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The New York herald., 1922-01-01

WEST BROADWAI. BY Nina WILCOX
Putnam George II. Doran Company.
Ho you want to go Weston a
trip-in youfr automobile?
Well, don't start off thinkin'
you're the only person ever even
thought of it-'cause there's hundreds
of Fords make the trip and contain
people you'd of thought could have
afforded to stay home better an live
the life of the rich and unusual people
such as Mary Gilligan Smith-Mrs.
James Smith in private life-and
Marie La Tour-the famous Miss La
Tour on the screen
And it all started in this manner, as
Miss La Tours opening words of the
book accurately warn us: After a
severe attack of thinking / have come
to realize how true is the poets words.
A little education can start hell of
lot of trouble Do you get me?'
And we got her, Got her good and
plenty before she left New York on
that ride TO the movie haven in sunny
California, with Tom Weston as
chauffeur, even If he was under a
cloud and caused a couple of bulls"
to follow 'em most of the way.
Now Tom had brother who was
radical. one of those hard talking
Russians who glory in Wall street
bomb explosions. and Tom was coming
under his influence little too much
more than was good for the boy, for
he was fine lad. according to Jim
Smith and his wife-Miss La Tour.
He knew the conditions of the coun-
try as the New York newspapers
flared 1t out to him. Now Karl West
man had said that the New York
newspapers were not in good radical
standing but distinctly on the other
side of the radicals. And here Miss
La Tour tells us:
And yet out of eight headlines
across the front page here is what I
read: L. Coal Strikers Refuse to Ar
bitrate. 2. Dockmen Declare War to
Finish. 3. Thirty-four Robberies, Three
Murders, Ten Holdups, Two Shootings
City Record Last Week. 4. Riots in
Belfast, Ten Killed s. Mrs. Mac
Swiney Greeted With Cheers. And IL
that isn't giving all the news space
to the Redo what is? 1 went wild
when l read them, and commenced
searching through the inside pages
for something pleasant, and way down
under the theatrical ads l found a
little piece one-tenth of column long
which says. Biggest Crops Since 1915
Promised for This Year Can you beat
that2"
On the trip West not only the for
mer residents of West Broadway who
struck n gold mine" in the movie
acting field, for both Jim and Marie
pose but are stars whose presence
attracts an audience Immediately, just
like Our Mary and Doug and some Of
them others, and the tending-to-be-a-
radical Tom finds the West of reality
where vegetables brought tears to
Marie's eyes, which is the only time
except once when she peeled an onion.
and where her heart was sore for the
lonesome farmers wives, and where
there were crops which denied the
newspaper announced shortages. and
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Sold Her Soul for
Da gh ter's Sake

MADAME MARGOT. BY John Bennett
The Century Company.
IT HE theme OF a man who sells
his soul TO the devil TO achieve
a definite desire is by no means
new in literature. In this particular
instance however, it IS a woman who
forfeits her birthright, and she does
it in order that her daughter might
remain pure and free OF her in
heritance. 1t is said that the story
was founded on a still related legend
of old Charleston, S. C.
Mr.. Bennett works out his grotesque
tale with a lavishness of pigment
which is, in the main, very effective.
Al times. however, his excessive use
OF adjectives adds not horror to the
story, as was undoubtedly intended
but merely increases the self con-
seriousness of the reader. The follow
ing will give an idea of the colorful
background for this all-in-all delight
ful tale:
The languid, lovely, tired old town
was then city brave and gay. with
Mediterranean manners and Carib-
bean ways.
THE perfume of 10000 flowers
drifted upon the winds, which came and
went over a thousand gardens ebbing
and flowing like the tide.
1T was a golden age, when all
things We're fair: nothing had grown
old: even the tragic and the terrible
were comely then. Wonder lay on
everything. Merely to exist was to be
happy. II was a world of unextin-
suished youth; life was brimful to the
lips with delight"
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
The Book Factory
For ways that are dark.
Take the heather Chinee.
BY EDWARD ANTHONY.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.

