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A Few New Novels for
Summer Reading

If you are spending a quiet vacation
you will want books; if you intend to
enjoy one full of action you will want
books to read while resting; if travelling
by boat or train you will want books.
Books are certainly entertaining
vacation companions.
OPEN THE DOOR. by Catherine Cars
we'll The Melrose $500 prize novel;
the story of swing from evangelical
piety to unconventional freedom. 81.
WUNPOST. by Dane Coolidge. thrilling
story of Arizona deserts, lost gold
mines, prospectors, and of course,
clever girl. 81
ALFS BUTTON, by w. A. Darlington A
Arabian Nights of genuine humor
and wit; full of good laughs. $1.75.
THE BOOK OF SUSAN. by Lee Wilson
Dodd; new novel by well known
playwright 81.
MARY GIRL, by Hope Merrick do
mestic story of a struggle against pow
erty and pride and the religious fana-
ticism of good woman. Price 81.
THE HOUSE OF DREAMS -COME-TRUE,
by Margaret Pedler; a stirring romance
of love and trial $1.75.
THE INVISIBLE FOE, by Louise Jordan
Min. powerful novel of a woman
who had psychic powers. based on the
question Can the dead communicate
with the living" S1.25.
RESPONSIBILITY. by James E.. Agate. A
novel upon age-old theme, by
new writer of great ability S1.90.
A CRY OF YOUTH, by Cynthia Lombard.
romantic love tale of Sunny Italy
and it's American dwellers. q.
THE ROAD TO EN-DOR, by E. H Jones
officers who took up the Ouija board
while prisoners and effected thereby
their escape. q.
Book Section. Second door.
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90 Dozen PAIRS Fancy Six Sock.
Reduced to $3.50 Pair
40 Dozen PAIRS L;s7e Thread Socks
Reduced to Csc Pair

Full-fashioned Fine Lisle Thread Socks.
with double toes, high spliced heels and rein
forced soles Colors navy, gray, tan, cor
dovan and white All sizes in the combined
lot
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Of Interest TO Women
THE LACE-TRIMMED NECLICE.
BY ANNE RITTENHOUSE.

pecially with the younger women this
summer. The foundation consists of
georgette or soft silk Slip often a
straight plated affair hung on shoul-
der straps. over this goes short,
compact matinee, sometimes lace
Jacket and again a coquettish COM
pfnat1on of chiffon, net, lace and tin
sci ribbon like the one shown in the
sketch Sometimes with single
foundation it is possible to have two
matlnees. thus deriving the variety
that comes with two negliges.
Today's sketch shows you the back
or this interesting matinee, and the
front is much like the back, with the
net ruff1es edged with tinsel ribbon
finishing the deem Y of the onening
Evening star., 1920-07-12

Lace there must be and. if you
please, a little metallic ribbon. For
the rest you may select chiffon, georg-
cite, meteor, voile or net, with pink,
peach. rose, flame, soft blues and
lavenders. yellows, and even greens.
though it is the cnrnation tints taat
seem to appeal most perSiStently
And don't forget that plaits, which
have so many interesting posslplll-
ties in chiffon and georgette, are en-
joying even greater vogue in the
realm of negliges than they nave
already enjoyed in other apparel.
Remember the lace, for laceless neg
lige seems to be a poor selection
these days.
More Compact.
oh, to be sure. there are those
batik affairs. scornful of lace or ruf-
fles or plaitings. But very few wom-
en- are alluring in them, and some
how they SAVIOR too much of the pre-
cieuses of Washington Square. bone
trimmed spectacles and all that. to
appeal to most of us.
And another thing about negliges
of all sorts. 1t is from the women
themselves who have imposed their
taste upon the designers that mas
come the demand for negliges OF
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The Latest Thing In
Do11dom

For the wee little folks is the En-
mylou Dolly. Emmylou's a dolly who
wants dresses made for her by little
girls.
Each set of hat and dress of pretty
material comes stamped ready for cut
ting, in packet, just like mothers en-
broidery package. Lots of different style
costumes to choose from.
Emmy1ou Herself Costs 30c
She's a heavy cardboard dolly, over a
foot high, with movable arms.
Each Package of Emmylou Outfits,
60c, making 90c for dolly and outfit.
Trunks to Carry Emmylou and Outfit,
s..
Art Needlework Section. Second floor.
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Special Values in
Summer Furniture
of Reed-Fiber

AS indicative of the exceptional values
and desirable assortments awaiting you
here in Wicker Furniture, we cite these
two values in Reed Fiber
Evening star., 1920-07-12
VICTRO!LA
RECORDS
Many Have Been Awaiting

