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Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1919-07-18
Not So Much.

Not So Much.
Got any jack with you, matey?'
asked the COB. Split it $3.50 with
me, will yer?''
Cant do it, old pal. 1 amt got
that much. Indianapolis Star.
Jackson County journal. (Sylva, N.C.) 19??-19??, 1919-07-18

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Alays Pain and Inflammation Price ST. borle N drus.
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WF.YoUHG. D. F., $40 Temple ST.. Springfield Mass.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
War Hysteria in ''Blind Alley
Georges Novel Brilliant Protest
Against Misdirected Emotionalism

and the nlagnifcence of his dream of
an internationalized world makes his
faHaticism something understandable
and moving.
But his rhetoric, too, is that of Mr..
George. Everybody in the book is Mr..
Georges mouthpiece, and everybody
gives way to his temptation TO ha-
rangue, and that often in incongruous
moments. Sir Hugh confronted with
Sylvias disgrace and enforced mar
riage brushes the news lightly aside
to discourse for two pages on the Near
Eastern situation. Cottenham, meet
ing Monica in q moment of intense pas
sion, suspends lovemaking to discuss
the world order for another page and
a half. Frank, the son, declaring his
love. inserts a long political forecast
into his proposal.
Blind Alley has spots Of vivid COM
prehension and intellectual fearless
ness. 1t is brilliant piece Of work.
but brittle ona, too. 1t is perhaps
better contemporary history than story
telling. In times to come its acid
etchings OF England's reactions to the
war may impart vitality to the con-
NtHljCl-S1 iIStcLlcS lldI dIt UOUllu W
come. Such biased description as his
may he needed to restore reality to
what is doomed to harden into the set
and formal dignity of a pageant. CAS-
he went along Pail Mall the country
mans eyes we're open to differences.
There We're many girls in uniform, W.
E. C.'s. V. A. DIS, nurses, girls dressed
up to look like Serbian vivandieres or
something equally Incredible, govern
ment office girls with bobbed hair, a
touch of lip salve and following air
man. Excited, busylooking crowd
Not much hate there. What lark the
war was London in war time
did not look as though it were prac-
tising 9 war creed or any kind. 1t was
just showing into omnibVses and buy
ing up chocolates in case they ran
short" Men in clubs discus
sing the correct pronunciation of Yer
dun. Old men showing flags about on
a map with an enormous sest in a new
game. Mr. George regards the
emotional force turned loose contempt
uously. He asks-turned into what?
And answers, into blind alley.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

is delightfully."- humorous. We had AL
ways thought of him as the most
unhumorous of all our writers. Such a
conception can hardly stand in the face
OF the account Of the visit Of the King
of England to a hospital where Jimmie
calls him "Mr. King" and advises him
to study socialism.
Jimmie is promoted to sergeant for
his bravery on the field and is sent to
Archangel. Here his difficulty in ac-
cepting the WAY begins MI over again.
Service against the Bolsheviki seems
to him an entirely different thing than
service against the army of the Kaiser.
Indeed, he finds it impossible to justify
his presence or the presence of the
American army in Russia. A Bolshe-
visit propagandist finds that Jimmie is
favorable to the cause of the soviets
and induces him to distribute leaflets
explaining the Russian point Of view.
The documents are traced to Jimmie
and he is arrested for treason, court
martialled and sentenced to twenty
years imprisonment. Severe punish
mcnt and solitary confinement cause
Jimmie to go insane.
In spite Of the violence Of the end
ing, we find nothing incredible in the
book. We do not always agree with
the opinions of Jimmie Higgins, but
neither does the author, for that mat
ter. He is not an excessive partisan of
his hero throughout. He does, how
ever, show the circumstances for every
phase of opinion through which Jimmie
progresses, and makes that opinion
seem the inevitable result of the cir
cumstances. Jimmie Higgins" seems
to us a singularly fair book 1t strikes
somewhat between the works of those
authors who would have US believe that
righteous war Is admirable in its
every phase and those others who hold
that no war is righteous and that it
brings out nothing of fneness. Sin
clair gets all around the war question
before he is\done and allows the reader
to see it from all sides. One does not
even need to synpathize with Jimmie
Higgins, as the author does, in order
to be interested in the book 1t seems
to US that it should interest conserva-
tives more than radicals, since it will
be more novel to them
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

