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TITE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, 3IARCII 21, 1920
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i An IrUhman Look itt Ilia
Cieorce A. Birmingham.
I jo ran Co, New York city.
humor-
Quite a lively and often
book. ,
The real name of our author is
ri Ktv. James Owen Hanney, and he is
; Irish. As George A. Birmingham he
i is a talented and widely read novel
el ist and essayist.
j In the book "An Irishman Looks at
' His World," we are treated to an
J essay review of Irish politics, a
statement of the various steps that
f have been taken to bring home rule
.(for Ireland within hailing distance
J as it exists today, and also to bright
tand cleverly written comments on
Irish life, and Irish men and women.
in both Ulster and the other portions
of Ireland.
t Our author insists that no one in I
' Ireland changes his political opin-
I ions. In other- words a nationalist
" . remains one, and a unionist always is
? a unionist.
r Here is a readible review of Irish
; ' politics, but with a curious touch
4 of pessimism in it:
The most hopeless feature of the politi-
cal situation in Ireland is that neither
" party has any pian at ail for dealing with
. its opponents, except one force, t'p to a
. i certain point both nationalist and unionist
appear to believe in conciliation. Ulster
every nationalist has said it over and over
again will be given every safeguard, every
guarantee consistent with the integrity of
' Ireland. Ireland has not ever- unionist
aid it? must have every fair play, every
concession, every chance, all she asks, con
j s-iytent with the maintenance o me union,
" 1 at lean for nortneast Ulster. But if
" unionist Ulster wiii not even say what
7 guarantee he wants but if nationalist
J re. and wiii not be satisfied with any rea
sonable concessions, then there is nothing I
for it but firm government; thi firm gov-J
: f-rnment of a Dublin parliameni, or of
i Dubiin castle. In the end it comes to I
tlii: "If the others won't agree with us
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World, by fm---
George H. i I
ram
and "Mount Shas-
Arnold Ilennrtt, author of "Sn
ered and Profane Lore," a new
play in four acta.
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ti
' ! and we are most reasonable, quite easy
. pet on with and full ot good inlenuons
. . then the others mu.t submit, mu.
made to submit." N.'t one. not even the
peacemakers of our shadowy middle par-
t.e, not even our most moderate and con
ciliatory men. liave anything to i-ay in the
' -f end except that. No one haJi suggested
any other way out of the bog in which
we flounder.
. t Perhaps there is no other way.
VJt is pointed out that until rccent-
iy Russia shared with Ireland the
' affections of tiie church-minded
,-" But liussia has fallen from grace,
',. ; "and now Ireland alone remains, the
- sinple land which has escaped the
' blight of nationalism where the hard
' sun of secular thinking has not
', dried the glistening- dewdrops from
the gossamer threads of faith."
'J (p 77-78).
We in Ireland, for instance, are a
church-going people. Attendance at mass
or matin: is not indeed a proof of deep
. spirituality, but it is evidence that re- i
. Ugion has a certain grip upon our lives.
lew years ago peopie In England, with
a taste for statistics, used occasionally to
work out an amateur census of church
coing. counting in some particular locality
the number of peopie who passed through
- the doors of the churches on a Sunday.
t Such a reckoning was never made in
Ireland. The figures would not be worth
. the trouble required to get them. No one
wouid think of counting the number of
people who wear hats out of doors; though
, there are a few persons who prefer to so
t bareheaded.
An Irishman once took a young footman
over to London with him. On Sunday
: morning, being careful about the spiritual
." interests of his servant, he asked the man
; if he wished to go to mass, offering to tell
him how to reach the Hrompton oratory.
1 The fotmau was quite confident that he
: could find the way himself.
i ' 1 11 just step into the street." he said,
"and follow the crowd."
