mmmwr? Mmsmmr$wm& ;v i 'jmp&dmmKwmm i-H iv. ;hp? m&BSsm mm&Zfi&? mmi-Wir mMi "; ?.?&&&&&,$&!&.& :&&.?&&M''v&. : v VA T .(. VJv-aWaB.-W 'lliMPH&iLPfteATMiSY JUNE 1918 - ' -is? r j f '' - W a. - ' ' ' -".-". .' . . . ! fr i-f. V i & r .! t x Lrf 111 ft. Vr.V ' WONDERS OF INSTINCT f,i i FABRE PL A VS. A stv i r at etatip fei The Great French Naturalist That They Could Not Reason Calls Insects Abysmally Stupid f A SPIDER was spinning her web among the vines of tho piazza where Doctor McFabre was quietly amoklng. Owen wag looking up at tho iky and I was merely watching the circles of smoko from my own cigar float hither and thither in the current of air. "I always feel humble in the pres ence of that marvelous engineer," remarked Doctor McKabro after a While. " "" His eyes were still on the spider. "The brain that can construct a ,web of such strength and grace and no admirably adapted to Its purposes commands my profound respect," he went on. "If It does not Vcason Its processes come so close to reasoning that 1 cannot tell the difference." "Did you ever study the spider, Doctor?" I asked. 'JNo. I am not a naturalist." "Tou would be fascinated then, by Jean Henri Fabro's book on 'The Wonders of Instinct,' which I have Just been reading," I said. "It con tains a chapter or two about spiders. You know Fabro was a French school t teacher, Interested in Insect life, whose , great knowledge was not discovered by the rest of the world till ho was an old man. Ho died two years ago f at the ago of ninety-four -years, one I of the most famous naturalists in tho world, and incidentally one of the , greatest literary artists who have written natural history. His chapter t on the Narbonne lycosa, or the black j, bellied tarantula, contains the result s of long and patient observation. You would bo confirmed In your 'admira tion for the Insect, Doctor, unless you read it through to the end. Then you l "might change your opinion about Its intelligence. This great spider, ac cording to Fabre, digs a burrow In the ground around uie top of which it builds a curb. The curb Is made of little stones, and sticks and grass Woven Into a sort of basket work. "Who taught It to weave?" asked the clergyman. "Fabre does not speculate about that," said I. "Ho does not even specu late about who taught it to spin the wonderful web In which it lays Its eggs. He .simply describes the proc ess. A silk network about as big as the palm of the hand Is first spun '(l on the ground, firmly fixed to stubble. v i On this foundation the spider weaves jp a round mat about as big as a fifty ' cent piece. When it Is completed the spider works on the e'dge of the mat, ' Increasing its thickness until it is a ; small silken bowl-shaped porringer. The eggs are laid In this bowl in the form of a globe. The spider then cov ers the mass of eggs with silken fila ments and finally tears the porringer from the web on which It lies and folds it over the eggs, making a ball about the size of an average cherry. The work of spinning, laying the eggs and separating the mat from the web HOW TO SPEAK By Edwin Gordon Lawrence DO YOU realize the importance of being able to talk prop erly and effectively? You are aware, of course, that in the busi ness world the man who can use speech wisely and well is the man who gets results. You know that 'in social life no accomplishment is so valuable as easy and correct use' of language. Maybe you want to improve yourself in speech or conversa tion. Most people would like to do-this. If so, "How to Speak" will, help you. It presents the laws of effective socech in simple ,compact form. Read it. The cost is only one dollar. At All Bookstores A. C. McClurg- & Co., Publishers BRUCE A. CLARKE. Co. A 25TH ENGINEERS, IN A LETTER.TO HIS MOTHER, APRIL 20, 1918, SAYS: - "I wish you and Dad would read 'A Student in Arms,' by Donald Hankey. People back home always want dope on the war, by which is usually meant! stories of the V. C bursting shells, raids, etc. But there is another phase of war we all experience, and that is the effect of war on the inner man, his out look, his philosophy; all of which are so deliciously handled by Hankey that I wish I had written the book myself. His thoughts, to a great extent, especially as regards the Church, are the same that 1 have often thought. This book will give people back home an insigh't 'into the philosophic side of life' at the front." For Sale Everywhere 1628 CHMTMIT TMECT tf BOOKS IOKE f i n a tijddtt r ad v Describes How He Proved took the spider which he watched four, hours. After resting a while the spider attaches the ball to her hind legs by filaments and carries It about with her till the eggs are hatched." "Wonderful!" exclaimed tho clergy man. "Yes, but the naturalist