BOORS AND AUT REVIEWS AND COMMENTVIEWS AND REVIEWS

OF CURRENT FICTION

Trlith Miniter's Story of the Immigrant on the New EnglandSoil.The First Volume of Mr. knopfs Current

German Fiction-r.Other Novrls

01 R rtATOFMU NEICHBORSv *'

arVKA t

.",, \,- ipsh from Poland, having***. t0rtther a little money by

*+ wall rr.wl. bu>» the

2a- Mra Nataaakl ia' -:y wait.ng to be

rd and maater.

aTaaaaae I - merricd ar.other¦*

*.. » beaal al burden a arifar^nable m farmiug on the Natur-

al Mra Nati{ ail son. and

i aroataa d.'

.. | ¦.¦

\ iha maa ol*'.. -umba andill... .« gethcr at the

i.andal and

e firit ira-or- -gr.er* out,

e Yankee,.r them.I Natupski

»:«gc ar.d begins»' "

means that arr

mb, lubmisstve.,. an ox; his cr.ildren

"... rwp arlth fatigue.Ta.r foed ' ¦' ken bresd ,n<' cnicorv

.. - house is

b the poor, ig-the neighbora

.. beaeath the¦ks a mind sub-

D : bmn.elled, roore-ons of hoaeaty.

of AmericanI rt of

only sll£L\. n qu-.te that. for on it

uaX ». sh .nn'r"

f£, children calrn," but. for a.l

11 strar.gersand will rema

rises.

, w»v through college, nndto make his way.

,, "the big

; ovei-...Tiericans

¦BBM¦' lOB.

^-,. our childhood, ar.dwk,. iur birthplaca

a 1 eadbin ani 'ru te"

:i on tne

giaaic womar.'soffers

to. a

IrC. ~"'veof

audiblyY,(,-, waiUd all tlreart

on< laa has everwere inter-

BB out under fa Chli-....

i Dabt!

.ory. and II;mor which

>n ^anse. it neither.veniatizes the immi-pr« nts him a-

tha if the i

flux. Ai.d beyond ti.imc objective way ar.d

umor, wh

tlere wno. hke Abr ? r Blocumb,j of payii |

... lr.decd, conaider It

e dowa from grandfather'srves far more than

tra of atter.tion It hasia far. Apart from H

B thoroughly capable¦

ROYAL HK.HMSSk ITJJ * '

.'

.....

Haa, > '¦ '

.ha ago Mr. Howells ex-

the opinion, .n hi« departmentir. "Hai rma"

aet worth our

while. » arallj heldimong os, but it is a mistaken one.bmad negative evidence. thelack of tranalatioaa of thia terature.kf a B fact, curient German

I worth knowmg. Ithu itl tk achool Germany.owed ita literary urlld aata long after

,e 'Yeilow Book" outbreakout. on the other hand. in

of the eocio-economic novel ithaa a. gaaa as faraawe 'i.e is n.clmed to add

ften gone beyond our nov-

.liiti, linco, after all, the Fmpire has,led the world la the study and thelolut.on of many of the problema ofthe jariod.

'. , aeed intention of

Baalish | ia tranalation all that isbeit Ii .-rman fiction i» there¬fore »i .¦ r II deservta the attcn-ton of all aenoua atudents of mterna-tional 1 terature. ond the generous aup-pon which alone can make the venture

H gnaasa," the initial vn.umeef tne icriea, la a curious picture ofthe u- a t .ch rovalty Ii .id*.corv |1| true ifl all ita dctails. fcinceB la t ot on too umbitious a scale.The rayalty dealt with bere is that ofa imh'i Geraaaa grand duchy, not too

8bi r. ... j from observation by mcrc

Lcss than Two Ccnlsa Day for All the

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By jommg tho Merraat.le Libraryaay of ;\.r%* new book* can l>« younto read and enjoy at a coit of lenlhaa Imo i.rnti a doy. Ii okaired.booki wdl b* delivereJ lo memberi't«K»rrxf« laar a week or mailedaat of to*n by partel poat.I a ' :.ar:.c.ar*. ma'.el

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MERCANTILE UBRARYBrao-h B:r.g»r HuiMli.g 14» K ara]Rain mi¦n.wMi, ABT.'h PlaaVOa

