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New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Devil Stories
Collection Based on Satanic
Theme in Fiction


DEVIL STORIES. Edited by Maximiliar
r. Rudwin. Pu ished by Alfred A.
Knopf.
~ HORT stories howing various con-
ceptions of re devil have. been
~ collected by MaximilanyJ Rudwin
for this first volume of contem-
plated series on the various aspects
of diabolical literature. Machiavelli
Washington Irving, Thackeray, Poe,
Baudelaire, de Maupassant and others
are represented in this collection.
The stories are nearly all fairly we'll
known. 1t is the conceit of such col
lection that makes it unique. In the
introduction the editor says:
"The subject-matter of literature may
always have been in a state of hux. but
the devil has been present in all stages
Of literary evolution"
Later the editor Identifies the devil
with the romantic movement, especially
that of the French school. The devil of
the stories in this volume is the
Christian devil" and the tales have
been taken from many times and coun-
tries. Mr.. Rudwin's attempt "to keep
the devils in good humor" throughout
the book has been successful. Per
haps the most interesting feature of
the book is the editors note on each
story.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Mans Seven Ages
Physician Tells How to
Preserve Health

WHY DIE so YOUNG? BY John B..
Huber. Published by Harper & Bros.
TIME physiological aspects of Shake
speare's Seven Ages of Man are
described in this book by DR..
Huber. The author gives an outline
of the diseases which are peculiar to
infancy, childhood, old age, ETC., and
suggests the best means of combating
them.
DR.. Huber is fundamentally an op-
timist. He believes that it is possible
for the average individual to live to a
ripe and happy old age, provided few
simple rules of health are observed.
He emphasizes the necessity for not
i.eglecting colds, which may be harm
less but which may prove to be fore
runners of more serious diseases, such
as consumption.
The authors rules of health are not
elaborate or novel. He believes in
fresh air, exercise, cold baths, regula,
habits Of eating and sleeping, as potent
aids to health. He also praises mill
tary training as a notable builder OF
physique. He points out the deleteri.
Gus effect which the excessive use o1
alcohol exerts upon the human consti.
tuition, but he is strongly opposed te
absolute prohibition.
While he condemns the marriage OF
persons who are obviously physically
unfit, DR.. Huber is not inclined to push
the modern science of eugenics to un-
due extremities. He holds that love is
ordinarily sufficiently sound test of
the advisability of union.
The author has written a handbook
on health which contains valuable in
formation for people in every stage of
physical development, from infancy to
old age.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Sea Romance
Tropical Atmosphere in
Hell's Hatches Is Effective

HELIiS MATCHES. BY Louis R. Free
man. Published by Dodd. Mead & Co.
. HE AUTHOR, who has spent
much time in the far-away
Il islands of the Pacific, has used
the atmosphere of the tropics
with skill as background for an in
teresting tale of mystery and adven-
ture. The four leading characters are
the "Hon." Hartley Allen, polo player
and racing man, a thoroughly engag-
ing rascal; an ex-officer of the United
States Navy, who ends his career in
the tropics; Roma, a half-caste girl;
and an absinthe- he-drinking artist, who
tells the story.
1t would be unfair to disclose the
identity of the person who turned the
blithe adventurer, Bartley Allen, into
maniac, but this much may be re-
vealed: Hell's Hatches are the matches
of the ship Cora Andrews, beneath
which writhed crew of blacks racked
by the plague, while lunatic gihbered,
lashed to the wheel. What befell young
Allen on his ultimate adventure makes
interesting reading, and the identity
of the author Of his supreme misfor-
tune is worth finding out.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

ARIOsTO. SHAKESPEARE AND COR
NELLIE. BY Benedetto Croce. Pub
lished by Henry Holt & Co,
TRANsLATED by Douglas Ainslie,
these three essays are the first
literary criticisms Of the Italian
senator and philosopher-critic to be
done into English. While a book to be
added to the library Of the scholar, it
hardly Hives up to the assertion Of the
publisher that it is "a profound and IL
Eliminating work by master mind
which will do much to impart vigor and
inspiration to the decayed art of liter
ary criticism in the Engiish-speaking
world Nor is it clear why the trans
lator, in speaking Of Senator Croce's
essay on Shakespeare, to which he de-
votes the greater part Of the book,
should call it mastery treatise, so
original and so profound that 1t will
serve as guide to generations yet un-
born"
Hyperbole such as this Is unfair to
the author, who deplores that very
thing in Shakespeare's critics. In his
chapter devoted to Snakespearian criti-
cism, Senator Croce declares that sex
clamatory criticism, which browns him
beneath food of superlatives," is the
method employed by English critics of
Shakespeare. The value of his own
criticism, however, would have been en-
HANGED greatly by less involved style,
whether considering Ariosto, Shake
speare or Corneille.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
A Girl Detective
Difficult Murder Mystery
Solved