does not re gard it as the result of Intelligent reason," said I. "He proved by nu merous experiments that the Insect which had so patiently and laboriously protected its eggs, was not able ,to distinguish between Its own silken ball of potential life and a cork ball or a JEAN HENRI FABRE small wad of paper of the same size. He detached the ball of eggs and of fered a cork ball and It was seized at once. He put half a dozen cork balls and a lot of balls of paper along with tho ball of eggs near the spider and the Insect seized the first one on which it happened and was as content with It as though It were genuine." "It seemed to show about as milch intelligence as a brooding hen that will sit on a door knob," remarked Owen. "It was certainly no more Intelli gent," I admitted. "A more Interesting experiment was the one which Fabre made with the burying beetles. He found in a French book on ento mology two statements cited" as prov ing the reasoning power of the beetles and ho set about testing their accu racy. One was that some beetles which found it Impossible to bury a dead mouse because the ground on which it lay was too hard had gone away for assistance and returned with four others. A hole was then dug where the ground was soft and the mouse moved to It and buried there. The other was that some beetles find ing a frog tied to a stake had dug under the stick, so as to make it fall, and then had burled both stick and frog together. "Fabre put some, beetles in a pan of earth in the center of which he had sunk a brick covered with a thin film of tho earth. He laid a dead mouse on the brick. The beetles which first found the mouse began their usual work of digging the earth from beneath that the mouse might sink into the ground. After a time they discovered that they could not dig through the' brick. Although there were other beetles In the pan, they did not go for assistance. They first explored the surface to find a soft place, and spent Veveral hours sound ing the soil, acting apparently with no definite plan, but merely haphazard fashion. Then they went back to the mouse, got under it and began to move it, but one beetle would push one way and another push In another direction. After a long time they all chanced to push in the same direction and the mouse was rolled off Into the soft earth and burled. It took six hours for these 'intelligent' creatures to do what a creature able to reason from cause to effect would have accomplished in a twentieth of the time. Fabre also dis covered that the beetles were unable to bury a dead mole which was tied by its hinder legs to a slanting stake so fixed that when they dug under the head, resting on the soli, they would not undermine the stake. "But his most interesting experiment was with pine caterpillars. These creatures lay a thread on the bark of the tree as they move along. The leader lays 'the first thread and those which follow after lay another one. Each caterpillar in the long procession has his nose on the, tail of the one ahead of him, and they always follow the line of thread." Fabre wondered what would happen if he could get a procession of, these caterpillars in a circle, with the nose of the leader on the tall of the last one. By chance he succeeded In getting such a procession on the rim of a vase about a foot and a half In diameter in his conservatory. He brushed off the thread that had been laid by the leader as he mounted the rim and left the creatures stranded and attached to the silken path 'which they had laid around the circle. He had his circle complete at noon on "January 30. He' thought that the pro cession would continue for a little while, two or three hours perhaps, and then break up. But the caterpillars were movlngMnstlnctively, in their pro cession at 10 o'clock that night when ne weni lu oeu. xney were still mov lng the next morning, and they .kept it up, with Intervals required for rest' lng, until February 6, or for seven con- secutive days. After making allowance for the time they, were resting, and bas. lng his computation on their rate of speed he estimated that they went around the rim of the vase 335 tlme,s before by merest chance one of the caterpillars fell off in the direction where pine needles could be found and broke the spell. Fabre remarks that this. xpwriiMnt surprised Mm, 'though' I am WW ' 'ssssssssssssssHsssBi aW AMONG INSECTS SOME NOVELS stupidity of Insects as a class when over the least accident occurs.' His conclusion, which he does not formu late In so many words, is that the action ' of tho Insect is governed by instinct, that he acts automatically under the conditions In which he ljvcs, and that when the conditions are changed he Is at a loss; In short, that the quality which wo