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The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-30
Late Market Quotations

Native beef steers. 10000 1850;
yearling steers and heifers $1,000
1900; cows, s5.00@13.50; stockers
and feeders, S7.50@14.00; calves,
$5.60013.00; Texas steers. 10000
1900: lows and heifers. $500
l14.50.
Hog receipts. 16, 5000 head: market
lower. Mixed and butchers,
S19. 9.50; good to heavy, s20.25
@20.50; rough. SIT. 50@I9.25; light,
sls,oo@1s:5o; pigs. s1s.oo916.oo;
Sheep receipts, 1900 head; market
slow. Ewes, s14.OO@15.25; lambs,
S1S.0o@19.50; tanners and choppers,
$4.50@19.00.
Omaha Live Stock.
OMAHA, Neb., April 30.-Cattle-
Receipts. $500 head. Mark slow to
steady. Steers, $13.5001S.Oo; cows
and heifers. $5.25@13.75; stockers
and feeders, $S.00@15.50; calves,
IS. 00014.O0; bulls and stays, $1,000
Oils.
GIogs-Receipts. 14,200 head. Mar
ket 10 to 15c lower. Bulk, $19.95@
20.15; top. 5000.
Sheep-Receipts, $500 head. Mar
ket 10 t o zoe higher. Y~earlings.
SIS, 50@1s.5o; wethers, SIS. oo015.50;
lambs, $1S.OoQl9.15; ewes, $4,000
14.T5.
Kansas City Live Stock.
KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 3d.
Cattle-Receipts. 1850 head, in
GLIDING $50 %southerns. Market Is to
25c lower. Prime steers, s17.75@
1875; good to medium steers, 1875
@17.75; southerns, s9.00@15.0o;
cows and heifers, s7.75014.25; stock
ers and feeders, sS.75Q16.0O; calves,
sS.50@13.50.
Hogs-Receipts, Ii 5000 head. Mar
ket 10 to 15c lower. Bulk, $4,000
2O.40: heavy, 20.25@2O. so; medium,
$4,000 2o.45; light, s1s. 70@20.3o.
Sheep-Receipts, 5000 head. Mar
ket strong. Lambs, $18-2561s.0o;
ewes, s13.25015.25; wethers, $14.75
GIFTS.
Chicago Produce.
CHICAGO, April 80. Butter
Creamery extras. soc; creamery
standards. 5Sk 659c; dairy firsts.
56h @5Skc; dairy seconds, 52@56c.
Eggs - Ordinary firsts, 40Q41c:
~
Cheese-Twins, 2s@2skc; Young
Americas, 29h G30c.
Potatoes-Receipts, 80 cars. Wis
consin and Minnesota. per cwt..
S2.00@2.25.
Live poultry-Fowls, 36c; ducks.
32c; geese. 23c; spring chickens,
New York Produce.
NEW YORK, April 3o.-F1our-Less
active, nominal.
Pork-F1rm; mess, s56Q57.
Lard-Irregular. nominal; middle
west spot, s32.90@33.
Sugar-Raw, steady; centrifugal
test, SIPS. Refined, Arm; cut loaf,
5000; crushed, $10.25; powdered.
$915; graduated. 50.
Conee-Rio No. Z on spot, 1SAc.
Tallow-Stronger; city. 12Ac; spe-
cial, 13c.
Hay-Firm; No. 1, $40; No. g.,
S1.N01.95; clover, $1.75@2.05.
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Pfcketinn Prohibited.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
DETROIT, Mich, April 30
Plcketing was prohibited at THE
Hadsworth Manufacturing company's
plant today By an Injunction granted
the company following a near riot
between strikers and loyal employees
OF the plant late yesterday.
When the plan: quit work yester-
day picketers FLASHED with the en-
pioyes resulting in a near riot. Sew
eral Anndred men and women were
snSoisea In the fight which resulted
~ scores being injured, n geri-
.ha roriy policemen were sent TO
the 1usne and succeeded in quelIing
civ, finance, arresting four.
some .os p tSses We're attacked and
'Hem emerged from the
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-30
HE WAS BORN
IN BONAPARTE
Death Of Albert Earle Packer in Me-
vada, His Burial Being Held
at Old Home Town Last
Saturday.

