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New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
The Arrow of Gold
Joseph Conrad's Romance OF
Marseilles or Anywhere

~ur ARROW OF GOLD. by Joseph
Conrad. l2mo. PIP. 3sS. DouoiedAy'
Page & Co.
One of the essential qualities OF
classic is universality, and, judged ac-
snrd;nr 70 that rule, this latest ro-
nance of Mr.. Conrad's may well lay
rjsim to classic distinction. Begin
Ming and ending at Marseilles, in
CsrIist uprising of generation ago,
the place and date are OF significance.
yet so fine is the authors art that
.hs motives. passions and real vitality
~ the work might we'll belong to any
o.hsr scene and any other era in the
s;xtory of the world. In one sense 1t
:. historical novel since it deals with
.ss Carlisr enterprise. But that is as
nurely q matter of convenience and de-
ts;l as is the placing Of Hamlet" at
Elsinore. ~.
enterprise Of Mills and Blunt in be-
hslf Of the Spanish Pretender, but the
iove affair between George and Rita,
whirh grows out of the former only
;r,msasnrably to overshadow it. All
nIs. is stage setting, though Of the
mos+ vital and realistic kind. To con-
4irns u the figure the whole story is in
tsnse,v dramatic in the truest sense
~ The term. That is to say, 1t is told
~ seton. Even the elusive psychology
80 nona Rita is revealed not in the
ord;narv analytical fashion, but
through her acts and words. The
author never has to tell US anything:
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
Rejuvenation
The Story of a Man Who Finds
Himself

WHILE THERE'S LIFE BY Elinor Mcrdaunt-
l2no.. pp $50 Henry Holt & CO.
Hugh d'Eath, an elderly Englishman,
a widower and the father of large
family of very dull children, who have
managed him the greater part of his
life, suddenly runs away. His doctor
has told him that he has only year or
SO to live, that some mysterious heart
trouble will prove his undoing. He is
ordered to Nauheim. His eldest and
most masterful daughter has intended
to accompany him. but at the last mo-
ment circumstances intervene, and he
starts off alone. He gets no further
than London and adventures into the
east side. Here life takes on new
meaning; it begins 20 be real. instead
of dull and drab. His youngest daugh-
ter, Susie, who is a bit like her father,
when the war commences gets alarmed
at the reports of the hardships i'm
posed on the English residents of Nau-
helm, and she also runs away to find
her father. Their adventures bring
them together, and result in both Of
them finding love and happiness. The
story is we'll told, and the plot clever
ly worked out. Rene, the coster flower
girl, is an extremely amusing character.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
Blood and Sand
RlascO Ibanez in His First and
Almost Best Work

BLOOD AND SAND. By Vicente Blasco
Ibanez. Translated by Mrs w A Gil
lespe With Introduction by Isaac
Goldberg Grown Svo. PIP. xii, 356 L. F.
Dutton & Co.
The same comment must be made
upon this gigantic work that we made
upon "The Shadow of the Cathedral. "
Its theme is not of immediate interest
to American readers, as was and is
that of the -Four Horses of the Apoc-
alypse." We do not have bullight-
ing in this country, any more than
we have Spanish ecclesiasticism
Nevertheless the nations of the world
have grown so close together that
each must measurably adopt the cpl
gram of Terence and account itself
interested in anything that interests
any other.
For those, then, who would have an
indescribably vived view of the great
national sport of Spain, and of its
place in and influence upon Spanish
life, this masterpiece is to be COM
mended in the strongest and most un-
reserved terms. 1t Is both realism
and romanticism at their best. The
impassioned elan of the toreador's
song, "Toreador, attente!" sweeps
through every chapter, with the dust
and blood of the arena and the roar
of the acclaiming multitudes. Not
even Ibanez has ever written with
more vital spirit, with more graphic
and dramatic power.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12

like an old friend. And, after ALL
there are only-how many plots is il
tnat the textbooks declare? Thev
nave long since been exhausted. and
II takes very clever person like Mrs.
! iilnehart SO to disguise an old one
mat 1t seems original and proves good
reading; The midnight marriage at
,deathbed. which suddenly gives new
NE to the half-dead man, resulting
IN MS recovery and lot of complica'
tlons, is certainlv an ancient enough
SITUATION, and yet the person who
llkes TO be amused will be delirhted
with the way Mrs. Rinehart works il
out. -
As has been stated, it is hard TO
choose, and Twenty-Five" makes a
strong bid for first choice. The old
doctor, who has fallen behind the SCI
eNtinc achievements Of his profession.
and yet by force of lovable person,
atty has kept the faith Of his na-
tlents, who makes an unscientifc dag
nosis because modern medicine has
outstripped him, is a very human fr.
ure. How N. Jane Brown sacrifices
her career to save Tony's life and,
when the doors of the hospital close
against her, finds love and Twenty
WoY waiting to claim her, is delight
fully told. 49,
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
Impossible "Business"

