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MRS. RTNEH4RT ON
MARRIED LIFE
Dangerous Days" Is the Tale
Of a Man, His Wife
and His Son

1t does not appear why Mrs. Rinehart
mas called her latest novel Dangerous
DAYS. Its action covers the period
from the autumn of 1916 until the sign
ing of the nrmistice in November. 1918.
and the war is the background against
which the tale is written. But it might
nave been written against almost any
other background. for it is essentially
study in married life and in mating,
as practiccd in the family of Clayton
Spencer. steel manufacturer. Al.
though no city is named. Mrs Rinehart
doubtless had Pittsburgh in mind as
IN" scene of most of the action.
Spencer is married to beautiful but
selfish and shallow minded woman de
voted to gratifying her luxurious tastes.
There is son. twenty-five years old
Just out of college who has been taken
into his fathers mill at n salary. His
mother cOndonCs his CXtravagances and
pays his bills without the knowledge
OF the father. There is a phlandcring
architect in charge of building coun
try house for tho family. The wife,
thinking hcr husband is ucglpcting her.
consoles herself by the compliments of
the architect. The husband finds peace
in the society Of tho widow of scamp
who had gone to France in the am
bulanre service and been killed.
The son is Interested in three girls.
One is the stcnographcr in his Office
with whom he amuscs himself. another
is a girl in fashionable society who
wants to marry fortune and succeeds
in inducing the youth to propose to her
And the third is the daughter of the
rector Of the family church, an early
playmate. Mrs. RinPhart keeps the boy
clean for the sake of the rector S daugh-
ter. to whom she marries him. and she
draws the curtain over the final break
which left Spencer free to marry the
widow.
The story can he put in the hands
Of her old fashioned mother by her most
advanced daughter without the slightest
fear of shocking the Sonsibilitics of the
maturcr woman. In the hands Of some
other uOveliStS sCandalOuS things would
have been made to happen But Mrs.
Rinphart has written of American life
as she knows it, with a belief in the
honor Of most of the men and in the
virtue Of most of the women. The story
is told with her usual Sprightliness and
with her usual insight into the fem
mime mind As it ends happily it will
please those who read for a pleasant
story.
DANGEROUS DAYS By Mary, R2herts
company Sl6O
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Var Story for Bows

Charles Tenny Jackson is not what Is
ordinarily meant by boys writer. He
is remembered especially for several
novels of real interest, one of them Of
politics. He brings a practiced fiction
faculty to Jimmy May on the Fight
ing Line" which succeeds his earlier
"The Call to the Colors." But be-
cause this story has definite form and
balanced proportions it is not lacking
in thrills and adventures. The young
hero goes to France with the A. r. F,
and has exciting experiences in trench
warfare, etc. He is captured by the
enemy only to extricate himself cleverly
from this predicament. This is not an
impossible or sensational story and it is
replete with real information about the
kind of routine and campaign our bows
knew "over there"
JIMMY MAY IN THE FIGHTING LINE Nv
Charles Tenny Jackson. New York: n
Appleton Co.
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Adventure OF a Young Cob

A lot OF good books for boys have
been written about the army and now
comes Ralph Henry Barbour one of the
most skillful and wholesome writer's of
boys fiction. with a bully good story
Of the navy. Mr., Barbour has deserted
the school and sports stories in which he
In a past master TO write Under the
Yankee Ensign" dealing with the ad-
ventures OF seventeen-year-old Dave
Carson and his buddy, Pete Rooney,
aboard a submarine chaser. Dave is
well-educated southern lad and Pete
typical Bowery boy whose nineteen
years OF looking after himself have made
him capable OF keeping an eye open for
the other fellow too. Part of their time
Is as prisoners on a U-boat. But this
is only one of their exciting adventures,
which will be inspiring TO boy readers.
The author has added a good deal of
interesting and valuable detail about
routine life In the navy in time OF war.
UNDER THE YANKEE ENSIGN, By Rslpa
Hansy Barbour. Net York: .. Appleton
Co. also. .s y *
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Sanity about Poetry

