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Monday Mo- by the score OF b TO 4.
Westminster Fire Company
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tnn T TO be a false alarm.
urom reports through the hardware
.aros the citizens are investing In
60 arms and ammunition for lead
oontion which will be given when
t5e opportunity is needed.
delegation OF citizens from Union
pridga we're before the County Com
r,issioners Monday in the interest OF
ling new school building erected
- that place. Quite o number OF
' a. were among the delegation.
pa+ro1man Ellis, Baltimore, who
,,rasted Earl Summers, Mt. Airy, and
pnfus Norwood, Baltimore, for
snaading i'm an automobile on April
II ia facing a suit of $4,000 by Nor
wood, whom he struck with his cluD'
Under a recent Revenue Act war
tax will be charged on all soft
drinks, ice cream and everything i'm
that line. The tax is as follows: l
cont tax for each drink costing 10
cents or less, cents tax from III
cents to 20 cents, 3 cents tax from
p cents to 80 cents, etc.
"A Ford with horse sense" is the
wav Mrs. Carl Bahnsen, St: Louis,
described her roadster in telling po-
lice of an attempt to steal 1t. Mrs.
Bahnsen said the machine was gifted
with horse sense" because 1t baked
in front of their home and refused
to no any further after it was stolen
in another section Of the city.
Rev. J. Gould Mickey, OF Union
town, has been honored by Harvard
University i'm being selected as a
Travelling Fellow to Oxford Univer-
sity, England, for the academic year
OF 1890. Mr.. Mickey Is a son of
tlestown and was graduated from
Gettysburg College in 1912 and the
Seminary in 1915. Mr.. and Mrs.
Mickey expect to sail for England
about September IS.
The heaviest sentences ever given
in Adams county court, Gettys-
burg, went ON record Mon
day when Judge Mcpherson
sentenced John Miller for a mini
mum Of p years and Fred Moore Or
minimum of II years. The prison
ers are the men who entered the
store Of Abner S. Mills, Gettysburg
grocer, on the night of February p,
when Miller is alleged to have fired
shot into Mills head, causing a
wound which for many days, was
expected to result fatally. The VIC
tim OF the shooting is now able to be
about, though he still carries the
bullet in his head.
MT. and Mrs. Joshua Stewart and
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Stewart and
daughters. Edna and Catherine and
Mrs. Annie Humbert entertained the
following visitors ON Sunday: Mr..
and Mrs. Milton Bish and daughter,
Mary, Mr.. and Mrs Nathaniel Llppy
and granddaughter, Geneva Lippy,
Mrs. John Flickinger and children,
Irwin and Isabelle, Mrs. John Hum
bert and daughter, Tavern, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles e. Baumgartner and
grandsons, Charles and Stewart
Reese, Mrs. Orestus Feezer and
daughter Mary, Mr.. and Mrs. Moses
}. M. Troxell and children, Mary,
George and Burnell and Mrs. Emma
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SymonS'S New Volume of Essays

ightful Indeed, am at a loss to ac-
count for some of the charm of the book,
unless attribute it solely to style. But
/ hasten to add that in this case the style
is the criticism. With the exception of
two OF three of the earlier essays where
the style is self-eonscious, there is no ap-
parent effort to achieve charm and dis
tinction, for the greater part. Studies in
the EIisabetha1 Drama is a triumph of
impressionistic criticism.
Arthur Symons, as critic and poet, is
able to impart information in an inter
esting manner. His work here is not in
the least perfunctory, and if he tells us
that Romeo and Juliet is a lyrical tragedy
Of young love, he tells it in such a way
as to lead us to believe we have heard a
revelation.
"The play of Romeo and Juliet is like
a piece of music, and it is tie music which
all true lovers have heard in the air since
they began listening 10 one another's voices.
Here, for once, youth becomes conscious
Of itself, and of the charm which is passing
out of the world with its passing. A
young man wrote this wise and passionate
eulogy of youth, and it is that eontempo-
raneous heat of blood in it which has kept
the names of these two young lovers alive
in mems minds us the perfect exemplars
of unspoiled love-"
This is no news to Prof. Furness, though
it may very well be to those who read the
play without looking into the Variorum
Edition.
