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Bolshevism and
The North Pole
THE ICE PILOT. BY Henry Leverage.
Doubleday, Page & Co.

THE ICE PILOT. By Henry Leverage.
Doubleday. Page Co.
The Bolshevik menace is reaching
the North Pole. 1t adds thrill to
the story Of "The Ice Pilot" However,
It is an unnecessary thrill. 1t is al
most adding insult to injury to add
has surmounted.
Horace Sterling was renowned as a
pilot. No one could guide a boat
among the foes and icebergs better
than he. For this reason he was
sought after by a group of men who
were not satisfied with the legitimate
profits of whaling. Through a very
clever device he was shanghaied
aboard luxurious yacht which was
sailing to poach seals The hero re-
fused to lend his aid to defraud the
Government. The captain became an
CRY with him when he managed to
warn a revenue cutter and he was
locked up. He was befriended by a
mysterious girl who happened to be
aboard Finally the ship came to an
anchor in northern Russia. And then
the Bolsheviks came aboard and mas
sacred most of the crew to obtain the
ship. Horace Sterling escaped and
because of his knowledge of these
regions he piloted the ship through the
Northeast Passage. OF course when
he came to Greenland he married the
heroine.
Mr.. Leverage knows the life of the
whalar The earlier portions of the
book are fully as good as Jack Lon
don's yarns. The end is SO melodra-
matte that he might as well have
gone a bit further. The hero needed
help to get the boat through the pass
age. but instead of Juggling Bolshe-
viks in he might have captured some
polar bears a la Tarzan and taught
them to steer the ship.
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tie Imperialism of the Japanese socie-
ties operating in California are vividly
alleged. Lacking proof of the con-
trary, accepting the racial solidarity Of
the Japanese as practically automatic,
many readers will take Mr.. Irwin at
his word. In the interest of truth,
however, it should be pointed out that
Mr. Irwin writes from the colored
viewpoint of the native Californian in
whose thigh the Japanese colonists are
as pricl1ly thorns.
To be sure, this does not render nu-
gatory Mr.. Irwin's main theme, that
the little brown men Of the Far East,
short legged and fiat hdded, are crowd
ing out the American farmer. That
there is concerted plan on foot to
colonize California for the Imperial
Government has not yet been proved,
and the searching reader will require
more convincing facts before he is won
over to this viewpoint. Mr.. lrwin's
evident bias wars against his thesis
and certainly does not work for har-
monious relations between this coun-
try and Japan. II is clear that too
insolent Chauvinism on the American
side is just as inimical to world peace
as the hypocritical Imperialism OF
Japan; the one surlily opposed to the
other is bound sooner or later to
deepen misunderstanding and foment
harsh feeling which must finally break
out into open conflict. Having outlined
the menace so dramatically, Mr.. Irwin
leaves us where we started, with no
healing solution visible. Perhaps as a
novelist he held this to be rather out
side his field: but having seized on q
theme which is 50 vital to America,
after treating ii in such a fortnight
and realistic manner, he is, believe,
in duty bound to suggest a possible
huge in his mind.
Yes. Mr.. Irwin. when he is dealing
with the facts which serve as spring
board for his story, is essentially a
realist II is plain that he is at close
grips with the palpitating evidence.
This lends unusual conviction to his
case. He does not scruple TO burst GER
tain widely accepted bubbles. For in
stance. of the Japanese as a worker
Dune Ieacy. who is unquestionably the
authors mouthpioce. has this to say:
The Jap is a one horse farmer; the
American is a thousand horse farmer.
Our Imagination takes In the whole
landscape. while a Jap gets down on
his launches and rubs dinky piece of
dirt between his hands. The supersti-
ton has gone round that every Jap
has the brain Of Hartman and the
body Of toy Hercules Bunk! The
trouble with the Japs is just this:
They're lacking In stamina. .
The Japs can't compete with Portu-
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THE USES OF DIVERSITY. A BOOK
OF ESSAYS. ny q. X Chesterton
Dodd. Mead a Co
One OF the pleasant and comfortable
things in Mr. chesterton's equipment
is his carrying capacity for millions Of
words with kernels IN them. He swal-
lows them. apparently, IN a dried con-
dition. and allows them 20 swell up in
side Of him. and they presently reap
pear with a widely dsffereui content
and specific gravity from anythinE
perceptibie In them when he spooned
them out OF the product Of writer's
more determined than he 40 say what
they had 20 say and be over with a.
Whether they came from the rocky
depths of Chnuccr's old stilton or
from the custarda and curriea ~ the
modern novciists. by tho time Mr.
Chesterton rxpcls them they have ac-
quired a distinctive quality aR unmis-
taxable as that scent % chyre which
always hung round the adventurcas.
or as the first few bars ~ annie
Laurie" You Hike them. particularly,
because they are all old friends whom
you have seen hrforr and you like
them an the better FOR the subtle
something which they have pickes up
during their solourn with Mr. chcs
tcvton.
One of the ungencrous things which
people used 20 say about this fluent
and amiabio writer D. that ne wrote
paradoxes-w wrote them % death. and
had no mercy pnaaibiv ne has done
80. once or twice when his smoke be-
gan 20 pour out of the bottle which his
publisher. az reckless AZ the Arabian
fisherman. had uncorked. but Il seems
more likely that the trouble was with
the wits OF his readers rather than
with the fumes from Mr. Chcaterton.
which are never acrid. after all, and
often fragrant and bcguiling. The
public "ear" has become more familiar
with his key, nowadays. and his re-
marks are understood more fairly as
the spontaneous expression Of whim-
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[ENIES MARK NEW STORIES L ONG AND SHORT
"Signorina Capuletta' in America

