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New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
Detective Tales
Legal Tangles Unravelled
by Criminologist
TIME hero of Samuel Lyle; Grim.

tn He hero of Samuel Lyle; cvim:-
no!ogist Century, is an expert
criminal lawyer, who also pos
sesses remarkable ability as detee-
tive. He delights in taking up appar-
emily hopeless cases, confounding the
guilty or saving the innocent by his
quick perceptions and mastery Of legal
technique. The author, who conceals
his identity behind the pseudonym Of
Arthur Crabb, is evidently very familiar
with courtroom procedure, and many OF
his stories reach their climax In q trial
scene.
The first story, "A Pleasant Evening"
in which a murder mystery is solved. ie
one of the most exciting in the book
Mr.. Crabb is inclined to avoid blood
curdling episodes, but his stories are
always interesting through their clever
and ingenious construction. Samuel
Lyle's clients have abundant reason u
feel confidence in him. When he does
not save them without recourse to law
by his acumen as sleuth he comes into
the courtroom and pleads their cases
with never failing skill and logic. He
stands out as en- original and we!coms
new figure in our company Of master
detectives.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
Book for French Blind

One Of the most interesting events Of
the present literary season is the repro
duction in braille type for the French
blind Of Clarence Hawkes. Hitting the
Dark Trail, for which the publishers,
Henry Holt & Co., announce arrange
ments have been made and in which un-
dertaking, 1t is said, Brieux, the author
Of Damaged Goods, has taken particu-
lar interest. Hitting the Dark Trail Is
the autobiography Of Clarence Hawkes.,
who is himself blind. 1t has already
been published and widely read in both
the United States and England OF
even more interest than this event-at
least to Americans-is the report from
his publishers that Mr. Hawkes., despite
his blindness, is an enthusiastic baseball
fan.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
The Wild West
Gunplay in William Pattec-
son Whites Novel
TINE author who writes Of the

" he author who writes OF the
Wild West, with its accompani-
ment Of cowbovs. cattle-rustlers
hard riding ana quick shooting, is AZ
ways sure of an audience. II seems
that the romantic instincts of tbs aver
age American reader find their most
satisfactory outlet in reading about the
stirring frontier customs Of a byyons
generation.
William Patterson Whites Paradise
Bend Doubleday. page) has al tbs
merits Of the traditional Western stor,
quick action, excitement, 4 touch Of
mystery, q dasn Of romance-and . for
midabIe casualty list. How prominent
the latter feature is may be inferred
from the following cnlightening bit Of
dialogue:
Yeah said Loudon. "ths air around
these parts does seem clearer lot.
An there ain. so many folks on the
street, either
There won't be FOR WHILE" de-
clared Bill Laney. Eve buried twenty
three gents day before yesterday,
hanged twelve up the road . piece, an
Scotty an Jack Richie an thst crowd
rubbed out nine o the boys thst s.d
cut O. the Happy Hesrt over By Dead
Horse Spring
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
Notes Of Books
And of Authors

wv HAT would most young writers
w not give to be trained by such
master as John Galsworthv
ones reading directed, ones ideas dis
cussed and ones writing criticized by
one OF the finest of living stylists!
This was the unusual and fortunate ex-
perience of Miss Dorothy Easton, whose
The Golden Bird has just been pub
hshed in this country. Miss Easton
was living in Dresden, 2 girl of eigh-
teen, when she first met Mr. Gals
worthy. During an illness Of hers he
became interested In the young writer
and out OF gratitude she sent him. she
says, her first written Impressions of
the life Of the German people. He
began to encourage me, and lent me
my first Turgenev. which was big
step into the life Of q new idea-sin-
picity Of language From that time
on l read only the books he lent me.
and sent him everything l wrote. Nv
visits later were and are my greatess
JOY" When the war broke out Miss
Easton returned to England and took
up her abode on an old farm in Kent
so that her contact with and inspira-
ton from Galsworthy became the
greater. When her first book OF
sketches, The Golden Bird, appeared,
Galsworthy wrote the introduction.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
Orange and Green
Struggle of Ulster and Sim
Fein in Form of Fiction

