.,- ,-r?x yv;i j . ... - v '" . .t r .. lir.. . .m r -..5 s VV v ''V " ) " bVENING LEDdERPBflLADELPHlA, SATURDAY, MAY 5, 1917 " ' ' , ' r -''''SRvSi JM iWO KINDS OF SERVICE ONE IS FOR THE NATION AND THE OTHER IS FOR THE INDIVlbVl :j ; LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE , AND YOU'LLJPORGET THE OTHER K The Old-Fashioned Philosophy Retains Its Popu larity .Because It Is Founded on Truth. A Prophet of Optimism THE Lndy nt I" n Iow rocking chair with a bit of linen In her hands nnil ,.,. colored silks In licr Inp. Sho was fcjsal6nlns a rose to decorate the white fabric. Now nmi men sue wuuiu now u f' . .. . innrrili in tllscover whether she '' wi getting tho proper effect. Doctor S McFabre was watching her with that i jlMsed Interest which nil men display i . ulcht of a woman engaged In a ills- p- .... -Ml..ltA nr-minntlnn. Itla npiihnw tincuy n."i""" . , -. . Cabot Ames, Harvard, '10, was striding up and down with a lino show of indig nation! Whllo I well, 1 was maliciously nodding them on. Vc had been talking about a green took with poppy blossoms and leaves em tossed on tho front cover that Jay on my ! desk. t "Vou may read your sugary books It you want to," ho was saying, "but tho vT,'"vv TEMPLE BAILEY ' whole school of l'olyanna-Itebecca-at-Bunnybrook-Karm-Annc-of-Green-Ciables ) Action makes me tired. It is lit only 'or ichoolglrls." , The Lady looked up at him with an cx ( presslon of amused tolerance. I "Vou tell me," be went on, "that five ' hundred ministers preached sermons about r Contrary Mary,' written by this IJalley i woman, who has put forth another of tho same kind. Well, all I have to say Is that P When five hundred ministers preach about a book I let It alone." V '"I know of 11 Hook that more than five hundred ministers have preached about," the Lady lemarkcd gently. "Do you let ? that alone, too?" SI 'f, Ames blushed and looked ashamed. "I don't mean that. But this soit of J? itulf Is all to commonnlace ond nlil. . (i uauiuneu. mere is no originality in u, and no facing of tho hard, brutal facts 'ot nie. ''Yet hundreds of thousands of persons Just as good as you or I read these books," said I. "Thero must bo a reason. This Is a fact that needs somo explana tion.. Wo cannot Indict our fellow men Indiscriminately. Is It not posslblo that these books are truer to tho best things jt In life than those which you call "oris!- r -.--.. ,tj .jiuuouim jvuia u&u uiu ine wis.0 .Man t,ay thero was nothing now i - rum r .- vx '" f win i til i ii. "There is not a finer magazine in America than yours" Having found a chance copy of THE SEVEN ARTS, bought it and read it, it is in the nature of things inevitable for me to want all of it. Will you please inform me whether you can supply me with bad numbers from your very first issue and at the ,same' time enter my sub scription in advance? Yours is that rare sort of periodical which one must have no matter what its cost. I am will ing to pay any price in order to get these bad numbers. And let me assure you that, outside of The New Republic, there is not a finer magazine in America than yours. This letter is of the sort that come to us each day from all sections of the country letters of deep sat isfaction and joy over finding a magazine which so finely expresses what is real and vital in American life, literature and art. Andaf THE SEVEN ARTS is the sort of mag azine to make more than six thousand people think and speak of it in this manner, isn't it your sort of magazine? Your check for $1.00 pinned to this coupon will bring THE' SEVEN ARTS to you for the next five months, beginning with the May number. r THE SEVEN ARTS 132 Madison Avenue,, New York City EL. B-5 For itjy check attached please mail THE SEVEN ARTS for the next five months, beginning May, to Name address ;.& JutoHptUm Term 6 under the sun? The human affections aie pictty old. Tho drama of life grips us so hnrd that It Is the despair ot the theatrical manager who seeks n piny that will hne n continuous run for a thou sandth pint of the time It has been hold ing the nttentlon of the world. Yet this life diama Is the same thing over and over again birth nnd marrlpgo and death, love nnd hate, ambition and de spair, with Hope holding a torch above to light our entrances and our exits. The o'd-fashloned things are the only ical ones. When I hear that a book has been bought by a hundred thousand persons 1 tako off my hat to the author, for I know that he or she has succeeded In get ting pretty close to life as it is, nnd as we wish it to be. This Is why I admire Temple Hntley nnd her latest book. 