Major Ian svAN Hay Beish,. HE Published ia H5y 81
Houghton Minlin Company. 203 pages
Price $3.50.
Ian Hay has by no means done for
the American army the same service
which he did for the British in "The
First Hundred Thousand" His new
book has not tenth the observation
of the former. Rather unfortunately
Hay tries to write the book about the
Americans from the inside, and there
Is no indication that he was familiar
enough with the A. E. T. to accomplish
this
Perhaps the best part of the book is
the introduction which is in substance
pamphlet called "Welcome," which
Hay wrote to acquaint the American
soldiers with the national peculiarities
OF England. This is written in a de-
llghtful style and combines an easy
humor with information which must
have been useful to all American
troops who landed in England. There
is one vivid description of the manner
IN which a German trench raid was
smashed by the Americans, but most
OF the attempts to reproduce American
dialects are disastrous and the major
lty OF the stories in the book are Of a
type all too familiar to readers of
American newspapers and magazines.
One, however, which is new to rs
concerns British officer who met an
American doughboy in Chaumont and
thinking he might be from headquar
ters, asked "Where are you from ~
Inc reply came all in one breath:
sir, | am from Marion, Ohio. the
greatest steam-shovel producing centre
In the world!"
Hay breathes a fire-eatinc ro,r;,
throughout and expresses an anpn;sh
at the sudden collapse of the war which
may not be shared by all Americans. or
Engllshmen, either. One of the char
acters IS allowed to remark without re-
monstrance from the author, and in
deed, with his apparent approval:
That brings me to the other thing 7
said was going to happen. America. as
whole, has not yet felt this war. and
she must, If she is to extract from Il
the benefit that belongs to her by right
What are quarter of million cas-
uaitles to nation the size of ours .
We ought to suffer some more. if onlv
to save us from unreadiness and mis-
management in the future. If we stop
now, all we shall have won will be the
opportunity-and you know how our
orators and patriotism mongers will
use ito announce that America lust
stepped in, and the war was won, Il
may be true; it may not; but that line
of talk never did any good to any ma
ton. We here around this table all
know that, and there are thousands of
folks at home who know it, too. Yes.
we ought to get deeper in. God knows
no one wants to make widows and Or
phans. But war, however bloody
which teaches nation it's own weak
nesses is worth while individuals
suffer, as individuals must and do; but
the commonwealth gains. rt,is true we
are losing good Americans by the hun
dred to-day, but we are making thou
sands more"
We agree with Hay that 1t is w
fortunate that some Americans should
have begun to boast that the war was
won by us alone, but he suggests r
remedy much worse than tho disease
II war were as beneficial national
tonic as Major Hay seems to think
there ought to be at least one week
1t seems to us monstrous doctrine.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
About a Column
An Authors Author

speaking Of Leonard Merrick, as you
were last week, his introducers inform
US that he's an authors author.
Anyhow, my copy Of "While Paris
Laughed" has passed through the
hands Of the sergeant major, the sig
nai corps sergeant, a corporal, divers
privates and the supply officer Of tho
organization from which I NAV be dis
charged eventually. And this is how
these rough soldiers commented on the
authors author:
The sergeant major: "Ill say they's
some stories!"
The corporal: "11l say they's some
stories."
The signal corps sergeant: "Ill say
they's some stories,"
The divers privater: "Ill say they's
some stories,"
The supply officer: "IYl say theys
some stories!" r A &
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

RECONSTRUCTION ANr NATIONAL.
LIFE. By Ce0N fairfield Laveil, Pm.
u. Published by The Macmillan Com
pany. rp l9e. Price 81 SO
Maintaining that each people must.
in the main. work out lis own saliva
tion on lines determined By It's his
tory, character and attitude toward
life, Professor Lavell takes France.
Germany, Russia and Britain and pre-
sents their reconstruction as the ex-
preston of dynamic national life.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
Second Marriare

