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New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Turkish Memoirs
Secrets of Downfall Of the
Ottoman Empire Revealed

Edited by sornmervilIe Story. with a
preface by William Morton Fullerton.
published by Il. p. Dutton & Co.
TIME causes which led to the down
\ fall Of the Ottoman Empire are
clearly set forth in this interest
ing volume OF memoirs. Ismsil Kemai
Bey was at once an Albanian patriot
and Turkish statesman. Although he
was first Of all loyal to Albania, the
land Of his birth, he served the gov
ernment at Constsntinople over a long
period Of years and did what he could
to bolster up the rapidly failing power
and prestige Of the Sultan.
During the last half Of the nine
teenth century Turkey, hopeIessly
backward alike in political and indus
trial development, was saved from dis
solution only by the mutual fears and
Jealousles Of the great European
powers. On one occasion Constant
nople was saved from capture bv the
Russians only by the intervention of
an English fleet. The author, who oc-
cupled various administrative posts
fought constantly against corruption
and decadence and presented 3 long
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

The MIRRORS OF DOWNING; STREET
Ely Gentleman with a Dustcr Pub
lished by G. r. Putnanl's Sons.
TNHE anonymous author of these
pungent character sketches, re.
viewed at length in The Tribune
when the book appeared IN England
evidently believes that English states
men would be better off if they could
see themselves in the mirrors of honest
criticism. He wields his duster vigor-
ously, and some of the distinguished d
hgures whom he describes fare rather
badly at his hands.
He believes that Mr.. Lloyd George $
ldealism has become considerably tar.
nished during his long tenure of Office
He feels that the Premier has suffered
g moral let-down, that he is moro in.
terested in preserving his power than
in preserving his principles, that he
has become somewhat corrupted by
constant association with third-rate
men. Arthur Balfour is shown in a
very unfavorable light He is repre-
sented as cold, selfish, unsympathetic
man, with an Unsuitable hunger for
public office.
The incurable mediocrity of Mr.. As
quith is rather neatly hit off in the
following sentences:
Nothing in Mr.. Asquith's career i,
more striking than his fall from power;
1t was as if pin had dropped.
Great men do not at any time fall
in so ignominious a fashion, much less
when the fate OF great empire is in
the balance"
The author is rather sympathetic in
his sketch of Winston Churchill. How
ever, ne feels that this statesmsn's
brilliance misses fire because of his
lack of firm purpose and conviction.
He recalls the fact that General Will
liam Booth of the Salvation Army once
told Mr.. Churchill that he stood in
need of conversion.
That old man. says the author.
was notable judge of character"
Lord Haldane and Lord Leverhulme
perhaps suffer least from the strokes
Of the. duster. Lord Haidane is praised
for his splendid equanimity in the face
OF torrent Of undeserved abuse; and
the author believes that the govern
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

memorandum to Sultan Add l-Hamia
with many suggestions for reform.
All his efforts were fruitless. how
ever, and matters became still vor.,
with the accession to power Of the
Young Turks, who practically made
Turkey German colony and aIienated
the subject races by initiating a pro-
gram Of violent and iniudicicus Otto
manization. Forced to choose between
loyalty to Turkey and loyalty to
Albania, Ismail Kemal Bey returned 10
his native country and put himself at
the head Of movement for independ.
ence at the time of the First Balkan
War. Albanian aspirations, however.
received slight consideration at the
hands OF the powers, who assigned tn.
incompetent German prince, William Of
Wied, to rule over q mutilated and
psrtitioned country.
1smail Kemal Bey spent the last
years of his life in exile, and his coun-
trymen are now reported to be making
an almost hopeless struggle for
autonomy in the midst of Greek,
Italian and Jugo-Slav intrigues.
The memoirs describe an active,
colorful career; they also throw some
light upon the complicated course OF
Balkan history. The chapters dealing
with the picturesque native customs
Of the Albanians are especially vivid
and interesting.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
The Passionate Spectator
London Professed To Be Shocked by American
Wonans Book

