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Show A DIFFICULT STYLIST jNo ea on No ess Sun c Ot e "Notes By Hen v James. Pub 8 ed by Charles Scr b-ner s bons, hew Yorh-Ln Yorh-Ln thla wor Henry James g ea to the world i a v ews as a critic of li eratu e and ce ta n ra y a t ts. Thoue who have found Henry James d fficu t as a no el st v 1 not find 1 1m much e s d f flcu t as a c itlc V pe son w ho speaks somewhat aguely when deah g v th figures speaks In round numbers Henr James never speaks, In round thoughts Hs thoug ts are a most always rac Uona His essays on te-ature t be desc lbed as t e comp e a tio s o though bomeone as sa d that a Boston lady shou d be represented a James novel as saj ng P ease pass he beans there would be th ee paaCs of a alys a to show why the lady suid t aj d all that was in her n lnd a d e er body elses at t e tab e w en the sa d Perhaps the most vaunted cha a e Istic of Henry Jan es is 1 s sta le He joung student of 1 terature ou d be! Ktoss y led astra by tl e eu o es of Hen y Ja nes a stye lie ou d imag na that it as a s j e upon which le should forn his own a et le comparab e in n er t v t that of Macau ay Haw thorne Jrv ng o John Henry lew nan In spite of the many fe cities to be found in the works of Henry Jameb he is d st nctly a phrase monger not ul"-ar by any means in fact essent ally ar stoc at c b t at the sa no time sue a met cu ous otary of phrase mak ng that t e reader oses siht of the thoug t In wonder at the word comb n a ons Some of the ob curl y is due no doub to the pecul ar ty of the pi as ng but most of t must be ascribed to a const tu lc-nal inabl ty to expresb h s thoughts without indirect on and c rcumlocut on H s admirers would have us be e e that 1 ere n es h s superior ty It s in pos s ble they "w te us to express such fine nuances of thoug t wltl the vu gar a rectness of the wr ter who las on y commonpace thin s to say Hen y James being so tran cendental and su perfine can only ex ess fne tho gh s in a fine way the declare Some English writers who na e ga ned merited tame by nob e wo k. of one k nd or an other are foo ish y held p as paragons of stjle when, as a matter of fact ty e is their weak point In th s class may be mentioned Dr Jot nson and t e hs torian Gibbons Both are supren elj ar t flcial and self conscio s in the matter of stjle and so too is Henri James TWO BOOKS OUT THE WAR "TC 1th the A es By Klcha 1 Hard ng Da is I strated Pub shed by uhar es Scribner s Sons Ivew Tor r Bh ng in Flanders. By E Alexander Powell F R. G S P bllshed by Chares Scribner s coiiEf New ork. Two hooks o the war that co er much the iame topic although in a different fash on ha e just been issued One s bv Pichard Hard n0 Davis, the noted wr ter of rlct on and t e other bv 1, A exande Powe I, specla correspondent of the Isew York Wo d with the Be sian forces in the le d Mr Powell btates that he s incl ned to write of the br ef campaign i Be giura wh le its events ue st 1 sharp and clear in his mircr and before the Impress ons it p oduced ha e oe n to fade. The first chapter deals t the war correspondents and tie writer then goes on to te 1 of the e ents which preceded and led up to the fa 1 of An erp The t t es or the eraa ng ch p ers a e The C ty of Gloom The Death Id the Air Lnder the German Eagle TVith the cp ked He mets On the Be gian Battle Line The Com nB of tl e BriUsl and Tl e Tall of Ant verp Mr Dav 8 spent a brief but uncon forta. t e period within the German I nes but n ost of the t me he was w th. the a 1 es He tells of The Germans in Biu se s The Burning of Liou ain Paris in 9ar Time The Batt e of So ssons The Bombardment of Rhe me, T e sprit of tl e Bng sh Our T ploma s n the War Zone Under Fire and The Waste of War He also 1 as a chapter on The War Corresponden s and he describes his own exper ence when he was w thin the German neb and bo e a passport w icb ordered t at he shou d be treated as a spf under ce tain c r cumstances. It would be natural to assume that these two books shou d shed some llBht upon the subject of German atrocities Treating of the German occupat on of