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Thero are few writers who can be such a delightful guide as the author of A Diplomat's Wife in Mexico In this new book Jii'-t as de Ucntrul sho again takes the reader Into her Intimate contldenoei ni she tells of her many contacts with men nnd women who have played their parts In changing tho courso ot history. Illustrated, t! X f C WE CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING By RUPERT HUGHES ' Do you know how interesting life Is in a great city? If not. them Is no need to miss tho tragedy anil the comedy about vou, for I'.'ipcrt Hughes Is Its lrttsrpretcr, 'tho fo-emost Interpreter of modem metro politan life." the Philadelphia Press says, and of this new story that "It is an achievement to convey a vivid, colorful and absolutely authentic Impression of the surge and movement of the life of present-day New York." (Lit. & THE TRIUMPH k"If It bo posslblo to rpcak dispassionately of so great a subject as ' the Civil War, Mr. Hnrbcn has done si " .Veto OrTin? 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We tee W wi zeal, poweMed with all the mental energy and acuity I. ucamnd after uch hard, labor." W.Pdat'fSJO net. Postage rON 4b CO., WHATTHE GREAT i DONE FOR RELIGIOUS THINKING Some Men Have Been Made to Doubt a God Who Permits the Slaughter Others See Divine Purposes at Work IT IS not customary at tho Christ mas season to gtvo much thought to religious thing. Wo aro too busy planning to "exchange gifts." 1'ot after all this Is tho season when It Is most fitting to tnko account of stock In order that wo may learn whoro wo stand. It was with somo such thought In mind that I welcomed Doctor Mo Fabro anil his wife when they made their usual weekly call. When Mrs. McFobre was comfort ably settled by tho fireplace with her lied Cross knitting In her lap sho ro marked: "I can't get out of myx mind tho thought of the useless wasto of llfo In Km ope. Young men nro killed and the girls whom they would liavo mar rled must llvo widowed llvo. The future h dark." "Yea," (.aid Tho J.udy, "It looks black. Not only aro tho toldlers killed, but whulc nations uio suffering starvation, I was reading yesterday of the terrible conditions In Serbia and Poland, where women and chll dien aro dying b tho thousand, with no succor In sight " most welcome gifts Hooks By EDITH O'SHAUGIISESSY By WILL A. II ABBES PLAINS raised at last at tho end of tho By HOWARD BRUBAKER hpn n renl llp8h-:inl.hlnnrt tinv nn nun nmiiQ Early Life of Abraham Lincoln At aa ooonstorcs. Over the Top BV Arthur Guy Empey popularity of Sergeant Empty' pergonal recital of Sent. Emoer't THE book of th! treated war in telegraph. WHEREVER MEN SELL BOOKS MEMORIES him now a man with wonderful Extra. At All Booktlorei. 681 Fifth Avue, N. Y. 4. WAR HAS il "I sometimes wonder why God per mits it," said Mrs. McFabro. "I know it Is wicked, but sometimes 1 doubt whether thero Is any Clod at nil," "You nro not tho only one who has doubted," 1 itmatkcd. "Thero aro men who say that religion has broken down, and that wo miiBt cither aban don nil our religious ideas or that we must recast them so ns to conform to tho facts as wo know them. Some of them say that Ood is impotent and could not prevent tho Buffering if lie would, and others say that Ho would not If Ho could. ISoth seem to think .1. C. SXAITH that they could havo managed affairs better. Thc remind mo of a tcmark that Major Henry L. Hlgglnson. of Boston, onco made to mo whllo discuss ing another subject. Ho said, 'I nm willing to admit, for tho sako of argu ment, that I could havo mauo ii better world than God did,' but wo must ac cept It us It is.' ISut they aro not will ing to accept It." ."I do not fcco how wo can help It," raid Doctor McFubic. "Aio you conceited enough to believe that if it weio left to you that you could better It?" I nhkul. "Thank od! No!" "I congiatulato you, doctor, on your modesty," t,a!d I. "Tho war is honlblc enough without nllovving It to deprive us of our faith In a. righteous power that directs tho nffulrs of men. Thero aio compensations, however, which wo ought not to u vot look. I can &eo the hand of God in what Is going on as clearly ns I can see you. You know what Ihnerson bald.' . 'Tls man's perdition to bo safo, When for tho truth he ought to die. "ilclgluni did not choose hell as her fate, but sho has s.