F Rr t'4 tft BV I?.. f j 3 'i tf IT I n P )NE TEDDY HOST AT A PARTY Canine Stnr of Many Celluloid Thrillers Presides at Func tion for, Friends In honor of Humane Animal Week, Teddy gave a party. Teddy is the Oreat Dane dog who is a stnr in the Mack Sen hett Keystone Comedy Company. He car ried off his honors so well that Mr. Sen ' uett arranged to give him a grand banquet In the big Keystone electric light studio on the occasion of Humane Animal Week. Teddy will be seen at the Regent In "Tho jek of Time Baby" next week. The dinner was In two courses the flrst. beefsteak, and the second, liver, tho latter M a special compliment to Fuzzy, the Keystone Persian cat. The somewhat mixed character of the company required tactful handling on tho Bart of the host. Among tho guests were tho two Key stone b-n i s, Mary Ann and Percy; also Kid, the MP whlto bulldog, who appears In Mabel Normand's play, "Mickey." In his way Kid Is as wonderful ns Toddy, n,nd Teddy is all but human. Tho other day Kid was told to crab hold of Ml&t ,oi mai.d's skirt in one of the "Mickey" scenes. He grabbed with such enthusiasm that he Included a piece of Miss Normand's ankle. , ghe sank fainting to the floor. Poor old Kid was so overcome with shame that ho skulked In n corner and would not como out until Miss Normand hobbled over nnd patted her forgiveness upon tho top of his Old square head. Teddy Is also temperamental. Tho other jay tljo director In whoso company he works appeared with a funny Uttlo bullpup In his arms. Teddy gave him one look of hurt reproach and went away. The usual whistle did not bring him forth. At last a property man found him In a dark, old, unused lum ber room. Teddy nnd the bulldog are too well trained to fight; but tho looks they glvo tho Persian eat aro such that, for discretion's cake, Mr. Scnnett has directed that they be seated at opposite ends of tho banquet table. They are a Uttlo puzzled where to place the whlto rat which works regularly In tho Keystone comedies. A special dessert of Cheeso has been provided for him. Jasper, the brave-hearted little broncho, who has been trained to plunge oor cliffs and fall from bridges Into rivers, did not attend the feast; Mr. Sennet direct: that 'he hae ii prlxato banquet ol his own. The main banquet was served by j.retty Keystone stars, and there was great Kalry for the job; they all love Teddy, ntthough .their affection for the- whlto rat Is dis tinctly modulated. Both the dogs are very easy to work In their scenes. And they both love acting. The cat and a monkey who sometimes works In the comedies aro hard to handle. The monkey can't keep his attention con centrated as the dog3 do. and the cat la too Independent. Jasper, tho horse, will do anything and go anywhere If his trainer is In the saddle. He won't make his sensa tional leap3 for any one else. Like most movie horses, Jaspera Is "camera-wise." Ho will run like a wild thing until ho gets past the camern, when ho settles down to a sleepy little Jog trot again. Whips aro not permitted with any of the animals. THIS FLORAL LADY HAS SOME HISTORY .Lotus Robb Now a Cocktail Drinker, but "Not Very," as Press-Agent Says the following is from the facile type writer of Harry Sloan, who puts pieces in the papers for "Talr and Warmer": P ' All the Rosles, Lilies. Pansles, Daisies, Pinkies and Dahlias will please notice that there Is a new flower In town. This new flower-named and flowcr-llko young lady Is Lotus Robb, who has suc ceeded to the place of, the cocktail-drinking young wife In "Fair and Warmer" at tho Garrlck Theatre, made vacant by tho re crement of Edna Hlbberd from the cast of that bibulous farce. A most unusual given name Is "Lotus." and It suggests thoughts of the River Nile and tho eternal sunshine of an Egyptian day nnd tho supercalm of an Egyptian night. The lotus Is. as every one knows, a sort of water lllv that crows L' Principally alnnir the shorei of the Nile. and Is one of the most beautiful of the lily family. In ancient Greek legend tho name was ghen to a fruit usually Identified with the Jujube, which the lotophagt ate, or the tree bearing It, and the name also applies to several f1nwHnrr ivntpr nlnntn renre- C. sented In ancient Egjptlan and Hindu art. ,, Miss Robb explains why her parents gave . her this unusual flrst name. Her