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came from behind Lightfoot and
danced on toward the hunter with the
terrible gun. Instantly Lightfoot be-
gan to steal softly away through the
Green Forest. lie took the greatest
care to make no sound He went In
a half circle. stopping every few steps
TO listen and test the air with his
wonderful nose. Can you guess what
Lightfoot was trying to do? He was
trying to get behind the hunter so
that the Merry Little Breezes would
bring 10 him the dreaded man-scent."
So the deer plays hide and seek with
the hunter, and happily he wins. Also
he wins Daintyfoot, and there is
rev home tx the forest.
Harrison Cady shows exactly how
all the wood people look and the style
Of clothes they wear, even to the
colors.
If Mr.. Burgess doesn't change his
mind the next volume in this series
will be about Blacky the Crow.
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Reviewed by
LAWRENCE L REAMER.

IN HROVINCETOWN has two com
panies of actors this summer
Will its fertility as a source of
drama be doubled? Certainly the
Provincetown actors who began their
work on Cape Cod and then trans
ferred its winter phases to Macdougal
street created a distinct school of
drama In the American theatre. They
did more in creating, or rather bring
ing to light, one of the promising play
wrights of the day in Eugene O'Neill
But 1t is rather as the founders of a
particular school that they deserve
praise. Their efforts in putting dramas
of various kinds before the public have
met with the mutable success which is
the fate of all human enterprise
Sometimes the directors of the Prov
incetown Players have found complete
success. as in the case of ONeilPs
Emperor Jones'" At other times they
have had TO share the failure which is
destined to be the lot of all artistic
enterprise at one time or another But
they have accomplished one definite
purpose. They have formed a Little
Theatre repertoire which was one of
the needs of this fruitful branch Of the
American drama. Not all of their plays
have been confined even to this public
Emperor Jones" and "Diff'rent" held
the stage of commercial theatre last
winter. Bound East to Cardiff" has
been the third of the ONeill plays to
meet with widespread success. greater
even than In the Zone" which, after
an experience in vaudeville here, is
just now part of successful one act
programme in a London theatre. But
as the creators of valuable repertoire
for the Little Theatre movement the
Provincetown Players have put their
best foot forward.
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Hamsun's most poetic work

PAN. BY Knut Hamsun. Alfred A.
Knopf.
CSST HERE was a stone outside my
hut, a tall, gray stone. 1t
= looked as if it had a sort of
friendly feeling toward me; as if it
noticed me when came by and knew
me again I liked to go round that
way past the stone when l went out in
the morning; it was IKE leaving a
good friend there who l knew would
be still waiting for me when ! came
back"
And there came a storm, the south
westerly gale; play for me to stand
and watch. All things in a seething
mist. Earth and sky mingled to-
gether; the sea flung up into fantas-
tic, dancing figures of men and horses
and fluttering banners on the air.
stood in the shelter of an overhanging
rock, thinking many things; my soul
was tense. Heaven knows, | thought
to myself what 1t is / am watching
here and why the sea should open be-
fore my eyes Maybe am seeing now
the inner brain of earth, how things
are at work there, boiling and foam
ing. Aesop was restless now and
again he would throw up his muzZle
and sniff in a troubled way, with legs
quivering uneasily. When ! took no
notice he lay down between my feet
and stared out to sea as / was doing.
And never cry, never word of hu
man voice to be heard anywhere
nothing; only the heavy rush of the
wind about my head. There was a
reef of rocks far out, lying all apart.
When the sea ragged up over it the
water lowered like crazy screw; nay,
like a sea god rising wet in the air
and snorting. till hair and beard stood
out like a wheel about his head. Then
he plunged down into the breakers
once more"
Here is great work of literature
No one quotation can demonstrate it's
power as whole, yet on almost every
page Is the fngerprint of genius.
Seldom does writer of prose attain
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main idea is quite in harmony with a
good deal of the teaching in modern
books of boy psychology. Not that
Cobb has to look for his psychology in
any book.
Which brings us tn the great
thought that follows the reading of
this painless volume-or rather two
great thoughts. First, we want to
read 80 and study nights Cobb's
Psychology yet unwritten; and sec
ond, we call for the Inauguration of a
series of Cobb's Dime Novels Cat five
cents) as thrilling as this master of
plain and fancy language makes US
believe the books in his photography
must have been. Books like Tomb
stone Dick, the Train Pilot; or THE
Traitors Trail; Pacific Pete, the
Prince of the Revolver; THE Des-
perate Dozen" or THE Fair Fiend"
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Fate made him
an EgyptOlOgist
GALUSHA THE MAGNIFICENT r
Joseph G. Lincoln. y. Appleton & Cc

