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Delight for Bcrrie Lovers

1t Is impossible to read Barrie WITH
out being forced to the conclusion that
he Is gifted with genius. That lndefna-
BILE quality manifests itself In every one
of the four plays included In the VOL
ume. Echoes Of the War" TIL first
play, THE Old Lady Shows Her Medals
is so pathetically and tragically human
that 1t will move to tears every one but
the most callous-heartcd. As is well
known, II Is the story of an old unmar-
ried scrub-woman who feels 20 lonesome
because all her friends have kinsmen In
the war that she to move whore she
Is not known and announce that she
also has q son fighting In France. Then
tho SON shows UP. angry that n one
should claim him.. 1t turns out that he
also Is alone in the world. And the up
o of the matter Is that the man who
had been angry becomes sympathetic
and the two lonesome souls play the part
of mother and son to their great salts
faction. And It Is all told with that
skill and tenderness and understanding
of which the gifted Scot is a perfect
master. And the tragedy of the father
who loved his son but could not make
that love known Is set forth In "A Well
Remembered Voice" The lovers of Bar
rie will be delighted that these and the
other plays are now made accessible In
printed form.
ECHOES OF THE WAR. ny J NJ. barrie.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 81. so.
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4 Topical American History

The topical treatment Of history has
both It's advantages n It's ~dlsadvan-
tages. Its gain Is that Il makes the
student more deeply conscious of great
movements and distinctive phases of ma
tional development Its loss IL the In
evitable confusion OF chronological boun.
Diary lines.
Both of these characteristics are ex-
hibited In the elementary textbook pre-
pared by Charles A. Beard and william
c. Bagley In their History of the Amer
lean People" I'VE have sought to catch
the deep-fowing n powerful currents
OF American life. 10 preserve them fairly
and justly. to engage the interest OF the
students In them, and TO show their
Significance to the issues Of the present
hour" they explain. only In this way
does history become living"
Excellent features of the work are
the clear and full accounts of the begin
nings OF American history In Old World
AFFAIRS, and the m upon the Great
War. which brings the chronicle down
to the entrance of the United States In
the conflict. The latter chapter will en-
dure with but slight emendation OTTER
the wa.
S1fE HISTORY OF AMERICAN PEG
PIE, BY Charles A, Beard and william
. c, BagleSS New York: The Macmillan
Company. u.2o.
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Miss HoUard's Confessions

The confessions Of an opera singer no
doubt would be expected by the gallery
admirer to reveal much that IL strange
n fantastic In the multi-colored epl.
sodes or back-stage life. One Keyed up
10 That expectation probably would he
disappointed and even chagrined to 6nd
In the confessions" of Kathleen Howard
nothing that would require recountine In
a whispered tone. and little else that Is
other than as 1t should be. Rather these
are confessions" Of early trials and VIC
issitudes and n few temptations quite
readily overcome by the popular contralto
of the Metropolitan Opera Company. so
that one is struck with the similar ity OF
the early problems of the singer to those
which attach to many other professions.
As n comparison of the opera stages
OF France n Germany-that is before
the war-Kathleen Towards hook Is par.
ticularly worth while. She had n very
high regard for the opportunities offered
the struggling singer by the highly or
ganized opera of Germany, and an equal
ly great admiration for the emotional
acting of the French. While engaged at
Metz. Miss Howard had a splendid op-
portunity to study the OF the
German officer class, who at the same
time she found to be as vital a part of
the opera house life as the singers them
selves.
CONFESSIONS OF AN OPERA sTNGER BY
kathleen Howard. New York: Alfred A.
knopf. 81.
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Fair Play for Workers

Democracy has not satisfied expec.,
~tations.
The sure for the political disease Is
more democracy.
Our cities are funeral pyres for hui
man bodies and souls.
Working-class control Is rs unjust az
caDital-class control.
Such sturdy. u~ncduivocai assertions
come from the pastor Of one Of the
wealthiest and most conservative
churches In New York. Percy Stickney
Grant, whose book. Fair Play to the
Workers." seeks to define the economic
problems America must solve after the
war. speaks with authority from his
fund Of sociological experiences.
II IL the author's opinion that by
anticipating our internal problems we
may avoid the rapids of social revo'u-
tion into which so much of Europe has
fallen, and by so doing retain our
position In the vanguard Of nations
which are the champions of democracy.
The purpose of his book IL constructive
and helpful toward this end.
FAIR PT.AY FOR THE WORKERS. nv
Percy Stickney Grant. New York: MoTat.
Yard & Co. si.6O.
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Mrs. Halls Memoirs

