rSn .'''X, Vr i -'r f- tf ' 4W t ' - -" Af . i 1 J "' , Y J "' J.,,' ( . tl r ' VV1 ' '.'I'd' . . .uT- i ViT .tf'n - '- , . j. l a 4 f 1 f i h I i. I 'U ,-. ! . MtAMMMliBattMBttMIlM EVENING PTJBLtO LEDGElfc-JPHIKABELPHIA, feATtJBDAy, . ; v DECEMBER 17, 121 MELVILLE AND DAY, SERIOUS AND SATIRIC WRITERS MMERICAN AUTHORS WITH '3 t S A SPIRITUAL CONTENT -flftlville nntl "Meby-nick" ',JSlT 18' dmlb,ful lf tl,c n5'stcrr et llcr" Xftss- man Melville wilt ever be sntisfne- .erlly explained. A descendant et two f the best families In America ene t them illstlnetililictl lie went te ict iTit tlic ncc of seventeen, mid then after S2n experience nt tenclilng fclioel, tools "Ship in n whaling vessel bound for the KSeuth Seas, deserted the ship became of j3lie cruelty of the officers, lived K-vcrnl Wtmenths with cnnnibnls en mi Island, Tturncd home, wrote some ureal books vrnbeut the sea and the Seuth Hen Is Jlands. and nt the ngc of thirty-three or LiilitrcabeiltH. sank Inte such deep oblivion jthat when he died in New Yerk In 1801. 'rah world win surprised te learn that he zzhnil survived se long. had a fine mind" which he consciously set himself te enrich "by the persistent study of 'tlic beat that is known mid thought in the world. " Mr. Day re marks that this was deadening, for 'gentlemen who teach themselves jmt hew and what te appreciate take half the vitality out of their appreciation thereafter. They go out mid collect all the best' and bring it carefully home, and faithfully pour it down their threats and get drunk? Ne! It lese llhA lift and intoxicntlen, taken like that." The proper way, though Mr. Day doe net say se, li te fellow the practice of the discreet reviewer of books, who gees about tasting the nrlnus brews In the hope thai he mav find hemethlnc with mere than one half of 1 per cent spiritual content tii7i 'A VMrllP MaVlnernnl ' Mien exhilarating himself en It. Sshe; , "7,n,,n ? Cln ' ; cmnnr) i "The CW's Nest" h bendy Muff. All P-Mygtlc" (CJcerge H. Doren Company). . Hieen net wholly explnlu it. Hayinenu Jf, Weaver, who has written tlic peel, notes the phenomenon when he Fays. "His funeral was attended by his wife and hi" t-e daughters all of his liu- ?TZ 'TS, X. .1 "rf. , and.'eung te practice wilt denounce him P- -:.-.!. ti. . ,vl,e had created " wicked, te be shunned as one weuiii J lilVIIMDi "' ' . . .1 .1 1 .1 . .,.!,... II. .4 tnm rail Vl i s that innumerable company ter whom the flubdub of the commonplace is sacred will find Mr. Day wicked merely be cause he snys something different. And these who arc wedded te the old maxims which every one repeats and urges the FADE-AWAY OF KAlStiR Lady Nerah Bentinch's Beoh Might Have Been a ClesC'Up When the late J. P. Morgan was nllvc he wa known ns the terror of newspapermen. An interview with him in these days wns ncceptrd as mi Im possibility. One day n Chicago news paper appeared with what nppeared en the surface te be a two-column Inter view with the financier. Next day the earthquake! The magnnte fumed end raged. Nary nn Interview had he given. The owners must retract. Then came n polite note from the owners of the CHINESE SILHOUETTES "Jade" Is a Collection of Well-Told Short Stories These who knew Hugh Wlcy only by his keenly observed mid rcllshlngly nnr rated stories of the Afre-Americans and their natlennl game will have a surprise In his new book. "Jade" (Alfred A. Knopf Company) is far remote from "I-ady Luck." T'nder the titles of "Jade," "Junk," "Jess," "Depe." etc., the author has penned a remarkable series of silhouettes of Chinese life many of them Btartlng In the Orient and winding up in the Chinatown of San Francisce. The