We have been fortunate in receiving this
long list of popular Victor Records, many
of which have been in demand by large
number of patrons.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
SWinburne
Intimate Anecdotes c
Famous Poet

~OULSON KERNAHAN'S little
book. "Swinburne as I Knew
Him. (Lane), contains number
of intimate anecdotes that cast con-
siderable light upon the poets habits
and personality. The author seems to
attach a rather excessive degree of
importance to four hitherto unpub-
lished letters from Swinburne to his
cousin, Lady Henniker-He which he
places Mt the beginning of the volume.
Only one of these letters, in which the
poet refuses to take part in the chris
tening of child on the ground of his
strong repugnance to the religious con-
ception of an infant as "born in sin"
possesses any genuine intrinsic in
terest.
Mr.. Kernahan's anecdotes, however,
are never dull and are often extremely
amusing. He tells how Swinburne was
cured Of excessive drinking through
the instrumentality of his faithful
friend and mentor, Watts -Dunton. By
painting enticing pictures Of the virtues
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
A Dead Mans II ale
Corpse Furnishes Clew to
Mysterious Crime

" HE old pirates maxim that dead
men tell no tales is disproved by
an acute Chilean detective in
"The Whispering Dead" by Alfred
Ganachilly. (Knopf.) The German
Embassy in the Chilean capital burns
down, and there is much evidence to
shaw that charred body found in its
ruins is that Of Wilhelm Beckert,
chancellor of the embassy. But Senor
Rosas, of the Chilean Secret Service,
has different theory about the origin
of the crime and the identity of the
body. His theory is confirmed, grimly
enough, out of the dead mans own
lips--for an examination of the teeth
reveals the fact that the corpse is not
Beckert.
The story combines the attractions
of mystery and adventure, for after
Senor Rosas has discovered the true
criminal the task of catching him re-
mains, and this task involves a long,
and a certain amount of gunplay. 1t
cannot be said that the interest and
merit Of the novel are enhanced by
the constant attempts of the author to
preach a sermon on the evils of Ger
man "kultur" There is q certain cle-
ment of dimenovelish melodrama in
such sentences as:
GAS long as the snow is white upon
the Andes the name of Germany will
stink in the nostrils Of the people of
Chile, and the voice of the contemner
of Prussianism is the voice of a dead
man who, by and through a toothless
mouth. whispered the guilt of the Ger
man into the quick ears OF the law
a law that fears not to pull the boards
of ambassadors nor to drag the eagles
of ruthlessness from their ridiculous
perch nor to pluck the all-highest
from his bombastic throne"
But aside from such declamatory
ebuilitions 1.-THE Whispering Dead" is
good story, welf calculated to hold the
interest of the most hardened reader
OF detective "thrillers" from the first
page to the last.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
Life Story Of a Negro Leader
Major Motion Displays a Preference for Well
Trodden Paths

this agreement between them was en-
tirely different. With DR.. Washington
1t was an intellectual policy pursued as
the only condition of the negro's sur
vlval under hostile conditions. He had
founded Tuskegee in the face of tre-
mendous antagonism, and he was pre-
pared to conciliate every white preju-
dice to keep it alive.
With DR.. Motion there seems, how
ever, no intellectual basis for this atti
tude. His reactions are those of q
rather insensitive, unimaginative man
to whom inequalities are no good. This
is best illustrated by the naive story
with which he'points the differences be-
tween Indians and negroes as he OBJ
served them in Hampton. At Hampton
was an Indian boy, Paul Matches. the
son of an Indian chief who was killed bv
General Miles for treachery. General
Miles, on visit to the school, heard of
the boys presence there and asked to
see him. When the boy came up to him
0SiISIai NllieS OueIeO MIN MS nanQ,
which the boy refused to take. SAYS
Motion: "The General lectured him on
his stubbornness, telling him that his
father might have been Of great SER
vice to his race but for his indomitable
and unconquerable stubbornness, which
undoubtedly Paul had inherited. / was
very much humiliateda I made up nv
mind to punish this young man very
severely, and evidently General Miles
knew it, though I said nothing. After l
had dismissed Paul the General turned
to me and said, DO not punish him. He
inherits that spirit. 1t can never be
got out Of him. AS soon as I had an
opportunity called Paul in. When he
walked into the Office he said: 4 ready
go guard house. l stay there thousand
years, never shake hands wild him. He
killed my father" Apparently the
brutality and stupidity of facing the
boy with his fathers executioner had not
occurred to any one there, least of all
TO Major Motion.
His book abounds in naive and in.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
By Rebecca Drucker
UST as all literature must have

UST as all literature must have
begun with the hero singing his
exploits around the camp fire, so
by some strong, sound, subcon-
scious impulse the negro is beginning his
literature with autobiography The in
junction would seem to lie upon each
of his leaders mark his stake in prog
ress with his own story, and in these
tales in Booker T. Washington's Cup
From Slavery" and w. e. B. DuBois's
"Darkwater" are the sagas of the Amer
lean negro.
Major Robert Russa Motions obe-
dlence to the command has not resulted
in story so striking and original as
these autobiographies. 1t is not only
that he is not SO dynamic in self-ex-
preston as either of these men. Quite
clearly he is also not so powerful or
unique an individuality as they. Never
theless, Finding Way Out" Double
day Page) is an Illuminating recital for
the sidelights it throws on the necro's
'i'oihoi PAooleHi anu Ine Qualty oil
leadership by which he abdes And
since, consciously or not, autobiography
is mercilessly searching process, it is
also revealing piece of -portraiture
Motion is undoubtedly a natural
leader. He had, even in his formative
period, an arresting presence and the
n iyh fall Of Y,l,, II
natural orator and something of a
natural politician. He had also the ad-
vantage of being born in the household
of white family, where he learned
early the power of education.
Finding way out appears not to
have been SO difficult for him since, on
the whole, he seems to have followed
the way of least resistance Industry
and perseverance were, to an extent.
natural to him. At Hampton Institute
he assimilated thoroughly It's theory of
educating the negro along industrial
lines. He was thoroughly adaptable to
| the prejudccs he lived among, and this
pragmatism gave him a great prestige
! with white and black. 1t had for a
great body of his own people. timid
through long enslavcment, fearful Of
hostility and anxious to gain a foothold
the merit of appearing practical advice,
And 1T recommended itself to well-inten-
toned whites, who hoped to see the
| negro problem adjusted without anv
radical shifting of preconceptions. He
became the apostle of the slow advance
member Of that wing of the negro
thought which determines to ignore with
a persistent optimism the preiudice
against the negro. 1t was an attitude
"hlch made him many friends among
the well-intentioned Northern nhi]an-
throplsts who made the negro the;,.
care. In 1901 they urged upon him q
trip to Europe for purposes Of study
ana recreation, from which he seems to
nave returned with the least possible
number of impressions, save only that
ne would rather be negro in the II 8
A. than anybody else in any other conn
try in the world.
his agreement with DR.. Washington's
policy of educating the negro SLOWLY
ana chiefly along industrial lines his
acknowledgment of subservience. mazda
him the logical successor of Dr. Wash
ington al Tuskegec. But the basi. If
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

visiting niece of the conspirator. with
her "roguish greeny gray eyes" poor
Sir Nigel is tried for Dacre Wynnes
death, and while his trial is pending
Cleek ceverly learns the truth about
Rrellier's methods: Dacre and the
others we're shot by Brelliers guards
for getting too inouisitive about his
camouf1age screen-the Frozen Flames,
out on the fens. Clcek dramatically
discloses his information IN the nick of
time in court and saves poor Sir Nigel
an innocent man who originally called d
Cleek on this case
Sir Nigel is later married to Antoi-
nette Brellier, the beasts niece, and
Hamilton Cleek, the detective, is best
man.
All of this, of course, is told back
wards, as a riddle should be told. 1t
will be found engaging by those who
are given to accepting and enjoying
and improbable "mystery"
stories. It would make a good movie
as good movies 60.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

genuous incidents like this. 1t reveals
a man of definite limitations Of intellect
and imagination, but man who is by
his acceptance of the catch-phrases of
the modern white world able TO trans
late them to the negro. 1t makes COM
prehensible the break in negro thought
which occurred some years ago in which
a more radical wing under DR.. Dubois s
leadership revolted from the compla-
cency and opportunism OF its orthodox
leaders, from the whole conception of
educating the negro to be q newer of
wood and drawer of water and from
the general implied admission of race
inferiority.
AS a part Of the negro's discussion
of himself, Finding Way Out" is an
extremely interesting chapter in his
progress to self-consciousness.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

IMMEDIATELY after the armistice
an enterprising Belgian officer
named Maurice Berger went into
Germany in q semi-official capac-
ty and secured series of interviews
With prominent generals, capitalists,
.uthors and politicians OF all shades of
linion. The book of his Impressions
has been translated by Mr. William L..
Mcpherson and is published by G. P.
?utnam's sons under the title Ger
many After the Armistice."
Lieutenant Berger is an ideal inter
liewer, quick in his perceptions, sensi-
Sic and direct in his questions. He
possesses n remarkable faculty for in
serpreting mans personality in few
,pt, descriptive phrases. He failed to
meet Ebert, Scheidemann and Noske,
,ut he succeeded in interviewing al
most every one else of consequence in
republican Germany.
On the whole, the authors testi-
Eony does not reveal proper state of
:ontrition in the Teutonic mind. Only
Haximilian Harden and a few Inde-
pendent Socialist leaders frankly admit
Germany's responsibility in connection
with the origin of the war and the
atrocities committed on land and sea by
The Teutonic forces. General Kluck,
with truly German ineptitude, reminds
the author of his country's rapid re-
eovery after Jena and truculently
warns the Allies not to go too far with
their "peace of violence" General
Bohn and Colonel Klewitz, the two
officers principally concerned in the
destruction of Louvain, justify their
conduct and even have the impudence
to refer to the sacking Of the city as
pitched battle.
Of course, these men are avowed
nilitarists, but the civilians whom
Lieutenant Berger interviewed dis
played much the same spirit. Herr
SHINES, a great industrial magnate,
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

OF the successive beverages Wa+..
Dunton lured his friend from hr,na.
to port, from port TO burgundy. f,o,s
burgundy to claret, from ciaret ..
English beer. Here the process of rsf
ormation seems to have Stopped. On.
is tempted to wonder whether in An.-
ica Watts-Dunton's persuasive 81.
quence would have led Swinburne =.
become an enthusiast over Crane ;r;..
and sarsaparilla.
Swinburne must have led his sed,..
and faithful companion Wa.ts-Dpr,..
a difficult life at times Here is oh.-
acteristic prank of Swinburne and
friend, both in somewhat exhilaratsd
condition, in the cloakroom of f..h
ionable club, is described By the Hind
post. Philip Marston:
Hastily collecting the hats from II.
pegs. the two strayed revelers nlac.d
them on the floor in two long para,,.,
lines. Then Swinburne and his friend
each standing on his right foot at N.
end of one row of hats, his left sn.Io
clasped in his left hand. the word
One, two, three-go,' was given. and
away in wild single-footed frov,.
dance the two racers went each hon
meaning the pancaking Of hat.
(Which won, l don't know. but whor
the scandalized attendant arrived !.
was to find Swinburne and his friend
breathless, and executing a triumphant
war-dance amid chaos of crushed
hats on the cloakroom floor. The COM.
mittee, interrupted m their sitting
hastily adjourned the meeting to tn.
cloakroom. Here they found Swim.
burne and his friend, screaming with
laughter over what each conceived IA
be gigantic joke. Failing to see tho
joke, the committee hastily held an
emergency meeting then and there. 70
pass unanimously resolution expeIl-
ing the two offending members from
the club"
The book has more serious as vel,
as lighter side; it describes some Of
Swinburne's literary likes and dislikes
together with his vivid and impassioned
manner of expressing them.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
A Cub andsa Crime
Reporter Hero of Murder
Mystery

IN HE newspaper reporter who acts
as detective, shadowing a Grim
inal and solving mystery, Is
not new in fiction. Louis Dodge, in his
whispers" (sribner's), has succeeded
in approaching the problem of the cub
and the crime from an angle hitherto
unused as means Of attack. He brings
his youthful Sherlock Holmes into the
heart Of q great Western city and into
the dining room Of second-rate lodg-
ing house just in time to take a seat
at table and come instantly face to
face with two young strangers who
are involved In the murder of
certain queer old miser Why are
these fetional aged hoarders of gold
always strange, bizarre, in these mur-
der stories?
The reporter scents crime in a man
ner that stamps him at once as chap
With an almost inhuman nose for
smell of evil, and he gets to his lob on
the moment. AS new man on the
stah OF THE Vidette," local daily
struggling TO win headway against its
more prosperous rival, "The News" he
receives rather scant consideration at
the outset, especially when he asserts
that he can lay the assassin Of old
Drum by the heel within twcnty-four
hours.
How "Whispers" chats his nick
name, thanks to his weak voice. tracks
the murderer to his lair on n death
bed and saves chap who is under
'uspicion is all told in this Sensational
'u' rather meaty yarn. We say
'meaty,' for IL is blessed by the es-
fusion Of any fat and clogging love
motif.
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
No Sign Of Reformation
Interviews With Teuton Leaders Cast Interest
ing Light Upon This Subject

