Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-06

day furnish the gold, silver and copper Of
the world; that from her hidden vaults. her
subterranean treasure houses will come
the gold silver, copper and precious stones
that will build the empires of tomorrow
and make future cities Of this world verita-
BILE New Jerusalems.''
Mr.. Martins volume has the distinction
of contrast. Recent works on Mexico have
dealt in the main with the past history Of
the republic, giving with graphic detail the
storms and stresses of four centuries of
contention or else delving into the secrets
OF Aztec civilization. The present volume
makes the present condition of the remark
for predicting its future greatness. Mr..
Martin in the course of travel through
Mexico collecting material for book on
the whole Of the repu bile, visited GUIANA
juato. where great revival of interest in
mines has set in. Amazed at the potential
riches of the region he has deemed it proper
to devote volume to recording its past and
future. His volume is complete and con-
vincing.
THE CENSORSHIP OF THE CHURCH
OF ROME; and its Influence upon the
Production and Distribution of Litera
ture A Study in the History of the
Prohibitory and Expurgatory Indexes.
Together with some Consideration of
the Effects of Protestant Censorship
and of Censorship by the State. By
George Haven Putnam, Litt.D.. au-
thor of Books and Their Makers in.
the Middle Ages In Two Volumes.
Volume l. New York: G. P. Putnams
Sons. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop
This volume is a monument of scholarly
toll and has interest and value in the
world of letters not easily estimated. Only
complete list of its chapter topic could
give any suggestion of the completeness of
schedule of the indexes issued by the
church. together with a list of the more
important of the DEGREES edicts, p-chibi-
tons. and briefs having to do with the pro-
hibition of specific books, from the time
of Gelasius l, .567 A. D., to the issue in
1900 of the latest index of the church under
Leo XIII. The author has had an oppor-
tunity of making a personal examination
of the larger number of the indexes which
are described in his schedule, and he pre-
sents, under the descriptive titles Of the
more important of these indexes, a specfica-
ton of the special character of the consu-
tuition and regulations contained in each.
and selection of titles of the more i'm
portant of the books condemned. He has
attempted to indicate the influence ex-
erted by the censorship of the church on
the undertakings of authors, professors,
publishers and booksellers in each one of
the European states in which the regula-
tons of the index came into force. In the
mai chapter is presented a summary of
the conclusions reached by certain repre-
sentative Catholics of today in regard to
the present literary policy of the Church of
Rome.
JUDITH McNAIR. BY Laeta Marion
Ramage. With Frontispiece by VIM
L. Hudson. New York: Broadway
Publishing Company.
The record of a girls life, wildly pre-
sented set in the beginning amid the
crudeness of western prairie town. and
ranging to the Pekin of the Boxer uprising
in China-that is the content of Judith
McNair.' The author, who is a Washing
ton girl, has written of conditions which
she had had opportunities to observe her
self. The sketch of a midde-western town,
where the ambitious Judith lives, with its
heterogeneous population, native American
and immigrant Swede or German, the hard
and inf1exibe yoke of labor, to which all
alike are reduced, the unloveliness with
which life is saddened, Miss Ramage has
given with authority The sympathy and
concreteness. which mark her work prove
that she possesses the gift of story telling
and promise much for her future achieve
ment. The elimination of the nara tive,
when the English missionaries and soldiers,
with the women who are dependent on
them, and the plucky American school
teacher do heroic deeds in the besieged
compound, is dramatic and spirited. 1t is
there that Judith finds the answer to the
craving for greatness, which, before, had
been to her only reason for discomfort.
JOYZELLE AND NORMA WANNA. By
Maurice Maeterlinck. New York: Dodd,
Mead & Co. Washington: BaIlantyne's
Mr.. Maeterlincks closet drama, Joy
zelle,' has been translated into English by
A. Teixera De Mattos. NJ. De Mattos has &C
complished no mean feat, for the poem is
mystical and psychological to a degree, and
to find expression for it's delicate and
dream-like fantasy requires that the trans
lator be a poet himself In "Joyzelle' NJ.
Maeterlinck has expressed his belief in the
place of love in human life as well the
tests to which it must be subjected be-
fore it be proved worthy to survive. He
has used the tabled personages of Merlin
and Lanceor as actors in this soul drama |;
and in Arielle, Merlin's Inner force" a
spiritual aetherialized and subtle incarna-
ton of Shakespeares delicate ARIEL To
Merlin and Arielle, waiting their en-
chanted island. come Lanceor and JOY
zelle' to work out the doom that has been
decreed.
"Monna Wanna is presented through the
admirable translation Of Mr.. Alfred Sutro.
The great drama Of Norma Vanna's self
sacrifice, through which the husband Guido
Colonna, is proved ignoble, and the bar
barian, Prinzivalle, reveals nobility, is too
we'll known to need discussion. Mr.. Sutro's
translation, as he states, advances no claim
to absolute 'literalness. 1t has been pre-
pared for stage presentation, and for the
English stage. Whatever, in the original,
might be considered offensive to the general
taste has been modified. 1t will thus be
possible for the reading public to have
acquaintance with a pure and noble work.
BOOKS RECEIVED. -
THE ROMANCE AND TRAGEDY OF A
WELL-KNOWN BUSINESS MAN OF
NEW YORK. BY Himself civilian