BoNAPARTE, April BON. L.
Packer and daughter. Mrs. Leah
Beery. Miss Annie e. Packer and
Mrs. Collat and son Justin, of Salem.
and Mrs. DR.. Bunker OF Stockport.
were here last Saturday in attend
ance at the funeral of Earle Packer.
Albert Earle Packer, son of w. A..
and Emma Chapman Packer, was
born at Bonaparte, Iowa, May 81,
1888, and died at Silver Peak, Ne
vada, April 20 1919, aged 35 years.
10 months and 20 days.
He grew TO manhood here and
graduated from the Bonaparte high
school in 1900, being the only young
in a class Of ten graduates.
Being an ambitious young man he
went to Ames to fit himself as an
engineer, taking special work in the
mining department. While here he
was also a star on the college track
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team. He has filed in a very honor
positions of trust in Mexico, n
! Alaska, and in the western part q
the United States.
On April 1, 1918, he was united Il
marriage with Miss Dora Bradley q
| Oakland, California, she being u
able to attend the funeral on a
count OF being seriously i'll Of pne1
monia at the time her husband died
Those left to mourn the loss OF 1
kind and loving som and brother and
husband are his wife, Mrs. A. n
Packer, OF Silver Peak, Ney.; hi1
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Packer
Packer of Bonaparte and Mrs. E. n
Butts Of Ell Cajon, Calf, and mani
other relatives and a host of friends
Earle exemplified in his life I'M
fine virtues which make manhood !
power and an influence for good
living a life radiating with FRIENDSHIP
and sincerity, thus winning to hini
self a wide circle of friends who arr
saddened by his death and who VIII
greatly miss his smile and goo9
cheer. The remains were accom-
panied to Bonaparte by his friend
George Moore, who was employed al
the same mine. Mr.. Moore stated
that Mr.. Packer was highly esteemI
ed by his employers and that NJ
was considered one Of the best mini
ing engineers in the west.
Since going west several years agq
Mr.. Packer has visited at his ol1
home here but once, being called
here by the serious illness Of hii
father about four years ago. He and
his wife had intended visiting herd
this summer. Both were taken SIGN
with pneumonia about the SANG
time, his wife being considered 4
a more dangerous condition than heI
Funeral services were held on th7
lawn at the old home on last Satul1
day afternoon, Rev. Dennis Mason
Hamilton, H., officiating. The reg
mains We're tenderly laid to rest IN
the Bonaparte cemetery.
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Effort to Settle Still.

limited Press Leased Wire Service.1
DIES MONIES, April 30.-Goyernor
". l.. Harding, a representative of the
building Trades council, and three
contractors and three business men,
representing the master builders, win
meet at h governors Office Thurs
day morning, TO discuss settlement of
tJte strike OF 5000 union men.
The first step toward settlement of
the strike came when representatives
OF the ~unionists promised Governor
Harding at a conference, that they
would enter INTO a melting.
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DAILY RANGE OF PRICES.
CHICAGO, April 30
Open. High. LOW. Clos

