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a brilliant maniac, learned in demonology, arouses the atavistic impulses of the community and re-establishes the old religion. With the help of his lurid wife and of a minister, black masses are celebrated. The young doctor, a stranger in the community, becomes involved through his love for a girl who is selected. -the spotless virgin-for sacrifice. The story partakes enough of the mystery tale to demand from a reviewer silence as to its ending. Absurd, all this sounds. But it isn't. The author has used the technique of the psychological novel with shrewdness and happy discretion. He suggests convincingly, without dotting i's and crossing t's, the shut-in community stewing in its own juice and producing the usual monstrosities of the inverted and suppressed. With fine poetic feeling he handles the melancholy that hangs over a New England landscape; the burying-ground where black juniper spreads and Michaelmas daisies droop in the winds of a bleak hillside, the staring windows of deserted houses lit by a cold sunset-from these he makes an atmosphere in which fantastic creatures out of old horror tales come to life, in which the incredible comes true.

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PLENDOR," by Ben Ames Williams

(E. P. Dutton & Co.), is a novel in the English tradition-long, sober, solid, peopled with round, living characters, set in the simple, sometimes tedious. incident of the average life. It is the tale of the days of Henry Beeker, newspaper man, born in Boston in 1870, settling into age there in 1925. His story is also the story of the journalism during those days of vital changes. His life is humdrum, homely, sometimes sad, mostly pleasant, shot at rare intervals with flashes of strong emotion.

Starting as office boy at thirteen, he moves up through the reference-room to the high point of his career as reporter at the State House, and back again to end his days in the reference-room, where they began. Grant, the World's Fair, Free Silver, the Spanish War and Roosevelt, the Boston police strike and Coolidge against this background of National and social alterations, changing standards in the mechanics of living and in conduct, Henry Beeker and his people nove, as vital as the people who sit beside you on the morning train. As a symbol of swift change, the motive of ransportation-heavy horses in old Dan Beeker's smithy, bicycle parades, rolley rides, automobiles-is repeated it intervals in the pattern of the book. "Splendor," the author calls his book. This is the splendor of the common man s protagonist, aiming in his effort

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higher than he can strike and going down in scarcely perceived failure, achieving in his personal relations a fine order and a consequent peace, carrying in his soul that perception of beauty which sustains him, which, if you like, deludes him always with the promise of something splendid just ahead. The author of "Splendor" does excellent and profitable stories for the magazines. He must have foregone the sure success of many for the sake of this, so obviously doubtful on that score. One suspects that this is "his book," the book that has lain ripening in his breast for years.

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every town and city, in

theland. Mechanics and merchants, teachers and bankers, laborers and lawyers-every station of life is represented in this investment democracy. And it is a democracy, for the average holding is only 26 shares. No one person owns as much as 1% of the total stock.

The American Telephone and Telegraph Company and its associated companies comprising the national Bell Telephone System are owned by the people they serve,

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get our factories humming. Ever so often we had a war; and in the interim we were distracted and embroiled with a trust issue and a free-silver issue and imperialism and what not. We believed in universal education and put the belief into practice; but a lot of us stopped reading when we were through with McGuffey.

So it was inevitable that we should arrive at 1927 a little lopsided. Some of us can't see yet that art is an integral part of life; a symbol of man's highest aspirations, linking him with the creative force behind the universe. There are Americans who own two automobiles and at the same time believe that a savant who was christened, let us say, Picollini, is necessarily inferior to a State college graduate who answers to the good old Anglo-Saxon name of Smith. And some of us believe that the world was begun Monday morning, five thousand years ago.

We make mistakes, and repeat them; as Chicago, having had Big Bill Thompson once, re-elects him on a personal issue between Bill and George the Fifth of England. We listen approvingly to business men who tell us that the sole idea animating them is Service. We talk about the separation of Church and State while the Protestant churches of the country are massed behind the AntiSaloon League and the Methodist Board of Temperance, Morals, and Reform.

