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i - il flfK x aw A -'ri AAA AAA OA H Ml ' . - ' ll BOOK REVIEWS MAGAZINES ALLEGED GERMAN. IS AUTHOR OF VOLUME BLAMING GERMANY Unknown Parent of "J'Ac- ; cuse" Declares Fatherland t- All Wrong and Will Lose, LOOKS FOR REPUBLIC 'England's "Place in -the Sun" Said to B Beat Goal in View. When one considers a book by an I alleged German In which Germany is blamed, without reservation, for the present world war, one ia likely to suspicion that the author is a traitor. land bo unforgiveable, or at least that Ihe has a "grouch" against the Father land, and that his statements are not Islncere. This' feeling Is but strengthened I when the author of the volume pre fers to remain an unKnown. However, the eastern press has re- ICeived advance sheets of "J'Accuse," which, has Just been published in Lausanne. Switzerland, by an author I Who professes to be a. German, a loyal one at that, and who yet blames his native land for the last year s Ibloodfest. The author predicts defeat for the German war party, and predicts a (German republic in the near future, won by w the people in the teeth of Prussian oppression. Doesn't Justify Germany. The author brushes aside with con- Itempt all the arguments advanced to ljustify Germany's stand in the present war.' He denies that she in the victim lof aggression, that she needs "a place lin the sun," which, says Tie, she al ready possesses. The German and Austro-liungarian peoples, he thinks. ire the dupes of a war party, pure I and simple. He sums up the respon sibility for the war as follows: The German and Austrian govern ment long ago planned it, not only Imilitarily, but politically. They resolved long ago to make I this war of aggression on their part look like a war for freedom, since they knew that they could arouse in I this way the necessary popular enthus iasm. The object of the war was to attain hegemony for themselves on the Kuro- pean continent and, eventually, to con quer the position occupied now by England as a wurld-power, following .the motto: "Get out, that I may take your place." Cant Win, Ke Says. The writer declares that a victory for Germany and Austria-Hungary is Unimaginable; at best all the central empires can1 hope for is a drawn bat tle. On this point he declares that there can be no doubt; the superiority I of the allies in numbers and resources Is altogether too great. He declares that the fighting on the eastern from lis toothing more, on Germany and Aus tria s part, tnan a ueieneive campaign. Which up to now has been conducted successfully by Germany, unsuccess fully by Austria. "Is Kussia beaten Just because we have half or all of Poland in our possession?" he inquires. He also scoffs at the chances for Germany of winning on the western 'front. Thousands upon thousands of corpses for the sake of occupying a few square meters of flooded, ex hausted land, covered with destroyed yswns and villages, for the sake of madly harboring the never-to-be-fulfilled dream of getting to Calais and England that is the way he looks at what Germany has done so far in the west. Vaehell May Visit In the "States" As, according to present plans, Mrs. Patrick Campbell will probably produce "Searchlights," the new play hy Horace Annesley Vaehell, this coming fall in America, the distin guished author is likely to be seen in America soon. Mr.- Vaehell is now equally known B dramatist and novelist, and his lecent novels, "Quinneys , "Blinds Down," "The Hill." etc., have been successes on both sides of the At lantic. Both "Searchlights," and the play made from the novel, "Quln neys'," have been successful in Lon don. Respite hot weather, Zeppelin 'raids, threats of conscription and the general anxiety in London, the play i"Cluinney8' " has been playing nine performances' a week before crowded houses. ' This will be by no means Mr. Va- chell's . first visit to America. He was a 'working ranchman in Califor nia for nearly a score of years, and he, still owns tracts in that state; ;where his brother lives. Mr. acnell s next novel, Spragge s -Canyon," which is to be "published in Jthe fall, has the scene )aid in Call- ixornia. it is a number of years since Mr. Vaehell visited America. McLoughlin Pays Wilding Tribute Just before his own book on