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Nothing could be more amusing than the cosmopolitan town that exists, with daily shifting of population, inside the walls of a great hotel. Arnold Bennett appreciated that when he wrote "The Grand Babylon Hotel," a book despised by critics, but no worse for that reason. Mr. Hungerford tells about the men who have made the Waldorf: George C. Boldt, the famous Oscar, and Mr. Boomer, whose name sounds like that of an American in an English novel. He tells about guests like Li Hung-chang, the Prince of Wales, the King of Belgium, and others, and about the Bradley Martin Ball, which only us old, old people can remember. He discusses the humiliating incident of the hot water for Prince Henry's bath. It is an entertaining book.

There is a comic or eccentric history of Chicago' written, I believe, by Mr. Frank Chandler. Mr. Chandler wrote me a letter about it. He said he had sent me a copy, and that I hadn't paid any attention to it. He intimated that we did not review any books in The Outlook unless the publisher advertised with us. If he only knew how little I know about what the Advertising Department is doing! If he only knew that that Department regards me (as the East, in Matthew Arnold's poem, regarded the Roman Legions) with silent, deep disdain! But Mr. Chandler has sent another copy of his book, and as he says that the book is intended to amuse, I will testify that it is a success. I cannot, it is true, read all the description of the author's wedding, as copied from the Chicago newspapers, but I found some of his early chapters, with their parodies on the ancient style of history, ingenious and diverting, and the illustrations are novel. Not a book for serious historians, however.

"Anatole France Himself" is a translation of "Anatole France en Pantoufles," and a counterblast to one or two biographies which have tried to make the great author a plaster saint. This goes to the other extreme, and shows him as an old rogue, although often a lovable and humorous rogue. He keeps books, which are sent him, in his bath tub, and receives with surprise and delight the fifty francs which a second-hand dealer gives him for the books when he carries them away. He had supposed that he would have to pay the dealer for reliev

ing him of the burden. Presumably the France family bathed between times. He mocks at the church, but he loves eccle

5 Che-Cau-Gou, A History-A Romance. By Onkwe Ganinwari. The Faithorn Com-. pany, Chicago.

Anatole France Himself; A Boswellian Record. By His Secretary, Jean Jacques Brousson. Translated by John Pollock. The J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. $5.

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WITH the September number comes a new Harper's Magazine. This national

institution, which has seen so many changes and has itself changed many times to maintain its position as leader of American thought, has taken another of these important steps. A fundamental one, this time, involving not only a change in physical aspect, but a distinct development in editorial policy.

A vividly arresting cover, a perfect type page, a frontispiece in color, actually more reading matter than before-these are characteristic of the new magazine.

The editorial forecast of the new Harper's promises a magazine of infinite variety, of stimulating and authoritative articles, masterful fiction, provocative and exhilarating approaches to numerous aspects of this extraordinary universe.

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THUNDER ON THE LEFT, Christopher Morley's new novel, puts its author at the top of contemporary writers. It belongs in no known category; its imaginative intensity is overwhelming; its beauty is breath-taking; its comedy breaks your heart; it is far ahead of WHERE THE BLUE BEGINS.

In short, the new Harper's Magazine will be the indispensable and sympathetic periodical for the alert minded, clear-eyed reader who wants both entertainment and a broadened point of view, who demands a more than casual knowledge of the baffling and challenging problems of our present-day life.

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IN THE SEPTEMBER NUMBER

RELIGION AND LIFE, by Dr. Harry E. Fosdick
THUNDER ON THE LEFT, by Christopher Morley
THESE AMERICAN MEN, by Rebecca West
SHOULD MARRIAGE BE MONOTONOUS? by Elton Mayo
THE ARISTOCRATIC WEST, by Katharine F. Gerould
THE WIFE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by Gamaliel Bradford
SOCIALISM AND EDUCATION, by Bertrand Russell
STORIES: by Aldous Huxley, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Etc.
POEMS: by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Etc.

