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New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
Sentiment irst
Minor Details Neglected
In Writing DR.. Paul"

DIR. PAUL. by Ethel Penman Hope. e. P.
Dutton & Co, New York
A certain flavor of pusiIlanimity is
in the course of short review. It
seems to suggest Sinking, paucity of
ideas, even downright laziness. 1t may
even arouse the suspicion that the
present case the spirit and tone of
the novel are SO perfectly summed up
in the following passage that it is in
possible to resist the temptation to
quote it in its entirety:
''Pride also spoke to him and he
moved slightly away from her, while
the dignity of the House of James for
centuries back seemed concentrated in
him.
"'Your tone is harsh, Virginia. he
spoke up, 'and your words are words
of anger. They were thrust to pierce
my heart and they have not missed
their mark. They have strengthened
me we'll for tomorrow. What do |
need of added stimulant when you
have filled my soul with the wine of
your wrath Where is the love that
| thought you bore for me? Poor
fool that | was to plead for it. What
is a woman's trust? There is no
such thing. What is a woman's love.
She does not understand what love is.
who does not know how to forgive.
You do not love me, Virginiat'"
After this sublime outburst of tragic
disillusion further comment upon the
book seems distinctly superf1uous
However, it may be reassuring to know
that Paul and Virginia have a recon
ciliation and that the curtain falls
upon a conventionally happy ending.
People who like sentiment at all costs
and are Indifferent about such minor
details as probability, conference and
literary style will doubtless enjoy this
novel very much. W. Fl. c.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
The Sin-Buster

BURNED BRIDGES. BY Bertrand W Sin
clair. Published by Little. Brown h
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
John Mccormack
Life by Pierre V. r. Key
Marred by Fulsomeness
By Heywood Broun

"John McCormack-His Own Life
Story" (Small- Maynard), by Pierre V.
r: Key, is a tailormade biography.
There is ample evidence that it has
been cut to suit the singer at every
point. The book, therefore, is half
biography and half autobiography, and
the combination is not very effective.
However, McCormack's career has been
an interesting one, and something of
this quality comes through. But the
story is throttled again and again by
long descriptions of where Mccormack
sat, and what he wore, and how he
looked as he let each precious pearl
drop from his lips. He seems to have
been forever going into the silences,
and the thread of his life story is
broken again and again by his habit of
considering the simplest question as
cud.
Moreover, we found ourself singu-
larly cold at those moments when Nc
Cofmack paused to wipe away suspi-
cious moisture from his eyes. His
biographer usually takes the trouble
to assure us that it was not merely
perspiration. In only one respect has
Mr. Key been at all unfair to the
singer. "Although this volume is off
cally McCormack's own," writes the
biographer, "some of the facts incor-
porated in it have been supplied by
persons other than the tenor And it
is better so, because otherwise they
would not have come to my, and the
general public's knowledge. For John
has way of often avoiding some in
cldent that places him in an ad-
vantageous light; and then, another's
viewpoint not infrequently brings to
the surface some element or climax
which sounds better than it would
have sounded had it dropped from the
tenor's lips"
1t seemed to us that Mccormack, as
rule, did himself ample justice and
that Mr.. Key did little more than
that. For instance, the biographer
writes: with eleven working years
ahead, Mccormack will leave name
likely to be untouched by any other
who has gone before and, in all rea-
sonable likelihood, almost unattainable
by any singer who may come after"
Surely, this is excessive. In spite of
the extent of the tenor's success, he
has not yet attained the right to be
classed with the greatest of living
singers, and it seems a bit rash to pre-
dict that his name will ever bulk larger
than that of Enrico Caruso. And if the
competition is to be opened to barry
tones, it must be remembered that
Battistini has established a reputation
which leaves Mccormack much to do
in these eleven years
To be sure, Mr.. Keys confidence in
Mccormack rests upon rather lofty
grounds. "He began to sing" he
writes, "he sings to-day-and will go
on singing until he dies--for just one
reason alone: God meant that he
should sing"
We trust that it will not be con-
sidered impiety if we express a curl
osity as to whether the nasal quality
was included in Gods intention.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
Joseph Gees "Isaacs"


lSAACS. BY Joseph Gee. Published by
Lippincott
Stories that turn to humorous ac-
count the sharpness, adaptablity and
wit as we'll as the less agreeable quail
ties of the Jew in an alien environ
ment have been too numerous and too
skllful for so soggy a collection as
"lsaacs,' by Joseph Gee, to pass mus
ter. 1t is significant that the most eff
fective caricatures Of the Jew have
been drawn by Jews themselves. 1t is
as If, knowing where the crack in the
armor is, they, better than the alien
enemy, know where to drive the thrust
home
Zangwill's Schnorrer and Montague
GLASS; Abe and Mawruss are broadly
comic chiefly because they have in their
exaggerations the quality Of intimate
revelation the understanding and
sometimes bitter scrutiny we have of
our own.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
Battery d of the 30sth