TNHE quarrels IN ireland over the
question Of independence have
inspired many books and essays
n Che fields of history and economies.
1hey have not given cause for treat
ment IN fiction. although the average
reader prefers to study contemporary
national movements through the lenses
OF the novel Coner Galway, in To-
ward the Dawn (Stokes), has essayed
+ with marked success, a presentation of
the Sim F6in side Of the recent up-
heavals in Ireland We indorse this
nove as a sngularly fair and graphic
unfolding Of the racial, religious and
political feuds that eliminated in the
present decades riot of unrest in
Ulster and Dublin.
Dympns Donnelly, while g. young
child, is injured in brawl between
Orangemen and Nationalists and is
saved by the boy Seumas Gallagher,
who becomes her lover and the hero
Of the story He Is one Of the interior
circle Of piotters who are striving to
drive Southern and Western Ireland
into armed revolt. AS a foil the author
gives US the fine clean-spirited Sydney
Hamilton. Protestant and Unionist,
who also loves Dympna- Her love
vbrates between the two. to find rest
during the hectic hours Of the late up
rising in Dublin which WAS crushed
out in gunfre. She realizes that hey
religion and her fiery zeal for Ireland
and liberty forbid any serious thought
Of Sydney.
We have shown merely thread of
the plot Of Toward the Dawn. As an
Interpretation Of the craving OF the
mas Of the Catholic lrish for freedom,
this novel is pronounced success.
for 1t is surprisingly devoid Of rsncor
and the paragraph OF the b!got. We
question tbs statement that many an
Irish Nationalist with merely an elc-
mcntary school education" can give an
educated Unionist points on inter
national law" Il would appear 70 us
that the broad viow OF state affairs
IS 10 be found IN the mind not obseHeod
by the questions and vcxA.ions Of
restricted problem 40 Isolated az the
Irish struggle Of to-day. However,
with It's poetic and mildly polsnnic ar
gument for the establishment Of an
Irish republic. Toward the Dawn
10 sn advocate In Action With sharply
Defined values.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
Beginning Of the Decline

Following the War Of 1912, however.
Congress- began withdrawing the pref
erential provisions in favor Of Ameri-
can shipping, and the way was paved
for the decline of the American mcr-
chant marine which continued up to
the beginning Of the late war. In
1910 there were 981 1000 tons OF Ameri-
can vessels registered for foreign
trade, and these carried 91.5 per cent
Of American imports and exports. In
1914, however, the tonnage growth rep
resented only about $4,000 tons, while
the proportion of our carrying trade
being done in our own ships was less
than 10 per cent.
In contrast with this picture Of mari
time decay, the progress made since
the beginning of the late war stands
out in bold relief. The effects Of an
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31

ways the bizarre and eccentric in con-
temporary art that Is forced upon our
attention. The quiet, sincere painter,
composer or writer has to make his or
her way slowly. Thus, while the inMta-
tors Of Whitman and various imported
cults have been ramping on the Ameri-
can literary stage, it might we'll be sup
posed that Poe, Longfellow, Whittier
and Emerson have had no successors.
A perusal Of this volume will,
think, show that the older type of
American poetry is being very earnestly
and successfully cultivated to-day. 1t
has made many important developments.
has thoroughly caught the vitality Of
this generation, without losing the
sanity Of the earlier tradition. The
newer popular poetry, ss l may call
what this volume attempts to present,
is very properly different from the work
of Poe and the New England school. It
is less ideaistic than Poe, less moraliz-
ing than Lowell or Longfellow. Above
all things, it is closer to life, more en-
thusiastic about the world of nature and
men that surrounds US. In this may bo
seen the more beneficial side Of Whit
mans influence, but the advance has
come about rather from the changing
temper of the people than through any
single author or group of authors" The
Anthology, which includes work by
Joyce Kilmer, Wittcr Bynner, Sara
Teasdale, Louis Untermeyer, Clement
Wood, Grace Hazard Conkling and many
Others has just been published by E. P.
Dutton & Co.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
English Woman the Side Lines During the Great War