know as reason does not dwell In the Insect brain. I do not think any one would call him a nature faker. He was a careful ob server and recorder of facts and a dis criminating interpreter of what he observed." "I havo known human beings as stupid as his burying beetles," re marked Owen. "But you did not charge them with being reasoning creatures, did you?" I asked. "Hardly," he admitted. "Fabre's book Is delightful," I went on. "It Is not a dry-as-dust scientific treatise, but Is full of poetry and mel low with a kindly and genial human philosophy. If a man should arise who could write economics and make It as interesting as this man makes natural history, tho solution of the problems of government after tho war would be much easier, for the demands of those who insist that tho world lift Itself by Us bootstraps would then be laughed out of court, as they deserve. The charm of tho man lies In his Interest in Insect life on its own ac count and on account of the relation of Insects to human society. He does not care about seeing how many dif ferent varieties he can discover for tho glory of making a catalogue of names.. If this new book were pub lished at a lower price, it would rival tho popularity of the best-selling novels. And It may do so, anyway, for it deserves it." OEOnGB W. DOUGLAS. THE WONDERS OP INSTINCT. By Jean Henri Fabre With sixteen Illustrations New York: The Century Company. J. The Boardman Family A something delectably human lifts the novels of Mary Watts out of the sphere of ordinary fiction, and this some thing Is not lacking In the latest of her books, "The Boardman Family." The story, like all of Mrs. Watts's novels, is a study of life In the Middle West, and while the locale is a thriving city, there Is a small-town companlonablllty about the book which brings those who people Its pages Intimately closo to the reader. The story Is mainly that of Sandra. a girl of "nice family," who, accustomed to wealth and the refinements of nollte society, adopts a dancer's career when her father's fortunes decline. Mrs. Watts makes of Sandra a ltd personality. whose common sense and sincerity -are In striking contrast to the qualities of the girl's mother, who is harmlessly foolish, and of Sandra's brother, whose snobbery Is sketched with gentle Irony. The "hero" of the tale Is red-headed Sam Thatcher, who Bells talking machines for a living. An Intensely readable book Is this newest one of Mrs. Watts, although not quite up to the standard of one or two of Its predecessors. And Its author re tains her curious end rather confusing habit of skipping from past to present to future, and then back again, In get ting her story under way. THE BOAHDMAN FAMILY By Mary b. Walts. New York: The Macmllan Com pany. II, SO. Aircraft and Submarines The history of modern science holds no more fascinating page than the ex traordinary development of the airplane and submarine from fantastic dreams Into practical realities of Incalculable value. The effect of both upon the prog ress of the war has been profound, upsetting all calculations, and mate rially affecting the balance of power. The romantic story of the airplane and submarine Is told graphically and with detail by Willis J. Abbot in "Aircraft and Submarines." The book Is virtually an encyclopedia on the sub ject, but the Information Is for the most part presented In narrative form that makes It eminently readable. The author describes in amusing fashion the first balloon ascension by the Mont' golfler brothers In Paris in 1783, and. the later history or ballooning is traced to its culmination In the giant Zeppelins of today. The father of the modern airplane, he says, was a toy, the "helicopter," which the Wright brothers sent soaring Into the air and promptly became engrossed in the subject of mechanical flight. first embodying their Ideas in a "gilder," like Llllenthals ana J'ucner, ions Deiore the Idea of a practical alrcrarr. engine was carried to success. The work of the airplane in wartime Is reviewed at lonvth. no la that of the submarine. None will dispute the author's assertion that "when this war nas passea into history it will be recognized that Its rntpt xnntrlbutlons to military science have been the1 development and the use of aircraft and suDmanne. nen America's Inventive genius 13 now the dominant factor, and will control tne final result. ,. The speed at which we are still mak ing history in this field Is emphasized by an allusion In the book to the com parative fragility of aircraft as a reason for their unfitness for commercial use. Obviously the sentence was written be fore our new aerial mall servlco was even tentatively discussed: It now sounds a bit quaint. AincHAFI AND sunMABINES. By Willi" ATCAhbot. Octavo. . Profusely mt rated -liL k.lftnn. .nil TO Or PIHTPB. . u, ..till hi.. .