Memories, Grave and Cay" Is the
life story OF Mrs Florence Howe Hall.
a member of one of the most distin-
guished OF American families. The
daughter of DR.. Samuel Gr'dley Howe.
the founder OF the education OF the
blind. and Julia Ward Howe. whose
Battle Hymn of the Republic" Is still
an inspiration, whose brother Is a lead
'ng, metallurgist, her two sisters note
worthy authors, and brother.in.law n
prominent artist, her account of her
childhood and youth is of SURPRISING In
terest. Flo It brings us into close
touch With many noteworthy persons In
those early Boston days. Longfellow.
Charles Summer. the Agassiza, Florence
Nightingale. for whom she Is named,
Edwin Booth and many others. The
story OF her young life Is followed by
that OF her married life in New York
and New Jersey. during which she has
& ven much attention to the founding
or women's clubs. and has especially
devoted herself to promoting woman
suffrage. During twenty-five years
she made lecture trips to New England
and the Middle West. as well as to near
by points, Her book Is full of inter-
esting and humorous anecdotes Of we'll
known people, inc throughout shows a
me spirit. 1t closes with a reference
to meeting her grandchildren In her
old age when An the twlnkllng of an
eye we are transported back into the
lovely child-garden. where faith. owe
and hope bloom. Little hands cling
trustingly to US, n little cheek Is laid
against ours. eyes like stars smile up
at us! There is n new heaven and a
new earth :"
MEMORIES GRAVE AND GAY. by Flor
ence Howe Hall. Frontispiecs portrait.
New York: Harper & BROS. So. 80.
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H0,U to Sing a Song

Clayton Hamilton. In his Introduction
to a book by Yvette Guilbert. with the
above title, remarks. that Guilbert rs
the finest artist living In the world to-
day, who does anything Of n kind upon
the stage" Whether We agree to this
superlative or not 1t must be admitted
tina the gifted French woman Is a great
artist. Consequently when she tells
what to do In order to achieve success
In the Interpretation Of songs her re-
marks deserve respectful consideration
Her book goes into deta Is with Illus
trations and ought TO be most helpful
and suggestive to all who aspire to sue
cess. Madame Guilbert reminds her
readers that there is n great difference
between an opera singer and a singer
of songs. as the latter must be n dra-
matte artist capable of interpreting all
sorts of emotions and using her voice
not primarily TO make music but to pro-
luce Impressions and indicate char
acter. This book Is In some respects
photographed. for 1t tells how its
author worked to achieve the facility
that she has and how she changed her
songs and added to them In order to
make them what they should be for her
purposes.
HOW TO SING A. SONG. ny Yyette Gull
bert. New York: The Com
pany. SO.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-22
NATURAL AFFECTIONS
ASSERT THEMSELVES
T,Uo Stories by Sir Gilbert
Parker Written About the
Same Theme

