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^Books: _Auth« Mrs. Whartoii, Rider Haggard, Other Writers of Romances By Willis Fletcher Johnsen The Boy Who Had Vision The Twofold Apocalypse of the Marne yflK maRNK By Edith Wharton. 16mo, pp. 12«. ;>' A; p * '' It is a small book. You may read it through in a single brief sitting. But that will not be the end of it for you. You wil 1think about it. You will read it again. You will continue to think shout it. And presently you will re- glatitude, that it has be¬ come a pari of your mental and spirit¬ ual furnishing. That is because while -.^ ¡s a small bok it is a great book it is « great book; one of the really great books of the war. ' That it is Written with grace and power is a matte of course, since Mrs. Wharton wrote it. That is the way she writes. That it a work of singular spiritual exaltation should be equally matter of course, in view of the eneme. H ¡s the greatest theme that Mrs. Wharton hat ever assayed, and one of ¿g'greatest that any writer has over essayed. Logically, therefore, we should find in it this admirable author at her best, and that is precisely what we do find. It is the story of a P.oy who bad Vision. He had Vision when the first Miracle of the Marne was wrought. He cherished it through the succeeding rears, when he was packed otï to school, in a land which was "buzzing with war charities, yet apparently unaware of the yar" Mrs. Wharton was surely in¬ spired when she wrote those phrases! At the last it became a' Vision Tri¬ umphant when it roused him to break all bonds and rush into the Second Glory of the Marne. That is all there is in the story. It is called a novel. It is an epic. -.-_ "From the Desert I Come" TINTS IN THE EAST By Wallace Tnrln. il¬ lustrated. 12mo, pp, S14. George 11. Dorau Compel y. This is the story of the Boy of the Golden West seeking his pictured in¬ amorata in the effete, sophisticated East, where he loses his fortune and finds himself as helpless as a Tender- ico; woul i be in Axe Creek. It is ex¬ travagant, in parts quite impossible. but it is all screamingly amusing, as everything from the creator of ITasbi- mura Togo should certainly be; and it contains some shrewd social satire. As a travesty upon the "smart set" it is delicious, and if the portraiture of "Buddy" seems a little overdrawn it is nevertheless exceedingly witty and winning. The Exodus Sir Rider Haggard's Romance of the Pharaohs MOtix OF IsKAKL. By II. Rider Haggard. With colored frontispiece. 12mo, pp. 302. l.nngmans. Green & Co. The magic creator of Allan Quater- main and Umslopogaas has woven for us many spells. Some have been his¬ torical, some have been purely im- aginative. Here he combines the two qualities, selecting one of the most i august, dramatic, romantic thèmes in the world's richest and most neg¬ lected.treasury of themes, and upon n groundwork of historic fact erecting an edifice of dazzling and triumphant imagination. The scene is Egypt; the time is that of the second Ramosos ¡* Mencptah---and bis successoi; the climax is the Exodus. Those are ele- ments of a drama worthy of the mightiest of pens and surely calcu- j lated to bring forth the best that was in the man who essayed to deal with them. They have done so. Never, we think, has Sir Rider Haggard touched a higher standard than in this mighty romance. Never has be given us a more con- vincing impression of vcrismilitude, and never has his creative ingenuity been more fertile and more opulent. Nor has he. nor has any writer in our time, sounded a more dramatic dia¬ pason than in the telling of the over¬ throw of Pharaoh's host in the Red Sea: Then to the west on the sea there arose a mighty wave, whereof the crest seemed to be as high as a pyran»id. It rolled forward with a curved and foamy head, and in the hollow of it, for a moment, no more, we saw the army of Egypt. Yet in that, moment I seemed to see mighty Doran Books for the Time _a_ _ HISTORIC SHRINES OF AMERICA John T. Faris The symbols of our faith, the landmarks of America's story in statesman¬ ship, in war, and in literature are presented with scrupulous historical aecuracv and set in rich lore and lege'nd. Illustrated. 8vo. Net, $3.50 SAMURAI TRAILS Lucian Swift Kirtland A Chronicle of Wanderings on the Japanese Highroad The unfrequented byways of Japan, where foreigners are an unheard-of occurrence, humor, and unexpectedness. Illustrated. 8vo. Net, $2.30 THE EDGE OF THE QUICKSANDS D. ThomQS Clirtin Author of "The. Land of Deepening Shadow" Fresh from Europe, in direct communication with unusual sources abroad, Mr. Curtin most illuminatirrgly analyzes the forces at work to-day. 12mo. Net, $1.50 WITH THOSE WHO WAIT Frances Wilson Huard Author af "My Home in the Field of Honour," "My Home in the Field of Mercy," etc. That the picture of France to-day should yield romance and sparkling fun and wit is as characteristic of Madame Huard's sympathetic touch as it is of the people she etches. Illustrations by Charles Huard. Net, $1.50 WAL INC-STICK PAPERS Robert Cortes Holliday ''There are more laughs in this book than in anything I have read for four years.".Meredith Nicholson. "Altogether charming.".New York Time*. , "Essay? done in the best classic vein.".New York Evening Pout. 12mo. Net, $1.50 UNDERSTANDING SOUTH AMERICA Clayton Sedgwick Cooper Not one of the many and complex problems facing South America but vitally affects the United States now. All treated with singular insight in this book. Illustrated. 8vo. Net, S2.00 SUCH NONS ENS E: A Unique Anthology ol Wit and Nonsense Carolyn Wetís~~ "~~ ~" ~*~~" A wit with the genius to discover the best of the wit of others here as¬ sembles the most sparkling nonsense of recent years. Illustrations by Peter Newell, Gellett Burgess and others. 