Pettee, puslished by Il the Reiiy Gnsaes { Lee s
Company, Chicago.
- HIS is one of the best mystery
stories that has appeared for q
Z long time. An old woman, Re-
becca Ardmore, is found stabbed to the
heart with dagger. Her niece, Molly,
seems convicted of the crime by the
testimony of several witnesses, who as
sert that they heard the murdered
woman cry out; "Molly, Molly, don't
knife mel"
There is only one other weak, but
puzzling, contradictory clew. Several
houses in the neighborhood recently
had been entered by mysterious
woman in white, who committed va
rious acts of vandalism, tearing up
books and marking the walls with red
crosses. And Rebecca Ardmore's house
keeper declares that she saw white
robed figure steal across the lawn on
the night of the murder.
This difficult case is referred to a
famous detective, Paul Lancaster. Paul
is away, and his sister, Lorraine, who
really has solved his previous cases for
him, undertakes the work, impersonat-
ing her brother. BY a series of brill
liant and unconventional approaches to
the problem she first discovers the Sc
cret of the woman in white, and then
brings home the guilt of the murder to
most unexpected quarter.
The story is somewhat shorter than
the average novel, but every page is
crowded with action and excitement.
Lorraine Lancaster proves her right to
place side by side with the best male
detectives.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
OF Playwriting Cowboy Life in the Southwest
iona Gale Writes Of the
Joys Of Being a Playwright
The Making OF Book Into Play Is a Joyous
Task for the Playwright, Provided
He Is Also the Author

his own characters which--if he wrote
both book and play-n,ay be expected
to be at least approximate but to see
their own ideas Of his characters. And
J criticism of the play may be:
They are not my idea of the charac
ters--at all" However, this is not
serious. 1t is no more serious than
the Illustrations Of fiction, Nobody
likes illustrations. But everybody
likes them. The publishers say so.
The academic difficulty in making a
book into play is, of course, that
novel and a drama employ different
methods. But, after all, both draw
tor their material upon life as it is
lived. And after all the novel and the
drama are not utterly fixed forms-.thev
vary from age to age. Who knows
that a literary method" used now
oy chance, on the stage may not some
day be discovery? The stage is
great, beautiful room, filled with
haunted sense of expectation. from the
curve of the proscenium to the ton
most seat. Is it indeed true that the
future will feel that only one sort of
thing may happen there? Only action,
action, action? Or will new mean
ings creep beneath the very words
tnemselves--as Horace said is true Of
all words under the rush of time--ana
some day shall we interpret. the word
action" differently? AS already WE
give to that word q different connota-
ton in music. As already, it may be,
other nations are beginning to in
terpret it.
Your audience may say to itself:
"But So-and-So was fat--was slim
was not so good natured--was quicker
IN notion" But if the writer Of both
book and play replies, "They looked
like this to me- the audience is bound
to take his word. And by the last cur
tain he may often be believed and his
conception accepted.
Personally, l like a book made ;nto
play, and | cannot find fault with it
on the chemical grounds of the two
not being the same thing. Novel and
drama are both fluid. 1t is not in
credible that we may sometime. SEQ
snem now little nearer together.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
BY Zona Gale

