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specimen under consideration in this
novel was once a valet in the service
of Lord Taborley. Now he is Cen
eral His lordship, known as Tabs
is engaged to a very young girl, Terry,
and returns expecting to marry her,
but finds that his former valet has
"cut him out" Obviously Tabs"
can't honorably tell his rivals secret.
though he threatens to do so. And
Terry imagines herself really in love
with Gen. Braithwaite, although un-
easily suspicious of his past, and
aware that he has in fact, lied to her.
One expects spectacular results
from this situation, but it rather fiZ-
zles. Braithwaite although a General.
remains something of "bounder,
and Tabs is a vaguely uneasy, fu-
tile person. He falls into the clutches
of a peculiar war widow. who has al
ready had three husbands in four
years and is apparently ready for
more The valet-general drops out of
the story, which follows the rather
tenuous amatory experiments Of
Tabs" The solution leaves the girl
Terry high and dry, as Tabs" is an
nexed by a quite grownup noble lady,
who decides to marry him at their
third meeting. Braithwaite also re-
turns to his class and marries Ann,
his former fiancee. who is Lord Tabor
ley's maid servant. Thus everybody
is happy. 1t Is a seriously meant
study of topsy turvy social conditions
and is interestingly analytical IN
cnntc but NOT very improsSiVp as A
whole. Doubtless there is foundation
for the implied indictment Of British
society in the process Of readjustment
after the war but one feels that. pos
sibly Mr.. Dawson's people are eXcep-
tional rather than typical folk; at
most passing accidents of the day.
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NEW BOOKS
Fiction.

Fiction.
SCARAMOUCHE-By Rafael Sabatini,
Houghton- Mifflin.
A SON OF THE HIDALGOS-By Ricar-
do Leon. Translated by Catalina Paez.
Doubleday-Pag
THE MARDI GRAS MYSTERY-By II
Redford Jones Doubleday-Page.
THE ALTERNATELY NJ Morgan
Gibbon Doubleday Page.
THE PASSIONATE PURITAN-By Jane
Mander. John Lane.
THE Amnesty Marion Ames Tag
CART. Doubleday-Page,
History and Public Affairs.
THE BIRTH OF THE RUSSIAN De
MOCRACY-By A. j. Sack. New
York: Russian Information Bureau.
THE RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIK RENO-
LUTIoN-By Edward Alsworth Ross
Century.
A HISTORY OF THE ADIRONDACKS
BY Alfred l.. Donaldson. Two vol
umes. Century.
Juvenile.
BIRD sToRIEs-By Edith NJ Patch.
Atlantic Monthly Press
Science.
THE ORIGIN AND PROBLEM or
LIFE: A SOCIOLOGICAL
STUD1-By A. Il. Baines. button.
GBRMINATION IN ITS ELECTRICAL
ASPECTS-By A. T.. Baines Dutton.
Biography.
JACOBEAN LETTER WRITER
THE LIFE AND TINES OF JOHN
CHAMBERLAIN-By Edward Phillips
Statham. Dutton.
Essays.
NOTES AND REvIEwS-By Henry
James. Cambridge, Mass. Dunster
House,
OUTwITT1NG OUR NERVES ~ nv
Josephine A. Jackson and Helen VI
Salisbury. Century
MisceIIa
YE OLDEN BLUE LAwS-By Gustavus
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LOAFING DOWN LONG ISLAND-BN
Charles Hanson Towne. Century.
MAGIC WHITE AND BLACK-The Sci-
ence OF Finite and Infinite Life-By
Franz Hartmann. Dutton
CALLING" At AUCTION BRIDGE
BY ]. W. r. Gillies, Dutton.
POST BIBLICAL HEBREW LITERA-
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translation by y. Halper. Philadel-
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America.
THE GAME or SOLITAIRE on THE
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III THE BOOKS WE CARRY
BORE YOU.
WE'LL HAVE SOMETHING
WRITTEN FOR you.

william J. Locke is q man we'd like
TO meet. We want 10 ask him 10 lend
us Paragot's velvet coat. Paragot
you win recall, IS the gay old dog
who traipsed through France with a
fiddle and pup in THE Beloved
Vagabond" We've just bought a fiddle
and a pup. and all we need before we
pull n Paragot is the makeup. :.
BY the way, the spirit OF Paragot lives
m Lockes new novel. THE Mounte-
bank" That elegant portrait OF him Is
from John O. London's Weekly.
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REVIEWS OF NEW FICTION

created, the fault is more noticeable
than 1t is in the work of the second
raters whose carelessly sketched
backgrounds do not lead one to ex-
pect anything big.
The Little White Frock." the
second best piece of work in the book,
is the joyous story of a retired actor
who lies beautifully and romantically
about the good old days when he
played opposite the adorable Sophie
Wiles, who-but read it yourself.
You'll like it.
THE Great compassionate" tells,
with plenty of humor and bit of con-
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Love and art did not mix

