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artillery. He sums up in person the warmer British-American friendship which has resulted from the past four years of catastrophe. II was because he was as much an American as an Englishman. that he was temporarily withdrawn from the line and selected in the spring of 1918 to write the triumphant record of America's effort in France. which was published under tre title of Out to Win" the greatest and most friendly tribute that fighting America has had paid her.
 Before the war his first literary recognition was American. He was a New York publisher and art critic in his late twenties when "The Garden Without Walls" appeared, winning for him an immediate place in the front rank of contemporary novelists. "The Raft" and Slaves of Freedom" fol- lowed in quick succession; then came the war, which looked like the death warrant of every man of fighting age.
 His first book, Garry on," written dur ing the Somme offensive in 1916 made the valiant slogan of the British fighting man as part of the vocabulary of the American nation When the Canadians were in the plain before Lens, after their capture of the vimy Ridge, he was dangerously wounded, nearly losing his right arm. In the September of 1917, be- ing temporarily unfit for active service, he was sent to our cuuntry for month s sick leave. During that month he lec- tured and wrote "The Glory of the Trenches" On his return to England he was detailed to go with the American forces in France to record the story of along the front from the English Channel down to Switzerland, making a study not only of the work of things purely military but also of the work of the American Red Cross. The story of this adventure is recorded in "Out to Win"
 He had barely completed his task, when the Hun drive against Helms, and Amiens started. He rejoined his battery on the vimy Ridge and found that his corps had been selected by General Foch to be the hammer-head of the counter dree that he was planning.
 1t opened so secretly and suddenly that the H an high command was caught nap ping. and his whole front line was showed back for many miles by the brilliant inn petuosity of the allies After each at tack the Canadians were withdrawn and taken by forced night marches to another vulnerable point, where they were again flung into the furnace. The story of this tremendous overwhelming of the greatest military machine known to history is told in Living Bayonets," which was writ ten while the fight was in progress.
 In the September of 1918, during the thrust against Cambrai, he was again severely wounded-this time in the head. From the London hospital he was sent to our country to speak for the British bu- reau of information. His tour lasted for two months and the demand for his serv- ives was so great that he was only able to accept one-tenth of his possible en- agreements. From all his meetings. even
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E.. k. Barker presents the subject in d most concise and entertaining as well
 instructive form.
 Beginning with the first chapter, which
 bears the title of The Principles of
 Photoplays'' the author says:
 For the beginner of photoplay writing.
 the most important thing to understand
 is that his or her materials must be
 treated in such way that the play will
 appeal directly and wildly to the eye
 the more so slnce it does not adures the
 ear. The photoplay has been properly
 called the silent drama, and one writer
 tells us that it must portray emotions
 that may be felt by all mankind. and
 that create heart beats which may na
 heard all around the world"
 Plays of the legitimate stage are lim-
 tied by the circumstance that much or
 their effectiveness depends upon speech, but on the screen every meaning anu emotion being expressed by action, all possible silent representations can be
 made.
 A few explanatory sentences can be flashed in here and there, but they arc merely accessory, and the public quickly tire of reading and wish to be thrilled by what they can see in motion. Thus, the play must be so built that anyone can readily understand it's plot. Every plot should have a problem which is not solved until the enc of the play. Let suspense predominate. Not until the final scene should the plot be unraveled. Keep a surprise for the audience and give them something to talk about, like wise something that they will desire to see again
 The main features of photoplay man uscript are the title, the synopsis, the characters. the scenario. the captions anl the inserts
 "The great thing to keep in mind when writing photoplays is to make all parts probable. consistent and convincing. wish to counsel writers. with strong emphasis never to be discouraged if they send plays to film companies and they are reflected. A play that one company re- jects may be the very piece that an other film firm will pay good price for. Improve a rejected play by rewriting 1t. Then send Il upon it's journey for an other trip The average number of suh- missions for each acceptance is about ten"
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FEATHER puFFY,s STORY,

