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with Incident, character drawing and
'tempered with phltoophlcal oberatlon,
jv drama In which hue plna a H'lllklenS
i IV ConsiplciloUH nnrt In thi letplnnment
of an Inatructho leison In tho solution
I of political problem nnd their relation
I to me honest and economical ndmlnlK
It ration of municipal (rnxernment thH
li what that capltnl writer of flrllon
I aim expert In the science of lnetlcn
tlon. Peter Clark Macfarlane. nrbleted
In hN nnel of real life. "The Crick In
I.i.v ... niiiui'in ui INC l.lini
Pl'tlf.u T.l-tnfii.n t. Ill Mnll .. Itk lll.
(pleasure the admirable tale, which bad
rmiiiieipnia n Its setting and wlilrh
was published In serial form In ttie col-
limns of thin newspaper several months
, nco.
It need not be told here what a pro
found Impression Mr Macfarlane's pic
ture produced In the public mind durlns
tv ii..iiri, ,i, iiiv-ii in,- iiuiiiir in uriti
up to nature day bv day to the die of
more or less startled cltluens; nnd It ran
be left onlv for the future to demon
strate whether the truths deplsted with
a master hand shall lne lasting effect
on the public const le.ice. With unerring
strokes of an nrtlst brush the author
of ' The Crnek In tho tlell" dellne.ited
political 'bosses," big and little, nnd It
j did not require n very ncute Imagina
tion for the Informed reader to adjust
I the portraitures to certain Individuals
seen and heard In and around City Hall
find In the councils of ptrty politicians.
Imiglnary events were recounted In this
stirring serial with a realism that
brought distinctly to mind sundry hap
penings In Philadelphia's munlclpil life.
In Its way the tnlt Is entitled to the
dclgnaton of a classic
I It must not be supposed becauso the
I political element Is given conspicuous
n hl nnrl iVin .(nnf n a I h I la llal nlll a II H
Its environment. It Is purely local in ItsVto
appeal and contracted in Its Interest, or
that the tale is lacking In the softer
touch of romance tint nowadiys Is re
garded as iscntial to the modern novel
On the contrary. "The Crick In the
Pell" Is wide-reaching In Its scope, and
nny well be enjoved by the discriminat
ing reader, be he or she within the
I Miadovv of Independence Hall or thou
I smds of .miles distant from that his
toric shrine of liberty, while as 'all the
1 world loves n lover," It Is safe to say
the joung fighting hero of 'The Crack In
tl-e ltcll" and the equilly coungeous
sweetheart lurolne, daughter of the
dominant personality who bosses the
bossis. will engage th evmpatlutic at
tention and admiration of rtndcrs of both
sees and In all places
TUB CHACK IV THK IIKI.I, Ily Teter
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IF 1 1 AT THE BONDS
ARE TO PREVENT
0nc Cm rhul 0ut b Read.
ing of What Happened in
a Picardy Village
The fniirth Liberty Ii.in bonds would
be .v ersub-crltied if evervbody would
get a cnp of Ituth Onlms's book, "
VIII urn In Tliardv." It contains only
190 pages, hut In that short spaccivlvidly
deser'bc.s th horrors endured hv the
peasant people of Trance when, In the
voir lilt, the Hermans entered the
little town of C.mlzv. in rie.irdv. and
burned thilr homes, sep irated the fam
ilies and perpetrated Innumerable atrocl-
tle.s
The storv tells of the work of the
reconstruction relief unit i-ent out under
tho auspices of Smith College. :orth
amnion. M.it.s Miss'Caines brings jou
ip contact pcrsoiwllv with the members
of the little v lingo or i-nniiy in me
'Plain of Death." ns Plcardv Is i.illed
Thev were unassuming. 'Ill'et church-
iovlnir neonle. i-r.nie wealthier than
others, all with their little eccentricities
and all very human In 1JH. before the
Oerni in ravages, the little town boasted
of 44S Inhabitants with nbout forty-
seven dwelling- When the reconstruc
tion unit of Smith Colli ge found them,
! In 1917 their dwellings were in rulnn,
thev had onll about Ino inhabitants,
funllles were hepur.ited,, but with It nil
tin SB br.ive neonle d'd not lose courage.
liut livid In cellars and ruins of their
firmer homes. In the nope mat once
again France would come Into her own
and they could peacefully rebuild their
old homes
It Is a great help to those at home
win- want to learn and understand what
Is going on 'over there" In this great
war and nuke them des're all the more
to help our own bos who are protecting
us from the same fate As our way of
helping Is by bujing Liberty Bonds. o
much more will we realize our duty
after reading about the village of
Picardy ,
a ii.r.A(ii: iv PicAntiT ny nuth
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Sandman Stories
Children from Ave to ten who are
trented to the delights or reading aloud
will rejoice In the publication of a new
volume of the "Sandman Series." This
Is the "The sinuman ills inuian
Stories." by W S Phillips (i:i Coman-
cho), an authority on Inntan lore anu
ethnology Mr Phillips has retold. In
simple hut attractive language, the folk,
fnlrv, and animal stories of the Indian
children, many of which have come down
the years veroaliy over many a nuriu-oui
campfire His book Is particularly rich
In the animal stones or me race, it 's
Illustrated bv nui-eroua full-page and
marginal cuts from pen-and-ink sketches
by the author
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Memories of a Dog
John Oalsworthys' story of his dog
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puhl'shed In 1912, It has been reprinted
seven times In the Intervening years,
and an eighth printing has Just been
made In a moderate-priced edlt'on Mlth
the original lllustratcns by Maud Karl,
In colors and In black and white. Pog
lovers will prize It as a precious re
minder of some animal they have treas
ured and lost.
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Rhymes for Children
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Stein, a book to their taste. The verses
nre about puppies, circus processions,
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Mrs. Bacon Opens the Door
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then another and sometimes there la u
sudden development of a fneulty that
had not previously manifested Itself at
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Josephlnn Daakiim Haron'B new book,
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may be dlffennt In detail, but their
mentnl processes are the sime.
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Secundi, that she used to think that
people's bones were like "prune bones,"
and there follows a discussion nbout
skeletons nnd the proper name for
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reticence In children which they pre
servo lest they disclose their Ignorance.
It Is not until they lenrn better that
they let their elders know what they
onco thought. Tor example, a grown
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muddv pools In the road were bottom
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will ho most Instructive to parents.
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study thin In mnnv a serious disser
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philosophy.
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of every parent and of every tencher
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trlbutes a bland Introduction, npparentlv
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wortli an ounce of frankness 'This Is
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The third volume of Mr Arthur Conan
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ilalm to attention Is tint It prcsenls the
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History of the Christian
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The vast Held of the story of the church
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The Dave Porter seiles has now
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volume. "Dave Porter Under Fire," Hd
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adventures of his joung hero, now a
futlfledged civil engineer In France as a
member of the engineering corps of the
United States army. The way Pave
Porter does his bit and his duty Is what
might be expected of such a typical
specimen of American joung manhood
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brought him Into danger and out of it
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THE MAN WITH
THE CLUB FOOT
Reading About Him Will Give
You an Evening of Blood
curdling Joy
If vou ever had .our doubts as to
what was meant preclfcly, by the ad
jective "gripping" ns applied to a talo
of 'love intrigue and adventure," read
The Man with the Club root," by
Valentine Williams
'Gripping' means that our hair rises
on end nt the flrt chapter, and does not
subside until the tale is done, and that
whereas jou may have begun reading
sedatelv bv tho library fire. .ou end In
the cold gray dawn, with the quilt
.around vour shoulders and the candle
guttering out its life in u pool ot tallow-.
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mutter how rigid a stickler for probabili
ties, vou cannot put down a book when
a chapter ends: "What was I going til
do about the body? Just then I heard
a low knocking nt the door. I remem
bered with a suddin sinking of the heait
that I had rorgotten Ui loclt it." You
i.innut put It aown and go calmly to
bed And i,ich chapter leaves j,ou In
Just such suspense.
An English olllcer receives a mys
tirlous message which he knows comes
frtni his brother, who has been gone
somo time In Germany on hecret serv
ice The officer decides to search for
him. and gets into Germany himself by
a singular mixture of chance and strat
agem He becomes involved in n Ger
man spy ostein and sails perilously
under false colors Into adventures which
are calculated to turn the hair white
in a single night it Is onlv from Die
fact that he himself Is writing the story
that jou can draw a crumb of comfort
In the uncertain belief that all will come
out will In the end
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ple who cmnot mjoy a story unless
jou feel quite convinced that It Ih thor
oughly probable, jou may not be able
to abandon jourself to the thrills with
which this tale is picked: If, however,
jou are ready to take what Is offend
In the proper spirit, J'ou have before
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Christian Verities ,
Christianity Is futile in ho far as It
fails to harmonize Intellect and emotlen.