- ;. - - n A O. P. Putnam a Eons. I3.S0. Pseudo-Bohemianism The nseudo-Bohcmlan circles of Lon don life in which disregard for the mar riage ceremony Is called "freedom." and In which frowsy rooms and the reek of stalo teer are considered synonymous with "artistic atmosphere" piovlde the ...in. hr h Btllted and rather tedious recital of a girl's life In "The Happy Garret" The story '" ; i.i.. ,i.i,-i! fnrm. and the HeDe Hill who tells It essays a sprightly manner Which amateurishness and uncertainty of touch frequently renaer .)- tnept. c",, iv, early pages, telling of the girl's Imbrlated mother and tubercular father, the sordid cnaracter oi mo ii' i-.h.-. Mnm varies. The detailed re c.tal of her amours with an uncouth ,i ,.r,irifl,l vouth and with a cad dish and shabby man of middle age emacks too unpleasantly of the .small gossip of a certain type of shop girl, although the girl here concerned has Bet . --1.1...... a "nrnfesairinal career" QUI lO HUlHC.o In 7.ondon. - x-mhinir ir more lugubrious than the forced gayety of dull and stodgy souls, and there I little of compelling, Interest about any cf the people in inw book. There Is unconscious lrsny in the title Th. ntmnsnliere Is that of a dank, lib ventilated ceMar. and it Is with relief rather than irrret that the book Is laid astue. jfflastfas:! AREAL THRILLER THAT KILLS TIME Roche's "Ransom" Is a Mys tery Story That Holds the Attention Spellbound Kven the professional book retlewer may be human. At rare lnterals he demonstrates this fact to his own satis faction and chagrin by coming acrois a story so genuinely thrilling that the critical faculties are submerged and the precious hours of his working day heed lessly dissipated while he plunges with breathless Interest through a plot that may be Joyously unedlfylng, but which never slackens Its feverish gallop until the home stretch Is reached and won. Such a story Is under Indictment as a pitiless thief of time In Arthur Somers Roche's "Ransom." It makes the aver age detect e-mstery-advonture talc about as lively and exciting as a cner able stage coach beside a Barnev Old fleld racer. And, by tho same token, It proves that wc never entirely recover from tho small boy's surreptitious pen chant for the dear delights and daring doings of Diamond Dick and the others of his Ilk. "Ransom" nlso proves that originality In the field of detectle fiction has not been wholly exhausted. Tho plot Is daring In Its boldness and Ingenious In handling. It tells of the scheme of a band of master criminals to get posses sion of much of the world's wealth by abducting the most powerful Wall street financier and'compelllng him to turn his vnst gold reserves over to the plotters while the whole credit system Is blast ed In the most disastrous panic of alt time. The conspirators operate as a "society" organized to readjust the world's balance of power, and they are tne more dangerous because some of the "members" take their "mission" with fanatical zent worse than the petty greed of their gunmen tools. The sen sational plan Is launched so successful ly that It dazes a most astute police commissioner In his frantic efforts to pleco together the battling details, and the swiftly flowing main current of the plot Is broadened by many tributaries of mystery and suspense. Involving a young man of social prominence, a girl of rare charm, a peppery old money king and the United States Secret Serv ice Department. It Is tho Irony of fate that' a butterfly woman finally solves the mystery, and she does It through the carelessness of another woman. The story casts a hynnotlc snell nf en tire plausibility while It Is being read. It may seem preposterous enough In retrospect. But tho rush of action Is so swift, the treatment so convincing, and tne surprises so adroit that neither time nor Inclination for calm analysis Is granted or wished. RANSOM. By Arthur Somers Boehe. New York. Oeorre It, Doran Co. $1.30. Veldt and Prairie George T. Buffum demonntrates that he Is equally familiar with South Africa and the far West of America In the group of sixteen stories which make up "On Two Frontiers." The stories ar. spirited and for the most part unusual In theme, while the humor Is unforced and t! sentiment usually sound and un affected. It Is doubtful, however, whether the uncivilized' natives of South Africa possess the Idealism and chivalry whlcn he attributes to several of them. The trait Is the chief feature in the story or "The Coveted Lobola." It tells or a stalwart Zulu youth who tolled In the diamond fields of Klmberlev In order that he might earn the necessary iouoia, or purcnase price for the ladv of his choice the fattest girl In all Zululand. and