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JT*rta'.«. A i ..now lfe it ia, and mo-noa .if mukp. bf 11e\ i- and appear-

< glittar and pomp oftenhid.rR, as in mia case. atraitened fort-

Il th* heir apparen*.Ffil hro*her. tho rrijri.

iiuKr. ii unmair.ed and anv»l;i! So Bgaa thr younc

¦. with hii withercd hand, falll duties Bl i audiences,

thr eornaratona layings. thc opemr.fcsOf country fans aiid hOBBitala all theeromonia! i.f at,,tr. He knows exactlvwhat to say, whal questions t<> ask.Hr li aavar eBabarraaacd by hii '.ark afr-'al kr,owlrdj;e, uriro It If hll prcraga

ta md whatavai eoavaraatiaa hemay cntei dead-!y hia dofi ilning pra-

i; nn nnderatand-in| intercst in thc l.ttle country'." af-fairs, which art> [;.b> condi-tion.

Or.o d.i> thara arrives in Grimmburgthe Amenran multimillionaiie Spoel-rr.ar.n with hia only danghtar. Inmarks hf 'a a billiona.re lavaral timcsover. lie has come to take the watersof tha country'a nejrlected medicinalapring. it ia thc romance of KlausBeil ch and the American frirl which

aa the climax of the bocraeeting of these two. each set ar«it'rom nire h-imanitv. the one bv birth,th« Bthl r hy tho in) IlloBI wealth of theNew World, -he eoatTaat of their char-aetara, tha praduai marging of theirinTorestP in life.The author's Araeiieans hear the

(Jennan Btamp. They are n vented. notobserved. For one thinjr, be bellevesthat wc considcr an admtatuia of Ind;a: blood as .1 diagraca. Rut one iswilling tfl ovrrlook his mistakes andmiaunderBtaadinga for the sake of thecrl's character and of the jrenuir.e ro-

I which he unfolds.Thia is only the barest outlir.e of the

¦tory. Thc interost of Karl Heinnrh'.-childBOOd day* with his only sistcr.

their passlcd racagai-tion of colloacuis in the priaCBl

ryland, the ofrcmonialwhich keers thair littla affectiona at

Itngth aad freeaca them. t

with which the author explainsthe duchy's economic conditio:.raakeahifta of tho court officiai* tomaintain a show bovond tho mean* ofthe.r aueust mintor nll this ad i« tatha eolor and verlalasllitoda of this re-

nihrkablo picture of royalty bch

THE KEYS OF THE CITYTi'i" KBTB Of nn; CITI A Naw M ". ».

1 M 'urj fonil>aji).

Th;s ,s a good atory. tald with a ear-

tain riirectness arhich BOfloata many

opportunities of elaboration. Its plotis not BBW thc jraath who comes to the

¦ faniliarn rvi rythiag bat hia Baar-

BOthiag now.

in in laaa of the bmbhaa become 0BS

rest coBvaatloaa Bat thein Mr. Graave'i /tory

n convincing originality orti own, from the day when thc lonolyflaherman'i bov IB Bbv Ruljro meets thej

ho. like Bimaelf, kl ostra-.v tha chi!dre:i who live in the

I along the Shore Road,when. prospeniii;

by h:s rnarnape, benndi har u>ra:n in the graat city whoael

;.ve lost their value in his Bgaa,dead, who frivfs tho

ividualitjr. The daufrhter ofan |aat beyond the pale, ahe fol-n her mother's footstcps until her.

Thaa sho aaoha that.aeeond chance |B life to which s-he feols

r.titled. Thus Mr. (iraovoleavts his reader face to face

with a r.ow Fiiuation as he closes the.

THE OTHER MI)E OF BILBaCEnDBB mm oi .-il aOB 1 n> Bkr Hagh

. - "a* a

Native India. Hindu and Moham-meduii, has its chroniclers without otid.

fferaal ^.th the ftfalay penin-sula thc Btraita SattlaiaeBta wheredifferent nues with wavs of their own

bold away. The Malay is hocomintknown tO Bl throueh our Pktlpoysesaiona. but thia people Ia aee.i

at its best in the country of Sir Hunbrd'a stones and in the Dutch

Island of SuniBtra.Thehe Btoriai are more than fiction.