MAID AND WIFE BY Carolyn Beecher Illus
trated. l2mo So $50. Brit,on Publishing Com
Iauy.
One wonders where the women who
write of the business world get their
knowledge, and longs to require them
to spend at least week in the world
of finance. This book is not uninter-
estlng, but it is quite imposs bile Moth
ing like it ever happened or ever will
happen. It's psychology is asymmetrical
and its knowledge of human nature
almost nil. Yet it probably will find its
public; it reads we'll and frequently
holds the attention. After all, the world
is full Of realities; no one longs for the
impossible quite SO much as the person
who is bound by the staid and common
place We have no doubt that many
will weep at Sheila's vicissitudes How
ever, one could hardly recommend
Maid and Wife" for the true student
of life as il is.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
Among the Stricken
Tales Full of Human Sympathy
and Interest

HOSPITAL STORIES. BY Mary Roberts R,nab,r+
izrno pp. $50 The George H. Doran Company
None can read Mary Roberts Rine
mart without feeling two distinct
IhrlIs OF amazement-one that so pro-
Inc a writer should so constantly
Strike twelve" and second. even mora
astonishing, that any one could be so
versatile. She has given some of the
Dest mystery stories that have been
written. She has depicted three spin
sters who will remain immortal in
notion. Her novel of the war ranks
nigh among the enormous output of
such works. And now, when we are
satlated with war fa0s and fiction.
and are wondering if THE flood of good
and bad material which has been un-
damned on long suffering public will
ever cease, Mrs. Rinehart comes with
a book of delightful stories. the scene
OF each of which IS laid in hospital,
not behind the lines in France or
Flanders, but anywhere in America
book throbbing with the pulsation of
humanlty's. battles, in which the his
toric conflict which has been raging
in Europe is hardly mentioned.
1t is difficult to choose the best
story in the collection, although we
believe that the popular vote will be
cast for the last one, The Miracle"
IL ls a tale which might have had its
inception in the woman's night court,
Delightfully."- told, realistic, and vet vet
clean and with satisfactory and vet
perfectly logical ending. The mira
Gle" is motherhood. and to poor Clari-
bel it comes outside Of wedlock, but
1t Is because life has taught "Iiz"
and the little nurse each different
phases Of what we call love that thev
join forces to solve poor Claribel's
problem for her and bring to her
really happy ending" to her Difficult
ties.
Gods Fool" deals with much the
same problem from different angle,
but while it is interesting, it does
not seem to us as good q story. The
first story in the book, Jane" is ex-
tremely amusing. There are thousands
of James to be seen on Fifth Avenue
every bright, sunshiny afternoon. We
are of opinion, however, that the cred
haired PERSONS" difficulties did not
end at the altar, but that he had far
from dull life to the end of his
days with Jane at the helm. Evi-
IDENTIFY James father shared this opin-
ion; but then, he knew Jane.
"In the Pavilion" is written around
an exceedingly old theme, but in such
a skllful manner and with such spring
like clothing Of new twists and turns
in story telling that it hardly seems
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
England and the War
". l.. George Picture Of Eng.
Iish Country Life

hLiIp a. ki.is hihEY p,org b. y Georges lamo. pp.
Mr.. George is so much the student Of
l'fe that, while he may be a bit pom
derous, he always has something in
terestlng to say. In Blind Alley" he
has given us painstaking tale of how
the war affects the lives of Sussex
Iamliy' To Sir Hugh Oakley, the
Datcr fnmilias, it brings a spiritual
awakening, quickening For his
Younger daughter, Sylvia, it creates
that craze for excitement, that feverish
unrest, which has been its worst in
fuence on English women 1t almost
wrecks the life of Monica, the elder
daughter, who is beautiful and ro-
mantle. Her work in munition fac
tory places her in contact with an IN
sscrupulous but attractive man, and her
love for him very nearly proves her
undoing. In the end she is saved, and
profits by her sufferings.
The book is full of a passionate pro
test against war and vivid pictures Of
the destruction it has wrought, not in
France. but in the lives and hearts of
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
Swedish Charles
The Romance of "a Name at
Which the World Grew Pale"