father K (, M a noted English composer of music and fc Mr, mother a teacher of literature, the lat- iic at one lime naving occupied ine cnair English literature at a college In Brazil. Both the mother and father were, and are a .yet, very much Interested In things psychlo ana of the occult When It came to naming the baby thero was much discussion and ?i,'ome disagreement.. It was flrst suggested Pi that she be named either Llllle or Lillian. mr ftllf that V.... .kt..t a U.A....A Ua lltsA- , -w " "iwillCI UUJCL'ICU UCMUSO u. Vila iin,c- lmood of Its being: corrupted, as girls do, Into "Lil." She finally decided on Lotus. hlch Btands for one tf the most beautiful f fit 4V- ll M .. " uio my lamuy. Musical Glasses SATURDAY. APmr. it. Last concert of season, Philadelphia Or chestra. All-Tschaikowsky program; "Pa thetic" symphony, "Nutcracker" suite, . 18t2" overture. Academy. Night. , BVXDAY. APRIL 12. ' l neighborhood concert of season. Set t tlement Music School. Mrs. William Green, . soprano, and Cnnsiantln von Sternberg. l Pianist, soloists. 416 Queen street. After-' f noon. U "ONDAY, APRIL tS, it i01 anniversary celebration, Choral ;,f viuim. 1'rogrnm; Handel's "acis ana uai $ ea" and Grainger's "The Merry Wed- '4 wjf." AcademyT Night. ic -nu-yiano recuai, ussip uauruoivumu nd Harold Bauer. Academy. Afternoon. V'V.BUA.Y, APRIL J. j'.V .Annual song- recital, Marie Boston, so U Kno- New Century Drawing Room. 5? Concert. MatnSen Musical Club. Request rogram. Bellevue-Stratford. Afternoon. Recital, Estella- Neuhaus, planlste, and 'Howe Clifford, reader. Bellevue-Strat-"M. Mornlne. ; BDlfE80AY, APRIL tS. f n recital, Letltia Kaaciirre Miner. , ""werspoon. Night. he Golden Legend," Strawbrldge & ?W Chorus, under direction of Her- V-L "v. jueiropoman. nignb URBDAY, APRIL 18. Ik """ recuai, Aiexanaer genKer. wim-IL00"- Night. S'tUDAY, APRIL t7. l 0nerf Tmu rmt TJvttta Tcnah finio- 1 t Hortlcultllml Hn'll. Nlrht. ' ' Recital. Marcla van Dresser, soprano. '. road. Afternoon. . 'TURDAy Apnj t8, ' iVInllM ...ii-i . i t.. u.ll.ltnl , Wltherspoon. Night 1 NDAY, APRIL JO, lifflta, RUMell8pruarice. baritone, as- JJJB by May Farley, soprana New Cen- "rawing Room. Nignt. nat evenlnf, Sascha Jacoblnoff. yloi mm D,. HMriK KMrmon, pianm, Mum UUIi . .. " 1 . "t ' '" 'V iflREAMA 1WH, LIGHT IN THE SHONE PROM HOME-MADE CANDLES But It Illuminated the Way of Heroic Men and Women in the Early Days of America-Silas Wright as an Instance "gILAS W1MQHT7 Who was her Dctor McFabro wore a puzzled ex pression as ho nsked tho question. I had Just told him that tho man with the homely name appeared as a character In tho latest hook I had been .cadlng. 1 o does not like to discover that thoro we distinguished persons of whom ho has not hcAd He ,s a vcry and learned man. but this is one of his nmtablo weaknesses that can be par doned. "You are the second person I have met within a day or two who has asked tho same question." I remarked. "Tom Daly, whose desk is next to mlno in tho omce, told me that tho name meant nothing to him. Now, If it had been Colonel Love lace, who wrote I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loed I not Honor more, Mr. Daly would have known all about him." "Yes, I can understand that. Mr. Daly Is a poet, and a good one. I was deeply moved when I lead his vctses 'The Lamp, post' in the Evr.NiNo Ledoeh on tho day after the Eddystone disaster. That was a poem. I can't give it any higher praise. ur. uaiy knows poets know philosophers and suppose that this man nnd poetry, theologians. Wright was IRVING BACHELLER Whose new novel bids fair to be a "best seller." specialist of some kind in a field out side of my range of interest." "Perhaps you aro correct," I admitted with some hesitation, "though I have never found him classified in Just that waj. Here comes Senator Owen. Let's see what he will say." Owen is an ambitious young man who has prepared hlmso'f for a public career by studying tho history of his country with more than usual thoroughness. Wo call him "Senator" because we hope some day he will be one. We put the matter up to him. Ho lighted tho cigar I gave him, drew a few puffs of smoke and re marked with the frankness of an old friend: "You ought to buy better cigars." We waited. After a moment or two he went on: "Wright was a very Interesting