Show t t ii ti i Li Literary Notes Note and Reviews FROM G S. G. fix the Imag Imag- Imagery have e you ou ever e tried to to er cry ery of ot a a. dream the delicate transitory complex Impossibilities which flash flashover flashover over oYer your our minds mind's seen as you OU slumber slumber slum slum- ber 1 If so you ou will wilt appreciate the time task which A. A Donald Dou Douglas set before herr himself when he lie st started out to write From Their Galleries Tho The title is from the phrase appearing on the title page e of ot the little volume From their I J galleries they watch this child childs 3 mystery mys my- ter tery play we ph play Perhaps Mr Ir Douglas Dougla Doug lS i la las Jat has explained best but his 1111 own Idea IdeR of I the purpose of ot the book when he lie says i In hl his pro tnt Fain I would beguile you ou with n a talc talo of dreams Fain I would proffer you ou these dreams dream for tor keeping Within this talc of or dreams there dwells the lie best of ot orme me and there I fain rain would linger er apart from the and the time little clamoring bigotries of life lire That Mr fr Douglas ou la has IU put some of or orthe I the best of or himself In this book hoole as far faras as writing go goes Is how hott hown n t In many beau beau- C. C I I t I Eu I d dreamlike ream I I k e ti descriptions e ser I p t I to U ii U therein one of or which follows being the description of ot a dream forest From Impassable ble anti and I was girdled deeper deep deep- er cr and deeper until I came to 10 the center center cen ecu ter of lifes life's maze In that thal forest of or mine own creating where the curtaining trees hoard hoarded cd the gloom loom and I the stars stan were groping set sel tar far above o a silence terrible No o souM souil tou I I broke across the he endless march of nr trees NO wind stirred all nIl hints bird were I fled It was the death of time Many another beautiful touch of descriptive de tIe- charm enlightens tho the strange pages of or this strange c but readable lit littIe little lit lit- tle tIe book with Its unusual frontispiece showing some sonic dinosaur looking amazedly amax z 1 edl edly on sleigh hl h tracks s In a snow filled field Read React about that dinosaur and andI j I you will trill have ha a thou thought ht of The who ho y you ou will recollect recollect rec rec- caused such chortling on that mysterious day The The Four Seas Company Compan Boston I It 0 ON GI I 1 1 do not apologize for t nor am I ashamed of or m my German birth says st.'s Otto OUo H. H I Kahn hn In Right night Above Race nace Century But nul I am nm ashamed bitterly bitterly and anti grievously ous ashamed ashamed of hame or of the Germany German Germany Ger Ger- man many which stands convicted before the high tribunal of the worlds world's public opinion of or having planned and antI Willed war of or the revolting le deeds committed In Bel Belgium and anti northern France of lIr f tho Infamy of f the murders m of ot Innumerable in innumerable In- In numerable violations of the Hague convention convention con con- and the law of nations con I of ot abominable and perfidious plotting In friendly countries and antI mel ss abuse of or their hospitality of or crime heaped I upon crime In hideous defiance of tf the tho n. In-n. q of nr r God Corl od rind man I T cherish the hi n. n memories of m my youth but these very memories make me Cr cry out In pain and wrath against those who have hl be befouled befouled befouled be- be fouled the spiritual soil IoU of or the old German Germany Ger Ger- man many In which the they were rooted I yore re-yore the high Ideals Ideall and fine tine traditions ions of that old oltI Germany and the h time honored conceptions n of right conduct conduct con coui- duct which m my parents and the teachers teach teach- ers of m my earl early youth bade hade me mo treasure throughout life but all aJl the more burning Is m my resentment all the more I deep deeply grounded m my hostility a against the Prussian caste who trampled those J conceptions In iii Inthe Ideals traditions and antI the dust I H HO OX O IiiI P. PAUSE USI- USI The Time great reat force of the lie pause pauso In speaking Is not sufficiently under under- stood To be garrulous ls and Incessant Interminable to repeat repent everything e six times time Is the goal oll of too man many speakers speak speak- ers but when a t. t man has something to sa say he can sPy say It In a 3 Ce few words In words that halt even In words that will nihl not be uttered This curious fact was Illustrated b by two moments In Mr Ir Daviss Davis's address ma maybe be he was unconscious of the effect He lIe was speaking of French women lie iTe told how he been amon among among- them Ulem In their agon agony In man many parts of or France He lIe told of or women of hl high h position and of ot education and gentle birth laboring In I the lie fields taking tho the pl place cc of the men who h had rl gone hone to the war Crops must be raised and garnered the earth must bo be wooed to brin bring forth orth fruit lie He had seen lOeen these women side b by side with humbler sisters lIsters striving In th that t