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THE v OREGON V DAILY JOURNAL, : PORTLAND, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, M917. Six days of. toil, poor child of Cain, Thy strength the slave of want may be. The seventh thy limbs es cape the chain. A God hath made thee free. Bulwer-Ly,tton. NfijWS OF MEW JBOOIS, WRITERS AND MAGAZINES. UJiW P a- H IP J AS IT IS T OF E Men and . Women Interested ' in Propaganda Collaborate on Work Received, "The Socialism of Today," a work whicjh consists largely of original documents tending to show what the position of Socialism is, and the de vclopment of the Socialistic parties In different countries. Is a valuable 'record for the general reader who finds It difficult to get the real es sence from the many different "brands" of Socialism put on the ' market. . It is edited by several men and one woman writer, already well known ex ponents of the principles of Social ism, and members of the Intercollegi ate Socialist society; William English Wallinfrr J. G. Phelps Stokes. Henry ,W: Laidler and' Je&sie Wallace 7 llughaii. , The' editors announce that the third stage, of Socialit literature is at hand, having passed the first stage concern ing Itself with. theory, the second. In which Socialists and anti-Socialists presented the movement from their Individual viewpoints, the time is ripe Tor an Attempt to present Socialism in its international, aspects as a fair ly' united whole. , The movement in all the countries of Europe has been set forth in speeches made in the various parlia ments, which indicate the topics most keenly In the discussion; also the movement in America. Australia. New Zealand, South Africa and China- Then the various parties and labor unions.s the general strike, unemploy ment, complsory arbitration of labor disputes, high cost of living, govern "nient ownership militarism, woman -suffrage, education and many othei subjects of vital interest in a -state are set forth by means of speeches, reports and the action of congresses and conventions. The appendix contains an article , on ."Kreparedness" from the Socialist standpoint In countries both belliger ent and neutral. This work has recently been put out by the Henry Holt company and Is at the library. i ne nun lecture in trie course on "King Lear," By Professor Norman' Frank Coleman of Reed college. Will ne given in Koom H of, the CeirtraJ - imrary on .ruesaay. .March 13, 8 p. nu-1 "Water Power" will be the subject or Proressor Ansel Knowlton's next lecture In the course on "Power." to SOCIALISM TODAY IS SUBJEC COOPERATIVE VOLUM he given in library hall on-Thursday, March 15, at 8 p. m. -The lecture will be Illustrated by lantern slides and ''K experimental demonstrations. . Mrs. Mabel Holmes Parsons of the -. University of Oregon will meet her " class in modern drama on Saturday. March 17, at 7:45 p. m. in Room H of the Central library. Other University of Oregon classes In architectural design, modeling from life, graphic statics, descriptive geom etry and musical understanding are meeting in the library weekly. Will G. Steel Is Tracer of Names Number I. Volume II of "Steel Points," published occasionally by William Gladstone Steel, better known as Will O. Steel -of Medford, Or., has to do with Oregon names. It contains the names of Oregon cities, towns, rivers, creeks, and mountains, from Abbott butte. Jackson county, to Youx'-Lokes in Douglas, and tells the origin of each and every name. In his introductory note, Mr. Steel, known as the guardian of the Crater lake country, makes this request: "Thjjs is the first copy of a series - of 'Steel Points' that will be devoted to American nomenclature, and I am : extremely anxious to make It as near perfect as possible. With that end in view. I will appreciate it if you will examine it carefully and give me the benefit of your knowledge by offering suggestions, additions and corrections that can be used in the second edi tion. . ; "If possible, give me some e your . local names, together with- their sig nificance, when, by whom and" why they were so named." Steel Points" go? at 25 cents the copy. Tnrougn window To Market. To market, to market, to buy a fat hen. Seat it home, beat it home, never again. Macon Telegraph. To market to market, to buy me some bread, Had only a dollar thebaker dropped dead. Tampa Tribune. To market, to market, potatoes to Seek Brought home