man. I think, on the whole, ho was tho most interesting of hU period. He measured his intellect with that of Webster and Calhoun and Henry Clay and did not suffer by comparison- He measured his moral stamina by theirs, 'and I think we must admit that they did suffer. He never sought an offlce so far as I have been able to discover. I do know that ho declined tho nomination for tho vice presidency after tho convention had named him. This, I believe, has not hap. pened before or since. He refused to become a candidate for the presidency in the Baltimore convention of 1844, when ho could have had the nomination. He declined appointment to the bench of the Supreme Court. If his contempo raries had not thought well of him he would not havfe had the opportunity to thrust so many honors from him. Web ster and Clay sought after more import ant offices than they found. But how do you happen to be talking of this New York statesman, who was a United States Senator?" "I was Just telling Doctor McFabre that Wright is one of the characters in Irving Bachellec's new novel, The Light in the Clearing,'" I explained. "What does Bacheller know about Wrlghtr Owen asked. "He Is a story teller " He couldn't help knowing about him," said I. "Bacheller was born In St Law rtnee County. New York, in a little vlj lage nine miles from Canton, where Wright lived. He was graduated from St. Lawrence University, In Canton. Wright Is the great man of that part of the world. iWold fellows gather around the stove in the country stores and talkpf him and sigh, and say. There were giant, in those toys' Bacheller was brought up in the Wright atmosphere and he could not help -i.l htm if he would," . i Wi iWMKSsiiVwiwA rt a avu BKirl CLEARING It is usually pretty poor reading, pelthcr history nor fiction." "He has not made the mistake of draw ing Wright ns his hero," I said. "Wright is a subsidiary character. The hero is nn orphan boy whom he calls Barton Baynes, nnd tho book Is tho story of tho growth, education nnd courting of a country boy of paits In the first half of tho last cen tury. It has impressed me as nn Interest ing nnd Important bit of tho soclnl history of America, Wo have forgotten how our forefathers lived, and we seldom think of tho privations they endured with courago and high faith. Mr. Bacheller was born early enough to got first-hand information from old men who were contemporaries of Wright, nnd ho has given us what must bo regarded as an authentic picture of the times." "Yes, but tho story's tho thing," inter rupted Doctor McFabre. "When I read a novel I want a story." "Tho Mory Is there, nil right, and It is a good one." Tho doctor looked lcllovcd when I bald this. "I will not spoil your enjojment by telling you about It. You probably read 'Eben Holden.' Yes. Well, this Is a very much better story and a better piece of literature. The charm of it lies in the friendliness with which Mr. Bacheller treats his characters. They ore humble folk, most of them en gaged In n hard struggle to live, but tho author makes ui llko them because he likes them. Thero are murder and greed in the story, and they might havo been so treated as to make you believe that rural America is unrelieved by a single gleam of goodness. There Is altogether too much of ouch lying In modern fic tion. If we examine our own hearts we know that It Is lying, for there Is a sub stratum of goodness In every one. The dlfferenco between men is marked by the depth of the substratum from the surface. This foundation rock crops out all over our friend McFabre." The clergyman raised his hands in pro. test. "As to myself I don't agr,ce with you " "That proves I was right." "But ns a general proposition it is true. If I did not believe In the goodness of people I would quit at once." "Let's get back to Wright," said Owen. "What does Bacheller have to Bay about him?" "You'll bo Interested In the way he makes the old statesman explain his theory of party loyalty," said I. "Wright Is in a Ashing party and he remarks that they have all decided 'to go fishing. It one or two of the party should decide while on the way to the trout stream that they would rather go hunting and start off there would be disagreement and fewer fish, and If a majority should disagree on the purposes of tho trip the company would