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New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

such Draconian severity that they ex-
pose the Allied governments to the
charge of bad faith and seriously i'm
pair the prospects of future European
concord and prosperity.
Professor Murray does not spare his
own government in his criticisms.
Lloyd Georges extravagant promises
of making Germany pay the whole cost
of the war, the program of repression
in Ireland, and some features Of Brit
ish policy in the Near East are pa ssed
in review and censured He warns the
extreme imperialists among his coun-
trymen that "the British Empire hclds
such vast extent of the earth's sur
face that it has inevitably given host
ages to fortune. So huge an empire
can only be tolerated if it behaves
tolerably."
The League Of Nations embodies the
authors hope for a better interna-
tional order in the future. He defends
the league against the attacks of i'm
patient critics by asserting that it has
attempted as much as could reason
ably be expected at the present time
in the way of substituting law for
force in world affairs. He laments
Americas failure to join the league,
and quotes with disapproval g speech
by former Secretary Of the Navy
Daniels, which seems to forecast en- eff
fort on Americas part to challenge
Great Britain's mastery of the seas.
Professor Murray's book is char
acterized at once by the strength of
its thought, and by the beauty and
felicity Of its language. The conclud-
Ing sentence expresses admirably the
dim hopes Of the war SCARED peoples
of Europe:
"The craving for this peace which
has not come is, believe, still. the
unspoken and often unconscious mo-
tive Of millions who seem at first
glance to be only brawling for re-
venges or revolutions; it lies like a
mysterious torment at the heart of
this storm tossed and embittered
world, crying for it knows not what
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

4
give it the characteristics of Cape Cod
towns l am acquainted with. The prom
ontories and inlets and hills and
marshes in my" Cape Cod may not be
found where have located them, but
have tried very hard to make them
like those which are, or were, to be
found on the real Cape.
And so with the Cape Codders in my
stories. I have never knowingly drawn
the exact, recognizable portrait Of an
individual. I have, of course, received
hundreds of letters from readers who
inform me, in strict confidence, that
they know the original Of "Cap'n -"
and recognized him at once. Neverthe-
less, they are wrong, for no character
of mine has been, If could prevent 1t,
portrait Of one living or who has
lived. have endeavored always to be
true to type and in writing Of the old
deep-sea captain, the cpasting skipper,
the longshoreman or the people of the
Cape villages I have done my best to
portray each as have seen and known
specimens Of his CT her kind. But
have endeavored just as sincerely never
to draw an individual portrait which
might offend or hurt. And in attempt
ing to transcribe the habit of language
| have made 1t rule never to use an
expression or idiom I have not heard
used by a native Of the old colony.
l am Cape Colder myself born In
Cape Cod village, descendant of a
long line of seafaring Cape Codders
and their wives. The Cape Cod people
are, am proud to say, my people;
count myself as one of them. In my
writings have tried to portray phases
Of New England seashore life and cha2-
acter, but always-at least in inten-
tion-in a neighborly, fraternal fash
ion. The attempts at humor in my
stories have always been made with
the idea of laughing with the people os
the Cape and never at them.
The greatest gratihcat tion which has
come to me from nay work is the reali-
cation that my fellow New Englanders
understand this and have testified in so
many ways their understanding and
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
Books for the Mountain,
The Forest and the Shore
A Trio of New Novels of Love Big Business
Intrigue and Lost Identity,
of Suitcase Size

thrift, with time and with money. gets
INTO the opening chapter by permitting
himself 10 be swept down the swirling
current OF river somewhere in the
South, in a damaged motor boat. He is
pulled from the water and finds him
self with an old friend of Boston Tech.
days, Tom jeff Gordon, and delec-
table girl, Marion Pettus. At this juno
ture we need some magnet-pull to keep
Corydel on the soil long enough to be-
come lover OF Marion, and we find Il
IN the fight Gordon is making to carry
through the building of breakwater
and dam for the purpose of deriving
power from the water at Mussel Bar.
Hostile influences are at work; thew
are supposed to be inspired by Univer-
sal Electric, big New York corpora
ton with national connections, and
Corydel's father is the big figure in the
u. f. So we have sire and son pitted
against each other in struggle that
pats fire into the youngster and com
pels him to make good
This novel is among the few really
reliable ones of the year that deal with
shrewd and crafty business affairs on a
large scale 1t is as modern as a dime
of the mintage of 1921, and just as
bright. There is enough snap in it, won
from chapters where abducting and good
strenuous man-to-naan fighting ara in
evidence, to keep the reader sprinting
from page to page.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