a couple -which must last me a week. New York American. To market, to market, to get me a wife, ' ' . s , She wanted a limousine! Kot on your life! Houston Post. To market, to market, to buy me one Home atiain, home again, guess I musl beg. Omaha Excelsior.' To market, to market, .jior something to wear, 'Back, back to the fig-trea. Tm no m:l lionaire. In litigation in the circuit court at . Albany a- doctor defeated an under .taker. But at that, the undertaker will gei mm in the end. becau As Harry Lauder might say, "Te canna Deal em ava." Qur season of grand opera has been somewhat interrupted not to say sad- nenea. . j. ne coos inadvertently sat on the Caruso record. The noted Italian -tenor was probably never more com- -, jueiejy . oasnea. v ?. Fortunately. Casey Jones Is Intact, and the River Shannon is only slightly .scratched. . .v s v Hoping to make amends, cook is now j edinff us spaghetti as a regular diet. X sPaKhetU Is very temperamental. It a a lonj Ln.e that has" no bumps. High Cost of Stockings Jr'; VteW Jk?iSSM :kf 4' jJp;, - 7 '-y x' -'V'. vjyD- ' ' ""1 v The Stingy Receiver New Abbott Story "Th Stingy Seceiver," liy Eleanor ITillowell Abbott, tuthor of . "Midly Make-BelleTe." etc. ITre llliutraftunn F'anny VInoaeli. The Century Company. New York. $1.00 net. This is the story of Mrs. Tome Gal llen. a wealthy, keen-minded, sharp tongued, bedridden woman, who Is al ways sending presents broadcast, and whose dearest wish is this: "That the last mail of the dry may never leave me utterly letterless and that I may always be expecting a package by ex press." It is also the story of Solvei KJeu land, who eays herself that she is young. and strong, and very laugh ing," and' who has Just come from Norway to America to learn about the Montessori method. But. by aijoyful twist of fortune, she learns most about Mrs. Tome Gallien and about Dr. Sam Kendrue, who is as tall and as young and as handsome as Solvei. About these and some subordinate characters the author of "Molly Make Believe" weaves a whimsical, laughing Vomance. Mrs. O'Shaughnessy in Europe. Edith O'Shaughnessy, author of "A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico," la spend ing the winter in Switzerland working on her next book. She recently left Zurich, and with her little son, who readers of "A Diplomat's Wif in Mexico" will recall is mentioned in Its pages, has Journeyed farther south to j-.au sanne on -L.ake Geneva. TUe Chicago physician advocates kissless i-uurisnips. . Doc the old kilTjoy, must have puck ered his lips on a lemon. A fire started at Mrs. Orv'- xc nesday afternoon by the burning out of tne flue. Mrs. McShane and T. J. "ing r.e, nearest, were the "l volunteers to arrive, the latter extinguished the fire by throwing a Times on the roof- MuPln (Or.) One. instance of certainly justified beans. i where a man ij in spilling the They' were probably naw beans well up in fire-drill tactics. Charlotte Perkins Oilman says women wear pink lingerie to please the men. What men? A child calls to her lovea jmppv and Whenno answering yawp replies, Her blue eyes fill and spilt The while her cold-nosed pet, and . Next, to woman, Best friend to man. Is frisked away In wire net cage. (With due propriety.) to where the Gas within a chamber tight. Unlooses soul, or what it Is called lafe, from, hapless dogs, i While children sob and mourn lost pals s That feed the fires of the Humane society, t Time' to but the filibuster. IN THE NEW MAGAZINES March North American. The late Wayne MacVeagh is the subject of a striking trioute by Colonel Harvey in the current Review. An article by Major-General Carter, U. S. A., on "Our Defective Military Sys Tem," one by Lieut-Commander L. A. Cotten, U. S. N., on "Our Naval Prob lem." and a paper on "How to Raise Armies," by Sydney Brooks, in which the distinguished British publicist ap plies to America's needs the lessons learned through hard experience by Encland are the chief contributions of the numt-er. An article of interest is a considera tion of the historical evolution of com mercial blockade, by a British author ity. Kdward S. Roscoe. Likewise with a bearing upon contemporary problems is Sidney Webb's paper on "Conscience and the Conscientious Objector." There are a number of other timely articles. March Atlantic Monthly. Sir Rabindranath Tagore's essay, "Nationalism in the West," holds first rlace in the March