Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-12-03

Copyright 10y lockwood. New York;
historical relics 1t has always been DR..
Hale's habit to sweep the horizon with his
mental eye. His work a preacher has
broadened rather than narrowed his actfv-
tiles. his vision and his SympathfeS. He
has kept in touch with the activities of the
world as have few of his contemporaries.
Thus his Memories of a Hundred Years
are inclusive of the vital elements of the
national growth during what has proved TO
be the most remarkable century In the his
tory of civilization.
In the new chapters DIR. Hale adds some
words of a more strictly biographical ma
ture. sketching his own career very briefly
in one telling entertainingly in another Of
the growth of the American magazines, in
which he and other members OF his family
played an important part, and finally de-
scribing a journey taken by MIN in 1874 to
Washington for the purpose of preaching
in the Unitarian Church in this city. He
came Ivy "A roundabout way from his home
I'm Beverly, Mass, for he had an engage
ment with friend TO inspect the Schoharfe
Cave-which he recommends TO his readers
for present-day entertainment. But even
with detours allowed for, 1t was q slow
trip, involving twenty-eight changes Of car
riage and occupying thirteen days. AS
contrast DIR. Hale prints this para graph de-
scriptive of his journey between the same
points sixty years later, when he came
down to assume the office OF chaplain OF
the United States Senate:
Carriage TO station at IL m; train to
New YORK, arriving at U PM, MAMMALIAN
Hotel. Saturday morning. carriage to Royal
Blue at Liberty street, and by train to
Washington. $50 pm. Automobile from
Baltimore station to 18th street. Time
And that was not such great rush. after
all.
THE WOLVERINE; Romance of Early Michi
gan by Albert Iathrop Lawrence. Illustrated
hv Arthur L. Becher. Boston: Little, Brown
ba hero Of this
lively story of life in Michigan just before
that territory became state, was a good
deal of a prig He tried to reconcile his
emotions with his strictly puritanical train
ing and the result was a series of misad-
ventures which gave him much trouble and
brought serious distress to lovely young
woman of French descent, the acknowledged
belle of Detroit. Indeed. the reader grows
out of all patience with Mr.. North before
lie finally awakens TO see what q fool he has
made of himself During the narration of
the story centering around his love affair
there occur several dramatic episodes which
have become part of the history of Michi
gan. The war with Ohio over the Toledo
strip" now forgotten by all save few
delivers into old state records; the negro
riots in Detroit incident to the execution of
the fugitive slave law, and the outbreak of
cholera following the Black Hawk war,
these are woven into the narrative adroitly
and to good effect. The result is a sprightly
picture OF Ire III the wolverine state, Oh
more real interest than the romance itself.
MADAME DU BARRY. BY H. Noel Williams. au
thor OF Madame he Pcmpadour.'' &C. Illus
trated New York: Impaired by Charles Serb
ner's Sons. Washington: William Balautyne
y Sons.
Having written valuable biographies of
Mesdames de Pompadour and de Monte
span. it appropriate that Mr.. Williams
should continue his Iabors to the end of
presenting in similar form and equal scope
u life of Du Barry. their successor at the
left hand of the King of France IL merely
10 complete the sequence. But the author
believes that there are other reasons for
thus finishing the series by writing an ac-
count of the career OF the last OF the royal
miStresses. He takes issue with Sante-
Beuve, who declared that Madame de Pom
padour the last kings mistress worthy
of the name, and that after her 1t would
be impossible to descend and enter with de-
cency into the history OF the Du Barry"
This is a refinement which does not
strongly appeal to modern students of his
tory. For it is as historical personages
that these women must be studied, and not
as mere individuals. That Du Barry ex-
erted an influence upon the career of Louis
Ky. and contributed in a measure to the
conditions which led TO the revolution some
years after his death may not be question:
ed. That she was a factor in affairs dur
ing her reign as the kings favorite is unde-
niable, although her temperament did not
lead her into intrigue, as IN the cases OF
Pompadour and Moutespan. She was a
care-free happy little courtesan, intent
solely upon the pleasure of acquiring and
spending. 1t was only. MIR. Williams notes,
after his secret attacks upon her had be-
come intolerable that she Joined forces with
tho enemies OF the Due de CoseuI-Stain-
vile. the minister. and accomplished his
downfall. But whether ministers came or
went. Du Barry remained by the side OF
the king until his death, and led him into
extravagances which piled up the total OF
the reckoning which was later so fearfully
discharged by the people of France.
In his account OF her life Mr. Williams
has been Inclined toward leniency, defend
IS her against what hs considered unjust