furrow fur tur- row lie He told of one typical mother of ot France who when informed that her son Ion had been killed In battle cried Thank Go God Gou he died for Franco France I am happy that I have four tour more sons son to toIve give Ive to m my m- country He Hc told his list list- erners how the theatre and the novel no with it Its conventional puppets of oC the play and story tor had maligned tho the women wom worn en elm of France To the thc unthinking and the uninformed American a n French Frenchwoman Frenchwoman Frenchwoman woman ml might ht have ha become synonymous with a light woman The French adventuress adventuress ad ad- ventures o of time iho teller story Is 18 ns as fa familiar familiar fl- fl aa 33 tho the wicked French count of oC the tho theatre To you OU who have but now arrived In France Franc said I the tho ir r k rand r. r and who have ha not hid hd time to observe the heroism of the French woman woman- to know her hel In her home borne to tc see sen her at atthe tho the work of or men men men-I I want to say 1 do lio not believe bellevo this libel You ou know lenow what you OU have In mind when then hen you ou speak sp-ak of 1 French ren h wom-n wom YOU cu know w what you Oll arc are thinking here Weil hero the face bce of the speaker became stern anti and his eeM shone Well shone Well h hI h. repeated and arid he raised his hand hl high high I i h I was pr prepared pared for a a. flow of or fiery eloquence for Cor a n torrent of or hot words but he paused tonI lone speechless his glance full of ot what his heart could not utter Veil utter Well he said again then lowered his hitS arm armand armand and almost dont t think It It- It From Americas Over There Theatre Lea League ue b by E. E H. H Sothern In tho the August Aug AUS' Scribner TilE THE SISTr-n SISTr OF A CERTAIN IX SO Ol DU DiElt n. n Under th the mantle martle of or fiction Dr u Stephen J. J Planer lanc lias ui u ua a l trait v should be checked or r ther altered i and which can te he done only onh b by broader er education of ot the public c along thi th the line of social ameni ties tics The Time booklet Is cheer cheery and reveals an nn Interesting style which fascinates tho the ret reader el and the author ha has not attempted to moralize He le flashes his lesson leeon through the lines of the story which Is a a. really superb littie little little lit lit- tle tie war tale closing with a climax that thatIs thatIs Is dramatic tlc and tense Tho The portion which deals with I LUcys cs flon song Is la a bit bitof bitor bitof of or descriptive e writing that leaves the tho reader wi h that satisfied feeling ac accompanying accompanying ae- ae companying the work of a master of or fiction The The Tu Tuttle Morehouse Taylor Talor Co Now New Haven Hayen Conn AUTHORS AUTHOR'S PROS PROM 1 Bobbs of Indianapolis have this opinion of or their forthcoming publication publication pub pub- of or war life The Emma Gees Goes by Capt Herbert W W. McBride U U. U S S. AThe A A. The only war book that thal Is worth worthwhile worthwhile worthwhile while these days Is lt the one that Is dif ferent We c believe e The TIme Emma Gees Gees' tins has tuff stuff In It that has bas not appeared elsewhere and Its iti attitude Is la Individual Indi vidual for Cor was not not like most of or our war book authors n new w at al the game lie Hc was vas a n. trained soldier amidan amid an expert gunner before he lie Joined tip up Also he C conies of or good fight fight- inu Ini stock and was born lIolu at Waterloo T I Ind which place was settled b by the Bri British not tho ho French l II nit 1111 HOUGH UTho U. U Tho Time Rough Housh Road nond over o which Do Dogie Dog i gie Trevor traveled ira between tho the time limo when his ambition was to write a a. history his ills tor tory of or wall papers and his lila LivIng ll room waa done lIone In peacock petcock blue and Ivory ory and the time when ho made I j good somewhere ro In France Is the InspIring In- In J spiting themo of ot this new v novel no I His us name was Marmaduke but hut ho lie was nicknamed nicknamed nick nick- I ha had been beon I named Doggie bec because use ho broll brought ht up UI like mi a Toy Pom Porn Ho lie was waa i ithe the lie only child of elderly parents parent and I lila his home was WIlS In an tn English cathedral town When Simen his mother died he hc was i twenty Alone Alono in the world he lie continued con- con to bring himself up UI lII like e a Toy i Pom Porn lie he didn't know what else to do tIc Then Theil when hen he lie hena was na six arid and twenty ho lie found himself at nt tho time edge of ot the time world gazing in timorous slackness down Into the abyss abs of the lie great war Something someone someone someone kicked him him over o the brink and sent him tulni sprawling Into I Ih h. h t t. nf ni I Jt IL t I got Cot ot tj the war var lie He lie did not OI get t. t the tho V. V C e. nor muir any cross or distinction whatsoever cr But thel was a t. t French ench middle cla class s sIrl girl Irl In a n little town In France where billeted for some fome time Doggie Dogle was did It that thal and anti she site saw to not go This Is the thc stor story In