the
book is particularly pertinent:
Close observation Of politics for
more than a generation has convinced
the author that the average man has
attached too light an Importance to
his obligation as a voter.
The many failures of our man-made
government make this truism too OBJ
vlous for comment, and the author
goes on to say:
1t seems highly probable that wom-
en- voters will establish higher
the ballot. because it is human nature
to prize the benefit gained by hard
struggle more than the benefit
to be had for the asking.
Of the various responsibilities borne
by good citizens, probably none is
more meagrely appreciated than the
voting franchise. When the
long agitation for the Massachusetts,
ballot was in progress the reform
was seriously opposed, on the ground
that 1t would make voting too diff
lot was held to be the ideal contriv-
ance, because it enabled the voter
to save time by registering his pref
erence for whole batch OF candi-
dates with two strokes of the pen
Gil. Yet the very men who shrank,
or pretended to shrink, from the
thought Of wasting from five to ten
minutes in discriminating between
the names of candidates for impor-
tant public trusts would give
up an hour or two, or more, OF a
busy day to the choice OF an Office
boy from number of applicants
As has been intimated. the
most OF us place too slight an est-
mate upon the ballot. Each
of US is civic conscript in a grand
democratic army an indi
vldual force behind the lines of
American government. The ballot
is the symbol and seal of an
influence which, though puny in the
unit, becomes by multiplication the
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
A "Subjective" War Novel

DREAMER UNDER ARMS. BY F, c. Hurre,l.
l2mo. Up, 800 h P. Dutton 6 Co.
a war novel that is different" is
indeed novel. We have had SO many,
had seemed as though every phase had
been touched upon. But in this ono
there is something which we have not
seen before, and it is something that is
emlnently we'll worth while. 1t is
novel of introspection, subjective of its
nero. 1t deals chiefly NOT with what he
with what the war means to his inner
man. He is a dreamer, who has lived
among dreamers and di1ettanti and ar
t'icial egotists, and who goes out from
among them to be q man in the ranks
and IN the trenches. AS a psycholog-
zeal study it is intensely interesting.
as much so as IN its narrative ana
dramatic aspects. whicl, are execution
ally fine. va
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26

or poaching. And indeed if we were
to attempt any detailed comparison of
them, it would not be altogether if at
all to the elder novclist's advantage.
For Mr. Marshall is all the master Of
English country life that Trolope was,
and-if the expression be permissible
he makes that lie moro Efelike. If
we would not say that Trollope was at
times tedious, at any rate Mr.. Marshall
is further and more securely removed
from tediousness He is more vital,
more vlvacious. Yet he has all the
and of that rich finish Of scene which
is so precious a quality Of Trollope.
1t is good thing to have his works
reprinted in this country, so that
American readers may the more readily
become acquainted with one of the
real masters of English fiction; and it
IS good thing TO have Professor
phelps's fine monograph accompany
them, as q guide to and commentator
upon them. wa
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Grinm~Rackhan
A Glorious Edition Of Little
Brother and Little Sister

LITTLE BROTHEn AND LITTLE SISTER. AND
"rhEE lAI,ES by the Brothers Grimm Illus
Dodd, Mead & Co. '''
The Grimms are immortal. and Rack
ham is inimtable; and in this glor-
GUS volume they and he are at their
Dest-and so are the publishers. The
forty stories arc the very choicest Of
the Grimms' productions, admirably
translated and adarted, and the dozen
cnlofed plates and numerous black and
Whlto text pictures are at least equal
to the beat that Mr.. Rackham has ever
ocn6, which means that there is moth
ing better of the kind in the world
me artists. entry into the very heart
o. heafsS OF the spirit of the authors
is marvellous above all praise. In pancr
and print the publishers have given US
work Of which the American book
trade may vel! be proud.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Barnegat Smugelers

