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tribute to the American men who gave themselves to the service In the great war" Frankly, we do not think 1t the best tribute he could have devised. Of the sincerity of MT. Grey's purpose, however, we hold no doubt. The book bears testimony to its authors earnestness and to his state of wrath. Under flctional terms Mr. Grey administers terrific chas- tisement to a people which. to his mind in it's eagerness to forget the war has forgotten the men who sac rificed themselves for an ideal. He has not permitted small things like technique and the artistic verlties to obstruct the flow of his anger.
 MT. Grey has placed the action in his story in little city which he calls Middleville. There Is no question but that he has made Middleville as bad as the plausibilities will allow. He has filled it with perniclous slackers, foolish, betting" swearing and ci- garette-somling flappers and moth CTS either helpless or unwise. And on the iniqulties of the town he bears always with pressure as Of the loud pedal. No Scott Fitzgerald lightness is his dealing with the beautiful and the damned, no Dorothy Speare ten tativeness rises over his dancers in liic udiR. we seem to HedT ms OAln to himself to tell the truth. the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
 It is strong punishment that Mir. Grey administers. Inwardly, We doubt its efficacy. We wonder if 1t Is not a bitter dose just a triflo past its proper date. We suggest that book more hopefully counting on a second and grateful reaction to the period of war-loGseness would have served bet ter as tribute to men who suffered and died that the world might grow upward.
 Mrs. DeLand's ''rhe Vehement FIamc''
 Reversing tho conventional De cember and May" marriage -malking. the bride December and the groom May, Margaret DeLand in "The Vehement Flame" (another ''best seller), Harper Bros, Publishers, New York city, argues the question just why there should be a social law Cor there Is no legal prejudice) allowing man to mate with a wom- an 30 or 40 years his junior, yet condemning the woman who falls In love and marries 8 man 20 or 90 years younger than she Is
 You can readily see what m en- tcing subject Mrs De1and has chosen to weave her magical pen about. and that she has done it right royalty none can deny.
 Mrs DeLand uses all the old fashioned methods and tools that she can command in arguing this story. accepting as ultimate, the dictum of past generations that the happiness of such marriages is in itself es- sence-ephermeral,
 One thing especially Is to be noted. however, In Mrs. DeLands heroine, Eleanor. and that Is besides being
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write expertly of Caruso's views and theories on the art of singing.
 Partial table of contents:
 From his boyhood to his first great success at Milan.
 His European career.
 The conquest of America.
 The great secret of Caruso's breathing power.
 Tone production.
 How Caruso practiced
 The art of phrasing.
 Diction.
 Caruso as a creator of character.
 Style.
 Repertory.
 Caruso's legacy--advice to singers.
 "wATcHERS OF THE SKY" By Alfred Moves. Frederick A. Stokes company, publishers. New
 York city. gins a work of great importance and enthralling interest. Taking the idea that the great scientists. discoverers and inventors are the torch bearers of the world, each receiving the torch of learning and carrying it forward until 1t must be passed to their suc- cessors, he tells the wonderful stories of the astronomers-"The Watchers of the Sky.'
 Tn spirited narrative verse, as beau tiful and memorable as that of "Tales of the Mermaid Tavern" interspersed with delightful lyrics. he tells of Copernicus, Tycho Brahe. Kepler. Ga lileo, Newton and their successors ri ght down to the moderns in the Lick observatory.
 In Mir. Moves own words: Of those who caught the pure Pro- One from another, each crying as he
 went down To one that waited. crowned with
 youth and joy Take thou the splendour. carry 1t out
 of sight Into the great new age I must not
 know
 Into the great new realm I must not
 tread" "OUR ELEVEN BILLION DOLLARS (Europe's Debt to the United States.) By Robert Mountsier. Thomas Seltzer, publisher, New York city. "Our Eleven Billion Dollars" brings the Genoa conference, with the Euro- pean political and economic situa- ton. direct to the American home and office--to the business man and the worker, the banker and the econom- ist, the student and the teacher.
 "Our Eleven Billion Dollars" tens the truth about the present economic situation, and this truth makes you think in large and small sums-bil- Hons and your own income.
 Our Eleven Billion Dollars" shows
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you that the 1000. .o00.o which Eu- ropes governments and so-called gov ernments owe the United States mean more to the American citizen than to Lloyd George and Poincare, the Ger mans and the bolshevists.
 Our Eleven Billion Dollars is the work of an American correspondent who has divided the last twelve years between Europe and the United States, writing for the American and foreign press and preparing financial and industrial reports for various or- ganizations in this country.
 "OLD EUROPE'S SUICIDEy By Brig. Gen. c. B. Thomson. Thomas
 Seltzer. publisher. New York city.
