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Continued From First par.)
The bank quartet viii render -yocoI
Eeiections. short talks Mil DO made
ny ofh"ers and directors OF the bank.
including W. Vi. Hahlistun. w.
Rhonds, Julian ". Tyler. 4. I..Word
James j. Disney. DR.. Charles II
Robins Il. \. Saunders. III. G.. 81.
SchwarzSchnd aud T. Elwood Tragic
The entertainment Will bo ~ charm
ING AFFAIR ia every detail WINDY
meri.' the llahliStou home. rs ono
OF the most attractive places OH the
cary Stree; Road. ana its lawns and
gardens VIII mako IA pretty setting
for the party Monday.
Baltimore Dcbutantcx.
OF much interest to SoCIet, here
is tho list Of buds to hc presented
IN Baltimore this year These in
>lude Miss Carolyn Brescc. daughter
of Mrs. Lester Brcscc Miss Lois
Bryan, daughter ot Mir and Mrs
Herndon Bryan. Miss alicia GiLuor
Clerk daughtor % MIR ANA Mrs. Isr-
nest LudSor Clark; Miss Allie, Mae
gill peford, .fauEht,r OF AIR and Mrs
X Frank D"ford: Miss Frances Duuv.
daughter OF NJ. and Mrs. Edward
Duffy: Miss Mari" Louise DcvrIes;.
daughter az Mr.. aud Mrs. !. oliver
Dcvrics, Miss Virginia : Gordon.
daughter ~ Ms j. Wilmer Biddic.
formerly Mrs. Douglas Gordon: Miss
Nancy GuMcy. daughter Of Mr. ana
Airs. Henry Arthur Guffpv. Miss
Dorothy iiaNall. daughter OF MIR. ANA
Mrs. ! Triplctt IIaNan. Miss Eliza i
beth Hull Of Norfolk; Miss sarah
Colby Harvey. daughter OF M. and
Mrs. James ". Harvey: Miss Eliza
beth W. .kcys"r, daughter Of Mrs
Henry l., I<cyscr; Mics MARY L~uiyo
Kirk. daughter OF the Rcv. Dr. and
Mrs. Harris Il. kirk. Miss katherine
Nalcniin" Lee. daughter OF Francis
Morris Lee, of Green Spring Valley:
Miss Marguerite Nackay. daughter az
Mrs. Mary l. s'amriIl Mackay: Miss
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Mary Ridgciy Preston. daughter Of
Alexander Preston; Miss Margaret
Piat'. daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. James
l. platt, MISS Mary reeriuc ilatt.
daughter OF pr. and Mrs. Walter =.
platt; Miss Emily Il. roultn.y.
daughter Of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L..
poultney: MISS henrietta Ritter.
daughter 81 MIR, ana Mrs. Henry +.
Rittl.v. Miss Edith Page Swami.
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tNontlnucA On Page I. Col. -
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their selfshness and arbitrary exer.
else of power, they had to reckon
with their people and to seek to iden-
tify themselves with the idea of the
nations welfare. And he shows how
England escaped an explosion like
that in France by gradual rebuild
ing of her social and political struc-
ture.
"The old edifice was erected anew
and it's constructive material reno
waited till 1t acquired a strength and
resiliency which existed in no other
country in Europe. While in Eng
land the individual was freed by
gradual process from the relics Of
feudal restraint, the more rigid
structure existing in France required
the guillotine to accomplish the same
result Freedom of the individual
helped to lay the foundations for the
economic prosperity on which the
greatness of England was later to
be built"
The period following the Renais-
sance had much in common with our
own. We may save ourselves from a
complete cataclysm if we unite f1exi-
bility with firmness.
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See London Thomas Matthews

and his grown up equals, who like
their entertainment hot and strong,
should be supplied with what they like.
But when the penny gaff claims for it.
self dignity and consideration as a
new art form-just because 1t can pay
its workers enormous salaries-then
one is justified in asking 1t to get off
its perch. 1t is time that somebody
said what most people are thinking
about this shoddy business of cameras
and claptrap and the i'll informed peo-
pie who direct it. Consider it's "ar-
lists! When one remembers
the Russian Ballet and the exquisite
L'Enfdnt Prologue, one is appalled, at
the work Of the simpering people who
are boosted as artists" But
my main objection is it's effect on the
child. 1t is robbing the child Of to-
day of the exercise of that most pre-
cious faculty--imagination The chill
dren are shown everything as
II is: not for one moment are they all
lowed to think or give rein to fancy.
