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The New York herald., 1921-07-10
A real dog

DIR. TAM O. SHANTER. BY Mabel l..
Robinson. f. P.>Dutton & Co.
tn HE charm of this story-and IL
is a very real charms two
fold. It's dog hero. Tam, Is a
sood deal of a personality but he is
always a dog never a human being
on four legs He has ideas. a creed of
his own. but they are dog ideas; an
in he stands out above most attempts
i'm fiction to deal with animals. His
action is in character, including his
chewing up the diploma presented to
him upon his graduation" and his
interventions in the various episodes
Of the story are just those to be ex-
pected of a high-bred. gentleman dog.
Neither are they the accidental inter-
ventions of a cdnis eJ mdchind; they
are integral parts of the plot, natural
and therefore artistic. Furthermore,
he shares the stage reasonably with
the humans, without taking up too
much room.
Secondly, the story has the atmos-
phere of the life Of a girls college in
truthful values" Merely as a girls
story of incidents of campus life 1t is
unusually successful: neither over
sentimentalized nor smartly fiippant.
And the author is particularly to be
congratulated upon having escaped the
temptation to weave I'm any adolescent
l.. ..H~ en- Aod
tale of sound interest that does not
even dabble with loves excessively
young dream. 1t is true there Is a
faint hint of II. In the background of
the lasc scene but that is held to be.
properly, another story"
The book Is made of a series Of cpl
sodes. In each Of which Tam barks or
growls or wheedles himself Into the
action at a critical moment He begins
by curing his future mistress, Mar
garet. OF tendency toward Mysteries,
and he acts throughout as a whole
some centre of interest. He warns of
the presence of burglar. reports
fire and saves Margaret from the at
IN ok OF a buil-ali conventional enough
plots. but handled with deftness that
fully justifies their use. The book
deals very sparingiy with humorous
situations. but that necessary element
ia not wholly lacking. The keynote of
II is sentimental, but soundly so. with
out any cheapness or misplaced en-
phasis. Young girls. and dogs. are
sentimental creatures. even In our Hip
pant age. Hence the truthfulness OF
the pictures of this story.
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with confusion; he had seated himself
beside her before she could rise to her
feet. He waited a moment or two,
then sighed deeply. If only your
mother were alive now. I'm no use
from the old man reused Hemnalini
from the semblance of stupor into
which she had fallen and her eyes
sought her fathers face. Oh the love,
the sympathy and the pain that she
saw there, A sad change had come
over his expression in the last few
days. 1t was her old father who had
borne the brunt of the storm that had
burst over Hemnalini he had never
relaxed his endeavors to alleviate his
daughters distress. and when he had
found all his efforts to comfort her un-
availing his thoughts had turned to
her mother and he had brought out
this cry of helplessness from the
depths of his loving heart-Hemnalini
saw it all in a flash.
"'You were only three then (when
mother died) and had just begun to
talk, l remember quite well your ask
ing me, Where mother?" and my say
ing, she had gone to her daddy" You
did not understand what / meant and
you said nothing but just stood and
looked solemnly at me. Then you
took me by the hand and pulled me
into your mothers room. You thought
that though the room was empty
should find some clue there to tell me
where she was. You knew that your
father could do a lot. but you didn't
realize that when 1t came to matters
of life and death your big daddy was
as ignorant and helpless as a baby.
You can realize now how helpless /
am. God has given your father the
capacity to love you but not to help
you!''
Though the story covers only about
year in the lives of these people, the
swift moving current has caught up
not only the characters in the book
but the reader as well. Through whirl-
pools of sorrow, up to heights of hap
piness he goes until it seems that he
has been in India and followed Ka-
mala. Ramesh and Hemnalini about
for a.'year and. unknown, has looked
into their hearts and minds and joined
in, their joys and tears.
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and obedience without lessening the
intense humanity that pulses through
her veins.
In the dignifiedl Hemnalini one sees
the western education warning with
the eastern customs. In every par
ticular she adheres to the Hindu cus-
toms except in insisting upon marry
ing the man she loves.
Her brother, Jogendra, is officious.
overbearing, dictatorial, and yet at
times he does something kindly so
entirely foreign to his character as
the reader has conceived 1t that one
cannot help smiling. Tagore does
know his people. He can find the
little bit of good" in every brute"
and bring 1t to the surface at just the
moment some situation in human life
would call forth this good trait.
When Ramesh learns that Kamala
is not his wife he permits himself to
become engaged to Hemnalini. The
engagement is broken off by Jogendra
and a friend of his, Akshay. One
might call Akshay the villain, for II is
seldom he is not making trouble. He
has a mind, though. which when OPP
Grating justly makes him an avenue
for good despite his attempts to bring
about evil.
In the hours of sorrow which follow
the breaking OF the engagement her
father, Armada, becomes still dearer to
the heart of the motherless girl. Their
relationship can best he described in
Tagore's own words:
Armada Babu emerged on TO the
roof and stood behind her. but she
at last he went softly up to her and
laid his hand on her shoulder she
started in surprise and then blushed
The New York herald., 1921-07-10
BY EDWARD ANTHONY.