8vo. Net, $2.00 THE LAUGHING WILLOW The merriest book of chuckles that ever slipped from this jovial pen. None of to-day's celebrities escapes this good-humored fun, not even yourself. Pictures by Mr. Herford. 12mo. Net, $1.25 FASCINATING FICTION VENUS IN THE EAST Wallace Irwin Buddy discovers the sweet genuine¬ ness of life. Altogether a rattling good novel. And a rollicking satire on metro¬ politan folly. Illustrated. Net, $1.50 THE CLUTCH OF CIRCUMSTANCE Marjorie Benton Cooke "Mis? Cooke knows all there is to know ¡ibout so telling a story as to 'hold' the reader.".New York ¦<un- 12mo. Net, $1.25 TWENTY-THREE AND A HALF HOURS8 LEAVE Mary Roberts Rinehart Author of "The Amazing Interlude!" ato. rhe story of a wager, a uniform, a harsh practical joke and a girl. Eighty-six i;ages of sheer, unal¬ loyed delight, that's what they are."- New York Tribune. Pictures bv May Wilson Preston. 12mo. Net, $0.60 THE AMAZING INTERLUDE Mary Roberts Rinehart This immensely popular author's finest book. "No better war story has been written by an American writer". Outlook. Illustrated. Net, $1.50 THE YOUNG DIANA Marie Corelli Against the hopelessness of wait¬ ing for a faithless lover, Diana re¬ volts. Exciting adventures re¬ store the lost scepter of youth and beauty. 12mo. Net, $1.50 THE ROOM WITH THE TASSELS Carolyn Wells The story of a merry party who investigated a haunted house. "Cer¬ tainly an unusual detective story." .Boston Transcript. 12mo. Net, $1.40 FOR SALE AT ALL BOOKSHOPS GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY Publishers New York To Follow Intelligently the Life of Your Friends in the Army Read AMERICA AT THE FRONT By FULLERTON L. WALDO. Illustrated. $2.00 net. with Ne America ¡it war "Mm. No other single book gives so rgunded n picture pi our & P. DUTTON & CO., 681 Fifth Ave., New York shapes fleeing landward along the crest of the wave, which shapes I took to be the gods of Egypt, pur¬ sued by a form of light and glory that drove them as with a scourge The.y enmc, they went, accompanied by a sound of wailing, and the wave fell. There is, of course, an exquisite love story running through the mighty drama, and there are a thousand touches which make the Egyptians and Israelítica of thousands of years ago seem men of like passions with our¬ selves. . Three Men Also One Woman and Varions Lesser Persons m,.w T.,HN. ?>' .Tnn",!' n. Ileudrvx. 12mo, pp. <<!>.:. U. r. Putnam a Soni, Never again! A little while ago we were tired, we thought, of the South¬ west and the Northwest, of the cowboy and the miner, of the melodramas of the cattle country and the romances of the lands of furs* and gold. Those two classe* of fiction, wc were about to say, were overwritten, overworked, over¬ done, and wc should have a long, long rest from them. But not again shall we be guilty of such snap judgment, for here upon the very heels and echo Bessie Beatty ("The Red Heart of Russia"; The Century Company of our complaining comes a book which combines in the vj.th degree the char¬ acteristics of both those classes and does it mi admirably that we humbly and gratefully hope for more. Three men dominate the book, and they are. men. One is a Texas cattle¬ man, half' outlaw, but every inch a man, so witty, so daring, so masterful that we wonder why Mr. Hendryx does not kill him otf as Shakespeare did. so they say.«Mercutio, because he could not longer keep the pace that he had sec. One is a precise, methodical, conventional New Englander, likewise every inch a man.after you get under the veneer. One is a French-Indian "breed," with all the loyalty, resource- fulness and humor of his tribe, and every inch a man. The one woman who figures greatly is scarcely up to their standard, though she is charm¬ ing and very true to life. The. plot is simple, but natural and strong in its appeal to curiosity; the action is vig¬ orous and expeditious and there is a fine vein of manly and womanly senti¬ ment running through it. By all odds it is one of the best romances of the cattle country that we have ever read, and it is well worthy of a conspicuous place among the really choice fiction of the year. Grosset & Dunlap have issued a pop¬ ular pried edition of J. W. Gerard's ".My Eour Years in Germany." MY LORRAINE JOURNAL By Edith O'Shaunessy The New York Tribune says : "The author has an inspired way of etching verbal vignettes with Avonderful graphic skill. . . . It is decidedly one of the most delightful books of the kind that have come to our ken dur¬ ing the war." The New York Sun says: "Some people have a genius for writing jour¬ nals, and Mrs. O'Shau¬ nessy is one of them. . . . It does not take but a,iew moments for us to become enamored of this writer's style." Illustrated, $1.60 HARPER & BROTHERS NEW (Established 1817) YORK Read Ambassador Morgenthau's Story History for now and all time. yet, $'¿.00 Ducky Daddies' Party By BERTHA PARKER HALL Full of Toy-dolls and fun for the little ones. A story that tells itself in pictures. 5 1.25 DUTTON'S 681 Fifth Avc., near 54th Street Roosevelt's Life Holiday A Boys' Life of T. R. _ *.-. Spirited Sketches of a More -Than Spirited Career THF. HOYS' LIFE OP THEODORE ROOSEVELT. liv licrrannn Hagedorn. Illustrated. 