But give us time. We are a reasonably well-intentioned people, and we mean to do right when we see the right. M. Siegfried admits that we are economically sound. Well, that is a good foundation on which to build a higher form of civilization. When a man isn't pressed for money and has his affairs. in good shape, he is ripe for the mellowing influences of the fine arts. And that is the time when the singers and the writers appear.

No one acquainted with our history can doubt our ability to accomplish the thing we set out to do. One of the most exciting chapters in the story of mankind was written in America in the years between Appomattox and the first battle of the Marne. What a time! There were giants in those days. There are epics in those days, too, for the writer drumming his desk for an American theme.

There are nuisances and we shall abate them, as we have abated them in the past. There are demagogues abroad preaching asinine doctrines. We shall abate them, too. Are we slaves of the

machine? I am not so sure when I see a factory surrounded by the automobiles of workers. I am less sure when I contrast their working hours with the laborious days of twenty-five, even fifteen years ago. And if we are enslavedwell, we freed some slaves once; we can do it again.

But give us time. When we know what has to be done, and how, and why, we shall do it. Remember, we are not following precedent; we are creating a new kind of society. We hesitate now, and very likely we shall move more slowly in the future. The war drained

our emotional reservoir and chilled our idealism. The war did a number of things besides enriching us, as our critics are fond of pointing out. It loosed the Americanizer, raised a number of moribund issues that might have died of inanition otherwise. And it is our treatment of some of them that causes M. Siegfried to set down ironic exclamation marks.

Well, who started the war, anyway?

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is expected to make on reorganization of the national finances. He has completed an extensive tour of northern Mexico with President Calles, which has given him opportunity to see the public works that the Government has under way, and consequently to estimate the prospects for Mexico's economic future. His financial suggestions will be regarded as a test of the policy of the United States towards Mexico for the period of reconstruction on which she is entering after years of revolution and civil war.

USSOLINI is making capital

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of some Napoleonic souvenirs which the exiling of Bonaparte from France indirectly brought to Italy. Pope Pius VII offered protection to members of the Bonaparte family. They left belongings of historic interest, which the late Count Luigi Primoli, a direct descendant of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, bequeathed to Rome. There the new Napoleon Museum, which now houses them, was opened on the fifth anniversary of the Fascist march on Rome. Mussolini added as his contribution a document to which the Corsican signed his name in the Italian style, "Buonaparte."

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This book is for those who wish to keep physically fit and maintain normal weight. Not intended as a guide for chronic invalids as all such cases require the care of a competent physician. Name and address on card will bring it without cost or obligation.

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In the Pocono Mountains BUCK HILL FALLS, PENNSYLVANIA A Progressive Boarding School for Girls and Boys Elementary. College Preparatory. Special attention to diet and health. Outdoor life and winter sports. NELL MOORE CAROLYN NELSON BRITTON

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The Far East, lying in mellow centuries, offers allurement incalculable to the traveler. Along the road to these old lands lie the Canal Zone-California - Honolulu-or, circling the globe the other way, EnglandEurope- the rare Mediterranean — and the Near East.

Is Sleep Only a Bad Habit?

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periments on twenty subjects at the Institute. He makes his observations by using automatic machines attached to the beds of his subjects. These machines, known as Simmons kinetographs, register the number and time of each bodily movement in sleep.

"Most of our twenty subjects reach their period of greatest quiet in sleep within an hour and a half after retiring," reports Dr. Johnson. "There are some exceptions, to be sure, but they are few. Of course, as any one can see, light, noise, and other outside stimuli incidental to the hours of daylight may easily make the daytime less favorable to sleep than the hours of darkness. But, outside of these considerations, it is chiefly the state of one's body which seems to decide when the best rest may be obtained."

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The First Hour the Fastest

N a series of experiments designed to determine the depth of sleep, Kohlschutter found that it requires an auditory stimulus approximately eight times as strong to awaken a person at the close of one hour of sleep as it does at the close of the second hour, and a stimulus forty times as strong to awaken a person at the close of the first hour of sleep as at the close of four hours; while it requires a stimulus more than one hundred times as strong to awaken a person at the close of one hour as it does after six hours. These experiments certainly show that sleep has depth as well as length.

