)" EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER-PHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1918 9 OXENHAM, POET OF MARVELOUS POPULARITY GERARD'S NEW BOOK f ., hook by an American 4 diJtZilihc fighting I m ''0i'i" ' " -wir 1 SURGEON an American In tho guslan riehtlnt; CHOW M I) of an , fftfiiWiS I . 1.1 l LerK...i with tho Hussions J0 Y .i.reo groat cim i fof Bruslloff that hurled '"t the Hun cart In tho Captain Orow muck till , las : feeble spurt of energy Kerensk ,Mlna Ms I'hUailclnhia piat !. illi. i)or'or ioit ucnl ""..... .in noll bCFONIInff a n"'" -;,"i-..,' !,,- 2"c jp( forjy o un "w- Jjjdi Mc n uoiiicr M.c STOKES, Publisher , kvtsla, soon bccomi tenant Colonel n 5-. torj7 o titat KIND OF POETRY PEOPLE LIKE TO READ IN WAR TIMES More Than 500,000 Volumes of John Oxen ham's Verse Have Been Sold Masters Is a Greaterbut Less Popular Poet TWJ"ODi:P.N- poetr is In a bid wa." " remarked Doctor McT.ibre He EjCpta fCRUSADER OF hKAINUl ain Ferdinand Belmont Introduction til Henry Hordeau CHaso Daily Xctos sia 'Tho J;:,, utters of tills glorious f& joutli tell thins- They tell EfVfthe living detail that Sk. tne men in this war than ETbook ft published It Is a tuple assertion to mike, this Sfylnic of the book In super Siws. The letters are concluslvo I aiiifylns the tentlercst curiosl L In allotting rapt riehnont s inters to he reprinted In this coun Jr. France allows I'self to be read IM letters have that rare quality, itmosplitre " (1.W J'd. rottaoe Eilra All ISooKstorcs. ir.DUnON & CO., 681 5th Ave , N. Y. had been looking ocr several vol umes of verso tint lay on my tiblc "Whenever I sec a new book of verse I feel like leading an old one. I know then that 1 shall not bo disappointed " "Vour llvtr must be out of oidcr, doctoi," said I, '01 ou would tnko a more cheerful view There has been n icvlvnl of poetry In leccnt jens and joui children will be ns fond of the modems as ou nre of Keats nnd Woulsworth It may bo that home of tho fieaklsh vcisc will bo consldeied lenmkablo foi Its poetic Insight In n few veais. Do ou know, my filcnd Andeisen was in heie the other night nnd he was Intel ostod In lCremborg's nntholog of tho new ere The worst of It seemed to please him tho best Of louise ho did not admire It, but he wns curious about the kind of stuff that men nnd women would wilte and call poettv." "How do ou llko Masters, doctor?' Owen wanted to know "Ills 'Spoon Illvcr Anthology' made me feel like hanging myself," tho cleigvmin leplled 'I never lend anj. thing moic depressing" "Hut Amy Lowell thinks he is one of the gieatest of the modems," bild The Heroism of the Trenches A book that has been called "one of the three truly great books that have come out of the war." "So fine is its spirit, so noble its faith, so undaunted its acceptance of the ugly verities of war, that one can easily fancy this volume embodies all llie wonderful spirit of war lorn France, which has so won the admiration of the world. The fourteen chapters arc, indeed, meditations, shot through and through with vivid anecdote and picturing, on ideas which have become now of crucial importance." Comrades In Courage by Lieut. Antoine Keener Here In the words and thoughts of the men in the trenches are made clear the ideals for which the united democracies ot the world arc fighting. t "and she Is a ciltlc of dlscrlmln.i. Hon." "Yes, 1 know," Doctor McKnbre said, 'but I nm nfrild that lier stand, nrds nnd mine differ" "You must grant, doctor, that he his some power It he produced on vou tho Impression jou have dc scribed " slid I. "No man without abll. lty can move his icadci " "Hut I don't want to be moved that wav," he insisted. 