hammed to clear up the case and call
the guilty parties to justice. AS re-
suit he passes through 8 series Of
most exciting experiences unccathed.
There is an abundance Of Eastern
secrecy and intrigue in the novel Poi
son is weapon freely employed, and
the prize Of war is often a set of mar
velous jewels. The author introduces
more than touch of the strange re-
ligious rites of India. A great bronze
idol with incense burning before it's
shrine is familiar figure in the laby-
rinth Of crime and intrigue through
which Mohammed cuts his way with
his invincible sabre.
The novel is really a collection of
short stories, each of which is based
upon one Of Mohammed's exploits.
There is not much sophistication in
the stories, but there are no dull mo-
ments, either. The action is so swift,
the adventures are so startling, that
one is often reminded of Dumas Three
Musketeers. One would have TO go
far to sec better sword fight than
the one in which Mohammed van
quishes the wild tribesman. All Bagh.
Then there is q cavalry charge in
which horses wisdom saves a regi-
ment from destruction, and there is
great necklace which must be guarded
at the risk of mems lives, and But
it isn't fair to the book TO describe
all its thrilling episodes. Mr.. Tracy's
work should be recommended without
reservation to all lovers of red blood
ed adventure fiction.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
Quiet Summer for Frances Sterret4

"If you had only asked where spent
the summer when | was in Alaska and
trailed the smiling Eskimo to Arctic
Siberia, or one of the summers I was
in Europe, when l was trampled on by
smuggler before he jumped from the
window o. moving trainl" is Frances
R. Sterrett's exclamation in answer to
inquiries as to where her summer had
been passed. Even last winter she had
the experience of saving from burn
ing home the unfinished manuscript
Of Nancy Goes to Town, just pub
hshed by D. Appleton & Co. But this
summer she says she was not even ar
rested for violating parking lawsl All
of which goes to indicate that her
summer in Minnesota has been one of
quiet preparation for the publication
Of her new novel.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
OrOWth OF the American Marine
We Have Made Century's Progress in -Four
Years

inadequate merchant marine upon the
trade of the country are shown in the
withdrawal of foreign tonnage, upon
ginning Of the war, and the conse-
quent piling up of goods for export
at American ports without any ships
to carry them abroad
"Jp to the time that war reused the
country to its maritime inferiority,"
says Mr. Weiss, "the majority in Con-
gress had acted with indifference to
the nations need for merchant ma
rine. America had its own boundless
resources, it was argued, sufficient to
supply every reasonable want There
was no need for foreign trade, except
little, perhaps, in the exporting of
surplus production in some lines. many
would argue. Of course, there were
some lines like cotton, petroleum, cop
per, tobacco, patented machines, meats
and grains, of which we had practi-
cal monopoly, that had to be shipped
overseas. But the foreigner could do
the carrying. In the face of condi-
tons such as these the chances of anv
Congressional aid or encouragement
for an American merchant marine were
nil Of course, those familiar with
the economics and basic principles Of
maritime commerce were not to be
deferred by any temporary conditions
from their belief in and advocacy of a
strong American merchant marine, but
their efforts to write it into law were
met with spirit Of Indifference until
war was declared"
Big Step Forward
With war came the renaissance of
American shipping. "America has
stepped forward one hundred years in
the last four years." says Mr.. Weiss.
To the recording of this progress a
great part of the book is devoted. Pro-
duction of ships plays a large part in
the telling At the time of our entry
into the conflict there were only 39s
shlpways in the United States. Two
years later there were 1,122, and the
sum Of more than three billions of dol
lars had been devoted to the construc-
ton of American tonnage in tho in
tervening two years
In the seventeen chapters dealing
with the record of American shipping
such subjects as the growth of ma
rine insurance, wars effect on freight
rates, the expansion of foreign COM
merce, the advent of the steam tur-
bine, the growing importance Of oil
fuel, the slim ulus to inland water
ways, the history of the Shipping Board
and the views of shipping experts on
the situation are dealt with in detail.
A feature Of the work Is the presen-
tation of sketches of men and enter
prises representative Of the shipping
world.
The book is copiously illustrated and
contains a we'll arranged index. Sta
tistical tables are also presented deal
ing with foreign trade and American
tonnage holdings and shipbuidins.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
COMPREHENSIVE