SECOND MARRIAGE BY Viola Meynel
Published by George Fl. Doran Com
pany. Price $3.50.
Miss Meynel's novel gives q curious
impression of following blind trail
Some thing is always just about to hap
pen, but continually eIudes us. Too
much analysis, too careful dissection
of all characters is irritating. If
they were not so constantly personally
they would get somewhere
z. B. B.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

nrr attention was first attracted to
r,ton Sinclair's Jimmie Higgins" by
sr-sview in THE New York Evening
en- which said that the author ought
:. h. nut in Jail. We did not find the
sook quite as good as that, but 1t is
..vsrtheless an interesting and honest
h.ok which breaks new ground in the
ss,d of war fiction. Sinclair seldom
tells story merely for the love CT
rsrra.ive. but to Us Jimmie Higgins
~ss absorbing entirely aside from its
s,onaganda. 1t is an intense book, but
lucid for all that.
Perhaps its intensity may be account
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
History and Rinrranhv

HISTORY or THE YANKEE DIVISION.
BY Harry a BenwsIl. Published by
The Cornhil Company Illustrated. 2sa
pages. Price sac
The book is ali that its title prom
ises. and contains, in addition TO the
actual history Of the division, appre-
Citations by General Pershing, Major
General Edwards and Secretary of War
Baker. Appended to the volume is an
individual service record with blank
spaces left for q twenty-sixth man to
I'll in
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
War ant, Reconsfruction

SCOUTING; THRILLS. By Captain n
NfcNean. Published ny The Mac cnliil2n
Company. pp. 2s5. Price 81 %.
Captain MoKenn gives in his book a
vivid and accurate story of oertai in
phases of the work performed by
scouts in the war.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
word.
a Note on Hearn

The public impression of Hearn is
largely one sidcd.- To many he is
known only as japanese folklorist
who offers his tales quantity and with
charm Quite possibly this is as Hearn
would have it, for his restless peculiar
nature assimilated the Npponese at
mosphere and fostered the undying af-
fection he bore for the country and the
race.
But it is another Hearn that speaks
through the Interpretations" the
Appropriations" When in 1915 "In-
terpretations" was offered for public
scrutiny a revelation Of the new
Hearn appeared. This delightful etcher
this fanciful word player, had been
shielding from US, Enthusiastically,
his finer and rarer gift. And from Cole
ridge to Dowden, Saintsbury and Gosse
his note is the most intimate, and ac-
cordingly the most human.
Here are lectures for that pamnered
bogie, the casual reader. AS an intro
duction to all that is fine in literature
they are unapproachable. Necessarily
simple because of his alien audience
University of Tokio) he strove for in
terest through imaginative and sug-
ecstivc appeals. There is, however,
through all his discourses an under
current of original thinking apparent
to the searcher and of considerable
value to the student. Didactic, but
wholly free from pedantry Ga combina-
ton unusually rare), the appeal is SO
personal, so subtle, so irresistible, that
he who lends an abiding ear cannot
fail to respond. D. l.. GILBERT.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
TUm nST r

John Spencer Bassett Second Edition
Published by The Macmillan Co. 2sa
pages. Price $500.
Professor Bassett, in his original
text, traced the desire for peace from
the Napoleonic struggle to the time
when war developed in 1914 through 3
failure of concerted Europe to secure
the peace it sought In this second
edition Professor Bassett has written
new introduction to his book, in
which he presents the various ques-
tions pertaining to the league OF ma
tions which have arisen since the orig
tnal volume was published.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
AROuT PANAMA

PROWLING ABOUT PANAMA BY
George y Miller Published by The
Abingdon Press. pp. 254. Price $3.50.
Narrative essays sketching the life,
the people and interesting places of o.
land that yearly attracts an increasing
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
Ten Book List of
John Haynes Holmes

In connection with the list made out
by Harold j. Y.aski last week of ten
hooks worth rereading, o list prepared
by John Haynes Holmes for his con-
gregation may he interesting. The list
of Mr.. Holmes is as follows:
Emerson, Essay on SeIf-Reliance."
MILL "On Liberty"
Morley, "On Compromise"
Spencer, "Education."
Mazzini. "On Duties OF Man.
Carlyle, Past and Present"
George, progress and Poverty"
Sumner, 1.-THE True Glory of Nations"
(orati0n).
Kant, Eternal Peace"
Tolstoy, my Confession."
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

JOSEPH PRIEsTLEY. BY n II. Peacock.
Published by The Macmillan Company.
63 pages.
A short biography published in chs
Pioneers Of Progress Series.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
Poetry

NIGHT MAGIC AND OTHER POEMS.
BY Ruth Elliot. Published by The
Stratford Company. PIP. GO Price s1.0O.
A collection of colorful lyrics by
young poet of sensitive feeling and
optimistic outlook.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
HY1ETHBN AND OTHER POEMS. T