'In spite of the doctors prejudice,'' said I 'we must admit that Masters Is a great poet. If ho bid written nothing but "Widow La Uue ' which nppe.us in his litest volume Towaul tho Oulf,' he would hive won dlstlnr Hon Tint, to m mind is a verj rreat poem These Is beiutv In It and there Is grim tinged It Is an exhibition of the fecundity of evil and the woik Ing of tho Immutable moinl forces Hut there is no pleaching Masteis Mmplj tells his story and stops Tills Is art Tho poem is b all odds the best In tho book. There are few greater ones of the kind in the lingungc " "Let mo lead It.' said the dortoi and picked tho volume up fiom the table "I wish that lie hid left out some of the things ho his Included ' I went on while the clcrgvinan was rinding "rhe.ro is 'Doctor Scudder s Clinical Lecture,' for example, which is a stud In heredltaiy insmitv with such unpoctlc.il lines as these: Then here s another matter. Parents nrij jet pro of abnormal nerves and fs IBIll? fifillKI r BBIIL. ISHWl WFfl&L H wmk mm AfMWnmMSm : FACE TO FACE WITH KAISERISM Mr. Gerard's Second Book About Germany an Intimate Revelation of Imperial Itulc Tlu snoml book t James V tlerard fornifr Ambassador to !irninn, Is an niiiplllliatlon and supplouuiit to the llrst Xij Tour Vcnrs In OeimuiiJ "'Mis what Its title Indicated a record of his ixperlime hs Anib."sador Tmo to 1'iilo With Knlserl'iu" is nioco thin a record It Is an expoiltlon and Inter- lleauty" any more, and doubtless It would bo found very old-faBhloncd nnd lacking In literary graces Mr Olll-1 v ant's story Is not old-fashioned and It Is full of felicities of style and mood. There Is a girl In It, too, a real girl despite her tomboyhood Hhe dwelt not among the uulct "wnjs of Dove' but amid rough men, jet her essential femi nine sweetness was unspoiled by the contact, whllo the lives and characters of the men were Illumined In the beams of her starlike vlrtuo and charm A, storj to he read for its interesting psy chology its delightful presentation and Its beautiful spirit nor vvoomii'its j. ,!frt outturn , tliir.ldi c It) Doubli-da, l'agc t Co I The "Living Age" Ism Mr (iorard gives a more detailed picture ot tho phjslcil md nietit.it at tributes or the K.ilsor In tin now bode man in the old lie plctuies hlin ns a man of unbounded ambition and he iuoie tin famous remark nitout the kaisers five heroes, lach of whom failed of itorld dominion, with its ecu- l.ru....n of the signiilean-c of &... , , ' te " Jn&j:.J I , who still measure the worth of a. I P'rlodlcil not altogether b the Jnuntl-' hiss of the four-color flapper on the eovcr. has been taken over by the pub-' Ushers of the Atlantic Mnmlilj The i tiiiouneement Is of coiiFldtrablp Interest i I to the worlil nf thoe vtho vtere once known as polite readers The Living i Are' has a continuous history evir since lH and was founded to renrlnt Hip i lusion (Itrnmn wurld KDGAU LEE MASTERS Whose f out th volume of verse is just published lj the Mncmill.in Company. n lice Is the was he j ABIGAIL ADAMS In the triumph of light: ' It vc normil nervous s stems inn i ( h'lrtn n of abnormal minds Piuid by unsuitable sovunl germs I could get along without all of that boit of stuff Yet I must admit that it Is pait of tho messige which Masters has Lieut. Redier speaks with the voice of a nation, laying bare the souls of a people reacting to the grim tragedy of war. He speaks of the things that never die, because they are the things for which men lay down their lives that they may live forever Truth, Justice and Courage. On Sale Wherever Books Arc Sold $1.40 Net M Doubleday, Page & Company HiTEnNrcMrailiiiiiii .illim mniiii Miiiiiimiu.imi i nr.. iiiiintiiiMii.iiniim. m nm inn imiiiiiii mt.im iiiiiiituiiiiiiiiiitiiuiuimii.iiiiiiiiiiiiil!llluiliH!lll I tllllllllllK "There is the saving of a life an American life to every line of LIEUTENANT COLONEL i have been si tin I puts liis belief I Not on thu flaming Held across tht I re is Alone, this fight for Uod s supremi cles, Hut In the hearts of men thioughout the world I His banner Is at last unfurled, I And from their thrones tho Powers , of III, Il the whole worlds united will, Are being hurleil I This Ij not gieut pootr It cxpiesscs the obvious In nn cndln.iry minner, , but It Ilnds an echo In your healt, doc I toi "" 'It surel does" bald he tmplie and iu muled flsr hIi.iI I succeed ' He discuss.