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New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
Wars Aftermath
English War Novel
Of Uneven Quality

Bottome Published by the Century
Company.
1t is of course the height of pre-
sumption for q reviewer to exclaim
what fine story a certain story
would have been if it had only been
quite another story. Let him screw his
judgment to the product in hand! Yet
the net impression prevailing after
reading Phyllis Bottome's "A Servant
of Reality" is that she did not recog-
nize the possibilities of her theme.
1t has been a great astonishment to
find how blank front the war has
presented to the novelist-yet here Miss
Bottome has lit upon phase Of it that
is rich in suggestions to the novelist.
The theme is that of the man shat
tered in body by the war who meets
woman broken in soul by it. To-
gether, somehow, they put their store
of fragments together to make a new
pattern of life.
This might, with Imagination, have
been a story of subtle psychological
processes, of stirring adventures of the
soul. There is no great quality of i'm
agination present in "a Servant of
Reality" so it remains facile, rather
obvious story-with genuine flashes of
Characterization here and there and
great deal more of conventional atti-
tudinizing. The hero, Anthony Arden,
has returned from the war brutished in
mind and prematurely aged in body.
The heroine is also a war sufferer.
She has lost her lover. The disadvan-
tages of an unfortunate upbringing by
an old roue of father added to this
misfortune combines to make her a
harsh, cynical woman. She satisfies
her grudge against life by callous
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
About a Column

Last week you mentioned something
about H. 3d's instructive fear Of bugs,
snakes and vermin- Let me assure you
that it is all a mistake.
Back in the summer of 1914 nv biol
ogy professor, H. D. Bailey, of Mullen
berg College. wrote an article for
The Independent which disproved
your ideas. In it he tells of his two
children, who handle harmless snakes
without fear, who do not shrink from
worms, and who have a pet caterpillar
that runs around on their fingers for
exercise. In these children at least
there is no inherited instinct of repur-
nance. They haves seen their father
handle such specimens Of unpleasant
ness In his work and have never come
IN contact with the usual prejudice of
older persons in this matter.
SO if you show Haywood Sd that Won
love the woolly worms and the slimy
snakes he'll not grow up feeling snob.
Dish in their presence. And what a
help that'll be, if he's ever called on
to serve in the grand old United States
Infantry.
My prayers against such fate.
WILL LOU
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
Robert Underwood johnson

COLLECTED Poems, 1881 1919" by
Robert Underwood johnson yale Uni
versity Press), just published, is a
significant volume. The author, for
merly editor of "Thc Century Maga-
zine" is now permanent secretary of
the American Academy of Arts and
Fame and is closely identified with
nearly all national literary movements.
The volume is beautifully bound in
blue and gold and contains more than
800 pageS
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
"Ramsay Milholland" Not Funny

An inscription written by Booth
holland" which he recently presented
to Henry C.. Quinby, offers extremely
suggestive insight into the authors
personal feeling about this latest of his
novels. The inscription was copied,
with Mr.. Quinby's permission, by a
friend. Here is what it says:
"This (Ramsay Milholland) seemed
to me to be the average young fellow
l saw turning into soldier inoIndiana
in 1917-the boy who got in at the
first. Perhaps ] was too anxious not
to let it be seen how much felt about
him, for ] find That many readers think
| meant TO be funny
BOOTH HARRINGTON"
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
IS OF New books wo Notable Works H Krdos BY Henry lanes

and destructive attitude toward mon.
The story narrows itself down to y pic.
ture of a capricious and quite unintel-
ligently perverse woman. But there
is no sense Of reality about she light
and giancing figure. nd in the au-
thor's disposal of her. in spite Of the
fact that she is finally retrieved
through love, there is more than a hint
of . moral that the wages of sin arc
death.
1t is a suave and easy narrative
but it never succeeds in seeming an
important one. And yet the illusion
persists that it might have been.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
Two Germanies

Two startlingly different Germanies $
are presented to the world in two
books which come from the Harper
press this week. One is "How l Got
the Truth Into Germany" by Mrs.
Norman Whitehouse, who was COM
ment to get the facts about America
into Germany at crucial period of
German morale. 1t is a story of the
breaking Of American red tape and q
German iron ring. The other book is
tranquil reminiscence of the Ger
many of bygone days, the Germany of
charming tours of Carlsbad, Leipsic
and the pleasant Rhine. Coming from
the pen of William Dean Howells, it
continues the happy travels of Mr.. and
Mrs. March from "Their Silver
Wedding Journey" drowning out COM
pletely all thoughts of the war and Of
unpleasant transformations.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
Mr.. Kreymborg's Anthology

