.' - I BOOK REVIEWS MAGAZINES ' 1 1 1 ' - - ' PORTLAND, OREGON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1915. SOME PREACHERS, THE II From Wrist to Ankle .'. Less Strenuous Than Fighting .'. Quits Castle to Nurse Wounded WRITER SAYS, PREACH JUST FOR THEMSELVES vwx-mc---'vvc- BOOK SHOP GOSSIP George Wharton Pepper European Conflict Handled From Every Angle irvSeri ous Work and Fiction. Deals With Question From Standpoint of Lawyer, WAR NOTE SOUNDED NOW AND ANON IN NEUTRALS HEARD, TOO Interest It Taken In at Least Bom Writings Shown by Keprln tings. Dr. Chalmers Mltrhfll In his volume entitled 'Kvolutlon and the War,'" re cently issued by K. I'. Dutton & Co., sets out to present In a tnnrr or less .popular nnd toploal form some of the Insistent rrohlems of biology and . shown In what way the so-called laws of nature apply to und are Illustrated by the war. Starting with the German claim 1 that "the natural law to which all r laws of nature can be reduced Is the i law of struggle," he points out that it Is not maintained, as It Is merely an unsupported assumption to apply to human beings what Is observed In the animal world. He shows that there is no rongrulty between the facts of jsi-oIok.v and bot any from which the "'Law of Klruggl, for Kxl.steme'' was derived and the facts of national existence to which the nermann propose to apply It. The argument throughout Is enlivened by a large amount of Interesting facts and illustrations from history, blog rap by, etc. Since Its publication In December "With the Allies," Mr. Davis' story of the war flni the iimlde, has had five editions. I'our of those were printed within two months. Two of them were printed before publication. The war widens, and it will widen still more before It Is over. To the nine powers who were in the arena last August three more have already been added Turkey on the Germanic side, Portugal and Italy on the side of the allies. Horn three-fifths of tho total population of the earth and over thre'e-flf tlis of Its land surface may at this moment be classed as belliger ent. In Kurope. of course, the proportion Is much higher. Some Tii per cent of the peoples of Kurope, inhabiting roughly a,200,0o() nquaru miles out of a total area of slightly more than 3,800,01)0, are now at war. rom the north of Scotland to the south of Spain and thence to Constantinople and the I'ral mountains, and so round the entire circuit of the old world, only about one person in eiht, only about one acre lu six, lie outside the struggle. Of the 5K, 000, 000 Europeans who are at present neutral, perhaps only the L'0, 000,000 who dwell in the Spanish peninsula are certain to continue so; one-half of the remainder are poslble, the other hsflf likely combatants. As matters stand today Turkey and the Germanic powers together dispose of some 460,000 square miles of Kuropean soil and 1 19,000,000 Inhabitants, and the allies In Europe of six times us much territory and about two and a lalf times as many subjects. Sydney Brooks In September Atlantic. Cn the Trail" Has Big Appeal "On the Trail." bv T,lna Heard nnd Adella R. Benrd. This latest volume of the Misses Beard tells how a girl can live, outdoors, camping In the woods, following the trail, -anoelng. swim ming, learning to know the. wild in habitants of the woods In such a way that Its Instructions 'can be followed with the greatest ease. i Every emergency, every accident, Is provided for In advance, i.nil the minor discomforts of camping life as well as the more serious dangers are taken Into consideration, so that the girl who follows the simple rules of this book will find cn outdoor life of true recreation, health, and the real luxu iles that the woods provide. Such details as cooking are planned In' a way that makes the mouth water. Arrangements for sleeping are made Ideally comfortable out of the raw materials of the forest. The smell, of the camp-fire la suf fused through all. the pages of this book nnd should make every normal girl hear the call of the Red Gods. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York SI. 26 net. More Satire by Galsworthy. "The Little Man and other Satires." by John Galsworthy. This volume con tains penetrating studies of various phases and types of modern society. In a general way It belongs to the class of "A Motley," "The Inn of Tran quillity." etc., being a collection of sketches. Including several brief plavs. which express the author's personal views and observations In a peculiarly poignant way. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. $1.30 net. Are You a Boomerangostang? How many people have heard of the American Society of Boomerango- lanes? it is probably the smallest athletic organization 'n America, for there appear to be only six Americans really skilled in the outlandish art of .boonieraiiKthruwing. One of these is V. M. Hillyer. authqr of "Child Train ing" and he..d of the Calvert school in Baltimore, win, confesses to an affin ity with the Inishman in holding this 3 his favorite sport. Stevenson for Hoys and Girls. On the Sorlbner list for early pub lication there is a "Life of Robert Louis Stevenson for Boys and Girls," by Jacqueline Overton. To one who remembers the romance of Stevenson's life with its enthusiasms and courage and high spirit of adventure, and his eternal "spirit of boyhood," it is sur prising why such Va ' book has never been written before. MEMBERS OF MYSTIC SHRINE OASIS TO AT Caravan From Al Kader Temple to Pay Homage to Imperial Potentate, Just .us the last sun rays faded In the west last night a caravan of some 500 members and friends of Al Kader Temple made a start from the city for the country home of Poten tate 0; V. Stapleton on the Damascus road. Gresham, of which the high Schrlner Is mayor. They went to pay homage to their Illustrious chief. The great majority of the caravan treked over the Section Line road in automobiles, of which It Is estimated there were at least a hundred. The others traveled In two special cars j over the Estacada line of the Tort-i land Hallway, Light & Power com-j pany. The caravan reached the Mec- ca a few minutes after 8. Al Kader band, directed by Frank Lucas, was. among those present, and with It the "jitney male ouartet," composed of Messrs. Cramer, Patterson. David son and Hutchinson. Beautiful Oroundi Illuminated. The affair was in the nature of a lawn fete and reception. The beauti ful grounds were illuminated with gar lands of varicolored electric lights. Elaborate arrangements had been made for the entertainment of the guests, for, in addition to the music hy the band and singing by the quar tet, solos were rendered by Mrs. O. .1. Brown, soprano, of Gresham; Gus H. Cramer, baritone; Mrs. R. W. Schmeer, contralto; A. F. Davidson, basso; Mrs. .1. B. Kttinger, colorature soprano, and MJss Vera Kitchen, piano. The hosts were surprised with two valuable presents! Potentate Staple ton's being a large iron cross, and Mrs. Stapleton's. a beautiful cut gla-ss decantnr. The presentation wa-s made by Master of Ceremonies E. T. Red field, in a happy speech, to which Po tentate Stapleton responded In an equally humorous vein. No Limit Placed. "If there is anything you want, take it; even unto the curb of the side walk," he told the fez wearers and their friends, "for I know that if you want anything you'll take it anyway." Long tables containing luncheon were ordered assailed at 10, after the concert, and by midnight the autos were on their way .home. New Country From The Civil War That a new continent-wide America, with a new vision and a new spirit voiced in a new outburst of literature arose from the Civil war is the conten tion of Professor Fred Lewis Pattee, of the Pennsylvania, state college, whose "History of American Litera ture Sin.ce 1S70," is announced for pub lication ; r.ext month by the Century company. Our National Period, he says, began in 1S70. Before that time American literature bad been provincial, narrow. Imitative of foreign models. The new period be gan with the new laughter of the west, originating in gatherings of men under elemental conditions. In camps of the Civil -war. on steamboats of the great river, in excited boom-towns on the gold coast. Bret Harte added to this the touch of art and Joachim Miller the primi tive touch of poetry, and then began that amazing outburst of dialect, pro vincial, and local color writing In which Americans first found. Ahem celves and their country in literature. JOURNEY AM t St- jlr IN SEPTEMBER MAGAZINES 1 eS How Rupert Hughes Gets Local Color Rupert Hughes, author of "Kmpty Pockets," stated In a recent Interview that peculiarities of dialect have al ways ben a source of great Interest to him. "I always take special pains," he says, "with that part of characteri zation." In writing "Empty Pockets" he wished to mak use of a dialect called Ladino spoken by Jews whe have emigrated from Spain tD Turkey, and thence to the United States, so he went down to New York's east side to find out about It. 