A l|CI T | s1 v | SAe
 By Francis P. Duffy, Chaplain of the
 l65th Infantry. (With an Historical Ap-
 pendix by Joyce kilmer.) George H. Doran Company, Publisher. New York
 city.
 Since the return of the 165th, the old s"Fighting Sixty-ninth' of New York, Father Duffy has been a national figure
 Lionized by New York, the fame of this chaplain who went over the top With his men has gone abroad in the land
 The book is not merely the story of regiment or division. It is glimpse into the hearts and souls of America s finest manhood Father Duffy knew and loved his men, and they would have dled with him and for him.
 This story of the lighting sixty-ninth has to recommend it the facts that 1t Is not only the chronicle of one of the most beloved and picturesque of regiments, but also that since his return the fame Of Father Duffy has gone abroad in the land and he has become national figure
 From the moment of it's call to arms, Father Duffy follows the story of the Sixty -ninth. from Camp Mills to the fields of France. All the things that people have wondered about come out in this. The hasty and stealthy departure on October 22 of Colonel Wild BIT Donovan and his men, the terrible hike across his France that Joyce Kilmer men, tions in his appendix as having made 'Napoleon's retreat from Moscow looN like a F'iftc avenue parade. the first en- agreements in the Luneville sector, the Champagne defensive and the famous battles at the Orcq and on Hill lS2. It was at this time that Major sMckenna. Joyce Kilmer, Pat Bowling. Lieutenant Ames and scores of other members of the regiment were killed. Then come thrif- ing accounts of the regiment at St. Mi hiel. in the Argonne and finally the armstice. which they fittingiy celebrated The Sixty-ninth invaded Germany on December 5. with the band playing the regimental tune of ''Csarryowen." which sounded again on Fifth avenue when the regiment marched with coiors flying. led by Wild Bill' Donovan and Father Duffy. The book closes wi.h an historical appendix by Joyce Kliner and complete lists of citations and enea~enents Father Duffy wss awarded the Croix de Guerre. by the French eovernn'er.. an1 both the Distingushed Service Cross an1 the Distinenished service medal bv our own republic. AS an author Fashe- Duffy is second to none. He writes in h'~ preface that he is every American. very Irish and very Catholie.'' hut t is very evident that his appre riation of ratr'ot ism or courage. or any other attra ctive human trait is not limited in any degree Inv social or religious or sectional prej"- dice. His story bristIes with names of men. wi.h hur,oroi> sror'es eahnr- then ehcrt the war abo-t evervfhip~ Hi ready trsTh wit ~.akes him ar able arN feliehtful raconterr It is a hnosy "hic's is '''-eIv to remain the most moving and brilliant padres story Of the war.
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.IARKsP;JR" !"

"IARkSPGR."
 By Jane D. Abbott. Illustrated J. B.
 Lippncott Co, Publishers. Philadel-
 phia.
 Patricia Everett found refugee French orphan. Rene, stranded in this country. and her father was glad to have the child visit them as a companion for Fat, whose mother was in the south. Together with Sheia Quiin. they join the Girl Scouts, and the three chums not only have the jolly good times that belong to scout life. but they find helpful work to do for their country. When three i'm ~ portant formulas are stolen from Mir. Everett's munition plant, the girls trace them to boarder in Sheilas home, and they are recovered. Indoor games, out door sports, a wonderful Christmas party given by the Girl Scouts for the muni- tion workers, a winter camping party, and adventures such as lively young peo- pie will have-as when Pat and Billy Bee break through thin ice-make lively read ing Best of all, Pat and her chums are growing to be real Girl Scouts, credit to that splendid organization, when Rene's family is found, and there is a happy tending to a jolly tale. Read CTS who loved "ISeineth' will be glad to meet some of the same young people in this new story.
 PETER THE BRAZEN."
 By George F. Worts. Frontispiece In
 Color by Gayle Hoskins. ]. B. Lip
 pincott Co, Publishers. Philadelphia.
 A remarkable and picturesque story of China and the ''Bix Six" a mysterious organization of Chinese, whose power full influence. exerted in the silent, subtle, oriental way is felt in commerce and politics the world over. Peter the Brazen, . young and daring American wireless op- orator. becomes involved with it's lead CTS. The tale of his exploits is thrilling and absorbing. There is a dash of fine humor- and romance, and the pages are colorful with Chinese characters of all descriptions-officials. secret agents. girls the latter playing small part in Peters quixotic adventures.
 The author lived for considerable time in China, spending about two years on coastwise steamers and the river boats of the Yang-tze-kang and West rivers. Peter the Brazen is really the outgrowth of stories which he gathered from sail ors. merchants and river men relating to the activities of the so-called Big SIX"
 SISTERS. By Kathleen Norris. Illustrated. Double day Page & Co, Publishers, Garden
 City, New York.
 The story is laid in the California red- woods Here in the mountain home peace and happiness reigned over the house. hold of unw orldly and lovaole Dr. Strick- 1a ,yv4 and his two motherless daughters, Cherry and -Alix. Their nearest neigh bor. a bachelor, Peter Joyce, walked and talked with the doctor, romped with and scolSed the girls. He was indeed to them an elder brother,
 Into the little group came Martin Llosd'
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Huge Relief Map of Texas