 A brief. graphic history of Europe during the period of 1912-1919 by one who was himself an important actor In these events.
 The Nation says:
 General Thomson has achieved a far more interesting book than are most records of this kind, TOT beyond beinp soldier anu keen observer Ee is consummatc artist. He has interpolated through his book verbal sketches of Balkan life of great beauty. which glow with color. at mosphere and personality. Ills de-
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"BAToULA,,

Batoula, (Thomas Seltzer, publishers, New York city), Rene Maran is a negro; moreover. when the story was published in France he was the first one of his race to win the "Goncourt prize
 "Batouala" is not exactly a novel, as understood either in English or in French, but rather series of sketches of the inner and outer life of the degraded natives of that sec- ton of the French Congo which lies between three different culture areas: the Egyptian Soudan, Sou danic and Bantu Africa. The people whom Maran depicts constitute Q branch of the cannibal group known as the Nyam -Nyam, which has been elaborately described by Sehwein- furth
 It happens that these people are no more representative of the aver age African cultures surrounding them than the Basques of the Can- 'tabrian mountains are representa- tive of the average culture of Eng land, France or Germany. But on their original degradation has been superimposed an additional degrada- tion by the tax gatherers of French imperialism. and NJ. NInran even
  characters, that the vices of Europe have been deliberately imported among them.
 Strictly speaking it has no plot. It is not an artificially constructed dramatic story but series of moro or less connected sketches. It opens with Batouala's awakening
 When he had rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand and blown his nose through his fingers he got up and scratched himself. He scratched his armpits, he scratched his thighs, his head, his buttocks, his arms. Scratching is spenlid exercise. It is pleasure, and it also points to something .... All living creatures scratched themselves on waking. It was good example to follow. But if scratching was good, yawning was still better. 1t was a means of chasing sleep away through the mouth.
 There follows the awakening Of Yassiguindja, his favorite wife, then a breakfast of fried caterpillars and
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twice the age of Maurice (Eleanor is 39, and Maurice is 18). she is so hopclessly futile and silly that any man from 16 to 60 would be jus- tified in running away from her. Worse than all. she Is described as a wretched housekeeper. her pies are simply "pizen." so "pizen" that. fear troubles, he decides to board.
 What woman can hope to loop 8 loop around her husband. when they have to board "tn the best boarding house in townp Eleanor has one ccomplishment-the vocal. To be 8 bit. tiny bit irreverent she belongs to the For G-d's sake, sing" class l assume you know that wicked little story. Things might have adjusted themselves if she could have trilled all the time, but even in boarding house there are duties and the only opportunities she has to make the best of her ono and only gift arc at parttes-one on roof, one on the beach--and two sings do not make summer any more than do two swal- lows.
 Not content with letting us see at the start-off that she feels very sorry for the young man carried away by storm of youthful passion and condemns the woman who pro- tested and refused and finally losing her moorings of common sense as he did-aud, what any woman in her unhappy and isolated condition might have done, taken chance for hap piness-Mrs. DeLand endeavors to make her personal position more Eleanor's rival, a most snug, un- pleasant young person-duite Main Streeter in her satisfaction with her medforcity, and a real old-t time ad- vcnturess, Lily Dale--isn't that name deliciously chosen? Lily mends and buttons Maurice and provides him with an illegitimate child en passant, quite en passant at that. This was all too much for Eleanor, who wasn't backstepping the calendar. If she could have made good pies 1t might have delayed the debacle some, but even Mrs. DeLand could not do any thing with a woman so inept that she did not know the upper from the lower crust.
 The residuum of argument left in my mind was that 8 marriage with so wide a chasm of time was not necessarily mistake but that Mau- rice should have made a better se- lection, and up-to-date woman, say, who looks 20 when she is 40, has initiative and courage even in the face of the advancing and arrogant years and if she could not make pies, would know nice little corner store where they did. There Is no reason why with such a helpmate--a much more natural product than Eleanor Maurice, who only wanted to be loved. and have three meals day. should not have been perfectly happy.
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pest DeLS ol sne Si itlSo "AAA bS | iSAN gated to the losin.. class. E
 Roy Cohen Al His Best
 As tbest seller the name or Octavus Roy Cohen ranks at the top of the list; his books are more in de- mand probably than any other au- thor of the day and MT. Cohen is al his best in his latest Assorted Chocolates, tDodd, Mead & company publishers, New York city)
 The publishers tell us in regard ie MT. Cohen's new story that mo more amusing and truthful tales of negro life have come from the pen of any writer than the stories with which Octavus Roy Cohen has delighted hundreds of thousands of readers. Rolliekiug comedy. hair-raising drama and rich understanding of the negro's life and character are found in abundant measure. For pure amusement, no book of the sea son will excel this latest addition to Mr. Cohen's books of delicious darky stories,
 The Boston Herald says: "octavus Roy Cohen is not merely teller If funny negro stories. He is one or the best builders of short stories that we have in the business"
 In Assorted Chocolates" Mir. Cohen again presents in his most adept sad clear manner the humor of the negro in it's most delightful and whimsical form.
