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stock boarding by home buyers who
feared price increases and whose imme-
diate. needs were covered. In the neigh
boring chemical markets, notably the
Dutch, firms are congested with wares
that smugglers had got out of Germany.
Also, the fall in the mark has tended
to keep away outside buyers.
German industry is becoming more
and more susceptible to the sinking
mark. Manufacturers say that If the
mark should go beyond ESQ to the dollar
their business with the outside world
would receive a serious check.
German exporters are not happy over
the new American export tariff One
firm that exported more than a million
thermos bottles to the United States
last year can sell them in America now
for so cents. with all profits and cost
paid. This firm asserts that America
would attempt to keep the price up to
$150. One German exporter argues
that the tariff maintaining the higher
price creates unnecessary hardship
upon the American consumer.
Several buyers here have been eager
to obtain all the available output of
radio and wireless telephone apparatus
to satisfy the enormous popular de-
mand in America. THE New YORK
HERALD correspondent learns of Huth,
the leading manufacturer in Berlin,
that he has sold his production several
months ahead. yet has restricted MS
output on account of the shortage OF
skilled labor and the difficulty OF inn
porting raw materials. American buy
ers have found ready stocks in Eng
land and are placing large orders IN
Germany for future delivery. v
Many wares manufactured in Ger
many for which the raw materials
must be imported at market prices
now cost more here than in America,
notably tin plate and ship plates. both
Of which are 10 per cent. cheaper II
made in America and shipped to Ham
burg than the German wares now on
the market. German shipbuilders con-
sequently are buying these plates.
Germans would also buy American
tractors and agricultural machinery
and American medium priced motor
cars. but the German luxury import
law forbds this.
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were made at price outside Of the regular lot
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FINANCIAL NOTES.

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New York and the Philadelphia stock ex-
changes. have moved their local offices 10
tho third floor at 3 Nassau street. Their
telephone number is Rector 1907.
Carresu a sncdeker. members OF the New
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giving their current prices, Yield, &C.
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STOCK EXCHANGE SALES.
New York stock Exchange sales for week

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New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Occidental diversions

Julian Streets "Mysterious japan"
doubleday. Page & Coz gives IN tn
teresting list Of japanese "inve1sions"
things thai the Occidentals do In .
manner directly opposite to ours. Mr..
Street says:
1.-THE Japanese method Of beckoning
would to US signify go away; boata
are beached stern foremost; horses
are backed into their stalls; saving
and planning are accomplished With q
pulling instead Of a driving motion;
keys turn in their locks in a reverse
direction from that customary with Us.
During the day Japanese houses, with
their sliding walls of wood and paper,
are wide open, but at night they are
nclosed with solid board shutters, and
people sleep practically without ven
tilation. At the door Of theater or a
restaurant the Japanese check their
shoes instead Of their hats: thsjr
sweets, ii they come at all, are served
early in the meal instead Of toward
the end. Action in the theater is mod
eled not on life, but on the movements
Of dolls in marionette shows, and in
the classic No drama the possibility OF
showing emotion by facial expression
is eliminated by the use of carved
wooden masks.
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and sentiment in his narrative OF Wade
Carson, a native of the wilderness, who
at thirteen years is forced to meet the
selishncss OF human nature. The lad,
left alone when his father dies, finds
himself robbed of his small patrimony
by q wealthy man, who has coveted the
lovely wilderness for a country home
and ACQUIRES it through technicality
of Law.
The loss of his beloved birthplace,
where Ne had lived in contented pow
erty, caused the awakening OF Nade's S
nature and the beginning of career
IL which his chief desire was TO avenge
himself upon the usurper. He gains
an education and returns years later,
q full-fedged lawyer, to develop his
long rished plans against his enemy.
There is a barrier, however, the daugh-
ter of the latter, and the way In which
love plays against vengeance forms the
best part of the story. The characters
are crudely drawn, but there is inter
est from the start, until the 1lnal chsr'
ters reveal a happy ending.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
A Theater Story