Everybody has witnessed an example of a lazy man who sleeps much and a mental genius who sleeps little. While we cannot all be mental geniuses, we

can find out by consulting our own feelings just how much or how little sleep we can do with. And some of us will find, if we are honest, that we can get along with much less than we have been accustomed to.

The difference among individuals in the amount of sleep needed is due largely to habit. Some individuals sleep more than they really need to simply because from infancy to the age of ten or twelve they have been forced by parents to stay in bed so much of the time that they have acquired a very firmly established habit of long sleeping.

Our state of mind has a great deal to do with this habit. If we do not get our full eight hours of sleep at night, we are all too ready to blame every ill on lack of sleep. Much of the tired feeling subsequent to going a night without our full quota of sleep exists only in the mind. We think we ought to feel fatigued because we have been up late the night before, consequently we do feel fatigued.

Is fatigue an undesirable state of being, anyway?

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"A good deal of nonsense has been written about fatigue, as though it were a condition to be avoided at all costs," says Dr. Johnson. "To be sure, actual exhaustion is a serious matter, but most of us, if we ever reach it, attain it by way of disease, or by worry, or by imag ination. Not only is mild fatigue conducive to effective work; it is also an important agent of pleasure. There are few thrills to be compared with the satisfaction which attends discharging of energy of the body cells, and then by food, relaxation, and sleep charging them up again. Such a process means health The self-indulgent unwittingly deprive themselves of a great deal of pure joy."

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For combined physical upbuilding, education, and downright fun, a bicycle tour is unequaled. Our boys, on splendid English tandems, at an easy pace, visit the great cathedrals, ancient castles, and historic places, and make a point of meeting schoolboys of their age.

British Tour. A complete circle around England and north into Scotland, through Winchester, Cheltenham, Stratford, Warwick, Oxford, London, Bedford, Cambridge, Ely, Lincoln, York, Abbotsford, Edinburgh, Carlisle, the Lake Country, London, Southampton. Ages 12-16.

Continental Tour. Ages 15-16 only. Trip to Europe this Summer?

Hamburg, the Rhine Valley from Coblenz to
Mainz, the Black Forest to Basle, through
Switzerland to Interlaken and up the Jung-
frau. To Dijon in France, through eastern
France to Sens, Bar-le-Duc, Verdun battle-
Bekis, Reims, Versailles and Paris, Beauvais,
Amiens, St. Pol, and Boulogne.

First-class references required. For information write CHARLES K. TAYLOR, Director Cycle Tours, Inc., Carteret Academy, Orange, N. J., or The Outlook, New York.

1928 Earn your trip by organizing a small party. Low rates. Liberal terina.

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Incomparable Y Summer 1928 Tour

Spain, No. Africa, Sicily, Naples, to London. WHERE, WHEN, HOW TO TRAVEL
First class. Restricted number. For circular
address Professor, Coll. Sta., Box 581, Durham, N. C.

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Two large front rooms,

BOARDERS refined, attractive

house. Excellent table. Write Misses TABB,
411 West Clifford St., Winchester, Va.

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Pleases everyone. For yourself or friend going abroad this winter. Only one dollar sent to MY TRAVEL-LOG CO., Station C, Buffalo, N. Y.

Oranges, Grapefruit, Tangerines,
Marmalades, and Pecans

Direct to consumer. Complete price list on
request. S. L. MITCHILL, Mount Dora, Fla.

Real Estate
Bermuda

For rent, delightful houses for season in beau-
ence. List and details. Mrs. Grosvenor Tucker,

tiful Bermuda. All types, every conveniHamilton, Bermuda. Cable: Teucro, Bermuda.

New Jersey

Will rent

hot and cold water. Surf bathing, 20 bath: ATLANTIC CITY, Ventnor When fur

houses on beach. Tennis, horseback riding.
Six miles from historic Santa Barbara, two
Moderate
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rates. For folder address San Ysidro Ranch,
Santa Barbara. Cal.

Connecticut

WOOD ACRES

Rest house for medical and surgical convalescents and for people who desire permanent home. Conservative rates. Further information on request. ANNA M. CULLEN, R.N., Milford, Conn. Phone Milford 305.

