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in the life of a man whose only excuse for existence is that he plays one note in an orchestra. The method is inherited, I believe, from Caran d'Ache, who may have taken it from the Toltec Indians' wall writings, for all I know. At all events, under the individual pencils of these two men it is a joy forever.

Admittedly, Bateman has not the decorative sense of Gluyas Williams. Notice the week-enders' morning race for the bath, an illustration for Benchley's "Love Conquers All." The flying bathgown with its long tassels and the flowerclad colonel who dropped his sponge are almost Beardsleyan in composition. Williams's use of solid blacks is a delight; but at the same time I seriously doubt if Gluyas Williams is capable of such an essence of apoplexy as is the Admiral's when his Queen is taken by the unruffled Snotty. At the moment I can think of no one who can make a furious temper quite as ridiculous as H. M. Bateman. His latest book of drawings is wholly devoted to his raging Colonels.

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The fun of George Morrow lies not so much in his drawings as in the ideas back of them, and this is largely true of Ellison Hoover also. Morrow's jokes can almost always be told, while Bateman's have to be seen to be appreciated. Morrow is an archæologist at heart; he is happiest with his devastating disclosures in ancient history or explaining the little embarrassments of home life in the Middle Ages. I shall never forget the unfor

Mr. Morrow is both a "Punch" artist and an illustrator of books. "George Morrow: His Book" is published by Methuen & Co., London. His work is enjoyed by readers of "Punch," but otherwise too little known in America.

tunate necromancer who changed his best friend into a rabbit while trying to charm away his bunions. He had entirely forgotten that the charm could not be dissolved for three years, but he inquired solicitously if the poor friend would like a nice clean hutch in the meantime.

Hoover, very much like him in many ways, sensibly draws almost all his material from what our best critics invariably call "the American scene." His "Intimate Glimpses of American Generals of Industry" ties a mean can to the pompous tail of the Advertising Game. And there is yet to appear a parody of Michael Arlen (there have been thousands of them) which did the trick as neatly as a half-page "Impression of Mayfair, by One Who Has Never Been There," that appeared in "Life" several weeks ago. In reference to the picture reproduced here, it will be said that Ellison Hoover is not precisely original in thinking the Smith Brothers funny. For years vaudeville teams, college theatricals, and costume balls have rung almost

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all the possible changes on the subject of those two great American beavers, but I doubt if any one before seriously considered what might happen if one of them. were to mislay a cough drop!

Certainly, there are others in America. I would not suggest for a moment that these are the only artists in this country to see anything funny beyond cute kids, petting parties, and the demon rum. Nevertheless for persons tired of having the pages of "Punch" flapped in their faces by truculent Anglophiles defending the British sense of humor it may be suggested that they may procure Ellison Hoover's "Cartoons from 'Life,'" and that Gluyas Williams is busy as an illustrator and a genuinely comic delineator of the worried American countenance.

Travel and Description

ARGONAUTS OF THE SOUTH. By Captain Frank Hurley. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

This is a lively narrative of two Antarctic expeditions in which the author participated in the capacity of official photographer. No attempt has been

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made to give scientific data, but rather to reveal to the general reader the wonders of Antarctica, the perils faced, the sufferings, successes, and failures. The many illustrations are exceptionally clear. Better than the most convincing description they visualize the rigors of polar exploration, the fierce contest waged between man and the elements. The first expedition, under the leadership of Dr. Douglas Mawson (like the author, an Australian), sought to explore the unknown portion of the Antarctic Continent lying directly south of Australia and conduct oceanographical observations. From winter quarters in Adelie Land they approached to within fifty miles of the Magnetic Pole, but were forced to turn back for lack of food. Shackleton's expedition approached the Pole from the opposite direction-South America. Only men of indomitable resolution could have endured the trials and privations that were their lot. For nine months their ship was held captive in the ice floes of the Weddell Sea, then crushed into a splintered mass of wreckage by shifting ice. Five months longer they drifted helplessly on the floe, subsisting on seals, penguins, sea elephants, even their faithful sledge dogs, until they contrived to land on the bleak shore of Elephant Island. With five companions Shackleton made a voyage of 750 miles in an open boat over gale-swept seas to South Georgia, effecting the rescue of his marooned ship's company. This is a book to linger over at the fireside.

SIX YEARS WITH THE TEXAS RANGERS. By James B. Gillett. The Yale University Press, New Haven. $4.

Mr. Gillett was a member of the Texas Rangers from 1875 to 1881, and has

written a sincere, straightforward narrative of his own early life, and his experiences on the border patrol, capturing outlaws, chasing horse thieves, and killing Indians. Gillett, we learn, was present at the shooting and capture of Sam Bass; kidnapped a Mexican murderer, and brought him back into Texas; and fought Geronimo in the last Apache war. He is an honest, painstaking writer, with that lack of humor and imagination by which nature protects those who take human life in large quantities, and the picture he gives of the frontier rings supremely true.

It is such a vivid picture, in fact, that we are brought to realize more and more clearly what a simple idyllic life was that of a Texas Ranger as compared with the bloody career of a New York patrolman. In six years, patrolling a beat about the size of the Kingdom of Italy, Gillett's company came in contact with about the same number of crimes of violence that dot the New York precinct map in the course of a month; but for the most part it was a life of camp-fires under the cottonwoods, turkey shooting, catfish fishing, and searching the woods for dead trees where wild honey could be found.

"Hunting conditions in those days were ideal. I have known a single scout to kill three or four bears on a single trip. The companies to the north of us were never out of buffalo meat in season. Then, in the fall, one could gather enough pecans, as fine as ever grew, in half a day, to last the company a month."