Nicholas l.. Brown announces for
publication in January "Othcrs for
1919" an anthology Of the new verse,
edited by Alfred Kreymborg "Othcrs
for 1919" is bigger, finer and more
representative anthology Of the renas-
ccnce in American poetry than the
anthologies for 1919 and 1917. 1t con-
tains the best work Of twcntysix of
our most distinguished poets. The
book will afford ample demonstration
Of the truth that America is as polyglot
IN her poetry as she is as a nation.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
BY Haywood Broun

Fhe greatest handicap under which
....r,caa literature labors to-day is
:. meddling of the Society for the
c.nr,ession of Vice. The latest book
-a;eh John S. Sumner has nosed out is
s.nes Branch Cabell's "Jurgen." AS a
..,4er of fact. the book is among the
@a.t distinctive which have been pro-
anssd in America in a number of years.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17

The Poetry Of Walter Prichard Eaton
l don't know how much verse, libre
or otherwise, Walter Prichard Eaton
has written. but to my mind the few
short poems about the country and
country people that he has done and
have seen are better than any of the
work of Masters, Frost or any of Mr.
Untermeyer's new Amrican poets. APP
parently he is the only poet of the
day-almost the only writer-who can
treat the country dweller anyway but
pathologically. Sometimes l think all
but he have never been nearer to
farm than the old Hermitage, in the
Bronx; they have read Ethan Frome
and look on it as primer.
Thirty years or more l have lived
IN country towns and mixed with all
manner Of country people, at work and
sis of towns and people would show
but slight trace of Spoon River, or
even of North of Boston. Depravity,
darkness, narrowness, dullness are all
that Masters and his kind can see in
the folk who live where the heifers and
the zephyrs play. Doesn't anybody see
the stereotyped patois of the singers
of this class that is just as bald and
staring in its way as was the senti-
mentality of the music hall pathetic
ballads like "You Made Me What
Am To-day?"
Eaton, l believe, lives in the coun-
try, and when he writes about his
neighbors he doesn't invariably choose
the village idiot or the meanest man
in the county. If no volume of his
poems has been published, it is time
that it was. 1t would be pleasant
to have book of vers libre that did
not treat of diseased conditions or Of
wholesome things in a diseased man
ner, book whose author wrote where
Of he knew. WALDO BANNING.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
Two French Classics

Recent Knopf publications include
translations of "Manon Lescaut." by
the Able Provost, and of Flaubert's
Madame Bovary." which Taine char
acterized as the greatest novel OF the
nineteenth century. "Manon Lescaut"
is translated by Burton Rascoe, while
Eleanor MarX-Aveling is the translator
of Madame Bovary." Mr.. Rascoe
writes introductions for both works.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
THE MAN WITH
THREE NAMES

Widely known as George Cotter.
novelist.
Widely known. also. as Bran
don Cathewe, the journalist re-
ponsible for the Bannister reform
movement.
The third name is at present
unknown. Information leading to,
It's discovery and identification
IS invited and will be treated
con6dentially.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
A Voice From Walia Walla

Your position on library censorship
is impregnable. Censors make me
tired as being the final judge of NOR
ais and what we should read. John
Stuart Mill wrote: "Over himself,
over his own body and mind, the indi-
vidual is sovereign" He probably had
little better idea of liberty than all
censors and prohibitionists.
A. JOHNSON.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
Appleton Reprints

Brand Whitlock's Belgium" Joseph
II. Sears's Career of Leonard Wood, y
"The Boy Scouts Year Book" and Fran
ces Sterrett's "Rebeccas Promise" are
among the new books which are being
reprinted this week by the Appletons.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17

JuGHEgT PRICES AND CASH DOWs
pald for books We speciaiiy want the
1iTH EDITION ENCYCLOPAEDIA
BHiThNHfcA-
TtiONH a. ERON. INC,
20 John IT., ~. Y. 'Phons Asz5 1926 John
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17

The only trouble with Mr.. Louis sue-
gestlon that l show H. Sd that L love
the woolly worms is that I haven't a,
particle of affection for them-Ed.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17

Mr.. O'Toole has neglected to cite the
additional fact that Mr.. Herford has
written in This Giddy Globe" that
"The principal products of Ireland are
potatoes, pugilists, patriots, poteen
and Bernard Shaw" And in a foot
note Mr.. Herford explains: "The term
patriot is derived from two Greek
words, Pat a patronymic, and riot
a national pastime."
However, Mr.. O'Toole ought not to
overlook the generous tribute with
which the author closes his chapter on
Ireland. "The inhabitants of Ireland"
Mr.. Herford writes, "are the most
moral and patriotic people in the
world, and their army is second to
none in bravery, and won the World
War."-Ed.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
!" ALL OuT-oE-pRJNr BOOKS"