KINGS ALARMS. BY Marjorie Bowen. Emo.
pp. 3l9 f. P. Dutton & Co
Miss Bowen--or shall we call her
Signorina Costanzo has adopted a
style in her historical romances Which
we must regard with intense interest,
and with increasing confidence; since
In the present work she develops it
more markedly than ever before and
produces on the whole the most sat
isfactory results which she has thus
far attained-which is saying a great
dea in view of the admirable quality
OF her former writings. Many-not
all-writer of historical romances, 20
to one of two extremes. They either
seek to reproduce the "atmos sphere"
and speech of olden times so literally
as to make their stories seem anti
quated and remote from present hu-
man interest, or they so strongly
"modernize" them as to destroy all
the historical illusion and to make
their characters appear like mu1hmers.
In Kings at Arms" we have an illus
tratlon OF finely successful avoidance
OF both these extremes. Charles XII
Augustus, Peter the Great and their
not made to act and talk as does the
average man in the street of our own
day; but neither are they mere fig
ures In museum Of antiquities. Thew
belong to their own age, but their own
age Is made to seem essentially ike
own own, save for the calendar.
There nrsy be, and indeed we think
that there ls ground for dovbting the
historical accuracy OF the author's por-
trayal Of Charles's personal character
and manners at the very beginning of
tn the story. 1t seems scarcely possible
that prince who had been as carefully
brought up by kingly father as he
had been could be such drunken
boor But with the narrative there
after as a whole we can find no fault.
Indeed, we might call it not a histori-
cal romance but romantic history.
There Is woven into it most effective
drama of love. But the essential facts
IN general and in detail Of his marvel
lous military campaigns are set down
WITH the literal truth of an encyclo-
pedla article. They are told so much
as fiction that we have to remind our
selves wondering whether to admire
the accomplished author the more as
novelist or historian AS both she is
altogether charming.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12

about to elope. Just why, except for
the purpose Of furthering the story,
no one can guess, for their finances
have not taken any turn for the bet
ter. This the husband discovers. The
wife steals out at midnight TO meet
and depart with her lover The hus-
band also keep the tryst. The wife
is found murdered in the summer
house where the meeting was sched-
uled to take place. A niece sees the
husband leaves the house, so early in
the story there is no doubt Of his hav-
ing been out on the night of the
tragedy. True, the device is used OF
having him make twa trips, a most
unlikely occurrence under the circum-
stances, which adds g very small bit
of mystery-too trivial to confuse any
one very much. There were obviously
only two persons present on the oc-
casion when the woman was mur-
dered. The lover h"s, of course, not
a single motive in the world for kill
ing her. VOLTA toutl The solution
is as difficult as if its answer were
q premium to enable the solver to
buy a piano at reduced rates, and
the ordinary reader is supposed to be
moderately intelligent at least.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
For Mystery Lovers
Two Books of Grimes, and
Thrills, and Adventure

