P'W'?i"jJI? w.-a wzzmv "... ) trsivf ,t.f" w- EVENING PUBLIC LEDGER PHILADELPHIA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1922 es: - i !' L m Pi"? IP &&? w. T, m 'Hi .very Illness Can leld te Autnsner- nj 7 .. --. r"-i- -".v::w -. .""'" v-jr ?. -"'iiuprru, rauir ana wiroeut errert i'i tu w iiin aiimiin L'f y, 5lnB,1mm",Ilni aiwmery or "induced Aula- f . l mollieu I In no ay dependent upon r, :vj'i --w-tin. ujr r.miie leup, or rr&nce i'fVfc v i "?rm"la, ei its uirerer dui can arna nd umiJ for fflf-cure by anrenel fc.'BS WinYS Si' && efjKSSf5 heaj recently liciled V Coue's method nr y wue a memeci nr euntris lleattv and V"uniri neauv and I-errt Curxen of Enf aam Bh; , ijrf fXW I c 5 ... . t f nit Amazing Sfc Method New at last in English "Self Maitery TnreuiRi Concleu A lit e a u KKfatlen. fwmue (.our a ettn beqkv haa finally ben Cen ha finally ben tranalali ,nte !'n!li nn t iah ApA a . 'Brat tlm. Thj hook m tf disc nrer JJ" ',?" 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It is astounding that an African, less thnn a generation from -;iva,ery, could have produced such a book. Ma ran has a sense of literary form. lie has the ability te use words with such skill as te produce In the mind of the reader a prcencelved effect "e writes with vigor and directum. He ujf,,. The dnuce is described with has a poetic imagination and an in- I smdpnt (lctali te cnab!(? thc readcr ,0 stinct for characterisatien which en- , understand its sensuality and all its ables him te make indh 'duals of the implications. The account of the beat men and women about whom he writer . n(f 0f tac tomtems te summon the And he has Felf-restraint eneush te villagers te the d.mce with the nnswor nnswer tell his story objectively and te let it ing beat from the neighboring hill. and carry its own moral without the inter- i Jectien of any preachments. But there is a moral xchivh ob trudes itself, and that i that the white race which it exploiting thv black face it; thc heart of Africa, can net safely ignore its obligations te its fellow human beings. SO FAK as I time that the knew this is the first he voice of the central African Negro has been heard in Ku rope nnd Amcr.ea In pretest against exploitation. The book is of immense political significance. The statesmen In Londen and Paris and Lisben, the apitals of the countries with Negro dependents In Africa, ought te read It anr ponder en all that is implied ard hinted in the moving tale. They mr. then rem te a better under Mand'.ng of the mind of the people with whom they have te deal. The may be a little mere humane in their treatment of them and tliey may then guide them with mere intelligence in the read tewnrd civilization. And when they realise that this black , rare ran produce n man who enn write ns Mnran writes thev may have a lit tle mere respect fur Its intellectual qunltties. i I he ( nn?rt nfrnr.iHaa tr . I trated bemuse the whites reenrded the , eTees as beats of burden rnther than os human beings. They were the same kind of atrocities that were per- petrated in the rubber regions of Se I'h America which shocked the world for a moment ami were then forgotten sine by a few persons who make it. thiir business te pretest ngalnst rruelty. If the trench Conge can produce one .tiurnn. it ran nrei uee nnntlier. ir tne c.onge .xegrees have such in tellectual cipac.ties as Maran exhibits they ran be rateed te a high decree of clvl!l7atlen from their present teml barbnrism. Herein Is thc great significnnce 0f Short Notes of Interesting New Roefe liyHEN Labrador finally is accorded ' lis piare in the sun as some (lav It undoubtedly will the- name of Wilfred ... ... - --.. . .. - 1. (.renfeli will shine high In i Its national res. ter. for e u r h Ilr GrenfeW D. ,, , , Boefcon (.renfeli nnd his de- Labrador voted wife have espoused the cnu-e of Labrador nnd if is much line te tnelr incessant preirhing nnd geed we'ks iliat the l.i'id hns made as mucli I regre-s as It hu. In "Labrador" Macmillnns hive ' retight up te date Dr (irenfcll's ,.nr- 'lr sterv of thnt bleak sea -swept land. bleak sea -swept land. mTTr. . . . nee eirept as romance 'yliL- latest volume in Scrlbner's Mod Med ping into nny unex- em Student's Library Is n selection ii is net a rema insists upon crc 1 'oiled renntrv L"r Grenfell is an en iliusiust en Labrador and ndmits it franklv. His book Is an attempt te ex plain just what, where nnd whv Lnii. rader is. Everv asis-ct of the land, ' geological, rucinl, geographic, serial. si leutitir, is taken up bv Dr. tirenfeli wmi' one elre mere exnerf In rer- tain lines The cwlegv Is tre.ued bv Itc'inald A Dalv : the Indians bv Wil. r.i. .1.