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By BARRETT H. CLARK.
{IIHETHER it is after all possible

w for the Angio-SaxOn 10 unuei-
stand the Latin or whether it is even
worth while trying to bridge the temper
amental gap separating the two races are
questions that will long remain open to
discussion. shall not, therefore, attempt
to determine how far Mr.. Beyer's expert
ment should succeed, stating merely few
facts, significant facts, in connection with
his new Library Of French Fiction.
The first Of these facts is the editors
statement on the purpose and scope Of the
series:
1--WE in America are only just beginning
to learn and to appreciate the spirit and
the character of the real France. But
this world war has not essentially changed
the character of that great people; 1t has
merely brought to the fore few OF the
perennial qualities of a noble nation I'M
deservedly condemned by the minimizing
elements of the world. The
French fiction known to the general public
in America hitherto has been limited and
in the case of contemporary fiction rather
misrepresentative. On the other hand
the scope of the present series, The Ii
brary of French Fiction, is extremely
broad, including books treating OF the life
of the various provinces as well as OF the
life of Paris, books in which all types of
men and women peculiar to France and
in which her manifold social life and man
ners are depicted in a mastery fashion"
The first two novels of the series,
Jacquou the Rebel, by Eugene LIE Roy,
and Mono: Lose and the Sol, by CASTOR
Roupnel, are admirably suited to the edi-
tors purpose. But more important than
Mr.. Beyer's idea in bringing representa-
tive French novels to the notice of the
readers of English is the fact that We are
presented to two novelists of uneontested
power. The power Of these widely diver
gent artists is manifest at a glance; but
in spite of the brutality which is in large
measure the subject matter of both stories
there is everywhere present a pervasiye
charm, robustious well being, that is
born of the soil. Jacqaox the Rebel and
Mono are both epies of the soil; they are
written by men who loved the soil about
other men who loved it; the eontamina-
ton of Paris is far from the thoughts OF
these struggling peasants; it is almost as
if we were reading of a France in which
there was nc Paris at all.
JGcquou the Rebel, the scene of which
passes in the countryside about Perigord,
takes US back to the days of 1880, when
robber mobiles still exerted their pre-revo-
lutionary power over oppressed peasants.
The tale is extremely simple, naive,
homely, and takes one back to the French
country at Balzae's Scenes de Ia rte prov
inee. Technically, Jacqaoa is one of those
leisurely midcentury tales of romance,
minus the dominating love note; its quail
ties are not therefore striking qualities of
form, but of atmosphere and character.
Mono: Lore and the Sol, is thoroughly
modern. The impressionistic treatment of
character and situation, the absence of
close knit, developed plot and moralizin!
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The Sort of Books American Young Men Read

of that sort on the shelves just then, so 4
copy was sent of JThen Knightheod Vas
IN Florer.. The soldier hailed the li5r,l-
rian as she went through the ward the next
day: Say, will YOU please remove this
he demanded. It's all about dukcs and
pedigreesv She took it away and came
back with detective story. \ few min
utes later he waved the book al her
enthusiastically. Say, this is greatr
he exclaimed. There's Il murder in the
first chapter and l don't know whc DID
it,"
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To readers who ask for it: The ad-
dress of Lieut.. Charles Divine is Head
quarters, A. p. o. $50, American Expedi-
tionary Force. This is the hospital centre
At Mars-sur-Allier, twelve kilometres
(seven and half miles, from the city of
Movers.
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Poetry Goes, Too.

