davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
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LESS DEMANDS REPORTED
FOR BUILDING MATERIAL
Manufacturers Attribute General Let.up of Activity
to Seasonal Conditions, Transportation Diff
culties-Brick Industry Receivers
From Coal Strike.

tho benefit of any reduced rate I'M
(, ,mediately. and in many localities this
will result in a worthwhile reduc-
tion in the price of brick on the job.
While telegraphic reports to the
| National Lumber Manufacturers' AS
sociation from eight of its regional
softwood associations for the week
| ending October rs indicate that the
J lumber industry is holding up well
they also show great divergencies
Of conditions in different sections. On
the whole, production continues at
virtually peak capacity. and. while
much greater than shipments and or
ders. the last-named factors are no
| longer declining relatively to the
| first
| 1t is true that the reports show an
absolute reduction Of about 14.O0O.0OO
feet in production. Of 100000 feet
/ in shipments and 100000 in orders
from the preceding week. but the
number of reporting mills fell Lass
week to 3s4 from 434. the high num-
Der of the year. reported the week be-
fore. Lumber production is holding
up well above the average of recent
years and shipments and orders show
proportionate increase.
Pine Shipments Increase.
In southern pine territory the worst
Of the car shortage difficulty seems
to be over. Shipments are getting
larger. On the other hand. the Call
fornia, Oregon and Washington mills
seem now to be in the worst trans
portation pinch they have had for a
long time. Shipments in that region
are falling off. despite increased pro-
duction, and some mills actually re-
port that cars delivered to them are
only 10 per cent of their require
ments.
In the middle northern regions-in
the white pine and hemlock terri
tory-the statistics indicate easy
transportation conditions, as ship
ments are as much as so per cent
greater than production.
Reports from all sections indicate
continuance, OF the car shortage.
which has become so severe that in
numerous instances lumber manufac-
turers are compelled to curtaii opera
tions in the face of strong demand
for their product and prices which
are satisfactory. This situation is
held to be partly the result of an in
| crease in demand and partly trace
able to the sale of stock by those
manufacturers who were anxious to
dispose of 1t, says the American Lum-
herman.
Industrial buying continues to be
active. In the softwood field the
bly, the most active.
Furniture Business Good.
A number Of large orders for rail-
road and car material have recently
been placed and still other business
is in sight. particularly for Douglas
fir producers of the Pacific coast. In
the hardwood field the furniture
manufacturers are excellent custom
ers. for they are enjoying a good
business In fact, most of the furni-
ture factories today are booked up
on business and behind in deliveries
1t naturally means that they are pur-
chasing considerable quantities Of
hardwoods from both the north and
south. and this is one reason why
the hardwood market remains so &C
tive. Sash and door manufacturers
Evening star., 1922-11-04
BUYS VIRGINIA ESTATE,
Newbold Noyes Purchases Forty
Acre Tract Near Chain Bridge.

Transfer of title to Newbold Noyes
of the residence recently erected for
John K. Walker on a forty-acre tract
Of land just across the Chain bridge, in
Arlington county, Va. was recorded to-
day. Mr.. and Mrs. Noyes will occupy
the premises in the spring as their per-
manent residence.
The property has a frontage Of 1850
feet on the Fairfax road. running about
1900 feet through to the Potomac
river The dwelling is of Georgian
architecture, from plans by Thomas
j. ID. Fuller. local architect Charles
A. Langley was the builder Ii con-
tains approximately eighteen rooms
and four baths and is moderniy
equipped throughout. There is a de-
tached garage
Tne transaction was handled through
the office OF Glover & Father
Evening star., 1922-11-04
LOCATION.

LOCATION -
Woodley Park lies Immediately north of WARDMAN PARK
HOTEL edge Chevy
developing any
ngton such neighborhood would have children grow
where the people of the finer type Wahngtonan These
homes magnificent Lawrence Phpp
Evening star., 1922-11-04
and Sing lie Brick Garage
FEATURES

Real fireplace cndlesticks above
breakfast porch Eghoot hallway colonial with volute
and continuous handral. Sun on floor.
Thirteennch front celer Boiler
Water Fixture Radiators
latest type made by the Company designed
French engineers for beauty efficiency Vtrae
obnable used throughout these homes everywhere Clear plain
white oak foors 13 Is thickness
second foor finished with white shea which preserves light
beauty the many features
which salesman will acquant you.