12uu>, pp. :i"r>. Uarpur ^ Uros. The question might, of course, be raised whether a boy's Life of Theo¬ dore Roosevelt \v:is, per se, necessary or desirable. That is not asking whether boys should be made acquaint¬ ed with his career, which, as Euclid says, is absurd, but whether a life of him for adult readers is not quite .satisfactory for boys' reading. His whole career has been so direct, so lucid, so simple in its appeal to human sentiment and patriotic interest that any well written account of it for adult readers should be no less under¬ standable, appreciable and acceptable to boys. However, if the writing and publication of a life specially meant for boys will result in any increase Hermann Hagedorn î' Lifo of Theodore R Harper & lire»».) of juvenile readers and students of his career, in the name of the Repub¬ lic let us have it. Mr. Hagedorn has Written a well meaning, sympathetic and spirited sketch, or series of sketches, of Colo¬ nel Roosevelt's career, the reading of which is to be commended to all young Americans. It is instructive, illuminat¬ ing, inspiring, and its faults, from which it is by no means free, are not such as will do harm. Perhaps the chief fault is lack of proportion. Some features and episodes are unduly ex¬ ploited, presumably because it is sup¬ posed that they especially appeal to boys, while others are minimized for the opposite reason. Again, there are places too violently partisan. Thus the account of the Panama (.'anal epi¬ sode is, to put it mildly, not impartial.! It is scarcely right to say that "Colooi- bia was under the dictatorship of an adventurer named Marroquin," and we must regret the omission of any ref¬ erence'to the reasons for the "elimina- lion of the Nicaragua mute" and the notorious German intrigues. The faults of the book are, however, lost before the groat array of merits and the intense and vital human inter¬ est which pervades the whole. It is not at all a piece of hero worship, but it is the record of an heroic career. Boys' Books of Action "The Boy Scouts' Year Book" surely has ground for being called "the big¬ gest boys' book of the year." It is big in bulk and great in contents. There really seems to be something in it on every topic of interest to boys, ,and we are sure that there, is not a 'line in it that is not of interest to them. It is edited by Franklin K. Mathiews, the chief scout librarian, and is published for the Roy Scouts of America. Its contents come from the pens and pencils- and brains, of course! -of many accomplished writers and artists. (4to, pp. 260. I). Appleton & Co.) The ancient feuds between the Dela¬ wares and the Mohawks provide much of the material and setting of Elmer R. Gregor's spirited tale of "Running Fox," which he tells with the fascinat- ing skill of a true romancer and with the authenticity of an expert authority on Indian manners and customs. It is a book at once thrilling and scholarly. D. C. Hutchinson has contributed a frontispiece. (12mo, pp. 318. D. Apple- ton & Co.) The tenth volume of the United States Service Series, by Francis Rolt- Wheeler, is "The Boy with the United States Naturalists." This beautiful volume» is chiefly devoted to observa- Memories, Grave And Gay By FLORENCE HOWE HALL T HE well-known author, lecturer, and daughter of Julia Ward Howe tells here the story of her in¬ teresting life. She grew up in Boston in an international at¬ mosphere, and knew, among others, Kossuth ; Thackeray ; Longfellow; Charles Sumner; Kane, the Arctic explorer; Ar¬ thur Hugh (lough ; ^Charlotte Cushman; Frederika Bremer; Edwin Booth ; George Ban¬ croft; Oliver Wendell Holmes; Emerson; William Hunt; the Agassizes; the two James brothers, William and Henry; William Dean Howells, and the Storys. Of all of these she has interesting .stories and reminiscences to relate. Illustrated. Cloth, Regular Svu. $3.50 HARPER & BROTHERS New (Est. 1817) York for Boys: Time Juvenilia tiona of bird lifo and to reminders and demonstrations of the indispensa¬ ble value of feathered creatures to the economic welfare of the nation. The narrative and descriptions are cal- dilated to be of absorbing interest to every healthy-minded boy. There is a profusion of admirable photographic il¬ lustrations, from government sources. (Large 12mo.,np. xii, 350. Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.) "Don Halo Over There," by W. Cris- pin Shcppard, is, as its titlo indicates, the story of a boy's adventures in the. Great War, partly on the sea, partly near the battle line in France and part- ly in the service of the Red Cross. It is a "spirited tale, giving a sufficiently veracious impression of the operations of the war. There arc good illustra- tions by H. A. Bodine. (il2mo, pp. 320.; The Perm Publishing Company.) "Jimmy in the Fighting Line," by Charles Tenny Jackson, is a red- blooded tale of the war in the trenches, written with obvious knowledge of the subject and therefore free from exag¬ gerations.though, come to think of it, would exaggeration be possible? W. W. Clarke illustrates it with a number of plates. (12mo, pp. 315. 1). Apple- ton & Co.) Everett T. Tomlinson's "Fighters Young Americans Want to Know" con¬ tains a number of stories of heroic deeds in the Revolution and other American wars, including the present; not the doings which are already fa- miliar to the world in history books, but others similarly meritorious and quite as authentic, but not hitherto exploited to such a degree. It is a "worth while" book. (Illustrated. 12mo, pp. 275. D. Appleton & Co.) An. Animated Museum The Mysteries of Olden Times Made to Live Again TUB TIlAlIi BOOK. By Mary Austin. Illustrated l>y «Milu Winter. 