Storrow is too stiff, Torrie is too flexi-
ble-they were never made to stand to-
gether.
Krassler. a theatrical manager, pre-
sents the solution of their problem.
divorce Torrie and permit me to make
a star of her" is the substance of his
proposal. So Torrie forgets her love
life and becomes a star. Storrow mar
ries his housekeeper In Canada
stolid, taciturn woman They do not
bother each other. The face of the
1.-the, animal bodied Torrie. as she is
last seen, is thin face, milky white
face with wide set eyes and full lips
slightly touched with revolt" Storrow
settles down TO his farm work "and as
the months wore on he learned to think
less often of the past" No mention is
made of his art. and although we are
not certain. II appears that tho rupture
with Torrie temporarily at least. dried
up the creative forces Of life within.
Several Of the descriptive passages
are excellent, especially that which in
troduces Torrie to the reader. The au-
thor is an ingenious and resourceful
technician. The story might perhaps
have been told in fewer pages. 1t
leaves one with surfeited feeling. but
the readers concern with the figures of
the story never wanes. The minor
characters are not particularly well
drawn. Pannie Atwell. the good hearted
chorus girl, is interesting at times,
but the slang which flows from her
lips and which is reported to be the
argot of her kind, Is that melange OF
slang which only n genuine hobo or
literary man ever acquires.
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
BY EDWARD ANTHONY.

SoNNETs OF A BOOK REVIEWER.
"Ho,D TO Develop Personality"
By Tad TobdSco, author of Success"
"Reep Smiling, Brother "Be Busy
Bee"
Aud ten OF ti0enty others. more or less.
A personality, the author tells.
May be achieved By all. Despair not
then.
Acquire a snappy handshoke. That's
iChdt sells
Your wares. Be breezy in your ia
tCith men
aud allrays slap 'em on the back.
Keep your teeth clean and shou en-
tUhen you smile.
(FiUe minutes practice daily gives he
kndck.)
stand straight, tealk gin9erIy md
dress ha style.
And in no time vou'H be spri1htly lad,
As tri0 as any tn a collar an.
"Anthorogy of Modern Verse 20 npilec
By Roger Canto. Roger, yoat arr
brave.
Yo,o. o,,erdon SHAH be his-by ffty toiId
Unmentioned bards you shan DC
branded kndve
Qnclading me. You might hare run
feto
OF my pentameters. they're not 50
tcorSe).
He ,cho dnthologi@es COB 10 rue)
More trouble gathers than he gathers
verse.
II eUer / become dntholOOist
III mention Everybody, good or bad.
SHAH not take the chance NJ being
Kissed:
Poets are dangerous persons ichen
they're mad.
"AH Corners Manual Of Verse" IN dub H..
ind though yoit may, I'm sure the bdrds
MONT snub H.
Another small toun noreI ShotCind that
The biTaher is a poor beni0htcd sort
Needtm Of rescuin0. His tax IS fiat.
The latest mOric. holc 10 cure a irdft
or baseball is his topic II is time
We started a crusade TO sdUe his soul
Tbat trdttoUs oil these pears IN lo,e-
broo slime.
You give him Einstem lessons, IN
cdjoie
Him into an appreciation of
Good poetry. I'H read him some Of
mtne.)
All kinds Of learning dotCn his throat
loeH shove,
Until he is no longer dun, Supine,
Until he knotCs as much as Uo1t or
aud people take him for city Guyf
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sympathy, and get II, get it untiringly
and without stint. Miss McGee knows
them bad, knows them vile, indeed.
What of it? She disapproves heartily
enough of the badness. but it never
enters her head that she should draw
her skirts away when aid is needed.
It's quare world" she says, mus
ing on what life brings and takes
away. Queer indeed. And this unpre-
tentious novel makes you see it, in its
queerness, its bigness, it's sadness, it's
struggle, makes you see its flashes of
beauty. its wild grandeur. Like life,
the book has quality of heartbreak
and the tears will stand in your eyes
as you follow the fortunes of the poor
little sewing woman. and of Robert
Fulton, the failure. Never mind. Read
it, for it is worth reading. And though
it is sad, it is not depressing, for the
beauty of art is in it, the beauty of
truth
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
THE WINE OF LIFE. BY Arthur
Stringer Alfred A. Knopf.
Reviewed by GEORGE KENT.