- f.i. i tn ham H. Cabet, thc birds and flora by The volume centnlns three complete Charles W Townsend and E. 15 p!as They are "Plppa Passes," "A DMnbarre TSut the bulk of the recital Hlet in the 'Scutcheen" and "In'i Hal fails upon Dr. Crenfell. 'eenr " Among the slierter poems in- "Labrador" is a life story told by ''ided nre "The Lest Lender," "Hew Dr fJrcnfell with the earnestness of a 'lie; Rreught the Geed News Prem real life ktery. fihent te Alx." "Anv Wife te Any Hus- m i f i i k r, - -a i i.i. i ii i y nrniflanni" . i(i i i ntT- iir tin en iiii -- v. . .a y-w Tirktrs cit"tt t"h-t 11 .. ri ti n. i-. . vJ of Roelelogy In Iiayier Cnhersity. I'lf,')i, Abt egler, nnd "Phcidip- n ,i. Meney's btery of the love quest has written infermingly en "hoc lety nnd '""" i i a little Hindoe cirl. riui-unl In its Iti Problems" (Tliemai, hile the book Is Intended prlmarllv structure, engrossing in its incidents Y. Crewell Company) for me In the cliibsroem. It will be found ' and, above all, intriguing in Its fidelity Society His instructive book Is Problem nn introduction te the principles of sociology, it win ne teund velu- ably adapted betli for the general rend er and the college student. Prof. Dew presuppr.icH no tpeejel knowledge of the Hubject in his reader. He outlines step by r-tcp many of the pieblems and per plexities of modern social organization. Teplis of Immediate present-day im portance, nre discussed and the book Is thus freed from the merely academic. The book Is a practical and Illuminating survey of social couditieus. ROBERT FROTIIINCHAM hns added a fourth te the ner-leu nt nn. tholefciea which Houghten, Mifflin Cem 3hii n.ihii'he7i0Jne Cabc11, fM "PP'eprlatP, for Ca.bell Is WmJ?iB.".5ui,"!l.H1'S'?Mttally a. poet, although be write, mm. iiih nrsc. "aenca a .i i t r ,, ' -"- A,l rHt0tKy u im thnt s" wISSS efChalUngm "'" hnt Is j ustlfled the next two, bongs of De. The 'teurth la rZl Sf ?nnTlVn,e If U a enllfeH 5 Jnlf f TrMen Ij.r, c.olIectlen of poems n which men and worn- en hnve iMucd their challenge te life and death, and have exhibl'til a high courage In feclng whatever might reme. Seme of the poems are Chris- tian in spirit and ethers are pagan, but they are all brave nnd manly and V u,01 ""'' "Xri" ''".i " S r?vZ: It Is an onthelowr that ought te .be mere pnplnr than any e the ethers which Mr. Frethlngham ba. compiled. I j in neiunurcny uini me compiler ' has net found It necessary te go te 1 the famous poets for the pieces which he hna Incliideci. indeed, the names In .... . . ihe index of authors surest that he ?0 h"ttv0 " "p ' nTncn t We fi B".tettelii,;:fW.!l n'R .! Jan.?1Am.rJcnn literature1, however, for there ea P' lfeflena each from Rebert ""' .- j nm m- In Brewnlnsr. Tennjraen and Htevenaea, flva (re rrtdtrle Ftjtt There are d Water, this wer! of literary art. The men with umlcrstandlus will net tnlss It. .Ve one but a Conge Xcgre could have told the ttery se understand injl or tcith such sympathy. IT IS the story of Bateuala. n native chief, and his vain plot te revenge himself en a jeuth who was trying te (teal the love of his favorite wife. It opens with Unteuala In his hut waking In the morning and being waited en by his wife. And It ends In the same hut when he dies from wounds in the abdomen Inflicted by a tiger nt i the moment when he was hurling his ! FPcar at the head of the young man he was planning te lmadc his de- , uivmm cirviv, Between this opening and the drn- matic and horrible clee. Maran de scribe" man. nntle customs. He in dicate?; the hostility of the blacks te their white mastcra as well as their fear of them. The action of the story begins well nUin; In the narrative when. In the course et tne love iiance wnicn pre- ,, , nnnni i.lln, i tli ilrr n J son. the youth dances with the chief s its echo from valley te valley is fe realistic as te ghe n thrill eteu te the sophisticated. Anil thru we are told hew the chief and his rival after the climax of the les-c dance plot each etlier'a death. It Is customary for them te pretend great friendship for each ether, while they wait for a favorable opportunity. We are told hew the youth debates with himself whether he shall use poison or whether he Jinll lie in wait in the forest nnd slnv the chief dur ing