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I iBVBnmfG LlSDaElPHILADELPHlA; SATUKDAY, NOVEMBER IX, 191(5
NEW BOOKS AND
WHO FIGURE IN THE LITERARY WORLD TOD.
NOVELS OF VARIOUS
KINDS IN FALL LISTS
FROM THE PUBLISHERS
New Books by Will Lcvington
Comfort nnd Mary Raymond
Shipmnn Andrews.
Others
EMMY LOU COMES BACK
"THR I.A8T DITCH,"
Comfort. (Korea li.
nr Will Larlnaion
Doran Companr. New
There Is an unevennms about this work
that robs, that Is dlMppolntlna;. At one tlm
tha author of "nutlcdga Hides Alone," Is
again nls remarkably Inspired self: yet later
ho loosens his grip and the story ootes
away In consequence. Descriptively 'The
Last Ditch" Is an exquisite piece of work!
Its author knows his China as he doea his
Uussla. nnd has caught the spirit of the
Orient. Best of all nre the scenes In the
desert J In these not once, but twenty times
a picture Is painted with the pen that stands
forth In vlvld. bold colors. Klpllnuesque,
really superb In Its exotlo sort of beauty.
In these Mr. Comfort, who Is nothlns If not
a follower of the futuristic school, sains
added cjfect by shoVt, almost choppy,
phrases patched together by dashes, which
are generally pregnant with meaning. In
the matter of characters Mr. Comfort un
fortunately adheres too closely to his orl
enlat touch. As rt result, many of hla per
sons aro fantastically unreal. The character
of Nlfton Dend Is the particular example of
this; he Is Intensely fascinating, but noer
quite lifelike. Both of Mr. Comfort's worn
en are i compelling figures, but they would
be more humanly charming It they did not
possess qutte so much Idealistic heroism.
Woman
"THE KTErtNAI. FEMININE,
mond Hhlpmtn Andrews. Charlaa Bcribnar'a
dddi, iNew iora.
nr Marr nr-
Readers whose memory treasures recol
lection of the nig perfect technique and
lofty spirituality of "The Terfect Tribute"
will nnd much to enjoy and to admire In
Mrs. Andrews's recent collection of short
stories.
She Is a skilled craftsman, and It la next
to Impossible to cavil at the form of these
stories now first collected. Dut they have
something of a par with contour, and that
Is color and character. Her people are
richly human, her scenes are credible and
the reader breathes Its "pure serene" whilst
living In the story. "Her Fling," the open
ing tale, Is the narrathe of a "gray," emo
tlonally suppressed slae-to-her-famlly type
of woman, of real brilliance of mind and
mellowed loveliness of aspect, who en
franchises herself from the domination of
an absent-minded professional husband and
a big, blonde and somewhat stolid daugh
ter. She discovers that life can be a very
lively thing, Indeed, with a few new gowns,
a spirited maro and a few of the younger
members of the faculty dangling about. Her
Independence Is harmless and effective. The
tale of It should set many a woman on
the temporal latitude of the early forties to
serious thinking There Is drollery and
nalvette In "The Eternal Feminine," a ery
faithful transcript of the young roman
ticism of a novel-reading miss who makes
an elder sister the subject, or victim,, of
certain laboratory experiments In match
making and the dialogue of sentiment, Mrs.
Andrews's girl Is ap natural and as di
verting In her self-revelations as Mrs. Wig
glns'a "Jlebeccu of Sunnybrook Farm."
A Bit of Blue Grass
KIl.DARKS OF 8TORJI. Rllen Merceln Kelly.
Century Company, New York.
