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Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-27

,,u,a character izatiOn OF the latest
,,,o.,ions More extended review will be
x,yen books worthy Of special notice
Fiction
MACK sARrIEMEY's TREASURE, By
Jeffrey Farnol. Boston: Little Brown
First days on the Spanish Main 'eaos 'ne
o,,hor OF The Broad Highway into
new field OF romance. >,,
SEVEN MEN. BY Max beeroon" NJ"
Tbs clever satirist and cariGaturisl "r'es
and illustrates SpicaI "o'n, >.,,u n,
p P. Sheehan. New foFN' b0"'
Liveright.
A mystery story. ,,,,.
wINsOME WINNIE. Bv stephen 4eSe0SA
New York: John Lane 60
>,ore OF his nonsense nove'' ,
sPENDrHRIrT TowY YXo0IsIon III hsnfn Mit.n hc0, co.
son; n.si 20 or Kew York-its habits MOODS
and inspirations ., ot,hardson New
YORK; ,1s mas s,ory OF a loye.y America
waman whose soul awakening SS conn me AZ
SSar she is transplanted across '"'
THE The coMEpIENNE, By wtsdSsiST Wa Ps,%am ;: =.
sons, s,o-v o, a Polish girl who rebels
Tn@ atSs' tSs dTab ife OF her native naThet Itn
sEslnM ,s she eSay with troupe Of strolin, ~;
SIsysrs' SmS rs"' The author Is "o'eu "'''e' u
he new Poland. po,.
THE r"Np Appleton & Co. o,o,,.. a
Varied and dTamSHttS ttSrsE% sESFT ana NT artistic
1ees OF England The wSr ;Ss,r nSs foss and
Sdiers 10 a realizing sense OF enr" graphicsiiy
futhitles m Snu ,ransf0rms tons In ideals and
Character thereby "rouRm n. ,.,.,,,,
r,%r pRODI,AL VILLAGE, hY rrn,' tpr1hs
'' Racheilcr lnd!anapo''S' "'''
,r,s co, osntbor OF 'Eben Holden and "a Man thn
:or the Ages ra1SSn sGG%s ID deals With the new
old, @ Sur"E Enatertaistic aims OF the modern
s's in politics and phiIosopnS, o,S.,u,,,,
MR.. DIM32GKX;: M3S.X: ,dsn BY HsS faSo Co. cS"'' ' ''
New w%e,t!drawn H%IK ehaTaGters are Ame,1osssn
Irsh h' English and Serbian MuGm GcmoDSi,Ions M Sns
story has to The 90 writer % IS, weIl acquainted
VI .,,S the social and poiticsi @ Ifs % Of chaT lWo
continents and has att,S" ,n "''u' S'''
acterization and narrauon' o.,
pICs'To MARKET. BY George Agnew GhaIn- IN
fIdSS SS.rIain- ia Indianapolis: Bobbs- MerTll GO;
Thr.ecSr n3Tslfh'S hnrn"gh Stained Glass" but OF a
NUM- nv rrsiished by those who love a hHh' warm
KARL MARY. BY AehnIe LOr's Ne"
York; Gr Thos q, history in the University
IrH IN y, discusses the life and theories OF
,Tho ,,reat German SOCIOLOGICAL and economist
pEPUTATIoNs. BY Douglas Goldrlng' New
York: Thos Seltzer. ,,.,-,,,p,
E.ssvS in criticism by a distinguiBhed Brit
sh novelist ard PLAYWRIGHT OF ths ySunEeT nnG
ke,st',a In his thinking. observation ana
rxpression, He considers he nso. GeoTgiag
novelists, Wells. GLsslng' Leroy FI.eksr an, ana
hoIb 10 literary rRdcals and literateurs
| II is a delightful book
&c Glhlnna
| Roston: Houghton Mifnin Co.
A study OF the Greek premier who rsisee
his country into new prominence through
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-27

