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little mountain village, the older n..
Grafton seeks consolation in the ri.L
memories Of .far-away, bygone t;mn.
while the younger men and women a.
unconsciously weighed down bv AZ :.
mosphere that is heavy with melo,
cboly and oppression.
The gloom of the novel is soms,v...
relieved by the beauty Of the autbnr,.
style, which is admirably convav.s
through the medium of sensitive s.s
sympathetic translation. The foIlnm
ing passage, describing a summer pioss
in Castillana, is characteristic:
"The armament, pure, diapbanon.
clear, hung like heavenly mantla
above the earth, upon which that n,,.
lamp, the moon, smiled down like -.
gracious face of a woman. The sta,
white trembling air was soft and war,
loving the hands and brow like ~
smooth waters of lake, and the soft
respiration of the night breathed :.
gently as the lightly heaying breast -
sleeping child. A distant star tror
bled in the sky, like silver tear abon.
to fall upon the earth, where all
things, submerged in that silver aooa
appeared as pure, as virginia., as IN
rocent as though they had only ina.
slipped out of the hands of Cod
There are occasional flashes of In.
NOR in the story, as when PedrOs s..
ter and her maids look Through hi,
books and attempt to pick out what I.
heretical and immoral. Baudelaire'.
Fleurs du Nal is acquitted on tss
ground that "in poetry nobody can uy
anything bad"
But the novel as whole is suffus.s
with pessimism. 1t vividly represent,
the eternal tragedy of the man whose
capacity for action is paraiyzed by too
sensitive nerves and too fine spun an
intellect. The book is given distinction
and power by the shimmering lowell
ness of the authors style and by the
strength of his artistic convictions.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
By Coningsby Dawson

(Reprinted bu special arrangement from
Brentdnos Book Chat
~ ENTRAL EUROPE was Once
the cradle of the world's
A music and the home of much
of its art. To-day it is a
cradle of nothing but starvation. You
can buy modern paintings at the
Dorotheum in Vienna for from 60
cents to $5; this includes the frames
and glass. You can obtain etchings in
Warsaw by famous hands for from 80
to rs cents One artist sold his entire
collection, representing years of labor,
for 10000 marks, which is $50 in Amer
lean money. Publishers are out of
business.
Novelists, musicians, painters, sculp-
tors are either dead or trying to sur
vive by laboring at some unfamiliar
manual task. When nations are perish
ing for want of bread they have no
money or thought to spend on art The
only expression of creative beauty that
still draws patrons is the opera. The
governments subsidize their opera
houses and run them at loss, because
they dare not face the collapse in
morale that would result if they al
lowed them to close their doors.
The kind of tour which | have lust
completed through the famished coun-
tries is very hastening-especiaIl
Christening to a novelist. He discovers
that he is only luxury and one Of the
first luxuries to be dispensed with
when things go wrong. The same ap-
plies to all brain workers, middlemen
and creators-to the entire middle
class. When starvation sets in society
slips back to the jungle stage. Bank
ers, engineers, lawyers, scientists, pro-
fessors can no longer find q market
for their services.
Ihelr services are no more neces-
sary than the artists. The man who
tilis the soil or can offer his physical
strength for sale is the last man to be
affected In Vienna I visited a glorified
soup kitchen where some of the most
eminent doctors and savants of modern
times are being kept alive by one
American meal day. In Warsaw /
ran across the most popular comedian
of pre-Bolshevist Petrograd; he was
counting tickets behind charity lunch
counter. The brains of these countries
are either dead or beyond repair; one
wonders from where the next crop of
brains will come and who will be left
to train them, if conditions ever grow
normal.
And of what will the future novelists
of these countries write? To-day thew
are boys and girls. They have never
known anything but hunger and horror.
Beauty is word whose meaning and
usefulness has found no Interpretation
in their experience. And yet
1t was in hospital in Buda that I
received rebuke for my pessimism.
There were 500 naked children hud-
died without covering in their cots.
They looked like sick monkeys i'm
ported from the tropics. Their legs
and arms were gristle; they had no
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
7sion of War to Come Modern Hamlet in Spanish Move
The American Jew
Community Theory of
Racial Adjustment
THEORIES or AMERICANIzATrON. BY
Isaac u. BerkBop. Published by Teach.
ers College, Columbia University.