A framed relief map of the statesof Texas, measuring 15x1s feet. and weighing about 2,doo pounds. has been prepared to show in detail all the nat ural resources of the commonwealth. Reinforced papier-mache is the ma .terial used According to Popular Me- chanics. which gives picture of the map. it is mounted on a white-pine back, with supports of steel and cost some ss,ooO. taking two months to build.
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saic method of the Channel steamer and the train. He wanted to see whether he had been unjust in his estimate of him; whether, after all, the brute in smoke gray who had stabbed, violated and abused the weakness of others, might not have been unrepresentative of his na- ton; whether the kindly Huns who had made toys and fairy tales, had not been hidden away behind the Rhine all the time, quite uniformed as to the horrors which were being perpetrated in his name in the unhappy occupied territories of France and Belgium. It was immediate ly before the peace terms were published that he set out He confessed that his emotions were largely those of an escaped victim going to interview his attempted murderer, his paramount emotion being curiosity.
 After his visit to the Rhneland, the lieutenant declares that our treatment of the Hun from first to last has been too
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noIIR NERvoUs FRIENDs.-

uIllustrating the Mastery of Nervous ness) By Robert $. Carroll. M. D. The Macmillan Company. publishers, New York City
 pr. Carroll has made study of nerves and nervousness In the course of his professional work thousands of interesting cases have come under his care and observation and out of his successful treatment of them he has deducted certain fundamental princi- pies. These principles have been made the basis of the chapters of this book.
 Writing ip emifiction form heA por- trays. with photographic clearness. the life stories of people addicted to nerv- ousness- His method of presentation arouses the readers interest at once there is htimor and real human drama in the pa ges. But Dr CarrolPs chan ters have more than a fictional in- terest; each makes a definite point brings home a lesson. shows the wa out.
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LIEUT.. CONINGSBY DAWSON

Perhaps nothing during the present year is Of more importance to this community than the coming on next Saturday March 27. of Lieut.. conings- by Dawson. the great British-Amer- icau soldier, scholar author, war cor respondent and lecturer.
 It was a happy thought on the par. Of the good women of St. Mary's- on- the-Highlands composing Mrs Gaston Torrence's unit of the woman's Guild when they chose to bring Lieutenant Dawson to Birmingham and give the people of this great city an opportu- nifty to hear him, for his valorous deeds during the great world war. his splen- did contributions to literature with his war books his personal experiences, all combine to make him one of the most popular lecturers of the day, more sought and more liked than al-
 