/. Words awake imagination; pic
lures kill il. To-day the child's
imagination is stultified at every turn.
He is shown everything in its crude
and unsatisfying reality. There is no
opportunity. He is given the bare
substance and robbed Of the delicious,
enduring shadow. 1t should be
kept we'll away from the schoolroom;
otherwise in twenty years will come
an end OF Imagination and of Fancy:
there will be no more Lantern Bear
ers."
AS wandering philosopher Mr..
Burke has made a magnificent begin
ming. He is for humans, and for life
not for a purse of gold.
Two volumes of short stories first
published by. Prof. Brander Matthews
a generation ago are now reissued in
a single book "Vignettes of Manhat-
tan" and "Outlines in Local Color" arc
clearly sketchcd outli {es Of men and
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mine foreman. He had been a stoker
engineer, ships officer and sea cap
tain. He was a slave driver to his
own workmen and imported Polish la
Dor to keep wages low. His philosophy
of life would have been heartily in
dorsed by a Manchester mill owner of
the early nineteenth century, using
women and children as slaves of the
machines. The SHINES trust consisted
last year of six great companies en-
ploying 250,000 men and having a
capital of twelve million marks
He found the stores of Germany
well stocked with cheap goods-cheap
in price, but not necessarily in other
respects.
81 was particularly struck" he de-
clares, "by the book department. re-
membering the shoddy appearance of
English publications and their abom-
Unable costa bad novel on bad paper
for seven and six pence, a cheap
reprint for two shillings, volume
of history and philosophy for fifteen
shillings, horribly produced in flimsy
bindings. These German books were
printed, on splendid paper. well illu-
strated, well bound. most tastefully
produced. A new novel was fifteen
marks or one and three pence, the
classics of the world were to be had
for eight and half marks"
The conditions in France were less
promising. Sir Philip found there .
restless spirit, lack of confidence in
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names. casually dismissed by those
who did not live there as 'dormitories
of London'-Fortis Green. Bowes
Park. Strand Green, MILESTONE, Har-
ringay Rushey Green, Ponder's End,
Cyprus; and then and there I decided
that those little towns must be cele-
brated"
At his club he found a number of
friends who had never heard of this
newly discovered suburb. He up
braided them; and then: Elsewhere
found equal ignorance Of those sub
urbs to which trans, buses and trains
go by hundreds all the day. 1t was
clear that the only people who knew
them were bus drivers and the people
who lived there A few had heard Of
Ladywell Harlesden. Brockley Tips,
Parsons Green; but none had seen
them save one man who lived at
Brockley and who exceeded myself in
disgust and indignation at their in
sular ignorance. And when / asked
him IL he had ever been to Cyprus he
said he couldn't afford these Mediter-
ranean trips. When I told him that
hundreds of people crossed the Thames
every night to their homes in Cyprus
he was facetiously incredulous. /.
London is no longer n city, IL is an as
sembly of camps. whose members ask
nothing OF their neighbors. Strand
Green knows nothing OF the ways and
thoughts Of Elegant Ethan and cares
less. East Sheen is deaf to the wall
ings of Clissold Park. Crime in one
camp may draw the languid attention
of camps far removed, but nothing
short of this can awaken interest.
SO off he went on his motor buses
1t Is no use to tell over the list of
those fragments of Londons periph-
eral which he visited to share
the chuckling enjoyment he found
one must 20 with him. in the book.
There arc high spots. of course. Such
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(and I've seen the monstrosities in the
Sieges Alice IN Berlin, toc).
Considering that THE Girls" is a
story Of three generations of women
in one family l suppose the natural
choice of locale might have been some
storied city like New York, or Charles
ton, or Boston, or New Orleans ANY
of those cities might have suggested
age, stability and the continuity of
family life. But the thu e that ap-
pealed to me was this: Three genera
tions actually cover Chicagos entire
history. from the days when the city
was a mud swamp Indian fort to the
present huge. sprawling ugly-beauti-
full city of almost 3,000, ,00J Inhabitants.
From 1886, W len the story opens, to
1920, when it ends. is Chhago's whole
lifetime. Seeing Chicago, that appears
almost :ncreuible. 1t tskes ones
breath away. A Chicago novel of three
generations, then, means a Chicago
from infancy to the present day.