GALUSHA THE MAGNIFICENT Nv
Joseph G. Lincoln. D. Appleton & Co
THTS is "Joe" Lincoln at his
genial best; an excellent plot
with enough of novelty In It's
incident and cleverness in its hand
ling to lift it out of the ordinary rut
treated with wholesome. WARMLY
human humor and a sympathetic
understanding of real folks. III Is To-
Gated on Cape Cod of course. 1t has
It's fun measure of eccentricities. but
they are none of them the least BIT
overdone or caricatured. One even ac-
cepts Miss Primrose Cash-"Prim-
mie'-as a possible human creature
although she touches the edges OF
burlesque, as a specimen of the primj-
tive native. Galusha himself is an i'm
portatlon. not indigenous to the Cape.
although he is q relative of the mighty
Cabots of Boston. These naughty rela-
tives intended the young Galusha to
be banker. but fate and his own in
herent repugnance TO high finance, or
any kind of business, made him an
Psychologist. He is the typical arch
bblpSlSlt SndbuN III uItSS, dbSent
minded. generally snuffy In looks, but
beneath this professional exterior is a
shrewd. kindly, warm hearted man;
rather. a fine gentleman.
Galusha is dropped by accident into
the Cape village and becomes involved
in the affairs OF Capn Jethro, the
lighthouse keeper. who believes in
spirits and is being duped by local
mediums, and Miss Martha Phipps,
whose little fortune is in danger. Cap'n
Jethro has a daughter, who provides
a sufficient love story. Galusha be-
sides being erudite is also. in fact,
quite wealthy. This enables him to act
as a deus cC mdchind to unravel the
local tangles. but II would be most un-
fair to reveal the plot i'm detail Ga
lusha is. indeed. entitled to rank as a
creation" lie is altogether lovable
and the comedy and occasional pathos
of the story. as a whole, is genuine,
with nothing cheap or tawdry about 1t.
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so near the intensity of the poet, the
spear thrust of inevitable utterance.
If there were nothing in the book
save its expression of the unity be-
tween man and nature it would be
great. But on a first reading one
scarcely realizes the proportions of the
human drama The author explains
nothing, gives no analysis of psyclfol-
ogy. makes no pleas. He simply
chronicles.
Written in the manner and method
of Henry James, for example. this
would be three volume novel-as one
might make indefinite expansions of
Shakespeare's plays.
Claim is q solitary creature who
fails to find happy relationship with
other human beings. Mr.. Bjorkman
in his introduction holds that Ham
sun is always more or less preoccupied
with the idea of the evil effects of the
city. No doubt the land is a passion
with him; but whatever may be said
of his other books this one scarcely
sets men and women in opposition to
nature. In fact. it might be argued that
Pan" was a demonstration of the
danger of living alone! But we shall
make no such argument.
A point that should be emphasized
IS that even this record of a tragic
life is full of expressions Of joy. Claim
is not a perverse cherisher of melan-
choly. Nor does Hamsun use him to
express a depressing philosophy of
life. He leaves rather the sense of
general beauty, shadowed here and
there by misfortune. These are char
acteristic words:
Thanks my God, for every heather
bloom | have ever seen"
THE monotonous breathing and the
familiar trees and stones mean much
to me. / am filled with a strange
thankfulness; everything seems well
disposed toward me, mingles with my
being. | love it all. / pick up a little
dry twig and hold it in my hand and
sit looking at it and think my own
thoughts. The twig is almost rotten
it's poor bark touches me, pity fills my
heart. And when get up again / do
not throw the twig far away, but lay
it down and stand looking at It, At
last / look at 1t once more with wet
eyes before l go away and leave it
there"
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have been collected in THE Province
town Plays" Ten examples of their
repertoire are together accessible in
this single volume, although some Of
them have previously been published
separately.
Suppressed Desires" by Mr. Cook
and Susan Glaspell. Is one of the most
popular of the products Of the Prov
incetown genius. Not only is 1t fire.
quently played in the Little Theatre
repertoire, but the amateurs have ap-
propriated 1t. while last year it was
for almost a season a curtain raiser
TO Emperor Jones" Such widespread
popularity Is almost enough to demon
strate that its Provincetown qualities
may not, be deep seated 1t is, how
ever, a diverting specimen of the com
edy that may dwell In psychoanalysis
The powerful bit of irony Cocaine"
by Pendleton King appears with it's
most radical line omitted from the
printed play. 1t was sufficiently raw In
the spoken performance 10 be CRATE
fully missed. The play has a strong
tang of the gutter that makes an un-
deniable impression. just as any eXu-
dence from such a source Is certain to
do. But there are other tangs that
stir the air as strongly and are yet
free from the miasma of the dialogue
between the street walker and her NJ.
Alphonse. An example of this kind Of
power may be found in ONeill's
Bound East for Cardiff which is a
genuinely poignant study of a mo-
mentary tragedy, redolent of the salt
and free air of the sea.
In the volume are Edna st. Vincent
Millay's Aria da Capo,"' with its fe-
licitous phraseology and graceful I'm
aginativeness to recommend 1t rather
than any dramatic effectiveness in
the presentation of it's theme; THE
Widows Veil," by Alice Rostetter;
Might" by James Oppenheim String
of the Samissen." by Rita Wellman
Not Smart" by Wilbur d. Steele;
"The Angel Intrudes," by Floyd Dell,
and Enemies" by Hutchins Hapgood
and Meth Boyce.
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Coyote outlaw
and his pack
THE YELLOW HORDE. BY Hal g..
Evarts. Little, Brown & Co.