-!) tho nttiuiile nf mind of the German public its admiration for pomp nnd show which the kuisir fternl Its subscrvlfncv to tin ruling cIiiks and Its unimaginative lies The li.ipteis devoted to the hm lal it ins nn- Illuminating more i-o per il ms than unv thing elc that has bi-cn niton on the subject He i-.iw much of ourt life- nd wilte nf It with know 1 oilgp and Insight Ills Intel prttatlon of ' is that of a genuine democrat His disillusion of tile? autncriu) discloses the iiipsIi in wli ih tin Knlsir walks He hid hunt up a mnehlne, aeiordlng to Mi i. pi ml In whose power he found himself at the beginning of the via Mi ernril reports th it he was told bv the head of one of the great Herman liinks that when the K.ilsei was tilled upon to sign the nrdir fm molilllz itlon he lipslt.itid and it was not until the members nf the Cemril SUIT thieitened to hrnik their swords over their knees If he refusid tint he s'gned He gives tills Ktorv for what It is wortli nnd al lows the reader to ilraw his own ron ilusions Wt sh ill not know the exact truth about It for mm ears if at all All I tpriiril M linol. 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' ""Mather hue those lines than all oil in niii-i u Mjcitii urg.iniz moil laic ino instinct of the i.ie-e would bo ugaiiist him Ills new book will not be so pupul.u us the 'Sioon Rivci Antho logj ' foi tho reason that Its gcneial level of Intel est is not sustained Haeh poem In the anthology was a cleir cut gem His tool slipped In fashion ing some of tilt new poems." 'Tint is great," Doctor Mul'ubre remarked with u deep lndi awing of the breath as ho finished "Widow I.a Hue" "es, as poetiy it Is far ure.itei Muslim's " 'Thcie jou an' ' said I ' You have the cxplan ition "of tho populiilty of Ovxnhatn 'Widow li Hue' m.i live m m generations nftei nil th it Jen him Ins vwitten Is foigottin, Just as the gicit pjiatnlds have suivlvid the housis of tho Hgvptlins who liiillt them Hut the peilshnblc houses slicl tered tho people fiom tho weitlter The peoplo found comfoit and content In them and thej solved theli puipose well 0enli im Is a comfoit to the loul. to thoso who cue nothing toi The stor of the wife of tie second President of the I'tilted States nnd mother of the sixth Is well worth rend ing, especially when It is told b Mrs I.iura H Itleh irds, the daughter of one I would i of America's most distinguished women, lulli VVnrd Hone In her "vblgill Atlims and her Times,' she gives us i vivid picture of the life of one who did more thin nn other wont in of her generation for the foinntion and up building of the nation Horn In We mouth, Miss, the diuglitei of tho mln- Istci, she lived tho gi eater pirt nf her PAUL ASA N9 I The Warfare of Today "It is a wonderfully clear guide for fathers on how i their; boys fight their way through the perils of j modern warfare . . . Lieutenant Colonel Aan's writings acquire irom' new developments only an additional wealth of material, illustrating ever more i clearly the principles which they proclaim, and showing forth ever more plainly the place of those principles in the winning of victory . There is the saving of a life an American life to every line of 'The Warfare of Today.' And there is in the end the establishment of Allied victory." Boston Transcript. , The most completely illustrated book of the War $2.50 net at all bookitoro """ HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY KttHWii iiuiiiiiiiiiiiiniii mil iiiiiwiiiMiiin wwnwii3 