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ount which Capt Fallon
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He fought in cnery branch
of the service He tells how it
ftels to command a tank, to
p. over the top. to fight in an
icroplane.
How he burrowed his way
into the enemy's territory en
ttrtd the German trenches.
js discovered, fought a duel
with bombs, and lay wounded
(or three das in a shellhole
in Ko Man's Land all told
with keen IrMi humor in this
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books."
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WESTERN FRONT: Battle of Fleurbai. The Somme,
100 Nights in No Man's Land, Spy Hunting.
HOSPITAL LIFE: France, London, Hospital Ship, Aui
f tralia, Lsing an Irishman's Nerve.
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House of Bestiality, Psychology of Fear, Keeping
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nni. t ne.arlv evcl-y nian connected with public life in Pcnnsyl
tort, m thc last fiftv years, the book is an important contribution
"Mel.. "terature of the State from the fact that Governor Pcnny
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2 Pennsylvania in American life.
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amort i,.- Ti ' v,u" ol ""y country or penoa was more notaoie,
lVi.-J,enl"r or more intcrestinc than that of the Order of Vostal
tfri.or Ahc,cnt Rome. This book embodies all the existing in
Ra .f.'P eoncerninc the Vestals and their life, and any one read-
t?hw.011l'ertu' princesses of a vanished democracy, iheir powers
P ni itamcd the order
HOW THE MAP OF EUROPE MUST LOOK WHEN
Complications of
Amorosity
Itettlna von Hutlen Ameilran by
b'rth -she nut saw the light In !!.
, I'a Ucrnmn by marriage and Kngllsh
liv Ions residence as well ns by Incllnt-
tlon- has written numerous stories of
more or less merit. Including the two
(popular "Pirn" novels of st.me years
I hro Of her Inter books none has
achieved nnv maikcil degree of success,
i In spite of the fact that tney are always
I readable t Is unlikely that her latest
novel, "The nag of SarTrtn," will create
any (treat stir In literary circles, but In
nil Justice It should be said that It Is
vvoilhy the attention of the ieader,vhn
likes to know all about smart Kngllsh
society f the present generation. The
less said of the moral of the characters
In "The Uag of Saffron ' the better Take
them b and large, they are father a
sorrv lot
The heroine herself a vounrt woman
dromeil to go thiough life hardened with
the name of "I'uckon" makes a sad
mes of It With the Idea flrmlv Im
planted In hei mind that money t evet.v
thlng, she starts her adult career as a
fortune-hunter Tailing of success In
this direction he marries for lne. hut
later deerts her husband and elopes
with a man Id enough to be her father
Plvorre and a second marriage follow
and the sloiy ends with the dlscoerv
bv this ery sophisticated heroine that
she locs her first husband after all
a dlsioveiv which amazingly enough
meets with the apprival of the second
husband
Having brought the triangulai dee
opmenl of the tale to this point, the
author with a discriminating Judgment i
that ts to be commended, drops the
whole thing leaving the reader to detei-
m'ne f..r himself Just how ii Is all going
to come out
tub Rao en ArrrtrN
Itutten New York rr
Bi llellinil
Apntetnn A
THEODORE
ROOSEVELT
says of
The Earthquake
By Arthur Train
I irani t. rnnjttrftulai
mi most hPHrtiij on Th
v rthquk nnd to thank
wu hi in inrtran for )i
njr written it I mih lb
Hf thr hripi-it fsprfalh
"iilri hn ilrtulaie! ec
a hi r
M r.o ,ii
Charles Scribn
cr s
)ons
fiwASnBHBaHiBMKMlfHHKHBeBBeBBBW "aBanaaseaHaaaaHasBaani
Captain R.Huh
e
ii
SGRIBNER'S
SONS
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YORK
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ftE UNWILLING VESTAL
By EDWARD LUCAS WHITE
Noi'n0f-fTl,!at Wonderfu' Historical Novel "EL SUPREMO"
!. .r ,u.noIv' will, without effort, merely in the process of readinjr
." UBOrllltlir llnru oc.l.,ln. .11 1U vtnl !,-,., t.n v.toflnn n
( "if 91,50 tirf. Postage b'xtm. At Al1 Bookstores.