be broken up and nothing would bo accomplished. Then Wright ex plains that political parties are like fish ing parties to accomplish anything the minority must accept the will of tho majority and surrender personal prefer ences for tho. general good." "That is an apt illustration," Owen con fessed, with a thoughtful look. "I think I will uso it some time." " 'Eben Holden' was a 'best seller' isn't that what they call a successful novel?" Doctor McFabre said. "Will this new book bo equally popular7" "It ought to be," I admitted, "and I shall be surprised if it is not read by every one who enjoyed the earlier book and by thousands who will discover Bacheller for the flrst time." GEORGE W. DOUGLAS. THE L1CIHT IN TUB CI-EARING: A Tal of the North Country In the Time of. Silas Wright. Hy Irvlnir Ilachdlor. author of 'Ilhen Holden." Illuntrated by Arthur I. Keller. 11.50. Indianapolis: The Ilobbj Merrlll Company. What Is Sound? Since men began to consider the subject at all they have disputed whether there was any sound when there was no ear to hear it. The solution of this dilemma is of course to be found in a definition of sound. If wo say It is the sensation pro duced by vibrations coming In contact .vlth the ear, then t'ure can be no sound where there Is no car. If, however, we say that sound Is the variations themselves, then tho proximity of an ear to hear has noth ing to do with the matter. The physicists tell us that sound is either the lbratlons of, its source, as of the strings of a piano, or'the vibrations of an elastio medium sur rounding the source. They tell us that noise Is a sound resulting from Irregular and. practically unanalysable vibrations. How far will sound travel Is a question about which there has been much discus sion. Tho general rule has been formulated that the intensity of sound decreases as the square of the distance of the sound ing body from the ear. Yet tf sound passes through a speaking tube It does not de crease In that proportion, but the distance the voice will carry through a tube is roughly proportioned to the diameter ot the tube, and the voice will carry farther In a small tube than In a large one. Many a layman has wished that he could find the laws' of sound condensed and codified so that he could learn quickly what he wanted to know. He has been equally curious about the laws of light and heat and hydro statics and of the rest of the branches of physical science. But there has been no book on the market telling these things in compact form. Professor Northrup, of Princeton University, has prepared such a book, the first of its kind. It Is intended primarily for professional physicists, teachers of physics in colleges and high sohools, and workers in physical labora tories, but it will be ot great interest to all intelligent persons whether they are actively engaged in the study and the ap plication of physics or not. LAWS OP PHYSICAIi SCIENCE, inference Book. BY Edwin F. Northrup. Ph. D., of the Palmer Phyilcal Laboratory. Princeton Unl veralty. $2. Philadelphia J, 13. -Llpplncott Company. A Group of Pleasant People It is a treat to run across a book these days that has to do (wlth Just "regular" people; the war has been responsible for so many volumes that 'deal only with great persons and things. In the case of the latest book of Mrs. Freeman, written in collsboratlonwlth Florence Morse, Ktngeley, the reviewer read ft at a single .sitting, it was so interesting, r The writers have not tried to invent any wonderful charaoUra- nor have thejrutrU U made vtree4ou" & to' rnTiiWWB AND SPECULATION that the story Is a very good piece of re porting rather than a make-bellevo account of some New England happenings. These -happenings are built around a theme which has a rogue's daughter make anonymous amends for alt her father's ras cality; ho was a banker who literally ruined tho town's cntlro population. Tho reader meets nil the folk he Is used to meeting at church fairs women will like the book Im mensely. Thero Is a selfish young minister who Is cured of his Uce, and two hnppy love affairs. In this book tho story Isn't tho thing at all, but tho peoplo aro; they aro so "human." After you finish reading It you will feel as If you've been to a party "and so glad to havo met all those nlco people.'' AN AI.AnA8Tnn