HYLETFEN AND OTHER POEMS Isy
Isaac Flasg. Published by The STRAIT
ford Company PIP. 152. Price $3.50.
Written during fifty years of the
life of man who was teacher of
Greek at Harvard, Cornell and the
University of California successfully,
these poems reflect the combined
thought of man who has seasoned
his own philosophy with the richest
of classicist learning.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
Miscellaneous

TIE SHOP COMMITTEE. A Handbook
lam Leavitt Stoddard Published bv
The Macmillan Company. 1o5 pages.
Price s1.25.
During the critical period of the wsr
the author of this book was the adj
ministrator for the National War La
Dor Board, and in this capacity devel-
oped the shop committee system in
several large industrial plants. In his
book he tells in detail of the operation
and success Of this system.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
tn
War ROMANCE:
OF tn O.
SALXATl0N ARMY
BY
Commander Evangeline Booth
and Grace Livingston Hill

50 illustrations, $50 pages, $50 net
The doughboys will give their
vhole-hearted approval to this great
book. Ii is the true story, including
hundreds of humorous, thrilling and
pathetic anecdotes of how the Saliva
ton Army lassies went into the he'll
oi the battletields with our boys and
under shellfire, by day and night,
rnistered to them. There was hot
iood, and drink, and those famous
doughnuts and pies A smile, word
Of cheer, a helping hand to the
wounded, a tear for the dying
A Stirring, Heart-touching Romance
Get it, Begin it, You'll Read Every
Word and wish there WINS more.
1T I'LL BOOKSTORES
iR. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

Cricket's antics are prob
ably recorded in the judgment
book, to which will bear testi-
nony the souls Of innurnerable
pvernesses and teachers, Of the
supulous young man who OBJ
ected to being eloped with, Of
tie woman whose tryst she kept,
d the actor manager whose:
szyorite play she wrecked, and
n the various Percies and Regi-
nlds who will come exhibiting
hoken hearts For this Cricket's
|parents, to whom children were
Z bore, must atone, and Captain
|ULeary will bear witness that
she turned in time into com
|lrtable Cricket, fit for any good
|nan's hearth. Net, $3.50
BY Marjorie Benton Cooke
THE
C. r RICK e T
Al all bookscllers
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & co.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
The Meals They Write

What is a good book-meal? Saws
Evelyn lnnes, mental offspring of the
fastidious George Moore, "I wonder
what kind of a dinner Margaret has
got for us A good one, l hope.
I'm ravenous.' A few minutes after
she appeared in the doorway holding
lamp high, the light showing over
her white skin and pale gold hair.
Margaret has exceled herself-boiled
haddock, melted butter, neck of NUT
ton and a rice pudding!'" Evelyn
seems to be easily pleased.
This repast fails to arouse the
slightest thrill in our bosom. Dickens.
however, can be read with pleasure
for his food alone. But folks who have
sojourned in England tell US his dishes
don't taste as good as they sound. We
have an impression that American au-
thors have a more delicate taste in
book comestibles. One of Robert W.
Chambers's heroines, if we remember
Alright, lunched exclusively on milk and
vichy and large purple grapes. If any
one can tell us of an author who serves
just the right kind of food in his
stories, we shall be glad to read him
Immediately after our 75-cent table
dhote dinner. L. S. II.
Upton Sinclair seems to us to be an
able exponent Of the views of the radi-
cal workngman in his new novel,
"Jimmie Higgins" He gives every in
dication of understanding his mental
pro1esse but we are afraid that Sin
cla.r does not know his slang. In the
chapter in which Jimmie joins the
army we are told, "If he referred to his
officer as hard boiled he did not have
IN mind that this officer had been ex-
posed to the action Of water at 212
degrees Fahrenheit; he merely meant
that the officer was a snob"
Now, as matter of fact, the soldier
meant no such thing If he referred
TO his officer as hard boiled he meant
that he was severe and shrewd hard
man to fool tough old bird is really
the best equivalent. The phrase began
as hard boiled egg and was invented by
Damon Runyon, Of "Thc New York
American" and popularized by him and
other baseball writer's. The original
meaning was close fsted, bat the
phrase in its shortened form has taken
up number of derived meanings. Sin
clair also quotes his soldiers as en-
ploying such phrases as wheels in his
head, and telling Jimmie that his troll
ley was twisted Neither phrase is
common in the army. Both are out of
date and fashion by at least ten years.
After seeing seven French farces in
the last two weeks we think we have
begun to appreciate the meaning OF
the phrase bed and bored.
Concerning Sudermann's novel, "The
Silent MiA," "The New York Times
Book Review says: "The rcpulsion
and utter loathing which the sight or
sound Of the word German now
arcuses within the minds and hearts
of all persons possessed of any sense
Of decency or OF morality make it ex-
tremely difficult to approach transla-
tions from living German authors in
the spirit of cool criticism"
Difficult" seems to be hardly the
word
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
Sinclair Jimmie Higgins %
fY Violent and Vivid Book Gives
rNE@ a Radicals Reaction to War
Pv Heywood Broun

