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THE Reviews of New Books/™E PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUR FAMOUS NEW YORKERS, B De Alva Stanwood Alexander, le D., author of “The History and f;:f:&'é" of lzheNHmme of Repre- es,” etc. 2 S tvens ew York: Henry HE volume In hand ofters a study of Cleveland, Platt, Hill and Roosevelt in their political careers. In effect, it is a supplement to “The Political History of the State of New York" | from 1882 to 1905, which, in three ' volumes. this author has already pub- Ushed 4 qtndr, this, of the personal forces that through a critical period of New York state politics were greatly influential not only in the state Itself, but In national politics as well. A study that serves to make allve and objective the purely po- litical history which it accompanies and illuminates. Exceptionally in- teresting and informing discussion is Eiven here of Cleveland and Roosevelt in their speclal purposes and modes of achlavement, in their general in- iucnce and effect. Beside the names listed in the title, innumerable other names crowd this political record of the Empire state for a dozen years of Strenuous activity and conflicting in- ! terests. One assumes that the first requirement of a study of this sort Is that it be a record of fact, sufficient- ly Inclusive to round the political ®ituation to completeness, sufficiently unalytical to give these outstanding men” thefr rightful place in the po- ' litical complex, and to judge each fairly in his "contribution to the Whole. One accepts these require- | ments as fulfilled at the hands of this historian. There is another qualtty that counts amazingly with the gen- eral reader. That is the manner of | the writer. Now, this book is as ew- | tivating as a story. These men are 8s alive as today. The movement is HWift and straight and to the point. It has color and life and real action. Btimulating, informing, highly useful, ® wonderful Invigorator of pure his- tory itself. LORD NORTHCLIFFE; A Memoir. By i Max Pemberton. New York: George H. Doran Company. | . The electrifying personality of Lord | Northcliffe _suggests the dynamic ! quality of Theodore Roosevelt. Both | nen commanded the deepest feelings, . neither so constituted as to stir luke- | Wwarm interests. In respect to Lord ! Northcliffe, the general reader is fa- | millar with only the spectacular cli- max of a remarkable career, bent! throughout to the security of im- perial England and to the develop- | ment of a gigantic scheme of world | communication and influence by way of the press. One's curiosity is stir- red tremendously over this man— what of his boyhood and youth, what of ‘his parents and early influences, what of all the elements that entered into the making of so notable a per- sonality, so sweeping an influence? What about him as a man, with faults like other men, with virtues, too—all, | one may be sure, exceptional and on | the grand scale. One is inclined to| think that nobody else could have | told_the story, could have answered | the hundreds of questions better than | this lifelong friend of Northcliffe. Not #0 much by virtue of this long tenure of friendship as by the like qualities of mind and heart. These have be- gotten the sympathy, the understand- ing, the love that, working together here, have produced—well, have pro- duced Lord Northcliffe himself. No estimate for posterity and history Is essayed here. That for another. Just a friend—appreciative and prosd of the friendship. Possessed, too, of the gift of words to match, superbly, the fine qualitles of that friendship. LUTHER NICHOLS, By Mary S. Watts, author of '“The House of Rimmon,” etc. New York: The Macmillan Company. We have all seen, any number of times, the makings of this particular story, But we are not story-tellers. A vy S. Watts is. And she has here told the story. The originating pic- ture, this. Drawn up beside the curb | a rich man's motor car. Within it the rich man's daughter—young, love- Iy, independent, socially sophisticate, aliuring. Beside it the rich man's chauffeur—a youth, who, for bodily Dbeauty, has no favors to ask of either Adonis'or Apollo. Smartly uniformed, correctly posed, competent