ANGELO, LAWRENCE, CEZANNE
An enthusiastic reviewer classes
ID. III. Lawrence with Michael Angelo
and Cezanne.
Dnctyi delightful that plcdses the car,
Gditopino measure and joyous,
RompoO along Ike n hare or deer,
Let not the grouping annoy us.
whistle u, marble Il, yodei 70, oh,
Shout u as loud as you can,
These ore immortal. let evdry one knotc,
Angelo, Laurence. Ccsdnnei
Welcome. o musical strain that en-
thrdHs,
Little care " the trio
Carries a rinOer--thd's something that
calls
Forth not pturmUr from me, OF
who Is this Ldtorence that's sitting IN
stdtcf
Think haze hoard Of thc man.
Let him romdiHi This here rhythm Is
Drodi--
Angelo, Laurence, Cosdnnoi
Better than Tinker 10 Eyers TO Chance,
Hitting the mark ioith bang, OF
Fast as the fastest SlCtnbWnedr chants,
Zippy as Spanish fdnddnGo.
WORTHY refrain for Gtlbortcdn lay,
NcUcr so broesNy ran
Phrase as the ono an, singing to-day
AnOelo, Laurence, Cesdnnei
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Drama authority
keeps the rules

THE GREEN GODDESS. BY William
Archer Alfred A. Knopf.
w THAT is it makes a harmless
NJ Ice cream soda have the
taste of gunpowder on the
tongues What makes The rustic OF
paper il. the silent street going home
suddenly seem dire omen, the tele-
phone booth in the dark hallway for
the first time appear a dangerous hid
ing place for thieves? Why "meller-
dramer," Of course - an evening OF
William Archer's play, The Green
Goddess" which may be at the mo-
ment either read or seen, at the Booth
Theatre.
Now Mr.. Archer in his classic Of
the theatre, "PlaymalSing," asserts
that the essence Of drama lies in the
conflict Of will between the different
characters. A melodrama, then, should
be a sort of superconflict, gigantic
struggle. In which Truth is left gasp
ing In the rear, and Virtue hangs oni
with logged persistence until the mo-
nent of it's final triumph over evil
forces, which to the very last have
seemed on the point Of conquering.
I'm "The Green Goddess" Mr.. Archer
gives full measure of conflict and
thrills, and yet one feels II would be
a mistake to take seriously this maid
err effort of his at playwriting. There
is swift dialogue, there is climax, what
you will of expertness I'm managing
entrances and exits-the tactics"
that is to say, are impeccable, but for
a touch Of genius one must look in
vain.
For Mr.. Archer the thing was
too easy. Into his story of two Eng
lishmen and a woman dropped from
their wrecked airqlane at the mouth
of rajah's cave and thereafter kept
prisoners in an Indian fortress he has
injected a certain plausibility. HIS
careful following of rules in play con-
struction has not taken away the lite
of the piece, but neither has it given
any new turn to the plot or any un-
expected ending to the rajah's un-
scrupulous career. Whether an au-
thor of melodrama would not do bet
ter to leave the realm of the lifelike
altogether and make his play fantastic
--as for instance, In Darkest rus
sia." famous melodrama, given at the
old Globe Theatre twenty-five years
ago-is an open question. Since 10
give the final joyous triumph OF Vir-
tue truth must nearly always be
stretched, the consistent course would
seem to be the removal of melodrafna
from the region of the possible. sBut
Mr.. Archer has chosen to try ana
make his audience believe this adven-
ture could have happened The sim
cere acting of Mr.. George Arliss and
of Miss Olive Wyndham in the cur
rent production immeasurably helps
him to succeed.
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English prophecy