8vo, pp. xit, 3U5. Ilouguiun MltTlia Company. Gautier gave life and voice to mum¬ mies; Kipling invested with speech the creatures of the jungle; and here we have a book of marked originality, in¬ genuity and power standing midway between them by causing the mounted "specimens" of a natural history museum to resume life and speech and to tell strange tales of the ancient days. Such a work must obviously be writ¬ ten with much knowledge and with dis¬ cretion if it is to avoid being absurd or else being a mere fairy extrava¬ ganza. Happily, Mary Austin brought to it the essential gifts in abundant measure, and the result is what we have already described it. The Mastodon tells of the pre-gla- cial era; Indians relate romances of the Iroquois Trail and of the Mound Build¬ ers; the Pelican and the Condor have thrilling stories of the days of the Con¬ quistadors, and others contribute to the weird yet lifelike symposium. The author has told the stories in fascinat¬ ing style, simply as wonder stories, and she has also invested them with a wealth of information and instruction. It is a juvenile book of an unusual kind, and of unusual merit. For the Little Ones H is not the "ghQul-haunted wood¬ land of Weir" of Poe's nonsense jin¬ gle of which Anna McClure Sholl has written in her "Faery Tales of Weir," but a place of beauty and charm and dreamy romance, where every evening brought forth a new talo and every tale wove the spell of a new enchant- ment. Katharine Pyle has made a lovely colored frontispiece and numerous black and white illustrations for a thor- oughly attractive volume. ("8vo, pp. 172. F. P. Dutton & Co.) In "Mother's Nursery Tales" we have what should prove a genuine clas- sic. It contains three dozen or more of the greatest of fairy tales, such as "The Sleeping Beauty," "Jack and the Bean Stalk." "Beauty and the Beast," "Jack the Giant-Killer," and "Little Red Riding-Hood," retold with all their J ancient charm and some added inter- est, by Katharine Pyle; with a num- ber of colored plates and many black ¡and white illustrations which have sel- I dom been equalled by any artist for sheer loveliness and for sympathetic interpretation of the spirit of the tales. It is a book that will be a treas- ure in the. nursery and that will com- mand an honored place on the library shelves. (Royal 8vo, pp. 370. E. P. Dut- tor. & Co.) Another classic for the nursery and for the library, too, is "The Book of Fives and Fairies," by Frances Jenkins Oleott. it contains scores of the fin- est pf fairy tales, many of them by famous writers, classified in groups, and representing the literature of Í many lands and the folk-lore of many places. Milo Winter has contributed some colored plates of exquisite beauty, and there is also an analytical index which will be of great service to story-tellers and to all readers. The child, the child's elders and the lover of literature and art will all alike be enchanted with the volume. (8vo, pp. xx, 430. Houghton Milflin Company) "The Moving House," by Paulme Bradford Mackie, is a fairy tale of a somewhat unusual kind, telling of a house in which dwelt a little girl all alone, anil which went rambling about j the world on all sorts of bewildering journeys, bringing its occupant into contact with t.11 sorts of interest¬ ing people and animals. Charles Olm- ! stead Bassett has written some inci- dental music, and Howard E. Smith contributes a colored frontispiece and capital plates in black and white. (8vo, pp. 250. Small, Maynard & Co.) The perennial worth of our old nursery classics is again attested in the appearance of "Little Red Riding Hood and Other Fairy Tales," pictured in colors and in black and white by Lillian Causey. The eight tales are all familiar and ire all of the best quality, though somewhat scantily told. By the way, the inclusion of "Cin- derella" suggests to us that it would be interesting for somebody in re¬ telling that famous romance to take up the problem of the alleged "glass" I sltpper and settle, on2e for all, whether it was of glass or, as some wise men hold, of fur. (Small 4to, pp. 8S. The Penn Publishing Company.) BIBBEISSeiEIISB! AMERICA in FRANCE THE ONE BOOK that tells the story of General Pershing and the «Amer- » ican Army in France By Major Frederick Palmer of GENERAL PERSHING'S STAFF DODD, MEAD & COMPANY NEW YORK Clean literature and clean womanhood are the keystones of Civiliza¬ tion:.this aphoristically defines the ideals of The Devin-Adair imprint. No pood ¡Vornan ever married a man except for love.for life No real Man ever married a woman except for love.for life With this book the comrade of all men and women a Bachelor in time will be an ignored novelty.and as for Spinsters there will be few if any in the world old enough to shy at a mirror. ives Mothers By REV. HUGH FRANCIS BLUNT [The Boston Editor, Writer and Poet] This is the age of War.and Woman. In the. War history is re¬ peating with horror-laden emphasis. In Woman's dominating ac¬ tivities are we to have a rebirth of the Eleventh Century? There is no middle course fpr Woman; her influence is infinite, and eternal in results, for she leads to Heaven or lures to Hell. The best book critic in this country is Dr. Willis Fletcher Johnson, Literary Editor of the New York Tribune. The foe of suggestive books, he has the force of character to denounce orally and in editorials the "filthy" publications of his own largest advertisers. Read what this ardent and active Protestant said in a leading editorial review of a new book by a Catholic priest: "If 't.reat Wives and Mothers' were a volume of Hocial scandal* and sala¬ city, about 'frail' women und unfaithful wives, it might rank among the 'best sellers' of the week. Often and often, unto utter weariness of spirit, have we had volumes forced upon us whose sole excuse for existence was the exploita¬ tion of the weaknesses and wickednesses of womankind, «iidcd in 'hi^h life' and squalid in the slums, from Mcssalina and Lola Monte/, and the Pompadour t'o the unnamed harpies or piteous victims of the Barbary Coast. Kt range, and more than passinK strange, that while the most abandoned man resents as an intolerable însult a reflBrtion in ob- scene phrase