ROMANCE TO THE RESCUE. BY Denis
Mackail. Published by Houghton Mif-
fin Company. S1.90.
THE scene of this novel is laid in the
l. colorful theatrical world of Lon
don. The heroine, Mrs. Cartwright,
separated from her husband, England's
matinee idol, writes play which falls
into his hands and is accepted. In her
ouandary she palms off young Ok
ford student as the author. A plot OF
this type easily opens ways for the
introduction of bright talk and clever
situations, and this novel does not lack
in good measure in both clements.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
A Sterling Story

THE OLD MINES SECRET. By Edna
Turpin. Published by the Macmillan
Company. $50.
ITO THE children of the South the
= Confederate cause was a tradition
as heroic and romantic a the legends
Of Roland and Arthur. But it lost
much of it's color in contrast with the
red hours of the World War, which
reused their loyalty to the united ma
ton and brought them to it's assistance
as readily as their Northern kin. "The
Old Mines Secret" is good boys
story of war activities in Southern
village, where a 100 per cent American
family do a great deal for their
country. The young hero and his sis
ter get into some exciting scrapes with
German spies, and, incidentally, un-
earth precious secrets, mineral as we'll
as military.
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puns, a man who draws to STRAIGHT
flush, one who admits to a fear of cows.
What is there left to be impressed
with! Only tho transparent honesty
Of the man.
There is something little deceptive,
though, in Mr. Broun's candor. Look
closely and you find that he has his
own aifcctations. He pretends to know
a little less than he really does His
simplicity is not all for utility. There
is furtive poet in this journalist.
Take this passage from "a Bolt from
the Blue" in which the king of heaven
at DR.. Straton's adjura tion unwllingly
lnvokcs doom on the Sunday base
ball crowd. The bali continued to rise
until suddenly the king, ihrusting out
his left hand, caught it neatly and
slipped it into his pocket IT. was not a
conventional pocket, for there were
planets in il and everlasting mercy and
other things" Strip away the pre-
tense that it is all joke tentatively
offered, and you find an astonishing
assurance in Haywood Broun.
Nothing wiser has been written about
children than the pieces about H, 3,
gathered in the book under tho head
ing "a Continuous Performance" Here
you have the romance OF The relation
ship between fathers and sons felt and
vividly communicated as few have done
it. This is a mans true astonshment +
at the new individuality that may
spring from him, this his fear of the
judgment of the next gene ration, and
his dispassionate interest in the bio
logical phenomena unfolding itself be-
fore him. 1t is all SO lightly and un-
pretentiously done that it takes 3
minute or two to reali2e that this is
better romance than II. e.. Wells and
better pedagogy than Floyd Dell,
But whatever Haywood Broun's con.
cealments, his tenderness for the in.
articulate plain man is clear enough.
The puzzled bonehead is the real hero
of all that Broun writes--the man who
whistles in the dark to keep his
courage up, who is so gullible and so
ludcrouss and so heroic. With Conrad
and Charlie Chaplin, Haywood Broun
shivers little in the wind Of inIinity
He, too, has vision of the hoax des-
tiny plays upon man, sees and pities
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Zangwill Lashes War and
NatiOnalism

THE COCKPIT. BY Israel Zangwill. rub
lishcd by the Macmillan Company. $3.50
N "The Cockpit" Mr.. Zangwill has
written an ironic companion piece
n to his we'll. known earlier drama
"'rhe Melting Pot" Having drama
tized the fusion of races in America
he now seeks TO dramatzc the friction
Of races in Europe,
1t can scarcely be said that the
present effort is as successful as its
predecessor. The author seems 10
waver between two conceptions in
working out his drama. His funda-
mental purpose is to cxcoratc var and
the passions Of national, racial and re-
ligious hatred which lead TO var. But
he allows this purpose TO become OBJ
scured by admitting to the play d
mass Of extraneous detail which would
fit excellently into realistic drama,
but which has little relation to the
authors dominant conception.
The heroine is q Balkan princess,
who has been taken to America and
brought up by her former chancellor
a delegation Of her countrymem dis
cover the princess and persuade her to
return to her native land and assume
the royal Office. She meets with one
disillusionment after another, culmi-
mating in bloody war which causes
her to cry out: Daddy WAS right
Queen in a cockpit.
The cruel follies Of war and states
manship offer much material for a
humane philosophers indignant Wit,
and Mr.. Zangwill scores many telling
points in his drama. But he seems to
the writer to attempt too much in a
single play. He tries at the same time
to dissect and expose the false emo
tional mechanism of war and to show
the reaction which an unjust war ex-
cites in a delicately constituted human
soul. The two conceptions inevitably
get in each others way at times.
Galsworthy's "The Mob" is a simpler
and more powerful projection of an
idealistic individual against a back
ground of herd passion, while Rolland's
'Liluli" is more finely wrought i'm
personal satire, directed against wax
itself.
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n 1and!d oudy OF Boshevism Current Fiction in Reuie