' It is charted that Ireland is indif
ferent to the use of the Gaelic lan
guage: I once caught an interesting glimpse of
the diflerent ways in which the language
revival was regarded by those who learned
the language and those who already spoke
it. A man and his wife, middle-class peo
pie, middle-aged, educated according to
the ideas prevalent in their youth, were
seized by the enthusiasm of the Gaelic
league. They set themsel-ves to learn the
Irish language. It was a task of immense
difficulty for them because they had long
passed the time of life when the mind is
plastic and receptive. They worked hard,
submitting themselves evening after eve
ning to a young man who could talk Irish,
but could not leach that or anything else.
They endeavored to speak Irish to each
other and to their children. They even,
such was their extreme enthusiasm, looked
forward to the day when their whole
household business should be conducted in
Irish. They had a parlormaad, a pieasant.
intelligent girl, to whom they tried to
teach the few phrases they themselves
knew. Besides being pleasant and intelli
gent this girl was docile. She consented
to learn that "Dun an doras. ma 's e do
thoil e.' mean "Please shut the door." In
the end that parlormaid left, to be mar
ried. I think.
Not till then did her master and mistress
discover that she had been brought up in
an Irish-speaking family, had spoken Irish
before she spoke Knglish, and still found
It the easier language to use. The story
1s not without its comic side, and I sus
pect that the parlormaid must have found
it very difficult sometimes not to laugh
a'sud. But it also illustrates the strength
and weakness of the Gaelic league's at
tempt to revive the Irish language. The
cirl who sooke it from her infancy could
1 not be Induced to admit the fact. She
preferred Knglish as the most "respeet-
able" language of the two. The man and
oman who did not know It and never
or all their efforts succeeded in learning
it were proud of each painfully acquired
sentence.
Dublin Is described as "a talkative
city."
Dublin la naturally, instlnctlvelr hos
pitable. Nowhere else, not even in New
Tork. are strangers better treated. They
are dined and wined, feasted and feted
day after day. And Dufc'rin hospitality .is
as spontaneous as It is generous. A
stranger t-here is not a burden laid on
his entertainers, but a prize to be snatched
at and even scrambled for, because a
stranger la willing to listen. Indeed, he
must listen, for he is very seldom allowed
to talk. I remember a dinner party given
in honor of an Englishman of great emi
nence, a man who ranks among the very
first of our contemporary writers. He did
not. I think, make one remark during
the whole meal. But he heard, perhaps
with interest, many things very well said.
At such a dinner given elsewhere the other
guests would have sat around and waited
for the lion to roar and this was a verita
ble lion. There, the lino's mouth was
closed as tightly as if Daniel had been
in the den with him. The others did the
roaring. And this, I dare say, was very
good for the lion.
As plans for the future govern
ment of Ireland a subject in which
all readers are interested our au
thor Is cautious. "How should I
know?" he asks. He argues: "Why
bother about a too-difficult matter?
It is the business of statesmen and
politicians to arrange constitutions
and set them working. That is their
job. We pay them to do it. My busi
ness is to live. We are spending too
little time on what matters most: the
making; of men that education
which goes on continuously, from the
cradle to the grave.
Towns that Mr. Bennett has made so
popular.
The two principal characters are
Miss Carlotta Peel, novelist, and
KmiHo Diaz, world-famous pianist,
and the general theme concerns their
exotic love story. The play is marked
by that penetrating: force of character
which marks the best work of this
author and playwright.
Carlotta dues astonishing and fool-
of
of
himself that she accompanies him
I to itis rooms, to the great scandal of
his landlady's sister. Diaz is a con
firmed user of morphine, and he has
dozens of love affairs with different
women. Carlotta also falls in love
with Frank Ispenlove, married man.
A general mix-up of temperaments
and tempers follows, and the con
clusion reached is quite a work of art.
The chief trouble in the play is to
find the element of "sacred" love.
' ish things. So enamoured is she
De uiaz piano playing ana aiso
Mr. Wu, by Louise Jordan Miln. Frederick
A Stokes Co., New York city.
Based on that clever play. "Mr.
Wu," by H. M. Vernon and Harold
Owen, our author has written a novel
that holds the reader's interest, and
keeps him guessing until the last and
314th page is reached. It is a posi
tive thriller, and unfolds an astonish
ing amount of information as to
China and aristocratic, mandarin
Chinese.
