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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
Book Gossip
kipling on England's Future

Rudyard Kipling, whose most recent
book, Letters of Travel" declares DR..
barret Wendell, discloses the stability
OF his teaching, of which the substance
is the wondrous truth which has made
England and the Notwithstanding
world what they have been and what
they are" has recently given remark
able message to his countrymen.. He
defines the spirit with which the con-
dltlons of postwar England must be
faced in words that hold a truth for
every nation which must limp into the
future crippled by the loss or wastage
of generation. "England's position
from the civil point of view," says Kip
ling, "is that of our armies in tho
worst days Of the war-that is to saw.
all leave is stopped for every man who
can stand up to his job, no matter how
sick or stale he may be, and there is
undreamed of promotion for untried
men who, merely because they are not
dead, will have to face heavier respon-
sibility, longer hours, and criticism
that will certainly not grow milder as
the years pass. But no miracles have
occurred. This world, which some of
US, in our zeal to do better than good,
have created and which we must all
inherit, is no new world, but the old
grown harder. The wheel has come full
circle. The sole force which, un-
der Gods good Providence, can meet
this turn of our fate is not tenn
permanent, not opportunism, nor any
attempt to do better than good-but
character, and again character-such
mere ingrained common sense, hand
hammered loyal strength of. character
as one may humbly dare to hope 1900
years of equality of experience have
given to u.s."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
Miss Porter's Working Method

Rebecca N. Porter, author Of the
very human love story "The Girl from
Four Corners" ($1.75), writes to her
publishers, Henry Holt & Co.: 81
have had to solve the problem of
living outside and yet working, so
have adopted the plan of driving out in
the country in my car, selecting a quiet
place and writing there all day, only
pausing for few sandwiches at noon.
I used to draw up at the side Of Sc
Guided lane, but so many kindly people
stopped with offers of gas that I had
to trespass upon private estates and
isolated ranches" The publishers
were forced to order second printing
OF Miss Porter's novel within less than
month after its publication.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
Susan Glaspell
Fine Dramatic Gift Disclosed in Volume of
Seven Plays
Seven Plays

afresh with each generation. There
| is an emotional constituencies IN
"Trifes," with it's clear, poignant
realism, its webbing Of fine incon-
gruities into the fabric Of tragedy
that must some day express itself in
longer play. There is vigor and
pungency in the hilarity of
Suppressed Desires" and "Woman's
Honor" And in "Close the Book
and "The People" there is as clean
and keen an edge Of satire as we
have yet seen.
Their is only one long play in the
book, "Bernice." That, with its
scalpel-like probing for an emotion
is not as robust as the shorter plays
Something of the influence OF
Henry James emanates from it. Bit
by bit it discloses the motives for the
suicide of the woman lying dead in
the next room and the secret which
her death hides. 1t is drama of a
more delicate and subtle sort than
our stage is accustomed to, but none
the less interesting.
Miss Glaspell has certainly not
shot her bolt yet When she has
mastered the long play as she has
the short it is inconceivable that the
popular theater will be long unaware
of her. 1t will be immensely re-
vivified by her fine intelligence, her
gift of gayety, her freshness and
spontaneity.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
Persian Verse
Professor Jackson Evokes
Asiatic Muse

NUT of very dim, uncertain past
Professor A. V. Williams Jack
son, of Columbia University,
brings down to the present and evalu-
ates in little volume a number of
early Persian poets. His book, EARLY
Persian Poetry" (Macmillan), will be
of assured value to the student of
Persian and other Eastern poetry, for
there are common elements in the
poetry of southern Asia during all eras.
There is something pathetically appeal
ing in many of these tiny fragments of
verse picked from the tide of the years
like blossoms about to sink. They are
human, have in them that element Of
true poetry that defies time.
Omar Khayyam was not the first to
employ his famous ouatrain. There
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
A New Lecturer
DR.. Gibbons to Speak on
European Problems

DR.. Herbert Adams Gibbons, the we'll
known authority on international af-
fairs, whose latest book, France and
Ourselves" has aroused considerable
discussion on both sides of the Atlantic.
will deliver a series of lectures at
Chautauqua during the present month.
He will discuss such subjects as "The
Aftermath of the Peace Conference"
France After the War;" "Venizelos
and Greater Greece" America and
Europe" and Change in Status of
Women in Europe as a Result Of the
War" DR.. Gibbons's long residence in
Europe and intimate acquaintance with
leaders in public life abroad give these
lectures peculiar interest at this time.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
wv re HAVE had many "inside
wv stories" of the peace con-
Y ference. What Mr.. Charles