REVOLUTION: A STORY OF THE
NEAR FUTURE IN ENGLAND. BY
]. D. Beresford. G. p. Putnam's Sons.
THIS book of Mr. Beresfords is
Disappointing. 1t is an at
tempt at prophecy. Mr.. Ber-
esford has not developed as large a
bump of speculation as II. c. Wells.
Although his characters are well con-
structed, they belong neither to real
life nor the world of dreams. They
move a little too mechanically through
his plot. The story is described as a
tale of the near future. II has GER
tain elements OF truth in 1t. The Eng
lishman has happy faculty for max
ing the best Of bad situation. He
has a genius for compromise. Withal
he is innately conservative.
In his story of the rise and fall of
soviets in a typical English village
Mr. Beresford emphasizes the bulldog
qualities OF John Bull. His hero tries
TO maintain neutrality and is first sus-
pecred and then honored by both sides.
The capitalist classes use underhand
lutliDhS ~ oNhNNf AhNli NiRNpigs ~
the close of the story nearly every
thing is as 1t was in the beginning.
Mr. Beresford could not be uninterest-
ing II he tried, but he has not been
able to write effectively enough, and
his book seems to be intended as prop
aganda for things as they are. He
writes best when his imagination is
not led astray by questions which are
not concerned with the fundamental
elements Of human nature.
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The Book Factory

Writers OF summer fiction could do
worse than take course of study in
the charming trifles of +. s. Martin
His "The Courtship of n Careful Man"
always seemed TO us to be the perfect
hammock book.
Prunella. who is gazing over our
shoulder as we rap out this column.
wants to know whether we don't think
II would be an act OF humanity in
these torrid times to permit summer
books to appear without Jackets.
Speaking OF candor. Herbert Jenkins,
the English publisher. in his blurb on
Patrick MacGils Fear" says: at is
superrealism. IL gives wonderful
picture OF war II is terrible"
A Houghton- Miniin notice asks us
and others--to tell the world that
Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, author of
French Perspectives." is leaving her
New York home for 'dobe dwelling in
New Mexico.
Anything 10 he 'dobliging.
Just as we were wishing some one
would give the New York Nationals a
good panning for their ragged playing
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Telling a story backward

1t may be- that he feels intensely tina,
our manners are inexcusably coarse
that our intercourse is too generally
casual; that we walk badly dress
badly and are without ideals in art
and life. So feeling. he could not re-
sist preaching against these degen-
Grating things and no one should OBJ
ject TO his freeing his mind once and
for all. 1t Is the way he does it that
readers will object to-the readers
that is. who have read enough novels
and essays to have acquired a stand
ard And it must be sadly admitted
that in neither has this author meas
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NOVEL OF INDIA
TAGORE'S FIR ST
PROSE ROMANCE

THE WRECK BY Rabindranath Ta-
gore. The Macmillan Company.
TOR the lover or Tagore'A essays
and plays his first novel, "The
Wreck" will prove a store
house OF golden treasures. All the
poetry of his former writings. all the
beauty and rhythm of his meditations
and the swift action and human in
terest of his plays are combined in
this volume.
1t is a romance, with a close ad-
herence to the life and customs of
the Hindu. modified by so much of
the West as the educated Oriental
has absorbed from his modern studies.
Ramesh. a young Hindu law stu
dent. is in love with Hemnalini, an
educated girl of Brahman family.
Ramesh's father forces. him into a
marriage with another girl, Susila.
Then comes the wreck, from which
the story received it's title. But when
the book is closed and the plot is re-
enacted in the readers mind, there
seem to be three wrecks-two wrecked
lives in addition to the wiping out Of
the bridal party on it's return to Ra-
mesh's home.
Tagore has told the story of man
who finds a bride on the shore after
a storm and believes her to be his
wife. Being a high minded youth,
when he learns that his wife was
drowned and that the girl he is be-
ginning to love is not his wife, Ra-
mesh endeavors te--protect her from
the world and devotes himself to find
ing her husband, giving no thought to
the criticism his actions are bringing
upon him.
Kamala, the heroine, is one of the
most fascinating girls of IA or Is any
author could have chosen to portray
and Tagore has managed to give an
impression m her sweetness. devotion
The New York herald., 1921-07-10
CARLO ATTACKED.

Carlo Knight, the indomitable free
lance, has been criticised by one of our
readers. He'll do anything to make a
nickel-write car card slogans hair
tonic ads, ballyhoos for Coney Island
barkers-anything az ALL" this man in
dignantly said. HE is devoid of stand
ards. He is literary swine, n dis
grace to the writing profession"
When we called the complaint to
Carlos attention, he remarked. as he
sharpened his pencil to write sardine
rondeau for the Immaculate Packing
Company, Tut All | need do is re-
fer the gentleman to that delightful
Hindu proverb which Arthur Gutter
man has rendered as follows:
"The man that hath trade must work
thereat.
The barber, lacking custom, shaved a
cat"
The New York herald., 1921-07-10

LITERARY GEOMETRICS.
Three squareheads running around
circles equal one triangle.
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'E.Phillips.
XIII.


