Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-14

wartime life not sufficiently presented in
modern fiction. Mrs. Thruston was born
In Virginia during the war. she now re-
sides in Baltimore.
PARTY LEADERS OF THE TIME; Char
acter Studies of Public Men at WASH
fngton, Senate Portraits, House Fitch
ings, Snapshots at Executive officers
and Diplomats and Flashlights In the
Country at Large. BY Charles Willis
Thompson. Illustrated. New York: q.
w. Dillingham; Company.
Mr.. Thompson is the Washington CORE
spondent of the New York Times and the
Philadelphia Public Ledger. He has made
a close study while here of the men who
make the wheels go round" He has
watched them In action and has talked to
them at close range. He has snapshotted
them in paragraphs and with the camera
He has observed their eccentricites and
their peculiarities, and now he offers them
in a book which is wildly interesting from
beginning to end. His anecdotes are fresh
and apt. He departs from the hackneyed
style of the writer describing the leaders
OF the party activities. Some salient point
of character is caught and utilized to serve
as a token OF the mans true nature. In
this work the Photographic illustrations are
of exceptional value. Mr. Thompson's
chapters are not all sugary. He puts
bit of vinegar into the composition now and
then, but its bites are not vicious. He tells
IL the truth hurts sometimes 1t Is not the
fault OF the chronicler. He offers a brief
but interesting study of President Roose
velts temperament, dwelling chiefly upon
his impulsiveness, his tendency to take a
short cut to his goal and to reach quick de-
cisions in selecting appontees to office. His
treatment throughout Is brisk and often
conversational, and there is many hearty
laugh between the covers. The book is an
exceptionally praiseworthy example of ma
uonal capital description.
JOSIAH WARREN, the First American
Anarchist: a Sociological Study BY
william Bailie. Boston: Small May
nard & Co.
Under this somewhat startling subtitle
flows the tale of one OF the most placid
peaceful careers imaginable. Josiah War
rem was an anarchist" only in the sense
that he believed in individualism Yet he
was a communist. He organized colonies
OF mutually ,self-supporting people in vari-
Gus parts of the country, the last of them
being styled Modern Times, on Long Island
His theory was that no man had a right
TO take a profit in supplying his fellows
with the necessaries of life. He began
his career a philanthropicai reformer in
Cincinnati, where he opened a store con-
Quoted on the no-protit principle lie
charged for his goods only the actual cost,
plus the cost of freight, rental and shrink
age He then exacted from the customer
a note, which represented the value of the
time The proprietor had consumed In max
ing the transaction, payable in labor of
the Kind the customer could supply. This
first time store was continued for two
years, at the end Of which period it was
closed, with an even balance on the ledger
Warren was idealist, with a certain
amount or practical force to put his the
cries into execution. but he merely sought
to SOW seed, hoping that others would
his DrODOSltiOnE n
scale. The story OF his achievements and
dreams is interesting In these days of So
cial unrest and possible changes.
THE SIEGE OF THE SOUTH POLE. By
Hugh r, Mill, D. Sc, LID With Illus
trations from drawings, photographs
and maps, with map in coIors by r. @.
Bartholomew. New York: Frederick
A. Stokes Company,
Many volumes descriptive of certain ad-
ventures In the south polar regions have
been published. and there il no lack OF
information about the courageous work of
the geographical pioneers who have sought
to solve the great problem that there lies
behind the Ice wall. But It ts scattered
widely, and the student who desires TO
CLEAN the most important facts from these
works must do a tremendous amount Of
reading. DR.. AIill has done this work for
those who desire chiefly consecutive ac-
count OF what has been attempted and what
accomplished in the southern waters Ills
book, written In popular style. but with no
departure from scientific accuracy, tells the
complete story OF the siege OF the south
pole" II traces the endeaYers of genera
tiona of explorers, from the ailcisnts down
TO Nordenskjoid. Bruce and Hcett. After
WITH R Ss Reys s 81 can ss se gsoe p ana
the valuable data collected by the American