Action is the essential quality OF poetry
to the young American. II vas through
the effort of Miss Amy Lowell, Who al
most alone believed at the outset Of the
war library experiment that poetry would
be read and appreciated by the soldiers,
that splendid collections of verse, modern,
ultramOdem and just plain poetry. were
made accessible to every man in uniform.
.Kipling takes first rank, as was 70 be ex-
peeted. Robert W. Services Rhymes of
Red Cross Non runs close second.
Alan Seeger is especially popular. And
there is generous average Of calls for.
Spoon Riuer anthology and North of
Boston.
What do American young men rcadf
Everything.
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of Columbus building, next door to the
library, to buy some stamps" writes w.
H. Edwards, the librarian at Camp Funs-
ton. II sat down to listen to the phonO-
graph for a few minutes and got into
conversation with a cowboy named Van
Nest from Idaho who was listening to the
music I let him talk and soon the music
was forgotten. He told me about his
home, about wild horses, about cattle,
about the troubles between the cattle men
and the sheep men, about breaking and
riding horses. Finally / asked him who
is the best writer in the West. He thought
said rider and surprised me by saying:
"A kid down in Carson II years old; he's
got 'em all skinned After a while re-
peated my question. He got me this time
and replied without hesitation: Zane
Grey He has ridden all over the coun-
try Zane Grey writes about. Since that
conversation he has been coming to the
library regularly to write letters and to
get books and to talk"
One feels that he would like to hear
more about the seyenteen-yearold rider
of Carson City who has got 'em all
skinned; the cowboys enthusiasm for him,
however, places" Mr.. Van Nest as the
sort of American We like TO call typical"
and his unhesitating Endorsement of Zane
Grey as ''the best writer in the West" is
merely cumulative. 1t is a genuine trib-
ute to an author when some one who
knows the country he writes about COM
mends his work; Zane Grey's Western sto-
ries come first or very close to first place
in every list of books circulated sent in
by librarians from camps where Western
soldiers have been stationed.
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JACQUOU THE REBEL. BY EUGENE LIZ
Roy. f. p. button Co. $1.90.
MONO: LOVE AND THE SOIL. By GAS
TON RoUPNEL. Z. z. Dutton & Co. 81 80.
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Right and Left, Bower!

Youth demands action and. stories Of
action. "B. NJ. Bower comes next to Zane
Grey among fiction favorites," writes an
other camp librarian. 1.-The boys like his
[sicl descriptions of ranch life, even
though they have never been nearer a
ranch than Boston" With one or two
clues of that sort it is not difficult to de-
duee that Rex Beach, Jack London, f.
Phillips Oppenheim and Harold McGrath
should be widely read by soldiers, and so,
the reports show, they are. Nor is en-
thusiasm for stories of action confined to
native born Americans. 1t was a soldier
of foreign birth who, after reading a
translation of Sherlock Holmes, proudly
acclaimed Conan Doyle as the greatest of
modern Greek authors The soldier who
asked for The Lad was from Colorado,
however. The request puzzled the IL
brarian.
ats an old book with lots of adven-
lures and fighting in it," explained the
young soldier.
"How do you spell it," finally asked
the librarian.
Double l., A, D. said the applicant,
and the Librarian satisfied him with good
translation of The Had.
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Actions the Thing.

From Homer to Gene Stratton Porter
the test the American young man applies
to fiction is: HAS it action? p Form counts
for little, style for still less; youth is not
critical. The plays of Shakespeare, par
ticularly Julius Caesar and Macbeth,
where the action is not hampered by
psychic analytical digressions, are as
eagerly read as the DPArtagnan romanees
of Dumas or Victor Hugo's swiftly NOV
ing tales. Probability and plausibility
are non-essentials. TtCenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea and The Myste-
rious Island keep the demand for Jules
Verne's stories alive; Edgar Rice Bur
roughs's fantastic Tar=an books appeal
to the adventurous spirit and satisfy the
craving for speed of movement.
All Of which seems to lend color to the
theory advanced by the carpers in the
beginning that Deadwood Dick was the
sort of stuff that would appeal most
strongly. Maybe Generalizations, how
ever. are dangerous and usually wrong.
Ihe reports from the war librarians are
full of things like these:
"An artilleryman from Arizona, for
mer cowboy, took out a copy of the Medi-
tations of Marcus Aurelius. He came
back to the library to inquire if he could
not buy a copy, because he says the same
things used to think out on the range
"Two of the books for which we have
the most call are the Rabaiyat of Omar
Khayyam and Samuel Buffers The Woy
Of AH Flesh. Is this the result of fatal
istie state of mind the men get after being
in the army whileT
"A negro soldier stopped the book truck
this morning and after pointing out Les
Aiserabies, several books Of Ralph Con-
ner's and some Of Shakespeare, with the
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MORE LIKE GODS THAN TREES
impressive Tribute Paid by English
Poet to the Giant Redwoods
of California.

