Bring Our War Prisoners to America (Continued) quered land, they despise the home of today and idealize the home of to-morrow. The immigrant's idealism of America is traditional, but seldom do we trouble to analyze that emotion. It is not a spontaneous growth in the heart of the immigrant, but a sentiment indigenous to the community whence he came. And that emotion is none other than the purest patriotism. Often in the old thoughtless ante-bellum days I was shamed by the intensity of the love that I heard expressed by some raw immigrant for my native land. I recall one, a great brawny Hungarian, who, lacking words to express his emotion, called me out of doors, and, pointing to earth, sky, water, and horizon, with streaming eyes, knelt and reverently kissed the ground. Yet of such as he are the soldiers of Austria. Of course the war has afforded hope to some of these. Some, visualizing a free native land, have already taken strong action to give it expression. That heroic army now battling in a thin line across Siberia reminds us of the vast numbers of prisoners easily taken by Russia in the early days of the war. But the hope of America has been far more general, more bright, more practicable, to the great majority of these people than the hope of a regenerated homeland. Let us therefore bring our prisoners over here, for by so doing we will have many more to bring. ALBERT L. WILLIAMS.

Madison, Wisconsin.

[What the immigrant meant when he said

there was no Austria is that there is no such nation as Austria-Hungary, which is simply a term for a group of nationalities. Of that group Austria is a part and a dominating part.-THE EDITORS.]

THE DEATH OF
ABRAHAM LINCOLN

APRIL 16, 1865

Major George Haven Putnam, of New York, a veteran of the Civil War, and one of the leaders in crystallizing public opinion in this country in favor of our entry into the great European war, has recently visited England to make some addresses on America's relation to the present struggle. The growing friendly understanding between Great Britain and the United States is marked by, many public tokens, not one of the least interesting of which is the following sonnet written by Canon Rawnsley, a well-known clergyman of the Church of England. In writing to us Major Putnam says Canon Rawnsley was moved to write these lines by hearing a talk by him on Lincoln at a public school where they met. It is not out of place to recall here the fact that one of the most beautiful poems on the death of Lincoln was written by an Englishman, Tom Taylor, of "Punch," and that the best recent onevolume biography of Lincoln was written by an Englishman, Lord Charnwood.

Well I remember on that morn of dread,

When huddled in the street the "darkies" lay Groaning that harm-how heard they could not

say

Had happened to our father and our head,

I saw a rider-come as one who sped

On some unwilling errand of dismay

Hand a despatch, and heard our captain say Words that seemed nigh to choke him, "Lincoln's dead!"

Fallen our tower of strength, our noblest tree,
Helpless and orphaned when our need was most!
How could we face the world he died to save?
Then with the sound and sorrow of a wave
That breaks with moan of a disconsolate sea
I heard the sobbing of a mighty host.
July 12, 1918.

H. D. RAWNSLEY.

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Here is a tale, says John Van Ess in "Asia," that exhibits a choice bit of Turkish acumen. "I happened to be on a Turkish river steamer. There were four Europeans in the first saloon. The cook had prepared a roast for our dinner and placed it in the scullery window. Shortly before dinner he came frantically to the pasha (who commanded the three hundred soldiers on board) exclaiming that the roast had been stolen. The pasha, unperturbed,

detailed an aide to hunt out the thief.

Line up the soldiers on deck,' said he, 'and smell every man's breath. He whose breath does not smell of onions is the thief. Bring him quick!' In an incredibly short time the aide returned, leading a gaunt soldier who meekly admitted his guilt." Presumably all the other soldiers had dined on onion stew, while the guilty man was redolent of choice roast beef.

George Herbert's familiar couplet about "drudgery divine," which has been an inspiration to generations of housekeepers, 'Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws Makes that and th' action fine," has an exemplar in a correspondent of a household magazine who writes:

As a housekeeper and home-maker I have not found anything more restful than a nice, clean home. I do have to work very hard to get it so. I start at one end and sweep and clean and put everything in place. When I get through I am very tired, but when I go through my house and see the rooms all in order and clean, it certainly does give me a restful feeling-it makes me feel I have something to show for being tired.