Curiously enough, the novel begins
with the boyhood of the hero Wu.
who was of royal Chinese blood, and
who was entitled to wear the royal
yellow. He is introduced to us at
10 years old. His tutor was James
Muir, a Scotsman. Wu's name was
Wu Li Chang. He was ordered by
his grandfather to marry a wife of
the house of Li, and he obeyed. His
wife was then a baby in arms, who
was too young to talk.
So that he could become educated
Wu is taken by his tutor to England
where he lives to manhood. He passes
through the English schools and Ox
ford university and lives also in
France, to learn the French language.
Then Wu. a young man, went home
to his China as the head of his clan
and the possessor of great wealth,
for his grandfather had died. He
brings home his wife. Chinese life
and its pretty sentiment and poetry
are eloquently described. At the end
of a year, Mrs. Wu bore her lord
a daughter, and died.
Wu mourned his wife's loss sin
cerely, and never took another wife.
He grew richer and more powerful,
almost next to the Chinese emperor.
As a member and patron of various
"tongs." he was both respected and
dreaded.
Wu's daughter Xang Fing grew up
as a delicate, lovely flower of a girl.
She was carefully educated, and sur
rounded by servants.
Trouble, with a hint of coming
tragedy, comes when Nang Ping has
an English sweetheart Basil Greg
ory, son of a rich English importer
and exporter and of course unknown
to her father. Basil Gregory treats
the girl as a plaything, and ruins her.
Then Wu finds out that Gregory
has wrecked Nang Ping's life. Wu
determines on revenge. He believes
in an eye for an eye, a tooth for a
tooth.
What Wu does is terrible. First
he kills his daughter, with a family
sword; and then what happens to the
Gregory family
Butterfly Chase,"
la.
"The Vail of Mist" is a long poem
of SOO lines, printed on 31 pages, and
is dedicated to the schools of Oreeon.
I Mrs. McXamar speaks of the Webfoot
state, but Oregon folk, who best
know their state, speak of it as the
Beaver state. Far from being blessed
with two much moisture from above,
western Oregon would be thankful
Just now for more rain, as the condi
tion of soil in our fields, gardens, etc.,
indicate.
The poem says:
Oregon wonderland of bloom!
Whence Cometh all that growth?
Why select thee as the favored
Child, and heap magnificence
Upon thee in that day of days
In ancient days, and reserved it
for a generation yet unborn?
Oregon is pictured as a fairyland
beauty, where romantic fairies
of
have a banquet where the dainty vi
ands came from buttercups, pepper
mint, wild cherries, dewdrops, honey,
hazelnuts, etc., all made perfect be
cause of equally-balanced Oregon
weather. The poetry has pretty sen
timent, and honors Oregon. Portions
of it could, with profit, be read in
schools in Oregon.
Many thanks.
The Survival of Man, by Sir Oliver Lodge.
George H. Doran Co.. New York city.
Sfb- new and enlarged edition of a
book that has excited wide comment.
It is dedicated to the Society for
Psychological Research and consists
of 376 closely printed pages, with
index.
The book is a series of arguments
and statements to prove that the
dead, under proper conditions, do
communicate with the living through
the agency of mediums.
Dr. Lodge says he was convinced
of intelligent, communicable person
ality beyond the grave in the year
1&S2, and that ever since he has been
investigating. This book is the result.
sent, especially the latter (Harcourt, Brace
A Howe. New York).
Current Social and Industrial Force,
edited by Lionel D. Edie. with introduc
tion by Jamee Harvey Robinson, 393 pages,
including index. A carefully selected col
lection of papers and essays by specialists
on such subjects as production. Industry,
reorganization, power and policy of or
ganized labor, possibilities of social science,
etc. The lessons conveyed are intended
principally and apparently for university
students as a text-book guide and rallying
point for extended investigation of current
social and industrial forces (Boni &. Live
right, New York).
Rhymes of a Homesteader, by Elliott C.
Lincoln, 79 pages, 44 sterling poems, moBt
of them in so-called ranch western dia
lect, but all human and compelling
(Houghton. Mifflin, Boston).
