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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
IN HIS latest novel, No Defense Sir Gilbert Parker 0oes
to ireland Of 100 gears ago for his plot

leading citizen and saves the island
from a black rebellion.
Sheila wrote to Dyck when he was
accused Of murder, but the chivalrous
youth did not answer the letter. She
emigratcd to America. Later she in
herited her uncle's cotton plantation in
Virginia and hundreds Of slaves and re-
fused numerous offers Of marriage, be-
cause she was resolved to remain true
to Dyck. She learned that he was the
richest man in Jamaica and sought him
down there. Dyck at last had to tell
her that Erris Boyne was her father
and nobody knew who had killed the
late traitor. Eventually this was cleared
up, and Dyck, who had been desperately
in love with Sheila all the time, &C
copied her offer Of marriage.
Sir Gilbert Parker has done many
things better than No Defense. His
reputation will rest on his other books
and not on this one.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
Parker Rusl1es Into Irish Politics but Backs Out Hast

been drinking and gambling and play
ing at loose ends in Dublin for q year
previous to the murder without ever
seeing Sheila or hearing from her.
However, the murder eliminates the
Irish problem from the book, which
henceforth is romantic novel and
mighty hard to believe. Dyck comes
out Of prison and goes to England.
When he gets sufficiently hungry in
the streets Of London he enlists in
the navy just in time to take a lead
ing part in the mutiny Of the More.
Never having been at sea, he sails
the ship he is on across the Atlantic
and arrives in the Caribbean just in
time to save the British fleet, which is
about to be defeated by the French.
AS a reward, the crew Of the ship is
pardoned and Dyck Is sentenced to
life on the island Of Jamaica, where
he becomes wealthy planter and
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
Mixes Sim F Elm and Romance
Sir Gilbert Parker, Finding Himself Involved,
Changes the Scene

N NO DEFENSE q. B. Lippincott)
Sir Gilbert Parker has written a
n book that good many people
will read on long train journey,
when they can fnd nothing else to do.
A good many other people will start
it hopefully and find it impossible to
60 through with the task to the end.
No Defense starts out to be q story
Of Ireland and switches OF to become
story Of an Irishman with an Irish
girl concerned in it, and number Of
other things touched on from time to
time. Reading it, one gets the impress
sion that Sir Gilbert is immensely In
terested in the Irish question, as every
Englishman must be. Apparently ho
has studied tho history Of Ireland to
some extent and in his studies he saw
the remarkable likeness between the
Ireland of the end Of the eighteenth
century and the 1reland> Of the begin
ming of the twentieth century. He
~eemed to see great opportunity to
write q story about the Ireland Of q
century and q quarter ago and draw a
lesson from q picture Of those times
for lrshmen, and, possibly, English
men. of to-day. But when he started
TO write the story he did not know just
where his enthusiasms we're going to
lead him. Perhaps as he worked he
found the logic Of events leading in the
wrong direction; the lesson his story
would draw would not be the lesson
he wanted to draw.
Change In Character
One does not know Sir Gilbext's con-
victions on the Irish question. He has
never been great figure In the House
of Commons. He has attended the ses-
sions and voted, but he has never stood
out in debate and never Influenced pol
icies. One sees In No Defense, how
ever, that he had not got very far
along In the story before he found that
he was soon to be forced into saying
that England had done Ireland a great
injustice hundred odd years ago. And
30 he throttled his enthusiasts and
switched his book from political
treatise to romantic novel. The book
suffered by the change. It had to be
loaded down with improbabilities and
made to carry the burden Of villain
for whose villainy no reason Is indi-
Gated. It must also sustain the weight
Of heroine who cannot be accepted as
human.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19

is whore Sir Gilbert seSma to have
awakened 20 where his political treatise
was leading, and he did not have the
courage to face the logic. II might
have forced him over to the Opposi-
tion benches In the House Of Com
mons.
Tho Hero Goes to Prison
At any rate, sheila's father Is mur-
deyed and Dyck is convicted Of the
crime and sentenced to four years
in prison. 1t happens that Sheila's
father was a traitor, that her mother
had divorced him years before, that
his name was Boyne and that Sheila
had been brought up In the belief
that he was dead. But Dyck, who is
innocent, goes to prison that Shcila
may be spared the knowledge Of the
kind Of man her father was. One
perceives that Dyck is in love with
Sheila, though ignorance on that point
might have been excused, as he had
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19

the moral advantages Of individual ,r,.
alive as stimulated by the nrt,...
ownership Of property. He speaks -.,
peatedly Of "the divinely implanted A.
sire for ownership" Contending +h.,
inequality of income is the very basi,
Of civilization, he sets forth the vox.
serious consideration that Equality c,
income would have left Queen Isaben,
with no jewels to sell with which 70 INV.
chase the Santa Maria"
Mr.. Shaw believes that capital /, most
unfairly treated under our present srs.
tenn of government, and expresses IL.
apprehension that We are drifting n.
ward labor autocracy. He asserts tina.
no new railroad construction MAJ h.
anticipated until the practice CO wafer.
ing" stock is resumed.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
War and Revolution IN Siberia
A British Officers Exciting Story of His
Experiences
Experiences
AVER since the intervention Of
I'd the Allied powers In the sum-
n mer of 1913 Siberia has been a

AVER since the intervention Of
I'd the Allied powers In the sum
n 4 mer Of 1918 Siberia has been a
hotbed Of civil war and inter-
national intrigue. British and French,
Americans and Japanese have pursued
divergent and sometimes contradictory
policies. 1t is largely due to the lack
Of coordination in the Allied effort
that the government of Admiral Kol
chalk fell and the larger part Of Siberia
passed under the Bolshevik rule again
during the winter Of 1919-1920.
With tho die Hards" in Siberia
by Colonel John Ward (Doran), is a
graphic story Of intervention in Siberia
from the British standpoint. The au-
tbor's nationalist bias is very evident.
He Is not sparing in his criticism Of
the conduct of the other powers. He
accuses the Americans Of culpable len
iency in their dealings with the Boil
sheyiki. On the other hand, he con-
demns the Japanese as too brutal. He
suspects the French of desire tc
cheat the British out Of their proper
share Of influence upon thes workings
of the Omsk government.
Colonel Ward was ordered to proceed
to Siberia with his regiment in July
1918. He participated in several Skin
mishes with Red bands in the eastern
provinces, but his ultimate functions
were diplomatic rather than military
He gave his full moral support to Kol-
chak's assumption Of power in Novem-
Der and praises the late Admiral con-
sistently throughout the book. The
author seems to have specialized in
building up Russian morale. He is
firmly convinced that one Of his
speeches contributed materially to the
resurrection Of the Russian national
soul. He says:
Il called attention to the entire alb
sence Of a Russian flag from Vadivo-
stok to lrkutsk, and asked, is this the
country Of the once great and mighty
Russia, that stranger travels over
without knowing what country it is?
suggested that, though we had twenty
revolutions, could never imagine
Englishmen being ashamed Of the Eng
lish flag or afraid to call themselves
Englishmen. The translation of nv
remarks ended in a wonderful ovation
and I thought the band would never
play anything else but the national
anthem, which it repeated again and
again. My list of kilograms and mes
sages Of every kind and character from
every part of Russia and the outside
world, together with constant repeti-
ton Of the speech in the press, indi-
Gates plainly that from this day began
the resurrection Of the Russian SOUL
Encouraged by this brilliant initial
success, Colonel Ward, with the ap-
prevail Of Admiral Kolchak, travelled
up and down the trans-Siberian rail
road. addressing audiences Of work
men and instructng them in the prin-
ciple of orderly government. In the
course OF one Of these trips be became
involved in q free-for-all fight with
some truculent Serbians. which he de-
'cribes with considerable vigor.
The author spsaks with enthusiasm
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
n HE real tri-corncred history Of
81 the struggle Of three nations
n thu limited States France

y real LTl-COINCTeV O.
81 the struggle Of three nations
the United States, France
and England-from TITS tt
1888, is yet to be written. Fiske
Fisher, Lodge and other Americans
have treated it from our angle Of ap-
proach, and Trevelyan prominently
from the British point Of view. It is q
pleasure to receive and to read, as q
quite complete study Of French par
ticipation, Captain Joachim Merlant's
Soldiers and Sailors Of France in the
American War for independence
(Scribners). Merlant, professor of
French literature at the University of
Montpelier, was called to the colors in
August, 1914. was badly wounded in
1915, lectured in the United States dur
ing 1916. completed the book which
We are reviewing in 1918, and died be-
fore It's publication in the United
States.
Merlant's work Is In effect the
story Of Lafayette and Rochambeau
With these two men as the center, he
describes the whole circle Of French
aid and participation in the revolu-
ton. The background Of politics, es-
pccially international, is given, and we
receive new light on the peculiarly
epochal rivalries and fears Of the Ya-
tions involved. 1t will pay all students
of the period treated to go over the
pages that tell clearly why the thirteen
states, especially New England,
dreaded the entry Of France into the
war, with memories of Louisburg, IT.
conderoga and Quebec still fresh in
mind. There was definite split, re-
sulting in two factions, one at heart
hostile to France, and the other, with
Franklin at its head. kcenly DESTROYS
OF securing French guns, ships and
men. Merlant takes his little dig at
Sam Adams and Richard Henry Lee,
But the splendid assistance Of the
French arms, eliminating in Yorktown,
erased all marks Of opposition, al
though there were unhappy moments
when the representatives Of the three
nations convened in Paris to decide
terms of>peace.
There is a thread OF romance rum
ming through this book, the story of
Lafayette and his brother officers. a
thread that CLOVIS in its records of
action on land and sea. Espcciallv
valuable to the student Of the war are
the chapters that handle the French
side of these episodes in completeness
that has not been found heretofore in
the rank and file Of histories. These
chapters will do much to strengthen
the bonds between the United States
and France.
Merlant's errors are few. naturally
on the side of American participation in
the conflict. For instance, he repeats
the mistake made by Chastellux in say
ing that Knox was not q Boston book
seller when the war opened in ITS.
Knox maintained his London Book
shop" in old Cornhill, now Washington
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
Hindu Leaders
Sketches Of Some Notable
Personalities

TN HE careers Of eleven Hindu DO
itical and intellectual leaders
are described by D. N. Banner.
Jea in 1ndlas Nation Builders (Bren-
tano's). The author first discusses the
work and personality of the famous
author, Rabindranath Tagore. Paying a
warm tribute to Tagores literary gem
JUS and idealism, Mr.. Bannerjea la
ments the poets confusion Of thought
upon political issues.
Lajpat Raj, who spent several years
OF exile in this country, is one Of the
figures in the book. Mr. Bannerjea rep
resents Raj as rather harmless and
pacific individual, who was elevated to
the rank of martyr by the injudicious
persecution to which he was subjected
by the British government. Deeply
versed In Eastern and Western pbjIo-
sophical ideas, he Is entitled to a place
among the spiritual leaders of modern
India.
strongly religious element Is to be
found IN the characters of almost all
these men, who have played prominent
roles IN building up the life of the new
india. Nearly all have come into con-
h'ct with some phase of British rule.
but not one is an advocate of violent
revolution. They possess the bound
less patience Of the Orient, and seem
willing to wait indefinitely for the
fruition Of their dreams.
Most OF the books that are written
about India emphasize problems rather
than personalities. MIR. Bannerjea has
contributed materially to the average
foreigners understanding Of India's
struggles and aspirations by these SYM
pathetic sketches of her leaders.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19

view In Ireland in the last decade Of
the eighteenth century and very soon
encounters sheila Llyn, the heroine,
girl Of seventeen years, whom he
sees three times in about as many
weeks. There Ia some excellent de-
scription Of the state Of Ireland at
that time. The comparison with the
Ireland Of to-day Is obvious. Dyck
seems destined to play an important
part In Irish affairs. But the shadow
Of the death Of the Irish Parliament
begins to fall over the book. That
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
Moro OF Solomon Eagle

Books In General, Second Series, by
Solomon Eagle q. C. Squire, editor Of
Tho London Mercury, has just been
published by Alfred A. Knopf. Among
the many diversions offered by the au-
thor are Pidgin English for Germans,
The Humors of Hymnology, Russian
Wit, Mr.. Lloyd George as a Vers Lii
brist, Mr.. H. G. Wells and Lord Ten
nyson, and A Forgotten Caroline.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
Oriental Wisdom In Verse

Arthur Guiterman's Chips of Jade is
in train for early publication by E. P
Duttoh & Co. Mr.. Guiterman has col
lected great number Of Chinese
proverbs. Hindu folksayings and bits
Of common wisdom from other Oriental
countries and has put them into4 Eng
lish verne. Here lie one Of them:
might Sailors: Seven want TO atess.
xhaA Juak woa'e csEao 60 P0s1s 4, Seasss
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
Negro Literature

The Upward Path is the title Of q
collection Of stories and poems by
negro writers which Harcourt. Brace
q Howe are publishing. In order to
give colored children a chance to know
something of the literature and the
aspirations of their own race, Myron T
Pritchard, headmastcr of the Everett
School, Boston, and Miss Mary White
Ovington, author Of The Shadow
started to prepare this book. They
round such surprising mass of beau
tlful writings, poems, stories. and cpl
sodes that the publishers decided to is
sue it as book for readers of all ages
and races. R. R. Motion, principal OF
Tuskegee Institute, has written an in
PRODUCTION.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
Fast Moving Novel
N ECCENTRIC grandfather !

a N ECCENTRIC grandfather be-
"A queaths to the young neer-do-
we'll heir only some slight direc-
tions for finding a buried treasure.
Recklessly setting out to search for it.,
the young man finds his legacy is a
mine. Follows fight for its possession
by the swindlers who have usurped it,
rivalry in love, gun play, hard riding
and much more. These are the familiar
cards which Francis Lynde shuf4ies to
good advantage in A Girl, Horse and a
Dog. not hesitating to draw out Of his
sleeve an ace or two in the form of
coincidence whenever the occasion re-
quires it. There is plenty of pace
in A Girl. Horse and a Dog (Scrib-
ners), and it amply fills the cardinal
requirement Of Western fiction that
something should happen every minute.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
A Memory Of Sir Walter Scott

In John Murray III, which has Just
been published by Alfred A. Knopf, ohm
Murray Nv, the author. states that his
father was present at the famous din
ner at which Sir Walter Scott first
publicly owned the authorship Of the
WsyoPley mayals.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
Notes of Books
And of Authors
vTHE international Psycho-Analyt-
ical Press Of London and Vienna

TNHE international Psycho-A nalyt-
I ical Press Of London and Vienna
announces the opening Oh Ito New
York Offices at 10 East Forty-eighth
Street. A quarterly journal, The In
ternational Journal Of Psycho-Analysis,
directed by Professor Sigmund Freud
and edited by Ernest Jones, M. A., will
be brought out by the new organiza-
ton.
The international Psycho-Analyticai
library, consisting Of books by au-
thorities on psycho-analysis, will be-
part Of the new organizations activi-
ties. Three new books are announced
us being now in the press.
The International Journal Of Psycho-
Analysis takes the place for English
speaking readers Of the Internationale
zeitschrift fur Psycho-Analyse and
Image, which are published in German
only. An arrangement has been made
whereby all the contents of these will!
be freely available for the English
journal. Besides original articles, alb
stfacts and reviews it will contain the
reports Of the international Psyche
Analytical Association, of which it is,
together with the Zeitschrift and Image,
the official organ.
The three books announced are Adj
dresses on PsychoAnalysis, by Dr..
j. j. Putnam; Psycho-Analysis and War
Neuroses, symposium, by DIS. Karl
Abraham (Berlin), S. Ferenczi (Buda-
pest. Ernest Jones (London), Ernst
Slmmel (Bcrlin), with an introduction
by Professor Sigmund Freud (Vienna),
and The Psycho-Analytio Study Of tho
Family by ]. C. Flugel, b.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
In Sea and Jungle

H. M. Tomlinson's The Sea and the
Jungle, which enjoyed q considerable
success when it was first published in
this country, some seven or eight years
ago, by f. P. Dutton & Co., was tenn
porar'ly unobtainable during the war.
But the buttons have now brought out
new issue of the work which readers
will find to be possessed Of just the
same undying charm which it held in
those days before the war. 1t is an &C.
count of voyage taken by q London
newspaper man across the Atlantic and
far up the Amazon, told with fasci.
mating combination Of poetic imagina.
ton, keen observation, humor, and
good, interesting thinking.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
One of the Thirteen

The publishers Harcourt, Brace &
Howe, say that it is difficult to keeE
DR.. Slosson's Easy Lessons in Elm
stein in stock. Some one says there
were only thirteen people in the world
who understood Einstein's theories
DR.. Slosson Is evidently one of these
thirteen, and what is more, he can ex.
plain the theories so that others can
understand them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19

Fourth Edition of Miss Lulu Rett
iona Gales new Novel, Miss Lulu
sett, has gone ineo tts foRysh edition,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
Steel Preferred
By HERSCHEL s. HALL

The scenes OF this.novel center
in any Open Hearth plant
splashes of vivid color and black
shadow; trimming ladies OF
creamy Stag stopping over as they
rise from the pit; furnaces shoot
ing yellow flame from peep and
glory-Eoles; rumble and jar of
cranes; clatter and clash of iron
tools-and always the bubbllng,
bubbllng Of fluid steel, sweet music
in the ears Of Wally Gay. 1t is all
here, the life of the mill that made
him and that he made; in a big
story for real Americans. $500
E. P. BUTTON & CO., 63I 5th AMY.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
American Engineers in the War

The American Engineers in France,
by William Barclay Parsons, is being
published by D. Appleton & Co. This
work is the definite history Of the part
played by the American engineers in
the war. William Barclay Parsons, as
colonel Of the 18th Railway Engineers,
A. +. F., was one of the most distin-
guished members of the engineering
branch of the service and accomplished
much both in organization work in
this country and in the field in France
Before the war his work of building
the New York subways and the Cape
Cod canal, as member of the board Of
consulting engineers for the Panama
Canal and as brigadier general and
chief of engineers of the New York
State National Guard, had placed him
in the forefront of his profession.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1920-09-19
Sea Power in Our History

Admiral Mahan-who practically in
vented the term ''sea power" and there
by told Great Britain what she had for
so many years been seeking without
knowing it~wroto many books. but his
death in the early days of the World
War cut him Off from gathering into
one volume his ideas on the influence
of sea power on American development.
10 supply the deficiency and in gen.
eral harmony with Mahan's teachings,
Professors Kraft and Norris, teachers
of naval history at the Naval Academy
at Annapolis, have written a book of
about $50 pages, which gives compre-
hensively the part sea power has
played in America since the ships of
Columbus, sent by Spain, the great
sea power Of the time, discovered the
New World. The book is entitled Sea
Power in American History, and is
announced for publication by the Cen
fury Company in September.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-03
JACK LONDON STORY
THE SEA WOLF"
ADAPTED TO SCREEN

The attraction at the "B" thea
ter for two days. commencing to-
day, will be the Paramount Art
craft screen version of Jack Lon
don's famous novel. "The Sea
Wolf" The picture is declared to
be in several respects out of the
ordinary. Striking sea scenes, in
GLIDING a collision between Il ferry
boat and n schooner filmed on the
very locale of the story-San Fran
cisco bay-are among the features.
But the chief interest is in the
story. The central figure is the
brutal sea captain. Wolf Larsen,
n peculiar mixture of villain and
hero, PHILOSOPHER aud near-animal
The plot centers around this terror
of the deep and the adventures
which befall a beautiful girl and
her young idler admirer when they
are involved in 4 collision and, res
cued by Wolf, are kept by him
aboard his vessel.
Noah Beery gives a notable per
Torrance as Wolf" Tom For
man is the rescued youth who be-
comes cabin boy. and Mabel
Julienne Scott is the girl. Walter
Long, RAYMOND Ilatton. Eddie
Sutherland, James Gordon and
Fred HuntIcy are also in the cast.
The picture is Il George Melford
production.
Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-12-03
OTHERS TALKING DID
YOUNG GREAT DAMAGE,
CLAIMS, ASKS $4,000

Claiming that in a public meet
ing at Regina. n. NJ. October II,
J. S. Scott said slanderous things
about him and has continued 10
repeat them to individuals since,
causing him loss in trade in his
mercantile business to the amount
of 81 900, injured his reputation to
his damage in the sum of $4,000
and by reason of false statements
80 maliciously made by defendant
has suffered punitive damage of
$1,000" John r. Young has filed
suit against Scott for $4,000. Mr..
Young is United States commits
sioner at Cnba.
Young alleges that Scott stated
at the public meeting that Young
stirred w trouble regarding an all
legged trcapass on lands near Cuba
by stating in effect that certain
cutters in the community had IL
legally removed timber on said
land and so poisoned the
special agent sent to investigate
the tresDass before the agent went
to Regina" that his mind was fully
made thD to make an adverse report
of the Investigation.