motivation in nearly nil of them Is thnt of vendetta or vengeance, and there Is, blended with their illusive at RAYMOND M. WEAVER Who wns nsUcd te write nn article en Herman Melville mid then dug out enough material te make n book of it In his attitude toward the repressive present history of the Ilentlnck family in Helland or England the work will be of Interest. If Lady Nerah, during her stay at private citizen. He had In enriy man- m- is unmm-i mm i-uihumimik - ginsen was in nearty R.vmpamy wiincvery i Amrrengen, nau nrcess te the ex- i,nl nmvml that lf indeed hi soul lant, sparkling with nn ciierve'ceiu opponent of demagogy and thnt nc nl- Wnlscr. Hhc carefully bows te the prl- niMXl nriljtll l"l " ' " ,' " , ... . f I ...l l...l.(.lt ...ll. ...l.r.l. -nvu l..ulu,.l l.n ,., ,,- ,,,n. 1,n..n ..nnv .I,.. n r,,1,.- ...,l .!..- missed its haven mat ins imsui. i uuiiuii imu uuuuuuk uvl iiu .....i,- -...,(. i.t.n,,., umi ...v.v ....... ..,,. ...v... .,,- .... ....,, it. nri 'i urn:,n u iripni r. I up iiiuii m n. .... - ... .... .. it . in nn iiiiiitiuu iutii ar rinv .iii n nSsnire and elderly '" bootleg whisky. Hut ter mi inn i(,L.u.ltIm. (,f Tprp, vpnrs Mpjnr Hlg R private citizen. He had in enrly man- he is a harmless and comforting vtimii- I gns(in was in hearty sympathy with every paper calling Mr. Morgan's attention tmesphcrc, charm of style nnd surety of te the fnct thnt In the entire two cel- I form, something of the nrnbesque nnd umns lie had only been quoted ns say the. terrible. What nttracts attention Ing. directly, "I won't sny a word." inrrcstingly in these masterly expositions Probably Lady Nernh ncntlnck. 0f the short story Is their obvious grasp whose husband is a nephew of the en an alien psychology nnd understand -V,0,'!!11. 1,cn,1,nc, wh whom ex-Knler inK 0f a philosophy distinctly nen-Occl-AJ llhelm took refuge in Helland when dental in Its calm and its fatalism. WnnHlMJ'Jw' ';tT"r ,,";!,r,,.Pf tt'1"' Mr. Wiley joins, by right of these snme ml IiT t 'J1"118, l Arnily melded and finely told stories, the some time she. tee, wns n guest at k f pi,,,P itniiev Fcrnnld Ab- In" FTlle""" fnee I'J H ' AchmH and ' TheLilurke.all .S ..i "tK ' I?0irnn ?0,) f whom have wen repute for their imniVninlS?, "r character stories of Chinese wi" Jh,lSnMi nl ,iunnnnifntll0nt YfJl'lf" ' ''otiie In Canten or Pckln, or l-1 .,h"e1U "nPP"intmprit, but lni,er ,,triinKcly influencing environ- '"'."; ii..".'":. .V.'ni"?! c,Jr,i. " "'ments in Pell street or Limcheusc. -; i tJ least be an utter wrecic. "au tainc is some vitality, and ns Snatrenncc. he had once written, 'let me Colonel McCain would u? a "X i 8 J yn - , welcome, ns been the provocation for the repressive tav as the lnwH tni'' were doing mere narin tnan .1.1-....- .,. i. i.. . ...... i.mi K"i. iii" aiiniiiieu inni iniuij ui me nun tuuuuH ui u ijri'ui rui-R in u ,.. ,i...w. , In-.. ,. i - WHERE THE DOTERIL CRIES One of the many Illustrations that Clarence Day, Jr.. has drawn for "The Crew's Nest Merley nnfholegiztng te their taste In his collections of "Modern Essnvs" iHarceurt, Ilrace & Ce.), Mr. Merley lias written 1111 Introduction In the form 1 of an essay en the essay which will net , suffer by comparison with nnv ether essay in the volume. And his remark I "that the tirrfi-ctlnn nf the familiar fti . t.. i. !. ilrnu'ti fop essnv is ii rrn;.pinnq rrvplntinn of self &. "The Crew's Nest" ' done inadvertently" is nn admirable 11- ti ,. , .,,,.. lustratien of the way i,ucli a thing gbe infamous'.' Rut as if i centcmrt ,lleu(j ,)(J Rni(1 ercn for the preference, he had during 'mere are thirty-three essays in the the last half of his life cruised off and volume, almost evenly divided between Saway uoen feundlcss nnd uncharted Ilritish nnd American writers. The in- . nnri in the end he sank dewni troductery chnpter of Jehn Muey's "The waters, fina in the cnu ne gpirlt f AmcriPnn MtcratrCl- s KVen !T Inte death, without a ripple or rcnn beginning. 