WRITE ME-, cap get you any book ever
r1hiehsi On any subject. The mort expert
book f1ndsr sxsassf. When In Enginud cali and
sen my 500 800 rars books, BAKERS GREAT
LOOK HOP, John HfseAt st.. birmingham.
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17
An Irish Protest


| regret to have to register a strong
protest against your wholesale praise
of This Giddy Globe" by Oliver Her
ford, which l bought and unfortunate-
ly recomm ended to my friends on the
strength of your review. l am cha
grined to find upon perusing it's other
wise amusing pages that under it's
guise of naivete and nosense there is
the patent purpose of vilifying Ire
land and the Irish. In his chapter
on ireland" the author purports to
quote from Strabo passage which
stigmatizes the Irish as cannibals, un-
civilized, the lowest of the low Now,
l may be said to be Il Greek scholar
OF parts, and nowhere in Strabo have
l been able to discover any such para
graph. Therefore the authors alleged
quotation is undeniably a fabrication
forged out of whole cloth; and in JUS
tlco to long oppressed and noble race
1 respectfully ask that you give this
earnest protest place in your col
umn, so that all who otherwise might
run to shop for the book may read.
Quite evidently it is because of his
utter and adamantine Indifference to
the cause Of the Irish people that Pres
ident Wilson finds Mr.. Herford a Every
delight ul wit and artist" Yours for
Home Rule.
ALOYSIUS J. O'TOOLE
New-York tribune., 1920-01-17

THE NEW SOCIAL ORDER BY Harry F.
Ward. The Macmillan Company, New
York.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-26
AMERICANS IN HONDURAS
PROTECTED BY GUNBOAT
Sacramento Ordered by United
States to Proceed to Central
American Port.
SITUATION MAY BE SERIOUS
Step Said by State Officials to Have
Been Taken Merely as Prccau-
tionary Measure in Event of Out
break.
[Hy Associated Prcs.l

WASHINGTON, august o5-A,-
houhcement today that the gunboat
Sacramento had been ordered by the
Navy Department to La Ceiba. Hon
duras. ready to protect American In
terests IL necessary revealed that oni-
cials mere have been watching with
growing concern revolutionary move
ments in process OF DEVELOPMENT in
several Central American countries
1t proceeded from Port Lemon. Costa
Rico.
While the situation in each rcpub-
iic is local, political unrest In Guate-
maia as well as Honduras is known
10 be viewed here as serious, inter-
woven as 1t seems to be in each coun-
try with the so-called union!st move
ment in all Central American repub-
iics. said to have had it's origin in
Mexico during tho presidency Of Car
ranza and which contemplated a fed
Grafton OF all Latin American repub-
lies.
Adyices OF both an official and pri-
Vate character from Central Amcri-
can cities have indicated this unrest
Tor some weeks. No comment was
made by State Department officials,
however. beyond the explanation that
the Sacramento had been ordered to
La Ceioa as precautionary measure
10 protect Americans and their inter
ests In the event of revolutionary out
breaks. The vessel was due at her
new station today. having sailed from
Costa Rican waters
strong opposition party has
arisen in Honduras since General
Lopez Gutierrez succeeded in over
throwing the government a year ago
and was elected president.
An agent OF the opposition party
was in Washington recently TO ascer-
tain the attitude of the United States.
lie said ii would be impossible to
avert for many months q revolution
against Gutierrez.
The situation in Guatemala was
said today to be almost as serious.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-26
COAL PRICES IN RICHMOND
LOWER THAN ELSEWHERE
Run-of Mine Sells Here for Less
Than Price Quoted at
HIIncS.

Domestic coal Is selling in Rich
mond at $40. run OF mine, and sll
for prepared coal, and local dealers
believe this will continue as the bass
OF the local retail market until there
is some break in the prices quoted at
the mines. which is said to range all
the way from Sl0.50 TO $3.50 per ton.
An advance of 75 cents per ton
freight which becomes effective TODAY
Will boost the prices quoted above
about 81 for each grade, according TO
local dealers interviewed last night.
Horace Hawcs said that il was ms
opinion that Richmond dealers ar,
selling coal at as close price as ~
possible. considering cost n, the
mines. freight and other conditions
lie said that there was no fixed or
combination OF price fixing in Rlcn-
mond. He declared that he could
only give his price and that other
dealers have their own prices.
y. 4. Massey gave about tho same
Information. quoting tho same retail
prices, and added that he believed
the price OF Sl1 for run of-mine and
Sl2 for prepared coal which will take
care of the increase of as cents I'm
freight will continue as the ayerar,
prevailing retail price during tho fan
and winter, unless there is some de-
cided fall In prices at tho mine.
Local dealers express tho belief
that coal is selling cheaper in Rich
mspd than In any Of the seaboard
cities. ~
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-26
VlRGINIAN ARRESTED FOR
MARYLAND BANK ROBBERY
Luther Trye duplicates Paul and
Dave NcT in Theft at Iiitz-'
miller, Md.