daughter of the wildest and shrewdest chieftain. How he was tricked and1 how the two eloped, and how they leaped to death together when overtaken are features that may not be tiiaruciensuc 01 uius. out that are quite enecllve fictionally. The first six stories In the book deal with the men and customs of South Africa: with the life of the veldt, the conduct of the natives and with the gold and diamond mines. The remaining ten are about the more familiar conditions or our own West. They are more anl mated and picturesque, but lack the nov elty of the South African tales. ON TWO FHONTIERS. Bv Ceor T. Illustrated. rinatnn l.nthp.n Hurrum. I.ee & Shetland Comoany. il.s.1. The LuRg Route to Health The Ills that human fieh Is heir tn have been tracked to their lair. The secret of their tyrannous rule has been discovered and unmasked. We have dis covered the magic phrase that causes them to quake and quail with fear. It is: proper Dreathlntr! Like most modern Columbuses. the Intrepid discoverer Is prepared to sup port his claims with a falrlv nnnnlllnr wealth of words. LeSt there be any mls- ittKe bdoui nis views, he sets them forth to the extent of 350 pages, expanding his constantly reiterated theme to a veritable cosmic philosophy of health warranted to Intimidate the most skep tical layman into awed silence at least, however mystified he may be about some of the sesquipedalian phrases which the author gayly strews along his rhetorical pathway. It Is a bit dis concerting, however, to learn that the author's space has been too restricted ror the run discussion of his theories, and that a larger work is contemplated. iteauntui respiration Is not the slmole matter we once fondly but fatuously be lieved, we are assured. "The spine must be straightened and lengthened, the mean thoracic capacity permanently In creased In order to give free play to the internal organs and the firmly estab. llshed habit of drawing breath by suck ing tne air into the lunes must he broken." It's simply a matter of the right system. And the system occuoles only 3S0 pages. Professor John Dewey, of Columbia University, Is'an avowed disciple of the methods set forth In the book, and In a brief Introduction undertakes to con vince the reader of Its unique worth. MAN'S SUPREME INHERITANCE. F. Matthias Alexander. New York: E. P Button Co. Wartime Food Guide Women who have been fortunate enough to read and study "Feeding; the Family," by Mary Swarti Rose, will be delighted to know she has Issued a war message about food. It comes In re sponse to many requests and Is con tained In a compact little volume which calls Itself "Everyday Foods In War time." Mrs. Itose believes 1( Is 'not easy for a woman to change her menu to comply with wartime standards. 'And so In her little book she seeks to make It easier to save meat, wheat, sugar and fats and at the same, time to win the approval of the family. Kach chapter flls a need. There Is a simple explanation of the part which our commpn foods play In the diet. Among the chapters are "The Milk Pitcher In the Home," ''Cereals We' Ought to Eat" 'The Potato and Its Substitutes." "Suirar, Spice and Every thing !s'lce" and "On Being Economical and Patriotic at the Same Time." Mrs. Itose is a domestic science expert who has In the past earned the thanks of thousands of American women. Without doubt, these new chapters from her pen will prove of Incalculable value to the "patriotic housewife who Jlads her little domestic brood falling in uncharted waters,"' ' ' . .TPAT'-yFOODS; TN-oeAAWIint. tfi- SOME KENTUCKY MOUNTAINEERS Emerson Hough's Latest Talc Deals With the Feud Country Surprisingly wide and varied knowl edge of distinctive American types Is displayed. In the novels of Emerson Hough. At one time or another he has dealt with the folk of almost every sec tion of the country In convincing fashion, and he has turned to earlier pages of national history with equal facility. His new story, "The Way Out." Is a story of the "feud belt" of Kentucky. The char acters are thoroughly Indigenous, and the author's keen understanding of their life and viewpoint Is reveated In the In cidents and dialogue of the novel. The plot Is concerned primarily with tho ambition of a young man of the region to emancipate himself, and la.ter his old friends and neighbors, from tho Ignorance and depravity In whlcli they live. They are simple-minded as chll- EMERSON HOUGH dren, with all the savagery and blind bigotry of primitive people, and they are ready to "shoot on sight. Animated by the earnest hope of Improving condi tions tho young clan leader, David Jos lln, seeks the Inrger llfo and education of the outer world, and In so doing comes tr- know the fine wife of an un scrupulous promo.'ir who Is determined