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SENATOR CAPPER ON
THE AliKlLULlUKAL BLUL
P. lift,,, Agricultural Bloc" (Har
Jrt Ilrncc & Ce.). Senater Capper,
ygiM. Iu told the story of the
Jfine of the combination In Cen-
nf the Hcprcscntntlvps from the
JKSne HtntM nml of Hip conditions
'In the farmer, which impelled
?KSte ililn nrtltm. It In ii hook
emht te be r-ml by these who
,D.ar. L Mi.irOniK what is celnc en in
ri..V.ninilrv nt Hie present time.. J
MhliiB I" It '''" ,m" net '
frlnt 1 II"' , newspaper,, but the
! nf the IH'e am the bloc pre
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h rc MiliiTi.1 into ii -niKie Kmnn vei-
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f fnrm preilneri. following the war anil
Ae fcleh 1'n,il" "I'"' wh,rh r,n,,e ll
i-nnwihli' te J-'1'1 l'"'111 t market, nre
'ffin ni the limnr-dlnt.' cause of the
SS.It.rnl.inreM. nml iib the j.lMl.1 j.lMl.1
Jfflen for tin- ili-nniiitl that there be a
rsdicnl .hnnpe in tin' conduct of the
mn.pnrtnlinii sjstcms nn.l in the fu
riflllM for form rrwlllH. Senater Cnp
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lite n "i-ii'Viime. nml he offers plntisl
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EDEN PHILLPOTTS
Vilie ran beat the detective story
writers nt their own game
A PERPLEXING PLOT
,
Eden Phillpetts in His New Mys-!
tery Tale Deceives Its
Reader te the End
IMeu Phlllpettc, who is a novelist of
standing, has written a mere ingenious
detective story than the professional
writers of such tales usually turn out.
"The Ited Bedmaynes" (The Mac
millan Company) unrnvNp n' mystery
which keeps the reader In suspense from
the moment It Is presented tiptil the
MtrprNiii;; nnd unexpected denouement.
Yet vh?n the Mery is finished the reader
will vivnll thnt in its early pages the
clue te the solution in suggested. Mark
Prenden, the Kngllsh detective, who
fails in hi efforts te find an explana
tion for what has happened, is the man
who notes the clue, but he falls te per
ceive its significance. It is net until
Peter Gnnns, nu old Americnn detec
tive, nppenrn en the scene that the
real solution begins te take shape.
There is mere than n plot te the
btery. There is character in It nnd
frustrated romance, nnd the crime Is
done with n hkillful cunning thnt no
one but n novelist with n firin im
agination could Imve conceived. Of
cuurse, Mr. Phillpetts nscribes the cun
ning te his villain, but as tjie villain Is
n figment of the author's own brain, it
is the constructive dramatic genius of
the author thnt is responsible for it.
The story opens with the disappear-
iincr- of two men, one of whom is sus
pected of the murder of the ether. The
! beautiful wife of the supposed victim
calls in n detective spending Ills vaca
tion in the district, and asks him te
solve the mystery. The body of the
victim is net found nnd the alleged
murderer has dlsappenred. There are
two ether murders before the story
ends, and these who revel in gore will
find enettsb of it te sntisfy their son sen
guiunry taste. The book ends with a
full confesMon of the murderer written
out before his dentil, and explaining all
the things whIHi in the course of the
btery sremed inexplicable.
If Mr. Phillpetts cheeses te continue
writing mystery stories he can assure
hlmbclf of a multitude of readers.
IMiWTIGABILITY OF THE
HUMAN PREDICAMENT
MNs V. II. C, Jenes seems te be
convinced of what Henry .lames used
te call the immitlgahllity of the human
piedlenmimt. She has exhibited it in
"The Singing Captives" (Uenl & Live
rigli ). a short novel of distinguished
charaiter. Iter title was sugKChtcd by
a passage from Webster's "The White
Devil," which reads: "We think caged
birds sing, when, Indeed, they cry."
And her ntery is about a group of
charm ters, the most thoughtful of which
regard tliemylves its caged birds beat
ing their wings against Invisible bars
through which hey cannot escape.
