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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15
The Mind OF a Soldier

If any one is curious about what the
American soldier in France was Ike he
cannot do better than read Henry sgd,
nor Harrison's when | Come Back. ~
II is the story of the experiences of a
typical American who volunteered when
the war began and did his duty modest
ly. uncomplainingly and efficiently. The
man was a lawyer. not very robust
physically. but with a sense of duty
The drill in camp in America gave him
the strength which he long had desired
so that when he got across he was
ready to hold his own with the best
He wrote home frequently, but his let
tcrs are notable for what they do not
say. One has to read between. the lines
to discover the heroism which they
conceal, a heroism shared by and mani
tested by all the men who fought. One
of the compensations of the war lies IN
the fact that it has disclosed the exist
ence of men like this.
WHEN COME BACK. BY Henry, Sydnor
Harrison. Boston: Houghton MiHhn 90.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15
america ReUeaIed

Prof. Edward Ellsworth Ross. of the
University of Wisconsin, has written
a book in an attempt to answer the
question. what is America lie is
confident that between the fewHndiffer-
ent to the suffering and injustice and
the few who hold certain individuals
responsible for this suffering and would
wreck society in order to punish them
there are steady going millions who,
without losing their tempers, are seek
ing remedies. They exhibit, he says,
that firm adherence TO justice. modera-
ton, temperance. frugnlity and virtue,
without which according to the Nir-
ginia bill of rights of 1716, no free
government or the blessings of liberty
can be preserved to any people The
book is divided into ten chapters. in
which are discussed the makeup of the
people. marriage and the family, GOV
ernment, education, rural and urban
America, business, labor and similar
topics. The book is illustrated with
twenty two maps and diagrams which
show graphically the progress that is
making toward better things. The pes
simist and the discouraged should read
it If they want to have their faith in
America strengthened.
WHAT Is AMERIcA7 BY Edward Aisworth
Ross. Gsu York; Ihs Century Co. fl42l.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15
"The Harbor Road

The fresh sea air of Cape Cod breathes
throughout this very enjoyable story.
The leading character is a young girl,
the niece of the fisherman with whom
she lives, an "eerie beauty" and with
an 'indefnable elfn charm" Into her
home on the harbor road come some
summer boarders, two of whom are
young men. Naturally, they are both
greatly attracted by the high spirited
girl, who is never more beautiful than
when standing in the stern of the Sylph,
her hand gripping the tiller. There is
careful delineation of the characters
of these men and their life aims, as well
as vivid pictures of the people of the
Cape. Although for time it seems
as IL the undesirable was to be the
climax of the story, it has happy end
ing in the village church. whose bar
rem interior has been transformed Unto
n bower of beauty"
THE HARBoR ROAD. BY Sara Ware Bas-
sett Philadelphia: The Penn Publishing
Co. $3.50.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15
A LEISURELY NOVEL
'DeadI,am Hard Very Char.
acteristic OF Lucas Malet

Lucas Malct CNIrs. ST. Leger Har
riSon and the dauchtcr of Charles
Kngslcv) has written somewhat
lnisurely paccd and even occasionally
duh novel in "Deadham Hard
Mrs. Harrison usually takes some
what morbid themes for fcti0na de
vpropment. and "Dcadham Hard is
no exception However. the morbidity
here is psychological and social and not.
as other Of her works. physical. for eX 70
ample Sir Richard Falmady. IN
which the protaGOnist was a man norm
with no legs below the knees. t!s
awakening to life and love, DESPITE TINS
handicap was narrated IN circu'hStah-
tial detail.
The same detail and circumstance are
utilized to record the arising ana
fmlition of love in the central tgurc ot
the new Malet novel, whose handicap Is
the annoying presence of an illegitlmate
brother. the scion of below stars
liaisou of her brilliant and somewhat
Scorchpd father with the mistress %
"nub " The girl is n charming. sen
sihIe wholesome specimen OF En%llSli
yonug womanhood. whose life is, now
ever. ovcrshadowed by the past OF her
roueish parent and the disturbing pres
cncn of her i'll spawned brother Inc
young man differs conslderaplN from
fbe natural children of fiction. in that
he is not villain, a plotter for the
family fortune nor dissipated disgrace
to the family name ,;,,ohlo Un 'ng nboN ro"''"'S
The girls social and fila ADJUST t.
,nants to the situation in which life has
nIaced her form the body of the novel
She is exceedingly well characterized
and the other figures are made very reaI
individuals through the authors lit
erary skill.
DEApHAM HARD. BY Lucas Malet. New
York: Dodd, Mead Co,
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15
POWERS AND AIMS OF
WESTERN DEMOCRACY
Professor Sloane'S Exhaustive
Study OF a Vital Contem-
porTy Question