upon his mother, so many men of supposedly decent instincts should gloat upon the prostitution of womanhood in either fact or Action ! "But here is a volume of another kind. Here is a book which looks to the light rather than to the darkness, and to which virtue is more charming: than vice, it finds its themes in the examples of noble womanhood, which have after all, despite the rynic and the scandal-monger, so numerously adorned and blessed the checkered history of our race. These women, too, have been in varied walks of life. All were types of the nobility and purity of character which even the dissolut« and Ueentions man esteems and Insista upon in the women of his own household. "So we could wish.nay, we could not help wishing.that such volumes as this might far surpass the other kind in wide reading and in popular favor. They deserve to do so. on both planes. For they are at least as interesting aa the others. There could be nothing more promising for the future of the nation and of the race than that men should learn to prefer the clean literature of virtuous womanhood above the reeking propaganda of the stews." The Devil's way is the Divorce way; the ratio in the larger cities is one in seven to one in three-.bad enough, truly ; but just as surely as ''you cannot be a little bit married.or a little bit dead," the many thoughtless, hasty and fly-by-night war marriages will send the average of domestic upheavals to panic figures." "GREAT WIVES AND MOTHERS" will help to turn houses into homes.will assuredly lead to marriage and happiness of the only kind that's worth a picayune.the kind that lasts. Largue Crown Octavo, $2.00 Net.Postpaid $2.15. At Bookstores or 0"HE DEVIN-ADAIR COMPANY, Publishers, 437 Fifth Ave., New York Varied Juvenilia Both for and about children is Kate Upson Clark's new volume, "Teaching the Child Patriotism." It discusses the important subject from many points of view, including those of work, of health and of morals and religion; always sanely and profitably. Parents and teachers will find it full of valu¬ able suggestion and guidance, and chil- dren in mid-teens will be assisted by it to educate themselves. (With fron- tispiece. 12mo, pp. 175. The Page Company.) "Carita," by Lucy M. Blanchard, is a patriotic book in the form of an enter- taining story of a Mexican girl and how she became a good American. The narrative is interesting and the "local color" is true to life. The volume is illustrated by John Goss. (12mo, pp. 303. The Page Company.) A volume of historic information, of civic instruction and of patriotic in¬ spiration is "1 Am an American," by Sara Cone Bryant. It is intended to be read by the children themselves, or to be read to them by their elders. (Illustrated. Small 4to, pp. 159. Houghton Mifflin Company.) "The French Twins," by Lucy Fitch Perkins, illustrated by herself, is a tale of children's experiences in war time in France, giving in the form of interesting narrative much information about the country and the war, and a realistic view of the battle scourged ¡regions. (Small 4to, pp. 202. Hough- ton Mifflin Company). "Home Life Around the World," by George A. Mirick, with illustrations from photographs by Burton Holmes, is 'an instructive and entertaining little »book, suited to children scaracely in ¡or just entering their teens, giving 'vivid views of the home life of chil¬ dren and their occupations in other lands than ours. (12mo, pp. 159, I Houghton Mifflin Company.) "Three Sides of Paradise Green," by Augusta Huiell Seaman, is a delightful Franco-American mystery story for Kirls, culminating in the early part of the Groat War. It is charmingly illus¬ trated by C. M. Relyea. (12mo, pp. 275. The Century Company.) 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The result was, in the Impressive language of Chief Justice Chase: "An indestructible Union, composed of Indestructible States " The Peace Conference will result as happily if it takes the counsel jf experience and considers the proceedings of the Federal Convention of 1787. At all bookstores or from the publishers Oxford University Press AMERICAN BRANCH THIRTY-FIVE WEST THIRTY-SECOND STREET, NEW YORK Read Peter B. Kyne's Bio &utde»r B+mmnem The Valley of the Giants >>f. S1.40 XV. H. HUDSON'S Marvellous Unique Autobiography FAR AWAY and LONG AGO By the Author of "The Purple Land," "Idle Days in Patagonia," etc., etc. With portraits. $2.50. "Mr. Hudson has not depended on his vivid external life for the main interest of tliis book. He has told us simply and sincerely the story of a soul as well as the tale of a boy's ad¬ ventures on the Argentine pampas. His book is of extraordi¬ nary interest psychologically as well as from the point of u-w of the lover outdoor life. Mr. Hudson's earliest recollections are of those immense South American pampas, of a house shaded by tall.'ornbu' trees, of gauchos and horses and cattle. To his father's ranch came the strongest visitors, Spaniard-, ' wandering Englishmen. Perhaps the most valuable chapter in Mr. Hudson's present book is that entitled 'A Boy's Animism.' Animism, of course, is the sense of something super¬ natural, something alive, in nature. * The author is a poet and a scientist and a psychologist. From whatever view¬ point he may be speaking lie is equally sincere. And so. both as a record of a wild land, as a sidelight on such characters as Rosas, the dictator, and as a -tory of a man's inner life and re¬ ligious struggle, this biography possesses that definitive value which only the biographies of a few men have possessed, and then only by reason of an utter sincerity.".L,LEWELL\ X JONES in The Chicago Evening Post. E. P. DUTTON & CO., 681 Fifth Ave., New York