In the opening paper of the volume, on
Antony and Cleopatra, we meet this shrewd
sentence on Enobarbus, who has usually
been considered merely a comic figure
though one in whom the deepest tragedies
of life are forever pathetically ridiculous:
"The ambiguous character Of Encbarbus
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is still further useful in giving the point
of irony which appears in all really true
and fine studies of a world in which irony
seems, after all, TO be the final word
with the disinterested observer. Enobar-
bus acts the part of chorus. He is neither
for nor against virtue, and by seeming
10 confound moral judgments he serves
the part of artistic equity"
The essay on Macbeth is brief and SIM
pie, but it is compact with genuine critical
insight. Here again is no startling new
theory, but notice the closing words on
Lady Macbeth: "The imagination which
stands her in place of virtue has brought
in its revenge, and for her too there is
left only the release of death. She dies, not
of remorse at her guilt, but because she
has miscalculated her power of resistance,
the scoUrge of an overacute imagination"
Brief studies on Tloelfth Wight, Measure
for Measure and the Winters Tale fol-
low, and then comes the first of the
more OF less Scholarly" studies: Titus
Andronicus and the Tragedy Of Blood
This smacks rather Of the classroom, but
it is redeemed from dulness by tie magic
of the style. The Question Of Henry VIII.
is similar in treatment. But with the
papers on Romeo and Juliet and Gym
beline we return to the more casual form.
The following sentence sums up for me
the subject of Shakespeare's later style:
"In Cymbelinc, as in all Shakespeare's
later plays, the writing is for the most
part moulded upon thought. with close
ness very different from the draped splen-
doris Of the earlier work"
The Shakespearian studies terminate
with paper on TroilHs and Cressidd. The
last part Of the book is devoted to an in
forming essay on Massinger, lighter one
on John Day, author of The Parliament Of
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Bees, and long study of Middleton
and Rowley.
Poets have made good critics-need we
instance Coleridge and Goethei But among
living poet-eritics there is none with a
better title TO unstinted praise than Arthur
Symons- 1 have always felt that his
poetry was stu lied, that his Inspiration
as poet was the inspiration of the critic;
in other words, his lyric flight was the in
evitable result of his sympathy with and
appraisal of the lyric flight of others. But
his poetic efforts are worth while if no
has by his practice come closer to the
soul of poetry in order to interpret it to
Others
Although his prose style is never married
by "bits of poetry" Sy1nons is always the
poet writing prose; the prose is usually
better than the verse. This is why his
criticism will be read after his verse is for
gotten. His prose is inspired, but at the
same time it is inextrieably woven into his
thoughts, or rather his thoughts are so
lyrically expressed that they inspire first
and inform later. Who but a poet would
have used the expression, "draped splen-
doris" in connection with the style Of
Shakespeare's early playsf And who
but critic would have conceived the
thought
Studies in the Elizabethdn Drama is tie
sort Of criticism that is found only too
seldom nowadays, when the criticism Of
exegesis and fact, comparison and theory,
is left to uninspired students. Arthur
Symons is courageously, though modestly,
redeeming the art of criticism by prac-
Using it.
STUDIES IN THE ELIZABETHAN
DRAMA. By AsTHUR sYNoNs. Z. p.
Dutton & Co.
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By BENJAMIN DE cASSERES.


THE title of the book, The Pale Horse,
L by "Ropshin" boris Savirkov),
struck my brain like a blow from giant
knuckIe. 1t rolled back the years TO my
first aesthetic thrill. The boy was one day
taken away from his marbles by his
father, and together they went to the
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
at Broad and Cherry streets, Philadelphia.
1t was the Quaker Louvre. Friday after
moons the old Germania orchestra used to
play in one of the galleries selections from
MendeksOhn, Martha" ''Pinafore" and
List. The building was generally packed
with the musical elite from Susquehanna
avenue to Ben Franklin's grave. As it
was not Sunday, secular music was not
frowned upon.
All was pishposh TO the boy until he
came before huge canvas by Benjamin
West called Death on the Pale Horse. /
do not know whether this canvas is con-
sidered superchromo or not, but to the
boy it was the first spiritual event in his
life. He did not hear the music or see the
other paintings, but he sat before Death
on the Pale Horse till his, father led him
home. And the boy went back every time
he could dig up a quarter (Utopian
pricesD and sat studying that picture of
his Grievous Majesty astride that Apoca>
lyptie horse that trampled kings and peas
ants, artists and buffoons, babies and II
tans into the dust Marbles no longer in
terested the boy. He opened Schopen-
hauer and began his education. In the
House of Death he began to understand
ife-hke the Russian.
In Russia today the Pale Horse is the
Pegasus of millions. The beat of his i'm
placable hoof is heard in the dead of the
night on the roof. He is pestilence, ia
naticisn, revolution, terror. His rider is
the Santa Claus of the starving, the
marked; a Santa Clans, who gives not
toys bur sleep. He is the immanent spirit
Of "Ropshin's" powerful and dramatic
study OF the lives, minds and spiritual
agonies of Russia's bomb throwers and
terrOrists.
