Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-16
WITH THE BOOKS

deed, is a more entertaining character Mr..
Moore makes much of the episode Of By
rons wild night ride on the occasion Of the
meteoric shower, which opens the story,
and does some of his best work in that
passage. In token of this factor the binder
has embellshed the cover with a medallion
evidently struck in honor of the occasion,
showing the youth astride a hydrocephalous
horse.
THE PROMISE OF AMERICAN ARCHI-
TECTUREj Addresses at the Annual
Dinner of the American Institute OF
Architects, 1905. Compiled with an in
PRODUCTION by Charles Moore. CORE
spending member ALA. Washington
American Institute of Architects.
The annual dinner OF the American In
stitute of Architects in this city on the
11th of last January was an especially
notable occasion. For not only was there
assembled one of the most distinguished
companies of American citizens ever in con-
gregation. but the meeting of architects
and statesmen unquestionably had the ex-
celent effect of forwarding the grand prof.
ect for the proper development of the ma
tional capital, with which the institute Is
closely associated. The dinner was memo
rable furthermore, because announcement
was made that beginning had been ef-
fected in the endowment of the American
Academy in Rome through gifts OF SlU,-
600 each by Mr.. ]. Pierpont Morgan and
Mr.. Henry Walters, the former being
guest at the dinner In this handsome
print are preserved the speeches made on
that occasion, together with the cable
grams and other messages received from
distinguished persons unable TO aItehu
Mr. Charles Moore, well known IN WASH
lngton, where he lived for some years
while serving as clerk of the Senate COM
mittee on the District of Columbia, mas
written an introduction which clearly eN-
presses the spirit of the dinner ana the
purposes of the institute Mr.. moore Is
closely Identified with the projects Tor the
development of Washington in extension OF
the original plans of the capital foundels.
The speeches delivered on TINS OCCASION
We're as follows: orle1 ln.roduotot -, 'i I'm
by William s. Games, president OF the IN
stitute; art and the Republic, by fresl-
dent Roosevelt; The Place OF Art IN ~
ilization," by Nicholas Murray Butter.
president of Columbia University, New
York, and NJ. Jules Jusserand, the french
ambassador to the United States; Art and
Religion" by Cardinal Gibbons; The SIM
pie Life" by Elihu Root Ut was MI . ~, tSoGe
tute at Rome); THE Painters, by John
La Fargo; The Sculptors," by AUGUSTUS
aint-Gaudens; The Higher Law, by Jus
flee Harlan: Architecture and RppFoplld
tions nv Sneaker Cannon; Congress ana
the Architects" by Representative ''nie'
T. McCleary.
Mrs. RAnIGAN; Her Biography, with
that of Miss Pearl Veal and the Me-
moirs of j. Madison Mudison. BY Mel
son Lloyd, author of Inc SoIIlel u
the Valley" &c. New YORK: InaIle9
Scribner's Sons. Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop.
Mrs. Radigan Is the ambitious wife OF
nev-rich Young banker whose father be-
gan life as a bookmaker-his financial me-
that Is to say. The narrator whose me-
nooirs include Mrs. Radigan's social plog-
raphy. is an ex-college athlete, now a real
estat, dealer, who sells the Radigans their
first town house and wisely advises them
on the ways and means of social climbing
Miss Pearl Veal IS Mrs. Radigans sister
a beautiful girl whose conversational limit
IS usually expressed In the exclamation
indeed There are many others, the
WilIiegilts, the Plumstone Smiths, the
Van Rundouns Willie Lite-who sells his
hosts champa gne-the whole XII ana
bilin'" of the smart set Of the metropolis.
Mr.. Lloyd frankly tells the truth, the Whole
truth-with modest reservations-and moth
ing but the truth about them. He describes
the ups and downs of the social roller
coaster and his chapters, dealing with the
Kaleidoscope phases of the whiriy-girIy lie
of the inner few. are bright as new but-
tons and fairly quotable. indeed II N'ulu
be possible to print half column OF cleNt1
nhrases and sentences dropped by this com
mentator in the course of his diary-Ilke
observations on men ana women anu
things Just a few like these suggest the
NTH and point of his commentaries: 10
only few people in this world Is IL given
to be happy and also have pleasure De
longing to one club Is ike having port "
clear from. but no destination; was
wishing | were duke or a member OF the
stock exchange or a champagne agent, or
a something like that; one OF the Sfede
est triumphs OF this democratic country OF
ours is the ease with which the pain J9hhs
Of one generation are succeeded by Jacks.
THE COLONEL's DREAM. BY Charles
w Chestnut. New YORK: Douoieuay,
Page & Co. Washington: WOODWARD
& LothrOp.
In strong terms. justified by all that is
,,rou,n of the situation Mr.. Chestnut con-
dennis the peonage system in vogue IN
come of the southern states. He does more.
He sets forth wildly some of the reasons
ybv the south has not progressed more
raDidly than It has along the path or in
dustrial development. He shows south
crn community owned body and soul, by a
blackguard whose father was slave deal
sr and hunter This man, Fetters, IS well
named, perhaps consciously thus styled by
the author. He has enslaved the commun-
ity by means OF mortgages and he bids
fair to subject the entire state to similar
condition. Against him is pitted Colonel
French, southerner by birth. a veteran
Of the confederate army, who migrated
northward after the war and succeeded
richly in business. In middle age he sells
out TO a trust and travels south for his
health going by choice 10 his old home,
where he finds much 10 arouse his pride
and 70 awaken his business instincts. His
efforts to establish cotton mill, to break
down the peOnage system, to uprOot the
evil OF convict labor and to checkmate the
wicked Fetters all come to naught. The
community is not ripe for such reforms.
however they may promise advantages. Fet-
tiers wins his battle and Colonel French
returns north discouraged. realizing that
his dream is futile. In the telling of this
tale Mr.. Chestnut employs the arts that
made his "Conjure Woman" and Marrow
of Tradition exceptional among novels OF
/ the south.