sex. Her FIRST lover abandons her to
marry rich woman, and in her
wretchcdness she goes down grade
rapidly, until she Is a drug addict. At
this lowest point an early lover, a
physician, turns un, persuades her to
marry him, and cures her. But she is
not in love with him, and when he
leaves for long business trip she is
easily interested in other men. Her
affections arc then engaged by young
promoter, d persuasive young Irshman,
whom she accepts as her lover, plan
ming TO divorce her husband to marry
him, until she finds with horror that
he has engaged himself to marry a rich
woman and is quite satisfied to keep
their relationship what it is. This is
the last blow to her idealism, and she
decides on suicide. She has only one
illusion left, one person remains her
beacon light, This is her sanity Aunt
Caroline, an elderly woman, whose life
! has been a pattern of sweetness and
! l-opille!' be4oie shooting hcfSe4f She
goes for a sort OF final JUNCTION to her.
And then the elderly Aunt Caroline cx-
plains to her the secret of her own
happy marriage. 1t is that she has al.
ways maintained an extra marital rela-
tionship, as has her husband and every
one else, and that 1T is the only way TO
be happy though married Thus
aoothed, the younger woman abandons
the idea of suicide, and returns to both
her husband and her lover.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

gossip with the corner loafers? And
yet we do just that when we read the
cheap and temporary trash Of super
ilclal minds, while all the while the
great books of the spirit are waiting
for us. "Do you know" cried Ruskiu
that if you read this you cannot read
hat?"
Some people read TO get informa ton
about their business. They use their
books as Pharaoh used his slaves
menial drudges to help build the pyra-
mids of their success. Some people read
to keep abreast of the times. 1t is a
hurrying age in which we are kept
painting, out of breath III our endeavor
to keep up the pace, Books, like wings
on the heels of Mercury, marvelously
increase our ability to keep abreast Of
our swiftly moving time and not to be
utterly belated in the rush of move
ments and events.
Some people read because thew are
expected to, because stigma attaches
to the man who has not read the fa-
nous or the latest books. There are
few clubs by the duress of which we
are more driven than that appalling
question, Have you read ?"
But while such motives as these lie
behind the reading of multitudes Of
people there are some folk still left
who look to books as one of the great
sources of enrichment to their spiritual
life. Books are the open avenues down
which, like kings coming to be crowned.
great ideas and inspirations move to the
abbey of mans soul. There are some
folk still left who understand perfectly
what Fenelon meant when he said:
"lf the crowns of all the kingdoms
of the empire were laid down at my feet
IN exchange for my books and my love
of reading, | would spurn them all"
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Future Psycho-analvsis

/ EEPRESSED EMOTIONS BY Tsador H.
Cor1at' NJ. u. Published by Brcntauo 5.
HHE talisman of truth in scientific
discovery is its ability to gather into
system, facts and phenomena that had
been considered unrelated or even
casual.
Significant in this very respect is Re-
pressed Emotions, the most recent pub
llcatlon of lsador II. Coriat, M. D., of
Boston. The domain of psycho-analysis
Is here displayed in its power to probe
the affairs of the mind in a constantly
widening extent and to gather under its
province mental phenomena apparentlv
very diverse, The findings of psvcho-an-
alysis in the study of aboriginal traits.
IN the development of character in fic-
ton, in the study of folklore, in it's
application to the cure of mental disease
and even 30 the elimination of unde.
slrable traits of character in normal in
dlVIduals are here made plain, the iden-
tty OF all unconscious thinking being
the thread that unites all these various
and variable factors unde. one great
primal law.
The characteristics Of the unconscious
mind inasmuch as it is already known
are carefully presented and emphasized,
and its influence upon life and thought
explained,
DR.. Coriat's publications have ever
revealed mind alert, able and SYM
pathetic, but this last volume evidences
in addition ripeness of thought and
discrimination due to long mastery not
only of theory, but also of practice
The steady and confident forward look
ing attitude of this work impresses the
reader with the feeling that the end is
not vet and that the author sees
greater possibilities for psycho-anal-
ysis in the future.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
By Floyd Dell
70 /T OON-CALF" is an old Eng
NM lish word dating back TO

~ M IN OON-CALF 1S an oIo Eng
lish word dating back 10
~ - Elizabethan times. 1t is
applied by one of the
drunken sailors to Caliban, "The
Tempest" It signifies literally a per-
son under the influence of me moon;
eu oddty, green character, "moon-
struck fellow" and "calf" to boot
raw, awkward youth. Every one
goes through the period Of "calf-love';
the "mooncalfr' will always retain
some Of the aTkwsrdness and imprac-
ticable idealism of that period through
out life. | should define a moon
calf" briefly, as an awkward young
man with 8 touch of intellectual
lunacy.
The moon is traditionslly the
mother of all queer fancies. A. young
man who is more interested in ideas
than in baseball is child OF the moon
rather than citizen of the ordinary
daylight world. According to Baude-
laire, who discourses upon The Gifts
OF the Moon in one of his Poems in
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

