Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-02

Edited. with PREDATORY Dedication.
nv Robert Ross. Second Edltloh.
with Additional Matter. New York;
G p Putnam's SonSs
- -ALF dozen letters. hitherto
unpublished make the occasion
for a second edition OF MI
Wilde's little book, but volumes
have before this. been hroush'
ont for less substantial reasons. Two OIL
those letters. addressed to the pubic. are
IN apneal for prison reform: an appear
founded upon his own experience and OBJ
scrvation in the jail at Reading ho-
oueutlv nIain. unshrinking. analytical, re-
medal they have place among '"e
most important resources of the stuue"'
and the social reformer. The remaii'l"s
letters only four in number. are to MS
friend Mr. Ross-now his literary eA-
ecutor-personal, intimate. sincere letters
uhoIIv freed from the artificial pose that
marked the attitude of the author In the
hevdav of his career. Written wheh h's
soul was wrestling in Gethsemane Gnu
his body wasting in that revoitlns " ,,iud
still they breathe of trust IN MS NM
trust without bitterness; with the sinPie
randor of a child, and with cliio ~, .
Measure they tell of gratltuue iol on 80,
Casional sign of comprehension anu n,na
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and courageous than the most. Ohe "
these letters uncovers him. prone az ~
stunned at word of the comm M t;r, :
his sentence denied, yet ne iouseo ~
self from this pitiful letharsy to reau .iio
..Divine Comedy and to study Geri
which he takes up with the SOBER renec-
ton that this is a fitting STUDY ioi p 'a
life-and so the honest unconscious lev
1atiop goes on The whole DOCK Is d
are document both as revelation ana M
sniration to all those who. even III INC
least degree, have turned brlsanu 10 ~ ~ "a
own souls-an inclusive NUMBER. NO olIei
achievement equals in simple human. help-
fulness that of sorrow-the unlEersaI ma -
adv-turned to the wholesome, heartehiLs
uses Of day-by-day living: mere VIZ
clear soul exposure and in singing phrase,
AS we'll. this triumph is reveaieo i Ill
y book to place beside one otner-"e,
nossibIy beside two others-at the Deo .
head to reach easily and 10 sather ilol i
II words of heartening When tne ua"n
freaks gray and the spirit shrlnks from
its morning tryst WIN hle' ITO
and it's opportunities.
THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE; ana
Other stories. BY Elizabeth stuart
Phelps. Boston: Houshtoh' Mihii"
Company.
uere is a bundle of gray stories. A
mere person may not caVll at the all Vi
. distinguished author, but he may mod
pStlE WISH Tor d ItlicA, III Su"JS~~'
the hopeless dreariness of life. Who does
not desire and look for something better
than life in the stories that he reads.
Listen: Domestic discomfort sickness,
death long drawn out. accident with in
i,rv fire food. famine. Oh. Oh. After
this one must get out where he can near
"A child laugh. bird sing. or see the now
ers stand brave and colorful and ma
the leaves dancing in shadows on the
grass. They are all too gray, TOO ouh'
too drear, these stories.
BIG JOHN BALDWIN. BY Wilson
Vance. New York: Henry Holt
Co. Washington: William Ballan-
tyne K Sons.
Those who look for a love story IN
every piece of writing will find one here.
threading it's troubled way-quite after
the accepted formula-through opposition
and separation to the final sanctuary Oh
happy wedlock One who takes up the
book and throws it into slight perspec-
tive finds that it is not love story at ALL
Rather is 1t the story of period OF time.
incarnate in the hero, a praying, psalm
singing, cock-fighting, horse racing. gal
liant young giant Of an Englishman-soi,
der and younger son. he is very fedi
parsonage. this herO-type though ne De
passing back and FORTH much as the
English nllnu SWdScu CT tiiAt eAAAAC
tween the court of Charles / and the
camp of Oliver Cromwell. Later, as SOL
der to the latter, he performs proolelous
deeds of strategy and valor, to say noun
ing of most astonishing feats OF mere 81
eantic strength. The book cast In the
form of autobiography, gives the hero the
cha nee of a lifetime to draw his own PIC
ture as he himself sees it. \ fine 1elioW,
though. in any ones eyes Inc peri s -
projected wildly; places possess FORM
color location; events have movement
20: the people have personality. In the
course of time this CromWeiila soldiei
starts a new era by migrating 10 AMER
"a al the head of d colony. to which ne
constitutes himself sort OF patrlarcnai
administrator and out of whose analrs
he passes in CHARACTERISTIC act ol maj
tvrdom. An interesting book
SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND EDUCA.
TION. BY NJ V. OShea, professor OF
education at the University OF Wis
consin and author of Education bS
Adjustment, etc. Boston: f1oush
ton, Miffiin Company.
This book, authoritative by virtue of the
authors experience, scholarship ana eN-
pert knowledge of the subject will be APP
propriated by the teaching profession 10
which it is indirectly addressed. The
process of education, however, overhows
the time and place and circumstance OF
the SpeCldlZeu lnSlltuIloUS ucNOtcu W 10
uses; it bubbles into the street and filters
into the home. One wonders, therefore.
why this volume devoted to the most i'm
portant aspect of education, and withal
so simple and untechnical of speech, so
clear of aim, so concrete of example, with
every page lighting up some of the num-
herless facets of the child nature, should
not have a place on the reading table or
intelligent fathers and mothers and OF
public officials, other than teachers,
charged with the duty of directing chill
dren toward social efficiency and stability.
FROM My YOUTH Up; Personal Remi-
Illustrated New York: Fleming H.
Revell Company.
Mrs Sangster has been so busy for
wears writing impersonally in her own
particular field of wholesome philosophy
and optimism that she has had little time
to devote to a personal presentation OF
herself TO her world of admirers and fol-
lowers. Ii is appropriate, therefore. that
she should now put forth a volume of au-
tobiograp ply, which will be gladly received
BY the thousands of readers who have
been so greatly helped by her periodical
publications and her occasional books.
This story of her life is told In the same
simple unaffected style that marks her
Journalistic items. She modestly describes
her introduction to the field OF print by
telling how years ago, she was inspired
10 write short poem, entitled Are the
children at Home by a vision OF a bat
- v1n ritlry