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HISTORY OF THE NEW YORK ‘TIMES; 1851-1921. By Elmer Davis. Illustrated. New York: The New York Times. JOGRAPHIC in effect rather than historic, is this story of the New York Times. It would be that way. A newspaper is %0 constant, so intimate, 50 innumera- ble in its contacts that no other pub- lic agency becomes so much a family matter as does this one. Not the church, not the school. One chooses * . his paper and immediately thersafter ar 1 e b throws himself into its fortunes, proud of its excellence, its tone, its policy, its circulation. He becomes a champion in its behalf. So, one reads this story of a great paper in the spirit that he reads the life of one of £ the great among his own country- 4 men. He follows the career of the paper from its beginnings away back in 1851, when were brewing the trou- that culminated in the great s of our national history. Through period and into the reco uction one reads of the work and atti- e of the Times. Then follows an account of the paper in its contribu- tion to national policies and in its civic war against the city politie nd the Tweed ring. The second part of this history deals with the expansion of the paper to serve patriotically and efficiently through the twenty-one years of the present century. There is much interesting personal matter here In descriptions of methods of modern news-gathering. in advertising busi- ness, in growth of circulation, in busi- ness policies, as these have directed the course of the Times throughout its life. Many sketches are given of men who have made the Times—Adolph S. Ochs, Henry Raymond. George Jones and other: Facsimile pages at er Q000V0D0 0000000 velvet shackles—s Jelelelelele) - SUPERIOR critical national moments are pro- vided to show the work of the paper at these junctures of events. The whole is a most interesting and useful story, appealing to the general reader, and absorbing to the members of the newspaper fraternity. A most honorable monument likewise to this institution of public education in America. THE BELOVED WOMAN. By Kath- ieen Norris, author of “Harriet and the Piper.” etc. Frontispiece by C. Allan Gilbert. New York: Double- day, Page & Co. The fiction formula of Kathleen Norris is the use of some interesting socia] surface for the deliverance ol a certain fundamental fact in human existencc—usually, in the life of a woman. So, true to form here, she employs as background, for a study in character development, a rich, exclu- sive_and socially sophisticate family of New York. Set off against this family, in order to give the girl a chance with the best of herself, is a more lowly, a simpler, a sincerer fam ily of workers—people doing things ifor bed and board. The early life of the principal person here, Norma Sheridan, is spent with these plain people. Then a turn in fortune places the girl In the rich family as one of its members. This turn sounds a bit overromantic, .but that is hardly im- portant to this writer whose business is to try the stuff that is in the girl. As a matter of course, Norma Sheridan falls for the glamour of the soft 1i for the super-refinement, for the lovi offering of “Cousin Chris,” alrdady married. A trying course, you see, but one out of. which the girl finally comes whole and with a free and open movement back toward the simpler issues and the more human and useful activities. The sensitive critic may find fault with the turns of fate that savor of the miracle and the fairy tale here, but the theme in general and JORDAN To those whom we were unable to deliver Jordan 5-Passenger Silhouette Touring Cars to during the past ten days we wish to an- nounce that two shipments arrived yesterday. To those who are not familiar with Jordan Superiority we invite you to compare the following points with any car built. 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What is the “control” that tuned the voice of Poe and Coleridge and De Qi stages, from the Muse of Apollo to the subconscious self, the author arrives at the strange phenomenon of auto- matically inspired writing, placing this particular poet among those who are under auditory control—‘these poems spoken to the inner ear, word certainly, but not nearly interesting as the fact that this is lovely, singing poetry— as free, and cadenced and beautitul in its imagery. as were the songs that three hundred ye: ago and more woke the English-speaking world to the magic of its own tongue. Only one theme flows through these songs. That is love—not love in any restric ed, man-and-woman sense—a great sea of love in which the world and everything it contains is bathed eter- nally. Sometimes the songs are ‘big and resonant and full. S8dmetimes they threads of tune, no more than little bird loved a bee—how strange, how strange!” Always they are aj pealing and poetic. 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Food and protection and the comfortable horses and, above all, the smiling looks of the big, fair devil, worked out in the boy's heart the pattern of loyalty. So it came to pass that little Wang was sent upon the great adventure. This was when the city was besieged by the Boxers and the legations were in extreme danger. The rescuing army must be reached without delay and urged to a swift advance. Then one gets, in vivid picture, a very small boy, traveling, by day, by night, across a wide country. Running, crawling, hiding, stealing food and sleep, 1ying with grave solemnity—but all the time working ahead. It is the wit of this tiny animal against the world— an exciting adventure that brings to mind that other oriental boy, Kim, bent upon a similar mission. ~ A sur- passing boy story. Mr. Weale knows the country and the Aaeople. He knows the boy, too. And with these he constructs this sidelight on the Boxer rebellion. THE STORIES EDITORS BUY AND WHY. Compiled by Jean Wick. 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Indeed, one loses sight of these tiny creatures as mere instinctive mals, and 1ifts them up into the realm of reason and highly organised life, under the sympathetic and friendly treatment of this great scientist and poet. Darwin did call him a poet, and Maeterlinck names him as “the in- sects’ Homer,” admitting also that Fabre inspired his own *The Life of the Bee.” 1In October, 1915, Henrl Fabre died, an old man, ninety-two years old, having spent his simple and beautiful life in the south of France, devoted to the. study whiech in fairy tale and poetry he transmits in its ‘whole truth to a world of loving and eager readers. AS STRONG AS THE HILLS. By Matalee T. Lake. Washington: Ter- minal Press. 3 This is & romance of Persia, in the days of that country’s greatness. Its hero is a nobleman‘of wealth and wis- dom, Albert Rustrab. 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