The character- are ihe members of
the family of n successful Londen stock
broker whose speculations icsult dis
astrously. They were, all lluttering
about in discontent while they were
prosperous, because they could find no
satisfaction in life. When the crnsh
comes they have te "nke account of
stock te discover whether there were
any moral assets left. They de net
find very much because they had been
mere occupied with beating their wings
ngnlnst the Invisible bars than with the
cultivation of these spiritual qualities
without which life is u bleak tragedy.
There is little notion in the sterj, us it
It ociipled with mental states, but
Miss Jenes handles her subject with
great skill and jnslcht.
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"I'agc'3 Immortal letters . . . stnnd na thu bc.it
mid (ireatiat notional meniimsnf jar Jrftaiu's cleea
ami Britain's llvltifl." J. HT. LOB HTItAC'linV.
The Life and Letters
of Walter H. Page
By Burten J. Hcndrick
When the King of England was en rations
and the submarine was doing its werst:
"... I wonder If en your side nf tlie ocean you
nre llW'ig i'-t tlie rute of n century ii enr, tin we
ma litre.' IKie In bountiful IJngl.ind we are liv
ing en latlinis. I Mient night with the King a
fortnight age. aml no f,lve UH ""'J' fl much
bread, ene egg apiece and lumenude, We urn te
begin' bread tickets next week. All this Ih pir
fectly healthful nnd wholesome and an much as I
ever cat. Hut the hard part of It Is that H'h necoi, necei,
sary, We haven't morn than six weeks' feed
supply nnd the submarines sank eighty-eight ships
237,000 tens last week, These Kngllsli de net
publish thesa harrowing facts, and nobody knows
them but a few official people. . . ."
Ce., Garden City, N. Y.
'PETER'
E. F. Bensen's Latest Excursion
Inte the Mysteries That
Envelop Life
"Peter," by K. V. Ueiiwn (Geerge
H. Deran Cempnny), has n fair
nineunt of nntlen ns modern
society I
novels co. The here risks hia- life te
unve the heroine in the last chapter.
That's Hemetblng.
Perhnns it Is even better tbnn that.
The little bit of meloilrnren nt the end
of a seldom tense but heinutimcs nmus
ln nnd alwnvs interesting comedy is
net (Irnggeil Id by the heels j It in n
natural and ntcessury cllnuix te n soul
it ciumix i "
1 x- in it
and Nellie Hcaten
ml the money te,
drama.
Peter MninwnrlnK
who. if thev bed bad
which they had ncciistuinrd theinscUes,
might have married and become lev-
ei-n. content tliemsvlres with being very
geed puis find tell (0,ch ether, with
Heme degree of truth, thnt they are
net in love with each ether even a lit
tle bit. The truth in the declaration
rests en the fact thnt Nellie loved com
fort nnd Peter leei himself.
Hd Nellie miirrie.s n nice young man,
nn estimable wmng man, n correct
."miiih limit im iinrn iiui H'f(lvv.uiiM ,
cares for her conscientiously nml neiT
has reason te regret the step lie has
tnkehi-And Peter gives himself te Sylvjn
Wnrdeur (she is a dear!), who loves
him se much that she docs net step te
wonder if he loves her just that same
way. Which Is very frequently the
prologue te tragedy.
Put Peter is something mere than
charmingly vain and cleverly humor
eus; he has character nnd the reader is I
permitted te see the "just one damn
thing after another which is life" do de do
Telep It. Pcrhnps the one thing which
iM'St deserves tlie udjective is his father,
f loin whom he inherited nil his vanity.
And Peter nnd Sylvia live haiipllv
for months nnd months nnd months
until the rift In the lute which gives life
te fiction makes its inevitable blue
note. This (take it from Mr. Hensen)
makes it difficult for Sylvia te tell her
husband that she la about te become a
mother nnd he learns it casually from
the doctor she consulted. And en the
same day Nellie, his former llamc, tells
him in n matter of fact way that she
is Boen te bear her husband u child.
"It's really screamingly funny that
you should tell me that," he says, and
tells her why.
