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Here Is What You Get
In These Fascinating Volumes

rhe History Of Mr. Polly Il the world does not please
Sn s t. mn Tss ns IS
who suffers from ndses1 fs.s
delight. gntroubea by social speeulations:
should nation hS: G1isndss
ParneIi: and wells presents the problem in ''Tho
Mr. Britiins Sees it Through This is Wells great
Of the war but Is not wa s so0 a whose 2sss Ss
love affairs and experiences Of Mr.. Drifting Then
yss" snd h esr sgsa' aa aHS Peter . the .ns
spoken tale SsotheT and sister who went through
Love and Mr.: Lewi.ham. tewishsm Is promising
Ts S as anS a%o % the
s % s ,snr aS The sSune. sSs VSae. IN
The Wife Of Sir Isaac Harmon senool Idouof girl Of
Gs'0 wsaisSg
n She 0 n OTs and
realize her actual position Then comes the story
"ReSsareh Msenlfieent, projects I new srstOsrasy
Ss; clerk % 'sss :sa.ssss s
him large sum Of money He tried hard to TO- live % up
J. sid !'ss 1ss
reno'bSH9sy sHs stle Of
little druggist to fortune s,, more ss SsSrss
sss F"siA ss hopeful @sEsi a
rs ' War IN IN az s ni s the %af
It easy ea enough s 70 sySys SSncs but ms
Bealby. Beaby Is the gardeners boy on an rnsisH
estate They plan make q butler Of him. but the
life OF servant doesn't appeal to him 30 he runs OIL
delicious boyish fun has ever been compressed
into the pages Of book. -
The Sopss ss The s s'Psss
than humankind that they were able to invade
ouf planet and stalk about In gigantic fighting
machines emitting clouds Of black smoke s,r, and q
terrible heat ray How could mankind war against
these monsters and be delivered from them? -,
rs SC Fsfc ss.s q s Gods q: ESss e s.
perImenter discovers how to make .boomfood
continuous instead OF intermittent growt.
that in twenty years youths become giants , Mhs
that the giants cannot fit Into the society
OF the time, conflict arises, and finally death
struggle between the little men and the big ones.
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More Books
That Are No Books.

'Tn connection with your piece about
P. NJ, II should like to suggest that
Lamb, If he were alive to-day, would
doubtless include the privately printed
works of those amateur authors who
have been encouraged to do some lit
tie things by their friends and who
secretly hope that their little volume
of mauve colored poems will be sa-
luted as the outpouring of a new
authentic voice. And If he didn't I
would find a place for all works on
New Thought. and all the pabulum
for tired souls who seek rejuvenation
by the most far fetched means"
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no you realize that in the past twenty years ii. G.
- Wells has written the most remarkable group
Of Noreis and Romances produced by any living
writer. as remarkable in fiction as his worldfamous
"Outlne Of History in its field?
These tremendous works Of fiction, foretelling the
age Of flying vsioning the mighty scientific mechani-
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stories, Dickens-ike pictures Of character and the
society Of the day, enlivened with wit and humor,
for the first time to be published in uniform
" bound library set.
Mr.. Wells himself is taking such keen interest in
this first collected edition Of the fiction best repre-
sening his life work. that he is doing something very
real for your advantage, to make possible superb
treat for his admirers at cost far below present day
prices for copyrighted books in handsome physical
form
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interviewing the Great.