Battery D OF the s0.th Field Arri.-
fery is the subject of an Interesting
book written BY Corporal Joseph
Glass, Corporal Henry L. Miller and
Private Osmund O'Brien. The history
of the battery is set forth with par
ticular attention 10 the part which it
played in the Argonne campaign.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
How? Why? What And the Novelist

IN review of Tarkington's latest
story IN recent Tribune your
reviewer is guilty of a short-sighted
mistake. The thing he finds against
the book and charges up against Tark
lngton,s art is in the almost unex-
planned swing Of young girls mind y
from paclilsm to active militarism
She hears in Mayor Thompson's Chi
cago The StarSpangled Banner" and
her metamorphosis is sudden and COM
plete-all her pacifist convictions (?)
are swept away in an instant. and she
joins the Red Cross Corps. Your
critIc's complaint is that Harrington
ought to have explained this remark
able change at careful length.
AS matter of fact Harrington seems
to have set down I have not read the
oook) pretty much what actually oc-
CURED IN hundreds, perhaps thousands.
OF cases IN this country, espec cially
among college women and social work
ers. Ineir paclfism was ardent, loqua-
cious and seemed cordial, before This
country was forced into the war
When war was declared they ceased
oVernlghs being pacihsts and yelled
for the Kaiser's scalp.
AS novelist, an artist, Tarkington's s
business is, primarily, , to describe
things, not to snalyze or explicate
them. 1t is the business Of the meta
pnyslclan to answer the question
w ny - and of the scientist to tell US
the how" of things, while the artists
business IS TO give US fair view Of
the w hat" of persons and conditions.
me philosophers method is reflec-
tlon, the scientists is induction. but
the artists is selective description.
The metaphysical novel is bore, the
sclentiflc novelist is a prig, but the
selectlvely descriptive story writer. is
sound craftsman. As an artist Tark
lngton has been a precise novelist in
setting down things as they actually
occurred.
Perhaps Harrington was too generous
IN giving the name Convictions" to his
herolne's pacltist notions. If they had
really been convictions would they have
evaporated so readily? l doubt it very
much; AS, nowadays, anything may be
called ~an IDEAL so any surface furry
is called conviction. ideals and con-
vlctlons are usually worn on ones
sleeve. We lightly prate about both.
1t IS shame that fine, strong, stanch
words should be devitalized by mean
lngless usage. Opinions usually pass
for convictions Really. we believe
only what we are ready to try. In the
Will lies the ultimate test Of personal
belief. Tarkington's heroine probably
thought her pacitism was a matter Of
conviction, whereas it was only a mat
ter of opinion In colleges, very often.
the teachers opinions become the
scholars couvictlons-a most dangerous
state of affairs. When the test of ac-
ton comes these supposed convictions
are seen to be what they always we're
too seriously accepted opinions The
great danger TO US as a people is that
our surface moods take the place Of
fundamental convictions in our con-
duct " H HFNDFRcON
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
4 LOwbroW List

A LOwOrOw List
| don't know anything about litera-
ture. My brow is of the low visibility
type and help edit an all-fiction mag
azlne. Yet, like the readers who en-
able me to buy commutation tickets
and tennis balls, know what | like;
hence this list of fifty books:
MY Lady Nicotine,' Barrie Barrie
IS the only writer who treats smoking
IN manner worthy of the subject;
"Hlstory of the French Revolution" !"
Carlyle; 1.-TWO Years Before the Mast,
Dana; Captain Macklin," Richard
Harding Davis; "Tale of Two Cities"
"Ollver Twist" Dickens; Rodney
Stone" 'Adventures of Sherlock
Holmes,' Doyle; Three Musketeers, "
Twenty Years After" Dumas. The
Broad Highway" Farnol; King Solo
mons Mines" H. Rider Haggard; The
Amateur Cracksman," Hornung; "Notre
Dame de Paris Hugo; The Sketch
Book Washington Irving (for RIP
Van Winkle" and The Legend Of
Sleepy Hollow"); Three Men in a
Boat" jerome; kim" Captain Coura-
geous, "Collected Verse" Kiping;
Ihe Confes sions of Harry Lorrequer, .
Lever; The Sea Wolf" London; HANDY
Andy" Lover; The Lunatic at Large
Lucas; "Casuals of the Sea- McFee
hugh Wynne, Free Quaker" Mitchell: !:
The Gold Bug Poe; "Men Of Iron y
Pyle; The Cloister and the Hearth" "
Reade; List! Ye Landsmen." The
Wreck Of the Grosvenor,' ". Clark
Russell (try them, Conrad fans); Ivan
hoe "kenilworth," Quentin Dur
ward" Scott; Shakespeare PLAYS:
~ rrIreasure Island" kidnapped" The
v, 1M,recker,"', Essays (the William Lyon
pnelps collection), Stevenson; "Cherrv. +"
"Vanity Fair Henry Esmond.n "Th 2
Nirginians," Thackeray; "Adventures Of
LON Sawyer "Huckleberry Finn" -"
Life on the Mississippi" Connecticut
Yankee at King Arthur's Court Mark
Twain; "Conjuror's House" "African
Camp Fires" White; The Virginian. .
Now, highbrows. rave, 4. " G.
New-York tribune., 1919-09-06
Fifty Books