sharper eye fallen on young America
as II exists in the youth and maiden Of
o-day than the one Mrs. Bradley turns
on the group who play tennis, golf,
canoe and flirt in the mountains.
What a contrast between their man
ners and those of the little "Wop
who has been brought UP in the rigid
foreign school OF propriety! When
pretty Maria and one OF her admirers
are accidentally lost on Bald Mountain
and are forced to spend the night in
the open the italian sees no other way
out but that of marriage. But the boy
is "one of the Byrds of Long Island. =
who has spent his homage avoiding
the net Of the fowler, and he very
brutally informs the poor, bewildered
child that she is "nutty." From his
protection. which does not protect, she
rushes down the mountain and into
the very arms of-well, guess.
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win George III. Doran Company.
Reviewed by PIERRE LORINC.
while the California land question
is being discussed In more or less abb
stracf terms I'm the news columns.
Wallace Irwin has been busy investi-
eating the problem from the human
angie. The fruits OF his research are
arr~stingly given in his latest novel,
THE Seed of the Sun Politicians and
theorists may canvass the Japanese
question back and forth endlcssly and
offer 90 hight 10 the curious laymsn.
Mr. Irwin. on the other hand. seems TO
say; "Go 20 California. the Golden
State. settle on the land as a farmer
work your farm yourself and see what
happens"
This is precisely what Anna Bly. the
heroine OF seed Of the sun" does
She nurses no groundiess or blind pref
udice against the Japanese. She IL, in
fact. genlaliy disposed TO the little
hrown men of Nippon because her
father had lived In Japan many years
and among his closest friends he num-
bered several Japanese of high station,
among them Baron Tazufni. who acts
as a sort OF spiritual adviser 20 Anna
herself with hcr younger sister
Zudie. she decides 10 work tho old BLY,
farm herself Accompanied by her two
children, her sister and a wise old Irish
nurse. she leaves New York for the
west coast She takes the affairs Of
the farm IN hand and thus brusquely
collides with the vexed Japanese aues-
sion
The Biy farm In located I'm a tlnicl0ly
populated Japanese corner OF the state
and naturally her farm hands are ex-
clusively drawn from that race. Her
overseer and partner, a Mr. Shlmba.
attends 10 the details for her. and, su-
perncially M least. ne appears 10 be
industrious In her behalf But AZ the
crucial moment during the prune har-
vest MIR. Shimba forsakee her: the
workers in the field 40 out on a mys-
terious strike and the prunes upon
which she has relied so much 10 pay
the overhead of improvements are left
20 rot. unEathcred. whore they have
fallen. An American neighbor and
quondam engineer by the name Of
Dune Leacy rescues her from her piti-
ful impasae just when, wearied out IN
body and soul. she drops exhausted In
the effort 20 save the harvest herself
What Is the explanation OF the sud
den japanese waikout7 Mr.. Irwin an
swers boldly. mincing no words II ~
the racial solidarity OF the japanese
colonists in California. backed by the
Imperial Government. who are deter
mined 20 buy up as much land as pos
slble and 80 drive the American farm
ers out. The velvet scheminR and sub
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EtCtl0n.
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THE FEAST OF LANTERNS-By
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TMPRUDENCE--By f. II. Mills Young.
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THE PRODIGAL FATHER-By George
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Reviewed by PIERRE LoRINC.

