Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-28

| real peasant Dennis Tirowen. to whom
| in lieu of better, the heart of this lrlsl
| girl makes fast. Then the story move:
/ to London. where. by virtue OF an amer
| lean uncle-no doubt, Tammany poss-
/ the O'Hara becomes the vogue, dueenne
I London society with genius and grace
! on the basis OF good and abundant COZ
| from across seas. Rut--and this Is the
| best of the whole matter--the irish near
holds true through what must be grantee
/ as sorry show-up on the part OF DENIM:
| Tirowen. A beautiful story-of fa1ti
f, without foundation, of honesty wlthou
| return.
THE HARLEQUIN SET. BY Dion
Clayton Calthorp. author of 'Tinsel
and Gold" etc. New York: John
Lane Company.
With harlequin and Clown and
Pantaloon to sponsor. this author
launches his fine philosophy in gay
and buoyant spirit When poetry ap-
pears to soften his creed it is Column
bine that brings it. There is nothing
by rule to say about this thing. The
only rule is, to read it. If you have
dreams and moods and visions, all
seeming to fly you away from this
work day world, read this philoso-
pher. From him you will find that
every dream and mood and vision Is
fitted with gOssamer thread to bring
to the big essentials of the life you
have to live. "A delectable thing, born
of fine wisdom and fashioned for every
ones use.
THE STORY LIFE OF WASHING
TON: Life-History In Five Hum
dred True Stories, Selected from
Original Sources and Fitted TOEeth-
err In Order. BY Wayne Whipple,
author of THE Story-Life of Lin
~ ,f.. pptl <f1 sI,>1, Jal,
{. Winston Company.
Twice now has Wayne Whipple
proved his good patriotism. The first
time Lincoln was his subject. This
time it is Washington. The purpose
Of the author in this case--as it was
in the other--is to take a great charac-
ter out of the wooden unacceptability
into which the historian commonly
casts him-to make of him dynamic
personality. shaped for present and
future service out of a rich and noble
past. MIR. Whipple's device to meet
this end is so simple so astounding
in result. that one wonders why he
himself did not do ii long ago. Five
hundred stories about Washington are
gathered here and arranged in the
order Of his boyhood. youth, manhood
and public service. Some of these are
from original sources; many of them
landings. The test is that each shall
be undeniably true, and that it shall
be revealing. 1t is a fine ach evement
something for schools to ponder and
for other institutions to study.
THE CLASSIC POINT OF VIEW, Six
Lectures ON Painting. BY Kenyon
Cox. illustrated. New York: Charles
Scribner's Sons. Washington: Wood
ward & LothrOp.
Mr. Cox delivered these lectures at the
Art Institute of Chicago in 1911. They. as
whole, constitute a frank, ingenious
and appealing confession of art faith
This confession is made in the manifest
hope that it may serve as a corrective
of what the author considers a certain
malady in much of the present attitude
toward art. The lectures sum to plea
for fidelity, not TO dogmatc classicism
but to the freedom of the classic spirit
that perdurable spirit whose unremitting
quest Is for truth and pure beauty. and
whose best instrument is a tried and test
ed tradition These studies. objective in
character and conferred about special
technical aspects of painting are illuna-
mated throughout by the history of art