master of his machine and capable guardian of the well being of its fair occupant, the moblile face and speaking eyes alight with differential ‘homage— something like this the picture stands. The romance of the rich man’'s daughter and the rich man's | man. Not impossible, not_even un- familiar, as the facts run. Youth and beauty meet here, male and female. Propinquity does the rest. In a per- fect realism of manner and effect Mrs. Watts follows the pair. The | Eirl filled with the new freedom, the daring,. the instnet for exploration | that men alone hitherto have enter- tained, a stimulating taste of power over the masterful male. The youth, | a speechless, mediocre fellow, whose arms in this one-sided love duel are but a beautiful body and a pair of | eloquent eyes acting quite Indepen- | dent of his average mind. Howev the youth needs no more than these, for it is the young woman who man- ages, arranges, intrigues, lles, de- ceives—all in a gay insouciance that leaves her elders—Ilooking on here— rather speechless, not to say alarmed, over the sophistication and finesse of this young female pursuer; over her cruelty, as well. A sad little story, | after “'all. Brutality is depressing, | whether It is exercised by damascened point or by the bludgeon of the butch- er. A thoroughly modern story, pick- ed off_the current affairs of Social Mrs. Watts may have written ter novel than this one—a more scerning story, subtler, more in ! touch with the surprises of human nature, more competent in its mak- ing, more interesting. One does not think so. THE LAW AND ITS SORROWS. By James Hannibal Clancey, LL. B. Detroit: The Bentham Institute. “The Bentham Institute exists be- 1 cause of the earnest desire of sensible and patriotically inspired people everywhere to. strike down silly il- lusions and make of our courts of law, courts of justice.” All agree— especially do the members of the le- gal profession agree—that the law should be administered with more of dispatch and less of merely technical 1 involution .and complication, that it should administer justice more even- 1y, never forgetting that before the law all men are equal. All agree that the health of the courts of law is not good, but that these are, nev- ertheless, In nothing like a hopeless situation, nowhere near their final taking off. “The Law and Its Sor- bearing directly upon this sit- uation, is, in effect, a textbook for the people, designed to give the plain man a fair grasp of the content of the law, its purpose, its workings, its most .generally applicable divi- sions, its effects. The first commen- dation for the study is one for the author himself, who makes himself so clear that no one can fail to under- stand. The first part of the book is given over.to a simple discussion of the law itself along the lines already enumerated. The author designates this as “the simple story of the pres. ent unhappy situation of the law. The second-part presents an object lesson in the law, concrete cases to ghow how defects complained of work out in real life. A clearly useful book in a wide field of appeal and applica- tion. Especially does one like the sincere spirit of the author behind it. This is no trouble-maker trying to stir up discontent. Rather an hon- est man trying, by simple discussion, 1o help both the public and the law jtself through & common understand- ing of the mutual obligation between the two. { handed, red-blooded man. j him. i turned and fled. corresponding in general features to that with which the maker of un- written storles is habitually experi- menting. A certain character, an in. cldent, some day out of the many days, a corner of landscape, the “fam- Ily" in its exasperating behaviors— these are among our possessions as here they are, confessedly, among hers. Our own Uncle John will take the place of her Uncle Giles. Grand- mother has simply got to get into our book, and the colonel, and Jim Moody and a few others. quite as im- portant and as interesting, Mrs Can- fleld makes us see, as the particular ones that have come under her keen- ly sympathetic scrutiny. That is the delightful office of this book—not chiefly because it puts us in touch with the author's neighbors, but