'Mistress Anne," I do not like to, prophesy, hut. begging Dr. McFnbrc's' paulon. I would bo willing to wager a postage stamp against a peanut that It will he moie popu'ar than 'Contrary Mary.' " "What Is it nil about?" Ames asked. "Mistress Anne herself Is constantly keeping before her a lcmurk she heard when she was a little girl that life Is what we m.-.ke it." "Humph'" said Ames. "Silly plati tude." "I'latltude. perhaps," taid Hcl'nb-.. "but pot silly. "With God's help wc on. make of ourselves what we will. Not materially perhaps, but morally and sphltually." "Yes," once more The Lady Inter rupted. "We can find happiness, too. If not In the way we had hoped, neverthe less, wc can find It." "That Is what Mistress Anne found," said I. "She Is the daughter of an old Southern family that has lost Its money, and she has to earn a 'Ivlng teaching school. Remembering that life is what we make it, s.hc does her best to serve those about her. Love comes, but when It seems hopeless she still remem bers her motto and continues to give herself uncomplainingly to those who need her. She helps many people, and at last finds happiness in the 'ove of a man who has felt with her the call to scivlcc. He might have been a great surgeon In New York, but he piefcrs to be a country doctor In the Maryland town of his an cestors, where such skill, as ho possesses Is needed. It Is an optimistic book." Optimism Is only blindness,' ejeculated the Harvard pessimist a little proud of. his Impromptu epigram. "You are wrong there, my boy,", eald McFabre. "Optimism Is only another name for faith In God." A murmured nssent came from Tho Lady In the rocklns chair. "When I read of the young doctor heeding the call of the vll'ngo of his ancestors," Iwent on, "I could not help thinking of the baccaulaureato address of Presiden' 'rnomas to the graduating class of Midulebury College up In Ver mont a few years -. He was good enough to send me a printed copy of it. He told tho young men that the sa'vatlon of America depended on the salvation ot the country, and that It was the duty of educated men to go Into the country villages as teachers, lawyers, doctors, farmers and merchants, and there become centers of light to show tho way. I was gratified to learn that several young graduates Immediately volunteered for this kind of service. Miss Bailey's book wl'l do the samo kind of missionary work. Yet, Ames, If you are looking for a ; ,.. month, fl.OO; l year, y.w. good story to entertain yourself with you would better read It. There Is a young novelist In It who lcmlnds mo of you; that Is, before ho come3 under the In fluence of Mistress Anne, nnd sho shows him how to write a. real story. While you are about It you might rend half n dozen other popular books, nnd mnke nn Interesting essny on the psychology ot best sel'crs. It might bo helpful to you If you Intend to wilto a novel." GEOItOR W. DOUGLAS. MtSTItKSH ANNI5. llj- Tcmpli- tlalley. nulhnr nf "L'ontrnry Mary." llluntrntrd liy F. Vnuj Wllion. I'hilntelililn: l'cnn I'ubllshlnic Com pany. $1.5.1, THE STORY'OF A WONDROUS DAY Interesting Experiences of a Young Woman Between Two Breakfast Times Romance dances and skips through "Mood Morning, Rosamond !" one of tho most de llKlitful books that lias come from the press this spring. Its nuthor Is Oonstnnoe Lindsay .Skinner, poet, playwright and Journalist, who has proved that she Is also n novelist of rare gifts. The scene of the story Is an llngllsh country virago of the kind Mrs. Gaskcll tlescrlbud In "Cranford." It the book Itself does not become a classic ofler the manner of Mrs. Gnskelt's famous tale. It will not be for lack of merit. Tho heroine, Rosamond, Is a farmer' daughter who married nn Kngllsh gentleman three times her ngc. He left her a widow after less than two years of wedded life, nnd tho could enjoy his fortune so long as she con tinued to live In the village and maintain his house In which lie had gathered a large collection of antiques. The story opns when she Is about twenty-three years old and n widow of four years' siandlng. llet maids, Inherited along with the estate, are called away one morning at breakfast time by the Illness uf their mother nnd she Is left n'one In the house for tho first time. It Is summer nnd she decides to enjoy one wondrous day In her own way The spirit of romance stirs In her oung heatt and she longs for ItH gratification Ili(t "nothing ever