Then followed good feed with goose and cakes
Send me eggs and sugar"
She gave me cup Of chocolate"
We had the usual Martnmas goose for dinner"
I'VE had some fine pumperncke bread"
They have the most excellent food"
L am very well satisfied with my food dish of
neat with macaroni tea aniseed biscuits -
Il prefer a stew to roast beef" &C., &C.
From Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietsche edited bv
Oscar LeUy doubleday, Page &c co.,.
Minds not craving for their food
George Crabbe observed long years ago.
And though the feedbag he may not have wooed
Of Nietzsche this hardly So
Old Frledrlch-(bess his glorious appetite D.
Believed in Furnishing the chow.
lie ate one meal day (from till night
And only stopped to mop his brow
Cheeses-Camembert Roquefort, cream or Swiss
He polished off with unexampled zest
Attaining to state of perfect bliss
And crowding buttons off his vest
Bologna, strudet pudding, ish-hed take
And down 'em with no sign of fag
This prince of Deutschland's Grub Street (make
No faces, that's harmless gag)
u
And soup, if | remember rightly he
Approved of Che enjoyed it hot);
lie Tapped it with the frankest kind of glee
And then went in and licked the pot
Celery, barley, oxtal, pea-he packed
En- in with JOY, placed ban
Upon the simpler consomme-n fact,
lie was a perfect soupelman!
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

slsins-wolves that punish malefactors,
killing but never eating them. In this
there is dramatic rightness which
gives an effect of realism to the un-
earthly. y.
The second story is Chinese Magic"
This is quite different from the first, as
its charm lies in the artistic coloring.
1t is like delicate painting, one that
must be analyzed closely; the colors
are so skilfully blended that .hey are
elusive.
Here is one of the typical pictures
drawn by Algernon Blackwood:
1T was dusk, the stars were COM
ing out in the pale evening air, and
the orchards as passed them, stood
like wavering ghosts of unbelievable
beauty. The effect of thousands upon
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

ALIAS THE LONE WOLF. BY Louis
Joseph Vance. Doubleday, Page Co.
tn HAT night we were tired-tired
mentally Of the sort Of book
which makes the already over
worked mind work just little harder
and longer instead of Offering a story
which will take the reader out of her.
self and place her in world where she
can find it impossible to think of any,
thing else while the book in her hands.
So in this mood we looked through
our bookcase and chose Mr. Vance's
new book-and it was q good choice.
No one could wish for more intense
excitement from printed pages No
one could hope for a more carefully
hidden plot and unexpected expert
ences. We shuddered when Albert
Dupont endeavored to eliminate each
character that intruded into his plans
by the simple expedient of a handker-
chief about the throat. And then
something creaked in the other room,
and startled, we dropped the book,
only to become reassured that we were
in no personal danger, but in a per-
fectly safe apartment; and back we
would go to Michael Lanyard again
and with bated breath endeavor to
push him forward in his search for
the missing jewels.s
We never worked so hard in our
lives as we did helping him find the
jewels, and there was no need of our
hard work. He had been with the
British Secret Service, and before that
he had been a very capable crook, and
he knew how to recover stolen prop
erty from two angles. You know how
you feel at the Horse Show when the
horses are jumping You just hold
your breath and help them over, sigh
ing with relief when they are over
and catching your breath again as
they are about to take the next hur-
die? Well, so exciting. and so good,
and so clever is this book that it held
us breathiess and-yes, you people
who think every story should have a
love scene or two in its pages-there
is love in this story, but not the SEN
timental twaddle Of a sentimental
writer ana sentimental characters; for
Michael Lanyard is a big man and Mr..
Vance makes him live up to his repu-
tation.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Wiley's Black and Yellow Men

and when he heard of the boys death
he fed the Senior to some very fero-
cious swapping turtles. Could any
thing be more gruesome? Like his
own characters, Mr.. Wiley gets away
with murder.
In the first chapter of Lady Luck
we find the Wildcat kicking at paying
ten cents for a cup of coffee. He says
the war is over, when war is blamed
for the increase of price. The waiter
retorts. "Mebbe de wah is done. but
de Democrats amt" In this chapter
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

1t occurs to US to toss off the obser-
vation on "F'ir-howar Tablets" ANY
Lowell's version of a group of poems
translated from the Chinese by Flor
ence Ayscough, that many people will
think the bewildering Amy has trans
lated them back into Chinese.
We are thinking of writing a novel
Of English life. We don't know any
thing about English life. but-(and
haven't others done itO--a liberal
sprinkling of "kerb." ginger beer"
'pyjamas" and tyre" will create the
proper atmosphere.
PO1NTLESS POLITICAL POKES.
r. A.: ] wonder il you will agree
with me in the matter that prompts
mo to write you. think Hugh
Wiley's otherwise excellent Lady
Luck" is marred by the authors child
ish batting of the Democrats.
have no quarrel with Mr.. wiley's DO
litical beliefs, but l do object to seeing
them dragged into q novel ESPECIALLY
a good one) by the hair of the head.
These little political pokes
have no bearing on the story and leave
the reader with the impression that
the author is trying to square ac-
counts with a Democratic neighbor
who gave him an arguments in the
village barber shop.
A few of these dragged-in political
references show Mr.. Wiley to be SO
peevish--(theso humorists battle meD
that one wonders whether no is a
full grown adult or Is still wearing
short pants
Yours for propagandaless fiction.
CHARLIE X. r.
Hugh Wiley's political pokes in
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

