Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-27

are all of girl-like, If hoydenish: nature.
She plays the good Samaritan, the Lazy
Bountiful, the lady Grant the joiner OIL
hearts. She has her own way with
sweet determination that cannot arouse
other than the most sympathetic feelings.
When she is banished, partly for reasons
of state, to the forbidding household or
German prince and princess, living IN Eng
land who command her presence for the
sake of the golden income from her main
tenance allowance, every one hopes ana
knows that Felicia-which IS her 1orr ma
name little used-will make herself so dis
agreeable that she will soon return 10
Stoneril And of course, she does, In less
,, than four days, after she has reached a
climax of impossiblity in the German
household by shaving the royal poodles to
the skin, ruffles and pon-pons and all.
Eventually Tinker appears on the scene
and there is jointure of forces when
gives rise to an exciting experience for the
elders and the book closes with a wedding,
at which the Lady Nogges an dthe Tinker.
as interested spectators, have the time OF
their lives. May there be more OF their
kind, or at least more about them.
A MODERN UTOPIA. BY H. G. Wells.
With illustrations by E. ]. Sullivan
New York: Charles Scribners Sons.
Washington: William Ballantyne &
Sons.
It is said that every novel writer has at
the back of his brain some big literary
project which is quite apart from his usual
nroduct The story-teller may be an as
pirant for poetic honors or for recognition
as a playwright or as philosopher. 1t has
been evident for years that Mr.. Wells was
| a profound thinker upon social questions
but whether for the sake of evolving his
remarkable fictional plots or as main
| study could not be discerned. Now comes
! a book that throws some light upon the
| question. The man has been evidently led
| by his muse into deeps of thought. He has
turned this world of ours so completely up
| side down from time to time In order TO
| ascertain wherein It might suggest some
extraordinary Iaie of the ina gination, that
| he has seen all it's inequalities and its rough
| surfaces, and now be proceeds. in the
| course of an altogether unusual DIT OF writ
ing TO suggest how things might be i'm
proved for the moral good OF humanity.
His Utopia is a creation of vast dlmen-
sions and is described in the course OF a
| somewhat rambling, often clumsy, series
| of dialogues. 1t is impossible to suggest in
| brief Mr.. Wells suggested reforms. They
! are based 1t may be said, upon social
| state so radically different from that of
| today as to be conceivable only as the re-
suit of an exercise in fantastic thought.
| IYNCH-LAW; an Investigation into the
| History of Lynching in the United
| States BY James Ebert Cutler, Phi.
! D. instructor in economics in Welles-
ley College New York: Longmans,
Green & Co.
There Is at least one reassuring note in
| this valuable treatise upon subject of vital
| Importance. It proves plainly that public
sentiment in the south, where the lynching
evil is most fragrant, is steadily, though
! slowly, turning toward a solution, as is evil
| denced by the speeches and recommends
| lions of governors of the states where some
fr,,f t1o To-
| have been committed. But beyond this,
| despite It's plain showing Of the uselessness
| of lynching the danger of it, the fallacy of
| the arguments in its Justification, there is
little hope to be drawn from the pages.
I Prot Cutler has told a great deal about
| lynching, it's origin and its development as
| a peculiar American institution, which stu
| dents Of sociology and penology should
| know. He has prepared tables which dem
| onstrate that mob law Is not invoked for
the specific checking of the one particular
! crime against women in the name Of which
| 1t is cited by its defenders as necessary.
| The crime for which men are most fire.
| auently lynched, both white and colored is
| murder During the years covered by the
! statistics he has gathered-1SS2-l9O3-in all
parts of the country, 62S white and colored
! men, or 1872 per cent, were lynched for this
| crime During the same period 264, or 2O.6
| per cent, were lynched for theft; 100, or S.5
| per cent. for rape: 50. or 7.3 per cent, for
| desperadism 81, or per cent, for minor
| offenses, 81 for arson and IL for assault,
| while 50 were lynched for unknown causes.
l Thus disposing of one Of the prime reasons
| advanced by the defenders of this institu-
ton in its Justification, Prof. Cutler pro-
! ceeds to consider that other excuse-that
/ the laws delays and uncertainties arouse
/ the people to a.pitch Of understandable Inn
! patience. He concludes. however. that in
| the last analysis lynch law In this country
| is without any justification whatever. urg-
! ing that II the law Is inadequate in terms
/ or its manner of enforcement 1t is the fault
| of the people themselves, and Of the very
i states within which these outrages Ygainst
/ the law occur. The remedy Is In theic own
hands in legal amendments and court re-
forms. He concludes:
| "If the United States had monarchical
! form OF government the most practicable