New-York tribune., 1919-07-30

If it looks like rain we venture to sup.
gest that room should also be found in
the suitcase for Galsworthy's Saints
Progress" (Scribners), Leonard Merrick's
Conrad in Quest of His Youth (Dut.onl.
and Twelve Men" (Boni s. Liveright), BY
Dresser.
In one respect we must make reserva-
ton about '"The Moon and Sixpence." 1t
seemed to US an absorbing story. but
neither before nor after reading did we
have the slightest idea what the title
meant.
We have received from the American
Defence Society for review a pamphlet by
William 7. Hornaday called THE Lying
Lure of Bolshevism." We were particu-
larly struck by the fourth question in
catechism suggested for 1.-The average
American" The question reads as follows:
"Q.-Do you wish to continue to own
your home, your bank savings, your
Liberty bonds, your horse and wagon and
your wife and children?"
1t to US that Mr.. Hornadey lacks
effectiveness as propagandst. How
much more inspiring his question would
have been if he had phrased it: DO YOU
wish to continue to own your wife and
children, your horse and wagon, ETC."
Of course something is to be said for
the precedence of Liberty bonds and bank
savings, because they often pay q higher
rate Of interest
may find it difficult to continue to own
their wives because of their inability up
to date to control more than FIVE per cent
of the stock.
We wonder whether the gentleman who
had the wildcat by the tail spoke Of
owning it.
Practically all the propagandists we ever
encountered, including the pride pointers
and the alarm viewers, were eventually
forced to cease writing on account of
broken arches
George Creel has written a new book
which is dedicated "To my wife, Blanche
Bates Creel, who has long begged me to
argumentative things like books" The
book is "Irelands Fight for Freedom"
The Creel book is published by Harper's
and Olive West has done an exceedingly
striking illustration for the jacket Gre
lands Fight for Freedom" is an interest
ing piece of work, and it will be reviewed
in The Tribune next Friday, or perhaps
Saturday
Life on a destroyer does not seem the
easiest of pursuits, If one may Judge by
the testimony of Joseph Husband in "a
Year in the Navy" (Houghton Mifffin).
"When the weather is lively" writes
MIR. Husband, there is little going to bed
on a destroyer, and on this particular
trip, for instance, none of US removed his
clothes from port to port. To wash is an
absurd experiment. To try to shave is an
indication of insanity
Wilhelmina Harper, who was assistant
librarian at the Pelham Bay Naval Train
ing Station, has gathered a series of short
stories specially adapted to the taste OF
enlisted men. The book is called "Of
Duty" and the Century Company is the
publisher. The authors represented are lr-
wing Bacheller, Rex Beach, Edna Ferber.
George Fitch, Hamlin Garland. Zane Grey,
W. D. Hcwells, Bret Harte, 0. Henry,
Seumas McManus, Stewart Edward White
and Oscar Wilde.
Miss Harper has come in closer touch
with the reading taste of the service men
than we have, but it is difficult for US TO
II.
the Rose" will find any very large public
among soldiers and sailors. 0. Henry, of
course, is a popular favorite, but we doubt
whether "The Handbook of Hymen" is
among his best tales. "A Municipal Re-
port" and The Furnished Room" seem
to US infinitely finer Perhaps objection
might be raised to both as not being quite
joyful enough in mood, but in that case
"The Brief Debut of Tidy" ought to DO
nicely.
We hope have written all these titles
correctly, but we are not certain, although
we are familiar enough with the Stories.
At any rate the Tidy story is the
about Mr.. Seeders, who usually sat at
of Tlldy's tables, where he devoted HIM
self to silence and boiled weakfish"
In spite of the number of popular favor
ties who have been included in "Of Duty
ary book for soldiers and sailors seems
somewhat incomplete without Irwin Cobb,
Charles E. Van Loan and Ring Lardner
We think the doughboys might be willing
to trade Oscar Wilde for any one of these
"But here was a man." writes Somerset
Vaughan in describing the hero of The
Moon and Sixpence," who sincerely did not
mind what people thought of him, and so
convention had no hold on him; he was