rNHERE is little space left for the
l. more important satire. "a Tale OF
n Tub" Here We find the trenchant
satire Of Swift at its height in the fable
of Peter. Martin and Jack. three broth
ers to whom a dying father hrQueaths to
each n suit of clothes. so miracul lously
fashioned that it will grow with tho
~rowth of the wearer. adapting itself
to his needs. But before long tailors
came into the world. and they sug-
gested and made many improvements in
these garments contrary to tho father
will and testament swhercin the use of
this miraculous clothing had been care =
fully provided for. In consequence one
Of the brothers trapped himself out very
fine and claimed a lordship over his
brethren. n second sought only to follow
the will; while the third in his horror
of the fnery of Peter in defiance Of de
cency, nearly tore off all his clothes.
The nllegory is obvious and although
Swift never avowcd the authorship OF
"a Tale Of Tub" We need not won =
der that Queen Anne was of the opinion
that n clergyman who could thus satir =
ize Christianity at large-however he
NAV have spared the moderate Martin
of the Church of England-was no fiji
material out Of which to make bishop.
Read coOlly today. when the old heat
of scctarian controversy has been sue
ceeded by a lukewarm Indifference "a to
what anybody believes. "A Tale of a
Tub seems less an attack upon re-
ligion than satire on the weakness and
frailty of theology and the theologians.
It remains comparable only to 'Gul-
liver's Travels" in its caustic wit and
biting satire. marvel of learning M
example of trenchant and brilliant style
and a precious classic to all English
speaking peoples.
TALE OF A TUB TO which is added
The Battle az the Books" and tho "Op
Grafton OF the Spirit" by iona thar
Swift. Edited with an Introduction and
notes historical and explanatory. by A. c.
4uthkelch and d. Nicho Smith. New
York: oxford University Press. 3l2.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-27
NEW FICTION AND ANCIENT SATIRE
THE DAUGHTER OF
CAPTAIN MACEDOINE
William McFee Has Told Her
Story in a Novel Worthy Of
: the Pen of Conrad


II William McFec's name were not
on the title page of Captain Mace
doine's Daughter" the informed reader
would say at once that the novel had
been written by Joseph Conrad. This
does not mean that McFee has initiated
Conrad, for he has not. But McFee has
sailed the sea for years and thought on
what Henry James called the immiti-
gability Of the human predicament while
he watched the stars or meditated In
his cabin. Some day an essayist will
discuss the influence of the moving
waters and the wide spaces upon the
literature Of the world and he will find
material to his hand in both Conrad
and McFee.
The thought back of the book must
have occurred to the author when he
saw a small boat tossed helplessly on
the bosom of the heaying sea, for that
Is what Captain. Macedoine's daughter
was-a girl born with a peculiar in
heritance and thrown adrift upon the
world only to come to a wreck at the
end. Her father was not a captain at
all. He was a steward on an ocean
steamship ,pbo 1yos called captain In
nv, ~ u"S fu A.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-27
ANTHONY HOPE
IN 4 NEW VEIN
His Latest Nouel Is WortI,y OF
Comparison With the Best
Of His Contemporaries