A New York City department store, Wanamaker's, announces that henceforth it will be open only from ten in the morning till half-past four in the afternoon. In this way it will conserve coal and light, and also help to lessen the congestion of travel on the subways. Shoppers, it is assumed, can easily adapt themselves to these shorter hours, with resulting benefit to the workers who must use the transportation systems during the "rush" periods of the day.

Even the "stars" in the movies sometimes get hurt in doing a strenuous stunt. A despatch says that Geraldine Farrar was seriously injured recently during a movie battle in Wyoming while she was trying to ward off an attack from the villain of the piece. The play's title="The Hell-Cat"-suggests that there is plenty of dangerous action in it.

Why is the ordinary white potato often called the "Irish" potato, when, as is well known, it is a native of America? A pamphlet issued by the National Agricultural Department indicates the answer. It says that the potato is a native of tropical South America, whence it was introduced to Europe by the Spaniards. It was brought to North America from Ireland, it is stated, by a colony of Presbyterian Irish who settled in New Hampshire in 1719. It would thus appear that the potato's roundabout journey to us fairly entitles it to be called Irish.

This must surely be the year of jubilee for the workingman. A New York City labor agency has this sign in its window: CARPENTERS WANTED-$50 WEEKLY

China is fast attaining all the marks of Western civilization. A correspondent of the "Railway Age" says that a hold-up on one of the railways recently took place -the first in the history of China. It was accompanied with all the appurtenances of

the traditional Wild West affair of the sort, with some added Celestial improvements. Besides taking all valuables from the passengers and the express car, the bandits removed about a dozen well-to-do passengers from the train to be held for ransom.

A young Kansas farm hand, "who is surely destined to climb high," as "The Writer" satirically remarks, sent a story to the editor of a magazine and accompanied it with this proposition:

If you accept the story, send me $75, and then go to work and advertise that you paid me $5,000 for the manuscript. This the papers will take up as a news item and it will go like wildfire. I will keep all this strictly secret. You do the same. Have a short story of my life, with my photo. Under photo say: "The handsome young Kansas author who has made himself famous and received $5,000 for a few strokes of his pen."

A Washington subscriber writes: "Today's Latest News,' a one-sheet news bulletin printed here, contains this item: 'Chicago.-Alexander Karensky is in the United States, having arrived in Cognito on a recent steamer." The News' editor

probably didn't have time to look up Cognito in the atlas; but in any case he needn't have been so precise he might have said, 'at an Atlantic port.''

A letter from a German prisoner in France, published in a book called "The Good Soldier," says: "At the military hospital at Bourges, as also at Bar-le-Duc, we were the object of the most assiduous and eager attention. I know your heart, my dear mamma, I know how good you are. Go then also to relieve the misery of the poor French wounded, and do for them as much good as you can. Yes, do it, I beg you, in recognition of what in France they have done for your son."

In a recent address before the American Library Association, Mr. George H. Locke, chief librarian of the public library of Toronto, Canada, paid a tribute to the camp libraries of the United States. He said that in efficiency of organization he had never seen the work of these libraries equaled. He emphasized a work which the public libraries of all communities may do

that of informing and enlightening the public as to the causes and progress of the war. An intelligent librarian, he said, may also do much to help in co-ordinating the efforts of patriotic committees of every kind in their efforts to aid the men at the front. A good library may well become an organizing center for such work.

Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, whose human and civilizing work in Labrador is known internationally, has sent us the following stanza written by his brother and used during the war as an additional stanza to "God Save the King!" It is interesting to compare this with the stanza which is sometimes sung in this country as an additional stanza to "America," which is as follows: "God save our splendid men, Bring them safe home again, God save our men!

Make them victorious, Patient and chivalrous, They are so dear to usGod save our men !"

The verse that Dr. Grenfell sends is this: "God bless our absent ones; Father, protect thy sons,

On field or foam.

Give them brave hearts to fight; Use them to stablish right; Shield them with loving might, And bring them home."

This Department will include descriptive notes, with or without brief comments, about books received by The Outlook. Many of the important books will have more extended and critical treatment later HISTORY, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND POLITICS Mexico's Dilemma. By Carl W. Ackerman. Illustrated. The George H. Doran Company, New York. $1.50.