The Revolt of the Angels" Anatole
France; The Four Horsemen OF the
Apocalypse" Ibanez; "Victory,7 Con-
rad; Youths Encounter Compton
Mackenzie; "Of Human Bondage" SOM
erset Vaughan; Twelve Men Drei-
ser; Nine. Bovary,' Flaubert; VANITY
FAIR Thackeray; Father Goriot," -"
Balzac; Resurrection" Tolstoy;
The IDIOT" DosVoevsky; Don
Qulxote,' Cervantes; Treasure Island =
Robert Louis Stevenson; His
loved Vaga bond" Locke, The Garden
OF Allah,' Hichens; The Valley
of Squinting Windows" Brinsley
Mcnamara; "Marriage,' H. G. Wells;
The Sailor" Sraith; Civilization. ."
Ellen La Motto; plain Tales from the
Hills" Kipling; The Turn of the
Screw" Henry James; -Limehouse
Nights Thomas Burke; TIE Toys of
Peace Saki; -Creole Days" George
Cable; Fathers and Sons Turyenev;
Memoirs of Ny Dead Life" George
Moore; Contemporary Portraits j"
Frank Harris; Set Down in Malice. -
Gerald Cumberland Eminent Victor
ians,' Strachey; Life of Benvenuto
Cellni, by himself; The Journal of
Marie Ba-hkirtsetf; Life OF Disrae-
IL" Moneypenny; Mr.. Britln." Fl G.
Wells; Dead Souls" Gogol; The Con-
fession," Cork; Green Mansions, ,"
Hudson; Jacob Stahl," Beresford; {;
China Under the Empress Dowager. "
Bland and BlacAhouse; The Pursuit
OF the Well Beloved Thomas Hardy;
"Damarls," Lucas Malet; The limo
.cence of Father Brown" c. K Chester
tor; Bernard Shaw Hamon; "Laven-
gro George Borrow; Life of
Pasteur,' r. Valery-Rador. "1ncono-
clasts," Huneker; "A Window in
Thrums,' Barrie; peter I5be.son, Du
Maurier; Life of the Bee" daerer-
linck. KATHARINE WRIGHT.
The Washington times., 1919-02-16
FOLLOWING THE TRAIL
OF "CAMOUFLACED"
By GEORGE h. DONOHUE.

Wilton ]. Lambert, in his clever
contribution, in chapter thirteen of
"CAMOUFLAGED" today, has added
an element of mystery to the complex
tangle-worthy of Emil Gaboriau.
]. Irving Belt in chapter eleven,
sent Madeline into a state of coma
aPhasia, they call it-and DR.. White,
recognized the world over as one of
our most distinguished psychopathists,
in his version Of "CAMoUFLAGED, +"
in chapter twelve, refused absolute
Iy to liberate Madeline from the state
Of Loco into which she had fallen
and she fell into it sure enough, in
the dusky, grimy vault in the National
Capitol. However, here comes Mr..
Lambert blithely along, and he brings
Madeline out Of her trance-just as
easy-but wait till you read the story.
Here we have the stealthy footed
Snyder and Fuller full OF pep, and
again, right on the abduction of the
beautiful heroine. WI Tsang-that
willy Oriental, is cruising on a yacht
wonder where he landed that unlocked
for stage property-and the try OUT
Of the brand new ship-aIl on her
maiden voyage, and everything-and
the President on board, and the fear
less Kimball swirling around in his
gee-but the inner work
ings of this romance are getting us
all up in the air-but then, tomorrow
we have chapter fourteen from the
pen of Mrs. Margarita Spalding
Gerry, member Of the School Board,
and a well-knOwn contributor to cur
rent literature of the day. Mrs. Gerry
viii have all opportunity necessary
for a temperamentaI arraignment of
the eight characters in the history Of
"CamOITlagcd"- it naturally fol-
lows that chapter fourteen, which you
will read tomorrow, will give you the
sequence in its proper placement Of
the almost unsolvable tangIe which
greets this well-knOwn Washington
writer when she reads Mr.. Lambert's
story in The Washington Times to-
day. Read the story and get in line
for the last chapter-it means TWO
HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS TO
YOU-if you can write that last chap
ter.
The Washington times., 1919-02-16
MILLIONS OF i. S.
FLAGS IN ENGLAND

