EVENING hJiDQiiR-VB.i.hAUBhVK'lA.', FRIDAY, SEi'TiiMIiJiR 24, 1015.
TiJS iVW BOOKS OF THE NEW SEASON LEAD OFF WITH H. G. WELLS' LATEST NOVE
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H. G. WELLS SEARCHES WORLD FOR
WORLD'S SALVATION IN NEW NOVEL
Has He Found it in the New Sort of Aristocracy De
scribed in "The Research Magnificent"? A Suc
cessor to "The New Machiavelli"
By the Literary Editor
Uan it Itaving hit ancettral theU
tere and going u vpon the greatttt
adventure that ever was in time or
tpace, and he it doing t now, he it
doing it In w m I ttand here and
read to you, II. O. Wells.
THAT sentence from II. O. Wells' new
novel. "The neeearch MngnMcent"
(Maomlllan Company. New York), is an
old sentence to all who have read Well
and an old thought to all who have
grasped the tremendous change that a
hundred yeara of machinery have made
In man and his life That sentence la also
the key to Wells place as a writer. He
has left the ancestral shelters of litera
ture: "Tho Hesearch Magnificent" Is final
proof. Hero ho la creating a. new sort of
novel that he thinks will best please
and best serve man In this "greatest ad
venture" of his. It Is the recording of
tory and character In relation to con
ceptions of llfo -which could otherwise
take only tho very unengaglng form of
tho essay.
The Ileseareh Magnificent" Isn't
Wells' best book. Tet almost everything
he has written contributes to It: It rises
out of other volumes that might have
been studies for it. Its conception of a
new "aristocracy" of men pledged priv
ately and voluntarily to tho service of a
new world Is In the "samurai" of "A
Modern Utopia." The sex problem In It
is an exaggeration of the couple's In
"Marriage," a man following service vs.
ft. woman following a leaser pleasure. It
pushes the new type of novel begun in
The New Machiavelli" still further to
ward tho essay than "Tho Tassionato
Friends" carried it. In that book, the
hero Interrupted his fervid love affair to
make side-trips of mental exploration to
Bouth Africa, China, India, Here the
whole book la exploration, a Research
Magnificent Lastly, all through tho book,
la the figure of white, the novelist, gath
ering together the papers which have
been left by the researcher magnificent
and putting them into a book though
not thla book much as Wells' Reginald
Bliss did In "Boon."
"The Research Magnificent" Is the tnle
ef a modern monk who never entered a
monastery. Ho haB that thirst after
righteousness which has made men leave
father and mother and child and wife
and 'follow after salvation, "which has
filled the world in every age with hermits
and lamas, recluses and teachers, devoted
and segregated lives," nil striving "to get
above the simplicity of barbarism" to a
Just and happy life. Benham, of 'The
Research Magnificent," Is one of these.
In this day he must seek social righteous
ness. And he does It all round the globe.
He has his spiritual opponents to con
quer, Just as the monks had, within nnd
without. The Tour Limitations, he calls
them. Three of them ho fights In his
blood. First, Fear which ho meets In a
bull pasture of boyhood, In a tiger of
India's Jungle night. In the precipices of
tho Alps. Second, Indulgence never a
great temptation for a man filled with
spiritual desires so much stronger than
those of the flesh, yet still to bo met and
vanquished in little Mrs. Skelmersdale.
Third, Jealousy a hard, cruel thing even
when a wife has failed to take her place
in the life of research which her husband
prefers to London gaiety and success.
The fourth limitation Is social; it grasps
Jfco-whole world, as the first three grasp
each man. This, Prejudice, Benham finds
as the "preventable source of human
failure and human disorder." In every
form of mean conflict It blights man's
happiness. Benham has tracked down the
last limitation and is ready to write of It
all as an observer who sees behind tho
immediacies of the quarreling world.
When one of those Immediacies tempts
him, as always, into a passionate revolt
and he dies by the bullet of a South
African soldter busy with labor riots.
The story of "The Research Magnifi
cent" Is the occasion for an essay on the
"aristocratic llfo" as the solution of the
world's misery. That is Benham's faith;
and it has long been the hope, somewhat
shattered every now and then, of II. G.