Then Nellie, who might easily have
fallen in love with Peter, feels the com- j
pnnienship of approaching motherhood
and rises te the occasion. She tells
him whern be is lacking In his relations
with Sylvia and, with that justly cele
brated womanly intuition presents
Sylvin's case. Sylvia, it appears, has
begun te renllze that Peter charmingly
accepts love rather than gives it. Hence
her reticence.
Se Peter gees home nnd he who
wants te hear something nnd Sylvia
who v, tints t0 tell him something put
obstacles in each ether's way and if
the house hadn't caught tire heaven
only knows hew they would have set
tled their difficulties.
Put, happily, there was something
wrong wjth ene of the chimneys and
Sylvia Is cut off by the flames and
Peter makes his way te her along a
very difficult and dangerous and nar
row stone cornice. And by the time
the firemen arrive they are ready te
die together and have settled all their
differences.
There you have tin; bare outline of a
story which Mr. Hensen tells delight
fully. If It doesn't stir your bleed
it, may at least tickle jour intelligence
nnd even stir your sensibilities. Fer
once we enn indorse the declaration en
n jacket: Mr. Hensen writes "with ex
quisite understanding."
! NATIONAL CAPITAL
I Shackleton's "Washington" Rich
j in Current Fact and His
j teiic Lere
' Rebert Shncklcten, who lias written
Interesting books, blending he guide
IhjeI; with the local history about Chi-
, cage and 15oten and our own city, of
1'enn, has added in time for holiday glv-
. ing "The Heek of Washington" (Penii
; I'ubllshing Company). Mr. Sh.iekleten,
who first came into piemiiience ns a
student of the sites nnd seine- of the
past in the scries of books en .he quest
of the colonial, in collaboration with his
wile, linb u .seeing eje and a deft touch
in writing. He seems te knew in
tuitively what the visitor te a city will
want te knew about It, And .ha charm
of his books is .that ene doesn't hnve te
go te the city te enjoy the books, since
they are readable ns well as Informa
tive. This volume en the National Capital
is well up te his standard. He has no
en. -una -dried sclieiue, eiiner. ir.it pre
ii. -ai
lelits
selits Ills tliemes in ni!ereting topical
fashion, with iiniiv lecollectiens of the
haunted past and maiij curious items,
as well ns matters et preseiu-uay nnnit
or custom. Among ether things, he has
straightened en. the fuct time the White
Heuse had an Irish architect. Hebnn,
and has resurrected a rare old print,
net befere printed, te show that the
structure is n reproduction, with certain
modifications, of the scat of .he ducal
I Fltzgvralds, Leinsicr Heuse. Much
historic lore about great figures of the
I mist In ue'ltics and society nnd diple-
'limey is roled, and the contemporary J
ell IS also Miewii in lirujiim- mum-
tive.
The book Is handsomely produced,
and the illustrations nre numerous and
appropriate, the drawings by Henry
lit, being especially captivating. There
are photographs of contemporary Wash
ington and also repinduetiens of rare
old prints te recall the atmosphere of
the past.
A PRACTICAL GUIDE
TO HOUSE FURNISHING
If the fiirnltuie manufacturers could
be converted, a process which has al
ready begun, the homes set up by the
veunger generation would be furnished
in such n way ns te be permanently
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satisfying. The rich can get chairs and
' tables anil bureaus nnd sideboards nf
geed design, but, unieiiuiiiui'iy much
of i he lower -nrlied furniture within
the menus of the newly married Is iicly. I
without grace of hue r iiiineiueiit et' '
decoration. Such henhs us l.dward
Stratton Hollewny's "The Practical
Heek of Furnishing the Kliiall IIouhe
and Apartment" (J. IL Lipplncett
Cempanv) will serve ns a guide te
theso who wish te learn the essentials
..c ...! nDn I,, furnlshlnc mill fe -Hi, If
the dllTe-ent styles of decoration that
have commended themselves te persons
of discrimination.