and laughs. and this fundamental seri-
BUSINESS is the driving force Of his
humor
IN one Of his paragraphs Broun de-
scriDes his idea Of magazine editor.
TIC Is man who regards him !ixcdly
Tor live minutes and then brings out
thc suggestion, "Why don't you do us
series like the Doolcy papcps?" Broun
IS al least exempt from the suggestion
by his friends, "Why don't you write
naturally-like Haywood Droun?" To
write naturally--as if that were not
tho hardest thing in the world to do.
But for Broun the partition between
spontaneous feeling and expression
Vhat VIC all strain and sweat against is
like the looking glass which gave be-
tore Alice on a land Of magic Hucncy.
One wonders if Brouns abundance
does not come because he is IMPROVE
dent lie caches nothing. lie is thrift
less with his wit; he Grams into para
graph what any man could make an
essay Of. He hates elegance, and the
rl'ual That goes to shore it up. lie
hates work, and does an enormous
amount of it. He is fundamentally
anarchic and he yields his best work
at the tyrannous demands of the daily
press. lie once said that Mark TWINS
description OF Huck Finn's life on the
raft on the Mississippi is the most
glamourous passage Of writing he knows.
mat is more than q literary avowal
There is knship between him and
Huck Finn that is deeper than the SIM
llarity that he, too, chafes in store
clothes. There is the same kind Of
inner man in both Of them, mistrust-
ful OF respectability, wary Of glibness
and prone to idle, fecund dreaming.
There is the same fugitive poet, too.
it is the poet in Haywood Broun
that makes him the unknown quantity
that he is. If the glittering raillery
of the rabbit piece, II the easy and do
llghtful self-revelation Of "Buyine a
Farm" and "Michael" and the H. third
pieces and the gorgeous satire of "a
Bolt From the Blue" were all tho book
contained it would be an especially fine
demonstration Of a native kind Of
genius. But the quality Of imagina-
tlon that turns off the ironic ending
of the old Anderson fairy tale into
something so moving as "A Robe for
King" and that projects the absurd
pathos Of "The Fifty-frst Dragon" cuts
deeper than satire. 1t penetrates
secret places whose existence we deny
Vulnerable places which we guard
because we fear to receive our mortal
hurt there. Admitting Haywood Broun
there VIC admit a great deal more than
we arc aware Of. We admit him at
the least to be disturbingly, poten-
TALLY great.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
The Village Imp

BOLIVAR BROWN. BY Bide Dudley'
Published by Harper 6; Bros. sl.eo.
W7RITTEN in the manner OF the
w school of "Tom Sawyer" and
with Mark Twains Missouri as its
country, this story narrates the hu-
morous exploits of two incxpressible
chums, Bolivar and Skeets. Every TRICK
in the prankbag Of restless boys is
known to them, and they keep the VII
lage guessing from morning to night
When they decide to blow up the cave
where they hold their secret meetings
they unearth a mysterious stranger.
We wont tell any more, but leave the
book for the clutches Of the young
boy, who will find in it picture CT
the world he loves to revel in.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
Russia Seen in F air Perspective F by
American Woman Correspondent
Mrs. Harrison. Recently Freed from a Bolshevil
Jail, Writes of Her Experiences With
Humor and Understanding