with our own {nstead. A fine art here and : @ most satisfying result. | THE RED BLOOD; A Novel, By Har- { old H. Armstrong, author of “Zel | etc. New York: Harper & Bros, i _There is courage when the blood . Tuns red, and the unconquerable will that denles defeat, turning it into a lesson for subsequent success, and the long look ahead—that the poets call vision—and adaptability and per- siatence, and the big chance seized. Many other powers, too, when the .blood runs red. And “The Red Blood” i8 the story of a man' so possessed. The story of Denny McNicol, who, : handicapped by bastardy and meager opportunity and poor surroundings, moved slowly but steadily out from these entanglements into power and place. One has seen this story ob- jectified in the open of American life more than once. Without exaggera- tion or overemphasls, the story fol- lows along as many have seen it de- velop in actuality. Except, in the story, one gets the inner man, what he {s thinking about, how he explains to himself some of his measures of getting what he goes after. One is able to tally here the boy and the man, the effect upon Denny McNicol's heart and soul, of the deeds done by Denny McNicol, as boy and man. A very true story, plain and unsensa- tional, with an ending that, though | of tragic effect, is, after all, but the logle of the daily life of this high- The end- ing, tragic because it had #o be. Trag- edy was its content from the begin- ning—just a plain life, though, run- ning along the-very path that we see many a ‘“red-blood” taking out in the open. Strong and steady work, admirably sustained throughout. JIM HANVEY DETECTIVE. By Oc- tavus Roy Cohen, author of “The Crimson Alibi,” etc. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co. It was a game with Jim Hanvey— outwitting criminals.* For the pur- poses of this game Jim divided -the crooks of the world into two classes— crooked crooks and straight crooks. To the former he paid no attention. They went against his fastidious taste in criminals. But to the straight crook, the one who played his own game with brain—intelligent, reason- able, intuitive, adroit, finished—to that one Jim Hanvey opened out as to an adversary worth his while. Poor Jim! How he did look! Fat, chin after chin to his great neck, face blank as a tallow cake, little eyes whose 1ids never winked, but yawned long instead, clothes that shouted from one end of the street to the other, golden log chain for his watch and golden toothpick that was hi pride—poor Jim! How he did look! Great fellow, though. One delights in him. He is different, as you see, but different, too, on the inside of A_romantic, pathetic hulk of a man. Keen as a briar. Convincing, too. t in touch with Jim, If you've not already done this. GLADYS. By Dr. J. Morgan de Groot, author of “The Hand of Venus, etc. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippin- cott Company. The chief preoccupation of this girl Gladys was that she wanted children. Strong in the maternal instinct is the smooth phrase for this particular bent of mind and feeling. And Gladys pos- sessed, also, a deep Instinct against marriage. A s ble job for the author, in the present state of soclety, to reconcile these anti-pathetic ele- ments. But the writer likes a man size job, clearly, for he adds to the difficulties of his task by making a beautiful and luring girl of Gladys toward whom the feet of young men turned without waiting for the con- sent of the will. Two lovers out- stripped the others. - And as one reads along in_an interesting to-do of plausible happenings there grows in his mind a suspicion of Gladys. Twice as this girl approached marriage she Naturally, one as- sumed that these successive flights were in response to that recoil from marriage which the girl is sald to possess. Looking closely, however, into the actual incidents that brought about these distressing and embar- rassing, behaviors one finds that, each . Gladys was plainly jealous of other woman. That sets one to ondering whether it was not, after all, the strong possessive instinct of all’ woman, rather than any idlosyn- atic hatred of marriage itself that afflicting the young woman. At rate, she finally subdued her