Is modern democracy success or a
failure This is the question which
p,at,,.,., vr;u;o,,, ,r1,;oa, SIoo c,.h
''i''N"' "''''''", .h''''s"' ''''a"r' Hs.''
Low professor OF history IN Columbia
University. has attempted to answer
in ..1'bo TIo,rors and Aime of westorr
~. 80,
''il'"'r"'H' !" INV "'''"'Pl ne mas
written one of the most exhaustive.
nainstokinq and Illuminating studies in
democracy that has been produccd in
any country in recent wears. His vision
ranges o0pr the whole sweep of human
history an1 from what men have done
he forms his answers to the questions :
What is n democracy? What is n ma
tionP and What are the chances of an
enduring peace under the democratic
system? The last question indicates
the noint of view of the whole discus
sion The author rcpards the world ms
II, a tronsitinn stngr The war bos
ended one crn and we are ot the dawn
Of another Therefore if is suitable TO
toko ocrount of stock
uo becins with nm ottomnt to find
ont what democracy is and snys that
noitbnr otvnolnpv nor history helms him
Tho word is Crock and was understood
hy the Greeks rs meaning the oppositc
If '.nolitico :, mr. noIiry, which described
government by the majority for the
benofit Of all whereas 'democratia. ;"
or .'domorracy'' meant the oppression
of the minority by the majority. He
means government bv the whole people
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15
JOHN DRINKWATER
IS A REAL POET
His Verse RereaLS u Contem.
platire Mind Expressing
itself in Rhythm

II is always futile and foolish to at
tempt TO trace the gcncalogy of one
poet back to another Of the same race
and country: it leaves the task half
done.
John Drinkwatcr has been likcncd TO
Wordsworth and doubtless ,olne one has
said that il there had been no Words
worth there would have been no Drink
wafer. The truth of the matter is that
il there had been no. England. no
Anglo Saxon tradition. no Christian
philosophy there would have been
neither Drinkwater nor u Words
worth Each man is a natural and
Legitimate product of England Each is
,ontcmplativc. with n fondnCsS for the
farms. forests. downs, streams, mca
dows. trees and flowers of his native
land. 1t is home aud he sings of it with
affection and content. The men and
women of similar mood in Great britain
must find the new volume of poems by
Drinkwatcr very precious. Those of us
outside of England will like the poems.
not because of their reflection of the
peaceful British landscape. but because
they put in musical form the thoughts
which have passed through our own
minds. thoughts about the illimitable
heavens the tranSitOrincSs of life, the
constant succession of generation after
generation of men and women moved by
love and hate. each living its life as
best it may and passing on TO make
room for others. And each on us.
too. has felt that immutabiIity which
pcrsst~ through all the seeming change.
the immutability which is beautifully
Indicated in the three stanzaS of SYM
bols. " in the volume in question. They
run this way:
/ saw history in a poets song.
In a river reach. and gallows-nill,
In a bridal bed, and a secret wrong.
In a crown Of thorns; in daffodtl,
I mag ned measurelcss time in day,
And starry space in a wagon n-road.
And the treasure of all good harNests
In the singla seed the sower sowed,
My sardcn-w.nd had driven and havened
All sips that ever had gone TO sea
And ! saw the glory of all dead men
In the shadow that went by the side
OF me
This poem has all the common
RHYMES which Amy Lowell says the
new verse writer's exert themselves TO
avoid. but DrinkwatPr was trying to
nut over thought instead of new
form of verse in words that had not
hitherto been used. He succeeded in
writing something that in volume of
the ordinary free verse would be as
welcome as an oasis in Il desert of bar
renneSS.
b. John DrinSwater. Boston;
Jnughtpn AIilnim TO. 81.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15
Some Important Musical Events