tennis. "Tennis as t Play It." was going to press, . Maurice E. McLoughlin had "to stop its preparation to add to it a tribute to Wilding one of the finest tributes ever paid by one great sports- man to.' another. Says Mr. Mc- LougtUin in the note that now ap pears in "Tennis as I Play It": "The sad news is published that Anthony F. "Wilding, who represented Australia as a member of the Davis Cup team and won the world's tennis championship two years ago, has been killed- in the war. All who have met hilar on the courts or off will be deep ly affected by the death of so fine a tennis player and ' so splendid n sportsman. I have had the vfionor of Meeting him in many a gruelling match, and can bear witness that I have never faced an opponent of finer character. He. was - an unassuming man and a brave man. with & hearty .ntbusla!n for the open and clean port. . ... His death Is t tragedy, to Crown Prince if '' i -J ff . t ' -afeT f i &mg if v Yzi JT . s s4S? r ts Here is the Crown Pririce of Germany in earnest conversation with his uncle, Prince Henry of Prussia. The young prince is ap parently giving his relative some very useful information and driving the argument home b y tapping his uncle on the shoulder. IN THE AUGUST MAGAZINES Editor Colonel Harvey of the North American Review Has Some Things to Say About America's Case Againzt Germany, and Ixrd Xorthcliffe Is Subject of Another Article. For the August issue of the North American Review, the eighth of the notable series of the Review's cen tenary issues, numerous features have been provided. The editor. Colonel Harvey, dis cussing that subject - first in the thoughts of all Americans, contrib utes a telling editorial under the title "America First!" in which he states our case against Germany with memorable cogency and force. Among other topics that receive interesting editorial discussion in this issue are a summary. "One Year of the Great War," and the question, "Will the War Bankrupt England?" Among the articles which are feat ured in the body of the number, the leading place is given to a discus sion by the distinguished British journalist, Sydney Brooks, of that storm center of British affairs, Lord Northcliffe. Winifred Kirkland has a thought ful and original war study called "An Inventory"; the Hon. Mrs. St. John Mildmay describes the extraor dinary case of the phantom armies recently seen in France, the real problem underlining the south and the negro vote is presented authori tatively by James C. Hemphill; and the veteran naturalist and philoso pher, John Burroughs, contributes a noteworthy paper entitled "Life and Chance." There are other articles and- some "fill verse" by Nathan Haskell Dole. The revival of water commerce in the United States as a result of the Panama canal. Implies an almost rev olutionary shift of commercial cen ters. Local centers may oppose this change but they can no more prevent it than they could have prevented the building up of great centers by rail concentration in the last 50 years With water rates cheaper than land rates by 7 to 1, there is going to be a tremendous movement to water front. The movement has begun al ready. If you add up all that has been spent on improving terminals in preparation for Panama clear around the coast from Boston to Seattle, it totals more than 100 millions, most of it on the Pacific and in the south. These cities see what is coming and are preparing. At least half the wheat of the northwest, especially in winter when lake traffic is closed, will go to Europe by the Gulf and Pacific-ports Instead of via the Atlantic ports. All bulk freight lumber, coal, steel, ore. cement and clay will take to water transportation where that Is possible. Ajgnes Laut, In the August World's Work. The worst fault, however." into which our age-long service :of medi ocrity has led us is a weak kneed, pusillanimous deference to medioc rity itself. The college has borrowed the vice from everyday American life. For ex ample, the most deadly weapon in the yellow Journalist's armory is the term "high-brow." A politician may be called "grafter," "boss." or even "muckraker." and escape unscratched: but if he is denounced as a .""high brow," and the laber sticks, his ca reer . is ended. A playwright or a novelist may be written down as "cheap, he may be said to,plagarlze. he may be shown - to be vicious or unclean, without serious dam3g to b rtMrtn- tt .