A stack of summer fction-"breeSy"
stuU,
The dainty gblv covers all erplain.
Breezy is right, IN sag. There's toind
enough.
In these 10 fly kite from here to
Spain.
Noto, " the Dind Uere cool, Wouldn't
care.
IT'S hot air object to, ia July
Especially. Windbd0s are pretty rare
That hold the kind Of cooling breeses I
Am fond ol prefer 10 stick my knob
Beneath pump aud get refreshed
that t0dy.
Whoer he Is, the chap toho has the job
OF making up these books has gone
dstrdy.
The covers should be larger, then a
On stuffy days could use en- for a fan.
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f. A. II. submits the following addi-
tions TO our list of gay iambic PEN
tameters:
Fate cannot harm me; l have dined
to-day"
That's all there is; there isn't any
more"
The New York herald., 1921-07-10

II you haven't forgotten the words
OF America" you will recall him as
The New York herald., 1921-07-10

NeVfeWeu by SOSHN . EELL.
A FTER snubbing many modern
n novel because of its convention
al form. to object to the innova-
ton Rupert Hughes has made in his
most recently published volume Of fic-
ton must seem ungracious. Neverthe-
less as the departure is not warranted
by a brilliant success the form may
be criticised or noticed with disap-
proval with the hope that no other
writer may be induced TO follow It.
The New York herald., 1921-07-10
Reviewed by SUSAN STEEL.

BEAUTY. BY Rupert Hughes. Harper
The New York herald., 1921-07-10

BY the way, do you know that Uncle
sam IL a Htterdteurp
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Author Of liberty.
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REVIEWS OF NEW FICTION

this spring, we ran across, to our de-
light. William Adams Brown, Jr.'s.
The Cropping Giant" Only to
discover it's another book on Russia.
Gosh.
If you want some particular book
very badly. for which you have
searched and searched in vain. let us
find 1t for you.-Book store ad.
Well. to begin with. you might locate
our Green Mansions" and "Old Wives
Tale" The last time we saw them
they were on the table in the living
room.
soNNETs OF A BOOK REVIEWER.
X1
@Shcrt Story Writing" by Professor
Friend,
Who ought to knoto II anybody ought.
He teaches il at college and has penned
This Uoiume so that those he hasn't
taught
May, like the tutored ones, be masters Of
This art. The thing is simple, it
loould seem.
The frst essential is, be sine you loue
The Uork. Then get your pencil out
and scheme
A novel plot, one that's completely neto;
Then people IL with persons toho are
real.
No motion picture characters t0iH do.
ThroW in suspense, surprise and heart
appeal
A bit Of humor-sdy a page orNso--
And that is all there's TO il. Simple,
nor
Another tnterndti iondI tntri0uo-
A plot 10 steal a SDedish battIeShip
Aud sell il to the Portuguese. The
League
OF Nations ought TO interfere. IN tip
'Em of, at any rate. This lG1less book,
,"COunt Brdsenfelle,"s Ruse," is JuH
OF monkey business that they ought to
look
Into. These European crooks toiH pun
Tho aations into Udr unless they're
checked.
Why, ~ this book alone they steal a
rich
Heiross, purloin a vessel (it is torecked
In desperation later). boil IN pitch
Consul and--but gosh, Pm toast'ng
time.
By now you Enop the School of OPP
heinz
The New York herald., 1921-07-10

"A romance of to-day" is the way
an announcement describes n new
book. Now you know what it's all
about.
The New York herald., 1921-07-10

A charming story Of Cape Cod life
by the author of The Harbor Road"
q
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FOR YOUR
VACATION
"Take Along a Book"

A splendid novel of life In the open
OF blood-stirring adventures during
mountain feud, and Of a brave
man. inspired by the love OF a splen-
did woman winning out against long
odds 100
The New York herald., 1921-07-10

REVOLUTION; a STORY OF THE
NEAR FUTURE IN ENGLAND. BY
J. u. Beresford. G. p. Putnam's Sons.
IL. r,o.n.fl.,.ll,c
The New York herald., 1921-07-10

A vivid and striking story OF wild
animal nfe by the author OF The
Cross Pull" Sl7d
The New York herald., 1921-07-10
B. nj. BOWER
CoU-Country

Cow Country Is an exceptionally
satisfying and delightful tale OF the
old West ''-BOstOu Herald 81 "a
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-11
D. L. LEWIS,
State supt. Rural Schools.
How to Grow Soy Beans.