,From the Blue Grass region of Kentucky
to the, crowded thoroughfares of New Vork,
and even to the gates of Paris Itself, Ellen
Merceln Kelly leads the characters of her
latest story, "Klldares of Storm." Vital,
vl!d personages are these products, of a
semlbarbarlc clvlllxatton, whose deeds and
thoughts. If lacking In conventionality and
sometimes trending suspiciously close to
themes 'on which polite society Is wont to
draw a discreet veil, are nevertheless thor
oughly Interesting as well as original. It
Is modern, up-to-date Kentucky which the
author, herself a native of Maryland, but
apparently well acquainted with the main
locale of her romance, pictures. The cen
tral character, Kate Klldare, a big, beauti
ful, perennially youthful and fascinating
woman, "a woman with a past," has two
daughters of widely differing temperaments,
and the loe affair of one of the latter Is
little more strenuous than that of the highly
efficient owner and manager of a plantation
called "Storm."
By Conlngsby Dawson
SLAVKS OF FREEDOM. By Conlnrabr Dawson.
Henry Holt & Co.. New York.
"Slaves of Freedom" Is a novel which
strikes at women who value theattentlon
of men only for the pleasure that It brings
them, not as the means to a richer life.
The heroine Is willing to receive everything
that Teddy gives her or Is pleased when he
follows her across the ocean to America and
finds her greatest happiness In his presence.
Yet she Is unwilling to bind herself to him
by anything which may compromise her
freedom. He, on the other hand, Is so fas
cinated by her that he becomes her slave
temporarily, to the detriment of his pro
fession. The greatest value of the book lies In
tho keen psychological Insight that Mr.
Dawson shows in treating his characters,
especially in the discussion of the state of
Teddy's soul. But as the state of Teddy's
soul was rather unhealthy, and as the ex
positions of It are ever present, the book
takes or! a. distinctly effeminate tone. The
secondary characters do stand out as dis
tinct personalities, but their function Is ob
scure. The descriptions aim at being star
tling, but they abound In overdone, pathetic
fallacies. Moreover, the book Is not, strictly
speaking, true to life ; there may be "slaves
of freedom," but they are not like Desire.
As a whole, the noel falls short of its mark.
A Novel of Variety
MX TUB OARDEN OF DKLiailT. Br I IT,
J liimmnnil . Thnmi rPAli jl tvT&w
York.
"In the Garden of Delight" la a story
which may be said to Include a love affair
rather than to center arqund It, for a great
part of the book is given over to descriptions
of nature of bird Ufa especially and an
other great part reads like a "Journal In
time," having more to da with tho thoughts
and feelings of the author than with the
romance of her adopted son.
The love story Itself Is sweet and natural
and the characters throughout are very real.
Moreover, the tale la told with an Insight
arid an unselfish sympathy which make up
In part for the somewhat unhappy tone of
the hook, springing from continual emphasis
on tha physical and mental suffering of the
author. We feel that the artistlo effect
would have been greater If this element had
been subordinated or left out entirely.
Emmy Lou Is Back
"'Sf'il "' ROAD TO ORACE." By Otorro
York """" D' WK Co., New
As an attempted treatment of Juvenile
psychology and the' queer philosophy of
childhood, this new "Emmy Lou" book 'may
be decidedly worth reading. Jt is not.
however, anything Ilka what Its name.
Its advertising or Its general appearance
would lead one to suspect. It may be a
sympathetic study, but It Is certainly not
a pleasant one., The rellgloua element
which Is so constantly Introduced seems In
congruous and out of place. At times It
grate harshly upon the lighter mood which
aooompanlM It. Every chapter deals with
one or another of Bmray Lou's perplexities
regarding forms of worship, why some of
Mr nwsli to to other almrahes t
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DELIGHTFUL NOVEL OF
LOVE AND LAUGHTER
William Hughes M earns Hns
Charming Humor and Fancy
in New Book, "Richard
Richard," Just Out
OTHER FRESH FICTION
m"A,5.D....n,c,,IAnD- Kr Hushea Mearna.
renn Tubllahlns Company. Philadelphia.
