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Reviews of THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MAY ¥ New Books THE VOICE OF JERUS Israel Zangwill, author of “Dream- ers of the Ghetto,” etc. New York: The Macmillan Company. ALEM. By 1ESE essays come together in a body of protest tain notions and beliefs of " long standing that have pre- vailed in the world at large concern- ‘ng the racial content and purpose of th® Jewish people. Various points of provocation have given rise to these discussions—some savant's pub- lication, some layman's impression, the Jow's reaction to the war, the Wwar's reaction to the Jew, the Jew as patriot, humanitarian, original proponent of an ultimate world peace and universal brotherhood. ~ Mr. Zangwill, in the main, backs his ar- gument and rebuttals by the history of the Jews as this is set forth in the Bible epic of the race. This is the source from which he draws the fundamentals of Hebraic outlook and aim, fundamentals that are quite oth- erwise than the common conception of them, and ones which the author maintains have not fallen away from this people with the passage of time. sxpert in this ficld of investigation, Mr. Zangwill makes his argument of the convincing stripe. Moreover; he succeeds in convincing one that the average reader. while opening his mind 1n the study of other sources ot information, shuts it off in the study of the Bible and turns on. instead, hypnotizing relizious emotions and fervors. It is this—this historica living contemporaneous character of the Bible, in the hands of the author, that constitutes one of the chief val- ues of this volume, and its striking appeal as well. To be sure. the study { (258 in : is filled with eloquence and passion George H. Doran Company and general learning. One expects these from this quarter. It is a big and sonorous book. besides, reading like the psalms themselves when one breaks out, as he often does, to hear the majestic march of th passages of vindication and reinterpreta MYSTIC ISLES OF THE SOUTH| SEAS. By Frederick O'Brien, au-! thor of “White Sh: in the South Seas,” etc, York: The Century Company. See Tahiti and die—or something ke that—says the brood of modern! writers and painters—Gauguin, Maug- ham, Rupert Brooke, Safroni-Middle- ton, Frederick O'Brien and a host of others. Who started this exodus to the south seas, one does not know. but he do know that out of the movement, stories and sketches. poems and pictures, have tumbled lavishly into the open hands of af world of waiting stay-at-homes. The book in hand—a handsome and rich- Iy illustrated book—is Freder| O’'Brien's first record of the regi ings of that happy isle upon his eager mind. So. this is a fresh book, teem- ing with new impressions. keenly alive to the strange and beautiful na- tives, captivated by the physical love- liness of the island itself. The au- thor's record tallies with his daily ex- periences, so, just like life. one gets in a single chapter a little bit of many things—a glimpse of the sea, a touch of the landscape. a taste of the! fruits, a visit with Lovaina. the fas- einating hostess of the Tiare Hotel— by the way, Lovaina is one’s chief re- gre: at the distance and the lack of personal participation in this great adventure —a hint of history, a sketch of some captivating stranded derelict out of a remote civilization— and all of these handed over in the bright colors of the writer's own ar- dor. These young artists are bring- ing Tahiti pretty close, to the light of travelers who have to stay at home TALES OF A VANISHING RIVER. By | E: H. Reed, author of he Dune Country,” etc. Illustrated by the| author. New York: John Lane €ompany. The dune lands of Lake llichigan are the favorite stamping ground of this artist and author. More than one book drawn from this source is| the .evidence thereof. The one in hand covers the particular « of country through which the kakee river used to meander. before the modern day. when it was driven into the uses of a carrier of com- merce. In the opeming chapter Mr Reed reconstructs the Kankakee as 2 network of streams and marshy pools the sanctuary of an enormous wild life, birds and others of the lesser wild folks of stream and bog. From this beginning the tales widen | out