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The New York herald., 1921-07-24
Building houses and character
LOW CEILINGS. BY w. Douglas
Newton. d. Appleton & Co.

Low CEILINGS. BY w. Douglas
Newton. d. Appleton & Co.
THAT an architect should use
term of his profession, such
- as '1ow ceilings" to typify
the SNUG sheltered attitude toward
life Of his own particular group Of
English folk is not only natural but
very fitting under the circumstances
set forth in Mr.. Newton's pleasant
and engaging tale of the world war
and it's aftermaths. The moral of this
story Is that the battlefields of France
taught Donald Harbour. a budding
architect, and Sir Henry Keenan, of
the Sussex landed gentry that SER
vice TO their fellow men was the very
best thing they could take a hand at
after the war was done If they wished
to help solve the difficult social prob
lens born Of the great conflict. AS
Keenan, put II in one of their many
talks at the front:
'All the same it's going to be a bit
of a problem, this after the war busi-
ness. The clash will come when peo-
pie expect Tommy to carry on Just az
he did before the war They'll expect
him to fall back into his old slot. And
he won't He's had look at the larger
life, and he means to have some of
It. That seems to me the point from
which we've got to start out. We've
got to try 10 give the laborer not
what we think he ought to have, but
what he wants himself--or as much
of that as we can give. Take the farm
laborer now--is he going back?" II
was decided that he was not. And
as to "the younger chaps. without
children" Keenan, and Harbour came
TO the conclusion that "they are out
for the good time pure and simple;
so are many Of the older men, for the
matter Of that. You never hear them
talk about work the Jobs they are
going into when the wars over. This
reconstruction stuff leaves them cold.
They talk of the good time coming
to them when they are out of the
army: sprees, high old times: women.
beer and song; gorgeous mikes on
their gratuities. They rarely talk
about work. nearly always about pleas
ure and case and Incidence And they
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They did not wait

THE DEATH OF SOCIETY BY Romer
Wilson. George II. Doran Company.
THE setting of this story which
is called "a novel of to-mor-
l. row." is in Norway in the dis
trict of South Trondhjem. The de-
scriptions are so vivid, so weirdly
colorful, that one feels he is gazing
upon a series of paintings.
Rane Smith, young Englishman,
has been travelling through the coun-
try on horseback when he comes upon
the estate of "Rosendal" and seeks
shelter for the night. Here lives Karl
Ingman, a critic of Ibsen, with his
beautiful wife and two grown daugh-
ters. Ingman is "siXty-four and past
the death mark" as he says. while his
wife is twenty years younger. Ing
man and the two daughters, Hide
garde, who is engaged to be married,
and Nathalia, the younger, speak Eng
lish; Rosa the wife, speaks no English
and Smith hardly any Norwegian.
Speaking of his early devotion to the
great dramatist Ingman said to
Smith:
Il followed him wherever he went,
and my name was made because had
the boldness to seize Ibsen himself and
often sat in his house. When / was
thirty-seven / went to Chiistlallia
My mind was all the time disorderly
and fermented. l thought / had a
philosophy l had none. / thought I
had principle of criticism. 1 had not.
i was homeless, wifeless, without
ideals" Then he met and married
Rosa Christensen.
Both Ingman and Rosa speak con-
tinually of "Samfundets tod" the
death of society. He asks Smith if he
thinks Rosa Is mad, and continues: 81
think SO, but only mad accord
ing to society, that class of persons
who have code of behavior and are
educated without acquiring knowl-
edge. They say I have driven her
mad"
Sometimes the reader wonders if
they are not all mad, If it is not some
fantastical dream
Immediately Smith falls deeply and
wholly in love with Rosa. In answer
to his declaration she lays:
you love me. and you love fear
lessly and honestly. What shall say?
Am / to send you away? Am to say
Remain, remain? AS l to say, Wait;
perhaps o-morrow-next year?
might as well say next life. How
should l act If there were no such
thing as Society? know how should
act Must I wait to do right until the
Death Of Society? / owe nothing to
either man or woman. My name? My
husbands name?-those belong to So
ciety. Is your love wicked when 1t
springs straight from your heart-my
gladness wicked which springs fresh
from mine? Whom shall we hurt? I
will not leave Ingman, because he is
an old man, nor my daughters, be-
cause they are young; but If I give
you a day Of love, and again a day,
perhaps, whom shall hurt?"
Later. at the close of their day Of
love, when Smith must leave the next
morning to return to England, she
says. Even If you go, you will never
leave me. I shall now never be alone
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By PANAME.

ssr or 'ssa sss.s' St 'es 's4 sss ':' n"
thor of "Salt Lake" (Le Lac
Sale Albin Michel, Paris). Certain OF
his rivals and critics find that he has
committed the objectionable literary
sin-success! First it was "Koenigs-
mark" (Emile Paul, Paris), a story
of adventure, which pleased almost
everybody Then came "Atlantide,'
winner of the 1919 prize of the Acad-
emy. These were followed by Pour
Don Carlos and a volume of poems,
"Suppliantes."
Pierre Benoit has been accused of
plagiarism-of taking the idea of
L'Atlantide from Rider Haggard, and
that of his latest story, salt Lake"
from Victor Hugo.
l assure you he has talent enough
of his own. AS for the plagiarism.
judge for yourself. Here is the out
line of salt Lake."
1t is June, 1856, when we meet An
mabel Lee-is that a plagiarism from
Poe daughter Of an Irish insurgent,
who was executed for a too enthusias-
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Is happiness in
the pot of gold?

THE GOLDEN GOAT BY Paul Arene.
Translation and Note by Frances Will
son Huard. George II. Doran Com
pany.
" her we'll considered and sym
pathetic translation of this charm
ing and romantic novel OF Provence
by one Of the Midi's most admired
story tellers Nine Huard has done a
service to readers of fiction In the
English language and paid becoming
compliment to the writer. of whom ne
less an authority than Anatole Franc
said: IT have never read n modern
look which conveyed to me as much
as did The Golden Goat the idea oil
antique beauty, of Greek poetry in
its first flavor, its fresh newness."
The tale is based on legend of hid.
den treasure, that primeval lure oil
men. But in this romance two lovers
found perversity tangling their lives
when the pot Of gold was almost with.
in their grasp, and they threw an
their hopes of riches overheard lest
their ship Of happiness should founder
The story Is one of the minor classics
of French literature. and Nine. Huard
has given renewed proof of her lit
erary skill and pervasive sympathy
with the arts and genius of the French
character in this translation. II is
called IAN Arabian Nights tale OF
buried treasure and romantic love-,
and Il should while away summer
leisure In the most delightful way.
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THERE are house parties and
house parties. Rainy Week"
developed novel one. Few
hostesses would so seriously and anx-
iously consult with their husbands on
the eight who should be chosen to
visit the house during the second week
in May as does Mary Delville with her
Jack. 1t would be mo lazy, purring,
reunion of old friends" but it would be
"the deliberate and relentlessly planned
assemblage of such distinctly diverse
types of men and women as prodded
by unusual conditions of weather,
domicile AMI propinquity will best act
and react upon each other in terms
inevitably dramatic, though most
naively unrehearsed!"
With this idea in mind they deliber-
ately choose "a bride and groom, a
very celibaSe person, some one with a
past, some one with a future, a bore
and one who would combine the two
parts of a singing voice and May
girl That made the party seven, but
instead of bringing along some stray
pet which was a favorite weakness of
the May girl she took under her pro-
tecting wing the Drunken Stranger
who later became known to them as
Allen John. He briefly described him
self to his benefactors in the words,
II buried my wife-and unborn
yesterday. In a strange land
among strangers IL" And ap-
parently he he'd been robbed, for his
pockets contained no valuables. So
the eight quests were gathered under
the roof, and none but the hostess and
host knew that they had planned for
the weather to be of the rainiest
imaginable during that week And it
was!
The action and reaction OF tempera-
ments upon each other are more than
interesting. One would hardly believe
that into one short week could be
crowded such fun, such tragedy, such
a display Of human nature. The life
Of the party is the young May girl
who suddenly decides to become en-
gagged to The three young eligibles at
the house party. She is to marry a
man old enough to be her father when
she is past her eighteenth birthday
and the youth in her longs for the
engagement and happiness of young
love which this marriage will COM
pletely close out Of her life. But cir
cumstances change everything Her
mother awakes to the responsibility
and claims her daughter. Allen John
awakes from his stupor to the lowell
ness of the May girl-after she has
proposed to him--and in the end takes
her and her mother, together with an
other who has influenced the life of
the person with the past, to his ranch
in Montana.
Oh, 1t Is very interesting; there Is
something besides lain falling in tor
ents. There are broken hearts mended
a newly married couple safely launched
and radiating happiness. AS for the
host and hostess, they have few cares
after they nave made the selection of
guests. Could a week of rain be so
joyous? We think so.
The New York herald., 1921-07-24