This Is the keystone of a modernist
Chrlstlnn philosophy enunciated by A,
CluttonrBrock in the five chapters on
Christian ethics and philosophy which
make up "Studies In Chrlstianltj."
The author's primary purpo-ie has been
to vitalize ancient truths by emphasiz
ing their significance for the present
generation. Practical Christianity he
believes to be entirely compatible with
the conditions of the daj-, by diligent
search for the immutable principles of
the Faith which survive through the
shifting theories of successive periods of
time, i.ven war, tne author believes
would end. If men would forget theories
nnd think only of men nd women.
STt'ntKS IN CHniSTUVITY. By A.'flut.
ton-Brnek. New York: K. P, Dutton &
Co. JI.'.'.I.
With the Black Watch
Scout Joe Cassells, one of the few
survivors of the "contemptible little
army" of Major. Moraht's characteriza
tion, tells tb story of the fighting re
treat from Mons to the Mama In "The
Black Watch." He elves a close-up from
his Individual experiences with his his
tor'c regiment, which was almost entlrelv
wiped out. and he nl-o pictures the full
film of the hundred thousand troops
whose hardihood and grit In those early
days of 1914 made the living barriers to
the onrush of the grav splke-helpieted
Huns to Paris. A fighting and not a
writing man. Scout Cassells glvea a
"record In action," ns his book Is Justly
subtitled. It Is graphic and It Is Inspir
ing. TIIK BLACK WATCH. By Bcout Jva Caa
aetls. Garden Cl(yi Doubleday, r
Co. 11,13. ,
A REPORTER AT
ARMAGEDDON
Will Irwin Writes of What He
Saw on the Long West
ern Front
So many avowed chroniclers of scenes
nt or near the battlefront have been more
the psuedo-phllosopher than the authentic
reporter, that It Is a relief to find In
Will Irwin's fourth war book a vivid
description of what the author saw and
henrd, unclouded by a plethora of per
sonal speculation.
Hxcept for the casual record of im
pressions en route, "A Reporter nt
Armageddon" deals chiefly with the
author's observations In France and
Italy, ag well as Switzerland. He re
turned to the western front by way of
Spain In the sru-lhg of 1917. nnd found
many things of Interest In that country,
full of spies of both groups of belliger
ents After varlou difficulties at the
frontier, ho eventually got into France,
nnd he bears eloquent testimony to the
high courage of the French on every
hand. Despite the Increasing' pall of the
world tragedy, he found their Bpirlts
ebullient; but it was the ebullience of
dauntless resolution.
The long Journey which Mr. Irwin
took extended from the upper French
battlefront, through Switzerland and into
Italy. He witnessed the work of the
British fljlng forces, he luard stories of
the cruelties practiced upon Belgian
workmen who refused to accept meekly
and without 'protest tho deportation
edicts, removing them from their homes
in contravention of international law
He also saw in Switzerland the
stupendous task which the British are
'doing In rehabilitating those tsorry
wrecks ot men released from German
prison camps. Incapacitated for further
usefulness The splmdld feats of the
Italian military engineers are en
thusiastically praised, and of special In
terest Is the account of the Impression
created by the arrival of the splendid
American soldiers In France. It Is a
vivid recital, and Its enthusiasm Is al
waj's controlled and animated by a
hound sense of proportion, by the
veteran writer's faculty of dlscrlmlnat-J
Ing observation
a iiBPonrnit at abmaoeddon. b
Will Irwin. New ork. i. Aprleton fc Co.
J1.5U
War Speeches
Virtually every phase of the war Is
discussed In tho various papers by many
public men and women of International
fame which make up the 3C8-pagc octavo
published under tho title, "What Every
American Should Know About tho War."
The book is the direct outcome of the
national conference of American lec
turers held In Washington last April:
the speeches delivered on that occasion
have been grouped for the present pub
lication, according to subject, by Mont
avllle Flowers, secretary of the, con
ference, who Is thus ideallyvsqulpped
to edit them In this permanent form.
