Evening star., 1903-10-10
NEW PUBLICATIONS.

Senator Lodge has made of his account
Of the American revolution what he styles
his work-a story. 1t Is an entertaining
story-as entertaining as q well-told fiction.
The style is simple and flowing, yet full OF
vigor and earnestuoss. While a complete
picture of the struggle is given so that one
can perceive how all its parts related
and iuterdepandent, Senator Lodge also
shows its relation TO the worldwide move
ment of manhood rights. In speaking OF
the meeting of the first colonial congress
in Philadelphia he says;
ITO the courts of Europe. engaged at the
moment in meaningless intrigues. either
foreign or domes ic, and all alike quite dim
now, this colonial congress was not even
obscure. it was not visible at all. Yet.
thoughtfully regarded. it deserved consid
Grafton much better than anything which
just then engaged the attention of Europe.
Fifteen years later its utterances We're 10
be quoted as authority, and ITS example
emulated in Paris. when an ancient mon
archy was tottering To its fall 1t was the
sDirit of a great movement which was to
sweep on until checked al Waterloo This
same movement to begin it's march
again in 1870 in the streets of Paris, ami
carry the reform of the British parliament
two years later. 1t was to break forth once
more in 1S4S and keep steadily on advanc-
ing and conquering. although its work is
still incomplete even among the nations OF
western civilization. Yet no one IN Europe
needed il at the moment, and they 1alled TO
that il meant not simply a coionlal
quarrel. not merely the coming of new
nation, but the rising of the people to take
their share in the governments OF the earth
1t was, in fact, the first step in the great
democratic movement which has made his
tory ever since. The columns were even
then beginning to move, and the beat OF
the drums could be heard family In the
quiet Philadelphia streets. They were still
distant, but they We're even drawing nearer
and their roll went rising louder and
louder until at last they sounded in the
ears of men from Concord bridge to Mos
cow.
Senator. Lodge holds that the movement
was inevitable. Its causes lay far back OF
the attempt of George III to oppress the
colonies.
IF the revolution" he says had not
come in the American colonies, 1t would
have come in England itself. The storm
broke in the-colOnies for the same reason
which had made the English strike down
at its very inception the personal monarchy
of the seventeenth century, and Whlch
forced them to be the first to exhibit signs
of deep political unrest in the last quarter
of the eighteenth century. The colonies
were the least governed the best governed,
and the freest part of the dominion OF
Great Britain. a people who for a hundred
and fifty years had practically governed
themselves, and who, like all other English
speaking people. understood the value OF
their liberties, were the quickest to feel and
resent any change which seemed TO signify
a loss of absolute freedom, and were sure to
be the most jealous of anything like outside
Interference. America rebelled not because
the colonies were oppressed, but because
their inhabitants We're the freest people
then in the world and did not mean to SUI
fer oppression. They did not enter with
resistance to England to redress intolerable
grievances, but because they saw a policy
adopted which they rightly believed threat
ened the freedom they possessed.
They We're the most dangerous people in
world D1ad11a heClnGA
were ready to fight, not to aVenge wrongs
which indeed they had not suffered, but to
maintain principles upon which their rights
and liberty rested. The English ministry
had begun to assail those principles; they
Were making clumsy and hesitating at
temDts to take money from the colonies
without leave Of the people: and George. in
a helated way was trying to be king
and revive an image of the dead and gone
personal monarchy of Charles 1. Hence
came resistance. very acute in one colony,
shared more or less by all. Hence tie
Congress in Philadelphia and the great pop
ular movement starting as if inevitably in
that quiet colonial town among the freest
portion of the lIberty-loving English race
Throughout his story of the revolution
the author keeps fresh in the view of the
reader the Importance of the struggle.
which kindles an interest in the fortunes
OF the sturdy ContinentalS akin to that felt
in the fortunes of the hero of some absorb
ing romance 1t is not as if one were read
ing dry details of the acts of a dead peo-
anuquarian's point of view The reader
feels as he follows the movements of those
patriots that what they did is vital to him
and to the race When the continentals
show their worth at Bunker Hill he feels
something more than a glow of gratifica-
ton at brave men acting nobly. He real
ICES that a stand has been made against
tyranny. and that even had the revolution
failed something would have been gained
for man. 1t is this larger view of the
revolution that Senator Lodge gives, and
which makes his work an absorbing story.
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