to wrest the rights of the mountaineers from them by chaaunery. How his de signs are thwarted aj- his sudden death, thus settling personal problems for his wife and the reformed clan leader, and how tho entrance of America Into the war aids the latter In his effort to make useful citizens of the mountaineers, are diamatic features of IHe story's climax Mr. Hough reproduces the dialect of the mountaineers easily nnd naturally and he endows his various characters with a sensc of spontaneity and reality. The novel Is an admirable picture of the Kentucky mountaineers. TiliJ WAY OUT. Ily Emerson Hough. New York: D. Anpleton & Co II uii. One War Bride's Story There is a tender, wistful charm about Kthel M. Kelley's "Over Here." which eludes characterization, and which makes adjectives Inadequate. The Btory bears the subtitle "The Story of a War Bride." and In Its affecting account of an effervescent little flapper's transfor mation Into the plucky widow of an American soldier, resolutely facing the future for the sake of her Infant son, the moot term Is transfigured with a new beauty and spiritual dignity. Curiously enough, the story is made all the more touching because it is told In the sprightly. Ingenuously girlish manner of the "sub-deb." It covers just a trifle more than a year and at its be ginning Beth, who tells It, Is the typical debutante school girl of eighteen, quite proud of Tommy, and very certain, that It will not be necessary for him to go off to any horrid old war. But to Tommy the path of duty Is plain, and when the tlmo comes, Beth sends him as her hus band as well as lover, Kven when the supreme sacrifice comes, she proves that sho Is capable of making It bravely, that she may be worthy of her husband for the sake of her baby, Tho book Is rich In that rare power which evokes a smile even while it com pels tears. Its Infinitely moving human quality gives It exceptional poignancy of appeal. eth is a girl In ten thousand, and to kn(Jv her, even between book covers. Is to know one of the most womanly and altogether endearing hero ines American fiction has produced. OVER HERE. By Ethel M. Kclley ln- uianapslls' The Bobba Merrill Company. SI. 30. Some Honeymoon The combination of humor and ms tery has always been productive of much interest In our novels and plays and In this latest contribution to this class of story there l.s to be found the nucleus of a good movie scenario or play plot. The author has kept the action moving at a swift pace through out with most of the text devoted to conversation rather than descriptive matter. This fact makes for easy read ing nnd secures the readers' Interest as iu me ultimate unraveling oi tne mys tery Involved. To meet a girl on a boat and ask her to be your wife and then And that you have married the wrong girl upon ar riving at the dock. Is one of the com plex situations of the plot. Another thing which permits the Introduction of the humorous Is the finding of the newly wedded pair at a hotel which Is about to close because of change of manage ment and the ordering out of the guests. How the bridegroom averts this dis possession and receives a testimonial dinner from the grateful guests Is all done In the style of a George M. Cohan "bualness-man" play. The mystery of the wrong bride Is cleverly solved, but not without a touch of heart Interest upon the part of the three persons In volved. SOMB HONEYMOON lly Charlts Everett Kail. New TorlN George Scully Co. 11.23. "Lives of Great Men " Successful men are notoriously the least able to communicate to the rest of the world the formula by which they have achieved eminence. The glitter ing theories advanced are geneiuily found to have little relation to the real ity. Arnold Bennett even Insists that the faculty of wasting time Is a con spicuous trait In most successful men, and thai' the majority do not possess more than average Intelligence. Appar ently the direct antithesis of this opin ion Is held by B. C. Forbes. With un varying reverence he undertakes to tell. In a Berles or sKetcnes, now nrty famous Americans arrived at fame. This treat ment must prove vastly flattering to the subjects, but Implicit belief In and ap plication of the theory that "the kins can do no wrong" makes neither for humanness nor intimacy in portraiture. The subjects of the various sketch interviews Include Henry Ford, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, John D. Rocke feller. A. Barton Hepburn, John D. Archbold. George F, Reynolds, Jacob II. Schlff, Thomas A. Edison, Alexander Oraham Bell. Cornelius Vanderbllt and Colonel Goethals. r In his Introduction the author frank ly boats a drum for materialistic suc cers; but some ln(ereetlng analogies may be traced in the summary' hy provides. KEN