Tb'.-y are BtadiCI Of I race and its'

waya, its traditions, beliefs and auper-Tha author, a maaabar of

tho Civtl Bcrvlea, spent some yearsthc Malays Ib the early cightlei

of the last contury, when British rulo.it just baiaa esublishrd amonR

them He livtd with thoflS for flaonthant a atretch.the only white man amoiiR. lom often the f;r>t white man thov

Ha hcard talea of op-

prossinn bv native rulers, of the lo\*of wosbbb, of wcra-tigcra and of the

iaaala The were-ti(?er atory, by the

way lB one of the bOBt in the book.

teld with a strikmir simplicity tha:

bringa the horror of tha np« ratltlont0 the raadar. And there is

that other tale. told by bb old Malaywho lB his hurndrum. uneventful \ 11-

lac« life han had bat one adventuro.A wlld v.*hU> had tried al! night to

.o him with its horns from be-..,,. roota of a treo that pro-him. and at the first momont

of dayliKht he had iabonouily eatbia kris. Thc author.

who ii now OB the Gold CoBBt, haathe love of Nature at the point or

aant paa. In conclusion theUm ha drawa batwaaa Eaat aad «eat

may be quoted:.e itis.tir.ct of tha

it invartablv prompts him

;(ii ^

hia incidenls oiir authorsdinclime-i darinply far.

\<t lii.s frankness is BTCI bODIldaiumt with dr-liracy. Hr ia us-

tng thr trnth. not for rxploita-tinn, but in line with his pur-jkisc to makr out lii.s casr bvIOBM thing brttcr than prracli-iu^' ind precept. His rralismis justifVd by bi« sinrrrity.Y, York World.

THE SINSOFTHECHILDREN

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COSMO HAMILTONAT AIX BOOKSFXLERS852 payr* $140 net.

UTTLE, BROWN k CO., Bortoa

OSCAB (;raeve

("The Keys of the City": The CenturyCompany.)

to sot nt iBBtaBt definnce anvwarning th;.; a BBtive may bemoved ta gh i - propensitjhas a.!.:. d considerably to the Bgurea which repraaenl tl Edeath rate througbout A>:a, and.incidentally, it ln.^ led to naaai ofthe act« of recklesi dariag whirlihaaa WOB for Ki:'.'!nhmrn theirFcst.ern Fnipire. It has al^o Betthe nati\. the hard tash ofing whether the greater BBbjact

tader la the eoBiage or th«;.v of the men who rule him.

"CONTRABAND".¦rriNTR.'.r\N: \

.. K'mo.M a. Oa

A yacht, ;.. trnnp ataBBiar eanyiagcontrabar.d to Hambarg, a ichoonerunder full B, butno: BBdar eentrol, ..

dnr.e l.y ikip] M BBdthe three veaaela on board of which the

c" ara laid, witl "-i ihemerey

i the dangerb of imn-

ihere aie Bl ind French ci

mutiay, hard Aghtiflg, murder, insanity,a tire in a hold gtored with ammunition,and Bt the end the my-t-iy of theichooner, with compeaaatioa for the

of the hardsb endured,the riaka taken. And, of eoarSB. thereIfl the woman. The story ia all plot.

Baly a biflt of it can be

given hera m Juatice to tha prosp(1 may be arirl'd. however, that

adveaturc had ii orlgin ia;, eapp< r pool which waa to be manipu-hi'.i! by wirelaaa from the yacht in a

ioneiy spot off our COBBt, The narra-

tive runs aloag with tha eeler ty of a

; et .re play. In faet, it is not

Onlikely tha: the nuthor had the wi lerpablic of the moYic theatn n i bwhen he wrota it. Samathiag happeoaover? niaate, aad tha opportuuitieafor "eloBB-Upa" BBBBI to be endless.