"Itlchard nichard" Is nn Interesting and
amusing r0el Mr. Mcnrns Is to be con
gratulated on IL Ills short stories, while
uniformly good, gae no promise of such
an excellent first noel The tnle has an
unusual breadth of appeal. It Is distinctly
amusing, vhldly Interesting nnd flavored
with brightly written conversations on phi
losophy and the nnture of life, which make
good reading, though they seem fnr re
moved from the purpose of the story. The
sparkling wit of Phoebe N'orrls, a little
Irish widow, nnd "Jawn" CJnllowny, pro
fessor of Columbia, Is a thing to chucklo
over.
nichard Itlchard meets Miss Qeraldlne
Wells In Italy, Just at the time the lady
grows utterly weary of the "conducted
pnrty," her mother's "mlnd-domlnlon" and
tho subterfuges of her paraonlao brother
nichard Is luxuriously laxy, and haa
brains enough to keep from that which
Is likely to disturb his ease womankind
In particular. Tho way In which he yields
to the wholesome Influence of Geraldlne
nnd arouses hlmsolt to the point of saving
tho Wells name and home, and subse
quently taking his own place In society,
makes a corking story.
By Old Irv Cobb
LOCAt, COLOR. Br Inrlnr Cobb. Oeorse It.
Doran Company. New York.
Maintaining his preference for short
stories, Mr. Cobb has collected another
series of his briefer works, which he pub
lishes under the name of the first nnd prob
ably most widely read of them, "Ixcal
Color," that rather Bomber, always plvlful,
talc of prison life and the harm It wrought
In one man. Unlike some of the author's
earlier collections of stories, the present
contains only one story whose locale Is laid
In Mr. Cobb's favorite South; the delightful
Judge Priest does not enter nny Thcte
are ten tales In all ; three of them aro pow
erful examples of the author's serious
muse ; two nre characteristically humoroiW ;
two more are briskly dramatic. The less
said about the rest the better. "Field of
Honor," one of tho most serious of the
stories, may well be considered representa
tive of the very best In Its author. It shows
vividly and poignantly how the European
war finds apathetic echo In the streets
of New York. "The Great Auk" Is the grip
ping tale of an old actor, the victim of a
strange hallucination, which causes him to
re-enact his old roles dally before nn Im
aginary audience in an empty and decaying
theater. Infanother story Mr. Cobb brings
his whimsical humor Into play on the sub
ject of undeslred charltq. In general, the
author shows himself versatllo and wholly
delightful. ,
Oxford Life of Years Ago
IDY CONNin. By Mra Humphry Ward
Hearts'a International Library Company, New
York. .
While the scene Is laid In Oxford some
thirty years ago, Mrs. Ward has made Lady
Constance Bledlow, or Lady "Connie," a
very lovable and ultra-modern young
woman. Although she Is only a young girl,
Connie Is as much spoiled, ha self-centered
and as charming as nny petted society bud
of today. Besides, she rides alone, meets
the man she has refused to marry unchap
croned In entrancing forests, umokes ciga
rettes and has acquired the art of turning
tho heads of the stronger sex with an ease
which Is surprising.
The book deals to a great extent with the
havoo a young, spirited and beautiful girl
can wreck even unintentionally. Connie
1b twenty, beautiful, rich and amazingly
clever. She captures the hearts of "profs,"
"dons" and the "bloods" alike, and com
pletely shocks her aunt and uncle, with
whom she has come to stay. Not that Con
nie Is bad. Far from It. She has lived most
of her young years abroad In the best so
clety, and Oxford Is too slow ror ner, so
she proceeds to wake the old university
town up.
Connie Is deluged with attentions and In
vitations, and suitors flock about her. Of
these, hbwever, the story deals chiefly with
two Douglas Falloden, nephew and heir
to a marquis, who Is arrogant, handsome
and snobbishness personified, and Otto
Radowltz, an Interesting and lovable young
musician.
Both adore Connie, but hate each other
as only the bitterest rivals can When
Connie dances all one evening with the
artistlo and soulful Otto, Falloden and
some of the other "bloods" haze the musi
cian unmercifully. In the mlx-up Otto's
hand la Injured permanently, and he pines
away almost, seeing that through the In
Jury to his hand his career as a musician
Is- wrecked. ,
The romance centers about this accident.