-.criflccd herself for u high Ideal. I cannot think of tho fato of that little nation without gain ing a new lespect for tho divinity thero is in man. Franco has been teborn In Hie throes of tho conflict. England has risen from her sloth and has had a vision of a glory greater than that of commercial supiemacy, and In tho United States a mlraclo has been wrought. AVo have turned our backs on all that wo havo been taught for moro than ono hundred jears. Wo havo entered a war on the continent of Europe. Wo havo contented to a con scription law and we aro engaged in a holy crusado for democracy, which ts another name for tho rights of tho humblest man, which rest on tho fun damental teachings of Christ that we aro all tho sons of God and brothers and equal heirs in a common heritage. The man who should havo said three j oars ugo wo would do all this would hav o been called mad." "I had not thought of It In that way," said tho clergyman. "But wo must think of It In this way If we aro to retain our faith in righteousness," said I. "I bympathlzo deeply with all tho bereaved. I cannot think without tears of tho hundreds of thousands typified by Tennyson when ho wrote: Home they brought her warrior dead; Sho nor svvoon'd, nor utter'd cry, but when I take a broad view of the history of tho wholo world I can not help thinking that tho death of theo men is a comparatively small price to pay for tho great benefits that will accruo to future generations. If I should say that tho fact that It is permitted proves thero Is no God or that God is Impotent I should bo worse than tho'mother who curses God be cause her baby falls Into tho fire and Is burned to death. Why, do you know, thero has been moro serious writing and thinking about God since this war began than in any similar period for generations. I do not mean mere theological discussion, but serious searching after tho truth and devout Inquiry Into tho great question of, a spiritual- power at work In tho world. Mr. Wells spoko for tens of thou sands ot Englishmen when he wrote 'Mr, Brltllng Sees It Throug'h,' and 'God tho Invlslblo King,' and they wero Engllsl men, who like Mr. Wells, had hitherto had no Interest In i llglous things. I have Just been read ing three books that havo grown moro or less directly out of tho war as Mr. Wells's books grew. One Is a novel by J. C. Snalth, an Englishman. The Coming,' as it Is called, has already attracted a great deal of attention and leseryedly. It is an attempt to ex hibit Christ as the prophet of human brotherhood and the redeemer of the world, through selflessness. It con tains ft scathing arraignment of the established church In the person of a narrow-minded vicar, and It proclaims that thero can be no salvation for the world until a. new aolrit enters the iiiiiiiiiiiiffxHijiiiiiiiiiiW ' heart of man and dominates It. I la to kilts, but lovo makes alive. Tho hero Is an epileptic whoso father was kilted In war six months before the child was born. Ills mother prayed that war might end, and prayed continually until tho boy came. As ho grow to manhood sho came to regard him as a sort of a Messiah, nnd tho youth himself attempted to llvo tho llfo of Christ until ho camo to bcllcvo that ho had possession of tho truth which vjould chaugo tho evil In tho world Into good. Ho Is mado to havo n re markable Influence over a largo group of persons not only through his own life, but through a great religious play." "That t,ort of writing always seems to mo futile," f.ald Doctor Mcl'abre. "And to mo also, under ordinary cir cumstances," I admitted! "but In tho itescnt stato of tho world It deserves attention becauso Mr. Snalth makes ono of his characters, a man who had been crippled at Galllpoll, say that civilization must not destroy Gci many, but that It (owes It to itself to help Germany, Tho man had reached this tolerant view through tho influeuco of tho hero. This la tho bplrlt of the book. Thero Is no hopo for tho .world until tho coming again of tho bplrit of Christ. As a novel It does not amount to very much, but ns a study In Christian ethics as applied to tho conduct of affairs It Is worth while." "'Mr. Brltllng' did not amount to mucli us a novel, cither," bald The Lady. "That is true," said I. "Tho other two books I havo been reading aro not novels. Ono Is, 'Do Wo Xted a New Idea of Ood?' by a Unitarian clergy man of Trenton, nnd tho other Is 'The Genius of Christ,' by a Baptist clergy man who Is the professor of English literature nnd dean of Colgate Uni versity " "Humph'" This from Doctor Me Unbre. "Tho extremes of