Sir Henry Newbolt's a New Study
Of English Poetry" contains some Of
the sanest comments on poetry that
have been made in modern times. He
writes of the nature of poetry. of poetry
and rhythm, of poetry and personality
and poetry and politics. He discusses
Chaucer and Shakespeare and Milton.
the British ballads. and futurism and
form in poetry and kindred matters.
What he has to say of futurism and
form is particularly interesting in these
days of the new" poetry, hailed by
Amy Lowell and others as that great
thing which the world has lacked for
centuries. He says that the evil with
which we have to contend is the old
belief that form is an adornment and
that the poet is decorator. who is
in danger of finding himself out of en-
ployment because he has used up all
the old patterns and cannot invent new
ones. How false this is he indicates
by reminding us that Masefeld's "The
Widow in the Bye Street" is written
in the rhyme royal of Chaucer and
that Masefield finds it adequate for say
ing things Chaucer never thought. But,
says Sir Henry, the futurists have ex-
horted us to greater freedom in px-
preston. and that is always to the
good. They have also invited us to
write poetry without form, that is to
create without the breath of life, he
goes on. This, too, he remarks. is a
service. for by urging us toward the
impossible they have helped to save us
from the fear of it. The book will be
a delight to those specialists interested
in its subject.
A NEW STUDY OF ENGLISH POETRY.
BY Henry Newbolt. N. A" Lift. ID. New
York: r. p. Dutton Co. So
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GOOD NEW FICTION FOR SUMMER READING
LIGHT ON THE
LEAGUE COVENANT
An admirable Exposition by
Mr.. Taft, President LotoeN
and Others

The publishers have done public
service in collecting into a volume the
series Of newspaper articles written in
defense of the league Of nations cove
nant by William II. Taft, George w.
Henry W. Taft. These articles were
printed in number Of newspapers
throughout the country without sigma
lures. In the book the name Of the
author of each article is given In the
index.
The text Of the league covenant, as
adopted at the Peace Conference on
April %, is given by way of introduc-
ton. 1t is followed by series Of three
articles by President Lowell on THE
Objects to Be Obtained" on the "Na-
ture Of the League" and on the COR
gans of the League" Henry w. Taft
discusses it's constitutionality and its
relation to sovereignty. Then each ar.
ticle of the covenant is taken up seria-
tim and discussed in detail, by Presi-
dent Lowell and William H. Taft. The
objections to them are met and the
arguments in defense of them are set
forth with clearness and precision.
Mr.. Wickersham writes about arbi-
tration, the colonial mandates, and
labor and discusses the historical back
ground of the whole program. Henry
w. Taft deals with the Monroe Doc
trine and President Lowell writes
concluding chapter.
The volume will be invaluable to
those who wish to have in convenient
form an armory Of arguments with
which to refute the opponents of the
plan as well as to those who are still
seeking light on the subject. The
whole discussion is singularly calm and
reasonable. 1t is an appeal to the in
telligence and common sense of the
reader.
THE COVENANTER. An American Expo
sition of the Covenant of the League of
Nations. By William H Taft and Others
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co 81. .25,
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Alfred the Great

Beatrice A. Lees, sometime tutor OF
Somerville College, Oxford, has added
comprehensive biography of Alfred the
Great to the Heroes of the Nations"
series. The author has specialized in
early English history and is especially
remembered for her King Alfred to
Edward ]" and THE Central Period
of the Middle Ages She subtitles her
biography of Alfred The Truth Tell
err: The Maker of England and these
characteristic phrases give an idea of
the program of her treatment of the
romantic, practical and philosophical
figure of her book. Alfred was all of
these and statesman as we'll. This ac-
count of his life is both popular and
scholarly.
ALFRED THE GREAT. BY Beatrice A.
Lees. New York: G. p Putnam's Sons.
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Books added to the Free, Library. rhir-
sSGHR tssRtH and Tfy Locust Streets during the
Miscellaneous
A{Gksr A{5S,s Pauh Ds'tT Of Dc t1. V'Ess. Es.,.
Bourget. Paul---'Les Deux Soeurs"
Cas-: 6: B,-"New Book of Conundrums
Grove, ! R;-"Pat. Grows, Aviator"
-, Hodges, George - How to Know .hs
MSaFsrlshs MSiTs shs sGSf sna co,r,
of orgaGlo Eyoluti9s" Eyoluti
SSTS%fi SsenSam. JoSn-,i,Rss. IN Amber"
grsRhy and School OF Ivory carvers in
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vSSrfrs; vSS 8sEsPtsr,, 4 j. H@Mss4Iur the Small
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%sTd Mrs. HumDhry-"writsr's Reool.
%assirE'G%n WaSsi % sf0rb" B'!eHodsrn ed Pilgrim in
Western efficiency sSeiet 'ouestio iopnair.
Wheeler, W. P.-"chins and the World
&sox. Mrs. p. w.".,,;worIas;" w..,;v,,,;,
'''Fy WlldSas5y aSts5y worn RProbsm N Pre- o. Ma.
Wood O. W-Great Change"
Wood. M M-"spirit OF Protest In Old
Wight, Dudisy-"vamplrss and vampir.
ism"
Fiction
Besbie. -"convictions OF Christie
Cobb I. S. -..I.ifs y, the Party"
Hay lanes Jr-''Winning Clue"
isversse Henry--'White Cipher"
Robinson' h HS-,'spilss :,
Waffs n S--tFrofn Father 10 Son %
Wsstoa. Georse--''You Never Saw Such q
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Poems by Marie Tudor