LONDON, Feb. 16.-If there is no
friendly feeling toward the United
States in England the flags OF Lon
don speak untruthfully. There are
millions Of flags. Where all OF them
came from is a mystery. They simply
appeared from everywhere aud no
where, like a barrage of color on the
day when the armistice was. signed.
No coronation or royal jubilee has
seen such a marvel of cloth.
Hardly a house. however small md
humble, in the whole more than TWEEN
ty-mile radius OF the largest city in
the world was without its decorations.
And the Stars and Stripes were more
conspicuous than any flag except the
Union Jack.
Wherever two flags hung together
the American emblem was one of
them. The French flag ranked next,
but only a respectable third Walking
through the streets the American
cOIors saluted the eye everywhere.
Big ones, large enough to hide an
ordinary house, hung in front of hO~
Very many people, of the hundreds Of
thousands who tied flags to their
hats and coats and umbrellas. even TO
their dogs, sported the Stars and
Stripes. They were particularly pop
ular with the girls, but workmen. DID
ladies, and British soldiers wore
them. This seems to spell apprecia-
tiOn.
Some Of the sadder newspapers
which specialize in deplOring mourn
ed bitterly over the armistice celeora-
ton in Trafalgar Square on November
II. Property was destroyed" This
was the burden Of the plant. 1t was
true.
RevelIers, chiefly Australian and
Canadian soldiers. with a sprinkling
of. British and a few Americans ac-
completes, built a bonfire. They used
whatever came TO hand. Huge sign
boards around the Nelson monument
appealing to citizens to buy war bonds
were the first to feed the flames.
Then a wooden hut, the property OF
the Y. NJ. c. A. was dragged to the
pyre. Next came half a dozen Ger
man cannon, camouflaged with green,
purple and yellow, rushed up with
shoutings from st. James Park close
by.
There were many policemen about,
but they. were helpless. The soidie,s
picked them up and thrust them OFF
the scene. Then the fire engines came
out and turned streams on the blaze.
The Australians turned the. hose rn
the astonished firemen and swept
them off their feet with their own
ammunition
The Washington times., 1919-02-16
new YORK WORRIED
BY.BIG NAVY CLOCK

NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-DoWntoWn
New Workers are wearing worried sx-
pressions on their watch-dials Lhess
days. and the ancient and diFnifiod
old clock In city hall eupOla actqai-
ly looks savage.
It's all on account OF the coming
OF a strange upstart In the world of
tower clocks. The newest clock b
mounted in the tower OF Pier A. At
the Battery, and It fairly FoaTs The
time Of day to the whole lower part
Of Manhattan Island. and 20 AL the
ships in the upper. harbor. That
would be all right. but II strikes
twice at l o'clock. four times at ?
o'clock, six times At 3 o'clock and
from D. m. on tt gets worse
This new cleck talks the ssfi0r's
language. 10 Is said TO be the first
Of It's kind on land. II faces the
harbor, and was erected for the bsns-
fit Of sailors in the hArbor and about
town by Daniel @. Reid, as . memOr-
ial to the sailors who died IN the
war. It strikes ship time, which
most landlubbers know IL Indicated
By "bells'' on shipboard.
The twelve hours are divided inSo
three watches, beginning at noon and
midnight. Thus. 1880 a. N. q ons
bell, 2 is two bells, $3.50 - three bells.
and so on until eight bells Is reached
at a. m, then q new wgtch start8-
So 4:3O q. m. IL one bell ag8Ia,
is two bells, $50 is three bells. ana
50 on till 8 a. m. when the ships
clock for once Is right WIKI the land
clock, striking eight times Then at
$50 II is one bell again. ~ . lt -
two bells, and so on through the
third watch. until Il is again slghk
bells at noon, and the whole round
starts over again
The new clock at the BatteFY
strikes on a bell weighing half q
ton, and fairly browns out some OF
the more conservative iandlubbsr
clocks In that part OF town WhGe
the sailors are said 70 enjoy the lux
ury, landsmen in lower Manhattan
and the dignified clock in city hail
cupola are not enthusiastic about the
new venture IN time-telling.
The Washington times., 1919-02-16
GIVES UP BERTH ON TRAIN;
GETS GOOD JOB AS REWARD