John Masefield, the English poet,
contributed the following impression
of the giant trees of California to the
.Reveille, new paper devoted to dis
abled sailors and soldiers: "They are
not like trees; they are like spirits.
The glens in which they grow are not
like places; they are like haunts of
centaurs or of the gods. The tcees
rise up with dignity, power and mai
esty, as though they had been there
forever. They are the oldest living
things. Even the young ones were
two thousand or three thousand years
old, and many Of these grew from the
visible ruins of others, which may
have been saplings seven thousand
years ago. Sometimes in cathedrals
one feels the awe and the majesty OF
columns. These columns We're more
impressive than anything Of stone;
these columns were alive. They were
more like gods than anything have
ever seen. They seemed TO be think
ing. One felt that presently they
would march to wipe out everything
mean or base or petty here on earth.
The stars shone about their heads like
chapletS."
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Kisses and Boards.

1t is so easy to understand what the
Americans say, because they talk so
loud-it Is not the same loudness as
of the French, and one day l have
laughed to hear in bus how girls
of the Y. M. G. A. have talked. There
was one who was not at all pretty, ex-
cept to be young, who has regarded a
French gentleman who wore his beard
long. "Look," she said, "what nor
rible beard. Imagine to be kissed Dy
any one like that. Then they have
both laughed.
The other one has said then: u sup
pose his grandfather wore his beard
long, so he does the same" and the
first one has replied: Eyes. 1T is al
WAYS like that. What was good enough
for your grandfather in France is good
enough for you"
was not angry to hear them speak
SO, because, you know, they were very
ignorant. For me, / do not think that
they have known very much the emo
ton of to be kissed, or they would
have understood that 1t Is not whether
or not one has beard that makes the
difference.-London Bystander's Paris
Letter.
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bled than the congress resolved itself
into mad scramble for territory.
The rights of people to self-determi-
nation were utterly ignored. The
proceedings were secret, but enough
leaked out to cause Whitbread to pro-
test in the house of commons, 1--WE
live in an age when free nations are
not to be sold and transferred like
beasts Of burden" But that was just
what was done.
Lord Castlereagh pursued at first a
wavering policy, until early in Janu-
airy, when the news of the signing Of
treaty of peace between England
and the United States caused him to
oppose boldly, but without success,
the rapacity OF Russia and Prussia.
When the congress had been in ses-
sion nearly six months the division
of the, spoils was nearly completed.
To Russia was assigned Poland as
she held 1t until the recent war.
Announced Escape of Napoleon.
Prussia got one-half of Saxony, a
slice of Poland and the territories OF
which Napoleon had shorn her. North
ern Italy was given to Austria and
central Italy furnished duchies for
Austrian princes. Holland and Bel
GUM were erected into separate
kingdom. Norway was taken from
Denmark and given to Sweden.
France was confined within her old
limits. The smaller German states
were dealt with according to their
pull" England was allowed to keep
st. Lucia in the West Indies, the Cape
of Good Hope and few other oversee
trifes, along with Helgoland. y
The delegates considered their work
nearly completed when, on the morn
ing of March II, Talleyrand entered
the council chamber, his face pale and
drawn, and announced that courier
had Just arrived from France with the
news that Napoleon had escaped from
Elba and was marching on Paris.
At first the delegates broke into
peals Of laughter; the laughter was
succeeded by anxiety; and, hastily
passing a resolution declaring Napo-
leon an outlaw, the congress adjourn
ed. Kings and ambassadors hurried
home to reassemble 1,011 900 troops to
hurl again against the man of destiny
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# You Need a Medicine
You Should Have the Best

Have you ever stopped to reason why
1t is that so many products that are ex-
tensively advertised, all at once drop out
of sight and are soon forgotten? The
reason is plain-the article did not fulfill
the promises of the manufacturer This
applies more particularly to medicine.
A medicinal preparation that has real
curative value almost sells itself, as like
an endless chain system the remedy is
recommended by those who have been
benefited, to those who are in need of it.
A prominent druggist says "Take for
example DR.. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a
preparation l have sold for many years
and never hesitate to recommend, for in
almost every case it shows excellent re-
suits, as many of my customers testify.
No other kidney remedy has SO large a
sale"
According to sworn statements and
verified testimony of thousands who have
used che preparation, the success of Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp Root is due to the fact,
: SO many people claim, that it fulflls al
most every wish in overcoming kidney.
liver and bladder ailments; corrects uri-
nary troubles and neutralizes the uric
acid which causes rheumatism.
You may receive sample bottle of
Swamp Root by Parcels Post. Address
DIR. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y,
and enclose ten cents; also mention this
paper. Large and medium size bottles
for sale at all drug stores.-Adv.
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Genius and MatrimonY.