-,!L.-i.'jects are "The tApple Tree and VThe a 'high-brow" and the public will fly from hirnAs if he were a book agent. ! . Now theScidespread: American be-,1 lief that knowledge makes a man f impractical is responsible for some i Qt .-.this curious odium ; but far - more is due to our servile deference to mediocrity; - Tha "wefht"ot publiof opinion is usually against the expert, 1 and His Uncle . the specialist, the thinker, the 'ex- ceptional man in. general, for public opinion, whether right or wrong, is always mediocre; and there are few among us who do not in thi respect yield somehow, somewhere, to public opinion. The doctor distrusts the advanced political theorist, the politician dis trusts the advanced dramatist, the dramatist sneers at the innovations of science. We are all made timid by the enor mous majorities which uphold medi ocrity. Henry Seidel Canby, in Har pers Magazine for August. In the August American Magazine Philip Curtiss begins a new short ser ial entitled "And West Is West." It is a story of California and the expo sition a gay tile of love end of travel across the continent, full of adventure and humor. A well known - American banker writes on "The Money Side of the War" and gives many imnprtant and amazing facts about the financial con dition of all the nations engaged in the present struggle. Herbert Quick, writing under the title "The Sub marine as a Peacemaker" shows how the submarine will in the future pre vent the domination of the sea by any power. In the same number Ring W. Lard r.er writes an amusing baseball arti cle about Christy Mathewson, of the New York Giants, end Hypatia Boyd Reed writing under the title "A Sub stitute for Kars" describe the re markable devices for comfort made by a deaf person. The prize winning letters are printed in a contest entitled "The Best Thing Women Have Done for Their Town." James Montgomery Flags' contributes an amusing piece in words and pictures entitled "Shams." The two departments, "In teresting People" and "The Family's Money," are entertalaffig and sugges tive. Fiction is contributed by John Tain tor Foote, Ruth Saplnsky, WaTt-r Prichard Eaton, Edwin L. Sabin, Lin coln Colcord, Molly Best, David Gray son and Marion Hill. A varied selection of stories rich in adventure is to be found in the Au gust number of The Wide World Mag azine. Among these stories full of thrill are: "When the Water Came Down," by Captain R. V.'Davidson; "In Search . of Adventure," by- . Ralph Stock: "Adrift on a Ra.ft." by H. A, Hamilton, which is a "thriller" in every sentence; "The Forest Hermit," by J. M. M. B. Durham; "The Man Who Understood Natives," by "Captain Vere J. Shortt: "The Native- Festivals of Java." by Harold J. t5hepstone; "Wash ing Day All Over the World," by James Willoughby: and "The Story of My Chinese God," by Robert Banks. A group of "Mountain Poems" by Harriet Monroe gives a midsummer va cation aspect to the August number of Poetry. The subjects are the moun tain hemlock, a twisted pine at timber line, the water ouzel of the Yosemite. and other details of our western moun tains. y , Other poems on -outdoors subjects are by Nathan Haskell Dole, who sings of, "Th Summer Sea, ' Mrs. Joseph . Camp bell, who Is almost as.; well known in Ireland as her husband, 'and whose sub- Monkey;" Ellwood Colahan, a. young York poet. who. praises The Waterfall," and Louis M. Kueffner of Vassar faculty, who celebrates "The Crag." . ' . " - "' ' ' ' The -English language is spoken by Just about per cent-"of tUfwojld's inhabitants- '. ' ; PORTLAND, OREGON f SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 61 Damn the Mollycoddles This photograph, taken during his now famous speech denouncing the peace-at-any-price advocates at San Francisco recently, shows Colonel Roosevelt just at the moment when with characteristic gesture he shouted, "Damn the mollycoddles." Superior Activity Is Devil's Asset In his new book, entitled "Undercur rents in American Politics," Just pub lished by the Yale University press, President Hadley describes how cor ruption stole into politics. Illustrating the same by an anecdote of a Scotch man: "But how was It possible for a few