Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-10-05

| school In New York which has undertaken
! to educate her makes an excursion into set
| tement work is enlightening. BY reason OF
| her grlsh sincerity and charm-and the
| pretty pink dress in which she floats
| through dingy corridors-she wins the
| hearts of the people whom Billy Brown and
| his wife, with all their earnestness, have
| been unable to reach. Agatha not only sue
| ceeds in keeping her family in a state of
| terror for a whole week during her mys-
| FERROUS disappearance. but she insists on
| evolving charming love story out of I'M
promising material. The way in which the
! story is told, through series of notes and
| diaries which all of those queer Browns"
| delight in keeping, Is in this case a clever
| device, for it allows an opportunity for the
| real passion for helpfulness of Brown and
| his wife to find an intelligent expression.
in the course of which will be found shrewd
| observation of slum conditions. 1t also
| gives place for the winsome individuality of
| Agatha to make itself known and oppor-
| tunity for the mimtable sentimentalities of
Aunt Nugent to reach a delighted audience.
THE NEW HARMONY MOVEMENT. By
| George B. Lockwood. With the Col
! laboration of Charles A. Prosser in the
| preparation of the Educational Chap
| ters New York: u. Appleton s. Co.
In the introduction to this volume, which
| is written by Mr. w. T. Harris, the ex-
| United States commissioner of education,
| is given a discussion of the general phases
| of the communstic movement. of which
| the two harmony experiments were alike
| expressions. DR.. Harris discusses the four
elements into which civilized society is
! divided: the family, civil society with its
! division of labor, the state, the church. All
| four institutions are necessary to the best
development of man. The communists or
socialists fail because they endeavor to
| make civil society take the place of the
| family or the state.
| Both the earlier settlement of the Rap
pites at Harmony. says DR.. Harris. and
| the later experiment at the same place of
| Robert owen and his successors furnish ad-
| ditional proof of the inherent weakness of
| all communistic schemes.
Mr.. Lockwood SHOWS the great import
ance, in the history of communism, of the
I New Harmony settlement. In the days of
| the Rappites it was most successful as
! religious settlement Under Robert Owen 1t
| was the most successful example of a
| philosophical communistic settlement ever
made. In the days of the decline of the
| original experiment New Harmony be-
| came, through the labors of Robert Dale
| owen, the birthplace of educational and in
| tellectual movements of great Importance
! in American history. The first trial Of the
Pestalozzian system of education made in
this country was naugurated at New Har-
| mony, and William Mcclure there estab-
lished the first manual training school in
the United States. From the days when
George Rapps primitive German colonists
turned the wild land on the banks Of the
Wabash into highly cultivated estate,
until the last days of Robert Dale Owen,
New Harmony has had an interesting
career.
SOCIALISM BEFORE THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION. A History. BY Will
liam Il. Guthrie, Ph.D., instructor in
history. College of the City of New
York, etc. New York: The Macmillan
Company. Washington: Woodward &
Lothrop.
Previous to the great outbreak of social
istic theories at the time of the French
revolution there had been, in various Eu-
, ropean countries, tentative socialistic lit
erature, often expressed in the form of
romances embodying idealstic states Of
society. DR.. Guthrie, after defining the
origin and nature of socialism, passes on
to the causes that led up to the writing of
"etopia in the sixteenth century of Eng
lands history. He then discusses the com
munistic theories of the Utopia well
the sociaistic views held by the author
The manifestation Of the same tendency in
Italy was in the life and writings of Cam
PAMELA in France, in the eighteenth CEN
Morelly. Under stress of centuries of
wrongs these socialistc theories of the
philosophers found expression in the band
of radicals whose revolt paved the way to
the excuses of the French revolution. DR..
Guthrie's book is a scholarly treatment of
an important subject
LOVE WILL FIND THE WAY; the Mar
riage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas.
By Catherine Randolph Sheet His
Letter Containing the Reasons Moving
Him Thereunto. Washington: Glib
son Brothers.
Miss Sheetz, moved by the question that
has been raised as 20 the marriage of Po-
cahontas with John or Thomas Rolfe. pub
fishes an interesting letter of Johns show
ing the reasons which impelled him to wed
the Indian princess This letter. some
extracts from old church records and an
EliZabethan lyric make up a pleasing
little tribute to the ancestress of so many
Virginians. The profits from the sale of the
book are in part to be devoted to the new
PocahOntaS monument
THE LOVES OF PELLEAS AND
ETARRE. By iona Gale. New York:
The Macmillan Company. Washing
ton: Woodward & Lothrop.
To have created two characters entirely
new to fiction is no mean achievement; and
this is what Miss iona Gale seems to have
done in THE Loves of Pelleas and Etarre."
The most experienced novel reader is not
likely to recall any figures in the whole
realm of literature quite like the aged
lovers Of this story 1t was, indeed, a dar-
ing experiment to write a real love story
about hero and heroine of seventy; but
Miss Gales attempt is justified by its entire
success. The story. although it has plenty
of incident, is Of the simplest as to plot
Pelleas and Etarre who have been married
for half century, are not only still ardent
ly in love with each other, but they are
also incorrigible matchmakers. Without
children of their own, they adopt all the
children of their friends, and make it their
self-appointed task to smooth the rough
course of true love for every one they
know The book is merely the history of
their successive adventures encountered in
the pursuit of this amiable occupation.
Now it Is Pelleas who discovers in ttSp raw
clerk at the drug store the lover signing for
his mistress. and by the most conscience
less scheming brings the couple to the
point of taking the momentous step that in
sures their happiness. Now it is Etarre
who shamelessly encourages a young fellow
to defy his parents and marry the girl of
his choice regardless of worldly considera-
tons.
OF course, both Pelleas and Etarre are
painfully conscious of their weakness in
challenging all the maXims of the prudent,
and there is no little humor in the picture
Miss Gale has drawn of these guileless old
people furtively rejoicing in their desperate
plots.
But the final touch of humor is In the