This immense seriousness of Dreiser's
is evident in what he tells us of the
manner in which he interviewed great
men. my favorite question" he says,
was what did they think of life, its
meaning. since this was uppermost in
my mind at the time, and / think
asked it of every one of them, from
John L. Sullivan to Annie Besant."
Young Dreiser--he was then 21-
asked it of Marse Henry Watterson,
too, while the kindly, yet sulphurous,
Southerner was still in his prime, and
this is the answer he got:
MY son, when you get as old as 1
am you probably won't think so much
Of it, and you won't be to blame. It's
good enough in its way, but it's a
damned iioklish business. You may
say that Henry Watterson said that
IL you like. Do the best you can, and
don't crowd the other fellow too hard.
and you'll come out as well as any.
body. suppose"
We have interviewed a few famous
men ourselves. but we fear we never
asked one Of them that question.
Heaven knows, we asked them every
thing else that can be framed in the
English language. Once we were re-
porter out On the coast, in city on
Puget Sound there's no point in con-
cealing an, thing-it was in Seattle
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This is, OF course publishing event II is a rich
opportunity for you II a chance to have your
IMAGINATION stimulated, to enjoy the greatest modern
ove stories, realize what human race has come
to and what Il coming to, to thrill with the attacks
~ the Martans our world or with the desolation
" London after the Asiatic air nvasion TO follow the
intensely humorous fortunes Of English cockneys as
well a. the grandiose journey Of the German super
man to destroy New York City.
H. Wells has arrived at the final stage Of literary
genius He is a classic. The collection now
being printed contains the full fruit of his Imagination
AS the most sought-for Of modern authors, Mr.
Wells naturally receives the highest rate Of royalty
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THE WHISPERING GALLERY

few of the Victorians. Their work was
chiseled, graceful They wrote in low
tones-well modulated. drawing room
tones. and they addressed .neir re-
marks to select audience
Suddenly something happened. and
we were aware of louder. more reso-
nant voices. more roughly jocuiar and
closer to the common pulse. To-day
there is constantly widening circle OF
intimate essayists. reaching out and
touching a larger audience than the
writer's they succeed. and at the same
time interesting and holding the group
who used to read their Repplier and
Crothers and More.
There is no need for us to mention
the names Of these newcomers. They
confront you in the bookstores every
day, and some Of their books have sales
that formerly were held the inalien-
able right of novels alone. What real
ly led us into this discussion was the
sight of Little Rays Of Moonshine"
on our desk.
This is a group of essays by A. p.
Herbert GA. p. H.O Of Punch. Mr..
Herbert is funny. His humor is not
subtle. and it's undercurrent of satire
is not deep. but he has brought to-
gether a sheaf of absurdities which
we can recommend unhesitatingly to
any one who has time and the taste
FOR the lightest Of reading. Last week
we observed that II. M. Bateman. the
English comic artist, was funny in an
American way. and it seems to us that
Nv 10 oil OF
perhaps what we observe is not a
likeness peculiar to these men in rela-
ton to our own humorists, but an
essential similarity between American
and English humor which popular
dogma has held was not there.
If every devotee of jazz could be
made to read Mr.. Herbert's paper,
called "On With the Dance" we feel
sure that when next he leads out his
partner to todtile he will have an en-
barrassing sense Of being about to
play the perfect fool.
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Russia in New French Novel

