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band and prepares to marry her. Upon discovering the woman nursing her former husband, blinded in the war service of France, he, relinquishes her and, very much to the qualification of his father, volunteers in the French army.
 The scenes depicted by 1banez show ing the elder Desnoyers living alone in his Villeblanche castle, in the very heart of the Marne battle, is one of the most powerful indictments of Ger man methods of warfare that has been written. It is shortly following the terrible picture of ruin and unbridled riot that the death of young Desnoyers is announced. The story ends with the finding of the young lieutenants sim pie grave on the battlefield.
 The translation of "The Four Horse men of the Apocalypse" is by Charlotte Brewster Jordan and the book is pub lished by E. P. Dutton & Co. MORE ABOUT RODlON. In my quest for the original text of Richard Mansfield's unique tragedy, "Rodion, the Student am in receipt of further information from the Library of Con- gress. From this letter, I am inclined | to judge that MT. Mansfield or an agent as is suggested by William Winter, the great theatrical critic of New York, in | his Life of Richard Mansfield" re- wrote the Melrose and Chapman dra- ma, "Rodion," and incorporated in it a part of Dostoevski's "Crime and Pun 1 ishment," to produce the tragedy that 1 was so short lived @ part of Mansfields weird repertoire. The letter from l Washington throws considerable new 1 light upon the subject, at any rate. Il l follows:
 "The register of copyrights reports that he finds the following dramas en. tered for copyright:
 ''Rodion; or His Crime and Punish ment. A drama in acts, by F. Melrose and H. Chaupman, August 37, 1886; en- S1267 of Class D. (One copy deposited
 'Rodion Reskolnikow; tragoedie in Akten von Leo Birinski. Munchen Drei Masken-Verlag, 1912. Entry No 31267 of Class D. (Onecopy deposited October 29, 1912.)
 William Winter, in his Life o. Richard Mansfield makes the follow. ing mention of the play, which was first acted at the Garrick theater ir New York, December, 1895:
 "''The Story of Rodion the Stu dent" made by Charles Henry Metzlel on the basis of Russian novel by Eco dor Dostoevski entitled "Crime ana Punishment" and of French play by Le Roux and Ginistry which has beer derived from thesame source.
 eve are unable to find that the pla. was ever printed. Very truly,
 CT l., FAPNTrM
 Secretary tfor the Librariam."
 THE RECLAIMERS, Margaret Hil McCarter's new novel, is a story o modern Kansas, as her HVanguards o the Plains" was a romance of tha states pioneer days. In both thes, books the writer has caught the spiri of generosity and optimism of struggl and the delight in struggle rather tha the placidity of achievement, whicl seems to be the heritage of the dweller on Kansas plains. Mrs. McCarter doe
 not minimize the disadvantage of Tiff there, but she shows how drought ant heat, sand and tornadoes, act as tn pushball which develops the spiritua muscles of her characters.
 In "The Reclaimers'' there is a com plete and satisfying contrast between
 the raw sagebrush country and tn !, finished beauty of the Pennsylvani; l estate which was Jerry Swaim's hom
 until she decided that she could nc
 even for it's sake become the mere tot 5 of her distatorial rich aunt. All tha was left her from her fathers forum
 was a claim in New Eden, Kansas. Sh set out for it, leaving behind luxur. and her cousin and sweetheart, Eugen Wellington. who, in contrast to her in : dependence, was choosing the line o least resistance and keeping on goo terms with Aunt Jerry. The clain proved a valueless one ruined by year 'of neglect and desert sand. and Jerry