THE YELLOW HORDE. BY Hal @.
Evarts. Little. Brown & Co.
TH HERE is no animal which is as
close to man as the dog, and
the dogs wilder relatives are
almost equally interesting because
they lead life which appeals to the
savage in us. Civilization often seems
more bother than it is worth, and so
we like to read about outlaws. The
cunning coyote is the outlaw par ex-
cellence among wild animals, and so
It Is a pleasure to have story about
these sly marauders written by a man
who knows his subject. The author
utilizes the same dramatic conflict of
different heritages which Jack London
has immortalized in The Call of the
Wild" a coyote that is part wolf
mates with bitch that is part coyote.
and they gather a pack about them
which becomes such a menace to the
farmer that they are hunted out OF
their old territory and find a home In
the far North, where their kind has
never been seen before.
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Master and man
become partners

WHAT NEXT? By Denis Machail.
Houghton, Miflin Company.
The author Of this story is born to
the purple OF British aristocracy. He
has taken pains to assure the reviewer
of that fact in a sheet which accom-
panies the book. 1t was not necessary.
as the book shows familiarity with all
the life of high society. Like Mr..
Pelham G. Wodehouse. he is able to
portray servants as individual types.
Like Sir James Barrie, he portrays a
servant who Is more efficient than his
master When the hero finds that the
fortune which he is supposed to in
herit has evaporated the butler pro-
poses a partnership. They turn their
hands to everything. All their ven-
lures meet with a success as startling
as those of the Pondeveros in Fl. g.
Wells's Tono- Bungay. Although the
situations are rather fantastic they are
saved by dialogue which sparkles
like Sheridan's comedies.
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up his mind to seek his fortune.
He is convinced that his academic
knowledge Of geology will give him a
better chance than prospectors who
have learned only by experience. So
he starts for the wild and woolly, ac-
companied by his fair daughter. She
feels that he needs a guardian. This
feeling is justified when he is cheated
out OF the first mine he discovers.
Most Of his friends believe that this
discovery was a happy accident.
The professor assures them that he
can repeat the feat. When he dis
covers a better mine he turns the
tables on those who first cheated him
in very clever way. OF course. this
interesting story of the desert has a
thread Of love and rivalry running
through it.
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y
Nj the company, then slowly
rose, his glass held high.
Ladies and gentlemen he said in
cisively to the cause of the Allies
to Americal To the complete van
gushing of her foe and the annihila-
ton of autocracy, however long 1t
takes-to Democracy And that
night Moreton, who was furnishing
money for testing and developing GER
tain explosives, and who had big
:dea for promoting the efficiency OF
our Secret Service and was using all
the influence he possessed to get more
severe laws passed against spies, was
murdered
Yes, 1t is story in which the war
and Germany play some part. But
even those who are tired of war
stories need not hesitate to read this
book. The war is but the cause of
the murder-the unravelling of the
mystery of the person or persons who
committed the crime and the revela
tions of character constitute the true
theme
Get the Secret Service and the De-
partment OF Justice on the case and
developments will be exciting. Have
a lawyer as the stanch friend of
Nixola Allen, ward of Moreton and
regarded by him as his beloved daugh-
ter. and an extremely highbred chauf-
feur in love with her, and complica-
tions are bound to result-also bound
to be solved in a book!
Too, Moreton's will must be carried
out, and the part about Mike bears
greatly upon the solution of the story:
ITO my ward, known as Nixola Allen,
and regarded by me as my beloved
daughter, give, devise and bequeath
all the rest and residue Of my prop
erty, real. personal and mixed. with
the request that her husband, should
she marry. shall take the name OF
Moreton and be known by that name,
and that her children. should she have
issue, shall bear the name Of More
ton"
And you will not only love Nixola
but you will admire the chauffeur,
Holt. who loves her with a big and
true love. and who TO protect her
name endeavors TO throw suspicion
upon himself BY disappearing after
the murder. He is fine chap YOU
know, invalided home after service
in the Canadian army, going back as
soon as they will take him. this time
in the American ranks. but in the
meantime he will give fiery talks to
the crowds.
And Mike? She loves Moreton. and
she loves Holt and she is very fond
Of the lawyer Parker, but she needs
must do things which hurt each of
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This professor
was a mine finder

