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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12

like popular novel. It is what q good
popular novel should be-frank in it's
method. 1t deals with English people
IN French society-familiar types who
stand out definitely in high light of
spectacular events. There is clearly
outlined character, plenty of move
ment Of no subtle sort and a good deal
OF flamboyant heroism and emotion.
The unwelcome lovers jealousy, his
violent death and the murder charge
which the woman heroically expiates
for her lover are all part Of the un-
pretentiously theatric character of the
novel. 1t is an English popular novel
OF standard weight, but with the same
slight difference in the tone. Like the
other two novels it makes a timid as
sertion, but one which is startling for
stories aimed at the great BODY of
middle-class readers, that a woman's
virtue is in her own keeping.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12
The [ rouble With Ireland
Ruth Russell Doesn't TELL but Her Book /
Interesting
reSting

the police were mustered ont with "a
machine gun to recapture Robert Bar
ton and Michael Collins, two esSasSd
leaders of the revolutionary party. Miss
Russell, Miss Barton (the sister of the
Iugltlve), and Miss Pankhurst were
spectators, watching from a low wall
that commanded the guarded street.
Miss Pankhurst made an unexpected
jump from her place. She wedged her
way into the line of soldiers. AS she
talked to two young Tommies they
flushed. Miss Pankhurst, return
ing, Welsh boys. Just babies. I asked
them why they came out armed to kill
their fellow workers. They said thew
lad enlisted for the war If thew had
known they we're to be sent to Ireland
they would have refused to go. | told
tnem 1t was not too late to act. They
could take off their uniforms. But
they-they're weak-weak.'
Not the least interesting actors in
the Irish drama are the women leaders
Ct the revolutionary party. Countess
Markiewicz, the only woman member of
the Irish Parliament, is a romantic fig
ire. She is beautiful, high-spirited
woman, the daughter of an ancient
landed Irish family. AS d girl she was
famous for her mad riding. She be-
came figure i'll the world of fashion.
and later went to Paris, where she
painted pictures and married hand
some Pole. Finally, in a sort of nos
taigia for her native land she returned
TO Ireland to plunge into the revolu-
tionary party. Miss Russell also etches
in lightly Susan Mitchell, who with "A
r. edits The Irish Homestead; Countess
Plunkctt and Nine. Gone Mcbride, once
called the most beautiful woman in
Europe. whose husband was killed in
the revolution of 1915 and who her
self has known Imprisonment.
AT soiree she met the Irish in
teliectuals, who are for the most part
also political revolutionists. All ex-
ccpt "a. E."
"a big, brown-bearded man was
passing teacups to women who were
Longing on chairs and to men who
stood black against the red glow Of the
CRATE. The big man was George Russell
the famous "A. E. poet, painter and
philosopher, the north star of Ireland
He sat down his blue eyes a.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12
Want Land and Freedom
sympathetic Picture of the Russian Peasant
and His Aspirations

binding che peasant to the village, even
when he had nothing to do there, ex-
cept to weller in filth and poverty, all
for TIE purpose Of maintaining vast
supply Of cheap labor and big army
Of profit-yielding renters?
Several noteworthy instincts were
generated within the peasant 40 @ re-
suit OF this systematic oppression. He
conceived a profound distrust for the
central government, which he looked
upon as an instrument for robbing and
enslaving him. And he cav his eco-
nomic salvation in the full and free
possession of the land. With the COM
ing Of the revolution he judged all the
conflicting parties by their attitude
toward the land problem. He acquiesced
in the November revolution not because
he understood or sympathized with the
MARKHAM doctrines Of Lenine and
Trotzky, but BECAUSE the Bolsheviki
were willing to assure him immediate
and undisturbed possession of the land
which had formerly belonged TO large
proprietors, to the Car and to the
Church.
An Impartial Forecast
Mr.. Hindus' book is valuable chart
for the troubled sea of contemporary
Russian politics. 1t indicates quite
clearly what may and what may not
be expected from the peasants wko
c. i.ute the bulk Of Russia's popula-
ito! and her chief economic strength.
The author shows that the great ma
jority Of the peasants have not been
converted to Bolshevism either in
theory or in practice. At the same
time they may be expected to support
the Soviet government vigorously
against any foreign invasion or any
domestic movement which incurs the
suspicion Of seeking to restore the old
regime. In the same way the French
peasants Of 1893 focked into the revo-
lutionary armies, not for love of Rous-
seau or Robespierre, but because they
were determined to retain their newly
acquired land and freedom at all costs.
Mr.. Hindus has achieved what may
fairly be called a miracle in discussing
an important phase of the Russian
revolution without trace of propa-
gandist bias. At time when American
readers are deafened with partisan
clamor about the merits and dement's
OF the Soviet government, such @ sober,
well informed and impartial work
should obtain wide audience,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12