VerschoL Mr Powe 1 gives the follow in remarkable and horr fjlng descr p tion but he takes care to po nt out that he is merely piecing together t is stories he heard Isow up to a certain point tho B 1 man version agrees wit the Ger man It is admitted that the Ger mans entered the town peaceably enough that the German ch ef of staff and other officers accepted the hospital tv of the burgomaster and that, whi e they were at d nner the burgomaster s eon entered the room and shot tl e ch ef of ctaff dead with a revo ver But and th s Is the po nt to wl ich the German ctorv makes no U usion the boy killed the chief of staff in defense of his aider's honor It is claimed that towa d the end of the meal the German officer inflamed with wine informed the burgomaster that he intended to pass the night with his young and beauti ful daughter whereupon the g rl s brother quietly slipped from the room and returning a moment later put a eudden end to the German s career with an automatic What the real truth is I do not 1 now Perhaps no one knows The Germans did not leave many eyewitnesses to tell tl e story of what happened PJeclnto to gether the stories tod by those who lid survive that n ght of I orror we know that scores of townsp op e were shot down in cold b ood and that, when the firing squads could not do the work of s aughter fast enough the victims were ned up and a ma ohlne gun was turned upon them We know o ng g r s we e dragged f om the r homes and s ripped naked nd o a ed by bo d ers tnanj sol d e s n he p b square n the p esenco of of e s We know that bot en and omen were unspea ab y mut ated at ch dren were bayone ed thit dwellings were ran sac d and oo e and that final y, as houj? to destroy the ev dences of he r o d wo k so d ers went f om I oube to house w t o ches method ica y betting fire to them In h s descript o of the racking of Lou anM Da s pa a a s ilar pic tu e ESSAYS ON THE WAK Cu ent H s ory of e 1 u op a .War P b hed b he- Ne o k T n es Loman jew Yo k The ev York T n es presen s th s paper bou d pa h e of mo e an 200 pages some of the o ost interesting e ary docume ts of the war Fi s and foremos a the sa cal essay by O Ber na d ha.w enti ed Common Sense About t e War fa aw is Eng and s g eatest conten porary dramat st and was once her most acute and construct ve dra nat c cnt c He is a fe ow of nf n to w t, of most exce ent unde s and ng and h s particular u poso th s estay wh ch is incred bly w tty and cle er is to chas en h s L g sh b other, &haw hln self be ng an Ir shman who has im 1 ! b bed quite a b of German cul ure. He does ot accept the ew of the ave age Eng hn an at Eng and has gone nto the war ith the purest of purposes tor him t e neu ra tv of Be 0 urn is Dot an issue of command ng mportan e Back of it e sa s are a generat on of Dng 1 hmcn who are qu e as o 1 ar st c as N etzsche or " on Bern a di in Gern an and w o long ma nta ned that e day n ust come when BnD and and Germany sho d f ght t o t fo the dom na t pa e Lu ope and on t e sea He accuses he Dng shraen of hvpocl&y of a lo er i than ou spirit and almost adopts the Ge man ew that En0 ad s c ef y e spons ble for t e ar Ho wan s lng and to w n but 1 e does not want 1 er to win as a hvpocnte He Is a Soc alist and does not be eve in mill arism, and he on tends t mt one of t e wo st lus o a of modern t nes is the m a t c. tl eo y t iat a nat on n ust f ght for its p ace n n the sun. i?or him istory teaches con stantlv hat the onquenn,, latlons sel om e,ai what they go after whe eas tne deteai a nat ons survi e ana gro st ong after beat ngs wh ch a most araoun ann h la tion He cites the case of Aust a, wh ch has been defeated by almo tee in po ta t power In hi rope and the case of ance w ch s nee her defeat n 18 0 as creased he terr tor w p tr umphant German is sti 1 f ghting for a oveted p ace e sun In sp e of tl e ferocious crit usn to wh ch 1 e subjc s Enl s s a esn en and diplomats ca n then Pecksniffs we can Pee that he as a k nd y fee ng for men 1 ke Premier Asqu t a d S r Ed war! G ev He d ffere tlates between e Eng s s a eman of great persona chirm w o s am