The delegate from Afghanistan at
tempted to make love to Mrs. Harrison
at first sight, offering to take her back
to his wild native country and make
her the first lady Of his harenl.
Chaliapine, the great basso, is even
more popular in Russia than here. He
insists on being well paid for his sing
ing, not in paper rublcs, but in food
lac author gives, IS typical terms for
a Chaliapine concert, eighteen pounds
OF cocoa, eighteen pounds of rice and
thiriy.siS pounds OF -four. Mrs. Narri.
son gives spirited description of the
theaters under the Soviet regime. Thew
arc presenting excellent repertoires Of
classical plays to enthusiastic audi
ences, now composed largely of work
ing men and women, but the difficult
conditions Of life restrict the creative
efforts OF artists, authors and play
wrights.
The authors knowledge of present.
day Russia was still further enriched
by her prison experiences. Her fellow
prisoners included all types-common
criminals, aristocrats, anarchists ard
members of the various Socialist groups
which are opposed to the Bolsheyiki.
She found many true and devoted
friends among them, and her descrip-
tion Of prison life, while often painful
and somber, is enlivened by manv
touches of humor.
The author emphasizes the human
side of Russian life so strongly. to
the exclusion of political theories and
preJudlces, that one almost forgets to
ask what her opinion of the Soviet gov
ernment really is. Her attitude toward
Russia comedies pretty closely with
that of General Brusiloff, the famous
commander of The Russian armies in
the World War, whom she often met
in Moscow. The Soviet government is
wrong in principle and bad in many of
its practical workings; but it is the
only government that is possible in
Russia to-day. All the efforts to over
throw it by means of civil war and
foreign Intervention have failed and
have only added to the misery of the
Russian people. Consequently the patri-
otto Russian of to-day must reconcile
himself to cooperating with the Soviet
government in such constructive work
as the repairing Of the shattered indus
trial system, the extension of education
among the illiterate peasants, the
struggle against famine and epidemics.
Sooner or later, especially as foreign
governments give up the policy of iso
lating and attacking Russia, the more
biect onable features Of the. Soviet
system will disappear and broadly
democratic form Of government will de-
velop in Russia.
Whether or not one agrees with Mrs.
Harrison's theory that peace and trade
are the best methods OF conquerirg
Bolshevism, one must give her the
highest praise for having written d
book about Russia that is at once so
colorful and so fair, SO full Of humor
GUS anccdotc and shrewd observation,
and. best Of all in book written about
Russia SO free from the ordinary slant
of the 7ropagandist, Red or White.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08

q kept over the field of criticism, we
Il doubt il Haywood Broun could
have got by. He has made admis-
sions Of the most damaging sort. BY his
own confession he has never been up the
Acropolis by moonlight, and the cele-
brated nave Of the Amicns cathedral
fear that the German gunncrs might
drop something through it. In spite Of
an exaggerated regard for his univer-
ity, his devotion appears not to have
taken tho form OF scholarship. He
admits that he followed the practice
current in his day Of forming his
schedule of studies by eliminating all
electives that came before IL o'clock
or higher than the second floor. This
seems TO have left tho upper stories
of his education unfurnishcd, And thc
Hattons have demonstrated that he has
never reached the higher social levels.
The accumulated proof Of Haywood
Broun's ineligiblty for academic rev
erence is present in Seeing Things at
Night 4 volume of reviews, essays,
stories and paragraphs retrieved from
old newspaper columns and casually
but very satisfactorily arranged. If
Ethel Barrymore and the Hattons and
Eva Tanguay had never reminded the
world that Mr.. Broun was once only q
baseball reporter (and before that even
4 copy reader) the traces OF his vulgar
origin would still be ample Mr.. Broun
carries the figures Of the ringside and
the diamond and the poker table into
bellies lettres. very much as breeder
carries the SMILES Of the stud into the
drawing room, and to the same effect.
He seems to think that the clean hit
and the foul hit, the ringing blow aud
the close race are as frequently oerved
i'll the realm of ideas as in life and
that they are just as stirring in one
as the other. He seems to thnl, that
the coarse old sporting rules Of fair
play ere just as good now as then. All
this would not matter so much If he
could manage to preserve the air of
the cognoscenti, the authority of the
critic. But he gives this away, too.
He blurts out his own doubts, his own
liabilities, his own fears. You know
him for a man with q weakness for
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08
varooNrD IN MOSCOW