Lucinda" is the best novel Anthony
Hope ever wrote. Indeed, few contem-
porary novelists ever wrote II better one.
1t does not belong to the prisoner Of
Zenda," Rupert of Hentzau" school
of romantic adventure, although there
are thrilling moments in it. 1t is the
story of the adventure of the soul of a
woman. in which truth and beauty shine
in sharp contrast with selfish and sordid
ambition.
The story is told in the first person
by the man with whom she finally finds
happiness, man several years older
than she, who liked her from the first
but did not discover till long afterward
that he loved her. 1t begins with the
day set for her marriage to a cousin of
the man who tells the tale. He sees her
in n taxicab two or three hours before
the wedding. When that hour arrives
she has disappeared, no one knows
where. Ii is suspected that she has
fed with u young Spaniard who knew
her in England, and in whose palace
in Venice she had lived with her mother.
Then the war breaks out-there is no
war story in the book-and the man
telling the story finds her in southern
France, where she is earning her living
aS sehmStresS. Sne nad married the
Spaniard, but he was away-gambling
to get money, it appears later. The
man discovers then that the girl at
tracts him and he keeps track of her.
She finally breaks with her husband
when she discovers that he has been
getting money for her relief from the
woman who wanted to marry the man
from whom she fed and who ultimately
did marry him. And the husband find.
ing that she will not return to him ar
ranges Il dinner at which he plans to
kill himself. His nerve fails him, but
his valet, from whom he had bought a
lottery ticket that had brought him
wealth, shoots him in mad terror
when discovered in an act Of theft. The
way is thus opened for that living hap.
PLY ever after which novel readers en-
joy. But the end is so logical and in
evitable that the device used to bring il
about losses that artifcislity which this
bald telling gives it.
| The exposition of the character Of
Lucinda and the exhibition of the prog
ress of the mans love for her are de-
scribed with COnsummate ability. No
man who had devoted his life to psyche
logical novels could have done it better.
The authors skill in plot and situation
makes it book which has attractions
lacking in the novel of pure psychology
LUCINDA BY Anthony Hope. New York:
| d Appleton & Co. 50.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-27
New England Houses

Albert G. Robinson. who published n
while ago book on "Old New England
Doorways," has followed it by a book
on "Old New England Houses" which
will delight architects and all that large
class of nOnprofessional people who arc
interested in houses because they pIan
some day to build a house for them.
selves. Mr.. Robinson has introduced the
book with delightful essay on the old
houses and the carpenters who ~bniIt
them and the people who lived In them,
This is followed by full page plates
showing about one hundred eramnles
of the kind Of houses built in New
England one and two hundred years ago.
OLD NEW ENGLAND HOUSES. Bv Al.
Scribner's Sons, 50, "'e7
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-27

Nnlyefhfty OF fSnnhyNtntb
from irrelevancy and a suHiciency
worthy Of all praise.
THE two pamphlets of Swift here
l. edited were, each in its place, OF
unusual Importance in his career and in
the literary history Of his time. The
Battle Of the Books has been described
as the last gun in that momentous tight,
that tempest in a teapot, the Phalaris
controversy as to the relative claims OF
ancient learning contrasted with mod
ern. In this paper war between the
great scholar, Richard Bentley, and the
great diplomat, Sir William Temple, as
principals. the latter had contrived to
sustain his plea for the ancients by
the omission, fear only too inadvertent,
from the list OF modern writer's OF a
few names. such as Shakespeare and
Milton for England. Moliere for France,
Dante for Italy and Cnlderon for Spain.
Swift was little interested in the merits
Of the question: he was out for the
fun. And read aloud the other evening,
"The Battle of the Books" much dis
turbed the serenity Of sedate library
with the peals Of laughter which It
evoked.
uERE, as often elsewhere. Swift
IL practices a device which l would
most respectfully refer to the imitation
Of contemporary American writer's, this
is the device of omission. In the midst
Of an absorbing encounter between Yer.
gil, for example, in 'shining armor'
and Dryden. his translator. encased in
"a helmet nine times too large for his
head" the timely chic pauca desunt'
| (here few words are wanting) leaves
the situation charmingly in the air.
For sheer drollery nothing could be more
amusing than the description Of the god
dess Criticism, who dwells in a den in
the mountains of Nova Zembla with Ig-
norance, her father. blind with age ;
Pride. her mother. dressing her up in
scraps Of paper. and Opinion. her sis
ter, hoodwinked. headstrong, giddy
and perpetually turning" 1t is not
generally remembered that from the
fable Of the spider and the bee in this
book comes Matthew Arnolds famou:
slogan of culture, sweetness and
light.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-27

An outline Characterization OF inc inTs'
More eHtenaeo RIVE" WI" "'
',.,". hooIs worthy Of special notice.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-11-27
NEW BOOKS