politicians to control conventions and It Often Happens. t?WZrf) 0 PT (M SO Cft nZf A It A fSTl 5 Westor: On "Who Vests. Harry Rice eays be knew U TqV II kylolS &Utf Si. K? U U lOjll Rosie Rosenthal, official a man one time who just EM HI JB Hf CeJ aS-5 &rA U BirSH nestor of the Press club, missed being a genius, but w &6fr W99 , S3 t3 ie3 says that fools rush in and who missed it all right. "ETEBYBOSY WEEDS OWJG- get tne be8t of U- Vol. 7. PORTLAND, OR., U. S. A., AUGUST 7, 1015. No. 21. SAT. EV'G ALIBI Bex Lampman. Ed. a ad Pub. Sub. Price, One Jitney. AUQ. 7, 1915. EDITORIAL. MOOT QTTESTIONS. After this The Alibi is not going to indorse anything- unless it is absolute ly necessary . for the public good. After this if we indorse anything we'll be sure, first of all, that there is no op- Sosition to it, because we ate to stir up strife in the community. Of course, in case the business interests are sol idly united behind a thing, it might cause us to see It in another light However, except on rare occasions. The Alibi will confine itself to the discus sion of moot questions, and although they never may be settled, we will do our best to present them in such a. light that anyone can see that we are willing to have them settled any way that is feasible, so leng as it don't disturb business. Let the people rule, say we. TOWN TALES. Jim Sayer, of So. Port land, is agitating for an es calator' for Bancroft st. Bob Robinson, the w. k. Alaska poet, has. gone to work temporarily Bill Hanley was here this wk. with a sprained ankle, but we don't know 'how he got it. Ye scribe is rearing his third mustache, the . other two having yielded to pub lic opinion. - 1 Dow Walker . has given up the idea of ever being slender again, and may start, to play golf .any time- Walt Dimick, one of Ore. City's most leading law yers, was in our city Wed. on his- vacation. 'A' change is as good, as a rest, Walt ?f 'N. .L: Starkel can ever get enough coupons he can get a new pipe, and , we think everybody ought t save their coupons for him. Sanftteld Macdonald.es caped , from the courthouse Tues., and is still at large, and says he's a regular cof fey cooler. ' A. B.' Brown of Oak Grove told us that he' had nine small turkeys die on him last wk., but , we- suppose he must have meant they died out In the yard. ; - Will Walsh, who works for Blake-McFalL . is. al ways waiting 'for ' i' car when the Ore. City car goes past ' Harnfey ave. in the morning.-' - He- -always has bis foot., upj on a short post Ring 3i nominations, in defiance of the wish of the majority of their party? I can only reply as the pessimistic Scotchman re plied to the minister who assured him that God was stronger than the devil. 'The devil,' said the Scotchman, 'makes up for his inferior strength by his su perior activity. " Poems of Peace. Johnson in his dictionary defines a satire as a poem in which wickedness or folly is censured. Charles Cammell in his little book of poems entitled "Casus Belli to Sat THIS IS NOT A MOVING PICTURE that Is there, and his elbow on his knee, and his hand on his pipe, and his pipe in his -mouth. Tom Hanley, the Grants Pass agitator against the high cost of living, is here with Mrs. H. and the baby. He says Medford is still the same old place. Lloyd Riches was in from Ore. City yesterday and reported that Grant Dimick took Jinks. Mc Cowen out to see his pigs and took some splendid pic tures. B. Lee Paget was in from Oak Grove yesterday. He is ruining his voice for po litical purposes-'by talking on the car coming in as well as the car going out. J. D. Olson was oat at Gervais and had a chicken dinner last Sun., but would n't tell us at whose house. The mystery will probably end up in our ding-dong dept. - Judge Peter H. D'Arcy was here from Salem Thnrs. and he and ex-Gov. Geer held a conference near one of the Benson foun tains, which they consulted from time to time. Mrs. Horace E. Thomas, wife of the city ed. of our est. morning contemp., the Oregonian. was out at the Oaks on Children's day, and Horace got her name wrong In the . paper. "Kan." Isn't the Wort Monroe Goldstein asked us the other day if The Al ibi was still being pub lished. Monroe, it may be remembered, ran for audi tor at the recent city elec tion. Keeps It, Xs .Oar Oness. Phil Bates wants