Wells. On the surface thla praise of
aristocracy is maddening by its implica
tion that our modern aristocrats are the
font of wisdom. As a matter of fact, how
ever, such a notion Is a confusion of
terms which Wells himself has been un
fortunate enough to admit. It Is like
the habit of people who- have lost faith
In the Bible, its miracles and Its Christ
and yet continue to call their rarlfled
Principal by the name of the Jehovah
of battles. By aristocracy Wells hasn't
the least Intention of meaning the over
fed, underworked, mentally or physically
debauched and spiritually vapid class to
whom so much of the direction of tho
world is now left. "The aristocrats." ho
ays, "are not at the high table, tho
kings are not enthroned; those who are
enthroned ore but pretenders and stmul
era, kings of the vulgar; the real king
and ruler is every man who sets aside
tho naive passions and self-Interest of
the; common life for the rule and service
ot the world." "Modern aristocracy, the
now aristocracy, has still to be discovered
pnd understood. This Is the necessary
next step for mankind."
Which brings one to a deeper contra
diction than any confusion of terms. Ben
bam is bitter at this muddled world and
justly. The common man, he says, "con
gests in cities tnat have no sense of citi
zenship and States that have no struc
ture: the clumsy, inconsecutive lying and
chattering of his newspapers, his hoard
ings ana muslo halls give the measure
of bis congested Intelligences; the con
fusion of ugly, half-empty churches and
chapels and meeting halls gauges the In
tensity of his congested souls: the tricks
and slow blundering dishonesties of Diet
and Congress and Parliament are his
statecraft and his wisdom."
But Js this muddled ago anything re
motely approaching democracy? It Is
amazing that Wells should let his mouth
piece say. "This age of confusion is de
mocracy, it Is all that democracy can
ever give us." Democracy and Wells'
aristocracy are both still to be discovered.
In our attempt to reach those goals
which are more than likely to prove one
and the same thing we have merely tried
two methods that bear their names. The
aristocracy pf tho past has surely been
failure enough; Its remnants In the pres
ent drown Europe in blood. Will the
democratic method succeed, f ever it is
given a fair chance? Perhaps not Per
haps, as Wells hazards about aristocracy,
"perhaps roan, like the ape and hyena and
the tapewc m and many other of Clod's
cssary but less attractive creatures, is
not for such exalted ends." Can man,
sJAsr by aristocracy or democracy, con-
uie present for the futureT -Utlote
an think of tomorrow, they must
r toaay-, Before they can think of
iney must be sure about them
First of all, food, the personal.
c worry. Am I safe for food?
er. and until one la trannull and
jot ashamed, not irritated and dlssatls
M4, qw can one, .care, for other people,
5 Men xt year or tar tas Order of. the
WarWT How can one?" .
r Uv moment Wells 'seems posM
atisMc, Qns characterr-the democratic,
"tamen. atneual" I'rothtro poes down, be
few, jaw Importunities of life. Another .
Mm Aristocratic Jfenfcaro dies because his
smu toe towownr eaanot wait tomorrow's
TJvt Mafltearfh JftssHUstft" ! partly
f hi " It it U PMrt It talent.
Wm full arrfl aatUfj-lng as TW HW
MtyavnUi. t! tm jrri'lotlth wars to!4
M s rr (wrkui, -a plain liupoasittlUr
SSms '
when Its herp must dlo before the Great
War scraps the whole Knstern Hemis
phere nnd all his research. But Just ns
It stands, it has big human qualities ns
well hf - fine and stimulating thinking.
Like all Wells' Tiovels. It nnm-oaches auto
biography and whets one's appetite for tho
master-novel or actuality, which he must
surely write when he tells his own life
for tho Inspiration and aid of his fellows.
In "Tho Research Magnificent" we see
Wells facing tho terrible fact that vhllo
mos modern men want the good of nil
far moro thnn It was over wanted
before and the best wont the best ns It
has never been desired, evil, cruelty,
stupidity and dissension go on Just as al
ways. Somehow nothing gets done. Slnco
"A Modern Utopia" Wells has been look
ing desperately for the way out That
has been "Tho Research Magnificent" for
him.