Author Of Miss Lalu Bctt (Appleton)
Reprinted by special arrangement from
Brentanc's Book Chat
Wv = HEN occasionally have ex-
IA pressed some vagrant idea
rs set down here, / have
been told that my experience
is unusual. But experience always is
unusual. In the production of miss
Lulu Bett" at the Belmont Theater
Mr.. Brock Pemberbon used. in my
opinion, the one particular method
which permitted the story to express
itself on the stage. He said:
"If shs action is there and if the
people are there, and if we knock out
the wall Of their home and look in on
them, we shall get life. And would
call q play by y-product of life--not life
. by-product in a play. I'm not saying
there isn't more to play than that!
But that is the foundation Of the only
sort of play which interests me-"
The making of book into a play is
joyous task for the playwright, pro-
vided he Is also the author. Pro-
vided, too, that he has loved the writ
ing Of his book. In writing a book
episodes are the fairyland. and all the
rest is path, green or dry, but not
20 be travelled by means of wings alone.
play is, in effect, succession of
episodes. Pure fairyland. For the
playwright, with creative producer
and creative artists in the cast. the
rehesrsais also are joyous task. This
surely cannot be contrary to the gem
eraI experience! For has not every one
burned to suggest and modify quite
strange actors in quite strange parts
To be p playwright at rehearsal means
. gwen creative producer-that you
hear those suggestions made-and re-
gsrded. This is not theory. This is
experience. If this is not the general
experience, so much the worse for the
general experience.
The audience, of course, arrives pref
udiced. They come to see, not an un-
known field, but a field which thew
have in effect helped to create. They
come to see not the authors idea Of
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

" Century Company W
sINf, ALONG THE WASTE Rv f.laavs
e =. Johnson Published by the Century
ERE are two mystery stories
with choice of locale be-
tween a society resort on the
Atlantic Coast and Califor-
IL v.lste along the Pacific.
There is nothing we like better than
mystery story. We haven't any docu-
ments to prove it, nor even the word
Of learned professor to quote as au-
thority, but we feel sure that the first
story ever told by cave man-after
no had thoroughly dubbed his wife
into submission-was a story full of
thrills and mysterious happenings. We
can't think of anything else that would
compensate lady for being dragged by
the hair Of the head into strange cave.
Nothing has ever been written to show
what made the cave woman stay in the
cave after she had been dragged there,
ant we feel that we have made a real
contribution to science with the above
earclusion.
However that may be-and, Of
course, we really don't expect recogni-
t'on because of our discovery, we being
rank outsider and scientists noto-
riously a close corporation--there is
nothing like mystery story to make
one forget the days troubles, and moth
ING that holds the attention SO we'll
until the very last word has been read.
y may be detective story like Ghosts,
though we must confess to disap-
lointment in this book; or a tale whose
solution lies in occult influences, like
! Wind Along the Waste; or, again,
lore story, with the hero suspected of
Being villain UP to the very last min
Ute,
Arthur Crabb writes such good short
stories that this his first novel is
double disappointment. The story is
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

Aaancs Lie 6ouEnton MtHIn Company
THE DUDE wRANGLER, BY Caroline
I.ockhsrt. Doubleday Page 4 Co.
THE DESERT FIDDLER BY william Fl.
Handy. Doubleday, Page & Co.
Wv WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE
wv in the last few years has
taken first rank az . writer
Of Western stories. He writes
them readily, and does not restrict
them to any field in particular. One
may be about the Southwest. and the
scenes Of smother may be laid in
Canada, but he gets the "feel' of every
background, because he has lived and
travelled much in the, West and has
studied the varied phases of life along
the chain Of the Rocky Mountains.
Gunsight Pass the newest addition
to Mr.. Raine's bookshelf of Western
stories, is deft mingling of the old
and the new 1t opens with a few
chapters descriptive Of cowboy life in
the Southwest. The reader gets vivid
picture of life in Southwestern round
up camp. He is introduced to Dave
Sanders, q boyish cowpuncher, whose
faith in his pinto pony is such that
two sharpers inveigle the lad into a
race. The pinto is beaten, and most
of the cow hands, who have backed
Dawes judgment, are deprived of their
wages. Dave eventually loses his pony
but goes as fsr. as Denver to get the
animal out of the clutches of the gun
man and gambler, Doug Doble, who
was responsible for introducing the
ringer" in the camp.
The transition from cowboy days to
oil days is ingeniously effected. Dave
spends ten years of his life in the
Colorado penitentiary, having been
wrongfully convicted Of killing one of
Doble's accomplices while rescuing
the pinto horse. When he comes out
Dave drifts back to the Malpai country
just as the oil boom hits. From then
on the story deals with the former
cowpuncher's fight against odds in the
oil game.
1t is a story Of action and crowded
incident, and no one in the Western
field is handling such material more
deftly than Mr.. Raine. The literature
of the Western oil fields probably never
will rival that Of the COW, camps in gen.
eral interest, but Mr.. Raine has shown
that an occasional good story can be
written around the derricks that have
sprung up on many of the cattle
ranges.
Humor permeates The Dude wrangler,
as in the case Of everything else writ
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Green Apple Harvest
BY SheiIa Kaye-Smith

