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 ] MOMENTS WITH MARK TWAIN" Selected by Arthur Bigelow Paine. Harper Brothers, Publishers, New 1 York City.
 1 One of the most treasured of Mark Twain's utterances, was his statement | to a newspaperman that the report of lhis death was greatly exaggerated"
 Maybe the talk about Marks gloomy l philosophy of life, which has been growing to the proportions of a legend since the publication of The Mysteri- ous Stranger" is bit exaggerated, too.
 It might be easy to build up case for him as a--weil, fair to middlin' jolly sort of person--on the strength of Mo ments with Mark Twain" But he<who ventures to cheek up the merry witti-
 cisms against the singing little bits of irony does so under pain of Marks dis pleasure. for at the very front page of the volume Albert BigeloW Paine has put this bit of the masters philosophy: 1 Moral statisticians--I don't want any 1 of your statistics; I took your whole batch and lit my pipe with it. I hate your kind of people,
 | wisdom, and his biographer has been
 able to gather enough of moments" to { satisfy both schools of his disciples l end some that would be hard to classi- 1, fly at all. Just for good measure, there 1 are characteristic pages from "Huck | Finn" ''The Innocents Abroad" Life
 on the Mississippi" and the rest of the
 joyous list of titles, selected from the ,spots where he was writing on happily 1 at fYt11 Max~ !, Mark Twain" is a book to crown the | pleasure of golden hours with him. THE WAR. THE WORLD, AND WILSON
 1 By George Creel Harper Brothers. 1 Publishers. New York City. The War, the World, and Wilson," by George Greet, is summing up of the ad- ministration by the former chairman or
 the committee on public information, and an account of the clash of interests It : the peace conference at Paris. at which i Mir. Creel worked in close touch with President Wilson. Mir. Cree tells. among
 other things, why General Wood ana
 Theodore Roosevelt were kept home from 1 France. why President Wilson did not 1 form a coalition cabinet, why he wrote
 his famous election letter why the Shan
 tung compromise and the Adriatic tanele,
 The book includes a personal glimpse ct 1 President Wilson, the man and the l President to whom as head of the corl-
 nlittee on public information, MT. Greet had daily access-as well character
 studies of Lloyd George, Clemenceau Orlando and Sonnino.
 THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN" IAN APPEAL TO THE NATIONS By Dr. "A. F. L. Dohme. The Norman Remington Company, Publishers, Bal timore.
 It is hopeless to look for permanent and progressive amelioration of the gen eral economic and social conditions un- der which humanity has been practl- cally marking time since November, lslS' unless and until the antagonsms between classes, the animosites and hatred oe- tween nations, the callousness with when one part of the world regards the agonles
 of another part--all these are swept away, and new era Of friendship anu faith betwe an men, combined with re- crudescence of true religious feeling, has been brought about by the concerted eI-
 forts of the civilized nations
 Much has been said and written to this end during the last few wears: ana suS gestions for the regeneration or the ~oriu have been as plentiful as leaves n Vallambrosa.
 The latest contribution to this subject
 
 portance of the idea conveyed by the aE- thor in his truly grandiose concepti'n
 .The Brotherhood of Man" shows ciearN the necessity of a transformation in the religious concept of the peoples. But 't also makes the responsibility evident or the churches in the present crisis ahd emphasizes that the worship Of creed must be replaced by a warmer and more life-giving reliance upon falth lnat never dies and that will sustain and
 comfort humanity in it's pressing needs The author, Dr. A. R. l.. Dohme. who for years has taken much time from the conduct of a great business to make deep study Jf general economic and po- litical conditions. believes that the tnnc is ripe for a radical readjustment Of the relations between the peoples and ''l this volume offers the suggestions of practical thinker. as help to the dis- covery of the best method of achieving this result
 THE CHORUS GIRL AND OTHER l STORIES
 By Anton Chekhov. (Translated From the Russian by Constance Garnett. i The McMillan Company, Publishers, New York City.
 ] or all the Russian wriNers Anton Chekhov is perhaps the most realistic. using the word in it's humber and more literal sense. He does not pos i sess the romanticism of Turgeniev, or | the spiritual enthusiasm of Tolstoy. 1 or the abnormal psychopathic insight l a