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THREE KILLED, SCORE HURT
WHEN TWO TRAINS COLLIDE
Coaches Remain on Tracks, but Loco
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OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 21. Three persons
were killed and a score or more injured,
some dangerously, when Missouri Pacific
passenger train No. 704, bound for Kansas
City, collided head-on with a freight train
near Plattsmouth, Neb., today. Both en
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train were killed. A number of pas
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Bohlen Compensation Board Counsel
Francis II. Ilohlen, professor of law at
the University of Pennsylvania, has been
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ganized, with Harry A. Mackey, Varo
leader In the 46th Ward, as chairman.
Bohlen was a member of the Industrial
Accidents Commission whose report to
the last Legislature was made the basis
for the new workmen's compensation law,
Taylor China for the White House
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. Mrs: Mabe-1
Stauffer, of New Orleans, a granddaugh
ter of former President Zachary Taylor,
callod on President Wilson at the White
House today and presented him with a
set of china which had been handed down
in her family by the former President.
The set will become a part of the White
House china collection.
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COMMUTERS HARVEST
FALL BOOK CROP
Though Autumn Is Here, Call
of Lnnd Is Still Answered
by Publishers
Last week you could blame It on the
hent when a publisher insisted on getting
out a volume of "One Hundred Picnic
Suggestions." Hut on the 2Uh of Sep
tember, with a mlnlaturo cold snnp sharp
In tho memory, the only possible ex
planation of anithcr book about tho out-or-doors
lies In the age-old, season-In
nnd senson-out Call of the Lnnd. That
is what Liberty II. Bailey must have
felt when ho named his new book "Hoty
Harth" (Scrlbner's Sons. New York),
and certainly It h what grips the
reader bo Jio gentleman-farmer, sub
urbanite or townsman when ho reads
this book of splendid vision npd strik
ing expression. "Holy Hnrth" sets forth
man's relation, physical and spiritual, to
tho soli. There is depth as well as
breadth In tho vision; there is authentic
poetry In the expression. In thli book
Professor llallcy tabloids the philosophy
of a lifetime of teaching, experiment nnd
observation,
"Holy Earth" may mako the Philadel
phia commuter envious of men, with
broader acres. But ho will enjoy it Just
tho same.
England Is hopeful. Every ono agrees
on that. But Just now, when von Hln
denburg Is trnpcslng along toward Pctro
grnd, you arc apt to think that tho Eng
lish, In general, havo about as a good
foundation for their fnlth ns had Mrs.
Kldston, the motherly old lndy of Evelyn
St. Lcgcr's new book, "Tho Tollhouse"
(E. P. Dutton Company, New York). Mrs.
Kldston had nn "omen." Sho saw the
German Ambassador dragged through a
London crowd by the "bobbles." And on
that story a whole village built Its faith
In old Englnnd, Telling n cheerful yet
resigned tale of waiting, hoping and suf
fering, "The Tollhouse" has tears 1n Its
eyes and a smile on Its lips.
George A. Birmingham Is still a clergy
man, though few enough American read
ers of his delightful stories know that,
back In England, ho goes by the namo
of Canon Hannay. In his new collection
of short stories, "Minnie's Bishop"
(George II. Doran ComDanv. New York).
he proves his "cnlllng" both to religion
nnd to humor. Though the tltlo-story Is
not tho best by far, It paints an amusing
picture of the visit of a missionary prel
ate to tho country houso of a "sporting"
family nnd of tho manner In which he
Is shocked Into matrimony by a very
up-to-dato young lady. And there aro
many delightful things besides tho foibles
nnd "breaks" of "the cloth" In this score
of good stories.
"Two Sinners." bv Mrs. David fl.
Itltchlo (E. P. Dutton & Co., New York),
suggests in a manner of speaking, a
third, the author herself. She has failed
to make the most of hr sinners. Mrs.
IStchlo now nnd then holds a sharp
blado over the vulnerable nlaces of her
characters, but she seldom cuts deeply
tnuugn to relieve ner worK from trite
ness, Thcro have been "glad books" aplenty.