ab e upr ght umane and an-v ous y truthful in p a e fc and an u scrupulous superpr 0 -and foo worse than Caesar Bor0Ia anl General on Bern ard ol ed into one when act Ing a d p omatic role The pamp et a so conta ns rep es o M Snaw by Arnoli Bennett and Chris abe Paik u st and wntn by Cun n nghame G ahan Herbert bu enberg H G W e s o n Ca sworchj Je om K. Jerome Pudyard K p lng No man Ante G be t K Chesterton If Rider Hagga d Pobert Bridges s r Arthur Conan Dovl Mauri e "Mae e nek I aron d Estour ne es de Constant, Henri Bprgs n tee Baz n Rene Do mic Em le Boutrou Gabrle e Feuter Rumaln Ro land Ger I art llauptn ann Kar Wo fske I ud wig Fulda Frederic Haf son M Y es Gu o Professor Be et Professo do f von Ha nac Theodo e 2 emevc a d other j CHRISTMAS STORY Uncle .oa a Chr stmas Partj Bj I eona Dalrymple Illus rated by CI ar es E V renn. Decoratio s y C a es Gulschard Publisl ed by JIcBr de Jsast & Company New York. Th s aut or has written man de 0 ful chr tmas slot es lnc d n In the Heart of the CI st nas P nes and Uncle Toah s h stmas Insp ra o T e production of D ane of t e Green "Van won for Miss Dalrymple the $10 000 P ire offered for the best no el n a co peti Ion Uncle oahs Christmas Tartj is a wo -thy successor to ss Dalrymp e a f st story of Lnc e I oah w h h to d how that ancient retainer s de otion n ended a quarrel between the old co onel and his sp n ed so In the present book Lncle Noah s engaged in making the Christmas season happy for those around h m Out of h s n aer hoard le p r chases t e fam y p a.te w ch 1 Is de voted master had ben corape od o sa rif ce because of poverty and this e presents to the colone C rlstmas. Ho furt er stretches h a sav ngs to ri e a Chr stmas partj to a fami y o poor white c dren n the neLjnborhood CANINE APPRECIATION Memories By John Galbwor 3 I us trated by Maud Earl Pub shed by Charles Scr oners Sons, .ew "iork To the lovers of dogs Men ories w l appeal witi spec al 8l0nUicance Air Galsworthy firet penned an app e la tion of the l ttle span el with which th s book has to deal In The Inn of Tranqu 1 t The author vrltes with tenderness and understanding of his fo r foo ed an ne fr end and wins for n a os of n?w friends The illustrations by Ma d Ear n co or and in b ac c and w h e a e d s tl gulflhed damp es of dog por at e and both tho autho and I stra o ave comb nod to produce a gl took at doubt ess wi 1 comma d arpre ation fron 1 the book bu n" and do o n pub c ABROAD AT HOME Ah oaJ a IIo e By Ju in S eet II 1 lust ation by Wa lace Morgan Other ! books of the autho T e Need of Change We con e to Our C t Par s a la Carte and Sh p Bored j Publls ed by t 0 Centur Company 1 New lok I Salt Lak C tv s apprec ab 3 cons d I ered in h s p easan and in true e j wo k o the wondrous c t es of our own country M Street po nts out percep bl the ds net pecul a t es aid de g tfu fea es of each of e great c es of Amerl a v ch e ted a omp n ed bv t e us rator T e work ntense y in eresting and d rea s c The au hor dea s In h s art c e on T e Mormon capl a w th fa ts pertain ng to our bus nesb act t es soc a fe j morals re glon and a nusemen s w c a e n ore or less famll ar to t e hat Laker But e tells s stor such a n e est ng ma ner as o br ng- back to the loca reader p easu ab 0 rem em brances of s e eryday fe and to re m nd m of t e c c pride wh ch s held n h gh favor n Sa I ako To the one who as neve seen bal La e or the other c ties dealt w t n the book Mr Street 3 descript on 1 olds a d ffer ent jet nevertheless Intense inte est with refe ence to each c ty described Mr Street cal s particu ar at ent on to the natural beauties of t e cit es and ano er feature with wh ch 1 e deals at en h is the matter of Sa t Lake be the birth pace of certa n celebr t es i thetrcal as we I as o her b anches of 1 fe s oca ons Tl e book con a ns more than ft illustrat ons made by Mr Mor gan durin the course of the Is ts to t e arious c tje T e it ea ment onod are Buffa o C e e and Detro t Bat le Creek Ka an azoo Grand Paplds C lieaQO bt Lo s Hannlba and otl er M ssou I o vn Lawrence a d weste n Kansas MI waukee St Paul M n eapo