WHO ARE MAKINO 4MSRICA. By ?: 'iSr3aBKJHTOw.. FOR SUMMER READING EARLY VIRGINIA DAYS AND WAYS Described in a Delightful and Authoritative Manner by Mary Nctvton Slanard Life was exceeding full and varied In Virginia In the early das, accord ing to tradition. The nve of tradition Is confirmed In Mary Now ton atanard's Intimate and racy account of "Colonial Virginia: Its l'eople nnd Customs." which Is Issued as a handsome large octavo, profusely Illustrated from old prints and facsimiles of ancient docu ments and papers. No phase of that easy-going, gracious period of American life Is neglected. The author lecrcates tho social life and manners largely from original documents, approaching her subject always from the anecdotal side, never from the viewpoint or In the manner of the formal historian. Thus the reader meets as flesh and btood Individuals many men and women whose names have been familiar hither to chiefly as the Impersonal puppets of the country's, history. The early set tlers' attitude toward life Is presented li an Intimate, human fnshjon The love affairs of Washington nnd Jeffer son show that men whb arc successful In public life may fall Ignomlnlousiy in their romantic affairs Virginia boasted a theatre In the summer of 1G65, tcventy-flve cars before there Is any record of any dramatic enter tainment In New York, and took a lively interest In all the cultural things of life in books, music and pictures Styles and dress occupied vastly more of the attention of the dear, unfair sex then than now, while the proportion of male dandles, who dressed with meticulous care for their giddy, butter fly round of dances nnd other social functions, was surprisingly large A deep love of outdoor sports wns a nat ural heritage from 1-ngland, and Its manifestations were quite elaborate. Alt these phases of a life that seems truly Idyllic In contrast to the stress and cares of existence in a time of world convulsion, nre described with a wealth of detail. The general reader will find considerable Interest in these Illuminating descriptions, hut the resume which the author provides of pioneer Virginians nnd their affairs, is of greater Interest to those who are linked to them by ties of blood or sen timent. In preparing her book the author had access to many records and papers unknown to the public. She has cm ployed these to tho bebt advantage. In a narrative that combines authenticity of detail with freshness of Informa tion. COI.OVIAI. VIROINIA: ITS PEOPLE AND CUSTOMS. By Mary Newton Stananl Illustrated nlth plates In septa and duo tone Philadelphia: J. B l.lpplncott Com panj. til The Dial Moves to Nctv York The Dial of Chicago announces that It will move Its publication offices to New York on July I, and that on Oc tober 1 It will begin to appear weekly Instead of bi-weekly, as at present. It Intends to become more than a literary publication demoted to reviews of the new books, for, kas Its announcement explains, the editorial policy will be extended to Include "discussion of In ternationalism nnd a program of recom struction In Industry and education." It Is further explained that "It will not use the excuse of tolerance or of flabby Intellectual good will to evade the task of forming definite opinions." Its editors will bo John Dewey, Thor steln Veblen, Helen Marot and George Donlln. A Playwright at the Front The ancient aphorlRm about not beliiR ahle to eat one's cake and have It might be paraphrased for the benefit of ambitious war-book authors Into: You can't describe all angles of the war In one small volume nnd describe them adequately. The venial fault of Preston Glbhon's "Battering the Boche." to put It Micclnctly If vulprarly, Is that the au thor has "bitten off more than he can chew." He undertakes to provide a kaleidoscopic survey of many dissimilar scenes within a very small compass, with the result that he Is often sketchy and mental confusion results In attempting to co-ordinate the miscellaneous fragments. The net result is not comprehensiveness of treatment, but rather a scattering of Interest. Ampng other things there are racy but tantallzlngly brief glimpses of the welcome of American soldiers In Paris last summer, of scenes pathetic and amusing at hospitals, of attacks by gas, airplane, and the charge, of the uses of star shells, the periscope and camou flage. What there Is of each Is Inter, estlng, but there Is too much of tho flash .and flutter of the motion picture. The changes wrought in England's social system by the new spirit of democracy are pointedly pictured by the author of "The Sailor" in his new novel, The Time Spirit By J. C. SNAITH Mr. Snaith tells a splendid story of a foundling, who becomes a successful actress, but finds her path to happiness blocked