Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-05
BOOK REVIEWS.

VINE OF FAULTS. Translated from
the original manuscript by F. w.
Eain New York: G.. +. Putnam's
Sons.
OR the most part nothing happens.
Then one day something comes to
|" pass. A bird sings out from the
bush, a white fleece broods in the
blue sap lifts To bud and bios
som. and each of these. with every other
perfect thing. moves life along with more
of confidence and serenity This time
ii is a perfect love story lifted out of
tho Hndoo ny hand so magically at one
with il that the writer himself. either
in poetic ecstasy or secret conviction
" hich ii matters not-humbly acknowl-
edges his paternity I'm prayer to the
an, snt, and possibly outraged gods: 20.
Moony-C Crested. he not angry: for surely
| was thy worshiper of old, in some for
gotten former birth" Then comes what
is said to be a rescued story. but whether
such or whether new born, it is a love
story Of such perfect form, of such beau
u of spirit, of such freshness and grace
OF ina gerry. that it must take its place
with the other things of art to serve per-
manently the high, poetic levels of human
life.
RESOURCES; an Interpretation of the
Well Rounded Life Ely Stanton Da-
Wis Kirkham, author of The Phi
Iosophy of Self-Help," etc. New
York: G.. Z. Putnams Sons.
Mir. ~. minis essays. which make very
fresh and suggestive reading, are not only
a plea. as he puts il, for the cultiva-
ton OF the minds estate. that no such
Nemesis tof possible spiritual and intel
lectual Bankruptcy may overtake us, but
they are also plan by which this dread
disaster may he ayerted and by which we
need not stand one uf the ghosts OF
secietV-men who have died To the spirit
ual life, men who have died to the Intel
lectraI life and whose physical apparl-
tions are left to monopOlize the world.
These chapters are maze up OF recreatlVe
talks about many things, travel, reading,
nature. solitude. music, play, hobbies and
the like They have direction and force.
They are fresh for our enlveninS. un-
technical for our understanding, literary
even poetic. for cur enjoyment The book
is full OF sense and cnarm and practlcal
suggestion for building against the evil
days When thou shalt say, / have no
pleasure in them
PUBLIC MINDEDNEsS; an Aspect OF
Citizenship Considered i'll Various
Addresses Given while President of
dartmouth College. BY William
Jewett Tucker. Concord: The Rum
ford Press.
From his chair OF high authority as
president OF Dartmouth College. and II;
the delphic tones of wide learning and
deep experience, this distinguished author
speaks. Upon commemorative and mi
tiatory occasions of the broadcast range,
before audiences of markedly variant
characters. professional and business men,
farmers students, laborers, he sends out
a single gospel. many sermons preached
on a single text His theme is citizenship.
its character. its sacredness, It's oDhga-
Iions reaching out into the national con-
science and the spiritual life of commuA-
ities These noble and eloquent addresses
crystallized in the present volume offer
Il thesis on citizenship fitted TO be an au-
thoritative guide for civic purpose and
endeaVor.
LIEF. OF GARRETT AUGUSTUS no
BART; Twenty-fourth Vice Presl-
dent of the United States By Daviu
Magic, ID. D. New York: G. +. Put-
MANS Sons.
The clearest and most fruitful approach
to the history of nation is by way OF
the lives Of its significant personalities.
Each biography of this sort, beyond It's
strictly personal meaning of a life set in
certain antecedents, nodded by the def
mite influences of special environment,
contains a body of general qualities that
enter into the national fiber and become
Il part of the moral substance of the
nation. Out of the present complete and
highly sympathetic biography OF Mr.:
Hobart a man of sturdy ancestry, or
rugged youth and of a manhood sub
stantiaI in both business and political
life one draws off as the national asset
the fine essence of noble American man
hood. A human force. abundant In both
action and reserve to meet in high honor
the complexities of distinguished service,
and TO carry out in the same h1gh spirit
tnt1tt lone
of this class furnish the finest body of
precept and example for the training TO
American citizenship.
THE ETHICS OF JESUS. BY Henry
Churchill King, d. D., LII D.. presi-
dent of Oberlin College. New York:
The Macmillan Company. Washing
ton: BrentanoS.
one of a series of New Testament
handbooks. the present volume concerns
itself with the ethical teachings OF Jesus.
At the outset the author aims to sep
arate, so far as possible, the ethical from
the purely religious aspects of the SUBJ
ject, but, admitting that Jesus himself
never separates religion from ethics, he
practically and quite logically envelops
one In the other. A large part of the
study is taken up with an analysis of
the sermon on the mount from which
are drawn and summarized the spiritual
discoveries therein made. the basic quail
tiles of life therein contained and the
motives which this part of the teachings
of Jesus give to right living. dis
tinct and valuable characteristic of this
scholarly and complete study is the en-
phasis placed the personality of Jesus.
by which His human qualities stand out
an example of His life in the human
ethical purpose and its relation TO spir-
ituality.
BY Frederic Logan Paxson, junior
professor of American history in the
University of Michigan New York:
The Macmillan Company. Washing
ton: Brentano's.
From a maze of authentic sources, in