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CIl PACIFISM SW When hen Poultney BI V elo writes of 0 Germany the reader ma may be certain of at havinG something sane and withal en- en lightening The author of oC such sueh nota- nota blo lo works as lS Tho The History of the German German German Ger Ger- man Struggle for Liberty 1806 1848 and nd Prussian Memories has written still till another unusual unusually Interesting I book took on Germany and I the tho Two Between t too ho Revolution nO of or 1818 1848 and 1918 1418 The author sketches the past sc ent seventy years cars of or glory and shame beginning with t the flight from Crom Berlin Berlin Ber- Ber lin In of or tho the first Wilhelm Jm when hen crown prince ISiS IS and cloning with an escape es escape escape es- es cape equally remarkable ablo by his grandson grandon grand grand- son on 1918 to Amero gen Though the German presses have ha Issued endless material in tho the field which the author covers coers ho says Experience leads mo moto moto moto to think that much of or interest has been wilfully colored 11 If not wholly suppressed suppressed suppressed sup sup- pressed through official influence There is a farewell noto note In lu tho the preface pre pre- preface ace by the author which will sound a a sympathetic echo in iii the hearts of tho the many readers of Mr Bigelow's works Of course course ho writes I claim no credit unless 88 it be for Cor a desire to serve sene my country and at the same came time tell the truth rarely truth rarely a grateful or oven even possible task It is to my father that I owe all that can give shoe interest to l to this work As I lay down m my pon pen it Is with tho feeling that it will neer never nev ne er cr bo be raised not again not even oven In self self- defense I Iam am now noy too near the scriptural scriptural scriptural scrip scrip- tural span of or human l lifo Co to cultivate the mock modesty of ot A a Bor sophomore In letters and have more t than an once yielded yield yield- ed to the temptation of or garrulous rem rem- And so to the critical and andI I I the kindly I send the benediction of ot otan an nn old man who has sought diligently I for the truth and earnestly hopes he hernay may lOay have havo found perhaps a a. fragment however small smaiL Among all aU the war books this broI farewell faro fare I well of oC Poultney Bigelow's to th threading tho e I reading world In which he ho has figured figure d so conspicuously conspicuous is assuredly ono of 01 tho the most mOISt interesting capping as It were his literary career It li is tit the work of or one who knows known Germany an and d I Germans thoroughly G G. G P p. p Putnam Putnam's s Sons New York C CI CYNTHIA I II I A. A Leonard Merrick steers between be tween the novelists novelist's two great temptations lions cx realism and overdrawn over overdrawn drawn romance Illy Ills novels are arc y r life uro without Its It dull moments o nut hut when whon he will win he can dive t 1 than the surface and antI give us an in si sight ht Into the real selves of or his peo peo- Ile In his latest book entitled Cynthia Cynthia peo 1 I thia his ils theme Is tho growth of oC a I I woman's womans s soul First thc she t he is shown tc II us as a mere mero unformed girl and gradually as her nature expands and I sho oho meets her problems and and- solves them aho sho ho becomes a real human being able to lInden understand tand and cope with the I realities of or life This is in fact tact acknowledged to be I Mr Ir Merricks Merrick's masterpiece in delineation delineation delineation tion of a womans woman's character Perhaps tho the best brief description of or this book hook Cynthia la is to bo be gained from Crom the introduction b by Maurice Hewlett who says 8 that in Cynthia Mr Ir Merrick gives Elves tie the reader a problem in pS psychology chol 0 ogy which the author authol fails alts Co to tackle not because it is too bl big for his guns guna but hut because I am to lo suggest he found I it too small J. J He Ile took up his positions ope opened lied his attack and the tho enemy n ht n his trenches dissolved in mist The problem with which Cynthia opens to continue tho the quotation notation from Mr Hewlett's Howlett's Introduction Is the familiar one of oC the novelist considered as such Much and as lover lo husband father and cit cit- I izen Now Its It's an odd thing but not nol so HO odd as all it 11 seems at first blush that while you ou may conceive a poet l In these thelle relations and succeed In In Interesting your our readers you OU will wll fall fail with a a. nov nov- clest I cannot now o now remember u a I glo Interesting novel no about a novelist Humphrey Kent In Cynthia lu It In no sen sense seno o an explicit genius This book puts It It no higher than this that the tho hero with an obvious bent for writing riling marries in a hurr hurry find and then finds out that thal ho he cannot be an honest man an and support his wife and nud child b by tho same iame stroke It It IB is not whether ho can be bu boa bea a good novelist no and a good lover IO too but bul whether ho he can can be a good novelist and pa pay his bills bUls Luckily Lucidly In Cynthia Cn Cynthia thia thia Mr l Merrick finds a secondary y ry themo theme and handles it so dell delicately tel and ao so tenderly that the book has an abiding abiding abid abl ing harm charm because of oC it tho growth of Cynthia's Cynthia's soul Surely the tho reader wi will agree with the writer of or the Introduction Introduction-E E. E. E P P. Dutton fi Co New York A A HISTORY OK Oh TilE THE JI WS' WS In tho the light of or recent events Dr Paul Goodmans Goodman's latest work A Ills His tory lory of or th the Jews Jew I Is of oC peculiar t lance In his preface the author takes occasion to ria say In Iii spite of the extraordinary changes chames in fn Jowl Jewish h hisS history his his- pro pro- S tor tory toran an an extensive 0 survey of It presents pre pre- I sent a cycle of or manifestations and I problems that continually repeats ItI it It- It I self In substance Jewish history Is concentrated on the never ending struggle between tho and tendencies of Jow- Jow I lab Ish thought and life and antI from Crom the tho conflicts con con- filets b between prophecy and anti priesthood to lo of or nationalism and assimilation tion tiun we discern rn tho the same Mame heroic effort to save the hr Jewish life Ure by hy losing It In the t-ho following pages pases the course of or J Jewish history has been l traced without I I II I n reference to the question whether tho L Jews have o the right ht to lo exist The he subject subI subject sub sub- of or Judaism as a a. world religion has been fully Culb treated b by mo in elsewhere but Irrespective of oC the Justification or condemnation of oC Judaism our Interest lis Is surely duo to the history of oC a people peo- peo plo which according to lo tho the natural law late of oC the thc survival of oC the tho fittest has Justified Itself by its vcr very existence Realizing Realising that the story of oC tho the JewIsh Jewish Jew Jew- ish lab race forms one of oC the most romantic romantic roman roman- tic lIc and extraordinary stories In the tho world If IC considered solely as history the tho author has hul here t set ct himself to tell the talo talc of or the tho struggle le for Cor Ufo lifo and light by uY this ancient and enduring peo peo- pIc But Dill contrary to the usual custom cUllom In dealing with Jewish history he ho writes from a n point of or view which Is neither attack nor defense and has lias confined himself to the tho marshalling and statement of or facts fats without raising the whether the Jews have ha a aright aright right to exist as shown In is his Is preface above quoted Simply and without Irrelevant Ir Irrelevant irrelevant ir- ir relevant details Dr Goodman puts pul before beCore us the care career r and achievement ement of oC this strange race from Its earliest days ns n's as an obscure Syrian tribe to the tho present lime time when It la is gathering Itself it itself itself it- it self to together to fight J ht tho the forces of ot throughout hout the world world- E E. E P. P Dutton Co New York ONE FORTY THIEVES one Forty Thieves a as Its subtitle declares is A Tale Talc of or California Angelo Angelo An- An gelo Hall Is the tho author of or this delightful delight delight- hl- hl ful lilt bit of oC fiction hrecz breezy as Bret Harts Harto depicting tho the olden Vest west of tho the wild and woolly type typo The story opens With wll-h a n slashing description of ot a stage making Its Va way along alon- lonely road Tho rho passengers ers arc are unarmed with two exceptions exceptions-a a silent Pennsylvanian and a Chinaman both bolh with money which they the loath to to lo lose The Tho storekeeper store store- keeper tells a h humorous story of oC an nn Impossible up hold and gets past the climax of or his talo tale Just as the stage dragging Its Ita way up a steep hill la li halted by masked men nten Then comes I limo llio struggle of ot tho oriental and the theone theono ono one other armed armell man mart to lo save Ravo their treasures Overpowered tho the man gives up stoically but the Pennsylvanian Pennsylvanian Penn Penn- fights until a revolver shot ends his lire life Then tho the hardy defenders of Justice the western committee which seeks to s I Irid rid the thc community of tho murderers and robbers starts on a trail of apprehension apprehension hension of the tho criminals which leads leas no end of adventure ad told Inthe In tho the style which holds the tho reader to lo the thc pages There is a 1 s sweet raced school maam ma'am and a sturdy stage driver I er I Included as well as a man whoso whose lovo of gold old Is stronger than his love lo of or Justice It would seem and other types df C the far west of at early days dalS The rho plot Ja lit expanded In a n manner which shows tho ho skill of at tho writer and the book bool IH is a wholesome wild west tale talc for your boy to read read after after you OU have havo finished it first Co Boston |