Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-23

ten times. Well, If these happenings OF your
youth have faded from mind somewhat Mr.
Sabin's book serves as a revtvtfying force.
His pages bring back food of memories
His tales of boyhood are all SO true, SO real
istic, SO very personal to you. The Ian
guage the boys of his chapters use Is so like
the talk of boys from time immemorial. that
strange blend of slang and elliptic, elo-
quence, that emphatic expression Of thought
devoid of the clogging refinCments. There
are smart boys and dull Buys, fat boys and
thin boys, pugnacious boys ond tlmid boys
in this series OF papers, the same charac-
tiers appearing throughout. And few par
ents are permitted bare standing room,
your own mother and father Of the number.
Your mother Is devoted to you. sympathetic,
occasionally skeptical, deft-hngered to make
base ball uniform or a circus costume.
Your father turns humorous eide to your
view in moments Of stress. He was boy
himself once upon a time. Oh, it is n great
thing to have a father who has never for
gotten his own boyhood. Maybe Mr.. Sabins
delightful book. with Mr.. Steale's elonuently
illustrative pictures. will be the means Of
causing some fathers to rsu.en.ber and be
more tolerant of the pranks OF their small
sons.
HEARTS AND MASKS. BY Harold Mac
Grath, author of THE Man on the
Box" &c. Illustrations by Harrison
Fisher. Decorations by Ralph Fletcher
Seymour. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-
Merrill Company.
Picture handsome young man Sitting IN
restaurant shutting pack of cards. cut
ting carefully and drawing forth-the ten
of hearts. Would not anybody of a rea-
sonable degree of curiosity be interested in
the why and wherefore? Even perfectly
proper young woman sitting on the oppo-
site side Of the table. ably guarded by an
observant uncle. was justified in asking a
question. True, she was answered crypt
eally, foolisfly, but the conversation dis
closed two unusually entertaining people.
And that ten of hearts played leading
part in an amazing series of misadventures
and finally led to the altar. The scene of
the major portion of this play of circum-
stance was q certain country club down In
New Jersey, where the members We're CIV
ing a novel entertainment In the form Of
| masked ball, with playing cards as guest
tokens. Neither the young man who shut
fled the cards at the restaurant nor the
| young woman who asked the entirely ius-
| tifable question had been invited neverthe-
| less both were present. And why they were
there and what happened to them there,
and afterward. is the story which Mr.. Mac
Grath tells IN his inimitable manner, with
the cooperation of Mr.. Fisher who con-
tributes series of altogether delightful
pictures.
| THE MENACE OF PRIVILEGE; a Study
off the Dangers to the Republic from
the Existence of a Favored Class BY
Henry George. Jr. New York: The
Macmillan Company.
II Is favorite pose of the pessimist to
protest strenuously that he is not pes
simist at all, but an optimlst striving for
| the good things that he believes society is
| entitled to receive. 1t is Mr.. Georges
rose. and it Is not convincing. For hts
| book is saturated with pessimism from
start to finish, and OF particularly gloomy
kind. 1t requires for full expression the
constant use of capital letters, for the SPELL
ing of such words as privilege and Rem
edy's and "Militarism.r 1t sets up the
proposition that things are going rapidly
from bad to worse and that unless some
| thing Is done to change the situation the
United States will run on the rocks or
| class hatred and collapse in the tliroes OF
civil war. Here is the groundwork OF his
| estimate OF the state of the nation: "Ex-
traordinary inequality in the distribution
| Of wealth manifested on every hand;
growth OF the aristocratic idea: the lapse
from morals in business and private re-
lations among the very rich; the growth
OF elements OF physical mental and moral
deterioration among the working masses:
the appearance of militant trade unionisu;
the perversion OF the injunction principle
and the use OF soldiers IN strikes; the
corruption of federal. state and municIpaf
politics: the deterring or press. uniyersify
Rnd pulpit from an open expression: the