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Other Writers of RomancesBy Willis Fletcher Johnsen

The Boy Who Had Vision

The Twofold Apocalypse of theMarne

yflK maRNK By Edith Wharton. 16mo, pp. 12«.;>' A; p * ''

It is a small book. You may read it

through in a single brief sitting. Butthat will not be the end of it for you.

You wil 1think about it. You will readit again. You will continue to think

shout it. And presently you will re-

glatitude, that it has be¬come a pari of your mental and spirit¬ual furnishing. That is because while-.^ ¡s a small bok it is a great bookit is « great book; one of the reallygreat books of the war. '

That it is Written with grace andpower is a matte of course, since Mrs.Wharton wrote it. That is the wayshe writes. That it a work of singularspiritual exaltation should be equallymatter of course, in view of the eneme.H ¡s the greatest theme that Mrs.Wharton hat ever assayed, and one of¿g'greatest that any writer has over

essayed. Logically, therefore, we shouldfind in it this admirable author at herbest, and that is precisely what we dofind.

It is the story of a P.oy who badVision. He had Vision when the firstMiracle of the Marne was wrought. Hecherished it through the succeedingrears, when he was packed otï to school,in a land which was "buzzing with warcharities, yet apparently unaware ofthe yar" Mrs. Wharton was surely in¬spired when she wrote those phrases!At the last it became a' Vision Tri¬umphant when it roused him to breakall bonds and rush into the SecondGlory of the Marne.That is all there is in the story. It

is called a novel. It is an epic.-.-_

"From the Desert I Come"TINTS IN THE EAST By Wallace Tnrln. il¬

lustrated. 12mo, pp, S14. George 11. DorauCompel y.

This is the story of the Boy of theGolden West seeking his pictured in¬amorata in the effete, sophisticatedEast, where he loses his fortune andfinds himself as helpless as a Tender-ico; woul i be in Axe Creek. It is ex¬travagant, in parts quite impossible.

but it is all screamingly amusing, aseverything from the creator of ITasbi-mura Togo should certainly be; and itcontains some shrewd social satire. Asa travesty upon the "smart set" it isdelicious, and if the portraiture of"Buddy" seems a little overdrawn itis nevertheless exceedingly witty andwinning.

The Exodus

Sir Rider Haggard's Romanceof the Pharaohs

MOtix OF IsKAKL. By II. Rider Haggard. Withcolored frontispiece. 12mo, pp. 302. l.nngmans.Green & Co.The magic creator of Allan Quater-

main and Umslopogaas has woven forus many spells. Some have been his¬torical, some have been purely im-aginative. Here he combines the twoqualities, selecting one of the most

i august, dramatic, romantic thèmes inthe world's richest and most neg¬lected.treasury of themes, and uponn groundwork of historic fact erectingan edifice of dazzling and triumphantimagination. The scene is Egypt; thetime is that of the second Ramosos

¡* Mencptah---and bis successoi; theclimax is the Exodus. Those are ele-ments of a drama worthy of themightiest of pens and surely calcu-j lated to bring forth the best that wasin the man who essayed to deal withthem.They have done so. Never, we think,

has Sir Rider Haggard touched a higherstandard than in this mighty romance.Never has be given us a more con-vincing impression of vcrismilitude,and never has his creative ingenuitybeen more fertile and more opulent.Nor has he. nor has any writer in ourtime, sounded a more dramatic dia¬pason than in the telling of the over¬throw of Pharaoh's host in the RedSea:

Then to the west on the sea therearose a mighty wave, whereof thecrest seemed to be as high as apyran»id. It rolled forward with acurved and foamy head, and in thehollow of it, for a moment, no more,we saw the army of Egypt. Yet inthat, moment I seemed to see mighty

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shapes fleeing landward along thecrest of the wave, which shapes Itook to be the gods of Egypt, pur¬sued by a form of light and glorythat drove them as with a scourgeThe.y enmc, they went, accompaniedby a sound of wailing, and the wavefell.There is, of course, an exquisite lovestory running through the mightydrama, and there are a thousandtouches which make the Egyptians andIsraelítica of thousands of years agoseem men of like passions with our¬selves. .

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THF. HOYS' LIFE OP THEODORE ROOSEVELT.liv licrrannn Hagedorn. Illustrated. 12uu>, pp. :i"r>.Uarpur ^ Uros.The question might, of course, be

raised whether a boy's Life of Theo¬dore Roosevelt \v:is, per se, necessaryor desirable. That is not askingwhether boys should be made acquaint¬ed with his career, which, as Euclidsays, is absurd, but whether a life ofhim for adult readers is not quite.satisfactory for boys' reading. Hiswhole career has been so direct, solucid, so simple in its appeal to humansentiment and patriotic interest thatany well written account of it foradult readers should be no less under¬standable, appreciable and acceptableto boys. However, if the writing andpublication of a life specially meantfor boys will result in any increase

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of juvenile readers and students ofhis career, in the name of the Repub¬lic let us have it.

Mr. Hagedorn has Written a wellmeaning, sympathetic and spiritedsketch, or series of sketches, of Colo¬nel Roosevelt's career, the reading ofwhich is to be commended to all youngAmericans. It is instructive, illuminat¬ing, inspiring, and its faults, fromwhich it is by no means free, are notsuch as will do harm. Perhaps thechief fault is lack of proportion. Somefeatures and episodes are unduly ex¬ploited, presumably because it is sup¬posed that they especially appeal toboys, while others are minimized forthe opposite reason. Again, there areplaces too violently partisan. Thusthe account of the Panama (.'anal epi¬sode is, to put it mildly, not impartial.!It is scarcely right to say that "Colooi-bia was under the dictatorship of anadventurer named Marroquin," and wemust regret the omission of any ref¬erence'to the reasons for the "elimina-lion of the Nicaragua mute" and thenotorious German intrigues.The faults of the book are, however,

lost before the groat array of meritsand the intense and vital human inter¬est which pervades the whole. It isnot at all a piece of hero worship, butit is the record of an heroic career.