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Authors Works
And Their Ways

American Impressions" as a
title for G.. X. Chesterton's new
book, seemed to fall a bit short Of
characterizing the Chestertonian
treatment. so Dodd, Mead & Co. have
changed the title to Things I Saw
in America" AS Mr.. Chesterton
had ample opportunity to see a
great deal, Americans may we'll feel
a bit curious to know what the dis
tinguished Englishman thought
about 1t all.
The French Chamber of Deputies
voted in December to acquire the
house of Jean Henri Fabre at Serig-
nan as an adjunct of the Museum of
Natural History under the Minister
of Public Instruction. The price Of
$4,000 francs was paid for the prop
erty, and 1000 francs was set aside
for its maintenance for the first
year. Mile. Aglae Fabre, daughter
of the scientist, will remain as GUS
todian.
The o. Henry Memorial Prize
Award Committee of the Society of
Arts ane Sciences has completed its
sele. ton Of the best stories Of 1921
and Doubleday. Page & Co. an
nounee that the new volume will
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VERY now and then there is
n, another of these belated
literary discoveries. One of
the most astonishing involved Rud-
yard Kipling's The Foreloper,"
which appears in the Inclusive
Edition." rechristened The Vore-
treker." Twelve years ago it was
absolutely. lost poem. Some one
found a six line fragment of it, be-
ginning. And he shall desire loneli-
ness" The finder wrote to Mr.. Kip
ling, who replied that the lines
were his. but that he could not re-
member where or when they were
published or what the rest of the
poem was. Eventually some one
appeared with the eight missing
lines that completed the poem.
which was probably written during
Kiphng's early residence in India
and published in some local paper.
Five or six years ago two unknown
novels by Balzac were dug up and
published with a great blare of
trumpets. They might far better
have been left in their peaceful
graves. for they belonged to that
industrious but ridiculous period of
Balzac's life before the magnificent
idea of the Coincide Humane
dawned upon him. and when in his
attic he was assiduously cultivating
sensationalism in servile imitation
Of Walter Scott and Fenimore
Cooper. Then there was Thack-
eray's King Glumpus," written in
1877. when the author was 26 years
old. and which escaped the atten-
ton OF even collectors of Thackeray-
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ana for twenty-five years after
-Thackeray's death until it was dis
inferred in 1898.
n 4 ENTION of Rudyard Kip
Nj ling recalls another curl
GUS and bathing bit of Kip
lingiana, involving the poem called
France" The general and natural
idea has been that that poem was
inspired by the events of the early
months of the war. The poem it
self is responsible for that impress
sion. But it was merely another
case of THE Amazing Brightness Of
Mr.. Kipling," Of which Katherine
Fullerton Gerould was writing two
or three years ago. Actually
France" was written and pub
lished in 1913. We are reprinting
from France" which, with "Sus-
SEX is at the very apex Of Mr.. Kip
ling's later poetical work, these
strikingly prophetic lines:
Now we hear new voices rise, ques-
ton, boast, or grid; as We
ragged, rememberest thou,
when our crowds were
stirred;
Now we count new keels afioat, and
new hosts on land; massed
like ours, rememberest thou,
when our strokes were
planned.
We were schooled for dear life's
sake to know each others
blade; What shall Blood and
iron make more than we have
made? tx
We were taught by keenest use to
know each. others mind;
what can Blood and Iron
loose that we cannot bind?
We who swept each others coast,
sacked each others home,
since the sword-of Brennus
FLASHED in the scales at Rome,
Listen, close, and count again,
wheeling girth to girth, in
the linked and steadfast
guard, set for peace on
earth.
This is the actual story of the
suggestion and the writing of
France" a story which has never
before been in print. Written in
1913, France was officially a
poem of OCCASION" President
Poineare of the French Republic
was visiting England for the pur-
pose of eementing the Entente Cor
dale. and Mr.. Kipling's poem was
designed as an expression of Eng
lands admiration and sympathy
for the continental neighbor that
had been our foe for so many CEN
turtles. But it was not the French
President but a Colonel in the
French army who first gave Mr..