'I told a druggist In that district frankly about my difficulty, and ex plained that I was writing a novel and needed his help," he said. "He took me at once to a restaur ant where I spent a delightful hour talking to the Ladino people about their customs, and registering In my mind their forms of speech. They were very courteous, and I drank much ori ental coffee as their guest." The Leares Are Turning Yellow and So Is Charley Myers' Straw Hat. Vol. SAT. EV'G ALIBI Rex Lampman. Ed. and Pob. Sab. Frioe, On Jitney. Sept. 4, 1915. EDITORIAL. WE EXPLAIN Alili. The following ,rom the "Smudging Pot" col. of the Medford .Sun, edited by tnat peerless grouch, A. Gordon Perry, gives us a chance tu explain ; It is noticed hy his picture in the Portland Journal, that Wrecks Lampman, so well known hereabouts, has escaped the pitfalls of the city onlv to go and raise a weakling mustache. We had nothing to do with the said libel, which was due to flagrant sabot age on the part of C. 8. Woodruff, who beguiled us, in a moment of folly, into standing for the picture. Tommy James, the usually gentlemanly foreman; Ez Fulton, the maniac make-up man; Bill Grunow, O. Clar Leiter and other criminaU they put the thing in the paper, and we have a notion to get even by printing all their pictures with the proper labels. TOWN TALES. George Shepherd drop his "h's" when he gels ex cited. Postmaster' Myers seemed to take his being a commo dore at the Astoria regatta seriously. , Bob Maguire, the mean young barrister, reads "The Pickwick Papers" every night, he sayV E. L. (Daisy) Powell has come back from Chicago a.nd finds that all his old girls are marriedj. Harold Grant was the best looking young fellow on the 8 o'clock Ore. City car Thurs. morning. . The entente cordiaie be tween Mike Clohessy and Gov. Withvoombe is said to be slightly addled. Bill Goldman is one of the Atlantic Monthly Offers Illuminating Article on "The Monroe Doc trine as Germans See It," a German Explaining That There Is Xo Hostility to It in Germany. The Strand magazine for September makes its bow more particularly as an American magazihe than ever before. This was foreseen in the appoint ment last February of Wendell Phil lips Dodge, a young American news paper man, editor, dramatic, critic and literary director for David Belasco's important theatrical and dramatic en terprises, as editor of the American edition of this magazine, which in Great Britain is the leading and great est monthly periodical. In addition to two strikingly Ameri can articles of timeliness and inter est, " 'Billy' Sunday and His Home Run Religion" and "Cncle Sam at Work," as told In mptlon pictures, besides the regular American theatri cal feature, "'Masks and Faces." every article and short story has a direct appeal to Americans. The spirit of adventure, sought or thrust upon one, is to be found aplenty in the Wide World Magazine for Sep tember. The midsummer number of "The Drama" is devoted in large part to the work cf the noted French dramatist, "EVERYBODY PORTLAND, OR., U. S. leading amateur Sat. after noon swimming instructors at Windemuth. The girls quarrel with each other to have him teach them. Joe Hammersly very sel dom sings the "Miserere,'" but when he does he feels every note of It. Jim Kyle, who does all the mayoring Stanfield needs, was here all too briefly this wk, A great many people who meet Staples, the weler, tell him that his face looks familiar to them. Jack Latourette is going to take ye scribe and Clar ence Reames out to lunch one of these days. Ad Bennett wants us to start a garbage wagon agi tation, as he says they stand too long in one place. Josephine R. Sharp, the w. k. Alberta uplifter, was In yesterday and told us about another civic outrage. 'Gene Horton, of Lake wood, is thinking of buying a goat, with which he has never had amy actual experience. (Great film, OUR NEIGHBORS Burns Bluffs. Jimmy Dennegan as sessed i bay mule at $34.75. Jimmie alleging the war Justified him in a six bits raise. Hank Levens was seen castine admiring clances at the Leven's block this week. Bill Hanley is home from Portland, and folks think the sore toe that kept him there was just one of those stories in the newspapers The North Pole club built a railroad from Burns to the maita line one dav last week. i Tacoma Tattling. All the regular trains now stop here. Publisher Baker, of the Tacoma News, can't see ML Rainier in any weather. Elmer Dover, head of our gas company, who used to help Mark Hanna make president's, called on Theo. Burton at S. F.. and says that while Burton used to be an iceberg he is now a glad-hander. James B. Kerr is back from the S. F. Expo. He was much taken with Jump Off Joe. an alligator 19o7 years old. Charley Rudeen, of the State Market, says every man should have at least one dissipation, and his is his farm. Milt