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He discusses the responsibility, life-saving devices, future arrangements, and the psychology of the disaster, -the way the crowd encountered fear, the general effect on the survivors after the rescue. Mr. Beesley's many qualifications should make this book one of the permanent records of the great disaster. A Brilliant Novel "No, 'Alexander's Bridge' has nothing to do with whist," said the author, Miss Willa S. Cather, in a recent interview. "The only kind of bridge in the story is a cantilever bridge. No, it is n't an industrial novel, either. It does not give any more information about bridge-building than it does about whist. In fact, it does n't give information about anything. Do I believe in the industrial novel that does give information? Certainly, but that is one kind of a story, this is another. This is not the story of a bridge and how it was built, but of a man who built bridges. The bridge-builder with whom this story is concerned began life a pagan, a crude force, with little respect for anything but youth and work and power. He married a woman of much more discriminating taste and much more clearly defined standards. He admires and believes in the social order of which she is really a part, though he has been only a participant. Just so long as his ever-kindling energy exhibits itself only in his work, everything goes well; but he runs the risk of encountering new emotions as well as new intellectual stimuli. "Is Alexander himself meant to be a portrait of a noted New York architect? Not at all. He was not suggested by any one person. He simply has some of the characteristics which I have noticed in a dozen architects, engineers and inventors. "Is the actress in the story meant to be very much like Hilda Trevelyan? Certainly not. Ms Trevelyan is a very different sort of person. I tried, however, to give the actress in this story certain qualities which I have found oftener English actresses than in our own." Two Intimate Revelations of the Houghton Mifflin Co. have ready a second edi tion of "The Promised Land," by Mary Antin, as the first edition was quickly exhausted. In the course of a recent interview, Mary Antin said in reply to a suggestion offered by one of the reviewers of her book: "I want to make the point, since I have an opportunity, that in Russia ema cipation through a liberal attitude in religion is impossible for the Jew. On my recent visit to Polotzk I saw signs of the struggle of the younger generation to put aside all that separates the from the world around them in order to be merged with their neighbors, but it is all in vain. The young men shave, the young wives refuse the wig, they all speak Russian, they join an occa sional Gentile friend at a table that is not kosher - they seek to bridge their separation in every possible way, even at the cost of their parents' broken hearts. But what good does it do them? The schools are closed against them as jealously as ever, they are hounded and crippled as mercilessly as before, they have lost the firm anchor of their old faith and have gained no compensating haven. A reformed Jew is still a Jew. The Russian Government does not want the Jew in any guise. No degree of conformity will save the Jew in Russia. Not until a successful political revolution has uprooted all the blind sins of the Russian autocracy will there be any hope of emancipation for the slaves of the Pale." No slight interest has been aroused in the question where Robert Haven Schauffler secured that intimate knowledge of our immigrants which is shown in his poem "Scum o' the Earth." It seems that this knowledge came almost as a birthright; for Mr. Schauffler was born in Moravia while his American missionary parents, the pioneers of Protestantism in the Austrian Empire, were facing the bitter kind of religious persecution which was to drive so many of the splendid Austrians they served overseas. While very young Mr. Schauffler was brought home to the land of his parents He spent his boyhood among the Bohemians, Poles and Slovaks of Cleveland, O., where his fa |