The avowed purpose of the conference
was "to organize the American platform
Into power to win the war." The scope
of the volume 'is actually broader than
this, however, for the remarks con
tributed by the distinguished European
delegates give It a truly International
character. Tho case of France, for In
stance, is presented by M. Andre Tar
dleu. French h'gh commissioner to the
United States. In like manner the Karl
of Heading, the minister from Belgium,
and the minister from Serbia present
the causes of their respective countries
In the war.
WHAT EVKItV AVtKRICAN SHOUI.fl.
know aiiuut -run vvAK A sjmpoalum
of the leaders tn all branehea at war
srtlvltv. IMIteit liv Montavllle PUiwers.
New York! clenrue H Doran Company. 12.
FIGHT! BUY BONDS!
Fighting the Boche
Underground
By Captain II. D. Trounce
The first story of mining and
sapping the most Imirartant and
most dangerous activities of tha
whole war
Capt, Trounce writes of this
strange form of warfare untfer
the trenches and No Man's Land
with great clarity and vividness.
He deals with the most thrilling
subject, hitherto untouched by
war writers, In n way which Is
no less Informative- becauso uu
technical. Illustrated, SI. GO net.
Present-Day Warfare
How An Armv Tralnj nnd Fights
By Captain Jacques RouVler .
Conditions of warfare In the pres
ent day are made clear to the
civilians of this country, whose
boys are "Over There." .
Iliufrnlcd, (1 3S net
QUIvlESSOvJBNrmSONS
FIFTH AVE AT48SI NEW YORK
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WHAT WAR DOES TO
THE SILENT LEGION
A Novel Describing the Revo
lution in the Life of the
English Middle Class
In the midst of nil the stories from
the front nnd tho tragedies of life ovcr-
seas, comes J. I J. hucktosos pucuru "i
Tho Silent Legion," England's middle
ctns who aacrlflce and suffer uncom
plainingly This class ntonc.ln the au
thor's opinion, possesses the strange In
stinct which forbids It to blow Its own
trumpet. The upper class,, he explains,
has blown delicately for' ages through
long, silver trumpets: 'nnd now tho
working class has suddenly begun to
blow brass ones so lustily that the sil
ver trumpets can no longer bo heard.
Through tho Simpson family and
their simple neighbors Mr. Buckroso Il
lustrates the changes brought nbout In
England by tho war. Jim, tho only
son, Is killed In action. Mr. Simpson's
business goes to pieces nnd, lato In
life, he Is forced to take n small sal
aried position ns clerk, bossed by a
young man who was once his ofllco boj.
Mrs. Simpson's health Is broken by the
scries of trials. Barbara, the elder
daughter, fresh nnd eagerly ambitious,
Is called from the hospital where she is
studying to become n nurnc, to become
housekeeper since a scrvnnt is no longer
possible. And Elsie, the joungest child,
has a weak back.
As calmly as possible they meet the
air raids that Inwardly terrorize them,
tho unrest nmong tho domestic servant
class, nnd tho Tood shortnge. relieving
their bottled up feelings by manual
labor such ns they have never been
accustomed to. In every simple change
tho author sees a sign of something
stupendous. Even the thin ladv who
steals her neighbor's pat of butter at
tho boarding house table because It
looks larger, and talks Incessantly nbout
tho two dajs n week she works In a
hospital. Is a sign that tho middle class
Englishwoman Is no longer ashamed of
work, but ashamed of Idleness.
Though their faith In God Is shaken
by war's disastrous results, these middle
class folk, consciously or unconscious
ly find a little window opened upon
heaven, opened by the bojs who go up
there.
The story Is not powerful or gripping,
but It Introduces a certain pathos that
holds the reader. The love story of Bar
bara Simpson and the wounded soldier,
Brooke, forms the heart of the storj-,
while" the courtship of the confirmed
old bachelor. Blnny, nnd Miss Pclllng
lends a simple humor to the tale.
After nil the sorrows nnd hardships
the book ends happily leaving old Mr.
and Mrs. Simpson nlone looking "with
hope and Joy through the window their
boj had left open."
THK SII.KNT I.EQION Bv J E nuokrose.
New York: George If. Doran Company,
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WHEN the Kaiser's high powered car flames through the streets
of Berlin at 70 miles an hour, the roads are cleared as if
by magic.
When one of his smaller representatives the meanest officer
in his army appears upon the streets the German world stands
aside in reverence.
But with all his power, one small book turns on him and laughs.
