Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-11-04

lodged" Out of the authors group of de-
auctions few run like this: Educate
the negro at the expense of the whole ma
ton. Plant industrial schools of the Tus-
kegee and Hampton type In every black
county of the south. Keep the negro out
of politics in the south until the average
of the race is at least equal to that OF
the European immigrant today. Sew up
every pistol pocket south OF Mason and
Dixon's line Stop whining about the i'm
morality of the negro until there are to
be seen no more mulatto children with
white fathers. Do these things today. and
tomorrow the race question will disap-
pear. The ultimate essence of this solu-
ton Is: Education. The district school
not the university. The nation. not a sec
ton. These. and no other, for the succor
of the negro.
Louise Van Saanen. New York:
The Century Company.
\ blind yiolinist. genius of high
character and lovable life. with his
beautiful wife, and the other man.
center this serious story. The root of
TINS whole matter lies clearly within
human nature. as innumerable illus
trat1ons from real life prove The
growth to frreparable mistake and in
mite human suffering unfolds accord
ing 10 nature. out Of the roots set by
tha author. What in life is sometimes
experienced lightly and treated buoy
antiy Is here poignant with the bitter
logfc OF ones own acts The story is
sktllfully built. 1t Is well peopled. II
moves along its own lines to the close.
an unhappy one-aS ii is bound to be
A triangle of this sort opens for no
easy outlet
THE LOSER PAYS: 4 story Of the
French Revolution. BY Mary Open
shaw. author of THE Cross OF
Honour" Boston: Small. Maynard
& Co.
Miss Openshaw not only tells a good
story. but she also draws an uncom-
monty fine picture of life in France under
the conditions of the French revolution
Making the dangers and s,lfferings and
losses of an old and aristocratic family
the basis Of development, the author
pulids upon 1t romance. adventure in
trlgue, bathed in the full atmosphere of
the revolution. Accuracy of fact. in SO
lar as facts are used at all, and an ex-
cellent sense of the drama of this par
ticuiar event IN history, coupled with
restraint where the lavish is a great
temptation. mark the authors work in
this romantic and picturesque story.
ACROSS CHINA on FOOT: Life in the
Interior and the Reform sIovement.
illustrations. New York: Henry
Holt & Co.
\ walking tour along the highways and
byways of China, from Shanghai to the
frontier Of British Burma, has provided
the author with material tor nearly FIVE
hundred pages of experiences, good and
bad-but never ndifferent-concerning the
country in which he spent year and a
half. To the informative excellence OF the
text is added many photograph which
picture the scenes, customs and native
types that varied Mr.. Dingle's travels
from day to day. Personal observation
OF the reform movement in China, and
descriptions of incidents pointing to the
general unrest of its people, and particu-
larry of one occasion last year when the
author nearly lost his life in the riot at
Hankow. prove of particular value just
now in relation to the present uprising
throughout the celestial kingdom.
Many missionaries have written books