s ren ver Colo ado Sp 1ngs Salt Lake But e Sea tie Port and and San Franc sco Thf t a e ers d d none of the convent ona th n s any ere, but thev set a nw s andard for a ro al good tin e The book cannot but afford rleasant and n struct e reading to the reader of mod ern 1 te ature. TIMELY DESCRIPTIONS De g tful Da matla Bv M ce Lee A oque nius rated Pub Ished by Funk &. Wagnal s Company Now York T e sp r t of the book li reflected bj e author s 1 troduc ion! f om wh ch we q ote If one N no too old for ro na ce Dal aaslitoc es tho od due sad countess an ent treasu es v 11 afford unbounded pleas re W ii e few lay be ab p to take he act al t ip tl 3 ea o e en ne s a w 1 o ha e a taste for read ng ma to t the utter n obt ems of he ear 1. "Nor do we need to awa t a chance to w sh upo the grand z ers carpet s nee today we av go qu ck y b ut liz ng the printer s magic stick So a 1 shoull go ready to f nd 1 app ess In e eryth ng loung and joo s e -naj lea e beh d eve v ar In care, vhl e e re el in n arelous tales of good kin s and wicked queens weird an pi es and s orm demon n st spel s and n iraeu oufe happen gs such as we c II dren o ed to ear as e us e ed ro nd daddj s knee In e tw 1 g a es ke ose whic Ha Vnde e in d ar o d C 1mm ga e ho es nshn ed fore er in that 0 of ho es tho hea of a ch Id ha jovoup tt e creature w on we pn te sm ng bu t a pi " of &4 e a ane d cl i d of eet dav o vae ad e ch Id who wa& ou Oome Le us go to Dal mat a 1 s su n e 1 ne t e skj s se ene e breeze soft an he water b ue Let s re together the ro man so e wrtte upon tho anc ent wa s and f own ng bastions t e hoa y a hedra 3 and ta c palaces by t at 8 eates of alj his or ana uld Fat er T e Th book s t me y fo is descript ona of pla es al eadv n the wake of war anon" these Cat aro the recent j bom barded for if it on on tl e Adr at c Ln u ually att act e Is the great scenic and heoic nocta tach ng to Po a Sc 1 ben co Gra o sa pa ato Tagu a etc j IPISH HUMOR ! T p Den Uods V Janes Stephens Vuthor of The H 1 of IsJo Tl e C ock of Go d He e Vre Lad es and other sto les P h 3hed by T e Ma.cn a Co pa y Isew York r I3 dellghtfu y humo ous story con cerns two rogu h Iris tran ps and the r wanderings Pats MacCann and s dau er Marv Tee two together vlth their do ke and cart t a e e oun ry I ghwavs ado ways of I e and spemngy wt but one object n secur ng food wl en ujit and t e are nea alwa s hun y The a e not ex treme pa t cu ar about t c n et ods t ey en p o to secu e t s food tut whatever the n ethot he are usua succe-'sfu n the! obje t The story s one t at w II puz e some as it is written In al ego ica form but that fact adds materially to the enjoyment of the s on If Mr Step ess object In writ ng T e Demi Gods was tho worthy one of c us ng merr ment ils success is as sured THREE ACT COMEDY And So T ej ere Married. A Con edy of t e tscw Vi oman Bj Jesse Lynch M ian s Author of Ihe Mar r ed Life of T e Frederick arro s r r nceton tor es T 0 Ad entu es of a Fre chman etc Pub s (d by C ares Scr ner s cons "New Tork Th s corned j n t ee a ts s t o story of a ew wo a who dd not be ieve marria e He fa re to 1 e up to her dea s, when s o final y meets I er Prl ce Cham ing is one of the human touches of the p aj The descr ptlons of country 1 re uc are woven into t e story are real s c and very Interest ng Th s au thor s we 1 and favo ab y known for h s descript ons of co ece ife and the pres ent work Is In line w th h s forn er high c ass 1 terary productions. LITERARY NOTES The Jan a y number of the Smart Set Magaz e under tl e ed or a d ect on of Geo ge Jean Nathin and H L Mencken s n e en better n n be ha the enter td n ng n mber wh ch p e de A compete no el by Robe vale cn t t ed The Ft nera King eads the fea tures of the magaz ne Tl s novel as an undertaker for its hero and p esents tl e con ic account of a od fter who found bus ness to be pa t cular y bad , w o met a friend and toll hm so and who -pi as nforn ed in turn by t e latter e you can t expect corpses to con e o you vou ha e got to go out and look fu them other features are Lord t)unsany s ate t and best story The Burea