Ml MEN inWAR ! '"Under Fire' is realism. "The By ANDREAS LATZKO "The publishers announce a first edition of ten tlioubanil copies. One hopes that no fifty such editions will exhaust tho public demand for such a book." Boston Transcript. Men in War' is artistic realism." N. Y. Mining I'ost. war has Inspired (wo masterpieces, 'Under Fire and 'Men in War.'" X. Y. Erenind Hail. J?111"', angrily. raai)!y, Latiko attacks the 'ratherland that figlits Mf- for defense but for conquest." -V. 1'. Uimis. AH Bookstores. $1.50. net 1 ;0N & LIVERIGHT, Publishers, 117 We.t 40th Street, Never Yorlc j N unwilling vestal than mi thing that Is contilned In j lltiratuie ns litir.ituie to thoso vtho John Ovinhum's new book," said 1, "but piolubl ten copies of CKenlnm will be sold to one of Masteis's. 0en ham is ono of the mirvels of modem liteiatuie He is an englishman, who published his flist volume in 1013. Tlie publishers consented leluctanti to issue it Yet" 228,000 copies of It have bun sold to date It was 'Hees in Ambei ' More than 200,000 copies of 'All's Well," anotliei volume, have been sold, and purchaseis have bought l.'OOOO coiiies of 'Tho King's High vv.i ' The new volume. 'The Plei Cioss,' will sell as well ns mi of them, If I am not mistaken Can you tell me of any other poet so populai that within live iars there Ins been a demmd for 530 000 copies of tluee volumes of liis veiae.' I don't know of .111 " "W'h does It silP' Owen asked. 'Theie l no nistei ubout it," said 1 ' Oxenhum does not wilte above the heads of the average man and are indlffeicnt whether ho uses trite ovpiesslons in not Ho has ills plice, nnd for tho moment it Is a prett I irgc one " "I think 1 shall have to lead him," said Doctor McPabic. "It would do ou good doe toi, foi ou aie engaged In the same kind of work " said I onoi'.iii: w ixi ouvs TOW Villi Till: lll'l.r lit Kiliinr Ur .Mm. tern N,v Vorle Tht Vhu nilll.m c om- pant II "a IHrJ 1 IHltV I ItOsS Some Vcrw fur ToiU nm! Tomorrow lit John (Ixinham Nut Vorle ei iirBe II Iiorim 1'omimnj $1 An Apartment House Crime William Johnston his demonstrated that a mj.stcrj stor, with Its action tiklng plice In u modern clt, has as great positl tittles as the old-fashioned tales of castles with secret passages and plotting scuundrels of an earlier da His 'The House of Whispers the house is a twtlve-stor apartment woman He his no poetic theoiy to building hi New York contains as put ovei Ho is not an Imngist oi a ' much excitement as is wholesome for stmbollst but n pi iln man moved by nervous permits to experience In an the sunie things that move you nnd I evening before going to lied The hero me He his rtllglous faith and con-1 Poor joung man who his been Udenco in the overruling goodness of AX leTio'Z (Jod And he happens to have writ- j countr for the summer The old mm, ten when the English speaking peoples I a millionaire, confesses In private to his ... ... 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CHARLES SCIIIKNER'S SONS life In the countr neat Huston, and charge of a rnial pitlent commandeers from her letters and those of her bus- t,'" Tlc'1 f'ross birge in which Maefun- band nnd his diary we le.un whit this olscllet lion miles Is attending her llVomli 'lit.ssfH ' It is u rise nf lute life wa, especl.ill In tho pre-I!evolu- at llrst sight on the Herr DoMors pirt tlonir period It was a vcr strenuous Then to his n Hounding comes the dls life, owing to the Itrl.lsh ruie Writing 'i'.