DU.TTOM A rc Cttl VittU Av . N. Y.
' . Vf VW. ! .T.J ...
EVENING PUBLIC
PENNELL ON THE
WONDER OF WORK
His Lithographs Illustrate the
Stupendousncss of Modern
Achievement
If one turns to Joseph 1'enncll s Irtho.
graphs of war work In America ex
pecting to see a lot of pretty pictures
n will be disappointed But if one t
approaches them In the same splrn in
which they were dtawn. one will share
with the artist the admiration for what i
Is going on here. Mr rennell in Ins
Introduction sava that for ears, from
his earliest drawings he has been "irv-'
Ing to record the wonder of worU and
'hat "never was work so wonderful as'
It Is today"
He went to the nav vards ihe h p
bulldtng plants, the gun foundries he
hell factories, the locomotive woil.. a'ld
ihe training raoips, and found pi
where stupendous undertakings l rung
'ess on a scale tinef(iialed nln w .ve-e
else in th world, not even In I'.ip.f
nnd Kngland. wheie war noiU i- con
ducted at high piessure and ha le
so conducted from the beginning oi the
war
The pictures produce Hie inipienn
of the might and niajemv of machine
nnii me physical littleness of man The
crane
naval
tnat can lift a locomotive or a
gun exerts a tremendous nower
but th
conception of thai power and
the wav
ii vvas to lie exerted cinm
. ' '" n,l.na " human pgmv
i . ,- - . . . ...
w ii,-.
,"ns n"fle .
'" "tPn-lon nole i.v .Mi Pennel
1' interesting whimsical and human
1 Over againm the picture of shell casting
he tells of a man who came into the
"hop and sard to a workman
'S' what voue up to now '
' Me ' I in makln shells foi the
Kaler
What n here ' '
"Suie" and as a I-'renrh nrifitor
passed Ain't w sendliv m to him a
quick a we kin?"
"i me riveters at work In a loftJ
"iruimvea sued he writes
"What peinendlculm- farh.iij
full of m.vMerv a n,i. Li.n i t,. I
or none, ami know itiosi of them, nnil
when the fires glow- on the work altai
and the great taws pierce and rivet the
boiler nlsies. then In heard the Hwnn
of Work."
'Ihe professional artist and the con
no.sseur will appreciate the technical
skill shown by Jlr rennell. but the
oenge man will find the collection of
Pi. Hires fascinating foi other- linn pure
1" .ii'llstlc teatons
JOSfPli
lilsts
First Aid to War Gar
deners War gardeners this vear lack nothing
by way nf sage advice to help them I
crush the linn by food pioductlon.
Several excellent home gardening man
uals have been recently published, at
tention to the counsels of which hhould
insure good cions. "Praiilcai nation.
'ins." bv Hugh Klndlaj,, and "Home
Vegetable Oaidcning from A to Z." by
rioIph Kriimm, aie two helpful addl
i.ons to the litcratuip on the .subject
Mr rlndla's boot, is the nioic com
tiehrnive as It covers not only truck
ha hnles and fruit ,he Infoi-matlnn
- i-arcfullv compiled and includes the
landard daia and Instructions, as well
iiiinv purntors" and abort cuts rrom
the nulli it s experience The book Is II
lu'trated with line drawings and half
ton cuts
Mr Krumra, of the staff of the Oaiden
Magazine, Incorporatex in his book the
experience of more than a decade of
gardening Journalism and actual gar
dening Ills material W arranged top
'calh. a subject in a page, each nagt
headed with n practical and helpful il
lustration The book might wU be
called a handbook of gatdenlng by pic
tures In addition to the numerous
half-tone Illustrations, the book contains
a laige number of handsome color,
plates
PRAnt. Al. fjARDUMNO r Hugh Pinrt
.. l. N"w Yorl' f1 Applelnn I l J
J lo llj Srtolph Krumm ttardenflt
troubled' Pace Mi l -.'.I
THK XHW TOHK TRIBUNE
says of
The Earthquake
Ru ARTHUR TRAIN
'First we have "Jlr Itrit
bng Sees It Through ' Then
followed Miss Sinclair' Tree
of Heaven' and now. 'The
Karthnuake a worthy third,
but bv no means least mem
ber of an Immortal trio. In
deed Mr. Train's book mav
he the most Impressive and
clfcctlve of the three."
