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New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Democracy by Desmond
Brilliant Novel of English Labor
Sorts Out tn e Various Groups

those others whose behavior has also
brought them on
1t is this all-in-the-family atnos-
phere Of the book, this open nudge of
the elbow, which is so placidly trusted
to be eloquent, that marks Mr. Des-
mond as the partisan far more than
any evaluation of the two sides Of the
political dispute
W here he rides over the feelings of
ms opponents in his Characterization of
them he respects them in his diagnosis
OF what they believe and why. Partic-
ularly good treatment do the anti
labor newspapers get. 1t is true that
they are sometimes quoted, and with
every appearance of truth, in editorial
and news stories that anything but do
them credit. But they are explained
llr Desmond knows why they sin, and
gently tells them SO. even to the point
Of making the labu;erB themselves
share in the censurG.
Perhaps the most serious blernish OF
the book as a piece Of propaganda is
that it is too fair, too eager to furbish
up the other side 1t recalls the sagac-
lty OF Neighbor G., P A. who said
that whoever saw both sides of the
labor question would never duminate it.
One cannot even quite believe that Mr..
Desmond believes the kind things he
says Of his eneraies. It is moro as if
he thought that kind OF thing Was the
wisest to do.
AT any rate, the hook fails to 20
steadily IN one direction. OF course,
in that It is the study OF mans
lie, recounting tho changes Of his
progress, it need not be too consist
entity Of q piece. But to compare.
philosophically, with the power of it's
surface delineation, it should have q
mora compact point Of view.
But to complain Of faults would be
bad business il it diasuatea anv
likely readers Of "Demucracy," to 90
elsewhere. It is, after all, the most
emotional, most sympathetic Of the
books on the troublous labor question
and It Is done after q fashion which
despite many orudities, leads the reader
to chapter after chapter, thrilled if
not convinced. There is no reason whv
It should not also oonvinos, Il thens bs
any left who have not aLneatsr In
trendhed themselves to the aeat.h ON
ono or the other Of the Industrial
frorts
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
The Cup Of Fury
Hughes Spins Tale
Which Moves Swiftly

''~FHE CUP Or FURY By Rupert
Hughes $50 pages Price, sl.7a Har-
Tho Cup of Fury" has tho body and
flavor and pleasant lack of monotony
of poussa cafe. Tragedy is In its foam
and romance in its lees. Spies and
men of Scotland Yard; !. W. W.'s and
Department of Justice agents; noble
women, leaders of Washington society
and Was!lafwoHlen:, q strong self-made
American and woman of surpassing
lovetinesa are some Of tho ingredients
used by this author in his most recent
brew.
The story drives forward from Lon
don to Washingtonj from tho days Of
the LusitianA to the dawn of peace.
Its background is Amerioa's war. Its
chief characters arc Il Ta11sno builder
Of ships and a former vaudeville &c
srasis, adopted ny q G.ermHn-Engtsh II
noblemlap and snatae wealthy through
his suicide to escape more formal eX-
tAsction as a spy. Upon the return Of
Transformation from q wishy- -wnfhy
neutral into a whole-hearted patriot,
Mr.. Hughes constructs his story. In
painting character the author ia Il
reahst,. as careful of his shadows as
he is chary of his high lights.
He builds his people with q note
worthy lack of favoritism, and lists
their defects and folliea with sGien-
tific care. Mau1ise, his heroine, dees
from London to Washington; is caught
in the swing of tho capitals society;
eventually Is swept Into the viii rlpool
OF war preparations; becomes q men,
ber OF riveting crew in q shipyard; !;
foils tho plans Of group Of spies and
finally marries tho shipbuilder. The
author Is careful to make her neither a
Jeanne d'Arc nor tho perfect woman
of tho average romance.
1t Is easy to undertan% how ghc
could survive, quito untosc.ed, the
trip from vaudeville to English high
society and back along tho path of
tragedy to aMuenre Ia Washington.
The reader viii s0nst4mes pay tributa
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