Fresh from two years' experience with the German character in Germany, this well-known newspaper correspondent went a year ago to Mexico to estimate the significance of the German activities there. The pressing question has been: Must the United States intervene in Mexico before that country can take its place among the great nations of the world? The answer, according to this author, is, "Yes; but there is more than one way of intervening in Mexico." He does not believe that we should be justified to-day in intervening there with armed forces to protect American life or property, because he has confidence in the possibilities of a Mexican Government if the leaders and the people are given an opportunity to work out their own political destinies. But-and this is a big but-if German intrigue continues to stir up hatred for the United States, and if the United States and her allies are attacked from Mexico, the situation might be changed overnight.

POETRY

Poems of Frank Dempster Sherman (The). Edited with an Introduction by Clinton Scollard. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. $5. Posthumous Poems. By Algernon Charles Swinburne. Edited by Edmund Gosse, C.B., and Thomas James Wise. The John Lane Company, New York. $1.50.

Retinue (The), and Other Poems. By Katharine Lee Bates. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $1.50.

TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION

Small Place (The): Its Landscape Architecture. By Elsa Rehmann. Illustrated. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York. $2.50. Delightful studies of the landscape possibilities of small places when treated intelligently and with imagination. Every owner or prospective owner of a suburban residence will find the book full of allurement and of helpful suggestion.

Village in Picardy (A). By Ruth Gaines. Introduction by William Allan Neilson. Illustrated. E. P. Dutton & Co., New York. $1.50. A vivid picture is here given of the work of the Smith College Relief unit in France so far as it relates to the inhabitants of a single village. The sketches are personal and intimate and full of charm and sympathy.

MISCELLANEOUS

American Railway Accounting. A Commentary. By Henry C. Adams, Ph.D., LL.D. Henry Holt & Co., New York. $3.

How to Swim. By Annette Kellerman. Illusrated. The George H. Doran Company, New York. $2.

Liberty Cook Book (The). A Guide to Good Living Combined with Economy. By Bertha E. L. Stockbridge. D. Appleton & Co., New York. $2.

corn

Here is a war cook book. "Four tablespoonfuls of brown sugar," "Two tablespoonfuls of syrup," Eggless cookies," "Inexpensive ice-cream," etc., show its up-to-dateness. There are chapters on the new methods of canning and on substitute foods, and many useful ideas on conserving food without making our tables unattractive.

Physical Beauty: How to Keep It. By Annette Kellerman. Illustrated. The George H. Doran Company, New York. $2.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES ANY one desiring a store in a mild climate with pleasant surroundings address J. G. Gardner, Ormond, Fla.

HELP WANTED

Business Situations

WOMAN of executive ability as bookkeeper and secretary at School of Horticul ture for Women, Ambler, Pa. Work not wholly clerical. Apply to the school.

Companions and Domestic Helpers WANTED-Matron for children's home. Nursing experience preferred. Unusual op portunity. 6,145, Outlook.

WANTED, about September 1, an alert,

50-Acre Dairy Farm capable young woman, eighteen to twenty five

(for about two months), as waitress in out-oftown tea room. May be subject to call for war work. Address, with references and experience, Berkshire Tea Room, Great Barrington, Mass.

WANTED-Companion for elderly lady living in old-fashioned farm-house thirteen miles from heart of Cleveland; hourly trolley service, beautiful country. Good pay, duties not onerous. Excellent references required. 6,176, Outlook.

MOTHER'S helper to care for little girl 3 years old and boy 14 months. Pleasant home. References exchanged. Mrs. A. L. Perry, Westerly, R. I.

WANTED-Lady between 30 and 40, care 3 children. Country home. Treated member family. References required. 6,181, Outlook. COMPANION for cultivated gentleman recovering from nervous breakdown. Must be strong, refined, healthy, cheery. Possibly travel. Pleasant work. Hours for study. 6,184, Outlook,

FAMILY of four adults wants mature woman for housework and plain cooking: washing put out. Residence near suburban station eighteen miles from New York. Address Postmaster, Great Notch, N. J.

WANTED-A pleasant, capable woman as working housekeeper in family of two. References. 414, Scarsdale, N. Y.

MOTHER'S helper wanted to assist in care of boy 5 years old and girl 15 months old at Summit, N. J. Permanent position, pleasant home and surroundings. Room 163. 40 Wall St., New York.