SEA KING OF BARNEGAT BY Russell d.
Smith limo. PIP 2ei. Dufrcld & Co.
Mr.. Smith has written a readable
romance of smuggling by fishermen at
barnegat, practice which undoubtedly
has existed, perhaps in very much the
fashion which he portrays. The book
is full of strenuous adventure and
the salt breath OF storms at sea. Its
description of local topography is suf-
hciently accurate, the knowledge dis
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26

majestic fabric Of the Republics au-
thority and power. 1t is m influence
which the voter should keep
under his or her own jealous and
conscientious control.
The women, coming newly to mat
ters Of government. have this vision
1t is to be hoped that they will guard
it jealousy, and perhaps pass it on to
those of the NAL. population who in
the past failed of their trust.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Interesting Personalities
Book News and MISCELLANY

fcctation is a strong, and undeservcl
word. Was it rather a case of con-
iiicting impulses. a Pagan spirit locked
in an English body and English tradi-
tions and English habits? IF so, the
hngllshman finally conquered, in the
heat of war, and under that true and
natural inspiration he wrote his great
est poetry. ny This theory he was but
finding himself in those last months
ana might, indeed, had he lived, have
grown into that great poet which his
admlr1ng friends saw promised on his
cleaning face. G. =.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Prurient Psychology

GODS COUNTERPOINT Ry 7. d Rsr-s,o,d
l2mo. pp. Ssi. The George II. Doran Company.
a long. tedious, morbid, unpleasantly
suggestive story of Freudan dreams
and Kraft-Ebling pathology. Why it
should have been written and why 1t
should be read are alike fncomprehen-
Sible
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26

'Ii-hI' - ,1 ~ C4na IIouIss butnA4m
Illustrated. Emo pD. c4. Houghtcn Mifrjn
Company. ~
Romance is not alone for adolescence
In this exquisitely sympathetic tale il
is seen to belong TO the mother as
we'll as to the son or even TO the grand
children. 1t IS tale Of domesticity.
involving one of the commonest and
most difficult problems Of family lie
and instinct with those passions. emo,
tons, motives, which pertain to the
true and ophisticated human heart
There is not a character in il that is
void OF strong appeal to interest. nor a
situation Or Incident that does not
seem quite true to life. There is sor-
row and there is tragedy, but there is
also a wealth of simple happiness. Of
loyal love, and in the end of sweet and
satisfying psace
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Phinpotts's Tragic Romance
Other Noteworthy Fiction
BY Willis Fletcher Johnson

played of nautical affairs is adequate
ana the dialect of'thc fishermen and
Others is as true to life as in the
average story. In addition to the
daring adventures of the seamcn.
peasant strain OF sentiment and loyal
love runs through the book.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26

Charles Roadc. in some Of their works
and Thomas Hardy bclong and his
place in that line may prove to be by
no means the least significant.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
Romance of Maturity

HEARTS HAVEN. By Clara Louise Burnh4m
Illustrated. l2mo. pD c42. Houghton Mifrin
Company.
New-York tribune., 1918-10-26
"A emale Monstrositv

a Ma. AiAN AND A WOMAN. BY Dale Drummona
Illustrated. limo. pD. AGO. Brltton rubishinc
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1918-05-15
IL SPLENDID ionic q
SAYS H;zson Lady VIM, On Dos
sss's Advice, Took Cardai
knd Is Now W III.

tgi1son, Tenu.-"About 10 years ego
yas. :" says Mrs. J. B. Gadd, OF
this place. 81 suffered wi h a pain in
ny left side, could not sleep at hight
With this pain, always in the left
eida...
nv doctor told me to SO Cardul l
took one bottle, which helped me and
after nv baby came. l vas stronger
and better, but the Pr in was stl'
there.
I at first let It go, but began to get
weak and in a ruD-dov n CONDITION.
SO | decided to try some more Cardu.'
which I did.
This last Cardui which took mace
ne much better, in fact, cured mo. IL
has been a number CT .Tears, still !
have no return of this trouble.
feel T. was Ca .dui that cured ne,
and 7 recommend Il as 2 s2lendid fs'
male tonic"
Don't allow yourself to becoEs
weak and run.do wn from womanlJ
troubles. Take Cal dui. It should SURF
" help you, as it has SO many, thoi.
sands of other, wo men in. the past 40
-eurs.. Eeadache, backac5e, stdesche
ae1Tousness, slice plessncss. Hra5-ou,
Feeling. are all signs of wooanly ypt
hIa. other women get rss,ieg bg taking
Gngsal. Whz 8s4 sas2 Sc Srisgists
's'zss NCU2s