refers to the destruction of Louvain
as "a regrettable misfortune" The
authors spirited, although courteous.
presentation of the Allied case is met
by fat denials of Germany's war guilt,
by efforts to minimize the wanton de-
struction created by the German
armies, by counter accusations against
the Allies on the score of the blockade
and the retention Of the German pris-
oners in France.
True, there is a brighter side to the
picture The we'll known Socialist
theorists, Kautsky and Bernstein, to-
gether with the Independent Socialist,
Haase, who was assassinated last fall,
frankly and unequivocally condemn the
policy of the imperial government and
admit Germany's obligation to make
| reparation for its crimes. Even more
heroic is the figure Of Karl Liebknecht,
who opposed the war almost single
handed in the days of Germany's great
est success. and who died fighting to
make Germany a genuinely Socialist,
anti-militarist republic. The sketches
of Liebknecht and of his companion in
death, the great-hearted Rosa Luxem-
burg, although not based upon first
hand acquaintance, are very finely done.
The 100000 workers who followed Lieb-
knecht's body to its grave, the same
men, no doubt, who broke Kapp by the
general strike, indicate that the best
hope of Germany's ultimate moral re-
generation lies in its radical working
class.
The book is provided with a preface
by Baron Beyens, former Belgian Min
lister to Germany. The translator sums
up the merits of Lieutenant Berger's
work very adequately in his introduce
tion when he says:
"The author takes credit merely for
having produced veracious stenog-
rapher's report. He has done more.
He has offered US picture of the Ger
many Of to-day, skillfully drawn and
Of permanent historical value"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13

n,
- "The Riddle of the Frozen
Flame" by M. E. and T. W.
Henshaw Doubleday, Page),
chat most magical of men," sleuth
who might fit better. between paper
covers, solves a riddle that balks the
readers credulity. The telling of the
riddle is called, by its authors, "a very
remarkable story" very clever, isn't
it," and very excellent and Intricate
work"
Mr.. Gustave Brellier, "spitting forth
fury in a Flemish patois," tries to get
all the gold sovereigns out of England
by packing them in electrical fixture
tubes and shipping them in fishing
boats from an English coast village to
his brother Adolph in Belgium. From
his electrical fixture factory this mole
burrows some miles of subterranean
passages under meadows, or fens, of
tie neighborhood to spot where the
Frozen Flames twinkle every night.
"The Frozen Flames" is, we are told,
very theatrical name" for marsh-gas
lights appearing over the fens. These
are used by ingenious MI Brellier to
camoufage motor cars coming from all
points in England with stolen sover-
eigns for packing and exporting. The
tunnels also connect this spot with
Brellier's rented house. Withersby Hall,
as we'll as nearby Merriton Towers.
Sir Nigel Merriton owns the latter
place. His butler has been bought off
by Brelier. When Sir NIGEL returns
from the army and India he learns
that various villagers have been "swal-
lowed up by the Frozen Flames.
Dacre Wynne, n guest at Merriton
Towers, also disappears in the flames
and Sir Nigel is charged with his death,
when Clcek, the master mind" de-
tective, gets on the job, because poor
Sir Nigel discharged his revolver out
of his bedroom window to try the ham
mer with pot shot at the mysterious
flames. Cleek alone can explain the
Flames" as burning marsh-gas, and at
first sight expounds them in all-wise,
pseudo scientific terms.
In love with Antoinette Brellier,
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
Huebsch Reprints

B. W. Huebsch has published reprints
of three works by E. D. Morcl, the we'll
known British Liberal and information
alist Of the three books, "Red Rub
ber' is an exposure of the appalling
atrocities perpetrated upon the natives
in the Congo. Africa and the Peace
of Europe" is discussion of the proper
solution of the African problem. "Tcn
Years of Secret Diplomacy" is a pre-
Wilsonian plea for "opcn covenants
openly arrived at"
New-York tribune., 1920-06-13
BOOKS ROuGlsT

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dealing IN old and rare books auto
graphs. rte, are the largest buyers and
"ts'f'butors OF old books in this country
we are IN the market to buy fer spot
cash books in large or small nn.ntities
ana entire private libraries. We especially
want limited sets dc luxe editions and
ate encEclopedias. Autogra phs also
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&. E. sTECHEET & Co. i5l w. o5tb ST
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periodicals and books. new. second 'hnnJ
toreisn domestic. Libraries bought,
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LARGE COLLECTION OF STANDARD
hooks for students. book lovers and col
1ec,ors at ,ponulnr prices. Come in to
I'D Street New York -1"''
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OUT OF PRINT BOOKS FURNISHED.
Catalogues issued F.. r. Robinson, 40
River St, Troy. N. Y.
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IRISH ROCKS. OLD AND NEW. Send for
list chas. A. O'Connor IL Spruce 81,
New York.