LES NOCTURNES. Par Georges
Imaum. Paris: Bernard Grasset.
4" lNCE Dostoievsky the Russian
-, intellectuals have set them
~ selves to revivingN the ancient
hostility between the Orient and the
Occidcnt And undoubtedly our time
will sce a renewal of such assaults as
were made long ago by those vast,
shadowy and often well nigh formless
Asiatic religions upon Greek resson.
lucid. compelling, sensitive and will
Ing 10 take every known fact into ac-
count
Somewhat as the average Greek
took pride in calling the unknown man
oi Asia barbarian" so many citi-
zen oi France disposes Of Russian Boil
sheyism AZ a product OF the ambition
of cynical adventurers. sustained by
tho genius Of Israel. That was tho
thesis uf Jerome and Jean Tharaud in
>QUdnd Israel est Rot" already re-
viewed IN THE HERALD. II is the basis
OF Georges lmaum's "LeS NoctUrnes,"
a tale of sombre Russo-Ciermanic-
Jewish plots which resulted in the
re, olutiOn Of October. 1917.
The scene is the Olympus OF the
"IHeHr Trcm blent." by Marcel Berger,
thai cosmopolitan Switzerland of war
time. THE plot unfolds itself at Ge-
neva) And as in Claude Farrere's
fantasy. the soul OF the intrigue is a
young diplomat The motive Of his
acuon II love for a beautiful mar
quist. Ida dc an-Carvagno. The other
actors are such night birds as one
finds IN all palaces where amusement
is the on' 600
Although ne has not achieved the
effect Oi . BORIS SaNinkov in What
Never Was memories Of a former
terrorini Georges imaum has utilized
effectively int tragic past OF the long
struggi. against the Cars Govern
ment Like the Slav novelists. he
keeps = number OF plots going stimuli
tanenusly but the French tale has a
cohesion rarely found In Russian
stories. No useless episode Is adj
mltied: all elements must conspire to
produce the final result.
II is hard to quote from this novel
because OF the close relation of all its
parta But this word picture Of the
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, Marquise will serve. She is the wife
of diplomat who acts under the or
ders of Modviedoff. in whom there is
a mint of Lenine or of Trotzky.
"She was veritable siren with her
cruel. pretty head. her shoulders white
as foam, her perfidious eyes flashing
green lights of deep-sea water. and
her plant, sensuous body covered with
a thousand sequins scintilating like
scales A smile, a motion of the
head to right or left. disdainful aims
thrown to the crowd of men whose
desires followed after her"
And the author adds this note to his
portrait: 81 never felt so intensely as
at the close of that fete how Ear the
war had changed our manner Of life,
how militant and revolutionary 1t had
made our youth. Melting in its mighty
cauldron individuals and classes. all
the life of the nation, 1t is revealed
anew as the devourer Of men. II was
not for nothing that We spent five
years leaning over the infinite groan-
ing gulf of human sorrow. that we
ate, in camp or ambulance. the COM
munion bread of sacrifice. Why
should we wonder II some of these
creatures insist to-day that society.
which then imposed an equality of
suffering, should assure now an equal
ity of benefit?"
A vigorous realism shows itself at
times in the book. There are other
explosions of revolt like the one just
quoted against the powerful. especially
the profiteers. alternating with expires.
siOns OF patriotic anxiety But from
the artistic viewpoint one firds more
than enough picturesque scenes and
sketches of curious types to win read
ers of the most diverse sympathies.
The book merits both a popular and a
literary success.
1t may be added that young as the
author is, he received four votes in
the Academy Goncourt for the place
Of prize winner Five votes each
went to Pierre MacOrlan for his La
Cavaliere Elsa" tParis: Grande Re.
vue Francaise). and to Jacques Char
donne for his IL 'Epithalame" Paris
La Renaissance du Livre) The vote
of the Academy's president however
gave the prize to Rene Marah for his
"Batouala" (Paris: Albin M,chel
NJ. Maran is a native of Martinique
and a Colonial official His book Is
n study Of the dark race in that
island PANANR.
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Works and Ways
Of the Authors

Dan Beard. whose new rook. "Tne
American Boys Bt Ok of Wild Ami
mails" has just be,L published by the
]. B. Lippinco't Company few weeks
ago had a somewhat too interesting
experience with Wild animals himself.
While with Secretary Falls party at
Yellowstone. he attempted 70 keep off
the attention of one Of the rark bears
until his boy could run and get his
camera. When tre boy returned he
found his daddy win his Clothes. coat
and trowsers all npped anc torn by
the claws of 'he hear Wnen an ex-
PLANTATION was asked for Dan Beard
smiled and said: "I''s nothing serious;
in fact it was a greet success; sue
ceeded beyond all nay expectations in
attracting the atte,'.on OF that bear"
Viola Brothers Shore, talented young
author of "The Heritage" will not
ever, she says. be in need of a busi-
ness manager. She has already ac-
quired one in the I.erson o. her small
daughter Wilma Wilma has arrived
at the imposing agc Of and is pos
sessed of all the pose in the world
One day last week. says Mrs.
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In Which We Wonder if 1t Profits an Author
to Take Life Too Seriously and in Which
We Make the Acquaintance of "a. P. H."
By DONALD ADAMS.