Sir Gilbert Parker has returned to
the Canadian northwest in his latest
book, which contains two novelettes.
each dealing with life in Askatoon. The
first, wild Youth" is the love story Of
a girl. married at the age OF sixteen
to n man sixty as the price OF the a n
collation. OF n mortgage which the man
held on her mothers property. When
she Is twenty she Is taken by her hus-
band to n ranch at Askatoon, which he
has inherited from n distant kinsman.
The husband was a brute, Jealous Of all
younger men and he kept his wife close
~ at home. But a young ranchman
comes on the scene to buy some cattle.
me wife sees him and youth calls to
youth. The rest of the story IL the
development of the situation thus pro-
ouced. There IL tragedy and comedy
as the plot unfolds and the outcome is
most satisfying to those who have a
sense CT justice.
Sir gilbert hos made skilltul use ~
ono or the subsidiary characters. known
only as the Young Doctor. When things
get 700 complicated the Young Doctor
~straiEhtens them out. He understand
the loneliness OF the young wife as soon
as ne sees her, and when she falls In
IoVe with the young ranchman he Is
'ne nrst TO know II. And when the
'"lie nees from her husband, after he
mas unJustly charged her with unfaith-
luiness. she takes refuge with the doc
tor. And Patsy Kernaghan, another
subsidiary character, Is almost M use-
tul as the doctor in the development OF
the plot. II Is a story Of love between
TWO pure-m'nded people. which will en-
'erutih all who nre fond of skillfuIly
written fiction.
The second story. Jordan Ia n Hard
Road to Travel treats OF n reformed
train robher. who takes I'm n,s resi.
ocnce In Askatoon because his daughter
IS teaching school there and he wants
10 ne near her. No one hut the woman
with whom the daughter lives knows
OF the k'nsh'p. Minden. the father. n
man OF unusual force. has himself elect
en school trustee. SO that he NAV visit
MIS- daughters school when ne chooses
He has himself elected mayor In order
to insure his position In the communIt -
and he gets religion In n Methods,
revival through the singing OF his dauph.
ter. Sir Gilbert makes the reader sym-
patfize with the man moved by paternal
aHect'on. yet prevented by his bad rec
ora from making himself known to his
own onspr'ng. This p%aternal affection.
when the man finds himself In straits
tor money. leads him to resort to his
old ways In order that he may finance
me man with whom the girl has fallen
IN love. Jordan Is a Hard Road "a
Iraver' also is Just a story bound to
the other by its local and by the pros
ence In 1t of tire Young Doctor and
Patsy kernaghan. and also akin to n
IN That II Is an exhibition OF the nat.
urai working of human affections which
Will not be denied.
WILD Youth AND ANOTHER. ny OF.
colt Company. 81. so. H''''"'
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The Var and Architecture

Architecture and Democracy Is not
n war book. but II recognizes the trans
valuations of all values brought about
by the titanic world conflict. The au-
thor, Claude Bragdon, Is known to his
professional colleagues as the author Of
several very highly technical h~andbooks
and also as something OF a mystic. He
has very definite ideas on Is good
architecture n the power Of expressing
his ideas and ideals Is simple. forceful.
compelling phrase, often touched with
the magic Of inspiration, The book
takes It's title from the initial essay.
which deals with the periods before. dur
ing and after the war. Other essays are
Ornament and Mathematics" "colors
and Ceramics and Symbols and Sac
-aments." All of them will prove In
forming and stimulating to the lay
reader OF cultured mind.
ARCHITECTURE AND DEMOCRACY. by
Claude Bragdon. New York: Alfred A..
knopf. 50.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-22
Handbooks of Government

Two more volumes In the series OF
government handbooks are just on the
press: Evolution Of the Dominion OF
Canada" by Edward Porritt. and GOV
eminent and Politics OF Switzerland" by
Robert C. Brooks. professor Of political
science at Swarthmore College and
widely known in Philadelphia educa-
tlonai circles. Mr., Porritt reveals the
workings Of the Canadian political In
stitutions and reviews their development
up to the beginning Of the war. In his
work Mr.. Brooks brings Swiss expert.
ence In public finance. legal reform. So
cial legislation. naturalization OF rail-
roads, telegraph and telephones. ETC.. to
bear upon similar problems in our own
country. He also describes the Swiss
army system.
EVOLUTION OF THE DOMINION OF CAN.
ADA, by Edward Porritt. fonkers:
World Rock Company, N.5o.
GOVERNMENT 81 POLITICS OF swift
ERLASD. by Robert g. Brooks. fonk-
ers: World Hook Company. N.O.
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u
is SELDOM VICIOUS
This Is the Point Which Flea.
nor HaIlotUeH Abbott Makes
in a Charming Tale