\A/ locked in each others arms
i'm the last fickering of mo-
ton picture reel. it behooves the on
lockers to heave sigh for this is the
fade out" blessed by custom and made
symbolic of happiness by a long series
of precedents.
Storrow and his wife are living side
by side in apparent content when the
Wine of Life" fiickers out, but 1t is an
ending which weighs upon the heart.
1t is not significant of happiness.
Rather does the reader bark back to
that passionate and sorrowful episode
in Storrow's career which was made
up of jumbling discordances.
Torrie, she of the earlier episode, was
a woman of the city, pleasure loving,
who as a member of the chorus has
grown accustomed to a round OF pleas
ure, TO variety. and the dissipations
and philandering Of stage life. 1t was
her misfortune to fall in love with
Owen Storrow, an austere "Canuck,"
lover of freedom who yet preserved
within his soul a tormenting and vigil
liant Puritanism. They loved each
other, but the unceasing conflict be-
tween them proved that 1t is possible to
love intensely and enduringly yet quar-
rel without intermission. Something
was lacking in both. some middle
which they could conduct the business
OF living together amicably.
The story bears one along breathless-
ly--a continuous succession of rapids.
The acquaintance and love-they hap
pencd almost simultaneously
Storrow and Torrie. commence with
fight. A great hulk Of a man calls
Torrie a -, and Storrow, aroused.
leaps down fire escape, steps into a
magnificent fight. Torn and bleeding.
he stumbled into Tories room, and
love comes. swift and devastating.
They find each other again and marry.
Between them and their happiness,
however. parade the skeletons Of Tor
rie's past, old amours, admirers In the
flesh. letters OF love, trinkets, clandes-
tine meetings. Storrow cannot over
look or forget them. Like some foul
medicine. his wife's past will not down.
Perhaps II he could have forgotten
these bygone cscapades they might
have been happy in the passing hour.
but with Storrow's upbringing and
makeup II was impossible. The past
had given his wife habits and free
doms which pricked his memory and
Puritan conscience when he with jim
finite pains had ignored them into
slumbcr.
The course Of their welded life twists
In and out among many boulders. Stor-
row cruelty beats an overardent past
admirer Of his wife, and not many
weeks later strikes Torrie herself into
unconsciousness. There are separa-
tions and escapades. but love persists.
They leave the city together, but the
tedium of Storrow's Canadian farm
wears upon the nerves of his wife.
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THE JOURNAL or CARLO KNIGHT.
FREE LANCE.

Monddy. When I notice the head
line college Prof. Arrested for Max
ing Booze" is occurs TO me that
one might call this profigacy ! send
the observation to tho editor Of Nirth.
1t ought to be good for a dollar.
Tuesday. I make the most diplo-
matte remark of my career. Meeting
Carson Newkirk, author of Early
Irish Sculpture" who asks me what
think of his book. | reply. 1T Is the
best book I have never read"
sorry you haven't read IL, young
man." replied Newkirk, but It's very
gracious Of you &C. put II that way.
I'll send you an autographed copy"
WedHesdaB Comes the autographed
copy OF Early Irish Sculpture" ! am
more convinced than ever that New
kirk Is gentleman. | have reference
to tho fact that his inscription on the
hyleaf,. ITO nay friend, Carlo Knight"
Is pencil written. making q neat eras-
ure possible You can always get
better price for n book when II looks
new VI Andrew Peartrec hadn't
sprawled heavy pen-and-ink sigma
ture over the nyleaf Of that new novel
OF his that he gave me ! could have
realized az least 40c. more on II. q.
Thursday. ! write an article called
Giants" IT is a treatise on contem-
porary American writer's. A few weeks
after my piece appears the giants"
mention will write articles calling me
a mammoth. Everybody Is doing II.
Why not I? My thesaurus contains as
many laudatory adjcctives as the next
fellows. Moreover my article Is not
as untruthfnl as you may think. What
IS the harm. for instance, in calling
The New York herald., 1921-05-29

vincing pathos. the story OF a Scotch
lad who Is unmoved when his girl
iilts him, when a German officer pokes
gun i'm his face and when other dire
things happen to him, and who goes
through life without shedding a tear
until his dog is flattened by a steam
roller.
There is more good stuff in The
Golden Windmill" than one finds in
most books OF short stories. Ger
tainly Mr. Aumonier leaves one feel
ing that he does not write TO make
copy" but rather because it is his
function to spin yarns.
The New York herald., 1921-05-29