Atlantic. He puts forward the thesis that modern Euro pean state ideais are responsible for the carnival of hatred and destruction now fillinp Europe, and that the road to perfection can never lie throueh power. His observations on the British rule in India are illuminating There is also a critique of Nietzsche' and his phlloEophy. found among the papers of the late Professor Josiah Royce Agnes Repplier contributes "War and the Child" land President Eliot of Harvard makes a notable addition to the educational discussion recently opened by the Atlantic, in "The Case Against Compulsory Latin." In mat ters pedagogical, we stand at the part ing of the ways; no parent or teacher can afford to ignore the gitat issues that are at stake here. In the department of the great wv, there is an estimate of Lloyd George and his" henchmen by an English ob server who, for obvious reasons, must remain anonymous; Private Hutchinson describes in .his, own inimitable way "The Deliverance From Wittenberg"' and the final installment of "The Lieu tenant's Story" appears. 'March Current History. The March number of the Current History Magazine of the New Tork Times opens with the history of our break with Germany, giving the text of all official documents relating thereto; the "barred sea one" note, German s chancellor's . -,.; announcement, history of the break,. President Wil son's address, dismissal .of the Ger man ambassador, departure of A inert- Lowers Them can ambassador, attempt at compro mise, the crjsjs at American ports, public sentiment, answers of neutrals, history of the first 18 days of the new submarine policy; also the subma rine record from the beginning of the war. There are other articles of vital in terest, much fascinating matter of human interest, besides other features, including 20 pages of the cartoons and 20 full page photogravure illustra tions. March Popular Mechanics Brimful of interest for readers of all ages, the March issue of Popular Mechanics Magazine has a wealth of illustrations of timely topics, recent inventions, and feats of the engineer, the builder and the mechanic. Its con tents include 287 separate articles, while the Illustrations number approx imately 400. Harpers Publish New Novel by S. Lewis "The Job," a new novel by Sinclair Lewis, is published this week by the Harpers. It is a story of the busi ness world and its Influence upon, men and women. The heroine, who went from a small town to New York to earn her living, began her career as an $S-a-week copyist. The editor of a motor Jour nalhlmself eagerly started on the up. ward way, found her interesting, but had no intention of risking his chances by an early marriage. In .her life, too, "the job" grew more important than the incidental person ages she was thrown with, and in each new position in an architect's office, as secretary to an advertising man ager her confidence in her powers in creased. An unfortunate marriage interrupt ed her business life for a short time: and when she returned to it. she found her., real sphere and her real love. - Frank B. Sanborn's Last Book. Frank B. Sanborn, 'the sage of Con cord" and friend of Emerson and Tho reau. died February 24 after a month's Illness. He worked on his new "Life of Henry David Thoreau" nearly up to tne oay or nis aeatn. The book will be published some time in May - by Houghton Mifflin company. Among! tne new matter included in the book are Thoreau's college .essays, and a large part of his Minnesota notebook, which, heretofore, has been - only pri vately printed. Recently patented garters . for men Include pockets for carrying . money. V Zebra Sox Mrs. Frederick Funston (upper left, with her daughter, Kleanor, one of three children), widow of the late Major General Fred erick Funston, has been voted a pension of flOO a month by the national senate. Mrs. Funston lives in San Francisco. Up per right, is a design for a bathing costume by Kate Rafter of New York, in competition for a $250 prize offered by Annette Kellerman, the human fish. To overcome the high, cost of hosiery economical women find sox, Jut a trifle longer than o$rs, quite proper. The pair displayed above by Lucille IfutCon of Los An geles, are of the barred, zebra or barber pol pattern. They are bright hued. Lower right, Mrs. Frank E. Harris of Phila delphia who lost her earthly possessions, but. was glad to have saved her life, when the Laconia