Those foursc Jre years nave been so
Kaleidoscope rs TO make the onlooker
dizzy The change has been not only
architectural and civic Manners.
modes of thought, morals have all
moved swiftly with the years. The
three women ut the story-Aunt Char
lotte, Lottie snd Charli . are typical
each of her day and age. i he lives of
the three of them span the life of
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pointed Minister to Czecho-Slovakia.
both writes, history and takes part
in those public acts that furnish the
material for the historian of later
period. And who shall say which
part of his mind is the historian and
which the statesman?
His latest book is Tudor Ideals
(Harcourt, Brace & Coz. And 1t
is much easier reading than Croce.
For whether the fault be in trans
lation or in the original, the Ital-
ian's ideas are not easy to get at.
It's as hard as digging the meat out
Of butternut. The meat is good,
too, but if Signor Croce would mix
little more art with his philosophy
and history he would better illus
trate his excellent thesis on the
unity of all good things.
Eihstein brings Henry VIII. and
Elizabeth into line with to-day's de-
velopment. He shows how. even in
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MORE THAT MUST BE TOLD. BY Sir
Philip Gibbs. Harper & Brothers.
q IR PHILIP might go on now
without changing titles on his
future books except for the
Roman numeral-"II. More" Ill
More" and so on. The Must Be Told"
part is characteristic of all his writing.
lie brings good pack or Information.
for he is always the alert reporter.
But the urgent tone or prophet and
apostle is more and more evident. Sir
Philip charges full tilt at all the per-
sons in high places; "the old gang"
as he calls them, accusing Premiers
and Generals of blocking the peace
! full readjusrment of the world.
He has a good deal to say of Ire
land, admitting freely that England
has long list of historic cruelties
there to her credit But he finds Ire
land herself responsible for at least
a part of her present troubles. The
bitterest words in the book are spoken
of Sir Hamar Greenwood and Sir
ward Carson. Here is character
istic passage:
DO l look like a criminal?' asked
Sir Edward Carson once, in bland sur
prise at being called one. AS G. K.
Chesterton said in answer to this
question:: There is only one answer
possible: You do =. A power
full face, but without beauty In it or
any touch of kindness or spiritual fire
or human warmth, haunted face,
thought it. He stands pill
loried for all time as a raker up of old
hatreds, old fanaticisms old vendettas,
old tyrannies-the Man with the Muck
Rake, prodding up the lower passions
of ignorant and brutal men,"
Some of it is only repetition of
charges made by others, like this ref
erence to the British commander:
"Halg in France, obstinate against
the idea of a unified command, which
would place him under the authority
of a French generalissimo, conscious
that Lloyd George had little faith in
his generalship after the enormous
slaughter of the Somme battles and
the still more frightful losses in Flan-
ders, had his attention diverted from
the state of his front to the political
danger behind him. With Petain in
command of the French armies he
was arranging plans which would keep
Foch out of supreme commando
system of mutual defence, which broke
down utterly when the Germans at
tackled in March of 1918 and nearly
won the war
The most newsy pages are those
telling of the authors observations In
Germany, the rapid economic resump-
ton and the gathering of industrial
power into few hands.
Every student of German life is
now talking of SHINES as the great
industrial autocrat of Germany. and
outside Germany he is regarded as a
dark, sinister figure, a kind of evil
genius. like a German Lenine, though
his philosophy is the antithesis of
Bolshevism. He is undoubtedly the
most powerful personality in Germany
to-day, the owner of sixty newspapers,
serving the interests of the Deutsches
Volkspdrtei and preaching his own
gospel, which is the Industrial su-
premacy of Germany by intensive pro-
duction. based upon cheap labor and
revolutionary methods of manufac-
ture. obtaining the highest degree of
efficiency, power. combination and dis
tribution. Creating n gigantic trust
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is the record of his encounter at Har-
ringay with the cockney pedler, who
carried shoe laces, studs, scarfpins,
trouser buttons. ribbons, brooches,
bracelets and Cavalier poetry-this
last for his own Indulgence. The ped
Ter songs, some of his own compo-
sition, some out of his dowdy anthol-
ogy of Cavalier Lyrics" corrected
MIR. Burke's Interpretations from Sed-
ley and spouted Campion and Ran
dolph and Donne. At intervals he
made sale, and finally sat at meat
together. Good ole seventeenth CEN
tury!" said Autolycus; "Ole John
Donne--lovely things-glad you
brought me to 'Arringay. love going
90 new places. Yerce, l love goin'
about, going into shops. too; any
shops" Says Mr.. Burke: Truly a
fellow of my own shape"
Mr.. Burke is strong for the chang
ing neighborhoods. At Walthamstow
he found "a number of old private
houses turned into shops; they have
stood the change very well. Instead
of bewailing their loss Of gentility
they seem to enter cheerily into the
new estate. They make the best of
things" But there is one pervasive
and dominant feature of the trans
mogrifed world which rouses his
righteous wrath. and he tells you why.