by class conventions. How she sur mounts them is described with a satirical touch as delightful as it is revealing. Illustrations in color. $1.50 net. The "shut-in" regions of Kentucky, where the moun taineers had been killing each other for a hundred years, are at last faithfully and accurately portrayed in The Way Out By EMERSON HOUGH The romance of an ignorant f eud 1R who decided to quit killing hi3 people and, instead, to help them. "The best thing that Mr. Hough has written, and one of the best things anybody has ever written about the mountaineers." New York Tribune. Illustrated, $1.50 net. These Are Appleton Books D. Applet CewBaay, The author Is a Yale graduate and a "produced" playwright He was one of the first Americans to sail for France In the ambulance corps after the en trance of this country in the war, and he wns decorated with the French Croix do Guerre for his devotion and bravery on many occasions. It "TKUINd THE BOCIIE. Bv Preston f'tbson llt'ttrated with Tthotojtrnohs. New oYrk: The, Century Company, tl. "Mr. Jones. Pm broke! X ES, and David Kent was broke. BrokeiS.,1 uccuuse oi an iaeai ior wnicn lie nan DurneqMv his bridges behind him arid here he was ina7? new, wild country, surrounded by friends in the making to be sure, and rascals lmman'rfS wolves who preyed on the good people he ha3,41 set himself to nrnfppf. T?nrl' .i5?a , THE Sunny with the spirit of the Irrigated country, thet$p& lagnificcnt mountains, anrl the whole-hearted pioneers $$! ma en of the West to-day. It is a humanly appealing story of failure and success, of love and youth and dramatic contrast, lit with humor and warm with the breath of life and actuality. - This book Is to the Pacific Northwest what "Ramona" and "Barbara Worth" were to Call. fornla. All Bookstores. $1.60 net G. P. New York Putnam's Sons Londc ijutiMi;tJ:nniri:rii i;ri:'Miririiiiiuitiuirr:Tuiiuiu itiinniiii iiMMii:tiiLiniinM:fnil1itiiiii;'ri:uiTKi;rtriiUU1;Mniiir::infi!i:Hiiim';rri;innu "By far one of the most interesting publications that have come out of the present war." Boston Transcript THE ODYSSEY OF A TORPEDOED TRANSPORT Translated from the French . - by Grace Fallow Norton FRANCE awarded it the Prix Fem'ma Via Hcurcusc as the most important war book of 1917, , and called it the "Lc Feu" of the sea. , AMERICANS will enjoy it because it contains by far the best first-hand account of the deadly game of hide and seek that our merchantmen play with the assassins of the deep. $1.25 net. Ready today at all bookstores Boston HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY New York iiiiwi'iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim The Russian Wolfhound This new book by three notable long Boston Transcript, dehnite Derlod and as an Imaginative artist In Action. Mfi, HcrHesheimer Is also the author of THE THREE BLACK PENNYS, which John Galsworthy calls the most interesting recent American book he has read. Not to read these books Is to miss the best American fiction of your day. Both are Borzoi Books, published by ALFRED A. KNOPF, and are for sale nt all the best wvvvvwvvvvvvvvvvvvvrvvvvrvvwi! Ncv Applelon BooI(s An Ethical Philosophy of Life By FELIX ADLER A welcome book of practical phi losophy, growing out of the experi ence of over forty years spent in active social service. The crystal lized reaction of a fine mind to the circumstances of existence. $3.00 net v American Negro Slavery By ULRICH B. PHILLIPS The entire story of American negro slavery, told in a spirited and popular manner, with accurate de scriptions of plantation life and management and illuminating dis cussions of the labor and economic conditions in the South. $3.00 net. The Regulation of Railways By SAMUEL O. DUNN Changes needed in our govern mental railway policy the strong and weak points of oar present sys tem railway problems made acute by the war Government Regulation vs. Government Ownership these and many other topics are covered thoroughly in this new book, com pleted since the railroads were taken over by the Government. $1.75 net The Call to The CIn By CHARLES TENNEY JACKSON Here is the sort of fiction men and'swyaJhasr to like., It is a thriller, telling the advsnturas-; oi a jaa wno servea wiia rersntng tn ico ana later gets, inw sooMjax ventures in the present war.-, 'A success wa c or per ljoas ing f nm CUaualHw to ; WAR LETTERS 0f7 edmond genets Edited by Grace Ellen Chctnnlnf- f rruiury nuic uu vurni uy wiun rJrnft vtnn the Kreat-ttreat-ffrjindacr tha lirftt Milliliter frnm thft Frtnrh'' niihHc In th If- S. nnd th fir lit Amrl run Aviatnr killed flvlnc the Star fct-sH Htrlpra. His charmingly boy I Mi lettrfVl tfll of h!n ncrrlce In thft Irf-ffion, ftfMtl Inter. 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