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hours and the like. The psychoan-
alysis proper forms the largest con-
sideration of the book. The three
steps of psychoanalytical treatment:
the resistance, the positive transfer
ence and the gradual termination are
discussed in order. II any objection
could be raised against DIR. Forsyth's
book it would be on the score of brew
ity; the book comprises but one hun
dred and thirty-odd pages altogether.
The Interpretation of the various
arts in terms of the Freudian the
ories is oy no means new: psychoan-
alysts have, in fact, drawn heavily
upon the works of poets and novel
lists for evidence for their hypothesis.
In "Psychonanaylsis and the Drama"
the authors turn the Freudian spec
troscope upon a number of dramas
that have been presented on the
American stage within recent years.
Among the ''psychoanalyzed" plays
are Magic" by G. K Chesterton;
Peter Ibbetson"; Redemption" by
L. Tolstoi: Dear Brutus." by ]. NJ.
Barrie. and THE Jest The work
Ings of the unconscious effective
life" in each of these are demon
strated, as well as the value and sig
nificance of the drama to the play
goer. The studies are finely con-
ceived and felicitously presented.
with no fanciful stretching of theory
to prove a point.
THE Source of Power" to which
DR.. Foote has reference in the title Of
his book, is the subconscious mind.
but il is not the subconscious mind
that the psychoanalysts or other
psychologists speak about. To the
author the term means infinitely
more than the reservoir of the memo
ries of the past. He defines il as the
universal, impersona. spirit under
lying all manifestations of life" Sug-
eestion is the key to its farreaching
powers. The author insists that one
mus. have faith to both understand
and develop these powers; even the
slSepicism Of an outsider is sufficient
to emasculate them in another.
Chdcun son O0ut.
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where he had a perfect chance to
murder the bailif rather than
jeopardize the life of his child. The
argument is outworn; the reference
to the apples alone saves this one of
the twenty-four brain investigations.
This leads Signor Papini to aver
that Switzerland has always been
the land Of no accounts; he denies
Helvetia q single artist, scientist,
writer or philosopher. Well. il Karl
Spitteler Is not writer. il Boecklin
is not an artist, then the Alps are a
hole in the ground. But think. de-
spite all this, of the suggestiveness
in this brief essay as compared with
the dronings Of the weary professor
in his Intellectual endeavor to interest
freshmen IN Schiller's most popular
drama
The choicest chapters in this book
are those on the subjects not men
toned in this review-Berkeley
Dante, Hegel. Croce, Walt Whitman
and seven others The translation
by Professor wilkins of the Uni
versity of Chicago is without the
slightest trace of academic stilt,
wholly acceptable on the ground OF
scholarship. and quite distinguished
in the matter of style and spirit.
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recourse to mythology "and tram
sends English reality without fall
ing into absurdity." He derides the
notion, admittedly rather imbecile
though expressed in some standard
histories, that "Gulliver's Travels
Is a humorous work, a book for
children. This makes us think
think Of the significance of the fact
that the very work which makes
children laugh brings tears of NOR
tification to grown ups. No one
that human nature is noble by in
tent, but not infrequently ludicrous
in action.
Books of this kind-little essays on
big nen-have become common of
late. But how many leagues is this
volume removed from such a work
as Claude C. H. Williamson's Writ
ers of Three Centuries. And Mr..
Williamson's volume is purposely Sc
lected, for If we close our eyes and
muzzle our memories as to his
sources his is a volume that thrifty
bookdealer might quite well recon-
mend to a none too discriminating
buyer as lust as good"
Papini leads off with an essay TO
the unknown mantle man who in
earliest times and wholly unac
claimed busted himself with chem
istry and metallurgy, invented the
wheel, fashioned clothes, devised
money, started agriculture, became a
poet, improvised the Orphic hymns,
carved the statues of the venerable
cathedrals and ceased his activity
only in modern times when the
stupid craze for signature came in"
The Bradfords and Van Vechteas.
the Nathans and Menckens. can con-
jure up analyses of known men. but
it takes a Papini to immortalize the
unknown and to do it quite before
the allied world began to build sep
ulchers to unknown soldiers.
And Signor Papini closes with an
evaluation of himself. That, too. Is
difficult. Hilaire Belloc can write
brief disquisitions on Milton and
obespierre-indeed ION anything
but Mr.. Belloc has not yet weighed
himself in the scales and told the
world how much he would be worth
IL genius were estimable in terms of
weights and measures.
Writing of the Papini kind has,
however-we might almost say for
tunately-its weak points; it leads
to exaggeration, and it invites small
slips. In a captivating eulogy to
Nietzsche. Signor Papini speaks of
the letter Nietzsche wrote just before
his mental collapse, signed "The
Crucified One" and says it was ad-
dressed to Peter Gast-that is. Helm
rich Koselitz. The letter was, in
truth. addressed to Georg Brandes.
What meat an errorette of this sort
is to the closest pedant who never
said a foolish thing and never did a
wise one, How little difference it
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Four and Twenty Minds
Review Rx ALLEN w PORTEREIEIn
A Review.