THEoRrEs or AMERICANIzATroN. BY
Isaac II. BerkBor Published by Teach
ers College, Columbia University.
TSHE adjustment of the various
foreign-born groups to the condi-
lions Of American life Is a sub
ject that requires more thoughtful
consideration than 1t has generally re-
ceived. There has been too much
stress upon the need for making over
the immigrant into a typical Main
Street American, without any regard
for his peculiar spiritual and cultural
heritage. On the other hand, perhaps
as a protest against this superficial and
compulsory brand of Americanization,
some elements in our foreign born
population maintain an intransigeant
attitude Of racial clannishness.
DIR. Berkson propounds what he calls
the community theory of racial adjust
ment as q solution for the dilemma
He holds that culture, rather than race,
should be the bond of unity for any
ethnic group. He writes with special
reference to the problems confronting
American Jews, but his conclusions are
applicable, with certain notifications,
to other classes of immigrants as we'll.
The authors community theory re-
jects both the sweeping assimilation
of 1.-THE melting pot" and the narrow
fanaticism Of racial aoofness. He
feels that there are certain spiritual
and cultural values in Jewish life
which cannot be reconciled with an in
discriminate adoption of American
customs and habits of thought, and
which can only be preserved and kept
alive by constant study and reinterpre-
tation. He describes in detail the
work of the Central Jewish Institute
in this city, and recommends the ex~
emption of public school students from
their studies for short period each
week for the purpose of religious in
struction.
DR.. Berkson's discussion of "the doc
trines of democracy" in the first chapter
Of the book is admirable. Restating
the ideals to which America is dedi-
Gated, it constitutes an effective rebuke
to violators of these ideals.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
A Court Mirrored
Intimate London Gossip of
the Time of James T

JAcoBEAN LETTER WRITER. nv 10.
7, statham. Published by r. y. Dutton
TIME court of King James I is mir
1 rored in this collection of dis
Greet, but gossipy letters, written
by certain John Chamberlain, n
gentleman Of leisure, to his friend Sir
Dudley Carleton. Chamberlain is a
shrewd observer of human nature and
an indefatigable collector of news. His
letters serve the double function of
society chronicle and running COM
mentary upon the outstanding political
events of the age.
So descriptions of Tyrone's rebellion
in Ireland, of the wars with Spain, and
of the persecution of seditious Purtans
are mingled with such delightful anec-
dotes IA the story of King James's
difficulties in getting beer as result
of his large unpaid debt to the royal
brewer.
Judging from Chamberlain's letters,
James was constantly in financial
straits. Titles and offices were almost
openly offered for sale; and even so
the monarch was usually heavily bur
dened with debts. The author is al
ways prudent; he never exposes him
self to the danger of term in Jail by
making injudicious comments upon the
frailties of the royal personages whose
activities he describes.
Such letters as Chamberlain's are the
best kind of historical material. They
not only convey contemporary i'm
preston of political and military de-
velopments they also reveal the tenn
per of the times in which these de-
velopments took place. Chamberlain's
orthography is archaic, and some of his
references to individuals are obscure;
but both these difficulties are largely
removed by the skillful and conscen-
tious work of his editor, E. P. Statham.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Cinderella Tales
Ethel Dell Stages Most of
Her Ronances in India