Versailles treaty and who recently learned
through the great and solemn referendum
republics. are unErateful Written BY one
OF the most eminent and informed OF the
recent world cataclysm, He is a Phiiade
phian the son OF the late Rev. DR.. Hughes
Of his death minister of Old Pine street ' Pres 'te
byterian Church
LINCOLN BY John Drinkwater. Boston: :
Houehton Mifhin Co
Some prose ESSAYS bv the author of the
successful play, Abraham Lincoln "
THE BEHAVIOR OF CROWDS. Ry Ever
stt ID. Martin, New York: Harper q
An examination OF humanity in the mass.
THE IMPERIAL ORGY. BY Edgar saltus
New York: Boni Liveright.
An account OF the C2ars from the first To
the last.
THE BOOK OF ION Ry Morris Jastrow.
PhiIndelphla; J Is. lippncott & Co.
It's origin growth and Interpretation TO.
gcther. with 4 new translation based on a
revised text. nv the professor Of ScmtIcs in
ne UmvofS sn ot ibo Sf rcanyySnla and himself
THE LIFE or JOSEPH HODGES CHOATE
BY f. 3, Martin, New York; Chas
ScrIbners Sons
Particularly rich in the correspondence OF
the late publ!cist and lawyer.
THE POEMS OF ROBERT BURNs. Edited
by Jemes J.. Hughes. New York Gee
IT. Doran Co
Brings together the hest of Burns with
a hne selective taste: The poems are pt-
| lied chronolOglcRlly in sections welded to-
gether by a running biographical and critical
narrative, The book IL unique in plan and
Is well illustrated,
DRAKE, NELSON AND NAPOLEON rv
Sir walter Funciman New York; @.
-ElaborSte studies Of three great world
figures by distinguished British statesman.
who variep tbs cares OF public office by cS-
cursiOns into history and literature.
THE AVERAGE CITIZEN. New York:
American publi iShprS Service Rureau
Its timely purpos" Is to promote interes st
in local and national politics on the part Of
! alarming lack of interest and knowledge OF
| his civic responsibilities. II stresses the
pToSs Ssns z%H fmH
and a strong plea for general participation
In the franchise and Of universal and in
| tslliRent interest in national problems A
history, brief. of American political insti-
| tutlons and usages Is given as fundamental
! To civic cooperation
AND HENRY J. ALLEN New York
p p. Dutton G. Co
strnosraphiT rCc%rd ID. o. % Tho t0oo great Dc.
! the president NJ the American Federation
Of Labor and the governor Of Kansas, rep rep,
viewpoint and that Of certain Industrial and
social legislation effected In Kansas through
the influence "t Governor over Ai,Sn' Zen II ds6o tos
should 20 in interfering with the strike sys,
TEN.
| ROUND THE HORN BEFORE THE MAST
BY Basil Lubbock, London; John Mur
ray.
Reprint of an authentic account Of n
VOYAGE. The book has gone through severaI
II is a modern 1.-TWO Years Before IN,
Mast"
HIGH SOCIETY ~ Fish New York; G
Drawings by well-known cartOonst with
epigrams and other text by various writer,
! OF note II tells how to attain, relish an[
survive society. so the subtitls alleges.
A STUDY FOR THE TIMEs,-By w. d
McItim New York: q, p. Putnam,
Sons.
j An inquiry into contemporary thought snt
motive.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-07-09
FLAT LICK NEWS

Last Thursday night w. T. Pat
terson's barn burned and he lost a
mule, wagon, 800 worth Of corn,
about 80 tons of new hay and var
ious other things. The damage is es-
timated at $1,000. The cause of
the fire is unknown. 1t broke out
suddenly about nine o'clock at night
l. c. Broughton went to Hinkle
last week to repair a gasoline engine
Flat Lick is mechanical headquar-
ters.
Kenneth Pearson, who was wound
ed while in France, is visiting his
aunt and uncle, Mr.. and Mrs. c. NJ.
Evans.
G. T. Mills, new mail carrier, en-
tered on duty July list. He receives
S1,39S per year, the former one
getting only $500.
I. c. Broughton is drilling a wat
er we'll for the Sun Coal Co.
Success to the Mountain Advocate
and its many readers CAESAR.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-07-09
Easy Road Seldom.