every body to know that the Mult. Co. fair will be held at Greaham, Sept. 14-18. Now that everybody knows it, we will say that Phil is getting paid for boosting it, and, speaking from a busi ness standpoint, we don't know what ne does with all the money he gets in this manner. Ben Reformed. Dr. Ben Reitman, of N. T., who is here with Errima Goldman on business, has quit- smoking cigarettes since he was here last year, but' Emma is just the same. Stew Blythe says that no man is the best Judge of his own stuff, because the funniest story he ever wrote never got in. the pa per at all. AX Sad a Wlce Time Here. Al W. Sex- smith, of N. Y . , . head salesman for the Phoenix Horses ha e Co., was here this wk. talk ing horse shoes with Carl Hasel tine. They both believe Oat, Mild Bells Sins'. Tracey, Moore ' is back from S. and be-and Mrs. M.. have no doubt started to revise their theories as to how married - folks should get' along.. . song-. . Ev Johnson and IValleJo Coldwell were married a.r. Tacoma this week.'Ev having- said nothing' to us about it beforehand. ..We have been handed-a dance .poster f rom Weller, Idaho, which says -, that ''patrons of the, dance may rest, assured that-order 'will prevail, as sheriffs, will; be in attendance." r horseshoes are lucky- ifrydu can sell a lot.--with their brand on them. Al : sells horseshoes all ' over the world, and says "style vary very little in . different countries. -: He. used to. do-a nice business in 4 Europe, and thinks Portland is on of the nicest towns in the world, with a nicer climate and much nicer girls than Algiers, which however - he says is a - nice town, al though, its sanitation is not as- nice as .. that of Nice, France.;'- .- v - -.r.. v,--.. 1915. Kitchener's "Personal Touch Lord Kitchener applying the "personal touch" to some of the new British troops. The photograph was taken while' the commander-in-chief was inspecting some of the new army in front of the Guild hall in Manchester, En gland. ire: With Other Poems" issued by E. P. Dutton & Co. has censured the wick edness and folly of the war which now afflicts humanity, with the. hope that bis book may strike some etrd of sym pathy in. the hearts of its readers, and thereby induce them to unite their ef forts with those of the party of peace. The verse' is in the heroic couplet being modeled after Pope and Dryden. The : Paris police force is to be Increased by ttie addition of a corps of divers to. work beneath the river Seine. HALL OF -FAME M. A. Cunning is a law yer at Metolius, Or. S. Norton Bobo, ed. of the Stanfield Standard, -.has the only name in the coun try that will rhyme with hobo. John Montag, U. S. mar shal, combs his hair across the top of his head, but. the effect is rather decollete. Heine Hayek- belongs in this dept., all right, on acc't of the Laxch Mt. trail, to say nothing of anything else. Awful Story of Hardship. Deputy Co. Clerk Bert De Martini and Charley Strobe, also a dep. Co. clerk, went out last wk. to have a vaca tion in the Coast range, and they foand it larger than they expected, and got lost in the fog, and after Bert had . eaten their last bean and Charley had used all the matches trying to start a fire, they had to eat their trout raw, and they both agree on the Btory, which is one of the best brought in this season by amateurs. Bert and Charley are qualified to Soin the Mazamas, Lloyd van Beb ber says. Strang- Case of Duplex Identity. There is another J. B. Ziegler at West Geneva, Geneva - has no waterfront that we know of. but there are doubtless otherthings there with which t to busy one's self. See-Saw! Kernel Clark Wood has started a col, called "This tledown" in his plutocratic sheet, the Weston Leader. Looks like an insinuation as to the taste of his readers. Health Bint. If you want to spend. a restful hour, an hour in which It will not be neces sary for you to think of anything at all, go and say something, just to get him started, to Frank McGetti gan. New Thought press agent for the Empress. POEM. Herewith another piece of Fire Chief DoWell's great cereal poem, which speaks for itself: We should have lots of fac , tories.- - Ship plants and others, - ' . . ., too, . . - - . The same as other cfties - Doing as. they do. Then after working all day ! We'll Hit by the fire and -.