The Line's Busy, by Albert Edward
Ullman. with 21 illustrations in black and
white by C. A. Voight, a series of amus
ing letters with lots of genuine fun in
them, letters written by a telephone oper
ator named Goldie to her bosom friend,
"Dear Myrtje" (Fred A. Stokes Co., New
xorkf.
Lieutenant
Stokes Co.,
America's Race to Victory, by
Colonel K. Kequin. Kred A.
ew i orK city.
Americans who read this book will
find much about the late world war.
and the part America took in it, and
information generally that is precious
and not usually found in average
war-books. The author was taken
from his duties on the French gen
eral staff, and sent to Washington,
D. C, to help in creating the ma
chinery by which the new American
army came into being and became a
conquering army.
It is an "inside" story, and of en
grossing military interest.
N EH' BOOKS RKf'KIVKU.
Little Theater Classics. volume two,
adopted and edited by Samuel A. Eliot Jr.,
illustrated from photographs, pages,
these four plays: "Patelin." from the l.",th
century farce of Guiliaume Alecis; "Abra
ham and Isaac." from two English miracle
plays: "The Loathed Lover," from "The
Changeling" of Middleton and Rowiej';
and "Sganarelle" or "Imaginary Horns,"
from Molicre (Little, Brown & Co., Bos
ton). Cross Roads, by Margaret E. Sangster,
1")0 pages, i0 fine poems by this favorite
singer of good poetry. Several of these
poems are well-known favorites and others
are new verse, the subjects of several being
recent battle scenes in fr ranee. This book
will make; a pleasant gift to a woman
of serious' mind (Frank F. Lovell, Bibie
House, New York).
Liberty and the News.' by Walter
LIppman, formerly associate editor of
the New Republic and once an assistant to
the secretary of war. and particularly a
Harvard graduate and a writer of talent
and wide observation. The little book of
104 pages consists of three essays entitled:
"Journalism and the Higher Law," "What
Modern Liberty Means," and "Liberty and
the News." Teachings in these essays will
be received with mingled assent and dis-
What to Drink, compiled by Bertha E.
Stockbrldge, 177 pages, a handy book em
nhatically for the present age. containin
recipes for scores of non-alcoholic drinks
for nearly ail occasions, recipes from th
formulas of many famous chefs (D. Apph
ton & Co.. New York).
Irish Impressions, by G. K. Chesterton
the celebrated English novelist, nine witty
and most readable chapters of observa
tions and travels In Ireland as to men an
manners there, also Irish politics (Joh
Lane Co.. New York).
Sheila Intervenes, by Stephen McKenn
a splendidlv written and agreeable nov
of English society life, with gay and witty
conversation. This' Is one of Miss McKen
mi's earlier novels never offered prevlousl
to American readers (G. H. Doran Co.
New York).
The Flow of Value, by Logan Grant Mae
Pherson. a distinguished economist an
writer. . A wise and thoughtful volum
tracing In bold outline the sequence of
cause and effect in determining price:
wages and profit. It demonstrates that as
all things and services bought and sold
re nmiiurpd bv the application of hum.
effort, the greater the volume that is pro
duced in relation to the elfort appnea, im
greater will be the supply, and thus the
greater the share that eacn person may
receive. It is argued that it is only by
mnne rr moital that there can be th
lrrontet volume of production and tha
business capital cannot be provided except
through the Investment or prom oy in
finniAvnr or of savings which are of th
nature of profit by the employe (The Cen
tury Co.. New York).