THE Potter's Clay is the intriguing
title of the first collection of poems by
Marie Tudor, an American writer who
expresses herself both in vers libre and
in the conventional metric forms. Miss
Tudor's poems are happily entitled in
this general way dealing as they do
with life, love aud death, the universal
things wrought by the potter out of bis
clay Passion is the Torch" in free
verse. is Que Of the poignant and signi-
fieant things In the volume,
fssE qaIEs 95rR 3 SSx Fs 1da. Hssis psSf
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BOOKS RECEIVED

THE COVENANTER. Exposition Of the
league OF nations. BY William Howard
TAFT. GeoTge v, wv wiSkssTEsham; sT A; Law:
city: Doubleday, Page & Co 81 25
SIMPLE RULES AND PROBLEMS OF
mAxsTni msstsr mariner New York: E. pattUn pHfts
ALASKA. BY Agnes Rush Barr. Boston:
pRdupsssASNIsM RUS AND PAcIF1cIsM. BY
Poultney BiEelew; New York; q. p Put
ROOsEVELT. BY George Sylvester viereck.
New York: The Jackson Press s1.3
THE WINNING CLUE. BY James Hay
Jr. New York: Dodd, Mead & co. sl.56.
Rlns. New York: George II. Doran Com
coSMSMfERciAL POLICY IN WARTIME AND
AFTER BY william Smith Culberson
New York: D. Appleton Co. $3.50
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Famous Ghost Stories

J. w. McSpadden has collected four
teen famous ghost stories into volume
which will keep awake O. nights nervous
readers. He starts with Defoe's true
relation of the apparition of Mrs. Veal
the next day after her death and ends
with "The Bagman's Story" by
Dickens. And he includes Bulwer-
Lytton's "The Haunted and the
Haunters, one of the most thrilling
scarers in print. In these days of in
terest in the supernatural there ought
to be a renewed demand for these
imaginative tales of the dead who walk
FAMOUS GHOST STORIES. Edited by J.,
W. McSpadden. New York: T. Y. Croweli
Company. $1.25.
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A tale blen din e

A tale b N d i n e
quantity the diverse elements of
love. mystery, humor and the
curious passions of book-hun-
ter. The scene is an extrsordi-
nary secondhand bookshop, over
which Roger Mifflin, the Book
seller of Mr.. Morley's earlier
work, "Parnassus on Wheels"
presides. Titania comes to learn
the book business; Aubrey to sell
advertising; Oliver Cromwell
walks right into mystery and
books fguratively described as
explosives develop extraordinary
potentialities Net S1.50.
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At THE FREE LIBRARY

Books added to the Free Library. rbIr.
teenth and Locust streets. during the v eek
ending July 10:
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
The Cattle King From the Bush
Wants to See What Amer
lea Looks Like

thing, my wife has relatives in Cali4
fornia and | want TO go there and
live for bit. ! want to see ths
cattle ranches and what's best I'd
be done. America must be a won-
derful country, and l can't under
stand why I've never been there
Been too busy, as matter Of fact
Mr.. Kidman was asked what he
thought Of the future Of the cattle
trade between Australia and Amer.
ica. He could not see much pros.
pect of development for several
years.
"Australa is not producing
enough beef to permit of any bust.
ness with America. Europe, now
that the war is over and the indus.
try has been held up for over four
years, will want all the cattle We
can send. England will want meat,
and so will France and Belgium and
the rest. The number of cattle is
not increasing in Australia, and the
droughts have seriously interfered
with production and involved heavy
losses. The march of closer settle.
mcnt has rushed the cattle men
further into the interior. I have
never done any business direct with
America. but 7 have sold extensive+
ly to a company which has wide re+
latlons with that country
"You will find it hard to keep
your determination to retire and be
lazy after your fong years in thu
saddle was closing remark to
the owner of the worlds biggest cat
tie ranches. who talks Of few thou.
sand acres as a 'little block" In
South Australia he has one prop
erty which embraces 1923 square
miles and others in Queensland
ranging from 4,oo0-odd up to 5000
or 1000 square miles.
well" remarked Kidman, deci.
sively, 1--WE made up my mind I'd
have a spell, and I'm turning some
Of my stations into companies for
that purposes. They'll run much
easier. The cattle business is dif,
ferent proposition from what it was,
We can sell our beasts every year,
from 100 to 10000 or 10000, to thu
meat works. l think things will be
all right when leave, but I'm go-
ing for this trip to America, any.
how"
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
Sidney Kidman Can Only Ap-
proximate His Thousands of
Head of Cattle and Horses