CHICAGO. April 30.-Corn-No. 2
yellow. $1.59@1.59h; No. 8 yellow,
$1.57@1.5s; No. 4 yellow. s1.5sh@
18Th; No. 6 yellow. $.5391.55; No.
2 white, $1.5SG1.59h; No. 8 white,
s1.57k@15Sh; No. 4 white. s1.56k;
No. 5 white. S1y54; No. 6 white, $1.53;
No 8 mixed, $1.57@1.5s; No. 4 mixed
's1.56k 91.57; No. 5 mixed, 1850
lbs; No. s mixed, $1.52.
Oats-No. 3 white. 6S@7oc; No. 4
white, esA97oc; standard, 69k@
701c.
Chicago Live Stock.
CHICAGO, April 80. - Hogs-Re.
ceipts. 1900 head. Market dull.
Bulk. s2o.15@20.40; butchers, $3.50
G20.55; packing, SIS. 50020.00; light,
$18.50@20.30; pigs. SIT. 1 so;
roughs, $1S.5O9I9.50.
Cattle-Receipts. $500 head. Mar.
ket strong. Beeves, s10.25@20.0 90;
butchers stock. $7.75@155o; can.
ners and cutters. s5.S5@10.25; stock.
ers and feeders. s7.75G15.50; cows.
$7.75914.75; calves, s12.00@13.25.
Sheep-Receipts, 1900 head. Mar.
ket slow and lower. Wool lambs.
$13.O0O1s.5o; ewes. s6.Oo115.50.
st. Louis Live Stock.
ST. LOUIS. Mo-. April 3O.-Cattle
receipts. $500 head; market steady.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-30
ARMISTICE IN
PHONE STRIKE
Troops Chartered In Lodge Rooms
Exchange Closed and Meeting
Of All Sides Is Being
Held,

limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
LINTON, Ind, April 30.-Troops
were held in their quarters and Lin
ton waded through a tense atmos-
phere today to its work, pending
arrival OF the commission appointed
by Governor Goodrich to investigate
the labor trouble which griped this
town yesterday and Monday and re-
suited in marital law.
Eight strike-breaking telephone OPP
orators brought from indianapolis
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Weather Forecast.
Department of Agricultur
Weather Bureau.]

Weather Bureau.l
For Keokuk and vicinity: Cloudy
tonight and Thursday; probably
showers tonight; cooler Thursday.
For Iowa: Mostly cloudy tonight
and Thursday. probably showers ex-
IRENE east portion tonight; cooler
Thursday and in west portion to-
night.
For Missouri: Unsettled tonight,
probably showers east portion;
cooler west portion; Thursday partly
cloudy and cooler.
For Illinois: Showers tonight prob
ably clearing Thursday morning;
cooler south portion Thursday.
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Grain Review.