went down. Mrs, Harris was on her way to England to nurse under the Red Cross. She is prom, inent socially. Physician Writes of Horror in Serbia The Hlrhwmy of Death. By Dr. Garl B. Down er, t . A. lm Uompauy, I'blladeljriila, rn. $1 M net. Dr. Downer was formerly with the American Bed Cross in Serbia, and is now with the American Red Cross In the Caucasus. "The Highway o'. Death" has to do with the conquest of Serbia by the Bulgarian and Teutonic armies, related from the viewpoint of the physician in the thick of the car nage. The work is illustrated with a number of reproduced photographs' Dr. Downer describes with interest as an eye witness the final bombard ment of Belgrade. He describes the pluck of the American Red Cross, tells of Its victories and of Its splendid work unaer any and all conditions. University Library Growing Rapidly University of Oregon, Eugene, March 10. The report of M. H. Douglas, head librarian' at the university, shows that there are 67.869 books in the university library, an increase of 16 per cent over a year ago. 'The books are lent not only to the students on the campus. but also to citizens in any part of the state, parcel post being the medium of sending and returning the volumes lateen by readers outside of Eugene, - Though February was a Short month and college was broken by the start of a new semester, the number of books circuiaiea was the greatest In the 11 brary's history,, reaching 11,1 0J.k - v Barred ' Bennett Pro-Ally Without a Doubt Sidney Whitman, fn "Things I Re member" (Stokes) has some interest ing anecdotes of James Gordon Bennett, proprietor of the New York Herald. Mr, I3ennett is a colossus of the jonmallatic world. As the Herald's I .on don correspondent, ' Whitman has for many years been in Intimate touch with the great editor. He found Ben- aett a man with "an extraordinary scent jor coming news." which has oeen responsible for many a big "scoop'' mo paper nas enjoyed. Mr. Bennett is not, however, afflicted with "swelled head." On one occasion he cabled to N'ew zor ordering the discharge of a mem ber Of the Staff. The ma.na.rer T-nU-A asking bim to reconsider, as the em ploye In Question was "indispensable." "Discharge every indispensable man . tut paver, was tne reply, i my- rcu mm nui inaispensaDie. rtypnenated Americans, who in the present war attempted to intimidate the Herald, out of Its pro-allv nolicv by threatening to withdraw their ad vertising, found themselves face to race witn a man who was "constitu tionally fearless." Mr. Bennett's reply in regard to the -ads" was: "Take mem an oui; let them go to and ie . "Auction" Up to Date. A' new edition of "Exnert Auction. by E. V. Shepard. has been published by the Harpers. It contains all, the new laws of . 1917. and vbrlngs this work up to . date.' Mr. Rhepard s aim has been to show the game -as It is actually played by experts and to iur. gest to the less expert player how he can bring bis game up to this standard. Is 'CornponeT on the Bill of Fare at the Portland City Jail? Garrard Harris, who has Just returned from Porto Rico to New Tork. tells the following story of the ways of Tennessee mountaineers, the people he de scribed in his recent book, "The Trail of the Pearl." A number of moonshiners had been arrested and con fin d In a city Jail, their cells opening Into a central large room. One day the Jailer, hearing a terrific up roar in "the bullpen," went to Investigate, and found all of his prisoners roaring, fighting drunk. The most careful scru tiny failed to disclose any way by which they could have se cured liquor. It was not until after several repititlons of the spree that it was found out that the whis key was made in the prison by the prisoners themselves. They had askel to be allowed to pre pare their own coffee and had developed an astonishing fond ness for cornbread (cornpone. This they had crumbled into bifekets and made a mash, ami by means of a bit of rubber pipe attached i0 the coffee pot bad dinlllled their own "moon shine." BOOKS IN THE LIBRARY Amonc the books recently added to the Central Public library are the fol lowing: General Works. Bleyer Types of News Writing. Biography. Granville lxrl Granville Ieveson Gower; Private 'orreepondence. 