btcadth and narrowness." "I do not know about tho bicadth," bald I, "but I disagree with you on tho matter of narrowness, it took a secu lar newspaper, tho New York Sun, In tho days of Charles A. Dana, to dls abu.so tho minds of Its readers In re gard to tho question of Baptlbt nar rowness. Thut newspaper ' disputed tho assertion of a correspondent that tho distinctive tenet of tho Baptist Church was tho importance of a form of baptism and nsscrted that that church rested em the fundamental tight ' of Individual ludL-meiit ill religious ' matters and consequently had no writ ten creed nnd no hierarchy of priests oi bishops to decide for any man wliat ho should or should not believe. I am ' peisonally acquainted with a Baptist clergyman, pastor of ono church for twinty-flvo years, who was theolog ically a Unitarian. Ho Is a man ot tact and flno religious fcplrlt and no ono made any troublo for him, cither In his own church or In tin association of churches to which he belonged." "I am glad to heat- that," bald Doctor McFabro, but ho did not beem to have much confldenco In what I nuld. "Tho book by tho Ui Itarlan ho Is the Iti-v. Edmund II. lleeman," I went on, "has llttlo or nothing to bny of Chi 1st, bave to Indlcato that other re ligions profess to havo had their divine man, Mr. Beeman Is a deist and lie thinks that tho orthodo-c Idea of God Is all wrong. His own thought ts that thero is no God who can control war, that God Is tho llfo forco of tho uni verse, a. sort of an impersonal power that finds expression In man ns tho highest pioduct of natural forces, if God could havo stopped or prevented tho present war ho would havo done so, says Mr. Beeman. I confees that I have profound admiration for tho in tellectual conceit of a man who can mako such an assertion, There ts in volved in it tho assumption of the finite mind to comprehend tho pur poses of tho Infinite. Of course, Mr. Beeman may agree with Mr. Wells that God Is not Infinite, and If bo there may bo some excuse for him. But otherwiso my remark about conceit must stand. His book will not appeal to orthodox Christians such as you, Doctor." "If you describe It correctly It cer tainly will not," said ho. "But thero aro many persons not connected with tho churches and out of sympathy with them who could read it with great benefit," I went on. "Thero Is a religious spirit In It and a feeling after tho truth which In splto of Its defects makes it inspiring and helpful. Even tho orthodox might read it with profit, for It will help them to understand that there aro earnest and sincere souls In the world who refuse to bo fenced In by any bet formulas and havo tho audacity to doubt even tho authority of Christ Himself as a rellgieus teacher." "I should not recommend It to any of my church pcoplo," said Doctor Me Fabre. "You would recommend 'The Gonlus of Christ' to your people, or you ought to," said I. "Its author, Doctor Cravv shaw, Is a nattvo Phlladelphlan, and ho dedicates tho book to the memory of his mother, who died hero about a year ago. Slnco ho left here as a young mnn to enter college he has be como a doctor of letters and a doctor of laws, and has written several books, including a history of English litera ture The basis of his new book is a series of lectures delivered to a Bible class ot college students. He has at tempted to approach Christ as a man of genius and to Interpret him by the ordinary human standards. Yet he be lieves that Christ was divine and the Eon ot God, and the interpreter of God to man.' "That is the right view," said Dois- tor McFabro. "Wo won't quarrel over questions of deity and divinity, nor will I quibble over definitions. Wo are substan tially agreed on tho leadership .of Christ and I think I can say that you will get as much pleasure as I did from Doctor Crawshaw's novel study. Did you ever think ot Christ as a liter- arv aranluil Of course not. His art la so perfect that you never thought of It. Doctor Crawshaw analyzes tho sermon on tho mount, tho parables, tho brief addresses and remarks which mako up tho wholo body of Ills say ings that wo havo and ha concludes that tliclr literary form is tho equal of anything that has ever been pro duced, If not superior to tho best. Ho discusses tho genius of Christ for Ideas and points out that Ho gavo to tho world a revolutionary social phil osophy, a philosophy which has had moro effect upon men than any other ever propounded. When ono com pares tho Christian