Judge — June 30, 1923 — page 33: what you’re looking at

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Appreciating Polygamy too Late (Continued from page 26) German High Command so accurately that Foch was able to anticipate them and launch the drive which ended the war. We cannot avoid a feeling, however, in reading the account of this exploit, that the American spies went it pretty blind, stumbled on. the German officers quite by accident, and that the Allied High Command, in accepting the German's disclosures, were taking a long chance. Since the Ameri- cans were more or less under suspicion, and since two German women in_ the ‘Teutonic secret service found the officers for them, and helped them to escape, there was at least a chance of the whole thing bein clever counterplot. It might quite as well have resulted in disaster. Indeed, after reading a batch of “true” spy stories, we are not so much impressed with the devetion and bravery of the spies as we are with the superb gullibility of everybody concerned, friend and foe alike. A soldier seems to be almost as easily taken in as an American millionaire. In fact, he is almost as easily taken in as a spy! However, Major Russell has a sense of humor, and his stories make sprightly reading—better far than most fiction. JeTTER, anyhow, than “The World Outside,” by Harold ¥ ath (Doubleday, Pa & Co.), which is one of the most ridiculous books we ever read. It is a mystery story. The mystery is—what has become of Mr. MacGrath’s inspiration? He made this book on a machine, with two cylinders skipping. plans of the ven Jove nods, however, in “The Fasc inating Stranger” (Double Booth Tarkington has 1 short stories, at least twelve of which reflect small credit on the creator of Penrod and Alice Adams. Only the first, which gives its title to the volume, is worthy of Mr. Tarkington's that one just barely Nearsighted Fisherman—I guess th wind’s in the wrong direction, I ain't had a bite all day. Set qualifies, by virtue humor. It escapes narrowest margin. The rest are me- chanical repetitions. Tarkington is the enigma of present-day American letters. At his best, he is in a class by himself. At his worst (and he is at his worst, | generally, when writing for the stage) he is scarcely better than a hundred playwrights and hack — story-writers. | The incredible gulf which yawns between “Alice Adams” and some of the stories in this collection, or “The Country Cousin,” is an astonishing phenomenon. It is almost as if Thomas Hardy had written “The Rosary Some day we hope a critic will make a real study of Tarkington. At present, the only “studies” are adulations. sae “What in the name of heaven! Driv- | ing with a putter?” | Plumber (haughtily): Ud have you} know, sir, I left my proper tools at home. | whimsical mere farce by. the of its Zs Assault with intent to collect, Aberdeen, Scotland. 31 Old fishermen have helped tom Steel Trayle: kle Box for yu box Is new! Tt is different! No many compartments to accor flies for trout, erything you sto fall out. There ur favorit ons for pike, re rtificlal lure quire. Opens. tk ines, hooks book 418% Drop diwaya find everything gpaloel thorough’ b | eros x Stee! Trayleas Tackle Box, Will pay $3.50 plus post: fo on delivery Name the Heart of the White Mountains at JACKSON, N. H. It's Gray’s Inn Golf, Health and Happiness All Prevail Here EVERY INDOOR AND OLU’'TDOOR SPORT Best Dance Music and Centre of Mountain Life for Young People Open June 16 FRANK M. GRAY, Mgr In The GRAYMORE, 21 Preble St., Portiand, fe., Same Management A NATIONAL INSTITUTION ide ENTION Send model or sketch and description of WRITE for illustrated ATENTS. d ‘RECORD OF IN BLANK.” invention for our free opinion of its patentable nature. Highest References. Prompt Service. Reasonable Terms. VICTOR J. EVANS & CO., 813 Ninth, Washington, D. C. if You Ca n Te Farenheit DIAMOND Send ia