- rest- ' -. - : And think of this beautiful . - - country - And how by. God we're : ' blessed. , - . .'.More yet.) , l. '. . Business Note fbr American Women Why may college women not estab lish book stores in their own pities and towns in all parts of the country?? Such stores would meet the need for a. calling, and should yield a fair in come. The wares are familiar to these women, who have at least a cultivated Interest in them. Periodicals, music, photographs and other art-products could be added to the stock, .and the desire for social service could "be met naturally by making the store a center where people could meet, where, they could examine books and periodicals while waiting, ' and where public opinion could be formed. The store might also sell tickets for concerts and lectures; and the right woman could exercise a large Influence in directing the public taste in these matters. It is clear that such enterprises, as in the case of the librarians 30 years ago and of the more recent social workern, would have not only to fur nish what the public needs but would also have to educate the public to want what it needs. This would require skill and techni cal knowledge, exactly as in the case of the libraries and the social-service movement, and special schools would have to be developed to meet this need. Earl Barnes, in the August Atlantic. Rockwell Knows Whereof He Writes Frederick F. Rockwell, author Of "The Key to the .Larfd," has stated his belief that there has been a lot of sentimentality and some unpardonable exaggeration in a good deal of the re cent back-to-the-land literature. "One cannot. fall in some instances to feel," he says, "that what he reads is based upon imagination and second hand knowledge rather than upon ex perience the ear-marks of an easy chair in a city room, a good brand of tobacco, and the perusal of government bulletins and per-acre crop statistics are strong upon it. It is quite feasible to grow peanuts at the north pole at an excellent profit on paper. "My purpose In writing 'The Key to the Land' has been not only to show the advantages of 'life on the soil,' but also to demonstrate- how certain prob lems to be encountered may be over come. I say this with a certain posi- tiveness because every Incident in this story is based upon actual experiences, either my own or those of which I have had first-hand knowledge." Sir Gilbert Parker. Appreciates Spirit Sir Gilbert " Parker is one European who has not misjudged the attitude of this country during the difficulties of the pst year. "Never," he said in a speech not long ago. ''has a neutral nation had such problems as ! the United States . has faced with a, temperateness, courtesy and moderation for which this coun try cannot be too grateful. The Ameri can government has pursued the only course possible to a nation desirous of preserving- its deservedly high reputa tion in the field of, 'diplomacy..- The almighty heart is still stronger in the United States than tba ; almighty dollar." ' u . - - . . - .. Sir Gilbert, in his novel The Judg ment House," a story 6f the Boer war. did not . hesitate to-: censure his t own people. - It is announced that a new novel by thin author ill be one of the fall's bis books, - -. .? Wall shelves for light objects have been patented' .that - are ' attached to rods suspended", -from picture mouldings.- ' - . -n - , AUTHOR TELLS HOW MUCH HE OWES TO HIS STENOGRAPHER v;;: 1: ;;:-;;;- - ; Cyrus Townserid Brady De- dares One Young Woman Was Regular' Mentor,. DOESN'T LIKE MACHINE XI Secretary Shows Soma Sign of Smo " tion. That Kelps Quits Bit. The Ijuslness-llk manner In which an author dictates his popular ro mances.'and the business-like qualities be needs in a stenographer very much like the needs in a real estate office or an insurance office are shown in an article by Cyrus Townsend' Brady, au thor of "The Eagle of 5 the Empire," etc, in a recent number of Remington Notes. ;. - - ' ' -1 "I have dictated mare than a score of millions of words." says Dr. . Brady. "In my long career as author, preach er, lecturer and publicist, I haye al ways made use of sTprlvate secretary who was also a stenographer. In mod ern business and I have made a busi ness of each of those vocations tho terms are synonymous. ' ; Machine