Nv MOST accounts Of the Russian
IN revolution the peasant has been
III oaits left cut Of the picture. The
T. .eeetaeular events which took
M. ia che large cities have been de-
.r;h.a and discussed from many
.,yles. By: very few foreign ohserv-
- have even made en- attempt to in
i..,,res the reactions OF the vast,
Ess.tered, insrticulate mass Of farmers
| s,o after all, make up 80 or 80 per
..t Of Russia's population. Yet the
k,oa producer always has the last word
|, revolutions. The French peasants
a.,rried through the Revolution and
8,prpreeeed the Paris Commune. The
Denss:.A peasants have exerted pow
s.r;ui, il silent, course upon the
hoarss Of the revolution.
y A sympathetic and competent picture
b: the mouzhik and his problems is to
" found in The Russian Peasant and
A.s Revolution, by Maurice G. Hindus
4 Holt). The author himself was brought
10 in 8 Russian peasant village and
Whites Of his subject from intimate
hsrsonal knowledge. He emphasizes the
a,aferings Of the peasants in the days
before the revolution. The brutality
Iii ezarist regime was only equaled
ky its stupidity. The principal fea-
eares Of the state Of peonage in which
HE average Russian peasant OF the pre-
Evolutionary period lived are summed
hp by Mr. Hindus as follows:
| Hardships Of the Old Regime
he was deliberately squeezed into .
avise and the clamps were constantly
,,dghtsned round him. Until 1851 he
lsss kept in serfdom. When he was
Ered he was given little land. He was
bAigsd to pay extortionate prices for
Rais land; he was held in ignorance; he
jas denied rights of citizenship; he
Fis made slave Of the mir, the state
sd the prey Of horde of rapacious
acia!s. In every way he was ham,
,red in his efforts to better his con-
tion. He was looked upon not as a
oman being with sensibilities, tastes,
ssires, wants, that merited considera-
on and requiI ed satisfaction, but as
inferior creature, fit only 20 serve
Ehers What could be more illustrative
n the truth of this statement than the
fWs that were passed 70 regulate the
f'ndisions of the agricultural laborer.
Fa'sh practically made the landlords
aastars of their present laborers, or
aas laws restricting emiprat;on and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12
ME title What's the Matter
With Ireland? is perhaps a lit

" NnE title What's the Matter
with Ireland? is perhaps a lit
- tie misleading, since this little
volume by Ruth Russell (Devin-
Adalr Company offers not solution
OUT statement Of the problem. Very
wisely MISS Russell makes no effort to
60 into the tangie Of history which ante
oares the present crisis. Her volume
As fortnight presentation of the stu
ation as it offers itself to the inquiring
soJourner, given in the journalists
terms of frst-hand observation and
current statistics.
quite possibly Miss Russell is not
without her sympathies in the matter
she would DO something more or. less
than human if she were mot. What her
sympathies are, however. are not i'm
portant' If her facts are as straightfor-
ward as they have the air Of being.
The relation between agrarian condi-
lions and the economic disturbances of
the cities is perhaps little more in
exorably evident in Ireland than any,
where else. Ireland is a country of
vlrulent city and country slums. There
are in Dublin alone $4,000 families who
live in one-room homes. The best wage
Is inadequate to insure decent living
conditions, and unemployment is gen.
eral, the writer asserts. England has
fostered no industries to take care of
the farm worker crowded off the land
early in the nineteenth century"
quotes Miss Russell from Arthur Grir
fifth, "England wanted cheap meat
supply center. She therefore made it
more profitable for the landowner in
ireland to grow cattle instead Of crops.
Only few herders are REQUIRED in
cattle care. So literally millions of
Irish, tillers of soil and millers of grain.
were thrown out of employment and
from 1841 to 1911 the population fell
from 100000 to 100000 To-day Ire
land, capable of supporting 100000,
cannot maintain 4,O0o,OO0."
In Dublin Miss Russell encountered
Sylvia Pankhurst, "disowned by her
family for her Communist sympathies,"
and there for the purpose of persuad-
ing the Irish Parliament to become
soviet. She gives an interesting pic
ture of Sylvia Pankhurst PROSECUTING.
The occasion was a street riot in which
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12
New Note in English Novels
tven IN the Popular Sort the Heroine Defies
the Old Conventions