e. = Harrison Published by George
4 ooran Company 81.
THE Grst characteristic of Mrs
Harrison's book is the authors
= evident disposition to regard
Russia as land peopled not by devils
or angels but by ordinary human
Beings. Proceeding upon this assump p
ion she has succeeded in writing the
ARREST book on Russia which has vet
apneared in this country, in spite Of
ne fact that she was twice arrested
and held for almost year in Il Boil
shevik prison.
Even the most hardened Boishe yik
mus, admit that Mrs. Harrison shows
herself pretty good sport in discuss
Ing her imprisonment. Confinement is
not pleasant in any country, and the
suferings of prisoners in Russia are
naturally aggravated by the privations
which affect all classes of the people
Yet the author candidly admits that
the agents of the "Checka," or Ext-aor-
dinary Commission, the much dreaded
Soviet secret police. were technically
quite justified in placing her under
arrest. She had entered Russia with
out the permission of the Soviet gov
ernment and remained there during
the period when the war with Poland
was at its height. She broke various
Russian laws and regulations, and she
associated openly with people who were
known to be hostile to the Soviet gov
ernment. Under these circum stances
she does not feel that she had any spe-
cial cause for complaint about her ar
rest
Mrs. Harrison was free about eight
February, 1920. Possessing very
ieen and reliable sense of observation
snd a remarkable faculty for making
friends with men and women of all
viewpoints, from Communists to Mon
archists, she missed very little that
went on in Moscow during this time.
She was also able to form an excellent
idea Of the condition of the peasants
uUueI CCNleC 1UIS as 1cSuIL Cl EeI
trip down the Volga with the British
labor delegation. She found the fam
inc which has come with such dew
sstating effect after the great drought
of last spring foreshadowed in the
diminished acreage under cultivation
and in the peasants pathetic lack Of
seeds, fertilizer and agricultural i'm
plements.
Moscow in 1920 was just as pictur-
csque and exciting a place to live in
as Paris in 1898. 1t is true that there
we're no tumbrls rafting by to the
guotine but the formidable Checka
was shooting its monthly quota Of vic
inns, accused Of profiteerng, specula-
ton and counter Revolutionary activity.
No one, either Russian or foreigner,
ever got up with any assurance that he
might not find himself in prison before
The day was over.
Then there was the picturesque gath
erlng Of revolutionsts from all over
ne world for the congress of the Third
lnternationale Hindus, Afghans, Turks
and ether Orientals IN gorgeous cos
tunes mingled with the more soberly
clad delegates from Western countries.
New-York tribune., 1922-01-08

fresh" young player who breaks down
the hostility Of team Of veterans by
fine demonstration Of physical
courage; the big. clumsy pitcher who
finds all sorts Of difficulties in the way
OF making his declaration Of love;
these are typical figures in the tales.
Some people who write baseball
stories are lacking either IN knowledge
Of baseball or in knowledge Of the art
Of fiction writing. Mr.. Beaumont leaves
nothing to be desired in either respect.
His skill as story teller of ths dla-
mond is most convincingly demon
strated by the fact that he is even
able to represent an umpire as q very
sympathetic character. 81
The genial Mr.. Tutt, Of whose ex-
ploIts We have heard before, 10 again
pressed into service by Mr.. Train to
solve an intricate murder case and to
rescue an innocent tramp from q net
work of circumstantial evidence which
has been woven about him by an un-
scrupulous prosecutor. 1.-The Hermit
Of Turkey Hollow" is an ingenious de-
tective story. 1t Is also shrewd ana
humorous commentary upon the weak
nesses of lawyers, judges, juyies and
country towns.