into legends of the regiom, | legends that go back to Indian ori- gins. To these are added many a character sketoh holding to some degree of permamency this or that habitant of the older days in the dune land. Mr. Reed builds these book people to the life. lifting them over to the page with their interest- ing oddities full upon them. Many | of them have “sat” to this artist for their pictures, and here we not only hear them talk. but we see them. also “Swan Peterson.” “Musk- rat_Hyatt,” “Bill Sty and many another. A delightful book, by vir- tue of ijts mpathetic spirit and fine workmanship. A worth-while book, since it serves to preserve the form and essence of a region that is mov- fng on and out of one's reach. TAMARISK TOW) Smith, author of “Sussex Gorse, ete. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. This is the story of a man who fell in love with a dream. No, fc was not the dream of a woman. but of a town fnsteud, On the edge of the sea. where the tamarisks £tood, he saw a new Marlingate town—white, chaste, beautiful. And Edward Monypenny turned his life to the building of this dream into a fact. And after vears lovely Marlingate stood by the sea as ke had seen it in the clouds. And by this time Edward Monypenny was Marlingate and Marlingate was Ed- ward Monypenny. Then a woman eame and there rose the occasion for ehoice. Curiously enough, it was the woman who lost to her rival,ethe town. After more years the dream and the town both fell away—noth- ing. And the man set about cheap- ening the thing that, to his later con- elusion, had ruined his life, shutting it out from sweet and homey solace- ments. An odd theme for story. Just the dramatization of one of those eurfous elections that the human mind can never be trusted to resist. The work on this theme is masterly. It is a big story, big by virtue of the consistent artistry that has gone into it. Not a popular story—never that. One, hesides. that the reader grows impatient with since this man is so consistently himself in his obsession Yet, impatient though he may be. the reader who likes work of distinction and power will hold to this story of a dream in a kindiof fascination over fts revelation of one twist or turn in that most curious animal in the world—man. COMMON SENSE AND LABOR. By Samuel Crowther. New York: Dou- bleday, Page & Co This book lives up to its title. By virtue of such consistency It may safely be called one of the important studies for industrialists. on both sides of the fence to take into care- ful consideration. At bottom it is a record of actual industrial achieve- ment, the story of certain industries that, without any of the obstructions that labor is able to set up on the one hand and capltal on the other, have lived up to the full limit of pro- duction and distribution which con- stitute the essential design of all in- dustry. In telling these stories Mr. Crowther is at great pains to clear away a lot of underbrush of misap- prehension. He makes it clear that industry is not a sentimental matter, nor a_political one. nor a religious one. It may partake in certaim de- gree of elements of all of these, but it 18 just one kind of matter—business. To it he applies the accepted laws of business. By this process he makes & clean-cut exposition of what may logically be done in the relation of labor and capital. And. by the eon- crote demonstyation which this study in hard sense presents, he shows how 99 per cent of the difficulties that now pester industry may slide away Into disuse, to the advantage of both labor and capltal and to the Immense advantage of consumers of the prod- ucts of industry. THE LAW OF HEMLOCK MO ‘TAIN. By Hugh Lundsford. lllus- | The father never spoke of her save as - By Sheila Kaye- | trated by Douglas Dues. New York: W. J. Watt & Co. A dramatic opening engages one at once with the romance. A poker ime is in progress in the American officers’ headquarters at Manila. or its neighborhood. Long, steamy personal discomfort, loneliness, ickness and raw nerv, re sit- ting in, as well, at_the game, which ends in a_quarrél. That night one of the players is shot. Suspicion points to his card opponent. The young licutenant is. therefore, arre and tried. but, the evidence insuflicient. he is merely turned