FOUR AND TWENTY MINDS
Essays by Giovanni Papini Select
ed and translated by Ernest Hatch
Wilkins. T. Y. Crowell Company.
TTYE are all familiar with the
wv mind that enjoys the un-
conventional point Of view;
the mind that takes a voluptuous
delight m upsetting the prevailing
opinion; the mind that waits until
all the other editors have lauded
Northciiffe to heaven only to give
out its opinion according to which
England and journalism are to be
felicitated on the passing OF the
rarely successful publicist. Oxford
University is more or less this type
of mind in the composite: it loves
lost causes. So did Cato the younger.
But at saying the unusual about
usual things, at throwing the mon
keywrench into the machinery Of
contemporary thinking. Giovanni Pa
pini, on his own account the ugliest
man in Italy, is facile princeps.
~Signor Papini is easily the first,
for he does not waste his time on
small prejudices. Convinced that
genius is the greatest force in the
world, he turns his back on medioc-
rity, as ordinarily conceived, and
seeks out genius from among the
welter of books. people and ideas
that have crossed his path in the
course of a thoughtful life. He shows
that Don Quixote was not mad: that
Maurice Maeterlinck is a scientist
without clearness. a poet without
Imagination, q casuist for idle con-
sciences, a fakir of facile marvels.
He contends that Carolina Inverni-
zio, author of so many books and
condemned to indistinction by critics
as cheap writer whose sole purpose
was to entertain, was an immortal;
rival of the best; a really great
novelist who never bored her readers
and who had the God given courage
to keep the sentiment of Rousseau,
the civic history of Walter Scott,
the archaeology OF F'laubert and the
esthetic exegeses of D'Annunzio out
of her novels. He glorifies, he sacri-
fees himself TO this woman writer
whose name is a blank in many,
many reading circles.
The value tc the world of this type
of mind is incalculab,e, for so long as
1t works it makes spiritual inertia
an ailment to be dreaded and inde
pendent thinking a pleasure that is
as nearly divine as love in it's highest
and purest reaches. Papini accepts
nothing until he has searched its
heart, or the heart of its problem
There is the case of Jonathan Swift.
After showing that most of the mas
terpieces of European imagination
are based on adventurous journeys
he takes up "Gulliver's Travels" and
never lays ii down until he has
proved that, unlike the Odyssey" the
"Divine Comedy" Faust" and so
on, it achieves the marvellous without
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Ruben Dario

Continued From Page sercn.
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FOUR AND TWENTY MINDS
Essays by Giovanni Papini. Select
ed and translated by Ernest Hatch
Wilkins. T. Y. Crowell Company.
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Rubber Culture.

An interesting parallel has been
drawn between the different varieties
of rubber trees in the tropics and
those of maple trees in this country.
Out of about 1900 varieties of trees,
all of which produce more or less rub,
Der sap, only forty or fifty have been
found whose product is considered
commercially valuable. When "A would
be cultivator of rubber goes to a
tropical country and sets out plan
tation of rubber trees, which the ma
tives know do not belong to the right
variety, he causes amused comment,
such us would be excited by South
American who came to the United
States and bored holes in soft naples
with the expectation of obtaining
sugar sap. Experience has shown
that excellent rubber trees transplant-
ed from their native habitat to other
regions having apparently identical
soil and climate may flourish in
growth, yet lose their producing pow
or. Rubber culture requires great ex.
pert Observation-Disclosures Ledger
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MIGHT HAVE SHORTENED WAR
English Soldiers ScrupIes, Which
Did Him Honor, Prolonged Fight
ing in South Africa.