LIGHT. BY Mary +. and Thomas w
Hanshew. Doubleday, Page Co.
TEN tales in which cleek ' the
detective appears as the solver
of mysteries are grouped to-
gether in the volume taking it's title
from the opening story, The Riddle of
the Mysterious Light" The authors
have nimble and varied imaginations,
realizing the Importance of horror
and suspense. elements that are very
marked in most of the tales incor-
porated in this, their latest book.
The riddle of the mysterious light
is horrific to the last degree in
in its opening picture of the vii
lage OF Valehampton made tenantless
by a visitation of some evil power that
rings the church bells at night, al
though all the ropes have been cut TO
prevent such an act. the drying up OF
a neighboring river the death of
child-all the result of a gypsys curse.
And all this dominated by the mys-
terious and ghostiy light that appears
on the church tower while the bells
are ringing.
Cleek's immediate grasp of the sit
uation, the causes leading up 10 the
contemplated crime and the arrest or
the band of criminals are the result OF
induction and such a wide range OF
knowledge as only the Dupins and
Holmeses of criminal fiction possess.
1t must be confessed that II is not al
ways easy to follow him in his In
ductions; but. OF course, that does not
interfere with the interest OF the tale.
1.-THE Stolen Formulas" is war Spy
story that is very cleverly worked up
and out both by the German spy and
by Cleek. The Mystery OF the Rope
of Fear" is literary relation TO
Doyle's "Speckled Band" We admit
to being completely puzzled as TO just
how "The Priceless Statue That Van
ished" was discovered, or, 10 be more
exact how Cleek reasoned out the
posing OF a model in its place, defect
Of ours that would not interfere in the
slightest with the enjoyment OF the
tale by other readers. The final cpl
sode. The Passing OF Cleek," is no.
all that it's title implies, as the reader
will discover with a genuine shock.
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
Two for bows

THE GOLDEN WEST BOYS, TNJUN"
AND WHITLEY" STRIKE OUT
FOR THEMSELVES. BY William S.
Hart. Houghton. MHlin Company.
OUR LITTLE CRUSADER COUSIN
OF LONG AGO by Evaleen Stein.
Page Company.
THIS Is the second episode" in
the boys Golden West Series"
that our screen idol, William 8.
Hart, or Bill" as he is usually called.
has written for boys. II is an at
tractive story Of ranch life with cattle
rustlers thrown M. II tells Of the ad-
ventures Of two boys. heroes OF course,
who go off on "A hunting expedition
into the mountains. where they STUN
BILE upon gold mine. take part in an
Indian war. meet with grizzlies and
come in contact with former enemy.
They come~througk II all. neverthe-
less. without even the sign OF a
scratch. 1t Is a lively story.
Evaleen STEMS book, Our Little
Crusader Cousin OF Long Ago takes
both boys and girls away from New
York the West. &C.. and gently lifts
the cover or some ancient and inter-
esting material-that of the number
less crusades into the Holy Land some
Of which were successful and others
that were not. The two boy heroes OF
this story were pages, Hugh serving
King Richard Of the Lion Heart and
Raymond attending Count William de
Pratelles OF France. These boys have
adventures that would make the boy
Of to day envy them.
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
William ]. Locke.

or course. I'm very busy man.
reply (for why disillusion him y
and may not be able TO write as
many ads as you desire. bit I'll let
you have as many as | can. The
cause is worthy one and ! win take
this into consideration in allottins
time 10 it
Mr.. Flick thanks me profusely and
we part with the understanding that.
providing the work of my many other
clients does not interfere, | will sub
NIT some sample copy tomorrow.
I return to my room on East
Eleventh street, and, finding none OF
my "many other clients there TO dis
turb me, ] begin work on the ads.
for Buckets Bookshop.
SATURDAY. ! call at Buckets Book
shop with my first batch Of copy.
Needless to say. my work is enthu-
siastically received. Here Is some Of
my work:
Sign for fiction section:
WHEN THE SUMMER sUNBEAMs
SCORCH.
IN a HAMMOCK OK YOUR PORCH.
READING BUCKEL'S FICTION
BREEZY.
YOU CAN LAUGH AND TAKE LIFE
EASY.
sign for humorous department:
x....................
If you DO NOT
FIND 'EM FUNNY,
BRING EN- BACK
AND
GET YOUR MONEY.
N............-.. ......,...... ......N
Sign for farm and garden section:
x................... ..............
BUY EN- ERE you
PLANT YOUR SEEDS.
AND
YOU WON'T HAVE
ANY WEEDS.
x.............., +,...'..+........
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III THE BOOKS WE CARRY /;
BORE YOU. !:
WE'LL HAVE SOMETHING !:
WRITTEN FOR you.
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IN WHICH WE STAND
CORRECTED.