'Oh, what a quenchless feud is this iuatTicn W11nm Acn WhUpS K Time hath with the sons et .Men. 'story of the death and burlnl of his 2: Yet the first two books of this! man daughter Mary, printed originally ns a ?who died In obscurity were the first piece of news in the Emperia Gazette, men hnd grown up without a proper appreciation of their moral responsi bilities, such nn npprcclatlen ns he fnrtuna tnli. lin.1 nlcnf.)wii1 fenm flin nr. Modern E.ssas nmple nnd instruction of bis parents. ONE should cheese one" antholegibt, He regretted the effect of the cxhlbl cxhlbl te paraphrase Goldsmith, as one J tien of their nrregance and brutal self self cheeses one's novelist or historian, for ' M? en l'ejmlar sentiment. One gets qualities that match with one's desires ' oil this revealed mid discussed in Pro Pre nt the moment. There will be renders, fesser Perry s book as well as a rcveln- therefore, who will find Christopher "l ic opinions , n ,cnr uuiimhk, vAirv.iii.iii.vu niiiil UL iiulilna Ull IIIU JU- Utlcal mid social problems of the last Eixty years. MORAL SOPHISTRIES te the divinity, even If faded, that doth hedge n king. Her only mention of having seen William nt rlesc rnngc is his nppcarence nt the marriage of his private secretary te the daughter of Graf llentinck. Her impressions of what the ex-Knlser thinks of the wnr and his part nre carefully shrouded In quotations from this snme secrctnry. However, the volume is well filled with letters written nn various sub jects by earlier ltcntincks running ns far back ns the seventeenth century. Alse it is well supplied with photo graphs of Hcntlncks. AT THE FREE LIBRARY nooks iiddM te Ihp Tree I.lbrarv, Thlr-. tnth nnd I.ecusl utreets. durlne the week emllnB December 13i Miscellaneous H. IC "Women Professional iWboeks by an American, if net the first by any one, te he puDiisiiee B.i.i... -neeuslv in Londen and New erk. i hey gaTe him instnnt fame, nnd when Meby Dick nppeared in ISfil ,he was acclaimed one 01 wi: sit i..... ilg- which is one of the most moving thlngH that has been written in recent years. It H fortunate that it has been thus preserved In permanent form for re reading by these who wish te knew hew and whnt n mnn can be htlrred te write when under the stress of strong eme Memerial te Abbey Whnt is believed by the publishers te be ene of the most distinguished cx nmplcH of boekmnklng ever Issued is the biography, "Edwin Austin Abbey. It. A.," which litis just been published in two volumes by Charles Pcrlbner's Sens. The life story of this great American ..!. I.-. I..,-- .....1,... 1... T.i S' 1 ..-... which in Itself is t.-iifiicient guniant"e of . Trr-rTTrr n high literary quality. A notable fen- tutc of the publication is its mere tlinn "00 photogravures, hnlf-tone and line1 nlntes venrnQPnlillT Ihn lipil rnniiiilnp- tlnnu nftf,l,,n1,ln ,.f Al.l..u in,nrinn A nevv edition of th s "most drnmatie nriienl "' miiiuuiuiv, v. uk:(T tj iii4irt nun for werns in every genre pen aim nut. "The Lark,'' by Dana Burnet, Is an Unusual Sex Nevel rann Burnet has gene Semcreet Maugham one better in the mutter of mernl spehistrles. In "The Circle," Maugham lets one of his characters ex cuse her moral derelictions by the phi losophy that she always was ".splritu ".splritu ellv faithful" te her paramour. In "The I.nrk" fT.lttliv Itrmvn ,fe I '.a. 1. the heroine closes thn lnat chapter by charcenl, water-color, pastel nnd oil. ' giving expression te the sentiments of The selection of the meie important of Adim workers " Annetln, V. A "Electrical Mnchlnery." Aswllh, C. It., 1t baron "Industrial rrnblems nnd Dlnputes " IlnlnM II. n. "Handbook of Laboratory Gln.