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America is full of Marys

this Ammo Domini 1921-take my word
for it--I meet them constantly in my
own generation and am happy to in
dorse them as documents. But I can't
say as much for Mother and Father
Blair-they seem to have been caught
in a mist They belong to a novel;
Mary and her set belong to life.
1t is said that Dodo instantly recog-
nized herself in the book, and she was
identified by London society. The
maker of the "Dodo" of the book tells
a different account of how she sprang
into life from a composite view of
several women Miss Kelley would
probably say the same thing of her
delightful Mary" And the truth
seems to be that several hundred
Marys graduated this spring from
girls private schools in New York 1t
makes no difference in the readers
interest whether Mary" is one or
several, the great point is that she is
triumph IN portraiture.
Light as the book is--huffy in places
1T is written with fine purpose.
Ideals abound In it, somewhat reduced
in stature to conform to little Mary's
own, but how courageously the quaint
nineteen-year-o older fights for them.
There is genuine humor of the young,
unconscious, irresistible kind. fixed in
the spontaneous amber of the authors
style, which exactly suits her charac-
ters and in the medium-the pale,
translucent yellow-youths disappont-
ments, youths hopes, ambitions and
desires-is preserved. The smoke of
life may iarken the ends, but the CEN
tre will Keep these golden CLEANS. The
book tells an old story, but what of
that? 1t tells it alEover in new way.
In the end Mary finds beauty in her
man, who IS the "only one for her."
How true to the life of the minute is
her cry: "He's-he's beautiful"
A good many novels have started
their cruise this spring; several are
hravely floating. a few perhaps will
sweep the Seven Seas and back again.
Others with soaked leaves and print
all smudged are lying on the bottom
Beauty and Mary Blair" may not
voyage so terribly far, but it floats!
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much in the book to admit of any full
analysis in brief notice. The minor
characters are excellently drawn, the
perspective of the whole is very good,
and, merely as narrative, the tale holds
the readers interest from start to
finish.
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COULD A GHOST
KEEP TWOLOVERS
FOREVER APART?|
A MUMMER'S TALE. BY Anatole
France John Lane Company.