 Here again we meet our old friend the Human Fashion Plate" Fioran sianpey- who moves najestically thre' the highest social circles of Birmingham. Alabama, and we also meet again our old friends of Pol fshed Ebony" Highly Colorcd.s Come Seven" Dr. Brutus Herring Cadushus Link, Vivian Simmons Semore Mashby, Lawyer Eavns Cbe- Gallie Flukers and other sons ? daughters of the society of q " Arise." Not the least of Mr. Cohr' trlumphs in this field of Afro-A- erican life is his ability to keen finding for his characters nalIt that are diagnostic.
 The background of "Assorted Chor- plates" presents the old familiar landmarks, Bud Peagler's Lunch Room and Billiard ParIor; the office of the Weekly Epoch; the lodge rooms of the Sons and Daughters of Will Arise; Sally Crouch's Cozy Home Hotel and the various nov ing picture palaces flor colored only" The aristocracy of Birmimg- hams Darktown is there, and from time to time mysterious and intrigu- ing strangers arrive to add to the spice of life. In "Noblesse Obliged" the first story of the book, Florian Slappey with the idea of aiding his own matrimonial designs. imports stranger whom he introduces as an African prince. So well does His Royal Highness, Prince Napolium Of Kazombo, fit into the part that Flor ian finds that. like Frankenstein, he has builded monster to destroy himself. Threatened with exposure. Napolium placidly remarks: Tbey's only one thing in this heah world. Florian Slappey, which you caint do, An that is to make the cullud folks of Bummin ham b'lieve I ain't no prince. In fac'," he concludes, you caint even make me b'lieve it.
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 Birmingham, Ala.-"After be- coming a mother my health gave way. l suffered severely with a pain low down in my right side. My sister-in-law, having been cured of a bad case of feminine trouble by taking Dr. Pierce's Favorite Pre- Seription, advised me to take it, which l did. l am now starting on my third bottle and the pain has all left me. My husband said to me the other day, That Favorite Prescrip- tion must be wonderful medicine, ! don't hear you complaining any more. Mrs. Ruth Williamson, AO16 First Avenue.
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'"rHE HEAD OF THE HOUSE OF
 COONIBE"
 By Frances Hodgson Burnett. Fred erieR A Stokes company, publish CTS, New York city. The most beautiful and absorbing love story that Mrs. Burnett has ever written, her first novel since "T. Tembarom," and the result of eight
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THE IDOL OF PARIS" By Madame Sarah Bernhardt.

By Madame Sarah Bernhardt The
 Macaulay company. publishers,
 New York city.
 She was only IT but already Paris was at her feet! Even the famous Victor Hugo and Sardou had come to pay her homage; begging her to appear in their plays.
 Is this fiction, or the famous au- thor's thinly yelled story of her own career? Is Esperance Darbois, Sarah Bernhardt?
 Paris smiled and winked an eye on reading it in the original French. Surely the kindly Sardou, the mighty Danton, and the other famous char acters that move in and out of this story with such ease are not crea- lures or imagina tion. And thus re- assured, memory harks back to the early nineties in an effort to recall the names of that illustrious duke and well known count who fought with swords for Bernhardt's favor.
 But great woman that she is. she
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has kept her personal life a secret. Surely. however, there has been romance enough in her days.
 Make what you will of this,'' says the Divine Sarah. My life? (with a shrug of her beautiful shoulders)- it is for you to say"
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scription of the battle of Kumanovo Is especially memorable and should become a classic, not only for it's ar tistry but for it's penetrating analysis of the motivation back of primitive men in action. In the new era where world affairs are all of moment to all of us in all parts. we need wide knowledge, and we need 1t as it is here given, the facts in their authentic settings. focused in their right environment
 "The writer of this book was a general staff officer at the British war office from 1911 to 1914: att tachsd to general headquarters in France from 1914 to 1915; military attache in the Balkans from 1915 to 1917. and attached as a British mili- tary representative to the supreme wsr council at Versailles, 1918 to 1919. He was therefore a witness of all that he relates and his aim 1T recording his experiences is to l-arn guidance for the future from the errors of the rast.'
