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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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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
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Memories, GraveAnd Gay
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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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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
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An. Animated MuseumThe Mysteries of Olden Times
Made to Live AgainTUB TIlAlIi BOOK. By Mary Austin. Illustrated
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¬
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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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ives MothersBy REV. HUGH FRANCIS BLUNT
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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
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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
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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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XV. H. HUDSON'S Marvellous Unique Autobiography
FAR AWAY and LONG AGOBy the Author of "The Purple Land," "Idle Daysin Patagonia," etc., etc. With portraits. $2.50.
"Mr. Hudson has not depended on his vivid external lifefor the main interest of tliis book. He has told us simply andsincerely 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-wof the lover oí outdoor life. Mr. Hudson's earliest recollectionsare of those immense South American pampas, of a houseshaded 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 valuablechapter in Mr. Hudson's present book is that entitled 'A Boy'sAnimism.' 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. bothas 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 valuewhich only the biographies of a few men have possessed, andthen only by reason of an utter sincerity.".L,LEWELL\ XJONES in The Chicago Evening Post.E. P. DUTTON & CO., 681 Fifth Ave., New York
