Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-06

~RS MOLLY EILIOrT SEA
IN III WE'LL. by means of tbs lit
1Axu tie volume. makes a vigorous
clear. informed and altogether
arresting discussion ot woman
srnraee one wouid like To quote the
whole book Cor it is all close 70 the
subject and particularly free from the
tiutter of essentials. The strongest
single impression gathered out OF TINS
-eafing Is tho authors conviction OF tue
general ignorance and supeTiic!aity oi
s'r suffrage leaders. II this bclci' 50
strongly expressed ae 10 constitute =
-harse IN effect. Ne true. that is Sc
ious concern. for if the leaders l'c blind
% what untovard destination may not
lie followers he led? out or their own
writings and utterances Mrs. Seaweli
adiudees them To be untaught in the
fundamentals Of government ana IN It's
>volution TO a representative character.
With tie Supreme Court of the mted
states as authority, she presents the
sranchis. as n permission. n privilege, q
means Of government. and not as the
sifracists contend. moral right. At
his point the autEnr tears up and throws
sway tho feryiG Cratorical phrase. "taN-
alton without representation ia tyranny
t1owing in the meanwhile that taxation
has nothing III the world to do with Vot-
Ig. bu. that It serves distinctly diff
serent purpose The nature of the fran
.hise-that It IS neither an emotion nor a
;antiment. neither Il ptilanthropic nor an
economic concern--iS considered as Il
,lachine TO register numbers and to
Measure the dynaniCs of these The author
,ubnitS that an electorate must be able TO
Execute its OWN measures. Since women
could not do this, they. as II part OF the
electorate. become privileged class.
mat clear menace ia republican govern
flent. with the possibility OF Il double
menace in the shape of q standing army
O enforce the measures that part OF
he electorate is unable TO sustain. The
most important practical objection to
woman suffrage here set down, the one
% catch the rank and file of women, is
he effect of suffrage on the property
privileges and exemptions of women. BY
'eference to the laws of suffrage states
Mrs. Seawell shows that women pay heav-
" for the right to vote by relinquishng
many. # not all, of these privileges and
unrunities. This review merely touches
some of the chief points of this sug
FESTIVE and stimulating study of the
question of woman suffrage.
oENETER'S DAUGHTER. Ey Eden
Phillpotts. author of "The Thief of
Virtue" etc New York: John
Lane Company.
Whoever else may hold the title deeds
~ Even soil. Eden Phillpotts is in unds-
suted possession of its spirit-of that
lemon of mind and mood and conscious
rhuence made out OF Dart running to the
Eea. OF Moor and tor, of wind and wave
md cloud together. Moreover. no one
1HoWS better than he the secret chemiS-
~ by which the face OF nature trans
hNtes to soul stuff Of man. casting him
Fevitably in the mold of his environment
30, with the men and women made of
fevonshire. this author. in the full detail
Photographic realism interviewer
throughout with the grace Of noble poetry,
klilds dramas of human life. Alison
leave is the great heroine OF the present
tne. Housed in a hut. wived by six feet
- futile boyhood Sorrowing mother of
sde-driven children. her TRAGEDY is OF the
r1illumined unexalted sort, going on day
Ter day in the dun Inonotony Of hunger
:rd unthrift ana s1ualor. Yet this
laughter of Demeter, dauntless of heart
I'd high of hope, manages to lift clean
,IciCddsd feet. TO walk free and swing
r9ly. tn extend hands open In Iargess of
,oISelf Tin to her last supreme gift. With
SIS particular handful of humble Devon
c'ks Mr.. FhillpottS has more than COM
se$<"d the poetic beauty. the human
-uiu and the literary perfection of his
i:her works. He has, moreover. created
t.son Cleavc.
rILLERS OF THE SOIL. BY J. T. Pat
terson. author of Fishers OF the
Sea-" etc. New York; Duffield & Co.
~ a fun and complete revelation. of a
single grade of English life. Of single
.rea of English soil and its outcropping
custom. this story easily takes rank
among the late achievements Of realism
y literature. II does more than this, for
n a way II serves. too. as a standard of
human feeling and action under certain
arge and common impulses. This com
ffE.~r 81
ictn.ss and Unbias OF scientific method
tpplied to fiction. The drama here in
is constructive essentials, Is OF less CON
.era than are the fidelity of examination
md the exact record of appearances and
events. novel Of this kind Is a human
ioru-ront and a such. IS a thing of in
.a'Culabie value as Self-reyelation through
10 essential harmonious kinships of all
human nature. OF value. too. is this as
measure Of every form OF realistic art
Whether one likes this sort OF novel as
Nel as he does romanticism or impress
sforiSm is quite another question, but
hat this is an exception literary per-
Torrance OF 'ts own type Is fact not to
D. easily controverted.
aR1zENHEsD THE GREAT. BY Maui
rice Hewlett author Of open
country" etc. New York: Charles
Scribners Sons Washington: Wood
ward & Lothrop
Mr.. Hewlett's mind having gone a-play-
M. comes back bringing a wonder of in
Fention--a hero breathing fire, whose
Promises are ali OF slaughter and gore
put whose payments are bee bread and
Stripping honey. The author invokes the
muse TO ssnE this seventh son OF Il
teventh son, born by wonder in the sew
snth month, for In the deeds Of such men,
.ady. thou taknst delight Sing greatly
-pou thine epic tyre how he hammered
fconces. hacked and slew: how he Ira ed
IA blood like ducks in puddle; how he
Drank and swore in many tongues: how
7opes ana prelates counts and cardinals.
GukeI and dicers tumhled at the waT OF
his finger. Then in nildcr measure love S
toSeate thumb being thy nuting piece.
tnG of Love himself. Tor love. lady as
HoU linCWtSt. Is. as il Were the ba tn Of
eroes, sweet Solace after toll - Then,
s@ttinS tn great BraZ%nhead down in an
20 when cr"dulity feeds on marveI= the
author turns him loose on bcwidering
sareer of high heroics> Fiorid and fan
In common with Mr. Hewlctt's more serI-
GUS Great ors. til" fun grace of his un-
cqualed literary personality.
THE END OF 4 SONG. BY Jeanette
Mark, author of Through Welsh
DoorW tyS-" Boston. Houghton Milf
fin Company.
\ cloCdhurst and food Up Carnarvon
way. uushetcring VIII Morris dozen
children by sweeping his ranshackle hu,
~ down into the valley. starts this
Welsh story I'm the best POSSIBLE vein TIC
=ucco~ his homeless brood what more in.
etiuctivcly natural thing could group OF