No wonder that a boy who loved the woods and nature was charmed and fascinated with the life of the Texas Ranger. Mike Lynch, Jim Trout, and Silas

Crump were his messmates at this time, and but for their ten-pound mustachios and fearsome boots, their names might have been Corydon, Alceste, or Phyllis.

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THE FORMATIVE PERIOD OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM. By W. P. G. Harding. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $4.50.

The "personal narrative" of the first governor of the Federal Reserve System. It is not to be classed as a popular book on the subject. It is rather a history for the banker and the student of finance, which, because of its origin, cannot very well be ignored. The Federal Reserve System, now twelve years old, has definitely passed the experimental stage and is fundamental to the financial structure of the United States. It has its sharp critics, and admittedly there are amendments to the law which will be needed from time to time. Beyond question, however, its utility and adaptability have been demonstrated. Mr. Harding's interesting volume is a revelation of much of what went on in the councils of the Board during these constructive years. Fiction

ORVIETO DUST.

By Wilfranc Hubbard. Milton Balch & Co., New York. $3.

Here is a book for February. A book to read when the mercury has retreated coyly into the thermometer bulb, when the soft-coal fog is thickest, and influenza bacilli snarl from every puddle and spring out to catch unwary pedestrians by the throat. For in these three stories of Etruria Mr. Hubbard has captured a surprising amount of the good hot sunshine of the Italy that he seems to know so well. He not only knows northern Italy as it is to-day, but he seems to have read its history to advantage, for the second of these stories is laid in the twelfthcentury Italy of Gothic domination, and the last in Rome in the days of that royal cut-up, Messalina. Make no mistake, "Orvieto Dust" is by no means another "South Wind," nor does Wilfranc Hubbard seem an immediate successor to Maurice Hewlett. Still, he writes about Orvieto, from whose sanctified slopes comes the finest and most delicate wine in all Italy, and the stories themselves are interesting and not inexpertly told. There is a good introduction by R. B. Cunninghame Graham.

VERDI. By Franz Werfel. Translated by Helen

Jessiman. Simon & Schuster, New York. $3. This is almost as much a study of Wagner as of Verdi, and the contrast between the German who led the revolutionary music school and the master whose "Aida" moved even Wagner to admiration is constantly in the reader's mind. Verdi's personal life and temperament were not dramatic, so that it was

impossible to make of him a striking character for semi-fiction, as has been done of late with Byron and Shelley. Yet there is human interest of another kind in this novel, and one can understand why it has had a notable success abroad. The translation from the German is excellent.

BREAD AND CIRCUSES. By W. E. Woodward. Harper & Brothers, New York.

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The author of "Bunk" would have made a better new story if he had not chosen to drag in again his Michael Webb. Warmed-over cleverness is always of dubious effect. "Bread and Circuses" is not a novel in structure, but a collection of odd episodes and satirical sketches of character. Despite the satire on ultra-modernity, these are surprisingly good-natured, often amusing, and in at least two instances moving. The whole thing is held together by a delightfully comfortable inn to which people come or about which they revolve. Whatever else the book is or isn't, it certainly is not dull.

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An excellent popular account of the Arnold Arboretum, by one of the men best qualified to describe it as it is and show what it has achieved and what it stands for. Certain groups of its most interesting and beautiful trees and shrubs -as, for example, the cherries, the crabapples, and the azaleas are fully described and the varieties and their characters contrasted and explained. Fifty admirable photographs well illustrate the pageant of the seasons within the Arboretum borders. The book should be welcome to those who are already friends and frequenters, and should make new friends, eager to become frequenters also. CHRONICLES OF THE GARDEN. By Mrs. Francis King. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. $3.

In a chapter devoted to gardening in winter-which means books-Mrs. King admits the importance she attaches to that elusive quality, so far beyond mere goodness, called charm. "How it is with others," she says, "I cannot tell, but in

From One Sentence To Millions

ON MARCH 10, 1876, a single sentence was heard over the telephone. Now, after half a century, 50,000,000 conversations are heard each day.

"Mr. Watson, come here; I want you," spoken by Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor, was the first sentence.

His first crude instruments had been tested by sounds and single words; the patent had been granted; the principle was established from which a world of telephones has since resulted. But at that time the telephone had not proved its practical usefulness-its power to command.

Bell's words, electrically transmitted over a wire, brought his assistant from another part of the building. And with his coming, the telephone became a dynamic factor in human affairs.

Since that first call untold millions of sentences have been heard over the telephone. Men have traveled vast distances in answer to its calls. The wheels of great industrial enterprises have turned at its commands. Everything that man can say to man has been carried to a distance over its wires and the thoughts and actions of nations have been influenced through its use.

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THE DIVIDING LINE OF EUROPE. By Stephen
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The "dividing line" is the boundary
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rope. Debarred from re-entering Russia, the author has traversed Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Rumanian Bessarabia, talking with the people and studying conditions. He finds the new nations striving heroically at their task of development, but with varying degrees of success. All of them dwell in fear of Russia, and this community of fear prompts a common policy, though it is somewhat frustrated by the strife between Poland and Lithuania. The outcome is anybody's guess. Russia were a tolerable democracy, the compelling force of economic interest would probably bring these nations back into the Russian fold, though each would

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A portion of the book is devoted to the Russian colony in France. The situation of these expatriates was made more difficult by Herriot's formal recognition of the Moscow oligarchy; but the subsequent activities of Soviet agents in France have brought about a revulsion, as in England, with the further result of émigrés. The final section is given to a a greater measure of security for the brief treatment of the Soviet Government. Mr. Graham has a thorough knowledge (if that is possible) of the Russian people, and he has studiously followed the Bolshevik adventure. He is more optimistic than most observers in his belief in the downfall of the present régime.

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Essays and Criticism

THE WAY OF THE MAKERS. By Marguerite
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A study of poetry and poets; not of
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