Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-28

codes of the continental nations. whence it
passed into Mexico and Central and South
America 20 certain states IN South
Africa. we'll as 10 Scotland and Louis
lana. AT the same time the public law
OF England has had the widest extension
and is exercising the most potent in
iuence. inasmuCh the English consti
tutional system is tie accepted political
model after which they have fashioned
the many systems of popular government
now existing
The student of law will find IN this work
immense volume of references. the
thorough study. of which would keep him
busy for many years. The author has
condensed into one compact volume a
library of literature on the subject of
Jurisprudence and has presented his re-
suits clearly and. to the student interest
ed in such lines inteligently and always
inStructivelE. He says: After the lapse
of twenty centuries new system OF
codes. far greater in number and far more
vOluminous in detail. have come into ex-
istence. from which the jurists of today
should he able to extract. through
application of the Roman method. the
compa ratively few basic principles that
undcrle them all. As more rapid inter
communication draws the nations of the
world closer together. the longing in
creases for modern law of the nations.
that is. for a uniform conception of legal
right. capable of embodiment in a code
of substantive and adjective law. which
must eIneTRe. II at 6Il. from existing
codes. like the single and typical face in
composite photograph to which many
features have contributed their influence.
THE TETHER. BY Ezra s. Brudno. au
thor of THE Fugitive" etc. Phila-
delphia: ]. b. Lippincctt Company.
Mr. Brudno voices the cry of young
American Jew. 1t is a voice of protest
against the barrier that shuts him out
from social recognition in the country he
has made his own. He resents the con-
dition that privileges any emigrant from
any Christian nation to merge himself
into the domestic citizenship of America.
while he. because he IS David Sphardi.
son of the synagogue. must be tethered
apart forever Russian Jew. David
peddler. student poet and lover. fights
this Goliath Of prejudice. with no saving
stone in his sling. AS boy he attracts
the interest of Helen Truesdale. for whom
he poses. 1t is through her that all the
good things of his life come to him. and
it is TO her influence that he owes his in
PRODUCTION into a class of Boston society
that young Carl Dunkelheimer. backed by
wealth. has tried to enter and failed. In
contrast to Miss Truesdale's helpful kind
ness David is made to suffer from the.
insolence. of Mrs. Leopold Dunkellleimer.
who refuses to tolerate less prosperous
Jews. except in her capacity as phi]an-
thropist of the Hebrew CHARITIES. of which
Bavarski. who has an aggressive person
ality. though he walks through but one
chapter of the book. is unlike David. in
that he is troubled with no fine sense of
loyalty to the Jewish faith: no filial de-
sire TO recite Kaddish at the grave of
father who had turned him adrift because
he preferred his violin to trade. He
has Americanized his name to John
Beaver. and explains. in justification. that
he is an American and that he sees no
reason why he should bear a, name that
associates him with Russia or any other
country. "My father likes his syna-
gogue-well and good: maybe it is best
for him. He lives his generation; shall
live mine Solomon Sphardi. David's
father. is faithful and touching type
of the Jew of that older generation. who
is true to Israel and her God. He lives
his honest life q street peddler: takes
his Friday bath in an ill-smeling place
that reminds him of Russia. and longs
with all the passion Of his soul that when
death comes to him his son will be near
to say Kaddish. David's first fancy for
girl of his own race, who repulses him
because of "prejudices against his class
of people" is the prelude to a mighty love
that makes the romance Of the book. The
author must have anticipated criticism
note. he says. in part: II am neither
teacher nor preacher nor solver of prob
lens: l advocate no theories as to what
the world should be, or could be or will
De. l am only an observer OF lie ana
give back to the public what have taken
from it
THE HOUSE IN THE WATER: Book
of Animal Stories. BY Charles g. d.
Roberts. author of The Kindred Of
the Wild" etc. illustrated and Dec
GRATED by Charles Livingston Bull
and Frank Winning Smith. Boston:
l.. c. Page Co.
These stories are about natures crea-
lures that live in the great silence OF the
North woods. The House in the Water
IS found by the boy who is camping with
Jabe Smith. guide and trapper. 1t is the
home of a family of beavers. and having
exacted from the old trapper a promise
that they should not be harmed the boy
and Jabe spend long nights watching the
small architects at work upon their dam
There is the spice of adventure and a
hint of tragedy. but the charm of the
sketch is it's insight into the habit of the
beaver how he lives and works and plays
and how he defends himself throughout
the ice-bound winter from gaunt wild
things that stalk the pallid woods in
search of prey. THE White Slashed