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'UTNAM
IKS AND AUTHORS
PWWI H i WUiH I M
i!l Engtand, "Revolution" i 6iW
Li-V
.4emy a an poeh-making notf7.
V-s.,' A rankmd at the top in talet
ifcMfl"' " n. f ua Written by
hy'jt D. Berfford, one of the fore
''.im0t novelilt of the Aav nnrt famaum
rA ,"..jL ill L r. I i li ...? t
k. iwniior w yocoj Jiani, which is
enough to know about a book
'WAcn you go to a booh'buying.
t
Xn "Revolution" Mr. Bcresford strips
both labor and capital of their shams
svtirl lumnrrJutna. His nirt.nrn of the
Kr Consequences of a geneta! strike in
England Is one of teinno power
Jwie that leaves an impression of
Ictuality.
' The'rt arq no long-haired, wild-
eyed Bolshevists running around
tn circles with home-made
bombs in their hands. No talk
of the proletariat or the bour
geoisie. Just a straightaway,
most beautifully written story
tvith a message for those who
do a little thinking now and
e then.
JThe fifth printing of "Mirrors of
'Downing Street" and the demand
continues to increasel
GHOSTS I
JVe may not be
lieve in fairies,
despite the soap
'add, but most of
us do. admit the
Jure of the super
natural. Dorothy
,S car bo rough,
earnest student
tof things psychic,
has sifted out
thirty-four re
markable ghost
.stories and nut
them into two books, one, "Famous
xia n,n. 3rt,i. 1,0 ntVior.
inj, r-u. b!,',!.." i, , tb( real beauty of, hU character. Kb
,Humorous Ghost Stones. As aMore1 , hu tltlt and his rank, th
rejrular advertising writer would
Bay, "there's a shudder on every
page."
"A fine achievement," says
the
New York Evening Post of
SHOW DOWN
Vulia Railey's readable, likeable
nxvel of a northern girl and a
Bouthern small town.
It appear that Liberty (fickl
'Jadel) needs a defender, 10 Oliver I ls really Mrs. John Barryraore, this
a 1 t u t. . ..l'i.. , . i...!.i.i i.. - .i.
oraii laaps uito ino orcacn wun ,
"A Defense of Liberty," a really
extraordinary book which assumes
tp show- how the world rulers
manipulate religion, philosophy,
war and rerolution to serve their
own ends.
jfe;
JHartha,
and Mary
j Owen Gawne hated his first
'wife because she helped him to
become prosperous. So he se
lected another. How he liked
her and vice versa is what
l'makes Olive May Salter's novel
f so interesting.
J OUR QUESTIONNAIRE
Vfi is Ethel Dell?
Why is "Mirrors of Downing Street"
the most reviewed book on both
sides of the Atlantic?
Why are we sure Ben Hecht's "Erik
J)orn," to be published In Septem
ber, will be one of the biggest books
,of the year ?
jWhy should no auto-owner be with
out a copy of "Motor Camping
Book"?
Tiy should detectives read "The
ouso in Queen Anno Square"?
What The Queen Reads
"The Queen's library list,"
( says tho Liverpool Courier,
"snows a great preponderance
j of the more popular type of
j novel, and Mr. Charles Garvice,
o whos death occurred only re
cently, and Miss Ethel M.
t Dell, arc the two authors
. whose books are most constant
's ly in demand nt Buckingham
Palace."
Read DellV "ROSA MXJNPT "
"Ask the man who owns one"
now he treasures his librnry.
G. P. P.
The,
Flockmaster
of
Poison Creek
By G. W. OGDEN
Author ofThe Land ofLatt OumuT
Swan Carlson, the giant whose
hands could tear a sheep limb
from limb, was as primitive and
cruel 79 a wild animal. Against
such a foe as this John
Mackenzie pitted his Scotch grit
and stubbornness.
Read "The Flockmaster" if you
want a story abounding in ac
tion, romance, humor, and charm
of local color.