ment should have made far more ef-
tective use of Lord Lcvcrhulmc's genius
as an industrial organizer.
The concluding chapter of the hook
IS devoted to some reflections on the
present state of English society. The
Arlstocracy, the Church and Labor are
scYerally called before the bar and
lectured for their pursuit of purely
material ends and thcr lack Of regard
for spiritual values. The author fears
that the tone Of English public life is
deterioratlng, and laments the appear
ance of vulgar professional politicians
IN place of the cultured gentlemen of
previous daYs
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

ceiTably objected to my having at any
rate very small one il only--"
mot at all! Nobody objects to the
baby in itself, now that you are mar
ried woman. The point is that the
babies of the Philstines are brought
to them by the stork; and that even
an allusion to the possibility of mis-
guided persons obtaining baby in any
other way these Philistines consider
to be offensive and lewd and lascivi-
Gus and obscene"
"Why, how droll OF them! But are
you sure of that, Manuel"
"All their best thought-of and most
popular writer's. my dear, are unani-
nous upon the point; and their Sera-
MIN have passed any number of laws.
and their oil merchants have founded
guild especially TO prosecute such
references. No, there is, to be sure,
dwindling sect which fayors putting
UP with what babies you may find in
the cabbage patch, but all really self
respecting people when in need of off
spring arrange to be visited by the
stork."
! at is certainly remarkable Gus
tom, but it sounds convenient if you
can manage it," said Niafer. "What
want is the baby, though, and of
course we must try to get the baby in
the manner Of the Philistines if you
know that manner for I am sure
have no wish to offend anybody"
Stork Is Willing
SO Manuel summoned the stork and
reminded him of the three wishes
which had been promised when Manuel
saved the stork's life; and Manuel said
that he would take son for each. wish.
The stork thought that this could be
arranged.
"Not this morning, though, as you
suggest, for indebted as / am to you,
Dom Manuel, l am also very busy
bird. No. I have any number of or
ders that were put in months before
yours, and I must follow system in my
business, for you have no notion what
elaborate and exact accounts are fire.
Guently required by the married men
tLat receiys invoices from me-"
Come now" says Manuel, "do you
be accommodating, remembering how
I once saved your life from the eagle,
and my wife and will order all our
abies now, and spare you the trouble
Of keeping any accounts whatever. so
far as we are concerned"
The stork finally said that by little
management he could let them have
one of the children within month or
SO, and would give promissory notes
for the others.
Manuel and Niafer we're fishing by
the river bank late one evening, when
they saw the stork arriving with the
baby. The baby was suspended from
the birds beak in blue wrappings, SO
that they knew at glance it was
girl. Later in the evening Manuel went
to Niafer and found her sewing.
Necessary Sewing
My ucai, tHlS Wlil lloC 90 dI al, ne
said, Efor you ought to be in bed with
the newborn child, as is the custom
with the mothers Of Philistia."
"What nonsense!" says Niafer,
when I have to be changing every one
of the pink bows on Eelicent's caps for
blue bows"
"still, Niafcr, it is eminently neces-
sary for US to be placating the Philis-
t ncs in all respects, in this delicate
matter Of your having baby"
Niafer grumbled but obeyed,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

'>E iEkS tltoM THE FRONT. Volume I
ldted by Charles Lyon Foster ana
Wiiliam. smith Duthio, Tho Canadian
hahk OF Commerce, Toronto.
"a n ORE TO be desired than tho
VI scholarly writings of generals.
strategists and tacticians are
the written impressions and records of
experiences under fire of the men who
obeyed and fought. Canadas response
to the call of the motAerland in 1914
was instantaneous and, as is ever the
case, the most eager of those who were
ready TO go to France were Young men
of good position in family and in busi,
ness. Blood always tells, and so il
was that the Canadian Bank of Com
merce was heavily drained at the start.
-Four hundred and sixty of its best
young men went forth in the first wear
of fighting"
We have, open before us, the beau.
tifully prepared tribute of the Cana.
dian Bank of Commerce to it's heroes
Letters From the Front. The book is
labeled Volume !, and we look for
'" " WV NpiiA'iiE o4 hue second vol
ume with the greediness of a keen an
t'clpation. For this is a soldiers book.
fiiled from cover to cover with letters
sent home to Canada from all Eng
lands tar-sweepfng battle lines. Origi-
nally published in pamphlets, these let.
ters arc here sheafed in one whole. a
body of war literature unique and of
extreme value. A man who can read
the pages of Letters from the Front.
pages filled with the glorious ardor of
youth, devotion to right, love of coun-
try and scorn for death, without fee.-
ing quickened beat OF his heart, is a
craven image. For there is more of
the reality of the late war in this sim
gle book than in a hundred and one
other books, so-called "experiences. /"
that we have read
1t Is impossible, in the restricted
space of this review, to quote at large
Here, however, is the pralet of Cd
Lieutenant FIG. Flower. killed in ac-
ton on December Is, 1917. He was
attacked by four enemy machines and
shot down in flames over the British
lines His soul glows forever in these
words, written TO his father and mother
and received after mis- death:
so now | have the couteatment of
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