Teachers and Governesses WANTED-Competent teachers for public and private schools and colleges. Send for bulletin. Albany Teachers' Agency, Albany, NY. GOVERNESSES, inatrons, mothers' helpers, cafeteria managers, dietitians. Miss Richards, 537 Howard Building, Providence. Boston, 16 Jackson Hall, Trinity Court, Thursdays, 11 to 1.

WANTED-To go West last of September, refined French speaking governess or mother's helper for little girl of ten and boy of six. Give full details and references. 6,185, Outlook.

SITUATIONS WANTED

Business Situations SECRETARIAL position by young woman. TEN years' experience in city Y. W. C. A. STENOGRAPHIC knowledge. 6,161, Outlook.

POSITION, fruit raising or ranch, by clergyman, age 36, with capable wife, no children. 6,163, Outlook.

CHURCH director of young people's work. Trained and experienced woman. 6,188, Outlook.

Companions and Domestic Helpers COMPANION, care of invalid, mother's helper. Hospital experience. Middle-aged.

RENT Sugar Hill, New Hampshire 6,167, Outlook.

Furnished cottage for September and
October. Rent $150, including wood and ice.
WM. E. SATCHELL, Owner, Sugar Hill, N. H.

NEW JERSEY

GOVERNESS-housekeeper. Lady wishes to recommend highly her competent and experienced governess. 6,164, Outlook.

ACTIVE, educated, versatile lady, experienced in traveling, wishes to be companion.

TO LEASE, LAKEWOOD, N. J. References. 6,174, Outlook.

Beautifully appointed home facing lake. Extensive library, music-room, 9 master bedrooms, 5 servants', 5 baths, 7 fireplaces, elevator, screened porches. Silver, linen, bedding and fuel. Maids if desirable. Autumn until Dec. 20th or entire season. 9,079, Outlook. NEW YORK

Money-Making Farm, $1,950
Borders Sparkling Lake

70 acres, 1,000 feet frontage on one of prettiest lakes in State; boating, bathing, fishing profits from loamy fields, brookwatered pastures, 20 acres wood. timber; much fruit. 8-room house, 50 ft. barn, carriage house, poultry house, on good road, near station. Owner's sacrifice, $1,950, easy terms. Details page 5 Strout's Catalogue of this special midsummer bargain and others, many with stock, tools, crops; copy free. E. A. STROUT FARM AGENCY, Dept. 2716, 150 Nassau Street, New York, N. Y.

TENNESSEE

LADY desires position as superintendent matron of institution, preferably children's private home. Experienced, refined, best 6,175, Outlook. recommendations. At liberty September 1.

Teachers and Covernesses WANTED-Position in October as governess for sub-normal child in private family. Experience. Capable tull charge. 6,173, Outlook.

CAMP DIRECTOR and gentleman of boarding school experience draft exemptdesires residential or traveling tutorship young boys or executive junior school connection. Reaches New York September 6. 6,178, Outlook.

GOVERNESS.-College graduate, experience in private teaching. References. 6,183, Outlook.

MISCELLANEOUS

PATRIOTISM by Lyman Abbott, also 4 verses of America-The Pledge to the Flag2 verses of The Star-Spangled Banner, all in a little leaflet. Further the cause of Patriotism

MOUNTAIN HOME by distributing in your letters, in pay envel

FOR SALE-in East Tennessee Home of retired physician, 80 acres, covering mountain top overlooking town and river; 1,500 feet above sea level. Ideal climate all the year round. Well planted to fruit and flowers; 2 barns, hennery, gardens and farm land. Good mountain road available for small cars. Comfortable house with large living-room, big fireplace, hot-water heat, telephone, electric lights, electric pump, modern plumbing. Wood on place. Address

JOHN A. ROCKWELL, Box 222, Harriman, Tenn.

opes, in schools, churches, clubs, and social gatherings. 200 sent prepaid for 30 cents. Arthur M. Morse, Montclair, N. J. WANTED-Defective persons to board. Address W., Pawling, N. Y.

OFFICER'S wife, college graduate, with children (husband abroad), wishes to take two girls, 10 to 18, into her home in Westchester for winter. Healthful surroundings, personal tutoring. Special attention to voice, manners, and general information. Write Mrs. Raymond, East Blue Hill, Maine.