France. John Lane Company
to make that thoughtful and
most charming book his Lit
erary Life. Anatole France admits
that he took for his province the whole
beautiful romance of man. a bound
less territory diversified by ali kinds
of scenery and enlivened by various
types of humanity but where every
thing is imperfect and nothing is fin
ished. Wandering there in ''the light
step of a stroll" he has stopped where
he pleased and followed his taste, his
fancy and even his caprice, but ever
aware that ne could not arrive with
all his labor at knowing everything,
and therefore he could not explain
everything. Gracefully he owns that
what he knows least about is the be-
ginnings of humanity. But in not en-
deavoring to disentangle links of the
chain by which all things in the uni
verse are inextrcably entwined he
has given himself more time to study
the spaces where they run most freely.
And in speaking of these in his light
est or most philosophical manner he
has sought to be always veracious,
sincere and kindly.
One would look in vain for a title in
the original which would correspond
as we'll as the two languages permitted
with that used by the publishers of
this excellent example of book making
because it is merely an episode in that
amazing series that Anatoe France
published for several years and called
"Histore Comique de France" In
these volumes he has spread a feast
that will appeal, and does appeal, to
most appetites, while for a few-the
benighted ones who are unwilling to
admit the fatal and universal incerti-
tude of things-it offers nothing they
can digest. In a more marked degree
than is usual even with France this
book is imperfect in way that lesser
artists would not have permitted. 1t is
in truth a simple tale of passions de-
feated of their fruit by the vulgarest
superstition, and it lacks psychological
basis The ordinary novelist who
knows his trade-and in the hands of
the ordinary novel writing is nothing
higher-stress would have been placed
on the affair between pretty actress,
a "gem of voluptuousness" and a
comedian. Yet this light contact, for
so Anatole describes the liaison, leads
to the tragedy. And without making
Robert de Ligny decadent, a thing
the author avoids even by implica-
ton. no ghost" or ghostly influence
would have been powerful enough to
keep the lovers apart.
F'lmsy as the fiction is it serves
France for another of the delightful
combinations of delcacy and severity
his admirers expect and in which he
never disappoints them. He is there in
person. as he is i'm "Thais," in "Reine
Pedauque," in a hundred items, the
philosopher the historian, the anti
quarry the poet. And more than these
he is there as the kindly observer who
does not waste his time trying to ex-
plain the unexplainable, as the hu-
name physician for the soul who be-
lieves in the lrremediable diversity of
things, opinions and feeling and as the
moralist who observes the antics of
his creatures i'm a detached and kindly
spirit as if he were curiousy watching
the antics of ants
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Co
TWO million copies of Open
helms numerous books have
- been sold in America, which is
only 100000 under the sales of Henry
Fords autos. 1t is probably in defer
ence to these 2,000,0 900 Americans that
the English novelist has selected an
American for the hero of his latest
thriller, THE Proflteers."
This American hero, John Wingate
by name, is a great credit to his coun-
try. He ought to do more than Ad-
miral Sims to cement friendly rela-
tons between English speaking peo-
pies, for he appears in England just in
time to do battle with gang of greedy
observation-disclosures speculators-who
have plotted to corral the worlds sup
ply of wheat and keep 1t out of the
mouths of the widows and orphans
long enough to send the price sky
high.
But they reckon without the sharp
witted, courageous, public spirited
visitor from Wall Street, T.. S. a. In
a sentence, John Wingate brings down
the price of English bread to point
where the working classes don't have
to work to get it.
America doesn't capture all the hor-
ors in The Profiteers." There's Lady
Josephine Dredlinton. the unloved
wife Of one of the spectators.
"If l were a man | wouldn't let Jo-
sephine live out these best days Of her
life in SORROW says Josephine's dear
est friend to Wingate. IL wouldn't
have her insulted and peered at every
hour of her life. | wouldn't see her
living in torture, when all the time she
has such a wonderful capacity tor life
and love"
What would you do?" asks The man
from Wall Street. as IL he needed the
advice.
"I'd take her away" says the friend.
II wouldn't care about anybody else
or enything. If the world diln't APP
prove I'd make little world of my
own and put her into II. You're quite
strong enough. What has she In her
present life to lose. compared with
what she gains from you--what she
wants more than anything else In the
world-love!"
But Wingate uphods the fincst tra-
ditions OF our famously moral nation
by not being that kind of man With
the help OF an act OF God and the hni
indulgence Of Scotland Yard he makes
IL come out all right in the end.
In common with other Oppenheirn
tales "The Profiteers' is a book you'H
look at just once--the length Of the
look being the time you require to
read II through from cover to cover.
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William Patterson White. Doubleday.
Page & Co.
III ;"::::s:s s:s :ss:; ',' :: ::',s: ' i; :: e: $ G.:
u family ranch. he had put
her under eternal obligation, but he
had called her thought tor him fool
ishness. 1t was too mucc. Yet all the
time she was ashamed of herself. She
knew that she was small and mean
and narrow and deserved a spanking
i' any girl did She wanted TO cuff
Racey. cuff him till his ears turned
red and his head rang"
Thus cogitates the heroine of this
book, twenty-one pages from THE
End" and the solicitous author
hastens to explain that this "is the
way that woman feels when she
loves a man and he has hurt her feel
ings. But she feels almost precisely
the same way when she hates one
who has. Truth is it that Love and
Hate are close kim
Obviously. the authors fort. Is
pbizing. He is somewhat NOR, sue
cessful i'm his narrative OF the adven-
lures of Racey Dawson intrepid cow
puncher and sure-shot. who unearths
and successfully defeats "A plot to take
away the ranch of the family of the
Girl he loves. Needless to add, the
ranch has valuable gold mine. OF
which It's owners are not aware.
There is the forgery Of an important
document. the flight from pufsuers,
the dynamiting of the only bridge
across the chasm just as the hoofs of
the approaching horses come within
hearing, the final struggle, in which
the hero is called upon to decide
whether he will marry the girl he
loves and has put under eternal obli-
CATION" despite the fact that she has
become rich.
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Reviewed by SUSAN STEEL.