SEED or THE SUN BY Wallace Il
win. George III. Doran Company.
The New York herald., 1921-02-27
Reviewed by SUSAN STEEL.

Where Action IL sole by bulk THE
Innocent Adventures viii not win
much favor. but in the minds OF per-
sons who do not first turn TO see II the
last page OF a book r. numbered 700
this condensed. modern story will be
accorded a genuine welcome. 1t is not
too brief TO be truthful and TO contain
character studies easily recognized as
being drawn from life.
The little heroine s so pretty that
she has no trouble at all i'm winning
our love; even were she not quite so
innocent I'm her search for a husband
a rich one to whom a dot would not be
essential. We should be prepared TO
forgive her. She is the third daughter
of an impoverished Roman family and
her mother was born in America
Therefore, when II becomes difficult 10
find an eligible pdrti for Juliette. her
elder sister. who was born TO be a
happy wife and mother. but was plain
of feature, the parents devise a plan
of sending their beautiful daughter to
pass season with relatives In Amer
lea. Two things might come OF this
improvement Of poor. plain Juliette' s
matrimonial chance and a possible
American husband for Maria.
That first night in New York with
her mothers cousins stirred the blood
and the imagination of the little
"Wop," as her relatives and their set
begin at once to call her. 1t preludes.
too. a romance for in a clever young
playwright who had failed 10 "get
over" because he put too much Har-
ward in his dramas little Maria sees
the hero OF her dreams. She dances
with him once in the big public dining
room--it sounds like Delmonicos-
removing her hat as she did so. That
once was enough. She falls in love as
quickly as the lady in Shakespeare
and the Veronese ballad, the Signorina
Capuletta.
Unhappily the American representa-
| tive of Romeo, although admiring. il
not at the time heart whole. and, as
the claim of propinquity is not en-
forced, he and Maria part as IL never
to meet again.
They do meet in the Adirondack wilds
| under extraordinary circumstances
and the end is happiness for both
otherwise we should never be able tC
forgive the author Seldom has 6
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The Scene Shifts Around the World