DESERT VALLEY. By Jackson Greg
ory. Charles Scribner's Sons.
w T ESTERN novels are inclined
\A/ to sneer at the effete East
erner. In this story Mr..
Gregory uses the well known reverse
English. His main hero is a college
professor. He Is pictured as OF the
absent minded type. All his life he
has been devoted to theory. His
friends are dismayed when he makes
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in long time.
Here is a poem from Spoons Of
Silver and Spoons Of Tin" (Keith-
O'Neill Press) a book OF sentimental
verse by Ben +. Keith:
.Ive sorted out what follows here.
A vagrant bunch OF verse and rhyme.
Some penned for friends / once held dear
And others hated at the time
Years have increased the love for some,
But hate has ceased for every one
Still i would not revoke one word
That love or anger ever stirred
Though time has changed some points
OF view.
Both good and bad, the words were true.
And so to all herein inscribed,
Without one care l shall abide.
PDe~redd your little Uolume, Ben,
Your vo0rdnt bunch OF Uerse and
rhyme,
And let me sag don't knoto aoheH
PUe had so ercellent time.
What's more. you're helped TO cheer
and ease
A LADY toho Is hard to please,
Who says true sentiment is tChat
Most poetixers haven't got.
In brief, my grandma. loho Is bored
By Byron, Broioning and q horde
OF others OF the famed elite,
Said OF your poems, THEY'RE so
sloeet!'
The lines in Spoons of Silver and
Spoons of Tin" that particularly
pleased our grandmother are these:
Oh my old home on the HILL
How thoughts of thee oft thrill
Longfellow never penned line
That was not strictly clean.
A woman's love is something far be-
yond the power of gold.
The past is like precious book.
Oh. children don't make mother wait
For the time will surely come
When you will vainly mediate
The things you might have done.
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THE CLUE OF THE PRIMROSE
PETAL. BY Harvey Wickham. Ed
ward J. Clode.
THE Clue of the Primrose Petal" is
novel which is designed to please
those readers who are devotees Of the
silent drama. 1t Is concerned with the
vicissitudes of a company which Is
engaged in manufacturing films. Need
less to say, while they are preparing
romance for the screens emotions of
various kinds affect the producers, un-
til life itself furnishes a plot more
dramatic. thrilling and bizarre than tho
the scenario they are working out A
murder is committed and McClue the
great detective, is called in. Suspense
IS carefully worked up, and although
very early in the story the reader is
d BILE TO detect the real criminals. the
author scars to heights of melodrama
and in the final chapter. he discloses
the fact that aside from murder and
robbery his villains have been engaged
in the drug traffic. The story ends
with a close UP of the hero and hero
inc in each others arms.
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The Century Company will resume
publication. beginning with the Octo-
Der number, Of the Centurion, the little
illustrated monthly magazine dealing
with authors and their works which
ii formerly published on account of
shortage Of paper during the war the
Centurion was discontinued 1t Is
sent regularly without charge to any
one requesting II.
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Just before sailing in late July with
his family for long visit to Holland,
his native land, Edward Box completed
the arrangements for the publication
of his autobiography, THE Americana
zation of Edward Box" la a popular
edition. This will be only slightly diff
ferent in form from the original edi-
tion, but the price viii be greatly re-
ducad
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The Book Factory
BY EDWARD ANTHONY.
PURE FUN AND NOTHING MORE"