to Tho art Of Mr.. Hughes by 1one4n, +o
slap his heroine The author knows
mer and women well and draws them
with fidelity, but his acquaintance
with spies has apparently been limited
or unfortunate. Even With the poles,
as deficient as they ars in actual OK
lstence, 1t IS doubtful whether Nickv
Easton, the arch villain. could have
gone about his nefarious work with q
German accent and Teutonic mind as
thick as those bestowed upon him by
the author
In spite Of the cynical manner in
which Mr.. Hughes treats his folk, few
can handle emotion or lima q descrfp-
tive passage with moro spirit than he
Ills shlpyard scenes echo to the rattle
Of rivet guns and he attains y41 at
seems to be the highest spot in his
book early in its action. The repression.
and pathos Of tbs scene in which the
trapped German spies, Sir Joseph Web.
ling afst his wife, take poison and
thus cheat Scotland Yard, Seem to
outweigh any other passage in tbs
Volume.
The styts is graphic and smooth,
shYe for those moments when Mr.,
Hughes takes it upon himself to en-
rich the English language by making
up nsw words. Hs himself has prob,
ably a quito definite idea as to the
meaning Of "demodeled," "aspengirl,s X
throat lilying out of q collar" ham
mockese' and "plebiance,s but the aver
age reader has no such omniscience
This, and the fact that he could have
ended his book more effectively tive
chaStars befess he did ars tbs chief
indictments that caa brought against
q swiftly moving and craftsmanlike
tale. VAN DE WATER.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
BY Shaw Desmond Tub
1ishad by Charles Scrihners Sons
By Ruth Hale

i
There is q respect IN which Mr.. Des-
nund's nHrrutivo Of tho British Labor
party and its right and left wings
VIII ho Of sone comfort to tho bafflctl
and bewlldered onlnnlers of tho rad
tcal movements OF tho wurld. This is
that tho several degrees and kinds
of radical upiniun mre explained clearly
observed niinutely and ars never onco
confused.
To those who speak Of Bolshevisrn
anarchy and socialism as Of three
1ndistlnguishable and indivisible
manias, Mr.. Desmond's achievement
Will seem to BIO hair-sp]ittinE. To the
moro informed It will seem welcome
sorting out. To the truly expert it
may seem to have its faults Of philoso-
phy and It's omissions Of proper de-
srrlptfnn. But nobody to whuln the
spcfal orders and disorders n1p Of any
moment can fail to be Interested by it
In It's substance it is finely ant!
trufmully made up Of Tho fortunes
nY the British Labor party, not al
ways aoundly thought out and not al
ways tnld from the philpsoullio inside
but always brilliantly reportad. 1t is
eynapatieatically reported, of auurae.
Nohotly could BIO Of twp minds as to
Which sitie Etr. Desmond was on.
Men and rnvnmonts, however, are
no. equally we'll treated in "Den1oc~
racy::' The characterizations Of the
labor leaders and Of their opponents
are done now we'll and now badly. If
The whole world might be clarified By
the precision Of some of it much Of
the rest Of the world might feel that
1t had fallen into q family circle where
only family references wera allowad.
Fog example, NIr. Desmond not in
frequently deaoribes an opponent by q
casual allusion to a certain louk in his
eye. It waa fike So-and-Sos eyes that
day he heard the speakers at Trafalgar.
Or It was Ike Tho look of tho green
grocer =. =. =. Those looks, IN short.
1f dietsnst and tiistasta which suao all
too common IN tho experience Of che -pxA-
litteal n,ttstensses, end which cannot bs,
descsibed except by allusion, and to
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

Some Of the wondrous phenomena
which he describes sound a bit like
Luna Park on large scale.
The hero confesses at the beginning
Of the book that in college he was
known as Handsome Humphrey" but
he manages to live that down and
seems agreeable enough before the
story is done Viva, the heroine, who
is introduced at the end Of nap which
has lasted for nearly 25o,o00 years,
seems a little TOO good even for young
person Of 80 much accumulated digres-
sion. The book is written in a florid,
highfalutin style, but it is generally
exciting and imaginative
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Kemp the Poet
Vigor and Sweetness in
New Volume of Vorso