hnppens In Roscborougli " She 4lons one of her gajest gowns, a surlai from tho first years of her married life, and frets out to tcek adventure, Sho gets It with CONSTANCE SKINNER three proposals of marriage before the evening, but the amorous swains aro Im possible from her point of view, nnd tho evening opens with the longing still unsatis fied. Then things began to happen. Before morning sho Is betrothed to a hero as ro mantic as the heart of a girl could desire, and the wonderful day which began so un happily ends with the singing of the morn ing birds and the gleaming of the sun ns It gilds the landscapo on which she looks. The story Is told with consummate literary art It Is Joyous and buoyant sclntlllant and sarcastic, cynical nnd sympathetic Rosa moniUls a heroine to make glad the heart. The book Is likely to be read on every summer hotel piazza this year and next year and In the jears to come It Is Miss Skinner's first novel. If she can write mora as entertaining she will hate nn assured place among the loters of good reading, OOOI) MOUNINO, ItOSAMO.N'DI" lly Con stnneo Lindsay Hklnner. Illustrated by Thomas Komrty. 11.3.. darden Cltyi Dou blcday, Tape & Co, She Dodges the Turns What wicked men there aro In the world! But they could not turn California Halrd from "The Straight Road." (written anonym ously), and so through 35G pages of the book sho shudders at their suggestions, re pulses their advances, and on the 316th page places her arms around the neck of l'hlllp Stanley, the Idol of her bchool days. Tho wicked, fade Into memory nnd the course of truo love, contrary to custom, begins to run smooth. All of which goes to thow that "Heavink will pertcc the wolklng goll."g In the first chapter California takes her four-year-old son, steals out of the'house before tho arrival of the milkman, collects HI from a grocer and goes out Into the cruel world to seek a Job and a divorce. But she does not know what trouble awaits her, for the right at tho station is a man who thinks California should love him. He says us much, and so flusters the girl that she misses her train. And life, for her, is full of Just such adventures as this. One man after another seems to believe, because of her aloneness, she needs the stort of protection that Is distasteful. But they can't fool California. She sticks to the straight and narrow path without even getting dizzy b,y looking over the edge. Even tho philosophy of Ihjgcnla Chandler, a young woman who later ends her life by running afoul of the Mann act, fails to shake her determination to be good. One of the bright spots In the story Is "Boy," tho four-year-old son of California, and whose real name Is John Boyce Balrd. One's sympathies are npt to run more to tho child than to Its mother. The various Incidents In the book have been presented many times before, both on and of! the stage. The author, evidently, Is Interested In the labor situation by the man ner In which the I. W, "W. riot of the hop plckera Is pictured, California has sought refuge among these, after the machinations of man have deprived her of a position. But the tale ends all right, and "Callle" and Philip are happy, after years of sep aration because Philip's mother, a haughty woman, had higher social ambitions for her sonthsn to have him form an alliance with the daughter of an Improvident ranch owner, THE STnAICJHT nOAD. Illustrated by C. E. Chamber. 11.60. .New York: Ueorre II. Do ran Co, Mrs.' Wilson Woodrow. tho author of "Thej Hornet's Neat," her latest book, Is one of that croup of authors; Helen n. Martin, Anno Douglas Sedgwick, John and Henry Bennett, Charles Carey Waddell, -Jessee Lynch Williams and Burton Steven son, who all began, as one of them Bald, to write 100 years ago In Chllllcothe, Ohio, Their mothers 'were friends, belonging to that older generation which utamped upon the nualnt old town on the- Scioto Itlvcr 1 th6, air of formality and repose, Us chief I nhafAJ-tlirlalta-'vAt aflmnlalAri In tht ..hll- COMMANDER YATES STIRLING TELLS WHAT A NAVY IS FOR A Handbook on .Fundamentals of Naval Policy Full of Information for Men Who Want to Fight for Their Country on the Sea IT IS doubtful If one person In n thou sand who sees the blue-uniformed men from the navy yard walking up and down the streets has any definite knowledge of what these snllorH do on board the war ship. The nverngc person regards them ns enlisted men In the navy nnd lets It go at that. There Is nlfo n similar lack of knowledge of the purpose nnd