At All Ponhttcrrrs
A. C. McCLURG & CO. 1 PuMidwr.
The
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MICHAEL STRANGE
DOESN'T IMPROVE HUGO
"Clair de Lune," a Drama Based on "L'Hommc Qui Rif" Is a
Decadent Rewriting an Expansion of an Inci
dent in the Great Novel
Ily KKL1X E.
rrofeaMr nf KntllKli Literature In
T FEEL that the author of 'Clair ne
Lune' him ritatwt ,l,ot mlolif hi,
jnuea n new idiom in dramatic writing.
Its .curiously and brilliantly imagined
harmony of plot, characters and back
ground has a strange and disturbing
flavor which, once tasted, cannot be
forgotten. Over It all, like the moon
light of its title, shines the quality of
fantasy Jt is 'such stuff as dreams
are made on ' " Thus writes Mr. Ed
ward Sheldon, the well-known dramat
ist; and on reading "Clair de Lune"
we wonder at these words. But Edward
Sheldon ns n dramntlc critic Is not our
topic today.
TITIIEN I look up this play I said.
'' HI J reader of nlil flctlnn--nr must
I ay. as an old reader of fiction? "Ah!
Prsus, Dea. Gwymplane! Of couree,
'THomme nut Illr . " Anil T inlchf
have spared myself this recognition of
the obvious, as a note on the false title
declares that "suggestions" as well as
the names nf some of the personages
arc "taken from" Victor Hugo's well
known novel, I then looked for some
unpublished chapters In this touching
and pathetic storj Sir Harry Johnson
has of late carried on the story of the
Dcmbeyg nnd of Mr. Shaw's Mrs.
Warren's eccentric daughter, much to
Ihc delectation of readers. But this
play Is not of that agreeable tjpe. In
fact, it seems less to expand than to
contract figures, incidents and situa
tions from Hugo's ample pages, chang
ing bis wide historic atmosphere to the
stifling artificialities of n corrupt and
heartless court in n fantastic no-man's
land and losing In the process. I should
say, most of the human appeal.
miIE MAN WHO LAUGHS."
-L which Is a better translation than
"The Laughing Man," It will be re
mcraborcd, ls the terrible story of a
child of noble English parentage, stolen
out of malice nnd for revenge, nnd sub
mitted to a horrible surgical operation
by which his facial expression Is per
manently fixed In a hideous harlequin
grin. He grows up in the company
of mountebanks, fathered by an old
man, absurdly called somewhere in this
play "a doctor of philosophy," and n
blind maiden, Boa, who lores him for
di-formed Gwymplane Buffers, in the circle
or the nobility, the untold ajtony wnicn
his deformity has brought upon him;
and In the end he returns to Dea, who
alone understands him, only to see her
die. aboard n. boat in which they are
seeking c.cape, he following her to hts
death In the sea. There is poetry aid
pathos in Hugo's tale, and the tempta
tion of Gwymplane by a noble lady who
is unnaturally attracted to him by his
deformity is only an episodo in the wide
and varied scene.
"CLAM DE LUN'E," by Michael
J- S
Strange, who it is whispered audibly
iuimeuuunru mciueui u?:uuich n muiu
feature of the plot. Relieved of its
moonlight, the story tells of a queen,
"a sharp-featured, neurotic-loosing
woman," we may add of middle years.
Sho Is attended, among others, by
Prince Charles, "a slender, exotic-looking
gentleman," who is her "cousin"
and her heir: and also by the Duchess
of Beaumont, a younger, illegitimate
sister of hers, betrothed to Prince
Charles. Boredom ls h common char
acteristic of these titled people, and
who can wonder? The betrothed cou
ple, who loathe each other, are repre
sented as trying to beguile the tedious
hours with croquet. Parenthetically,
mark how this beatH out Shakespearf's
Cleopatra at billiards. A troupe of
mountebanks intervene, performing by
night in the royal pnrk The jaded no
bility wake up miraculously to the
remarkable novelty of n pantomime.