THE PASSING GOD-~SoNGS FOR Low
ERS. BY Harry Kemp with an In
tsrodustoFg ,,..is prsfaes BY Esohard Ls Gal.
pages Price. s1-23.
Surely it Is time to cease calling
Harry Kemp "our tramp poet.p
What Is tho timid but sensational
seeking psychology Of publishess and
preface writers that malsas them taem
it necessary to SGT this worn and
xEEaaty phrase on tho vesy fizst sl1inias,
pages ct q new, flesh book of poems
-poems-pure and siHple-by Harry
Kemp, poet?
Harry Kemp may have boon a tramp,
may be one still, and the fact may
contribute considerably TO the Open
air sweetness and vigor of his poetry
But this sweetness and vigoy, once
achieved and put forth Gas it so Law
ishly Il in "A Passing GodD, surely
entities it's captor to tho ono simple
plain, high, lonely woxd--poot
And with whateyer fascinated and
1ataons admiration his sponsors may
regard tho duplex aeh-advertising
quality OF the phrass tramp poet;
its use, IN connection with Harry
Kemp, Is . false label, Mr.. Kemp
may be tramp. Is a poet, But he
Is not, to even tho most gul1ible OF
readers, tramp poet" There Is no
dust, or sweat TO these poems, no back
doors or railroad ties, no social un-
rest, no I. w. W., no CRIME, no beard
In spite Of perhaps personal
pcnch8nt on th6 part NJ Mr. Kamn
for loose red tie worn under one
ear. these poems could very well havs
been written by close shaved young
man IN whita AannAls--providing he
was viraxous auA In loxe anA--sa roa4
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Peter Middleton
The Gripping Story
Of a Mans Failure

MarRa ri ra5ished 6 b Rlchsr1 n dsh e. nadgaT M
Boston 37e paseA Price s1-T5-
Peter Middleton is depressing
example of man who means well, but
just can't lacking certain virility of
emotion and it's expression which a
wife Of Nina Middleton's type would
want q husband to have, Peter
young and keenly alive to any and
everything that is beautiful, and filled
with a great ambition to bring success
and happiness to those whose lives
come into any intimate contact with
his owns caught up in whirl-
pool OF circumstances which he hasn't
the forcefulness to combat Sc he fin
ally goes under, but not until he has
felt the drowning force Of each wave
that engulfs him and impotently
founders around, choked by an over
whelming sense Of his own INSULT
cheney.
Contracting q horrible disease while
enabling his wife to obtain a divorce
and marry a man whose brutality ap-
peals to her more than Peters mental
affection; deceived by a physician ac-
customed to attend tie idly social, and
believing himself cured beyond any
capacity to bring harm upon any he
might love, Peter spends the remainder
Of his short life in misdirected efforts
to avoid causing those fond Of him
any discomfort
Abnormally sensitive not only to
beauty but to suffering, he lacks the
strength to infict temporary pain in
order to avert disastrous unhappiness.
Because Of this, he makes a most un-
fortunate second marriage, and, though
through love for him rather mediocre
little Character achieves nobility of
living, he brings upon her disease, the
loss Of her baby and mental torment
Finally, at twenty-seven, Peter sum
1nons sufficient strength Of purpose to
commit tbs one thing which could in
sure happiness TO all who felt for him
either affection or disgust. Yet even in
this commission Peter wavered one in
stanty and circumstance thrust him to
accomplishment.
Peter Middleton is not book for the
consumption Of the squeamish. The
author has told his story with a wealth
OF detail, and because the character of
Peter is that Of man lacking impulses
accorded the normal male, the detail
is not pleasant, But the novel is GER
talnly worthy Of conspicuous place on
the shelves Of the near-great. The
characters in it are few, but all are
well rounded and pictured with start
ling clarity and truth. The story is a
tragedy Of egort-effort which happens
about us daily in the lives Of those who
hops for worthy achievement, but who
set themselves goal too high for their
own inSufficiency to attain. Peter Mid
dleton stroye for greatness. What eff
fort he made was gradually blunted BY
the overwhelming realization that he
was incapable Of gaining even the COM
monplace.
II were asked what Of the books
published within the past few months
actually contributed something Of value
to American literature, Peter Middle
ton would be among the first I should
name. And whether or not it's theme is
OF universal appeal, the interest Of its
telling Is tremendous. 1t is a book
which cannot be set away until the end
is reached. NJ NJ
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
BY Caret Garrett