-hlewlnc." rhllds. V. M "HnllilnvK In Tents.' Cnhen. H. I-. "One-act I'lays by Modern Auther " llnmllten. .1. M "Men I Have Painted" MnnlBemerv. II. It "Audltlnc." 2 vels. Mulr. Kdwln "Wn Mederns." "Who's Who In the Natien's Capitel." Zanirwlll, Iuracl. "The Cockpit " Fiction niackwned. Algernon "Ve!ves of Ged jrd Other Key HlnrlK." Onlnns. Oliver. "Tower of Oblivion." Wiley, Hurih. "Jade and Other Stories " Wiley. Hush. "lidy Luck." Children's Beeks Gllrhrlst II. II. "Kit, Pat and a Few Dots " J I.amprev, I, "Days of the T)lrnvercr." I.oen, IT. W. van. "Ancient Man" and "Siery of Mankind " Perklnn. I. P "Puritan Twins." Wheeler. I'. Jl. "Ileuk of Cowboys. Laura Murdoch in "The P.aslest AVny. with the explanation that, regardless of her physical ml'-steps, she will remain faithful spirltunlly te her dead husbnnd. This philosophy, however, does net sum up "The Lnrk" by eny means urcs of the time. He was Intimate with tiens, he seeks te tell flic simple truth I It is merely incidental and serves te Hawthorne, end Mrs. nawiiienre nueui one wnein ne ievc(i nnu iesi. aiiii pive nn unusunl climax te an unusunl nwrstruck by the spirit that shone out then there nre Rebert C. Hellldny's story, well told. e? hls somber eve.. rhe Flrti Itenerf-r. ' Max Heorbehm s ..TlllJ jMrV.' is n fllllndllnK l,rugbt Of his seraDer cjes. . ! "A Clergyman." Stunrt P. Sherman's up In n cenvnnt by the Misters in Cuba. In the Intervening years He lias nan a "nmuPi miller." and many ethers en , She later becomes the nretece of n rich small but loyal following. And it was , a vnrlcty of topics, grave as life and these admirers who mnue n stir oueui ny as trlumplinnt (lrnth. The Sherman him in 1010 en the one hundredth nn- essay exhibits the professor of English ntversary et Ills birth. They had brought literature of the University of Illinois .bout aevival of Interest In , him one , - Snrm &! result of which Is Mr. Denver s blegra- '1)C ,ms ,cnrnei,-frum thc llutcrans thet phy, The book makes the met of the tll renBjcms 8lirlt ,.am,t be destroyed, meager material available. htle it "Destroy a man's faith in Ged," he is regretted thnt there wns net mere remarks, "anil he will worship hu rfntn nt hand, everv student of Ameri- iiinnity; destroy his faith in humnultv run liturntnri. nnd every one interested mid he will worship science; destrej his ed love or n newly dawning one i.. iL .: - e,l i.,,tlrlre fnltll in science mill he will WOl-sllle Out nf this trlnnvln Mr Tturtiet 1ms i.Vin.1 tn tin. nrnhlLMii cf life will be ,l'l"eU; cleatrey li- fnltb In himself unU . centrlvcil a situation that will please wind te the prebkm cf me win Dt. , hp w, wershl, iSmmlp, i,utler... Am the r(,nlKtSj blt whu.h ,,, h(m. revelntien et the literary mind et this brought forth annthemns net se manv period thc book will be invaluable te all yearn uge. who have net time te read nil the ether ' ' books from which thc essas hnve been these was made by Jehn S. Snrgent. It. A.. Abbey's friind nnd r-ompntriet. ' Abbey was born in Phllndelphln in ISO- ' and di:d in Enslnml nt the nstc of fifty nine years, with many projects iinfiil- I filled, but leavlns behind him nn ns- tenlshlne mass of work completed nnd a leputatien as ene of thc forcuieH pui.'it irs of his period. "Manslaughter" Popular Dedd. Mead & Ce. report that Alice Duer Miller's