Mr, Hollewii) lias nss.-niineu ,t inns
el iniormatleii en nu
s'lnjcct which
10 CIS II gOSU'll ,1111
I aiT'inged i.i ,,
sj stemal Se muiitiei He net enl.v c
plaliu vvhat period furnishing menus,
but lie gives adviie en the huiuieuluus
arrangement of fu nil turn of different
periods, and of no period. He lias
produced a handbook that will be of
great value te the householder as well
as the professional decorator nnd
fiirniture dealer.
Sherman's Projected Boek
Anether book, by Smart P. Sherman,
will fellow his "Ainetlcans," which has
Jiibt been published by Charles Scrlb-
tier's Hens. The new volume, "The
Vfltlnnnl f!n,illll." Will IHIHI'lll' next
Jnrln. nnj .rill nlan bene tile SWIhnnr
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imprint .
ITALIAN VILLAS
Mr. Eberlein Writes Abe-ut
Them in a Way te Interest
Every One
Ne better specimens of publisher's
boekmnkin;: appear in America than
theso which ceme from the Washington
Square Press of the .1, II. I.ippincett ,
Company. An excellent example of '
work of this press is "Villas of Flor
ence nnd Tnwany." by Hnreld Den- '
aldsen Eberlein. It Is a large octave
volume with gilt top nnd untrlmmed
ledges, bound In blue buckram. The
I type is of generous size, beautifully
printed en pages with n
The appearance of tin; veh
,, flr'Ht mpIen ns j,
wnich ,lr8t stri.CH the nttc
lined en pages wirn a wine inni-gin.
lume deserves
the merit
entlen.
Te remove any misapprehension, it i
must be said that the contents justify '
the dress in which thpy have neon
clothed, Mr. Eberlein has put Inte the
book the results of long and careful
study of the villas of Florence nnd
Tusrnny, net the well-known &hew
places thnt every traveler 'ees, but
the smaller ones which are interesting
te the prosperous Amciirnu who thinks
of building hlni n country heue in the
Itnllan style, but Is net prepared In
erect a palace. The author bes net
contented himself with j general de
scription pf the lillas, but be lias re
produced photographs of each taken
from various angles, nnd he has given
ground plans of the buildings nnd tins
shown their relation te the surrounding
gardens. There are mere than '210
full-page Illustrations In black nnd
white, and a colored frontispiece. Pro Pre
ceding each group of illustrations is a
history of the villa, going back hundred
of years, for they are all ancient
structures. Seme of them nre still in
the possession of the families whose an
cesters built them. The book is full of
suggestions for the nrchitect ns well as
,or lne Househelder with Italian tastes
A TALE OF BRUTALITY
Goulding's "Fury" Deals With
the Lives of Rough Men
en Shipboard
Edmund Gouldine has found nn
nnnrenriatP title for his latest novel. '
"Fury" fDndd. Mead & Ce.). Fer I
it is n tale that Is peopled with furies;
(tin flllM nf Ida tiMtn,iiu lli,l .Inulwirl
northern seas; human furies who h'rate
their wrath in a never-ending struggle,
nnd ether furies who lurk m ports ready
te rob and, if need be, te slay.
The atmosphere of the story Is sodden.
The characters, with two or three
exceptions, arc but ene removed from
their cavemen ancestors, nnd knew no
Inw hut thnt of the teeth nnd claw. The
action, for the most part, passes en
heard it sailing ship of the old wind
jammci type, where the forced contact
of the members of the half-savnce creiv
leads te violent outbursts which are
settled by the arbitrament of the fist
or the knife. Over this motley rabble
presides n captain, brutalized by the
drink in which he seeks fergetfulness of
the wife whom his abuse forced te
leave him, nnd whose obsession Is some
day te overtake and kill the man with
whom she fled.
Out of this welter of savagery two
figures stand out sharply. One is thnt
of the cnptaln's only son, who has in
herited something of his mother's softer
character and still retains it despil -the
environment which has surrounded
him nil his life. The ether Is n girl,
n slavey In a Liverpool pothouse, but
a trim woman In all save birth and
education, of whom the boy Is enam
ored. Their courtship nnd marriage
nfter man vicissitudes, nnd the finding
by the bev of his long-lest mother
; form nbeut the only bright spots, in
the somber story.