F.o1easoc Lo4gh.ir;s thesis Is that
the quantity Of money in circulation
does not affect prices 30 mueh al it Is
nsw economically fashioaabse 10 SOD.
psse, aud will sometimes fail to affect
ksen at all. Priees, he argues, are de-
1sfmfned hy~a great variety OF factors,
u which the least-may be gold, or -any
kind Of money.
Yet to~many nj miuds,," ,he SAYS 70. ny.
she amount Of a mans purchasing
power -. is the quantity of
money he can offer. To my mind this
is superficial way of looking at the
Price making process Looking at it
In deeper and profeunder way he
nnda (p. 12) that "a mans purchasing
power Is measured not by the amount
81 money he has :. >. >. but by that
part OF his wealth whieh consists Of
cash aud Immediately -salable 9oods%
Nos: people wsud think that cash
was money and that ~immediately
:sa1Asls geods" wsss the equivalent Of
Cash, wherefeEe a mans purchasing
power aftsr all had been measured by
ehe amount OF insnsy he could spend
-1as thsEe arc many fns economic dis
s'ostaszs which pesple generally will
-pss bother to uuz1eEssanH. What Pro-
1sssar Le1ghiin RSoxas, and proves
HsEy well, II that recently tbs effect
8 money upon prices has haen over
asserted, to ths exclusion OF other In
nasncas, OF which the variety Is end
Less Tho peZulul1n swinGs too far. A
1sw yaars ago this so-Gal.ed "quantity
sneory' was almost q heresy. because
bryan had pseachad i. in terms Of
silver as a political doctrine.
And nov it seems necessary for a
man like Professor Loughlin to write
a book TO combat it in the hald Of
pure economics. La his zaal he almost
proves too much. On pags rzs be saya:
IL ths price of hazse, far Instance,
"a WOO, that il only way of saying
That The horse exchanges far tho uuan-
tity OF gold in 800 of our circulation.
shonid tho horse go permanently lame
is would exchange for less gold; that
~, its price would fall" Verify. And
H. instead OF going lame, tho 800
Morse had fallen OH deck In mid-Atlan-
TIC II would exchange for no gold at
ali' Dnt that would have notiIn4 TO do
with ths prizes Of hazses. Professor
oaeniin seems 70 be confusing acts Of
sossnss VA fnsnsaaa yhsnemsna-
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Among Those Present
Fiction

a ROMANCE OF TWO CENTURIES. BY
Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie Published by
The Platonist Press. 365 pages. Price
s165.
Dr.. Guthrie has written an enter
tanning yarn Of the year 2O25 and what
may happen in it. The author himself
has travelled all over the world and
his story contains much Of practical
conclusion, based on careful observa-
ton, and little Of the piffling Utopia
prophesied by romantic idealists.
7HE WIND IN THE GARDEN. BY Hewe.
Lancaster. Published by The Stratford
Company, Boston. 1872 pages. Price
1925
A quaint tale Of the French folk liv-
ing on the banks Of the lower Missis-
sippi. With a mastery touch the au-
thor has depicted in this book three
kinds Of love: the pathetic love Of an
old man for his only grandchild, the
pure love Of simple hearted peasants
for their fellows, and the tender love
Of delicate young girl for sturdy
sinewed, big-souled and full-measured
man.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Shaking the World

WHEN THE WORLD SHOOK. BY n.
Rider Faggard. Published by Long
mans. Green q Co. 4o7 pages. Price.
$3.50.
Rider Haggard corceives every love
story as serial which goes on and
on. Just when there is some reason
to expect ii happy ending we run
against continued in our next world"
and we find that an aetn or SO must
elapse before the lovers can be united
again.
The present tale OF devotion through
centuries Is thrilling, but we find it a
little more exciting when 1t confined
itself to the present rather than the
past or the future. Mr.. Haggard Is i'm
aginative In dealing with the next
wsrld. but also = little mechanical,
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Military SeFvitude and Grandeur