crowded cities into the sleeping re-
sources Of Central Australia. He
reckoned he could conquer the un-
tanned wilderness, and packed up and
went out and tackled it.
| don't believe Kidman went to
school. If he did he was not long
enough there to remember it, and
certainly what he got left him with
no marked educational equipment.
He was fashioned in the rough and
has not had time to sit down and try
TO take the ragged edges off. The
artistic finish of a college or a uni
verslty might even have interfered
with his sound, rugged Judgment.
de is to-day what he is because of
What he has always becn-just a
plain man Of the bush, heroically ad-
venturous, undaunted by obstacles
which have crippled and killed 9TH
ers who have gone out and chal-
lenged adversely in her own domain.
careless in pretty we'll everything
but his business, caring not a flick
OF bullock's tail for style or lam
guage or dress.
A millionaire to-day. Kidman re-
mains the bushman, looks it and
cannot possibly get himself out of
the habit of looking it. He is not the
cattle king when he is in the CITY.
but an impatient, restless citizen
who wants elbow room, the unfenced
country and the clear sky. 1t is out
in the loneliness of Australia's spa
cious center, with nothing to shut
off the view and plenty of space to
galop in, where romance mixes with
business. that Sidney Kidman reigns
and understands. His throne is the
saddle, his careless clothes the robes
of Office, and the subjects of his
empire walk on four legs and link
horizon to horizon and sunrise to
sunset.
His life story is a book Of ex-
traordinary achievement. Let him
tell it himself-in part-from the
day he left home and struck north
into q strange land.
His First Job
81 laid out 81 los on a horse
and hit out toward New South
Wales. Ny first job was at the
famous Barrier Broken Hill, of
mining eminence) as cowboy, and
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

sit at your table. like one Of your
children?"
These words astonishcd the blond
Lady. She answered.:
"All the little children Of this un-
happy country are my children"
The little boy looked at her, al
ways with the same piercing eyes.
why are you so sad, madame?"
Because I am thinking Of all the
little children who have perished in
the war, of those whose mothers
have been massacred, Of those whose
fathers will never come back from
the battles along the User"
Don't talk to me like that,
madame said the child. "You will
make me cry"
The blond Lady looked off into the
distance.
"If | could help it not u e.lgle
child in this country would ever cry
And I do all that CANAL that |
can
who are you, then, madame?"
Z My little boy, I am simply d lady
who loves the poor and the unfortu
nate and who suffers at seeing them
suffer"
The child raised his little finger
and said, with a mysterious air:
so was right in coming to your
house. But aren't you something
else besides what you say you are?"
"In the bottom of my heart | am
nothing else" answered the blond
Lady.
"Then," said the child, fixing on
her his wide-open eyes, which seemed
to read the universe, "why do the
officers downstairs, all covered with
stars, call you 'Majesty'?'
The blond Lady blushed and said,
With gentle smile:
TO the little children of my king
dom | wish to be only mother. To-
morrow they will take you to a
warm house where I care for them
as if they were my own"
"To-morrow, said the boy, 81
shall not be here. | shall go back
tc the place l came from"
The blond Lady trembled a little.
She felt some influence at work In
her presence which she couldn't un-
derstand. The child got up from the
table. His shabby clothes had turned
to silk and gold. His lips uttered
phrases which she didn't compre-
hend. She caught only the single
word "peace."
"What are you saying, little boy?"
she asked, apdously.
"I was repeating" he answered,
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

must be told here. The great silver
mines Of Broken Hill were "berin-
ming to move along" as the cattle
king puts it, when he was travelling
cattle around those wide, drought
held areas. Soon after the seasons
began to improve Sidney Kidman
went to one station and bought 900
cows and bullocks, all the owners
could muster out of former 10000
head. He met man who was sink
ing tank at spot close to where
the famous Barrier is now located,
Kidman told the sequel:
~ gave Jim Poole ten Of the culls
of my mob for a fourteenth share
in Broken Hill Those culls were
worth about 83 shillings. Later on.
when I was going to Broken Hill in
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
4 Rough Road to Riches