Falloden has an awakening. He changes
his mode of life and h.s spirit Is trans
formed. Although the episode has made
Connie hate him, her heart softens when
she learns that he has lost his money and
is devoting the little he has left to taking
care of Otto, formerly his most hated
enemy. Both Connie and Falloden take tu
nursing the young musician, and the end ng
la happy even for him. He sees his way
clear to realize hli ambition as a composer.
Corra Harris Once More
TUB CIItCUIT IllDEIl'S WIDOW. By Corra
Harris Doubladay, r A Co., Cardan City,
"The Circuit Jllder'a Widow," by Mrs.
Corra Harris (Doubleday, Page A Co.), Is a
vlvld, clever and .convincing character
sketch of a chureh. The weaknesses and
shortcomings, the ideals and dreams, ths
bigotry and faith, the real Inside of the.
village Heinoaitt church, with Its Itinerant
pastors, are described with a fidelity and
felicity that make the book stimulating and
charming at the name time. Mrs. Thomp
son, "the circuit rider's widow," a church
member for thirty-five years, declares at
tno outsat inai an u going "to tell tne
family history of a hro." and the result
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ON AUTUMN STALLS
A Popular Volume on tho Strat
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Other Nonfiction
OBNKrtAi. jopmi:
Hnymnnil Ilecouly
New York
AND 11IS rtATTI.Kq ny
Charlea Scrlbner's Soni,
Itaymond Itecouly, a stnff oftlcer In the
Trench army, gives an Interesting account
of tho battle of the Marno and the battle
around the fortress of Verdun In his book,
"General Jottro nnd Ills Matties," published
by Charles Scrlbner's Sons. New York Ills
narrative, nlvvnjs Interesting nnd vlvld.
often dealing with a rooro or less technical
question involved In the operations, Is not
new to the readers of the Scrlbner's Mnga
zlne. In which the chapters of tho present
volumo had appeared under the nlgnnturo
of "Captain X". ltccouly's pen name. How
ever, collected In book form, those chap
ters will be of lasting usefulness to stu
dents of the world-war and to those who
fpllow tho events of the terrible tragedy
under which Europe Is still laboring.
Travellntr South
WINTER JOUrtNBYS IN TltR SOUTH P-y
John Martin Hammond. J. 11. Upplncolt Com
pany. Philadelphia.
For any one planning a trip southward
as the snow begins to fly Mr. Hummon's
bcok will be a humorous, n valuable and a
delightful traveling companion. And tho
grentcr multitude, too. who remain in this
climate through the winter because flnanoes
and not fancies determine their trips can
find In "Winter Journej.s In the South"
pleasures to fill many hours As In his pre
vious books of travel. Mr Hammond Is
writing of somethlng which he knows down
to the very A IJ C's Ho has tramped,
motored, golfed, fished and at times simply
rested In every corner of our southern
States, from Whlto Sulphur to New Orleans
nnd from Aiken To Palm Ueach For each
man's special hobby he has found the most
suitable place.
Literary Men's Fancies
TUB CrilTAIN HOim. riy Jamra Hranch Ca
bell Ilobert Mcllrlde & Co., New York
The title Is well chosen Mr. Cabell In
a collection of short stories, hns touched
upon the certain hour or time "that comes
In tho affairs of men," when love and pas
sion make them all human and brothers,
easily susceptible to the Influence of Hve.
Ten men are Its heroes and the names of
several! at least, aro written In the Halls
of Fame.
"Judith's Creed" shows Shakespeare In
middle age In company with the Dark Lady
of tho Sonnets: and "The Drown Woman"
portrajn Pope ns one of tho most human of
men, forgetting alike the fact that he Is
a cripple and a poet. Somo of the other
ftorles are about Sheridan, Lord Herrlck
and William Wycherley. Others are of the
darker sort, filled with court Intrigue, duels
and some pf tho other stage deeds which
sometimes befall the lot of man when "the
hour" Is upon them
Round the Horn
The late Elizabeth Christopher Hobson's
"Recollections of a Happy Life" (O. P.
Putnam's Sons, New York) has been given
to the public after n private circulation.