Not one In a thousand can stand the
pain Of thorough preparation forJthe
sort Of career he would like. Nearly
all take the easy road which the null
titude travel, writes Orison SWEET Mar
den in the Chicago Daily News. But
most people prefer the smaller, the
inferior thing that is right in sight and
can be had with little or no prepare,
ton, to the bigger, grander thing that
can be reached only by hard work and
a lot Of self-sacrlfice. And in middle
life, when they find themselves plod-
ding along In mediocrity or CALLING pow
erty many of those men and women
who would not in youth pay the price
for the bigger thing which they would
like to have, grumble at their hard
luck and cannot understand how other
people can have so much more than
they havei
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-07-09
What "isest by Test" Means
To The Housewife

The value of an article can be
judged only by a correct comparison
of that article with other articles of
the same kind.
For instance--you may think some
special brand of Baking Powder is
best That doesn't prove anything.
The only way you can be sure of
Baking Powder superiority is by an
actual test against other brands.
it isn't necessary however that the
housewife go to the trouble and ex-
pense of such an investigation her
self.
Such tests have already been made
and made by experts in the value
of Baking Powder.
Calumet Baking Powder received
highest awards at the Worlds Pure
Food Exposition, Chicago-Paris
Exposition, Paris, France. There can
be nut one answer to this Calumet
Is testify test and best 81 the
most cyac;iag test It Is pnJ'ibl, TO
make.
Any housewife familiar with this
fact can rest absolutely assured that
when buying Calumet she is obtain
ing the best Baking Powder it is
possible TO manufacture. ADV.
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-07-09
LITTLE INDIAN CREEK

Mrs. w. p. Bngle and daughter,
Carrie, we're the guests OF Mre Solo
mon Wells Sunday afternoon.
Miss Ada Wells and her brother
Nealie attended church at the Engle
School House Sunday
Miss Bessie Wells was the guest
Of Miss Viola Burke Sunday after
noon.
Miss Minnie Logan and Mrs. Nan
A. Williams were the guests of Mrs.
Solomon Wells Tuesday afternoon.
Mrs. Tillda Helton visited her sis
ter Sunday, Mrs. Mamie Engle.
Nealie Wells made a trip to Cor
bin Monday.
Mrs. j. NJ. Pridemore was the
guest of Miss Minnie Logan Sunday.
Miss Ada Wells was in Wilton on
Friday. a.
Best wishes to the Advocate.
BLUE EYES
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-07-09
sCHooLGIRL complained tina

A SCHOOLGIRL complained that
"A American history was 40 Uttered
up with Adamses" that she couldn't
tell one from the other. Yet this most
distinguished family in our national
biography lived in America one hun
dred and fifty years before 1t broke
into fame.
When the engagement was an
nounced of John Adams of Braintree,
Mass, to the daughter Of Parson
Smith OF the adjoining town of Wey-
mouth, people were shocked that Abby
should marry so beneath her station.
Was she not a Quincy and Norton?
And John, the son Of q small farmer,
was put down to fourteenth place
among his twentyfour classmates,
when Harvard catalogues were made
up according to social rank. After
that he taught school in Worcester to
get enough money to study law, and
the strictest of the Purltans looked
on lawyers as ungodly.
Father-in-Law Smith was game, and
tradition says that he preached down
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-07-09
coNlMIssIoNEn,s SALE