1fdfn REVIEW.
limited Press Leased Wire Service.l
CHICAGO, April 30.-Increased de-
rands for cash corn from the east and
Herbert Hoover's statement that the
last ship load OF foodstuffs for Europe
will leave in July. strengthened grain
futures on the Chicago board of trade
today.
Traders interpreted Hoover's state
ment as meaning there will be no fed
eral supervision of food after July.
New buyers were also brought into the
market by the heavy drop in prices
curing the past few days. Provisions
followed grain.
May corn opened at 154A. down ~
end in later trading gained az. July
corn down III at the opening 1853,
later advanced to 156. September orn
opened at 140 down 21k and In subs
sequent trading gained PA.
May oats opened down 70 at 6Sh.
but moved up to 60. July oats opened
at 6SN, down x and advanced IN.
September oats. down Isl at the open
ing, 66&, rose to 67A.
DAILY RANGE OF PRICES.
CHICAGO, April 30
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Expansion of Steamship Company
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service J
SAN FRANCISCO, April 30.--Ex'
pansion of China mail steamship
company for participation in trans,
Pacific trade through operation OF
four new big liners between sal'
Francisco and the orient is the pan
OF stockholders in China. 10 Lon
Chat, head of the China mail, y
today from China TO confer
with American stockholders.
The proposed program INCLUDES
construction of four large express
steamers to maintain a weekly OF :,
ten day service. All of these vesses,i
Will be of American registry. In az,
dition, the company plans to opefasJ
scores of smaller steamers on WI
American and Asiatic coasts as feea1
ers in getting business to conlpe's
with Japanese interests in trals
Pacific business.
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Dressed poultry-Quiet; tllrkav,
case; chickens. 38@42c; fowls v
3Sc; ducks, 44c. Ag
Live poultry-Qniet; geese
2lc; ducks, 25@30c fowls, 37c. XVI
keys, 25030c; ROSTERS. ala.@r
chickens, broilers, 75Q85c. N
Cheese--Firm: state milk CONS.
to special. 30@39c; skins common
specials, 6@23kc.
Butter-Weaker; receipts, 1asm
creamery extras, Gle dairy tubs srs
601ac imitation Creamery frsts, sss
$50.
Eggs-Steady; receipts, 671esI
nearby white fancy, 52@5Sc: nearh.
mixed fancy. 44Q47c; fresh, M
47hc.
Chicago Rye, Barley and Seed.
CHICAGO. April 29.-Rye-No n
$1.73@1.7s1A.
Barley-$1,11 OPP.
Timothy-$S.O0@10.T5
Clover-Nominal.
st. LOUIS RAY Market
ST. LOUIS, April 29.-Hay-pasJ
two days receipts Of lie cars III
Guided n timothy. II clover mixed
II clover and / alfalfa. Volume al
business was cut down considerable
by heavy rains during forenoon, bu}
on the few trades made the marked
was strong and unchanged. Demand
continues good, especially for his1
grade hay. Sales: Clover mixed
One car sample grade at $32; No. ii
one car at $3.50. two at $3s. Timo|
thy-No. 2, two cars at $36, two al
s37; standard. one car at s3S, ond
at $3.50; No. /, one car at s3a.50I
three at $40. Clover-No. /, twd
cars at 1913.
ST. Louis Horses and Mules.
ST. LOUIS, April 29.-Horses-Ma
dunn and poor grades OF southernen
made up a large proportion Of I'll
offerings, and on such the market |
dull and with prospects of furthe
declines than We're experienced las
week. On top Eoutherners witt
quality the market is active AMI
prices good. Good farm mares ary
also finding ready and satisfactor
sale, but the plain geldings are hard
to dispose of.
Good to choice drafts -. .s150G2(
Eastern chunks ........... 140GAe
Choice southern horses -. 140Gl7l
Fair grade southerners 49,. S0Gi20
Plain southern horses ..... 4eG 81
Farm mares ............ 150GAl
Plugs 25d 81
Mules-Prices on all kinds are cod
siderably lower than they were sen
eral weeks ago.. NotwithstandnI
choice big mules are quotable up u
$3.50 per head, the top price applied
only to mules of exceptional quality
and the rank and file are selling cor
siderably below that figure.
I6 to II hands .......... .$150G35I
Is to 15h hands ........,. 1l0G35l
Is hands ..100G32l
IA to l4H hands .......... cog ia
Is to 1914 hands .......-.. 5oGitI
IL TO 1914 hands ...-...... 5Oqi2I
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CLUB STANDINGS
YESTERDAYS RESULTS.
AmerIcan LeaoI

American League.
Cleveland, 2; ST. Louis, O.
Chicago, 4; Detroit, l.
Washington, 4; Boston, q.
National League.
st. Louis. i; Chicago, O..
Philadelphia, s.: Brooklyn, 5.
Cincinnati, 8; Pittsburgh, /.
New York Boston, no game (cold
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melee with torn dresses and other
evidences Of rough treatment. T. H.
McGlllyray, purchasing agent for the
plant, is in a serious condition.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-30
National League.
ToDAY's scHED

American League.
Cleveland in st. Louis.
Chicago In Detroit.
Boston in Washington.
Philadelphia in New York.
National League.
st. Louis in Chicago.
Pittsburgh in Cincinnati.
Brooklyn In Philadelphia.
New York in Boston.
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TABLODS FROM
FAR AND NEAR
Continued from page IL

WeizmiIler, of the Y. NJ. C. A. has
discovered that microbes caused ball
players to crab at the umpire. Play
ers in good health don't kick, he
claims.
Goat VS.. Buffalo.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, April
30.-A new goat is offered for the
city zoo. His predecessor anne out
second best in a. head-on collision
with one of the b~uffalos.
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u Hide Shoes.

SAN DIEGO, Calf. April 30.-Car-
n plans to put a kick into the
Mexican army. He has sent a ship
load Of mule hides here to be made
into shoes for soldiers.
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Population of Japan, December srEe
1917, was $685. 1873, more than IA vi J
cent. increase over 1916.
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River Bulletin.