Seaman, one of our leading theatric patrons, is back from his vacation, which cost more than he was told it would before he went. Alta W. Giesy says that the friction between a low stock and a heavy insur ance policy has been known to make work for the fire laddies. Capt. Jas. P. Shaw, the Lakewood real estate strat egist, has been having trou ble with his pump, h.nd the water supply of the neigh borhood is menaced. Art Fish Is going to 8 F. aarain, and if he has time will look around arid try and find Rev. J. Richard Olson's watch, which was lost In that wicked city a few wks. ago. Bat "Why Don't Thayf J. Hen Murphy says that another thing the matter with the Irish is that they don't hang together. Emile Augier. It is a surprising fact that so great a playwright, the first to introduce socTology to the stage, one of the first to write the modern thesis play, and a brilliant technician, should be so little known to English and American readers. Except for the publication in the same magazine some four years ago of one play, al most none of this significant material has been made available In English. Eugene Brieux writes in an article preceding a translation of the cele brated "Marriage of Olympe," nn ar ticle attempting to fix Augier's place in modern drama, that his own de scent in form and attitude can be traced directly from Augier. One judges that M. Brieux considers Augier a moulding force In the drama of today as Important as Ibsen. Other articles of interest are a hu morous treatment of the parsee drama, an account of an Interview with Frank Wedekind, a study of the evolution of the actor from his early position as a dancer, a scholarly re construction of the Shakespearean stage, with illustrations by Charlotte Porter, the well known editor of Shakespeare, and of the Poet Lore STEEDS OWJG." A., SEPTEMBER 4, 1915. SCENE OX A WIXDY DAY L L-- j ri "" tZD SHUCKS after being seen by cencor board.) j Ring Out. Mild Bells Slag. Harry Thorne got 'married this week, and tried to get the license at the city hall, but trev wouldn't give it to him there, and lie finally got it at tiie courthouse. Hong. Just six years ago today we were married, and the young woman who took t lie chance said thrs morning that she hopes we get our pay raised pretty soon. Why Wet rrtnt the Slag-ram th Same WMk? Arthur D, Moe, ed. or the Hood River Glacier, who doesn't like The Alibi be cause It makes him think, has a funny column, -"Fins, Furs and Feathers," in his paper, and sometimes dia grams tne oes tne e following. For instance: The joke is On the Glacier. The point of the joke Is the first item in 'Fins, Furs and Feath ers" was omitted last week. The passing over of a paragraph has caused many readers to ask the Glacier the meaning of the joke. Dr. J. B. Ziegler is out at Banks again, and we miss him. Left Despite their recent action In banning the wist watch for men, the American National Association of Retail Jewelers care fully refrained from tasting any slighting remarks at the new ankle watch, which made its appearance lately on Broadway. Center Germ an soldiers who were wounded in the arms or hands are taught to do all 6orts of handicraft, so as to restore the normal suppleness of the injured members. The photograph shows a class in knitting. t Right Lady Hope Nelson, called by English society the most beau tiful American ever presented at court, is to quit her husband's castle in Leicestershire to nurse soldiers iu a French hospital. Cables to her family in St. Louis say that the beauty, who lief ore her marriage was Miss Isabelle Valle, has gained her husband's consent and will take up nursing at once. magazine, and a discussion of the pos sibility of removing from the stage those elements of personality supplied by actor, manager, scenery, etc., but not intended by the dramatist, this discussion by Hufttly Carter. Three important and unusual arti cles open the September Atlantic. "The Monroe Doctrine as Germans See It," by Herbert Kraus, is particularly Il luminating in view of the recent dis cussions of Pan-Americanism and the Germanophobia so prevalent today. Ir. Kraus, a German scholar unsur passed in knowledge of the political Harry Rice Says He Used to Know a Lot of Things That Weren't So. No. as. HALL OF FAME Driver is the name of an evangelist operating al Hood River. E. S. McCoy of 408 Mon roe st., reads Swedenborg and used to use snuff. He is 74. but don't feel It. Harry Duck is chef at Pat Lindsay's place in Hood River and specializes on the Denver sandwich. C. M. Rynerson says that files are worse on bald headed men when the weather is hot and