A military correspondent of the
Manchester (Eng) Guardian writes:
"In life as replete with adventure
as was that of Christian De Wet dur
ing the Boer war, there were said to
have been countless occasions when
the Boer hero went near to death.
The nearest occurred in 1901, when
the guerrilla leader, at the height of
his fame, was extricating his raiding
column from it's affair in the Cape
Colony. He was headed off by sew
eral of the pursuing detachments.
From one Of these couple of very
young British cavalry troopers had
been sent on a forward patrol. They
stopped at waysfde store and
"When the BOer commando came
through in haste the woman of the
store, who was friendly to the two
English boys, sent them up into the
garrett above her shop. Here they
crouched with their rifles at the ready
while the scouts and the main body
of the commando went through. Then
q Cape cart came along and drew up
at the store to elicit some informa-
ton In 1t were seated Christian De
Wet and President Steyn.
''The corporal recognized De Wet
from the pictures he had seen, but
though his finger was upon the trig-
ger his heart failed him. AS he said
In cross-examination afterward: 1
had not the heart to shoot a man in
"civies" in cold blood This lads
natural scruples probably prolonged
the Boer war by eighteen months. OF
such incidents is history made"
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Tip for the Modest Miss

inis is not a particularly modest
age, but If there are any young ladies'
IN Boston who hesitate to ask for
certain article outright. these young
ladies might follow the example of the
ALTOONA girl who said to the store
clerk: i want set of elastic appara-
tus capable of being elongated and adj
Justed at pleasure, such as is worn
by the feminine portion of mankind
on their locomotive members. to keep
In proper position and at the required
altitude habiliments of the tibia."-
Boston Transcript.
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time the other hand was coming from
his pocket with all the coins his M
gers could grasp. These were tossed
into the air. BY the time they mao
ceased jingling on the sidewalk, nifty
more or less grimy little hands were
clutching for them.
snow, you bunch" called Impulse,
lust listen to me for minute. Who's
the most no count boy in this neigh
borhood?"
"Crawfish Bobby" answered voice
promptly. "He never stands treat, an
carries every cent home to his ma-a-a.'
"And the most unpopular girlY
There was short silence, then
several of the boys Uttered.
"Raggy Sally" said one of them.
"She's Peanut Seller Bets girl, an
when we boys throw mud she fights
like a wildcat"
"And gives all of you mighty good
drubbing, / hope" commented I'm
pulse. "Now, boys, the two who bring
Crawfish Bobby and Raggy sally TO
me get four-bit piece each, and tell
them they'll get another for coming.
Now, the lot of you come back, for the
show isn't half over"
Fen minutes later, Crawfish Bobby
and Raggy Sally stood in front Of him.
Impulse placed hand upon Shout
der of each.
"These two are going to be little
Santas and give you all a right nice
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leopards Not All Tropical.

When we look at the leopards in a
menagerie our minds instinctively turn
TO pictures of the hot tropics and the
torrid lands of the equator. But there
are leopards that Low, the snow, and
never willingly descend below the
levels where snowstorms occur in sum-
mer as well as in winter.
There is at least one specimen in
this country of the "snow leopard"
whose home is among the lofty noun
tains about Tibet. Thousands Of
tanned skins of the snow leopard are
carried TO Shanghai for sale, but the
living animal is rarely seen away from
his cool mountain home.--New York
Herald.
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VICTORY OVER SWEET TOOTH
Woman's Fierce Battle With Appetite
Can Only Be Understood by
Those Who Know.