Kipling the germ thought for his
verses. That Colonel Mr.. Kipling
met while on a visit to France
earlier in the year. The two dis
cussed the European situation, the
French Colonel insisting ON the
imminence of the danger at which
the world in general was then in
elined to seoff. ut is coming" he
said. 1T is surely coming, and
coming soon. The question is, what
will your country do?" Though
feeling that he might be perjuring
himself. MIR. Kipling replied like a
shot: I'VE are going to take over
your left wing" Though at first
doubtful, Mr.. Kipling meditated
more and more upon the French
mans words. The result, with the
Poincare visit, was France"
NUR latest English literary
u visitor is Mrs. Asquith, the
wife of the former Prime
Minister; more Familiarity the
"MargOt" of the extraordinary and
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memorial TO the master snort story
teller is a collection of the best
short stories by American writer's
which have appeared in American
magazines during the year as Sc
lected by committee of the society,
which has as chairman DR.. Blanche
Cotton Williams of Columbia Uni
versity. This years volume will
contain sixteen stories, many Of
them by familiar authors. others By
young writers practically unknown.
The winners of the first and second
prizes will not be announced until
the annual dinner of the society in
the spring.
Albert Payson Terhune, author of
BLACK Cold" has lived a life as full
Of adventure as his stories. He
began his career writing up love
affairs of history for newspaper.
Then one day, in the midst of his
scribbling, his pencil point broke
and it irritated him-irritated him
so that he stopped writing. closed
his desk, left a note for the man
aging editor, and two days later
was on his way to. Syria and Egypt.
He is that sort of man. He was
at one time amateur heavyweight
champion. and gave Jim Corbett
historic battle. He lives at Pomp-
ton Lakes, N. j., and raises prize
winning cOllies. Lad: A Dog"
Bruce" and Buff: A Collie" have
proved his affection for dogs.
A. S. NJ. Hutchinson's IF Winter
Comes" is now reported to be the
best selling novel in England. Over
a quarter Of million copies have
been sold in this country in six
months time. A pocket edition Of
Mr.. Hutchinson's four novels
Once Aboard the Lugger," 1.-THE
Happy Warrior" THE Clean Heart"
and "If Winter Comes"-wiIl be
published by Little, Brown & Co.,
February rs.
1t is announced that the Famous
Players-Lasky Corporation has Sc
cured the motion picture rights of
IF Winter Comes" and that the
picture will be made in England, in
the actual locale used by Hutchin-
son.
simultaneously with the news
that Z. Phillips Oppenheim will ar
rive in New York on February l3
for his first visit here in ten years.
his publishers, Little, Brown & Co.
of Boston, announce that they will
publish in March new novel by
him. The title is "The Great Prince
Shan," and it will be story of
world politics in 1884.
The return of Mr.. S. S. Mcclure
to the editorship of McCIure's Nigga
zine was celebrated ON January 20
by dinner given at the Yale Club
by Mr.. Frank N. Doubleday, the head
of Doubleday, Page Co., who was
associated with Mr.. Mcclure in one
of his first publishing enterprises.
The new McClure's under its first
editor will appear with the March
issue under the imprint of the Nc
Clure Publishing Company, now one
of the properties Of F. M. Lupton,
Inc. Mr.. Mcclure reviewed his edi-
torial career and sketched the pol
icy of the new magazine. Other
speakers were Cyrus H. Il. Curtis,
Don C. Seitz, Thomas w. Lamont,
DR.. John H. Finley and Robert H.
Davis, the editor of Hansey's AGga-
zine.
"The Gang" Joseph Anthony's
story of New York's upper East
Side, is being brought out in Eng
land under Jonathan >Cape's inn
print. Mr.. Anthony himself has
just established a residence in Lon
y.
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more deeply religious than most
New England born sea captains. and
read the Bible aloud daily on ship
board. "One young scamp of a
supercargo amused himself by put
ting back the bookmark at the con-
clusion Of every days reading until
the captain remarked mildly that
he seemed to be having head winds
through the Book of Daniel"
Major-Gen. Sir Alfred Knox was
British Military Attache at Petro-
grad before the breaking out of the
world war, and afterward, for three
and half years, was with the Rus
sian army as observer. He has
written two volume work, just
published by E. P. Dutton & Co.
under. the title with the Russian
Army, 1914-1917."
The Neigrborhood Playhouse 10
New York city is preparing to stage
dramatic versions of two of Leon
ard Merrick's short stories, each al
a one act play. The stories are
1.-THE Cafe of the Broken Heart
and "The Suicides in the Rue Som
bre," both from "a Chair on the
Boulevard" It was brought ont
last year by the buttons in their
uniform edition Of Merrick's work,
in which they promise for spring
publication another volume, One
Mans View" with an introduction
by Granville Barker.
after the War" is the title of Col
Repington's new diary which
Houghton-Mifdin Company will
publish early in March. In it ne
recounts more recent experiences
in Paris, Bucharest, Budapest, Ger
many, Washington and New York.