TIE FILM MYSTERY. By Arthur y,
Reeve. Published by Harper & Bros.
Fleming. Published by Edward /.
Clods.
NRAIG KENNEDY, Arthur b.
Z Reeves famous detective hero,
is Just as infallible as ever in
The Film Mystery. A moving picture
actress, Stella Lamar, is fatally poi
soned Shortly afterward another
actor in the same film drama dies in
the same way, and an attempt is made
on the life of still another character.
The criminal in every case displays a
remarkable knowledge of the subtlest
and deadliest poisons and diabolical
skill in committing his crimes behind
q thick screen of concealment.
But Kennedy is the nlurderers mas
ter, both in scientific learning and in
natural wit, and the whole network of
criminal intrigue is cleared up in
highly dramatic fashion in the con-
cluding chapter, where Kennedy em-
ploys the negatives of moving picture
films in revealing the murders which
have. been committed. The Film Mys-
terry is full of exciting and battling
situations. Arthur B. Reeve hasn't
writton better scientific detective
story for long time.
THERE is q suggestion Of DR.. Jckyl
and Mr.. Hyde in The Crooked
House. Tho sinister horror of mad
ness broods over the story. The action
centers about 4 mysterious mansion
which IS full of winding halls and
passsgeways and which is surrounded
by q garden that is q perfect maze of
devious and confusing paths. In this
garden q beautiful woman is found
horribly murdered. 1t takes all the
skill of . French detective to divert
suspicion from an innocent man sorely
pressed by circunastantisl evidence and
to track down the real murderer.
A piquant situation arises in the
book because of the juxtaposition of
two men, one Of whom. really sane,
believes that he is mad, while the
other, thoroughly mad, gives decep-
tive but convincing impression of
sanity. The Crooked House is war
rsnted TO produce large number of
thrills, and the ending comes with the
shock of genuine surprise,
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
"A Man and His Books
Through the Printed Page the Worlds Grea,
Minds Talk With Us
By Harry Emerson Fosdick,

By Harry Emerson Fosdick,
! Professor of Practical 1Leo1ogy IA,
Union Theological Seminary
ut is & great pity that when all
of us are reading so much of the
time, when, as some one has put it
Life is a blur of printed paper
there are not more who make it re-
ligious duty to acquaint themselves with
the great dynamic literature of the
spiritual life
When one considers how much we
do read, how reading creeps in at all
the cracks and crannies of our lives,
how our ideas are shaped, our views
of life suggested by our reading, how
the possibilities that lie in books to
ruin or exalt mans life are open for
a few pennies to all of us, one must
agree that few questions are more i'm
portant to the culture of the spiritual
life than the question of a man and
his books.
Great books are the finest of all demo-
Gratis. They come to us all alike on
equal terms. slf ST. Augustine, or Wcs-
ley, OF Phillips Brooks were alive, only
few of US could see them and hardly
any of US could have private seances
with them. But this is not true of their
books. Though we are so poor that we
must buy them in paper covers, they
Will all be there They will sit down
in our plain rooms and talk with us.
If at first we do not understand them,
| they will repeat their message again
and again. If We forget their truth,
we can come back next evening and
they will tell it TO us once more.
If kings and queens were waiting to
talk with us, if nobcmen and princes
were holding audience till we should
come, how long would We stop to- barter
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
BY all means get a copy
foIav oF "T'ke M,rro~e rs