Reviewed by SUSAN STEEL.
JUDGING by the way we have
treasured certain old books not
~ remarkable for anything but
truthful detail of the life of a by
gone generation, rare novels like
"Dodo," young Mr.. Benson's MASTER
piece, and the new book by Ethel NJ.
Kelley will constitute real trove to the
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The medium-(would you believe
it?)-is exposed as a fraud by Peter
himself, who returns from the land of
the dead in a casual sort of way to
show up that crooked lady. He is aided
in his work by zestfu Zizi. the zephyry
detective. Zizi should have made Peter
marry her after all the help she gave
him. But no. Even a lady sleuth de-
serves better fate than that.
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writer of the year 1000 seeking to re-
construct us of to-day. Mary Blair
and her Young man and her sister and
her little brother are living persons of
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We knew all along that Peter was
going to return from the Happy Hunt
ing Grounds. Early in the story Miss
Wells endows him with hair that rivals
the Blessed Damosel's in being yellow
like ripe corn" and eyes that are "the
color of the chicory flowers that grow
by the wayside along New England
roads" No novelist ever let's a hero
like that die on her hands.
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HANIT THE ENCHANTRESS A Ro-
NANCE OF ANCIENT EGYPT. BY
Gurness Chatheld Pier. e. p. Dutton
q Co.
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Reviewed by JOSEPH COULD.

n rR. PIER is a man who has
MI fallen under the spell Of IN
- cient Egypt, and he writes
Of a civilization that has long reen
buried as though he had been buried
with it, Or it might be said that he
The New York herald., 1921-06-26
By EDWARD ANTHONY.

BALLADE OF A POETESS- -SLEUTH.
provoked by Carolyn Wells's new de-
tective story, THE ComebackD.
When Carrie pens a tdy
As hight qs birds d1oinO,
shout q glad "Hoordy"
And rapturonsly sing.
Why must she take O. fling
AT slcuthinO tdlcs1 She's worse
Each time she does the thing.
oh, Carrie. stick TO versei
love her lyrio play,
Her songs that mem'ries bring
OF Bunner. Dobson, aye,
OF Cdiuerley, the King.
Aud that is ichy torin1
Mn hands and SoftlU curse
When she goes noUeLlin0.
oh, Carrie, stick TO rersei
This sad ambition sloy,
This crude detectiuing.
Designed 10 please the jay.
Her iatestP Fierce, bu jingi
An are I'd like TO sDin0
Upon IL. 10 be tcrse.
OF tcords, a hopeless string.
oh, Carrie, stick to versei
L'ENvoI.
Please iedyo the Sheriookmg
To others; don't disperse
Your ,oOrshippers: i0e'Il cling
~ yoWH but stick to Uersei
EMBARRASSING THE READER.
When the boy orator at public School
graduation exercises forgets a few
lines of his speech and stammers all
over the place we feel so sorry that We
almost cry ou.. Our embarrassment is
as great as his. 1t is an odd feeling.
An unanalytical way of describing it
would be to call It the universal dis
like of one mortal to see fellow NOR
tai make a fool of himself. This would
make the feeling "A noble one. We
think this is wrong. The correct defini-
ton. we believe. would emphasize not
so much that we hate to see a person
make fool of himself as that we hate
to see him do 1t in public. 1t is dis
concerting; it destroys ones comfort.
The last time we experienced this
feeling was when we read The Come
hhehf pSN'hitdl utitCllNt gdln ny
Carolyn Wells. This is the story of
Peter Crane. who Is lost in snow
storm in Labrador 1t is book with a
message. several of them in fact
spritualistic messages from Peter to
his parents. He is a thoughtful son.
Even when he is dead he writes home
regularly. This he does through Nine.
Parlato. the medium priced medium.
CThis is not publicity for the madame.
Even II she offered to give us free
seances we wouldn't give her any press
notices.)
All sorts OF things happen after
Peters death. AS II the seances aren't
enough to startle the family. Peters
sweetheart, Carlotta, fresh from ouija
boarding school, makes some startling
revelations. These have to do with
the murder (of course there is MUIR
der, though not very exciting one) of
n friend of Peters. Add more revela-
tions. more seances and more ouija-
boredom, and you have a pretty good
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Mysteries aplenty
in old New Orleans
THE MARDI GRAs MYSTERY. BY II