Charles, out of sheer ennui. Is attracted
by Dea's beauty and arranges to have
her brought to his apartments; while
his precious betrothed as, suddenly con
ceives an unholy passion for (Jwym
p!ane and his hideous grin, and nNo
arranges an assiguutlon. Mrs. Barry -moro's
or shall we say this Strangc's
Gwymplane is further defoimcd with
"distorted legs," though exactly how he
contrives to perform his feats of agility
in the pantomime with this handicap Is
not quite clear. The upshot of this
double intrigue of this precious couple,
who are to be married tomorrow, is the
discovery of each to th other nnd to the
Queen, who in the end turns out not
the rival of the Duchess for the lore
of Charles, but the mother of that now
illegitimate Prince, Gwymplane being
the true heir. There Is a shadowy vil
lain, Phedro, who wanders about
through the play, but just what ho n
about it would be difficult, to say. In
some respects he fceems to have been
rather respectable compared to Charles
and his Queen and bis Duchess. So
much for Mr. Sheldon's "brilliantly
Imagined harmony of plot" and of
"character" and of "background."
"TOV for "the new idiom In dramatic
iV writing."
"Tho Duchess appears to me exnetly
like a bent hairpiu." nays the Queen,
"adjusting her lorgnette."
"Go along. Charles. At any rnte,
you have n nort of bleight-of-hand man
lier of lookiug nt your watch that makes
l me rattier nervous. Rays tne snme
"ncnrotic-loouing lady.
"What in llie world is one tired j
from'' WIiHt does one rest for'"
niuundprs the weary Duchess, "in a
Hither lobt manner.
"A servant is something to absorb
the spittlo of their irritability "
We may agree with Mr. Sheldon that
this is "a new idiom in dramutie writ
ing " But Mimetiinos the dialogue
btrains at even n further newness.
"I'll make you feel," says the
wicked Phedro. "ss if you were falling
down an abyss of knives" . here nt least
is a threatened new sensation. No
marvel thnt Gwjnplane rails l'hedro "a
squinting rodent," antl that l'hedro re
torts "acidly." "His eloquence would
steal the pollen from n flower" sounds
somewhat like what some people some
rimes call poetry. No such nonsenne.
i-t coiirtie, as any jingle of thymes or
wing of meter; tmt sob stuff." thus'
' I feel as if ve were in u black barge
upon a scarlet sea, us if in a moment
it would dip over the horizon line nnd
we nhould be lost forever together " Or,
"I see u million pale ribbons Muttering
through gray vapor. They ure widening
into rivers of color. Into vast dazzling
spaces and some divine form is shining
through now and sweeping nil the dark
ness away off the world, with his golden
wings." There is nothing like this in
Victor Hugo. Is this possibly what
Mr. Sheldon rails "the quality of fan
tasj"? T1;
HAT a blind girl should be sent down
long avenue of cypresses to stoti
ct the "first white marble door" is a
trifle. Ken mt the distorted hero,
saluted as Prince Ian of Vnncluse, in
the scene of discovery of pretty nearly
1 veryiiuiig snoiiiu cry our 1111, 1 run
not Hand this IipIIWi whirl another In-
stunt It is bltlne mj ankles ofT"-
strange occupation for a "hellish
whirl" lo b lilting a hero's ankles
leven this in trivial-or perhaps merely
"--HV
t ,.
SCHEI.LINO
thjt Tfnlrr-.ltv nt Pmn.i.anU
I ".nch Btuff n.s (some folks') dreams are
inniln nf." tr nttote the dramatic critic
ones more. I.s like a dream and
more like the banalities of" a decadent
spirit is the Iosb in nobility and in
terest of every one of Victor Hugo's
figured and their degradation into a so
ries of inconsequent nnd menuingless
marionettes, whoso only resemblance to
human beings is in tneir essential vul
garity and immorality. Perhaps the
slamour of other lights than that of the
moon, hnmlHome costumes ana scenery
and the conjunction of two notable per
sonages of the stage in tho cast may
make this kind of thing go for a time.
But to any one modestly acquainted
with poetry, drama and the stage, it is
repugnant to all.
Ct.AlU DE I.UNK. A pltr In two nets nil
-lx -cnc. tly MIchMl Btransa. New
York. O. P Pumsm's 8on.
Gorky on Tolstoy
When Tolstoy lived in Gaspra, In
tho Crimea. Maxim Gorky lived not far
away and saw the great Russian fre
quently. He made notes of his con
versations that he might not forget sig
nificant and characteristic remarks.
