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

was "a veritable Don Quixote Of the
newer morality" who was made to pay
the perralty of seeing ahead Of his time.
He was tortured by mediocrity His
message was too big and his interpreters
We're too SMALL one sees through her
eyes the zeal of an enthusiast who dressed
as a barefoot beggar to understand the
feelings of tramr and who made MN
self drunk to see If it would incline him
to beat the wife he loved
Nietzsche, "a modern Lucifer of the In
tellect.' and Edward Carpenter. "a child
of the spirit" are each analysed with a
pen that possesses the realism OF a CAM
era. in which each light and shadow is
presented with a judicial frankness that
compels respect. regardless of any d.
verse opinion which the reader may main
tain.
AND At HOME; The Story Of His
Life. BY Belle Moses. author OF
Louisa May Alcott.' New York: D
Appleton & Co.
The author of "Alice in Wonderland
will live forever in childhood's hall of
fame, but Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
whose personality is hidden behind the
pen name of Lewis Carroll is SO little
known by the world full of children,
whom he loved and wrote for. that the
present biography will prove a valuable
TeNoldtIOu VI ILLS CIldTdCtSTs UOLu q
writer and man. TIE memoir be-
gins with the day baby Charles was
christened by his father In the parish
church of which he was rector. and ends
with cross under pine tree. Be
tween this entrance and exit one sees
very real little boy, happy but serious
beyond his years. in the comradeship of
ten brothers and sisters younger than
himself-an earnest student at Richmond.
at Rugby and at Oxford-and then
pause for his chronicler to explain: We
have just passed over the very oldest
part Of our boys life: from the time he
became Lewis Carroll Charles Dodg-
son began to go backward. He wrote
ward, he spelled and counted backward
in fact, he was so fond of doing things
backward We do not wonder that he
stepped out from the circle of the years
and turned backward to find the boyhood
he had, somehow. missed before" Lewis
Carroll itself was a backward achieve
ment Of his own name reduced to Latin,
and having adopted it for his literary
lily name for his text books on mathe-
mates while Lewis Carroll peeped out
into the world. which he found full Of
light and laughter and happy child
hood" There are delightful quotations
from the books that made him famous.
and frontispiece portrait that makes
one understand why he was able to write
them.
ORIGINAL NARRATIVES OF EARLY
AMERICAN HISTORY - MARIA
TIvES OF EARLY MARYLAND,
1633-18S4. Edited by Clayton Col
man Hall, LII. B.. A. NJ. With a map
and two facsimiles. New York
Charles Scribner's Sons. Washing
ton: Brentano's.
The early history of Maryland has so
frequently been questioned by doubters
Of accepted chronicles of the state. that
the present work will have an especial
value in that the narratives are written
by pioneers who tell of the conditions in
which they lived ard which they helped
to create. The opening Account of the
Colony Of the Lord Baron of Baltimore.
1885, is from the original document in
the archives Of the Society of Jesus at
Rome, written by Father Andrew White.
S. j.. whose knowledge was that of mis-
sionary in the Maryland field. "A Rela-
ton OF Ma yland, 1885, is from a copy
Of the original edition in the library of
the Maryland Historical Society. An in
teresting chapter. Journal Of the Dutch
Embassy to Maryland. by Augustine
Herman, 1885," has a fact value beca use
of the natural inference that foreigner
of his standing would tell of things as
he found them. With these narratives
are reports from Jesuit missionaries, ex-