brief as told bWilliam by b William J. J Locke whoso whose The Time Planet and The rhe Wonderful Year Yeal and out the other oilier books ha have proven so ordinary lor br American readers The ino latest work worl of hi his hie pen pelt Is well weB worth while John John John Lane Co New ew York II hIss S I Russia the Russia tho worlds world's enigma tn may tnY Y perhaps not be he guessed In thu ilm generation genera genera- lion tion ne cui In lit re regard regard re- re seek for gard to her Iler will cause causo men to truths prophecies wherever they of or what may be ue found rund Something time tho from Russia ti as we ma may learn Russian writers themselves now perhaps per per- haps It I Ir tr outsiders foreigners with warm arm hearts and vision Islon who will best lIest Interpret the Russia Hussla that Is Miss lIss Harpers Is 13 an unusual book beok and amid especially unusual for or a n novel Olive Ome tells a stor story of oC wartime Russia of or a land JantI and a people that thal seem cem to most of or us as ts exotic and tar far away a as a fairy tale talc Miss Is a young oung anti anU goo looking American girl who as n as visiting I In China when the guns Suns from front the Belgian Del Bel gian glan Cr front nt reverberated re across s time the the Mongolian plain She he would not consent consent con con- conI I sent to give Sho up her planned Journey to I Russia Hussla antI and in spite of or protests she i started tiff off via the Siberian railway rall She had hatI be been n put In char charge c of a Rus- Rus RusI I sian general returning returning- to dut duty and onboard on I IbO j bO board lie he train wa was wa'S another Russian I I officer an and no nobleman ro I sk o who I she toon found represented au an fUI inui na I was best In hi his race Through Miss tho Intriguing Intriguing yc we see sec I guing Monotony of endless Siberian steppes the picturesque groups STOUpS at stations sta sta- I and with her feel Ceel that we wc gain J Ju Just t a little peep into their j I fatalistic attitude toward life Petrograd Petro- Petro grad was w. a new world to explore I and I her friends s there and fam family am- am II ily opened man many social ours to I fam-I her But It Itras was ras not tie e hal aspect of of things timings which held heM her arid antI j I haunting haunting- with the time beauty of or strangeness strangeness strangeness' strange strange- I e-I I ness ness' though the they were she sought to I get Set behind them to eel feel the time soul of or the I 1 city and the land Jand And nd o open open- II Cd cd doors for her again doors again doors of racially racial racIal- I ly and Intellectually subtle un I in lug ST ST. Then one da day o announce announced l that thaL the days das of or their companionship were over that over that he lie was on his wa way to th the thi front on oh a dangerous secret mis- mis slon sion a MI suddenly there hero came to her herthe I tho the realisation of or wh why she had felt Cell the I great urge urh to tG understand his people I and their ways During 0 at- at I senco she paid a visit to his imis mother and arid i sister at tt their estate stopping en route j jat I at Moscow and Journeying down toe the Yol Vo Volga I ga a. a The picture of the time o estate and Ind the patriarchal life as It still ex exIsted existed ex- ex isted th hrin brings 1 sadness to 10 the heart when one remembers that now on only I a n trw mouths months later It has probably vanished van van- anI an I I forever Core with time the passing of the tho theold I old ord order r Here lIere Miss 1 Is I I taken Into the heart of ot the time family and I waits walts with his mother and amI his sister Ister for tor or news of or O I Then after lung long waiting she sho saw I 0 coming toward to her through the time forest t j l Knowing what Ja ia lay still ahead of his i iland land he lie r cit ll Jt lie he had list nut not the time rl right ht to to cloud th the happiness of or this girl from froma I. I a brighter world What Russia of 0 tomorrow will be no one knows he lie I warned Wo We Ve are arc on the thc brink of ch change Everything I one loves cs and cv- cv ev everything e I ono InC hates bates Is going Into the tIme melting incIting pot and what will trill emerge hoOne no ho ono One can can sa say In time we shall evolve I Into Inlo a n great groat free nation In time but time but I what Is cne no mans man's Ute Plo time line in the evolution evolution evo evo- lution of a race For the time next bundred hundred hundred hun bun I dred years ca w we are ale going to be he the time most most I unhappy people In the world Miss I listened to time thc warning and then thon mado made her ner decision I It la Is difficult to recall an any ally novel no b by byan byan an n American writer which is so successful sue suc In entering into the spirit of ur uran an alien people eople Passage after passage e eor of or Miss Is like Uke a window opening out nit into IntI a landscape in Its outline or equally suggestive MII of or the time truth In their blurred mistiness I Ml Miss s has hns begun her career ana ns an j I ja Ia a novelist no with astonishing gifts and promise I |