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THE BOOKMAN Magazine of

A Literature and Life

CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1915

CHRONICLE AND COMMENT

The Bostonians-The "break" of Clarence King-New Authors-Charles W. Camp, Walter Elwood, Robert E. Jonckheere, Russell Thorndyke, Percival L. Wilde, Elmer Davis, Sidney L. Nyburg, Basanta Koomar Roy, Frank Blighton, Edward Neville Vose, Archie Bell, Walter A. Dyer, Richard Matthews Hallet, Leon Pepperman, Philip Curtis, Philip Davis, Claude C. Washburn, Jackson Boyd, Anne Morgan, Beatrice ForbesRobertson Hale, Therese Tyler, Lorraine Catlin Brower, Margaret Widdemer, Amelia Josephine Burr, Gertrude Pahlow, Anna Fitzgerald Van Loan, Edward C. Venable, John Gould Fletcher, Sidney Williams, Henry de Hallsalle, William Pinkney Lawson, R. C. Hemingway, William Healy, Stanley Shaw, Fritz Kreisler, Ruth Sawyer, Marcus Horton, Helen Christine Bennett, Sara Ware Bassett, "Ellenor Stoothoff," Harriet Brunkhurst (with portraits)-The Late Guy du Maurier (portrait)-The Late Miss Braddon (portrait)-The Hunt for Bohemia (with portrait of James Huneker and illustration) -Impressions of F. Hopkinson Smith (with portrait)-Morgan Robertson-Author. SPECIAL ARTICLES

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THE NON-COMMERCIAL DRAMA (illustrated) CLAYTON HAMILTON

VERSE

To Sarah Bernhardt

A GROUP OF FIRST NOVELS

Guimó-A Siren of the Snows-Sinister Island-The
Dusty Road-Pierrot, Dog of Belgium-The Final
Verdict-Dr. Syn-The Rose Garden Husband .

SEVEN BOOKS OF THE MONTH

I-Henry Sydnor Harrison's "Angela's Business"
II-Joseph Conrad's "Victory"
III-H. G. Wells's "Bealby"

IV-Maurice Hewlett's "A Lovers' Tale"

V. Charles Tenny Jackson's "John the Fool"
VI-Harry Leon Wilson's "Ruggles of Red Gap"
VII-C. A. MacLean's and F. Blighton's "Here's

the Day"

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Germany Embattled

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AS SHOWN IN HIS PUBLIC
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IN

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JAMES HUNEKER

IN

NEW COSMOPOLIS

describes "intimately" the fundamental features of New York as it strikes the artist and critic. Mr. Huneker is here at his best.

"A brilliant book."

-Philadelphia North American.
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Plays of
Leonid Andreyeff

"THE BLACK MASKERS," "THE LIFE OF MAN," "THE SABINE WOMEN

Translated from the Russian, with an Introduction, by F. N. ScoTT and C. L. MEADER

This translation, made with the author's authorization, has been competently and brilliantly carried out.

The Modern City

AND ITS PROBLEMS

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By FREDERIC C. HOWE "Every city official ought to sleep with this book under his pillow. Here he can get the perspective he needs, the information essential and the ideals indispensable."-New York Globe.

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The End of the Trail

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The Panama Gateway
By JOSEPH BUCKLIN BISHOP
Secretary of the Isthmian Canal Com-
mission
Illustrated. $1.50 net

JOHN FINLEY

IN

THE FRENCH
IN THE HEART
OF AMERICA

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which had French beginnings. Not
dry history but romantic, picturesque
narrative most delightfully told.
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BOOK PLOTS IN A

NOTE: The following extract is taken from “Ruggles of Red Gap" by Harry Leon Wilson, author of "Bunker Bean." It is a book of genuine and spontaneous humor, being the adventures of one Ruggles, an English valet, in the unaccustomed surroundings of American democracy at Red Gap, Wash. Ruggles (nicknamed “Colonel" by “Cousin Egbert") is somewhat taken aback at the American enterprise of the Red Gap reporters, as shown below, the morning after his arrival there as valet to the Flouds.

FAMOUS ENGLISHMAN INTERVIEWED

The Opinion of Colonel Marmaduke Ruggles
on the Fastest Growing Town in the
State of Washington

Colonel Marmaduke Ruggles of London and Paris, late of the British army, bonvivant and man of the world, is in our midst for an indefinite stay. Colonel Ruggles has long been intimately associated with the family of his lordship, the Earl of Brinstead, and especially with his lordship's brother, the Honorable George Augustus Vane-Basingwell, with whom he has recently been sojourning in la belle France. In a brief interview with the Colonel, genially accorded ye scribe, he expressed himself as delighted with our thriving little city.

"It's somewhat a town-if I've caught your American slang," he said with a "You have the merry twinkle in his eyes. garden spot of the West, if not of the civilized world, and your people display a charm that must be, I dare say, typically American."

The Colonel is a man of distinguished appearance, and though at moments he displays that cool reserve so typical of the English gentleman, evidence is not lacking that he can unbend on occasions.

We predict that Colonel Ruggles will be a decided acquisition to our social life, and we understand that a series of recherché entertainments in his honor has already been planned.

How this English valet becomes dictator of Red Gap society is told in "Ruggles of Red Gap," by Harry Leon Wilson, just published. It may be obtained wherever books are sold for $1.25 net.

A DOG WHO WENT TO WAR How Pierrot, Dog of Belgium, Helped Defend His Country's Honor

The children called him Pierrot-no name for a dog, perhaps!—but he was so clumsy and droll as a puppy, so clown-like, that they named him to suit. Each morning he pulled the little wagon of shining milk cans into Brussels, and back at night. To Père Jean and Mère Marie, he was almost as dear as another child.

