RET"" tev r jf aw -! 10 EVENING' PUBLIC LEDGERPHILADELPHIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY H 1920 waqfiflP HlHMil AIIHHUUI ti WT! SI I JHliiliiiilliiillilliilliiiiilliilJ 7' S HjEi?iii!iii!iii!i!:!iiii!!ii!li!ililii 1920'S BIGGEST "BEST-SELLER"! OF BALTAZAR WILLIAM J. LOCKE 'fi.ulhor of ''The Rough Road,'' "The Vclovcd Vagabond," etc. Cloth, $l.!0 vet. First Edition 50,000 COPIES THE STORY In a Locke novel there is alwuys some one to love. This time it is John Baltazar, who renounced the world because of the love of n woman. How, after twenty years of self-exile, ho redeemed himself how John Baltazar came back that is the story; a big story of love, ambition and fatherly sacri fice. THE VERDICT SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF A QUAKER SINGER KEYNES'S PROTEST AGAINST TREATY An English Expert IV ho Thinks Its Economic Terms 'Are Too Hard Baltazar . Is 'always u joy." Vew York Times. Largest Second Edition on Press novel worthy to rank wltli W II Iam Locke's best is "The House of llaltazar This novel has In It the same tiiRriitlntlng qualities that made The Beloel Vagabond' and The Mor als of Marcus Ordeync' literary bcitis of cAtruordtnury brilliance." Philadelphia Record. TWO BIG BOOKS OF THE HOUR THE UNSOLVED RIDDLE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE By Stephen Leacock. B.A., Ph.D. Professor of Political Economy txl McGM I'niversity, Montreal. Cloth, $1.25 net. A timely and bane discussion of the New Social Unrest. IRISH IMPRESSIONS By Gilbert K. Chesterton Author of "Heretics," "Ortho doxy," etc. Cloth, $1.50 net. Personal impressions of the au thor's recent visit to Ireland. READ: ADVENTURES IN INTERVIEWING By Isaac F. Marcosson Absorbing adventures with big Personalities. Illustrated. Cloth, $4.00 net. JOHN LANE COMPANY Publishers NEW YORK Wheii a man hns the courage or flmll wo nay the niulnclty to set up his judgment against that of the Croat ma jority of Ms associates ltj always ad visable to inquire who the man is before arccptiti!! or even seriously considering his opinions. Tor this reason it is important that the identity of John Mavnnrd Kevnes lie fixed before considering his book on 'The Keonomio Consequences of the Peare." a book the publication of which in KiiKlaud was described bv the Lon don Times as a political event. Mr. Kejncs was born in 1SS3. He was edu cated at Cambridge T'niversity. From ltlOC he was then twenty-three years old tu Ifllil he was connected with the ltritish civil service, first in the India Office and later in the treasury. Dur ing the war lie was in charge of the Hritish financial relations with the allied powers and was the chief repre sentative of the HritMi treasury at the peace conference ami was a member of the supreme economic council of the allied and associated powers. He ! a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and is. editor of the Kconoinlc Journal. He resigned his connection with the Hritish treasury and with the peace conference in June of last year "when it became evident that hope could no longer be entertained of substantial modification in the draft terms of peace." His book is in three parts. One is devoted to an admirable description of the council of four at work, in the course of which he prevents pictures of Clemenceau, Lltijd George and Wilson that make the men live. His remarks about Wilson as an international states man are not flattering to that gentle man. For example, he says that Wil son took his fourteen points to Paris without anj plan for their dctniled ap iiftmiiiiimimmimimiimiiiinmiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiimiiimmiiimiiiiimii llllllllllllllllllllllllllimilllllimilllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll l plication to an exi-ting state of facts ) He could hae preached a sermon on any or them, writes Mr. Keynes, or have addressed a stately prayer to the Almighty for their fulfillment; but he could not frame their concrete applica tion to the actual state of Europe. His thought and temperament wore essentially theological, not intellectual, with all the strength and the weakness of that manner of thought, feeling nnd expression." The second part is devoted to nn analysis of the economic terms of the treaty. Mr. Keynes insists that they are burdensome and oppressive and im possible of enforcement, that they place iu the hands of the reparation commis sion powers which it should not have and that they make for the perpetuation of hatred aud discord. It is because he o regarded them that he declined to be connected any longer with the commis sion which drafted the treaty. Itesig natiou was his form of protest. It was not effective because the treaty contains the provisions to which he objected. That be is unduly pessimistic has been set forth with specifications by David Hunter Miller, legal adviser of the American peace commission. Tint there is no doubt that he expresses the view of the group in England that regards the peace terms as too harsh, a group that was filling the British- newspapers with protest last summer. The third part considers the remedies. The indispensable prerequisite to the application of the remedies is "the re placement of the existing governments of Europe." This must be followed by a revision of the treaty by the League of Nations, bv a settlement of the inter Ally indebtedness through its cancella tion. Then there must be an interna tional loan nnd a reform of the cur rency. And finally the right of Gor man to assist in the industrial devel opment of Russia must be recognized and respected. The book deserves attention as the contribution of a qualified mind to the discussion of the questions involved in the recovery of the world from the rav ages of war. But it would be a mistake for any reader to surrender his judg ment completely to that of Mr. Keynes. .Men just ns well qualified as ho hold different views and set them forth