rihc dismses number Of the Charles =
ms acdth the comment pure fun and nothing
When am dead and buried,
AS day | shall be,
Say not, 'This pote sonnet wrote
In praise of Liberty
That showed fine impatience
With those who trample on
The sacred rights of owly wights
When | am dead and gone
Forget these lines bromidic
Remember that wore
The testers gown and jotted down
Pure fun-and nothing more
When have Swapped my Tyre
For one Of Heavens harps,
And with the angels cloudbanks range,
Aplaying flats and sharps,
Forget my flights ambitious
My odes and elegies
In praise of this or that-Tll miss
No memory of these.
But say-and in my sky house
! shall have no regrets
Before ne ended up he penned
Three merry triolets"
Sing folderol! Let others
Make song of worldly strife
Let's raise the roof and furnish proof
We do not take this life
As seriously as critics
Who deprecate the art
Of jollity-a jubilee
Beneath their windows starti
Well serenade the nnnes
And greet 'em with roar
When they appear and start to sneer
Pure fun and nothing morep'
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them, because the Secret Service is
in charge of the solution of the mur-
der.
II you can guess the answer before
the last few pages of the book you
are better man at mysteries than
we are.
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Book Exc h n ge

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Dramas grew from our oWnsoil

THE PROVINCETOWN PLAYS. Ed
tied by George Cram Cook and Frank
Shay. The Stewart Kidd Company,
Cincinnati.
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w. II. HUDSON.

We are one with Ford MADDOX Huef-
fer when he says in Thus to Revisit:
Nv ri Hudson is the unapproached
master Of the English tongue" His
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|. COBB, DEFENDER
OF DIME NOVELS
BELOVED OF BOYS

A PLEA FOR OLD CAP COLLIER. BY
Irwin S. Cobb. George II. Doran
Company.
w THO would have thought that
Ae Irwin S. Cobb would ever
close a book of his with bib
biography? Sounds like a slander. But
there you are, beginning on page 81
Title and author given in full, just as
in a Solemn Scientific Study of the
Secondary Scintillations of the Solar
System: Full photography and notes.
But Cobb is dead serious This little
book is written in a glow of crusading
fervor No Dickens out to down Do
theboys Hall ever struck a manlier
blow for the oppressed lads of whom
Cobb was, is and always will be one or
more.
which really cost five cents, were more
reasonable than much Of the "improv-
ing" prose and verse in school readers
and other prescribed books for the
young. He points out the absurditieS
in such poems as The Boy Stood on
the Burning Deck" He even fires a
few cobblestones at Scott's Young
Lochinvar" and Longfellow's Excel
sior."
Some points in the indictment
wouldn't stand cross examination. But
who could be cross with Cobb? His
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THE UNDERWORLD IN FICTION.
Trains arrived crammed to suf-
location, not a seat vacant; passages
choked with strapholders and en-
trance lobby solid with perspiring hui
manity When the doors were
opened TO discharge a few travellers
the mob surged desperately to force
an entrance, half Of them to be dis
appointed and condemned to wait for
another train"
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Green Mansions" which we place
only below Vanity Fair" Jude the
obscure" The Ordeal OF Richard
reverel," The Scarlet Letter." kim"
ana four or five others. is the most
beautifully written story we know Of
VINO can name another novel that con-
tains as much pure poetry?
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REVIEWS OF NEW FICTION

tical work OF its kind we have seen
| in long time.
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Leave it to the secret service
Reviewed by VIVIAN RADCLIFFE

THE MORETON MYSTERY. BY Eliza
beth Dejeans. Bobbs Merrill.
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volume a new set-the Green Forest
Series" The plan is to make some
animal the hero of each book The
authors loyal readers need not fear
that they viii lose any of their old
friends Of other tales. For if the adj
ventures and the centring of interest
are varied, the inhabitants of this out
door world are the familiar figures OF
other tales. Peter Rabbit, Sammy Jay
and Paddy the Beaver come and go.
seeking food or fun. or to warn each
other of danger Even the very winds
of heaven are alive. When the deer
is pursued everything helps him.
"A merry Little Breeze came steal
ing through the Green Forest. 1T