civilization with tho civilization of other religions ono must ngrco with him." "In hplto of tho war?" asked Mrs. McFabro. "Yes, In splto ot tho war. If not becauso of It. Doctor Cravvshaw's book ndmlrably supplements Mr. Snalth's novel, for It Is an attempt to Impress upon us tho greatness of Christ as a worthy leader of men. Thero Is nothing mystical nbout It. In deed, he protests against tho mysti cism which produced ThomaH n'Kem pls's book and bays that 'tho Imita tion of Christ meant that men nhould cento In bo men,' whllo 'living under tho Inspiration of Christ will mean that they should becomo men In the fullest and complctest senso by striv ing to become each In his own way "such men ns he." ' And no ono ought to read Mr. Hecman's dclstlc discus blon of tho llfo force which ho colls God without iilho leading Doctor Craw- shaw's study of the God forco which Is i ., ,.u,i ,." ' GEOItai: W. DOUGLAS. tin: coMiNtJ. ny '.. l Vnrk 11 Applotnll & e n. Hnnlth. tl. 50. Npiv do vr. nhi:p a ni:w jiu:a or lion? uv IMinun.l II HrMiian I'hllddeliilila. elcuree v .IhciI)m L Co II Till- m-NltiH or C'llllivr A Study nf! lectin ny huh " -T,j 'u. i-lir i a. u M,.n of (tcnluf. liy WH- -Songs of the Stalwart." Tho y luni II crr,H.. I.iti. t.. M; I . l'"n ,,par mier tho subtitles of I'uljfliMne Cuintiaii. Good and Bad of War Nothing better or moro honest on tho good and had side of war has been writ ten than appears in the second berles of "A Student In Ann"" by Donald Hankey. Mr. Hankey fiatiklv admits the tendency ot tho holdler to 5 ietil to vicious influ cm cm when he is off duty. It is tho reaction fiom tho strain. Officers and nx-n aro subject to It But ho Is per suaded that tho uniform does not chango tho essential man Temptation Is too much for tho civilian also. Somo sol diers fall, however, who would havo re malned clean If they hod not entered tho armv. This is tho bad side. Tho good side," ns ho nts it forth, lies In tho effect of discipline The world was cursed with Individualism before tlilj war began. ti...., .. r .. nn,Ln. .tin. tncict.,! Hint the ,)rlmo lluty was belf-epres9loii, that thn unhappily married woman was a coward unless i she left her husband and uint nn. iv iini her lover, anu mat ina m.in who refrained from marrying In order to cato for a mother, sister or father was ilenjlng himself tho best thero vt as In life But Mr. Hankey finds that tho war has undo men see that there is bomethlng greater than Individ ualism, that woiklng with other men for a common (nuso Is moro Important than saving one's skin. Ho finds that superimposed on the Individualism of tho soldier thero Is u spiilt of union nnd self-bacrlllcc that Ik transforming him and promises great things for the future. Thero are otaer things in this book, but tho two chapters on tho good and bad sldo of war make It very much worth while. A iTUnnvr IN AltMS Second perk . 11)- lioimld nunke Id IlunKe with an Introduction by mWa"!!. N''W Yrk '" '' J. 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LIPPINCOTT COMP.ANY ft&ij PETER PUTTER ON "GRANT" RICE What One Sports Writer Thinks of the Poetry of Another In In Cobb says that the likely sue cessor of James Whltcomb Hlley Is (iranlland Illce. Just as others have Bald that the mnntlo of Mark Twain has fallen upon tho broid shoulders of Cobb, tho man whom many regard as the best living American humorist. And while levers of lllley may not agrco with hli verdict, thero is a great npheal In the verco of Itlee, which has becomo ho familiar to the readers of tho Evknino 1'um.ic I.imonn. Hlco Is tho Interpreter of tports. Ho finds angles In baseball, football, golf nn dtcnnls stories that most of our pports writers overlook. He has done a lot to dignify sport, Ho Is moro of a commentator on pports than a reporter of them, Drnntlnnd Illce has Just Issued n smal volumo of poetry "Songs of tho Stal wart." Ho Ins a raro faculty ot tell Ing In ihjmo tho vital things of llfo and bport ns tho adult sew nnd feels Hum, and to thoso who delight In read ing virile verse tho Ittlo volumo will miko an Instant appeal. Hlco Is a southcrnir, but It was not until he was graduated from Vutidcrbllt University that ho wroto either prose or verse. As a newspaper man ho lias worked In four cities Nashville, At lanta, Cleveland and New York He began as u sports writer ilrtt, but It was not until ho went back to Nash ville after stays In Atlanta and Ck-ve-iind that ho began ns a "colyumnlst " Ho ran a topical column