TIE pmd TwGNTY y, SIX CLUES BY Isabel ostrandsr
rdh S }Rl6w Ri 5I DScJsE2H % E3ts e. 60 Marcel Ausa
Emo pp 24i. Brentano's 4-'---'
A really original plot we'll worked
out makes THE Twenty-six Clueso verV
good reading for the lover of mystery
tales. Calvin Norwood, "crme spe-
clallst, invites a company Of detec-
tlves, professional and amateur, to in
spect his collection of grewsome nov
ett1,es--mementos of the great crimes
OF history Under q blanket on q table
he keeps his piece de resistance, if one
may use that expression for so ex-
traordlnary relic-the skeleton of
the Duchess Of Piatra, who was "ac-
credited to have been the most beauti-
ful woman in the Balkans twenty wears
ago. The blanket is lifted. and. in
place Of the duchess, the corpse of
Evelyn Jarvis, charming young woman
and the wife of Norwood's best friend.
IS disclosed. She has been strangled.
Inc CRIME, unlike most committed in
real life, is simply reeking with clews.
The only unfortunate feature of the
book for the reader who wishes to be
thrllled-and that is what most read
ers of this sort of tale are seeking-is
that each unfoldmept is related in such
businesslike waS that it fails to
raise ones hair in the orthodox fash
ion. The plot is original not only in
its methods, but because an ordinary
detective instead of brilliant amateur
Is the one who finds the solution. 1t
is good story
We cannot say a. much for "The Vel
low Document" Its value in the eyes
of its writer and publishers is evidently
that of "timeliness." 1t is extraordi-
narily timely, and most astonishingly
impossible. The Emperor William Of
Germany stalks through its pages. We
feel sure that even so hardened a Grim
inal as he would be aghast at such ac-
tions as those with which "The Yellow
Document" charges him, that even he
could never have been SC exceedingly
pompous and stupid Certainly, no
human being ever talked as the author
makes him speak. There are so many
thrills in this book that any who vent
ured to read it through at a sitting
would be in danger of neurasthenia
His nerves would be completely undone
unless he were so fortunate as to pos
sess sense of humor. Such a posses
sion would have been of unlimited
value to the author. But he shows no
signs of an appreciation of the ridic-
ulous. So the book goes on, in particu-
larly unliterary and jolty style, to the
bitter end, without mercy on the long
suffering reader
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
Tales of the Old and the New
In This and Other Countries

works In the series. There have already
been issued, we believe, three volumes.
These are Jacquon, the Rebel" by
Eugene Leroy; Two Banks OF the
Seine" by Fernand Vanderem, and the
present work
Mono" or Love and the Soil" was
written nearly score of years ago and
attracted much attention on It's APP
pearance in France. 1t is a tale Of
peasant life in the wine growing dis
tricts of Burgundy and may be de-
scribed as thoroughly racy Of the soil.
1t IS not merely story of love-mak-
ing but deals with nearly all the va
RED passions of human life in their
simpler and ophsticated forms and
is richly illumined with the native wit
and wisdom of the peasantry of France.
1t, with its companion volumes in the
series, will not merely entertain in a
worthy manner a multitude of readers.
but will admirably disclose to the
world those phases of life and So
ciety in the provinces and in the rural
regions of France which have too often
been neglected by noyellsts, to whom
France means Paris.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
Observation-Disclosures
Stephen Leacock's Apt Portrayal
of the German Spirit

THE HOTsENZoLI4ERNs IN AMERICA Bv Sta
phen Ieacock l2mo.. pp. 26a. John Lans
Company.
This superb jeu d'esprit comprises
also with the Bolsheviks in Berlin
and various other skits and sketches
limp posslblities," the author calls them
all showing Mr.. Leacock's whimsical
genius at its very best. Not since the
immortal mob scene in Lewis Carroll's
"Sylvie and Bruno" with its LESS
bread! more taxes!" have we seen any
thing to equal his picture of Hinden-
burg Gin the guise of a workman
haranguing Berlin crowd:
The speaker raised his hand again.
I'VE have not yet decided what the
new government will be"-
A great cheer from the people
'Nor do we propose to state who
will be the leaders of it,"
Renewed cheers.
But this much we can say. 1t Is
to be a free. universal, an-German
government of love"
Cheers.
Meantime, be warned Whoever
speaks against it will be shot; any
body who dares to lift finger will
be hanged. A proclamation of broth
erhood will be posted all over the
city. If anybody dares to touch it,
or to discuss it. or to look at or to
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
Little Mystery

THE MYSTERY OF THE SUMNER HOUSE BY
Horace Hutchinson. l2mo. pp 297. The George
II. DoTan Company.
With a style that is so obviously
painstaking that it often incites the
readers sympathy for the writer, Mr.
Hutchinson has written murder mys-
terry story which is far from unique
in plot and in which the denouement
is so easily one of two guesses that
the imagination of the reader is not
piqued in the least. The situation
is most ordinary one An elderly
man marries q young and beautiful
woman. To their home comes an at
tractive and not over scrupulous man,
with whom the wife has been in love
before her marriage, and indeed whom
she would have chosen If the matter
OF dollars and cents had not entered
into the equation. The couple are
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
The Harlot's Daughter