For much indeed might he like to stop the reading of this one book.
Much indeed might he like to see each and every copy burned, torn,
destroyed. But his power is not enough.
This book of revelations by Dr. Arthur Davis shall go trium
phantly on with its message. For fourteen years Dr. Davis was
-dentist to the Kaiser, to the royal family and the German court.
For fourteen years Dr. Davis saw intimately, with masks off, these
people who played a part in public these people who played at
being Demigods;
"Now America must pay all the Bills of the War"
The Katitr to Dr. Dot is
Read What the Kaiser Said to Dr. Davis About
Invasion of Belgium
Sinking of the "Lusitania"
President Wilson
Theodore Roosevelt
King of England
Lloyd George
it
The Katitr to Dr. Datli
' Red what wn tiid to Dr. Dayii by the Crown Prince. Prince on Pleii. the Ksiier'i closest
adviser, and von Bethmann-Hollwej. Read whit Dr. Dtvis siys bout Miiimihia Hrdn and von
Hmdcnbuig.
IN
UeMSERaslknowhim
9 TteNMSerfc Dentin -for
HARPER &
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E are too often forced to read
tions come about. In THE SUBMARINE IN WAR ANU
PEACE by Simon Lake, published by Linnincott. wo luve an
account of ono of tho greatest marvels of the ago by one of the inventors
most instrumental in bringing it to pass. What Mr. Lake does not know
about submarines is hardly worth the knowing; his book is, naturally, packed
with information for those interested in the scientific Bide of the subject,
but his story of the development of the submarine from the early days
when the mere idea was met with open ridicule is told with humor and
simplicity. Mr. Lake says that he has been for twenty years collecting
the material for this book, and it should rank with Darwin's "Voyage
of the Beagle" for its autobiographical charm as well as for its technical
authority.
MR. Lake tells us that "Twenty Thousand Leagues' Under the Sea"
was responsible for his early experimental work, but we have a veri
table Jules Verne romance in THE GILDED MAN written by
Clifford Smyth and published by Boni and Liveright. It is a tale of in
trigue and adventure, of the mystery of hidden forces and tho search for
buried treasure, in that region of ancient Peru still marked "unexplored"
by map makers. The legend of El Dorado has been from time immemorial
a lure to the imagination; but in this fantasy the writer has so succeeded
in creating an illusion of reality that such fellow craftsmen as Richard
Le Gallienne and Gertrude Athcrton pay him the tribute of enthusiastic
praise.
IF Mr Smyth has been able to make seem truo to us scenes and people
far removed from common experience, what can we say about the
reality of the people we meet in "Cheerful-By Request"? (No heroes
and heroines these just ordinary human beings like ourselves, but made
as absorbing to as as we are to ourselves by a writer whose .keen sense of
the comedy and tragedy underlying the little things of life make her the
arbiter of our laughter and our tears. To take the dull beings we jostle
against daily in the streets and to reveal them glowing with color takes
imaginative skill of the highest order. O. Henry had it: EDNA FERBER
has it; and in this book bf stories, just published by Doubleday and Page,'
we live and move so intensely that the real world pales by comparison.
IN WOMEN WANTED, by Mabel Potter Daggett, a recent Doran
publication, we have a dramatic account of what women have already
accomplished in the world's industry, but it is the vividness of the way
the writer puts things that makes her book so extraordinarily entertaining.
She goes well under the surface in her reasons why women so often fail
to succeed in industry, and her forecast of what is bound to occur in the
case of those who have known the thrill of being even a cog in the world
of affairs should give thought to all who keep wondering what will happen
when the soldiers return.
THE
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HE other side of the women
most amusing story int, wnr. tvuiuttK, issued under the
Knopf imprint. It is tho work of E. M. Delafield, a new and brilliant
n-Titur and the dauzhter of Mrs.
character study of the social leader who works herself and her subordinates
to death rather than abate one jot of her authority will awaken an answering
chord in the souls of the many who have suffered at her hands. The con
trast between the adulation of her followers and the independence of the
stenographer who is always sure of her job shows the essential difference
between the paid worker and the volunteer, and opeds up a most fertile
field for discussion. In any case. Miss Delafield has achieved a story which
will be characterized as simply lolling by any woman who has ever done
war work.
Each iceek Miss Weil
will recommend im
partially few ot
the book worth while.
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