That tnchoato genius, Theodore
Dresser. is writing for The Bookmdn
his recollections of reportorial days.
In the current issue he tells his ex-
periences on the ST. Louis Globe
Democrat. Incidentally. he gives us
an inkling Of why everything he has
written is somehow lacking in direc-
ton. why his novels so often have
the quality of weary giant mumbling
through story in his sleep.
He tells us that as he viewed the
Jumbed life of ST. Louis from a re-
porter's desk ne was daily impressed
by "the hugeness of life and the abso-
Lutte unimportance and minuteness of
Our little strengths and honors." Praise
from his city editor for a good story
lifted him out of this slough mo-
mentarily, but a little while later the
sense of futility would return, and he
would be las gloomy and despondent
as eN err"
Then comes passage that seems to
us to explain much that is faulty in
Dreiser's work. Praise has never
helped me- he writes. nor strength,
nor the favor of beauty, nor fame.
have never been able to take my eye
from the fact of the immense futility
OF it all, the unimportance of any
thing save illusion, the gift or little
ness of believing that-something, how
ever small. is important"
There is something muddy even
here. in this self-examination.
Probably it is this very sense of
futility which gives the best Of
Dreiser's work its ironic depth, but we
are inclined to believe that it is this
quality also. possessed in such inten-
sity. which prevents him from making
his art perfect instrument.
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The Policy Prince.

Once we interviewed the president
of national association of life under
writer's, who drew for us an entranc-
ing picture of the life led by success
ful insurance agents who have built
up a business of such quality that
they can afford to go cunning for the
finest prospects only.
We had always pictured the life in
surance man as we had heard and
seen him burlesqued-a clustering and
yet suave little man whose persistence
made him the bugbear of every citizen
without a policy. But the gentleman
we refer to sketched for US as we sat
with him in the hotel lobby knightly
sort of individual who went about the
world doing humanity one Of the
uoblest services rendered it; who, IL
he had ability of the first water, wrote
only a handful of policies the first
year, and went tarpon fishing when-
ever he felt like it.
For a moment, when the fluent,
beautifully dressed president Of the
national association suddenly asked us
If we did not want to chuck newspaper
work and come down to his Los
Angeles office. we permitted our
slightly excited imagination to play
over the prospect of spending our
Februaries in Santa Barbara. then
dropping over to Hawaii for few
weeks, returning to close $500 900
policy, then running down to Florida
for a SPELL And then we shook our
head and said no. Sometimes we re-
gret it but not for long.
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and If we went to interview a man
for our paper there and returned with
out having asked him how he liked the
climate we believe that day would
have been our last on that news
paper.
Not long ago we interviewed Charlie
Chaplin. and we realize now that it
might have been worth while to have
asked him what he thought Of life. its
meaning. &c. We haven't the least
idea what his answer would have been,
but we do know that he doesn't Dc all
his thinking with those casual feet
of his, and that If he had answered
we might be wiser than we are.
AS we go over some of these inter-
views, IN our mind, we are shocked
TO discover how trivial we must have
been in many OF our questions. We
remember believing into Thomas A.
Edison's ear a query as to whether he
didn't think people were eating too
much. We found he did think so, by
the way. and that Edison. who has
given US so much that we now regard
as necessary, thinks that much Of
what we believe to be necessary is not
The New York herald., 1922-01-08

and of human consolation behind him
wherever he went"
II Is d pity that II this deeply in
ter1stins book were to be reissued at
all'n could not have been brought out
m more readily legible form. The
oody type is not large and the lines are
closely set; the smaller type used for
extracts and quotations is rendered so
lndistinct by the closeness of its set
ting as to be an afiiiction to read. We
can understand certain exigencies of
paper and typesetting in the present
circumstances; but this book should
have had better mechanical qualities.
Its bulk does not preclude more gener-
Gus treatment. 1t is not fair so greatly
to limit The number of it's readers.
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The Wildcat mumbled to a buzzing
fyJ "'At's it. Trying to ou'sJ yo'
brains out on de window glass. Ats
how come you amt got none. Cravin'
to git loose all de time. S'pose you git
loose? Whah at would yo' go? Some
Of spidahd git you de fust mile. Cam
yo'self. Heah yo' is in de sunshine
an all warmed up. You jess like
folks--never knows when you's lucky.
-Culled from Hugh Wiley's new Wild
cat book Lady Luck" (Knopf).
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"a. p. H."

