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New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
Police Problems
A Study in Methods Of
Administration

AMERICAN POLICE ADMINISTRATION.
BY d. Graper. Published by the Mac
milan Company. $500.
"HIS admirable treatise on police
administration is prepared largely
on the basis of the voluminous
material on the subject which has been
collected by the Bureau of Municipal
Research. Mr.. Graper's work is def
nitely restricted in its scope. 1t does
not attempt to deal with the routine
work of the policeman on his beat. 1t
is limited to consideration of admins
trative problems and methods.
Recognizing the fact that the human
factors are the most important in any
police system, the author is neverthe-
less convinced that the morale of any
police force can be notably stimulated
or depressed by the wise or unwise
tive officers. So, making due allow
ance for exceptions in individual cases
and avoiding dogmatism and rigidity in
his statements, he outlines the methods
most successful in the light Of avail
able information.
The work covers its field very thor
oughly. Every relevant subject is con-
sidered, from the best form of police
pensions to the desirability of close CO.
operation between the police force and
the courts.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
Upper Silesiia
German Claim to Region
Upheld

THE PROBLEM OF UPPER sILEsIA.
BY Sidney Osborne. Published by George
Allen and Unwin. London.
UR1NG the last two months Up
4 per Silesia has loomed up as a
- serious menace to the preserva-
tion of the Anglo French entente.
Following the plebiscte held on March
30, which resulted in a pro- German
ajorty for the entire province, the
Poles, under the leadership of Korfanty,
revolted against the temporary govern
ment established by the Intcr-Allied
Plcbiscite Commission and seized part
of the disputed area by force.
This instruction caused series Of
more or less formal diplomatic inter
changes between France and England,
the French government supporting the
Poles, while Lloyd George favored the
Germans. Meanwhile a certain amount
of indiscriminate fighting between
Polish, German, French, Italian and
British troops quartered in Upper
Silesia has been going on.
Mr.. Osborne strongly upholds Ger
many's claim to the entire province.
He contends that Upper Silesia is an
economic entity, which cannot be dis
rupted without running it's industrial
life. Consequently the decision of the
plebiscite should hold good for the
whole region. To the argument that
Poland is entitled to the communes
which returned pro-Polish majorities
he replies that a large German speak
ing area, properly belonging to the
province, was excluded from the vot-
ing altogether, in order to make a
Polish majority more likely; that the
Poles employed fraud and terrorism
in certain districts, and that it is i'm
practicable to detach the Polish COM
munes from the body of Upper Silesia,
to which they are bound by many eco
nomic ties.
The book is not altogether a state
ment of the authors own viewpoint.
The case for Poland is briefly stated
by Mr.. j. H. Harley; the German view
point is presented at greater length
by DIR. Walther Schotte, and an Upper
Silesian Pole enters plea for the erec-
tion of the province into an autono-
nous state. The geographical factors
in the case are made clear by five
accompanying maps.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
Strange Letters
A Tale of Crimes and
Cryptograms

THE DARK GERALDINE. BY John Fer
guson. Published by John Lane Com
pany. 81
TSHIS story may be described as a
battle of wits between Scotch
amateur detective and band of
Irish conspirators. The struggle is pro-
longed and at times rather violent, but
Scotch tenacity finally wins the day over
Celtic ingenuity.
The mystery is based upon cryptic
gram of five letters, accompanied by a
drawing, which seems to defy solution.
A number of strange and terrible
crimes are committed, apparently for
the sake of securing possession of this
curious document. Mr.. Ferguson has
written previous book entitled Steal
thy Terror, and this phrase might very
we'll be applied to the atmosphere
which he creates in The Dark Geral-
dine.
Men die mysteriously after being
haunted by unknown fears; horrible
face shows itself at window; the hero
and his friend have narrow escape
from secret enemies who pursue them
over field at night. The eerie quality
of the story is heightened by the cryp-
togram itself, which seems to yield only
nonsensical solutions to the most pains
taking study.
In the end, of course, everything, in
Guiding the secret of the cryptogram,
is cleared up. Mr.. Ferguson has writ
ten detective story Of unusual depth,
whose thrills and complications are
warranted to hold the readers atten-
tion to the last chapter. It's good
book to read-but not at 2 a. m. in a
lonely house.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
German Vistas
An English Woman on the
Rhine