He includes the Washington confer
ence. Col Repington starts on his
American lecture tour in February.
Rudyard Kipling found his idea
for the Just So" story about the
whale that ate the mariner in a
picturesque suspenders factory that
he often passed on his way from his
home in Vermont to Boston, says
the Detroit Free Press. The mari
ner of "infinite-resource-and-sagac-
ity," you will remember, whom the
whale found sitting on raft in the
middle of the sea with nothing on
but a pair of blue canvas breeches,
a pair of suspenders and a jack
knife. fastened the raft in the
whales throat and left the suspen-
ders behind to tie the grating. The
Just So" stories were written at
Naulahka, the bungalow at Brattle-
boro. VT, which Kipling built
mainly with his own hands around
a fine old Indian carving. 1t is here
that his three children were born.
Going to and from Boston on the
Fitchburg division Kipling and his
children always noticed the suspen-
ders factory at Shirley, standing on
the bank OF narrow creek with an
unpronounceable Indian name, and
it was their interest in the sus-
penders that led him to write
his inimitable explanation of the
whales tiny throat.
Although Katharine Fullerton
Gerould's first full length novel,
Lost Valley" was published only
one week ago. the book is already
in its second printing, according
to Harper & Brothers.
Hitherto unpublished chapters
from Mark Twain's Autobiography
appear in the February issue of
Harpers Magazine. There is an
Introductory note by Albert Bige-
low Paine, Mark Twain's official
biographer. Selections which
Mark Twain thought might appear
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printed than the one which ap-
peared in The Sun Dial of THE
EVENING Sun and which was the
work of Mr.. Don Marquis. Here is
an excerpt:
"One of the most entertaining
men that ever dined with us was
Gladstone-prankish, animated and
at times delightfully."- silly. He par
ticularly enjoyed playing tricks on
Queen Victoria. 1t is not generally
known that the good little Queen
was quite deaf. But such is the fact,
and when she felt herself to be
among friends she used an ear
trumpet quite openly. Never will
forget the time that Gladstone
poured plate Of hot soup into the
Queens ear trumpet. She might
have been angry at any one else.
But as she mopped her head and
neck with her serviette she laughed
and said indulgently: Glad is just
a big, overgrown boy, isn't he,
Margot?' The Queen did think he
was going a bit far, however, when
she discovered him putting snuff in
her beer"
"HAT Maria Chapdelaine' is a
book Of unusual quality is
not to be questioned. A
writer in the Literary Digest asks
whether it is not the long awaited
successor to Ludovic Halevy's
Liable Constantin" of quarter
of a century ago. The author, Louis
Hemon, was a. young Frenchman
who was killed in a railway wreck
in. Canada in 1913. Born at Brest
in 1880, he was educated in Paris,
there taking his degree in modern
Oriental languages. In 1904 a story
by him, La Riviere," submitted in
competition to Paris sporting
newspaper, V6l0, won first prize.
That was his start, and to VeIo and
to LAatO, another sporting paper,
he contributed many articles of
literary and sporting topics. Then
he went to England, where he
learned to speak English as we'll as
he spoke French. In 1908 he pub
lished a novel called Lizzie Blake
ston." His life in Canada, which
gave him the material for Maria
Chapdelaine," began in 1912 and
ended with his death in 1913. In
order to study at first hand the ways
Of the people he spent months as a
field laborer on the farms, especially
in the Lake st. John country.
A CCORDING to the February
~ BoOkmdn the novels most
- in demand in New York and
the New England States are:
/. Main Street" Lewis.
2. eff Winter Comes" Hutchinson.
8. "Her Fathers Daughter" STRAIT
comforter.
4. 1.-THE Brimming Cup" Garfield.
5. "Alice Adams Harrington.
6. Helen of the Old House"
Wright.
Works of non-fiction in demand
in the same territory are.
/. Outline of History Wells.
2. Queen Victoria" Strachey.
8. Characterization of Edward
Box" Box.
4. Mirrors of Downing Street"
Anonymous.
8. Mirrors of Washington"
Anonymous.
6. white Shadows in. the South
Seas" O'Brien.