1t was hard struggle, but she won.
there struggling in full view of the
homecoming crowd moving through
Thirty-fourth street, says the New
York Sun. Perhaps she was noticed
particularly because there was so
much of her to struggle. Certainly
more than 200 pounds.
Everybody understood what was the
matter. She said it with her sad and
longing looks as she stared into the
window. She was not young and ev-
erything about her appearance was
quite conventional, except the expires
sion of her face, which had a droll
droop about the mouth and chin and a
defeated expression in the eyes,
Five minutes she stood and looked
into first one window and then an
other. She started to enter the shop,
but turned back. But she stood out
side and looked some more before she
gathered up the courage to go on.
What was in the window? Just
candy. Beautiful big pieces of soft
fondant, shining white, dawn pink and
pale spring green. And a whole tray
of taffy, cleaning and golden as am
Der. There are those to whom such
things mean nothing, but every shape
ly fondant, ever% chunk Of taffy,
meant something to her. AS she stood
there she seemed to count those pieces
over, one by one. But she gave them
up. She won her fight. She went on
without spending so much as 10 cents.
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present by and by" he called to the
rapidly increasing crowd Of urchins.
Mind, you'll owe 1t In part to them.
Now stampede into the streets and
alleys of the neighborhood and corral
every boy and girl you can find, and
bring 'em here. Just an hour from
now this store'h commence to give
out presents, and you'll all get one.
Nobody will be missed. Hit the street
now, the whole lot of you except these
two"
In an hour, the door was thrown
open and the rush began, with half
thousand whooplng youngsters to make
the assault. 1t was short work, the
pillaging of the store, and in forty
minutes all was over. And then, Just
as the hilarious present bearers were
scattering into every street and alley,
an automobile swerved out from the
street traffic and stopped az the curb.
In 1t were an old gentleman and
lady and several girls. The gentleman
motloned some of the urchinS to the
side of the car, where they were ques.
toned as to the extraordinary spec
tacle. Then a few words passed be-
tween the occupants of the car after
which one of the girls alighted and
came to the store. Crawtish Bobby
and Raggy Sally were just outside the
door, with their arms full.
you're the little Santa's," smiled
the young lady, as she took their
hands land l just know you had big
| time" Then she entered the store and
went straight to Impulse.
MIR. Santa Claus, believe, sir2"
she began.
"Why-er-no" stammered Impulse,
turning red, "only-er--just as sort
of advance agent, named ImpulSe-I
mean Tommy Dodd."
The girl broke into ringing laugh.
Impulse! l like that" she cried.
Nov, Impulse Dodd, have you any
definite arrangement for the Christmas
holidays-any binding engagement, |
meanw
Moo, nothing except to tramp side.
walks and say 'Howdy' to every
stranger who'll let me-"
Good Then there's nothing in the
way Of our invitation. You see. we're
having houseful of company for the
holiday week, and papa and mamma
suggested that l ask you. Papa owns
ranch out West. ana he SAYS he
knows how stranger must feel In a
city at Christmas time. and he thinks
man who can do what you've Just
done will certainly be an acquisition to
our party. And may add we all feel
the same way. Youll come? There Is
room In our machine"
Impulse nodded. He lacked words
fitting to the occasion. A week nj a
house partly Gee wouldn't that he
stun TO tell the boys ut the ranch.
Start back the day after Christmasp
WhoH He? No, stree! That would be
rank foolishness, Not till the last gun
was fired.
So he walked out to the automobile
with the girl. with never a thought OF
the emptied store behind. or OF the
beamlng, mlsty.eyed man who could
now stock up again without the bale.
full skeleton Of creditor to glare M
him over the goods. And as Dodd en-.
tered the automobile, one OF the girls
afterwards declared that she heard
him mnrmur, And pulled out a
plum" though she could not under.
stand why. II was Just one OF his
funny ways.
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muchf Remember there's only one day
for selling Santa stuff.
''Do you mean buslness?" asked the
shopkeeper, n sudden huskiness coming
into his voice.
"How much2"
Fifteen hundred. II you mean the
cost. But l warn you It's too late TO
sell much"
"oh, I'm sure hustler down home"
cheerfully, land I've n bunch | can
move Santa goods toler'ble brisk the
day before the day Now let's see,
;lfteen, with fair per cent for profit
and little for good will makes II lust
two thousand. There you are" peel
ing or another bill or two, and then
replacing the roll in his pocket. "Now
you've got TO throw In your services
as clerk for the rest of the day."
"But can't" began the dazed
shopkeeper. But Impulse was at the
door.
Back right soon," he called. "Be
getting the goods ready to handle
quick"
outside, Impulse glanced M and
down the street. Half dozen urchlns
were playing on the sidewalk, two OF
three were hanging behind dray. a
newsboy WIS crying his papers. Other
youngsters were dimly seen among
pedestrians and street vehicles. I'm
pulse put two fingers into his mouth
and blew blast that would cover a
mile on the prairie At the same
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wv go, where sightseeing cat
M tlemen were common, I'm
pulse Dodd was no
ticeable figure, with his six feet odd
free money ways, and almost perpet-
ual smile.
He paused in front of small, mar
row store, whose one window was full
OF toys. Inside, the counter and
shelves were packed with the same
kind of goods.
"Just Santa" said Impulse, aloud.
"Blieve I'll go in"
He closed his fingers tightly and
pushed open the door with his thumb,
stiffly extended.
"Put In his thumb" he grinned land
docs he pull out plum2'
In the shop were two men, the one
IN front of the counter loud-voiced
and threatening. We'll" this one was
finishing, as Impulse entered, "Ill give
you just two more days to meet your
bill, till the day after Christmas. If
you don't pay me In full then, will
take possession"
AS the man stalked out, Impulse
raised his right foot and swung II
back and forth thoughtfully
"Can I show you anything, sir?" he
asked a moment later, as Impulse
turned to the counter with half-re-
gretful frown on his face, adding:
TITS just as we'll you didn't do it, sir.
He's a very vindlctive man."
"That so2 Then l sure wish had.
/ don't generally hold back on things,
but this city's getting me right scared.
I've refined up unusual the last three
days Now bout the toys. That mans
talk is so easy unraveled. reckon
you'll sell cheap"
"At almost your own price, sir
There is only this one day to sell, and
] can't hope to do enough. I've seen
failure for a week past, though for
while did hope to come out in condi-
tion to start again. Now what can
show your
swell, not only one solitary thing in
particular, reckon" scanning the
shelves judicially. "They all look right
enticing, and what dldn buy would
make me feel sorry to look at. What'll
you take for the bunch?"
The storekeeper moved along the
counter, trying to arrange his goods
more attractively.
'Look around all you want to-" he
said amiably, And there is an easy
chair back yond. where you can sit
and rest II you like"
Impulse followed him.
"No wonder you can't sell, If you
treat all customers like me-" he com
planned. Nov, see here" slapplng
big roll of bills on the counter. How
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Improving on solomon.

