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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
The Negro Press
Problems of the Race Are
Ably Discussed
wv TITHIN the last twenty years
wv there has been going on an

wv TITHIN the last twenty years
wv there has been going on an
extraordinary development in
the Negroes power to express himself.
In The Voice Of the Negro (Dutton)
Professor Robert T. Kerlin urges at
tention to the remarkable growth of
the negro press. White America is
scarcely, aware Of the strength of the
negro press. 1t does not know that
the negro eagerly reads his own papers
in the smallest town and hamlet, in
the most remote mountain cabin, or
that of hundreds of negro papers New
York has ten, Little Rock four, Louis
vile five, indianapolis six. 1t does not
know the temper Of mind expressed
in these papers, the character of the
Negroes reflections on himself and on
society at large. BY illuminating ex-
cerpts from many newspapers Pro-
fessor K.erlin has given a vivid picture
of the range and quality of his think
ing and feeling. From it the white
reader finds unexpectedly and aston
ishingly how keenly and intelligertly
the negro views his own problem.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
Those Who Like Mystery, Plots and Sudden Dead
England i'm Per
History of British ca
paigr1s in Persia i'm leYs

THNGLAND fought ON Rama.
y fronts during the late v.r. s. /
by one the stories Of theue -
paigns are coming out in hoax ~
The latest to appear 10 Major 80, -
L. c. Dunsterville's record Of Aia sss
uand in Persia, published una. =
title The Adventures Of Duustssa,ss
(Longmans). AS General Dunst.ssss
had sole control Of all military 49,.
lions by the Allies in Persia ds,ss
the closing year Of the war, AiasSs'
is authoritative. A careful seadsss !
its pages, in which he gives is..s
credit to what Russian aid he sees,s.s
with honest thanks to his subsrais.s.s
causes Us to trust his history a, ss.s
reliable.
January, 1918, found England Ys,s.
scented in Persia by q mere hsnsfas !,
men, mostly grouped near Basra y i.
head Of the Persian Gulf. The a.
sian debacle, which had CAUSED 8.
withdrawal from activities Of thar
sian forces to the north o. Bsssa. 4
gcther with the menace Of a Tr,ss
German thrust to get through tasW.
south by new route, that from, nj,
to the ocean, made it imperative A.
military representatives Of Enslssl
travel over the rugged road En-
Basra to Baku, through deep snow "a
over lofty mountains, in order 4
strengthen the whole line Of sssi,
lance and Hold Baku, a key port TAI,
book is the story, graphic and a.
tremely interesting, Of the despeub
and successful efRoSts Of determiys,
force Of Englishmen in a hostile en-,
Try, dealing with z wabbling ps,sln
Mira Kuchik KhaK, to hold out sgssps
German and Turkish hostilisiss aM
Russian Bolshevist plots and tyeses,
cries.
The Adventures Of Dunstssfasn
will be recognized as o source book h
future study of the war over q eer,ss
corner Of its wide domain. Ono mas
not forget that the territory between
the Black Sea and the Caspian u,
northern front Of the acutely imnss
tant region that includes BagGsd sM
the reaches to the Persian Gulf. VA
salient part in the pre-war Gsrnn
scheme of world dominion. Henss On
value Of all British operations that hsi
to do with steady, stern resistsnss b
invasion and diplomatic intrigue.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05

Things we can. This letter I
am sending by friend to France"
Kobiety is said to be an extraor-
binary analysis Of unusual feminine
psychology. 1t is wildly outspoken,
the work of an intellectual rebel, the
peculiar charm of whose writings lies,
perhaps, in it's Slavic favor-a flavor
not lost by its translator, Michael
Henry Dziewicki, English lecturer at
Jagellonian University, Cracow.
Feldman, the great critic Of mod
ern Slavic literature, says of Kobiety:
I'm the presence of this book even
Marie Bashkirtsef's work, styled Eu-
ropes discoverer of the feminine soul.
becomes child's play. Here
is psychic world, a woman's world.
world of inconsistencies, utterly diff
ferent from the male one-a riddle
dangerous to herself and to men,"
Sofia RygierNalkowska was born
in Warsaw thirty years ago. Her
father was Waslaw Nalkowski, IA
nous geographer, and her mother, too.
was an intellectual and writer. Nine.
Nalkowska is the author of several
other novels and three collections of
short stories
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
Y HIS IS Sonora Cortez painted by c. for Henri
Smith W1Uamass The Witness of the Sun
A Religious War
Strange Career of a Brazil
ian Fanatic