Some, people Uko them and some people
don't which Is ns much as you can say
of almost anything from Shnkcspeoro to
Hall Calnc. But now comes a real "Joy
book." It, Is "Pcgeen" (Century Com
pany, New York). Eleanor Hoyt Braln
erd's new novel Is overflowing with the
little helpfulnesses of th'ls wisp of a girl,
who Is never happy unless Bhe is "see
ing to" the wants nnd desires of thoso
sne loves. t
Headers will love this Joy book for its
cheerful tone, Its vein of tenderness. Its
constant whimsicality. Above nil, for the
aear, delightful humor of droll, delicious
Pegecn. They will think that the author
of "The Misdemeanors of Nancy" nnd
"For Love of Mary Ellen" has done
nothing superior in fancy nnd charm
and quaint characterization to "Pegecn."
As a contrast to farmlands nnd an
nntldote to suburbia, let us consider "Tho
Decoration and Furnishing of Apart
ments" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, New
York). In a very handsome volume, full
of good printing nnd even better illustra
tions In color nnd In hlnrk nnd whltn.
B. Ilussell Herts has gathered ex
tensive ana -. able advice for the
modern cllff-dwal jr. Ho ranges from the
smallest apartment to the "duplex." He
tells about the use of color, the province
of originality, lighting, curtaining and tho
use of pictures. And ho writes with spice.
When John Galsworthy wroto "The
Freclands," he wiped out the merely
artistic success of "The Dark Flower"
and put his work as a novelist back on
the plane of "The Patrician" and "Fra
ternity." But when ho put together "A
Bit o' Love" (Charles Scrlbner's Sons,
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HARRY LEON WILSON
Tho author of "Ruggles of Red
Gap" (Dublcdny, Page), enjoying
himself at tho Bohemian Club's
grove in California
New Tork), ho added ono more step to
his descent as a dramatist from the days
of "Strife" nnd "Justice." Ho Is still a
master of dialogue nnd of character, but
his tendency toward precious sentiment
a thing usually not half so intrusive In
his plays as his novels has got tho upper
hand, This tale of an extremoly good
clorlc who gots off to commit suicide be
cause ho wants tb bo kinder to his un
faithful wlfo than his vlllago permits Is
ns futile as his deliverance by a child's
Intercession Is snccharlne.
England knew llttlo enough about
Ernest Dowson when he lived; Amerlcn
knows next to nothing of this brilliant
poet dead. Hence, a warm, critical wel
come for two little red volumes from
Laurcnco J. Gomme, of New York. Ono
Is n group of brilliantly etched short
stories cnllcd "DIlemmaB"; the other, a
very interesting collection of remin
iscences, unpublished letters and mar
ginalia, brought together by Victor Plarr,
his onc-tlmo friend, under tho title of
"Krnest Dowson."
IS MARRIAGE OR'A NEW NOVEL
MORE IMPORTANT TO WRITER?
Jean Webster Is Enjoying Both Dis
tinctions Just Now
What Is tho most Important fact about
Jean Webster Just now?
If her own opinion Is worth anything,
It Is the fact that sho married Glen Ford
McKlnney, n New Tork lawyer, about a
week ngo.
Her publishers, on tho other hand, nro
Inclined to give weight to the statement
that "Jean Webster's newest book, 'Dear
Enemy," Is announced for early Issue by
Tho Century Company."
Lovers of "Huckleberry Finn" and "A
Ynnkro at King Arthur's Court," derive
their chief interest In Miss Webster from
her relationship to Mark Twain sho was
a grandnlece of America's greatest hu
moristand the fact that she was im
pressed with the ever-present odor or
aroma, according to tho point of view of
tobacco In his hair and heard, long before
Bhe was Impressed with the fact that he
was a great author.
But most Phlladclphlans are much moro
Interested In the promised appearance of
Miss Webster's play, "Daddy Long
Legs,'.' nt th' Broad, on October 4.
Now that tho movies have roped in tho
drama and hog-tled that never-too-dlgnl-fled
art, they are casting appreciative
eyes on tho book world. Last week "Buck
Parvln and the Movies" came from the
Doran ofltces Just in time to meet the
news of Charles E. Vnn Loan's departure
for the west to put "Buck". Into the sure-
Just Published
SHADOWS
OF FLAMES
By AMELIE RIVES
(Princess TroubcUkoy)
Author of
"World'tEnd."
"Her greatest
novel . . . with
stronger charac
ters, greater hu
man intorest, a
closer knit plot,
. . . than any
thing this writer
has previously
accomplished."
Milwaukee Sen
tinel. By the Author of "My Lady of
tht Chine it tiourtyard."