BY all means get a copy
today of '7'he Mirrors of
DosUning Street." by a
writer who calls himself "A
Gentleman with a Duster. :"
A book in which the anony-
nous author INDUCES in the
frankest studies of dozen of The
great British leaders, who have
made and are still making his
tory. The New York Herald
says: ''Of fascinating interest,
with a style pungent and epi-
grsnarnatic does not
contain dull line there
is scarcely one of the great con-
troversies which agitated British
political waters during and since
the war that is not touched ON
f. the author is partisan in
his friendships, and he is good
hater, SO his work is altogether
engaging" Estimates of Lloyd
George, Lord Carnock, Lord
Fisher, MIR. Asquith, Lord North
cliffe. Balfour, Lord Kitchener,
Lord Robert Cecil, Winston
Churchill, Lord fIaldane. Lord
Rhondda, Lord Inverforth, Lord
Lcverhulinc. AT AlIsBookseIlers
9z.5O. Putna1ns. New York. /!
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

n
the work of an American, Jane
Burr, was first issued in Lon
don, whence come reports that London
was a little shocked and stirred and
gave TO its author the sobriquct "The
lad. Woman of the West"
1t does not seem likely that London.
with its own considerable group of out
spoken women writer's, could have been
greatly startled by this, save for GER
tain quality of naivcte in the story
that heightens the turgid effect.
Until she is thirty the woman of the
story lives the yirtuous existence of a
middlc-class wife. She has three chill
dren and is an ardent mother. When
all three children die OF infantile
paralysis she has a break down, and
then wakes up to find that her life is
dull and her husband more so. At this
juncture her younger sister appears
seeking a refuge from hey husband,
whom she has left. She has radical
ideas on the economic independence of
women and her freedom to live her
own life, and she communicates them
to her sister.
From this point the woman's new
life begins. She leaves her husband
and comes to New York, and in New
York She finds varied experience in
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Business Letters
M0pERN BUSINESS WRITING
Charles Harvey Raymond. Published
the Century Com nanv -N-eu

EHE psychology of business CORE.
spondence is illustrated with NJ.
merous concrete examples in this com.
prehensive work. In form letters the
author shows how to apply for a Job
now to approach, buyers and sellers
how to boost" product, how to, col
lect bad debts. The book contains
many usefal hints about advertising
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Keeps Vice Society Guessing
Figures of Earth Shows Evidence That the
Author Must Have Been in a Playful Mood

FIGURES OF EARTH. A Comedy OF Ap-
pearsnces. BY James Branch Cabeil.
Published by Robert NJ. Mcbride g. Co.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Two Murder Tales
Craig Kennedy Agaln--A
House of Horrors

THE FILM MYSTERY. By Arthur Il,
Reeve. Published by Harper & Bros
THE CROOKED HOUSE. By Brandon
Fleming. Published by Edward !.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

MEMo1RS OF ,1sArAIL KEAIAL. BEY.
Edited by SomraerviIIe story. With a
preface by William Morton Fullerton.
Published by 4. 2. Dutton e ca
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
Maple Leaf Heroes
Canadian Bank of Com
merce Honors It's Soldiers

LETTERS VRoM THE FRONT. voI,,,,,
Mdited by Charles Lyon Foster ana
Wnlam. Smith Duthic, Tho Canadian
Bauk Of Commerce. Toronto
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

THE PASSIONATE SPECTATOR. BY
Jane Burr. Published by Thomas
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27

VW TITH one eye on the ccnsors
" James Branch Cabell has
completed his most recent ad.
New-York tribune., 1921-02-27
English Leaders
Downing Street Personali-
ties Sketched a

THE MIRRORS OF DOWNING STREET
Ky Gentleman with Il. Duster Pub
lished by G. r Putnaul's Soua
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1921-03-03
R|NGWORM ON
FACE AND NECK
Sore, Red and Itched Terribly.
Cuticura Heals in 5 Months.

"Mynouhle was riugworms on my
tace and neck. At first had h1le
red pirnpies in circles and then they
got dry and scaly. The skin around
the ringworrns was sore and red and
i,ched terribly, and would scratch.
This trouble lasted a good while
before started using Cusicura Soap
and Ointment. After l had used them
about a month l got relied, and when
used them for three months l was
heaIed." (SiEnedl Miss HeLen DolAn,
644 Raborg ST., Baltimore. Md.
Cu,ieura Soap daily and Cutieura
Ointment occasionally prevent PIN
pies or other erupsions. They arc
pleasure to use. as is also CusNura
Talcum, a fascinating fragrance tor
pernming the skin.
S~MpIs EAGA Fros ~ Mai Addrssr -cstA=z1A Lab
orsAe<Laa. DSpa T. hAiAsa ~. 4AsA SOLD S~ery-
wssrs Soap Se Ointment d and Soe IAleum DC
ET- Cukie urA Soap Shavss WITHOUT mug.