BOX. lly Mary n. Wllklna 5mAnrkn,n&.tAarr;r.C,9onroKln"'fy-,1'au' FICTION STRANGER ' THAN THE TRUTH Bercsford'o Story of an Infant Prodigy Fascinates by Its Unreality - c It requires audacity to attempt to In terest tho public In a book the hero of which read tho Encyclopedia Hrltannlca through In three weeks ot tho age of fixe. Yet that Is what J. I). Hercsford hns at tempted to do In "Tho Wonder," tho lat est of his novels to bo published on tills J. D. BERESFOKD His latest novel to appear in Amer ica deals with the possibilities of a superman. Ride of tho ocean. Those who expect to find It like anv of Mr, Bcreaford's other novels will be disappointed. It Is a study in abnormal psjcholoRy and a fantastic forecast of tho possibilities of tho human mind. A selpct few will find it absorbingly Interesting. Tho book begins with tho story of a phe nomenal cricket player who had to aban don tho game because of nn Injury to his right hand. Then he dreamed ot train ing n boy to succeed him. He decides that ho must begin with him early, beforo ho had formed any habits, and tench him tho Rrt ns ho had learned It. Ho lliuilly conciuaea mat tho only way to get a pupil was to havo a son. Ho marries, and his wife is as eager as he that tho son should b ns clay to tho hands of tho pot ter, as a result, tho boy Is born Inert, with n heart which will not beat till the BUBBCiitlon Is forced upon It by ma nipulation, and lungs that will not breathe till they hao been taught how. Hut tho brain teems to hao been fully de veloped from the start, and tho child, with a calm, Inscrutable gazo, stares the nurse out of countenance. Ho does not cry nnd ho refuses to talk as ho grows older, nnd In his fehort llfo of about twelve years he rarely speaks, although ho reads Latin and Greek, French and German and any other language that Interests him. When he is about five years old a gentleman with a largo library offers to let him read his books. Tho child listens calmly and then asks: "Will they tell me what I amr Ho does not get n satisfactory answer, but he goes to tho library nnd his first re quest Is for "words." A dictionary Is given to him. He reads It through from begin ning to end, and wo aro given to under stand that ho remembers them and has a vocabulary larger than any living creature ever beforo commanded. Then ho asks for the concentrated knowledge of the world and the encyclopedia Is put at his disposal, with the result indicated at tho beginning of this article. -K very one but his mother is afraid ot hlr... but she regards him as a god. Learned and unlearned men try to talk with him. He makes tho former seem like ignorant Infants and the latter llko ter rified animals. Wo aro told that ho solves the riddle of .the universe, hut Mr; Beres ford wisely refrains from telling us how. Tho book oa a study In the possibilities In the variation from typo has as much value as the fantastic forccastlngs of the future In which II. G. Wells used to Indulge. THE WONDER, ny J. D Hereford, author of -The Jacob Staht Trilogy." New York Georro 11. Doran Company, tl.40. New "Young Trailer" Story For the red-blooded American lad Joseph A. Altsheler has a thrilling story of the pioneer days In Kentucky, homo of tho picturesque and brave Daniel Boone. Boone Is not one of tho characters In 'The Eyes of the Woods," but his spirit predominates. Henry Ware, a leading flguro In other stories or tho "Young Trailers Series" and his five loyal followers are those about whom tho story Is woven. They are the protectors of the frontier settlements In Kentucky and their furious battles with tho red men and the renegades who are instigators of all tho trouble with the Indians aro portrayed in a thrilling manner. How young Ware and his brave companions overwhelm their enemies will' thoroughly interest tne youtniui reaaer. TUB EYES OF THE WOODS. Br Joseph Alt- Illustrated Dy u. u. liutcmnaon 11.85. New York; D. Appleton & Co VISIOINS 4 TaUa t by l'eact sad at I'er. 1.M att. CMnt MyaV. lUuttrafi. bHHv ..diVlFM sIKikf v dsHHH-iBiw iHHHIIIIIIIIIIK m. HaHHaaaak '!. ' 4 - J X TsUaa af Knulft ITALY'S PLACE IN THE WAR Bainville's Book Fills a Gap in the Literature of the Great Conflict An nnaljsls. and an authoritative one at that, of tho causes which led Italy Into the world war against her allies ot thirty ears is, Indeed, a wclcomo addition to tho liter ature relating to tho war. Italy's reasons, historical and political, moral and economic, r. cmr'nB tne mighty conflict had re. na .Tj0 curo nml mysterious for many who did not care to peruse her history and her politics with an impartial, unlmpas sloned spirit 0f research. "Italy nnd the nr, by Jacques Kalnvllle, now translated nto Lngllsh by Beranrd Mlall, goes to All the gap and let us say It frnnkly to en lighten those who, In eulogy or In con demnation, had been led by a misconception . -......,.. motives ana aspirations. f ..rBa.l1U" ls a coU xnA Impartial ob uluZ: ? ? not my masters completely in?iJJ. ,hlBtr'- ancient and modern, but Interprets rlrhtly and dissects events which hitherto had been only superficially noticed although they had a profound meaning and were nothing less than parts of n skeleton mo which former Premier Salandra shaped his policy nnd Italy's "sacrod egoism." The author comes down to his conviction that Italy has been utterly misunderstood cer slnco sho became a nation. While In France and elsewhere It was thought that sho was, politically nnd economically, a weak nation : '' """ ivuuia do no more nor less than a beautiful country full of monuments nnd historical reminders, this young nation, born of a revolution, was paving her way to greatness, to expansion, filled as sho was with tho greatness of her ancient days. Tho foreign policy followed by tho Italians has been what Troudhon predicted fifty- four years ago "Italy, aroused from her long lethargy, seems to havo all the flro and Inspiration of youth. Sho asks only to go forward, no matter under what conditions, no matter under what system. Let a few men bo born to her, n Richelieu, a Colbert, a Conde, and In less than a generation sho will tako her placo among tho great empires nnd her lnflucnco In Kuropo may become formidable." M. Bnlmlllo predicts that Italy will bo the natural competitor of Germany In tho south of Kuropc. As to the Intervention of Italy against the Central Towers, he remarks tho fundamental error of I'rinro von Buelow ot appealing to tho politicians when the national policy was being shaped by tho peoplo of the street, when king and government were but the faithful servants of the people. The Italian peoplo demanded war against Austria and Germany because they felt that a victorious Germany would also mean the enslavement of Italy to Ger man's plans of n Mlttcl Europa and the end of her national aspirations. Italy's policy Is above nil a realistic one, and as such It must be considered by her allies and her enemies, who must not forget that Home nlways asserted her absolute Inde pendence from any foreign Influence. A. C. ITALY AND THK WAH nv Jacques Balnvllle. Translatpil hy llernard Mlnll. $1. New York: Ueoro H. Doran Company. A Man Who "Did His Bit" Young medical men with a desire to offer their services to tho United States as army surgeons, especially during tho present cilsls. will find plenty of stimulant to that ambition In Maria Brace Kimball's book, "A Soldier Doctor of OUr.Army." The book Is dedicated to her husband, James V. Kim b.tll, lato colonel nnd assistant surgeon gen eral. United States army. Doctor Kimball was born In 1840 and while at Hamilton College offered his serv ices to tho Government. He actually per sued his college career as a medical man, taught and served on the battlefield during tho entire strtigglo of 18G1-CB, and ob tained a degree us doctor of medicine at Albany Medical College in 1864. That same j ear he was admitted to the cadets and ordered to McDougall Hospital, at Fort Schuyler. This Institution had then nearly nlways 1000 patients, all wrecks of the bat tlefield, who were coming and being dis charged constantly. Tho narrative of his activities deals ex tensively with his later experiences during the latter part of the Civil War, his life at MISTRESS ANNE By Temple Bailey Author of "Contrary Mary" The heaTt-story of a Maryland school-mistress and of two men, a writer and a physician, who came to the little country town of Crossroads. It Is a cherry, wholesome story the kind you finish with a sigh and lend at once to a dear friend. Jacket by Bol leau. Illustrations by F. Vaux Wilson. $135 net all bookstores The Penn Publishing Company