MILITARY sERvITuDB AND GRAND
EUR BY Alfred De Vlgny. Trans
lated by Frarces Wilson Huard. Pub
lished by the George II. Doran Company
@3l pages. Price. $3.50.
This collection of short stories ia
c1udes one more translation of "Lau-
rette; or, The Red Seal" long eonsid-
cred one Of the best short stories in
the French language. The book, first
published in 1885, is a record of De
Vigny's own experiences in tho Ora nd
Armka.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
BOOKLOVER LYRICS
THE HIGHER CRITICISM

When Nina reads a book of verse,
or essays, or of plays
It's fair; think that Two seen worse.
Is Nina's highest praise
When I peruse a recent bit
or rhyming or OF prose,
Inc best that ] can say for It
Is good such stuff goes"
What ti1nc to Nina I declairn
Or Nina reads to me
NO matter what the volumes mama
lts splendidl" we agree R q
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

iished by Charles scribner's Sons Pr,ca
$1.25. Ss
4
With his rare charm and inimitahlv
graceful handling of the English lane
guage, Professor Palmer has propound-
ed the interesting doctrine that honest
trade is more truly altruistic than
charity. The book is ingeniously writ
ten and the three forms of altruisns
given are wisely ana charmingly d.
fined.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Money and rices
Interesting Economic Theory
Advanced by Prof Loughlin

hqHHT AND PRrstss-By J. -I.aws~see
ttoasnin 70 D. Published by Charles
ocfloher S-uH ~ i.AXeS Price s. 80.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Poetry and Drama

WAR AND LOVE. BY Richard Aldtngton.
Published by The Four Seas Company.
Boston. "a pages. Price s125
Written during the war, while Mr..
Arlington was lieutenant in the Brit
ish army, the poems In his second vol
ume of verse attempt to express that
conflict between the delight of the
flesh, which we call love or passion
and the agony of the flesh which is
known only to the infantryman Of the
line. His poems are fresh in thought
and expression and written for the
most part in vers livre.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21
Essays

Essays
ALTHUISM: ITS NATURE AND vARIH
TIES. ~ George Herbert Palmer. Pub-
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

ROBERT BURNS. BY Edward winslow
Gillian. Published by The Cornhiu Co.,
Boston. SO pages
The dramatist has chosen to pick
out one or two high spots of the Scotch
bard's life and written around them a
four-act play Of interest and appeal.
AS the final and crowning scene of his
play Mr.. Gillian has chosen Burns's
brilliant advent among the wits and
bloods of Edinburgh, declared by Sir
Walter Scott the most remarkable
event in the annals of literature.
THE oPEN-ArR THEATRE. BY Sheldon
Cheney. Illustrated. Published by
Mitchell Kennerly. 100 pages.
A remarkably complete and interest
ing account of the open-air theatre and
of the forms of drama suitable for
production out-of-doors. The ancient
Greek and Roman playhouses and the
mediaval religious theatres are treated
incidentally, but the most emphasis Is
put upon the current revival of inter
est in outdoor productions. The book
has FIVE photographs and numerous
plans.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

rHtl PASSING 0OD-SoNGS FOR Lov-
ERS. BY Harry Kemp. With an in
trodustory preface by Richard Le Gal
Aenne. Published by Brentano;A 15e
uageS Prloe. 81 Il.
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

A ROMANCE OF TWO CENTURIES BY
Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie. Published by
The Platonist Press 365 pages. Price
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

For upward of score of years he
has been professor Of English htera-
ture at certain Connecticut univer-
slty- lie has risen far in the arts, till
III tbs kindly winter of his life his
word as Shakespearian scholar is
golden; legion is the number Of boyish
minds guided by his upright example.
: met him last in a trolley car
en- route to Hartford He was lost in
the glorious fantasies Of "Alice in
onderland-"
New-York tribune., 1919-06-21

PETER MIDDLETON BY Henry K
Marks Published by Richard G. Badger,
l3OEtOn- go Price 81 Il
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