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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
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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
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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"
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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The Time Spirit
By J. C. SNAITH
Mr. Snaith tells a splendid story
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The "shut-in" regions
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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
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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
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X ES, and David Kent was broke. BrokeiS.,1
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wolves who preyed on the good people he ha3,41
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This book Is to the Pacific
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By CHARLES TENNEY
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