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The mirror., 1919-03-27
Lover of the Horse

Evangeline Booth, the gifted commander of the
Salvation army, in the Rider and Driver, pays
beautiful tribute to the horse. The horseess age
which was predicted when the motor came, she says,
has not arrived, and never will. She continues:
From the very beginning of all things, through
the march of centuries the horse has occupied sig
nicant place. In SPORT in art in literature in war.
in peace, in commerce. in romance in tragedy. in
drudgery, in love- in religion. in life and in death,
this reliable, courageous. ever-ready for command
servant of man has proved himself most potent
factor His fleet hoofs have flashed light from the
pebbled path of every poet; his arched neck and
tossing have taxed the skill of the ablest
sculptors chse; his attractive figure has made real
istic the story of class of literature
fiction, fact and bibca the delight of childhood
the willing slave of man, the trust of old age
this faithful ally through all time has plowed the
fields and hauled the loads, and penetrated the wild
erness and waded the rivers, and with blood stained
TANKS has carried the warriors BATTLE and tossing
snowy name through triumphant arch. and a thou
sand times ten thousand when worn by tolls and
lack of food to mere skeleton has pressed on with
his task with patience perseverance, and sweet
ness of temper that one could almost call divine
Our Dumb Animals
The mirror., 1919-03-27

Q:-How many people in the world speak the English
languagea-S. P.
A:-Number estimated at approximately l55. 100000
Q-Please give the day. month and year Fort Sum-
ter bombarded, marking the beginning Civil war,
and when Gen. Lee Grant, marking the
end of the conhict.-IA A.
A:-Fort Sumter fired April H. 1861; Lee surrend-
cred April 9. 1885, 81
QWhat the needle of the compass made of and where
is the north magnetic pole?-T w.
A:-Needle is simply magnetized iron. North magnetic
pole is in neghborhood of 70 degrees N latitude 81 degrees
w. longitude.
Q-Pease tell about the big grow Califor-
nia.-F. D. G.
AThese gigantic pine family called Sequo-
las in honor of Indian chief of that Mammoth
quota largest that grows attaining height of 800
feet and diameter of 80 40 feet Some of
larger is estimated from 5000 years old
Wood soft and white when tree first but
red air. Government preserving big equoias
in Mariposa grove California as wonders of nature.
Q-What done with Jefferson Davis president of the
Confederacy, after the Civil war!-L. M.
A-Foowng successes of Union army he left Richmond
in April of 1865 proceeded southwark and May 10
captured by Union troops Irwnsvle, Ca Was held
prisoner Fort Monroe indicted for but released
bail 1867 and his trial finally dropped. Lived for time
Memphis and later Mississippi, dying New Or
leans in 1889.
Q:-For what length of time is the president of France
eected-L. B.
A:-For of seven years; next election will occur in
1920.
OILS it true, here argue that in South America
where the wheat harvest is in anuary-odinary the time of
winter weaher-they call the month of Dec
embe June the month of January july the month of Feb
ruary, August and so on?-D. c.
A:-No; names of months in northern hemis-
phere in southern despite fact that opposite
O:-Why the International date line irregular instead of
straight coincide throughout with merdian!-P L.
A:-Line bends back and forth in compliance with wishes
of people living various Pacific islands, preferred
Asac and American date.
O-From what one of the government departments
obtain price list of old coins?-L. G.
A:-Government does not buy old coins does it is
any list of prices you have any old coins dispose of
you will find for yourself sufficiently interest
ed to purchase them.
The mirror., 1919-03-27
When Lincoln Said What He Never Said

The recent war revived the famous phrase at
tributed to Lincoln that when informed that Gener-
al Grant drank too much whisky. retorted: Tell me
what brand it is and I'll send barrel to each of
the other generals But, truth. these words were
a mere fabrication. They were put into Lincoln's
mouth by Miles O'Reilly (Charles G. Halpine) in
burlesque report OF an imaginary banquet supposed
to have been held at Demonico's in the year 1862.
They ran through the press Lincoln's saying, and
to this day it is hard to make people father them
the real author.-Ex.
The mirror., 1919-03-27

The water of the River TInto, in Spain. hardens
and oetrifes the sand of bed and if stone falls
in the stream and alights on another they, in few
months, unite and become one stone. Fish cannot
live in the water.-Sel.
The mirror., 1919-03-27

"All is not told what titters! rolling stone
cannot be boss"
The mirror., 1919-03-27

NoTcEA inmates Column and desiring de-
information their invited the splendid ref
library The International
information technical
Literature. Chemistry
Science divisions library catalogue for diversified
The mirror., 1919-03-27

Good news-after July l letter postage will be
cents and postal cards cent. Thank you Uncle
Sam!
The mirror., 1919-03-27
NOTICE TO INMATES:
CHURCH NOTICE.