(Special to The imes-Dispatch.)
IIARRISONBURG, VA. August %.
Luther Frye yesterday was arrest
ed at his home near Walkers Chapel.
in Shenandoah County, and lodged in
jail at Woodstock. charged with be-
ing. one of the three men who. on
May 4. 1917, held up and robbed the
National Bank at Kitzmiller. Md, of
$4,000. After being questioned at
length. Frye broke down and admit
ted his guilt, but said Paul and Dave
Nef. the other two members of the
party, used threats TO compel him
to aid them.
Paul and Dave Neff are now serv-
ing terms in the Virginia penitcn-
tiary for armed resistance 10 county
authorities two years ago. At that
time the Neffs and Frye took refuge
in mountain dugouts near Walkers
Chapel and def!ed the sheriff's posse
for months. Frye answered the call
OF his local draft board and served
in the world war. Because OF this
fact tho charges against him In con-
f,ection with the shooting affray were
dropped. He will be taken.to Cum
berland, Md, for trial.
According to the alleged confess
sions, the trio held up tho bank In
broad daylight, escaped with $4,000
and made their sway. back Ito Shen-
,andoah County, oif foot, frayelins
!alona the shsnan dosh Aiountsin nj
E&he WAys z pl,s e
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-26
OU7RAGES CONTINUE
AND CLASHES OCCUR
ALL OVER IRELAND
Armed Civilians Attack Sol
diers, Killing One, and
WoundiRg Three Others.

DUBLIN. August 25.--Outrages con-
tinue to be reported from various
places. Armed civilians today at
tackled party of Cameron High
landers outside Queenstown. over
powered them and mado OF with
their arms. One soldier was so Sc
injured that he died tonight.
Three others of the soldiers were
wounded.
n constable was shot dead at West
Meath. Last night two attacks on
members OF the constabulary were
made near Bantry, and Constables
Iiough and Mcnamara were shot dead
and several others were wounded.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-26
RICHMOND CENSUS WILL
Be MADE PUBLIC TODAY
Washington VIII Release Popula-
ton Figures This Morning at
1O:30 o'clock.
ESTIMATE 10000 PEOPLE
Exodus of Colorcd Workers Will
Toll Heavily on Total, DIR. Il. c.
Levy, Director of Public Welfare,
Believes.

Richmond will know her official
population in the Federal census OF
1920 and her standing among the
cities of the country at 1890 O'Clock
this morning. when the Census
Bureau at Washington will make the
figures public. She is the last OF the
cities which had more than 100000
inhabitants in 1910 10 have her popu-
iation established in the present
census. Danville's population will
also be announced today
The the 1920 total will lie between
10000 and 1900 is the general opln-
ion.
Colorcd Population Decrensea.
1t had been found, says DR.. Levy,
Director OF Public Welfare, that with
normal increase year by year since
1910. based on the average death rate
of the preceding ten years. Richmond's
population this year would not ex-
coed $4,000. But a closer scrutiny
OF the actual death rates in the years
since 1910. according to the director,
proved that there were really about
5000 more people in tho city than
there would have been II the old
death rate had prevailed. However.
the Importance OF this increase be-
gan to be nulliied as soon as in
quiry was made into the state of the
colored population. which has been
greatly reduced by the exodus TO
Northern industrial centers.
Death Rate of Negroes Increases.
BY exactly tho same reasoning
which had given rise to the belief
that the white population had In
creased, the death rate among the
colored race showed such drop that
II was evident there were not as many
colored people in the city as had been
supposed.
Considering the conditions that
have prevailed since the-last census
when the population was $4,000, the
gain recorded has been sufficiently
satisfying to all concerned with the
city's civic and industrial progress
Patriotic organizations have proved
by their statistics that this city paid
one OF the heaviest tolls eSacted from
any Southern municipality in the
world war.
Under the economic pressure of re-
cent years. Richmonds suburbs have
increased in population, many who
wouid nave resided within. the cor
porate limits having been driven to
ma their homes outside. The an
neXations OF the city of Manchester
(South Richmond). Ginter Park, Bar
ton Heights and other territory on
the outskirts have brought a large
share or these people back into the
actual limits. However. the Chamber
OF Commerce estimates that there are
still $4,000 people in the unannexed
communities.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-26
Dry Agents Work With
Wet Ring, Kramer Says
Ny Associated Prcss.)