LIVING UP
TO BILLY
Dy ELIZABETH COOPER
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The mother-heart in every wo
man will respond to this optimis
tic and colorful story of a baby
in the bright lights and the cab
aret dancer who looks out for
andllvesup to little "Billy," ar
riving in the end at her own
romance.
HARDING of
ALLENWOOD
By HAROLD BINDLOB6
The story of the Hterpristag'
American, Hftrdlas,' who "bwtta
tn" on tfcseatduslvs g lutohc
wn aolwy nUliM a JMndless
novel of the tot type, eombln
tag happily love, work and thrill
tog PUtrAwr'advswtuw.
r.lH., TPKE
enough movies. The same publishers aro
bringing out Henry Oyen's "The Man
Trail" while It Is still fresh on the screen,
and A. C, McClurg of Chicago is publish
ing Cyius Townscnd Brady's "The Island
of Surprise" a week or two In advance of
a film release of the same story. Doran
Company, moreover, are not above men
tioning the fact that Louts Joseph Vance,
who has recently been engaged In super
vising motion picture making In Califor
nia, has returned to New York In timo
to arrange for fall publication of his new
novel, "Nobody."
Just to cling to the movlo theme. "The
Man Who Forgot," by James Hay"
(Doubleday, Page), Is to be made into a
Brady Feature this fall, and It Is not too
much to hope that after Penrod gets to
the stage, via the Joint eKorts of Booth
Tarklngton and George C. Tyler, he will
mako his nppcaranco in that movleland,
where hla adventures would make such
an effective comic "serial."
The esteem In which the Into George
Fitch was held by the American public is
evidenced by the fact that during the
weeks following his death virtually every
newspaper nnd mnny of the magailnes
throughout tho country paid editorial
trlbuto to the shining abilities of this
American humorist. The last book from
hla pen. "Homeburs Memories," a study
of small-town life, Is published by Little,
Brown & Co.
When Zane Grey went to California for
tho summer, he traveled farther West
by somo hundred miles than his fiction
trail has vet led. for his peculiar literary
territory lies In the States of New J
Mexico, Utah, Texas, and, as in "ine
Rainbow Trail," Colorado and Arizona.
The Indian, by tho way. In Zane Grey's
Just-published novel. "The nalnbow
Trail," whom ono reviewer has called
"a white Indian," Is patterned after a
real Piute guide. Even his name, Nas
Tn Bega, Mr. Grey appropriated from this
Indian whose aid was bo valuable to
Mr. Grey when ho traveled through the
wildest parts of the Navajo Mountains
In search of tho famous "Rainbow
Bridge."
A book-buyer for a large New York
store writes to Houghton Mifflin Com
pany: "At 3 o'clock a. m. I finished 'K. "
Imaglna a book-buyer of mental dyspep
sia nnd ovcrjaded literary taste being
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HENRY ROTHSCHILD'S WILL
GIVES $500 TO CHARITY
Jewish Foster Homo and Homo for
Hebrew Orphans Receive Bequests
An estate vulued at 77,500 Is disposed
of by tho will of Henry Rothschild, late
of 2319 North Park nvenue, admitted to
probate today. Mr. Rothschild, who died
on September 4, leaves KS0 each to tho
Jewish Foster Home nnd the Home for
Hebrew Orphans of Philadelphia. The
remainder of the property Is devlsea to
tho widow, Rosa Rothschild, and the
children of the tcstntor.
Other wills probated were thoso of
James Vogan, 631 Columbia nvenue, who
left nn estate valued at (7C0O; Margaret
Richards, who died in the University
Hospital, S7424: Louise Doweld, 3434 North
18th street, S3S00; Maggie Ttltterson, 2143
East Auburn street, S2300, and Katharlno
Link, 2053 North 8th street, J2000. The
personal effects of the estate of Clara
Gordan have been appraised at JI1S5;
Elizabeth Rutherford, $2386.86, and Fan
nlo Price, $2102,67.
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day. The service is commemorative of
tho 40-year sojourn of the children of
Israel In the wilderness. Succahs are
erected at all the synagogues, adorned
with fruits and foliage of the autumnal
season. A Succoth pilgrimage to the
National Farm School by members of the
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