These notes have now been gathered into
a book Rlong with an unfinished letter
written by Gorky at the timo of Tol
stoy's flight from home. Tho letter
contains much Interesting comment on
affairs by the great man.
The book will givo to the reader a
more Intimate picture than can be
found elsewhere. Tolstoy appears in It
as n very human man, with vanities and
foibles, sometimes posing and some
times sincere. Gorky tells us that he
talked most of God, peasants and
women. His remarks about women
were not particularly complimentary.
Gorky conjectures that he had once
been betrayed by one of them and could
not get over it. Much that the book
contains would probably havp been ob
jected to by 'lolstoy, as uniair to him,
for It describes him when he is making
impulsive and unconsidered remarks.
But it is for just that reason that It
will be intensely interesting to the
student of Russian forces.
RKMINI8CBKCK8 Or LEO NIKOI.AEVICH
TOLSTOY m- Maxim Gorky Nw Tork
U. W, iluabech.
AT THE FREE LIBRARY
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rollatt. M. P. "New state."
Frederick. J. O. "Great Oama of Dual
nena, huV'1, J- H-"Tril,nln- 'or Librarian-
Hayden. Arthur "Chat on Old 8herrtell
"late.
Hllld. D. 3. "Intreduotloo to Vocational
Education."
lfln1 r T "A-. .., v.
olt.' L.' H, "Military Corrtapondence.'
wi r . v.- vuicuianaa or xoutn.
,TSr
"Modern Drama In Ru
TOM."
Keith. J. A.
Schooli."
H. "Nation and the
Lamb. w. IV. "Inductive French Oram-
mar.
Lull. H fl.
Instruction."
"Redirection of Hlitti School
McCab .Toarb "Spiritualism."
.uMc1,.r,.0.n- - w -Modern Conflict Over
the Bible."
Martin, C C "Export PaeMrur."
Matthew. M. L. "Elementary noma
Eronomtej."
Roberta, Peter "Problem of American
ization. 8torm. A. V. "How to Teach Agricul
ture. '
Super. Paul "Tralnlrur a Staff."
Wardlaw. C D "Basketball."
Sella. M. U. "Project Curriculum "
W lllams n. C. "Our Short Story Writ-
Wltte, Count "Memoir
v, oneiey
Vlseountesn "Garden a.
Fiction
De Morgan William "Old Man'a Touth'"
Hum. Fannie "Star-Dust."
Lowndes. Mre. llelloc "From Out the
Vasty Deep."
Newton W. D. "Tm C'lltnr "
Sinclair. .May "Th Romantic."
Children's Books
Colum. Padralc "Children of Odin,"
Etorleston, M. V Fireside Btorlee "
Smith, E. D. "Storv of Our Own Coun-
Smith. Eleanor "Sour Devlcee and
Jlne:es
ijraltb II. L "Tour Biggest Job"
m!th. .N A. "Chrlstmaa Child."
THE NEW' BOOKS
General
Ol'TWITTINO OUH NERVES ny Josephine
Jackson M. I) . awl Halrn Salisbury
Now Yorl. Century Co
An authontatle and fascinating; book
aNiut "nerves" In a Popular etvle.
LOAFINO DOWN LONO ISLAND. Dy
Chnrlea ilarncim T3n New Turk; Cen.
tury Co.
Prose and vera records of a pedestrian
tour ct tne environs of Manhattan.
A JACOOEAN LETTER WRITER. Dy E.
P. Statham. New York K. P. Duttoo
A Co.
The life and tlmea of John Chamberlain,
forming an epistolary commentary.
TE OLDEN BLUE LAWS Ily Qustavua
Myere New York' Century Co,
THE RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIK REVOLU-
T10N My Edward Alsnortti Rosa.
New York Century Co.
Prof. Rosa, who nag In Russia, when the
iBicriBKj rqvou wn nccumpnanea, 01T1
Ters an
uojticiive siuay
THE NEXT WAR. By Will Irwin. New
rork K P. Dutton A Co
A DEFENSE OK LIBERTY By Hon Oliver
Brett New York. O V I'utnunVs
Sans.