Our late and lamented friend, King
Solomon, said ''He that wasteth his
father and chaseth mother is son
that causeth shame and bringeth re-
proach." But more than that, he is a
son considerably worse than an egg in
an advanced stage of decay.--New Or
leans States
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Birds of a Feather

What are you cutting out of the
paperT asked Jones. "a story about
robbery" What for?" "WeIl. it ex.
plains at length how house was
robbed on Sunday while the husband
was in church with his wife. You"
L say" Interrupted Jones, shave you
got duplicate of that paper?"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1922-12-07
Human "eame Preserve" in Australia

In Australia a preserve, or sane
tuary, has been established for the
benefit of human beings. the remnants
of native race that is still in the
Stone age of civilization.
These modern men of the Stone
age wander over vast region in the
arid interior of Australia. About
their number little is known. but the
total Is estimated at 1000 or there.
abouts. Many of them never have
seen white man. A large portion Of
this region is practically UNEMPLOYED
because of water scarcity and the
danger of attack by the natives.
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First Large Library in America.

The first large library to be estab.
lished in America was that of Har.
ward university, founded in 1888, six
years after the college. In 100 Yale
university also established large Ii.
brary. The wo are today among the
greatest of college libraries in this
country.
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One Thinu He Knew.

The immigrant had to fill up the
usual form. The first question was
.'born?" Unhesitatingly he wrote
down: Yes"
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Surely Must!

Eighteen million microbes found on
Z one-dollar bill. 1t must be very dam
gerous 70 carry a ten or twenty
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Merry
Christmas
and a Happy
New Year to You!

WHAT SHALL l GIVE?-
Gifts to be Chosen for ones fam
lily and old friends-measures of
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IVORY
SETS
$3.50 to
$4,000

Ivory Sets in cases may be had
consisting of only two pieces-a
comb, and brush. These are
the most favored articles to start
with in collecting Ivory. The price
is very moderate-as low as $3.50
per SET Sets may be arranged to your
order, and to any degree of elaborate
ness desired. Prices range from $3.50
to $4,000. We are showing several we'll
balanced sets of moderate prices in
attractive Gift Boxes
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love and friendship.
Modest gifts for 9TH
ers-tokens of appre-
citation and remem-
brance. Social obliga-
lions to be observed.
Whatever your Christmas
problems, you will find
helpful suggestions in our
cforn
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OMMY Dodd, Impulse
!: ): !: !: !: =: !: !:
AVHN Dodd," cattleman, was in
v MS1b Chicago, with his big sale
~1N over. And even in Chica-
Gk)S go, where sightseeing cat
rs tlemen were common, I'm
r1Ilnn nndd unc no