ROSA MUND1 BY Ethel Dell. Published
by G. p. Putnam's Sons.
"THEL DELL is writer of modern
n, Cinderella stories. The prince
always comes along and rescues
Cinderella and they marry and live
happily ever after. 1t is all very salts
flying. Occasionally, as in the first
story in this book, the prince is a bit
puffed up with his own conceit and
doesn't recognize what a noble, self
sacrificing person Cinderella is until it
is too late. But such an unhappy end
ing is rare.
Quite the most exciting story in the
collection is "The Prey of the Dragon"
Cinderella, or Sybil, is young Eng
iish girl who ran away from her father
and took the first boat to India to go
to her lover. They had been engaged
three years, waiting until he should
have enough money for them to marry.
But three years is long time, and
India doesn't always spell opportunity.
Anyway, when Sybil reaches port
Robin Wentworth is not there to meet
her. She waits ten days and then
comes letter saying, "I'm sorry, old
girl, Pm sorry" and that he can't
really marry her after all and she is
well rid of him.
That is the cue for the prince to
come to the rescue. He is a rather
primitive person, more Of cave man
really. He asks her to marry him and
says If she doesn't he'll click any other
man off the ground" who comes near
her. Furthermore, he is going up
country to his farms the next day, and
he won't even give her time to con-
slider. She has to marry him at once.
Fcnniless, friendless and even owing
money for her hotel bill, Sybil hasn't
much choice. She marries him and
they travel to his farm, stopping at
inns on the way, where Mercer is
treated with great respect, but more
than the usual allotment of awe. Just
why she discovers after few weeks,
but by that time she is in love with
him.
Most of the stories deal with India
and hill tribes and British officers.
One which rivals "The Prey of the
Dragon" is the tale of a mad Mullah
who was once an Englishman.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
A Creed of Idealisrn
THE DEEPER FAITH. BY Carlos WI,
permann. Published by G. 2. Putnam

THE DEEPER FAITH. BY Carlos wup,
permann. Published by G. p. Putnam's 9
Sons.
A SPIRIT of pure and radiant ideal
- ism pervades this collection of
fragmentary thoughts and gives it
unity and conference. The author be-
lieves in the eternity of beauty and
goodness and in the capacity of the
human soul for high aspiration and
high achievement. He sounds call
fer the renunciation of the pettier
gains of life on the aYtar of noble
ideals. Mr.. Wuppermann Is free from
the bondage of narrow theological and
philosophical dogmas; he is content to
state, in the broadest and most general
terms. the faith of those who believe
that life, with all its imperfections, can
be made beautiful and glorious. and
that death does not necessarily end the
activities Of the human soul.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22


iished by e. p. Dutton & Co,
Wv JILL IRWIN, the deservedly
AAf famous war correspondent,
has put into the pages Of
one little book the results
OF his knowledge of and consequent de-
cisions as to wax as a means of set
thing international differences. In his
opening chapters he INDUCES in remi-
r'scences of the year 1914, nudges our
memory, warns us that the public and
private soothsayers who said seven
Years ago that the war in France would
soon be over, that but few nations
would be involved, that battle to-day
is SO exhausting and consuming of
lives that it would soon burn out, are
ready to repeat in new formulas SINH
lar assertions of any new war to come
Admitting that the next huge struggle,
If it appear, will be q fearful and
deadly affair and assuredly brief when
compared with the one lately finished,
Irwin scorches and flays men who chat
o. war as possible, even probable.
Dread of its threat should be enough
- keep them silent.
There are passages of tense, terse
writing in this book, especially in its
graphic, true picturing of the horrors
now lodged in the laboratories, where
poison gas awaits its liberation. Ger
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
RELIGION and Spiritisrn

THE CHURCH AND PSYCHICAL RE-
SEARCH, BY George e. Wright. Pub
lished by e. y. Dutton & Co.
MIR. WRIGHT pleads for more toll
~ Grant attitude toward psychical
research on the part of the Church.
He contends that there is abundant
Biblical evidence of spiritistic phe-
ncmena, and briefly reviews some Of
the more striking occurrences which
have impressed modern students of
psychical research In conclusion he
argues that knowledge of divine truths
can be acquired not by passivity, but
only by constant and earnest investiga-
ton and experimentation.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Hunting Treasure in
SYRIA

THE HIDDEN TREASURE OF RAs-
MOLA BY Abraham Nitric Rihbany
Published by Hough Mlflin Company.
THIS is the true story of search
for buried treasure which the
author carried out with several COM
panions when he was boy in Syria
In the end the youthful treasure hunt.
ers were cheated out of their prize by
grown-up desperados Aside from the
intrinsic interest Of the story, the book
gives valuable picture of Syrian man
ners and customs.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
School or Business?