durc many sufTerings and disappoint
ments before they are finally reunited
and properly paired off Kamaia, cs-
pecial1y experiences all the trials of
Cinderella. She runs away from
Ramesh as soon as she finds out that
nc is not her husband, and becomes
servant in the house Of a stranger.
She even suffers the exquisite agony
of discovering her true husband, only
to know that he is betrothed 70 an
other.
Ramesh. too, passes through some
romantic perplexities. He gives up the
girl whom he loves for the sake Of
Kamala, whereupon Kan1ala deserts
him in shame and grief when she
learns that she is not really married
to him. Tagore finally clears up the
situation by evolving a formula that
solves the difficulties Of all the char
acters simultaneously.
What is perhaps best in the story
is its picture of Hindu manners and
habits of thought. One learns from
the book that a Hindu wife never adj
dresses her husband by his proper
name, that the mother-in-law is an OBJ
ject of awe to the young Hindu bride,
and that the people who live In the
villages Of India have many of the
interests and characteristics Of the men
and women who live on our Main
Streets. There is an excellent descrip-
ton of steamer trip up the Ganges,
and Tagore gives US slight insight
into the complex rites of caste and
ceremony that play such an important
part in Hindu life.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
Novel by Tagore Has Hindu
Background and Western Plos
Familiar Motives of Love, Intrigues and
Jealousy Enter Into Story of
Oriental Life

TIE WRECK. By Rabindranath Tagore.
Published by the Macmillan Company.
sa25
%ES HE setting Of this novel by
Z Rabindranath Tagore is thor
oughly Oriental, but there is
nothing in the plot that would
puzzle the most unimaginative West
ern mind. In fact, the story is 80
simple as to be almost naive. 1t is full
OF happy and unhappy coincidences.
In the end virtue is rewarded and
scheming misunderstanding punished.
The wreck, which influences the
whole course of the novel, occurs as the
result OF storm on the Ganges. Two
wedding parties, travelling by boat, are
caught and swept away. Unfortunately
the wrong husband and the wrong wife
are thrown up on the bank together.
Due to the peculiar Hindu marriage
customs, the two have never actually
seen their partners and naturally ar
rive at the conclusion that they are
man and wife.
The student, Ramesh, soon finds out.
from some expressions which the girl
Kamala lets drop, that she is not really
married to him. He is unable to find
any trace Of her husband, who may
very well have perished in the storm.
The problem Of how to dispose Of the
girl is difficult to solve, especially as.
Ramesh, before his forced marriage,
had been in love with woman student
in Calcutta. He finally renews his
suit there, but meddling rival, Ak
shay, finds cut about Kamala, and
makes use of his discovery in SANDER
ing Ramesh's reputation.
All the characters in the story en-
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
summer Reading The Cape Cod of Joe Lincoln
Books in Brief
T> OUR PILGRIMS. by william

II OUR PILGRIMS, by william
~ Boulting. just brought out by
E. p. Dutton 6 CO., is a
fascinating volume Of quaint tales
redolent of the long ago but still
fresh with the personalities of the men
who lived them. The author has taken
all his material from old records, quot
ing some of it directly and retelling
the rest, and has furnished also intro
ductory chapters for each tale that
provide sufficient historical back
ground to relate IL to the world of Its
own time. In the preface he says that
they were "shrewd, fearless, observant
men who overcame surprising obsta-
cles and met with adventure un-
paralleled."
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
A Love Story

A THING APART. BY Lucy Stone resy
ril. Published by ths Behbs- Merrill
Company. $1.75.
TT TAKES Dane EIridge long time
to And out that Judith Kingston
loves him, but he finally does; and
there are . number Of interesting epi-
sodes in the story Of their misunder-
standings. The scene of the novel shifts
between New York and a Western
rench.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

MUST
WE FIGHT
.JAPAN?:

HE blowing up of the Maine was not
4 the cause of the panish-American War.
The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was
not the cause of the World War;
The dispute over the island of Yap will not be
the cause of war between Japan and the United
States.
But condition of constantly increasing tension
between this country and Japan is developing
which makes war over any dispute proba-
bility. (see the newspapers every day.
Must We Fight Japan?" is new book bv
Professor Walter B. Pitkin, of Columbia Uni
versity, who has been investigating the Japa-
nese-American situation for months. 1t gives
the facts which make war possible 1t ir,di-
Gates how war might be avoided. We have
either got to think our way out of japanese
war or fight way out. This book viii heln,
whichever we do. Must We Fight Japan?' is
published by The Century Co., 353 Fourth
Avenue, New York City, and is sold by all
bookstores for $3.50
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
By Samuel Abbot.

THE FIRE BRINGERs. By Francis
Lynae. Published by Charles scrihner's
Sons So.
VISION HOUSE. BY c, N. and A. NJ. VIII
hanson. Published by the George II,
porsn Company. sl.S0>
soGuEs AND COMPANY. BY Ida A. r..
Hylse. Published by John Lans Com
eany,. sI.7S,
wn UsINESS men who haven't for
gotten the thrill of fight be.
tween men, especially when
financial risk is involved, young
fellows in or just cut of college, and
women Of all ages, will find Francis
Lynde's The Fire Bringers good book
for hammock or sheltered nook in or
ont Of doors. It opens with a splurge
Of excitement and keeps on full tide
Of adventure and intrigue right through
20 Enis.
Young Frederic Corydel, spend
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26


drawn from individuals you know OIL
have known in real life 7" and "Do the
towns, villages or communities in which
these characters are placed actually
have originals, and could they be
founds under other names, upon a
map?"
Especially, of course, is this likely to
DE true when, as in my own case, the au-
thor's writings have centered about a
particular section and the people Of
that section. Some of my interested
inquirers have even gone to the trouble
OF making maps Of their own-maps
which, when submitting them, they
have labeled "Your Cape Cod"-and
have written to ask If they have COR
rectly located "Ostable," "Wellmoush"
or "ozone Island" and, If not, will I
be good enough to locate them as they
should be.
When this happens and gaze upon
the fright arm of Massachusetts 81
breaking out here, there and every
where. like a pronounced case Of
measles, with spots and speckles which
have resulted from 'inoculation by my
pcn-with points and bays and ponds
and towns where none such actually is
Il am astonished and a trife disceur-
aged. What have done to the land Of
my birth? And what, by way Of retri-
button, might the land Of my birth do
to me?
Well, in defense, let me say. as have
invariably said in reply to the kindly
questioners submitting their maps, that
have steadfastly, since hrse began
writing of the Cape and It's people, re-
fused to be bound by geographic lines.
"My" Cape Cod, so far as its boun-
daries and contour are concerned, is
absolutely elastic and purely fanciful.
If 1t has suited the purpose of my story
to locate an inlet where nature had
built promontory, to erect village
where the searcher would find only
woods and marshes, have never hesi-
tated to do so. And for very obvious
reasons.
And, as with localities, so with char
acters. In my new novel, Galusha the
Magnificent, for example, East Well
mouth and Wellmouth Center, the
Phipps homestead and Rash Pulcifer's
real estate Office are inventions, like
Mr.. Pulcifer himself, or the Wsllmoush
Development Company, or Captain
Jethso Hallett, or Marietta Hoag-yes,
or even Galusha Bangs the magnif-
cent. And if a cross-examining rcader
were to confront me with the ques-
tions: 'Just where is Goulds Bluffs
lighthouse 7" | should be obliged to an
swer, being under oath, "There aint no
such animal"
But, continuing in self-defense, may
be permitted to say few words
qualifying the foregoing statement? In
writing of Cape Cod town or village,
although ! purposely refrained from
describing it as any one town In par
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
A Troubled World
Gilbert Murray Points Way
to Stable Peace

THE PROBLEM OF FOREIGN POLICY
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
$3.50
T~HE reaction of British Liberalism
to the present international situa-
ton is presented with force and
clarity and eloquence by Professor MUIR
ray. Surveying the universal ravages of
the war, he pleads earnestly for the re-
turn Of peace and good will among ma
tions. Fully recognizing Germany's
guilt in precipitating the war, hs feels
that some of the provisions of the Yer
sailles Treaty were drawn up with
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
Western Mountains

MY MOUNTAINS. BY the Rev r. T.
Cross. Published by the stratford Com
pany, Boston. $3.50
THE mountains Of Colorado and
other Western states are vividly
and enthusiastically described in this
book, which relates the experiences of
an inveterate. tramper and nature lover.
The work includes a number of ex-
cellent illustrations.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
Heart Disease

HEART DISEASE BY j. X. Honan Pub
lished by Dodd, Mead Co. 81
HHIS new edition of we'll known
work by an expert on diseases Of
tie heart contains good deal Of sound
information about the care, cure and
prevention of sicknssses of this kind,
conveyed in ssmples non-technical Ian
guage.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

Then he describes them and their
quests: "The first of my bundle of four
was a Chlnaman, Buddhist monk of
the early seventh century, who started
alone on an almost impossible quest
My second was an Englishman of the
earliest years of the twelfth century
ordinary palmer was like who went to
Jerusalem. My third was Mahome-
tan, who in the first half of the
fourteenth century made several pill
grimages to Mecca and ran over the
world from Tangier to Peking and from
Turkestan to Timbuktu. My fourth
was an Italian, very son of the glow
ing age Of julius II, the first European
Christian on record to reach Mecca"
The book will afford much enjoy
ment to those who like to summon up
pleasure in tales Of strange and adven-
turous wanderings, narrated with
gusto and sympathy.
ceasing discussion of the relations be-
tween England and Ireland is made by
Modern Irish Trade and Industry, by
E. j. Riordan, secretary Of the Irish
Industrial Development Association,
which E. P. Dutton & Co. have just
published. 1t has a Historical In
PRODUCTION" by George O'Brien, which
goes back to the beginnings of trade
and industry in Ireland in the first
years of the seventeenth century and
in the course Of fifty pages follows the
story of their ups and downs as far as
the middle Of the nineteenth century.
Then Mr.. Riordan takes up the survey
and in sixteen chapters studies the
development down to the present time
of all the principal forms of trade and
industry. One of these chapters con-
tains a detailed account of the pres
ent Irish industrial movement and Of
the history of the Irish national trade
mark. In the last chapter Mr.. Riordan
analyses the causes he believes to be
responsible for the arrested develop
ment of Irish trade and industry.
In series Of appendices are con-
tanned statistics of various kinds i'm.
portant to full understanding of the
subject.
"The man who settles on the land
in the right way Is, with the rarest ex-
ceptions, likely to become a good
American, as are also his children"
Richard T. Ely, Of the University of
Wisconsin, says in his introduction
to DR.. Peter A. Speck's book, A Stake
IN the Land.
What this fright way" is and what
steps have been taken and still need
to be taken in order to reach il is told
in clear and colorful manner by DR..
Speek in the fifth volume of Americana
cation Studies to be published by the
Harpers. Working upon the indisputa-
Bile premise that no other tie binds g
man so closely to country as his
home-the acquisition of q piece of
land, no matter how smalI-Dr. Speek
explains how it is that comparatively
few of our immigrants have been thus
assimilated.
He tells us why it is that, even
though these immigrants when they
reach America are saturated with farm |
life and experience, SO many drift to
the cities to work in mines and facto-
ries and at pick-and- shovel Jobs; why |
it is that, instead of scattering over
the country and mingling with the ma
tive population, they have been driven
N such droves to the congestsd cities
and have formed there Little Polands,
Little Italics and ghettos, "remainins
almost untouched by American inhu-
snce."
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

The author Of that hrst-grade novel
Children of Storm has hit the trail
Of the picturesque and tried her hand
at a yarn dealing with lapse of memory,
thieves, tmpersonators and bizarre hap
penings. Of course, Rogues and Com
pany is mere thing Of joyous expert
ment, with no solid base, just baga-
tel1e of few laughs and a whiff of
the unusual. But Ida A. r. Wylie
couldn't do anything mediocre, ard she
establishes herself in this hour or two
of tangle and absurdity as successful
spinner of fiction that deals with crimi-
nails and near sinners.
A young fellow walking through a
part of London at night is hit at the
base Of the head, robbed and left un-
conscious and in filthy clothes. The
blow has affected the memory centers
and when he Is confronted by DR..
Frohlocken and a London bobby he is
unable to establish his identity. The
doctor, disciple. of Freud, has the
unknown and unnamed taken to his
lodgings near by and we are treated
to few pages that are a revel of bur-
lesque on the methods Of the psyche
analyst.
Our unfortunate hero is identified as
Count de Beaulieu, heir to millions,
and Is set on his feet in new clothes
and with new speech that ties his
tongue into silly knots. The plot be-
gins to thicken to g paste when, one
by one, peculiar persons Of strange
and dubious methods of acquiring coin
attach themselves to the supposed
count. A young woman blows in and
succeeds in getting herself married to
the bewildered De Beaulieu. Then,
presto! curtain drops and rises on a
new act with real French Count de
Beau'ieu clustering, gesticulating and
asserting that our poor bemused hero
Is enc good fake.
There is material for bright little
play or scenario for movie in this
little story. Provided one is bit of
chameleon, able to shift the colors of
hts mood on the ground of his dwelling
by burying his nose in book that
brooks no cessation in attention, he
should sequester himself with Rogers
and Company and perform his trans
formation act
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26
Joseph c. Lmcoln's Cape Cod
Couldn't Be Found on Any Map
Author of Galusha the Magnificent Declares
He Never Draws His Characters
Precisely From Life
By Joseph G. Lincoln

Author Of The Portygse Cau,ha The Magnificent etc.
tReprined from Bsntanos Book Chat,
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

written by C. N. and A M. Williamson
in collaboration. 1t resembles it's i'm
mediate predecessors in their list in
the way in which its action shifts from
England 60 America. At the outset we
meet all the prime characters on an
Atlantic liner bound for New York.
Two men, both of the same famous
British regiment, are rivals, one openly
and the other in secret, for the consid-
GRAFTON Of the charming Marise Sorel,
young actress. Lord Severance,
chap Of the Greek god@type, apparently
is inside the gate, and John Garth.
"the only American with the v. c."
is on the outside mournfully looking in.
Once in New York and with Marise
appearing alta leading theater, affairs
begin to boil. The girl receives rich
presents from an unknown admirer
and, for we have no space here for ex-
tended explanation, the giver proves
to be Garth, who, while clumsy in mo-
ton and In speech, is blessed with
dollars and with persistency. Sever
ance needs cash and makes decidedly
peculiar matrimonial. proposition to
Marise--one that ultimately involves
Garth and leads, when in execution, to
unforeseen and embarrassing situa-
tons
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

We gtop right here, for we were
about to tell more than we should of
this typically Williamson and, conse-
quently time-absorbing story. A bit
Of light fiction, we'll written and con-
tanning an anodyne to 100 in the shade
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

THE WRECK, BY Rabindranath Tagore.
Published by the Macmillan Company.
New-York tribune., 1921-06-26

n PRESUME every writer of fiction
Il is asked, over and over again, the
questions: care the characters
you portray in your stories
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-12
George Matthew Adams
Daily Talk
IMMENSELY.

Let US associate with immensitiesl
That we may become more human
woven about and soundly encased in
the spirit of humility-tho with that
self-pride and power remaining which
will not allow us to walk backwards.
How immense is the mindi And yet
how inconceivably great the assertive
immensely of a billion and more of
minds walking around on the crust of
a world so small that it is but a dot
among the millions Of other worlds
that play with it among the stars!
The psalmist was in this meditative
mood when he exclaimed: What is
man that Thou art mindful Of him,
Or the son of man that Thou xisitest
hint"
With our packs upon our shoulders
and our loads in our hearts, we travel
our separate ways. Yet we are all as
tightly bound together as the earth
itself is to us.
The immensely of the All holds US
tightly together.
We can always make another great
effort to get up when we realize that
millions of others have fallen as we
have-and risen again!
There is something inspiring about
immense tl1ings-the immense noun
tain the immense bridge, the immense
engine, the immense printing press
the immense brain of a man who I'M
derstands these imrnensities.
Immense space, endless, touching the
finger tips of eternity-who would
boast in the presence of such
thought!
And yet there is an immensely
greater even than all this-the immen-
sity of lovei Thru it all the worlds
suns, moons and stars make a path.
Centuries upon centuries it has been
so-and all you have to do to become
an inseparable part of this immense
love is to ''take hold of hands with 1t.
Then you will have become as I'M
portant as the biggest in this greatest
of immensities.