The author was Minister of War in
Kerensly's Cabinet and before that ter
rorist under the old regime. He was i'm
plicated in the ASSASSINATION Of the Grand
Duke Sergius and Won Plehve, and was
aopdar11,aad tn death Of SahaStopol nc
capped TO Switzerland and then to France
At the outbreak of the Great War he
fought in the French Army until March,
1917, when he returned to Russia. On the
fall Of Kerensky he fled again from the
Bolsheviki.
The book he has written is told in the
form Of romance, but it is easy to see
that it is photographed. He is mas
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of essays on Shakespeare and hall
a dozen other Elizabethans; covering the
period between 1885 and 1907-practi-
caIly the entire period of Mr.. Symons's lit
erary activities. The papers were written
for various purposes and on various oc-
casions, though these are not stated, and
from many different points of view. They
reveal something Of the range OF Arthur
Symons's sympathies, style and critical
perceptions.
Studies in the EliSabethGn Drama is a
precious volume, not primarily because of
the light it throws upon problems which
have been considered by scholars who are
better informed than Symons, but because
of their intrinsic value as literary per-
fornlances and their authors extraordi-
nary insight into the spirit of the drama
with which they are concerned. While
Mr.. Symons is sufficiently familiar with
the names and dates and latest attribu-
tons, we still feel that the scholarship
may be safely left to Mr. Bullen and Prof.
Sehelling; we are content to listen to
Symons as commentator, and happy to
browse amcng his enhancing pages
At this late day it would seem that
fairly large volume, composed for the most
part of individual papers on ten Of
Shakespeare's plays, with no particu-
larry startling theory 10 advance and no
new point of departure indicated, might
not invite the casual reader. or even him
who opens volume of essays in prefer
ence to a novel; but here is book, COW
ering ground every inch of which is ia
milim, that is both informing and de-
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4 D page l9o Oh 4"S r." 0oS' CIV
~ relied, Frederick Coleman, the
author, orders a drink. He has been
stalking the Open Door all over China
and Japan, and orders a drink when at
last he has heard the truth about it, and,
moreover, has seen and heard enough by
this time TO know the truth when he
hears it.
"Open Door? Great Scott! It is
open enough for a man who is hard TO
keep out Of place into which he has
perfect night to enter"
In other words, Japan may not be
scrupulous about keeping all its pledges
in regard to China, and may even gently
close the door and seek TO hold it closed.
But if anybody comes along with a
jimmy who really wants to get In and
intends to get in Japan will gracefully
give way, since Japan is wise, and to
give way when one must is the essence
Of wisdom.
Sc much for Mr.. Coleman's unwilling
Of Japan, which is a much more thor
Ough business, however, than this single
incident would indicate. An interview
he describes with WI Ting fang, former
Chinese Minister TO this country, al
though brief, is equally revealing Of Chi
nese character. "By the way" said Mr.
Coleman TO Mr.. WI, ito what party do
you belongf
"Wu Ting Fang laughed in the pc
culiarly engaging way be has of laugh
ing. 4 belong TO more than one he
replied. 'rhey ask me to JOIN their par
ties, and wishing to be obliging, for 1
am Chinese in that particular, you see,
] join them"
Which may very well illustrate China's
the more the merrier attitude toward the
various slIitors for her trade and loans
and concessions. After all, it is prob
ably not for a Westerner to judge the
East. Soldier, farmer, artisan, trades
man" is an old saw in China, where the
soldier has been highest in the social
scale and the tradesman the lowest
Mr.. Coleman does not give a fsttering
view of japanese business morality or
industrial conditions. He says the jap
anese will copy foreign label or trade
mark to the best of their ability. He
makes the excuse that japanese business
morality, ike so much else in Japan, is
not more than fifty years old. He in
speeted factories in all the more impor-
tant industrial centres, and everywhere
he has the same story to tell, the lowest
possible pay for the longest possible
hours, and the fewest possible nonwork-
ing days, perhaps two in a month. In
regard to one matter, Mr.. Coleman
found the testimony unanimous and also
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"The Pale Horse"

ter of a great style, and he has written
one of the most powerful, remarkable and
fascinating analyses of the mind of the
Russian terrorists of 1905 that has yet
been written. He belongs to the school o.
Dostoievsky, and he achieves his effects
without the prolixity of the author of
Crime and Punishment. His style is ner-
vous, Sententious, eliptical. He arrives at
his effects through the use of ironic elm
ination-the perfection of brain work.