The soy bean is one of the best
forage plants among the legumes and
it exceeds any of the others in yield
of seed. 1t does not require a par
tic,lar kind of soil. 1t will withstand
a great deal of moisture and sue
cumbs only where water stands on
the land for considerable time. On
the other hand, it is decidedly
drouth-resistant.
For its best growth, the soy bean
requires better preparation of the
land than is necessary for cowpeas,
because it cannot compete with weeds
and grass so well as cowpeas. Clean
land, prepared as for corn, is neces-
sary for good crop.
The application of fertilizer to the
soy bean crop on either fertile or
highly fertile land usually is not
profitable. But on poor land good re-
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-11

work as to the amount of money
available at any time for any par
ticular district.
The people of Edgefeld county
must look forward and upward. Times
are hard now, but they are not going
to continue so forever. By building
good schools, they must try to educate
their children and induce good peo-
pie to purchase farms and settle in
the country. When they shall have
done these things, they shall have
laid the foundations of permanero
prosperity prosperity based on a
population of homecoming farmers,
who will maintain the country church
es, and who can educate their chill
dren in the country schools, thereby
perpetuating those conditions that
90 toward the permanent establish
ment and up-building of commune
ties, states and nations.
D. L. LEWIS,
State Supt. Rural Schools.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-11

turns will nearly always follow
light application, 100 to $50 pounds
per acre, or acid phosphate; or light
dressing, five OF six loads per acre
of stable manure. There is seldom
anyproft in applying commercial nj
trogenous fertilizers to soy beans,
for this crop gets nitrogen from the
air through the aid of nitrogen-gath-
ering bacteria on its roots.
Although the soy bean will grow on
sour, poorly drained land much better
than red clover and alfalfa, it is
greatly benefited on such land by
lime. In fact, under nearly all condi-
tions a moderate application of lime
will usually give good returns.
Although on fertile soils inocula-
tion is not necessary for thrifty
growth, it will usually benefit the
crop, and on poor land it is essential
for even moderate growth. For Sec
tions into which the crop is newly in
troduced, regardless of the type OF
soil. artificial incubation will nearly
always give good returns. Inoculating
material and instruction for its use.
may be secured at cost from the Mis-
souri, College of Agriculture, Colum-
bia, Mo.
The best date for planting soy
beans will, of course, vary with the
locality, but it is safe practice to
nut in the crop about two weeks later
than the average time of planting
corn. The depth of planting is an i'm
portant point. The seed must be plant
ed shallow or poor stands will result.
Experiments have proved that two
inches is the most favorable depth.
For a crop planted in rows three
feet apart-the best method where
seed crop is desired-ffteen to
twenty pounds of seed will be requir-
ed to the acre. A broadcasted or
drilled crop-for hay-will require
sixty to ninety pounds to the acre
Missouri News Service.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1921-05-11
THE U. S. NoBBY TREAD

Where the going is specially heavy with snow,
mud or sand, in hilly country where maximum
traction on the road is factor, no other tire
tread yet devised is quite so effective, or so
wholly approved by motoring opinion, as the
u. S. Nobby Tread.
Its very simpicity-two diagonal rows Of OBJ
long studs, interlocing in their grip on the road
lis the result of all the years of U. S. Rubber ex-
perience with every type of road the world over.
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Il, the rr1otorist
who has quit
guessing E about
tires
ALONG about this time of yeara finds his motor
\ ing neighbors getting anxious about their tires.
With folks expecting old tires to pop any minute
there comes the question of what kind OF ones tobuy
u S. Tires are answering lot of questions like this
nowadays.
The u S. Tire following embraces two kinds of
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Those who started with quality first, and havenever
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Those who came to quality first only after dabbling
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Getting one hundred cents value the dollar in tire
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The most essential man for you to know today is the
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He gets his u s. Tires straight from his neighborng
u S. Tire Factory Branch one of 92 such Branches
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u. S. Tire makers.
He is the man who give you fresh, live tres-not
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Giving quality selection and price advantage
to the owner of the medium weight car as the big car
owner pets With equal service and buying opporturl
whether he lives the smaller localities or the greater
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