the hunt in MK'h a way as te make It appenr that the death was ac cidental. The chief had decided en laving the youth during the hunt, and it was ju.t ns the tiger appeared that he lmrlis.1 his spear But the veu'h had thrown hiniMf te the earth when n warning cry indicated the tiger's nppreacn unu tne spear went ever his head. As already indicated, the beast rijijiru uien me noeoinen or me cniet in passing. But he could net be at tended te then. The hunt was of mere Importance. When the hunt was ever his follow ers returned te him anil carried him te his hut. The native medicament was used in vain. The commandant of the white army pest was asked te send a phvsirlan. but he said he did net mix- iiiiw miiny .cgrees ret tea te death. The book ends with the chief waking Irem l stupor te find his wife in the embraces of his rival nnd with the ' Pair fleeing in terror as he rises ever them with his dying strength only te fall dead ns their horrified screaming Is lebt in the forest te which they rushed in their guilty fright, The book contains only about "00 pages, but there is mere of the spirit of savage Africa in it thnn in mnnv n Hipper rnlnnie If I.. an answer in tne contemptuous remark of Henry M. Stanley about the persons who pro tested "when he shot holes through a few blacks te let light into the heart ei uaritest Alrlca onenc.K w. deuglas. three from Charles Wharten Sterk two eacn from Den Mnrnnln nrwl ri I- . 1 1 . ti i (. iimi till i l . .. -. . ...... .,....- (,i,n i.iit.lll 'W ilngtcm Kobinen. He Includes IMith vwinrtnti ;n poem en the death of IJoesp. volt, nm the Nev. Jehn White Chad- wiclr s It Slnseth I.mv In i'..-.. TI , ,, 4 , -... ,t. i.irij H'nrt. Among the ether poets repre- Rented are Matthew Arneld, Lmilv i?.rnte. imss Larman, Arthur Huirli dough Leuis,, Imogen Cuiney, Itich-'theery, and he insists that thev applv ?-! ,ii")'' v0'0"" Jeffersen, S. L both te commodities nnd subicrt te some en i . 'lL'l",Lc(lallienne, Llejd Mlf- . medllic.it li.im te cnpitnl. He rmtin mn. J.lzette Aoedworth Keese, nugene'ues' "The apply hardly les te -scrv-' hre' 1Ilara "'iter and Weids-i ices,' te the remuneration of labor of wertn' every kind nnd grade, l'eeple some- nn of "Poems and Plays" bv Rebert I ''inn u helief that In innttcrs concern cencern concern Rrewtiing. They have 1,1K conditions of work nnd relntiens been chosen nnd edited I between empleyes nnd management the Selection with notes bv Hewette Frem flrewniW-lwell Joyce, assistant I taKC" "He account, It is based en ele ele ele professer of Knglish ' I,1(,",nrv decency nnd common sense. In Diirtmnut i Pnlle Prof. .Terre hn wrliien nn nnn,in! tle and internretntive ess.sv no nn i. . . i . -. trodurtlen. Iiiikl, "My Tin-st Duchess." "The most satisfactory by these levers of no- p'rv who wish te have In convenient form thc most representative poems of en, or tne most tneugiittui poets of the ictenan era. Hindoe, passes her early life behind the screens, of her father's home. What M 'BRIDE hns reached "OaUantry" ' nhe knows of life comes from fitful In his publication in a uniform dances at the teeming street below, and revised edition of the cempletn i Wl,'n ",1( 'M mnrrled te the son of a works of .lumen Branch '" lirr fn,llPr s rllel','. Flll senndnl Cabeil. This collection ' ''"' ll,r "w rpll,lv,8 bv llC1' ingenu . B Cabell't of tales was first pub- eutness rather than by any wilful! do de "Gallantry"' Hfhed with lllustrn- s!r('- Then comes anffcapci and a tlens In 1007. It has shuttling back and forth en the wings since been revised and of Jf)VB , , . , In this new edition there is an nppre- I That fche flnds u ,n an "nttBual man dative introduction by Leuis Unter- npr and that trngedy is written en the mever. final pages with a deft although rather The selection of n neer. fn annmU. horrifying touch are things MInney tells , im.,. i i- " . : hi erunu. i.iiib vuiume ib a series or ! reraBDtlc Plsed0. ""ny f which weu?d 1 haTe jcnt themselves well te the poetic fernli Tbe flrBt enc for eIllmpe v,,Bl: ' n'" "0Ur'" whlch ' m of . best, W0"1,, hV0 mR(1e l the Snds of S norratlve poet a thrilling and moving dramntic recital. The story Ib told In pr0Ba wlth mere freedom than would ,,,,, becn pesalbie ln verM1 Qne can- netrMd it without wondering why the Telumc containing it did net attract merP attention wnen It first appeared I The8e vhe find Cabell's longer ste !? difflcut tercad will find this , $,'. i0 of short s odes mere cempi