The Covenant of Peace, by H. N. Brails
ford. 32 pages, paper covers, a prize essa:
offered bv the English Review for tn
best short studv of a league of nations
(B. W. Huebsch. New York).
tiv;.,ik swinnton. personal sketches
an ot.mei1 English novelist and publish
or sketches bv Arnold Bennett. H. G
w'..ll and Grant M. Overton (G. H. Doran
f V-u, Vn,bl
What Outfit. Buddy: Dy L.. rioxaiu
Kellv formerly private in the 26th divl
sinn. -A. E. F.. a remarkably well-written
binTntn. interest storv of recent war day
in Pr,nM with scenes of battle, on th
n.rrh jinrf making new friendships, with
nlentv of bright conversation (Harper's
Vmi- VrtrUl
The Clanking of Chains, by Brinsley
MnVnmara o stnrV of 20 Chapters. Well
written and more than ordinarily readable,
-nh ih Irish Sinn Fein as a text: aid,
Souls Divided, by Jlatilde Serago. a stirring
romance and an impassioned love-siorj
written by Italy's most famous wor
nA, -allot fRrpnfnnn's. New York). .
iinr War With Germany, by John
Kneneer Kassett. L. L. D., professor
m-fcn history. Smith college, Massa
chnsetts. on the Syndeham Clark Parsons
foundations. 36 pages, with index, a nicely
condensed, informing and complete story
of the part the United States took in the
r.nt ereat war. with a story up to the
senate's consideration of the peace treaty
(Alfred A. Knopf, N. Y.). ,
tho Sirtirv of the Great War. by Will
im t. Mi-phrson. 417 pages with index,
a learned, excellent semi-professional study
r th. nmnilcm and battles or tne recent
war in their relation to allied ana uenuaii
military Doiicv. with a critical resume 01
the evolution of strategy and tactics
,.,iud hv the naval conditions disclosed
In modern warfare: The Substance of i
n-oum translated from the original man
uscriot by F. W. Bain, three stories writ
ten in nrose noetry. half fairy stories.
half love tales evidently taken from long
ago East Indian writers: Poor Dear Theo
dora, by Florence Irwin, a girl's story with
n rnnml influence in it. suitable for
iri and leading at the end up to
pleasant love tale; and Danny Again, by
Vera C .Barclay, eight excellent short
stories, teaching the value of good influ
ence, with scenes set in England tales
suitable for Boy Scouts (Putnam's. N. Y.).
Soul Science, by Rev. Franklin A.
Thomas, 287 pages, a reverent, sensible
presentation of facts and hopes, dealing
with the certainty of life after death aird
teaching that the soul never dies (Machine
Composition Co., BostonK
THE LITERARY PBEISC0P&
xpoocrtynrr'' i't inTooccoot
M
RaHpberry ,1am, by Carolyn Wells. J. B.
Lippincott Co.. Philadelphia.
Miss Wells gives us another "Flam
ing Stone" detective story that is
both entertaining and a puzzle as to
its ultimate solution in establishing
the identity of the criminal who com
mits a murder.
Sanford Embury, a rich New Tork
capitalist and somewhat niggardly as
regards his young and beautiful wife,
is found dead in bed one morning in
the Emburys' fashionable New Tork
apartments.
As Mr. and Mrs. Embury were
known to have quarreled, she was
formally charged with having admin
istered a poison which killed him.
The poison is named in Shakespeare's
play, "Hamlet."
Hanlon.-a mind-reader, and Alvord
Hendricks, an old lover of Mrs.
Embury, also are suspected. It is
shown that Mrs. Embury did not love
her husband and that she loved an
old sweetheart named Mason Elliott.
The raspberry jam? Oh. that dainty
and tne smell of gasoline form th
clew which lead ultimately to the
murderer s identity and capture.
BY ETHEL R. SAWYER.
Director of Training Class, Library Asso-
siation. Portland, Oregon.
AURICE MAETERLINCK'S new
book of essays contains a chap
ter "on gambling." Not that
the famous litterateur really knows
much about that vice, although his
residence at Nice might seem to some
an irresistible proximity to Monte
Carlo. It is said that M. Maeterlinck
paid his first visit to the Casino last
sfmmer. He played and he lost. To
commiserating friends he merely said
with a shrug. No matter. I will write
an essay on gambling and that will
recompense me." Behold the healing
potency of philosophy supported by
the knowledge of being an "arrived"
writer secure of one's market!
Duf-
.;
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A Uthoaniao Village, by Leon Kobrln.