cloudy. Dorsev Smith, the trans portation czar, always looks out of the window when talking to a prospect, and the railroad bovs say he's looking for another. The Curse ot Property. Carl Reiter. new mgr. of the Orpheum, has moved here from Seattle with his family, including a Ford, a bulldog and a large daven port which they couldn't get into the flat they rented on the east side, arid the bull dog is so frightened by the bustle of our city that he refuses to go outdoors. Weekly Alf Item. Alf Cridge. who has been expositioning, says that if the ladles attending dressed after the same styles as the statuary there would be more interest taken in the Expo, at San Fran. Alf at tracted a good deal of at tention himself, considering the other sights. It Pays, AU S4bt. Aaron r rang lost his Llewellyn setter and put an ad. In our est. ev'g con temp.. The Journal, and when he got back homo after so doing the setter wai sitting on the po:ch. Bulletin. Jimmie Fletcher, war corr. for The Alibi at Rose burg, scftds us the news via 8. P. that a sign thrown on the screen of a. movie the atre down there says: "We are neutral; don't shell our floor." EXTRA! Ashley Van Tyne iB out of town again, either at Sol Due or Banff, he didn't know which when he left. The last time he was away he had quite a time trying to put out the electric light in his berth. relations of the Americas, interests us when he Informs us that the Monroe Doctrine has no definite scope; that everybody has a different idea of it; and that there is no hostility to It In Germany. He does more than Interest us when he claims that the exporta tion of munitions is "ag contrary to the Monroe Doctrine as the present tone of the American press," and threatens that "It will doubtless play a part unfavorable to the union In the general accounting." All who share the widespread anxi ety concerning the German attitude toward the United States will find this paper suggestive. Also suggest ive, and more brilliant, is "The Mod est Immigrant," by Agnes Reppller a scornful attack on the "alien who, having done us the honor of nccept lng citizenship, wields his vote as a cudgel, bidding us beware cf the weapon we have amiably placed in his hands." The Atlantic's war articles include a well-considered plan for "A League to Enforce Peace," by President Lowell of Harvard; humorous and entertain ing "War Notes From a Newspaper Desk," by Simeon Strunsky; an arti cle on "Side Issues of the War,' by Sydney Brooks; one on "War and the Wealth of Nations." by L. P. Jacks; and the final Installment of Mildred Aldrlch's exciting "Adventures in the Little House on the Marne." In the September Issue of McBrlde'a Magazine, Philip Glbbs, the novelist, tellg of his experiences In Paris curing the past year. He describes many scenes that Illustrate the overwhelm ing change that has taken place In th people and the city. The following is typical: ' "A Tuno spoke under the statue of Aphrodite In the gardens of the Tull erles to a crowd of smiling men and girls. He had a German officer's hel met. He described with vivid and dis gusting gestures how he had cut off the man's head -lie clicked his tongue to give the sound of it and how he had batlied his hands in the blood of I his enemy, before carrying this trophy j to his trench. He held out bB hands, I staring at them, laughing at them as thoigh they were still crimson with j German blood. A French woman shivered a little and turned pale. But another woman laurhed I an old creature with toothless rami j with a shrill, harsh note. I "A dirtv race.' she naid' 't ahnnM be glad to cut a German throat:'" Goethals Explains Work on Big Canal San Francisco, Cel., Sept. 4. (U. P. Major General George W. Goethals gave an outline of the construction of the Panama canal and the canal cone here today to several hundred mem bers of the Commonwealth club. There was no fuss or ceremony about his ap pearance and his request for no pomp was carried out. Tuesday the builder of the canal will be honored with a "Goethals day" at the exposition, when the greateat mil itary review since the exposition opened is planned. Rex Beach in New York. i Rex Beach, author of '"The Auction Block," apparently does not find It possible to forget the metropolis even in summer. He motored Into New Tork last week from his country home at Lake Hopatcong for a few days' visit, , in order to attend the opening night I at one of the theatres. Mr. . Beach's next novel will be published la September. FLOCK NOT CONSIDERED Author Bnowa Coaaldaration ana Sympathy for Congregation asA Man In Pulpit. It In interesting to find the