2v. Uncoln Abraham Lincoln, the Lawyer-Statesman, j. T. Hichards. Books la foreign Xaagoagss. Fort Paris Sentimental. Hill Uggletoner I varitatlder. Voltaire Correspondence de Voltaire. Description and Travel. Bartlett last Voya-ge of the Karluk. .Burke Nights in Ixjndon. Conway Alps From Knd to Knd. Crow Japan and America; a Con trast. Ioorly Voyages of the "Morning." I.ucas More Wanderings in I-ondon. Mackenzie Black Sheep; Adventures in West Africa. Orth Imperial Impulse. Sydney England And the English In the Eighteenth Century. 2v. notion. Can nan Three Sons and a Mother. Miniter Our Natupskl Neighbors. Moffat Uo Forth and Find. Tlae Arts. Candee Jacobean Furniture. Edwards Football Days. Horn blow Training lor the stage. Hoskins Golf for Women. McSpadden Opera Snyopses. Miller, ed. How to Make a Flower Garden. Rhead American Trout-Stream In sects. Springer Art or Accompanying Plain Chant. Welsh A-B-C of Motion Pictures. Si story. Radln Jews Among the Greeks and Romans. Richardson Doges or venice. Rose Nationality in Modern His tory. . . ... Waxweiier Belgium ana me ureal Powers. X.aagnsg e. Abernettfey Correct pronunciation. Xdterature. Barker Souls on Fifth. Bronson. ed. American Prose, Froaj Mountain Interval. Plummer Verses. Sandburg Chicago poems. -St ollurd Vale of Shadows, and Other Verses of the Great War. Sedgwick Apology ror uia Aiaias, and Other Essays. Symotis Tragedies. Tegner Poems. Towne Today and Tomorrow. BeUflon, niv.i. F.thlcai Keadinas From the Bible, by H. UKeeler and L. H. Wild. Lawrence special uay iue ouir day School. animK, American Association of Farmers' Institute Workers. Proceedings or tne Annual Meeting. - American Jersey came uuo la ter of Merit of Jersey Cattle. 2v Cooke Scenes ana Aaveniures in mi Army. . ... . . KenancK journal oi m wumv i,m- mlttee of Fifteen on Reconstruction, Thirty-ninth Congress. Lowell smaller nauan.vuiM Farmhouses. . - . New York Metropolitan Museum oi Art Greek. Etruscan and lloman Bronzes, by G. M. A. Richter. Children's Books. Abbott Adventures of a Country Boy. ..- w...-. Adams wnen Momer uei is jiou. Alcott Rose in Bloom. Ashmun Isabel Carleton's Year. Bigham Wishing Fairies. Burgess Adventures of Jerry Musk- rat. . camp Danny tne resnman. Cather Boyhood Stories of Famous Claudv Partners or trve roreai Trail. Clay Treasure t maers. Conat. ed. Children's Year. iLmii-RoTi' Book of Firemen. DanieTson Children's Christmas DeMille Christmas Spirit: Votes for Fairies; Two Fairy Plays ror unitaren, Dixon Forest Friends. Pmlman Katrle and '.he Star. El ford St Heaton practical School Oardeninr. Ellas In Victorian Times. French Runaway. Gordon-Stables Boys' Book of Health and Strength. Hatch The Minuet. HUdreth Clay Modeling In . the School Room. Holland Butterfly Guide. Johnson Captain John Smith. Mace Washington, a Virginia Cav alier. McFadden Why the Chimes Rang; a Play In One Act. Marks Early English Hero Tales. Xeediiam Natural History of the Farm. Ogden, pseud. Llttl Pierre and Big Peter. Orel -Comt fu Fatte 1'Italla. O Shea & Kellogg Body in Health. Pemberton Christmas Plays for Children. Pierson Among the Farmyard Peo ple. Piper Princess and the Clan. Prltchard & Turkington Stories of Thrift for Young Americans. Rabb National Epics. Ramaswamt-Raju, ed. Indian Fables. Remick Jane Stuart's Chum. Seton Animal Here Skinner Tale of Tlbby and Tabby. Smith, ed. Christmas Festival Serv. ice. Talbot: Canadian Pacific Railway. Tldy-Story of a Tinder-box. - a-Aorhm Lincoln; a Story and a Play. Wiggln Cathedral Courtship. ' Wllklns Green Poor. Forests cover one-fourth - of area of the kingdom of Saxony, ; the WOMAN BELIEVES IN WOMAN'S POWER TO SHAPE 01 DESTINY Miss Susanna Cocroft, Tells How Life May Be .Made Happy and Helpful, Miss Susanna Cocroft, author - of "Growth in Silence." to be published by the Putnams in April, baa been called by an authority "the most suc cessful woman teacher of physical cul ture In the world." but those who know ier only as a teacher of physics! cul- . lure are declared to have missed one beautiful side of her philosophy' or life. Miss Cocroft has a wonderful confl dence In her own sex. She believes woman can do almost anything she makes up her mind to do, even to tn .'. remodeling of her inner as well as her outer self for the betterment of health and disposition a well as appear ance. She herself is an inspiring ex- , a in pi" of a woman who has attained . complete independence and success, as the result of her own energy, talent, education, refinement and courage. How it Caa Be Done. Here is some of the sound counsel for the leading of a happy, helpful. In spiring life contained in Miss Co croft's "Growth In Silence": "To be cheerful, bright, tender and helpful, in one's sphere' of contact. Is all that is required of us. "To let no Influence go out from us that Is not helpful is the secret of a -happy life. . 