Philadelphia A BOOK for every JTx. member of the family, for reading aloud, for YOU if you felt the charm of such stories as "Little Women" and "Rebecca of Sunny brook Farm." Watch ytur book- I filer' window Zfhe "Middle Pasture SMALL. MAVNAKD A CO. , FUBUSILKHS UOSXON . EL SUPREMO By Edward Lucas White The Greatest and Biggest Noret, of the Year H. W. Boynton In the Nation: "A historical romance upon the great scale. A touch of genius which gives to 'SI Supremo,' this first notable work of this American storyteller, ,1U un- mlstakable thrill lor the reaaer. -A etorjr ot unJIaagliyr interest' ana charm-':. hi mm " fi ABOUT1!! Fort Buford, the Frontier, his part in the Yellowstone Expedition to select sites for new army posts and lay out the Northern Pacific nallroad, his work In the Black Hills and at Little Big HOrn, where Custer nnd his band died, nnd sundry other expe riences among various peoples that gave opportunity such as Is rarely obtained for the kind of study valuable to a physician nnd surgeon. Times have changed since Doctor Kimball "did his bit," but the spirit that prompted him still lives, and the vouna- medical man of today has ample opportunity for study nnd research work in the museums nnd libraries that have been enlarged nnd en riched by the sort of work In which Doctor Kimball devoted his life. Well-equipped army hospltajs. with their Itcd Cross nurses and specialists, today nro in marked con trast to those the husband of tho author of the book knew, nnd opportunities for nrmy surgeons proportionately Increased. A HOI.DIER DOCTOn OP OUIl AltMY: James P. Kimball, late colonel and assistant sur-g-eon B-nernl, United States nrmy. Hy Maria llrace Klmbtll, with an Introduction by Major General William C. aortas, surgeon ceneral United States army. lloston: llouihton Mifflin Company, l Problem of Russia To understand any movement or great social change it ls essential to study its'hls tortcal development. Tho success of the Russian revolution, for example, cannot be measured In tho mere light of recent events. The Russian revolution ls not the result of the crisis brought about by tho war nlone. It Is tho upshot of more than a half century of education, organization nnd preparedness. Tho years after the abortive revolution of 1005, In particular, have con tributed greatly to bringing the present revolution to a head. In "Russia's Mes sage" William L'ngllsh Walling gives us a detailed and excellent analysis of tho situation In tho years 11)05-1907, the econo mic, political problems confronting Russia and tho direction which their development would take. In a largo measure the book Is prophetlo, and although written nearly ten years ago Its reprint at this moment Is a most valuable contribution to the con stantly Increasing literature on Russia, Particularly Interesting and Informative Is Mr. Walling's discussion of the peasant and land problem. He points out the press ing need of agrarian reform as the founda tion stone of tho new republic's social structure, and tho chapters devoted to the question constitute both a formidable In dictment nnd a valuable guide. The chap ters devoted to the revolutionary movement In the largo cities nnd Industrial centers, the position of tho trading class and the llnanclal Interests and his differentiation between the Russia of Demos and tho Russia of the Czar are bound to give to any Intelligent reador a. clear understand ing of tho vast contradiction which Russia was under tho rule of tho Romanoffs and tho road Russia must travel In her efforts to wipe out this contradiction and achieve national unity. nUSSIA'S ME.HSAaC: The Teorle Aealnst the I'zur. Uy William English Walling. 