dis- position ' and—well, you read the story, for there is a side line of mod- ern ‘domesticity that is graphic and satirically humorous and, in other ways, quite worth while. Besides, if Gladys is able to capture your com- plete confidence, she, too, Will prove interesting—but one suspects that girl, even though she appears to be acting in good faith. BOOKS RECEIVED. A LAUGH A DAY KEEPS THE DOC- TOR AWAY; His Favorite Stories ax Told by Irvin S. Cobb. New York: George H. Doran Company. EVERYDAY MYSTERIES; Secrets of Science in the Heme. By Charles Greeley Abbott, D. Sc. assistant secretary of the Si Institution. New York: The an Company. THE PRAISE OF FOLLY. By Bliss Perry, author of “Park-Street Papers,” etc. New York: Hough- ifflin Company. A NTINENTAL = DOLLAR. By Emilie Benson Knipe and_Alden Arthur Knipe, author of * g o the Ring, ete. Illustrat by Emilie Bepson Knipe. New Yor! The Century Company. ROME OR DEATH; The Story of Fascism. By Carleton Beals, author of “Mexico, An Interpret: tion.” Illustrated. New York. The Century Company. I RIDE IN MY COACH. By Hughes Mearns, author of “The Vinegar Saint,” etc. Tllustrated by W. . Schwartz. Philadelphia: The Penn Company. THE MYSTERY OF LYNNE COURT, By J. S. Flétcher. With an intr: duction by Lee Thayer. Baltimor The Norman, Remington Company. THE OUTLINE OF EVERYTHING. By Hector B. Toogood. With a critical survey of the world's kl;lBW]edSe by Sir J. Arthur Wellswater, R. A, H. G. Intro- duction by Hughe Jawpole. Bos- ton: Little, Brown & Co. 'RACE AND NATIONAL SOLIDARITY. By Charles Conont - Josey, -Ph. - New York: Charles Scribner Sons. . gt e LADY ROSE WEIGALL; A Memolr Based on Her Correspondence and the Recollections of Friends. "By her daughter " Rachel Weigall New York: D. Appleton & Co, MEMORIES OF THE _FUTURE; Being Memories of the Years l.l‘: 1972. Written In the year of Grace, 1888, by Opal, Lady Por- stock. FEdited by Ronald A. Knox. New York: George H. Doran Com- pany. Mac- pin and a Statement of Their Own Work- ing Methods by More Tham Ome Hundred Authors. Edited, with notes, by Arthur Sullivant Hoff- man, ‘suthor of “Fundamentals of Flction ~Writing. Indianapoli; nAW MATERfAL. By Dorothy Can- field, author of “Rough-Hewn,” etc. ' New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co. About everybody has tucked away in his mind & fair-size library, books of his own making—stories and poems and plays. Much better books, too, one is secretly convinced, than & whole lot of those that get into print. / In “Raw Material,” Dorothy Can- fleld, in a group of sk 3 The Bobbs-Merrill Company. THE FASCIST MOVEMENT IN ITALIAN LIFE. By Dott. Pietro Gorgolinl. With preface by S, Sentto Mussolinl.® Translated and edited with introduction by M. D. Petre. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. SION AND THE WIS THE __VISIO! D ithsonian | Recent accessions at the Public Li- {brary and lists of recommended read- ‘Ing will appear In this column each Sunday. Biography. Bradford, Gamaliel. Damaged Souls E-9B725d. Campbell, Mrs. Patrick. My Life and Some Letters. E-C1536. Carey, M. C. Princess Mary. E- M3668c. Cecll, Lady Gwendolen. Life of Rob- ert, Marquis of Salisbury. 2 vols. 1921 E-Sa347e. ‘Cmél'(;tt, David. Autoblography. E- Haockel, Ernst. Story of the Devel- | opment of a Youth. E-HI4.E. Hall, G. S. Life and Confe: Psychologist. E-H1445. Hutton, Edward. Pletro Aretino. Ar3éh, Long. J. D. America of Yesterday. E- Lucy, Sir H. W._ Lords and Common- ers. 1921. E-9L9E5-1. Page, Rosewell. Thomas Nelson Page. E-P142p. Robertson, J. W. Edgar A. Poe. E- P763r. Wheelwright, W. B. Life and Times of Alvah Crocker. E-C869w. Willlam, Crown Prince of the German Empire and of Prussia. E-wnz. Travel. Calderon, George. Tahiti. 1921. G173- Cooper, C. S. Understanding Italy. G35-C786u. Back to the Long Crawford, Danlel. Grass.” G742-C853. Dole, N. H. America in Spitzbergen. 2 'vols. G146-D685. Domville-Fife, C. W. The Real South America. G98-D718r. Earle, Swepson. The Chesapeake Bay 2 ;Yuunll'a'. Ref. G857C-Eal. n nders, Mrs. E. C. Swinging Lan- terns. G66-En27s. = d Fagan, J. O. The Old South. G844B- F134. Garstin, Crosble. The Coasts of Ro- o ance. G'ls-al”. ane, Mrs. R. W. Peak: p 98 Lo aks of Shala. Lowther, M. K. Mount Vernon, Ar- lington and W, % 2 lingt Woodlawn. GE63M Niles, Blair. Ecuador. G999-N59. Osborne, A. B. Finding the Worth- P hile in Europe, G30-Osist. XI, Pope. Climbs Poraks. GI3T-PEBE. s onting, H. G. The G Posouth. Gl48-PT6. il s owell, E. A. By Camel a thePeacock Throne. Goiopsy™” Sheridan, Mrs, C. C. F. West and Smiast, G30-Shoiw mith, C. E. From the Dee, Totd (GU-Sms3. Biotiths owne, C. H. Ambling Thro - dia. G829-Tgs. © mEhAe Vallandigham, E. N. Delaware and the Eastern Shore. G857-V24, Waldo, L Doun the Macienzle & Greaf G822-W143. SR AR Casual Wanderings In Languages. Bertaux, Felix and Harvitt, H. J. A Travers la France. X39R-B468. Bigot, M. H. La Tache du Petit Pierre. X39R-BiSét. Bordeaux, Henry. La Nouvelle Croi- sade des Enfants. X39R-B647n. A. G. Premiere Annee $ X39G-B669p. Briscoe, W. M. and Dickman, Adolphe, Francais Pratique. X39-B777f. Bruno, G. Pseud. Les Enfants de Marcel. X39R-BS3fe. Du_ Genestoux, Magdeleine. La France en Guerre. X39R-DS74f. Fnrglixm H. C. Les Ravageurs. X39R- P Fortoul-Hourtado, Pedro. Dificul- de la Diccion Castellana. de L 7. A ‘a-m‘ll Buceta, Erasmo. Eds. ntologia de ‘uent f Antologia ntos Espanoles. Jenner, W. A. and_Grant, Year of Latin. Machen, J. G. Ni for Beginners. 3 Manfred, M. E. Practical Grammar. Xi0G-Mz16p. . Juan. El Cond Mo IOR-MILG. TR eras, A. A. and Baptiste. Le S Livre. X39-M537a. s Pargment, M. S. Exercices Francais Oraux’ et’ Ecrits. V. L X39G pet2le; erez Escrich, PrOR-PAL3fo. s ace, P. O. and Others. S & hL-thflb .}"3 3-P693s. eond Toar choell, . Le Folklore au Vi e K ke oL Folklore au Village. Seneca, Pasquaie. Spanish Conversa- syrion and Composition. X40-Ses6s. yms, L. C. rd Year in F: 5 1897, X35G-Sy63b. ey Ullman, B. L. and Henry, N. E. Ele-| mentary Latin. X36G-Uld. Vickner, E. 7. Swedish Composition _ and Word Study. X52-V664. Whymant, A. N. J." Colloquial Chinese. Wilkins, L. A. A Spanish R Grammir. X40G-Whoos, o orence A. C. First 36-J4361. Tt;sumgnt Greek Spantsh Enrique. mance of Old Framce. By H. B. Somerville. Illustrated. New York: Robert M. McBride & Co. HORATIO'S STORY. By Gordon King. New York: Boni and Liveright. HIS RELIGION AND HERS; A Study of the F' of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers. By Charlotte Perkins Gilman. = New York: The Century Company. DALMATIA AND THE_ JUGOSLAV MOVEMENT. By Count Louis Voinovitch. With a preface by Sir Arthur_Evans, LL. D o R 8. New York: Charles’'. Scribner's Sons. INDIA IN FERMENT. By Claude H. Van Tyne. Author of “The Amer- fcan Revolution,” etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co. MEMORIES OF THE _RUSSIAN COURT. By Anna Viroubova. New York: The Macmillan Company. POEMS. By R. L. S. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. PROHIBITION INSIDE OUT. By Roy A. Haynes, prohibition commis- sloner. New York: Page & Co. JESUS AND THE_ CHRISTIAN RE- LIGION. By Francis A. Henry. New York: G. P. Putman's Sons. THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE MOD- ERN COMMONWEALTH. By Ar thur N. Holcombe, Ph. D., pro- fessor of government in Harvard University. New York: Harper and Brother: MUSICAN - CHRONICLE (1917-1923). By Paul Rosenfeld. New York: Harcroft Brace & Co. A PREFACE TO LIFE. By Edwin Justus Mayer. New York: Boni and Liveright. JEFFERSON DAVIS, PRESIDENT OF THE SOUTH. By H. J. Ecken- rode. New York: [The Macmillan Company. El MORE LIVES THAN ONE. By Caro- Iyn Wells, New York: Doni and Liveright. - “3 GREATEST WORDS,” TOPIC. “The Three Greatest Words” is the subject of a lecture to be given by Garnett January in thé Unity audi- torium, 1326 1 street northwest, to- motfrow' at 8 p. Doubleday, RALPH CONNOR THE GASPARDS | OF PINE CROFT A Tale of the Wi Memoirs. | SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, NOVEMBER, 4. ‘1923—PART 1. - l | 415 7th St. N.W. s DR ChanksgivingSale Ready here for hundreds of folks who will better their homes for Thanksgiving are scores of exceptional values. This is particularly true in Dining Furniture, for it is in this room that the Thanksgiving festivities center, as a rule. Let these and many other specials help you dress up your home for the occasion at a real saving. 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