novel. "Mnnslnuehter." brother, slie. the innocent convent bnvl is already In Its fourth edition, nnd that girl, falls the victim te n si-nsueii" they are having difficulty in keeping up Cuban night nnd n speedy Yankee wooer. I with their orders. The brother gees te thc wnr carol- ' . : ing blithely and the elder brother wives the gill from the public's censure, at least, by n marriage of convenience. Then ponies the return of the de- spoiler the alternatives of a reawaken- nretece American, who attempts te further her musical gifts. Meeting his black sheep IN THE VANGUARD rr edition nf th "meat dramatic a Untvera.il Pcate ' by Katrina Trask Auther of "The Conquering Army" ll.nl silrrlnir pem "with prophetle vision new lielnit widely read throughout the country. "In the Vancuard" Is a masterpiece. Its ne.ii: 13 "On eaith. peace." Unity. Chicago. S1.00 Net At All Bookstores THE MACMILLAN CO. 61-06 Fifth Ave, N. Y. continuous Christmas dicer In "Beauty and NlchT for all ever seventeen. Given te htm te her you've Intro duced wtlp-tep friend rare enough te respond when needed. Glbbs' best iverk will be an ever-eumpathette crony for homeless husbands, lonely ladles and normal women. homeless HUSBANDS (there are new millions of you mere money-getters for her) lonely LADIES and (you, tee, single and married, we in the millions) normal WOMEN (hew many? in this new born cycle of Venus-Midas) ' if you want a Comrade, a Chum or a Husband! use eye, mind, tongue, and soul te get one like Nick. If successful, you shall possess the greatest of all male prizes a man who will protect you from himself. Father-trained youngsters of the Nick mould are as rare as the "stuttering woman" in "Keystones of Thought." Every man who loves or ever will love a woman MUST read "Beauty and Nick." Every woman, sin gle' or married, SHOULD read "Beauty and Nick." Every husband and every wife who f prefer a baby te a deg a home te a domestic kennel will SURELY read "Beauty and Nick." SIR PHILIP GIBBS' BEST WORK "BEAUTY and NICK" s If you want a friend, a pnj a WIFE! leek for one like the Lonely Lady in BEAUTY AND NICK. Such as she is rarely te be found in this the age of sex and shekels surely net in thc endless precession t of peppy-painted dames and damsels, young as youth, wrinkled as an O'Shanter witch ; all with skirts se tight as te make them geat-gaitcd; se short that these bogus beauties have turned the most beautiful Ave nue of the world into a mere leg !nne a free rival of the sash-clad ladies of a Broadway burlesque. Preachy? Net a single or married line of it. Edition after edition se quicklfi wld that ter nearly four weeks ice iccre unable te aupplu'a copy. jrnteful te lis author Seme regret may be fi-li tliiu .Mr. Weaver did net mak.i a greater effort te trace Melville's literary genealogy. There is internal evidence in Moby Meby Pick" that he we profoundly inilu eneed by Carlyle. II. T. C, who oc cupies the denk next te mine, said yes tcrday thnt "Meby-Dic-I." was the work of n Carlylean mystic ubeard a whaler, when I was remarking te him en the undoubted influence of the great Scot upon Melville, and he expicssed his urprlse that no w rlters en Melville had made a note of It. Te Ray that "Moby "Meby Dick" Is one of the greatest works of fiction ever produced in America is te taken O. AV I). iffif '& i Real American Majer Henry li. Hlgginceu nas known outside of Bosten chiefly ns the backer of the Itosten Symphony Or chestra. Hut there was a select public which was mere f nil v aware of his ar-. tivitlcs nnd t,aw in him the (lower of the American sp'uit. Thee who nre se for Movies of Jungle Life Charles Mayer, whose book, "Trap- i