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"A SON OF THE SAHARA"

By Louise Gerard. The NIacauley
 company, publishers. No. 15 West
 Thirty eighth street, New York
 city.
 q have owned a hundred womenv' he answered defiantly
 The girl recoiled as from a blow. Was this man who paraded his con quests before her the same one who had fea sted so freely on her lips that mconlit night in Grand Canary?
 She was his prisoner now. He had stolen her and brought her to his stronghold in the desert. Her father was also captive. Pansy Lang hams life had crashed in ruins about her What good were her millions now. The mask had been removed. Raoul LeBreton was the Sultan Casim Fl Ammeh!--a Mohammedan!
 And yet she knew she wanted no mans kisses but his. Love for him consumed her, but race and religion stood between them.
 What was the outcome? Read for yourself. and see.
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octavus Roy Cohen (Dodd Mead publishers cy) this author his with whimsical the the fashionable southern
  Page Company publishers, City, N Y her brilliant A. with his successes
  the 'best sellers m mode
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A servant girl found live monkey in the letter box of a hotel in the city of bennington, England. The monkey escaped from a sailor sought refuge in the hotel, put the cat to flight and then retired to the let ter box for the night.
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When mentioned friend of the other day, who fondcr of sBrsing Around Among the Best sele he aconicaly: How uapell ellers2
 To his of thinking felt that spelled "oIr" instead soler, he would be "broyxsinE aound' Is the latter of
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By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

An amusing cartoon" of A. $. NJ. Hutchinson, whose new novel, "This Freedom" (Little, Brown & Co, pub fishers, Boston,, is regarded by many critics as the superior of his former story, If Winter Comes, 7 which was among the Best Sellers" of the past season. The accompanying cartoon appeared in the London Puck.
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her class, had kissed her and had the impudence to tell her that he was "crazy" about her. And yet, she could not resent 1t. She knew her beauty to be her greatest asset-al- most the only one, Old Darlington, her millionaire grandfather, had cut her off; her home was closed to her. The stage offered the best means for quick success.
 If her gleaming bare shoulders, her white breast and throat rendered her chances of success any greater, why should she not take advantage of them?
 She tries to capture him, to hold him; but keep him at arms length. Quite forgetting that in New York men do nothing without expecting some return. And in the end? Well the price that Bernard sets is the eternal one.
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years of loving, conscientious work.
 In the years when Victorian stan- dards and ideals began to dance an increasingly rapid jig before amazed lookers-on, who presently found themselves dancing as madly as the rest-in these years there lived in Mayfair in slice of a house, lovely young widow and her child. So light and airy was she to earthly vision and so diaphanous the texture of her mentality that she was known as Feather" In the gloomy little dog kennels of nurseries her girl child Robin sat alone staring at the sparrows on the roofs and watching the lovely Lady Downstairs" as she entered her smart hrougham, or caught glimpse of her as she passed from her room below. glittering in evening dress.
 The growth of the story of his heir-presumptive, the young chieftain Donal Muir. and the exquisite other world tenderness of the child who had spent her early years unknowing that mothers and love and caresses existed, leads the reader almost trem- ulous from chapter to chapter. Here is young love as it was when the morning stars sang together" And as it grows, the Head of the House of Coombe"-elderly, frigid, the best dressed and most cynical man in London-looks on remembering the black tragedy of his long passed youth of which the world knows nothing.
 "CARUSO AND THE ART OF SING
 ING"
 By Salvatore Fucito and Barnet J.
 Beyer. Illustrated. Frederick A.
 Stokes company, publishers. New
 York city.
 From Carusos boyhood until his death-here is the whole story of how the great tenor became world famous. In readable. compact form his study methods are minutely de- scribed. including the very vocal exercises he actually used.
 From 1915 to the death of Caruso Salvatore Fucito was his coach and official accompanist. From 1908 to this permanent association that be- gan in 1915, Caruso coached with Maestro Fucito whenever they were in the same locality. Fucito is the only living authority who can
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Popular Authors


 The efd question; What books would you choose for a desert is- .land?" may be changed. nowadays, In rview of the insurgency of our younger to: What books would you choose for prison7"
 This, apropos of Q story I read somewhere recently about a young man who had been sentenced to zLeavenworth prison for twenty years and upon leaving fer his destination asked his friends who had mentioned that they would send him some books;
 Please to include all of Zane Grey 's---especially the last one he has swritten."
 Which brings to mind his very latest, 'The Day of tho Beast" 5Harper Brothers. publishers, New tYork City.
 Over his reproduced signature, on the packet Of "The Day of the Beast" Zane Grey offers the book as his
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'PLASTER SAINTS By Frederick Arnold Hummer. The Macaulay company, publishers. New York city.
 Tony Bernard. man quite out of