From the opening chapters, which deal
with a voynga In n cllppor ship around
tho Horn to San Francisco and with a
wedding trip across the Isthmus of Panama
in the fifties, to the record of the organ!,
zatlon of the Ilellevue Hospital Training
School for Nurses, New York, and thence
to the chapters dealing with travel and
sojourn, this memoir, rich In personality as
It Is in anecdote, offers the variety of In
terest that attaches to a replete as well as
a happy life. w
PUBLISHERS OFFER
MANY NEW BOOKS
List of Forthcoming Volumes In
cludes War Stories, Verse
nnd Other Subjects
Deferred publication Is responsible for
the fact that an uncommonly large number
of Interesting books will be brought out by
George II. Doran, New York, next Tuesday.
Among them may be mentioned "The Lion's
Share," by Arnold Hennett : Irvln 8. Cobb's
"Local Color"; Hlchnrd Dehan's "A Qllded
Vanity": Will Lcvington Comfort's "The
Last Ditch": "Men. Women nnd Ouns." by
"Sapper": U V. Lucas's "The Vermilion
Ilox," and "More Wanderings In London":
Henry Oyen's 'The Snow-burner," and Per
ch al J, Cooney'a "Kinsmen."
The Thomas Y. Crowell Company an
nounces for publication "A Fire In the
Snow." a Christmas story, by the Rov.
K. Jefferson, of the nroadway Tabernacle.
Charles L. Jefferson, of the Broadway
Tabernacle. "Chrlstus Consolator and Other
Poems." by Rosslter W, Raymond, Is the
title of a little volume also announced by
the Crowells. The title piece Is already
well known to thousands of persons who
have found In It consolation for bereave
ment The November list of new books published
by Longmnns. Green ft Co, New York, In
cludes "The Reminiscences of the Rt. Hon.
Lord O'llrlen. J.ord Chief Justice of Ire
land," wilted by his daughter, Hqn. Geor
glna O'llrlen; "Chapters from My Oniclal
Life." by Sir C. Rivers Wilson, O. C. M.
Q., C. 11, edited by L'vcrllda MacAUster,
and "From Sail to Steam,'" a collection of
Jiaval recollections, by Admiral C C. Ten
rose Fitzgerald.
Terhaps we might say that "present-dny
France stands first In the eyes of the world
In a way that recalls her pre-eminence In
1300-1600, when she was distinguished for
continuous political growth nnd her attain
ment of a permanent 'territorial unity. So
In his history of continental Kurope for thnt
earlier period Prof. Chalfont Robinson, of
Princeton, has used n French work by Uon
dols and Dufayard ns tho basis for his vol
ume, translating freely, supplementing from
other standard sources, excising nnd ex
panding nnd In general nlmlng to make an
acceptable textbook for American colleges
Continental Hurope. 1270 to 1598," will be
published by Henry Holt ft Co. next Thurs
day. Harper ft Rros announce that they
have put to press for reprlntlngs the tol
lowing books "The Thirteenth Command
ment, by Rupert Hughes; The Hidden
?JK.'n,ro. by bronco Uudlngton Kelland.
The Story of the other Wise Man," by
Henry van Dyke; 'The Elements of Naviga
tion, by W. J. Henderson; "The Red
Arrow, by Klmcr Russell Gregor: "The
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Hyatt VcfrllT Book" by AI,neua
irnVn'Sn "i bnnd,l.t" Rre '" Pleasing con
trast In "On Parole." a tale for bojs of ban-
nZ Ann". yin " The authors
are Anna and Frances Plcrpont Slvlter
""7 "11!t & 1"0 Issued tho book wUh
striking Illustrations by Ada C. Williamson!
Tago & Co , announce for
ELLEN KEY SUMMONS WOMANKIND
TO ESTABLISH EVERLASTING P
The Scandinavian Feminist and Pacifist Writes a Pi
ate Plea Much News of Europe's Little-Heard-of
Peace Movements
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WAR. TRACE AND TUB FUTUnE. Itr Ellen
Key. O. I Putnam's Bona, New York.