$1 50 e'
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Help tht boy who has just
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Draft.
Help him get ready for hi$
job.
Help him after he gets into
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Help him when he gets "over
there."
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THE Book for THAT Boy
His;
First Call
Guide Posts to Berlin
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TO LET YOU LOOK
OVER A COPY OF
THE NEW BOOK BY
THE AUTHOR OF
"Over the Top"
BEDGER-PHIL'ADELPHIA-, kMUBDAY. 'APRIE 13, 1918
MMKk "$7 Jfelig3ea3&iHto5n t J Y
filial. Jft XnMfHKKSbi NT v.
aaaHr JPj ?KTMMaiKu&l.w9JL KMfxM r
1L0BRIA (OTsW,ilESSliBjBik
THE rAN GERMAN MAP
II this mip rcnila n ibt mttln el fiice, ibis Cerntir an n itr wif
"y THallift . j, I
MA1 SHOTINO THE JUST rlACE FO Ol!MAY IN IUOrE
If iili mil itmi it ihe miilnj el ptic, ibn-in ealr tben-Ctreiinv bit tail btr vir
MJOR MAC!-ALL'S MAPS
Showing the iliffVicnce between a German victory and a (icrman
defeat
;;,two WAYS OF defeating
GERMAN IMPERIAL AMBITIONS
An Englishman Wants
Plan Smashed, and an American Proposes to
Weaken It by a League of Atlantic Powers
WK Wr:i!K discussing the trite sub
ject of the effect of the point of
view- on a titan's concl'tsii.ii
This man t'sher. ' remarked Owen
"Is nut of touch with the immediate
present He wiites with tho detach
ment of a historian dealing with na
tions as If thej were men on n chess
board. I can't follow- him."
Owen vvai teferrlng to Prof. Roland
t. t'sher, of AVashlngton University,
whose new book. "The Winning of
the War." lay on tny desk.
"Macf.il! Is more to my taste " Owen
went on. "He sees what the Oeiman
tnrnace is and lie knows the way lo
check it "
Murfall is Major ll.ildane MarfaU.
of the late Sherwood forester His
5
PUOF. ROLAND G. USHER
book 'Germany nt TUv ' Is said to
have fclartleii EnsUnd by avvakcnlnj:
It. to n realization of the dingci that
lies in (iermjn pedre
"How i!d von feci about It. doi-lor?"
I atUcri Doctor Mcl'abie.
The cletRynian i-toaBtd his letr, laid
bis riR.ir on the ash tra;., put bis
elbows on the arum of his chair and
brought thc tipi of hli fingers to
ecthci
'I could tell you better In twenty
edi," tali! he with twinkling eyes.
"Or pet haps fifty, If 1 should be blessed
with that more life. I think, however,
that &omethlng can be said In defense
of Uoher'a point of le'.v."
"I agree with you, dortor." said I.
"Kven If one does not agree with his
conclusions. It Is Important for our
Information to have them set forth.
I don't want to agree with him that
thc central European empire which
has alieady been tet up by Germany
is lo burvlvo the peace treaties. I
think he minimizes the dangei. And
I am not sute that what he calls the
league of Atlantic Powers can be cre
' ated to offset the International In-
lluence of the central European cm
i plt-e. I do agree with him when he
I ,ays the war has demonstrated that
Hurope is not the whole world and
that International law must hereafter
be made by the consent of the na
tions of America. I agtee also when
he says that democracy has become
the great international Issue, second
only to the establishment of a code
of international law which shall be
binding upon all honorable States. His
suggestion that the future of democ
racy and civilization will be safe, no
matter what happens in Europe, so
long as close co-operation and friendly
understanding continue among the
United States, the British Empire.
France, Italy and the principal South
American nations, is Interesting. I
do not know whether It Is important.
It has great potentialities, as he
points out, tor these nations control
the Atlantfc and the Indian Oceans.