THE ROMANCE OP THE MABTDfCONNOI

TBTJ BBIfAXCI ".' ¦...:-. < <>v\on

i . ..raoaaaaj

This la an entrancm;: BtorjT of ad-ire on the Amazon. BBtable for Ita

vivid deeerlptioaa of the tro|opy, the atmoaphere, themystery of this graataat of the world'lrirera, aad the leasl kBaara. 'Ihe meritjof th.. "' that tl ey are

woveii into the Btory, BBTBr p«for their own aake, but made part olthe plot and its iBcideBta, ti baek-ground and sctting. And there are

some itTOBg revelations of the ways ofthe great lubber companie.s with the8lack Braxiliaa gaaaraBiaBt oificials,their onquestioned rule the unex-

pior.ii regioaa far in the intenor. andthe treatment of the nativea by iheir

agentb BBd foremen. mostly Weet la-dTan negroes. There is more than an

ocho nere of the Putumayo horrors.Tha Btory atarta Bomewhal slowly. Thaauthoi more than issary of.the detaill of the loadiag and.proriaioning, at Galves-.on, of thotramp Bteamer bent on indenend.ntj

the faee af the cmnpatiy'iautocratle interdict. but aaca theseearlv pages are passed.one can skio a|little .the book is glorious reading. It!has the charm of a nrst-class narrativeof explorat.in.

THE TCTOR'S STORYTIU" TCTOaa BTOBT a R*»*l

1*1Uiught*! l.u -a Ri .'

;¦ i. M«i I R Co

In her prefatory note Mrs. Harrisontells us that the M8. on which this'novel is based was found among herfather'a papera Ii aaasiatad af some'160 pagea, of which the flrat rifty or

gixt) were falrly cor oeutiya. The re-1mainder was made up of notes and jot-

narelated ehaatara aad akeletoBaOf ch .: ":'v f-' r!v wpl1oatlined, bui the deBouaaaaat wai

Ing. 8o aeeoBapllahad ;» ewftawuBUB as

l.ucas Malet, iatiBaately faaiiliai withwork, could not have failed

to turn the matenal at hand into a

atary that beara the stamp of his han-diwork, and of hia interests. Still, thntstgmp is found ch.efly in the early paire*of the baak, completed hy the author'

the rad .-al Mr. Braithwaite,for InaUBea. railmg at the deer parksand raiae preaanraa of tiie nobiltty.which ahoufd be eawa ta wheat. Forthe reat, thia pnsthumous aovel willhardly rount in Charlea Kiflgaley'a Ht-grary baggaga. 14 will odd nothmg to

his "r( put.it.on. but it ia B readubie

story with a pleasant touch of duyagor.e by. '_

B^'TheMan on tbe^cjpiritual FrontiefRAEMAEKERSCARTOOAJSJojt Out ln Book Forpv150 ol thtat Fimou* Cartooae Wtwoookon a.ik ao Apprtaauoo by

Promicr Aaqu.ih. and Afcomp*nringNotei by O 1 Che»tfrto«v. HJa rr Bflkar.and o«h*f arethknoaro wrUfrv A Htotory a<

Caaana-of Peimanant V-o**- "*> kt M

Rmnaekm n tht oorjr r^ K*"'01 tr^ak«imtbrlbcar*/. He nabo»f r»i*-h»tr»d fjgr,i p*rti«n*riip. Btautr will pr«*r.-T*Baca* cartaoet inio diataol at«.".ThlTmtt (I -' J .'¦).

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HKXKY SHKAKW

("A Volunteer Poilu": Houghton Mif-flin Company.j

FROM THE FRONT"A Volunteer Poilu".The Book

and Its AuthorTho aalaetlofl of "b< at booka" is a

paatinaa whose aaca are much to bedoabtad. Still, in the oaaadiag streamof booka abaal tha'war thoro bobsup occaaioaally a voluraa which ?o

unnii out abovo theflgBBi to labol itwith tho aaparlativa bcaoabia Bach a book is llenry Bbeahan'i"A Voloataer Pollo," recently pub-lishcd by the Hooghl " Caavpuny. it i> "i" i.'' tBoi ¦. narr i!of personai r

whieh tha bulk of what mayba eallad 11 haaa of 'ho warin litaratorc, thi rel haviag bcendevoted to it- diplomatic and Itrategicaidaa *

Mr. Shaahafl k'.ows tho Frcnch, andhas como :¦> gc both by

taaec an.l byvatio: 1 Quiaey, tiaaa.,of BB American father and a I'.'i

I'rion a'.ion fioniIlarvi.nl. in 1'." .'. ha WBBl to Franoe

tha Un ven y of IFor a tima -trmtor o-

li.'h Ia ti i :i returnedsimilnr post nt

.. n words, is not "one of tho o

drea .."nl American srhoolm.wril teii in aad M r,Shcahan, hii l< aaaatly

ntie. Hia twawhiri, in "The AtlanticMonthly" are proof of that.