Denis McKail Houghton Mifflin Com
..H OMANCE to the Rescue" is
decorated by very striking
Il jacket. On closer inspection
it ic seen to be cablegram from p. G.
Wodehouse. He proclaims a very high
opinion of the book. The reader will
agree with him. Being a young man,
Denis McKail has shown an unusual
facility in hitting the high spots. His
story deals with the theatric world Of
London. Actors have always been
noted for their foibles, and this is es-
pecially true nowadays. when the artis-
tic temperament and modern business
methods mingle to produce a world of
their own. In London theatre tickets
were controlled by firm one of whose
partners had never been inside the
theatre because he was a Noncon-
fornist.
Leo Cartwright, the star at the
Thespian, was almost as kingly as Gar
rick. He had separated from his wife
because his infidelity repelled her. Dur
ing her loneliness she solaced herself
by writing a play. It served it's pur-
pose of occupying her mind, and she
forgot about it for many years. Then
the whim seized her to submit it. She
tried to sell it through an agency. Her
NOM -de-plume was David Lawrence
The name had no conscious meaning
to her, but Lawrence was the name of
one of her former sweethearts.
1t so happens that there was young
man by the name OF David Lawrence,
the son of this old suitor. He was at
Oxford and happened to meet Mrs.
Cartwright on his vacation He fell in
love with her in a boyish way, and
dramatically told her that ne would
serve her in any way When Mrs.
Cartwright's play was accepted by her
husband she asked him to pose as the
author AS he had never read the
play he was put in a painfully en-
barrassing position. However. he rose
to the occasion.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Blackwood, Sportsman-Mystic

THE WOLVES OF GOD AND OTHER
FEY STORIES. BY Algernon Black
wood and Wifred Wilson. e. p. Dut-
ton & Co.
>" HESE are stories of UNIQUE
value. They demonstrate the
versatile genius of Algernon
Blackwood. Some are fearsome, others
refreshing and charming; but all of
them are written upon metaphysical
themes. For instance, THE Wolves of
God" is weird to an intense degree.
1t is a story in which there is sup
posed to be a pack of spirit wolves-a
sacred pack--held in awe by the Red
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
Saints and Sinners
Thoroughly Mixed

THE PRINCESS sALOME. BY Burris
Jenkins. Philadelphia J. b. Llppin-
colt Company.
THERE are people who are un-
able to appreciate history ex-
cept when it is diluted with
fiction, and they will welcome "The
Princess Salome." for the author has
taken as many liberties with The dead
as Sir Walter Scott
Judas. Maccabeus and Nero do not
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
NEW BOOKS.
Fiction.


A VIRGIN HEARTILY Remy dc
Gourmont. Translated by Aldous
Huxley. Nicholas l.. Brown.
MARIA CHAPDELAINE A Tale OF
the Lake st. John Country-By Louis
Hemon. Macmillan
THE SCHOOLMASTER AND OTHER
STORIES-By Anton Chekhov. Trans
lated by Constance Garnett. Mac
milan.
History and Public Affairs.
THE GRANDEUR THAT WAS ROME
A survey Of Roman Culture and Civ
ilization-By ]. C. Stobart. Lippin-
cott
CHINA. THE UNITED STATES AND
THE ANGLO-JAPANESE ALL
ANCE-By G. Zay Wood Revell.
THE CHINO-JAPANESE TREATIES
OF MAY %. 1s15-By @. Zay Wood
Revell:
THE TwENTY-ONE DEMANDS;
JAPAN VERSUS CHINA-By G. Zay
Wood. Revell.
THE INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION
OF LABOR-By Boutelle Ellsworth
Lowe. Macmillan
WHAT'S WHAT IN THE LABOR
MOVEMENT: A Dictionary of Labor
Affairs and Labor Terminology-Com-
piled by Waldo r. Browne. Huebsch
INDISPENSABLE INFORMATION
FOR INFANTS OR EASY EN-
TRANCE TO EDUCATION-Earnes
ly compiled by Owen Wister. With
careful charts by George Howe. Mac
milan.
LITTLE RAYS OF MOONSHINE-By
A. p. Herbert. Knopf
Essays.
SATURDAY PAPERS: Essays on Lit
erature from The Literary Revieto--
BY Henry Seidel Candy, william Rose
Benet and Amy Loveman. Macmillan.
For Boys and Girls.
FAIRY TALES AND SToRIEs-By
Hans Christian Andersen. Prefaced
by Francis Hackett. Edited by Signe
Toksvig. Illustrated by Eric Pape.
Macmillan.
HEROES OF PROGRESS-Bv Eva
March Tappan. Houghton-Mifflin.
SEA AND sARDINIA--By d. H. Law
icHcc. oeltzeT.
biography and Memoirs.
A QUAKER SINGERS RECOLLEC-
TIONS-By David Bispham New ed
ition. Macmillan.
Poetry and Drama.
SONGS OF FLORID AND OTHER
NERSE-By George Graham Currie
White
d. II. Lawrence
Seltzer.
PLAYS OF OLD JAPAN-Translate
bv eo Duran. Seltzer
TREE-TOP MORNINGS-By Ethelvvn
Wetherad. Cornhill.
PLAYS OF EDMOND ROSTAND-
Translated by Henderson Daingerfieid
Norman. In two volumes. Macmillan.
MID LIGHT AND SHADE-By John
Jan"don Jones. Duffield.
THE HAUNTED INN. a Play in -Four
Acts-By Perez Hirschbein. Trans
lated by Isaac Goldberg. Boston:
John w. Luce & Co.
MiscelIa neous.
CHESS FUNDAMENTALS + r.
Capablanca. Harcourt- Brace.
EARLY AMERICAN BOTTLES AND
FLASKS-By Stephen Van Rensse-
- Iaer. New York: Published by the
author.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