TRIPP, 6. D. Feb. 16.-Herber,
Wildermuth, a young man of the
Trip country, has discovered that
courtesy does not always 90 unre-
warded.
He is in the service OF his country.
with his station at Key West, Fla
On his return TO his station from a
brief fQrlOugh with the home folks
in South Dakota, he gave his berth
in a sleeping car TO a woman who had
two children and who. because of the
crowded condition Of the car, could
not have secured a berth II II had
not been for the generous offer Of the
young South DakOtan.
WildermUth slept in the seats A
few days after his return to his bar
racks at Key West a gentleman
called upon him and introduced nim-
self as the husband Of the woman he
had befriended IN the sleeping car
He stated he was glad to meet a SOL
der who had been so kind to his
family.
It developed that the man was a
resident OF Florida and could use a
man of Wildermuth's ability and Of
fered him a handsome salary TO work
IN his establishment when he is dis
charged from the Government serV-
ice.
The Washington times., 1919-02-16
MILLIONS OF THE CHINESE
HAVE NEVER TASTED RICE

CANTON, China, Feb. 16.-There Is
a mistaken idea abroad that every
Chinese man. woman, and child in
China eats rice every day. AS a mat
ter of fact. there are millions of
Chinese Lying in Shensi, Shansi. and
northwestern China, where rice is nos
grown, who never have seen or tasted
rice.
There are millions in the rice pro-
ducing sections who cannot afford to
eat rice regularly.
With these qualifications, it may
perhaps be said that rice is the staple
article of diet Of the Chinese people,
or, more correctly, of the people Of
central and south China; though.
strictly speaking, there is reason 20
teAeve that the sweet potato occupies
an even more general place in the
dietary OF the people throughout all
sections Of China than does rice. The
Yangtze valley is the great center
OF rice production.
Rice straw is the most common ma
terial for the manufacture OF paper IN
China II also serves as food and bed
ding for animals, as thatch for houses.
and as fertilizer.
Rice wine, sam-shu. is made in enor-
nous quantities in China, although
the people are not given to intemper-
ance. -.-..-.
The Washington times., 1919-02-16
ARE HARD
TO GET IN PARIS

PARIS, Feb. 16.-Though Pari!
has 5,4OO hotels and rOoming
houses, with an additional $500 in
the immediate suburbs, a room is
hardly to be had at the present time
for love or money.
The French government has tact
fully invited everybody who was
coming to the peace conference mere
ly out Of curiosity, to please come at
some other time. Orders have been
issued to the French consular and
diplomatic officers all over the world
to wise passports for Paris only for
persons who can demonstrate that
they have some serious necessity for
coming.
It has not been decided whether the
shortage OF hotel accommodations in
Paris is due to some unexplainable
mystery or to perfectly natural
causes.
Many Of the largest hotels have
been used as hospitals ever since the
beginning Of the war, a few are used
as ministries and Underministries Of
the French government, such as avia-
tiOn and munitions; and more recent
ly several have been taken over by
the American Red Cross, the Y. VI. c.
A, Y. W. c. A, knights Of Columbus,
and various departments Of the ad-
ministrative offices OF the American
Expeditionary Force.
Most OF the hotels thus taken have
been the largest and most exclusive
in Paris, those that before the war
catered to the wealthiest travellers,
who have been staying home since
1914. However, all the hotels thus ac-
counted for probably do not exceed
forty or fifty in number.
More serious element in the situa =
tion is the hundreds Of thousands OF
refugees. from Belgium, northern
France, Serbia, Italy and other in
vaded countries, many of whom have
been making their homes in Paris
since the beginning Of the war. While
il is now possible for these to return
to their homes, most OF them prefer
70 remain in Paris, where they are
sure Of getting enough to eat, until
materials can be had for rebuilding
their homes. These people fill up
several thousand Of the hotels and
rooming houses.
Then there are at all times about
6.O0O French officers, 5000 American
officers and big contingents Of Eng
lish Belgian. Italian and Serbian Of
ficers in Paris on leave.
Recently the situation for these has
become so acute that a society has
been organized among the wealthiest
French families to place rooms in
homes at the disposal Of American
officers on leave.
The shortage Of rooms naturally has
resulted in an increase in rates.
Rooms that before the war cost 50 a
dav now cost 81 or Sc