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Charles Dana Gibson in HARPER’S BAZAR
First
of a
New
Series of
Cartoons
Drawn by
Charles
Dana
Gibson,
Beginning
in
December
HARPER’S
BAZAR
The
Wor Id-Famous
Illustrator
of Typical
American Men
and Women
Has Produced
Nothing More
Amusing
Than This
New Series of
Dra wings
Entitled
‘Senator
Lambkin’s
Daughter
Mary,
Which wrn
Appear
Exclusively in
HARPER’S
BAZAR.
“Senator Lambkin,
a widower with an
only child, has just
been offered the Am
bassadorship to Mor-
evania. His daughter
Mary, never having
been abroad, thinks
favorably of his ac
cepting the post, but
Tom Jones, nis right-
hand man, thinks
otherwise.”
Reproduced
by
permission of
HARPER’S
BAZAR
From Its
December
Number
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Reviews of the New Books by Edwin Markham and H. Effa Webster
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Sy EDWIN MARKHAM
“The Flowery Republic.”
At this parttcu^ time When 1 lie
Chinese republic has just chosen for
five year? a President, and that Pres
ident Yuan Shlh-K’ai. any illuminat
ing story of the progress of this won
der country of the orient is sure to be
read with avidity.
In “The Flowery Republic
(D. Appleton & Co.. $2.50), Freder
ick McCormick has given us a clear
idea of conditions in the newly awak
ened land.
As a correspondent at Pekin and a
Mudent of China for years he is qual
ified to speak authoritatively.
He follows the course of the revo
lution from its actual active agitation
in April. 11H2. and his narrative over
flows with the information of the mat.
who knows from inside sources
whereof he talks
We shall not attempt to do more
than to give a short description of
the new President—one of the re
markable men of the age as he ap
peared to thoae close to him.
Says Mr. McCormick:
■ An American diplomat at Seoul
durinsr his official residence, who
knew Yuan Shlh-K’ai there up to 1S$4
thus expresses a foreigner’s opin
ion :
Nobody understand* the meaning
of the term arrogance who did no
know Yuan in those years. He was
arrogance personified. He would nol
meet or associate with the ministers
of the othei power; unless he \va<
allowed to occupy a sort of thron*'
were vassal envoys.
“He rode the half mile through the
palace, and from the gates to the Au
dience Hall, In ills chair, ami had hi.*-
Interview first while the rest of us
waited irt the mud.
‘He was, in my time. Just a big,
brutal, sensual, rollicking Chinaman.
He would not let a physician save the
life of one of his soldiers in the
emeuto (1N4) by amputating his arm,
buying ‘Of what good is a one-arm
ed soldier?* He would sacrifice an.
enemy or one who stood hi his way,
but he would sacrifice himself for his
patron."
Yuan, be it said, has improved with
the years, though the author points
out that Dr. Sun Yat-sen was warned
not to trust Yuan. Even the reform
party at his back objected to ills so
doing, and eminent Chinese abroad
wrote him to the same effect. Compe
tent and Influential foreigners shared
these views. Rut Yuan conquered.
The Flowerv Republic Is a volume
of live Interest.
''Thorley Weir.”
E. F. Benson, w ho once wrote a
novel called “Dodo," and has since
given to the world other books of en
tertainment. comes now before the
public with ‘Thorley Weir" (J. B. Lip-
pineott Co., $1.35) . This is not. as one
might easily suppose, the name of a
man nor yet of a woman, but of an
ordinary English weir without capi
tals.
Nor does tlie’.title give the slight
est conception of the story, which is
rather original. It all hinges about a
fat,• or shall we say stout? white man
with an eye for art and the drama,
who underwrites the budding genius
of others to his own advantage.
The next best thing to being an
artist fs to know art, and the next
best thing to being a. playwright if
to know plays. Mr. Craddock was
neither, hut knew both. Consequently
when he saw over his shoulder from
a punt a canvas which Charles
Latham was working on lie made up
his mind that here was a rising
young man, and to the boy’s amaze
ment he bought the picture for 60
pounds and made an agreement that
Charles was to give him the choice of
one picture a year for three years at
a price.
Tills sounded philanthropic and
Charles accepted it. Similarly did
Mr. Craddock deal with Frank Arm
strong. who wrote plays he could not
sell.
