Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-29

pies separate. one permanently with a
tragic conclusion. The others are recon-
clled- and-perhaps to pay homage to the
ancient tradition. or perhaps to suggest
crattily that the chain of circumstances is
endless-the author arranges two matches
for his young unattached.
MT. Hope is stcry teller of remarkable
power. Ire makes lis characters live and
their talk is human. He has a great
strength of language not ostentatious but
sCggestively present in every paragraph
So harmonious are his fundaments indeed
that his story in this latest product espe-
clalIy tells Itself as though the author had
never eXerted himself 1t is the perfection
OF the art that conceals art But the tale
Is more than artistic 1t is powerful in it's
suggestiveness. 1t is a warming a guide.
Yet the pitiful probability is that there
VIII be mismatches in the days to come in
the very face of such lessons as life and
this book Of life afford. The real prob
lem of matrimOny was aptly expressed by
Mr.. Hopes Caylesham thus:
Il may have two horses and YOU may
have two horses, and each of my horses
may be better than either of your horses;
but when we come to driving them you
may have the better pair. Two good 'uns
don't always make good pair. They've
got to match-both their PAGES and their
ways. They've got to go kindly together.
II like the feel of one another don't YOU
know? Each of 'em may be as good as YOU
like single. but they may make-by Jove
yes!-the devil of a bad part It's double
harness we're talking about Blake. my
boy.
FACTS AND FIGURES; the Basis of Economic
Science. by Edward Atkinson. Boston: Hough-
ton, Mihhin X Co. Washington: Woodward 4
LOthrup.
In view of the severe criticism to which
Mr.. Atkinson has been subjected in his role
of political statis;iCian and reformer during
the past few years it is especially signifi-
cant that he should print on the title page
of this compilation of some of his essa VS.
and addresses, this motto: Figures never
lie unless liars make figures" There are
four papers in the volume. as follows: "A
True Policy of Protection" a treatise sub
mitted to the Boston chamber of commerce
and other merchants and manufacturers in
May. 1891; The Tendency TO Individualism
Rather Than to Collectiveism i'm the Manu-
featuring and all Other Arts" read by alb
stract At - meeting of the American So
cial Science Association. held in Boston, in
May, lhi; The Cost of War and Warfare
from 1871 To 1909, Inclusive" and Address
to the American Free Trade League" on
tn" hCHdredth anniversary of Richard Cob
denis birth. June J. 1904.
The Cost of War monograph has been
extended In its figures to include the cur
rent fiscal year. and Mr. Atkinson estimates
the total cost of what he styles the i'm
pcri1listic program of the United States re-
sulting from the war with Spain at 81 100
O,0CJO the sum cited by Judge Parker re-
Gently in speech explanatory of his own
estimate that the Philippines have already
cost the government something like $780,
OuDUoq In an Introduction to the Cost of
War pcper Mr.. Atkinson. writing July 4.
1904, says:
THE cost of this temporary alteration to-
ward imperialism and militarism is in
creaslng. The end is not yet. but 1t may
be very near. The moral sense of the ma
tion. always slow to be moved, but resist
aroused beginning
The imperative demand is now being made
to do what may be done speedily, to right
the wrongs that have been committed and
to grant to the people of the Philippine
Islands their liberty and their right to
frame their own system of government by
consent of the governed. With this demand
is also an imperative order to the executive
officers of the nation to cease to disregard
the bill of rights which is embed ed in the
Declaration of Independence and to admin
lister the law under the provisions OF the
Constitution of the United States, with an
equally imperative order to remove the
burden of excessive taxation from this ma
ton which has been incurred during the
last six years.
FALAIsE OF THE BLESSED VOICE. A tale OF
the youth of Saint Louis. King Of France. By
Caesar &c New York: The Macmillan Com
pany. Washington: Brentanos-
Mr.. Davis takes Just $50 pages to record
the events of forty-eight hours. Between
the dawn of one day and the dawn OF the
second day, Louis the TX. the Christian
king of France. is dethroned. his queen dis
honored and cast into prison. traitors as
sumo control of the government, the castle
is besieged. the queen escapes. the king s
forces are victorious he comes into his own.
the traitors are punished. the queen is pro-
nounced guiltless. and the fair name of
France is saved. All this and much more
happened In those two strenuous days.
Above the chatter of hoofs. the din of trum-
pets and the clashing of pixies and swords
may be heard the songs of Falaise, of the
blessed voice.
Mr. Davis has not departed from his semi
rhetorical. semi-religious muse. In this