1.00. New York: Alfred A. .Knopf. One of the great commercial successes of books nbout the war has been made In Ungland by Donald Hankey's "A Student In Arms," which has Just been published In tho United States by E. P. Dutton & Co. In a long article discussing the reasons for the remarkable impression tho book Is making, tho London Christian Outlook found tho significance of its succes to be that. "it conveys a proof that as a nation we are beginning to understand that 'the last enemy' has got to bo destroyed In life that Fear must be slain, and that until this happens we have not In this world war reached the stage at which victory Is Inevitable." &he LIGHT in the CLEARING By IRVING BACHELLER The New York Times says : Mr. Bacheller's new novel is the most important piece of fiction he has put forth. He has written The Light in the Clearing with great skill and heart, and fine and true perception. It is as wholesome and tonic as a wind from out of its own North Woods, and, popular as have been his. former hooks, it deserves a wirtpr rnr1inr tlinn nnv awA rtat-A. nnnlp roL nn r 1 ne mcago neraia Read The Light in the elements ot appeal-sentiment, descriptive beauty, historic? value, quick action, variety of .scene and emotions,' Ofimil-finiA rharantArivatJnii fittiriiT manner &YiAm nnltitiner- It. miD-lit f f D- - 0-. - . Digger ana Better man any Dacncucr 6iory inai pret viously has appeared. f IHo nJom TnrIf linhtmo save The Light in the Clearing is to our mind decidedly . V ' lt A IiAe VislV Vint lVTve U nnhAlIni linn j-lsvvan. n 4 ma nf 4Ha fVf uiv.wt.ow nuimuouiii.Jjav.ui.uu uua uuuc, uuu uuc Ui. wo ,, Tipst thnt nnv AmpnVjin urritpr lino ilnnn in rAPAtit- vrars.-' il , Ittaitrattd by Keller Price $1.50 net The MODERN' IIBRAKY OftluTHtaWri hrtJiMk It to ustMtria 11. a. WKLI.8 The War In the Air NIETZSCHE Thus Spake Zarathastra MAETERLINCK A Miracle ot St. Antony and Five Other riajrs OSCAR 1V1XDE The Picture of Dorian Gray 8TEVKN8ON Treasure Island DOBTOKyBKY Poor Hie SOHOPPUEII . 8tudlesTS Pessimism IBSEN ' Play a 1 A Dell's Xeiae. Ghosts, Aa Baemr of million Kitf est, new .L.! mat r The people judgea . .; the reepiii tf- OeM STRIN nwxwa ,.yL- (Married iVS t Tk sua lJln7'?TjW' Married "Mur ,T1.. SaBlaT Tha Bad LUr . . - DE Havraiii ?-ii 3rtfr. Ma SK& 1 Found His Wotk "The power of self-saerlflot1?! conquers the heart, a citadel thai pregnable to weaker things," wreta ! M. Stiller In "The Fighting ,8ala. added: "When you have irttj',,alCj weapons try this. It is the sharpeatl in the arsenal Of heaven." It vcry little experience with life to that Mr. Stiller knew something' moral forces. It is slmarkable. that many novelists have failed to' i the truth which Mr. Stiller has so) expressed. , Grace S. Richmond is, I ot them. She has dono nothing that" be called great, but she has written": that Is fine In spirit and purpose. has ever laid down one of her books a feeling that life ls a sordid mess ' of tho meanness ot men and women. 'I makes one love his kind and .believe H best of them. O, The sentences quoted at tho beglnn ot tho preceding paragraph appear oa line page ot ner new book, -Tne Br Study," and aro an epitome of the Tho principal character Is a young cle man who has fled from his fashion parish to take up his residence in the : nuarter of another city In order to his broken health. Ho has lived in a i tual desert and Bought refreshment clo uio kiiiu ui icuyio who necaea nim-T discovers that it Is easy to help pe unburdened by 'wealth and social du If you only go about It In the right and that tho rich and prosperous arei fixed in their habits ot lire and thou that Its ls as impossible to influence them i for n, potter to reshape a vase nftert has passed through the flro of the kiln. ". saves his spiritual life by losing his ma tcrial advancement nnd In tho process haul wins a wlfo from among tho people frowtlj whom hft lind fled, thernbv Timvlnir tKaJBe " ' " - A.. M'W , iiiexu ma ujkucifiiuuo iu me luie OI Xsw pcrvlousness to spiritual leadings amo the rich. It ls a beautiful story, beautlf after the manner of tht life ot St. Franeil of Assist. ,, J THE nrtOWN STUDY. Br Grace, S. Wc hmo ,$ istrawJLS aw IS author of "Bed Tepper Burns." Illustrate ny Herman t-mier. I1..3. Harden uoumcaay, i-aro s uo. Arthur James Balfour 'i latest book THEISM and HUMANISM "fine tit ihf nr-nlct V.t1n.nnVI. -1 flUniCfitnna nf .nnrlrn llma il' .. . -w.. .....,.., , -,, "mafks an epoch In the discus. 't3 alon of theUtlc lhlnHn",l(ky '3 out doubt the most notable con- '$f 7 jcu.a. i-ruiu wc reviewers, r A nil J7ALarr. M cm 7 """ I George H. Doran Compan; furnishers, New York rf tTiAm. Tkxvhisa it in a liinrirAi. 1. i 4 i . ft, says : mq Clearing. It contains all thsflS r1srrihifl na a tnnin Tivtr J?i - - - -" j-.. ,, The Bobbi-Merrill Company Publishers .i" U .11 f f I . .'B ft I BINDING T I Sk4 60fneipervoh(ve 'j ! 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