Evening star., 1909-07-17

t1On with one anotner, Says
Griselda TO her husband on the
night when the clouds between
them finally roll away and they are for
the first time united in spirit. THESE
dream people are the chief personages or
this long we'll written and save Tor
few passages where the author has un-
wisely indulged her tendency to analy-
sis. entertaining novel. They are not Nv
ing they are not named and they DO not
walk the pages, but their influence is the
vital force which plays upon the actual
characters of the narrative. There are two
Young women who are greatly teHpleu.
Both of them are saved. one before mar
riage and one after. They are drawn
into right relations with themselves ana
their husbands by the influence OF the
mast In each case the tempter IS the
same man. one who is seeking cruel d.
version. 4 somewhat complicated per-
sonal relationship is involved. the ciear-
ing of which does not occur uhtli tne
reader has AT times given up IN Despair
the effort to trace lines of Cenealogy
Excellent portraitS are drawn OF TWO sell
sufficient stoid British husbands IL is
their misfortune to be mated with women
of imagination. but tragedies are aNetteu
The author writes with wit ana lmasina-
tion and produces a story, which makes
an intellectual appeal from beginning TO
end
THE sTATEsMAN'S YEAR BOOK:
Statistical and Historical AnnuA ot
the states of the World for the
Year 1909. Edited by J. Scott Kettle.
LID. secretary to. the Royal Geo
graphical Society. etc. With the as
sistance of |. p. A. Renwick. MA.
LIB Forty-sixth annual puhllcd-
ton. Revised after official Returns
New York: The Macmillan Company
So much has happened during the past
year in the upsetting of established hnes
of government that the new edition OF
the Statesman's Year Book is of particu-
lar interest. The reaction and revolution
in Turkey. together with almost similar
proceedings in Persia have materially al
tered the political complexion OF AFFAIRS
in southeastern Europe. The treaty be
tween England and Siam makes a small
hut important change in the map OF
southeas stern Asia. A type or the changes
appears in plate No. l, which SHOWS III
contrasting lines the comparison pet"een
British and German expenditures anu
naval constructions. the latter having at
last exceeded the former. Among other
new features in the work, III ADDITION 'o
the Persian-Turkish changes. are tl,e
change of Kongo Free State into a BEL
cian colony: the annexation OF Bosnia
and Herzegovina by Austria hungary
the independence of Bulgaria the re-
vision of the Swedish constitution steps
toward constitutional government III
china. A significant new feature appears
in the inclusion Of a statement reiatihs
to old-age pensions under the neao oi
each country in which that system eN-
lists. The volume is somewhat less buiky
than heretofore. although containing more
matter of present Importance, OWING 10
certain typographical changes ana amehu-
mentS of arrangement.
RORERT Y, HAYNE AND HIS TIMES.
Ry Theodore ID. Jervey. second vice
president of the South Carolina HIS
torical Society. With portraits. New
York: Macmillan Company. WaSh-
ington: BrentanoS
Tb. se American thinks of Hayne.
if at all. as the man who ehcited Dahiei
webster's famous reply" the Massa-
chusetts statesman's most notable loren
sic effort. Few modern readers of bi-
opraDhy are aware that Hayne had
career of his own far more significant
than that which is so feebly rejected Dy
Webster's more spectacular one IL is
matter of surprise that man who I'M
pressed himself so deeply upon ms sec
tion and his state as did Haynes snouiu
bava heen neglected until now by writers
of personal chronicles. Here was man
entering the Senate of the Uniteo states
al the age of thirty-two ana within hNe
months establishing himself as .he uil
ticipant In every debate of consequence
Hayne was the apostle or nuiilhcauo.i-
He was the supreme advocate oi STAT @
rights. Had he lived-he DIED In loos' a.
the age OF forty -eight-he would nave
been unquestionably one of the 1oremost
men in the secession movement. his
torical speculation about his posslDiiities
as a Confederate leader is naturally m
teresting. though futile.
Mr. Jervey writes from pronounceolS
sympathetic point of view OF Hayne ana
his times He dedicates his volume 10
all South Carolinians. whatever thelr oil
ferences. who have bravery striven Loi
their convictions" He appropriately pre-
face; his work of real biography with an
Introductory chapter sketching the situa-
ton in South Carolina in li9i, the year
OF Hayne's birth. when George Nasiins
ION visited the state and was received
with extraordinary honors in the city or
Charleston Haynes career at the par
where he had acquired a lucrative prac-
tjce at the time when most men are
still in college, and his early accession
n the office of Attorney General are
saetched in the first book OF thirteen
chapters, leading up to Haynes entrance
into the United States Senate. Inc sec
ond book deals with Haynes career III
the Senate. the sixth chapter giving
spriehtly comprehensive picture OF SO
cietv at the federal capital ana al
Charleston in the twentles- Inc famous %
speeches of Hayne and Webster are ora
third book of the biography deals with
the nullification movement with Hayne
as Governor of South Carolina. Inc WORK
closes with a review OF Haynes career
when freed from official Obligations ana
occupied in the industrial upbulidlnS OF
his section. a work that was interrupted
bv his untimely death. Mr.. Jervey mas
contributed a valuable work 10 the HI
erature of American biography.
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION; a Short
History BY r. NJ. Johnston. MA,
Cantab. assistant professor of his-
tory at Harvard University. New
York: Henry Holt a. Co.
A few wears ago Prof Johnston pre-
nared a short history of Napoleon which
filled an unmistakable want, In that II
presented the career of the great Corsican
clearly and in a manner TO permit the
reader and student TO gain a distinct
immersion of the man and his works,
without confusion in consequence of over
laving the personal record with details.
His present undertaking is TO tell in the
same manner the story of the revolution
with the same cedrnesS OF outline and
elimination OF subordinate and corrobora-
tory circumstances There have been
many stories of the French revolution,
and these will doubtless be read later
by students of history who gain their
first clear impressions of the great trag-
edy from this handy volume.
THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR BOOK,
Compendium OF the Worlds pros
ress for the year zoos. Editor. Frank
Moore Colby. MA; associate editor.
Allen Leon Churchill. New York: