Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-15

and indirect speech here Eacf
chapter. compact OF substance
sufficient for the average vol
ume Every sentence, the shortest CUT ".
+~..o tro points. A man, experience
4, IN. building Of railroads. mere WIN
franknexe and vigor, gives ms o'
III. railway situation in the United states
TIL. hoax sums in a manly. patrsouc sP'
mai roy confidence from the people anu
"a, fair NAV from the lawmakers 10 the
ers that mis-, the greatest OF economic
AGENCIES be left free TO develop IN 'hs
interests of national prosperity. the SUI
nr.r,e immediate need OF the railways
so this author SAYS, Is that they on 'hs
m. hand escape dogmatic radicaiism ano
that On the other they be encouraged oS
+he stimulus Of protected stability. ne
,r,. d.y that traf1c rates arc hxedly es-
,abIished for fifteen years we ~ouio IN
.u.,,r,,e . neriod OF the greatest pros
rerity our nation has yet witnessed
o.h.- countries our neishbor Mexico. for
exannl>. are glad tn grant this dehneo
security confident Of rich return In
lands. opened up and settled. in employ
rnent and products and currents OF con-
nrerce those activities thar 80 cioseN Io,'
lew the success and prosperity OF the rsli-
roads To radicaIism this writer ascriees
our chief economic Danger "DesfructiVe
radicaiism started the panic or '"os.
There is no sane reason Tor the sunni
In American securities: crops arc nearly
normal" and so on. Spectacular iessla'
tive performances have made the Inves.o.
nervous. insecure. Foreign investors
have recently Withdrawn from contem-
plated purchases OF Sl:nnn"o or rsn~ss
these conditions James j. Hill says tha'
500 Q00GG0 needs to be expended by Amer
lean railroads in the next ten years. !
believe il. Ii some law could oe passeu
calculated to overcome the disfrust re-
xarding our securities this money conlh
be found here and In Europe The author
makes convincing reflections on tne "oIh
Of railroad commissions as railroad opera
tors He closes with an interesting plan
for an American legion OF honor. COM
pose Of men recognized as national up
builders. among whom he counts James >.
HILL George Westinghouse. Andrew Car
negie-men who would be OF great use IN
upholding and sustaining national credit
and honor and in establishing confidence.
Every word Of this book contributes to so
clear q business statement OF a business
matter. the whole Is so quickly sraspeo.
so easily understood. and is. withal. SO
clean an -yposure OF the side OF the case
that people either do not or will not un-
derstand that 1t should spread everywhere
ss pamphlet Of public education.
BACON Is SHAKESPEARE. BY Sir Ed
win burning Lawrence. Bart. B. A.,
lib. etc. New York: The John Me-
Bride Company.
Last week. in the days work, there
zane to hand a study Of Shakespeare.
The closing chapter OF this discussed the
decisions that have. from time TO time,
risen about the great poet. Among these
"delusions-' was counted the Bacon con-
,roversy'' Now. this week brings q
handsome. impressive volume bursting
with proofs that BACON Is Shakespeare. \
volume to rejoice students of medieval
type. keen. as sleuths. to scholastic error.
hot on the trail Of the tvo-faced wicked
ness Of words. This thoreughsoins au-
thor. handling the modern instruments
for detecting literary rascaiity. puts the
screws on William, Shakespeare. that
mean. drunken. ignorant and absolutely
unisttered rustic Of stratferd. Here are
original portraits, OF Bacon. or Shake
speare-where by some amazing devilry
the former passes into an appearance OF
the latter. Even the tomb OF SNAKE
speare rears to confcund him. for, from
one Of its faces. bearing an effiRy OF the
poet is offered a facsimile Of the back
OF the left arm, and also one of tine
front OF the left ARM whose coverings
any four-corners tailor-man will tell you
must be Of like fabric. cut and make. But
here, in sIoveniy prentice style. "the
front left arm builds into the ensemble
OF Shakespeare. while the back is left TO
the original possessOr, Bacon. There are
other facslmiles-all damninE-of sigma
lures. OF title pages and inside nages. Of
parts OF manuscript-what not. Moreover.
the secret intex> OF that awful and por-
tentous word, Observation-Disclosures tibus'
uneoiis in juggernautie roll over VII
unfoIdings. Lord Palmerston. Coleridge.
John Bright. Bismarck. Emerson. Whit
tier. Mark Twain and others OF eminence
come to judgment against the bard OF
hfrilf
whole in an interesting pursuit. pointed
BIZ scholarship. aeumen. industry. Most
people, however. prefer to read Shake
speare Since Lord Bacon. in those fear
some times. took such infinite pains to
cover his work--if this be his work-in
order to keep his own head and shoulders
IN q sustaining relation to each other.
taking. in the meantime, no thought Tor
the fate Of poor Shakespeare's head. per-
haps. i'm this case. the compensations OF
posteri,y belong TO William Shakespeare.
WITH STEVENSON IN SAMOA. BY II
J. Moors. illustrated from photo
graphs, letters. etc. Boston: Small
May nard Il Co.
NJ Moors' book on "R. l.. 8. in Samoa
- one OF the most intimate everyday
things that has yet been written about
stevenson. Every known thing as we'll
as every ina ginable one. about the philos-
oply. the art, the method of this below
ed man has been shaken, aired and
summed over and over again. This. how
ever. Is another sort OF revelation. a
daily doorstep acquaintance, full of per-
senal things-appearance. moods. man
ners. what he said upon this occasion,
what he did upon that one. And the reader
is getting just what he wants here,
that in. he 10 getting closer and closer to
Stevenson. He. too. as II were, sits on
the doorstep with the rest. laughing at
this pagan man going about barefoot and
IN shirt sleeves. To see him get mad and
thras, around and swear. like anybody
else, - worth while. To be able TO COM
plain Of him with the other neigh ors
when he so persistently and noisiIy tries
70 learn the flute, is an experience. To
see the mess he makes of money matters
and the beautiful simplicity with which
he collaborates with Lloyd Osborne md
'Farny," not seeming to know that there
were very real reasons why he should
not do this-au these things make a very
valuable addition to our friendship for
the man. The author gives much. per-
haps overmuch. Of Samoan political life
Yet. this. too. is an indirect light on Ste
venson. At the last. he draws a poets
ard mournful picture-really an appeal
OF a lonely. neglected. tangled grave on
the summit Of Mount Vaca. Tho tomb
built by devoted Samoans. bears on one
face. in native characters. The Tomb OF
Tt,si,ala. and on its eastern face Steven.
sons triumphant death song:
Under the vide and starry sly
Dig the grave ard let me die.
Glad did i live and gladly die.
And laid me down with sill.
This be the verse you grave fer ne: