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DECEMBER 17, 121
MELVILLE AND DAY, SERIOUS AND SATIRIC WRITERS
MMERICAN AUTHORS WITH
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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.
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Glbbs' best iverk will be an ever-eumpathette crony for
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(there are new millions of you mere money-getters for her)
lonely LADIES and
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(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
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"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-
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Ry Arthur O. Frtrl
If leir flke
A man who fights like an
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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!
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Leenard Merrick
writer of keen perception and under.
Gtandlng sympathy. Hl3 every sen
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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
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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
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VIRGINIA: THE OLD DOMINION
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Hlstorle Jltvr Jamf
By FRANK and CORTELLE
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' A lel.urely narrative pervadM ii the
in the t-lvil ar, in which lie was
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he wns only a trustee of his wealth. And ,h "la"m'"11 et n"-l scenery nnd eyei
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thP simnle tnedestv of n mnn 11110'"" Eaelc. With many Illustrations In roler
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