Her portraits of the folk Of a
little Sussex village are master
pieces, drawn into one perfect
picture by their varied relations
to the temperamental central
figure--now saint, now sinner.
$500
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
DUTTONS
NEW NOVELS.
The Man-kiIIers
Ry Dana CoayidU>

Crisp, intense and above ali
true to the life of Arizona plains
and canyons is this story of .
transplanted Kentucky feud, and
OF war between cattle and sheep
men. $500
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Abundance of Thrills IN
Two New Mystery Stories
Stolen Pearls Supply Theme for Arthur Crabb's
- 4 Novel, Miss Johnson's Story Fun
of Oriental Color

iaid IN a quiet summer colony. where
nothing ever happens until one
stormy night some one, ghost or
real person, makes way with Mrs.
Browns pearls. A year later when the
story opens, the pearls and other Jewels
are found buried in the sand in RUSTY
lard pail. If the thief were alive, why
didn't ne come back for his plunder !?
Or was it, perhaps, that Mrs. Brown
needed the insurance money more than
she did her jewels?
Since the author gives no clews that
aren't demolished almost as soon az he
mentions them, he has to fill out with
Clever talk, which would be entertain
ing it all the characters didn't talk alike
and rather like sophomores bent on
showing how very brilliant and sophis-
ticated they are.
The heroine of the love story is a war
widow who thinks it would be disloyaI
ever to consider marrying again, even
1t she is only twenty three. If the au-
thor hadn't felt obliged. to rush matters
and settle the question before the hero's
two months vacation is up, we feel that
there would have been no problem here.
The publisher says that Arthur Crabb
is pen name used by Harvard grad
uate who went into the business of law.
but is now "majoring" in fiction, as the
result of bet. We can see how he won
the bet on his short stories, but if it
were put up to US, we wouldn't risk
much on his novels, at least not until he
has done quite bit more undergraduate
work.
Wind Along the Waste is a best
thriller. 1t ought to be best seller.
The suspense increases from page to
Erge, and when the solution does
come it is SO unexpected as to take
cns's breath away. Indeed, so we'll does
the author handle this part of the story
that we wish she would locate all Of
her next book, in the same setting
China, to be sure, has been well worked
over a. a source of mystery stories,
but we feel that Miss Johnson could go
deeper into the heart of the Orient and
it's hidden lore than most writer's who
choose it as their field.
The heroine Of the story is Z gov
crness, and the mystery begins on the
drive from San Francisco to a lonely
spot somewhere along the coast, where
she takes care of two small, scared
children in great house with barred
doors and windows, and. of course,
locked room. In addition to the chill
dren, there are in the household two
sisters. who hate each other, the
strange, gaunt woman who employed
her and . flabby, complaining creature
who had once been peautiful. There is
also Chinese servant.
The governess is very sensible and
clever, but finding herself locked in at
night and hearing the Chinese death
wall on the dunes is apt to shake the
Steadiest governess. When threatening
notes are left in her employers room
room which could not possibly be
entered by human being she sets
her wits to work. The arrival Of =
wounded soldier nephew of her en-
ployer complicates matters and the ap-
rearance of Chinese junk on the
leach brings them to climax before
Ehe can solve the problem
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Varied Western Stories by
Raine, Lockhart and Handy
Gunsight Pass Is Dramatic Mingling Of the
Old and New in the Oil Fields-Humor
in The Dude Wrangler

wilds. Wallace Macpherson, whose feet
are almost unbelievably tender, tries
homesteading on certain tract that il
sought by a wealthy cattleman. 70
save himself from ruin wallie tries
dude wrangling." and part Of the book
details his experiences in taking his
first mixed party Of tourists through
Yellowstone National Park. Wailie's
tutor in Western ways. is cowboy
named Pinkie. Waliie buys locoed
horses, and when he sinks . well hs
strikes salt water. But he is game
and who could not win out with =
friend and counselor like Pinkie?-
There is q proper exuberance to the
humor in the book. Tex McGonni9less
offhand description of "harBe" that
Wallie almost buys at horse sale II
condensed classic. Miss Lockhart's
Wyoming is not one Of smoking revolv-
ers and dead Indians 1t is place
where laughter fourishes like the sage
brush.
In the search for atmosphere appar-
entity no section Of the West is being
overlooked The very modern Imperial
Valley furnishes the background for
William H. Hamby's The Desert Fid-
dler. Bob Rogeen is the fiddler. Bob
quits job as clerk to strike out for
himself as cotton producer. The au-
thor tells lot of interesting things
about cotton production in the Imperial
Valley, but he is too experienced =
story writer to halt his action in doing
so. Bob's struggle with jenkins, q COT
ton speculator, is interestingly detailed.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

