Evening star., 1902-09-13
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

| MEN AND MEMORIES; Personal "reminiscences
BY John Russell Young Edited by his wife.
May ID. Russell Young New York: +. Tenny-
son Neely. Washington: Woodward L. Lothrop
| To those who wish to know the hearts as
well as the minds Of Americas leading men
| for the past thirty years, these rather in
| complete notes by Mr.. Young will be most
welcome. With every great mans mind
| there seems to be coupled a correlated and
| often unexpected temperament of which
| there is no superficial sign in any of his
| achievements. Mr.. Gladstone expressed this
| once by observing contemplatively, TT is
almost pathetic to see how a great mans
| wife ignores his greatness" 1t is to this
| side of his friends that Mr. Young gives us
| an insight, and the field is large. One turns
| the pages over Lincoln, Walt Whitman,
| Dickens, Bayard Taylor, Edwin Forrest,
Roscoe Conkling, the Duke of Marlborough,
| Lii Hung Chang, John w. Mackay, and
| dozen other conspicuous figures in public
| life, all spread out for his view in the brief
| est possible sentences. 1t is interesting to
know that Dickens disappointed all his
American acquaintances at first; that
| Henry George believed his work on free
trade would forever close all tariff contro-
versy; that Whitman occupied himself now
| and then with such subjects as "a Font of
Type on which he wrote a beautiful ode;
| that Seward wore proverbially bad hats,
| Curtin and Wayne MacVeigh as a clerk
when those two men went to Gettys-
| burg as state governor and party leader re-
| spectively. 1t should be said, however that
| the tone of these memoirs is deeper than is
| indicated by such instances. The authors
| view was comprehensive and fair, as be-
came a man who accompanied Lincoln to
Gettysburg and Grant about the world to
report their conduct He saw things in a
| large sense, became man chosen for
the cabinet and appointed minister to China
esting, but 1t is all valuable as we'll. There
should be no wonder, then, that this is a
second edition. The wonder will be that SO
valuable a record is not published with
| illustrations made from rare photographs,
on the best and strongest paper, and ac-
companied by contributions from Mr..
Youngs confreres which would make the
work prize for every library.
TEMPORAL POWER; Study in Supremacy. By
aian, s % ete. New % York: Dodd, Mead Mead sne;s. CO.
Washington: Brentano's.
Miss Coreln writes, it might almost be said.
too well for the comfort Of her readers.
So well does she write, with such fuency
and force and such strength of conviction,
| that she constantly yields to the inevitable
temptation to compose voluminously Re-
| suit. her story is padded beyond its Iegiti-
mate length as novel and becomes a Sc
ries of brief essays and sermons bound to-
getner py plot OF more or less interest.
This, however. is the usual fault Of the
problem novel," but it differs from its
counterpart, the problem play" in that
| most of the philosophizing in it is solid and
| unbroken, while in the play truths are nec-
essarily given in the form, Of dialogue, or
| at worst in sustained monologue.
In Temporal Power there is much ex-
cellently written matter about the tyranny
of modern social conditions The author,
YYy1a hc1i lfv.H1 L..
| the force Of a propaganda of the people
| She clearly shows that she appreciates the