Breotano's. New York city.
Leon Kobrln belongs among the
foremost writers of contemporary
Tiddish literature, and was born about
47 years ago In Vitobsk, Russia. He
emigrated to this country- In 1892, and
already he has produced excellent
plays, short tales and novels.
In "A Lithuanian Village" we are
treated to intimate, dramatic sketches
of life and character among the Jew
ish population of this Russian village-
Fine character work is shown.
'. Vsswred and Profane Lore, by Arnold Ben-
I George H. Doran Co., New York
city.
Founded upon the novel "The Book
of Carlotta," this play is in four acts,
mod with opening scenes in tiie Five
reT Kindred, by Robert Nathan,
field & Co.. New York city.
A powerfully written novel of ab
sorbing interest an advertising
agency story, it is in serious and
oiten melancholy mood.
The story starts in New England
ana introduces us to Peter Kindred
nero, and also to Exeter school and
Harvard college life. Boston is fea
tured, and New Tork. How Joan, a
pretty girl, ever loved such a down
right fool as Peter is a mystery. They
get married on next to nothing, and
experience some misery. She also has
to work, un page 302 we are in
formed that Peter's salary is $30 per
wk ana m iew x orK, an expensive
place in which to live. Peter has
friends who believe in polygamy, and
like to discuss indelicate matters.
The novel sweeps toward realism,
and Its finale is told with gripping
power.
Two Little Book of Poems, by Mrs M
McNamar. McNamars Publishers, Cot
tonwood, Cal.
"Just Muse, and Other Poems" con
sists of 78 pages of small poems.
They are melodious, worth reading,
and about a variety of topics such
as: "Midnight Under California
Skies," "The Caged Lion," "The Des
ert's Own," "Blessings, Thine and
Mine," "The Aspen Leaves." "Wh.n
the children Say Their Prayers,". "The I
By the terms of a trust indenture
recently executed, for the consider
ation of $5 Los Angeles is to become a
world figure in the field of art and
letters. This Indenture creates the
Henry E. Huntington library and art
gallery on the Huntington estate in
San Marino. Already a large number
of books have been sent from New
York to Los Angeles, although the in
tention is to become really operative
only after Mr. Huntington's death,
when his fine collection of paintings
and a large part of his magnificent
private library will be moved to the
ban Marino residence. Trustees are
to administer the library for the bene
fit of the public.
e
Dr. Slgmund Freud places his psy
cho-analytic theory in its relative
place in the history of human develop
ment as the third in the trinity of
shocks or outrages which humanity
has had to endure at the hands of
science. First came the Copernican
theory, which put the world into its
place in the universe; next came the
Darwinian theory, which by its refu
tation of the special creation idea put
man into his relative place in the life
development of this earth; now comes
the psycho-analyst to insist on the
relatively humble position of the "I"
in the individual house of life, and
the relatively enormous, unplumbed
abysses of the unconscious life.
m
"In and after 1876," writes Mr.
Gosse in a recent paper on George
Eliot, "when I was in the habit of
walking from the northwest of Lon
don towards Whitehall. .1 met sev
eraj times, driving slowly homewards.
a victoria which contained a strange
pair in whose appearance I took a
violent interest. The man, prema
turely aging, was hirsute, rugged.
satyr-like, gazing vivaciously to left
and right; this was George Henry
Lewes. His companion was a large,
thick-set sybil, dreamy and immobile,
whose massive features, somewhat
grim when seen in profile, were in
congruously bordered by a hat. al
ways in the height of the Paris
fashion, which in those days com
monly included an immense ostrich
feather; this was George Eliot. The
contrast between the solemnity of the
face and the frivolity of the head
gear had something pathetic and pro
vincial about it."
From the Bookman we glean this
bit of news: "During the recent print
ers' strike in Paris the newspaper
publishers combined in printing a
single paper, which represented them
all." Such results are likely to re
store to the harassed public mind a
sympathetic attitude toward strikes.
Think what a saving of time and a
broadening of the public viewpoint
such variety in unity! And how sim
pie a way of averting the impending
paper famine.