Boys' Books of Action"The Boy Scouts' Year Book" surely

has ground for being called "the big¬gest boys' book of the year." It isbig in bulk and great in contents.There really seems to be something init on every topic of interest to boys,,and we are sure that there, is not a'line in it that is not of interest tothem. It is edited by Franklin K.Mathiews, the chief scout librarian,and is published for the Roy Scoutsof America. Its contents come fromthe pens and pencils- and brains, ofcourse! -of many accomplished writersand artists. (4to, pp. 260. I). Appleton& Co.)The ancient feuds between the Dela¬

wares and the Mohawks provide muchof the material and setting of Elmer R.Gregor's spirited tale of "RunningFox," which he tells with the fascinat-ing skill of a true romancer and withthe authenticity of an expert authorityon Indian manners and customs. It isa book at once thrilling and scholarly.D. C. Hutchinson has contributed afrontispiece. (12mo, pp. 318. D. Apple-ton & Co.)The tenth volume of the United

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Memories, GraveAnd Gay

By FLORENCE HOWE HALL

THE well-known author,lecturer, and daughterof Julia Ward Howe

tells here the story of her in¬teresting life. She grew up inBoston in an international at¬mosphere, and knew, amongothers, Kossuth ; Thackeray ;Longfellow; Charles Sumner;Kane, the Arctic explorer; Ar¬thur Hugh (lough ; ^CharlotteCushman; Frederika Bremer;Edwin Booth ; George Ban¬croft; Oliver Wendell Holmes;Emerson; William Hunt; theAgassizes; the two Jamesbrothers, William and Henry;William Dean Howells, andthe Storys. Of all of these shehas interesting .stories andreminiscences to relate.

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for Boys:Time Juveniliationa of bird lifo and to remindersand demonstrations of the indispensa¬ble value of feathered creatures tothe economic welfare of the nation.The narrative and descriptions are cal-dilated to be of absorbing interest toevery healthy-minded boy. There is aprofusion of admirable photographic il¬lustrations, from government sources.(Large 12mo.,np. xii, 350. Lothrop, Lee& Shepard Co.)"Don Halo Over There," by W. Cris-

pin Shcppard, is, as its titlo indicates,the story of a boy's adventures in the.Great War, partly on the sea, partlynear the battle line in France and part-ly in the service of the Red Cross. Itis a "spirited tale, giving a sufficientlyveracious impression of the operationsof the war. There arc good illustra-tions by H. A. Bodine. (il2mo, pp. 320.;The Perm Publishing Company.)"Jimmy in the Fighting Line," by

Charles Tenny Jackson, is a red-blooded tale of the war in the trenches,written with obvious knowledge of thesubject and therefore free from exag¬gerations.though, come to think ofit, would exaggeration be possible? W.W. Clarke illustrates it with a numberof plates. (12mo, pp. 315. 1). Apple-ton & Co.)Everett T. Tomlinson's "Fighters

Young Americans Want to Know" con¬tains a number of stories of heroicdeeds in the Revolution and otherAmerican wars, including the present;not the doings which are already fa-miliar to the world in history books,but others similarly meritorious andquite as authentic, but not hithertoexploited to such a degree. It is a"worth while" book. (Illustrated. 12mo,pp. 275. D. Appleton & Co.)

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l>y «Milu Winter. 8vo, pp. xit, 3U5. IlouguiunMltTlia Company.Gautier gave life and voice to mum¬

mies; Kipling invested with speech thecreatures of the jungle; and here wehave a book of marked originality, in¬genuity and power standing midwaybetween them by causing the mounted"specimens" of a natural historymuseum to resume life and speech andto tell strange tales of the ancient days.Such a work must obviously be writ¬ten with much knowledge and with dis¬cretion if it is to avoid being absurdor else being a mere fairy extrava¬ganza. Happily, Mary Austin broughtto it the essential gifts in abundantmeasure, and the result is what wehave already described it.The Mastodon tells of the pre-gla-

cial era; Indians relate romances of theIroquois Trail and of the Mound Build¬ers; the Pelican and the Condor havethrilling stories of the days of the Con¬quistadors, and others contribute tothe weird yet lifelike symposium. Theauthor has told the stories in fascinat¬ing style, simply as wonder stories, andshe has also invested them with awealth of information and instruction.It is a juvenile book of an unusualkind, and of unusual merit.

For the Little OnesH is not the "ghQul-haunted wood¬

land of Weir" of Poe's nonsense jin¬gle of which Anna McClure Sholl haswritten in her "Faery Tales of Weir,"but a place of beauty and charm anddreamy romance, where every eveningbrought forth a new talo and everytale wove the spell of a new enchant-ment. Katharine Pyle has made a lovelycolored frontispiece and numerous blackand white illustrations for a thor-oughly attractive volume. ("8vo, pp. 172.F. P. Dutton & Co.)

In "Mother's Nursery Tales" wehave what should prove a genuine clas-sic. It contains three dozen or more ofthe greatest of fairy tales, such as"The Sleeping Beauty," "Jack and theBean Stalk." "Beauty and the Beast,""Jack the Giant-Killer," and "LittleRed Riding-Hood," retold with all their

J ancient charm and some added inter-est, by Katharine Pyle; with a num-ber of colored plates and many black

¡and white illustrations which have sel-I dom been equalled by any artist forsheer loveliness and for sympatheticinterpretation of the spirit of thetales. It is a book that will be a treas-ure in the. nursery and that will com-mand an honored place on the libraryshelves. (Royal 8vo, pp. 370. E. P. Dut-tor. & Co.)Another classic for the nursery and

for the library, too, is "The Book ofFives and Fairies," by Frances JenkinsOleott. it contains scores of the fin-est pf fairy tales, many of them byfamous writers, classified in groups,and representing the literature of