give a recitation 10 music by Arensky. en-
titled ITO DAYS Gone BY
Some Of the advanced pupils Of Stsn'ey
EVs Studio Su recital ssos spruce street
next "wednesday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock
WonS b n"se SI Gady n@rl ITG S5fs Ioce oT&
Degener, Emily 9. Mines, Adelna Patti
Eoar. Frances W Watkins, and G. D, r.
also will Sing.
Tho free SUNDAY afternoon CONCERTS at
sumed on November q at 3 O'Clock The
Hahn string Quartet will play quartet Of
Hughes. SOPRANO who received the Stokow-
ski medal. viii sing.
The ,drsl REGULAR monthly pupils recital
g. g. Ne Set cement MuSlc school VII be g!yscnn
O'Clock The public Is invited.
roschs sedel will make his only appear-
on Wednesday evening. December 3, The
concert ~ under the auspices OF the Penn
slvania League Of Women Workers Clubs
a the half hour OF music which will omen
Ming at sa pss Gh,,rrh 6vspbrooo ,ton eye
n5!PP orgSes'r$,, and J9hn Fischer aatisi.
Halevy for flute and horn and the famous
"Serenade' OF Til for the same instru-
ments, For the offertorum MI Horner will
play a solo by Reissger
John Mccormack famous tenor will give
recital at the Metropoltan Opera House
on the evening Of December -. He will
have with him as assistant artist a Young
violinist, Winston Wilkinson
Grace Smallwooi Leonard, assisted by
David Satinskv, yolinist. win give piano
recital on Wednesday afternoon at { o'clock
in the auditorium Of the Combs Conservat tory.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15
VAR SPIRITUALISM
IN HICHENS'S NOVEL
Mrs. Mdrden," a Study of the
Psychic Waue Which
Swept Britain

Mrs. Marden was the most superficial
of women. She was clever, yet her
mind was a shadows. She had soul
of course. but it was not an insistent
soul. It never questioned her. And
as to her heart. well--it had room for
only one love, her love for her son. To
Mrs. Marden this son was everything.
All the frivolity of Mrs. Marden's life.
so crowded with worldliness, she shared
with this boy.
There came the war. The boy went
away. And then. one day. returning
from function where she had hob
blood, Mrs. Marden was met with the
news that her son had died on the
field of battle. She received the news
curiously.
''She was not bowed down with mis-
cry. She wondered at herself Would
the acute anguish ever come to her: :
Would the tears never gather in her
eyes. the sobs never rise in her throatT'
What sort of woman was this, what
manner of mother could she have been,
this lady of Mayfair, whose life is
sketched briefly by Robert IIichens in
the most recent of his novels, Mrs.
Marden"?
The basis of this work by the versa e
tile Mr.. Hichens is the wave of psychic
manifestations which broke with suck =
ing rush over London when the war
was at its worst, when mothers and
fathers and sisters and sweethearts.
their hearts wracked by the deaths of
men in the service, sought through me-
diums to reach those they loved.
Poignant grief overlook Mrs. Mar
den. 1t came slowly, perhaps, but
when il came it was bitter. She had
no faith in the church She had sought
consolation there in vain. And as for
spiritualism. she scOffed at it. Ride
ulous Nevertheless, she went to me-
dium. She came away astOunded, but
Again she went. and
again and again. And finally she be-
lieved. Her son had snoken to her; it
was his voice. Why, she had even seen
him.
But Mrs. Marden attained her first
positive conviction, her first actual be-
lief in anything not solid and tangible
and of this world, only to see it swept
away as a delusion and a thing of vain
imaginings. The substance she had
built up swayed and crashed,
There followed utter blackness and
which. though Mrs. Marden
did not know it, were so developing her
spiritually that when tragedy of the
body shadowcd down upon her, she had
found at last firm and sound belief
and the way to that beloved son.
MRS. MARsDEN BY Robert Hichens New
York: George II. Doran Co. Sl.I6.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15

A flexible leather thin paper. library
edition of the Novels and Stories by
Richard Harding Davis has been pub
lished by Charles Scribner's Sons. The
six volumes are handsomely printed in
a large clear type and are bound in a
rich deep blue leather with a gold mon
umes in the series are Soldiers Of
Fortune" Gallagher and Other Sto-
ries," Captain Macklin." "Ranson's s
Folly" ''TlfH White Mice and "rhe
Red Cross Girl"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15