YOUR BIGGEST JOB: SCHOOL OR BUSY
NESS. BY Henry Louis Smith. Pub
lished by d. Appleton & Co.
DR. SMITH, the president of Wash
ington and Lee University, mar
shals a series of convincing arguments
in behalf of the spiritual and practical
benefits of education in this little vol
ume. His essays are especially de-
signed to appeal to boys who have
grown tired of studying and want to
cult school for business.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
German Prison CAMPS
IN THE PRISON CAMPS OF GERMANy.
BY Conrad Hoffman. Published by The
Association Pregs

IN IH6 PRISON CAMPS OF GERMANY
BY Conrad Hoffman. Published by The
Association Press.
MIR. HOFFMAN is Y. NJ. C. A. Sec
" retary who spent four years,
fl ON 1915 to 1919, working among the
Allied war prisoners confined in Ger
many. His impression of the Germans
as jailers is rather favorable. He re-
cords instances of gross maltreatment
hut he contends that such cases were
rot habitual and that the prisoners, on
the whole, were treated as we'll as cir
cumstances permitted. The book con-
tains vivid description of the street
fighting in Berlin during the period of
disorder which followed the downfall
of the Kaiser.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Catholic History

RHETORICAL RECORDS AND STUDIES
Edited by Thomas r. Meehan, Stephen
Farrelly and the Rev. Joseph F. Deiany
ID. d. Published by the United Statea
Catholic Historical Society.
'EHIS fifteenth volume of the Histori-
cal Records and Studies contains
number of scholarly monographs on
events and personalities associated
with American Catholic history, by
Maurice Francis Egan, the Rev.
Jerome D. Hannah, George Francis
O'Dwyer and other contributors.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
Novelist Writes Letter
On European Conditions
Coningsby Dawson Visits Warsaw and Vienna
and Pictures Poverty and Despair
of People

strength to support their withered
bodies. turned to the doctor-a pale
faced, haggard saint-who was accom-
panying me. "How do you get the
courage to go on trying to keep them
alive?" l asked. "Surely they would
be better dead!"
Don't say it," he begged. "I compel
myself to hope that one child out of
all these 500 may grow up to save his
country. If only one Of them should
do that it would make all our effort
worth while"
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
A Plea for Good Teeth

J. Ryan and Edwin +. Bowers pub
iished by G. p. Putnam's Sons.
VIE connection between bad teeth
and bad health is wildly shown
In this book by two we'll known dental
experts, who point out that large
number of digestive complaints and
other diseases can readily be traced to
deeayed or improperly treated teeth.
New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
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dealing in old and rare books, auto.
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distributors of old books in this country
We are In the market TO buy for spot
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New-York tribune., 1921-05-22
By Samuel Abbott

THE NEXT WAR, BY win irwin. Pub
iished by e. p. Dutton & Co.
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track OF her youngster on crowded
summer beach. The little chap in
scarlet is not likely TO get out of eye
sight range no matter how far he tod
dies away, where a toddler In blue or
gray or even pink might be lost among
the gay summer colors on the beach,
The little boy standing on the rock
wears red bathing suit with edges
buttonholed in white wool. 1t Is a
suit Of the simplest possible cut and
is comfortable TO wear and easy TO get
out Of when the time comes. And
being Of good, all-wool flannel II will
dry off in the sun almost the instant
II comes out OF the water.
This feature of drying quickly is
most important in youngsters bath
Ing suit The child Is in and out OF
the water continually-and most OF
the time IL In the water only part way
up, during paddllngs and splashings at
the edge OF the surf A part cotton
fabric which takes long time 10 dry
may give the little wearer bad cold.
In the wool bathing suit the child
may spend whole morning running
about tho beach, in and out OF the
wavelets, with no danger OF cold what
ever.
The small maid kneellng beside lit
tie brother on the rock wears a very
smart suit OF wool Jersey in cerlse
shade, with white wool Jersey facings
at neck, armhole and trouser-edge.
This Is one-plece suit with a belt
that passes through straps at The side
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orange suits are liked for little girls
but this year cerise bids fair 10 be the
favored shade.
Another picture shows an enchant-
ing baby girl OF three In u one
piece flannel suit OF salmon pink.
with white facings at top and bottom.
There Is a cunning yoke motif which
gives special style 10 this little cos
tune. This suit Is for boy or Il girl.
but It's salmon pink shade Is partlcu-
larry alluring on its fair-haired, dainty
little wearer. OF course, these tiny
folk do not bother with stockings
when they so in bathing. and they
don their little suits directly over their
skin with no close fitting jersey under
garment such as the grown-up bathing
suit sometimes requires 10 give II
smart lines.
Very cunning bathing suits for the
Riddles are knitted and mothers can
make these suits at home II they have
any skill with knitting needles. A
rather close stitch Is necessary and
the worsted should not be too fine.
Such suit usually combines waist and
short breeches, put together with n
straight belt. for both waist and
breeohes must be shaped bit. There
are no sleeves. the waist being knitted
exactly like q slipon jumper. And the
little breeches may be knitted like leg
gings except that they stop well above
the knee. The wool must be shrunk
first, or the suit must be made In a
good large size to allow for shrlnkage,
particularly the breeches, so that they
may not hamper the ehlld's free move
ments when the costume shrnks lit
tie and the belt line mounts higher,
pulling up the breeches with It.
For small girls there are delectable
beach oapes. exactly like the yrown-up
beach capes which are going to be ex-
tremely smart this summer. These
little beach capes are OF knitted
worsted in pleated effect, with huge
mufiing collars OF brushed wool or
angora. and long cord ties tipped with
angora, pompons. The knitted capes
come in white and In colors and may
be donned over the bathing suit. or
over the froek. Just as grown-up beach
capes are.
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The Courtesy OF a Letter