This offensive thing is the cinema"
in our vernacular. the movie" He
perpends:
II loathe the cinema. l loathe IL
because / loathe anything that pre-
tends to be what it is not Most in
ventions and enterprises show. In
twenty years, n forward movement:
but after twenty years the cinema is
still in the street of the penny gaff
produced by office boys for office boys.
Yet its promoters have the impudence
to speak of It AS a new art, and Of
their aiders and ahetters as artists.
1t is quite right that the Office hoy.
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! their political leaders, a great disap-
| pointment with the results of the
war and with the attitude of Amer
lea. But dissatifaction with Ameri-
cans is not confined to Europe. Gibbs
told of an interview with Herbert
| Hoover In which the man who had
so much experience with international
| food supply told how hard it was tc
make the farmers of the middle West
understand how Europe affects our
| prosperity. They are interested in
the low price of hogs, but they do not
see that when Europeans are not
prospering they cannot afford to eat
American pork.
Sir Philip quotes the late Senator
Knox on our relations to his own
country:
Senator Knox was one of those
who spoke to me about the misunder-
standing of the American attitude to
England, the mistaken idea that
there was an underlying hostility
likely to lead one day to war.
1.-The mere idea of it is impossible
and rdiculous,' he said, and he men
/ toned the wave of indignation and
incredulity which had passed through
America like an electric shock when
such words as drifting toward war
were used Cor reported as having been
used, which is quite a different
thing) by one of our representatives.
He admitted that there were histori-
cal prejudices, fostered in the school
book, which created a bad impression
ha of
hard to eradicate. But that impress
sion Of England's bad action in the
past was counterbalanced by other
influences of literature and tradition,
and in any case the universities
were helping to form a fairer point
of view about the War of Independ-
ence and other periods. He once as
tonished a fellow Senator during
visit to Windsor Castle by laying a
bunch of flowers reverently before a
statue of George III.
"'What on earth are you doing that
for?' asked, his friend.
"I am paying a tribute to the Fa-
ther of the American Republic said
Senator Knox. If that fellow hadn't
been such an old blocknead we might
still have been under British rule"
This is a fellow authors comment
on H. G. Wells:
"In his country house, in Essex,
described in all delightful detail in
the first chapters of Mr.. Britling
(even the German tutor was drawn
to ife) and in his rooms in London
have seen II. g. Wells among his
friends and watched the man who be-
yond any doubt is one of the leaders
of modern thought. one of the most
active, untiring. ardent, courageous
'reformers' of this society.
"It was surprising to me that
felt no sense of being in the company
of greatness, nor of being inspired by
the light of genius. He made little
jests, shrewd little comments, anus
ing and interesting to hear, and he
was very watchful of his company,
as / saw by the quick, penetrating
sideways looks which registered then.
and all their small tricks of manner
in his Photographic mind. He
has, perhaps, more than any living
writer in the English language, stirred
up the common mind to think beyond
the little boundaries of suburban ex-
perience."
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By EDNA FERBER.

w /HEN It comes to novel writing
w think Dacssl ound steps
prominently into the fore
ground. 1t can make or mar a book.
The background of THE Girls is Chi
cago, because L know Chicago. / know
it from Ashland avenue on the west
to Lake Michigan on the east; from
Evanston to .he Gary Indiana boun-
dairy line; from the Art Institute to
'the Stock Yards. / love Chicago and
hate 1t as one loves and hates any per-
son or thing whose failings and
achievements, vices and virtues, beau
ties and imperfections ere familiar
through close daily association. hate
Wabash avenue and love Michigan
Boulevard. | think Mrs. Woods's
double chocoi:te ice cream sodas and
apple pie are the best in the world and
the statue Of the Republic in Jackson
Park the worst statue ia the world
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The Philosophy of History.

NNE of the childish games in
~ which n men indulge is mark. arb.
ing life up into sections like
real estate map and writing Art or
Philosophy or Practical Affairs neatly
between the lines. Sometimes this
may serve as convenience. But as
the world grows wiser such labels
will be less and less regarded. For
there is no such clearly marked di-
vision in the essential nature of
things.
