The Book Table Edited by EDMUND PEARSON Is Pleasure Old-Fashioned? sentimentalist." The chief sentimentalist For those readers who despise pleasure some R. D. TOWNSEND, I Sit a literary crime for a reader to wish One to get pleasure out of a novel? might think so from the scorn poured on sentimentalists and happy-end fans by the disciples of James Joyce, and of the new school of fiction generally. Yet there are many-and not of the mental caliber of those who in the old days devoured "Bertha, the Poor Sewing-Girl," "St. Elmo," and the like-who prefer enjoyment to anguish or sex psychology. That is why some good stories scoffed at by your ultramodern critic, or passed by with a patronizing and indulgent smile, do get in the ranks of the best-sellers. Take William J. Locke, for instance. He writes so much and so fast that he has lost the note of distinction that marked his "Morals of Marcus Ordeyne" and his "Beloved Vagabond." Of late years he has been writing for the masses, and not the critics. Yet his books are well worth while, - and for a good reason-they still have, though in less degree, the whimsical touch which had its extreme success in "Septimus:" they have every-day humor and character; the situation and story interest carry on increasingly. You do not rise to the heights with Locke, but he never really lets you down. His new book, "The Kingdom of Theophilus," opens rather dully with a prim and pedantic civil servant and But his ambitious and humorless wife. when a fortune is thrust upon him, and he has to deal with men and women of the world-a suave swindler and ex-jail-bird for one, and a fine, large-hearted, generous, sophisticated girl for another-Theophilus develops into a quaint and credulous but positive person, a man like other men, susceptible to love and the joy of life. The reader follows Theophilus with thorough enjoyment and smiles with him when he breaks bounds, renounces his burdensome wealth and starts out to have his own way, make his own romance, and lead his own life. So we have a full-bodied story and are not ashamed to enjoy it heartily. Susan Ertz probably reached her highest point as a fiction writer in her "Madame Claire," a delightful story which no one should fail to read. But her new book comes near to it in clever observation and in crisp dialogue. The author knows New York so intimately that she seems to be American until she takes her Americans to England, and then you know that she is English. Almost alone among English novelists she makes Americans talk like Americans and not like those weird creatures invented by Mrs. Trollope and handed down on the stage and in fiction to our time. In "Now East, Now West" one cannot feel great sympathy for Althea, who lures her husband to England to live, and in her ambition to reach social heights there gives her George a most trying time. We rejoice when she misses her aim, but doubt whether George has a very good chance of happiness even after Althea's chastened return to her native soil. There is satire in the story but no bitterness, and the reading is distinctly a pleasure. Dale Collins dismays the anti-Victorian critics at the outset by calling his novel The Sentimentalists." But there is precious little of the old-time school of sentimental fiction here, even though the bad man of the tale sententiously asserts, "We are all sentimentalists at heart, my friend; the greater the black rd. the greater the Books Reviewed in The Kingdom of Theophilus. By William Now East, Now West. By Susan Ertz. The Sanctity of Law. Wherein Does It The Long Pass. By Ralph Henry Barbour. A Critical Study. By Fiction THE DARK CHAMBER. By Leonard Cline. The them, a suspicion which gains strength THE EXILE. By Mary Johnston. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. $2.50. Any novel by Mary Johnston deserves respectful consideration, a claim not lessened when it is evident, as it is in "The Exile," that she is seeking expression for some of her highest hopes and dearest dreams for humanity. The tale is one of imagination and prophecy. It deals with an imaginary island in a future period: with reincarnation; with a political exile of noble soul; and the dawn, after another great war and a subsequent "Era of Dictators," of a new age when "the world is All its parts are becoming spiritual and interpenetrate;" when oceans, continents, and islands no longer forget or misunderstand one another. High thoughts and lofty visions, but difficult stuff to embody satisfactorily in the form of fiction. It is not surprising that Miss Johnston cannot be said to have attained success. one. Law THE SANCTITY OF LAW. WHEREIN DOES IT Professor Burgess has evolved from his vast store of knowledge a survey of world politics from the days of Constantine to date, but without recalling anything that has to do with his topic. His aim seems to be to assail the motives of the Allies in combining against Germany and to prove the establishment of war-time despotism in the United States. Though opposed to the "so-called League of Nations," he still regards it of "the highest importance in the present period of the world's civilization as a European institution rather than as a world institution," with its greatest problem "to furnish an antidote to the Balkanizing (or further Balkanizing) of