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dour | Hoth loner Interested in books of Fiction, Biography, Travel, or History? For lists write to ESTHER GOULD care your local paper. Are You Efficiency Ad Absurdum "WE" By Eugene Zamiatin. E. P. Dutton & Co. A rather frantic young Russian has rebelled against the heavy handed method in which the Russian state is attempting to standardize human life. His rebellion has taken the form of a book which has not yet seen the light in Russia but which Gregory Zil- boorg has translated into English. It is a thing of cubistic formations, of hard surfaces--cubes and cones and hectagons. It is as restful as the overturning of a box of children's blocks in the dark. Mr. Zamiatin has meant it to be grimly humorous, he succeeds in getting enough truth into it to make it tragic. Instead of Samuel Butler's prophecy that machinery will one day conquer man, it is standardization and effic- iency which have done it here. As Butler's "Erehwon" caricatured and satirized our civilization by opposites, "We" does it by extremes. The pro- cess of standardization is carried to its logical conclusion. The story is told by a mathemati- cian of nine hundred years hence. A day opens. "The cheerful, crystalline sound of the bell at my head. Seven o'clock. Time to get up. To the right and to the left as in mirrors to the right and to the left through the glass walls I see others like myself, other rooms like my own, other clothes like my own, movements like mine, dupli- cated thousands of times. This in- vigorates me; I see myself as a part of an enormous, vigorous, united hody; and what precise beauty! Not a single superfluous gesture or bow. or turn. Yes, this Taylor was un- doubtedly the greatest genius of the ancients Breakfast was over. The hymn of the United States had 'been harmonious'y sung; rhythmically, abreast we walked to the eleva- the motors buzzed faintly and swiftly we went down." To the un- derground railway and to work. And when the author in this cheer- ful crystalline world develops a soul, @ simple surgical operation at the base of the brain undoes the mischief. And "I am healthy, perfectly healthy, 1 cannot help smiling, a splinter has been taken out of my head, and T feel so light, so empty. O, efficiency experts, workers with men, take warning for this way your danger. 4 By Philip Guedalla G. P. Putnam's Sons English and American critics of late have fired their best fusillades in hon- or of the brilliant young historian, es- sayist, critic, Philip Guedalla. It is good for their souls to do this when the subject is as worthy as Philip Guedalla. He has been lauded ardent- ly enough to become distinctly un- popular if he had not had it in him- self to win universal approval "A Gallery" is scarcely to be com- pared with the masterpiece of the "Second Empire," the book in which lives a while epoch of French history from the time that Napoleon went unbeaten to Elba, to the crash in 1870. It lives not as facts and dates which march by with wooden soldier like precision, but as thoughts and ideas, and vivid pictures. "A Gallery" is, as its name implies, a gallery. We walk first through a narrow hall in which there are five landscapes. Colorful pictures of for- eign cities--but somehow not hung to the best advantage. We go on into the main room, the portrait gallery. Here is a feast a- waiting us. The subjects are modern and of universal importance. "The Seven Sages," who are literary men, "The Seven Sleepers" who are politic- ians, "The Seven Lamps of Liberal- ism", and "Shadows" who passed by. Fach character is painted vividly, bril- liantly hackneyed as the words are in connection with Guedalla, they still must serve. Our impression of each character is brought out memorably-- Wells, Hardy, Shaw, J. Ramsay Mac- Donald, Lloyd George and the rest. And sprinkled lavishly in among them, so that, as usual with Guedalla, you will feel that you are reading a library instead of one book, are such caustic and delightful criticisms of the world and England as: "Age at any rate has had its due"; (among artists) "and quite a number of bath chairs have been wheeled respectfully up the easy gradients of the British Parnas- sus. It is a form of good manners in which the people of these islands appear to exel, possibly because, in the highest possible degree, it com- bines sentimentality with cheapness. It is so obviously a less expensive matter to crown and establish repu- tation with a handful of bay-leaves out of the garden than to stand Chat- terton a square meal; and there is something about the process that is a trifle more flattering to the national vanity. The English have always preferred their young geniuses starv- ing, and almost from the beginning they have specialized in Grand Old Men. It is less perhaps, an inverted form of 'Beaver' than an odd survival of their primeval taste for Druids." . . But stop us or we will quote the whole book. Of Interest Only to Our Advertisers FULL-PAGE AD ROLL OF HONOR Use a loud-speaker! When a business man wants to get the attention of the largest possible number of readers of a paper or magazine he uses a Full-Page Ad. Thus he gets the undivided attention of the greatest number of readers. He uses a picture, some reading mat- ter, and a suitable amount of white space. 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Mrs. Hen- ning herself will wait upon you if vou like. To California--By The Rock Island Are you going away, by the way? To California? Ah, after all that's the "land of heart's desire". It is hard to believe, isn't it, that while our country- side lies sleeping under a deep robe of snow the whole of nature is awake and laughing, in California. The oranges and grape-fruit are hanging heavy on their branches. The sun shines warm and the poppies blossom across rolling, up-sweeping hills. Under heavy, weep- ing vines lie the ruins of the Spanish missions and--a broad white ribbon up the coast--runs the Royal Spanish Road. Mystery, here! Yes, and beauty --and charm. Also, of course, much gaiety and youth. But the best adventure of all is the t1ip out, itself, and this year it should He made without fail over the Rock Island. 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