In his book on History" (Har-
court, Brace & Co.. Benedetto
Croce points out the foolishness OF
calling man a philosopher" II
that means that he devotes himself
wholly to PHILOSOPHY" Every stu
dent of history" or science" or any
aspect of life, IL he thinks about what
he is>doing, is philosopher. That
is, the philosophy is inherent in the
intelligent study of the so-called
facts"
That's all very well in theory"
somebody says, every time the clock
ticks. but it won't work" Then
something lis the matter with prac-
tice or theory, for one Is only the
orderly statement of the other.
Our own psychologist, William
James, was great philosopher, but
he did not become so by going off in
a corner and trying to reason out the
universe. He did his best to make
the roaring lions of experience lie
down with the spotless lambs Of
pure reason He studied men as
they are and recognized no partitions
between the different aspects of their
experience.
Lewis Einstein, the newly ap-
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.Soundings
In the Sea of Ink
A Relative of Uncle Remus.

HERE'S more than one way to
tell the story of creation. We
are grateful for Mr.. Wells, but
even he needs little help in mat
ters .of detail. Some of his prehis-
toric pages leave out things we want
to know about.
If you seek an antidote for such
vagueness, read How and Why Sto-
ries" (Holt), by j. C. Branner, presi-
dent emeritus of Leland Stanford
University. They are written out of
his recollections of the talk of negro
slaves before the war. And where
science guesses they tell. What a
lesson in clearness and brevity is
this outline of the Creators task,
even after the creatures were made.
He had to show 'em all jes' what
to do an jes' how to do it. He ha'
to larn de smoke to go up, an he
ha' to larn de water to run down
hill, an he ha' to show de birds how
to fly an de fish how to swim, an
to git 'em all stahted to keepin'
house. An. on top O. all dat whole
de cats was a-chasin' de mice, an de
dogs was a-chasin' de cats, an de
two. ducks done eat up de two June
bugs, an de robins was a-pullin' all
de red worms outen de groun,' so he
had to make two mo- June bugs an
two mo- red worms. Dey was
while dar when things was a-gittin'
puffickly scandalous, an it look jes
like de whole meetin' was gwine to
break up In big rumpus, for de mo-
he created de harder it was to keep
EN- from fightin' an quarrelin' an
eatin' each other up ''"V'
And they're still at it, the scanda-
lous creatures. This little book of
hundred pages is full of things to
mediate upon. Since Joel Chandler
Harris laid down his pen no such
record of the Africans earlier reac-
tions to the white mans "civiliza-
tion" has been published.
These tales may be read aloud to
children, just as "Gulliver's Travels"
may be. Children are not troubled by
the manlikeness of the negro's God,
any more than they are shocked by
Dean Swift's Reputation of the di-
vinity in man. Some grownup read
ers will find irreverence in the Lords
familiar talk with Satan and in other
things. But these are no more ir-
reverent than Job.
There are two prime virtues in
the negro's religious attitude: sense
Of the reality of the invisible and
the courage to accept and follow out
his whole programme. There is no
better teacher of the absurdity of a
too literal Interpretation of Oriental
symbolism. And yet there is pro-
found truth under the surface of this
childlike view.
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THE OUTER CIRCLE. RAMBLES IN
REMOTE LONDON. BY Thomas
Burke. George H. Doran Company.
vIGNETTES OF MANHATTAN: OUT
LINES IN LOCAL COLOR. BY
Brander Matthews. Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons
TIME proper study of mankind
according to the consensus of
Mr.. Pope and Mr.. Venus, is
human various" in the leaping
phrase of that cunning artificer of the
physical details through which the
spirit moves and makes it's own i'm
preston in a world which is much the
same from the eighteenth century to
the twentieth, in spite of many inven-
tions and recurrent confusion of the
spirit. Mr.. Thomas Burke has a handy
knack of continuing the insight Of
Mr.. Pope with the craft of Mr.. Venus
Deeply preoccupied for time with
Limehouse and its exotic personages'
lurid colorings, he has quilted those
squalors after exhibiting his great
gifts as a Snowman OF the bizarre
and refilled his readers cup with a
mider brew, but one. after all. not
less drawing.
1t was all by way of the motor bus.
One evening in armistice week he
thought to escape from the noise of
revelling London and clambered atop
one of them without knowing its des-
Off at the garage he discovered that
he was at Sherrick Green. N. W.,
neighborhood whose name he had
never heard before. He burned with
shame that he should be so lost in
London. "And I wondered" says he.
how far my Ignorance was shared by
other men who were not Sherrick
Greencrs. remembered many place