Services in the Prison Chapel at nine o'clock Sum
day morning. Protestant and Catholic service
Sunday Rev C. E. Benson and Rev. FIR Corcoran. Chap
a;ro
New-York tribune., 1919-08-30
Remaking a Mind
a Socialist Before
And After the War

THE REMAK1NG OF. A MIND. Bv Henry
Ve Man Charles Scribners sons. New
g before the war Henry de Man was
3ociallst and leader in the Belgian
hnpor 1, party. Immediately upon the
outbreak of hostilities he enlisted and
setved as an officer on the Western
lIoht' subsequently being dispatched on
oniIiai missions to the United States
ana 10 Russia. His book, however, is
not primarily a description of his mill
tary experiences; it is rather a record
OF the psychological effect of the war
upon ms personality and upon his DO
litical views. ~
AS might be expected, he vigorously
taxes issue with the Entente Socialists
VINO adopted defeatist attitude tow
ara the war. Admitting, as a radical,
that the war was a clash of contendinp
systems OF Imperialism, he maintains
that the German imperialists were far
more guilty and incomparably more
dangerous than their Entente counter
parts. re finds little moral benefit in
war and discusses the general attitude
OF the soldiers whom he commanded
with robust good sense and refresh
ing absence OF sentimental gush While
he is outspoken in his condemnation of
iti'itd ISM ana Ol the Ilnc-
serving German Socialists, his appre-
clatlon of Beethoven and Goethe is un-
dimmed even in the trenches along the
User. He manifests a strong aversion
to the familiar type of loud mouthed
CIVILIAN patriot whose ferocious ex-
presslons of hatred for the Hun are
not associated with any sense of dan
ger and sacrifice.
NJ. de Man was very favorably i'm
pressed by America during his short
visit here. He finds the habitual Eu-
ropean sneer at American materialism
quite uniustiied, and feels that. in
business efficiency. in idealsm and in
genuine democracy, the New World is
decidedly superior to the Old NJ. de
Mans favorable opinion will probably
find an echo in his American readers.
HIS personality, as expressed in his
book, is that OF an ingenious, sensible
and thoroughly likable young man.
W RI c.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-30
Lad: A Dog
Appealing Story by Terhune
About a Pet Collie

hume. Published 81 by s. 'Gs' p. Dutton aHsOH CO, sF
If you cannot take your dog with
you on your vacation you will find
"Lad: A Dog splendid substitute
But, perhaps, you may feel less SNUG
satisfaction in your own dog when you
come back to him again, after sojourn-
ing with this eighty-pound collie, with
mighty coat of mahogany and snow,
and sorrowful brown eyes which pro-
claimed not only an uncannily wise
brain but a soul.
Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson
ten with simplicity that is finely
artistic 1t is canine classic. It's
thrills are genuine. It's pathos is keen
and never strays across the narrow
border into bathos. It's sentiment
never slops over into sentime tality
And, above all, it's author knows dogs
He knows dogs as it is given to few
humans to know them. Yet the un-
doubted charm of the tale is due as
much to the greatness of Lad himself
as to the skill of his biographer's low
ing hand.
Lad, by the way, was real collie
and the chief incidents in his life story
are true.
For sixteen years he was the chum
of the Mistress and the Master, and
guardian OF Sunnybank, their home in
the North Jersey hinterand. There is
a ring OF verify about the narrative
which makes needless the authors as
surance that it is true. The book is
true. Every dog lover will realize
that; Just as every dog lover and every
non-dog lover viii respond to it's dra-
matte and story telling appeal. Assur-
edIV doc owners will envy Mr. Terhune
the years OF gay and sad and exciting
adventure -comradeship with the super
collie he describes as thoroughbred
in body and soul"
If you are Of the rarified type that
scorns to halt on the street to watch
a good dog fight then Lad is not for
YOU. For there is fight therein which
is little short of Homeric. Since Bob.
Son of Battle no other book has de-
picted so vividly the soul of thor
oughbred collie. Since "Black Beauty"
none has made SO stirring plea for
the better treatment of animals.
O. O. NJ.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-30

