Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-12

the american Puritan for it's theme.
Here, again, is IL prophetic hymn to
democracy. conceived i'm nearnesS to the
spirit of Walt Whitman. Among them
all the bit most nearly fiaWlesS is the
imprisoned chant of the stone Wall
bursting out through the dear and pitiful
apoStrophe, 20 beautiful blind stones, in
articulate and dumb.'-a complete union
of deep truth and high phrase. singing
as the psalms sing. one follows the
searching feet of this singer to the end
in glad and grateful spirit-and then
passes out into Gods world of sound and
color aba before his own dull, in
SenSate self.
THE SECOND POST: 4 Companion to
1.-THE GenfIext Art" BY f. V. Lucas,
author of Some Friends of Mine
etc. New York: The Macmillan
Company. Washington: Brentano's.
This Post is no Pandora's box Gas the
careless official mails SO commonly are>
stuffed with all m"nner of ills and ankle
ties to be scattered infectinuslv over the
land. To insure against this very thing
to make certain that no birds OF evil
omen were nesting IN it's secret SPACES.
this mail sack was packed by the kindly
P NJ. himself. So, its sides bulge 9TH
the laughter Of good news alone. Here
ave han-v letters 7" children from those
unconquerabIe youths, ''R. L. s." and the
rharleees-Dicfe and Lamb. Travel let
tiers. too. reading like poems. signed
Shelley" and Keats. Letters from
Pliny to Roman neighbors. awav back be-
fore our first century had it's first birth
day-letters that should. under thu tax of
time. have given UP their rose and sp ce.
Here they stand, however. as fresh as to-
day. and much ike it in cannv con-
Germ over the purchase of a farm at ''rea-
sonahle. TERMS" since dear bargain"
is SO much reflection on ones iudg-
ment." Here are bright letters buzzing
with s'ingless gossip with Blake and
Cowpnr and Holmes. with host of other
Sentles. lords and ladies. underwriting
them. These. all. ere bundled for ready
distribution as "wh'msicalities." "charac-
'ers, 'laconics." what not-a formality
sure to be put aSida for the chance VEN
ture here and there in the brief of be-
tween-whiles of the day set for refresh
ment.
THE ENPTV HOUsE AVID Other sto-
r,es. Bv Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, au-
thor of 1.-THE Oath Of Allegiance"
etc. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Com
pany.
This collection of short stories from the
easy pen of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps pre-
sents average people carrying off. as we'll
as they can. the everyday run of things
From the common drift of the whole,
these folks seem to have come together
in this volume of talk over their troubles,
as folks WILL and to get the curious
comfort of finding other people worse off
than themselves. Heartaches and head
aches-the latter due, in the main to the
rigors of a New England winter, the
former of wilder geography-make up
the substance of these stories Typists,
telephones. dogs, nearghosts and other
such paraphernala of literary invention
focus these Photographic impressions of
local life. AS single. separate pubica-
tons of magazine order these are fresh,
lifelke stories. Grouped, they commune
cate a less pleasant impression, less
artistic effect.
THREE MODERN SEERS: James Hin
ton. Nietxsche. Edward Carpenter.
BY Mrs. HavelOck Ellis. New York:
Mitchell Kennerly.
To the first seer of this trio is devoted
two-thirds of the book. An acquaintance
with Mrs. Hinton gives the biographer of
her husband knowledge Of the inner
soul of the man whom the world judges
chiefly as a writer of surprising views
concerning the sex relation; a man who
boldly announced himself the savior of
women, as Christ was the Savior of men,
Mrs Ellis claims that Hinton did not
merit the criticism to which his work was
subjected According to her summing, he