In Aagfl .. 1911, ..' -!.Ing to ba afion ¦¦ M ...

Bhaahan NowYork to jo B tl Aaibalaneaat tho front, und sailed on the Ho.beau foi i;"; laaaa. Tha Bral ehaptarof "A Volai e. .¦ i' ,.i," whi<haccoun' oi tha vayaga, >rivcs a pictureoi the French crow with their AlBI r-

ic.ui lopplaments; "f the PraaehiaBBwho had beefl in AaiBI .i "<irummill(Ct.p tiadi" for a new BBB 80 eologne;of the Loy from thi Middle VYeet, of

h pi.i. r.tiii."'. B ha wa- on hisway to join tho Allirs; of the wholenotley tfroup t>n shipboard, to eachone of " .>'- u ar meantomi nt.IIr, Shaal datjr in aad ahaat

Pans diirir.. opagne oftaaaiva,earrjriag tl tream

of wonnded to the hoapitala. Fromthere BBl to or.o oimost danfrerous poiata the ArgOBBCto do troaeh dnty, hasardoaa work, as

evideneed by tho fact that oaly a fowfore Mr. Sheahan arrived at the

front two ambular.ee drivi rs had beenkilled by a l.ui- I

ihBB went to the Boia1,. i' LorraiaOi where he re-|inaincd during tho winter BBJapaigB.He i-peak> of "ealliag on one's friendain tho trcBchaa" ia aaite the most!casual way; Bl haviag a friend say "Imn at iuch aad aach a BBBta, Ib such

trtaeh; come and rnll." aa

if that wara t) .¦ Bonaal way of viaitinir.'in Janaary of this year Mr.

Bheahafl araat on to Vtrdun. Here heritm e air raid on Har-le-Duc,.

,ie.i thc apaaiag bombard-ment of tho . am H< I lB part: "A

¦Boaldaring ia tba iky tald of tires in;Verdun. Another comrade and 1 were

aamt | the town.

From B high bJll bl tWB4 H B Bl ¦! Ver¬

dun 1 got my Bral gaad look at therdment Pi IfB of oarth

and iU. fsr Bcroaa tha raoorlanda, '"y;after ........

withthe ra BOW thi ia, I

mortais flarad . .¦' laataatabova tha horiaon. I-ron tho diractionof th i Infcrac eaaac a load roariagi i

rumb'.ir.j,' ar.d roarinp. uicreaiinjc iavolume the aound of B Kreat rlvartoasini,' hage roeka throagB subterra-1

,bv««os. Every littlc while a preatihell, ralliag in tho city, would blow a

preat bola af white Ia tha r.ifc-ht. andso thundering wai th,- eraah sf arr.\al

-. e thc city'

,e want to Frnnce to

matarial for a book Mr Sheahanvehementlv shook hia head. "No. no! Ihad no oucli iaUBtiOB. «>f eourae I

have alwari waatad to wilia> 1 hadwritten a f< torwa, but r.oth-

iag of any coasoqaaaca. It waa aat aa-tl I was on mv aray home that I fejt as

if the book |ast had to be written.

(ine understands this necesaity forwritinp hia expenencea In taikinjr withMr Sheahan. In hia conversation sud-

den ar.d viv.d bitfl of descriptior. crop

Poaiibly Ihe Greateit AmericanHiitorital Novel

EL SUPREMOBy Edward Lucaa Whitef%g >:." York dlob* tayt."It ii a faKinatmg book and cooiei

nr.rrr lo BBbBJ . ¦'«« "i.torualromance lhan anylbmg tbal ha. yet

b,en writlea aboul our own ro-

mantx- half of the world."ftHMii Hmn fom aaara 48 8111111 i

E.P.DUTTON 4 CO. Ml 5lk A»a. M. T.

MARGARET MUENSTERBERG"A Harvest of German Verse": D.