Readers either like Eleanor Hallowell
Abbott or they don't like her. There Is
no halfway ground. Enough OF them
like her to insure the success Of n
book which she may write. II Is morally
that "old-Dad.' which is just
the presses, will be popular. There
ore two reasons for his certainty. The
first Is that 1t IL written In the author's
well-known racy ani epigrammatic
style. with It's surprising auips and en-
t%ertaining feminine indlrections. And
the second Is that II is a sort OF a plea
for the essential innocence of young
people. Youth cuts up all sorts OF pranks,
but It If seldom vicious, And as the
author makes Old-Dad himself say. most
Of It's Niciousness exists only In the
minds of It's sophisticated elders.
II Is the tale of an eightecn-year-old
girl who has lived In boarding schools
all her life. has never known her mother
and has seen little OF her father. She Is
introduced to us as bursting into the
presence OF her father with the an
acunccment that she has been expelled
from college because she had 4 boy N
her room. Tn, boy was hungry and had
found his way there for n roast chicken
NnltH tne HlTl, III u SpI'N Va J'S'' h"'
dared HIM to come n get. The presi-
dent caught them together and without
inquiry expelled the girl and
her ac a wanton OF course the girl was
hea rtbroEen because Of the disgrace. Inc
father has confidence In the Innocence
and purity OF his daughter and he sets
about re storing her self-respect which
has been grlevo usly wounded Incl
dentally he gets acquainted with the
girl and she with him. And in the course
Of his process of restoration a rich roue
comes on the scene and ~persuades the
girl to run of with him. This part OF
the story Is laid on an island In Florida
and Il eliminates IN "A climax which
should delight all the lovers OF meio-
dra1'a.
There are grave defects In the struc-
ture of the story. but the admirers OF
the author will not worry about that. IL
Is entertaining and sprightly and human
That Is all they seek. The heroine is a
most lovahle creature and her father Is
Just the kind of a man that romantic
young women like to meet In q novel
tail and distinguished looking, with pre-.
mature gray hair II always master oil
the situation. No one should be sur
prised II the enterprising moving picture
men put the story on the screen In the
hear future.
oID.DAp, ny Eleanor Hallowell Abbott.
New York: +. +. Dutton 4 Co.
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SOME ENTERTAINING FICTION BY WELL-KNOWN HVORITES|
A KEEN STUDY OF
REAL AMERICANS
W Of Astonishment +"
Blends Stark Realism and
Real Character

Tnose who like wholesome books will
read the opening chapters Of Mary Hast
ings Bradley's Wine OF A~stoni.hment"
WIN distaste. and the remainder OF the
oook with deep pleasure: those whose
taste IN fiction ~inclines In the other d.
rection will consume the first few
chapters with relish. and the rest OF This
absorbing novel with n sense OF disap-
pointment.
Inc Wire Of Astonishment" Is the
tale CT a long and broken adventure In
love. OF schooiboy rlsks-and escanes-
IN an ~unsayory district Of Chicago. and
or n romance which has its beginning
az college and W triumphant climax i'm
tne ciutching shadows OF the war. But
tnere IL the barest mention of the war,
TOT which we are thankful.
The dominant characters are Jimmie
Clark. a clean young chap who has
Ideals and Cherishes them in the face
or repeated temptation. and Evelyn Day.
VINO postpones her hearts desire for
many years because a selfish mother
places money above her daughters
happiness.
The book is written with an intimate
TOUCH and genuine nylgh into the pla-
cid commcnplaces OF dom~sticity which
are reminiscent OF the writings OF that
other clever %chronicler Of life in the
Middle West. Mary Watts. and which
enace the earlier impressions of Regin.
aid Wright Kaufman and Cosmos Ham
ilton.
In Wine Of Astonishment" the author
has a refreshing narrative of every
day Americans. n novel whose whole
~sotrcness comes as a sudden and SUR
prising contrast to the unpleasant real
ism of the Introductory chapters. The
book Is char1ningly written. interest Is
u~nhaggng from cover to cover. and
the characters are real people. We all
know them.
THE wTSB OF ACCOMPLISHMENT, Ny
Mary Hastings bradley. New York. ID.
Appleton q Co. 81, 50,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-22
Music's Lure

In THE Lure of Music" Olin Downes.
Boston newspaper music critic and
writer for musical magazines. surveys
the field OF composers from Rossini and
ponize.ti TO Nevin and MacDowell, COW
ering all the schools with biographical
details of the composers. historical de-
tails of their compositions and hints on
the proper understanding and apprecia-
ton OF the various works. The book is
illustrated literally with portraits and
also with the names and numbers OF
photograph records OF the various COM
positions discussed.
THE LURE OF MUSIC, by olln Doynes
New York: Harper q Bros. Si,50.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-22
Our Winter Birds