mission of the nanl establishment nn a whole. We usually say that It l maintained for national defense. This s time so far ns It goes, but It docs i.ot go for enough, Now that we arc it war and there Is n demand for inure stllors and more ships and for the nctlvo participation of the navy In the conflict It Is of the first Im porlnnco that the nverogo citizen should Inform himself on theso subjects, first, In order to decide whether ho will enlist In the navy and assist In fighting the b.ittlet of his country, and then, mi that he i,iay understand more fully just why nn n 'liv and navy nro necessary. There Is no let ter place for getting this Infniiiik.lou t,.ui In "Kundamentnls of Naval Service," a handbook ot between 00 and COO p.igrs, prepared by Commander Yates Stulln,-, I". S. N. It Is written so simply that man who has never studied the mbject can understand It. Commander Stirling has evi dently tried to explain the navy for the Inexpert rather thnn for the specialist, and be has succeeded admirably. Instead of saying that .in army and navy are maintained for national defense tie makes It evident that the military arm of tho Government has positive rather than negative functions. War, he reminds us. Is a political net. In that It Is a means for carrying out a policy of the Government against the opposition of another (Intern ment. Mllltaiy men are familiar with this way or putting It, but the layman heldom or never thinks of It In this light. When he docs ho sees at onco that If the t'nlted .States Is to carry out any policy which iiffects other nations or successfully resist the execution of the policy of another liovcrninenl which trespasses upon Its rights It must have an adequate army and navy. In this simple and direct way Com mander Kthllng gets down to the basic facts of natal policy, naval strategy, tho qualifications of a naval ofllcer. the ele ments of tea power nnil a score of kindled subjects. The section of his book detoted to this phase of the question will open the eyes of those who have never thought be yond the surface of military questions and It will be read with Interest by others who wish to find an epitome of the military and naval thinking of tho experts. The book answers every question on which the young man thinking of entej-lng the navy needs Information. It tells him that the sailors arc carpenters, steamflttcrs, blacksmiths, painters, stenographers, gun. ncrs, engineers nnd firemen, nnd that the men qualified to work at any of these trades receive promotion and pay corre sponding to their fitness. It tells him that there nro schools where he receives train ing In tho trade of which ho may hate some knowledge. It enlarges upon tho quallfl- THE FRUITAGE OF FRIENDSHIP Even Under Unfavorable Condi tions It Sometimes Is Mar riage and Happiness "Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul, sweetener of life, solder of society!" Tho eighteenth century poet who rhapso dizes on the quality held In loftiest esteem by to nnclent a writer as tho Psalmist him self would doubtless have found In the relationship established between two girl art students Introduced to tho reader In the opening chapter of Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote's latest novel the full measuro of his temperamental fancy. For sheer devoted ness It would be hard to discover In this modern, workaday world of ours nnythlng surpassing the sacrifice of youth nnd com fort made by Kdlth llonhnm for the loved memory of a companion of her student days. The latter becomes the bride of a saturnine, cold-blooded person at least he Is made to appear a gloomy sort of chap until to ward the end of tho tale, when It turns out that ndlth has entirely misunderstood the nature of tho man. Indeed, she gladly beromea his second wife, the first having died right after Kdlth had agreed In friend ship's namo to leave her happy home In New York and go to the far West as gover ness of the little daughter of the seemingly Ill-assorted couple. Hating promised Nanny, her girlhood chum, to take the child under her wing, Kdlth sturdily stands by her pledge, and makes her homo under the roof of the bereaved widower. In the wilds of Idaho, subordinating her dislike of the man to her Inordinate affection foj- the memory of the departed. Tho discomforts she "undergoes during her stay In a region entirely the opposite of the artistic environ ment of hor girlhood nnd college dajs nia enough to appall nny nature not super human, say llko those of Damon