 The lecture by Lieutenant Dawson has for it's purpose the raising of funds fer what is known as a follow nurse" from the Children's Hospital: in other words, "a district nurse" one who can keep track of the little tots in their homes after they leave the hospitals sheltering arms, keeping in touch with their home environment sanitary conditions and otherwise, and giving them the proper care and at tention
 It is most important sad vital mat ter to the child life of this commit nifty that such an innovation be made for often the most loving and kindly care bestowed at the Children's Hos pital is of little avail after the chill dren go back to their original sur roundlngs, and the "follow-up nurse" will undoubtedly fill long-felt want --fill position that is essential and vital toward the better health and con- ditions of little sick children.
 to be said of Lieutenant Dawson, and so much has already been said and written about him that it is almost impossible to find an angle that has not been covered" as it were, but a resume of the life and experiences of this notable young Englishman is not amss here for the name of Coningsby Dawson has become household word ever since the war began. He is one of the very few war authors whose books have been written in the front line, and read as eagerly by men on active service as by their families in the lome trenches. He has painted the field and not the squalor of their surroundings; the squalor was tram sient but the splendor was forever. His books. Carry On "The Glory of the Trenehes.'s "out to Win,H Living Bayonets," have become classics of heroism. to which future generations will have to turn when they want to understand the spirit in which their fathers marched out of Armageddon. I
 Lieutenant Dawson is by birth an Englshman. by residence and mar riage an American, and by his military service an officer in the Canadian field
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they have succeeded in doing more dam age to most of their trade rivals thar they themselves have suffered"
 These are statements made by Lieut. ccningsby Dawson in one of his books, who has made many interesting diseov- cries during his cesond visit. As to Ger many, thereby adding to his knowledge or the Hun gained during service at the front as an artillery officer with the Can adian forces.
 The lieutenant claims that the Germans lsrow that, despite the indemnity they can recover their legs before France or Belgium. For one thing, they have in- sured themselves again failing popula- ton; their streets swarm with children" he asserts. For another, they have cunningly concealed their true wealth by Investing it in industries in neutral coun- tries and in shipping. camoufaged as neu tral, which they control. They have failed to win the way by force of arms, but they still plan to win it by sharp practice and the handbook, while the nations they have wronged are Struggling back to solvency. They do not wish to fight with the cannon and gas any longer; they have learned how to asphyxiate their enemies with the cloud-gas of bol- shevism and it's attendant social dis cord.''
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 By DOLLY d1dH NHTyU

active service. whereas in London. one can see them by the thousands Neither. he declares. were there any outward signs of the extremes of poverty to which war was supposed to have driven her.
 Her cities and villages in ythe Rhineland
 looked ohensively prosperous; all her buildings, both public and private, had the appearance of being well maintained and freshly painted
 "The Huns believe" claims the lieu
 tenant in another book of his, that all humanity is damaged and they have come out of the conflict comparatively strong they are plotting with relentless de- termination to reverse the verdict of the western front by the trade they will cap ture by the output of their factories. And it was this Knowledge of another battle
 field to which they marched that account ed for the unconditional lack of curiosity
 with which the Rhinelanders read their sentence as pronounced in the peace
 terms"
 He contrasts Germany with what he
 saw in France and Belgium. He did not see racial superiority in the smiles that
 Germans gave him. in their efforts to
 make his visit pleasant in their failure
 to remind him in any way that he was one of the men who had wrecked the German state and foiled the hopes and ambitions of it's subjects
 Lieutenant Dawson tells us that no one
 needs to be told at what moment he crosses the frontier. "A glance out of the window and the transition is obvious. :" declares the young soldier. within a hundred yards the black smudge that was Belgian ends and the greenness that is Germany commences One finds him. self in country not unlike Connecti- cut-rolling, pastoral and prosperous. Ris- ing out of elumps of trees are gayly- painted towns, steep-roofed and timbered, with color-washed walls and gimcrack balconies, all built in a kind of doll S house manner. Their neatness impresses
 one first, then their atmosphere of pre- tense and unreality. They look as though they had been run up on exhibition grounds as examples of modern dwellings l They seem to be saying. Don't exam
 inc us too closely; were simply here l to give you an idea of what a modern | German town should look like We're putting our best foot forward and imitat-
 in gour ambition for what we should become So the weather-cocks spin mer--
 rily In the. breeze and the silly stucco l towers on faked Gothic residences thrust
 themselves up proudly. and in the fields l fat sheep are grazing. sleek cows and !, well-nourished horses'
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Chemical workers in Piedmont, Ital number more than is,oo0. while those in the textile factories total moro than 153.o00
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study of the American novelist, entitled, Booth Tarkington," and Joyce Kilmfr; Poems Essays and Letters" which he edited, contributing memoir to the book which has been listed continuously as best seller since its publication.
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THE ARror ruoropLAp