"a chant marine from its begin
nings is given in America s
Maritime Progress, by George Weiss,
published by the New York Marine
News Company.
The growth Of the American trade
fleet under the laws enacted for it's
protection by the founders Of the Re-
public, its continuous decline following
the withdrawal of those laws to the
low level reached just before the out
oreak OF the late war and its subse-
quent revival to the point whore the
country now has 100000 gross tons
OF ships on Its hands and the necessitv
for finding a permanent place for them
IN world trade are all discussed by the
author
That place, according to Mr.. Weiss.
must be provided by Congress. .
"The great coastline, the vast re-.
sources. the tremendous industries and
the constructive energies Of the United
States" he says, "should be, and poten-
TALLY are, so far superior to those of
any other nation in the world that it
Is imperative that our legislation on
maritime affairs shall be so construct
ed as to give to this country its right
full place as the leading maritime ma
tion, bar none, in the world"
Our Early Shipping History
In view Of President Wilson'S re-
fusal to serve the notice required bv
congress upon competitive maritime
nations Of our determination to modify
existing treaties SO as to permit Of our
giving preference to our own ships.
especial interest attaches to Mr..
Welss's pages relative to early Ameri-
can shipping history in which the ef
feet Of the application of these prin-
ciples at the beginnings of the Repub
lie is sketched How alert the early
American Congresses were to protect
and favor home shipping enterprises,
he points out, is evidenced by the fact
that between 1889 and 1928 fifty laws
were enacted for the purpose of pro-
tectlng ship construction and ship own
ing in the United States
Embodied in the law Of July 4, 1889,
was clause allowing a discount Of
10 per cent on tariff duties on all goods
imported in ships built and owned by
American citizens. Provisions also
were made for system of tonnage
duties favorable to American vessels.
Under these measures the American
shipping registered for foreign trade
grew from $4,000 gross tons to All 900
tons in three years, and in the same
period the proportion of American
trade carried in American bottoms in
creased from 23 per cent to 6A per
cent.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
Husband a German Prince
drnany From the Inside Described in He,
Book

many during the war, the submarine
question, the ambiguous position Of the
Kaiser and the gradual growth Of tho
social revolution.
When her own opinions are pro-
jectcd there are some unexpected do
velopments. In February, 1917, after
diplomatic relations between America
and Germany had been broken of.
Princess Blucher wrote:
Called MIR. Gerard Tactless
"Mr. Gerard. the Ambassador. will
be regretted by few. He was n man
OF disagreeable, tsctless manners and
managed to offend every ono. In fact.
hc was not the person to have bseu
chosen to act as negotiator between
two hostile powers at such critical
period OF the worlds history. Mrs.
Gerard, his wife, on the contrary, will
be regretted by all Of Us. With her
quiet tact and patience she endesvored
10 gloss over the many breaches of
good manners committed by her incor-
rigible husband"
This alarming Indictment Of man
whose public career has received moth
ing but praise up to the present mo-
ment loses some Of Its force when ono
turns over few pages and reads:
'Ludendorf Is regretted by few" We
are inclined to put down this habit
OF neglecting to regret people as one
o. the princess's pet hobbies and think
no more of it; though as a mere mat
ter Of curiosity it might be interest
ing TO know at Just which dinner party
Mr Gerard appeared in 8 dinner coat
when he should have assumed full
evening dress.
One chapter Of Princess Blochers
experiences provides convincing owl
dencs that war censors OF all nations
come from common stock At one
Tune the princess was hailed before a
court Of investigation, accused of anti
German inclinations. She was ban
ished from Berlin and not reinstated
until her husband had threatened to
appeal to the Emperor. The whole
situation turned on letter written
to cousin in German prison Camp.
The vigilant censor had captured two
startling extracts:
Suspicious Letter
Il. The Tennis Club Is now open
again. and VIC sometimes go there in
the afternoon; but it Is not amusing
as it was last year. as every one ssems
in low spirits and has no energy or
keenness for anything.
~ When the happy day of peace sr-
rives, what lot Of new nephews and
nieces you and will have to bs In
troduced to when we meet again in
England"
After four months Of pondering over
the meaning Of the extracts the censor
gave out his findings:
81 The writer evidently means 70
convey to her cousin that the German
nation is depressed about the ultimate
result of the war
- The writer seems to be discon-
tented with living in Germany and In
tends to so back and live in England
as soon as she possibly can. and seems
to infer that she would like peace at
any price, 80 that that moment should
arrive for her"
Still, being banished from Berlin Is
not quite our idea Of capital punish
ment
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
NOR most OF us during the war
{ there existed but two species Of
human heinys nro- Germans