"That was bit Of money for me
in those days" he said, rehectively
Il went on buying horses and sell
ing them. But that business came
to a stop eventually, and when
found there was nothing doing in
dealing in horses I got mail con-
tracts. Before I put my team in
the coach, however. fellow agreed
to take over my contract and give
me $500. l took it. The firm that
got the job made $4,000 year. /
went cattle dealing again, lost 800
on mob, had another try and lost
i100 more.
Things we're getting pretty Sc
rlous. There was drought out in
the northwestern country at this
time, and I got hold of fifty tons
of chaff at $40 a ton. I held it. !
was away for about three months,
and when l returned again I sold it
for $50 ton. made good deal
in oats, too, SO I was getting back
some of my cattle losses"
What Mr.. Kidman calls now a
little romance" but at the time
was a tragic bit of bad Judgment,
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

7 WASN'T the chime Of the
church bells, ringing for mid
night mass, which they heard
that evening in the Plain of
Flanders. 1t was the humming OF /
. an unknown airplane.
The blond Lady, dwelling in a
white farmhouse in the midst Of the
plain, was disquieted and said to the
Great Soldier, her husband:
Listen. Isn't that an enemy
MOTOR"
Il don't recognize that motor"
answered the Great Soldier.
Then it seemed as if the machine
landed somewhere in the fields.
There was silence again, broken at
intervals by the booming Of cannon,
muffled in the fog But presently
they heard voices below. The officers
on duty were talking and laughing.
The blond Lady listened. Then she
murmured:
II hear a child"
She was curious to know what
was going on. An officer of the guard
appeared and bowed before the
blond Lady. He explained that they
had below q pretty little Flemish
boy, dressed in rags, who kept re-
peating:
II want to see the Lady I want
10 see the Lady,"
II want to see him, too" the
blond Lady cried.
She gave orders to send the boy
upstairs. He entered the room. His
little feet showed through his torn
and muddy shoes. He wore pima
fore. with blue squares, such as
French and Flemish peasant women
Put on their children.
He stood erect before the blond
Lady, his yellow curls flowing. his
cheeks round and rosy and his keen
eyes looking straight ahead.
She asked him dozen questions:
where do you come from? Where
is your mamma? Who brought you
here? What is your name"
But the boy didn't answer them.
He merely said:
1.-THE war frightened me. SO |
came to you"
The blond Lady felt her heart
sws1l With compassion. She bent
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

Queen, who concealed your rank
from me in order to draw nearer to
me in my childishness, who gave me
bread with all your heart-I see that
you understand the sermon Of my
humble infancy.'
The blond Lady tried to say:
my people and their allies are on
the side Of right. They are people
of good will
The Child moved softly toward
one of the easements of the white
hall. His clothes were like a mirror
rejecting the rays Of the sun. His
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

"a song which my mother told me
the angels sang over my cradle
when | was born.'
The Lady veiled her face with her
hands, and asked, tremblingly:
"Who are you, then?'
II am the Child whom Christmas
gave to men long ago, OH a night
like this. l am Simplicity and Love.
| am the Lesson of Humanity which,
each Christmas Eve, come back to
preach to the world and which the
world doesn't understand. You,
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21
YUer

Good Will. The real peace will CONS
to the nations in which each citizen
Will have wished it, not for his own
good, but for his country's good"
The Lady listened, with closed
eyes, TO the words Of the mysterious
Child. When her lids opened no had
vanished. She lifted the muslin cur
tain to look out into the blue depths
of the night. But she saw only
big golden airplane, with iris wings,
which mounted toward the skies.
making what sounded like celestial
music.
New-York tribune., 1919-12-21

eyes We're as deep as the skies. He
said:
The true peace, the peace which
you desire, will be the recompense
of the peoples Of the best will-of
the strongest, the most intlexible, the
most invincible, the most unalter-
able will, the will which seeks
neither its own advantage nor
its own welfare nor any personal
interest whatever, but which CON
sents to all abnegations, to all i'm
violations, to ali sacrifices. That
is the Perfect Will That is the