By F. F Barker. The Coilssus Pubiisis-
 Tn very attractive little hook en- titled ''7'Ne Art of PhotopJav Writing,
 hg Company. Publishers. St Louis
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soft. Just as the Hun built camou- faged requirements before the war in countries with which he was on friend ly terms, so today he is building cam oufaged German factories and shipping concerns in neutral countries for the cap- turing and destruction of the allies trade, declares the young soldier.
 Lieutenant Dawson is one of the very few war authors whose books have been written in the front line, all of which have become classics of heroism. Before the war his first literary recognition was American. He was New York publisher and art critic in his late\ Juveniles, when 'The Garden Without Walls" appeared, winning for him an immediate place in the front rank of contemporary novel, lsts
 The Germans believe that the war is not yet lost-they fought to secure con- trol of the markets of the world; they have not succeeded in their object, but
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when the halls held 9,VVo, thousands were turned away.
 This last summer Lieutenant Dawson returned to Europe and revisited the Hun. It was strange experience. this going back to see in please the willy enemy of the previous four years. What Lieutenant Dawson saw on that trip forms the key note of his lecture. The Hun as he is puts. the finishing touch to all the deyel- opments of the war. Whether he speaks O. the commercial aspects of Germany today or whether of the soul-remaking of the fighters. the conditions of Ger many. physically and mentally, are of tremendous importance. And this infor- nation he brings back with him.
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THE MEssENGER.' :

By Elizabeth Robins. Illustrated. The
 Century Company. publishers, New
 York city.
 ..The Messenger" by Elizabeth Rob- ins. is a stunning story brim full of in- terest and thrilling to degree, never losing its charm or fascination from the opening sentences until the dra- matic finale, even though many o1 the characters are poorly drawn.
 The story is entertaining and ingeni- ous. and the heroine. Greta Schwartz. with her powers of self-command. her theatricalism, her quick wit, her abso-
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Lieutenant Dawson adds that while countries engage in class warfare with in their own borders, maddened by poi scnous thoughts of Germany's sowing, the Germans plan to collar the worlds com
 n.erce. which was their objective at the outset when they first violated Belgium.
 If the world is to live at peace, every American man and woman ought to know
 what is happening, for the German peril is by no manner of means ended
 So declares Lieutenant Dawson
 The young soldier said it was par
 tloularly interesting to meet the Hun on
 peace footing after having done his
 best to kill him on any and every occa-
 sion. "One had cone to regard him as kind of Frankenstein-an impersonal, ruthless force, totally inhuman,' he
 states "Everything that one sees on the road to Germany bears out this concep-
 ton of him--cities laid waste, factories depleted of machinery, freight cars burnt to the axles when it was impossible to drag the loot away. But the moment one crosses into Germany, the change is so dramatic that it has to be seen to be credited If you are looking out of the window, you need no one to tell you that the frontier has been passed One side of the line is a cinder-heap which has scarcely ceased to smoulder-the other, prosperity, clean fields and cattle stocked country. Everything inside the Huns border intact, while the coun- trysides of most of his enemies are bleed- ing and mangled. All his war industries were so planned that they could be read fly adapted to commercial ends. He has more factories today than when war started, while he has systematically pill laged or destroyed the machinery and tools or trade of other nations
 The young soldier asserts that all the time he was in the Rhineland he did not
 come across one cripple mutilated in