hcnslblc. Yet It may be doue , wbether these who de net yet appreci, TO- ted ret annrerlnfe inis rcmarBuoie mnmpuiater or Jing llsh would appreciate him even In email dedcs. People cither like him ven t UUOLOl A. UUlflC UILI1U1 lllll' II m..eh or RnA i,im intelrnhl 1 niwnva n nun ic uhich finrie ..... Intellectual delight in the kind of ar ur. tlHclsJ and mannered thin that ha wntta. -I v U ntAXCES KUMSEV 1ie makes a bid for popular fame with a second novel SOUND THE FOG HORN! "Ascent" Is nn Introspective Nevel Enveloped in Verbal Mists After n long literary silence follow ing the succes of her first novel. "Mr. Cushlng nnd Mile, du Chastcl," Mrs. Frances Uumsey again enters the lists this time with "Accent" (Bent & Liverlght). which briefly can be summed up as an Introspective novel burled in words. In her attempt te detail the mental turbulence of a willful, strong, willed American woman, Mrs. Ilumsey has Inundated her story, her characters and her aiguments in a flood of metaphys ical argument that leaves thc readcr floundering. Olive, the woman, Is raised by a doting grandfather in his atheistic pre dilections, and starts life embittered, selfish and ct seeking some spiritual selate whose existence she will net nd mit. A Cathel'c priest and a self sacrificing hii'.band are the most Im portant factors in her mental wander ings which end nt the goal of death. What climax, dramatically, there Is In the sterj comes as 011c is about te give herself te her lever. On the way te Paris she watches two compan ions who nre gazing out nt sea. Then, as Mrs Kuinsey says, "The complete vacultv of nn nlllnncc with no possible gift of participation, of its debasement nnd Its traffic, came te her. in the (ompirlsen. She hud a Midden Insup portable sense of the extradition of her self fiem nil which, in the evanescence I of each hour, she knew was durable." SLPPLY AND DEMAND AFFECT LABOR AS WELL AS CAPITAL The first volume in the series of Cambridge Fconeinic Handbooks, edited by J. M. Keynes and published in America by Harcourt, Brnce & Ce., is "Supply nnd Demand. " by IT. D. Hen Hen dereon, Cambridge I "ni verbify lecturer i.. ..A...t... i....r t- i. .:.... I n the introduction that the purpose of tne series is te convey te the ordinary render and te the uninitiated student Fome conception of the general prln ciples of thought which economists new apply te economic problems. Prof. Hendersen devotes mere thnn l."0 pages te the disctiHulen of the theory of supply and demand. What lie writes could be read with profit by every labor leader, every member of Cengresi nnd every member of a Stute Legislature, as well as by every one who Is at tempting In any way te influence pub lic opinion or te solve modern prob lems. He begins by formulating what he calls the tin re laws according te which supply and demand affect condi tions. The fir.st Is, when, nt the price liiling. demand exceeds supply, the price tends te rise, and that renvcrsrh , when thc supply C'xccc is thc ilemnnd, the prire tends te fall. The second is that a rise in prices tends, sooner or later. te decrease the demand and te Inciease tile supply, and, cemertely, a fall In ' nrione i.n.lc ,..m.. .. le,... ,r (., ( v s c fc"n'' I'Vi'in I w iiik.1 t ' II crease demand nnd te decrease sunnlv And the third Is thnt price fends te the eel nt which demand is e.ninl te uni,. t it i,tu iu ...... ,!,. ,.!, i-!'jri. ..II inn I - c I ' 111' , ' I ' till II - tiirv. but it is worth while restating It. The author declaies that these three laws .ire the cornerstone of economic I tines pretest warmly against the idea I of treat liu labor 'like a commodity.' li .i.:.. i.wii :K Avn-nnPAr. .. u mi- iiiiiiijiiiiuii i:Ai,i(-n-ti-i ill, jeiirc M'!ls",1""''s "l human nature should be "'" " "s -inieiiiiiea np'urs, it is directed against the fact that the re muner.itien of labor is controlled by i it,. i .. , r ......nt.. -..-1 i ...,. t i. i.. illic ll- ill 1II1J JU1U lli'iiilIIMI, 11 IN 'a incre ba.vinc at the moon, with sin gularly little provocation." 'POIGNANT PAGES FROM I HINDOO GIRL'S LOVE QUEST A poignant little page out of Indfan In translating the unfathomable) In - Ul'an mind all this can be said of "Makl." I Makl, the daughter of a high-caste about In an unforgettable manner. This Season's Best Seller THE f GLIMPSES OF THE MOON By EDITH WHARTON Fir Giant Editions In the First Menth of Publication D. 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