-XInKln", and JtVUn to her husband In Philadelphia, she mo to the girl he loves The storv sis ' Vn order has been given out in works up vlvldl to an unexpected town that no person slnll he seen to,c" "V" ',' lllH ",tr,,ct !',or1l,s la"H ,,,.,. of the eirl war and for Its keen re vela wipe hie faco with a whito h.imlker- tlon nf tlH, Hirr noktor's psjcholoslc.l chief Tlie reason I heir Is tint It is ' changes signal mi meeting i tie larger pirt tiim nun moss ttvm.i: lit Mrs iieiloi i or the hook Is devoted to this tlmo and to her simple life Hut wo go with her to I'atls and London and attend court receptions, and as wife, llrst of the Ice I'lesldent and then of the President, we get nn occasional glimpse, of social life In Xew York and Phil i- delphla There she dined with Wash ington and found him more thin usu ally social He asked ver affectionate ly after vou and tho children, and at table pleked the sugar-plums fiom a cake and leoue steel nit to take them for M ibtir John Whit Philadelphia societv was In thote el.is we ma learn fiom the Duke of ltochefoueiuld-l.laucourt who writes 'It would be no exaggeration to siy In the numerous ass, mblles of Phlladelplili I ntinilrH Oomimnt Nii Vork SI 11 iliomi 11 Dentin ' Second Fiddle To pli second tlddle" is usu.illt accounted a hunilll itlon to ho avoided at all costs Kspccl.illv Is this the c.ie when It comes to nffilrs of the heirt end the veiling vtonnn who elects to plit such a pirt Is regnded as either ver brave oi vert deperate The heroine of Phllls Hottome's well-told s'orv The second riddle," is eertalnlv not di spcrate. though she Is bi.ivo enough nnd sulllclentl decerning to realize where her hipplness lies, so tint when hei fickle friind throws over the wounded vtininr she fuletl assumes the role of comforter nnd proteclor The siene of the storv Is laid In Hngl.ind U is' inmosbu; to "meet ttlth' "w nt ' s - ".I .her. H enough of the war touch . , il n tlnln iiiini.n Tl. . .1.. - fc "' ...., .. ........ 11V111111 , ,,,- iiiii-i I.UI- suuir etent in inis tvemrul lire vtas iincn the seat or (internment was trans, ferred from Phlladeiphli to Washington During the drlte to the new cipitil our President and his wife got lost In tlie woods, 'whcie wo wandered two hours without finding a guide or the pith Tortun itel n straggling black time up with u nnd we engaged him ns a guide to extricate us out of our dllllcalt) , but woods are all ou see, from Haltlmore until vou leach the elty which is emit so in name Two hlgh-tvped Ameri cans are portrned In this book devoted to ench other, theli children and their countr. nnd deepl lellglous During nnny ears or active omclal life bus- hind and wife were nepiratcd much to I their mutual grief But In one of her I letters to him after repining that she I did not have the happiness of spending I her davs with him. she said she elld 'enjo the sitlsfactlon of vour sertlngl our countr) " Tor the benefit of women i readers we will add thit there is much I In the book of Inteiest In the household I details nnd especially in the descrlp- tlons nf the dresses of thnt period V.x- I cellent portraits of both the President and Mrs Adams are given THK Hi:e'l)M) I II1DI.K ll I'hsllls lint I tnnie Ihc l'cntur tumpain Nttt orK 1 -,o I A Horse as a Hero Vlfied Olllvant vtho nearl) a tcorc of vcars ago Joined the ranks and took a foremost pi ico In their front of llterar) lovers of dogs, with his "Boh Sen of Ilattle ' which became a el issle fit to be put 011 tlie same shelf us Itnb and Ills frrlends will win new laurels tilth his stor of a horse in ' Ho W oodburn Ore does not read Anna bewells Black Ask for the book by -. -.Cnptoln R.Hugh Knyvett This is the big story of Aus tralia's part in the war. "Oyer There" With the Australians tl BO ml. CHARLES yRIBNER'S SOrsMj ECONOMY COOK BOOK By Maria Mcllvaine Gillmore Author 0 "ile-atle&a Coohcrv" N. Y. Herald says: "It will do more than a "bit" towards win ning the war if its highly prac tical and sensible directions aro followed. It will also aid on the side of health, for the hundreds of recipes in tho book are quite as appetizing as they are health ful and fconomlcaL" It OO r(, f&taot Hztra All Uooktlorci. E. P. sHlTTOf JL CO., S1 5th