Poetry, love, sentiment and murder are his
masks
Nothing easier, and nothing commoner,
than to satirize the Russian and his "com-
plexes." But to-day there is less of that
than formerly. Even the cartoons in the
newspapers depicting the Russian as
hairy monster begin 10 fall fiat. We know
it's lie. In the movies" there is never
any applause when the camps of the Al
lies In northern Russia arc shown. It is
not because we are Bolsheviki. 1t is be-
cause there is the consciousness in the
crudest mind among us that the most ire
mendous social tragedy of the ages is being
staged under our eyes. 1t is the Geth-
semane of the most remarkable people in
the world. The Russian is essentially a
religious being. He wrestles today with
primal forces, as in the past His martyr
dom would move to pity the tears of all
the frozen gods. He gropes like Gdipus,
without sight, without hope; but he gropes.
He is the Hamlet and the Orestes Of
Europe-of the world. II is not well for
the man or the people who laughs at Rus
STA, symbol of the eternal agony Of the
human race.
The story is simple. There is a Gov
ernOr to be killed, and before he is killed
by bomb the reader has gone through
the hells and heavens Of the Russian mind
its innate humanity and horror of kill
ing, its pessimistic mysticism, its eternal
soliloquies with God and the Man of Gal
lice, its hair splitting, wherein Conscience
always is the fine knife at work; its hu-
mility, its morbid egotism, its mirages of
humanity freed, its Utopian grandeurs.
The Russian terrorists in this book are
always divided between the Mosaic creed
of can eye for an eye and tooth for
tooth" and the teachings of the GaIilean.
They kill their Governor at last, and he
who did asks at the end, Who laid upon
me this burden f-the cry of Hamlet. And,
Am | not the fool Of the universe THE
cry of Don Quixote.
Hamlet-Don Quixote-that is the Rus
sian, and as Shakespeare and Cervantes
offered no solution to the cul-de-sac OF
their immortal creations, neither does
"Ropshin" to the Russian problem. The
rest is silence-and war.
THE PALE HORSE. BY "RoPsu1x.
Alfred A. Knopf
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"The Far East Unveiled"

in accord with his own observations, that
the japanese tailoring man is no match
for the Chinese. He quotes an intelli-
gent japanese engineer In the railway
workshops at Sbahokou as saying:
Undoubtedly the Chinese are better
worlmen than the japanese. There can
be no two opinions ON that head. To be-
gin with the Chinese, man for man, is
far stronger than the japanese. He ap-
plies himself much better. When pass
through the works and hammer blow
falls behind me can tell without turn
ing TO look at the striker whether he is
Chinese or japanese. Besides, the Chi
nese keep at their work better. The
japanese talk too much. To be fair, the
japanese are not In the same class as
the Chinese as workmen. If I were run
ming these works with the sole idea of
arranging my labor so as TO provide the
greatest economy I would have about
four or five Chinese to one japanese"
This, Mr.. Coleman thinks, may ex-
plain why, after having had foothold
In Manchuria for over eleven years
ever since Japan's acquisition from Rus
sia Of the South Manehurian Railway
and the railway area-there are only
100000 japanese there. He says: "The
truth is that the japanese as a japanese
cannot hold a candle to the Chinese as
Chinese when it comes to the labor field.
This is particularly true Of the
farmer In Manchuria."
There are as many opinions of Japan
as there are ways of spelling Kiao-C hau
and there are ffty-seven varieties of
these. Mr.. Coleman does not want to be
listed as anti-Japanese any more than
prO-Japanese. So far as Japan is con-
cerned he seems to be from Missouri,
has his eyes open, is no sentimentalist,
and wants to be shown. At least he is
fattering enough TO the Japanese to sug-
gest that they need watching. He rec
ogni1es, along with Messrs. Lansing and
Ishii, the peramountcy of Japan's inter-
est in China, and thinks that Japan's
dominancy in the future trade of China
is inevitable, no matter what a mans
opinion may be. But he advises the
other Powers to see to it that weeds do
not grow up around the Open Door, or
the latch get rusty. His book is easily
one Of the most unprejudieed and best
informed of the many recent books on
the subject. His interviews with the
various great men of China and Japan
are interesting, and his accounts of la
Dor conditions In the Orient and the ex-
tent Of Japan'r recent industrial devel-
opment are unusually complete and up
to date
THE FAR EAST UNVEILED. BY FRED
ERIcK COLEMAN. Boston: Houghton Miliin
COMPANY,
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Arthur
By BARRETT H. CLARK.

. RTHUR SYMONS'S Studies in the
Y EHSabethaa Drama is q collection
The Washington times., 1919-03-08
Gasoline Sure to Rise
I'm Price, Says Expert;
A No Help From Mexico

such as benzol. alcohol. and shale-
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and may have to be adopted ulti-
mately, but their price would neces-
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line today. because Of high manu-
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would reach so or 90 cents per gal
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l. The automotive industry can no
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= The supply will positively de-
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3. The burden falls upon the en-
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