ping Wild Animals in Malay Jungles. " I was lecently published by Piiflleld & Ce.. starts In February for the Malay Peninsula with a party te hunt, trap and take moving pictures. tuiinte as te read the "Life and T.ctterJ nnt nnl' ,,-lwit la nr.tv ul.lnli, nrlniir. of HcnTV TCI IllSfcinSOIl. " (Atllllltlc ted. It is n book by a man 'who, as Monthly Press), w-hl.Oi IWesvnr llliss Clarence Day, Jr., of whom I hhall 2Boelts --w nun fc, Perrv, of Harvard University, has writ- I (Oirf ftf tlintf .iuiu niuwi,, .,,, .n ...i.. .i.i. ... V--..,, a. .. ... ,.. , , . -no ,,,, iui.v,Li tin , nut inn it:iiuwi-i j- mere i.r.-.T.ir.. ,ii, nns i i re,t8- u cnme(J frnm ,,. KpnS( f the comfortable cabin of the ship of life ' obligation te which Hlgglnsen referred nnd gene en deck and faced the luibu- n a letter written In 18.1 when lie lent sea. If Melville could have re- said: "I've inherited from both patent the belief that one cannot escape with honor from the duties of n citizen." He KING- of KEARSARGE Ry Arthur O. Frtrl If leir flke A man who fights like an nvcnRinjr fury te defend a woman A quaint old-fashioned g'ul, sweet" as the dainty pnnsy in the garden The wide vistas of the moun tains, the tnng of thc pines, the summer sun in the orchard, the white silence of winter in the forest Then this is the book for you! At all boehttor $2.00 The Penn Publishing Company Philadelphia AS CHRISTMAS GIFTS SEND THE NOVELS OF Leenard Merrick writer of keen perception and under. Gtandlng sympathy. Hl3 every sen t nee Is as perfect as a miniature. Cenrad in Quest of His Youth The Heuse of Lynch The Acter-Manager Thc Position of PcRg.v Harper Cynthia The Mnn Who Understood Women and Other Stene The Werldlings When Leve Flies Out of the Window A Chair en the Boulevard While Paris Laughed Each, SI. 90 Any bookstore can supply, or t net, thtv can be had from E. P. Dutten & Ce., G81 5th Av., N. Y. EAUTY and NICK $2.00 Net $2.10 Postpaid. At Bookstores or direct from THE DEVIN-ADAIR COMPANY, Publishers, 437 Fifth Ave, N. Y. malned en deck Instead of coin? below egaln and hiding in a stateroom, it could net have been snld of him thet'"he never shirked the.e duties. He served ripple rank down into death without a of renown. .Spirited Essays NOW for Clarence Daj . .Ir, book. "This Simian World, lished last jear, rrvealcd him satirist with a foundation of relid wis dom nnd en essayist with an erijinal manner. He could a.v the profoundest things in the airy manner of dinner ltle banter. Every one who read "This KImlan World." and the theinnds who didn't but wished they hnd, will wish te read his second book, "The Crew's J'est" (Alfrpd A. Kneffi. It is a col lection of essays with less connection than these in the previous volume. They deal with all sorts of subjects, from why cows are melancholy te a description of the work of the League for Improv ing the Lives of the Itlch, with n iccekI of typical cases thnt have been re lieved. In one of the essays he has some thing te say of Matthew Arneld, "he The "See America First" Series VIRGINIA: THE OLD DOMINION As Seen from Its Colonial Wnterwsv th Hlstorle Jltvr Jamf By FRANK and CORTELLE HUTCHINS ' A lel.urely narrative pervadM ii the in the t-lvil ar, in which lie was wounded. When he btsan te accumulate a fortune he devoted nart of Its incemi te the gHiiernl god en the theory that tlu helldnv spirit, tefiectinn mind ie te he wns only a trustee of his wealth. And ,h "la"m'"11 et n"-l scenery nnd eyei he did it nil without ostentation, butepen t0 ,he clmrm et "' scenes." Droeh-u-ith thP simnle tnedestv of n mnn 11110'"" Eaelc. 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