with just as much plausibility. THE ECONOMIC CONSEQUENCES OF THH PEACE Hy John Majnurd Keynea. C. B. New York: Harcourt. Brace & Howe. 12.50 " Am the Father of a Son who went to France. When he went to college, two years before he went to war, I gave him your book, STILL JIM. When he went to France he took STILL JIM with him. Now he is at home, in hospital, and he and his friends are reading THE FORBIDDEN TRAIL, and asking for other books by you. I wish every returning soldier had to read THE FORBIDDEN TRAIL." Says a factory owner: " have asked all mv men to read THE FORBIDDEN TRAIL. I believe it will steady them as it did me.'" Fiction that is in the best sense a literary creation, yet that expresses tiuly the economic pioblcms that confront us today, that is what HOXORE WILLSIE'S novels do, and that is why we recommend THE By HONORE WILLSIE Author ot "STILL JIM," "The Heart of the Desert," etc. Net ?1.75 At all bookshops. Net $1.75 443 Fourth Ave. FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY New York DAVID BISPHAM WRITES HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY "A Qilukcr Singer's Recollections" Rich in Memories and Distinctive in Personal Touch A number of things not customary in the musical artist, no matter how nota ble his or her achievement in the realm of specialized career, unite in David Uispham to make him the distinctive and unique figure he is in the records of American art. Iu addition to the scope and fineness of his technical artis tic accomplishment and his pioneering when American artists of distinguished tments were so few as to be notable on that score alone, he is the man of culture, a man of affairs nnd a college man. XowadajH when orchestras and opera companies have dozens if not scores of Americans among their princi pals, the mere fnct of a singer being an American by birth or even by truiuiug is accepted as a commonplace. Hut when David Bispham won his success aud was cast for important roles in the Wagnerian aud other operas his Kur menal in "Tristan," his Telramuud iu "Lohengrin" and Bcckmesser in "Die Mcistcrsinger" are remembered .almost as clnssics of the type of Seoul's Searpia the mere fact of being an American in the Metropolitan Opera Company was a distinction in itself. Mr. Bisphum, of course, added many another distinction of talent, capacity and power to the adventitious one of his Philadelphia nativity and his Friendly derivation. His notable career is told in genial fashion by himself in "A Quaker Singer's" Uecollections." There are interesting glimpses of a boy's lift in the Philadelphia of more than half a century ago, at tlio Friends' School nnd elsewhere, and of life in the zone of the Quaker Meeting at Moorcstown, where David went as a youngster. One would like to have these more extended. Then there areas interesting passages con cerning his collegiate career at Haver ford College, from which be graduated after some difficulties witlr Ileal exams. Music, certniuly music of the type ho was to become so proficient in as a practitioner, was banned in meeting. His father had left meeting in order to volunteer in the Civil War. He plajed the flute aud when Duvid was a lad presented the mother with an organ on which the boy learned to pick out accompaniments to the flutist's melo dies. One of Ills grandfathers had a good voice and trolled many nn old fushioned English roundelay. He at tended Episcopal services and went to some concerts. In these elements were the beginnings of his musical enreer. At college he had a zither, but the fac ulty objected to such a frivolous -instrument and he made the stationmastor monitor of it, going over to the "depot" when he wished to fill his soul with music. Of course Mr. Bispham, with his antecedents, was not destined for the career which was eventually to be his. A brief experience in the study of medicine showed that he was not fitted for that profession, he used to faint and have to be carried out of the umphi- theatrc during operations. Then he tried n job with his uncle, a wool factor, at $ a week. This was inter rupted bv his opportunity to go abroad for nearly a year with his uncle, n trip that not only gave him knowledge of the world, and what culture meant, nnd the chance to sec nnd hear things far from Moorcstown or Haverford, or even Philadelphia, but-awakened in him the nspirations which wore to be finally realized in his career as a great opera singer. Philadelphia will be keenly interested in the earlier parts of Mr. Bispham s autobiograph for its reflections of life in what was even then a metropolitan center, for its pages studded with not able names and interesting incidents, for its pictures of men and manners ot the lime. Musicians, of course, will bo interested in It more from the stand point of the larger world of art in which Mr. Bispham became a dis tinguished citizen. His first endeavors were as a member of one of the ama teur dramatic troupes which flourished in those days. He sang iu such thiugs as .Sullivan's "Box and Cox," wrlttcu in collaboration with Burnand ; "Trial by Jury" and Offenbach's "Chouflcuri." Mainly, however, ho took straight dra matic' parts in a long list of contem poraneous comedies; had he not become n notable singing actor his theatrical aptitudes would have made him a high class speaking actor. During these jtnrs in his early twenties he studied oioe culture and mingled much with musical and theatrical folk. Mintou Pynp. organist at St. Mark's, gave him hi's first professional engagement ns a singer in the choir, where the music was appropriate to the very "high" services. He also belonged to the Cceclian and other choral bodies and do eloped a good oratorio repertory. Finally he went to Europe, studying with the best masters in London and Itul. But it was not till 1S01 that ho made his debut as the duke in "The Biisoche," at the age of thirty-five, nnd "I should have been able to do this ten