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siastical pomp and trappings, and cannot resist talking piously through his nose when a bishop comes to solicit his vote for membership in the Academy. He demands eight proofs of his books from the printer. And when he is caught by a gendarme in an indiscreet flirtation in the park he escapes the official's wrath by showing his card, proving that he is a member of the great Forty Immortals. Try to imagine a member of the corresponding American society eluding a policeman in Central Park in that fashion!

William Rose Benét's "Poems for Youth" is an anthology of American poetry, consisting of a rather brief selection, beginning with FitzGreene Halleck and Bryant, and ending with about twenty men and women who are writing to-day. As a rule only one or two poems by each poet are included, and, although

the title indicates that the selection was made for young readers, it is an admirable collection for anybody. The Introduction is readable and vigorous, and the biographical and critical notes form a valuable feature from which I received a

great deal of information and entertainment. A good Christmas gift for a high school boy or girl.

C. MacLaurin's "Mere Mortals" is not to be read by any one with a weak stomach. The author, an Australian physician, also wrote "Post Mortem." Both books are speculations on the diseases which afflicted persons like Doctor Johnson, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Queen Elizabeth, Ivan the Terrible, and other important men and women of past centuries. It is a disagreeable subject, but Dr. MacLaurin is never dull, and he hates sham and humbug. It is sad to learn that he died recently, at the early age of fifty-three. He seems to believe that almost all the diseases suffered by people in the Middle Ages and in the seventeenth and eighteen centuries are to be explained by syphilis. It is not for a layman to say that a physician is right or wrong, but the constant recurrence of that disease in all these essays makes one remember that physicians have always had a tendency to emphasize some one disease at certain periods of history.

This is not a merry book. Must you have dancing sunbeams in every volume? Then read how many doctors Charles II had, and what they did to him, and be glad as glad as Polyanna-that you are not a seventeenth-century monarch.

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to get desperate and goes on dining and playing "snooker" billiards at his club. We like him.

BRING! BRING! By Conrad Aiken. Boni & Liveright, New York. $2.50.

Of these thirteen stories, one, "The

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Dark City," deludes the reader up to the Fri

final page into believing that Mr. Conrad Aiken has for once chosen to deal, and neither overpowered by sex nor overdeal delightfully, with a group of people shadowed by doom; but at the last moment the ominous cloud looms up portentous. It is with no weak wish for the merely happy-ending variety of tale that one deplores the preponderance of the painful and unpleasant in these stories; but, if only as a foil, one craves the pres

ence of some women whose instincts are

virginal, some men whose natures are stronger or kindlier or finer than the ignoble types that almost wholly engage

the author's talents. Without them the
book produces an effect more depressing
and repellent than either interesting or
impressive.

GREENERY STREET. By Dennis Mackail.
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $2.

It is a pleasure to praise this cheerful and humorous story. It is like that jovial play "The First Year" in that both describe early married life and housekeeping, but it is gentler and more refined.

One smiles, not guffaws, all the way through. We don't wonder that it has had a big success in London.

OUT OF THE BLUE. By H. C. McNeile ("Sapper"). The George H. Doran Company, New York. $2.

Short stories by the author of "Bulldog Drummond." Nearly all of them have a surprise; they are thrilling yarns with a kick in them. The first story is very good; some of the others are pretty good; one or two attempt too much and are plain duds.

THE CHARTREUSE OF PARMA. By Stendhal.
D. Appleton & Co., New York. $2.50.

Every one who has read literary criticism has seen countless references to Stendhal (Henri Beyle was his real name) as a great novelist and precursor of modern fiction, but few of us have read his books. This, his masterpiece, was written about 1830, and this translation by Lady Mary Lord was copyrighted in

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"I Saw It in The Outlook"

"I saw it in The Outlook," is a common introduction to letters inquiring about real estate offerings.