other version 81 tn breaking away
from the oii tradition by the oncoming
genermtion. bat a version In which che
power 0G Miss YeMierwka iH strangely
diluted In THE ROtterT F1eta Camp
bgli springer wrltes of am F,ngilshnan
returned from India % die and hts
pieasant revival ~ friendShip with
Inc wifs ~ an ola comraAs. a woman
who ia realizing her lon~linesH for che
Nrmt timnw a. her dauRhter. for whom
she has lived ~ about 20 Ioin the ranks
of the successfully married Mr.
O'EFfen has = penchant for the STORY
~ the EmeliFhman. Ome extremely IN
ierraiinn ems iimR~rs tn the memory
from another volume, a story told at
a formal dinner of ~ EnrliahmRn who
discovered ia the wiid~ ~ Canada the
woman ne lovrd and the man she mar
rie6-A tale with m~pre than a touch
OF the kitni creative spark
im tho present volume F.aiih Storm
has a STORY entitled The Three Tele-
wrarnw~ thar seems 70 endeavor 60
express for France what Margaret
Prescott Montague's Prom England
10 America" expressed OF the spirit OF
Great Britain The Storm story has
tafnt of w0gnRm@ margarine menti-
mentality that Mins Montmguf's epi-
scde beautifully lacked. There are two
psychological adventures alNo in this
volume. one ny John r. Wheelwriwht
called The Roman Bath" an ad-
venture I'm the London of David Cop
prrfield and Mr.. Pickwick: the other
by stephen Preach Whitman. en-
titled "Ammzement.~ q Jump into the
Florence of tine sixteenth century.
"Sheener- the STORY by Ben Aimee
williams OF the loyal little Jewish
newsbuy who scented the gentleman
in a down-and-out Engiishman, be-
friended him. only 20 BE- snubbed BY
the same gentleman when he "cafne
back" a bit. is very keen narrative.
Stories hy Frances Giichrist Wood
Wilbur Daniel steele Rose sidney
Arthur Somers Roche. Lee Foster
Hartman. Helen Coaie Crew and Ed
wilma stanton Babcock complete the
collection.
AS "a comment We might quote one
of MIR. Hughes's small boys looking az
the dawn and saying explosively.
Gosh. what do you want for 10 cents ="
What does one want for 10 centsf
Perhaps N one did not read Mr.
O'Brien's introduction. his words about
creation. criticism OF life, the birth ~
new type OF national literature ana
all the rest, one would not reach the
last page Of his volume with such a
feeling Of flatness. Perhaps u is mot
fair 10 compare craftsmen with artists
like Mrs. Gerouid. Mrs. sedgwicN,
III. @. Dwight-to mention products
Mr.. O'Brien classes as American--nor
10 contrast the output Of American
magazines for year with the work
of such younger European writer's. for
instance, az Seumas OKciiy Of The
Golden Barque.' Thomas Burke os
"Nights In London" and various Conti-
mental writer's. For 10 cents one does
not expect the artistry Of a Leonard
Merrick nor the driving power OF a
| Chekhoy but. having known what
short stories might be, ono wonders
why our new national literature. as
exemplified by the magazine short
stories, continues. year after year. 10
fall short.
One remembers two stories published
In the Atlantic many. many months
ago. Seth Miles and the Sacred Fire
and "rhe Knights Move" VIII any
of the 1920 narratives linger In the
The New York herald., 1921-02-27
THE BEST SHORT STORIES on 1889.
Edited by Edward =. oBrien. smAA
Maynard a Co.
Reviewed by ELEANOR HAYDEN.