joars before at the ery least." Shortly lifter he was singing at the royal opera ut Covent (inrden. His career from this time forward, ns opera sirigcr and con cert artist, is replete with contact with notabilities. That he acted in the spoken ns well as iu the lyric drama is recalled by his account of his ap pearance as Beethoven in Hugo Muller's play, "Adelaide." His natural re semblance to the composer was made complete by u perfect "ninkc-up". To read his recollections of it is to span the narrative of musical America for nearly three decades. The book is written in an agreeably ocotistic stjle the moOonsive and per missible ego of, the nutobiographcr and has much literary charm and some dis tinction, despite some mispellings nnd confusions of names nnd personalities. A QUAKUIt StN'OEIVS RnCOI.I,EOTIO.S. Hv IMII Bispham. New York: The Jlac mlllan Co. BLOOD VS. HONOR IN "THE BLACK DROP" .- K' Alice Brown's New Novel Im pressive Study in Family Psychology Two figures dominated the Trncy family. One is "Gramlsir." The other is Charles, in whose blue-blooded veins there runs one black drop. And this is the title, "The Black Drop," which Alice Brown gives the novel that is her latest and best. The Tracys live in New England, in Boston, and the days are those of the war. The head of the family is "Grand sir," a patriarch who is the gentle ruler of the Tracy flock, only Charles re maining outside his benign' influence. Charles is his grandson, nnd unscru pulous ambitions lead him into nn in trigue with Germany when this country is rocking on the verge of war. Discovery of the treacherous plot iug of Charles stuns his family, aud brings into nction the New England conscience of his father, who finally offers all which lie prizes' most, repu tation, family, pride, everything, in his supreme resolve to put loyalty to his country nbovc the bond of blood. . Miss Brown gives n deftly etched picture of old "Grandsir," severely lovable. Impressively she paints in the black for Charles, the renegade. And the touch of an artist is equally ap parent in the characters of the f'athiT, of Charles's forsaken wife and his im pulsive brother, and of the band of brave oung spirits who, rejected for war service, give of their best in an other way. THE BLACK rmor. By Alice Brown. New York: Mitcmlllan Co. J2. Blaseolb anez through the vigor and dramatic power of his great novels Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse has aroused two hemispheres. The best critics of France, England and the United States compare him to Hugo. Dumas and Balzac. In this country librarians and booksellers alike report them month by month as among the books most in demand all over the country. The Shadow oi the Cathedral Blood and Sand and La Bodega (The Fruit of the Vine) Each of special interest are to be followed this spring by Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda) In preparation. You cannot afford to miss these tremendously vital novels. Each has a great subject, strong characters, deep interest. Price, $1.90 each, at any bookstore or mau be ordered direct from E. P. 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It deals with il dy ing sculptor of erratic genius nnd a dis graced British Indian official, and in a most surprising and alluring way it tells how the sculptor got money-enough out of the official to enable him to die in decent surroundings in Italy. It is nn ordinary mystery story. Hut "The Great Legend" nnd "Behind the Stars" are great prose poems. One is the trag edy of France, of the seething under world of Paris, into which men sink and disappear, tied up with the great French legend of Charlemagne sitting beneath the cathedral of Aix-la-Chapelle, awaiting the time when ho shall be needed to save his people. The other is a Ivric of romance, happening in the Adi'iatic sea, but told to the accom paniment of the "Creation" symphony, played in Paris by Padcrcwski. It l? a work of art. Of an entirely different tvpe is the satire on the administra tion of justice in "The New Adminis tration." n story of how the real crim inals in a bank-wrecking conspiracy were punished while the stupid instru ment through which they worked was allowed to go tree. IJhero arc two moving stories written about the wreck of the Titanic one dealing with Hruco Ismny and another with the yarn of a man who csenped with his life and hid himself in the Far East. "The Pacifist" shows how the German agents could use the wooly minded senators in Washington to serve their ends, and "The Ally" is a Ger man spy story staged iu Paris. There is enough difference of subject nnd of treatment to please a variety of tastes, but each story is written with that economy of words and that directness of process which characterize the work of the best craftsmen. THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE VILLA. By Melville Davisson Post. New York: D. 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Rowland Wright in "The Disap pearance of Kimball Webb," tells of the excitement which followed the dis appearance of the man, of the shook to the girl who was to be hi bride, of the suspicion that was directed against his mother and sister who lino objected to his marriage, nnd df the fortune that the prospective bride will lose unless .e is married before she is twenty-four years old. The disap pearance of her promised husband oc curs three months before her birthday. It takes three months to solve the mys tery of the abducting of the man, but before it is sojved the girl herself is abducted. Mr. Wright has written a mystery story with a love interest which will keep the reader up long into the night following the unfold ing of the plot. THE DISAPrCAJlANCE OP KIMBAI.I. wnilll. Hy Rowland Wright. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. Blondes in Danger Science may step in and change the plans of nature. 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