vt is safe to say that the name Of
Antonio Conselheiro is practically
unknown in the United States. Yet
this Brazilian fanatic only twenty five
years ago was a leader in one of the
most savage1y fought religious wars
that ever took place on the American
continent. Antonio's remarkable career
has found a worthy narrator in Mr..
R. B. Cunninghame Graham, whose
work, A Brazilian Mystic (Dodd,
Mead), possesses all the fascination of
an unusually exciting novel,
Antonio was born among the cowboys
of Brazil, wild, hardy race with a
strong tincture of religious fanaticism
lie first emerged into prominence as
a wandering preacher who went about
denouncing sin and predicting the i'm
'minent dissolution of the world. He
gradually acquired considerable band
of disciples. When Brazil became a
republic Antonio refused to recognize
the new government and withdrew into
a wild, sparsely settled region. With
the help of his followers he built the
town of Canudos, which he regarded
as Zion destined to survive the de-
struction of the wicked world.
Mr.. Graham gives vivid picture of
the strange inhabitants of the new city.
Most of them were criminals. cut
threats and bandits, yet they all
seem to have shared in some measure
the mystical exaltation of the austere
Antonio. There was a decided contra
diction between the doctrine and the
practice of these sectaries. Constan.
religious ecstasies were combined with
the grossest sensual orgies. Pure in
charscter himself, Antonio seems to
have made little effort to restrain the
license of his followers. Believing that
the end of the world was near, he
looked upon moral virtue as a useless
aff"ctaticn.
The people of Canudos mrht have
gone on living their peculiar lives in
definitely if the prophet had not come
into conflict with the Brazilian govern
ment. A military expedition was sent
against the town; it was ingloriously
repulsed. Another was sent and an
other, only to meet the same fate. The
scenes at the final taking of Canudos
suggest the capture Of Jerusalem by
the Romans. Antonio's devoted fol-
lowers fought literally to the last man,
neither giving nor asking quarter. The
dead body of the prophet, a crucifx
clasped against his breast, was found in
the smoking ruins of the town.
The author gives a spirited account
of this noteworthy incident in Ameri-
can history. There is a brilliant sketch
OF the background Of Antono's career;
the book conveys admirably the languor-
Gus tropical magnifcence of the Bra
lillian jungles and the sweep of the
great plains and rugged uplands.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
A Hallowed Plot
Max McConn Makes Use of
an Old Theme

T HERE are few situations that
are the staple goods Of romance
One of them is that of two men
who resemble each other so closely that
one may at crisis step into the
others shoes. 1t then follows, as in
evitably as the seasons, that the wife
falls in love with the usurper and that
the impostor proves himself to be as
good as the other man was evil. Max
McConn has treated this hallowed plot
in Mollie's Substitute Husband (Dodd.
Mead) with the proper reverence for
tradition, merely moving the story
down a peg from its customary upper
class setting to the more familiar locale
OF the Middle West.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
For the Layr11arl
MIR. Joad's Explanatian
Somewhat Abstruse
BRAVE attempt to interpret q,

a BRAVE attempt to interpret CO.
~ rent philosophical thought CO..
the "intelligent layman" 10 C.
E. M. Joad's Essays in Common-Seas
Philosophy (Harcourt, Brace & HeEs)
Mr.. Joad recognizes the eternal dispra
between professional philosophers aas
the layman, and his book is desigaa
to bridge the intellectual abyss.
Yet Mr.. Joad is himself philosopha
and although he starts well he COS
becomes involved in g weller of sryS
ments which, elementary as they mo-
seem to embryo Bergsons, are Bit W
abstruse for those who do not len
philosophy ipse.
IS. consciousness is seE.
sufficient concrete unity admitting d|
diversity, and though apparently psE|
sessing parts it must be o.
judged, at any rate, to be more isl
telligible than anything which 10 eFl
tirely monumental. A divine eonsciest|
ness, however, would be without S|
defects that seIf-consciousness g.
hibits. From this it is but step VI
the assertion that only the mental ,
really intelligible."
This is q fair sample of Mr.. 5oss'
manner of making philosophy pslssses
to the lay taste. Whether he has ss
ceeded depends, Of course, on the LOO
vidual layman. But we fear thss .
will require 8 layman rather than !
philosopher to write the book that N
Joad has projected.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
Poets, More: or Less
Verse That Is Good Without Distinction and
Verse That Is Distinctively Bad

sweeter than AL things that blow . .
~, WY have you only left for me
1he broom. the cherry's crown of snow
ana thrushes On the linden tree?
In the same category comes War: an
Ode and Other Poems, by DR.. Ronald
Campbell Mache (Dutton). DR.. Macfie
is somewhat more facile than Mr.. Young,
but his"love for jingling rhymes some
times leads him into mere versifying.
Poetryrwe believe, is an avocation with
DR.. Maefe, and there is a certain clay"
quality in his stanzas. But he, too, is
good" rather than "bad" His work is
always pretty and sometimes it is art,
but, like Mr.. Young's, it is not indi-
vidual. Despite q penchant for odes.
DIR. Macfie is capable of neatly-turned
miniatures, like "A Nest:
MY pI heart is full OF lovely words-
POOR, little. helpless huddled things:
A'x Mith nest hno, full Of singing birds.
Ihefe as something disarming about
an aar who sends us an auto
graphsassopy Of his book, and we are
inclinsN to look favorably on Will
FerreiEs Poems in Oil STANDARD
Press).s Will Ferrell seems to be to
OIL whaS Robert w. Service is to gold.
Inc volume should meet with great
favor among red-blooded operators,
and Will Ferrell deserves to be their
poet-lariat, as 1t were. His name Is
one that. should be writ in oil.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
Another Glad Book
Ruth Sawyer's Leerie Be-
lieves in Happiness

wv 18TH greater aptness than
wv most writers have in describ-
ing their work, Ruth Sawyer
ilkens her story Leerie (Harpers) to
sugared~ plum-cake. 1t is as sticky
and indigestible as indiferently made
plum-cake usually is, and eight help
lngs of it prove wearisome diet.
Leerie is one Of those creatures of
gladness who 60 around spreading sun
shine into other peoples lives. That
means that she is as self-satisfied and
meddling as all the rest of the glad
ones are. Doubtless the book will find
favor with those who like surplus Of
optimism with their reading.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
For Business Men
Two1Books on Commercial
~. =. Language

T HREE exceptionally helpful VOL
umes for business men are Lam
guage for Men Of Affairs (Ronald
Press); Talking Business, edited by
John Mantle Clapp. deals in an inter
esting way with the physiology and
psychology Of commercial speech, and
Business Writing, edited by James
Melvin Lee, covers not only the routine
Of mercantile correspondence, but deals
adequately and clearly with advertising
and the journalism Of business.
Although the books are somewhat
bulky for the hypothetical busy man
to read at one or even half dozen
sittings, they constitute useful cyclo-
pedia of vocal and written business
language, and q well planned index
makes any desired information easily
accessible. The volumes are written in
an entertaining style, and even nom
commercial persons will find them plea.
SAINT and instructive reading.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05

We in Warsaw have next
to no newspapers and no new books.
because there is no paper-except,
perhaps, the pamphlets which the Boil
shevik airplanes drop over the city"
That is from letter just received
from Sofia Rygier-Nalkowska, the
Polish authoress, by har American pub
fishers, G. P. Putnam's Sons. Her
first book to be translated into Eng
lish is novel of feminine psychology
called Kobiety (Women), to appear
early in October.
The letter was written by Nine. Nal
kowska from her home in Warsaw
early in August, when the Bolshe-
Wiki were almost at the outskirts of the
city and its doom seemed certain.
THE guns of the Red armies echo
in our ears day and night. We know
just how Paris felt in 1914" writes
the Polish authoress. "But, alas. we
fear Warsaw cannot be as lucky as
was Paris. In a day or two now we
will leave the city, taking the few
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
lbaMez In the Movies

A small army of moving picture em-
p.oyees and actors is now engaged in
making "movie" from Blasco Ibanez's
famous novel, The Four Horsemen Of
the Apocalypse. published by E. p.
Dutton & Co. Twelve hundred people
will take part in the play in which
one Of the important scenes will be q
rsprSduction Of the First Battle Of the
MaEne. "a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
Detective Stories for All Tastes
Here Are Puzzlng Crimes That Will Keep the
Most Adept Guessing

SsxE Lcu3wATER MYSTERY. BY Edgar
e. Jepson. Published by Alfred A. Knopf.
wa THH PHna ~ George porsn
Sompany.
THE MAN WHO coSyycTEp AlMsELT;
4" BY David Fox. Published by Robert
10 Mcbride & Co.
THE WITNESS OF THE SUN. BY Henry
Smith Williams. Published by Double
:. day, Page Co.
THE FERRYBR1DGE MYSTERY: - BY By,
80 & Co.
Do FIND two pystery stories
worth rcadingfin chance as
n sortment of ! five is a high
average. There are five here
under consideration. They are The
sLoudwater Mystery, by Edgar Jepson,
ALFRED A. Knopf, publisher; l>Ne Man
Who Convicted Himself, by C<vid
Fox, Robert NJ. Mcbride & Co., pub
fishers; The Witness of the Sun, by
Henry Smith Williams, Doubleday,
Page & Co., publishers; The Ferry
bridge Mystery, by Derek Vane, Moi
Fat, Yard & Co., publishers, and In
The Onyx Lobby, by Carolyn Wells,
the George H. Doran Company, pub
Fishers.
% OF these The Loudwater Mystery
Us the best, although some might pre-
fer Miss Wells's book, but to enjoy
at to the full one should begin by dis
ocarding the paper jacket without read
.eang its praise Of the book. For the
jacket SAYS, "It tells of the mysterious
sanurder Of an English peer. Near the
scene Of the crime three suspects have
been seen. One by one, however, they
are eliminated-then the detectives
..-reach blank wall"
=" The jacket thus removes the blank
A4wall from before the reader For the
y Inexperienced mystery story fan at once
-Jperceives that instead Of three sus-
s:pects there are, in fact, five. Three of
othem having been removed by the
.,paper jacket, it remains to fasten the
ecrime on one of the other two, and the
interest of the story lies in discover
ing which of them is the criminal and
how the crime was perpetrated
A. Aside from the mistake of the paper
s3acket, for which Mr.. Jeoson is not to
:" blame, The Loudwater Mystery is
s'wholly praiseworthy. The style is
'~not lurd but lucid and more matter
of-fact than polished. In neither the
wcrime nor it's elucidation is there any
d thing to strain the credulity of the
& reader, while ell of the characters are
= human and not superhuman.
g. The story tells of a British peer,
g richly deserving his fate, who is muir
g dered at night, while sleeping off his
p dinner in his study. The obvious sus-
3 poets are his much abused wife, her
= lover and a butler discharged that day,
= The paper jacket eliminates them, and
& there remain his lordship's secretary
g and the secretary's iance. A matter
g of-fact detective, ex-officer in the
u Indian police, ultimately fastens the
. crime on the proper person, but for
3 reasons which may be discovered bv
g reading the book only God can punish
= the crime. The intelligent reader will
- also learn whether or not the pre-
2 negative is exercised.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
Hero Worsliper
the Story of
a Girls Dreams

nalvete that permits it frankly
to indulge in fairy tales, the
modern mind turns to stories of the
genius as sort of equivalent. The
genius at any rate has the power to
release himself from the clutch of cir
cumstances-he at least has the tails
man on him that turns the dross of cir
cumstance into gold.
Whether Dolf Wyllarde's story, Tenn
permanent, published by John Lane, is
an authentic account of genius is beside
the question. Genius lies in the realm
OF character where anything may hap
pen. Temperament stands or falls by
its strength as story, and as a story
it has interesting Implications. The
genius Of the story is a girl, must
clan. She realizes the romantic ideal
we'll enough. She is fragile and pale
("sallow," the authors faith in her
realism emboldens her to call it), with
great. overshadowed eyes and Nell
sGnde's weight of tawny hair.
AT twelve the girl is a precocious,
sensitive child who has begun to weave
into her adolescent dreams hero, q
lord whose vivid escapades adorn the
society sheet through which her middle
class aunt eavesdrcps into the world of
fashion. The dream impels and shapes
her musical impulse until she becomes a
composer of note. There is consist
ency in Miss Wyllarde's characterize
ton so strong that it must be subcon-
scious. The girls society sheet idealiza-
ton lasts through her life, and when
ever she wakes from it to the con-
sciousness of the common suburban life
in which she lives she has violent re-
vu]sions of the flesh and spirit. This
form of social aspiration Miss Wyllarde
transcribes as the artists tempera-
ment, and her aunt, in the book, as
saintliness. She is even called affec-
tionately by the terrible pet name,
"Saintie."
At intervals in her life she meets
Lord Oswald, and his glory does not dim
for her. When she is thirty and he is
sixty they meet at deserted seaside
resort and enact the romance her mind
has prepared. He is then, it so appears
to the reader, beefy, elderly I'M
imaginative Englishman, with an un-
diminished appetite for roast beef and
women. But for Miss Wyllarde and her
heroine a lord does not grow old.
There is something family unpleasant
in this idealization which is incapable
Of establishment, sort of psychical
infantilism. What the author deems
consistency seems a kind Of ugly thick
skinnedness. In the sentimental con-
clusion his lordship recognizes over his
love FOR the girl claim on his honor
that prevents his marrying her, and the
girl becomingly dies at the birth Of her
child.
Middle class British fiction has de-
veloped along curious lines. Some
things have altered, but q good deal
has not. It still reveres lord and
idealizes the asexual maiden Of Burnes-
Jones and Tennyson. A certain amount
Of sophistication has been forced on it.
The modern psychical unrest has given
a sort Of dispensation to passion--and
fashion has hung glamour over art"
And all these things are confusingly
present in Temperament.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05

ABOVE Is w. T. Bemda's
IL Interpretation of Jani9aa,
heroine of Nine. NalkoaU-
sk0's moVeJ Kobiety. Kobietg
means Wome1a, and Mime.
Nalkowska, aUhose picture is
shoavm at the right, is said to
haze produced q remarkable
analysis of her sec. The book
has been translated from the
Polish and aUill be published
soon by Put1aanas
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
Thrills to the Last Chapter

e T~HE publication of mystery novel
9 by Carolyn Wells is an event for
g a little army of readers who seek
= thrills in pages that deal with thieves,
- murderers and questionable adventurers
E who move within the social pale. One
: knows in advance before he opens In
= the Onyx Lobby that he is to be plunged
e into a tale that will hold his attention
@right up to the last page Of the last
e0chapter, and he is not deceived, for this
Mrattling good detective story has all the
@earmarks of its author at her best The
@plot aQaumulates mystery as a magnet
ssslures bits of steel, and there is ever evil
knsdent nervous, staccato movement of
catalogue and action.
. The onyx lobby is the entrance of an
department house near Times Square.
1Among its dwellers are two women, one
i'm old maid and the other a widow, with
a Feud Spelled with capital "F")
They scrap and squabbe, and seek ex-
cuses to meet and worry each other.
One of them has nephew and the other
daughter. All four live in the apart
ment house, and practically all the in
cident and development of the plot of
this story are centercd in this house.
The two young people fall in love and
become engaged, secretly. A rich Eng
lishman, Sir Herbert Binney, uncle of
the young man, comes to New York to sell
the American rights in his world known
Binney Buns. He is anxious to have
his nephew take over the business in the
United States, and his eagerness inten-
siies the hatred of the two belligerent
women. Each fears the nephew and
niece will wed if Sir Herbert has his
wish fulfilled.
One night, at about 2 a. m, the bun
king is murdered in the onyx lobby.
While dying he manages to scribble a
part Of sentence on scrap Of paper,
and these few words become the dead
center Of the whirl Of the story as it
progresses. There ensues delightful
sseries Of complications, detectives dodg-
sang about, seheming, suspecting and
interviewing. Honestly, you have TO
ssread this book through at sitting, once
syou start to wander into 1t. The au-
sthor's ingenuity 10 displayed In chapter
sfter chapter, and We would wager that
sshs will fool nine out Of every ten Of
her readers who attempt TO name the
villain before the last tonth Of the book
IS reached.
o. speeial-Message FROM Edgar Allsn
Poe, by the Ben Franklin Celestial
Wireless Station:
Lase sslghe a staner named Cyory
stole IN through the yortel Of Glory,
While Peter sat dazed,
:. Bsnaused and ansazed.
~ Tho tan0Ie Of Cayolym's story.
II
~. -. Csoesss Who Become Detectives
r EXT In interest Ia The Man
l& Who Convicted Himself. It
r. deals with band Of criminals
{
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-05
r ERE is convenient text
49, q filched from A. Edward New
1 n tons delightful The Ameni-
ties of Book Col1ar+inr.

"Of these poems The Saturday Re-
view said-and thank The Saturday
Review for teaching me these words,
for l think they fifty describe nine
tenths of all the poetry that gets it.
self published-'Mr. Wilde's verses, be-
long to a class which is the special
terror Of the reviewers, the poetry
which Is neither good nor bad, which
calls for neither praise nor blame, and
in which one searches in vain for any
personal touch of thought or music Z"
This utterly uncharitable (and equal
ly correct) observation is most con-
soling to the reviewer who is con-
fronted with Francis Brett Young's
Poems, 191s-191s (Dutton). Here
is book of workmanlike, sincere, mu-
steal verses. which nevertheless lack
individuality. Mr.. Youngs poems are
distinctively good; the neither good
nor bad" dictum does not apply to them,
but there is little in them to startle
the reader into saying "How typically
Youngl" It is possible to smoker at
few lapses like "And oh, the scent Of
beanfields In the night" and q poem
In which the lyrist reproaches himself
for numbering dragonAy, but Mr..
Young can produce verses which are
tuneful and spontaneously evidence
whereof we offer Song:
Why hava vou rfolan Ypv d.,,rne
In Gil the golden SHOWS OF sprtnp
When every cherry tree 10 white
Aud In the lines the thrushea atng7
o Gckler than tho April day,
brighter than the golden brosga.
y ollther than rthe thrushssi lay.