The real estate classified advertisements in The Outlook are read by an audience of remarkably high purchasing power. They are home seekers, home owners, home builders. No extensive message is needed to arouse the interest of such prospects. A modest announcement in The Outlook will do the business.

Advertisers tell us that their returns from Outlook classified columns are exceptionally high and uniformly profitable. The consistent use of these columns for real estate announcements has become a habit. It is a habit that is well worth forming.

Read the real estate announcements in The Outlook and keep in touch with the highest quality offerings on the market to-day. Use these columns whenever you have something that will appeal to an audience far out of the ordinary, exceptionally interested in the good things of life.

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Biography

JOHN A. BRASHEAR: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A MAN WHO LOVED THE STARS. Edited by W. Lucien Scaife. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $4.

This is the uncritically edited autobiography of a man who combined in an extraordinary manner great simplicity of character with a high degree of mechanical genius. He was the foremost maker of astronomical lenses of his day and a master in the art of making plane surfaces, and he was also, as the foreword says, "Pennsylvania's best-loved citizen, the intimate of millionaires and paupers, of scientists, educators, and untutored workmen, the friend of the newsboy, the natural, easy playmate of little blind children." A man without formal education, he was selected by Andrew Carnegie to have a large share in making and executing the plans for the Carnegie Institute of Technology. The book as it stands is a combination of much trivial personal reminiscence, with chapters of genuine interest, such as that on the making of the twelve-inch reflector.

Religion

HUMAN NATURE AND

THE

GOSPEL.

By William Lyon Phelps. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. $2. Some three years ago Mr. Phelps published "Human Nature in the Bible." In that book he treated the Old Testament as a masterpiece of literature, and "undertook to consider it as a revelation of human nature in the sublimity, baseness, wisdom, folly, courage, cowardice, tragedy, comedy, normalcy, and whimsicality that have ever been characteristic of men and women." He now attempts in his good-humored and common-sense

style to perform the same office for the New Testament. The result is a readable if not inspired commentary on the chief persons and situations of the Gospel narrative. The problems of Modernism and the higher criticism will not disturb the reader, for they do not disturb the writer. He accepts the traditional views of the Virgin Birth, of the miracles and the Resurrection, without question or embarrassment. His attitude is expressed in this passage: "The whole question of the Virgin Birth need not afflict the average man. If Jesus is unique, unlike any other person, it is not illogical to believe that his birth was unique; but if Jesus was simply a good man, then the Christian religion-as a religion-loses its foundation. In the presence of the Supreme Miracle of the Incarnation, other miracles are of minor importance." The book is especially successful in making clear the personalities of many figures who to most of us are confused or vague; notably of Paul and Luke, whose missionary adventures are the subject of a crisp and vivid narrative.

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By LAWRENCE JACOB ABBOTT

Phonograph Records

DOUBT (Glinka); LE COR (de Vigny-Flegier). Sung by Feodor Chaliapin. Victor.

"Doubt" is a Russian love-song tinged with the pessimism which all listeners have a right to expect from Russian music. A continuous violin obbligato makes it almost a "love duet" for bass and violin. "Le Cor"-which appropriately introduces horn calls, becomes intensely stormy, and then ends in majestic calmness gives Chaliapin a greater opportunity to display his vocal gifts. But, for all its variety, it lacks the cumulative effectiveness of the Glinka song. In both compositions Chaliapin's

voice is nothing short of masterful. This record was made in Europe; it seemed that the piano accompaniment, especially at the beginning of "Doubt," "recorded" less clearly than in most of the Americanmade records.

CARMEN-FANTASIE (Bizet-Sarasate); HAVANAISE (Saint-Saëns). Played by Jascha Heifetz. Victor.

Two selections of Spanish atmosphere garnished and decorated with tricks out of the violin virtuoso's bag: doublestops, harmonics, and pizzicato passages. Heifetz takes one's breath away with his barely audible high notes. But it is not such stunts that make the great musi

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