They dominate the great trade routes,
If they should decide to work to
gether, they could keep Germany from
the stas in the future, When peace
comes with the central European em
pire Intact he would have the Atlantic
nUoas united to exclude It so far aa
yff , sH
ft M i
s a ' v
H i i' VaK
,1 fllaLH H
I J&M I!
the Central European
poshlble from the rnnimcir-e of tiro
world, as well as to evilude it fiom
mil Intct national councils until 11 has
given pvldenco of Its purpose to tc-
"I admit tli.it I should like to see
Germany hovcotteil for a lumdioil
.vear.l " said Owen I '
"That Is the vvu.v we nil feel -'l
times,' 1 admitted. "Such bojeott as!
thcro will be. however, will come i
about spontaneously without any en
RunlZdtlon. Hut 1 do not want tn con
template any such outcome of the war'
an Piofrssor rher .seems tn foresee '
Ho Is ton lcady to admit that Pan-
'.Icrmany Is to he pennanent Whati
pleases me better Is the point of view I
of Macfull. He does not write as a
phlloHophtudl hlsloiian, but as aj
lit Hon. Mined to the depths by the
possibility of the tiltJtnph of German '
Infam.v. Ills book Is propaganda of
(the hottest kind. I run not suiprUedl
that It Mined tlm Englishmen The
have been slow to beo what (icrmany,
is fightlnc: for have been slower.
Some of us do nni icalirc it now
sucn or us ought to trad .Macfall that'
iney miKiu navp men- eves opened.
1'ield Murshal Viscount 1'irncli hit
the nail on the head when he said'
In his intioductlon that 'no man of
any common sense should temaln ig
norant nf tho fact that if Middle)
I.urope comes out of the peace a Ger
man empire the war will have been
(ought in vain." "
"That is pretty ha id on I'tlier," i
remarked Owen
"It Is severe, if nu take Viscount
Trench's point of view." I admitted.
"But Usher does not. Ho thinks that I
the creation of ,i league of Atlantic
Powprs Is of so much greater itnpor- '
tanre than the establishment of Pan-
Germany that he discounts nil that
may be said to the roiitrar.v. Put. as j
I have aluad.v said, I do not Hgrco
with hint. Macfnll'.s map?, showing I
what a Gei man peace would mean and i
more nearly to tho truth. Look at '
them here on pages 372 and 273. The !
German v Ictor.v map xhovvs a black
empire stretching bejond the lios-1
porus to I'etsia, Isolating Via nee. I
Great Britain, Spain. Italy and the
Scandinavian States completely from
eastern Europe and Asia, and putting
in control of Germany thc land routes
io inqia ana uiuna. Tiie other mup, i
which Macfall &as shows Just the I
place for Germany in Europe, has the
black German area shrunken until it '
Includes only the old German Empire !
and Austria. A group of independent'
ttatcs extends from its southeastern
boundary to the Sea of Marmora. They
aio Bohemia. Hungary ITumanla,
Greater Siberia and Rulgaria. A new
State of Poland Is set up as a buffer
between Kussia and Oormany. Such
a map when the war ends, or after
the peaco treaties are signed, would
mean the defeat of Germany."
Iiewi . ...
i uere is uo uoubt of that," Doctor
Mcl'abre said.
"The great value of Macfall's book
Is that it Is directed to the average I
man. what he calls the Man In thc '
Street. There is nothing abstruss in
It. It In written In vigorous, direct
and colloquial English, rising some
times to gtcat eloquence. And It ac-1
complishes its purpose of hammering ,
home the truth about German am-.
bitlons. It ought to be In the hands
of every person who has any in-'
fluence over public opinion. It is one
of the greatest war tracts that have
yet appeared. Usher's book ought to I
be read by those who want to specu-'
late about distant eventualities, but I
Macfall should be lead by every
one." GEORGE W. DOUGLAS. ,
QKHMANT AT BAT By Haldtn. si.rfau
niajor. lata Sherood Kortalera. with ant
Introduction by KI.V illraha Vl.cSun" '
Prench With portrait! and mj New ,
York! fWapra H tlapan rmnJn i .
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GERMANY IS
GERMAN PLOTS
BEFORE. THE WAR
Described in One of the Most
Thrilling Mystery Tales the
Conflict Has Produced
When a publisher gets a manuscript
novel and pita up all night to read It
there must be nomethlng unusual In It.