Then came August and the great war. How Pierrot was taught to draw a machine gun; how he fought in the trenches, was wounded and escaped; how he finally found his way home to those who loved him to comfort them in their misery-this is the true story of what the war did to one Belgian dog as told by Walter A. Dyer in "PIERROT: DOG OF BELGIUM." Illustrated. Net $1.00.

PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH

GOSSIP

'Lizzie" and Meely" Hold Up the Adamstown Stage to Exchange Roadside Courtesies

"Did you hear, 'Lizzie, Abe Snyder's wife she died fur him last night, an' her only sick a week yet?"

"Ach, Meely, did she though?"

"Yes, and her so well always and him so sickly that way all the time-don't it, now, beat all?" "Yes," said Lizzie funereally, "yes; the sick ones live yet the well ones out. Ain't?" "Yes, ain't!"

This is one of many amusing scenes drawn from real life in Helen R. Martin's new romance "MARTHA OF THE MENNONITE COUNTRY,” laid in the heart of a Pennsylvania Dutch home. Frontispiece. Net $1.35.

THIS HOUSE AWOKE

an

Suppose you had been making dictionaries till your brain reeled and suddenly one Spring morning you found yourself out in the country at an oldfashioned New England farm house with orchard, and a little brook beyond. And then you began refurnishing and remaking the old house to your heart's desire-for some one else, to be sure, but after all it was home-making. And suppose one day that your dream came true, and the home you had been working and planning for turned out to be your own.

This is what happened to Stella Goodwin when she went to "Twin Fires." The story of her romance with John Upton is told with kindly humor and cheery out-door philosophy in THE IDYL OF TWIN FIRES, by Walter Prichard Eaton. It is illustrated with charming New England sketches by Thomas Fogarty. Net $1.35.

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ONE-MINUTE STORIES OF BIG NOVELS

THE MAN WHO FORGOT

Russia has banned the sale of Vodka. France has just passed a law against Absinthe. England is on the eve of a great campaign against Whiskey. It took the War to awaken the European nations to the importance of this issue. Will it take a war to bring Prohibition into the United States?

James Hay, Jr., deals with this issue in a stirring new American novel just published. The chief character is a man who has lost his memory through the use of liquor. He does not even know

his own name, nor can he speak to the girl he loves for fear of what his past may contain. How "John Smith" becomes the most inspiring figure in the Nation is told in THE MAN WHO FORGOT, by James Hay, Jr. (Net $1.25.)

“NEVER MELD YOUR CARDS TILL YOU SEE WHAT'S IN THE WIDDER"

This was one of Max Fatkin's prime mottoes. "Diploomasher would say his partner Sam Zaretsky that's French what you would say that a feller should watch cut when you are dealing with a grouchy proposition like Aaron Pinsky." Certain it is that the firm Zaretsky & Fatkin prospered on this business philosophy. They did not in the words of Max, "reckon up how much chickens you will got till the hens lays em." They did not overpay their help to the possible detriment of their goods, so it was hardly to be expected that their good and opulent customer Aaron Pinsky would long deal with their arch competitors, or that Philip would long hold out for his exorbitant wages or indeed that Miss Meyerson (an A Number One bookkeeper) would long remain a spinster.

This and other delightful tales of the friends of "Potash and Perlmutter" are told in "THE COMPETITIVE NEPHEW," by Montague Glass. (Illustrated. Net $1.25.)

THE LAST UNEXPLORED
PART OF THE INHAB-
ITED WORLD

Stewart Edward White has just found an entirely new country in Africa never before explored. It is nearly as large as British East Africa and the hunting there is the finest in the world. Among other thrilling adventures, he was charged by four lions at once-the only man who ever had this experience and lived to tell the tale. Readers of Mr. White's "African Camp Fires" and "The Land of Footprints" will find even more fascinating reading in his diary of his new exploring trip just out called "THE REDISCOVERED (Many Illustrations. Net $2.00.)

COUNTRY."

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But suppose the fact was attested by reliable scientists everywhere. Suppose the uncanny messages were signed "PAX," that he, or it, demanded a cessation of the world-war under pain of complete annihilation for the warring people, and that in proof of his power "PAX" should cause an earthquake at a specified hour, a snow storm in the middle of summer and derange the chronological reckoning of the great observatories by delaying midnight?

The secret of the Flying Ring and the wonders wrought by the Violet Ray brought under control for the first time in human history, are told in a new story by Mr. Arthur Train, based on scientific fact, called THE MAN WHO ROCKED THE EARTH. (Illustrated. Net $1.25.)

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Our divorce decree was granted to-day, as you will doubtless see by this evening's New York papers. Thank goodness all the bothersome legal formalities are over!

Of course I know it's unconventional of me to write you on the very day of our divorce. But as I can't help being just as unconventional as I was before, why shouldn't I? But I am happy to-day, Kenneth. There's something almost intoxicating in this sudden sense of liberty. You may think the comparison rather ill-timed, but to tell you the truth I haven't been so happy since our Wedding Day!

Are you happy, too? I hope not. I don't want you to be as happy as I am. I confess I want you to be just a little blue.

Affectionately, your ex-wife,

SYBIL

What happens to this uncoventional couple is told in a series of original letters full of sparkle and fun and a keen insight into the causes of a real problem of today. Beneath the humor and gaiety of this romance is a genuine note of constructive criticism. The author offers a real solution for the "tremendous trifles" that build up divorce. They have just been published in an attractively decorated little book called "LOVE LETTERS OF A DIVORCED COUPLE," by William Farquhar Payson. (Decorated. Net $1.00.)

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK

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