Authors Works
And Their Ways
American Impressions" as a
title for G. X. Chesterton's new
book, seemed to fall bit short of
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CHRONICLE
AND
COMMENT

"HE literary section of THE
NEw YORK HERALD cordially
invites from its readers cor
lespondence on all topics of literary
interest.
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GOOD many years ago the
late II. C. Bunner published

~ oOCA AftfAs Ns>Ao e~tC 49,
~ late II. C. Bunner published
a volume of short stories
entitled MADE in France" being
adaptations of certain tales of Guy
de Maupassant, told with United
States twist. Twelve of the thir-
Ten of these tales were genuine
3aupassant. But there was one
sorry, specifically at least the most
eallic of all in flavor and atmos-
phere. which was entirely Of Bun
ner's invention. Professor Brander
Matthews of Columbia was in the
secret. and later poked considerable
good natured fun at the reviewers.
not one of whom had detected the
spurious narrative. But it was not
quite fair play. Maupassant's liter
cry product was so vast and so scat.
tered that any clever imitation was
likely to pass with Maupassant
himself no longer alive to repudi-
ate il. He might have, written it
and published il somewhere. AS a
matter of fact. il was long after the
Bunner book that the collection Of
stories known as lie Pere Milon"
appeared. No one, in the United
States at least, knew much about
these stories. Yet no one questions
for moment their being genuine
Baupassant.
A LII of which Is brought to
~ mind by the recent disc0v
cry of a work of De Maupas-
SAINT, which is not an individual
short story, that might have been
dashed off in a few hours for La
Vie Pd,isieane, or some similar
publication. and then forgotten
even by the author himself, but a
complete and hitherto unknown
novel, which was written when he
was in his middle twenties, that is
some time before the appearance of
the story that is generally accepted
as having been his first. "Boule de
Stuff" This novel is DIR. Heraclius
Gloss" which has just appeared in
two installments in La Revue de
Paris. To discuss the novel is not
within the province of this depart
ment of rambling notes. Accord
ing to the story. Maupassant's
mother found it among her sons
papers after his death, and after
her death it went to her heirs.
When. few years ago, a complete
edition of De Maupassant's works
was planned DIR. Heraclius Gloss
did not seem to harmonic with the
later books and was consequently
withheld. But there is no apparent
reason for questioning the author
ship.
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Both in England and in the
United States "Margot Asquith's
Autobiography" was a book that
was widely parodied. Nowhere
was there parody more effective
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the publication of the autobiogra-
ply that made Mrs. Asquiths name
for a time household word in the
United States; but in England she
has been for many years, one might
say almost all her. life, a vigorous
and interesting personality. When
ever a particularly biting piece of
verse aimed at woman appeared
people. at random and probably
without any justification, were in
elined to place the blame on Mrs.
Asquith, suggesting that she was
the particular woman the author
had had in mind. That was the
case when Kipling wrote: The
female of the species is more deadly
than the male; and it was also the
case when William Watson wrote:
She is not old. she is not young,
the woman with the serpent's
tongue"
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John Suter, who fiourished in the
first part Of the last century, was,
according to S. E. Morison's Mari
New-York tribune., 1922-05-06
Spirits Come Back i'm
Old Attic, Says Doyle
Year Clothes in Which Friends
We're Accustomed to See
Them, He Declares

Some spirits are lower than the
average human being and are far from
being omnscient, Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle told a capacity audience in re
peating his lecture on "psychographs.' y
or spirit photographs, in Carnegie
Hall last night. This is because each
generation is better educated than the
one before, he said.
Three new photographs were shown,
two of them taken by q Miss Sanders,
OF New York, working under the aus
pices Of the American PSychical Re
search institute. They appeared to be
formless masses of ectoplasm, although
Sir Arthur predicted that her work
when further developed Will equal that
of Eve, the famous European medium:
The third new photograph was one OF
William Hopes productions, showing
a Mr.. Buxton with his little son play
ing around in pajama attire. Explain
ing the vagares of dress on the other
side, Sir Arthur said
When spirit is coming back to
the earth it is told by it's control that
it must wear the costume in which 1t
will be recognized For instance, II a
grandmother appeared as beautiful
young spirit relatives would be m
credulous, whereas if the replica Of
the white haired lady in the family
album appears they are convinced.
This is why the little boy is wearing
the clothes in which his daddy was &C
customed to see him. 1t is also the
reason for Raymond Lodge appearing
with his bullet wound in the temple