The series Of concert, by the ,Phtlsdelehia
at tnS A. AeaqeX ,ba ". | to be nGhr th
organization. Appearances will be made
In BSltmore WashinF%n Pits6grsR ,Io, Dg
zenauer will be the solost in all the
cities except Columbus. where Nine Olga
Ssmaroh has been engaged.
The Vatican Chors wiIi give a fare
well concert at the MetropoLilan Oper"
9s 81 9S TEe Pu
present the choirs in an entirely different
program Of music. including the famous
:, The next concert to, be given by. the
Music on December IS win prove Of esnecial
delphis OF Vincent d'Indys new War Sym.
phony VIII take place. Fritz Nreisier Will
Choir VIII make their first appearance in
Philadelphia Tuesday evening, December :,
Alexander Gabrcll soprano; Luigi Gentilli
contralto; lilo Cacchlni, tenor, and Dos
not Wholly reigious. "a A variety Of duets. @
trios and quartets well solo numbers
will display their versatility
Owing TO the illness OF Walter Pontius,
who was to appear with the University Ex-
tension symphony Orchestra at its concert
ming. the tenor solo numbers will be sung
by, Nicholas Douty. who; with Marie sun
delius, soprano OF the Metropolitan Opera
Company, will take an active part in the
community singing, which is TO he a proml-
nent feature OF the program.
Nina Tarasova the Russian singer who
has scored such "A success in New York,
will appear at the Metropolitan Opera House
next Wednesday evening in characteristic
program of Russian folk songs She win
sadness BE Silent" II Am Planting Gar
dens' and Let Me Love" The second is
'Song of the Volga." MY Child "Vasl-
liok" and "I.ullaby," and the third He
brew Melody. +" AT the Well" You Ask
Me for Songs and 'Mother-in- Law" She
will be assisted by Max Gegna. the cellist,
The Matinee Musical Club will give a pro-
Tuesday afternoon at $50 o'clock. Those
III. Florence Haenle Isabel Dnngan Ferris.
Mabelie Cochran Addison, Edna Hoppe
ROsenthsl. Dorothy johnson Baseler, harp:
Bertrand Austin, cello: =. Mrs Edward p.
I.inch. organ. The club chorus. under the
leadership Of Helen Pulaski Innes, win also
sing.
The nrat OF HE reeitals by David Bispham
~ apnoqpeed 70 he given al the Musical Art
club enyhursl2y, November 20. at 3 p. m.
1ir Blt4fen viii sing works Of Haydn.
hscoGL-4 6oraces Schpmann and others and !.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15

Miscellaneous
Advertising Artists Inc Solving Ad,
Rranford Victor-"Coming Polity."
Churchill. Winston-"Dr. Jonathan"
Duggan. S. P.-'Leasue OF Nations"
Four volumes. New Testament In Modern
Gfalsworthy f,s'; John-"Addresses. in Amer
Grlfath l. s.-"woodwOrk for Secondary
Koch. r. w.-"Books in the War"
Macarthur. c. E.-"Navigation Smpli-
Ma cdonald, J. A.-"North American
MareossCn I. f'--"Peaee and Business"
Palms e. L.--"Rhodanthe."
Rose. W. G.-"Success in Business"
81. John. Eusene-"Rotary Web Press
Small. F L.-''Treatise on Comprehen-
sIye Accounting Methods"
minstration Of Naval Hospital ship
Tassin. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS in Amer
Tfs%s. Tsomp.o6 Hf!reHSs B. ss shRi sPooua
Trelease. william-"winter Botany"
williamson G. C.-'Murray Marks and
His Friends"
Fiction
Brown. Alee-"Blaek DROP"
EsTrSSshS Esnnsn E S%sr RSse, ksra Of
Dix b, M%'Hsnds, or
london, JaekL.on the Maksloa Mat"
ROLAND, Romain-"Coias Breugnon."
Wells, Carolyn-"Man Who Fell Through
the Earth"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15
Next Week'S Musical ErentS

Tuesday. Nov. 1S-Matinee Musical
club. bellevue Stratford. 2;3O
p. IN,
Wednesday. Nov. l9-Nina Tara
sovu. Russian folk song recital.
Metropolitan Opera House. S:1j
p, m.
Thursday. Nov. 2O-Organ recital,
Charles NJ Courbon. Wanamaker
store. S:lJ p. IN.
University Extension OrcheS-
ira. Academy of Music. SIS p.
IN. Soloists. Marie SundeIus and
Nicholas DOuty.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15
OPERA SOON TO BEGIN
aida" viii Be Given at the First
Performance of the Season