Assuredly the day Of the light essay
Is here. A little while ago. and this
highly personal art seemed hopelessly
iefunct, in America at least There
we're a few literati in New England
and elsewhere in the East who had the
air of sitting before a cold hearthstone,
nourishing a slender flame which had
arried down from the robust glow. of
he eighteenth century masters and a
The New York herald., 1922-01-08
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1ene AueH MdItHi. IioubulOi hlniiu
Company.
FRS. GENE ALLEN MARTIN
MI is the director OF the do
= mestic arts department in
the Minneapolis Y. w. C. A. She de-
fends the interest which the feminine
sex take in headgear by saying.
Everything in nature teaches us to
look up" She argues that the foliage
Is at the top OF the tree. She gives a
very detailed account of the material,
and methods for constructing head
gear at a minimum cost. The effect
of this book upon human happiness
is almost incalculable. IT will do much
to prevent such domestic tragedies as
the poet sings about:
They've agreed to differ,
And maybe always will.
She didn't like her Easter bonnet:
He didn't like the bill"
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Shore, wilma ard her nurse were
out walking and the youngster decided
to visit the book section of a big
department sture Approaching g
saleswoman, according to the nurses
testimony, Wilma gravc!y asked
whether she had any copies of Mrs
Shores book.
You mean The Feritage,' asked the
saleswoman.
YES" replied Wilma, "that is its
name."
~ think we are cut Of Il, but wait
a moment, I'll find out" After a few
moments she returned with an arm
full Of the books
I'VE have Ave" size said expectantly.
THANK you" sad Wilma. politely.
Come. Rose" and went h.me to re-
port to her mother.
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The Novels and ROmances of
..G.WEll. s
(AuthOr of the Outline of History

splendid of whom
author of the remarkable history written but whose novels have
startled the world thrilling prophecies of the
be taken by the fascinating Of the scientific
Of edition
these epohmaking novels
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Thornton w. Burgess's animal char
acters are known in and about most
homes where there are children. Be-
fore long these same little children
will be eating the Thornton w. Bur-
CESS Green Forest Animal Crackers, "
which are being made by bakery
company in Akron. Ohio. The con-
tainer, with its animal pictures by
Harrison Cady, will no doubt delight
the children.
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ences during the middle of the nine
teenth century made the greatest pos
sible sensation, Nine. Home has Sc,
this line: La rdison ne present. jandis !:
ellie eclatye. Even now. when the pub
lie has become more familiar with the
general subject through the great i'm
pulse that psychic matters has latel,
received, a reading of this remarkable
record. first made forty years ago, of
the life and experiences OF this ex-
traordinary man. brings a sensation OF
authenticity which many of the more
recent books do not possess
Sir : Arthur Conan Doyle remarks
that he has felt II to be an honor TO
be allowed to edit this new edition of
Homes Life" The reader who seeks
for proof of the actually Of intimate
spirit communication cannot fan To be
impressed by Homes extraurdinai,
evidence. Sir ArthlI declares: Home
came as one Of the first and most pvv
erful missionaries who have set form
upon the greatest of human tasks. "a
prove immortality. to do away wnh
the awful mystery Of death, to founO
religion upon positive. knowledge and
to break down the dAse materialism
which was AS great wWhin the Chris.
tion churches as without them.
He left . trail OF refgious conviction
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But encouraged by the absolutely unprecedented
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100000 in three months following its offer at
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This reduction Of royalty is for this edition aone
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The pre-pubication price il enables us TO give you is
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Have You Seen
NV New Bonnet?

MAKE YOUR OWN HATS. BY Mrs.
Gene Allen Martin. Houghton Miffiin
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Original of Sludge
nBrowning.'s Poem

D. D. HOME; HIS LIFE AND MIS-
SION. BY Nine. Dunglas Home Ed
tied with an introduction hy Sir Ar
thur Conan Doyle. E. p Dutton & Co.