WATCHING ON THE RHINE. BY Violet
r. Markham. Published by George H.
Doran Company. $3.50.
G,lNCE the end of the war there has
been a marked divergence of view
point about the treatment that ought
to be metcd out to Germany. There
has been a natural tendency to insist
that Germany should be punished to
the utmost for her crimes. On the
other hand, it is contended that Ger
many can repair the ruin wrought by
her armies only if her industrial re-
covery is facilitated, and that the fu-
turc peace of Europe depends upon re-
conciliation rather than upon punitive
measures which breed more and more
hatred. The former viewpoint is more
popular in France, the latter in Eng
land.
The author of the present book, an
English woman who spent some time
with the armies of occupation on the
Rhine, is strong advocate of the pol
icy of Cancellation. Her impressions of
the German common people are gen
orally favorable and kindly, and she
tries to show that they have not got
off by any means easily from the war
Her observation is keen and her sense
of humor is quick. The scenes Of
Rhineland life which she describes give
the reader an excellent insight into
Germany's postwar habits of thought
and action.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
A Greek Poet
Beauty and Depth in Verse
Of PalarnaS

A HUNDRED vOICES- Ana other poems
from the second part -rf Life Irnnaova-
BILE BY Kostes PaLamas. Trzzo,.sxA
with an introduction. by Aristides e.
Phoutrides- Published by Harvard Uni
versity PRESS. $3.50.
" HE publication of the first part
4 of his epic work, Life Immovable,
wor for Kostes Palamas the repu-
tation Of world poet. The appear
ance Of these excerpts from the Sec
ond part, skiIlfully edited and brill
iiantiy translated by the authors
countryman, Mr.. Phoutrides, is liter
ary event of the first importance.
Palamas cannot easily be pigeon
holed and assigned to any definite
poetic classification. His mobile and
versatile genius ranges over wide
variety of themes. He is at once ten
der and heroic, sonorous and mel
lifuous. Now he is a national bard,
proudly relating the deeds of some ira
ditional Greek hero. Again he voices
a philosophical idea that finds echoes
in all the literatures of the world.
The author is essentially romantic
and an insurgent He has always beeG
leader in the revolt against the
tyranny which the classicists and pur-
lists have attempted to exercise over
modern Greek literature. He has
drunk deeply at Pindar's we'll. He re-
vels in rich and striking imagery.
The old Greece and the new are hap
pily fused in his work. He knows that
his country has had great part, and
he believes that it will have great
future as we'll.
To read Palamas is to be tempted
to quote him continually. Very little
dross is mingled with the pure gold OF
his verse. The following passage, in
its depth and beauty, is characteristic
of his work:
And then. as now, on the most ancient
fields of Cnossos
So many thousand years ago
Women and men. roses and ntBntingsfess
Among the flowers Of May and April
And then as now, the laws and arts were
bossoming
AS wisdom blossomed in the mind;
And Minos shone upon his throne.
And then, now, tho sculptor carved on
the marble stone
A lily. All that was Is gone;
Only the lily lives.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
o alks on Men and Books Turgenev Paints Old Russia
A Trip to Russia
Dark Picture of Soviet
Regime

THE VOICE OF RUSSIA. BY NJ. Aexan-
ar schwartz. Published by E. p. Dut-
ton l. Co. 81,
AR. scHwARrz's account Of his
jVe trip to Russia with his wife in
the summer of 1920 is record
4 utter disillusionment and a bitter
Indictment of the Soviet regime. He
mefaces his work with short per-
sonal narrative. Born of an old Rus
sian military family, he served for a
time as an officer in the Cars army.
Compelled to fee from Russia on ac-
count Of his radical ideas, he came to
america, where he entered the labor
movement and married Jesse Molle. a
we'll known Socialist party worker In
he West.
Schwartz and his wife finally decided
10 90 to Russia in order to investigate
the actual conditions of life in the new
Socialist republic, about which they
had heard so many conflicting reports.
From the moment they crossed the
rsthonan frontier into Russia they
we're shocked and disappointed by near
Iy everything they saw. They found
hunger, disease and terrible suffering
everywhere. Schwartz, who was famil-
Jar with the Russian language, resent
ed the action of the Soviet authorities
IN giving him guides and interpreters,
step which he interpreted as an effort
to show him only the rosy side of the
situation.
After the conclusion of the sessions
Of the second congress of the Third In
ssrnatioRale, which Schwartz and his
wife attended as visitors, they were
both arrested by order Of the Bolshe-
vk Extraordinary Commission and kept
in prison for several months. Mrs.
Schwartz died in Esthonia shortly after
they had been released, and Schwartz
ascribes her death to the mental and
physical agonies which she endured in
prison.
Of all the books which have been
written about Russia this gives the
darkest picture OF the Bolshevik gov
ernment. Mr.. Schwartz sees in the
Soviet state not genuine working
class government, but bloody and dis
orderly tyranny, which supports q
small class of favored bureaucrats in
luxury and condemns the great major-
ity Of the Russian people to life of
hopeless misery.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17

sian in his melancholy, in his roman
ticism, in his generous enthusiasms.
1t is scarcely an exaggeration to say
that Turgenev's work represents a com. d.
bination of the best characteristic ele-
ments of French and Russian litera-
ture. R:s novels and stories are con-
ceived with French technique and ami
mated with Russian warmth and depth.
He is sort of Tolstoy and Flaubert
rolled into one.
Turgency was a cosmopolitan in his
life and in his work, but he is always
most at home in the household of an
old-fashioned Russian country squire.
BY birth he belonged to this class him
self; he knew intimately it's habits of
thought and life, and he is at his best
in depicting, always with a touch OF
gentle humor, it's characteristic foibles
and idiosyncracies. The figures of the
old gentleman who literally, if prosaic-
ally, compares his daughters musical
trills with "a patter Of peas" and of
the land owner who responds to every
observation with a cheerful bravo
are two of the finest character sketches
in the present volume.
Turgenev is mastery word painter.
He often commands admiration by the
sheer beauty Of his language. The fol
lowing night scene is as rich in i'm
agery, as pulsating with suggestions Of
hidden romance as any poem:
"The whole sky was spangled with
stars; their soft blue radiance flowed
mysteriously from on high; they
seemed gazing with gentle attention at
the faraway earth. Little, delicate
clouds foated now and again across
the moon and for an instant changed
its peaceful light to vague but lumin
Gus mist. Everything was
slumbering The air, warm and fra
grant, did not stir; only from time to
time it quivered as water quivers al
the fail Of twig. There was feel.
ing of languor, of yearning in it
bent over the fence; a rec
field poppy lifted its straight stall
above the rank grass before me and E
great round drop Of night dew gilt
tered with dark lirht in its open cup
Everything was slumbering, everything
lay luxuriously and seemed to be gaz-
ing upwards, waiting without stirring
Such purple passages as this help tc
explain the conviction of George Moore
himself the author of many similar
brilliant descriptive passages - tha
Turgenev is the greatest of all novel
lists.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17

n Englishman with shrewd,
happy face and pair of
Quizsical eyes behind big round glasses.
Jeffery Farnol was in the states to
write up the Dempsey Carpenter fight
for London daily and, on his own
hook, to revivify memories of old
days when he was for time resident
OF Manhattan. Here is chance, we
thought, to get some mental reactions,
so they call them to-day, Of Briton
who knows America we'll enough to
give his considered remarks some
weight. So many of those fellows
from over the sea trot through the
United States on tour of rapid
monocle-inspection, and then present
their opinions published in terms that
frequently amuse or vex.
Farnol, after brief five minutes of
"reminiscences of East Side doings in
matters political tinged with methods
Ptolemaic, got down to brass tacks, or
cigars with his advance "dope" on the
fight, then in futurity. He ran true to
form. The author of The Broad High
way. The Amateur Gentlemen, and that
corking story Of this year, Black Bart
lemy'sN Treasure, soon to have a gor-
geous sequel in Martin Conisby's Ven
geance, had the battle predicted to a
turn.
We gave him rein while he swung
his right fist over the remnants of a
steak, and told us of Dempsey's
Stance" and mighty forearm. There
was suggestion of sword-play in that
extended hand and we had swift
vision Of certain scenes in John
Buchan's late excellent book, The
Path of the King. We asked Farnol
for his views of Buchan, Rafael
Sabatini and other modern spinners
of yarns of fighting. The seventh
episode in Buchan's novel, if that ne
sequence of related events can be
termed a novel, was in our mind, with
its colorful portrayal of turmoil and
death in Paris on the night of the
st. Barth olomew massacre. Haven It
read it yet" said Farnol, "Whats your
idea Of the best story of the French
Revolution 2" We named Weyman' s
The House of the Wolf. Good, but
not up to Count Hannibal" came across
the table.
1t was an easy step from the days
of the Huguenot- Catholic feud to the
Paris of the tempest hours of the
French Revolution. Farnol scored
Baroness Orczy for her historical in
accuracies and praised Sabatini, whose
Scaramouche ranks at the top of the
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
The Great Tarzan
Further Adventures of
Famous Ape-Man

Rice burroughs. Published by 4. G. Nc
Curg & Co. Chicago. sl9o.
CN OMETIMES we have felt trifle
impatient in reading about the ex-
ploits of Tarzan, the mighty ape
man. His victories seemed to come too
easily; it appeared that the cards were
stacked in his favor. He seemed as in
vincible in battle as Jack Demspey.
One gained the impres sion that only a
creature which possessed the offensive
and defensive powers of ahelephant,
rhinoceros and a quick firing >machine
gun would stand a ghost of a Chance
against him.
In the present book, however, Mr.
Burroughs puts his hero through a true
baptism of fire The wild men and
weird monsters whom Tarzan encoun-
some mythical jungle regions of Central
Africa compel him to extend himself to
the limit, as sporting writer might
say The ape-man carries off his
laurcls,to be sure, but he fairly earns
them.
Tarzan takes an active part in some
local tribal feuds, fights his way
through snarling menaGerie of ami
mails, mostly of prehistoric size and
ferocity, and wins the hand of beau
tiful American girl who has been
trapped in the jungle. One has to ad-
mire over and over again Mr.. Bur-
roughs's remarkable ingenuity in de
picting so realistically the habits 4
characteristic of the strange beasts
which crowd his pages.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
Caring for Pets

YOUR DOG AND YOUR CAT. BY Roy II.
spaulding Published by D. Appletcal &
Co $3.50.
A SICK dog or cat often causes moro
y worry than sick human being,
for the diseases of animals are fire.
quently difficult to diagnose and cure.
Mr.. Spaulding, who is head of the AMI
nal Hospital of New York City, has
placed all owners of pets under an in
estimable obligation by setting forth
in clear, understandable language the
best means of keeping dogs and cats
healthy and of caring for them when
they are sick.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
A Battle of Wits
Romance of New York
Underworld
CHILDREN OF THE WHIRLWIND. By
Leroy Scott. Published by Houghton-
Mifflip Cor1,Dany

CHILDREN OF THE WHIRLWIND BY
Leroy Scott. Published by Houghton-
MiTlin Company. 81.
TNHERE is an old moral saying that
the way of the transgressor is
hard, but Mr.. Scott's novel would
seem to show that the way of the re-
formed criminal is harder. Larry Brain
ard, having served term in Sing Sing,
decides that honesty is the best policy
for his future life. He refuses to take
part in any more swindling operations
and he Indignantly rejects the pro-
posal of a police official to turn in
former.
Thereupon he falls into disfavor with
police and gunmen alike. The police
attempt to arrest him on a trumpcd-up
charge, and gang of criminals, con-
vinced that he really is a police spy,
attempt to settle accounts with him by
less regular methods.
The story develops more and more
complications, and Mr.. Scott shows his
usual ability in improvising dramatic
situations. The battle of wits is keen
and fortune shifts first to one side, then
to the other. Finally the leading dra-
mats persona are collected in a hotel
suite and the author brings his story
to it's logical conclusion with swift,
relentless strokes.
Rapid in action, faithful in back
ground, clever in plot, Mr.. Scott's novel
tands out as leader among the sum-
mer fiction.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
Life of Strindberg

STRINDBERG THE MAN. BY Gust a (
Uddgren. Translated by Axel Johan
uppva!l. Published by the Four Seas
Company, Boston. 81.
GTRINBDERG'S complex, paradoxical
~ and many-sided personality Is here
interpreted in a friendly spirit by a
competent critic. The book is ana
lytical rather than descriptive in char
acter. 1t undertakes to make psyche
logical valuation of the much discussed
and nuch abused Swedish dramatist.
Mr.. Uddgren's worl, is reminiscence as
we'll as biography, for the author knew
Strindberg intimately and describes a
number of conversations with him.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
Peru to China
Garac~ings From Globe in
Book of Verse

LEGENDS &c ;1s,,:s Z BY ss,y Amy LEVEL Published
A MY LOWELL is not resident,
~ fixed on the soil of her own
United States. She proves her
ability to go a-questing on any Of the
four great winds in her Legends, a
little volume iridescent as a fragment
of Ostian glass. In this recent collec-
tion of new voicings of old tales and
freshly evoked renderings of moods
native to lands remote and as unlike
as alpha and omega, she reveals all the
remarkable tone quality of her pre-
vious writings. with the introduction
of hanging curtains of background of
exotic warmth.
Of our American poets Of to-day she
personality in that of an alien people.
The result is strange and striking, a
foreign episode or series of chained
events phrased in our tongue, but mo-
tivated by happenings or moods utter
ly beyond our pales. William Rose
Benet evinces the same quality Of
adaptability, but not to the measure
of her completeness. Read the open
ing poem in Legends, From Yucca
to Passion Vine," with its setting
laid in the hazy years of the Incas
of Peru, and you will revel in it's
shifting shades of color. Here are two
curiously fortunate lines:
"Sheets Of lightning snarling from rae
ing purple clouds
And rain roaring down the hot walls
of copper sky"
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
Turgenev's Stories Depict
Russian Aristocratic Life
Romance and Realism Fused in Four Newly
Translated Stories of Russian
Authors

THE TWO FRIENDS AND oTHE~
STORIES. BY Ivan Turgenev Trans
lated by Constance Garnett Published by
Tho Macmillan Co. %.
HESE four newly translated
stories Of Ivan Turgeney re-
IL veal the great Russian novelist
in varying stages of his de-
yelopment There is an especially
marked contrast between the first Of
the stories. The Two Friends, and its
successor, Father Alexey's Story. The
former was written in 1858: the latter
in 1877. The Two Friends gives a
superbly realistic sketch Of cross sec
tion Of the life of the old Russian
aristocratic class the landowners.
Father Alexey's Story is the fantastic
and mystical tale of a priests son who
is possessed Of a devil.
But, while Turgenev's manner AMI
themes may change, certain qualities
Of his literary art are permanent and
imperIshable. There is first of all the
crystal clearness Of his style. In all
the volumes Of his collected writings
it Ia doubtful il one could find half
a dozen muddy or obscure passages.
This quality he owes to his French
friends, rather than to his countrymen.
At the same time he is typically Rus
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
Mexico's Viewpoint

THE MEXICAN OIL SITUATION IN
NUTSHELL. BY Javier Lara. Pub
lished by the Spanish American Pub
fishing Company.
rE7HE case of the Mexican government
against the foreign oil investors is
briefly summarized in this little PAM
phlet. The author. Mexican citizen,
contends that the alleged eonfscatory
provisions of the new Mexican Consti-
tuition simply restate an old principle
CT Mexican and Spanish law which was
arbitrarily set aside by Porfrio Diaz.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
Puritan Verse

THE MARBLE HOUSE AND OTHER
POEMS BY Ellen NJ. II. Gates. Pub
lished by G. Y. Putnams Sons.
rE,HESE poems, in their absorption in
d the mysteries of life and death, in
their constant consciousness OF the
presence of Divinity, distinctly reveal
tho spiritual sources of Purtanism,
from which the author, New England
woman, derives her primary inspira-
tion.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
('HARLES HANSON TOWNE, aohose meav book Loof1g
Do0n Long Island (Centwy) gives delightful picture
of some of the secluded mooks ON the Island
" Professor Nicholson. Marks main

by Professor Nicholson. Marks main
premises and conclusions are discussed
and dismissed IS historically inaccu-
rate. economically unsound and NOR
ally indefensible. MARX" says the
author, "is the Mad Mullah of social
lists. Marxism in practice On ma
ticnal scale becomes Leninism." At the
same time Professor Nicholson recog-
nlzes the existence Of certain defects
and evils in the capitalist order. He
IL especially forceful in his condemna-
ton Of the tolerance which was gen.
orally accorded to war profteers.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
Bolshevisn a Menace

OUT OF THEIR OWN MOUTHS BY
Samuel Gompers and William English
Walling. Published by L. P. Dutton &
Co. So
rENHE authors have compiled a large
number of extracts, largely from
Soviet sources, designed to show that
Eolshevism is menace to democracy
and liberty. The work may be taken
as an authoritative expression of
American labor's aversion to Bolshevik
theories and practices.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
American PRINCIPLES

UNITED STATES CITIZENSHIP. BY
George Preston Mains Published by the
Abingdon Press. 81.
MIR. MAINS declares his enduring
faith in Americas capacity to
survive and prosper, despite the men,
aces to national welfare involved in ig-
norant and corrupt voters, the exces-
sive demands of labor and the plots of
alien revolutonists.
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
A Critique of Mars

THE REVIVAL OF MARNIsM BY J.
shield Nicholson. Published by E. =.
Eutton & Co, S2.25
X ARL MARX, high priest Of scien
: : tiic Socialism, is roughly handled
New-York tribune., 1921-07-17
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