Í many lands and the folk-lore of manyplaces. Milo Winter has contributedsome colored plates of exquisitebeauty, and there is also an analyticalindex which will be of great serviceto story-tellers and to all readers. Thechild, the child's elders and the loverof literature and art will all alike beenchanted with the volume. (8vo, pp.xx, 430. Houghton Milflin Company)"The Moving House," by PaulmeBradford Mackie, is a fairy tale of asomewhat unusual kind, telling of ahouse in which dwelt a little girl allalone, anil which went rambling aboutj the world on all sorts of bewilderingjourneys, bringing its occupant intocontact with t.11 sorts of interest¬ing people and animals. Charles Olm-! stead Bassett has written some inci-dental music, and Howard E. Smithcontributes a colored frontispiece andcapital plates in black and white.(8vo, pp. 250. Small, Maynard & Co.)The perennial worth of our old

nursery classics is again attested inthe appearance of "Little Red RidingHood and Other Fairy Tales," picturedin colors and in black and white byLillian Causey. The eight tales areall familiar and ire all of the bestquality, though somewhat scantily told.By the way, the inclusion of "Cin-derella" suggests to us that it wouldbe interesting for somebody in re¬telling that famous romance to take upthe problem of the alleged "glass"I sltpper and settle, on2e for all, whetherit was of glass or, as some wise menhold, of fur. (Small 4to, pp. 8S. ThePenn Publishing Company.)

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Clean literature and clean womanhood are the keystones of Civiliza¬tion:.this aphoristically defines the ideals of The Devin-Adair imprint.

No pood ¡Vornan ever married a man except for love.for lifeNo real Man ever married a woman except for love.for life

With this book the comrade of all men and women aBachelor in time will be an ignored novelty.andas for Spinsters there will be few if any in the

world old enough to shy at a mirror.

ives MothersBy REV. HUGH FRANCIS BLUNT

[The Boston Editor, Writer and Poet]

This is the age of War.and Woman. In the. War history is re¬peating with horror-laden emphasis. In Woman's dominating ac¬tivities are we to have a rebirth of the Eleventh Century? Thereis no middle course fpr Woman; her influence is infinite, andeternal in results, for she leads to Heaven or lures to Hell.The best book critic in this country is Dr. Willis Fletcher Johnson, LiteraryEditor of the New York Tribune. The foe of suggestive books, he has the

force of character to denounce orally and in editorials the "filthy"publications of his own largest advertisers. Read what thisardent and active Protestant said in a leading editorial

review of a new book by a Catholic priest:"If 't.reat Wives and Mothers' were

a volume of Hocial scandal* and sala¬city, about 'frail' women und unfaithfulwives, it might rank among the 'bestsellers' of the week. Often and often,unto utter weariness of spirit, have wehad volumes forced upon us whose soleexcuse for existence was the exploita¬tion of the weaknesses and wickednessesof womankind, «iidcd in 'hi^h life' andsqualid in the slums, from Mcssalinaand Lola Monte/, and the Pompadour t'othe unnamed harpies or piteous victimsof the Barbary Coast. Kt range, andmore than passinK strange, that whilethe most abandoned man resents as an

intolerable însult a reflBrtion in ob-scene phrase upon his mother, so manymen of supposedly decent instinctsshould gloat upon the prostitution ofwomanhood in either fact or Action !"But here is a volume of another

kind. Here is a book which looks tothe light rather than to the darkness,and to which virtue is more charming:than vice, it finds its themes in theexamples of noble womanhood, whichhave after all, despite the rynic and thescandal-monger, so numerously adornedand blessed the checkered history ofour race. These women, too, have beenin varied walks of life. All were types

of the nobility and purity of characterwhich even the dissolut« and Ueentionsman esteems and Insista upon in thewomen of his own household."So we could wish.nay, we could

not help wishing.that such volumes asthis might far surpass the other kind inwide reading and in popular favor. Theydeserve to do so. on both planes. Forthey are at least as interesting aa theothers. There could be nothing morepromising for the future of the nationand of the race than that men shouldlearn to prefer the clean literature ofvirtuous womanhood above the reekingpropaganda of the stews."

The Devil's way is the Divorce way; the ratio in the larger cities is one in seven to one inthree-.bad enough, truly ; but just as surely as ''you cannot be a little bit married.or a littlebit dead," the many thoughtless, hasty and fly-by-night war marriages will send the average ofdomestic upheavals to panic figures." "GREAT WIVES AND MOTHERS" will help to turnhouses into homes.will assuredly lead to marriage and happiness of the only kind that's wortha picayune.the kind that lasts.

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Both for and about children is Kate

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patriotic book in the form of an enter-taining story of a Mexican girl andhow she became a good American. Thenarrative is interesting and the "localcolor" is true to life. The volume is

illustrated by John Goss. (12mo, pp.303. The Page Company.)A volume of historic information, of

civic instruction and of patriotic in¬

spiration is "1 Am an American," bySara Cone Bryant. It is intended tobe read by the children themselves, or

to be read to them by their elders.(Illustrated. Small 4to, pp. 159.Houghton Mifflin Company.)"The French Twins," by Lucy Fitch

Perkins, illustrated by herself, is a

tale of children's experiences in war

time in France, giving in the form ofinteresting narrative much informationabout the country and the war, and a

realistic view of the battle scourged¡regions. (Small 4to, pp. 202. Hough-ton Mifflin Company)."Home Life Around the World," by

George A. Mirick, with illustrationsfrom photographs by Burton Holmes, is'an instructive and entertaining little»book, suited to children scaracely in

¡or just entering their teens, giving'vivid views of the home life of chil¬dren and their occupations in otherlands than ours. (12mo, pp. 159,

I Houghton Mifflin Company.)"Three Sides of Paradise Green," by

Augusta Huiell Seaman, is a delightfulFranco-American mystery story forKirls, culminating in the early part ofthe Groat War. It is charmingly illus¬trated by C. M. Relyea. (12mo, pp. 275.The Century Company.)

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