Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-08-10

tory Of sculpture. While admitting the SUI
premacy of Greece. she yet asserts that a
study of Roman art is worth while, even
essential, because OF its position: marking
the moment when ''the antique passes from
the service OF the pagan state into that OF
Christianity" Her work is scholarly and
exhaustive 1t is made interesting by rea-
son Of Mrs. Strong's own interest in her
subject and because Of the clearness with
which she presents the subject. 1t should
attract the attention of artists and col
feeling for art values. The final chapter
on Roman portraiture'' Is probably Of
most popular interest. The illustrations
are abundant and beautifully reproduced.
notably the fine representation Of the
Blacas cameo-the head of Augustus
which faces the first page.
THE SHAME OF THE COLLEGES. By
Wallace Irwin. Pictures by NJ. L..
Blumenthal New York: The Outing
Publishing Company
Wallace Irwin's own particular brand OF
folly is too well known to deserve COM
ment in connection with the publication in
book form of The Shame of the Colleges
which has already appeared In chunks in
the Saturday Evening Post. Mr.. Irwin
laughs both with and at the rah-rah boys
and when he is disposed to trihe with the
sacred things in the litany Of the under
grads ne uses a goldbeater's hammer and
not a circus pole sledge. 1t Is stuff that
does not tire the humid ridden mind, that
doesn't even make dent in the readers in
tellectual department, and that rolls of the
memory like peas from knife. Some fool
ish jingles in 1t, too all sm,le-producing
and readable.
JIMMY JONES, the Autobiography of an
Office Boy: BY Roy E. McCardell, au.
thor of odd Love and Lavender"
Boston: Dana Estes G Co.
an up-to-date exponent in Jimmy. While
he himself has a natural attraction for the
things that are good-or at least better
than the habits Of some of his associates
he knows pretty much every class during
his short career. Comparative ease, hard
ship. life in the country and life in the
cellars of New York: all these Jimmy
and the manly thing, but he has a craving
for something doing" which gets him into
all sorts of difficulties The lives of sum
dry grown-ups are arranged according to
pleasanter lines during the progress of the
story.
THE COMEDY OF LIFE. New York: Life
Publishing Company.
Each year the world Is nerrier by reason
of publication of LIES cuiled and collected
humor. The present volume many will be
inclined to style the best that has been
issued Inc peculiar Ield OF LlIe-tne Wit
and humor that are far separated from
anything that is either coarse or bitter, ex-
pressed a form that is graceful rather
than grotesque-is admirably maintained
There can be no doubt that 1t is one Of the
best contemporary records Of the tastes
and foibles of the day. The fact that such
artists as Gibson, HUT, Bayard Jones,
Read. Foster, Blashfield and Hanna and
such funmakers as Kemble and Mont
gomery F'lagg have contributed their art
in itself is enough to insure the success
of the publication.
DEyOTA. By Augusta Evans Wilson, au-
thor of st. Elmo" Illustrations by
Stuart Travis. New York: G. W. Dill
bingham Company.
That an author who has been identified
with the older school of fiction, whose st.
Elmo" delighted the youth of the last
generation, has been able to adapt herself
to present standards is a subject Of wonder.
But so 1t has proved. "Devota" Is a mod
ern story. In thought the book is a pro-
test against capital punishment. The
romance Is centered upon the love story
Of a complex, intellectual, modern woman
and the brilliant executive of a northern
state! The scene is a country house, which
Is filled with a carefully chosen week
end' party. Devota, who Is adored by the