poet beating the prostitute with club!
A clean wind of thought
"That which sanctifies this foul pic
ture," says Gautier, sis the last two
lines, sombre and desperate:
"Ordure avons, ct ordure nous suyt;
Nous defuyons l'honneur, ct il nous
fuyt."
There is only one ground for defence
of Nillon, and that is that he lied whe
he boasted of his infames. But, in
the first place, the records confirm
him. In the second place, the man
who would brag of such deeds without
having committed them is only one
step higher or one step lower than the
actual knave.
Villon had his moments Of fierce
remorse; but what human being has
not? He loved his mother and wrote
but what criminal has not wept for the
mother whose heart he has always
trampled? Nillon had moments of the
utmost piety, but he could dress as a
holy pilgrim and, thus disguised, ply
the trade of a footpad. He robbed
churches again and again. He lede a
crowd once to spit in a sanctuary
And in the following brawl he made
the quick getaway His cronies were
always getting hanged. He succeeded
in lodging the rope.
AS man, Nillon was not above the
level of the sneakingest sneak thief
second-story worker, gunman, cadet,
poorbox burglar, pickpocket of our
time. He killed and ran away; he lived
on women and spoke Of them with foul
in a secret thieves cant for his fell
low thieves. Only recently has the
code been deciphered.
Horace was afraid once, in a battle
for his country. Villon was a craven
all his life His attitude toward death
is one of unutterable terror l called
him "as yellow a dog as ever lived.
Mr.. Desmond thinks slandered him.
wonder what Mr.. Desmond would
call yellow? Just how much would
man have to do in the line of despic.
able poltroonery before he would wir
a rebuke from Mr.. Desmond? Or does
Mr.. Desmond think that q man may dc
anything vile and be absolved for it ii
More important still, Villon commit
ted the crime of popularity. He was
( enormously popular. How can Mr.
Desmond forgive him the almost mum
berless editions and his immense
vogue among the lower classes as wei
as the idle rich of his time?
Let me repeat: For Villon's poetry
I have a positive reverence. For hi:
character | have a profound pity, as fol
that of any other criminal. The vilel
the criminal the more need he has o
pity But that does not alter hi
classification.
AS a writer he is immortal. AS
man he would be blackballed in an,
reputable penitentiary.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-30
By Haywood Broun

Margaret Deland has done remark
mi. niece Of work in her novel "The
promises of Alice (Harpcr's). We
.rs not particularly interested in con-
s.;ences. whether of New England or
.,sewhere. but Mrs. Deland has CON
.r;ved TO make US know all the folk so
rel in her story that we must applaud
hsr art. The work is distinctly minia-
,ure. The story is told briefly but
never carelessly. There is never any
haste and never any lack of detail,
Tho hrevitv is due to the simplicity
~ The plot and the shrewd compression
which has Whitfield away all non-es-
sentials.
The story tells of young girl who
Is dedicated at birth to serve God by
doing missionary work in China. When
she grows up she decides that she
doesn't want to be missionary, and
ve. she feels bound by her mothers
pledge. We need not, and, indeed,
should not, tell the manner in which
the author has contrived to allow her
heroine TO find happiness and blessed
ness as well, but the ending is logical
and convincing.
"The Promises of Alice" is an ex-
ceyent small book about small people.
II lacks sweep and breadth to our
mind. but it is animated by care and
fidelity in character drawing that is all
too unusual in the modern American
novel.
Elizabeth Jordan's mystery story,
"The Girl in the Mirror Century,
Is designed to rollick, but it's speed
seems 70 Us very much matter of
whip and spur. The story would never
raise galiop on its own account. The
trick in the plot has been used too
often TO be effective except with treat
ment OF the highest skill. Miss Jordan
does not live up TO that requirement.
In Juliet Wilbor Tompkins's novel,
"The Starting (Bobbs MerrilN. we
thought for hundred pages or so that
We had found a novel Of first rate dis
New-York tribune., 1919-08-30
Fifty More Books