Frank NJ. Chapman. curator OF orni-
thology In the American Museum Of Nat
urai History. New York. has written an
agreeable little handbook for the bird.
lover In "our Winter Birds" The de-
scr'ptions of the winter landlords, resi-
dent and migrant. of the northeastern
United States, are clear n concise and
the illustrations. though on very small
scale. are sufficient for identification pur-
poses.
oUR WINTER BIRDS. by Frank NJ. Chap
man. New York; d. Appleton 4 Co. "
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BOOKS RECEIVED
Etrfinu

The as Spanish by. MARY j. 5sTrano, New
Sd XSEs' L :; F; P y 4 4 &c sioIE. BY CASTOR
Roupnei. Translated from the French by
Es.S:s EFiie,I %;;s s s! IN T T%s; Z E.'i +. Ds S'
ton 4 Co r,,t sii Rses;pEL.. BY Eugene Leroy.
Tfsnsisted from the French by Eieano!
f Fi!% y rr eI$%ss; New L" Tas'Hs' E {. : Dd e:
rH iiH a 4 Sc F Hon TIE CLOUDS. BY J.
THE 'NW% MITE HftoRsE AND THE RED
HAIRED. GIRL. by, Kenyon Gambler.
New York: George H. poran Company
TifE HIoHwAYMAN. Ry H c. Bailey.
New York: +. r. Dutton & GO, 1890.
OLD DApDY. 5y EIGsn9, HSllSw Ell Alb
THE MYSTERY OF THE -THiRrEENTH
FLOOR. ny Lee Thayer' New York; Cen
General
man" Drank DllnoO. New York: Mae
LiT8iIlNss1s SS44'YosEsffs. A Record of tn. Las,
Ssw York: John Lane CO. I,25.-.-"
E&aplsin, {, !. An.yyssx" ' YORK; o e1'se3i Il.
THE "cHA%RRMEEi6 tMERrcAN:" a story
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AMERfcXN LABOR AND THE WAR. by
samuel 9oHpers NeSs, York; George II,
ME hSie9 cG T%6fbHHFT' ANNb5 ToMoRRow. by
T, D.. ~Tr..gbridse. New York; Mac
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Houghton.M iflin Reprintings

Houshton Minlin Company announce the
samuel HOPKINS Adams's Common Cause;
third impression OF Ellis Parker Buffers
Halls Sinister House'; third Impression
Of Ralph D.. Paine.s The Cali OF the on
shore Wind and fourth impression OF Jes-
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THEY'LL Read II in France

To Fullerton l.. Waldo. author of Amer
Association has written: You may be in
terested to know that we have already sent
900 copies OF your book to our Paris Office
for use in the regional libraries In Europe"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-22
Reckoning
Roads

By JEANNE JUDSON
The complicated career
of a very pretty and adj
venturous u wom-
an who failed, for a
time, to understand
men because she did
not know m $1.50
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-22
For Readers
of NelD Books
Carolyn of the
Sunny Heart
By RUTH ELMORE END

By RUTH ELMORE ENDf-
COTT, Author OF Carolyn
of the Corners" &c.
A wholesome, sunshiny
story that teaches,
without preaching, the
idea that people are
really pretty decent
and that life is well
worth while. $1.50
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-02-22
Mockery

By ALEXANDER MACFAR.
Lam
This remarkable novel
by a u Scotchman
of great promise re-
minds the reader Of
Joseph Conrad, and
even of another and
greater writer of fc-
ton, R b Louis
Stevenson. $1.60
Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1919-04-11
NJ, q. 4 q. FOrec!oscd.

Judge William c. Hook of the I'm
tied States Court of Appeals, sitting
at Muskogee, has rendered the final
decree in the case of the st. Louis
Union Trust Co. against the Missouri,
Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad. He rem
dered judgment for approximately
$l6.000,000 and appointed J. w.
Gevely of Muskogee as special com
missioner to sci 1.-The railroad prop
erty at public auction at some date
to be designated by him. John Fl
Atwood Of Kansas City was appoint
e special referee to determine the
status Of, and adjust all claims. The
sale is to act as complete foreclos-
ure OF the road.