appear In the story for chronological
reasons, but as many fncon. ,ruous
celebrities shoulder each other in these
pages as were seen on the benches
at the recent prize fight Saint Paul
and Saint Stephen appear as ancient
comrades. and their friendship Is inter-
rupted when Stephen becomes the
lover OF the Princess Salome. It re-
minds one Of the series OF Historic
Affinitles which appeared in Litc, or
the a-Baconian theory that the
author OF Hamlet" was the son OF
John Knox and Mary Queen Of Scots.
There is scene in the great arena
which reminds one of "Ben-Hur" or
Quo vadis" OF q Griffith film.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

the Wildcat says. de officials crave to
member de wah. Us listed boys
Graves to fo'get it,"
The Wildcat Is satisfied to live
again in Memphis and to WOO Miss
Cuspidora Lee. However, he is fool
ishly made to get into the Konk rim
Kewes parade, organized by Honey
Tone, the Uplifter. The parade is such
a fizzle that he decides to leave Mem
phis and the Backslid Baptist, another
war time chum, gets him job as por-
ter. When he is stranded in Chicago
with Lily the Goat, the Potent Mobiles
of Mysterious Mecca decide to take
him to their convention in California
with Lily as mascot. His adventures
come fast and furious, and are 50
funny that they defy brief repetition.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

Edited by Franklin X. Matthews Pub
lished for the Boy Scouts of America
by ID. Appleton q Co.
~ Il course the Christmas spirit Is
just wearing off and the paint
is still on little willies fire
engine even though the wheels are
broken, and Tommy has n kick com
ing because his ice skates are not of
the racer type, and Hattie seems to
De quite put out because the ribbon
on her hat is red and not lavender,
which is her favorite color Father
also seems to be in q "put-out" mood
for Maxwell has the long wanted
drum which Santa thoughtlessly left.
Mother too, Is not herself, but that is
because she is tired after the hustle
and hustle before Christmas Day
dawned. The only cheerful member
OF tho family is brother Frank. There
you find him lying prone upon the
parlor rug, head propped up by his
Ncupped hands in Lincoln fashion. He
is deeply lost to his surroundings and
Is at this time camping or hiking over
again some Of those pleasures which
we're afforded him last summer al
camp With hfs Scout troop.
Tho book before him is none other
than The Boy Scouts Year Book"
which is edited by Frank X. Matthews,
The chief Scout librarian. lie has
found SO much within it's covers that
he has completely lost sight of some
of his other presents--even to the
extent of forgetting his new Scout
knife. So far he has read some very
good stories: You Tell EN- Tender
foot" by Brewer Corcoran; Chimney
Cold" by ]. Allan Dunn, and lots of
other interesting yarns. lie has also
been on "A Bird Hike with Dan Beard"
and has found IN What Boys Can
Make many interesting things that
he 10 going to try 20 make. On the
wholo Frank finds a lot in this book
that rs bound 70 hold his interest for
many days 10 come. and II you take
his word for il ?Its a corkerl"
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
The West That Was