The hook has. an interest that crln-
tlie render irem tlie opening
te the i
unni cnnpicr. ic is realistic, nut Its ,
realism is bald and drnb. The reac- ,
tien is depressing.
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LILY AND "THE WILDCAT"
N THEIR GALLOPIN' CUBES
Enjejnble aftermath of the war nre
Lily nnd her irrrpres-ihlc master. "The
Wildcat." When IIiu.li Wilev discev-
cred the Negro stevedore ns u fiction,0- "crry touch te, everyday things
possibility he added much te the gnyety
ei America ns wen as pain ing tlie care
free Negro ii.s he had net been done in
reens. New Lily nnd "The Wildcat"
are back in America, hnvlng adventures I
nnd tribulations galore.
Mnny of these escapades have alre.ndj j
appeared in the Satin day Evening Pest,
nnd Alfred A. Knopf. Inc., has rnllivted -one
section of adventures under the I
C. le of "Lily." '
' " "'"'; " -i"' i ami ins
. bleating tour-tooted an, I i-nn-ileveurlng j
'friend are found -uanded in San Fran-
1 i-isce. iiiieiii iii'n hnuim unci; i()
Memphis and te -'Cnp'n .ruck." Of
course, they make the guide, but enlv
nfter a series of events in which "Lndv
Luck" plas h 'i- uswil impnr nut part."
There Is real humor !n every line. A
delight of this bi'el; is that it is n
forerunner of ether adventures of the
wcll-nserted pair. And the fact there
is mere te come menus that "Lllj"
must be rend :e keep up with Vit'u
nnd his galloping imiIk --.
HEROINE TRIES ESCAPE
FROM LIFE'S TETHERS
Most of the male authors who at
tempt te wade through the vngniies
of the mind feminine frankly admit thev
have plunged beyond their depths and
seek the safety of a hanpv tiitiii,r n
quickly as possible, .leffery E. Jolfen
is in this category, in his "Escnpe"
(Seltzer) he has nuleaiered te picture
n woman fighting the conventional
tether, first of I'.iinih. then of rmnrhui
nnd then of material miccess, And
alter he has offered his character every
thing possible and she still iH discon
tented according te the Jcffery vle,w
tlie only answer Is luippv romance.
There is nothing especially ntriking in
"Escape. " It fails te strike any tin
usunl chord. It- chief ehuractc'r enn
hnidlv be accepiid as universal. Her
troubles are rial enough, but they aic
net uncommon for her sex. Her'wa. Her'wa.
ef "escape" arc natural enough, even
the hist one -marriage. As a narrative
it is veucrete and distinctly above the
average of novels of like texture nnd
subject matter.
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PEN IIECHT
Mho has written a group of
' nrttes of Chicago life
vlg-
MULTI-HUED CHICAGO
Ben Hecht Catches Celers
"One Thousand and One
Afternoons"
in
Scattered about the country arc ser-
ernl thousand Celer Cilumbuses i
seekers nfter thnt indescribable some-
thing illimitahlv human that underlies
I each hit of daily news, no matter hew
.trivial. These men technically
known ns city editors supervise the
I local news that finds Its way into
I newspapers. All call for "color." but i
i only few knew exactly what the term
menus. Fer peme it is n statistical
jectives. Fer example some snung re- I
porter will telephone In; "At 9:18 1
o'clock Mrs. Genevive Blank, twenty- j
four years old, married, of 1188 1
Flllnkus street, entered Roem 1108, ,
nty Halt, weeping bitterly. BhP was
attired in n black turban, two shoes,
two steckincs. a skirt "
"Great stuff." it is likely one of the
Celer Celumbuees will shout, "was she i
weeping loudly? GREAT I Give me
nil the details, lets et coieri ah
the names and addresses possible.
And then leans back in hia chair
chuckling nt the thought of "color"
collected.