Europe produced by the recent general war and the settlements following thereon." The author indulges in some extraordinary reflections on President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation as exposing the homes in border and Southern States to "the ravages of the brutes and savages of the black race," when it is a matter of established record that not one single outrage on the part of the emancipated occurred during the whole time between the issuance of the Proclamation and Appomattox. Little less amazing is Professor Burgess's theory-based on a statement credited to Mrs. Jefferson Davis-that but for the German volunteers on the Union side the South would have won. Our getting into 156 Roosevelt and By Howard C. Hill The Boston Transcript comments, "We have Professor Hill to thank for a most interesting glimpse of our ex-President. . . . He does not hammer away at his conclusions; he presents them gently.... He invites us to strike a compromise, and therefore proves himself a most gracious gentleman, quite unlike any of his kind in the past or present. In his book we find for the student, an essay; for the interested reader, a narrative; for everyone, a striking portrait penned upon a background of living detail." $2.50 The Old An American Translation By J. M. P. Smith, T. J. Meek, A. R. Gordon, and Leroy Waterman This fresh, accurate version brings the Old Testament directly from its original language to our own without the hindrance of intervening translations. It gives new meaning to one of the most important books the world has ever known. Cloth $7.50. Leather $10.00 The Ten Princes Translated from the Sanskrit By Arthur W. Ryder Unfaithful wives, sages, rakes, kings, gay girls and gods, court ladies, merchants, nuns and courtesans troop through these pages in gorgeous procession. Their views upon the wise conduct of living provide undiluted entertainment for the truly cultivated reader. $2.00 At All Bookstores CHICAGO PRESS on the World War was due to the coming into power of a Southern Democratic Administration, which then took vengeance Germany for what people of her race had done to support the Union cause fifty-six years before! Children's Books GAY-NECK. The Story of a Pigeon. By Dhan Gopal Mukerji. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $2.25. This is the odyssey of Gay-Neck, the most beautiful of all the 40,000 pigeons inhabiting the roof-tops of a town in India. It is told in part by Gay-Neck's youthful owner, and partly by means of "the grammar of fancy and the dictionary of imagination," when the pigeon himself is the narrator. And this pigeon is nc ordinary descendant of the great dodo who now flaunts his extinct charms only in museums. Gay-Neck is the offspring of a "tumbler" father and a mother descended from a long line of aristocratic "carriers." By the tricks of his father he escapes many a murderous hawk, to bring his miraculous maternal heritage to against Germany. serve The art of domesticating pigeons goes back thousands of years in India, and the birth, training, and mating of Gay-Neck, his experiences in the jungle with Ghond, "the greatest hunter in Bengal," and their work together in the Great War, where "death coiled and screamed like a dragon and crushed all in its grip," is a tale as unusual as it is beautiful. The decorative black-and-white drawings by Boris Artzybasheff illustrate perfectly the spirit of the book. So much is written yearly that might be classed (in tabloid lingo) as twaddle for tots that it is a genuine pleasure to recommend that this absorbing story be given to children, and any one else who is interested in bird-lore. THE LONG PASS. By Ralph Henry Barbour. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $1.75. Boys are faithful to their authors. Once caught, the boy reader stays caught. Mr. Barbour has published about twenty-five stories in this decade and dozens before, and still they come. Needless to say, this is a football story with a schoolboy hero. Some of these she will sell for a penny, some for silver, some for a gold piece; a sonnet, she thinks, should bring a guinea. This is Amy Lowell-one of her, for she is many. But surprises await us-rhyme, rhythm, and a new consonance; even free verse falls into musical line. And we are conscious of a more carefully wrought structure. There seems to be' evidence of what the two preceding posthumous volumes lacked-a judicious hand at work, winnowing, clarifying, refining. There is, of course, throughout the Amy Lowell touch-the vigorous stroke, the pithy phrase, and her peculiar slant of view. We Poetry "BALLADS FOR SALE." By Amy Lowell. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $2.25. SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES A third posthumous book of poems from Two Vacancies, European Travel School Intensive study combined with travel. No loss of time preparing for college. 8,593, Outlook. any source is cause for amazement, and we open this latest volume of Amy Lowell's verse with some curiosity. We think we know what to expect-and we get it in the introductory poem. Miss Lowell has "Ballads for Sale." True to form, she appraises and heralds them: Did you hear the drums and fife? TEACHERS' AGENCY The Pratt Teachers Agency 70 Fifth Avenue, New York Recommends teachers to colleges, public and private schools. EXPERT SERVICE Connecticut Massee Tutoring School Shippan Point, Stamford, Connecticut Private tutoring under experienced tutors. All outdoor sports. Wonderful record. 