and i'th las or nny feminine types of that historic pair. Not the least of her woes In an offer of marriage from her bete nolr a few months after tho burial of his ftst spouse, Edith's darling friend, Nanny, and the father of the little Innocent. Any ono familiar with the emotional power, tho Imaginative knowledge of life, ond suggestive manner of story telling that have made Mrs. Foote's writings popular needs not to be told that In tho develop ment of n simple plot she has woven n tale well filled with romance and not devoid of human nppcal, It might perhaps, be wished that sho had succeeded In Injecting at least a modicum of humor Into a few of the scenes; there Is so much that 13 seml traglc or nt lenst extremely tense. The book Is literally without a laugh, hardly a smile, from covtr to coter, and the last chapter, or "epilogue," might as well have been omitted, since the writer goes out of her way to condemn the Administration at Washington forlt "quibbling neutrality" toward the European war This criticism, coming nt this particular time, seems oddly out of place, nnd one can hardly help won dering why the author lugged In the war nt all, after she had finished her story. EDITIf HONIIAM, lly Marv llalloek Foot. 11,50. Boiton: Hounhtun Mifflin Company, The America of Mr. Bryan America Is so many-sided 'that a man can find here about what he looks for. nidgwell Cullom, an Englishman, has writ ten a novel, 'The Son of His Father," which exploits a phase of American character that those who have swallowed all the mouthlngs of Mr, Bryan are wont to say Is typical of the whole. It Is the story of an adventure In fortune eeeklng In which neither honor nor honesty finds any place. In order to win the money needed to. pay his debts the Bon of a railroad president la made to kidnap his own father and hold him until by the uso of forged Dispatches the Eon Is enabled to start n land boom aVound a new town site touched by the line "Mademoiselle Miss" Letters from an American arlrl servlnc with the rank of Ututtnant In a French Army Hoi pllal at the front. I'nblUhed for the Benefit of the American, rani far French'tan". r "' Vf Lill I I I pi 8 V. XX ? t -- ljj , im.gqii i wiwii nremwaniiMMra.raMH &.a4?l K KVJw5aaaMMKraKi-iA;'USUW COM. YATES STEKMJNU, u. S. N. cations of character and knowledge neces sary for success And, in addition, It con tains a brief but excellent review of the natal history of the country and 11 dis closure of the failure of the American poli ticians to appreciate the Importance of that preparedness which had been pointed out from the beginning by men ttho under stood the peril that lay In the path of a nation Indifferent to sea power. If the book could be put In the pre scribed courses of reading In the high schools and colleges for the-next ten enrs It would create a public sentiment that would force Congress ffj adopt a naval pollcj based upon t-ountt Statesmanship. In tho meantime It ought to be urged upon the attention of nil those tvhTi are Indif ferent to the hubjoct of national prepared ness or ttho think that a n.ity cm bo Im provised when nn emergency confronts us. Kl'NIlAMKNTAI.S (IP NAVAI. HKHVU'l:. lly rnininimli-r Yntm Stlrl'iu. U S N. 1'hlU dilplila: J II. l.lpplncou Company. $1'. of his father's railroad and clear up enough to make him even with the world The ton Justlfjes his tourse by pretending that It Is the way of the world which his own father has pursued In making his fortune. Tho crimes of high finance are tlslted on one of Its practitioners, Mr. Cullom has written a Mory of commercial piracy that as a mere story Is as exciting ns any tale of tho buc caneers of tho Spanish Mnln. thi; hon or ma patiihr Hy nidcweii cui. lorn, author of "Tile .Nluht ltldern." II luxtralrd by Dnuglns Ducr. $l.:t3. Philadel phia; (it-time W. Jamba H. Cn A Cape Cod Girl in Florence Aside from being a toluino that to Its final chapter holds one's Interest and stimulates his admiration, (lertrude Hall's new book, "Aurora the Magnificent," gives nn Intimate picture of life In Florence that will send the mind of previous visitors to it, harking back along pleasant channels of remem brance. The author knows Florence Intimately and loves It well. Her father and mother, who were musicians, trateled extensively on concert tours. Tho daughter, although born In America, was sent to Florence to school at tho age of seven. Slio remained there for sixteen years, before she came back to America, but frequently revisits the scene of her