Arrange nents have just been made
by the Frederick A. Stokes Company
for the publication in America of "Mr
Punchs History of Modern England. -
The history will be brought out in
four volu mes, two published this fall
and two next spring. These volumes
will be illustrated with pictures taken
from Punch.
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Il
Books Barbour. We really
don't know whether 1t is
three books or six books year which
Ralph Henry Barbour comes to bat
with, but he is certainly the Babe
Ruth of the boys book field Further
more, we understand from various
trade notes that he has more than a
few fans. He sometimes does a little
pinch hitting with other publishers.
This time he is bound to hit a
homer" with his Three Base Ben
son." 1t is story round the school
career of a small town" Southern boy
known to many as Jerry Benson. Jerry
hits the fashionable school plainly at
tired and uncouth in appearance. He
finds himself up against trouble for a
while, but through the good fellowship
Of a roommate, Tom Hartley, he pulls
through, both in his studies and in
athletics. It's a story for boys that
will have to be read rather than be
told in order to get the enjoyment out
Of it.
Turning to Elmer r. Gregor's "The
White Wolf" we find ourselves hunt
ing and fishing, living India life and
legends, and with stirring deeds to
strain our Imagination to a high ten
sion. The Delaware tribe is threatened
with famine, their hunters returning
from a vain expedition. that of roam
ing the forests and plains in search OF
e. L. JOI Il,
out the tribe that Mauwallauwin. the
hunting moon would soon appear, and
hasty preparation was made to greet
him AS the great yellow hunting
moon rose slowly in view the aged
medicine man lighted the pipe and
puffed the smoke toward the eastern
sky. After tho pipe stem had been
extended as an invitation for Mau-
wallauwin to smoke and every act OF
devotion had been observed he turned
10 the Delawares and asked them TO
Join him in the song of welcome:
H. here Is the great Mauwallauwin.
II is Mauwallauwin, our brother.
IL Is Mauwallauwin. the great hunter.
Mauwallauwin has come to help us.
o Great Mauwalauwin, take pity on us.
o Great Hunter. send us much meat.
But one cold night before the Great
Hunter had time TO respond to his
firm believers a wild. haunting cry OF
the White Wolf was heard over the
valley 1t was interpreted by the
Delawares as a sign of disaster to all
who stayed where they had heard the
cry. The tribe decided TO remove the
camp and all departed except for Run
ming Fox. son Of the Chief and Spotted
Deer who remained behind TO hunt
and kill the great White Wolf. The
story then takes up the adventures
Of their search and combat with their
enemies of old, the MohawlSs. 1t Is a
Lood Indian tale that any boy will
relish.
The New York herald., 1921-07-24

That the English reading public is
interested in American fiction is proved
through tho fact made known by Har-
per e. Brothers that royalties have
been paid on English editions of over
100000 of Zane Grey's books.
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Book Exc h an ge

HIGHEST CASH PRICES PAID FOR
complete libraries and small lots OF books.
Encyclopedia Britannica. II edition, Book
Of knowledge and sets OF standard author,
particularly wanted Calls made anywhere.
THoMs a. ERoN, INC. "a Barclay St.. N. Y.
fhons sO62 Cortiandt.
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The Oxford University Press will
publish Jhortly a collection of verse
written by women from the sixteenth
century to the present day.
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r. Mulford. Chicago: A. c. McClurg
& Co.
n TR. MULTORD has endeared
lNl himself to all who love
thrills by his supergun men.
Another book in which Hopalong Cas-
sidy and his pals appear is sure to be
very welcome The cronies of the Bar
20 Three run foul of Bill Trask a
crooked deputy sheriff They discover
that with the aid of other renegades
and some Mexicans he is rustling cat
tie by wholesale. Needless TO say. their
quick wits, their clever team work
and their quickness on the draw en-
able Hopalong and his friends to ex-
tricate themselves from danger, but
suspense is sustained, although we
can easily guess what the outcome
will be.
In this story Mr.. Mulford has de-
veloped a new skill in depicting seem
cry, and his picture OF the grewsome
gruelling desert with the gila mon
sters and rattlesnakes is unusually
vivid and convincing.
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Hopalong Cassidy
and his friends

THE BAR-20 THREE by Claren e
r. Mulford. Chicago: A. c. McClure
AZ Co,
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Ralph Henry Barbour.
Two for boys
to choose from

THREE BASE BENSON. By Ralph
Henry Barbour. d. Appleton & Co.
THE WHITE WOLF. BY Elmer Russell
Gregor. d. Appleton & Co.
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r. MULFORD has endeared
himself to all who love
thrills by his supergun men.
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"This story is an artistic achievement
fit to rank even beside its authors un-
forgettable 'Nocturne. - New York
Times. Net, S1.9O
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BRIDE AND GROOM
CELIBATE PERSON
AND A MAY GIRL
RAINY WEEK. BY Eleanor Halo
well Abbott. r. p. Dutton & Co.
Reviewed by
VIVIAN RADCLIFFE.

are house parties and
house parties, Rainy Week"
developed a novel one. Few
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THE LITTLE RED FOOT

The most distinguished piece of work
Mr.. Chambers has done. A splendid tale
in the manner of Cardigan" Net, $1.9O
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THE PATH OF THE KING

'Of a distinction as marked as their in
genuity, so happily has Mr.. Buchan
caught and sustained the individual at
mosphere. Transcript.
Net $50
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PAWNED

"Most people like a thrilling detective
or mystery story. This is one OF the
best."-New York Times. Net. $1.90
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THE EDUCATION OF ERIC LANE
RoSALEEN AMONG THE ARTIST

A worthy successor to "Invincible Min
ME" by one of the most original Amer
lean novelists. Net, $f.9O
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-28
The Mclean House, Where the Sur
render of General Lee Took Place.

Yank. "The general hollered back,
The whole army of Northern Virginia
has surrendered. You get to go home,
boysr
"Thenwe started to celebrate. There
were from sixty thousand to one hun
dred thousand Union soldiers around
about. Every flag in the army was
unsheathed. We wrapped our officers
in the colors, put them on stumps and
made them make speeches. All the
din and noise was terrific"
I'VE We're quiet after IL o'clock, >"
offered the A. E. F., but some of us
got into Paris later"
But most all were wild to go home"
the old Yank said, while the young
one nodded vigorously and sympa-
thetically, THAT was April. After
the grand review in Washington
was discharged in July"
"Some speed" commented the A.
E. F., enviously. Say, that's the way
to end a war."-Kansas City Star.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-28
Arnnistice Day,
1865 and 1918
| z=4s-z@du- J
O 2SSsgN-@

Grandfathers, fathers, uncles and
great uncles OF the A. Il. +. remind
those youngsters that there Is an
other date beside November IL that
is bright on the calendars of war. It's
Sunday, April 8, 1865, the anniversary
Of the surrender of Gen. Robert Il. Lee
commander of the Confederate Armies
What was that "armistlcc day or
rather that unconditional surrender
day, fifty-slx years ago like? What
happened there at Appomattox Court
House. Va. when the Gray gave In 10
the Blue? The khaki would like to
know. Let John NJ. Surface, one time
elghteen-year- private In the Sew
enth Indiana volunteer infantry, and
entitled to wound chevron for 4
bullet hole through the right shoul-
der, received in the Battle of the Will
derness, tell about 1t.
|. at was Sunday, April 8, 1860, and
n fine day." Mr.. Surface said. Just
. one week before we'd captured Rich
mond. the cupital of the Confederacy.
From there, we'd fought a rearguard
action with the retreatlng Confeder-
/ ates 20 miles west to AppomattoX Court
House. We were in II sparsely settled,
rolling country, tobacco plant and not
much else sprouting in its red-black
soil. We camped near the little town
. and stacked arms. 1t was an out-of-
/ the-way place, but great things hap
pen at little places"
"Sure, Senls was that kind of
joint" agreed the youngster from the
A. e. f.
eve were encamped along an old
washed out road, all of the regiment
that hadn't been left at the Wilder
ness and other places" the older vet
eran continued. Across a ravine
through the timber, we could see the
old Mclean house. We had seen gen
erals and their staffs entering it and
coming out all day and we believed
we'd seen flags of truce"
"Bet the camp was chuck full of
rumors," the A. E. F. ventured.
at was" admitted the former priv
ate of the Seventh Indiana. But
finally we saw group of horsemen
trotting up. | recognized the old for
age cap and the hook nose of Gen.
George Meade. commander Of the
Army of the Potomac. We hollered
Hey, general, have they surren-
dered?"
What! All you buck privates hol-
Tered, Hey, general?'"
Certainly, we were old campaign
ers together" replied the old-time
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-28
Suresnes, near Paris,

dun (Gare de rEsD, then to Dun
Doulcon; American Red Cross trans
portation for relatives from Dun
Doulcon, commonly known as Dun-sur-
Meuse. Here the Red Cross has
opened a hotel with sleeping accommo-
dations for 20 persons aud a dining
room.
At Thiaucourt, reached by convey
ances from Toul or Verdun, there are
between 1900 and 5000 graves. From
Paris by train (Gara de PEst) to Toul
or Verdun.
More than 1900 New Workers who
took part in the smashing of the Hin
denburg line are buried at Bony,
reached by conveyance furnished by
the American Red Cross to relatives
from st. Quentin. From Paris to ST.
Quentin by train from the Care du
NOrd.
Three miles from Soissons is the
cemetery of Ploisy, with 1000 Ameri-
can graves. From Paris to SoissOns
by train from the Care du Nord.
At BelIeau Wood.
At Belleau Wood, reached from
Paris by train to Chateau Thierry and
from Chateau Thierry by Red Cross
bus [service for relatives only, a cem-
etery of about 2,7OO graves. There is
Red Cross hut at the cemetery.
At Fismes there is located perhaps
the most beautiful American ceme-
terry in France. plot of LOO graves
Behind 1t roll the gllstening hills, now
hn M
red poppies. bluehellS and white dais-
les unfurl the flag Of France beside
the Stars and Stripes; before IT,
nestled In the valley, are the splendid
ruins of torn white stone houses,
schools, stores and churches, crum-
bling, pulverized dust and broken rock.
Fismes is reached direct by train from
the Care de lEst, Paris.
The cemetery at Toul is a ten-min-
ute walk from the railroad station.
Tou is reached from Paris by train
direct from the Care de FEST. There
are more than 1,200 graves.
Near Paris, at Suresnes, there are
more than a thousand graves. This
is 45-mnutes ride by train from
Paris. Take the st. Cloud car and
change at Suresnes.
A cemetery of nearly 1000 graves is
located at Seringes, reached from
Paris by train to Fere-en-Tardenois,
from Fere-en-Tardenois by auto or by
train to Chateau Thierry, and from
Chateau Thierry by Red Cross bus
(for relatives only.
At Lambezelles, reached by auto
from Brest (from Paris to Brest by
train from the Care Montparnasse),
"A cemetery of about 1,S00 graves.
The isolated grave of Lieut.. Quentin
Roosevelt is four miles from the rail-
road station at Coulonges, near Fere-
en-Tardenois, which Is reached by
train from the Care de l'Est, Paris.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-28
DAYS True sianifIcance.

Following the thought expressed by
Lincoln. at Gettysburg, the true signi-
ficance of Memorial day is rededica-
tion of the lives and purposes of liv-
ing Americans to those ideals of gov
ernment for which so many of our
cherished sleepers have paid "the last
full measure of devotion" ~
We can smother their resting places
with flowers-it costs little. We can
listen to sonorous eulOgies of their
deeds and their supreme sacrifices.
But the highest tribute we can pay
the glorious dead is to take from their
hands 1.-The falling torch and carry
it aloft.-Chicago Herald and Exam
iner.
The Colorado statesman., 1921-05-28

Describing IL visit paid last year
to the battlefields of France, Faith
Hunter Dodge wrote as follows in the
New York Tribune:
Here's flowers for you" wrote
Shakespeare.
"Here's flowers for you" repeat
americans and French, lavish in their
giving for Our Boys Memorial day.
Here's flowers for you" echo the
sun-kissed hills and valleys of France,
never more prodgal of blossoms. And
every American soldiers grave in
France is heaped high with wreaths
and flowers on Memorial day. Daffo-
dis in wild profuson, blue iris, red
poppies and peonies, sweet-smelling
white syringas and pale primrose find
their places among the numberless
wreaths of immorteles.
Flowers Everywhere.
From slimiest shell holes and poi
sonous trenches myriad violets are
springing; they seem to have sought
each sacred spot where soldier
fell. Down in deserted dugouts we
pick up bits of shrapnel and under
meath find violets and anemones! I!
They thrust their petals through the
wreckage of crushed and crumblng
stones and plaster of ruined houses;
they hug the twisted rails of aban-
doned Zeppelin-torn railroad tracks
they wind their slight stems about
l~rbed wire and peek through the
fallen, tattered, torn remnants of
camouflage. The sobs which rise un-
hidden in the throat of every visitor
to this holy ground are stfled at the
sight of them; for they bring an in
disputable air of beauty, purity, peace
hope and happiness to this desolate,
devastated, striken land.
Recently l went back to the battle
fields of Verdun, St Mihiel, the Ar
gonne, Belleau Woods and Soissons.
there | found ruin, desolation, deStruc-
tion indeScrlbabe-and ashes.
But the pussy willows We're in bud
beside the road, and percentage thrust
their snowy petals through broken
stone and rusted iron. Out in the
American cemetery at Ploisy every
grave had its own fresh. dew-moist-
ened roses: on the graves at Juvigny
were hyacinths and lilies: in Belleau
woods buttercups paved the ground
with gold and in the Argonne violets
and anemones hlossomed unafraid.
Where 500 Americans Lie.
In the little white-cross cemetery
at Verdun, where lie FIVE hundred
khaki-cl clad heroes under the Stars and
Stripes anemoneS. narcissuS, hyacinths
and lilies are swinging in the breeze,
cba66inp thpir pprfump like CpnSprS in
temple.
Children trudged daily out to Ro-
magnc. their black aprons filled with
flowers and plants which their loving
hands transpianted to the American