Teala with the origins and tendencies nf
modern political movements The author's
thetlt Is that socialism Is really 11 danger
oils reactionary ism toward primitive con
ervatlt ideas
POST-BIBLICAL IIEnilEW LITERATURE
11 K Halp-r M A . Ph D . trarlator
PnliadelphlH Jewish Publication So-
cietv of America.
Dr Halper. of Dropsle College. Philadel
phia has performed n very useful service In
preparing this anthology for which tin has
u so maue car una orton nistinaruisneH rn
'lerlnjja The field covered li from before
the Christian era to Cronrwelllan times In
Kngland Mnnt or tne selections nre notahU
for poetic thought and others are rich Irr
meditative philosophy.
THE ORIGIN AND PROBLEM OP LIFE
By A E Bslnes New York K. p
Dutton L Co
The author rnvo.ln against the ir.eohanljilr
thnr of the nrljrin of life and the "onto
jttn ' of liarckel This psycho. physiological
studv sives his theories Hnd his demnnstra
tlons He . 1 lie author of a number nf
arlenttfUi works of standing Hli book will
be useful for argumentative purposes 10
these who wish lu confute slhelsts. agnostics
and scoffers
THE I'HITIUH AND PSYCHICAL RE
SEARCH Hi George E Wright New
York E P Dutton Co.
A Isymnn view which discusses dlspas
"Innately the implications of psychtcn on tra
ditional rrhrlstian bllrfs enabUnr the seri
ous reader to form his own Independent
judiront on a subject which Interest, all
thltrking people at the present time
A LITTLE GUIDE THROUGH LIFE Bt
Henri Kropveld New York E. P
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A disi'isslon of tha principal problems and
muHmi'iits of modern life In non-technical
language from an unbiased atandpolnt Evo
lution dogma education readier art
music war and putrlotlsitr. immortality, are
some of th subjects covered In a style re
fmblinrf thai of Lubhock In "The Pleasures
of Life '
rilE DE8ERT AND THE ROSE By Edith
Nlchnll Ellison Boston Curnhlil Co
A book of experiences of woman who
lfiim u rancbtr in Now Mexico. .She went
West to escape a rneumutle trouble that af
fecteil her in the moist eastern climate and
set up agricultural work for herself. This
bonk Is a vivid and helpful account of her
struggles and successes
Fiction
REVOLUTION By ,L P Beresford New
York O P Putnam'a Hons
REP FI.OWERH Ily Francis H Snow
New York Ilonl A Llverlsht
An unusiml novel of Russia. uhnui
morbidity, introspection nr gloom. Ef.orgetlo
with InirlKue and adventure It Is gn.
ulnely romantlo and thus forms a contrast
to the urgent realism nt modern Action
The writer lived 10 Russia for many yesrs
and tnus got Die material mr u very Hugo
i"'iu- work
'-i',t7Jllh,onlf?1'ln
A dashing roinanra of th I'ranch no.
lutlon In which a fusltlva strolllrag plnyar.
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NOTABLE BOOKS
OF THE WEEK
Beresford's Vision
t.KT'iP .Wtofd is one of those Brit-
iMQ del Stat whn Ihtntr tk.t !..- -...I
successful way to spread ideas is to
Sif-V"i.COil.t tbom wkh Btory- This is
"hat he has done in "Revolution" (0
nhAS1 strlke ,n England in 1023 and
"bout the causes thnt led up to it, with
the expounding of the reasons for the
;..; .1"1 "'""'banco and a theory
solved yVay 80Clnl ProbIcms enn b
"ih?b-r' V '"Wests, Is fighting for
Be ens, of the Spirit," as ho writes
It with capital letters. In other words.
1 110 UBSln rnila nf ..... .. .1.. .
11... 1. -- i- 11.11 c.-i 1 in, me pri'sciir.
2liiLr8Jr5I,olVic"1' Worklngmen are
rwen ful of what they regard ns re
strictions Imnnoa.l ... t . -1.
?..u?.i0nAv way ,0 lirInC U'ot release for
.. . i are sc?K'nX I a "ller reali
zation Of human lirnll.n.hn,! fl't. .t.