Appleton & Co.)

out. Mich as this of his apprcaching thefront:

Aa we went into the country we

began to .>ee, here and there, hruined house, the r>;o--icoverit:. rafa Bwrka of arar;tl n, a ttla furthar on, grethe*e boasea, each Iookgiant had -tepped throuch the roofand erunched them anderfoot; thenthe b.. IB, ;i:..l the nextduatar of cottages, stark and htar-ing in their devnstation, and,

ANME FEI.I.OWS JOITVSTON"OaorglBa of the Ra.nbows": Britton

PubliahiBg Company.)

finally, stretching ahead of us. thatgreat BWBthc af torn. dcolatedcountry; seven or eight m

treBchai back of thiline of defaaee: then "N'o llaa'aLand," nnd then the Frenchtrenches ia

if the aboniaatioa a'lation. It givaa one a sense, notof fear, but af horror. not ofdeath, but of 0t1 I kBtaB de-struction, with wa.iton power be-hind it.

NEWS AND GOSSIP OFBOOKS AND AUTHORS

Captain Koenig's Story of the First Voyage of the Deutsch-)and.A Life of David Humphreys.Booker

Washington's Thanksgiving Turkey

optaifl Paal Koonip has written tha

liory of the Blli round trip of his mer-

raariaa, from Bremen to I!al-timore and back. It will be publishedin a few daya by Baant'a Intorna

l ibrary Company, in F.nplishand Gi rrnan aditiona Bbaadaatlj

With aach copy of tha Brat|| he packod n facaimila

¦ph r artralt of tha faatooa Gor«mmi BBVigBtor, laitabla for framing.:>avid HumphreyaTho Ifcagra, Putnam have in prepara-

tion "Tha Lifa aad Timea of PavidHumphreya," by Frnnk Landon llum-phreys, an intimate biography of a raaa

wi.,, ...emporariea-the B waahiagtoa" Ha was

aad moal paraiatoat advo-rehaat Baariaa He was the

..ii the forasal n of .

it, aad alao to saggaattabliahmaat of a naval militia.

Hooker Washinpton's TurkeyHere is a aaaaoaabla story about

Hooker T. vTaahlaftOB and BB :-kr''dBBgrOi told by Km-

mett J- Seott and Lyman Beecheriu ti., ir "Booker l. v7aahiBgton,

Builder of a Civilisatioa," jaat pub¬lished by Doobleday, Paga * Co.

Hr. waahiagtafl was driving downthe niain atrcal af Taahagae, wbob an

old B4 id out mtu thc street,and itoppcd him."I'M t,'ot :i turkey for yo' Thank*-

gtvin,' " ha aclaimad.A'<. : tho old man Dr.

\V started to dllvc on, whCBthc ol felloW added: "I JCBl wants toborrow a dollar for to fattOB yo' tur-

key for voa."ile got the dollar.

The War"The Story of tho Qraal V. r," lB

ten volumca, ii publiahed thli week by|. | , \,:i. It has beeti writ¬ten. the pol tata, from an im-parMal itandpoint, and pives an abso-

lutely aahlaaad history of the itraggta.BJ, V. I.ucas

Mr. Lucas, who WBI bnrn in 1808,hR-' in hia own word "been so mde-eently InduatrloaB" that the number ofentr.es under h tha HntishMuseum eaUlogaa eaaays, novels,

,,1 booka, anthologiei and work*... run up ta iS,',ed

of i.'- Ib 1891. r*ltwo vears he wai amployed by provlaelal papers, writinp poliea repoits, r

views thoatre nOtleea, Inquests, etc.In I8M, at the BfC of tw, nty-'.ve he

joii ed "Tha Londoo EvenlBg t.lobe.Ir 1894 he joined the lUtT ot "l'unch,

r to.- aoaaavoars. whenever Sir Owen Soaman was

¦war. Hta t;rst aorioaa baoh waa alife'of" I.umbs frien.l, Hernar.l Rar-

ton.The Baaaaaai

BoaBOB il certair.ly a famous name in

conte- I iah liUratara. IheraBro «Dodi "" BeBBoa, and his two

ira, Arthur Cbristopher and the

la-e Moaalgaof Kobert lluph Boaaon.Then , f. BoBSOB, ttie hhake-¦poriaa bcI ii maaagar, ar.d now it

turrs out that I.ord Charnwood. ther of the recently published Enp-

liBh lifa of Abraham I.mcoln HenrylltJ.. orother of the Shake-

Ifreg Rath-m and was eraatcd nrst

Charnwood in Itll. He was

born on Novembtr 8, 1884, Ia BB Oxford,-.o ar.d was a I.ihera! member of

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ed Statei. Central Amencaand 'he Woat lndiea are of preat inter-

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