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Mr.. Wells Sees 1t Through
BOOK REVIEW S
This Novel of the Human Race
Gives Little Glory to Supermen

Wells irrigates and fertizes and hopes for
: a harvest
For this book has purpose Always
ahead of the pack. while others silent or
still echoing the war trying to make US
forget the old world dreaming of a new
he sets to work laying foundations for
better structure.
I'VE fought because we did not under
stand he says in effect. Come now, boys
and girls, let us go back over the whole
business and see why we were such fools
and how we do it better"
Here is the great book of the war, because
it sets war in its true place and proportion.
The fighting man is not fiattered. Wells let's
the nobility of those who We're forced to
defence and the hardihood of the explorer
and colonizer shine out virtues. He gives
due credit to the leadership of kings and
generals in the task of holding the world
together. But he mourns over their lost
opportunites-and then shows how little
way we have gone beyond them. This la
how he begins with Alexander and comes
back to us:
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We're not for our still humanity. 1t is
barely a matter of seventy generations be-
tween ourselves and Alexander; and be-
tween ourselves and the savage hunters our
ancestors who charred their food in the
embers ate it raw, intervene some four
or five hundred generations. Make men and
women only sufficiently jealous or fearful or
drunken or angry, and the hot red eyes of
the cave men will glare out at us to-day.
We have writing and teaching, science and
power; we have tanned the beasts and
schooled the lightning but we still only
stumbling toward the light We have tanned
and bred the beasts, but we have still to
tame and breed ourselves"
Old Cato, who has been so long upheld
as a pattern of the virtues, is here held up
as a sad example of the effects of the poison
of hatred-a type of the man who is ready
to life in terms of vindictive melo-
drama, ready to find stimulus and satisfac-
ton in frightfu demonstrations of Justice
and revenge. . Great wars, as all
Europe knows. give this hating tempera-
ment the utmost scope" And going on to
more detailed indictment of the old Roman
censor, this uncensored historian writes:
He posed as a champion of religion and
public morality, and under this convenient
cloak carried on a lifelong war against
everything that was young, gracious or
pleasant. He hated other peoples
gardens. and cut off the supply of water for
garden in Rome. After entertaining
company. when dinner was over he would
go out to correct any negligence in the SER
vice with a leather thong. Almost
his last public act was to urge on the Third
Punic War and the final destruction of
Carthage He had gone to Carthage a
commissioner to settle certain differences be-
tween Carthage and Numidia. and he had
been shocked and Mortified to find some evil
dences of prosperity and even of happiness
in that country. Two great peoples.
both very necessary TO the worlds develop
ment fell foul of one another, and at last
Rome succeeded in numbering Carthage"
And 1t is clear how Wells would have his
readers contrast a harsh and self-centred
figure like Cato with the Galilean teacher
who has turned the world upside down:
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and peppers and pepper sauces dated and
labelled like vintage wines
OF course that is the kind of club one
doesn't break into with "A club AS for
Philadelphia. the older society there is club
itself, not formally organized, but no less
definitely limited Mr. Rhodes tells the story
of social leader who offered to drive home
a newcomer admitted to the charmed circle
by some strange inadvertence The coach
man couldn't find the unfamiliar street, and
at last the Philadelphia said
Il wonder if you would mind telling lanes
where to drive us, dear? I'm afraid he
would think II very odd If / were to give him
an address north of Market street."
Mr.. Rhodes doesn't waste his pleasant
pages with formal descriptions Of the proper
way to- do a town. Instead he gives us the
feeling of being there. Of hearing the talk
in the houses. where real people live. What
ever may be it's relation to history this tale
OF Washington. ID c.. is American enough
There story, not long ago of
Secretary of state who met a newly arrived
Ambassador Of a great European Power for
the first time at an evening party
1.-The boys up at the department were
telling me this morning, began Mr.. Secretary
genaly, that there were some difficulties
between your country and mine
Yes. yes, murmured the astonished for
eigner who had been sent especially e. dis
cuss this serious matter of a apsed treaty.
"'Oh. that's all right pursued the Secre-
tary L told the boys didn't know much
about II, but ! was sure the trouble wasn't
as serious AS they thought Wen fix it, and
here he turned TO where the Ambassadors
proud and distinguished wife stood talking
o Mrs. Secretary II your husband and |
can't get this Strengthened out said he
benigny. then you and mamma must put
your heads together and do it for us-thats
ALI"
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If Man Once Taught School
The Professor in Him Will Out

was not aware then that Mr.. Webster
had ever been Prof. Webster-yes, | think
he was more than an instructor in that coll
lege-I didn't read of that until the other
day The professor would never have told
me He knows / wouldn't be able TO stand
it-musician and scientist n everything.
And yet learning this explains some of the
words that Henry has recourse to as his
army of sentences beat into paragraphs ana
men and women grow and take FORM ana
love and hate. Odd you ever feel the tread
of words? p These strange words drive me
abashed to my dictionary just as long to
be getting on with the story, when any one
else less ignorant could remain concen-
trated. not on the modifying Characteristics
nj his people but on the people themselves
Now those three Wollastons, for instance
in his last novel, MARY Woaston": ] could
get that they were blonde by his telling M
u saw them blonde He need employ Dut
the sweeping progress of the tale for me 10
know that they were high strung and mag
netically susceptible. but. by gosh! would
never have thought that family to be dolicho-
cephalc The early mastodon perhaps the
dinosaur possibly. and undoubtedly the
icthvosaurus-but not those Chicago Wollas-
tons.
In the future. however when read those
,yonderful words in Henry's books shall no
longer be disturbed To paraphrase an eX-
pression of his contemporary, w l.. George
''t's the professor coming out in him"
still the young man would never have
thought OF electrical apparat in the home
If he had not been interested In family life
as well He belongs 10 the group type. He
believes i'm groups. and in both IAN American
Family" and Mary Wollaston" his charac-
tors can scarcely get through scene OF love
or passion without some Of the family butt
ing in / read between the lines no effort
OF his own to escape his family beyond en-
couraging the composer. Anthony March. 10
buy a room over a grocery store and never
divulge the address TO one Of his kin. That
chapter on the hidden room might also be
called "Henry's Fling"
would never accuse Mr. Webster OF
masking behind any Of the characters he
gives to us. Not that I wouldn't put 1t past
him but in the fine verify Of his pen and
ink folk in the intimate understanding he
brings to us Of their houses. shining coffee
urns at breakfast the location Of the piano
the best Chicago frocks. the music ut Ra-
vina above the roars Of the interurbans. the
smell Of closed rooms. but never the smell
Of the stock yards, borne soft west winds
the author me--becomes one OF tho char
acters that might but never do enter the
printed page
one can imagine how well Henry would
get along with that wonderful old dragon
Mrs Corbett amcc-he would drop in on her
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Here was the great world Of men be-
tween India and the Adriatic ready for
union, ready as it had never been before for
a unifying control Here was the wide order
of the Persian Empire with its roads its
posts, its general peace and prosperity, ripe
for the fertilizing influence of the Greek
mind. And these stories display the quality
OF the human beings to whom these great
opportunities came. Here was this Philip
who was very great and noble man, and
yet he was drunken he could keep no order
in his household. Here was Alexander, in
many ways gifted above any man of his
time, and he vain, suspicious, and pas
sionate, with a mind set awry by his mother.
I'VE beginning to understand some
thing of what the world might be, some
thing of what our race might become if it
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ABOUT AU Thu RS
Henry Kitchell Webster and Family
And Don't Forget the Baby Bank

after a matinee and she would laugh over
his stories of the chorus girls and their
quick changes He would probably send the
first copy OF THE Painted Scene" to her
and she would order twelve more copies and
give them Christmas gifts TO those who
still ask, Doesn't the makeup hurt?' or
Don't you get tired of saying the same
thing?'
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Wasting Perfectly Good Wild Oats
On Little Fellows of the Mind

But l never got much except that all the
good characters he had trouble in writing
clear but all the bad ones worked for him."
as he expressed it. That admission was the
only evidence / could gather of the
novelist wasting perfectly good wild oats on
the little fellows of his mind. And since,
with all my probngs / could never find the
bin where he keeps his oats l have come to
the conclusion-agan-tha this way he has
of laying deftly before us the complications
of all the physical and mental relationships
between men and women, and dsposing of
them as they would just ordinarily be dis
posed of in any big family, is the result of
his intuitive comprehension of a bigger
family than the Websters-the human
family.
Would have done that?" I ask of myself
as | read of his women. Eyes, l would" Is
my reply TO myself.
Naturally this might gain Henry Kitchell
the position of headsman Of his own imme-
date tribe. but one Of his most stubborn
confessions was his admitting that his father
was the head though / did not believe this
until the son dragged him to the Haymarket
green room Then, somehow. Webster fls
got out of the foreground and sat on a small
stool way up against the backdrop of the
conversation My own will and determine
ton seemed to be oozng away, and the
power and law and order Of Great Britain
became inconsequent When we told Father
there were no places TO sup any more in
London he said a place would be made, and
we walked up a famous old street to the
hotel which Webster pere had chosen in
preference to the dull. select and remote
one his son had been living in all winter.
II was Just as select Fathers hotel much
more beautiful. but not as remote-and in
no way dull.
We were welcomed by the proprietress and
because she liked Websters (having always
thought they were dictionaries before) she
put us In the "Elinor Glyn drawing room
for supper, and there, amidst a riot of bro
cades and chairs like sunken gardens. we
we're fed from time to time by scions of
great houses in uniform and evening clothes.
They evidently brought us offerings from the
chatelaine's own particular party.
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He was too great for His disciples. And
in view of what He plainly said, is it any
wonder that all who were rich and prosper
Gus felt a horror of strange things a swim
ming of their world at His teaching? i.
He was like some terrible moral huntsman
digging mankind out of the snug burrows in
which they had lived hitherto. In the white
blaze of this kingdom of His there was to be
no property, no privilege no pride and no
precedence: no motive indeed. and no re-
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American Cities and Plains

from twenty-five to thirty miles after sup
per, which required too much time chasing
him. Also the camels seemed to collide per-
versely whenever opportunity offered scat
tering tons of supplies over miles of plains.
and the unfortunate pilots who had to gather
up the wreckage depored the day when
camels were ever thought of to replace the
dependable mule. There was so much
trouble the mules were finally returned and
the camels sold-all except those which
strayed away from the army posts For
many years the wandering animals were
seen here and there in Arizona and New
Mexico and even to-day there are tales of
the occasional sight of some lonely specimen.
Travellers to Arizona will want to see the
petrfied forests and jeweled tree trunks
after reading Dr. Fariss description of them
in his book. a few miles south of Adamana
are the trunks of hundreds of gigantic for
est trees that stood in majesty in an age
long ago. When they fell they must have
been carried down stream to their final rest
ing place. The next step in their history
was the deposit of sand and clay above them
until they were buried several thousand feet
deep. Underground water displaced the
wood cells by silica. Next the erosion of the
everything sand and the uncovering OF the
marvels that are now like the jewels of Alad-
din's cave. Here amethyst and topaz,
onyx. cornelian and agate Efforts have
been made to cut the petrfed logs apd
lease some of the jewels. but a six inch
steel saw is worn TO a ribbon in the attempt
to cut through single log not much can be
done. 1t would be interesting to learn how
the Indians managed to fashion their stone
hammers. arrowheads and knives from the
chips of these iewelled logs as they did
AMERICAN TOWNS AND. PEOPLE. BY
Harrison Rhodes Robert NJ Mcbride & Co.
TIME table Of contents reads like an
examination: why is a Bostonian?"
who is Philadelphian?" What is
a New Yorker" us there West?" But
Mr. Rhodess answers not at all like a
set of college examination answers If the
following doesn't tell why each Bostonian Is
1t suggests reasons for desiring to be club
member there:
ITO sign no checks. but instead to receive
unobtrusive and unitemzed bill at the
end of the month, is at once to give the
impression that YOU are being notably treat
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Introducing Henry's Father
And the Younger Generation

Then in the midst Of our hectic surround
ings we three Chicago ones talked of family
of the effort to bring up a clan-(twenty-
six in the immediate line) OF the barrenness
OF success and the fruits OF failure. l say
that for Henry came creeping into the lime
light and in complete abandonment TO truth
spoke OF his early struggle to bring up just
beginning family. only, nversely. the baby
worked for him. For having baby they had
a bank and when necessity overlook them
Henry shook the baby's bank And in his
determination to get the money back in the
bank before the baby had him placed under
arrest the young author worked a little
longer each day. a little more agonzingly.
until Jove nodded.
There Is a pause after that last para
graph. I grew uneasy when ! wrote my
friend down a bank robber II might be
that the professor the musician the author
in him would resent the betrayal " secrets
OF the F,linor Glyn drawing room and sent
a wire asking permission for what ! had al
ready done. He will never know the salts
faction his CHEEKY encouragement to shake
the baby's bank all ] wanted" gave me, for
my Jig Saw Puzzle Of Henry kitchell Web
ster was complete I had never decided what
composite component part of Henry IT was
that allowed him TO write better stage stories
than mine but do now. That telegram
was the Bohemian coming out in him
was very quiet during these recitals in
the T.. c. suite berating my family for not
being larger and regrettng that had had
no baby TO pivot me on TO success. Yet II
may all be for the best for II had ever had
a baby Il would never have had bank TO
shake. and in an emergency such as Henry's
might have shaken the baby--the which
would have made me siren possibly But
then 7 should never have met Henry's wife
or h'g fathor and perhaps not Henry-al-
thouLh this Is debatablel
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These Authors Seem to Know
About Music and Everything

Besides that, he had been to the concert.
No read a Webster novel without
knowing him to be a musician. Many au-
thors have this added gift of the gods but
he Is the only one | have in mind just now
who can make music as much part of his
story as character and plot. 1t is character
and plot and l wonder if he didn't suffer
when he forced Mary Wollaston, this girl of
his own clay, to be inattentive to music
until the purely tonal piano tuner came
around q have no idea what "tonal" means
i just put that in.)
II piques me to have authors know so
much about music and | little. At last
Sundays concert / sat among very elegant
ladies in box all as full of music as
photograph cabinet, and at the end OF
prosaic rendition of a certain hearty pas
sage | unconsciousy calculated: Roast
beef" My ears burned | heard each
lady whispering to another: She said roast
beef After that ] was careful and caught
myself at the close of a beautiful spring
song just as was about to cry rapturously:
Little green onions!' But / didn't say It;
so they never knew.
L would not be so annoyed to have Henry
as familiar with Calliope | am with the
rest of the circus parade If he didn't know
ANYTHING else but music and how to write.
And he must know how to write. for | re-
Gently heard a publisher not his own admit
IL groanngly. The day first met, story
of his had just twinked into life, Frightening
weary. home tied housewives like a thou
sand watts shining on a theatre set-rock.
II was the way he handled the subject that
made you feel the laboratory was not un-
known to him, and that chemistry and
physics may some day lend themselves 10
his romances.
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THE OUTLINE OF HISTORY Two volumes
By H. G. Wells. The Macmillan Company
Reviewed by ROBERT J. COLE.
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ed like a gentleman. The impression is
deepened by genuine blue Canton ware by
walters of a dignifed and ancient kindness
which has elsewhere disappeared from Amer
lean life and by food excellent in that
strange, tempered New England way
oysters from the clubs own planted waters
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Bv LOUISE CLOSER HALE.

Copyright 1920. by THE NEW YORK HERALD.
FIRST met this writing gentleman In
the Little Room in Chicago. Do you
know what the Little Room is? 1t is
a big room every day but Friday, the studio
of Mr. GARRISON, the portrait painter. on
Friday after the concert of the Chicago
Orchestra it becomes dminutive throughout
the tea hour; probably deriving the name
from the affection one feels toward il com
bined with its pleasant unpretentiousness.
We women all have little dressmaker and
a little frock, dear to us yet not expensive.
The Little Room unlike the Little The
aires that springing up around the
country Ca great deal of this later. magnif-
icently refuses TO have any aim whatever.
If the visiting authors have not been to the
concert they have probably just finished
hard chapter. Naturally a place without an
aim was the place for me. and, of course,
Henry dropped in after the music-and there
we discovered each other.
This sounds dangerous and | was hoping
that it was going to be, for Henry extracted
a promise from me that should my play
hold out | would be on hand the following
week. l was there, which was over eager,
no doubt but that Mr.. Webster was there,
too-and so was his WIFE He had brought
her to meet me. Some women are sirens
and some get to meet the wives.
You may say all this has nothing to do
with Henry. but / am giving you the very
heart of Henry, for as time went on
realized that he had not brought his wife to
show me off to her, but to show her off to
me. 1t was one of the little limitations of
the Importance in which this novelist holds
the family, and il is of family life that Mr..
Webster has written with more illumination
than any other young American writer of
this American day.
, 1920-06-09

is based onJhe known fact that PATHOLOGY,
cal investigation has traced the bI~ Cd diff
ferences continuously for $50 years.
In the English race the amount of "A"
in the blood is approximately 43 per
cent while in the Indians it is only 10
per cent On the other hand, the Indi-
ans have Il per cenl of "B" while the
English have only 7 per cent.
In the English, French, Italian, Ger
man, Austrian, Serb, Greek and BuIga-
rian n]ationalities classified on the Eu-
pean type, the amount of "A" is approx
imately the same and the proportion of
'B" is small
In the Arabs, Turks, Prussians and
Jews (the Intermediate types the pro
portion Of 81 shows a steadily rising
value and continues to rise through the
Asiatic and African types til. it reaches
the maximum in the INDIANS. Barbados
Globe, May 10th,
, 1920-06-09
ORDER OF II DAY
for the LIST Ordinary Meeting of the
Colonial Council for St. Croix,
End Council, End Session, 1922,
MONDAY, June IA, 1920, at one
o'clock p. m.

Election of Members for the Com
mission pursuant to Par. / of Ordin-
ance of goth September 1911 regard
ing measures against Diseases OF
Cotton Plants.
Colonial Council Bill No. 80.
Continuation of Discussion on Colo
NAL Council Bill No. SO, End Session
1920. Resolution, introduced by
Government, re Teachers Supporting
Fund.
Colonial Council Bill No. IS.
Introduction of and 1st Discussion
on Colonial Council Bill No. IS, End
Council, End Session 1920 -21, Draft
Of Ordinance, introduced by Govern
ment, ~rerealing Ordinance creating
the tOod Commission.
Colonial Council Bill No. 36,
Introduction of and LIST Discussion
on Colonial Council Bill No. 36, Draft
of proposed Budget for the Munich
patty of St. Croix for the fiscal
year from July LIST, 1920 to June 80,
1921.
Colonial Council Bill No. 81.
introduction of and LIST Discussion
on Draft of an Ordinance, intro
duced by LIST Member for Christian
sted Country District (Stakemann
, 1920-06-09
NGMSHELL IN THE WORLD OF
SCIENCE
SENSATIONAL PATHOLOGICAL REPORT
MADE TO THE LANCET

A London c BILE says: "A sensational
pathological report has been made to the
Lancet, Britain's leading medical Journ-
al bv two Investigators who have tested
the blood of different races Of mankind.
English scientists regard the report as a
chombshell.
During the war the two pathologists,
in accordance with British custom, went
TO Macedonia, the supposed cradle OF the
human race. and made 5000 blood tests,
the subjects being English, French, lta
liam Germans, Austrians, Slberlahs,
Rnloarians, Arabs. Turks, Russians,
Jews, Malagasies, Negroes from Senegal,
Annamese and Indians, soldiers or all
these races and ~nationalities being gath
ed in that area of the war.
The tests made under conditions which
preclude the possibility OF error, shoWed
differences between the blood OF the dit
ferent races of such a character as TO
make it practically certain that mankind
had two different sources OF origin.
The blood was shown to have two dis
tinct and different chemical properties,
which the discoveries for the sake OF
convenience, distinguished as A" ana
b"
These two properties, it is %contended,
have been adherent in the blood or two
sep9rate and distinct races since man
first made his appearance on the earth
The "A" property distinguished the one
raco and the B" property the other
Tho theory that the distinction has
existed since the beginning Of human LIE
, 1920-06-09
Executive Order No. 10
1920.
Order No. 14-l9l6 is

/. Executive Order No. 14-l9l8 is
hereby revoked.
2. In the future all prisoners dis
charged from Richmond PeDItentlary,
who have served for a period OF SIX
| plain suit Of clothes.
| s nair al ana eo one o cap orr OF n az. ~ Shoes
Pr;so w. o|D d;s a,Ir o,s '4 fron Rich.
mond Penitentiary who have served
therein one year or more shall hereafter
also receive twenty five francs in cash for
each year or portion OF a year oyer SIX