Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-04-18

that he is sailing. please meet him in LiV-
erpool. So Yvonne and Lee travel post
haste to Liverpool. to find Uncle John and
Oily. staid old college professor. the
unhappy victim of Uncle Johns hospital
ity. madly off to Carlisle. Uncle John
stays scarcely any time at all in place
though he does give Edinburgh half
dav-he loses his trunk and Di'lys. too:
and his comments on English sights ana
English travel and billy grow funnier
with every hour. Meanwhile Yvonna and
Lee get real pleasure out of their sudden
trip set down in clever letters home; and
at last the wild chase ends merri'y in
Oxford. and Uncle John starts home. in
nucently but delicously funny to the last.
THE IRISH IN THE AMERICAN
REVOLUTION, and Their Early In
fuence in the Colonies. Ry James
Haltigan. Illustrated. Washington:
Patrick !. Haltigan.
Mr. Haltigan's book has surely been
la Dor of love. He dedicates the volume
with. much fervor 10 the Ancient Order OF
Hibernians. whose members. he SAYS.
have been foremost in preserving n TINS
country the spirit o. Irish nationality
There is every indication that no small
purpose in his history is to furnish mo-
tiyes of pride for the work of that organ
fzation and he has ampl" material the
Illustrations include Washington himself.
Commodore John Barry the father of
the navy: Gen. Richard Montgomery,
Gen. John Sullivan. Gen. Henry Knox,
Gen. Anthony Wayne. Charles Carroil or
CarroIlton and Charles Thomson. the sec
rotary of the Continental Congress. but
the index supplies almost a legion o
names of men whose thought and deed
proved an inspiration IN the cause OF
American liberty.
Mr. Haltigan states his intention as IN
no sense TO write new history. but 10
restore authoritative pages concerning the
achievement of the Irish people In the
founding of this republic. pages which
he believes have been ruthlessly torn
from our annals and ignored.
Certainly the most cursory inspection Of
what his people did In the early days of
colonial settlement from Vermont 70 the
Carolinas of their activity i'm the decade
preceding the Revolution. and o" their
prowess at Lexington and Concord at
Bunker Hill. In the invasion OF Canada.
before New York in 17Ii in the victories
at Trenton and Princeton. in the south
ern campaigns In the opposition to Bur
gOyne. and wherever counsel or fighting
WA 10 he done to the end at Yorkt own.
would convince any reader Of the debt of
the American people to the Irish
There are great and romantic names in
the book, like those of Patrick Henry,
Gustavus Conynham. Capt. John Mcclure,
and there are incidents so many to
warrant the statement that the English
lost America through the Irish
This volume is almost a complete story
of the war of Independence and it is A
story told with profound sense of truth
and inimitable power to interest
THE METROPOLIS. BY Upton Sinclair,
author of The Jungle" etc. New
York: Moffat. Yard & Co
MANY of the same qualities which
marked the authors previous work The
Jungle are to be found in his new novel
He has applied TO the presentation of the
life of certain section of New York So
cety the same thoroughgoing and cumu-
lativ5 methods that made the picture of
the Chicago stock yards so startling. The
reader fances that the chroniques scan
daleuses of many a metropolis have been
ranSacked to unsavorily furnish forth the
metropolis the author has chosen to eX-
plot. That each special example of mad
extravaganza or corruption has existed.
does exist no sober-minded man or woman
would deny But that they have been
gathered together. without single con-
trary element TO act as relief. and heaped
on the already overburdened reputation
of one unfortunate city. of one class. al
one time makes the book Enthusiastically
as a sociological study. however much ii
may add to the force of the impression.
II Is pHTHtpH Ciai dSteii>tiC VI tHc ltill-
permanent that can produce 50 passion
ately vivid a reproduction of the evils Ii
perceives that IL should see partially. in
proportion as its convict ions are intense.
No one can expect literary artist of
strong emotional bias to port things just
as they are. any mora tlaH pictorial
artist who always sees in terms of blue
or of purple a landscape of many subtle
tones and tints. Therefore no one should
read THE Metropolis with the idea that
he is thereby gaining "A clear idea of the
characteristic life of New York, or any