halrp!ns; for the necessity of courtesy
in note answering is just as important
as good grooming.
System helps a great deal II you
have a large correspondence.
Instead OF stacking opened letters in
a pile Ito be answered sometime"
have three receptacles. And have two
pencils, one red, one blue. The mo-
ment note or letter has been read
check 1t off. II 1t must have an i'm
mediate reply put 1t in the lat once"
receptacle-and attend TO that "st
once" receptacle at given hour each
day. Letters checked with a blue
pencil may wait week. A red check
means can wait a month"
II It is hard for you to answer let
ters because when you do get at It
you "ramble on" and rather shrink
beforehand from the time you know
II Is going to take you; learn to write
short and to-the-point letters--as a
man does. Rare IS the man who
'rambles on" Unless you have the
gift Of expression on paper-and can
use typewriter, your friends who are
just as busy as you are will shrink
bit also from the closely written pages
which must be deciphered to catch the
gist OF your ramblings on. 1t Is a very
good idea, when you are reading let
ters, to catch up pencil and draw
circle around anything you want to
refer TO in answering. Then you need
not, a month later, reread that whole
letter but can see at a glance, from
the penciled circles. just what you
want TO say.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1921-05-30

her own dressing. Little suits that do
not come off in one pull are trying
10 the temper and so are little suits
that will not wiring out almost dry
with one or two good hard twists. But
the modern bathing suit for the child
Is a splendid affair You can wiring 1t
out as easily as a stocking and no
matter how II is tossed down II never
loses its good shape. Moreover, the
fastenlngs are on the shoulder and the
suit has not that way OF gaping dis
tressingly between buttons over q bare
little stomach--as childish bathing
suits OF earlier years were apt to do.
Most of these small suits are now
made OF wool Jersey or OF light flannel.
Many OF this years bathing suits for
grown-up people are OF flannel which
seems TO be coming into its own again
for wear by and In the sea. But very
different are these new flannel bath
ing suits from the dreadful affairs OF
ten or fifteen years ago with their sag
glng lines, buttons down the center
front OF the waist and skirts that were
always pulling down from the belt.
Tho new flannel suits are trim and
smart and they come in the loveliest
colorings and are trimmed with braid
at the edges rather than in stripes
which used to be the proper and ap-
proved way OF decorating every swim
ming costume.
Color is an important attribute In a
chlld's bathing suit. The brighter the
nnlnr w. hntsr. n 2. NV. anr ltarn
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Usually the scarf IS OF single fur
border trimming giving too bulky an
effect. Semi-sport scarfs have pock-
cts at the ends and sometimes have
collars. Such scarf is pictured and
the fur is gray squirrel. This scarf
may be worn with formal frocks-it
Is shown with q costume Of ruffied
black taffeta and a dress hat-and II
may be worn with regulation sport
costume of skirt and blouse. Because
the sport scarf is such a practical
sort OF possession many women pre-
fer 1t TO the fur wrap or cape which
would be in bad taste with a sport
costume and is only suitable for wear
with dressy frocks.