on the edltoilal pigo ot the Nashvlllo Tcnncsiieean dor tho title ot "Tennnssee Uns," un and u was there that his llret verse appeared Hut Nashville wat. not big enough to hold him, and so he went to New York and there lie remained for bK or seven ears, leaving to earn a commission In tho nitlllery. ..... , . , Most of tho verses that Illce printed i i.i Kiinrtn comment havo been col lected by him anil now aro a pari i crics up hongs of ourage, 'Songs of tho Off-Trail," "Songs of the dame" and "Songs of tho Drumllre i ti, nr nil excellent, both with refer cneu to tho metrical seyio mm " 'm-i.,ti-iit Unit rlnuK true In all of them Cobb puts tho enso very concisely when ho sas: "You llko Orantland I'.lcob prosn bUifC until vou have read home of Ida verses. Then you wonder why he doesn't write in lhsnie all tho time." One of the very bebt poems In hi" collection Is the first, "Some Day." Here U a Fotnple of his Etyle: "I'm pnlmf homo nomo dnv" -fn movca the ilrenm of bII the rovln worl.1; lhe seekers of far Unds viho've lout their Go-l's cntfnt'tws aliens, by tlio current i-rom nut the harbor, ?nrl l 'mrj'st l'0"""' , T.. unknown Und when, tl.e must evtr Wliiriea And this Is nil that mikes liro worm tno . . ' "t : .. .,... t. ,.i,- """ ""Q'me"' I cn,., ..i- b, -nrv best ersos are in ".Songs of tho Drumllre." This is typical I of them: I ' . ,, -"-- ".""'" '"-..: ;.. iho i-rave Is Uceli. Hut what of ItT. ., , -. ., rerlwps In Bomber No Man's Land wo li l.nnw our llnul sleep; Hut what of It? , . . Flnco eaih of us owes Ood a death and arh ha Kot in lv Why not wlnK out with vnllant stride alone the oiu-n way ... ,. .. . To where the (Ireat Adventuro waits thla side of Judgment Day? So what of It? Those who have read for two or three je.irs and aro htlll reading Orantland Itlce'a column of sports comment In the EvnsiNii Public LUDciun will be glad to know thnt tho verFO they read with so much pleasure ts (n book fonn and tho btr.-iy bits of poetry that havo ap peared from tlmo to tlmo nro now gathered together. There Is a sw lng and i lilt to his verse that few- or our oincr modern versifiers possess, ills verse is not mero verso; most of It Is genuine potiry, ana lor inuso nu ui,u n ....a ehalr and a reading lamp and a pipe or cigar convenient, we can Imagine no pleasanter wav of spending an evening than hearing Blco slug these "Songs of tho Stalwart." PETEK PUTTKlt S.ONGS OK THH STALWART. Ny C.rant land Itlie. New York I). Allleton . Co A Tribute to Belgium E. P. Dutton & Co have issued a cal endar ornamented with skctLhes of Bel gian towers by Boy Hilton which ought to have the attention of all Inteiestcd In tho splendid heroism ot tho little king dom Thero aro sl.ctthes of towers In Malines. Antwerp. Bruges, lions, Yprea Termondc and Ohcnt There nro twi months on a sheet with an appropriate quotation from ono of tho poets, and Wil- , qUOlUllUIl iiuill " U. uio in.ru,, unu ,ll- "am a,orl,,am I'!','0 V". wrl,,cn a mt,ne miireclatlon of tho towers nast of the creat hluhway ucross Jr. railway passes Iway passes The hook mnKes In the nrotile n the problems of tho war A u.ir' llterattiro. It Is wrlttnn liv the present of ten of these high- -job uamniure -lurnpiKe, rno vvesi prize tor ine waiKer, tne nyto- Dr. Brady's Christmas Book Tho Ilcv. Dr. Cyrus Townscnd Brady, or.o-tlme rector of St. Paul's Church In Overbrook, has produced a collection of Christmas talcs and 'meditations under tho title of "A Little Book for Christ mas." It Is Illustrated by Will Craw ford. Tho frontlsplcco represents Mr. Crawford's conception of Doctor Brady writing tho book. Ho Is tented In an easy chair with tha manuscript In ono hand and cither a pen or a cigar In the other. Bed slippers aro on his feet, In the background Is a ilreplaco with stock ings hanging on tho mantel, nnd In tho clouds above aro vignettes of tho scenes In tho stories. Tha book opens with a Christmas greeting, 'Then thero Is n story for ndults nnd a word of seasonal advico about Christmas giving. This Is followed by a story for girls and a carol set to music. A story for boys comes next with n meditation succeeding It. Then thero Is an account of somo of the author's adventures in tho West. And a Christinas wish concludes tho volume. Thero Is vnrlety enough hero to make the book exactly tho kind of a gift for which many persons visit tho book stores. ,v t.iTTi.t: hook roit chhi.tma ny Cyrus TowriiMinl Urady. 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