Again MIR. o'Braen offers 60 the pub-
lic the twenty short stories Published
during the current year I'm American
magazines that particularly please hts
taste and that most nearly cone up
to his tests OF substance and farsa
In HIS introduction the editor aepiores
the commerclaliEation Of the Americass
magazines that tends 10 stnndardAne
the output OF young authors ~ insirt-
ing that they repeat the note shat
first pleased the public taste nntl an
the original meaning OF the note has
been lost. Mr.. O'Brlen suggests that
from the modern American short
stories is being built up the FIRST na-
iionai literature that ~ not founded
on one racial feeling but many racAal
feelings; that iupcrsoDai creation M
taking the place Of hack work and
that sincere criticism cf life Ia being
offered In stories OF inherent vitality
artistically presented.
From this sympathetic Introduction
one turns 10 the contents OF the book,
and what does one find? The first
story in the book. entitled 'rhe Other
Woman" lis by Sherwood Anderson,
to whom the volume is dedicated.
This rather unpleasant tale concerns
a man who seeks reality with the wife
of tobacconist the night before bin
marriage. Said one critic, II think
there are some people who should
leave marriage alone, and that man
in one of them" Said another. why
should Mr.. O'Brien consider that the
best short story? 1t may be true 20
life. but II isn't even interesting"
What else does one find in the vol
ume? A vivid tale by konrad Berco-
yici told of GhitZa, an ancient hero
of a wandering gypsy tribe, who
Jumped into the chill waters OF the
Danube rather than betray his village;
a story by Edna Glare Bryncr called
..The Life OF Five Points," in which a
sort of Spoon River realism lis at
tempted; THE Signal Tower" ny
Wadsworth Camp, a sensational plot
of a switchman in lonely railroad
tower with the problem before him OF
leaving his job to protect his wife
from q drunken man or staying on
his job switching the express anu
the special to avoid a smash. One
slides through the book. There is
story by Katherine Fullerton Gerouid
entitled "HabaISkuk," that seems like
an oasis in sandy place, bit Of real
style and subtlety in a desert arid OF
such pleasant things. There Is
do-profound Rupert Hughes story
of the Mississippi, with the kind OF
philosophy in it that seems to insure
Mr.. Hughess popularity.
Grace Sartwell Mason has written
a really good response to the women
who pirate about, mems jobs being Sc
easy and so interesting-men's nav
ing the best of 1t" and only doing what
they like. Mrs. Mason scorns such
twaddle in conversation, and shows
how one man in His job" had to work
for his success and was willing to sac
rifice the pleasant immediate for the
future that he wanted to build In
'The Rending" James Oppenheim re-
peats the strain that Anzia fezierska
utilized so adequately in The Fat oi
the Land lin the 1919 volume of short
stories). Mr.. Oppenheim gives an
The New York herald., 1921-02-27
The Tentacles of Empire

guese or Hindus AT grass cutting, be-
cause they haven't got the physical
strength. They're best at dainty little
jobs like picking fruit or padding
round the rice plantations. If you'll
ask me the real reason why Japanese
wives work with their husbands in the
fields, I'll tell you it's because the men
aren't a minute stronger than the
women"
AS a novel, it will be observed. Seed
of the Sun" falls between the two
stools of art and politics. AS book
however. it Is beyond doubt one of the
most arresting contributions in popu-
lar form to the California land ques-
tion.
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BY all means get
a copy today of
" "The Mirrors of
DOwning Street" by a.

Il Ill T. Vu u L. > W
Downing Street." by a.
writer who calls himself
"A Gentleman with a Dus-
ter" A book i'm which the
anonymous author INDUCES
in the frankest studies Of a
dozen of the great British
leaders, who have made and
are still making history. The
New York Herald says: "Of fascinating
interest, with style pungent and
epigrammatic does not con-
tain dull line there is
scarcely one Of the great controversial es
which agitated British political voters
during and since the war that not
touched on the author is par
tisan in his friendships. and he is good
hater, so his work is altogether engag-
ing" Estimates of Lloyd George, Lord
CarnOck. Lord Fisher. Mr.. Asquith.
Lord Northcliffe, Balfour, Lord
Kitchener, Lord Robert Cecil, Winston
Churchill. Lord Haldane, Lord
Rhondda. Lord Inverforth, Lord Lever
hulme. AT all booksellers. 81 10. Put
mans, New York.
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zon" and The Emperor Jones' novels
like The Age Of Innocence" and the
criticisms of Huneker and Randolph
Bourne?
Has the commercialized magazine.
with its standardized product, para
lyzed the imaginative power of the
creators of the American short story
The New York herald., 1921-02-27

AN INNOCENT ADVENTURES. BY
Mary Hastings Bradley. D. Apple
ton a Co