WASHINGTON, August 25-
The existence OF n close working
agreement between ngcnts of the
whisky ring in New York and
other cities and officials chnrEed
with the enforcement OF the pro-
hibition Inv was admitted by Pro-
htbitfOn COmmIsnIOncr Kramer to-
Iuy.
81 hnve Ind eight or ten men
working In New York City nione
trying to run down these reports"
he sn1d, "but 1 hnvc not been nbIe
To pin IA cnse on nny one.
If any person bnn rcnI evidence
10 prove TINT agents appointed by
this Office nre In collusIon with the
liquor sellers, for heavens snke
let me have hose fnctx. will
dcni with the men ns promptly ns
amy ono could WISH,
An result OF ErOss violations
of the law In lnrEe cities II is c.-
p-r;rd TINT COnErcss will be asked
to add several million dollars TO
the appropriation for prohibition
enforcement. CommIssioner Kram-
rr says the S7.0OO.OO0 set inside by
the last ConErcsn lis "totniiy In
ndcquntc.r
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-26

rooted fmpressions TINT I can thpt
the most dangerous symptOm that
has been unaffected In America
In the last nfty. years In the at
tempt of the Senatorial oiisarchy
to reach out and take possession
OF our government: nud further
moro, symptom just as DANGER
ous nv that Is the creation or
campaign fund that. when the size
OF IL fs understood, will stnEger
the sensibilities OF our people,
81 will produce evidence I'm
iittsburEh tomorrow night that
conrlcts every mothers SON of
thcm-cridcncc of q deliberate
plot that has been carried into
every county In Americas Mot
and conspiracy to buy the prc,I-
dcncy OF the United Stntcn. but IL
cannot be DONE"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-26
SUSPECT UNDER ARREST,
SAYS He IS NOT LEROY
One of Crew of. British Steamer
Possibly Man Wanted for
Detroit Murder.
is HELD AT RIO JANEIRO
Gives His Name as Morris Fox and
Protests That lie Was Never in
Detroit - Calls Police Silly for
Accusing Him.
IS HELD AT RIO JANEIRo
lie AssoeLaled rrcss.l

RIO JANEIRO. August 25.-When
the British steamer Dryden arrived
here yesterday from New York one
OF the crew was placed under arres;
at the request OF the United States
authorities. He ,is suspected Of beIns
Eugene Leroy. wanted by the police
OF Detroit, Mich. In connection with
the murder OF Mrs. Katherine Lou
Jackson. who is said 10 have been
his wife, and whose mu,ilateu body
was f'"nd in an unclaimed trunk in
Il baggage warehouse in New York
several weexs ago.
The susLect Is confined in a steel
cell aboard the vessel and is guarded
by four maritime police. lie had
shipped aboard the Dryden under the
name OF NJ lis Fox. ordinary sea
man. Tod.sy :e said:
i know absolutely nothing about
the death of Mrs. Jackson in Detroit.
! have never been in that city"
Fox is tall and well built. Is abou,
thirty years OF age. with regular rea-
lures. light brown eyes and dark hair,
brushed straight back. He speaks
good English. wIthou. noticeable for
AS there is no cHtradition treaty
between the United States and Brazil,
Fox Will be detained on the Dryden
until the vessel reaches Bucnos Aires,
when cxtraditlon viii he asked. Fox
claims that his home is >in Toronto,
where his mother resides at 225
Augusta Avenue. He said he was a
garment worker by trade and was n
member of the New York local OF
the International Ladies' Garment
Makers Union. He was rather In
definite about his actions in New
York, but declared he had formerly
livel At Hotel Bradford, G5 East
Eleventh Street. although he for the
last few months had resided at 2S53
West Twen,y-fifth Stree. Coney
Island.
The man denied all knowledge of
the l.andon and Hoxie murders with
which his name is connected by the
police.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-08-26
Crash Injuries Two.

tBy Associated Pross.l
ASHEVlLLE, n. c., August 25.-In
an airplane fall near Flat Rock to-
day. Arthur S. True. manager Of tho
Hendersonyille Telephone Company,
and Lieutenant Zibelhausen, pilot.
were injured seriously. and the ma
chino was wrecked. at an altitude
of 1000 feet. witnesses said. tho
plano dropped in nose dive. bu.
tho pilot succeeded In riGhting 1t 500
feet from the ground. only to see It
drop in anothsS nose dive and strike
the earth. s. Is ii 3, Z ~ & y