Ait.,N. Y. AIlIllAtl. AtllMI AVI) Hlin TIMKS lit I R'T 13 HlrhiirilH Illuxtrifed New ork ll Aopletnn & Co II 11 Franco-American Co operation The ouug men and women of Amer- l lea, vtho arc Interested In the present ' life of Trance, aro Invited to read a hook w r tten especially for them "Young Trance nnd New America " The author. M Tlerre de Lanux spent I Inst veir In this country to stud at first hand the possibilities of Tranco-Amer-Ican relations through the co-operation of the lounger generations nnd his studies hnvo Impressed upon him the "value of mutual knowledge between the vouth of Trance and America" Ac cordingly he begins with whnt he calls n portrait of the joung Frenchman1 at the outbreak of the war and then gites the main results of his Investigating work In this countr Ho holds that the two characteristic virtues of America are ehlvalrv and Intuition nnd that It seems to be designated for a certain form not of world-domination but of world leadership Then follows n pketch of the promises nf co-operation In which he calls attention to the new spirit of economic nctivlt In Trnnce. especially In the work of the women An enthu siastic chapter on llterar Interchange Introduces to his readers several French poets One of the two who have been most. Inspiring to the young Is the Bel gian Trails VeVhienn on whose Inter national glory he comments There can be little doubt that M I-nnux has suc ceeded In the mission of which this book Is tho condensed expression, the setting forth of the value of mutual knowledge iTOi'Nf KlIANTCK AMD sv,v AMEHICA Sr rsrr 1 Lnnux. Nw York" Ton acnilllan Ctanpanr H S3 MMHIIHIIIIWHIfflWMI IIHIUIIIIIUI Illlllllllllll UIIHIllll Ml. A Blithe Story for SPRINGTIME READING "Surely George Weston's blithe little ttory has a hint of the springtime a delightful piece of light fic tion, and Charlotte bids fair to be a popular companion for many a man nnd woman this spring and summer." Des Uotics Capital. THE APPLE TREE GIRL By GEORGE WESTON c When our returned Ambas sador, James W. Gerard, wrote and published his first book. MY FOUR YEARS IN GER MANY, he had neither the lime nor the material at his disposal to finish the story. Now in his hev book, FACE TO FACE WITH KAISERISM, he completes the in dictment of the Kaiser and his Prussian war-lords. True, thio new book has no telegram from the Kaiser, but it is dramatic, log ical and convincing in its arraign ment of the German Emperor and German intrigue everywhere in Germany, in Washington, New York, Chicago all over America. It is a through and through Amer ican book a stimulus to patriotism and action a book you should! read and remember the revela tions of the man who knows the truth concerning Germany's de signs upon your freedom and upon your family's safety. OUT TODAY Illustrated. Octavo. Net, $2.00 GEORGE II. DORAN COMPANY, Publishers New York winim2iBimxwwv!jVjnmmznungn&. i &m .MaLW L. You Remember Mary! tilth her three tests for men In Iho det'ghtful "Oh, Mary Be Careful ' ' Now Arrives Charlotte the Joy-brlnger with her three sums Amusing original and piquant is the story of how she accom plishes them Ueautlfully Illus trated. In re sealed packet, tl net. At All VooUtoreu LIPPINCOTT "A Philadelphia Pepys" The Homely Diary of a Diplomat in the East By THOMAS S. HARRISON A delightful record of Colonel Harrison's ex periences as American Diplomatic Agent and Consul-General in Egypt. "A very interesting and chatty book." Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. j "Mr. Harrison sketches the political situation with fidelity and impartiality, while ' the numerous anecdotes of the book are also characterized by a delightful personal flavor." Philadelphia Press. Lavishly illustrated. SS.00 net. At att boohstortt. Boston HQUGHT0N MIFFLW COMPANY n.w x f
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