name of. George Wharton Pepper among tho of the prominent men in the Platts burg military camp. While many will recognize Mm a a distinguished lawyer, perhaps mora will be familiar with his work as a layman In the church. Ills new book, "A Voice From the Crowd," just pub lished by the Ynle I'nlverslty Presa, contains a criticism lining thHt word In Its best snse, to mean constructive analysis containing its much praise as blame of the preaching, and Incident ally of the practising, of today. With the clearness of a lawyer and with sympathy both for the congrega tion and for the preacher, he describes" the faults which sonif ministers hav to avoid. Among them he says: "If a man has c.piupHSsloii for -th crowd he will preuHi for their aaks and not for his own. I have heard many sermons which were obviously delivered primarily for the satisfac tion of the preacher. He had become interested in a certain line of thought. He had happened upon what seemed to him a bright idea. Or. perhaps, lis had been reading a book which pleased or pained him. Forthwith he was eager to ease his mind. Sunday was at hand and the pulpit w.is his. He never seriously asked himself what were the needs of his flock. "What followed 1 can best xpreM by setting over against ..that tragic picture of tho sheep in the now ona of those unreal Arcadian tyenes In which the shepherd, playing upon h' pipe, holds the center of the pictura while the sheep, moi e f' rtunato than the congregation, wander listlessly away." New Play by John Galsworthy "A Bit O'l-ove." by John Galsworthy. - A play set in a "village of. the West" In England. The theme centers about t he young curate, a strange, beautiful character, full of passion in restraint, who enduren with a temper that seems the very essence of Chris tianity his desertion by his wife and the scorn and gibes of the village folk that follow on the scandal. , It I" all In the best manner of Gulsworthy, Imply. In the dialect of the peasants, with the setting of spring In the sleepy rovmtry and suffused with white moon light Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 60 cents net. Compliment to Wilson Answered The distinguished author of "When a Man Comes to Himself" Woodrow Wilson recently received a copy of this book, In which 51 members of the Yonkera Y. M. C. A. had written their names. The president wrote the following letter In acknowledgement: "Will you not say to the gentlemen whose name are on the flyleaf on thlit book how much 1 am Interested that they should have read It, and express to them my hope that the doctrine preached In this little essay may seem to them worthy of something more than a passing thought. Cordially and Incerely yours. (Signed) "WOOHRoW WILSON." 1 Mary Phagan Speaks. f You care a lot about tne, you men of Georgia, now that I am dead. ?-v You have spent thousand of dollar trying to learn who mutilated my body. Trbu have filled the oluMns of your newspaper with the story of my wrong. You have broken into a ptUon and murdered a man that I might be avenged. But why did you not ;ire for me when I was "alive? I was a child Inn you shut -me out of the dayllgl t You held me within four walls watch ing a machine that crashed through Une ;i I r. Endlessly wauhlne a kniff as It cut a piece of wood. Noise fills the pla'e nolce, dust anfl the smell of oil I wish some of the tlMiubands of dollars that you spent on the trial might have kpt nie In school. A real school, the kind you bulla for I worked through the hot August day When you wert "inn mrc s"io, r shooting birds. Or lounging In doorways '-urnlng the nigger. And you never paid me enough to buy a pretty ores You sometimes apoke coarsely to me when 1 went to and from; my work ; Yes you did. and I had to pretend I ' liked It. Why did you despise me living and yet love me so now? I think I know. It is 'Ike what tha preacher told me about Christ: People hated Him when t.e w alive. But when He was dead they killed man after man for His sake, MARY WHITE OVIN01TON.. In The New Republic New Houghton-Mifflin Docks. Houghton Mifflin company announce the following hooks for publication September-U: "The Valley Road." by Mary Hallork l oote; "Belgium's Agv , ony." by the Belgian poet, Kmlle Ver haeren; "The Dot Circus," by Clifford r U Sherman; "The Cltlsen," by Nathan iel S. Shaler; "Red W ine of Roussll- . Ion," a drama In blank verse, by Wil liam Lindsey; "The Arrow f taker," a iday by Mary Austin; "Old Calabria," by Norman Douglas; "The House of Friendship." by, Agnes Edwards; and new und enlarged, edition f '"The Road Toward Peace," by Charles W. Eliot. v , ; , if