ZEE BEAUTIFUL MRS. DAyENANr. Bv
I Sie' Iweeda's Published by Fred
~ ADORABLE DREAMER. By Eliza.
@'a hiroy. Published by Doran.
GseNGlNG. BY Olive wadsley. Pub
aaaed by Dodd. Mead &: Co.
IS amazing to find how many
81 phrases and attitudes that were
IL the property Of the intellectual
4 before the war have passed into
common use of the popular English
sVsl 1t is part, perhaps, of the Eng
% Teadjustment to the war that the
aTels Of Englishwomen show a dis
bsition to be adventurous and provoc-
Five in field in which adventurous.
ess Is not for women.
The current novels written by Eng
aavomen show q lively interest in
s adventure Of sex. No one, Of
parse, doubts that the interest was
&says there, but something seems CD
sse transpired to make it legitimate,
that even the commonest literary
psession by woman bears the mark
that curiosity, and even the most
Rtntellectual novel makes tentative
gsertion in that direction.
The Beautiful Mrs. Davenant, by
Blaiet Tweedale ,(Stokes), is q thriller
peculiarly orthodox English sort.
pat could be truer 20 the tradition Of
afa 0hphant than a story in which
Eas wicked, misery, usurping heir in
s'eeEates the rightSul heir in the
sonT castle, trusting to the family
sss to keep of intruders? The beau
"a, rich, mysterious widow, Mrs
s'snant, through whom the mystery
solved, belongs to a somewhat later
szieS- She is suspected by county
aassy Of having been fast. But in
u character Mrs. Tweedale departs
sa orthodoxy and the Duchess-she
s stsneh feminist who declares the
~ Of woman to love where and how
" sleases.
u every breathing place in the story
II Davenant ascends the soapbox
saeaSs for her sex. She does not
asa palliaHe her rgegularities-she
'sssins them, though in the end it
ssssrent that she boasts Of more
asalsrity than she achieves.
1as Adorable Dreamer (Doran), by
assth Kirby, is q novel Of differ
asst, but informed with the same
sef changing standards. It aims
@R-eonscious way at light tone
Il sssns sophistieation. The heroine
M very young author Of an ex-
a snccessful novel, who is aston
so find that success leaves her
sssd. There is, 10 be sure, q
bat he Ii bent on self-oblitera-
y shat she may be free 10 achieve
masterpieces. Wheyeupon she
- asSseig into adventure after ad-
They pass strict propriety.
stop this side of the danger
There are gentlemen met In
nsss saxicabs. on shipboard--
~ promptly kiss her and call her
&ea little dreamer" and express
rss that they are not free.
2 lack Of variety Ia their
Sometimes The Adorable
R does achieve the light satire
saais, which IL Its aim. Bat
2 10 rather aurgid and sticky
" ssnsimsnsaiity.
n&, by Olive WsAstsy (DedA,
Ce.ts Go d AsysTsiaT. woTkmsn.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12
Glimpse Into the Minds of Russia's Inarticulate

work in his lessons, although the
author insists that he is not over
worked. We have heard of young per-
sons who had worked without success
on algebra problems and finally in their
sleep managed to solve the business of
what equaled. The way in which
the boy in Fairy Grammar learns his
parts OF speech is somewhat similar.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12

Grimm brothers and the collections by
Lang are always available in the book
stores and the public libraries. New
fairy tales are published from time to
time, and some of them with their
modern touch and up-to-date magma
ton really may vie for favor with the
older stories which have their founda-
ton in folklore.
Seldom is an entire volume given to
one continuous fairy tale. A collec-
ton may deal with the same kinds of
fairies or give the adventures of Ger
tain fairy folk in a number of stories.
However, Gertrude Crownfield has
written a sort of fairy tale novel in
Princess White Flame, published by
K. P. Dutton & Co.
The fairies OF this story are fire
fairies, and their adventures are all
laid in the land of the Fire Kingdom.
The names of these fairies show con-
sistent imagination on the part of
the writer. Some OF them are GRAY
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12

" ENE STONE, in his latest Sage
W Brush story, Jane and the Owl
(Thomas Y. CrowelD, has a ten
dency to use the carefree phraseology
of to-day in expressing Oskar, the Owl,
a prince in disguise. Oskar makes the
acquaintance of Jane, the Sensible
Child, and solicits her aid to find a
beautiful maiden who will free him
from the clutches of the witch who,
for her own pleasure, has saddled the
disguise upon him. Together they take
many trips through the Sage Brush,
and at last are directed by some fairies
to the end of the rainbow, where they
find the Beautiful Girl to be Jane her
self. Oskar is grateful to Jane and
promises to return to the Sage Brush
when she 10 sixteen and take her with
him to hts own land.
Stone strives to make his prince gal
liant, but the chivalry of the old fairy
prince is sadly lacking in to-day's
fairy tale. Fairies are just as much
alive to-day as they were centuries ago,
and they will live forever. If only
writer's could give our children a
glimpse of the new and wonderful
things the fairies are doing!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12
Yes, There Still Are F Aries
Their Doings Are Recorded in Books for
Little Folks
Little Folks

Smoke, an old woman; Spark, q page i;
Prince Radiance, the hero; Queen Glow
and others.
Underlying the imagination of the
author, the delightful adventures of
these fire fairies, whose land YOU
could we'll see in any proper open re
there is a lesson. The lesson is not
lntruded in such q way as to make
little readers provoked or bored, but
Is rather presented to them logically
and happily and right along with the
story.
The illustrations by Anne Merriman
Peck are nice, but all too few.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12

OUT OF PRINT BOOKS FURNISHED.
Catalogues issued. L. n. Robinson. AlU
River ST.. TKoy. 81. y.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12

AIRY GRAMMAR, by J. Harold
Il carpenter, published by E. P.
Dutton & Co., gives an in
terestlng account of how a sort of lead
Pench fairy, reminiscent of Pinocchio
IN some respects, haunts little bow who
WIZ not learn the parts of speech. The
enid reading this book probably will
follow the progress of the little bow
IN the story and learn the parts of
speech along with him. To the grown
up reader the child in the story will
present an interesting case of over
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12
COOKS BOUGHT

EROS, INC. A CORPORATION
dealing IN old and rare books, auto
graphs, etc. are the largest buyers and
distributors of old books IN this country
We in the market TO buy fer spot
cash books IN large or small quantities
and entire private libraries We especially
want limited sets. de- luxe editions and
late encyclopedias. Autographs also
bought. Free packing and removal. The
advantages accrued to the seller OF books
IN dealing with a large concern OBJ
St. New York. Tel so63 Cortlandt.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12

G. E. STECHERr G. CO.. ISL w. 25th St.
Agents FOR Universities. Colleges. Public
nepiodieas sud hooks new Tvos seeon1lbnns
foreign. domestic. Libraries bought.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12
T HE SANDMAN's RAINY DAY

1@AAtDMAN MAIN LAX
4 STORIES, by Abbie Phillips
Walker, published by Harper's
are fairy tales for little people at bed
time. They are just about the right
length for sleepy child and very
pleasant. Many of the stories show
the influence Of incidents in. such
standard tales as The Sleeping Beauty
and Jack and the Beanstalk, but the
theme Of each story seems original.
These fairy tales do not have some of
the grewsomeness which the older
stories have and this, we believe, makes
them more fitting for bedtime reading.
" ARIES AND CHIMNEYs, by Rose
Fyleman, published by George H
Doran Company, is little book of
fairy poems. Many Of these poems are
delightful and whimsical and will en-
eertain even grown-up persons whose
imagination and pleasure in make-be-
lleve have not died. The nice, Jingle
poems are those the children like best
and Miss Fyleman has number of
these written with delicate rhythm and
fanciful sentiment. Besides the poems
on fairy lore there are several on birds
IT. HE demand for pageants 70,
Christmas has brought forth
The Gifts We Bring, by Nina
Lamkin, published by T. S. Denison
& Co. This pageant has been pre-
duced in many schools and colleges
both as community celebration and
as the production of specific group
The cast is elastic. the play being writ
ten so that it can be produced by fifty
persons or from two hundred to four
hundred Music is suggested to &C
company the various dances and
marches, and the dances are described
in detail. 1t seems very promising
pageant.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12

ALDUS BOOK co. BOOKS BOUGHT
and sold First editions. rare and curious
books. Choice sets and fine bindings;
"a Shop You Will Like 60 Visit" 50
Lexington Ave-. N. Y. City.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12

PRINCESS WHITE FLAME. BY Gertrude
Crownfield. Publishers, q. P. Duttton G.
Co.
THE sANDMAN's RAINY DAY STORIES.
BY Abbie Phillips Walker Publishers
Harper & Bros
FAIRY GRAMMAR. BY J. Harold Car
FAIRIES AND CHIMNEYS. BY Rose
Fyleman. Publishers, George II. Dorar
Company.
THE GIFTS WE BRING BY Nina Lam,
kin. Publishers, T. S. Denison & Co.
JANE AND THE OWL. BY Gene Stone
Publishers, Thomas Y. Crowell.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-12

BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS - EARLY
Printed books. First Editions. Standard
Authors, etc. Catalogs free. r. Atkinson.
1888 Peckham Rye. London. Eng.
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OXFORD BOOK sHOp-FERsT EDITIONS.
unusual books for collectors and book
lovers. 42 Lexington Ave. Sign Of the
Sparrow.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-30
CONDEMNS BIG ARMY
PLAN

Senator Johnson condemned the
Wilson-Baker-March plan for large
standing army. asserting that Con-
gress will limit the number Of troops
and thus save hundreds of millions
of dollars. Continuing he said
II might say to you in The usual
fashion of the campaign orator that
the high cost of living is due, FIRST
to imitation, and secondly to lack Of
production. which may be very true,
which / do not question at all; but
like the campaign orator. after this
statement l might indulge, as he in
dulges, in telling you that we ought
to lessen the imitation and we ought
to increase the production. Both of
which statements are true. And then,
like him. / could cease and not tell
you how we would do either one or
the other.
And / do not attempt 10 tell you
how you will do either the one or
the other because no wise man has
yet discovered how he will do either.
and so while we recognize that they
are contributing causes to the high
cost Of living, and that we hope
within the next year to debate the
imitation which now exists, and while
we preach thrift and economy and
greater production. we cannot be sure
that those sovereign remedies will
be, so applied within a very brief
period as to accomplish the desired
result"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1920-03-30

.s.a except kiss wha has a. tass-
pesd~st fortuse. STALKS the dread
spectre OF waat. because of the high
cost OF living. ! cannot cure IL. You
cannot cure Il. l know no panacea
that 10 offered today that will surice.
II do not know. however, that with
the very sufficient power that Is In
the administration IL Is possible
systematically and scientifically to
begin at both ends of the great chain
between the ultimate consumer and
the original producer until we md
out the weak links-hnd out some
where between these two points
something to remedy, and then the
remedy can be applied.
II do know that with all the power
that the administration has had In
this regard Il has failed and trihed
there. and IL has done nothing at all.
81 do know there Il another method
where we aay touch tkis great evil
OF ours. ssd that IL that We need not
subscribe 10 every mad adventure In
Europe, adventures that every Inn
periaI power ON earth may wish 20
a tempt, but which are financed after
all by American money. You foot
the bill. and when you foot the bill
you add just that much more to the
burden that is yours.