Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-04-02

primeval instinct thrustlng out, sooner
or later from the securest swaddlings.
and never to see Carcassonne" is the
lifelong plant of the house-bound. So
joyously one sets to round the world with
this young vagrant whose venturous and
wonder-worldng lead is followed for a
year and hundred days. If at it's end
there be regret. or, more precisely
named, faint tinge Of this feeling, 1t
must be counted against the rigors of the
daily stress for food and shelter and
passage. In these exigencies now and
then one regrets that the soul Of the
carcass Of the hobo. However. not to
carp at some of the details of a big
achievement. this is the record of a
wonderfully exciting accomplishment.
HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE OF THE
UNITED STATES Volume VII. BY
John Bach McMaster, University of
PENNSYLVANIA. New York: D. Apple
ton & Co.
The theory that history is the record of
a people environed by economic forces.
and not merely the story of heroes and
hereditary kings, receives the substantial
support of John Bach McMaster in his
splendid history of the United States,
whose seventh volume is now at hand.
The marked historic facts of the nine-year
period beginning with the year 1871. COW
cred by the present volume, are "a i'm
pending national bankruptcy under fee
bic financial policy, y advancement OF
statehood. objectif1ed by Texas. Oregon
and California. and - the ascendancy Of
the democratic party over the discredited
wings. The feature of true historic value,
however, that stamps this work lies in
the development of these facts as the di-
rect logic of causes fundamentally eco
nomic. and as an expression OF the
growth of the people toward nationalistic
ideals. keenly interesting and primely
significant, too. as structural foundations,
are the full-length pictures of social, in
dustrial and political life in different sec
tons of the United States calling to mind.
in color and drawing, a similar view
sketched by Lord Macaulay in the ia
nous third chapter of his history of Eng
land In scholarship, in literary form. in
scientific spirit and method. ~ historic
grasp. this series of eight volumes will,
when completed, stand abreast with the
great work of another modern historian,
John Richard Green, in his history of the
Eng.:.., people.
CHINA AND THE FAR EAST Edited
by George Fl. Blakeslee, head Of the
department of history, Clark Uni
versity. New York: Thomas Y.
Crowell & Co.
For scope and authenticity and time
illness the present volume is distinctly
valuable contribution to international lit
erature on the subject of the far east.
Made UP of a body of essays originally
given as lectures at Clark University,
each the work of an expert in the mat
ter with which it deals, the whole fur
nishes progressive view of the salient
features the vital issues. and the proba-
BILE future policy of these eastern cOun-
tries in their various relations to current
world movements toward larger and
more efficient civilization.
A STUDY OF THE DRAMA. BY Bran
der Matthews, professor of dramatic
literature in Columbia University.
Boston: Houghton Miff1in Company.
With the precise method and expert
enced skill of n master workman. Bran
der Matthews presents study OF the me-
chanics of dramatic art. the technic of
the playmakers craft. The author, to up
hold the theory that the drama of all
periods, ancient, middle-age, modern, en-