by order OF the Knox Circuit
Court rendered at its April term,
1890, in the case Of Levi Lee, Ad-
ministrator OF the estate of s. A.
Black, deceased, Plaintiff,
against
Mahala Black ct al, Defendant,
will, as Master Commissioner,
on the 26th day of July, 1920, same
being. the first day of the July Term
of the Knox Circuit Court, sell at
Tho Court House door in Barbour
VILE, Kentucky, to the highest and
best bidder, the following described
property, real estate, to satisfy the
judgment in said case, and $4,000
probable cost.
Description: First Tract--Ly-
ing and being on the waters of Big
Richland Creek. in Knox County,
Kentucky, being the interest decided
TO s. A. Black, deceased, in the di-
vision of his fathers estate. Con-
tanning about IS acres.
Second Tract-Lying and being in
Knox County, Kentucky, on the wa
ters Of Big Richland Creek, being
the dover interest allotted to Bar
bara Black, mother of deceased, in
which tract the deceased owns and
will be sold q one-half interest, sub
ject to the life estate of Barbara
Black
Said property will be sold on a
credit of six months, purchaser to
Execute bond with approved security,
bearing interest at six per cent from
date, having the force and effect of
judgment and retaining a lien on
said property until the purchase
money is paid.
WITNESS my hand, this the Sth
day of July, 1920.
J. r. JONES, Master Commissioner,
Knox Circuit Court.
Sale about l p. m. Purchaser
must execute bond as soon as sale is
over, or the property will be immed-
lately put up and resold. asst
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-07-09
THE NATiOTAA REPUBLICAN,
SHOULD ~! ~ EEEi;y HOSiF

The National Republican is pub
lished at Washington. d. G. is en-
dorsed by ali Republicans a2 the
Republican National org N ana IS
filed every week with authorized
publicity. Furnishes point Of con-
tact between Republican National
COMMITTEES and national leaders and
the rank and ile of the party. NO
Republican. who desires to keep fully
posted on activities and plans of The
party can afford to be without il.
Every Republican should have his
home Republican paper and the Ma
tional Republican this campaign.
Together with the Mountain Adj
vocate only $3.50 per year. ii
Mountain advocate. (Barbourville, Ky.) 1904-1935, 1920-07-09

his gossiplng pariShioners from this
well-chOsen text John came neither
eating bread nor drinking wine, and
We say he hath a GevilH
Although she never went to school,
this parsons daughter was by long
odds the cleverest in the entire line Of
our presidents wives, her published
letters forming a delightfully."- human
document in our too often unhuman
history. When John joined the fathers
of the republic in the great work of
setting up the most masculine govern
ment the world ever saw, this mother
of the republic had TO stay home to
rock the cradle, cook and patch for
four little AdamSes and to tend the
farm. Milking and churning, knitting
and darning, teaching and praying,
tolling and saving she supported the
family, inspired her husband in his
progress to the presidency, and reared
son TO follow in the fathers foot
steps. To Abigail Adams alone be-
longs the glory Of having been the wife
of one president AID the mother of
another.
In the war, it fell to Adams to do
picket duty in Europe. Congress sent
him to France with a thoughtful warn
ing to put in the bottom of his dis
patch bag plenty of lead or stone or
other welghts substance to sink his
papers. For his own neck no protec-
ton was proposed in event of the
British capturing slgner of the rebel
manifesto Of July 4, 1176. Neverthe-
less, he took with him on the perilous
trip his ten-year-Old son. John Quincy.
On the next voyage, he carried not
only John Quincy, but also his second
son, and they were shlpwrecked of the
coast Of Spain.
After five long, anxious years of sep
aratlon from husband and children, the
mother herself sailed to Europe, and
the pioneer American woman to APP
pear at the Court of st. James was
Abigail, the farmerette of Braintree.
Her presentation costume, according
to her own description, was white lutte
string covered with white crepe, fes-
TONED with lilac ribbon and mock
point lace, over hoop of enormous
extent, and with narrow train three
yards long; also ruffie cuffs, treble
lace rufiies and dress cap, with long
lace lappets and two white plumes. "
"You will be stared at great deal,
the Duke OF Dorset kindly warned the
Adamses. on the contrary, every back
In the court circle was turned upon
the Yankee rebels and Queen Charlotte
received Abigail with contempt and
scOrn."
A man can defend himself always,
as Abigails husband did right man
fully when II fell to him to be the first
independent American to stand before
the throne Of England. George Ill
venturlng to infer from his supposed
dislike Of France, a preference for
England. his one-time subject frankly
corrected the king; 81 must ayow "a
your majesty that have no attach
ment but to my own country"