Jacinto Benavente, the Spanish' play
wright, is a close student of the work
of the Educational alliance of New
Tork city. In 1911 he established in
Madrid the Children's theater, mod
eled directly upon the work of the
alliance and for it he wrote "The
Prince Who Learned Everything Out
of Books." His second volume of
plays has just recently appeared
Now that the return of peace has
begun to demand a closer definition
of the formerly wide-flung terms,
"sedition," "disloyalty," "American
ism" and "democracy." we can again
turn to the less exacting and equally
stimulating use of the epithet "im
moral." It is interesting to note that
the New Tork Society for the Sup
pression of Vice has so soon unearthed
two seditious I beg your pardon, im
moral docks, l hey. have been or are
going to be publicly suppressed. No.
I am not going to give their names.
It might render me legally liable as
an accessory after the fact, or some
thing. I am only interested in noting
our strong arm methods of putting
down the literary portrayal of facts
and conditions in human life with
which, as facts, we are so gentle.
Dear knows.1 am a confirmed believer
in morality. Only I believe in it in
life at least as much as in literature.
I don't condemn the New Tork so
ciety. I only ask it to go about its
business on a 50-50 basis. For one
immoral book suppressed let's see an
immoral condition or tradition as
openly and bravely attacked. What
constitutes immorality furthermore?
We all know, of course. But try put
ting it into words so that we can
really grapple with it. Ask your
friends and see how clear your ideas
on the subject are, and then try to
draw up a code by which to try people
and books. Here is a suggestion for a
final question: If you were obliged to
condemn one of the following authors
as immoral and to acquit the other,
which would you condemn, Robert W.
Chambers or Theodore Dreiser? It's
a clincher!
Chicago possesses an association
that has an interesting sound. It is
called the Order of Book fellows and
among other activities it publishes
handsomely made books. Recent
members are Hugh Walpole, Clayton
Hamilton, John Drlnkwater, George
Bronson Howard, Arthur Machen.
J. M. Keynes (pronounced to rhyme
with pains) has written one of the
best sellers of today. His "Economic
Consequences of the Peace" has al
ready sold practically 20,000 copies
and an additional 20,000 are being
rushed through. If you can believe
the London Athenaeum the book is "a
perfectly equipped arseiial of facts
and arguments, to which everyone
will resort for years to come who
wishes to strike a blow against the
forces of prejudice, delusion and stu
pidity." Which, as the New Republic
remarks, "sounds a little like the
praise that used to be bestowed on
the Bible."
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epartment. had a steady unmolested
sale throughout the war in England,
and in France was even used by the
French for propaganda.
There is a great shortage of books
for the blind, especially since the
war. For many years those people
who have been engaged in work with
the blind have been rendered almost
desperate by the tremendous waste
involved in maintaining publications in
four or more varieties of raised type.
This duplication of effort practically
precluded "the possibility of securing
an adequate supply of books In any
one type. We seem on the way now
to a uniform system of printing, and
the blinded soldiers have all been
taught the new Braille type recently
adopted in America. But the library
war service of the American Library
association found that there were less
than a score of books ready printed
in the new uniform type. As the cost
of manufacturing the plates for a
standard length novel is about $600
the problem looked financially stag
gering. Among other schemes tried,
SI authors and publishers were asked
to help along this great project of
furnishing reading matter for the
blind. They were asked to provide
the money for brailling at least one
of their stories. Eighteen have agreed
to this co-operation, among them be
ing Henry Van Dyke. Mrs. Jack Lon
don. lrvin Cobb. Edward Streeter,
Mary R. S. Andrews. Jack Lait
Thomas Nelson Page, Frank Crane,
Albert P. Terhune, Douglas Fair
banks. Booth Tarkington, Zane Grey.
'Mad Poet" Superstitious
Even in Dining.
D'Annunsio Eatx Scampi In Rd
Room With Klrvrn at Table.
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Aristocrats Seek Film Fame.