school-day activities. Her new book denls with a Cape Cod woman of tho wholesome type.set down In Florence, among nn Anglo-American group of persons who today would bo desig nated ns the super high-brow set Eminent ly Mjphlstlcnted and self-satisfied persons they were, nnd the young Aurora shocks them Into violent contoitlona of the eyebrows by having a mind of her own, bujlng what she likes Instead of what she is expected to think sho likes; hating a sense of humor, and being perfectly natural, Worst of all sho falls in love and with (Jerald Fane, an artist. Now an nrtlst In lote with any thing but his art was an utterly Impos sible person to Aurora's acquaintances. Finally Aurora nnd (lerald elopo nnd are married. FoIIowh many pages of con tersatlonal speculation on the part of friends nbout the miseries of lovo In n garret, crackers and cheese, and one thing and nnother. But If the reader Is wise he will bellevu them to be happy, for how would two such creatures oh they bo nn thing else. The entire dellnentlon of their characters throughout tho book shows that. t AimoitA 'Hin MAONtriCIINT. Ilv dertrudj Hall. Jl to. New York: The Century Com pany. fAU-of-a-Suddenl lw Carmen by Gustav Kobbe A little waif, left at tho opera house door, is ton- dcrly mothered by members of the company nnd becomes a real stage-child, living in the atmosphero of music lcaming the songs as another child might learn to talk. It is the story of her babyhood, child hood and maidenhood to the moment she rises to the great emergency and is awarded the coveted laurel wreath. All UooV llr, 11.11 H. Putnam TsnV. rY Saved by a Wreck It wasn't really a wreck (lint saved the llrndley's, but a fire. They ttero oung married people who had begun life modestby nn I then prospered, They let their, ex. P'nsos Increase n little faster thnn their Ineome. They bought a houso that cost 'wire ns much os they know they ought to pay nnil they were drawn Into the social life nbout them Dills piled up The hus band and wife drifted apart. There were looks abend Then the fire came nnd re duced lit lug to Its fundamentals a place to sleep nnd food and clothing ami the fnmlly life began ngnln. This Is Kathleen Nnrrls's new story, "t'ndertow," which ran serl.illy In the Ladles' Home .Iniiiucl under the title of "Holly Court." It deals with tho prob lem that confronts many American families which hate not the decision of character to Hi'., tliplr nu )i 1Um In their iiwn tvjiv re gardless of what their friends may think. Mrs Norrls has told her tale with sKlll ntm Insight Many persons will recognize the delightful residence park on Long Island Sound In which the final chapters nro laid, and many more will rccognlzo themselves In tho Ilrn.l'evs t'NPIPtTOW. lly Kathleen Nortls, nuttier nf itotlur" 11.2.". ll.irilen City. Doubled?. Our Canadian Neighbors In thes,o times when we think not only In terms of ourselves, but also In terms ot tle who nro our Allies, It Is lather com forting to know that Canadians are so much the iiine as wc ale. So III reading "Up the Hill i. -id nvoi" one Is Intioduced to n set of Miinll town foht teiy like those of our own northeastern communities , the same kind of school leacher. Hie same kjnd of well-meaning, cuilous-mliided. gossipy land lady, the same kind of youngsters, nnd, of course, the t-ame kind of love-making. The story Is well done, though not is-pcclnlly original. A successful city doc tor tramps away In sent eh of good health for himself ; meets a charming girl, learns a tillage doctor has a practice for t-alej lots It. encounters the ghost of a .toothful lote affair, prepares to do the "manly" thing, Is sated by chance and, In tho rfhd, as things should bp. lote triumphs True, tho story Is trite, but Its working out Is nevertheless Interesting. There Js a really good study of a woman's secret addiction to "dope" that Is by no means thu least part or tlio story. UP THU IIIM. AND OVKIt. Ilv Isabel Keole- Mt(Hlt Mackiiv New Yuri.: Ileortfo II. Doian any. i.:ir., A Woman's Job An unusually capable nnd understanding joting woman with Interesting gray halt Is Jan, heiolne of L Allen Harker's dltert lug notel, "Jan and Her Job" Dlterslnn Is frankly tlio purpose of Mrs. Harker's book and an such It admirably succeeds. Jan Is a llttlo more natural and a good deal more normal than the average light fiction heroine, and her Job is a genuine test of her character, demanding tho employment of nil her Instincts of sympathy and tact. Two fascinating children aro no Incon siderable Item of the Job, and their disso lute father is nnother dllllcult detail. Tho story carries two lote threads, wound around two unusually real men of the type favored by all Kngllsh writers, nnd Jan nnd Met:, tbe latter a charming red-hnlred Mirite who can perform In many practical fields with amazing clllcicncy. The story ends In August, 1914, nnd, needless to sny, leates Its readers wondering whether the two nice men hate etcr gotten back to tho two nlco girls. JAN AND Hi:ri JOH. Hy U Allen llnrker. ticw York. Charles Scrlbner's Sons SI."