Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-08

| sobs to hug it's soft little arms around
| your neck, and kiss you. Amt that the
reallest kind of human nature? Why, that's
the kind that makes the world worth Twin
in at all. l don't seem to recollect ever
hearin' that heaven was set aside as a
sort of place where married folk could
| experience knows that that would be
mighty poor kind of heaven-one without
! children in it. It's the child kind of human
nature that sweetens up the world. The
| "give-and-take" knd-take your spankfn
| when it comes, and give back love in re-
| turn for it.
| 1t is all told in the first person, with a
| certain naive Inconsistencies of the humor
of the situations that makes them all the
| funnier.
SHAKESPEARE. By Walter Raleigh,
| fellow of Magdalen College. and pro-
fessor of English literature in the
University of Oxford. New York: The
Macmillan Company. Washington:
BrentanOS.
Starting with the statement that the real
quality of Shakespeares work has been OBJ
secured by the superstitious reverence with
which he has been regarded, the English
scholar and critic proceeds to analysis of
Shakespeare's character life and work.
! Everywhere guided by strong common
sense and by intense appreciation of his
subjects genius, he succeeds in producing
characterization marked by unity and
force. His theories on the mooted points
of the various plays, his comprehensive
grasp of the orderly development of Shakes
peares genius, and of the significance of
the various epochs in the masters work.
make the book valuable one. 1t should
be of especial worth to those students who
are confused by oVer-much discussion of
the subleties of the German school of
critics.
RUNNING HORSE INN. By Alfred
Tresdder Sheppard. illustrated Phil
adelphia: ]. b. Lippincott Company.
A novel centering about an inn located in
the south of England. The period is just
after the close of the Napoleonic wars.
The chief character returns, after a number
Of years of campaigning the continent,
to find that 1t is the wedding day of his
brother and the sweetheart who has prom
Used to wait for him. The story is intense
and thrilling, the scenes laid in London dur
ing December, 1876 at the time of the Spa
Fields riot, being especially dramatic.
MILITARY MEMOIRS OF A CONFED-
ERATE; Critical Narrative. By F.
P. Alexander, brigadier general in the
confederate army, chief of artillery.
Longstreet's Corps. With sketch-maps
by the author. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington: Wood
ward x Lothrop.
Edward Porter Alexander, a brgadier
general in the confederate army chief of
artillery of LongStreetS corps, a m n en-
joying the personal confidence of Lee and
lie principal leaders in the Army of North 1
ern Virginia. is probably the most import
ant, as he is one of the most widely known
of surviving confederate officers But it is
fair to say that his book has been looked
forward to quite much because of his
personal temperament and his we'll known
scholarly and professional equipment as
because of his experience and opportunities
for observation. a graduate of West Point
he showed from the beginning a close deVo-
ton to the scientific side of his profession.
and few young men entered the war with
his military knowledge.
In his admirable introduction c'The Point
of View the latter part of which is, by
the way, both a manly and truly patriotic
utterance-Gen. Alexander says:
The raison detre of the following pages
is not al all to set forth the valor Of con-
federate arms nor the skill of confederate
generals. These they may be, and
must here take their chances in an unparti-
san narrative, written with an entirely diff
ferent object. That object is the criticism
of each campaign as one would criticise
game of chess, only to point out the good
and bad plays on each side, and the moves
which have influenced the result. 1t is far
from being a grateful task, and the writer
is, moreover. painfully conscious of his linn
itations in his effort to perform it ade-
quately.
But it is of great Importance that 1t
should be attempted even approximately
not only for the benefit of general history.
but more particularly Cor that of military
students and staff officers. These will ma
much of value and interest in the details,
pointing out how and why the scale of bat
tie was turned upon each occasion. 1t ls
only of recent years-since the publication
by the War Department of the full official
reports of both armies, in 1875 large vol