You are beginning to ask. “Where’s
the girl?” Patience, reuder; let us
introduce Miss Joyce Wroughton.
lovely as a spring morning, only
daughter of a crotchety and selfish
father and granddaughter of delight
ful Lady Crow borough.
How Charles falls in love with
Joyce; how Mr. Craddock does ditto.
and how the fat man gets the worst
of it (nobody loves a fat man), all
this Mr. Benson tells in a novel that
will add to his reputation. A very
satisfactory piece of work written on
a high plane and free from drivel.
"The Hon. Mi-. Tawnish.”
Almost a second Monsieur Beau-
caire is the Honorable Mr. Tawnish.
the debonair hero of Jefferey Farnol’s
latest book, who gives the narrative
a title and the reader a pleasant half
hour (Little. Brown & Co.. $1.00).
But Mr. Tawnish. daredevil and
highwayman pro tem. dandy and ver
sifier ad lib, is not An Amateur Gen
tleman.
Mr Farnol’s newest little volume
can scarcely be called a novel. It is
rather a charming short story of
those days when the six-bottle man
set the standard of gentility. Woven
around an ingenious plot and over
laid with the atmosphere of romance
and velvet waistcoats
By H. EFFA WEBSTER
Edward White.
Every genuine Westerner. Chica
goan or inhabitant of every State
and Territory on the sunset side of
the eastern boundary of Ohio, expe
riences fervid sympathy with Stew
art Edward White’s novels, fairly
breathing the atmosphere and life of
the vast sweep of country that fin
ishes on the coast of the Pacific sea.
White’s fiction throbs conviction
that lie “belongs” with his stories, en
vironed with the unhampered spirit
of the people that we may designate
as the resistless human tide that
surges westward in the settlement
and growth of this comparatively new-
world.
So, very welcome is a little book
sent forth by Eugene F. Sexton, via
Doubleday, Page & Co., its pages
sparkling with a refreshing intimacy
with White and his products.
Mr. Sexton verifies our mental
trend that White “belongs" with his
Western fiction; he fluently makes us
acquainted with this brilliant author,
a Michigander whose early life was
spent in the rough lumber country,
midst men distinctively and primi
tively human. This little book gives
us a real companionship with White’s
nature—Sexton Is so comradery in
depictions of the writer, his life, in
brief, and the tenor of his work.
Sexton hits off a clever note of in
terest in quoting a query he put up to
White, with the author's reply:
"I asked him if he did not think it
was possible to lay hold of the hearts
and imaginations of a great public
through a novel which had no love in
terest in it; if man pitted against na
ture was not, after all, the eternal
drama. He said; In the main that
is correct. Only, I should say that
the one great drama is that of the
individual man’s struggles toward a
perfect adjustment with his environ
ment. * * * It may be financial, natu
ral, sexual, political, and so ori. The
sex element is important. But it is
not the only element by any means.
* * * Anyone who so depicts it is vio
lating the truth. Other elements of
the great drama are as important.”'
There are interesting incidents of
the life of White given in the book,
some of them so closely associated
with the man's development into a
brilliant author that they are helpful
in a realization of just how he nat
urally accomplished his own fame.
A Book in a Hundred.
If there was ever an odd title for a
book. "Mothering on Perilous” (The
McMillan Co., $1.50), is, in the ver
nacular, “it." We'll start right off by
saying honestly that Lucy Farnum's
story has a charm of its own which
you might travel for a dozen moons
to duplicate.
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And it’s as simple as A, B, C. Tha
woman who goes two days' ride from
a railroad into the feud regions oi
Kentucky to teach a class of boys ia
the teller of her own experiences. She
goes dressed in mourning for hei
mother; before she has been there a
great while she is wearing colon
and learning that it is the duty o(
the living to make the living happj
and keep the remembrance of person,
ul losses locked up in the individual
heart.
Perhaps it is the local idiom tha|
lends such quaintness to the narra*
tive, hut after you have smiled at tha
actions of Nucky and Iry and tha
rest, and laughed over their queel
remarks, you will come to the con.
elusion that you are looking into »
mirror held up so skillfully by the auj
thor that you seem to see with you!
own eyes what she sees with hers:
When you fee! depressed, read
"Mothering on Perilous” aloud if yo«
can. and see what a gloom dispense!
it is.
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