THE MARDI GRAS MYSTERY BY II.
Bedford-Jones. Doubleday. Page &
Co.
ETTING the scene of his story in
New Orleans gives an unusual
FLIP of interest to the beginning
Of III. BedfordJones's The Mardi Gras
Mystery" for on the fiction map Of
the United States New Orleans is one
of our cities that has not been worked
TO death for local color But once the
tale of the Midnight Masquer gets
under way the setting is almost forgot
ten, so vivid, so exciting so fun of
thrills and mystery is this narrative of
mysterious jewel thief, his encoun-
ters with the underworld. a threatened
revival of the old lottery game that
bore Louisianas name years ago.
Jachin Fell the genius of the plot.
is as singular as his name. and we
defy any one TO fathom his real con-
nection with the evils abroad i'm the
story until the author reveals his
secret. Henry Gramont, playing Mid
night Masquer apparently for a dan
gerous kind of joke, is more conven-
tional type OF hero but engaging and
resourceful withal, even when matched
against Memphis IzZy Gumberts. whose
villainies range from running lot
terry game TO stealing motor cars by
wholesale. And Lucie Ledanois is all
that "A heroine should be- Lovers of
criminal stories will find this tale one
to reward them as a bright star In the
twinkling firmament of that order Of
fiction whose relativity will not be
disturbed even by Einstein's theory.
What country has for seventeen cen
turies filled all Government Offices by
civil service examinations?
What is the most colossal literary
undertaking recorded i'm history?
What powerful ruler neglected his
throne i'm order to tour the country as
a concert singer?
No, the above arc not some Of Edi-
sons questions, but simply sample
Of what may be CLEANED from The
Worlds Story" CHoughton Mifflin). 1t
has LOO selections covering some 500
authors and the whole fifteen volumes
contain some 5000 pages. with 172 re-
productions of historic paintings
Gilbert X Chesterton Is NJ work on
n new book dealing with his impress
sions of America and Americans, gath
cred during his recent visi, here Dodd.
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Gilbert X. Chesterton Is at work on
a new book dealing with his impress
slons of America and Americans, gath
cred during his recent visit here Dodd.
Mead & Co. expect to publish II early
next year
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IN BUcKEL's BooKsHoP.

you've talked so much about that
book OF verses of yours--I believe
you called II Mother Nature'--that
think It's high time you produced IT,
Mr.. Flick, especially as / gave you
a week off to write IT, says Mr.. Buc-
kel as he totals the days sales.
"I realize there has been consid-
cradle delay" replies Mr.. Flick, but
there is a good reason for this.
have been spending most of my time
doing research work"
Research work?' says Mr. Bucket
so surprised that he loses track Of the
figures he IL adding. What are you
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BACK numbers Manhattan newspapers. Man
haitian Back Number shoppe. i0l W. iist ST.
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BEAUTY AND MARY BLAIR. BY
Ethel M. Kelley. Houghton, Miffiin |
COMPANY
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A sequel TO Moon Calf with the
title THE Brlary- Bush" by Floyd Dell
is on the fall list Of Alfred A. knopf.
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The Book Factory

idea of what Miss Wells has accom-
plished
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A Wall street man
is quoted at par

THE PROFITEERS. BY e. Phillips
Oppenheim. Boston Little, Brown &
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by the wayside along New England
roads" No novelist ever let's a hero
like that die on her hands.
Aspiring scenario writer's will find
lots of encouragement in THE Come
back" After Peters return from the
realm of the stiffs, he is broke, having
evidently lost his money in crap
game with the angels. What can he
do to make some money? Comes an
idea! He'll write a movie and sell It,
And he does. No, he doesn't even go
TO the trouble of writing it. He just
walks into a movie producers office
and tells 'em the idea.
Miss Wells desires to make il plain
that. while there may be others who
fall for the ouiia board, she is not
among them. Here is some of her
straight from the shoulder talk on
the subject. Nobody gets any infor-
nation from the board unless it Is al
ready in his mind. Usually
the message is something that can't
be verified. and often the message is
untrue. But people notice and re-
member the few times the truth is
told, and quickly forget the other
times. In no case are they
messages from the dead. 1t
is merely our minds subconsciously
or not. that impel involuntary muscu-
lar action in the slightest degree, and
our eagerness to get a certain word or
phrase, that brings 1t about"
-
Miss Wells ought to know better.
How any one who had sense of humor
enough to write THE Poster Girl"
that classical parody on Dante Gabriel
Rossetti. could have written THE
Comeback" Is beyond us.
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Love and hate
are called kin

THE HEART OF THE RANGE. BY
william Patterson White. Doubleday.
Page & Co.
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L'ENXOI