I m NOR most Of us during the war
k94 there existed but two species Of
M human beings pro- Germans
and anti Germans. There was
SO he talk Of ncutrals, but down in our
hels $ we knew It to be a negligible
yn 4se, invented to shield the hypocrites
<1iut now that the white heat of anger
las faded to a smouldering smudge,
gs can look about and discover here
and there an individual actually de-
serving separate classification.
Such person is Evelyn Princess
'Dlacher. She Is the English wife of 8
s man aristocrat, Prince Butcher, a
irect descendant of "Vorwarts.' the
iamous marshal Of Waterloo. She was
wing in England with her husband
| shen the war broke out and immedi-
i tely left with him for Berlin, going
witA the ambassadors contingent. They
spept most Of the four and half years
st the Hotel Esplanade, where they had
81 opportunity to meet nearly every
en- Of note.
Brothers With the Allies
While her husband was not mill
tasy man, owing to his long residence
T England, all of his friends and rela~
ti7as we're intimately connected with
III German political or military world.
o. er own family four brothers ana
for brothers-in-law were fighting fo1
/; Allies One of her brothers was
k g. at Ypres In 1914, another per
m nsntly disabled
Ser memoirs, An English Wife n
lin (Dutton), form an odd mixture
o sympathy for and defense Of the
& rnnan nation and anxiety and longing
4 her OWL people. together with &
5, preme effort to remain loyal TO both
c. .nsries.
II there could be any unprejudiced
opinions on the war issues, we might
think It natural to find them in this
testimony, written under stress of great
emotion by n woman who had no reason
to favor one side more than the other.
As matter - fact, although all thai,
she has written is extraordinarily in
teresting and provides different view
point from any that has previously
been expressed so clearly, we find her
doubly rejudiced.
Praying Tor the Whistle
She is in the position Of & spectator
q
everything on a scoreless tie. All her
cheers are for the defensive team, with
q constant prayer on her lips that tho
whistle will end the struggle before
anything really happens.
In January, 1916, Princess Blacher
wrote;
al hear everything, and sometimes
grow quite dazed at the manifold and
contrary opinions and Judgments I
hear expressed, until at last believe
nothing at all, but can only sit with
folded hands in state OF abject de-
spair."
In this the princess does herself
considerable injustice. She did anything
but sit with folded hands Besides TAX
In. an active part in relief work among
III prisoners. she found time to set
do vn 8 detailed account Of every
thing she heard and saw, with her own
opinions kept fairly modestly in the
background. Thus we learn many new
sides OF the internal struggle in Ger
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
Mr.. Stork On American Poetry

In his preface TO Contemporary Verse
Anthology, Charles Wharton Stork, the
editor of the magazine and Of this VOL
uIne Of poems selected from it in the
years 19l6-'20 makes some stimulating
comments on modern American poetry.
"The fact is he says. Chat it is al.
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
An Oriental Hero
India the Scene of Louis
Tracy's New Novel

THE sIRDAR's SABRE, By Louis
l Tracy edward ]. Clode), is full
of adventure from start to finish.
The scene is laid in India, and the
hero is q redoubtable warrior named
Mohammed Khan. Whenever pecu-
liarly difficult or mysterious crime
turns up the authorities call on Mo
New-York tribune., 1920-10-31
Henry Van DYKES Poetry

Henry Van Dyke has just gathered
all Of his poems in d new, complete single
volume edition, which has been published
by Charles Scr.bner's Sons.
Deming graphic., 1920-08-17
GOOD ENOUGH EPITAPH
lFrom pougIas Daily InternatiOnaI

From Douglas Daily internationally
Wilson Kilgore, editor Of the Col
umbus IN. NJ Daily Courier, an
nounces the discontinuance of the daily
issue Of that paper and that he Will
confine all his energies in the future
to the publication of a statewide dem
ocratfs weekly. The Courier entered
the daily field several months ago and
II has been a welcome arrival In this
office. II bore all the evidence OF be-
ing edited by an experienced newspa-
per man. Mechanically the Daily Cour-
Ter has been artistic and editOrially II
has been clean and able. The only rea-
son for its discontinuance, we take II
is the fact that there was not enough
newspaper patronage available In Col
umbus 10 sustain II. We predict that
Editor Kilgore viii put forth a weekly
worthy of the support Of every demo
crat in the state Of New Mexico. Good
luck, brother