out of the Army un- der a dishonorable discharge. Friend less, he. in pursuit of a place and living, finds himself in the moun- tains of Kentucky. From here on the romance is thit of the mountain- s as these touch upon the life of is disgraced outcast. Around the companionship that develops here b OT==TTjic outsider and the nativ ithe author spreads a very Knowing picture of this region and of the character of the people belonging to it. In an intimate familiarity he por- trays this marooned nth cen- tury existence and along with this vivid picture there goes i most sym- pathetic interpretation of the feel- ngs and outlook of these remote | folks of the mountains. A love to be sure. emerges from the ¢ run of events. with an uncommon fine heroine of nati it. This is a loc; ready been work worked-—by the novelist. He that [it may, Mr. Lundsford has achieved |a good story—a consistent, colorful, dramatic story, ed upon the char- acter and cu of the mountain- eers of Kentucky. SPRING SHALL PLANT. By Beatrice Harraden, author of “Ships That Pass in the Night,” etc. New Yor! This sounding title covers about ten years in the life of a bad little mirl. That is to say, the child was born shrew, a termagant, an imp. Unfo! tunately, besides, she knew more than the rest of the family put togethe “that damned child.” while the little brothers and sisters lived in steady fear of her tyrannies. And she had such a good ‘time at her deviltrie One likes her in spite of himself, for she is loval, fearless, truthful. After a riot of naughtiness the author leaves her. still a little girl, with the I promise of musical genius to compen- rate for her many and manifest wick- ednesses. The titie of this tale, taken from Browning. in its completeness is “Spring Shall Plant. and Autumn Gar- ner to the End of Time." a prophecy that projects this heroine, in the fu- ture, as smashing her violin over the head of any one that chances to cross her will. ~Perversity is captivating, but, in a solid block, it begi to par- take of the prosy quality of mere zoodness. Even wickedness loses its lure by too close an acquaintance. SIX_SECONDS OF DARKNESS. By Octavus _Roy Cohen, author of “Gray Dusk,” etc. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. & Since this is a detective story, it opens with a murder. There appears to be no way of getting around this point, however. the adventure in hand takes a new turn. For within a short time after the discovery of the mur- dered man three people present them- selves in succession at police head- quarters, each to give himself up as the one who did for the unfortunate victim. The work of the familiar super-detective is, therefore, one of elimination. This takes on many in- teresting complications from ~ the stubborn insistence of each of the three that he, for good and substan- tial personal reasons, did murder Ed- ward Hamilton. The invention cen- tering upon these separate claims has originality and substance. It holds the reader to a keen level of interest, because, you see, none of the three who claimed eriminality in the case really did the deed, and this fact the author holds in suspense to exactly the right moment for effective re- lease. BOOKS RECEIVED. THE EMPEROR JONES—DIFF’'RENT THE STRAW; Three Plays. By Eu- gene G. O'Neill. New York: Boni & Liveright. K A SOUL’S FARING. By Muriel Strode. New Yorke Boni & Liveright. BASKET BALL; A Handbook for Coaches and Players. By Charles Digby Wardlaw, A. B., and White- law Reid Morrison, A. M., M. D % Williams, A. M., M. D. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. HOPE FARM NOTES. By Herbert W. Collingwood. _Reprinted from the Rural New Yorker. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe. AVON’S HARVEST. By Edwin Ar- lington Robinson. New York: The Company. AVIOR; In Relation to Study of Educatios nd Ethical Problems. B: Paton, M. D., author of * in War and Peace.” New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. LIFE ETERNAL; Past, Present, Fu- ture. By Barthelemy Prosper fantin. ‘Translated by Fred Roth- vell. Chicago: Open Court Pub- lishing Company. THE PROVINCETOWN PLAYS. Edit- ed and selected by George Cram | foreword by Hutchins Hapgood. | ggoineinnati: Stewart & Kidd Coa SIX WHO PASS WHILE THE LEN- | TILS BOIL. By Stuart Walker, au- thor of “Portmanteau Plays” etc. Cincinnati: Stewart & Kidd Co. GH WAR TOWEACE; A Study War as an Incident ution of Soelety. By Albert G. Keller, professor of the science of society in Yale Univer- | sity. author of tion.” Revised edition. New York: | The Macmillan Compan DENMARK; A C D.. author of “The Land and the Soldier,” etc. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Howe TAWI TAWL By Louis Dodge. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. AMERICAN ECONOMIC LIFE; In Its Civie and Social Aspeets. Ry Hen- ry Reed Burch, Ph. D, o aithor of “American Social ~Protiems.” New York: The Macmillan Com- pany. DISCIPLINE AND THE DERELICT; B % n Series of Esxsays on Some Those 0 Tread the Green dean of men, University of Illin ew York: The Macmillan pany. —THE TEMPEST. New York: The Macmillan Company. By Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard. New York: The Macmillan Company. A BILL OF DIVORCEMENT; A Play. By Clemence Dane. New York: The Macmillan Company. HIGHLAND LIGHT; And Other . MIRACLES OF CH Sold at all News and particular beginning. ~ From _this | an_introduction by Jesse | Cook and Frank Shay. With al ocietal Evolu- | operntive Common- wealth. By Frederic C. Howe, Ph. | HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES. That Impelling Something SPIRIT POWER FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD A new book just out BY DR. DELMER EUGENE CROFT HOW TO COMMUNE WITH THE SPIRIT WORLD Gives You the Key to Supernatural Forces pan. 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STOKES COMPANY 443 4th Ave, New York SPIRIT POWER IN HEALING MIRACLES OF NEW THOUGHT MIRACLES OF THE ROSARY RISTIAN SCIENCE Book Stands, 35 cents per copy, or 3 copies for $1.00, or by mail, postpaid, send direct to Dr. Delmer E. Croft, New Haven, Cdnn. appointed to ascertain the cost of a|former buglers of the old 3a District | ing Tue rs and to report at the next | of Columbia Infantry. will pay hom- of five cligibl The question of holding a|age at the grave of one of their! received basket picnic will be discussed at the next meeting, which will be held Sat- urday, June 4, at the hall. | set of colo VETERANS OF GREAT WAR A Column Devoted to the Interests of the Men Who Defended the Nation on Land and Sea. Takoma_Post, Foreign Wars, has arranged a min-|Corps discus: strel and vaudeville show to be given | sion. The associ purchase a in the hos- |nients are be of this coun ay night, which Stubbs, e told the members that Mr. o *ost, No. 12. American Le- 1 had officiated with @ Sneniglor, ook % Maotan wWash ion, a member of George Washing- orzanization }ton national cemete: The post will end members present on that occa meeting of the post is to be | Thursday evening at the 3 tional Guard armory for the purpose | KTave of Fuckes—one of organizing members into a march- | Brown's eTorts 1iged the local organi: committee which position. He ihers have - other chap- a hizh mark ters to endeavor to reach. ve a report for which showed al commiittee A committee b ed to make arrangements for r ) n ing the body of Lieut. Henry C. Spen- | (0TPS and by the Boy its arriv | Definite_date of arrival has not been | announced, but it will be in the near | X Lieut. Spengler volunteered | N the border, will have charge of for service position w resignation of thanks for A meeting of Post, No. 1, the 4 held Tuesday, May 17, at § at Community 918 10th street northwe souvenir committes The American Legion is determined | $5Cretary. to make a fight in the Sixty-seventh Congress to obtain vocational educa. tion for widows and orphans of men in_France, according to John Thomas Ta legion’s national legislative commit- | can Legion and seventy-three units | tional secretary of | Greorgetown. Vbcational education for widows | during the week ended April 29, na- orphan; overseas daring the provided in the Kenyon bill,| jzed, with Wisconsin second and Iow passed by the Senate at the last ses” | third, Kansas led with ten units of ng by Representative Fes Ohio, in the House did not pas: was favorably reported by the House Equality-Walte H mmittee on education, with, how- | Veterans of Foreign Wars, have elect. | provi: H for widows and orpha | stricken out. Senator Kenyon has re { introduced his bill, with ‘the widow | partment officers. At the next meet- | | to Washington from Columbu: Walker Colston the “dugout,” 1004 clapter went on record as be- newspapers of publishing Representative Tennessee, who promi his activiti d to continue behalf of the ional Record. other meeting of the in the Conzre Old Ballads in Prose. Thompson. ndance at| ing the Kenyon bill. and Curtiss Wilton have been added | Tolstoi for the Young. Prince and the Pauper. Grit a-Plent the G. A. R. and other veteran organizations are { | holding Memorial day ceremonies at | Arlington National Cemetery May 30.