LONDON. Two young aristocrats
are going to California to seek fame
in the film world. They are Captain
Vesey A. Davoren, "The CDavoren,'
an Irishman who claims to be a de
scendant on his mother's side from
ihe great Duke of Wellington, and
on his father's side from Irish kings:
and Eliot Gordon, nephew of an earl
and heir to big estate in Hertford'
shire. Both have already played in
films here.
Breakfast Foods Popular.
Speaking of the difficulties that do
beset the office of censor it is said
that ttve Huebsch publication, "A
German Deserter's "War Experiences,"
hich was declared non-mailable by
Mr. Burleson during the war, and has
just been released by the postoffice
SASKATOON. Sask. More than
1700,000 has been spent in the last
nine years on extensions to the local
plant of the Quaker Oats company in
an effort to keep pace with the stead
ily increasing business. A new grain
tank is at present under construction
to cost $120,000 and the entire plant
is operating day and night. Further
extensions will be necessitated this
year.
$10,000,000 Gold Found.
PORCUPINE, Oont. The prodution
of gold from this camp alone in 1919
amounted to between $9,000,000 and !
$10,000,000, according to preliminary j
estimates. This is the highest in the I
camp's history and achieved with but
part of the producing mines in operation.
IUME. Innumerable pecularities
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down to an Ordinary meal unless
there are e!ven at the tabic. He is
fastidious in his choice of foods and
will drink only a special kind of
Rhine wine. His favorite dish is
"scampi," a small crab-fish found
only, in the Quarnero. He was a lover
of the fish when ho lived on the
grand canal in Venice.
So much did he think of the food
that he went on a search of all that
was written about them and has com
piled already a studious lecture on
the subject. The fish resemble in
color the American shrimp, but is
much larger and lias a taste milder
than lobster approximating the crab,
but considerably more toothsome.
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"Baltazar ... is always a
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"Scampi" is the favorite seafood In
practically all of the north Adriatic
resorts.
Besides his partiality for "scampi,"
D'Annunzio is a lover of Ice cream.
He sometimes divides a large cake
of it intended for the whole table,
into halves. He takes one entire Imlf
himself then gives the other half to
thn remaining ten nt tlm table.
Thn port's dining room must la
done In red. The walls must be cov
ered with red tapestry and much nf
tiie furniture. Then, too. orl-ra lira
given concerning I lie color of flnwcis,
niornintr. noon ami nlirht.
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Ireland the Outpost
By Grenville A. J. Cole. Vi 2.b0
This taif pictures Ireland in the new light of an outpost not orjy
of England but also of Europe, which hai been profoundly influ
enced by the successive and overlapping waves from which her people
and bviliuboo have been drawn.
Diplomacy and the Study of
International Relations
fly D. P. Heatley. ATe $175
An attempt to portray diplomacy and the conduct pi foreign policy
from tha standpoint of history. In the history of diplomacy we see tha
fruit for each age in treaties which express tha movements of thought
and mark the development of conventions that are widely racogmaed.
Influence of the Great War
Upon Shipping
By J. Russell Smith. Net $1.00
Deals with the organization of the world's shipping before tha war
and the radical readjustment which has takan place as result of
America's tremendous piugiass in tha shipbuilding field.
Redemption
Hindu and Christian
By Sidney Cave. A'cf $5.25
A notably successful attempt to correlate the Christian doctrine with
that of Hinduism. The reader cannot go far into tha book without
feeling the spell of its luminous style not to mention its conspicuous
fairness and obvious desire to reach the truth.
Essays on Vocation
Edited bp BASIL MaTHEWS. Net $IJ5
practical essays designed to aid in tha selecting of one's life
work. Two preliminary essays deal with general principles: the
remainder ant devoted to the special fields of Art, Law, Commercial
and Industrial occupations, the Education, Nursing. Ministry, etc
The Listener's Guide to Music
With a Concert-goers glossary
By Percy A. Scholes. Net $2.00
This is a book for every one interested in music. It is designed to
provide the listener to any form of instrumental music with such
information as to its character and purpose as to enable him to better
understand, enjoy and appreciate 02.
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