AGAINST THE WINDS. BY Kate Jordan.
Illustrated. 12mo., PIP. S4S. Little,
Brown & Co.
Kate Jordan has in this, her latest
book, given US a very touching analysis
of woman's heart. Naomi Tway IS
driven into an unfortunate marriage
by the knowledge that her mothers in
come comes from preying on the weak
nesses of other women and the foster
ing of mems vices. Too late she finds
that the man to whom she has in
trusted her life is drunkard Then
love outside of marriage comes to her,
only to bring added grief and disap-
pointment. Gradually she realizes the
true values of life and works out her
salvation. The author has developed
her theme with much skill and careful
character analysis. She has written an
interesting book and one that has in
it much permanent value.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
Love and Tragedy

MAN rR-souARE By William Macleod
Raine. With colored frontispiece by George W
Gage. l2no. pp 2S6- Houshton Alirlm Com
pany.
The scenes are laid in the wonder
land of the Southwest, where loving
and fighting loom so large in the ele-
ments of life. In this tale they dom
mate the whole. There are false love
and true love, and there are tragedies
in cold blood and in hot. All the way
through there are girl who is
womanly as she is heroic, and a man
who is as loving as he is daring There
IS action enough on single page to
fill whole chapter of some books.
and yet the progress of the story is
so smooth and coherent that it never
seems hurried or overcrowded. 1t is
book to be read with intense and
often with breathless interest, and
with the sheer JOY that man, the fight
ing animal, always feels in masterful
conflict
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be sccn reading 1t, he will be hanged
to a lamppost."
Loud applause greeted this part of
the speech, while the faces Of the
people. 70 my great aston:sh mcnt
seemed hlled with genuine relief and
bcamed with unmistakable enthus-
Rsm.
"And now, )" continued the speaker,
IL command you, you dogs. to dis.
perse quietly and 20 home. Move
quickly, swine that you are. or we
shall open fire upon you with ma
chine guns"
With last outburat Of cheering
the crowd broke and dispersed. like
vast theatre audience.
On just one point would we perhaps
take issue with Mr.. Leacock. He calls
this admirable fooling mpossibiities.' ,
Really, is it quite impossible, after
what has actually occurred?
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
In Burgundy

MONO BY CASTOR Roupnel Translated by Barnet
] Boyer l2mo pp. 272 T. P Dutton & Co.
We have hitherto commended most
favorably upon the enterprise of
Messrs. E. P. Dutton & Co. in bringing
out Library of French Literature"
covering provincial France rather than
Partisan society. The editorship Of
the series has been judiciously en-
trusted to Mr.. Boyer, who was former
ly lecturer at the Sorbonne and who
himself is translating some of the
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12

the English people. There is re-
alistic picture Of life and work in a
mlunitio factory. Mr. Georges hand
is always skilful. and he is a close OBJ
server of life, and this book is quite up
to the high standard Of his other work.
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
great human interest story
REVOLUTIONARY DAYS
By Princess Cantacuzene Countess Speransky
(Julia Dent Grant)

hrst-hand narrative Of Russia in the last days Of
Autocracy through the Revolution the Boshevk regime
comparable to the best of the famous memoirs of the
French Revolution. The book might well be entitled
memoirs of Twentieth Century Emigree for it is pr
ary the record of adventures of this American Princess
(he granddaughter of General y. S. Grant and the
daughter of Major General Fred D. Grant, and her
husband, Prince Canacuzene.
$500 net; by mail $2.20.
The only book the question in the mind of the
New-York tribune., 1919-04-12
Classic Fiction of Our Day
Both Comedy and Tragedy
BY Willis Fletcher Johnson

his characters do it all for Themselves.
and that Is the highest type OF roman.
tic art
The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1919-05-08
WALTER r. PATRICK FOR AS
SCISSOR


Under the head Of announce
ments will be found the name of
Walter R. Patrick for the Office of
Tax Assessor.
Mr.. Patrick made his announce
ment last week, but it was re-
ceived too late to receive mem
ton.
Mr.. Patrick is a lifelong citi-
zen of Rankin county, having
been born and reared in the An
tioch neighborhood. He has new
er before aspired to public Office.
He comes from one OF the best
families Of the state, and enjoys
the confidence and esteem 81 all
who know him. He is well fitted
for the Office he seeks, being .
graduate, and now holding q two
year teachers license in this
county. His honesty and fidelity
cannot be questioned, and III
vpnld bot Ak III any place thet