The Metropolitan Opera Company
will open its season on Tuesday evening.
November %, with yerdi's Aida"
The cast is as follows
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15

The point, however. is that the I.ct2
Quartet had the good sense to select
works of admitted musical value to per
form at concert when its philadCl
phia reputation was to be made. for II
was the, first time that the quartet had
ever played here. SO far as this goes.
there has been tendency on the part
of the leading chamber music organiza
tons in the direction of Il return to the
rIassicS. and il has become more no
ticeab'c in the last three or four years.
II was not 50 long ago that all organi
2ationS Of this kind were on constant
search for new material. Its merit
dldn seem to be 80 much considered as
did the fnct that it had not been pup.
licly performed before.
1t may be that the war. with the con
Sequcnt difficulty of getting hold of new
music. has lad something 70 do with
this change of heart but whatever the
cause. the patrons Of cltamhor concerts
have reason to be grateful. Most of the
modern chamber music does not com
pare for Il moment in merit either with
cassie chamber ruS'c or with modern
orchestral composiliouS. Pc hapS the
mighty thoughts Of the modern com
posprS cannot be- adequately EXPRESSED
with fewer than 100 men. but whatever
the reason, the practice Of writing cham
Der music seems 10 have gone largely
out Of fashion,
TT Is true that many Of the modern
"owuuScrS have written q quartet or
two in their early days and hence most
"t thrm were immature works, but when
once the virus Of orchestral cOmuositiOn
got into their blood there was no more
chamber music. Thus DchuSNv has
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15

MANY of the actual instruments Of
4N1 the orchestra have undergone i'm =
poltant changes since Mozart's day.
Among these are the French horn. now
one of the finest solo voices of the or
rhestra. while in the time of Mozart it
could only play certain series of notes
md those only in sharply limited keys.
Many other instruments giving in e.
creased sorority of the orchestral tone
have been added. and the orchestra in
creased in size considerably and in tech o
niuue immeasurably. What Mozart
would have done with a modern orcheS .
ira at his command can scarcely be con
jcctured.
The string quartet. however. has suS-
tained no such change. as the instru
ncnts comprising it are the same today
as they were even before Mozart. There
fore. his Quartets can be given with the
same effect now as they We're then. For
this reason his Quartets are more signif-
can't TO us today than the symphonies.
They lack something of the intensity of
Beethoven and some of his great sue
ccssors, but in workmanship, skill and
ia pure musical beauty they are second
to none that have ever been composed.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15
At THE FREE LIBRARY
Miscellaneous

Books added to the Free Library Thir-
ending November II:
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15
WAR REACTIONS STILL AFFECT THE AUTHORS STATION X
By C. Mcleod Winsor

A tale of hair-raising terror
and suspense. It reminds one Of
H. G. Wells earlier stories. by
means Of Wireless Station x, on a
lonely coral island the Lunarians |
attempt to decide the future'o Of the
earth, but they are foiled in a
titanic battle which stirs the
world to its center. Is this book
prophecy? Read it; it will re-
pay you. S1.5O net.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-11-15

TNHE second work which Mr.. Lett and
L his associates presented was tho
quartet in + minor of Beethoven. the
second of the three dedicated to Count
Rasoumoffsky. These three quartets are
equal in musical content. workmanship
and for that matter. every other mu
steal quality to any of the Beethoven
symphonies The one chosen by the Lett
Quartet is probably the most difficult OF
the three in it's ensemble. though all
are of enormous technical difficulty.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-12-24
Use OF EvergreeDs.

The use Of evergreens at Christ
mas is older than the Christmas
tree, the Christians seeming to have
copied it from their pagan ancestors.
In very old book we find this re
ference to the use of evergreens at
Christmas time: Against the feast
of Christmas every mans house, as
also their parish churches, were
decked with holme, ivy, bayes, and
whatsoever the season of the year
afforded to be green. The conduits
and standards of the streets were
likewise garnished; among which I
read in the year 1414, by tempest of
thunder and lightning, toward the
morning of Candlemas day. at the
Leadenhall, in Cornhill, standard
of tree, being set up in the midst OF
the pavement, fast in the ground,
nailed full of holme and ivy, for dis
port of Christmas to the people. was
torn up and cast down by the mali
gnant spirit Gas was thought, and
the stones of the pavement all about
were cast in the streets and into
divers houses, so that the people
were sore agast at the great temp
est"