A story of adventure, night
riding and moonshining in the
West Virginia hills, with a mys-
terry running through it which
keeps the reader guessing to the
last page. This is the best novel
yet written by the author of
Lad" and Bruce" $500
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
The Tragtc Bride
By Francis Brett Younx

Fragrant with an atmosphere
OF dew-drenched gardens and
young love trapped by circum-
stances, yet finding the path of
growth therein. It holds much
of that indescribable quality
which set his "The Crescent
Noon" in class apart. $500
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
The Velvet I Black
By Richard Washburn Child

Tho Detroit Free Press de-
sscribes these stories as "stronr.
dramatic, terribly intense
full Of mystery and dread Of the
underworld full of thrills"
$500
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

arly pages between the visible things Of
daily life and the invisible but poten-
tial affairs of superstition and sacri-
fetal rites.
1t is something; of a shock to read
chapters that claim to prove a remote
link between England and the islands
OF the South Pacific. The strength Of
the argument lies in striking similari-
ties between dolmens found in the
Pacific and in England. We quote
briefly to illustrate the authors con-
tention: "One may therefore picture
a people of Semitic ancestry cousins
perhaps of the early inhabitants of
Britain, who worshipped the sun, prob
ably used the dolmens for sun observa-
tions, sacrificed animals-possibly also
men-to the sun and performed reli-
gious dances during the ceremony
And these people extended right across
the Pacific"
The last book in, this group is a
mosaic of history, politics, business
and travel. The author Of China, Japan
and Corea knows the Far East, and his
views and decisions as to present con-
ditions and probable future outcomes 8
are stated in an unhesitating manner.
After thirty years of life spent in
China as secretary to Sir Robert Hart,
he revisited China last year, at the
close Of ten-year absence.
The tremendous changes he at once
recognized as in full tide of effect, DO
litically and along business lines, were
emphasized through his ability to
glance back over decade and measure
the extent of the transition. We ad-
wise all who are actually interested in
the Far East, or who are inclined to
take fights afar on the wings of the
printed page, to read China, Japan and
Corea. Especially to be commended are
the section on China and the World
War and the Informative pages wherein
one is carried in fancy on a journey
through China to Shantung.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

THROUGH THE WEST
lished by The Century Company
THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP BY Sir
Frederick TreveS Published by z. P.
Dutton g. Co.
THE ISLANDERS OF THE PACIFIC. BY
Lieutenant Colonel T. r. st. Johnston.
D. Appleton & Co.. New York
CHINA. JAPAN AND COREA. BY J. o.
r. Bland. Charles Soribner's Sons, New
York.
T 2 IPLING'S world is the earth
but his homeland is England;
~ to be precise, in the County of
Sussex MANY authors have
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
The Dixons
By Florence Finch Kelly

xOxSHfcc IItSH he1ly
Tie World says that 'it is
Americanism which lends both
interest and impulse to Mrs,
kellv's book; an Americanism
amply broad and deep and cal
culated to reach the heart Of
any loyal reader" 1t is an alb
sorbing picture of the way each
generation forms its new ideal
Tor the country it serves. $500
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

Humor permeates The Dude wrangler,
as in the case Of everything else writ
ten by Caroline Lockhart. A "dude
wrangler" in Western parlance is one
whose duty it is to take charge Of
Eastern visitors on journeys into the
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
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New-York tribune., 1921-05-01

Author Of Miss Lssla Bett (Appleton)
Repr,nted by special arrangement from
Brentanc's Book chat
New-York tribune., 1921-05-01
Some Outstanding Stories
Of Travel in Strange Lands
Rudyard Kipling's Homeland Sussex, the West
Indies and the Orient Described in Works
OF Unusual Imagination and Charm
By Samuel Abbott

KIPLINGS SUSSEX BY r. Thurston
Hopkins. Published by D. Appleton 1