!.". -s MISTRESS ANNE By Temple Bailey Author of "Cbntrary Marv" The heart-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 cheery, wholesome story tbe kind you finish with a sigh and lend at once to a dear friend. Jacket by Hol leau, Illustrations by F. Vaux Wilson. $1.35 net all bookstores The Penn Publishing Company Philadelphia jff(l ' m teSS A STUDENT IN ARMS The Slaying of Fear A Book That Is Gripping England By DONALD HANKEY Introduction by J. St. Loe Strachey, Editor uf The London Spectator Tho one soul-stirrinR" book produced by the war. We would like to feel that every Father nnd Mother of America hnd read of this wonderful experience. Price $1.50 Net. Postage Extra. At All Bookstores. E. P. DUTTON & CO., 681 Fifth Ave., New York ,ig- "Men fight wars, but it is the m o thers who raise the army." Read Mary Roberts Rinehart's THE ALTAR OF FREEDOM An appeal to the mothers of America from a woman who has been at the Front and knows what lies ahead of us. .' Countless women are today facing the problems answered in this inspiring book. 60 cants net, BOSTON. HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COHPANIV;!; ifntt1 WT r IJi aI-iimam 3li V1V1U Tl ilV.tUICD K When Stenhen Crane wrote 'The Hast Badge of Courage," telling how war affectstj'.j Si MltS.wlA bAlillnl M4 Jh l tMl lAAM t tlMBeBl miihiu nuiuivi) iiitrii tyiiu iihu ucvii iu vwmr wondered how hie cnulii ha.VA Imafflned tk thing flo truly. Tho merit of Crane's ach.YM?i mem lay in tho rnct that ho succeeded ln mgldni. Ida tia... n I.a nt nil enlills (M . - tain Philippe Millet, of the French army, VI has given us a picture of nctual war In hVsb noon, "comrades in Arms," that nas some of the ipiatltles of Crane's fiction. He has described the Kngllsh ofllcer and prlvater In' ictlon by picking out a dozen or more lnai-v vniuui i.iscn iiiiu tenuis; nuw win men uay, hated In quarters and under fire. He hasXJ written simply nnd directly, as a military 5 limn biiuuiu. uui u ne nau muuieu wia aib of writing with tho best French masters "lie could not have produced a more satisfy tug or a more Informing book. Nothing that has come from the battlefields gives a better Idea of what Is happening there than this group of graphic studies. He takes death nnd destruction ns coolly as the flghtlnf men whom he describes. It Is one of the hazards of the game. The Interesting thing Is how men react In their new surrounding. Captain Millet tells us this. '' COMItAl)i:s IN AltMH. By Cartaln Philippe Millet. Trnnalatrd by y I.ady Fraier. With nn i.aaj Introduction by, J. Ht. I.oo Utrachay. Naif 'ft. York! lleurae II, Doran Company. A Good Bedtime Story The good old-fashioned child's story ot how gentleness nnd kindness overcome selfishness nnd gTced retains Us popularity. An excellent example of this kind of a tale Is "Jloeschen and the Wicked Magpie," by Kvnleen fteln, which the I-othrop, Lee A Shcpard Company, of Boston, has Just published, with Illustrations hy I.. J. Brldg. man. Its scene Is In tho Austrian Tyrol' nnd Its basts Is the custom of a lordly family to keep a magpie In a cage as a punishment for the act of a bird of the samo kind 200 years before. Itoeschen Is a llttlo girl who pities the captive, and ultimately causes the baron to abandon th custom of his ancestors and also to treat the peasants on his estate with kindly con slderatlon. It Is a good bedtime story for tho little folk. OPEN BOATS Hy ALFRED NOYES The first authentic account of the grim tragedies which fol low attacks of German sub marines on unarmed merchant ships. Mr. Noyr had access to Ilritlsh Admiralty Reports, and from them, and from eyewit nesses, he has been able to get nt the truth of the U-Boat out rages. THE RUSSIANS An Interpretation Ilv RICHARDSON WRIGHT What is this Russia that has had surh an amazing revolu tion? What manner of people are these Russians who are al ways surprising us? 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