Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-30
BOOK REVIEWS.

low ". LAW. By Colette Yver
Translated by Mrs Bradley Gilman.
Now York: c. p. Putnam's Sons.
w this brilliant and popular novel
,'olette Yver dramatizes the problem
of woman In the double capacity OF
confessional and domestic life-a
,ro,,on more and more likely to ap-
,,+ of the growing tendency of WON
an 70 adopt public career AS s'o's
this theme threads through the paraiiei
.,cc.ss If husband and wife as members
of the Paris bar. until the huSoahu'
frankly Jealous of his wifes success re-
y.rts tn traditional notions of woman
nron.r sphere of work in the "orlo. III
2 GOOD time the wife abandons her puoiie
c.racr in favor of that of domestic serVl-
tude TO husband and child TINS appear >,
after all. TO be a tribute to the eiehe"'a'
notion of life and not gospei 10 'he ho"
woman Going along with the STORY 10 ="
fine picture OF the Paris courtroom, All
;nferential indication OF the ideEtS anu
defects of the courts of justice ->reaoS
in its thirtieth edition this book STANDS dS
a profoundly interesting novel ana as
substantial contribution To modern So
GEOLOGY
3 MY LARGER EDUCATION: BEING
Chauters From My Experience. by
Booker T Washington. author OIL
I'm From slavery, etc New ork.
Doubleday, Page Il Co w ashlnStoh-
Woodward 4 Lothrop.
In this OMEN volume of personal recoi-
Iec,ions Booker T Washington gather
I'D IN happily desultory way the larger
educative influences Of his Lie, those that
succeed and vitaliZe the largely artlnciai
nrocess,s of formal education EXperi-
ence is the sum and substance OF these
forces. Under this. the author reVeaiS
mich of the growth and fuliilineht oil MS
Industrial plans for the economic, tIe So
cal. the ethic development OF the negro.
Here. too, he includes the influences vi
tayeI ami the support or prominent men
tn in America and abroad. The author
t1,ar.fretS a natural and We peas dle III
H. achievements. One likes it and enters
INTO IL IL - something to nave 2 iresi-
dent. u king and queen, sEeat PM
isnthroD,st. Il great plutocrat. Asteh 40
me i'm readiness TO advance his ALREADY
.Iis1iust1i<hed service to a part OF the
,-,Irlau family One likes the hopeful out
look the rugged determination te pres
tie GOSPEL of work home 10 needy Iolks.
EIGHT PILLARS OF PROSPERITY.
Ey James Allen. author of As
Man Thinketh, etc. New 1ork'
Thomas y. Crowell Company.
An interesting series of easy face-to-
.ac,. talks on prosperity. on what its
ssence is and what its body; on the
Qualities from which it springs and the
laws 10y which it grows Inc author
turns the subject inside out, as it were
to show that prosperity is first a state OF
mind an attitude toward the UNIVERSE
out of which, effect follow cause
come the manifestations that Iat..' IN
der this abundant term. 1t Is. sub
spiritual laws an enunciation u prin-
cipIes, made for the purpose oil tracing
LIES general progression. d proGre ssloh
into which man, by the force vi his Will
NAV build his own design and action
An everydayness of speech, an on)ectlVltH
of tred tment, make these essays Spec!aiis
stimulating and suggestive.
THE TRUE DANIEL WEBSTER. By
sydney George Fisher, Lit. D., LII
D., author of The True BENJAMIN
Franklin" etc. Philadelphia: }. q.
Lippincott Company.
Not a dozen statesmen since the Con-
stitution warrant biography whose iuT-
pose is lesson and inspiration 10 succe cd
ing generations. Daniel Webster, by way
of his comma nding intellect and inged
elocuence, by his true states niaIiSilip
shown in an answering advocacy of an
indissoIuble Union. is one OF these. Mr.
sydney Fisher, in complete sympath!
with this great American. sympathy
hat counts human frailty as We'll as
human lrnprt gnaDil.ty, tells an Inspiring
story Of the life OF Daniel WEBSTER.