Please iedvo the Sherlockhug
To others; don't disperso
Your p0rshippers. toe'H cling
II you'H but stick to Uersei
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ARLY in the notes that combine
to make that thoughtful and
y. most charming book his Lit
The labor world., 1921-12-17

are as sinister as the fundamental
principles upon which it sis based.
One Of his leading writer's declares
that the 'crux Of the whole problem
is the ambitions Of England and
Japan to control. monopolize and ex-
plot China thus regarding England
in exactly the same light as Japan!
The same writer proceeds to attack
France.
Pats and Attacks.
Hearst joyfully accepts the. ac--
cusations of Frances enemies that
she is a militaristic nation. He pats
her on the back but he attacks the
French" position on the question Of
land disarmament. There must be
no naval disarmament Without land
disarmament-a proposition which
means one thing in the mouths of
opponents Of all armament and an
other in the mouth Of an opponent
of all disarmament. The thought
is clearly that since there is little
probability Of land disarmament at q
conference where the land powers
are not adequately represented, if
Hearst can link disarmament on land
and sea together there will be no
disarmament at all!
"On this point one Of Hearst's s
writer's says:
"If this conference should at
tempt to blind our country to an
agreement upon partial naval disar.
mament without any corresponding
limitation of military armaments,
then the good sense Of the people
and the patriotism Of the Congress
must come to the rescue and destroy
that one-sided agreement, or our
America is viciously betrayed.
"' If we have nothing to do with
this lop-sided scheme Of partial naval
disarmament and no military disar-
mament we can. still maintain our
rights and interests without war by
The labor world., 1921-12-17
HEARST PAPERS
WOULD DESTROY
HOPE OF PEACE
Limitation Of Armament CON-
mIttee Calls Public Attention
to Their |nsidious Work.
CONTINUED from Pare.One.

CONTINUED from Page :One.)
cessful. And the plan has always
been to make combinations with
other nations to destroy Great Bri
tain's chief rival
"'Our own common sense ought
to teach us that our. country is safe
only so long as we maintain a, pow
erful naval defense which no hostile
com bination will dare to try to
break through
They Hate England.
"Connected with this animosity to-
ward, England is the repeated sug-
gestion that we should never have
waged war on Germany and we need
not to have done so had we taken
up a sufficiently strong anti-British
attitude.
ION this point another Hearst par
agraph says:
"'It is not probable that If we had
from the beginning held England to
rigid account, enforcing non-inter-
ference with lawful American COM
merce and vindicating our right to
freedom. Of the seas the rulers Of
wartime Germany would never have
dared the interfearerce on account
Of which we finally fought?"
1.-The editorial apparently forgets
that if we had not participated in the
war the Kaiser would have won 1t
and imperial Germany would now
be dominating Europe.
Hearst not only drives forward
to particular wars by.t to war in gen.
eral and recommends overwhelming 6
armament, as in the following from
the pen of his chief editor. Arthur
Brisbane.
"'While we talk peace and dis
armament, everybody expects an
other war, and wonders where it will
start. How plain it is that our busi-
ness is to be prepared, welcoming
and trying new suggestions for fight
ing of all kinds
Hearst not only tries to persuade
ward to war but breaches, in the
words of one of his editors, the policy
Of magnificent isolation or, in the
words employed by Hearst himself,
the patriotic policy of America first
America always. America alone.
"Mr. Hearst does not want a new
world but distinctly states in so many
words that he favors guiding our
policy by our American traditions
as he interprets them. Apparently
he would have us the only nation
in the world. which refuses to ad-
vance or to learn
"The application Of this jingoism
The labor world., 1921-12-17
>ORPHEUm

= A pre- Christmas bill tLa+ will take
Duluth by storm is scheduled for~the
Orpheum theater starting Sunday
afternoon. Sammy Lee, one of the
most popular dancing juveniles on
the stage is the headline attraction.
Sammy is assisted in the exposition
of song and dance by Mis- Lady
Friends" The act entitled Handle
With Care'' is laughable blow at
the high cost of acting.
The girls in the act are good to
look upon and their tersichorean ef-
forts are a vaudeville delight.
Whether or not Harry and Emma
Sharrock possess the power of
thought transmission these two peo-
pie have at least taken this supposed
psychic power to make up one of
the funniest acts in vaudeville. It
is called Behind the Grandstand.'
AS a couple of fair ground fakirs the
Shamrock give an extremely funny
insight into the life Of those no.
mads who make the county fairs
their stamping grounds.
In "Old Cronies'' Al. Lydell and
Carlton Macy assisted by. Ida Leah
offer a little comedy slkit with musi-
cal trimmings that has proven a
vaudeville triune ph. Lydell and Macy
play the roles Of a Civil War >veter-
ans who meet at a. Memorial Day
celebration purporting to take place
in Buckport, Maine. The act is a
yeritable "screHm."
George Watts. q roly poly come
dian assisted by Belle Hawley pur-