ZTo Good. "I could not dictate to a machine. I tried tt once. My first novel I talked to a phonograph. It was awful the dictation, I mean. I want a thinking person, but one who knows when to think and when not. "Discretion is an other phase. Above all things, your Ideal stenographer must have sympa thy... . , I -had one1 helper who was a regular mentor. Sometimes I would not feel line dictating, but in the face of the severe young lady who would appear at the appointed hour, layj her bopk on thetable, seize her pencils an T fchoot at me a. commanding glance,' t was scarcely ever equal to saying that I did not feel like working that morn ing. I simply had to go at it. For my. self. I am always glad when the secre tary smiles at the hurooroirs points and brushes away a surreptitious; tear, at the pathetic periods, for It shows me that I-am getting somewhere and reaching somebody, which is a consola tion for many failures. . "A thing I dislike is to be interrupt ed by requests for repetition, especial ly when I am in the midst of some dramatic scene and dictating rapidly. I remember dashing "off this line on one occasion to a new stenographeri He was caught on the vertiginous periphery of a vast vortex. ' '.-. Battle Soene "Hiee." ; , " 'Natu rally any hero wlib flndsl him self in such a situation Is necessarily at the exciting climax of his story, and I was going ahead like a house-afire only 'to be interrupted by u pensive ejaculation, from the lady of the word 'how.' 'How' In that sense is a word I abominate. But really there was some excuse for her, I will admit. "After a long course of work with mc, I ; fancied that"' dne stenographer had acquired a reasonable proficiency in the use of adjectives. "I remember that after haying dic tated a- tremendous and gory battle scene I asked, "How do you like tliat? 6 he said it was'nlce,' and with great difficulty I refrained from throwing boniething at her!" ' " ; - - " Booth Tarkington Reviews Reviewers Booth Tarkington, in a recent' letter concerning, a review of his novel, "The Turmoil." wrote: , . '. fMy feellng-about reviews Is that a, reviewer reviews himself as well as the book he is estimating. Most review ers seem to me to reveal more of the reviewer than of the book. How many, for instance, shout of egotism; the re viewer being in labor from the outset to demonstrate that he Is the review ing fellows,, te author is faltering ap- ' prentice or worse. j 'Jluch matters (as ''decent prose") ,ara usual ly overlooked, because I cannot help but , believe the great majority ot re viewers liave no perception of proee texture. They do not understand it they cannot feel It. I suppose a su preme sensitiveness to words is as rare as a supreme sensitiveness to color or rarer, "All my life I have worked for prose for the texture of it as the primary thing to be obtained, and seldom in deed has a.revlewer told me that here and there have I. obtained it. I "Often, 01 ' course, l nave not ob tained it, but wben I have, there was evidently only a few who were able to recognize it "they will write of every thing else in the book'" , WEEK'S BEST SELLER "Besjt sellers" -for the week are reported-to The Journal's book depart ment as follows: .. ; '' t. TC QUI Company. IT Fiction , ; a irar country ........... .unuremii "Th Turmoil" ........... .Tarkington "Pollyanna Grows Up" ....Porter "The Harbor" ............... ', . .Poole "Angela's Business" ........ .Harrison "Athalie" Chambers - Non-fiction -The Oregon Coontry" ..Putnam ' "The Art of the Kxposltlon". .Keuhaus "Pan-Americanism" ......... .1. .UisheT Olds, Wortman fc Xing. "Pollyanna Grows Up"......,.. Porter "A Far Country".. Churchill "My Lady of the Chinese Court- ' yard" ' . , . . Locke1" "Jaffery" , ..Lock "The Harbor" .Pool "The Turmoil" ....Tarkington PI Writer Pall IJst, The fall list of the Writers' Publish ing company, Brooklyn, N. Y is not yet complete, but It will include "Den nis Hathnaught," presentment of the rise of the common people, by James Philip MacCarthy; "The Serlo-Comlc Profession," a, dozen essays for writ ers and for readers interested in them and their craft, by L, 3. Qe Bekker; a new series of American poets, small volumes intended for use as gift books, and possibly a reprint of MacCarthy' "The" Newspaper Worker." -