Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-16

Social Ethics" New York: The Mac
milan Company. Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop.
Nothing can be more certain than that the
public conscience of today IS far more alive
to its responsibility to the various classes
of a city's population. who for various
causes are to be considered in need of as
sistance than it has ever beer before. Miss
Jane Adams. frc~n her social service at
Hull House and elsewhere, and from her
keen and dispassionate observation of the
conditions met with in that service. is pos
sibly better fitted to inform the aroused
public conscience than any other con-
temporary American.
In her present volume she treats of these
elements of public danger in the social or
ganization today. which she considers to
press most urgently for settlement Their
remedy lies in the development of those
moral substitutes for war which, more
than a great standing army, will make ma
tons able to successfully compete with
other nations in the great struggle for ex-
istence. These moral substitutes for war
are found to be the, intelligent and humanl-
tartan efforts of all classes of citizens to
secure such measures as will neutralize the
evils of present-day social and industrial
conditions and best aid in the physical
Miss Adams discusses the various evils in
civic government: The survival of mill
tarism, the failure to utilize the best e-e-
ments in the immigrant population, the di-
vision into antagon:stic groups brought
about by labor agitation. the prevalence of
child labor, etc. She speaks also of various
favorable movements in civic life. such as
the forming of juvenile courts and, in gen.
eral, the care of the defective and incap-
ables, and makes strong plea for
the extension of such influences to-
ward the normal citizen. She closes
with n discussion of the passing of
the war virtues" showing how desirable
is the exaltation of ideals of labor in their
place The possible great positive force in
the principle of non-resistance being work
ed out in Russia today. where it is taking
the form of a passive obstruction in the
way of oppressive measures, is developed.
Newer Ideals of Peace is a thoughtful
gravest problems of today. The intimacy
with the life of the struggling classes of
which she writes is one of the greatest
merits in Miss Adams book She fur
nishes many illustrations of conditions of
which she speaks, which are sometimes
humorous, sometimes tragic and always il
Illuminating.
TRIP TO THE ORIENT; The Story of a
Mediterranean Cruise BY Robert Uric
Jacob. Philadelphia The John C.
Winston Company.
In this readable and instructive book the
tens lle OF a mediterranean
cruise on one of the luxuriously appointed
vessels which make pleasure cruises dur
ing the winter months through the Straits
of Gibraltar and through the Levant touch
ing at picturesque points on the coast
Stopping at Funchal in an entertaining
conversational way, the characteristic ex-
periences are given which travellers find
in that garden spot of the Atlantic Dis
embarking at Gibraltar, Mr. Jacob takes
the reader 10 Granada and the Alhambra
giving in the words of the guide some of
the interesting historical episodes connected
with that historic place. Thence the steam
er goes to Algiers. which has been de
scrlbed as one of the most cosmopolitan
places of the world. M4pa is the next
point of interest, and the history of the
knights of Malta is briefly related. The ar
rival in Athens and the enjOymen. of it's
classic ruins is greatly heightened by the
guidance of college professor who accom-
panies the party and takes the place of the
customary guide. Constantnople is then
visited, which the G. eeks call The City,"
nesting in its beautiful situation on the
Golden Horn and glittering in the sunshine
cinating city, and then the steamer takes
its departure for the Holy Land. 1t is per-
haps here that Mr.. Jacob is at his best, in
that he gives the intimate aspect of things
in a country which has perhaps been more
thoroughly written about than any other.
Cairo and the pyramids, the great monu-
mSntS OF l-uNOr ana harnak, and the peren-
MAI fascination of the Nile occupy con-
siderable number of entertaining pages.
On the return trip the party stops at Ma
pies and visits the wonderful ruin of
Pompeii, and after the mingled squalor and
opulence of the east the story of the book
ends with the luxury and gayety of life on
the Riviera The numerous and excellent
photographs which illustrate this work,
views to the number of almost two hun
bred, Increase the value in the readers en-
joyment of the book.
HOW DOTH THE SIMPLE SPELLING
BEE. By owen Wister author of The
Nirginian.' &c. Illustrated by F. r.
Gruger. New York: The Macmillan
Company. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
Mr.. Wister is evidently no friend of SIM
plified spelling. Else he eschews his predi-
lections for that reform for the sake of
making copy. But very delightful copy it
Is that he has turned out on this subject.
He satirizes the movement in a vein of fine
hyperbo!e that will bring a broad smile to
the face of the reading world, and will
amuse even the earnest advocates of the
extinction OF useless letters. The aggrega-
ton OF professors at the great Chickle Uni
versity, founded and managed by Mastica-
tor b. Fellows, organizer of the chickle
trust-"chckle" being the polite name for
chewing gum-does things to the English
language that cause the world to sit up and
take notice. Everybody concerned gets
plenty of publicity and Chickle University
gets a million new students. Mr.. Wister
plays with this theme in a spirit of rich
humor. which cannot fail to appeal to those
who admire a clever comment upon a pass
ing phase.
MY LIFE AS AN INDIAN. BY J. W.
Schultz. New York: Doubleday. PAGE
& Co. Washington: Woodward 4
Lothrop.
THE SquawMan'' does not ordinarily be-
long to the social or intellectual class Of the
makers of books This account therefore
of the life of an American white man of
intelligence and education who, going as a
young man 10 the Blackfoot country, be-
came one OF the Piegan Blackfeet. is of ex-
ceptional interest. The author of MY Life
as Indian deliberately, after having
tasted both. preferred the wild life married
an Indian woman and lived with her and
her tribe in great happiness. Rendered in
consolable by her early death, he wrote the
record of their days together.
Mr.. Schultz appears to be a man keenly
susceptible TO the influences of nature and
keen in his judgment of human nature. He
makes strong case in favor of his adopted
people. The story of his adventures In the
country at the head of the Missouri river
which was at that time on the western from