Boyle, who would not suffer his stud
les to be interrupted by household af-
fairs" lived as a boarder with his
sister, Lady Ranelagh. Bayle and
Hobbs and Hume, as we'll as Gibbon
and Adam Smith, decided for celibacy.
Regarding the literary genius, Disraeli
says: IF the literary man united him
self to a woman whose taste and whose
temper are adverse to his pur-
suits, he must courageously prepare
for martyrdom" And thus the
wife of Bishop Cooper, while her hus-
band was employed on his lexicon, one
day consigned the work Of many years
to the flames, and obliged that scholar
to begin second siege of Troy in a
second lexicon.
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NEAR PUNcTUAL, AS 1T WERE
Two Neat Explanations of Train
Schedules That Are About the
Best Of Their Kind.

Railways have had their troubles
during these amazing years of world
war and continental congestion; so,
consequently, have passengers. On a
rickety-rackety, half-forgotten little
branch line to nowhere in particular,
not long ago. long, lank. lazy Yam
kee station masters with an Uncle
Sam goatee, mentioned those mighty
ard historic obstacles in excuse for
the lateness of a certain two-car train,
for which an impatient salesman of
agricultural implements was Whiting.
But although he offered an excuse,
he did not enjoy doing so. and con-
cluded his remarks by announcing re-
sentfully:
"She'll be in before long, and be
fore long, oughter be soon enough for
reasonable folks. Eff she's in at now
adays she'd oughter be cheered, and
no teller with a grain Of common
sense nor patience has any call to
growl eff she's whereabouts
In the amiable South a world war
is not necessary to evoke. an even
greater superiority to petty uncertain
ties of time. The colored man in
charge of southern waiting room
in place by no means village, was
heard explaining the local electric car
connections with the nearest city.
Scars run on de hour, gentlemen
he told two inquirers, with beam
ing smile; and added confidentially
Goose dey's times faint on de hour
jes' perzackly to de minute. Some
times dey starts liz bit after, and
sometimes. wen deys hot box, dey's
so much after deys de same as q
III bit befo'; but mos ginerally
gentlemen, dey gifts away jes' about
Youths Companion.
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TREATY or FOUNTAIN INN, OR BLols, 1899.
Wing His Predecessors Widow 1892 Turned
Royal Conference Hall
That Caused War

and Duke Sfroza. loading 80 mules
with money, decamped from Milan.
Like William of Hohenzollern, he took
his eash-box with him when ne fled.
AS, he left Milan he said to the We
netian ambassador: "You have
brought the king of France to dine
with me, but he will sup with you"
And he was right.
AS for the treaty of the Fountain
inn which was to insure peace forever
between France and Venice, for the
next 10 years Venice sided in arms
many times over, alternately with and
against Louis, as her interests seemed
to dictate.
The treaty begun in the Fountain
barroom which was to have imposed
Ieace and caused war was, according
to Machiavelli, the ruin of Venice |;
end he holds it up as warning against
weak states allying themselves with
strong ones.
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The congress that assembled to set
IN order the affairs of Europe after
Sthe recent tremendous upheaval nat
turally calls to mind the congress Of
Vienna, which met over hundred
years ago for similar purpose after
the vast upheaval of the Napoleonic
wars. Then, as now, the delegates
protested to meet to establish con-
edition which should ensure lasting
speace.
The armies of France had been ut
terly defeated. Napoleon had EN-.
Ebraced in farewell the imperial eagles
in the courtyard of Fontainebleu and
passed away to Elba. Nearly mil
lion troops, which the allied soveE
seigns had employed to drag down
the Corsican, had gone back to their
sown countries for Rehabilitation or
We're on their way there. The wars
which, with slight intervals for re-
freshments and rest, had ravaged the
world for Is years, were over with
one exception. The United States
and England were still at war. The
United States had come into the con-
flict only two years before, had made
no alliances or associations, and was
'''playing lone hand7 against Eng
land.
Royal Pomp and Splendor.
The congress assembled on Septem-
her 5, 1914, and Vienna was scene
.of royal pomp and splendor. The en-
perors of Austria and Russia, the
kings Of Prussia, Bavaria, Wurtem-
berg and Denmark, the princes Of the
smaller German states, great states
men like Talleyrand and Castlereagh,
and host of minor delegates repre-
,senting every political division in
Europe were there. The delegates
spent the mornings in discussion and
the evenings In revelry, each nights
entertainments eclipsing in splendor
those of the night before.
Napoleon had changed the map Of
Europe, erecting new nations and en-
larging or Remembering old ones.
The old order of things had been
blown away on the smoke Of battle
felds and the delegates proposed to
rearrange the map according to their
sown IDEAS In spite of protestations,
mo sooner had the delegates assem-
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Hanoino Pictures.