About those fifty books. don't re-
member Miss Hale's list, but since it
has made some one very mad 1t was
probably an excellent one. The same
may be said of Mr.. Beers for it has
certainly made me mad | suspect him
of uplift. The thing sounds like the
curriculum of a tabloid course IN cul-
ture, and I expect to see published
soon Beers Rapid Road to Erudltion;
or, The Classics You Should Have Read
in Fifty Volumes, De Luxe Presum
ably, there are public libraries and
schools and college courses in litera-
ture within aivving distance of even
California homestead, and | should
think the fifty books desired for pri-
vate, usable library would be those
with which you could live happily on
pleasant terms and actually read.
grant Mr.. Beer "Zuleika" gladly and
The Bah Ballads" and "1he New
Arabian Nights" and "Huckleberry
Finn" and most of the French stuff,
but for ordinary mortals | venture to
state that Tacitus and Green and
Herodotus, and probably Dante, might
just as we'll be left out. His would be
a fine library to gaze upon-the kind
that would make you feel very proud
and we'll educated. But for every day
reading. we'll, why not do it in false
backs, with all these eminently worthy
titles on the outside and plenty of
room behind them TO stow away Elinor
Glyn and Harold Bell Wright or Boo
caccio and Contes Drolatiques as you
may prefer?
But l suppose it is indecent to make
these acrid remarks without providing
q list of my own, so here it is and
Mr. Beer may say what he chooses. 1t
may not shed light anywhere, but
would rather live with it than with his.
The list happens TO be made out in a
wilderness where | have scarcely ten
books and on the Holy Sabbath when
libraries in the parts are closed, hence
for inaccuracies l pray forgiveness and
correction. "Oxford Book of English
Verse" Qarge edition.; The Round
house" and other poems, by John Mase-
Masefeld which has recently been made
but | have not seem Bah Ballads -
W. S. Gilbert; "Zuleika Dobson," Max
Beerbohm; Treasure Island" r. l.
Stevenson; "The New Arabian Nights ~
Stevenson; "Huckleberry Finn" Mark
Twain; Life of Benvenuto Cellini';
"Pepys' Diary; Henry Esmond,
Thackeray; Don Quixote," Cervantes
"Morte d'Arthur." Mallory; Eugene
Grandet," Balzac; "Imaginary Por-
traits" Pater; French Revolution. ,
Carlyle; Rise of Silas Lapham," w
D. Howells; Hail and Farewell" (three
volumes), George Moore; "Old Wive.
Tale" Arnold Bennett; THE Way o.
All FLESH" Samuel Butler; Arabian
Nights" (Burton); Spoon River An.
thology," E. L. Masters; Plays, Pleas
ant and Unpleasant and Plays fol-
Puritans," G. B. Shaw; "a Man O,
Property" John Galsworthy; Justice
and other plays, John Galsworthy
Diana Of the Crossways," George
Meredith; Jude the Oscure," Thoma.
Hardy; kim, and Plain Tales from
the Hills" R. Kipling; "Trilby." d,
Maurler; DE Quincy's Autobiography"
New-York tribune., 1919-08-30
Fifty Books


At the risk of adding still further
to the perplexity Of your prospective
library purchaser, I should like to take
a hand in the fascinating sport of
picking out the fifty best books"
may as we'll say at the outset that
recognize no law of selection except
that of individual preference; conse-
quently, if any "standard works" ap-
pear in my list they Will be there not
because Of their intrinsic merit, but
solely because they happened to appeal
to my perverted taste. At the same
time l must confess that | have some
sadly heterodox and reactionary ten
denotes. | think Shakespeare wrote
better plays than Bernard Shaw, I pre-
fer Turgeniev to Leonard Merrick as a
literary artist, and l got more honest
to-goodness laughs out of Gogops
Dead Souls" than out of Booth Tark-
ingtons "Penrod" But. if | go on in
this vein am likely to be brought up
before some extraordinary tribunal of
arts and letters and shot as counter
revoutionist. so I Will let the list go
without further introduction:
Iliad; Aschylus-Prome-
theus Bound; Sophocles -Antigone; :;
Euripides = Medea; Aristophanes -
Birds; Job - EcclcsIastes, Psalms !;
SNAKES pea re l1GllllGt. l-cdl -'AeiS X III
Othello. Dickens Tale of Two Cities.
Thackeray-Nanity Fair, Henry Es-
mond Fielding-Tom Jones. Hardy
Tess Of the D'Urbervlles, The Mayor
of Casterbridge. Gibbon-The Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire. Goethe
Faust, Iphigenie in Tauris. Nietzschc
Thus Spake Zarathustra, Beyond
Good and Evil Dostoevsky : The
Brothers karamazov. Crime and Pun
ishment. Tolstoy - Anna karenina.
Gogol-Dead Souls. Turgeniev- Fathers
and Sons. Virgin Soil, Nobleman S
Nest. Flaubert Madame Bovary, Sal
ammbo Balzac-Cousin Pons, Great
Man of the Provinces in Paris. Maeter-
linck-Monna Wanna. Ibsen-Wild
Duck, Master Builder. Stendhal- On
Love. Montaigne Essays. Roche
foucauld d-Maxims, Oxford Book Of
English Verse. Fielding Jones.
Mark Twain-Huckleberry Finn. Scott
-Ivanhoe. Stevenson-The Wrecker
Conrad lord lin Sienkiewicz With
out Dogma, With Fire and Sword
Mickiewcz-Pan Tadeusz. Barbusse-
Under Fire. Latzko-Men in War
W. II. c.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-30

