Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-20

cred at a dinner given December ). 1905.
in New York to celebrate the SEVENTEEN
anniversary OF his birth. None OF the
Twain books so clearly presents the man.
ideas and his ideals. and here his con-
cepts OF this complex existence OF which
he was in his peculiar way most elo-
quent exponent.
THE POOLS OF SILENCE. BY H. De
We're Stacpoole. author of The
Blue Lagoon" etc. New York:
Duffield & Co..
The horrors OF the kongo have so
strongly moved DR.. Stacpoole that he has
devoted this, his latest work of fiction. TO
their exposure and denunciation in per-
haps the most effective form that the plea
for international intervention has yet
been couched While preserving the out
lines of the novel, the author has none
the less effectively made OF this book q
campaign document He sends into the
heart OF the dark country a. young Amer
lean physician. just from his post-gradu-
ate course Of study in Paris. He accom-
panies q great game hunter. man Of
immense wealth. OF umitless courage, of
unquestioning cruelty. In the jungle OF
ton. and, in consequence. the two white
men return to civilization. the young phy-
stefan afiame with Indignation at the hor-
rors he has witnessed, the other peculiarly
changed as a result Of blow on the
head. Apart from the interesting psy-
Geological study afforded by the change in
Capt Berselius, the story dtscloses a re-
markable state OF public indifference to
the atrocities pEacticed upon human
beings in the pursuit Of profit. DIR. Stac-
poole's eloquence is burning in its in
tensity. Here in brief Is the kongo story
as related by the young phsician to his
employers daughter: He told OF the
hostage house at Yandjali. and the>wretch-
ed creatures penned like animals eating
their miserable food: he told Of MBassa
and the hostage house there, with its iron
rings and chains: he told how all over
that vast country these places are dotted.
not by the hundred but by the thousand:
he told OF the misery OF the men who
were driven into the dismal forests. slaves
Of masters worse than tigers, and Of a
task that would never end as long as rub
Der grew and Christ was q name in Eu-
rope and not a power: he told the awful
fact that murder there was used every
day as an agricultural implement that
people were operated upon and suffered
amputation of limbs. not because of dis
ease, and that their sex and age-those
two last appeals of nature to brutality
had no voice.. he told the whole bitter tale
of tears and blood, but he could not tell
her all. for she was girl, and it would
be hard to speak even before a man of
the crimes against nature. the crimes
against men. against women and against
children. that. even IL the Kongo state
were swept away tomorrow, will leave
Belgium's name in the worlds history
more detestable than the names of the
Ynspeakable cities sunk in the Dead sea. -
THE WINNING FIGHT. BY Herbert
Kaufman. Chicago: Owen W.
Brewer.
For some time The Sunday Star has
contained a weekly contribution of help
full optimism from the pen of Herbert
Kaufman under the head of Sign Posts
to Success" In THE Winning Fight he
has assembled a number Of these brief,
vigorous suggestions. some of them hav-
ing appeared already in this paper. but
the majority Of them being new to its