THI3 tremendous opportunity and respon
sibility of creating everlasting peace
rest In the hands of women. At least that
Is tho message which one thoughtful paci
fist sends to America.
nilen Key Is an Idealist; It is foreign to
her nature and to her philosophy of life to
see purely the practical aide of a problem,
and so her "War. Peace and the Future"
will be all too quickly condemned by those
who live entirely In the present and who
nr a little confused by such terms as "soul
culture" nnd "democratic state." Mut grave
intelligence gave birth to her Ideas, a clear
brain nurtured them to logical conclusions,
and a heart as big as humanity tempered
them with Its feeling.
To Kllen Key It seems of the gravest Im
portance thnt women begin their campaign
by forever shutting their mouths to praise
nf the glories nnd conquests of war, even
If they be cnlled unpatriotic. Working
thus, they will create "the love that puts
humanity before the nntlon," which Is far
greater than "the love that puts the nation
before humanity." They rrrost learn to give
their fathers, sons nnd husbands to the
Stnte Instead of sacrificing their lives for
the State. They must have fewer and bet
ter children nnd none. If It be only for their
drnth nnd destruction. Finally, they must
consciously work against war by Influ
encing public opinion and using their voices
always against It. And she quotes some one
ns saying not from his "hard heart." "but
from his "clear brain" that the women
might even strike and refuse to nurse their
fathers, sons nnd husbands back for another
career of death and destruction.
This will all lead to a new patriotism.
The author says that: "As long ns the most
Ignorant and crudest expression of the
hatred of peoples Is called patriotism, as
long ns women will have a feeling of pride
ov er their country's evil deeds ngalnst other
countries, they wilt not educate tho jounger
generation to a right International senso of
Justice." Few of us ever think of peace,
vvni and ostracism In such a spirit; and It
Is alwavs the spirit that makes Kllen Key a
prophet nnd n conscious and tireless worker
toward the larger alms of humanity.
In this tlmo of slaughter nnd great mili
tary strategies, we hear far too little of the
r.cbler movements toward an ultimate re
gineratlon of the warring countries, which
seem to bo going on with conscious Inten
sity and force. Wo have heard little of
the league called the "Neues Vaterland,"
which Is working, even In tha war-ridden
Germany, townrd leavening "the policies and
diplomacy of tho Huropean States with the
Idea of peaceful competition and the.thought
of nn Interstate union for the purpose of
pollticnl and economical ngreement between
the cultured peoples of Kurope." And other
countries aro working townrd the same
goat. The llngue, London, Lausanne, Blarl
cum, Uarcelona and Berne all have seen, nt
least In part, that there Is nothing to be
gained from this everlasting struggle In
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publication during the laUer part of No
v ember, two additional bnnV. i .,.' Vi "
JnSKVtrTl;r Tn"hlngton S1"" Plays" !
and "Malvaloca." by Serafln Joaquin Al- I
varez Qulntero The former volume Includes ,
four of the most striking successes or the
Washington Square Plavcrs. all by you I
American authors and all produced during
the last two seasons. They nre 'The Clod "
by Lewis Reach; "Overtures," by Alice I
?51Sber7; ",:u"B'My Speaking." by '
h, "i k ,?u,1mn' nnd "Helena's Hus-
band." by Philip Moeller
Kdwnrd Goodman, director of the Wash. '
Ington Square Players, has written a prof
ace to the plas and there Is a longer
Introduction by Walter Prlchard Knton
The Century Company announces "Repre- '
sentatlve American riays," edited by
Arthur Hobson Qulnn, of the University of
Pennsylvania, the first nttempt to Include
In one volumo n collection of plays nius
tratlng the development of our nntivo
drama from its beginning to the present
day. All the plays In the collection are
the work of native Americans, and all have
had actual stage presentation by a nrofes
slonal company. Of the twenty-five plnvB
chosen, the scenos of sixteen are laid in
this country, while bo far ns possible all
tho principal types characteristic of our
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