Out in Chicago Ren Hecht was n
newspaperman net n reporter. This
was befere he wrote "Erik Deni" or
"fSnrirovles." Ren was contcrantueus
of edition "deadlines" or routine mat- j
ters of nnmes nnd addresses. He just
couldn't see himself as n compiler of
city directories.
Fer example ene day when supposed
te be writing something thrilling nbeut
paving blocks he wns found tearing his
hair because he couldn't find n second '
line te n verse he hed started. Rut '
he did have a faculty of asking about i
the rent human stories of everyday
happenings. In this respect he was
a human pourquei. Rut the seekers
after "color" let him go.
Finally he met a man who recognized
his sense of "color" values and seen
day after day began te appear little
silhouettes of everyday life. Picked
up In courts, en the curb, in the club
anywhere. Rut each was n enmee gem.
He didn't care that Mrs. Rlank was
the second cousin of a former house
sergeant, but he did want te find out
the real reason for her clothes line
squabble with Mrs. Adamovitz.
And new the things he found out
have been gathered together. They
are ns poignant bits of human life ns
eulil be found. Net nlwnys does the
Hecht tyro strlKe true. There are
f.nmn fnleft nntefl.
but the insight
uw... ....... .. . f
nlwnys Is there.
If each Celer Columbus buys a copy I
0f "One Thousand nnd One After- ,
nnnrik In Phlnnpn ." renfla it onrefiillv
nnd then orders his reporters te de the
same, there may be n sudden increase
of real "human interest" matter in
1 the news columns nid less statistical
I unimportance or sob sister inanities,
' An" t,icn Covlel nnd Mcdee, the pub-
'"-"hers can begin te supply copies te
, the thousands who can appreciate nn ;
HISTORICAL DATA ABOUT
PROGRESS OF THE RADIO!
With radio reviving in popular In
terest after its summer lull and appar
ently new settling Inte a steadj fei m
of popular entertainment, enthusiast'
will he glad te see that publishers ui
beginning te issue mere elaborately com
piled and ptiuted books en their fa
vorite subject. The man who attempts
; wnte a Imnk 'i this science faces
ii It it t l'i-k in the lii-st . He realizes the
miv wiilesnrend popular demand for
Instruction en hew te construct n com
plete sol out of eattnenl boxes nnd n'l
ether son of household junk from an
alarm clock te it vacuum cleaner, but
he also knows that tlis Meld has been i
covered ad nauseam by the scores of
volumes hastily thrown together te meu
the innti.ih'c market of a jear age.
The first of this season's output is .i
volume whose m.c of -H7 pages entitle
Ii almost te be called a "tome."
The "Reek of Iladle" I. Appleton &
Ce.) aims te sny at least something i
the entire field and for that very reason
perhaps will appeal mostly te these who
take their radio seriously as a science
anil net fe much for these who merely
wish te be entertained.,
The author, Charles William Maussig,
diMeie a great deal of his book te rec
ords of events nnd descriptions of sta
tions thnt will he hlstorieiillj valuable
I, i'ie next generation and that show
nu immense amount uf research work en
his account. Theie Is a f nre word by
..lames ('. Edgerteu, superintendent of ,
radio of the 1'nlted States Posteffico '
Department, and descriptions of t'c
(ievernment's activity in radio fill a
large part of the heavy volume.
The theoretical half of the book is
covered In much the timi way as h.is
been dune in numerous volumes befei"
llii-- and tin-in is liitle attempt made l.
',itl-fv tli: "hew te nnike" demand n.
,'e.l'i i
The Papers of Symonds
A new Siiibncr puhllcHtlnu is
the
"Panels nnd Correspondence of
Addington S.vuiends," whom
Jehn
Wult
Whitman called "semevvavs the
most
limlicative. iienetrntlng nnd significant
man et out
naners cover
time. '1 he letters im,l
the period from IStl.l te
lsjl.i. ill,
ti."ch i',
d' r 'ig i
I. rl .1. ..
! tliUIS et
time II
volume.
je.ir el Sv I'uunlis' deiith. The)
ii man) tuples (Jf interest
1 1-1 phase el 'he Victorian
i ii ; i,- I ill. iv ting recellcc-
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