'Let us live up to our noblest Ideals and with mind and spirit fixed upon a high purpose, the little worries of life will merge Into greater thoughts. "Iet us keep our hearts pure, oar. aspirations high. Let no sun set which does not bless some klnJly act, some' helpful thought, some unselfish work. Must Open SonX "Ict us cultivate a erene mental" poise and Remember that by being sweeet. wholesome and true, we add to - the sweetness and beauty of the unl verne. , - "Let us not lose sight of our posst- . bilities remember the great oak Is enfolded In t'ne acron. "To lore all . selfishness.-all self-interest, to let go all dogmas, all pre conceived beliefs, not consistent with our present status of growth, to open tne soul. Is the only life of power.' Mrs. Senn Discusses Work of Reviewer Mrs. Helen Miller Senn. before the ! Portland Woman's club at the Mult n'omah hotel, Friday afternoon, gave a talk on "Mow to Judge and Review Work of Fiction," developing her sub, Ject from the following points: Three important ' ways of Judging a took: First, by the Impression it makes on yourself, second, by accept ing the verdict of expert authority. i third, by dissecting and weighing thi objective qualities of the book itself. The greatest art Is that which gives the most lasting pleasure to the larg est number of people. Every novel is made un of at lat fix elements, vis., character, action, plot, setting, style, spirit. ; ... neware of the melodramatic novel.; One of the first things we demand of a novel is that the characters muss iaix like real people; yet unlike real reople they must always say some- thing worth hearing. mere is always a center of high light in good painting, which shades eff more or less gradually into deepest shadow. In a figure painting thU burst of light falls upon or near the main figure. Fa In a well constructed novel there Is always one central fig ure that dominates the story; that stands in the high light. ' A book must do on of three things; mak you think, make you feel, or make you see. The best literature does all three things at once. Every great novel has a moral mean ing, but this n.eaning must He at the Leart of the plot not on Its surface. The function of the art of novel writing is not to tell ua new things as science does, but to interpret and illume what we already know. Eaco reader can grasp only so much of a book's treasures as her knowledge per mils her to understand. As reviewers mmt ian. eliminate unnecessary details. Musi Lunuense witnout losing any of tne -main thought. A drama. Is condensed more than a novel. Great poets con dense. - Tennyson's "Flower in the Crannied Wall" is suggestive of mat ter that has filled many books. It Is a book condensed Into six unes In conclusion: The reviewer ahouiJ nake prominent the message that lay ' nearest the heart of the author when he produced the book, and Ilka the painter or the poet in his art '"She must intimate th whole, anJ say the smallest part." Portland Dentist Is. Author of Textbook There seems to be a wide field and sustained demand for such a work as "The Mouth and Teeth; the Song of the Toothbrush," by Maude Muller Tanner, D. ,M. D.. of Portland. Miss Tanner's little volume Is In tended primarily for a schoolroom text book, for consideration of pupils in the fifth and sixth grade, and so is written as simply and clearly as possi ble, leaving out words and terras that would tend to confuse young: minds. ' This feature commends it to mature readers as well, and any and all of Its teachings might be followed to ad vantage. c . The book Is Portland-made, Illustra tions and all, with printing by the Kil- hams. , ' -Miss Tanner has in preparation a text book to attain the same end preservation' of health through ears of the teeth for use of primary grade youngsters. The Mourners. v, Across her lonely grave the wild' birds .fly On drooping wing, the winds with . sadder cry. As if to mourn her rest. ''-'. I"or never a bird did soar so swift, so high - - - , , ... As she. nor wind outvie her melody; Yet God. He knoweth best. Oretchen Warren in the Msren At lantic. -