| National Capital Post, snia submit- the committee Imot-Buxton White Indian B to order one A 1921—PART 1. sday buddies who has gone “w meeting held last Monday evening in! received the National Guard Arv — cers and members of the 3d Distréct the publi No. 350, Veterans of |of Columbia Infantry Veteran Drum “dr: 3 plans for this occa- | unanis tion plans to hoid day committ Tuesday night at the Takoma parish|these ceremonics every year at Ar- rangements The proceeds are to be used 1o | lington. This year will be the second |comy stand of colors. Arrange-|annual pilgrimage. Bugler Charles notic ng completed for a shad | A. Fuckes, formerly of Com of assembly take in the near futfre | was Kkilled while the regimen Staty : — | stationed at Fort Myer. Va. in 1 will open June last meeting of Henry C.|He was the first bugler of the regi- ing the en ment to give h 1 for his country. Chief Robe Frederick Fagen of Company B was® will be the only bugler to be killed in action. deiczat delivered an address rela- . d. el s heid e tive to the participation of the Arher-|he paving the supreme sacrifice at was (el Legion in exercises at Arling- | {hateau Thierry. —Fasen A P Memorial day, | “OVer there Tt is expected that his|Jaco avor 1o have ali|body will be brought back to these il razier cion. A|United States for burial in Arling- [Joseph B M ton, James 1 Two wreaths will be placed on the |John J W memory of and the other for Fagen 8 will be sounded over the grave Seventy-five formatios | Fucke | T: adies’ auxiliar of the post of ckes by one of the buslers who a card party Wednesday, at|Served on the Mexican ok at the Carroll Institute|1916 with him. The oid ries s been appoint- ive by the present National Guard Dru Scout Drum | {Corps will be augmented for,the | Corp Sergt. Bugler Henry Loveless. who | was in command of the drum cor 1in th s country. | At the outbreak of thelthe plans. Buglers who will partici- in the ceremonies will be Sillers, Watson, Groves, Smith. Clark, Ber- linsky, Dyer Tom Murr Kieny Ben Tillman, Ashley Gould Duvall, Hughes, ngham and Horn Sergt. Loveless is chairman of the as- ociation, First Eergt. Duvall, assi ant, and Lieut. Stephen F. Tillman, All former buglers of the 3d_are urged to attepd the meeting called for tomorrow evening at the armory. eorge Washington merican Legion, will ervice hall, lor, vice chairman of the| Twenty-seven posts of the Ameri- of its Women's Auxiliary were formed of all e service m tional headquarters reports. w ar | ington led the states in pasts orj The same bill, in-{ the auxiliar: s _of | Minnesota. but followed by Iowa and | eed Post. No. 284, on for vocational | ed ten delegates to represent the post s|in the coming department encamp- ment foy the purpose of electing de- orphan education feature in- | ing ot the 'post ten alternate dele- ||/ rheumatism cluded: the American Legion is back- | gates will be selected. W. A. Moore datich, to the membership committee and Mr. Wilton has opened an office at | 928 9th street northwest. | 0. 127, Vet- | f District veterans. all*erans of Foreign Wars, at its meet- clected a class lications " AU a | recrnits. Reports of committees were ry the offi A resolution favoring publishing in press of the nan dodgers” announced d. and members will s to the time and place Encampment Commander Per cent of requests for zation claims nt: retat ¥ bonds and nt each: miscellancous | 0'd-Fashioned Herb Remedies| Bludtone The Herb fs & vegetable product has Do bad effect upon the system the cause of most dis. eases. Bludione eliminates this condition, ifying the blood and tending to relieve M. 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