THE PASSING OF THE OLD WEST.
BY Hal @. Evarts. Little. Brown a.
Co.
r r AL @. EvARTS has lived most
II his life in the great outdoors.
- - He has seen the wanton de-
struction Of wild life because of mans
greed. He knows that fiction is bet
ter way to win advocates than sta
tistics. He shows how old Martin
woodson underwent n change of heart.
Woodson had been the most relentless
of trappers. He expiated his past folly
by becoming a game warden. He did
his best TO preserve what he had for
merly tried to destroy. Because of
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

JADE. BY Hugh Wiley. Alfred A.
Knopf.
LADY LUCK. By Hugh Wiley. Alfred
A. Knopf.
II TUGH WILEY has taken the
darker races for his province.
His latest books deal with the
Mongolian and the Ethiopian. He is
thrilled by the mystery of our yellow
brother. However, his view is rather
conventional. He believes in the Oft
quoted lines
For ways that are dark,
Take the heather Chinee.
Mr.. Wiley is at his polychrome best,
however, in depicting the comedy of
Afro American life. He takes up the
civilian adventures of Vitus Mahsden,
alias the Wildcat of the First Labor
Battalion. Mahsden is firm believer
in two patrons, Lady Luck and Capt.
Jack. His mascot, Lily the Goat, is
for him the symbol of luck.
Hence there is nice, juicy ami
highly ingenious murder in nearly
every one Of his stories. In the first
story Sam Kee kills Lingo Riley's wife
to free him from an incubus. In the
authors second story Ming Sam Tai
with the aid Of an actor kills Senator
King for desecrating his fathers grave
in search of gold. Perhaps the best
story is the one called Junk" Hong
Chong was a red headed Chinaman,
and his family cast him off because
they thought he brought them ill
fortune. In his despair big turtle
appeared to him in a dream. It gave
him good advice and told him not to
despair. Shortly after waking he
found a small turtle which provided
him with food. He was adopted by
another Chinaman with red hair, who
taught him to play the flute. A the
atrical man brought him to this coun-
try, and when he prospered in the
junk business in his turn he adopted
a red headed boy. He apprenticed
this boy to a Portuguese grocer to
learn Western business methods This
grocer made the boy scapegoat when
he was caught selling opium. On the
day that the boy went to prison Hong
Chong Lee kidnapped the Portuguese.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

Lady Luck" are so good natured that
1t is hard to see how any one can
take offense at them, but we agree
with Charlie *. f. that they are point
less and add nothing to the story.
If we ever meet Charles c. Norris
we're going to cuss him out. His novel
Brass" contains so many fine things
that it is almost impossible to write a
short rhymed review of it. Our first
attempt resulted in IL stanzas and
when we examined stanza No Ii we
discovered that we had only covered
the first 100 pages of the book.
Some day we intend to try again
1--WE want n six stanza review)-but
we have our misgivings When an au-
thor puts as much into book as
Norris has put into Brass the best
thing a bard can do is TO keep away
from it.
BIBLICAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.
ON the young realists: out OF the
mouth of babes and sucklingS.
on viii Irwin's "The Next War:
lie smeLcth the battle dfdr.
On John Dos Passos's Three Sol
diers": And there Is nothing hid from
the heat thereof.
Bacon on the Shakespeare Bacon
controversy: The lines arc fallen unto
me Ia pleasant places; yea hare a
0oodID heritage.
On r. Phillips Oppenheim tho pro-
life: Hc putteth dozen one and settctb
up another.
On Mrs. Asquiths diary: am fear
fuHy and wonderfully made.
The ,DdD OF the trdnsldtors is hard.
And the vaoatioilist said, let there
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
She Found Solace
In Writing a Play

ROMANCE TO THE RESCUE. BY
Denis McKail Houghton Mifflin Com
pany.
..H OMANCE to the Rescue" is
X decorated by a very striking
u Jacket. On closer inspection
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
"Twas Some Days
After ChriStmas---'

THE BOY SCOUTS YEAR BOOK.
Edited by Franklin X. Matthews. Pub
lished for the Boy Scouts of America
by ID. Appleton & Co.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

Mfsce1la
CHESS FUNDAMENTALS ]. r.
Capablanca. Harcourt-Brace
EARLY AMERICAN BOTTLES AND
FLASkS-By Stephen Van Rensse-
iaer New York: Published by the
author.
The New York herald., 1922-01-01
When Ex-CrOOk
Meets Crook

ALIAS THE LONE WOLF. BY Louis
Joseph Vance. Doubleday. Page Co
THAT night we were tired-tired
The New York herald., 1922-01-01

WEST BROADWAY. By Nina Wilcox
Putnam. George II. Doran Company
HO you want to go Weston a
trip-in your automobile? Z?
Well, don't start off thinkin'
Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1922-12-23
LARGE BUSINESS
BUILDING TO GO
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