2 years' work in one possible. W. W. MASSEE, Ph.D. New Jersey Backward Children require intensive training THE BANCROFT SCHOOL provides unsurpassed facilities for exceptional children. It is a homelike private boarding school with a highly trained staff, including resident physician and nurse. Summer camp on Maine coast affords complete change for four months under same staff. Established 1883 Catalog on Request Directors E. A. Farrington, M.D., and Jenzia C. Cooley Box 215 Haddonfield, New Jersey Biography PATRIOTS OFF THEIR PEDESTALS. By Paul Wilstach. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis. $2.75. In one friendly push Mr. Wilstach tips George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Patrick Henry, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and James Madison off their bases and lays The them tenderly down in the grass. austere Washington off his pedestal becomes human, with such a sense of humor that he was known to roll with laughter on the lawn at Mount Vernon. Benjamin Franklin, we now learn, was a sad wag as Patrick Henry's well as a philosopher. preference of liberty to death appears to have been outdone in a regard for fees. Alexander Hamilton built castles in the air, as well as some very strong ones on the soil. John Adams had a "hungry, insatiable mind" that got him into many scrapes. "Jefferson was a dreamer." True, and dreamed some mighty dreams that came through. John Marshall, instead of being a pundit, was "the cheeriest, blithest James spirit of all the early fathers." Madison's "unpretentious amiability" was his best characteristic, beyond his great abilities. Mr. Wilstach has some trouble in prying Madison loose, and is inclined to leave him where history puts him. By ALFRED E. SMITH. A Critical Study. Henry F. Pringle. Macy-Masius, New York. $3. Written in a tone of florid admiration, this volume will please the admirers of the Governor of New York, without furnishing the critical the deeper view they will require before being convinced that he is the ne plus ultra of a statesman. It is more than difficult to write the life of a living man without being for or against him. Mr. Pringle is most decidedly "for" his subject, whom he converts into a sort of idol. 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Rex Cherryman brings to it a vigorous masculinity and an emotiona! appeal rare in our leading actors of late years. But his ingenuity in unraveling the mystery means more to us than his sufferings. The upshot is that people who would shrink from a Hall-Mills trial can attend Mary Dugan's with almost perfect equanimity and considerable entertainment. The only shadow left-and it is no faint one-is the question that obtrudes itself once the whole affair is over and settled: Have human beings been sent to their death by the People on circumstantial evidence much like this-apparently convincing, and yet in reality utterly unreliable? Coming from "The Trial of Mary Dugan" it is difficult to escape the feeling that possibly our whole machinery for human justice, viewed at first hand, may not be all that it is cracked up to be. Europe in the Air (Continued from page 148) record. There have been one or two accidents on the French lines and one or two on the German lines. Planes are often forced down because of the fog or storm, but the science of landing has developed so far that wheat and corn fields present few death traps. All that remains in these fields are the "scarecrows." The flight of Commander Byrd proved, for one thing. that it is possible to go through the most terrific of storms and land without loss of life. The three great airdromes of EuropeLe Bourget, Croydon, and Tempelhof-have become veritable passenger stations. At Le Bourget, where the lines of the Continent converge, is to be found a brick station house with restaurant and café, ticket office, commissionaires fitted out like railway depot bag carriers, and taxicabs waiting to make the run into Paris. Passengers go in certain gates and out certain gates. It is likely that the Government will erect a hotel there within the next year for the accommodation of night fliers. There is a hubbub about the terminal throughout the day and night, with planes arriving from all points on the Continent and from England. A N indication of the safety of flying is the fact that insurance companies who underwrite each passenger who boards a ship are thriving and paying dividends. With each ticket bought on a German line there goes an insurance of 25,000 reichmarks, or more than $6,000, against death or permanent disability, and 25 reichmarks for each day an injured person is forced to remain away from his desk. The insurance covers explosion, fire, destruction, loss, and theft. The other lines also offer insurance. For the skeptical they offer additional insurance above that allowed on the purchase price of a ticket. The people of Europe climb into their airplanes and fly. That is all there is to it. They have no desire to come down until they reach their destination. 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