1t is rather a pity that the o. Henry
tradition rests so heavily on all Amer
lean short story writers. We seldom
pick up volume of short stories with
out finding that the author feels that
every tale must end with a surprise
and q punch. The formula is not al
ways successful. In Newton A. Fues-
sle's Flesh and Fantasy" (The Corn
hill Company we found the first story
which gives the volume its name g
we'll constructed narrative, but many
Of the others seemed to us machine
made. nor was there much maturity
of thought in them. Also, we are not
fond of sentimental socialism. The
story about the big fnancer who is
hit on the head with something SO
hard that he sees visions of the misery
Of the world and therefore introduces
proft-sharing into his factory as soon
as he gets out of the hospital has
never seemed convincing to US.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-30

iaE' ar HEMAkING OF, A MIND. BY Henry
ve Nan Charles Scrbner's Sons New
New-York tribune., 1919-08-30

"The Golden Age" Kenneth Grahame;
"Tanglewood Tales" n. Hawthorne;
"Odyssey," Homer Butcher & Lang
translatiop); 'Ingoldsby Legends;
Essays of Ella" C. Lamb; "Montaigne's
Essays; agmatism," VIII James;
Anna Karenina," Tolstoy; THE Dar-
ling" and other stories, Chekhov; The
Book Of Wonder" Lord Dunsany:
Mile. Fih"' and other stories, de Mau-
passant; "The Prussian Officer" and
other stories, D. H. Lawrence; Poems
Of Francois Villon"; "Nostromo,"
Joseph Conrad; Miss Julie" and other
New-York tribune., 1919-08-30

In Juliet Wilbor Tompkins's novel,
"The Starting (Bobbs- Merrill. we
thought for d hundred pages or so that
We had found novel Of first rate dis
New-York tribune., 1919-08-30
"The Promises Of Alice
Sound Workmanship in the New
Novel by Mrs. Margaret Deland

tincton. The theme is an excellent
one, for Miss Tompkins tells the tale
OF girl who rebels at the shut-in life
which has been imposed upon her by
her father. Her rebellion is handled
eXcellently up to certain point, but
then the author seems disposed to go
after the sentimental possibilities of
her theme. At this point we lost inter
est. We thought the story should have
been much less sweet. We wanted to
see the Startling fly, not merely futter
Hendrix Wllem Van Loon has fash
. loned most attractive book for chill
dren which is called "a Short History
OF Discovery (McKay). The book is
illustrated with some fascinating draw
ings by the author. and brightly col
ored ones at that. The author explains
IN his Introduction that he has framed
ms book with the intention Of saying
Dear Children: History is the most
fascinating and entertaining and in
structive OF the arts. 1t tells US of
men OF great courage and people who
knew how to die for their convictions
1t shows us how very difficult it is to
achieve anything in this world and how
VIC nave TO WORK Tor everything we Wish
to accomplish. And it teaches US that
our own little worries are mere trif1es
compared TO the encouragement which
other men and women have suffered
and have overcome without assistance
from the outside"
This seems a sound and useful pur-
pose which the book fulfils and yet we
think we Will wait q year or so before
trying it out on H the Third. He might
not know the meaning of "virtuosi"
and "subaQuatic.' Worse than that, he
might ask us to tell him what "cos-
mographer" means
New-York tribune., 1919-08-30

John Galsworthy's addresses in
America, 1919" may be recommended
as, on the whole, a stirring series of
essays. There is a little nonsense
in it about Anglo American responsi-
bility to enlighten the world, but also
much wisdom and sound comment on
the coming quest of the world for
quality.
New-York tribune., 1919-08-30

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