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Special Blue Plate Service in Grill Room
For comfort, for convenience to all parts of
the metropolis, for its famous dining service
come to Hotel Bristol. You'll feel" at home."

Hotel Judson 53 Washington Sq.,
New York City
Residential hotel of highest type, combining
the facilities of hotel life with the comforts of
an ideal home. American plan $4 per day and
up. European plan $1.50 per day and up.
SAMUEL NAYLOR, Manager.

Hotel Wentworth

59 West 46th St., New York City
The hotel you have been looking for
which offers rest, comfortable appointments,
thoughtful cuisine. In the heart of theatre
and shopping center, just off Fifth Ave.
Moderate. Further details, rates, booklets,
direct, or Outlook Travel Bureau.

Hotel LENOX, North St., west of Delaware
Ave., Buffalo, N. Y, Superior accommo-
dations; famous for good food. Write direct or
Outlook's Bureau for rates, details, bookings.

South Carolina

BELLAMY INN, Beaufort, S. C.

An old Southern home, on the bay. Remodeled

large, sunny, airy corner rooms; private
into exclusive tourist inn. Furnace heat;
baths. Tennis and shuffleboard court, good
fishing and hunting. Good home cooking.

corner residence, Atlantic Ave. Exclusive
Address
Rent reasonable.
neighborhood.
L.M. BUTTS, 4224 Pine St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Instruction

Opportunity to become TRAINED NURSE. $15 monthly allowance. Ideal living conditions. Tennis, surf bathing. 3 hours from New York. 8-hour day. 2% year course. Age 18 to 32; 2 years high school. Send for descriptive folder and application. Southampton Hospital Association. Southampton, Long Island, N. Y. BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES BOYS' camp, long established, large following, lease or sale, small investment. 8,212, Outlook.

GIRLS' school, 40 years of success, large enrollment, high class. Advanced age of headmistress compels sale. Opportunity for educator. 8,213, Outlook.

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PRINTING. 500 letterheads, 8x11, $2.50; 1,000, $4.00; half-size letterheads, 1,000, $3.25, good bond; 500 6% envelopes, $2.00, 1,000, $3.00, prices include printing. Better grade paper proportionate prices. Small publications a specialty. Rue Pub. Co., Denton, Md. WRITE for free samples of embossed at $2 or printed stationery at $1.50 per box. Lewis, stationer, Troy, N. Y.

EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES INSTITUTIONAL executives, Social workers, secretaries, dietitians. cafeteria managers, governesses, companions, mothers' helpers, housekeepers. The Richards Bureau, 68 Barnes St.. Providence.

TEACHERS register now for attractive mid-year vacancies. Associated Teachers' Agency, 522 Fifth Ave., New York City.

HELP WANTED

HOTELS NEED TRAINED MEN AND WOMEN. Nation-wide demand for highsalaried inen and wonen. Past experience unnecessary. We tram you by mail and put you in touch with big opportunities. Big pay, fine living, permanent, interesting work, quick advancement. Write for free book, Lewis YOUR BIG OPPORTUNITY." Hotel Training Schools, Suite AO-5842, Washington, D. C.

SITUATIONS WANTED COMPANION or COURIER. University man, traveled extensively, as companion to California, West Indies, anywhere, or would act as courier abroad. 8,144, Outlook.

LADY teacher desires outdoor work, or to join health colony. 8,210, Outlook.

PRIVATE school teacher, 35, with educational and social background, desires position as traveling companion to woman or girl. 8,211, Outlook.

REFINED woman living in California desires position as companion-secretary to lady. Exceptional references. 8,214, Outlook.

WANTED-Part time (New York City) care of children, well or ill, preferably in afternoon or evening, by experienced nurse with best references. 8,216, Outlook.

MISCELLANEOUS

TO young women desiring training in the care of obstetrical patients a six months' nurses' aid course is offered by the Lying-In Hospital. 307 Second Ave., New York. Aide are provided with maintenance and given a monthly allowance of $10. For further particulars address Directress of Nurses.

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