That Is what happened when the Amer
ican publisher received John I'crguson's
Stealthy Terror" from Kngland. The
ordinary reader who gets hold of the
book will have to exercise all the self
control he Is gifted with If he succeeds
m getting to bed at a seemly hour after
he starts the book
It is a tale of the Herman secret sefv.
e and Its efforts to get hold of a ctyptlc
Plan for the Invasion or Kngland The
time l Just befoie the beginning of the
war A :oung Scotchman In Berlin goes
to the tellef of a man who has been
knocked down In the street al night and
iecelvs from him the imsterlou docu-
ntent The next dav a Herman ells at
IMP lUUIIE SlCOlCliniHIl S lOUKHifc ail" ,n
j ouhk Jicoicnman s toagiug ami aw
fot ihe paper The Scotchman tefuses
io give It tip because the man seems to
h.ne no proper credentials The caller
iein nun tnat unless nc uirenaer.s n
ne win he Killed, and departs, ueiore
ue oai is our ne nas iwo or inrce nr-
ion rvape irom ueatn. ,vi nigiu his
'oom invaded, but he escapes and flees
fo- h life .lust as his pursuers are
io oveitako him he finds himself; In the
door of an apartment bouse toward
which a i oiinft woman is coming. He
peisuades her to let him enter The
'dangers thai he had already escaped
press about him in a new form for his
hiding place is discovered. It would
he unfair to the deader to explain what
happens foi the fascination of the stoiv
depends on Its plor and Its bewildering
succession of hairbreadth eescapes It
is enough to sav that the stealthy tenor
follow the hero lo Kngland and pursues
him theie. even to the 1'oreign Office and
beyond
I The outcome is atisfylng to the -ense
of Justice, as well a to tho lovers of
talc with tomance In It. for Mr hetgu-
lis
ton has not omitted the sentimental In-
est The book was Immensely nonular
I when It first appealed In Kngland and ll
likely to have as gieat vogue here.
-"?$
y -rr.nr.on hv lohn Ferguaon
h joiin ijtir vomran i v
Hughes at His Best
Rupert Hughes -dramatist, ct itic nov
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ary talents, w.ns again this time In his
manifestation as a hott-btor liter
' 'Long Kver Ago' contains delightful
?1,eo"n,.nH "r ll.,e F.eni""'' 8n,0",."
lorm. tne snori-iengin nciion uormiicu
about a single motive
tales of Irish-Ameii-colleollon
ate human
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,' nd humorous
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.
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THE FATHER OF
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these stories are not merely an exposi
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Americans. Some of the wilfulness and
gentlo melancholy of the Celtic disposi
tion Is found In the stories and a deal
of Its quid;, witty thinking railroaded
Into apt repartee.
The stories till tin t.u h.m. v..,, m.
Hughes gets intensive crops out of the1
soil and his stories are tacy of It. as well ,
as alert to the hustla of Manhattan I
Ono of the stories that dealing with
he artist who becomes a millionaire and !
hla old model, who becomes n scrub-1
woman would grace any anthology of1
Amcilcnn short stories.
t.oso
New
vlI',n i,Wn .", Rupert Hughe
Skinner's Big Idea
Skinner, the same Skinner whose
dress suit and babv are already known
lo many leaders appears again In a lit-1
tin book by llenrv Irving Dodge, called
' Skinner's Hlg Udea." It Is a .mighty
good little tale, and one that i.n.ni.r.
al)(1 Pml)0. .... , , ,'"""'
K "aYn' "ke Wl" "ml "r" w0,,h
ut.,. .
' ' ,r "!"1 ""' Junioi partner of the
"rm "' JlcLaughlln &. Perkins, and when
,lie 'wo senior partners went on n, biui-
j n inii io ouh America thev
leftl
, nMinu-r the unpleasant Job of flrln
g sev-
nai or the older men
In the nm. ana
taking on vcmnger cmplo.ves who would'
wuih mr smaller alatles. McLaughlin
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superannuated fellows of fiftv or o who ,
had got InK a rut and were not showing
anv Initiative.
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n.S bvl.ctfor,J1 1 hulldln- P "s busi
," r,. '" had to obey the Ipstruc
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Skinner obejed orckrs and gor ud of
lA?,noJ. mp" ."Placing them hv
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he thought all his .voung men would now
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