L. thompson furnishes in
"The Peace Conference Day by Day"
(Brentano's) is mainly an "outside
story" That is to say, his book, cast
in the form of diary (a very intrac-
table form within which to achieve
unity and clarity), gives many glimpses
Of the outside circumstances of Presi-
dent Wilson's adventures in Paris.
Yet it hardly furnishes an adequate H.
Elimination of the conference tragedy.
The public is now beyond the point
at which it is interested in the surface
details of the Presidents activities as
peace worker. 1t is trying to under
stand the conditions under which the
conference went to work. Mr.. Thomp-
son is competent enough observer
and had special facilities at Paris. 1t
is regrettable that his observations,
recorded on the spot in 1915, do not
aid one more in arriving at "the inner
realities" of the drama.
For example, Colonel House contrib
utes an Introductory letter to this
book. His name is mentioned manv
times in it's pages, but no explanation
is offered of the fact that all of sud-
den Colonel House ceased to function
as President Wilson's chief adviser.
Why was he exiled to London? On
what issue did the break come? And
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
"A Treasure Quest
Adventure Story of I'm
usual Merit
r T IS pleasure to read and max,

is pleasure to read and make
known to the public so rood a story
OF adventure as John Fosters "The
Searchers" (Doran). Here is novel
we'll written and with a plot that ac-
tually hangs together, despite the fact
That the action swings from Scotland
to Italy and back again. STRENGTHENING
Its excellent dialogue and sketching of
human types there is background of
scenery, suave Italy and gaunt, craggv
Scotland, that materially aids the
author in stamping his impressions on
the mind of the reader.
Neil Forbes, with his able lieutenant
heene-Leslie, is the hero of "The
oearcher," and he is so we'll presented,
with such a rich accompaniment of
dramatic Incident, that there is no
need of introducing love, even woman.
into the story. Forbes, while in Lon
oon, gets word that his Uncle Evan
tar away in Scotland, is in trouble. that
his lonely home is being watched bv
mysterious men. At the same time
FORBES has wild adventure at night
with a stranger who rushes to his
rooms for safety, and leaves certain
belongings behind under Neips pro-
lection. The latter examines them and
lnds, hidden in cigarette, a mysteri
Gus paper with words of ancient script
upon 1T. To make our review short.
thls bit OF paper is one-half of q doom
ment that gives a clew to a hiding
place in Scotland, near Uncle Evans
nome, the spot where a treasure in
jewels was buried in the days of good
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
The Romance of a Nurse

"Lcerie" is the title and tombstone
of Ruth Sawyer's latest novel, which
the Harpers will publish next week.
The joyous disposition which made all
the patients in her ward call Sheila
O'Leery "Leerie," for Shorthand for
affection-made most of her men pa
tients propose to her, and in the end
gave courage to the favored one among
them when she put him to test
which would have discouraged any but
real man. This is the story of
Leerie's life as a nurse-how she in
sisted upon taking the unusual and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11

Queen Bess. The plot hinges on the
search for the other half of the paper
without which discovery is impossible,
and sudden death and minor details
spiced with daring and plottings figure
almost necessarily through the speed
ing chapters of the novel.
Actually, here's an outdoor story de-
cidedly worth while. 1t will hold the
eyes of any male, young Or old, from
cover to cover, and we suspect that
sister or mother will be rather vexed
If you attempt to fitch it once she is
under way with Forbes and his gallant
Keene-Leslie. John Foster in his
book reveals the >knack that gives snap
and literary value to similar stories
by Conan Doyle and John Buchan.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
Cardinal MERCER
Biography by
Charlotte Kellogg
THE average biography is prom

TIME average biography is prone
to be a somewhat arid affair,
especially in these days Of the
unromantic in civil life and in war.
Some one has said that the recent
struggle in Europe produced but three
big. outstanding figures, Albert Of
Belgium, Cardinal MERCER and General
Foch, and it would be difficult to add
another name to these three
Napoleon's career, even from his
months as STRIPPING student Of artil-
lery, was one long drama Of intense
interest. And our George Washington,
from the hour when he narrowly cs-
capped becoming midshipman in Eng
lands service, furnishes a story that
seldom loses its stride.
We were speaking of Albert, Mercier
and Foch. No shelf Of modern biog-
raphy will be complete without the
lives Of these three men, who rep
resent so splendidly the king, the prel-
ate and the soldier of the twentieth
century. And so we welcome Char
lotte Kellogg's "Mercier" (Appleton),
which~proves to be, after reading, re-
markedly satisfactory presentation of
the equable life, with It's noble
courage, of this unusual man. Mrs.
Kellogg goes to the start of Mercier's
life, to his days as young student at
Louvain, and then, following on
through the years Of his professorship
to those of his inaugural as Cardinal.
leads US by brief, readable chapters to
the hour Of his defiance of Germany
and his brave, even audacious, defence
Of his charge, his flock.
We who are Protestants forget the
old fences that divide us from our
Catholic brethren when the cross and
all it signifies is lifted up before US
by man called Of God. And so we
will reread the story Of this mans
life, sure that above the guns there
yet glows the symbol of the divine in
man, the soul that can forgive, GER
tain that in the end the right shall
prevail.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11

IS characteristic of our
theater's unawareness of it's own
resources that so marked a gift
for the theater as Susan Glas-
pell's needs to display itself before
more or less esoteric little theater
groups or between the covers of a
book. In gathering seven of her
plays into a, book, Small, Maynard
& Co. bring home again the vivid
individual quality of her plays. They
raise again the conviction that here
is a unique and significant figure in
our American theater.
For the outstanding quality Of
Susan Glaspell is that she is dis
tinctively native. In her speaks
young America-fresh, critical, skep-
teal. She brings its peculiar racial
accent and its vistas to the theater-
and she does it with a true dramatic
vitality and an authentic sense Of
character.
Obviously the commercial theater
will nurse its suspicious of her. since
she takes her rise in the little
theater movement and since she can
not escape her literary reputation.
But If the prejudice against the
literary person in the theater be once
broken down, it will see that it has
much to gain from her. She has the
vlgor and humor, the broad basis Of
fundamental humanity on which the
popular theater must establish itself
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
AS Others See Us
Two French Wonen's I'm
pressions of America

HvHERE is full measure Of Gallo
4 lightness and vivacity in "A
Frehchwoman's Impressions of Amer
lea" Century,, by the Countess Made
lsine de Bryas and her sister. Mile.
Jacqueline de Bryas. The authors
came over to this country in 1918 to
raise funds for the devastated regions
of France; and they also participated
in one of the Liberty Loan campaigns.
Despite the strain Of travelling across
the continent, Of meeting innumerable
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11

Nilus
We intend to APP
pear as though we
were the l'iberators
of the | q b o ing
man come to free
him from his OPP
preston, when we
shall suggest to
him to join the
RI n X s of our
armies of Social
lists, anarchists and
communists.
We gov rn the
masses by making
use of feelings Of
jealousy and ha-
tired kindled by OPP
preston and need.
When the
time comes for our
Worldly Ruler to be
crowned we will
see to it that by
the same means
that is to say, By
making use of the
mob---we will de-
8 t r y everything
that may prove to
be an obstacle in
our way. The
populace in its ig-
norance blindly be.
lieves in printed
words and in err
roneous delusions
which have been
duly inspired by
US. The mob
is used to listen to
US who pay it for
its attention and
o b e d j g ce. BY
tiACoC 1aA q q II . ne
shall create such a
blind force that it
will never be ca
of taking any
decision without
t h e guidance of
our agents placed
by us for the pur-
p o Sc Of leading
them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
BY Arthur S. Draper

peared . book called "The
4 - Jewish Peril" One profess
sor Sergyei Nilus was the
alleged author Of this account of Jew
ish conspiracy to turn the world topsy-
turvy. At the bottom Of all the po-
litical, social and religious unrest to-
day were certain secret Jewish organi-
nations, according to this professor.
The book is not uninteresting; in
fact, it has some of the fascination Of
spy story. The publishers surrounded
the book with certain mystery which
succeeded we'll in arousing the curl
osity of the public. Several newspapers,
always anxious to find the "hidden
hand" jumped at "The Jewish Peril"
Five, even three, years ago this book
might have made timid readers SILVER,
just as the bursting Of motor tire
had disastrous effect on nerves drawn
tight by bombs and anti-aircraft guns,
but the normal Briton is endowed with
liberal composure, aplomb, or what
ever else it is which makes the Brit
isher irritatingly calm when every one
else considers there is just cause for
hysteria.
Jewish Power
II 1.-THE Jewish Peril" is a true &C
count Of q monstrous plot Of Jewish
secret societies to submerge Chris
tianity, then the British have something
to fear, something else to worry about
except the price of sugar, the low
gravity Of beer and the winner Of the
Oaks. Lord Reading. Chief Justice of
England, is Jew. Sir Herbert Samuel,
tho Commissioner to Palestine, is a
Jew. The Right Hon. Edwin S. Mon
tague, Secretary Of State for India, is
Jew. Sir Philip Sassoon, private Sec
rotary to the Premier, is a Jew. Lord
Burnham, the proprietor Of 1.-THE Daily
Telegraph" is Jew. Half the great
banking institutions and the shipping
companies are controlled by Jews. The
East End is thickly populated by Jews.
Though numerically they are compara-
lively small, in influence they are ire
mendously strong politically and fnan-
cially.
English Not Excited
But the British refused to become
excited. And now 1.-THE Jewish Peril"
is being dissected; It Is being pulled
apart; It is being analysed as propa-
ganda-a word with q particularly Of
fensive odor in the nostrils Of the
British. Some Of the analysts declare
it Is Of German militarist origin:
others say it was born in the mind Of
a French Jew-baiter; others that it
came from Russia, and there are some
who think the author was an English
man. The chief of the analysts is
Lucien Wolf, Fellow Of the Institute of
Journalists, and vice-president Of the
Jewish Historical Society Of England
He reports his findings in 1.-THE Spec
tator," which cannot be classed as
friendly to Jews, though it deplores the
publication in this country of "The
jewish Peril" Mr.. Wolf declares that
the book Is founded on a document
written in 1868 by German named
Hermann Goedsche, who, having been
dismissed from the Prussian postal
service, conceived the idea of placing
all responsibility for the revolutions
and plots in Europe upon Jews. By
gold and press he charged that Jews
were working for the subversion Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11

strangers and delivering innumerable
speeches. the countess and her sister
seem to have acquired some very def<
mite impressions Of America.
They were very favorably impressed
by all the phases Of our war activity
and speak in very complimentary terms
of American patriotism, efficiency, gen.
crosby and enthusiasm. They express
grateful appreciation of the hospital
ity which they received, and have q
good word for every one they met, in
Guiding the reporters, who woke them
up at all hours of the night to get
interviews.
The authors permit themselves a lit
tie amusement at the expense Of the
rather ostentatious regard for moral
propSiety which is manifested in GER
tain parts Of America. They are not
able to take the crusade against nico-
tine very seriously, and they quote
with glee the following extraordinary
sign which they found in the room of
a Middle Western hotel:
"Thc K Hotel calls your attention
to the following fifth rule: 1T is Gus
tomary to have the door open at least
six inches when entertaining some one
of the opposite sex in private rooms"
Despite the exactions of prolonged
and strenuous speaking trip, the
authors always display a keen sense
Of humor and a remarkably shrewd
perception Of American traits and CHS
toms. 1t is to be hoped that they will
be able to repeat their visit some time
when they may enjoy more leisure.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11

most difficult cases and was so en-
crossed with her work that she almost
failed to fall in love with "the finest
gentleman in all the land" when he
came along.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11

The first edition of "The Jewish
Peril" was published in Russia in
1901. Four years later came the revo-
luton and the terribls pogroms. It
is stated that abstracts from the book
were circulated among the Denikine and
Kolchak armies; in any case it is a
fact that it is criminal act to be in
possession of the book in Soviet
Russia to-day. Mr.. Wolf suggests the
publication of the book in English was
intended to justify the Kapp revolu-
ton in the eyes Of the British, but this
seems farfetched, though German
edition was issued simultaneously.
1t begins to look now as IL a reac-
ton would set in against those who
attempted to use the book as a means
Of conducting an anti-Semitic cam
paign. The general public has failed
to accept this evidence Of worldwide
Jewish movement, and it is angered
that efforts have been made to stir up
trouble in world already troubled
enough with plaques, sectional diff
ferences, boundary disputes and
clashes between classes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-07-11
What Englishmen Are Reading
Sensational Story of international Jewish Plot
Fails to Convince Public
monarchy and Christianity. Mr.. Wolf
produces this interesting parallel.

Goedsche
Our people are
conservative, faith
full to the religious
ceremonies an d
c u $ t o m $ which
have en- be-
queathed to us by
our ancestors, but
our interest exacts
that we 8 h o u | d
simulate q zeal for
the social ques-
tions which are the
order of the day,
especially t h o s 9
which deal with
t h e amelioration
of the condition of
the workmen. In
reality our efforts
should be directed
to capturing this
movement of pub
lie opinion. The
blindness of the
masses, their pro-
pensity to yield
themselves to or
atory as empty as
it is s o n o r o u 8,
makes Of them an
easy prey and a
docile instrument
of popularity and
credit. We shall
find without Diff
Guilty among our
own people the ex-
preston of such
Fictitious S enti-
m e n is and as
much eloquence as
sincere Christians
find in their en-
thusiasm. We must
as much as pos
sible sustain. the
p r Q ! e t a r i a t
and bring it within
the reach of those
who have money at
their disposal. By
this means we shall
be able to raise
the masses when
ever we please, to
lead them into up
heavals and rev
olutions. Each Of
these catastrophes
will advance by a
long stride our
own racial inter-
ests and will rap
idly ring US
nearer to our one
great end-that of |
reigning over all
the earth as has
been promised to
US by our Father
Abraham"