J','".?' preserve tho old order by force
;,Ai,i " ho ,""" . Killing can solve no
ptoblems. , It makes new ones. Mr.
. If0,"1 Ib for his hfio n man who
?rAT?d J".,'1? .reat War. He suffered
from shell shock antl it wag five years
iHTore he recovered his poise. But even
men tun vimn , -.
him as mentally unbalanced. Whv the
author uses a man suspected of being
a weakling ns tho preacher of his gospel
T.1 .ClC?r' If hls B0Sl,el ls ""nil it
ought to be set forth by n mnn about
whose mental balance there can be no
question. Perhaps the author wi.hcS
us to understand that evory Idealist is
regarded as a little insane bv his con-
mmWM.', Vle b00k- however, ox
biblts the idealistic theories in action.
,nli M2rkt.on p.aper', whcre n man can
make his chnrnitcrs do what he plenscs.
Tho book has been nttacsed In Eng-
.11 i.aa n , dcBCf'Ptlon of n revolution
which could not possibly take place.
.Mi. Berosford has written a preface
tor the American edition. In which he
explains that he agrees with his critics
i" "!", e did not attempt to
prophesy n revolution, ne wished to set
forth certain Irreconcilable differences
among people lu England. Yet one of
ii?.ii "I? Whic,,, l.lnppen ,n t,,e b00k
,nnnthirnflpp.';nel, '"'winter, several
months after it was written. The gen
eral transport strike schednled to come
on: failed because the more conserva-
nifr win. m of y,0 trnB8port workers
split with ( radicals, and just this
kind of a split happens in tho book. It
!i. boo,k,whIch every one interested in
tertainment would better let it alone.
Seventeenth Century Letters
Wore entertainment can be got from
memoirs nnd letters than from formal
histories, because tho memoirs nnd let
if. Jl ttJ? ln,niao and discloso sido lights
that the historian has to omit for lack
of space. Tho lettaru of John Chom
berlain. just published under the title
n .. Ja.cobnn Iyetter Writer" (E V
densod version edited by E. P. Stnt-
rvf'.MH1 1 t0 "1 rea,Jw a lot of "
formation about tie period which he
cannot get in other places. Mr. Stat
ham has arranged them in such a way
C.mur w r301nne;tIne explanotory ma
terial that fills out the story. Oham-
i.".!!? STaCCOunt of the behavior of
whn k n00n u0n on,e of tbp oecasions
feV Wau charc?1 with crookedness
might have been written about a pres-
Zid1y po""cian- Bacon, he soys,
kept to his house for n week and al
M1T8 .W.r t0Jd that he O'lld not
on disturheil 111 h ... ,, , . .:
St,,!:m.be5,'iln.;rites of Charles' I and
tit i: j n.u,ri?. anu Mlr waiter Ka
lelgh and Sir Edward Coke and Henrv
neVKnn.nn wC0es of 0,.her well-knowh
persons. He has much to say of the
Plague aod of other matters of contem
porary interest. It Is such gosKlpv
hittoryn., ,h' th "t in
Blue Laws
Giistavus Myers, author of the "His
tory of Tammany Hall" and other
books, has missed an opportunity to
,'t m."vlBSf, of JSfnnon-nt inter
r HS ' ' Olden Blue Laws" (the
ofCntr,U.ry,J?Oi',..purp0rt8 ,0 be a resume
of the restrict vo statutes of the early
Colonies but it In really an arraign
ment of the people who nre now en
gaged In urging stricter laws regulating
the observance of Sunday and the in
dulgence In various amusements. If he
rifS'Ji t0 "mu ,be. tl,tm' of such
things he could have done it much more
Hiibtly by describing the ancient laws
nnd by showing how they failed to work,
and have let the render make his own
application. The book will take its
place with controversial literaturo when
it might have been made of permanent
value. et one can find in it a lot of
"Mi"8. .ab,ou,t "Plosive legislation
which defeated its purpose.
Forward Humanity
Both those nf snnrm !!. -.i
those of littlo faith, thosa who see tho I
recent world cataclysm as a step for- I
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