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8 E n KARST ’8 SUNDAY A MERICW. \TI ANTA, <iA.. SUNDAY. DKCEMBKK 21. 1H13. 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 • • • • • • • • Reviews of the New Books by Edwin Markham and H. Effa Webster • • • • • • • • 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. An Opportunity ToMakeM oney lsvratevt, mem mi Mem *»<4 tarafe** *bdity. »hould wnH m mmj *ttr I Ml m4 iimCon o#«<W atM pruec offered W iesdisg sudtctven r « rHvrmrd ~Wkr Smm *■» ^ i ii ^ Yew Patent and Ysar Vfoaay," nwl other ralaabU bookie* Ml free te *a T mddmm iRANDOLPH&CO. r*teat Atforneja* 618 “F” Street, N. W., WASHINGTON, O. C. 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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. * \