LONDON. April 80.
Have been reading "The Book Fac
tory" with diligent regularity. but
protest at the April II statement that
nut isn't English as well as Ameri-
can slang. Nut or, rather "knut,"
means swell, high muckamuck. IT al.
tad lib I'm the British Thesaurus).
Piccadilly k1rts are world famous al
the nuttiest Of their species.
o. r. s.
Thanks for setting us right, @ T. :.
Before we ever again refer to an
expression as "typically American
which is what we called nut, we are
going TO consult the British Thesaurus,
even If the expression be among those
that most of us are wont to regard
as native products. such as poor fish. "
boob" I'm tell the world "cheesit,
the cop!" how do you get that way?'
only In one instance are we sure
that a supposedly American term Is
American. We have reference TO the
colorful 'rumhound." We know that
this is American because when Mrs.
Walter Seton. the English satirical
artist tbetter known as "Fish'), visited
America recently she told rs that this
was the most delightfully."- original eX-
preston she had heard here. 1T was
worth coming all the way from Eng
land to hear it," she told US.
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
Reviewed by XAVIER LYNDON.

~ II, that mine enemy qcould tcrite
4 book-of short stories" paro-
dies Mr. Aumonier in an in
teresting preface to his volume. Ad-
dressing the reader of short stories he
adds: "You are far more exacting than
reader of novels, or works of refer
ence, or even histories, for the reason
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
From valet to general

THE KINGDOM ROUND THE COR
NER. BY Coningsby Dawson. Co.'S
mopolitan Book Company.
stT OOK at all the men for
whom/the war was a So
cial leg-up," says Terry
the leading lady Cor one of them) of
this story. "They were plumbers and
bank clerks and dentists in 1914: by
the end of 1918 they were Majors and
Colonels and Brigadiers. They didn't
know where the West End was till
The New York herald., 1921-05-29
Nine short tales
with a preface

THE GOLDEN WINDMILL AND
OTHER STORIES. BY Stacy Aumo-
nier. The Macmillan Company.
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DETECTIVE CLEEK
PROVES HIMSELF
THE INFALLIBLE

TILE RIDDLE OF THE MYSTERIOUS
LIGHT. BY Mary +. and Thomas w
Hanshew. Doubleday, Page Co.
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CANADANOVELIST
FINDS ROMANCE
IN SMALL TOWN

OUR LITTLE LIFE. BY ]. @. Slime.
Frederick A. Stokes Company
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w vHEN a man and woman stand
A/ locked in each others arms
in the last pickering of mo-
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Reviewed by
HILDECARDE HAWTHORNE.

is second book by writer
new to US, a Canadian woman.
= It's pages reveal keen. quiet
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29

tall, gaunt- framed woman. who held a rine
poised, ready at her hip.
Shoot 'em down - hissed Warren. In
uniform and under arms. You, take the man.
Welch. You, Vail, the other
Welch aimed his gun
'Tis a woman" moaned Vail
Obey orders. you fool!'' and the cap
tain's pistol clicked.
Zenas-you won't make me do this-put
this on my soul"
Shoot" broke In Warren, with q string
of curses.
Ben Welch's piece missed FIRE, but not so
Vars. The woman wheeled and fell, with
horrtd outcry. The old man dashed out Of
sight into the thicket welch saw that two
scarlet spots blazed in Wallis cheeks and
that ne bit another cartridge and drove il
home. The trio plodded forward to the clear
ing.
What was this digging business?'' asked
Warren. The old cat is dead as nails
Welch pcered down greedily into the mar
row hole. at once suspectinr buried treas
The Washington herald., 1921-05-29
Truthful

IN BOSTON they tell of a DR.. Reed who,
in his time, was one of the prominent
physicians of that city. His large practice
included many patients outside the city
limits and these he visited in his buggy.
One day, it appears, Dr. Reed bought
new borse, with which he was greatly
pleased until he discovered that the beast
had an insurmountable objection to bridges
of all kinds and could not be made to cross
one.
Now, inasmuch as at that period It was
necessary to cross certain bridges in order
to reach any one of the surrounding towns,
the doctor decided to sell the horse. He
did not think it at all necessary to mention
the animals popularity, but was much too
honest to misrepresent him. Accordingly.
after due cogitation, he inserted in q local
paper the following advertisement:
For sale-A chestnut horse, warranted
sound and kind. The only reason for SELL
ing is that the owner is Obliged to leave
Boston,