Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-10-16
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faults are vices, mistakes have no logical.
beneficent correctives.
The radius of this influence grows dark
with religious gloom Under such head
ship the family life takes a straight
course, gathering along the way the re-
1entless fruitage of this planting; re-
serves unhappiness. revolt, deception.
hatred. death. a darkened mind and
stricken body-a bountiful crop. Woeful
human wreckage as a guarantee for ram
somed souls.
The book is so badly plain, so logically
exact. the characters are so true to tenn
permanent. training and surroundings, the
results are so inevitable, that the book
could profitably waive it's literary intent
and pass into a subject of study.
GERMAINE. BY Henry c. Rowland.
author of ACROSS Europe in Mo-
tor Boat etc. New York: John
Lane Company.
A man. Frenchman a writer, in open
revolt against conventions and establish
ments. develops, as a sign of his general
protest a theory of education. 1t sounds
like Jean Jacques Rousseau. But this is
a later man and a lesser one than he.
Jean Jacques wisely selects a boy. Emile,
as the subject of his experimentation; but
this, fatuous man chooses a girl, an I'M
fathered girl. one otherwise much COM
mediate parentage, but also by remote
ancestral traits.
The story is a short one. The man.
an exclusive egoist, shuts himself away
from the common interests of the world
with this girl, to whom he accords the
questionable training of listening to his
lawless talk and reading his loose books.
Deprived of the wholesomely corrective
influences of comparison, she sets up q
shrine to this vain. selfish iibertine.
singularly devoted and pure love is
here lavished upon this foolishly feeble
object-a love that survives his marriage
and suicide. and with something of
psychic power looks past the grave con-
fident of its ability to aid in his develop
ment beyond 1t. Defective in theory i'm
probable in conditions. the sequence and
outcome of the book miss both convincing
force and literary excellence.
SUSANNA AND SUE. BY Kate Douglas
nybreok FARM, etc. eG WIFE III ilu sun.
tons by Alice Barber Stephens and
n. G.. Wyeth. Boston: Houghton.
Miff1in Company.
Susanna, dsillusioned by that not I'M
common source of disenchantment, mar
riage-hurt. resentful, unforgiving-betook
herself and little Sue out of the whole
heartbreaking affair. A Shaker settlement
offered the peace Of which she was in
quest. There the long days went quietly
by, burdened by no more carking care
than solicitude about making the best
jams and jellies in the world; and in this
tranquil atmosphere distance and time
and composure were correcting Susannas
perspective; these and Sue. who thou
sand times day made, all unconsciously,
pathetic pictures of little Jack left at
home, and father John; wondering what
they were doing, wishing for them to
partake of her small pleasures, setting
aside for them shares of her own tooth
some delights.
Susanna. listening, thinking. making
pictures of her own. too, along with little
Sue, was slowly turning home again with
truer sense of it's significance, and a
broader patience toward it, Sue leading in
this backward trail. Here is only another
member of this writer's family of ador-
able children-this little Sue, who because
of her winsomeness will have warm
place in the corner of everybody's heart.
THE GARDEN OF EDEN; Stories from
the First Nine Books of the Old
Testament By George Hodges H.
ton: Houghton. Miff1in Company.
Bible stories have been put forth in
great number for the better education of
youth in the narratives embraced in the
comprises the first nine books of the Old
Testament. The stories are told simply
and reverently. They include the tale of
the Garden of Eden, Noah's Ark. Lots
Adventures, and so on through forty
titles comprehensive of the features of
the Old Testament in which child may
become interested. The Illustrations are
highly artistic and profuse in number
The volume is a valuable gift for any
thoughtful child.
MENPES CROWN SERIES - CHINA.
BY Mortimer Menpes. Text by Sir
Henry Arthur Blake, G: c. NJ. G.
London: Adam & Charles Black
New York: The Macmillan Com.
pany. Washington: Brentano's.
Mr.. Menpes' work as an illustrator of
the various phases of the world has car
ried him into some odd places. In China
he finds one Of the most picturesque fields
for the display of his talent. His style
is admirably adapted to the highly COL
Ored east and the quaint phvsioenomy of