Weather Conditions.
A storm center Of marked fnten-
sity is centered In Arkansas this
morning, and there have been heavy
rains from the western gulf to the
lower Mississippi valley.
Cloudy weather with scattered
light rain prevails from the upper
Mississippi to the Pacific slope, with
somewhat cooler in the northern
mountain region.
Local Observations.
April. Bar. Their. Wind W'th'r
l29 Z p. m.-29.92 81 NE Crdy
80 Z a. m.-2o.78 81 NE CPdy
Precipitation in last "a hours, .02.
Mean temperature 29th, 4S.
Highsst, 90.
Lowest, As.
Lowest last night, so.
FRED q. GOSEW1SCH,
Observer.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-30
Still Has Fixtures.

CHICAGO, April 30.-Spring house
cleaning anne early to Max Schieff's
mems furnishing shop. Thieves
backed up a dray and took every
thing but the fixtures.
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REFUSES
TO BULGE
(Continued from page -

to agree to peace conditions which did
rot give any satisfaction on those
three essential points"
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Asleep Ia a Eliyver.

CHICAGO, April 30.-Fifteen min
sleep cost j. j. Pinta $40 a
minute here yesterday. Police found
him slumbering in his "flivver,"
blocking traffic at one Of the busiest
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-30
To Decide Today.
fBy Fred s. Ferguson, United Press
Staff CORRESPONDENCE

Staff Consequently
PARIS, April 30.-IThe italians
will decide today whether they shall
return to the peace conference, ac-
cording to advices received at Italian
press headquarters here.
Reports have been circulated that
in case the Italians do come back
they would be headed by former
Premier Luzzati, but press h%eadqaur-
tiers appeared certain Premier Or
lando would resume the leadership
If they decided to return.
American officials We're quite con-
fident that Orlando would be back.
Considerable significance was attach
ed to the fact that minor Italian rep
resentatives here have been sound
ing out the Americans as to whether
the United States would favor con
ferring the mandate for Syria upon
Italia If she would return and ac-
cept a compromise on her Adriatic
claims
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THOROUGH Understanding.

TOKYO, April ga thorough
understanding exists between the
and American forces in
Siberia, according to a high official
of the war ministry. He said today
they are cooperating perfectly.
There are only trivial misunder-
standings due to differences Of Ian
guage and customs.
The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-04-30
Disquietine Report

PARIS, April 30.-Disquieting re-
ports were received from Italy today.
The conferences between Premier
Orlando and American Ambassador
Page are said to have been not n
tirely satisfactory. Anti-American
demonstrations were reported in
Trieste, where a crowd is said to
have gathered in front of'ethe Y. M.
C. A, and demanded that the Ameri-
can flag be hauled down. Regret for
the incident was expressed later.
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Wilson's Tape Measure.

TOKYO, April 26.-'It Is time that
the Japanese should rise to the sup
port of Japan's Using Tau conten-
TONS" declares former Premier
Okuma in an interview today in the
Tokyo Asahi.
president Wilson's tape measure
of justice to humanity shrinks m
stretches at different times, making
it useless"
Okuma is recognized as Japan's
foremost living statesman.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29
New French, Spanish and Italian Books

comedies The first J. from the pen Of
JacintO Benayente, now known IN Amer
can TRANSACTIONS. Los Cdch0rrOs The
Cubs BCnaventes last comedy, Is full of
genuine humOr and human patbOs. 10
takes philosopher rs well as ronsum-
mate artist to make us Interested in the
family feuds and moral stunts of a Hving
circus. De GOncourt had already tried
it in The Brothers Zirgqm0. The eircus
RigobertO in Benavente's play is Il repre-
sentative circus and the whole of human
ity is contained in its narrow ring All
the pathOs and comic sides of the profess
sion will be found in those unforgettable
characters, as typical as they are sharply
individualized
CObdrdias COWardicel, by Manuel
Linares Rivas, is a far different play and
half indignant, half amused social
satire. All the plight of Spain, torn be-
tween the past and modernity, is there
Reading Rivas's arrangement of the Span
ISL hidalgo one thinks of Dumas or An
gier indicting the noble In favor Of the
bourgeois in The Question Of Money or
The SoH-iH-Iau Of Monsieur Poirer. That
the realist and practical man of to-day
suffers from the aristocrat's eowardiee in
not adapting himself to modern social
conditions, and that the idle and qui1otie
hidalgo survives only thanks to the cow
ardiee of the common man is the moral
lesson of the play.
To conclude, let Us draw the attention
of the readers TO an interesting volume of
essays on Spanish and South American
writers, PoetGs y PrOsistds del NOrecientos
TtceHtieth Century Poets aud Prose
IPriters] by X. Cansinos-Assens. At
tractive among others are the chapters on
Ruben Dario, Enrique Gomez Garlic and
Ricardo Leon.
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"The Hen at Work"

IDEAS on how to keep or how to raise
L chickens differ In bygone days ali
one had to get was an old box. either soap,
piano or otherwise, q china egg, some
cracked com and a dipper of water, but
at present it is otherwise The hen and
birdhouse industry-we feel safe in call
ing it an industry-has seen a develop
ment equal to that of house and home
architecture. Chickens used TO lay eggs
in abundance to show their appreciation
of beautiful world, but in these days we
have many Bolshevist hens who do moth
ing but eat and cackle. They don't be-
ieye in enriehing their owners.
Still, many of the good standard Amer
lean breeds work overtime with the great
est of pleasure And for those who
would be Capitalists in eggs and chickens
Ernest Cobb's The Hen at York. brief
manual of home poultry culture. has been
written.
The book is practical and will be found
helpful by people who wish to or are al
ready raising poultry in q small way with
success and profit. Mr.. Cobb gives valu-
able suggestions on the selection of breeds,
their care and feeding, the building Of
economical houses, eOOps, runs; how in
eubators should be operated; how to doe
tor diseases in chickens, and in fact every
thing that it is necessary for one to know
in regard to poultry.
There are many illustrations of prae-
teal eoops, pictures of the development
of the egg in its incubating stages, and
above all, a picture of the waite: pan
which replaces the dippers, saucepans,
&c, of old. A handy book around the
house.
THE HEN AT WORK. BY ERNEST COBB.
G.. =. Putnam s Sons. $3.50.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-06-29

In the field of Italian literature VirgiliO
Broccoli has shown himself an italian Bar
bussc in Secondo i Cuor Mo According
to Ny Heartl. 1t is the story of an
Italian conscientious objeetor decidedly
stock character of European war books
since Roman ROLAND fed to Switzer-
land) who loathes modern materialism,
who fights with all his energy through
art, love and death toward the good and
the beautiful, who emigrates to Australia
to find the peace of his soul, who volun-
teers as a streteher bearer during the war,
who comes very near to being eourt-mar-
tailed by his own people and finally dies
a heroic death in battle, without, how
ever, surrendering any of his pacific and
pacifist ideals. A valuable book for the
light it throws on the modern Italian soul
with its atavistic mysticism, its passion for
art and beauty-all that blended with up
to date sOcialistic and humanitarian as
pirations.
Guido Da Verona, with a spirit as
worthy as his name of the Italian quattro-
eento, takes us far away from reality in
his II Libro del Mo SOgno Errante The
Book Of My Wondering Dreams book
full of delightful fantasy. Young Italy
is in it with her superintendent energies.
her efforts, sometimes as paradoxieal as
they are noisy, to free herself from the
shackles of her ancient culture, according
to the new programme of Signor Mari
netti and his futurist brothers. Boccaecio
and Oscar Wilde revive in those charming
essays, half prose, half poems, certainly
the product of wide and cosmopolitan
culture, just the kind of book to take on
a journey to read and enjoy in the very
mood and way it was written.
Spanish literature offers two interesting