Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-18

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~ ROM Abraham down. youths due
to age has been the theme OF
precept and line. but not much
has yet been said about the
debt age owes to youth.
partial showing of this second side OF
the account is made at the beginning OF
this volume, in the reminder that each
generation, in order to live at all, must
persuade itself that living is pleasure.
Such a belief is rooted in enthusiasts
and in joyful sense of the charm OF
life. To the young things of the world
to its children, it's young men ana woHeh'
is each period in debt for these springins
qualities essential to existence Times
wiser than this driven one recognized
the value of this gay. bounding. YOUTH
full spirit and planned with anxious care
to preserve and prolong it as the buoyant
hopeful essence of individual and natloiial
life. The modern city acknowledges no
such debt and makes no such plans
The writer here pictures this modern CITY
in it's relation to youth. industrial III
intent ii draws from all quarters 10 sup
NV the labor of its shops and FACTORIES
thousands upon thousands of eager young
people The machine part, the working
part, of these boys and girls is compete
ly and infinitely organized In the inter
est of the shops. But for that potential
Youthful life with it's natural and in
satiable play spirit, there is neither OF
ganzation nor plan. So when the day 5
work Is done these young folks swarm
out of the shops into the city stree.s'
unprotected, und .rected. homing out To-
ward their instincts. the quest Tor au.
venture, the search for their house OF
dreams. sex calling to seX.ahd no one
minds. Yes, some one mlnds tne man
tor Ia
saloon. the tawdry summer garden, minus.
More knowing than many, he gamers
his gains from the citys lndlnerence "
the fate of its youth. The book Is Iuii
of facts. directly and quietly sta.eo, con
corning this serious, cruel condition IL
is a patient, controlled book that should
reach out and effect an organization OF
parents, teachers, preachers. business men
and women-everybody-wn opJect -
TO meet with open hands and whole
heart the needs of the neglected youth
about them.
PAGNA. BY Rodolfo Lanciani. au-
thor of Ancient Rome in the Light
of Recent Discoveries etc. Boston:
Houghton Miffiin Company.
This impressive volume. the latest one
i'm a series on the general subject OF
Rome by this author, serves a double
intent To the traveller and general read
er it presents the natural attractions OF
the lovely Campagna, with its historic
associations brought out through pictures
and descriptions of Roman ruins ano
reservations. To the investigator ana
student 1t offers records, complete and
exact of the results and, In measure,
the import of the latest discoveries with
in this region. In addition to an au-
thoritative grasp Of the subject, ,. TINS
manner of statement and habit OF
vital zing these antiquities by moving
them up beside corresponding aspects In
the modern world. In subject. in treat
ment and general beauty of its externais
this is an important and desirable
volume.
THE UNIvERsITIEs OF AN Wa1Ssn
PHI D.. formerly instructor in Latin
in Harvard University. New YORK:
Charles Scribner's Sons. Washing
ton: Woodward & Lothrop
The scholarly and exclusive volume in
hand presents for the stable uses of pub
LEGATION the fully weighed and balanced
material that was originally used as the
basis of lectures given to the students
of Harvard University. The motive OF It's
inception and production rests in the. be-
lief that not enough OF honest tribute
has. been granted to the educative IN
fiuence of the period under its considera-
ton The occasion of this public and
relatively permanent expression lies IN
the recently opened avenues for eStlmat-
ing and placing the influences under dis
cussiop in the present general educative
motive and action. With reference care
full and precise, with elaboration trained
by the scholars habit, the author gives
out faithfully the effect of the Greek
universities of this period upon the gen.
eral scheme of the higher educational
thought of the present time. The glorious
climax of Greek thought oversnadows,
and in part Obscures, the real vaiue Oh
its subsequent developments. but this
volume is a contribution to belief IN
the active efficacy of Greek education dur
ing imperial times. and to its active In
fiuence in all succeeding periods.
INTIMATE RECOLLECTIONS OF JO-
SEPH JEFFERSON. BY Eugene
Paul Jefferson. author of The Right
Motive Club" etc. New York: Dodd,
Mead & Co.
Joseph Jefferson. through his genius and
art and personality. possessed universal
kinship that obscured to a large degree
the narrower ties of home and family and
private life. To the most OF us. his home
was the Catskill mountains; his personal
ties were made by little Meenie and
Gretchen, by Nick Vedder. dog and a
band of mountain gnomes. Here, how
ever. Is a volume of recollections gath
cred by the intimate hand and divining
spirit of one of his own household, and CIV
en- out to the public with fidelity and grace.
Joseph Jefferson with real children and
neighbors and friends is revealed.
Hundreds of anecdotes and "reminiscences
out OF the daily life, hitherto unrecorded.
unstaged, unknown outside the family
circle, unite with those of wider reach
and more public nature. Out of the whole
there energies the warm personal pres
ence of Joseph Jefferson, happily not
much changed from the genial man and
artist Of whom Americans are so justly
proud.
THE SINKING SHIP. BY Eva Lath-
bury. author of The Long Gallery.
New York: Henry Holt & Co.
holds tickle public i. pathetic thing.
Sitting down in front. We seldom think
of the deadly struggle going on before us
to maintain those superficial. evanescent
qualities by which. almost exclusively,
these people endure their little day Less
seldom. even. do we consider what this
kind OF contest, lost before II is begun, is
doing TO the character of the human being
inside the show. The present story stud
les this condition through the medium
of a family of actors in their life upon
the stage. In the center of this family
group Is a woman. superb creature,
with her own mother on the one hand,
her daughter on the other. This woman
knows, no one else so well, that her hour
has struck. The story moves on with the
portrayal of her character under the
foreshadowtng OF her doom and in her
desperate efforts for reprieve. Before her
to aftIJ SOh he hot