Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-14
THE LONG DAY.

THE LONG DAY. The True Story OF
New York Working Girl as Told by
Herself. New York: The Century
Company.
This is one of the really significant books
on modern social problems. 1t is valuable
because Of the vivdness of its pictures and
the evident honesty of its purpose. Con-
nected by the story OF one girls struggle
to obtain foothold in the working world
of New York are many life histories. for
tunate OF tragic, but always real. 1t is only
the circumstance of her superior intell-
gence, character and equipment that has
raised the life of the writer of the book
above the most sordid OF the conditions that
she describes. The fruit of this is the init
macy of feeling which makes of the various
MISUNDERSTANDING or dwelings-actuali-
ties which are to remain with the readers.
Springers box factory. the home for work.
ing girls Rosenfelds flower factory, the
horrors of the Pearl laundry-these places,
each with it's own individuality. cannot be
forgotten. And the girls heroic or inert,
fortunate or tragic, aspiring to honest indie
pendence or content to be sordid-they ought
to point the way to some really intelligent
solution of their saddening problems,
The writer of The Long Day has valu-
able material. More than that, she has used
Il skillfully There is wisdom in her re-
serves and there is dramatic ability of no
mean degree. Thus 1t is the reader follows
the fortunes Of the central figure with alb
sorptiOn, meets each new acquaintance with
eagerness and feels with regret the mist
that bIots out the glimnses of these working
girls lives. 1t is significant that the two
real successes and the greatest tragedy are
[n the lives of girls who have been brought
to the city from better conditions. To the
sordid and sometimes shameful conditions
in the lives of the native-born working
women there is no conclusion as definite as
tragedy. The author, who was their fellow
worker feels-and the reader with her-that
they are too much the product of their con-
ditions for judgment.
Not the least valuable part of the volume
Is the eplOgue In 1t are stated conclusions
as to the problems of the working girls and
suggestions to their solution.
THE COMPLETE POLITICAL WORKS OF
LORD BYRON. Cambridge Edition.
Boston and New York Houghton,
Miffiin & Co. Washington: Woodward
& Lothrop.
The Cambridge Edition of the Poets,
edited by Bliss Perry, are so thoroughly
done that it is a great pleasure to note the
growth of the series. All information need
ed for the profitable study or understand
ing the poets and their work is most
carefully collated. The present volume by
Paul Elmer More is carried out according
to the high standard of the edition, and is
moreover timely, as the interest in Byron
is constantly growing.
THE REMUNERATION OF AUNT MARY.
By Anne Warner, author of Susan |
Clegg and Her Friend, Mrs. Lathrop,"
"A Woman's WILL &c. With four full !
page illustrations. Boston: Little, |
Brown d Co.
Anne Warner proves for a third time, by
the creation of Aunt Mary, her possession
of a peculiar power for characterization
The creator of the inimitable Susan Clegg''
had a standard to live up to. and in her
latest book she fulfills expectations. The
narrative of the adventures of Aunt Mary
in New York affords Miss Warner, who is
really Mrs. Charles Ellis French of st.
Paul MINI, a capital opportunity for her
Irresistible humor. Aunt Mary is conducted