svs,frr HIGGINS BY Upton Sinclair.
puhNshed by Bon! & IiveriSht 232
Price, S1-6N-
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
Essays

Boreham. Published hy The Abingdon
Press. PIP 2s5. Price S1.25.
A group Of Australian reveries by a
Tasmanian philosopher and essayist
whose work is characterized by a brill
liant humor and picturesque narration.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

HADAssAH 1The Star Of the Persian
Courtl. BY Florette Truesdeii Miller.
Published by The Stratford Company.
PIP. SO. Price $l-25.
The story Of Esther told In verse.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
By Rebecca Drucker

BLIND ALLEY. BY ". L George. Pub
lshed by Little. Brown & Co. 431 PIP.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
Among Those Present
Fiction

HIDDEN TREASURE. BY John Thomas =
Simpson. Published by J. =. l-ippincott
Company. PIP 3o3. Price $3.50.
Bob Williams happened to be one
of those rare souls who had an honest
admiration for the soil. So he recon-
structs an old and unproducing farm
into a prosperous asset. Simpsons
novel is we'll told and laid Oh rural
background that has not been over
painted.
WAR STORIES. Selected and Editcd by
Roy J. Holmes and A. Starbuciz- pub
lished by the Thomas Y. Crowell Com
pany. Pr. 80. Price Si.25-
These stories were selected for the
twofold purpose OF giving the general
reader q group of some Of tlk best
war stories in conseuient form and of
supplying the student with fresh and
interesting material for studying the
technique OF the short story. And
whatsoever their purpose. they are a
bully collection Of good reading.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

MUSHROOMS OK THE MOOR. BY r
w. sBoreham. Published by The Alb
ingdon Press. pp. $50. Prics SIPS.
More essays by man whose opti-
mism is infectious and whose ideas are
practical
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

We had not gone far in Ian Hays
book about the American army, called
"The Last Million" before we realized
that he was going to uphold the tradi-
tion set by all his predecessors in this
field. On page Is we found the story
about the Irishman who wanted to
Anow: "Is this a private fight, or can
anybody join it?" On the next page
occurs the story OF the Jewish recruit
who refused to take a commission be-
cause he preferred straight salary,
and shipshape Hay adds the story of
the American negro who tries to talk
with the French Senegalese and ends by
cxcaiming in disgust: you amt no
nigger at all! You're only an Afri
canl"
Wilbur Forrest, then with the United
Press and now with The Tribune, was
the first man to write this particular
story, ard it was founded on an ac-
tual happening during the landing of
tho first division Mt st. Nazaire. 1t
was picked up in the second day nc
count Of every newspaper man who COW
cred that event, and later appeared in
"Collier's" and then in "The Literary
Digest" Several books included it,
and Il rule has now been set that no
story Of the American army is COM
plcte without it. We know something
OF the auccdote ourselves, rs in one
form or another VIC have sold it three
times. HEYWOOD BROUN.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

FIGHTING FOR A NEW WORLD R~
Charles ". Dahney. Published By The
Abingdon Press pp. JOS. Price 7e
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

A series Of constructive essays on
the ideals for which we fought in the
war.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

number OF vacationists The book is
generously illustratcd
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31

After seeing seven French farces in
the last two weeks we think we have
begun to appreciate the meaning OF
the phrase bed and bored.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-31
The Last Million

THE LAST MILLION BY Ian Hav
lMaJor Ian Hay Beith). Published bv
Houghton Mifflin Company. 203 pages.
Price 81 30 &c -