of Ex hange of Troub e T eodore Drel se s successor to T e B ue Sphere en ed in he Dark a story b t e au o of Hagar Reve ly entitled S er Spoon Cha e an excruc at nt? bur esque of magazine detec e fict on y Frank R A dan s ca ed The Last Ad enture of Craig Kennedy W np Su zanne the story of the la o w ought a a smart ou6e par y bv a prim young w nan v r no Maxwell p y g en he ame Sea h Me wh ou s w at autened to the Ln ted s a os us oms offl e w en t ey a en p to get he et er of a ever Frenc a, tresB T e M st s he s o y of e out k awed woman by Harrv Ken pan en Hatteras The I e o II ra h i vhich deta s intimate y t e dlffe nt u j gans of the body in the rat o of t e re pectab y George Jean .athan s department of drama c cr t clsm this nonth bears t e t t e The Cream of Low comedy and PI I Mencken s department of I terary c -iticism the 1 1 e A Ga ney O d Gaul Among the satirical fea ures of the magaz he are Wl 0 s Who In America From the Memo rs of the Dev Be fo e he Sun Rose etc T e number contains a f a hundred bu esqucs epigrams poems etc In the cu rent 1 sue of Farm and Fire sde appea-s a department ca ed the hx per ence Bazaar in wl c contribu tors make suggest ons based on ter practical life on the fa m One s ch contributor comments as fo os on t e war In I s relat on to Amer an farm women Th s s a great time for American farm women Bv economy and courage and pat ence we can induce them to In tensifv ter farm ng in some sections ve can e en encourage experiments in the ra s ng of new crops for wh ch the European war has opened a market We can a o teach our ch dren the lesson of the war T ey can understand that ungathe ed harves s and unsown fie ds mean starvation Tl ey can under sad that unco tro ed tempers lead to warfa e both bet veen people and be tween nations From the Japanese paper 1 own hash kirazu trea ed cl em cal y to make It wate proof a ex adn ra of t 0 Japane e na 1 as succeeded in n ak ng pape 1 feboats t at can be packed avay a spdee of a bo t one cub foot but which w en Inflated are spaworthy and d rab e The January Popula Me c ar icb Maeaz ne con a s a p cture of ; one of the e strange boats inflated L tt e Erown &. Co announce ew edl tlons on Bg Trema ne bv Marie a orst, now in its e ghtl print ng t e Banc at the WoWem9 (se on I ed t on) bv P M Bower and T e Lone . Wo f by Louis Joseph an e (th rd ed j tion) I Rut Chatterton who impersonate-t impersonate-t e qauint 1 ttle heroine in Daddy Lon egs te Is of a tra e er who has wal ed from Hope o Ifayfie d by a pat over n oor and found t e 1 s covered a snow V f eez nt east w nd made t lngs anj th ng but p easant Vt one po nt the man had to adm t thit he had lost 1 s w 3 and t was w re lef that he found a signpost The fnscr p lo was bio ed out wl h frozen s ow lie c mbed the pott and with great d ffl u ty and pe sona d seomfo t t aweJ he now off wl 1 a a ready a f frozen hands an 1 su eeded n e Ipher ng the inscription it fad Keep to tl e pat Ja uary Yount s Mag azine . In tl e Janua Ameri an Magudnc Ida M Tarbe 1 wr tes anotl e a t c in 1 er new series en tied The Go 3e Tu e in Bus npss He present art c e s en tit ed T e Go pel of Safety a d t con ta ns a hlghlv interest ng and nstruct e repo t of what is be ng done by co pora t ons In th s Kiuntrv in the waj of ro d ng eafetv app ances t&r en p o ees as a matter of good business po c Fo low ng s in Inte esting pa agra taken from the or cle sett ng forth son e facts about the improven ent a on" th s ne the Un ted States Stee corpo at on earv al of the first safetv egls a tion con e ned it e f w th on and s eel and i s nanufacture It was tine T s Iron and steel industry has a terr b e deat ro charged to It Wl at mo e fr g tful ecord of t e ha oc It has wroug t t an the present boast of t e steel corporat on that each ear the e now escape sp ious o fa a Injur ea o e 2?00 emp ovees w 0 I ave bep n red under condl ons ex t n 190b T on a a o of 200 000 T n cans what Wly that lefore I 06 e aht jea s ago onl over 1 per ent of 3 work s were k ed or Ber ous y jured that s e 1Q06 thev a e a ed ousands of men f on deat or ut at on |