Judge — March 27, 1915 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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opie WOODEN HORSE,"’ by Hugh Walpole. With the publication for the first time in America of this shrewd study of a Cornish family, the uniform edi- tion of the collected novels of Hugh Wal- pole now lacks nothing but ‘*The Green Mirror,"’ a new novel in preparation, and the author’s unwritten stories. Here are “Maradick at Forty,'’ ‘‘The Gods and Mr. Perrin,"’ ‘‘The Prelude to Adventure, “Fortitude,’’ and **The Duchess of Wrexe’’ —a notable achievement for an author un- der thirty, even though he did begin his first novel at the age of five. a 6OTHE VALLEY OF FEAR," by A. Conan Doyle. The dead man lies on his back, sprawling with outstretched arms in the center of the room. He is clad only in a pink dressing gown. There are carpet slippers on his feet. Lying across his chest is a curious weapon, a shotgun with the barrel sawed off a foot in front of the trig- ger. By the side of the dead man liesa card, on which is scrawled, ‘*V. V. 341."" On the dead man’s right arm is a brand, a triangle inside a circle.—All right, Watson, the stage is set; bring on Sherlock Holmes. But the world-famous detective enters, only to have a Pinkerton man take up half the book. And Sir Arthur announced this as another “‘ positively the last appearance’’ of Sherlock Holmes! Well, there's a loophole. Professor Moriarty remains untrapped. ‘‘I don’t say that he can't be beat,’’ says Holmes. ‘*But you must give me time— you must give me time.’’ Don’t take too long, Sir Arthur, don’t take too long. And remember we want not a tincture, but one big splash of Sherlock. S¢()RIGINS AND DESTINY OF IMPE- RIAL BRITAIN,” by J. A. Cramb. Germany had her Professor Treitschke; Eng- land her Professor Cramb. The Germans hearkened unto the voice of their prophet; the English barely knew that they had one in their own country. This unhonored Prophet, author of the recently published and widely read ‘‘Germany and England,” is concerned in this second volume with the spirit of British imperialism, and he goes where the spirit leads him, in wandering from the land of the Angles to Queen Vic- toria’s empire, from the battle cry of Cerdic sing Senteon to the Agincourt shout, ‘‘ Heaven for Harry, England and St. George !’’ and to that which the British are sending from this war down through the ages, ‘*God for Britain, Justice and Freedom to the world !’” 9 SOMRS. MARTIN’S MAN,"’ by St. John G. Ervine. Meet Mrs. Martin. She is Irish, and the way she manages a house and several cupboards full of troubles commands and deserves admiration. Says HUGH WALPOLE Mrs. Martin to her man, who has just re- turned home after sixteen years in America, “I’ve enough for the two of us, an’ a bit over; but if you do stay here idlin’ your time away, you'll do it on my terms."” oO ‘6 HE SWORD OF YOUTH,"’ by James Lane Allen. A story of war and, of course, love, which always accompanies it in fiction. It has to do with the Civil War, and so James Lane Allen just naturally gravitates to Kentucky, which he glorifies along with the rest of the South and with Nature, including blue-grass youth, a Ken- tucky beauty and birds. By ROBERT MOUNTSIER ces 66" T.HE GERMAN EMPEROR AS SHOWN IN HIS PUBLIC UTTERANCES,"’ by Christian Gauss. This book, consisting largely of the Kaiser's words, speaks for it- self: ‘I have vowed to be a righteous and gentle prince’’ (1888). ‘*The British army fills me with the greatest admiration. . . . I shall be in a position to give testimony to their capacity’? (1889). ‘*From my earli- est youth I was much interested in British ships’’ (1889). ‘‘Our future lies upon the water’? (1898). ‘‘His Majesty the Emperor Nicholas! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!"’ (1899). ‘If the Russians were beaten by the Japanese, it was due not to the fact that Buddha: was superior to our Lord Christ, but that Christianity in Russia was in a bad way’ (1905). ** ‘What do we care for the rules according to which our enemy fights, if he is beaten in the fighting’ '’ (1907). “The brilliant reception prepared for us by your Majesties (King Albert and his Queen) and the Belgian people in this splendid cap- ital (Brussels) has stirred us to the depths and inspires us to heartier thanks in that we see in it an expression of the close bond which unites not only our families, but our peoples’’ (1910). ‘*Remember that you are Germans. God help us’’ (1914). ***And He must win the battle’ ’’ (1915). o 66] TNDERSTANDING THE FRENCH,”’ by Rollin Lynde Hartt. In this book Mr. Hartt gets under the skin of the French- man as he was before the war, but not al- ways into his heart. Sense and sense of humor combine in the consideration of a variety of subjects, ranging from nude mod- els to holy saints, to make a readable book. Oo 66TNCREDIBLE ADVENTURES,”’ by Al- gernon Blackwood. The reader of this book finds himself between the devil and the real Blackwood, with no hope of escaping from the belief that the five stories are per- fectly credible adventures, so long as he remains under the spell of Blackwood’s art. ) 607 HE HAUNTED HEART," by the Cas- tles. No, Vernon and Irene have not written another book of dances, but Agnes and Egerton have penned a new novel. It is a neurotic love story garnished with heather and livened up with a bit of Scotch. comicbooks.com