It is easy to make mistakes in the
hanging of pictures. Observing the
following as guide, you will make
fewer mistakes In this respect. First,
a plain paper for the room is almost
imperative. This will give you an op-
portunity to use all the pictures, no
matter what they are. Soft grays
and terra Gotta tones are best for
background. Avoid figured and high
ly-colored papers as these prevent the
picture from standing out. Be careful
not to tilt the pictures too much. Hang
them almost fiat.
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One Of the earliest treaties of mod

One Of the earliest treaties Of mod
'trn history was that concluded be-
tween France and Venice, In 1899.
Charles VIII, king of France, had
.overrun Italy, but lost the fruits OF
his conquests largely through the war
like activities of Venice. His success
sor Louis XII, fortnight after his ac-
.cession to the French throne, sent
message to the Venetians proposing
lasting peace. The doge at once sent
ambassadors to France. The ambas-
sadors found Louis at Etampes, where
they arrived on August II, 1888.
Nearly four months had elapsed since
the setting out of the kings courier
to Venice with the peace proposals,
Louis was on a visit to the widow OF
his predecessor, who lived in the royal
castle above the little town when the
news of the approach Of the ENJOYS
reached him. He wanted to invite the
ambassadors to the castle but the
.dowager said she was not going to
have her housekeeping broken up by
a swarm of Italians, and the castle
was out of repair and not fit to be
seen, anyway. Now, Louis had come
there counting the dowager and, king
or common, the lady's word is law in
such cases.
King Stood on Dais.
Louis ran down to his friend, the
landlord of the Fountain inn, most
excellent hostelry, where he had
''scrushed many cup of SACK when
he was only duke of Orleans. The
tavern was large, the landlord man
OF resource. Hangings were brought
down from the castle, and when the
yenetians arrived great barroom
had been converted into great hall
,os audience, all hung with Alexandrine
velvet thickly sprinkled with golden
lilies at the end where the king stood
on dais hastily knocked together by
the village carpenter possibly out OF
the wood-box. Mine hosts great arm
chair with cloth of gold thrown over
ii served very well as throne. Here
the ambassadors presented their Gre
,dentials and the king received them
with smiling face and gracious
speech. The next day he received the
ENJOYS in private audience and the
negotiations began, the Fountain inn
serving as the conference place.
For weeks and weeks the negotia-
tions went on; the town was swamped
by great men and their retinues. The
dowager looking down from her castle
walls on the turmoil below with COM
placency. Finally the king and the
ambassadors removed to the castle of
B!ois where treaty was concluded
on February o, 1890, the negotiations
having lasted nearly six months
The Treaty Of Peace.
When the treaty was finally signed
lit proved to be treaty Of peace, In
deed, between Venice and France, but
a league of war against about every 9TH
er Italian potentate except the doge,
a0,ls threw an army into the Milanese
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why He Doesn't Hear II.

.This Is the fourth morning you've
been late. Rufus" said the man to ais
colored chauffeur.
eyes, sah." replied Rufus. Il die
ovahsleep myself, sah."
'Where's that clock gave your
'.In M room, sah."
'Don't you wind 1t up?"
ooh, yes, sab. ! winds it up, sab"
"And do you set the alarmf
"Ev'ry night, sab, l set de alarm
sah."
'But don't you hear the alarm 10
the morning, Rufus?"
.sNo. sab. Dere's de trouble. sab.
Yer see, de blame thing goes off while
I'm asleep, sab. "-Yonkers Statesman